WEWT! Take a ferry from Vancouver Island to LA!

Can't wait.

No seriously, you can't. You'll be like, dead.

>> ^alcom:

It was actually a conservation officer in the video, not a Vancouver Police officer.


well, whoever he is, he's got big balls.

It was actually a conservation officer in the video, not a Vancouver Police officer.

I heard he came downtown looking for a condo, but he should have not bothered. Noboby can afford real estate in Vancouver any more.

>> ^Opus_Moderandi:

>> ^packo:
lucky Bumblebee or Optimus weren't there

Oh NOW I know who it is.
who is it?
i mean i could look it up but i have a feeling he's not worth it..

>> ^packo:

lucky Bumblebee or Optimus weren't there


Oh NOW I know who it is.

>> ^Tingles:

Tbh if I ever saw/met this guy in Van, I would punch him as hard as I could in the face for every spoken line he had in Indy IV. I don't apologize if that makes me seem like a bad person. He voluntarily helped ruin and rape Indiana Jones.
Keep this man (Tingles) away from Jar Jar Binks, Scrappy Doo, The Great Gazoo, Wesly Crusher, and every orphaned kid added to a sit-com family in it's final year.

Are you from Portland Bareboards? Cause if so, there are eight of them in PDX, and one in Vancouver.

>> ^bareboards2:

Maybe it is a West Coast thing. There's one in the next town over, in the state of Washington.
I've never eaten there. I like good pizza. You don't get good pizza from chains, I've noticed.

*cute

thats not Luna from Vancouver, is it ?

In a strange way the pepper spraying incident has turned out to be the fuel that this movement may have needed. There are now plans to hold similar peaceful protests in Chicago, L.A., Vancouver, Seattle and Toronto.

False Creek is in Vancouver *Canada

It's in the media's interest to ignore the explanation if they can keep people interested. As long as people keep thinking it's a killer or something sinister, they will tune in. I think it is pretty clear that the shoes are from jumpers.>> ^bareboards2:

They are at 11 feet as of August 2011. And still no answers. None of this was mentioned at the time of the latest foot found. http://videosift.com/video/Another-Foot-Found-On-Northwest-Coast

People keep making a big deal out of this, but I think it has been explained sufficiently.

The show "Weird or What" had a segment about it. One guy dropped a bunch of shoes in the water and tracked them by GPS and mapped where they ended up. He found that a number of the found feet probably originated at the Alex Fraser bridge. "It appears that the river, not the ocean, is the likely source of the shoes."

Looks like they are jumpers whose bodies sank and decomposed while their shoes floated their feet downstream.

Sifted it here: http://videosift.com/video/The-Vancouver-Human-Foot-Discoveries

I have family members that are Chinese. I like and respect them a lot and don't in general have any issues with Chinese or the culture. I've lived in Vancouver BC (otherwise known as Hong-couver). It is a major immigration destination for the Chinese in Canada. In Vancouver, white people seem to be a minority.

Things I know for fact:
1). Older(often first-gen) Chinese people are racist and don't like white people - We've often been kicked out of stores for being white (not just once, but so many times I lost count.) I know of MANY younger Chinese who have dated or married Caucasian and been disowned from their families.
2). Chinese people are some of the rudest people I know. But only if they don't know you. They are very hospitable to you if they know you. Go to a mall full of Chinese people you don't know and you will see what it's like to be black in the southern US.
3). Yes, the Western Chinese culture DOES gloats over it's wealth.
3a). I know families where the grandparents go without food so the teenage grandkids can have their BMWs and Jags so that everyone thinks they are rich even if they aren't. It's all about impressions. They go out of their way to flaunt wealth.
3b). the most prestigious area in the Vancouver area is Richmond because it translates to RichMan in Chinese. The town itself is below sea-level and exists only because of the dikes holding back the Pacific Ocean. It now has some of the most over-priced land in Canada.
4). Go to a Chinese home for dinner, as a guest, and you will be served chicken, beef, pork and fish often at the same meal. Serving meat to guests shows their wealth. in China they often can't afford meat. Serving as much meat as possible in one meal shows they they are wealthy. It also honors the guest by showing offering a wealth of variety. They generally don't eat a lot of meat as a normal diet but mainly when guests are present.

I have many stories on Chinese culture experiences. The culture is VERY different from ours. I don't want to sound racist towards Chinese or Asian cultures because I'm not. Most of negative things that can be pointed out originates from the older family members and is filtered down. Most 2nd & 3rd generation Chinese are very Westernized and mix easily with our culture. Age has nothing to do with it, as young immigrants bring with them unwarranted arrogance and racism. It's not the people I blame but the culture they bring with them that is both fascinating and frustrating at the same time.

*Yes, I know you can't paint everyone with the same brush. there are some very forward thinking people immigrating to Canada and are here to experience the Western way of life but there are many traditional, often wealthy families that come here to raise themselves up and don't want anything to do with western culture or the people that live here.

I also believe it is mostly these first-generation immigrants, young and old, that give Chinese and Asian people a bad name. They are not aware of western customs and the friendliness/respect that is offered amongst Canadians. They bring with them age old customs that are distasteful and outdated without even knowing they are doing it. I must also mention that at the rate of current immigration, into the Vancouver area, they no longer need to mix with cultures other than their own and few ever need to learn English. In fact, it has gone so far as to encourage them to hold on to the customs and reject western culture all together, which seems to defeat the reason they immigrated here in the first place. This is unfortunate because we all have things to learn from other cultures. I wish more of them would share more of their culture with us and we could let the better practices of both cultures sift to the top.

Things like Shark-Fin Soup and Bear-Poaching could be eliminated in Chinese culture while I'm sure they have many fixes for our errors.

>> ^dannym3141:


Ok, speaking as someone who has very recently been to china for an extendad stay, and i've met and had extensive experience with young and middle aged chinese;
How did you get the impression they were horrible people? Every single person i met in china was generous and selfless and went a long way out of their way to make sure i had a good time and to make sure i was completely taken care of. Their culture almost DEMANDS them to be respectful and polite to strangers. Self centred is a word which i could not apply to a single one of the several hundred chinese people that i've met.
Show off their wealth? Do you realise that the chinese people are extremely poor? The government may be fucking rich but the people certainly aren't. They work their fucking arse off in a shit job they get given and they get paid pennies, PENNIES, and they work fucking hard at it and fucking long hours because guess what they'd get if they didn't? Fuck all. I have never met a more humble and polite people, the chinese people seem to me like the british were 60 years ago (of which i am proud and sad we're not like that anymore).

>> ^Ryjkyj:

Saw them in Bend, OR last month. Even after the crazy shit in Vancouver they still play a kick-ass show.


I haven't seen them in a while but I've been to so many shows in the 90s & 00s that I've lost count. This one's from their Live in Chicago DVD of 2004 and it's nice to see Claude (the drummer) banging it out like nothing happened. He was in a HUGE car wreck in 2002 and he almost died, poor bugger.