Comments by "roachtoasties" (@roachtoasties) on "CBC News" channel.

  1. I'm not a dentist or an orthodontist, but I knew what I needed done would be impossible by using a treatment like this. I went through years of braces and also jaw surgery. It wasn't easy, or cheap, but it was worth it.
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  2. I also don't trust Yelp I've had the same experience with their reviews. Out of curiosity, I once checked restaurants that haven't opened yet in a local mall and they already had positive Yelp reviews. The owners were already at work posting great reviews of themselves.
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  3. This is nuts. If implemented, the other provinces need to require any places with a French word to have the word "STORE," "MARKET," "GAS STATION," "BROTHEL," etc., next to it which is at least twice the size. Just return the favor and do the same.
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  4. To this very day, I still get phone calls from these scammers. If they weren't scammers, it's sure nice that the IRS and CRA contracts out their collections department to call center workers in India, to save taxpayers money. I do "appreciate Suzy" who's concerned about my new car warranty expiring. She calls several times a week. Can CBC find out who she is, so I can personally thank her? ;)
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  5. If a U.S. degree isn't from a regionally accredited college, it's worth nothing.
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  6. Question: If someone needs to be "locked up" inside for questioning until a border guard is dispatched, does that leave everyone else in line waiting for what will probably be a long time?
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  7. This video is four years old, but the problem has only gotten worse. Basically I don't believe anything I get in email, texts, phone calls, and the like. The scammers and hackers are still working overtime.
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  8. In L.A. everything is dirt cheap wherever you go (US$1.75). Even cheaper if you have a senior or disabled pass. One exception is Metrolink commuter rail. More expensive for that.
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  9. It's the same here in the U.S. I don't know how many robocalls I've got from "the Internal Revenue Service" saying they're coming to arrest me unless I call back ASAP. I live dangerously. I don't call back and the IRS still hasn't come to take me away. The IRS doesn't work that way. They'll mail you notices of a problem, but not use automated calls saying they're going to arrest you and throw away the key. I've called the numbers left later on, out of curiosity. They do get quickly disconnected. I think the VOIP providers shut them off when they find out, but the scammers get new disposable numbers and are back up and running in no time.
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  10. I've cleared U.S. customs in Vancouver, Toronto, and Dublin Ireland's airports and also at the Vancouver Cruise Terminal. The world didn't end. I see no reason it can't work the other direction.
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  11. Gina is worried about milk, but her family seems to be wolfing down the Nutella. I did some research right now. If she wants to get all their calcium from Nutella, that's 925 grams a day, or 5,000 calories of the stuff.
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  12. The results of doing the same search today may be similar, including where I live (California). If you ask an employee if they have an AED, and they say "I don't know," "I got to look for it," "it's here somewhere," "It's locked up and I got to find someone with the key," or they act like you want to steal it, basically they don't have one. If they find one five minutes later, that's also the same as not having one. :/ I do agree with a lot of the comments below. People need to know what a defibrillator actually does, and when it's needed.
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  13. That's for sure. Cal State Northridge for me. A lot of work. Unless I'm going out of my mind, I can't forget that.
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  14. I strongly doubt that a small claims court decision sets any precedent. It's a decision by a judge for this case. This isn't the Supreme Court. There was always the chance that Air Canada wouldn't even show up to court because it wasn't worth their time, so the couple would win by default. Anyway, I was once on an extremely delayed United Airlines flight that was cancelled and then I was rebooked elsewhere. They gave me a "whopping" US$50.00 airline voucher. That eventually expired on me.
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  15. About buying cars in the US: It also would be less inconvenient if the US got their act together and used kph instead of mph. Buying a car in the U.S. means you'll need to get used to those tiny kph numbers inside the big mph numbers on your dash (and vise versa if you brought a Canadian car to the US).
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  16. For companies hiring people based on their degrees, it should be quite easy for the H.R. department to figure out the difference between a degree from Joe Schmoe Crapola College and Harvard, and just a little work to figure out an applicant's degree from Harvard is real, or something they whipped-up on their computer printer. H.R. departments aren't following through with investigating before hiring.
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  17. Malaysia has also been telling countries like Australia and the U.S. the same thing. Recycling has become a "feel good" thing to becoming a sad joke. We're all lectured to put our recycling in the blue bin, or in the recycle bin when we're done with our drink at Starbucks. After that, I've always been skeptical about that plastic cup making it back to some far away country and recycled. Even if it does get recycled, does all that fuel it takes to ship that plastic cup to the other side of the planet more than offset any recycling benefit?
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  18. These volcanoes have existed for as long as earth has existed, and will exist long after people no longer exist. In Hawaii, they're shield volcanoes, that are mainly lava flows, not an explosive stratovolcano like Krakatoa. The volcanoes in Hawaii created the islands, although it's the Big Island where they are and the other islands kind of drifted geologically from that point over hundreds of millions of years. There's absolutely nothing one can do about volcanoes. It's earth and its geology. They will start and stop erupting depending on whatever geology. Hoping it will stop, or making some idiotic statement linking volcanoes to politics will make no difference.
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  19. Does Eaton Center really have one million shoppers a week? That sounds like a huge stretch. I'm not surprised McDonald's refunded your money. Even if you ate all the food, and said you didn't like it, they would probably give your money back. That's the way it was when I used to work at a Taco Bell a long time ago. It wasn't often that happened, but when it did, just refund their money. Of course if the custom came in every day, saying they didn't like the food after eating it and wanted a refund, we would have to put a stop to that, but that never happened.
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  20. The cop had an attitude. It's not targeting Canadian or other foreign travelers. I was once stopped by a cop in my own city (Los Angeles), and he gave me a tongue lashing for no reason at all. Some can be real jerks.
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  21. Does Amazon take a loss shipping Amazon Prime food items that has a long shelf life (like breakfast cereal) to Iqaluit Nunavut? How can the local grocery stores stay in business when they have to charge three times more for the same products? My adventurous self would like to visit Iqaluit some day. Maybe I can pay for my trip by filling my suitcase up with Cheerios then selling it when I get there. :/
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  22. It's easy to get tickets. Floor the gas as you drive down the street. If you still can't get a ticket, drive on the wrong side of the road for good measure. Tickets will come your way.
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  23. In California, some are making a political and inflation statement why the restaurant/fast food minimum wage shouldn't have been increased. If employees were just paid enough, and with a "no tips" sign at the counter, I would be happy. Just include giving employees a decent wage in the cost of the food, and not start pushing what employees should be paid as a customer decision every time you go out. I remember my first job. A near minimum wage job at Taco Bell. For the 18 months I worked there, I might have found three tips left on the tables. It was so rare I thought the customer left the money by mistake. :/
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  24. Never trust a financial advisor who has a blurry face. :/
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  25. Letter grades in Los Angeles County (my part of the world) I don't feel do any good. They represent the grade they got when the inspector came, not the day I came. Besides, they might have been warned by other restaurants in the area that an inspector is in the neighborhood, so hide the garbage. If they do happen to get a poor grade, they might have a pile of old "A" grade cards in a desk, to replace their "C" or "D" once the inspector leaves. My first job was at a company owned Taco Bell. There were issues similar to this video, including garbage on the floor in the kitchen. One place I now avoid is California Chicken Cafe, as I've had several instances of being ill after eating there. I've reported them on the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health website. Nothing seems to be done. I fill out the online form and it just gets lost in a black hole.
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  26. Instead of getting more money, the aunt, in her greed, will just waste it all on lawyers.
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  27. I don't get why so many people were jammed onto the escalator. The weight of everybody probably exceeded its mechanical capacity, stripping gears, etc.
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  28. A lot of that stuff is just plain used. Maybe owned for a year or longer. Resellers use the term "refurbished" because it sounds nicer.
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  29.  @AW33406  Use decimals and standardization with the rest of the world. Also, a mile is LONGER than a kilometer, unless they changed something since yesterday. :/
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  30. I was in an auto accident a while ago (I was driving and hit by an uninsured drunk driver). This was in the Los Angeles area. I remember three ambulances coming (they're scanning the emergency frequencies looking for business). I ended up taking the Los Angeles City Fire Department paramedics to the hospital, that was only about three miles from the accident. They did absolutely no treatment to me. It was basically a taxi ride to the hospital. They billed my insurance company US$900 for the service, that fortunately my insurance paid in full. That was one expensive taxi ride.
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  31. It's the same in my part of the world (Los Angeles). You just have to accept the fact you'll pay a lot for a service for a quality less than promised. It's AT&T here, and only fiber to the node, although they'll try to confuse the fact that the backbone of their network is fiber, and somehow that makes it fiber to the home. The node where I live must be three or four times farther than the customer in this video. From that point it's only a narrow pair of copper wires to my house that must carry data, phone and television. At the moment I use Spectrum cable instead. It's also not fiber to the home, but coaxial cable from wherever that connects to their network to my house. That said, I do get a good speed, but I end up spending a lot. Of course, these companies claim they're "saving me a ton of money." I saved a "ton of money" decades ago, where all I had to pay for was for a telephone in my house. There was no cable TV, internet, VOIP, and so on. Those were the good old days. :/
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  32. If you pick any big city you'll find examples where the old stuff was demolished in favor of "progress" and "improvement." Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. If it doesn't, there's no turning back.
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  33. Cody obviously made some big mistakes at the self-service terminal. I'm thinking he scanned some of the same items more than once, in addition to entering in stuff like wrong produce codes. If he did this more often, he would get the hang of it.
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  34. I'm sorry that happened to her. I get the feeling police near where I live in the U.S. work on commission. They do the same to locals too.
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  35. I get my produce from Ralph's (in California). It works for me.
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  36. I might be the last person alive who hasn't used home delivery. My favorite pizza place is just down the street. A five minute walk. I just walk there.
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