Downtown Vancouver Updates - Page 328

Coldrsx · #**6541** Posted **Aug 5, 2010, 4:30 PM**

^spoken for the truth... i was so confused when i walked in.

Yume-sama · #**6542** Posted **Aug 5, 2010, 5:21 PM**

I hate confusing bathrooms. At the W in Beverly Hills I spent 5 minutes trying to figure out how to turn on the water.

Shangri-la looks quite nice ^^ So does Cactus Club. I wonder if they think by making it nicer, people will try harder not to trash it up?

As a general rule I will not use public washrooms in North America

Nothing that humans do is more frightening.

djh · #**6543** Posted **Aug 5, 2010, 5:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by Yume-sama

I hate confusing bathrooms. At the W in Beverly Hills I spent 5 minutes trying to figure out how to turn on the water.

Shangri-la looks quite nice ^^ So does Cactus Club. I wonder if they think by making it nicer, people will try harder not to trash it up?

As a general rule I will not use public washrooms in North America

Nothing that humans do is more frightening.

Spoken like a true Germophobe...Are you Japanese-born by any chance?

Yume-sama · #**6544** Posted **Aug 5, 2010, 5:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by djh

Spoken like a true Germophobe...Are you Japanese-born by any chance?

No, I was born in Canada and have many years experience knowing how filthy westerners are.

red-paladin · #**6545** Posted **Aug 5, 2010, 8:01 PM**

All I can say is that before I went to university I went to Douglas college, and it seemed like I was the only guy who washed his hands in those bathrooms...
Yeah the last thing I want to think is that right before I shake someone's hand they went and had a wank and didn't wash their hand!

Yume-sama · #**6546** Posted **Aug 5, 2010, 8:05 PM**

If your mind goes right to that, that's kind of weird anyways~

officedweller · #**6547** Posted **Aug 5, 2010, 8:43 PM**

Nice - about the wall of windows at Granville & Nelson.
Hopefully it can display multiple colours simultaneously

Delirium · #**6548** Posted **Aug 6, 2010, 2:07 AM**

i noticed this on the UDP agenda for August 11th. what is this?

2. 5:15 pm : 10 Terry Fox Way
DE: Rezoning
Use: To construct two five-storey residential buildings all over one level of underground parking, including 10 live-work units in Building A, under the STIR program.
Zoning: BCPED to CD-1
Application Status: RZ
Review: First
Architect: IBI/HB Architects
Staff: Dwayne Drobot and Ralph Segal
1. 4:15 pm : 1850 Victoria Diversion

hollywoodnorth · #**6549** Posted **Aug 6, 2010, 2:11 AM**

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Originally Posted by Delirium

i noticed this on the UDP agenda for August 11th. what is this?

2. 5:15 pm : 10 Terry Fox Way
DE: Rezoning
Use: To construct two five-storey residential buildings all over one level of underground parking, including 10 live-work units in Building A, under the STIR program.
Zoning: BCPED to CD-1
Application Status: RZ
Review: First
Architect: IBI/HB Architects
Staff: Dwayne Drobot and Ralph Segal
1. 4:15 pm : 1850 Victoria Diversion

http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/planning/rezoning/applications/10terryfox/

http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/planning/rezoning/applications/10terryfox/documents/3dviews.pdf

concord lot aka Panorama Phase 1

trofirhen · #**6550** Posted **Aug 6, 2010, 2:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by red-paladin

All I can say is that before I went to university I went to Douglas college, and it seemed like I was the only guy who washed his hands in those bathrooms...
Yeah the last thing I want to think is that right before I shake someone's hand they went and had a wank and didn't wash their hand!

I usually carry a small bottle of alcohol-based handwash gel, just to be sure in situations like that .....

Delirium · #**6551** Posted **Aug 6, 2010, 3:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by hollywoodnorth

http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/planning/rezoning/applications/10terryfox/

http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/planning/rezoning/applications/10terryfox/documents/3dviews.pdf

concord lot aka Panorama Phase 1

thanks! the typo (two five-storey buildings) thru me off. i guess they meant 15s.

Delirium · #**6552** Posted **Aug 6, 2010, 1:24 PM**

here's a shot of the hot pink lights. after a while they turned yellow.. so they do change. not sure if there are other colours.

my photo

PaperTiger · #**6553** Posted **Aug 6, 2010, 3:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by Delirium

thanks! the typo (two five-storey buildings) thru me off. i guess they meant 15s.

No I think you have the order reversed. Item 1. Is the 5 Storey STIR buildings is on Victoria Diversion (Victoria Drive.) Item 2. is on Terry Fox Way

204 · #**6554** Posted **Aug 6, 2010, 6:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by Yume-sama

No, I was born in Canada and have many years experience knowing how filthy westerners are.

Hmmm. Bigoted much? Imagine if someone had posted "knowing how filthy asians are"?

officedweller · #**6555** Posted **Aug 6, 2010, 7:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by Delirium

here's a shot of the hot pink lights. after a while they turned yellow.. so they do change. not sure if there are other colours.

my photo

Thanks.

Now it seems like a shame it doesn't wrap around the to the Granville side (now it just shines into the hotel rooms at the Comfort Inn)

djh · #**6556** Posted **Aug 6, 2010, 7:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by 204

Hmmm. Bigoted much? Imagine if someone had posted "knowing how filthy asians are"?

Relax. Considering he's born in Canada I think it's OK for him to be self-deprecating.

Yume-sama · #**6557** Posted **Aug 6, 2010, 7:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by 204

Hmmm. Bigoted much? Imagine if someone had posted "knowing how filthy asians are"?

You wouldn't be wrong in a lot of cases if we are talking a Country as a whole...

However, Westerners refers more to a "culture" and "place" rather than a certain subset of the population.

I'd hate to tell you that not everyone in the West is white