Rant!Vancouver

Our neighborhood is besieged by noising inconsiderate dumpster divers every day and night, who, among other things are depriving residents who have to get up and work for a living and pay a shit load of taxes already to you guys - from a decent nights sleep.

And this is only scratching the surface, and doesn’t begging to describe how detrimental this disgusting practice is.

The city is completely neglecting its duty by allowing widespread theft and constant use of shopping carts. Full of wine bottles they make a massive racket. One guy literally runs through our lane ways creating a terrible noise with total disregard of others. Then if he spots another binner he screams at him.

Stop this before all our neighborhoods begin to resemble the east side.

Submitted by Louis

First of all, what a name for a gay friendly bar. Isn’t that an Ayn Rand novel (Fountainhead and by the way, she was a NAZI sympathizer) or is it old English for ‘cockhead’. I would hope the later. Anyways, here’s my rant…for all it’s worth.

I just had a horrible experience at the Fountainhead on Davie Street.

A former acquaintance of mine went into the bar last night and left not paying his bill.
I went in there today for a drink and had the Manager, call me on it, in front of people I know! His approach was one of judgment, no curiosity to hear what I knew. And then proceeded to bicker with me! About someone else’s behavior. Good grief! Give your head shake CoCo!

CoCo, first approached me about this person when I was on the phone, he chose correctly, I might add to wait ’til I got off the phone, once off the phone he then decided to go on this ludicrous diatribe about customers not paying their bills and attaching their credibility or lack thereof, to mine, in front of other customers who I happen to know, bad choice! CoCo needs to take a course in critical thinking; I believe one is scheduled to start at V.C.C. next Friday

It left me feeling embarrassed and humiliated. I talked to the former manager of Celebrities Carl O. and Richard B. and they were stunned by C.C.’s approach to me, although not surprised, because from what I gather he has done this sort of thing before, burning customer bridges and leaving the owner to vacuum up the ashes.

Anyways, I just need to get it off my chest and probably won’t go back for sometime. Also, it won’t hurt to detoxify myself for a month or so.

Submitted by von Thurn und Taxis

I have been wondering this to myself several weeks now; What the hell kind of person shaves their legs at the community center pool showers? Why do people do this? It is gross! I don’t want to see you shaving your body hair, I don’t want it clogging the drains of the communal showers. I bet this is the kind of person who dyes their hair at the gym so they don’t have to clean up any spots at home. LOL, I am sure though that these people are probably grossed out by me taking my son into the ladies dressing room at the pool even though it is clearly booked as “Waterbabies” swim class-time when I (and about a dozen other moms) am there.

This is just something I have been wanting to get off my chest since I can’t actually tell the person while they are shaving.
I wouldn’t want them to hurt themselves in a wild shaving accident because I disturbed the delicate balance they have going on the slippery shower room floor. No, that would be very bad. (Hehehe, just picturing it in my mind.) Now I feel better.

Submitted by G.F.

Could this be the work of the Anti-poverty committee Olympic protesters?

I found this photograph over at the Seen in Vancouver flickr pool and thought I would share.

How about those miserable lot working at the Fitness World on Denman Street?! (Editor note: There is no Fitness World on Denman, perhaps the ranter! meant Denman Fitness) Some of them refuse to make eye contact while others down-right ignore you when you walk past them. Even if you walk right over them! The worst of all is that the staff all seem to be in their own little buddy click. And god help you if you try to talk to them while they are busy chatting it up behind the front desk. Please, drop your freekin’ attitudes! You work at a gym for crying out loud! The least you can do is be good at it. Are you too special to be nice to paying customers or are you confusing how you work with how you socialize??

Submitted by Joe