Vancouver, BC

"AMGtech - now with more recalls!" (amgtech)
05/10/2019 at 19:27 • Filed to: oppo meet

Ready for the oppo meet!

DISCUSSION (31)

ST80MND > AMGtech - now with more recalls!
05/10/2019 at 19:41

Super jelly, hope I can make it to the next one. Looks like a good hotel room, right downtown. If I may be so bold as to recommend Vera's burgers for food, best burgers in town! Or, because it's much closer, Steamworks is an amazing spot as well.

Svend > AMGtech - now with more recalls!
05/10/2019 at 20:10

As well as the internationally well known one. What I only found out a couple of months ago was that there’s a Vancouver, Washington in the south of the state.

I wonder if the residents of Vancouver, WA about being very little know compared to the one across the border.

RPM esq. > Svend
05/10/2019 at 20:17

They know. They also get oddly pissy when you mention that Vancouver, WA is more or less just a suburb of Portland, OR, even though they take advantage of their proximity to cross the border and buy things without sales tax every goddamn weekend.

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > Svend
05/10/2019 at 20:21

There has been confusion in the past. I remember reading about a military wife who followed the signs for Vancouver thinking they would lead her to Vancouver Washington. Yada yada yada, border patrol finds a live grenade in her glovebox.

Svend > This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja:
05/10/2019 at 20:34

Why did she have a live grenade in her glovebox?????

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > Svend
05/10/2019 at 20:37

This is a good and as of yet unanswered question afaik... though I suspect the military handled a few things internally after the fact.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/02/16/border.grenade/index.html

Jeez, that was a while ago. Seems like only yesterday.

Svend > This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja:
05/10/2019 at 20:41

Well I sort of felt stupid asking the question after I wrote it.

Anywhere else in the world it may be a question, but in America, probably not so much. Lol.

someassemblyrequired > Svend
05/10/2019 at 20:56

Vancouver, WA was the original. Most of Washington/Oregon/Idaho was British (controlled by the Hudson’s Bay Company) up until the mid-1800s. Vancouver, BC was only incorporated in 1886.

Svend > someassemblyrequired
05/10/2019 at 21:16

Cool. So the British Canadians missed having a Vancouver after the border came in and said, ‘I miss having a Vancouver, lets make another one!’.

gmctavish needs more space > someassemblyrequired
05/10/2019 at 21:25

Vancouver, BC was originally going to be called Granville, I’m not sure what made them switch

someassemblyrequired > gmctavish needs more space
05/10/2019 at 21:43

Yeah I don’t know either. So probably spite, I’m going with spite.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > someassemblyrequired
05/10/2019 at 22:43

As a Canadian, it was probably our passive aggressive way of annoying Americans. Just like how we have a Sydney, Nova Scotia, just to trap unsuspecting tourists and annoy the Australians at the same time.

Our next plan: start exporting Quebecoise.

someassemblyrequired > BaconSandwich is tasty.
05/10/2019 at 23:27

Gotta suck for the poor schmuck that plans the bucket list vacation to Oz and ends up in Cape Breton. Probably cheaper to fly to Australia though, so this scenario is unlikely.

Re: Quebecoise... Is that the version of English that’s 90% f-bombs, 5% other English swear words, and 5% french swear words?

gettingoldercarguy > RPM esq.
05/10/2019 at 23:36

A friend of mine calls Vancouver the armpit of Portland. He lives in Beaverton.

RPM esq. > gettingoldercarguy
05/10/2019 at 23:54

I’ve been to Beaverton and that’s at least 9 0% textbook projection, but he’s still not 100% wrong. Even so, b etween the two I’d choose Vancouver every day and twice on Sundays, to be clear.

gettingoldercarguy > RPM esq.
05/11/2019 at 00:11

I’ve never really looked around Beaverton, always go to Portland. Vancouver looks kinda nice but reminds me of where I came from in a few ways.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > someassemblyrequired
05/11/2019 at 00:20

Pretty much. :P Although I was thinking more of the people than the language.

RPM esq. > gettingoldercarguy
05/11/2019 at 00:38

The difference is whether you want ONLY strip malls and meth mixed into your soulless subdivisions or whether you ALSO want to occasionally encounter, like, characterful old houses and large yards with horses in them for some reason.

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > ST80MND
05/11/2019 at 00:48

We walked right past steamworks actually. Girlfriend has been there do we went to the pour house instead which was great. Then got soft peaks ice cream after. This city has been a ton of fun so far.

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > Svend
05/11/2019 at 00:49

My girlfriend lives in Van. Wash. actually!

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > AMGtech - now with more recalls!
05/11/2019 at 01:04

Nice call on Pourhouse

Svend > AMGtech - now with more recalls!
05/11/2019 at 01:11

Sorry. I read that as, ‘my girlfriend lives in a van and washes actually’.

Does she ever curl up the side of her when she hears Vancouver, Canada mentioned?

someoneatacura > ST80MND
05/11/2019 at 01:33

Oh there’s so many good places, Roamers is far better (though not as easy to get to/as many locations ). A quick google will pull up all the nice places to eat, Commercial drive has lots of great cheap eats.

someoneatacura > AMGtech - now with more recalls!
05/11/2019 at 01:34

Check out commercial drive if you want lots of great cheap eats, quick skytrain will get you there. If you’re into beers there is a fuckload of breweries in east van as well.

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > Svend
05/11/2019 at 01:56

she has mentioned that here's was there first but that's about it

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > someoneatacura
05/11/2019 at 01:57

Just here for one night unfortunately. Doing the oppo meet and drive to Whistler in the morning. But it's been awesome so far!

someoneatacura > AMGtech - now with more recalls!
05/11/2019 at 02:04

I’ll cya tomorrow morning!

Svend > AMGtech - now with more recalls!
05/11/2019 at 02:15

Kinja'd!!!

“Is that the mayor of Vancouver Canada? VANCOUVER WASHINGTON CAME FIRST BITCHES. U.S.A. U.S.A. U.S.A. U.S.A.”

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > Svend
05/11/2019 at 10:19

Are you trying to say Americans are self centered and oblivious to the rest of the world? Because it's true

Svend > AMGtech - now with more recalls!
05/11/2019 at 10:37

I can neither confirm nor deny the allegation put towards me by the Right Honourable Member, Sir AMGtech and will refer him to my counsel and learned friend, Lord Featherstonehaugh (pronounced fanshaw).

Lord Featherstonehaugh: “no mate. I ain’t touching that”.

Lol.

gettingoldercarguy > RPM esq.
05/11/2019 at 14:13

The politics in Vancouver is what I was talking about