GrandeWest_B35G Posted June 21, 2019 Report Share Posted June 21, 2019 You were at City Hall Station last night around 10:30pm. You were standing outside of the sheltered area, letting the cold rain pour over you. You were wearing nothing but swimming trunks and a single black sock. You boarded car 2447, and I last saw you when you fell on the floor, due to the train suddenly accelerating. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechSpotlight Posted July 12, 2019 Report Share Posted July 12, 2019 I love how companies advertise alcohol products on transit buses.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J. S. Bach Posted July 12, 2019 Report Share Posted July 12, 2019 13 hours ago, TechSpotlight said: I love how companies advertise alcohol products on transit buses.... Advertising revenue! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechSpotlight Posted July 12, 2019 Report Share Posted July 12, 2019 1 minute ago, J. S. Bach said: Advertising revenue! Encouraging drunk driving! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayside Observer Posted July 18, 2019 Report Share Posted July 18, 2019 The first house I grew up in, in Toronto went on the market about a year ago and turns out it sold to a house flipping real estate agent who’s just resold it after renovating it. This house was a Great Depression house built when if you had just a little bit of money, it would go far because all the finest materials and all the best craftsmen were available at steep discounts. This was a gorgeous house with leaded glass windows everywhere and lots of beautiful wood inside. They completely trashed and douchebagified the place. All the beautiful wood and leaded glass and hardwood flooring is gone. All the beautiful plasterwork is gone. It’s post-modern millennial generic sterile style now. It’s all cheap drywall and Home Depot light fixtures, nasty engineered flooring, and poorly thought out rearrangement of the upstairs. A second bathroom was wedged into one of the bedrooms at the expense of the closets in two of the rooms plus some additional lost space. The Art Deco mantelpiece in the living room is gone and there’s a crappy surround around this cheesy gas insert in what was a great wood burning fireplace. The living room used to be a good sounding room too. It was a great place to turn up the stereo and listen to music but from the materials and finishes chosen, I don’t think it would sound as good now, but that doesn’t matter when the idea of having a good sounding music system has been replaced with the sound bar or a smart speaker. I’m not sure how the breakfast room off the kitchen that opened onto the back porch became a den isolated from the rest of the house by the kitchen but ok. How much does a tasteless botch job that looks like the inside of a junky condo like this sell for? Over two million dollars. Pardon me while I barf. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayside Observer Posted July 18, 2019 Report Share Posted July 18, 2019 I wonder how much it cost to rip out the hot water heating system and install forced air throughout the house? That's not a small modification. When the place went up for sale a bit over a year ago, it was for the most part in the same condition my family left it in when we moved out in 86. Let's have a little then and now between the era of Gloucsters, PCCs, trolleybuses to that of Toronto Rockets, Flexities, and if you're lucky, you might see a battery bus out there for a couple of hours. Let's start off with the living room. The original 1936 fireplace made it a very cozy room once a couple of splints of wood were started. Beautiful hardwood floors and the wood trim is still in good shape as are the leaded glass windows. Time to turn up the blandness. Generic windows. Generic everything. Wide plank engineered flooring instead of that beautiful hardwood because you gotta have it because that's what everyone's doing. Feel the peer pressure yet? WTF is with that ugly gas fireplace? Trim is either painted out or replaced for good measure. Let's move back to the dining room. We had a nice buffet in that alcove. Lovely wood trim and nice glass in the doors to the living room and that wood wainscotting would cost a fortune today. I don't have a problem with open concept layouts if they're done well. The walls separating the dining room from the living room and the kitchen were removed. Not bad, especially since it opened up the kitchen which was pretty narrow. The alcove is still there. I don't think they realized it's been provided so you can put a sideboard or buffet there but ok. But painting out that wood wainscotting? It's ruined. Even if someone tries to restore that down the road from now, it won't come back as good as it was before being painted. I think all the hardwood floors got trashed. More wood and leaded glass throughout. The tile floor is a change made after we left. The original hardwood went all the way to the front door still when we lived there. This was the best picture I could find showing the entranceway and the staircase. More wood's been painted out. Yech. The staircase to the basement's been opened up because the house flipper finished it vs. being just a giant furnace room up until now. However, they missed something. They missed replacing that leaded glass window at the bottom of the stairs with another generic flat sheet of glass. Ooops. As much as parts of that house needed to be updated, it could've been done a lot more tastefully without outright trashing a lot of the beautiful original features that were in great shape and turning into a crude attempt at retroactively ramming present day cheap and nasty construction styles into what was a very nicely appointed 80-odd year old house. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captaintrolley Posted July 18, 2019 Report Share Posted July 18, 2019 The original interior is lovely. I would not have changed a thing. The house I grew up in has changed so much on the outside, I don't even want to see the inside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FutureHeartsJunkie Posted July 18, 2019 Report Share Posted July 18, 2019 When did the local CTV stations for its local newscast changed its font for its news reports? For me, I like the new typeface for its news stories and reports. It's much more clearer. anyone notice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory Posted July 26, 2019 Report Share Posted July 26, 2019 Just found out recently that my SIN card is "dormant". There are only two ways that can happen: You haven't filed your tax returns over the past five years. You've been out of the country for the past five years. Neither of the above apply to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J. S. Bach Posted August 2, 2019 Report Share Posted August 2, 2019 On 7/26/2019 at 6:17 PM, Gregory said: Just found out recently that my SIN card is "dormant". I know what a "SIM" card is but what is a "SIN" card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechSpotlight Posted August 2, 2019 Report Share Posted August 2, 2019 56 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said: I know what a "SIM" card is but what is a "SIN" card? Social Insurance Number. https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/services/sin.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downsview 108 Posted August 4, 2019 Report Share Posted August 4, 2019 D.A. Pennebaker the legendary filmmaker of musicians from the 60s has died. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/da-pennebaker-dead-oscar-winning-documentary-filmmaker-dead-at-94-son-confirms-today-2019-08-03/ He filmed Jimi Hendrix's legendary Monterey pop festival performance where he lit his guitar on fire. EDIT: i put this in the wrong place 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T3G Posted August 8, 2019 Report Share Posted August 8, 2019 Requested a book marked as "available" at my library on Tuesday evening. Had my pick up location marked as the same branch the book is at, so all they had to do was locate it and send me a message. Still no news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomasw Posted August 19, 2019 Report Share Posted August 19, 2019 I saw this and literally started wondering how many drinks this guy must have had before redoing the front of this classic. The headlights almost remind me of the headlights on a gillig BRT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTC Guy Posted August 19, 2019 Report Share Posted August 19, 2019 4 hours ago, Thomasw said: I saw this and literally started wondering how many drinks this guy must have had before redoing the front of this classic. The headlights almost remind me of the headlights on a gillig BRT This is Transcars Classic Bus which was available between 2001 and 2004 for operators who wanted to continue using Classics. Here’s the link to the Wiki: https://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/Transcar_Classic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatcoinz Posted August 25, 2019 Report Share Posted August 25, 2019 The ridiculousness for what people would do for a taste of home. Wait 3-4 Hours for Jollibee for some Filipino Cuisine. I guess I'm no different for waiting in line as I'm doing this for my mother, though she said if the line up is ridiculous, I can just skip it and drive back to Calgary. Ah well. I'm already half way in line so get it over with. It'll be worse when the Calgary location opens in the coming weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downsview 108 Posted August 26, 2019 Report Share Posted August 26, 2019 On 7/11/2019 at 10:31 PM, TechSpotlight said: I love how companies advertise alcohol products on transit buses.... I don't know anyone who started drinking because they saw a beer on the side of a bus. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayside Observer Posted August 26, 2019 Report Share Posted August 26, 2019 6 hours ago, Downsview 108 said: I don't know anyone who started drinking because they saw a beer on the side of a bus. But it's an ad on a bus! If the bus says it's ok, it's all good, right? Right? "The bus made me do it." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downsview 108 Posted August 26, 2019 Report Share Posted August 26, 2019 37 minutes ago, Wayside Observer said: But it's an ad on a bus! If the bus says it's ok, it's all good, right? Right? "The bus made me do it." Same stupid logic that cost convenience shop owners money to install those cigarette hiding panels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bus_Medic Posted August 26, 2019 Report Share Posted August 26, 2019 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downsview 108 Posted August 26, 2019 Report Share Posted August 26, 2019 1 hour ago, Bus_Medic said: If smoking weed really resulted in weird orgies, wild parties and unleashed passions then I sure as hell didn't smoke enough of it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bus_Medic Posted August 26, 2019 Report Share Posted August 26, 2019 Yeah, for me it led me to Doritos, dungeons and dragons, and the Specials. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayside Observer Posted August 26, 2019 Report Share Posted August 26, 2019 5 hours ago, Bus_Medic said: Lockheed Aviation's take on a drug PSA. The big question is, to make a film like that, did they have to be on the same stuff they were campaigning against? Poor Frank Sinatra 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bus_Medic Posted August 27, 2019 Report Share Posted August 27, 2019 “Jacked up on marijuana” ✌-groovy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayside Observer Posted August 27, 2019 Report Share Posted August 27, 2019 Lockheed’s amphetamines PSA Apparently Lockheed made a whole series of these. I only ever saw the acid one. Sheeeeit, I still have the Canadian manufactured under license version that Stark built of that Hickok volts/mils meter on that kid’s bench. Screw the GE clock radio! I want to see the kid wreck something expensive! Maybe dump a coffee inside the CPU cabinet of a midsize mainframe computer. Or kill the vacuum and air pumps on a 2” videotape recorder or something. 5 minutes ago, Bus_Medic said: “Jacked up on marijuana” ✌-groovy. Dig it? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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