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11-17-2020, 05:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Obsideon  My umbrella just inverted on me twice on my walk to work. Good times. | When I made this thread just over 11 years ago, it was because I was looking for an umbrella. Ended up buying the double canopy style with the wind slits/vents so it wouldn't invert. 
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11-17-2020, 09:08 PM
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#1302 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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haven’t used umbrella in years
get a proper wind breaker
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11-18-2020, 09:35 AM
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#1303 | | Banned (ABWS)?
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Originally Posted by Obsideon My umbrella just inverted on me twice on my walk to work. Good times. | I remember during my elementary school years, I would be afraid to use the umbrella cause whenever the wind started to lift my umbrella, I would be scared I would fly away. I was a pretty small and light kid.
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11-18-2020, 02:07 PM
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#1304 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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recommendation for umbrella what won't get inverted?
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11-18-2020, 02:18 PM
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#1305 | | Waxin’ Punks
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Bought this for the wife and she’s quite happy with it: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B0160H...b_b_asin_title
$9 off rn.. I paid full pop 
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11-18-2020, 04:40 PM
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#1306 | Ebisu Boss
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I have lost more umbrellas than I can count so won't be investing in a nice one, and judging from my restaurant experience it's quite common haha... if anyone needs a spare I have a bucket of forgotten umbrellas in the back  | |
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11-18-2020, 04:47 PM
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Real men don't carry umbrellas, lol.
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11-18-2020, 04:59 PM
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#1308 | | Waxin’ Punks
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Originally Posted by MG1 Real men don't carry umbrellas, lol. | My hockey team used to bust my balls about breaking out the umbrella for post game beers. Then they noticed I stayed warm, dry and didn’t want to take off after 10 minutes of getting pissed on. Within a month or two, everyone had an umbrella lol.
Until we got the team RV. Now those were the days!
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11-18-2020, 07:00 PM
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#1309 | | "They call me Bowser...RawR!"
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WTF kind of shit paint do we use for our roads here? Some kind of environmentally friendly hippy crap? I noticed that a lot of American roads at least have reflectors and the best roads have like reflective paint.
Traffic was all over the place here because nobody can see the lanes when it's raining. It's one shiny slab of concrete.
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11-18-2020, 07:02 PM
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#1310 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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Originally Posted by !LittleDragon WTF kind of shit paint do we use for our roads here? Some kind of environmentally friendly hippy crap? I noticed that a lot of American roads at least have reflectors and the best roads have like reflective paint.
Traffic was all over the place here because nobody can see the lanes when it's raining. It's one shiny slab of concrete. | I noticed the same thing when I was out in Toronto. They have super reflective paint, at least on the highway (or had, it's been like 9 years since I was there last).
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11-18-2020, 07:05 PM
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Originally Posted by !LittleDragon WTF kind of shit paint do we use for our roads here? Some kind of environmentally friendly hippy crap? I noticed that a lot of American roads at least have reflectors and the best roads have like reflective paint.
Traffic was all over the place here because nobody can see the lanes when it's raining. It's one shiny slab of concrete. | 
This gets brought up every time there's a huge rain storm. It's really shitty how our road infrastructure seems to be such absolute garbage when we're taxed so heavily for owning and driving a car.
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11-18-2020, 07:23 PM
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#1312 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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Originally Posted by MG1 Real men don't carry umbrellas, lol. | Lol, made me think of my son this morning. I'm dropping him off at school he has football practice after school which is done like a few miles from the school itself so he has to bus there.
Anyway he gets in my truck wearing a hoodie and sandals, has his cleats in his bag. I'm like hey asshole where are your shoes, he's like don't worry about it. I'm like ok dumb dumb where is your jacket? I'm fine. Do you have an umbrella? Just rolls his eyes. Alright then, you'll learn.
Long story short mom was suppose to pick him up after practice but she worked late and I get the dad can you please come get me call I'm freezing. Great ride home, busted his balls the entire ride. To be fair I asked him what he learned he said to bring a jacket and wear shoes when it's raining, we'll call it progress.
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11-18-2020, 07:39 PM
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#1313 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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Originally Posted by quasi Lol, made me think of my son this morning. I'm dropping him off at school he has football practice after school which is done like a few miles from the school itself so he has to bus there.
Anyway he gets in my truck wearing a hoodie and sandals, has his cleats in his bag. I'm like hey asshole where are your shoes, he's like don't worry about it. I'm like ok dumb dumb where is your jacket? I'm fine. Do you have an umbrella? Just rolls his eyes. Alright then, you'll learn.
Long story short mom was suppose to pick him up after practice but she worked late and I get the dad can you please come get me call I'm freezing. Great ride home, busted his balls the entire ride. To be fair I asked him what he learned he said to bring a jacket and wear shoes when it's raining, we'll call it progress. | My dad would have made me walk home ... I know because he did ... That was a shitty 3-hour walk home. Never did that again
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11-18-2020, 07:58 PM
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#1314 | | "They call me Bowser...RawR!"
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Originally Posted by Ch28
This gets brought up every time there's a huge rain storm. It's really shitty how our road infrastructure seems to be such absolute garbage when we're taxed so heavily for owning and driving a car. | Brand new paint along Nanaimo where they spent 2 freakin years to repave.. can't see the paint... lol I'm wondering if it's because we don't allow microplastics or glass powder in the paint to make it reflect... damn hippies
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11-18-2020, 08:11 PM
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Originally Posted by !LittleDragon Brand new paint along Nanaimo where they spent 2 freakin years to repave.. can't see the paint... lol I'm wondering if it's because we don't allow microplastics or glass powder in the paint to make it reflect... damn hippies | Is that a thing? Considering how much inclement weather we get here on an annual basis?  | |
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11-18-2020, 09:55 PM
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#1316 | | I only answer to my username, my real name is Irrelevant!
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Originally Posted by !LittleDragon WTF kind of shit paint do we use for our roads here? Some kind of environmentally friendly hippy crap? I noticed that a lot of American roads at least have reflectors and the best roads have like reflective paint.
Traffic was all over the place here because nobody can see the lanes when it's raining. It's one shiny slab of concrete. | I thought I was getting old and my eyes were going glad I'm not the only one lol
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11-18-2020, 10:07 PM
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11-18-2020, 10:30 PM
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#1318 | | "They call me Bowser...RawR!"
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Originally Posted by Teriyaki Is that a thing? Considering how much inclement weather we get here on an annual basis? |
They'll use it on some of the highways but not in the cities  https://vancouversun.com/news/politi...ouver-highways Quote:
VICTORIA — Lower Mainland drivers will soon have an easier time seeing road lines on provincial highways, as the B.C. government begins to roll out new highly reflective paint.
The Ministry of Transportation has begun painting more than 3,000 kilometres of roads in the Lower Mainland, Pemberton, Victoria and Duncan with a new specialized formula of paint that contains larger, higher-quality, reflective glass beads.
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The beads will make it easier for drivers to see the yellow and white road lines when it’s dark and raining, and address long-standing concerns from municipalities that previous highway paint was hard-to-see and quick to wear off from the roads. Highway 1, the provincial highway that cuts through Metro Vancouver from Abbotsford to North Vancouver, will be one of the roads to get the new paint.
The changes are part of a $4-million boost to the ministry’s annual highway budget, which will help cover new, five-year maintenance contracts with private companies that will be required to paint 20 per cent more highway lines throughout the province, add second coats to areas where paint fades the quickest and better monitor the condition of highway paint on provincial roads.
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“It’s absolutely money well-spent,” said Transportation Minister Claire Trevena. “It’s a bottom-line safety thing. It’s worth the investment because it’s not going to just make people safe, but ensure they are driving more safely because they can see where the lanes are and where the edge of the road is.”
Disappearing highway lines has been one of the Ministry of Transportation’s top complaints since 2010 when Ottawa banned the oil-based highway paint commonly used by most provinces and left them scrambling to find alternatives. B.C. switched to a lower-pollution alkyd paint for coastal and northern roads, and a water-based paint in the Interior, but both were less durable and neither lasted an entire year.
Ministry officials then launched a search to develop new paint, settling after tests in 2017 on a new “high-build paint” that goes on extra thick to survive the tough winters, salt, chains and ploughs of B.C.’s Interior and north, and a “premium glass-bead” paint that provides reflection better suited to the wet coastal climate of Vancouver Island, the Mainland and the Sunshine Coast.
The glass-bead paint is being rolled out now. But the high-built paint failed its tests, after transportation crews had trouble getting it to stay at certain thickness levels exceeding 18 mils. Instead, the government has reverted back to applying its less-durable paint in two coats, which it says can be applied as thick as a total of 32 mils but is also a more costly and time-consuming process.
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The government is currently accepting bids for new highway-maintenance contractors, and Trevena said they will be required to follow the new requirements for additional painting and second coats.
“Safety is No. 1 and I’ve already come on hard that we’ve got to make sure the contractors are doing the work,” said Trevena.
One of the province’s worst highways, the Coquihalla, will be a mixture of both paints — glass-bead paint for the wet roads along the southern portion of the highway toward Hope and the double-thick paint closer to the summit where it snows.
However, while the paint might provide some improvement, it isn’t expected to last an entire winter due to the fact that the extreme weather, snowploughs, chains, sand and studded tires actually strip away the asphalt on the road in addition to the paint.
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11-19-2020, 12:39 PM
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#1319 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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It's ridiculous, if anyone drives on Dawson running beside Lougheed HWY out here in Burnaby, that road is a literal joke when it rains, you have no idea which lane is which, combined with how much the road has been trashed up from construction.
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11-19-2020, 01:27 PM
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#1320 | | 14 dolla balla aint got nothing on me!
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Originally Posted by !LittleDragon WTF kind of shit paint do we use for our roads here? Some kind of environmentally friendly hippy crap? I noticed that a lot of American roads at least have reflectors and the best roads have like reflective paint.
Traffic was all over the place here because nobody can see the lanes when it's raining. It's one shiny slab of concrete. | If the paint is so shitty they should at least put those cats eyes things on major roadways, not just highways
I feel like Canada is such 3rd world in these kinda things compared to cities in Asia
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11-19-2020, 01:36 PM
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^ I'm shocked that it took them this long to finally come up with the idea to use reflective paint and reflectors. Who the hell is running the show ??!!
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11-19-2020, 01:53 PM
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#1322 | Ebisu Boss
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lmao... what a great topic... I actually thought I was the only one that couldn't see shit and thought my eyes were bad.
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11-19-2020, 02:58 PM
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Come on guys you know this city will do absolutely everything in it's powers to make driving here a horrible, miserable experience. It's to get us all out of our cars for the environment #greenestcity2020!  | |
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11-19-2020, 03:14 PM
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#1324 | | 14 dolla balla aint got nothing on me!
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The money they saved from using better paint probably instead used for all their road narrowing and bike lane projects
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11-19-2020, 03:18 PM
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#1325 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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i dont think u guys realise how many people it takes for 1 guy to hold a paint brush and paint a line on the road. i wanna guess a bakers dozen
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