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careful where you eat…

Posted by cris on 22 April 2009, 1:45 am
it’s been a while since i posted anything…given various random things that have occurred, but at least i think this post is quite worth it. recently a new swept through north america. this one deserves a place in the ‘you’re dumber than you look’ category and also…the ‘you did it to yourself’. as it seems, not only were some domino employees dumb enough to tape their tampering with food (in other words…creating evidence)…they had the bright idea of posting it on youtube. this really deserves a new level of stupidity and/or foolishness. they essentially created the evidence that not only got them fired (in a ‘crisis filled society’…they decide to fire themselves), but apparently they might face some jail time. really wish that there were some awards similar to the ‘darwin awards‘, but for alive fools that can’t figure out a dumber way to get fired, but also spent some time behind bars. need i remind you of the fool from england that taped himself speeding, posted it on youtube and then that was used against him (fine, licence suspended, etc.). nice going…what can i say, some just can’t figure out how to get in jail faster…here’s an idea…just try to join the darwin awards…save us the embarrassment of being group with you in the same category (humans).

so, as a friend of mine said a few days back..sometimes you really do not want to know what goes on behind the scenes in restaurants. shocking, but true (to some extent). i would like to know what goes on behind the scenes…it will help me decide where to eat. a nice initiative has been started by vancouver coastal health (awesome job), which posts information about inspections to food establishments, information about license suspensions and the reasons as well as the length. enjoy…and read it with care.

on the same topic, i ended up in a ‘club’ on saturday. it’s called the crush champagne lounge, it’s on granville streets (with davie) in downtown vancouver. during my trips to use the facilities i ended up observing some rather disgusting behaviour. the ones involved, a bartender, a bus boy and a body-guard. each one of them on separate occasions. they used the facility, and simply walked out. yes, you got it…without washing their hands. now, i was about to essentially go and talk to someone about it…but eventually gave up (perhaps next time). however, the next day i did email the manager of the establishment and shared my opinion about…their lack of training about personal hygiene, about the fact that they are putting their customers’ health at risk, it’s disgusting, and more. i truly wonder if they don’t spent time training their staff about this…i wonder how good they train their staff about other aspects of health and safety.

the manager did reply, within 10 minutes, to my email…and did state he will bring this up to the next meeting. also he made sure to mention that there are 3 sinks (with soap) and a hand sanitizer behind the bar (sure, awesome…completely useless if they are not used). however, it was appreciated that he did pay attention, was polite and did respond.

however, quite disgusting knowing they do not wash their hands…serve drinks…and essentially serve you…so keep your eyes open…and don’t be afraid to complain.

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the search for the new bff

Posted by cris on 12 November 2008, 10:57 am

the less time i have for tv the more i wonder how some shows ever get approved to be televised. last night, as i was on my way to get some water and i, unfortunately, take notice of what was playing on tv, a show called paris hilton’s my new bff. a show about the exhaustive search for a new best friend by the oldest grandchild of the hilton’s chairman, baron hilton. it’s not the first ‘reality’ show in little paris’s portfolio, but sure is one of the ‘greatest’ ones. without going into my opinion of reality shows and to the extent they have degraded ever since they first appeared, but this particular show is stupefying.

first off, who in their right mind would ever sign up for a show to essentially beg someone on national tv to be their friend. how much would they know about her to be convinced they even want to be friends with her? how pathetic does your life have to be to willingly share far to many aspects of your life in front of little paris only for her to decide whether or not she is willing to accept you as a friend, well bff that is. i ended up catching a few minutes of the show until my water bottle filled-up. enough to catch paris tell the girl she just kicked off the show that ‘she loves her’. why would you kick her off then, if you do love her?

i’m not sure if i was in the girl’s shoes if i would feel relieved or upset. afterall, paris ‘loves her’, well ‘loves her’ enough to send her packing. the whole thing kinda leaves me scracth the right side of my head with my left hand. self-respect must be low on the charts of priorities for the contestants. afterall, in the end they are fighting over who gets to spend time with paris hilton. agreed, she’s ‘famous’, rich and definitely on the vip lists for way to many clubs. life will probably not be boring by hanging out with her. entertainment is definitely high on the list of many, but how boring must one’s life have to be to willingly accept, in case you win the contest, the rights to be paris’s new bff based on a tv contest? what about the other ‘wonderful’ contestants, how should they feel at the end? i guess life is, sort of, great for them, afterall they’re weren’t good enough to be the new bff; although perhaps they should take pride in that. i’m wondering the qualities the winners must have, but then again not enough to watch the show. althought i guess willingness to shoot videos should be high on the list of ‘first’ things to do once the show is over. coke anyone?

it’s also sad for those who have nothing better to do than watch the show. yes, eventually the contestants may have an excuse, they’re all americans willing to do anything for money. but the rest of you? how boring must life be if the best thing on tv to watch is this show? making money out of watching the show is out of the question, better yet you’re wasting valuable time when you can be doing pretty much anything else and you’ll still get more out of it. regardless of the reasons for watching this, you’re still watching the show.

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roundabouts

Posted by cris on 6 October 2008, 7:22 pm


as the series of driving complaints continues. today, roundabouts and the lack of rationale from the drivers in vancouver for how to approach them. about two weeks ago, i’m behind this truck (come back another day for that rant) and about to enter a roundabout. the ‘driver’ shockingly stops in the roundabout to let another car, small sedan, enter the roundabout. at which point i honk, yes the honk is my friend. the car entering the roundabout has a yield sign (see picture or your ‘driving for dummies’ book); which of course is probably the hardest to understand for vancouverite drivers. the driver of the sedan thinks that it’s appropriate to stop, as well in the middle of the round about, stick her head out and say something while showing me a finger (no, not that finger) and pointing towards herself as to say she has the right of way to enter the roundabout and that she should go first. not only did she not yield to the yield sign or yield to traffic in the roundabout, by stopping she ended up making sure that for a few moments three cars are stopped in the roundabout. why? well the truck didn’t move, apparently the guy was being a ‘gentleman’ – guess he paid attention when he was told a woman always enters first.

a roundabout has one simple rule, the cars inside the roundabout have right-of-way. according to a friend ‘it doesn’t take a phd to figure out how the roundabout works’; well, i guess it does, seeing how that simple rule is not respected nor obeyed in vancouver.

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