Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

****ing Canada. Primitive place.

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

We are moving in with mother in law. :eek:

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

We were with mine for 9 months before here and just coming up to 6 years since she joined us here.

Can't remember...do you get on? She thinks the world of me. :starsmile: (mine not yours :lol:)

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

I have an oil and water relationship with her.

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

Look on the bright side, Charlee will have a big yard to play in and your financial situation will be easier .. every cloud has a silver lining!

Are you ok with moving in, temporarily?

:)

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

It's not ideal, but it's necessary as there is nowhere in the Lower Mainland we can afford rent wise, and we can't leave the lower mainland area at the moment for some medical reasons.

It's either until we have more stable work income or if BC Housing calls with a place available, we are on the housing list but it can take years upon years to get housing, so that isn't a short term solution, but long term solution.

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

I have no idea how that works but is there any sort of 'points' system that maybe gives a few more points and betters your chances in different situations?

Your health needs, time on list, recognised disability income, being overcrowded, that sort of stuff?

Do you have to update, for example, the change - which is not simply an address change but something more involved - since you were listed? I'm assuming that means more overcrowding now?

Do the housing people respond to such changing circumstances?

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

BC Housing categorizes people into 5 categories, from their website.

Applicants facing a severe risk to health and/or safety, such as homelessness or living in a homeless shelter.

Applicants with serious health/medical/social needs, such as risk of homelessness, fleeing domestic abuse, living in severely inadequate housing, or transitioning to a more independent living situation.

Applicants whose housing need is moderate compared with the two previous categories, such as living in temporary or inadequate accommodation.

Applicants with a specialized housing need or low housing need, such as living in marginally crowded housing.

Applicants for the low end market units found in some subsidized buildings.


You have to update your file at minimum every 6 months, if something significant changes you also want to update earlier. Say you have housing currently, but then end up homeless, you want to update that ASAP as it will move you into a more urgent category.

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

I might go to Northampton just for the hell of it. There's a bus to there from my mum's village, used to go to MK which I like but I'll have to get used to Northampton I suppose.

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

Got my iPod from 2005 working again. :thumbup:

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

I can't tell if you're joking or being serious lol?

I much prefer MK

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

So somewhere between the 2nd and 3rd and there's a significant change by moving to mother in law's.

Presumably, there could be another change - even if still living there - if the situation changes such as health deteriorating; timescale able to stay changed; condition changed etc

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

Serious! I like MK, we used to live nearby and went there often. I can't remember ever going to Northampton but I suppose I must have.

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

Its a sensible move (financially). Quite normal to have multi-generational families in some countries.

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

I have an '06, never had a problem with it, although had to change the batt a few years back. Haven't used it since I installed Spotify on my mobile.

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

I have a 160GB Classic which I use to download all my podcasts that I listen too- great capacity-it also has all my CDs downloaded onto it. It replaced on which I dropped in our pond in the UK looking for frogs with minipup :(

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

I think mine is just 16 GB. I have tended to buy low capacity for a lower price (assuming I will upgrade) but then find the content mushrooms. It's a bit of a false economy. Will have to start investing in higher capacity mobile devices.

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

Wouldn't it be funny if the new trade agreement between Canada and the EU was so successful that further agreements were established including Canada "joining" the EU in some form.

Citizenship of Canada might get our European passports back. :rofl:

(not that we've lost them yet, but you know what I mean)

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

Parts of Canada have families involving more than one generation;)

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

When I was a boy there was a Fransaskoise farm family that were friends of ours who lived in a house containing 4 generations.

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

I think it will be more and more common in Canada and the US as time moves forward with the high cost of housing these days.

Many of the people I went to high school with in California bought homes with 2 or 3 family members so they could have a place, not ideal, but only way they could afford housing.

We certainly would do something like that if we had willing family members.

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

Upside a place I interviewed at several months ago wants to hire me.

Downside it's in Vancouver and probably not doable, but we will see if it's possible to find housing within commuting distance, we did look at a place today, but we can't meet all of their rental qualifications.

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

Well that's positive at least, see people do want you to work for them. Now go forth and conqueror the world. :thumbup:

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

The crazy thing at the LCBO are the signs and the occasional warning over the tannoy that those under 19 are not to touch/handle the products. I recall going to the LCBO with my son who was about 14 at the time and I asked him to pick up a bottle of wine from a shelf. An LCBO staff member told me that was forbidden and I just gave him a withering glance and dared him to arrest me.

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

Tell people to stop liking Vancouver and/or massively build rentals...lol

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

I imagine touching that wine bottle dragged him into a downward spiral of alcoholism and depravity.

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

Some people can be such arses when they've had a drink or 3 too many. :(

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

War with Iceland; it was bound to happen sooner or later..
Canadian inventor of Hawaiian pizza defends pineapple after Iceland's president disses fruit topping - Home | As It Happens | CBC Radio

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

What did you do?:rofl:

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

One of TFWS I work with Visa and SIN expired this week, the business owners are surprised she couldn't just go and get a new SIN....erm hello people, did you apply for an extension???

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

The TFW wasn't up to speed either by the look of things....

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

She was just going on what she had been told. Neither parties listened to myself or the other PR working there:sneaky:

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

"tannoy", now that's a blast from the past :rofl:

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

Whilst the LCBO may have a monopoly on liquor sales, they don't appear to have a monopoly on thick jobsworths:

Dad slams Tesco for refusing to sell him beer as he's with 21-year-old daughter - Mirror Online

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

Totally thick policy

Tesco loses another customer

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

A new rum in Sask liquor stores, Lemon Hart Blackpool Spiced. It has a bit more of the salt and the sea about it than Sailor Jerry. About time they got another Guyanan rum in.

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

It's an old irritation of mine but I really don't like the term jobsworth.

"It's more 'n my job's worth to let you park there."

Well, it is isn't it? You want to park unlawfully and you want someone else specifically employed to uphold that rule to let you break the rule and risk their job. What makes you so special?

You want someone to turn a blind eye to that undeclared income; going through a red light; faulty bit of safety equipment; tell you the lab test result they typed up ready for the doctor; report the minutes of a confidential meeting; reveal the secret recipe; slip you that $100 from the till while nobody's looking; let you in without a ticket; park in that 'disabled parking' space etc etc

If it is their job to do something who gives you the right to belittle them? :frown:

Having said that...the Tesco example certainly appears to be a case not of someone doing their job but going a bit power mad. Not using common sense. That's what they should be criticised for.

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

Well this is worthwhile....and for his next trick he is going to burrow through an elephant :blink:

French artist Abraham Poincheval entombs himself in boulder - BBC News

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

Isn't that the popular meaning of jobsworth though, somebody with a small amount of power, that uses it to excess? Somebody dispensing with judgement, and applying often inane regulations to an over exacting degree.

For example, when my kid was around 3 I let him sit in the big part of the shopping trolley, and never had any comments until one day in Tesco, some young assistant strode up and instructed me that riding in the trolley was strictly prohibited. Naturally we complied, but he seemed like a complete jobsworth (for want of a better word) to me.

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

Don't forget that he could have been transferring dog poo from his shoes to the trolley, where people put their food, and any other nasty he may have on his clothes, so there is a genuine reason for the rule.