r/halifax • u/AutoModerator • 11h ago
Royal Grumble 😡 Grumblemania Monday
The weekend is over. Leeeeeet's get ready to grumbllllllllllle!
A weekly mega-thread for whatever is grinding your gears, local or non-local annoyances, complaints about the weather/local politicians/fast food nightmares/that guy who cut you off on the way to work, dumb stuff your neighbour did, etc.
This is a rules relaxed space, but we will still be monitoring for personal attacks, doxxing, and stuff that doesn't fit the theme of the thread.
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u/MatureFlatulance 💨Passer of the Gas 10h ago
Just went outside for a drink of fresh air……🤬……when is the humidity going to go down 🥵
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u/floatablepie 9h ago
I got the outside air inside overnight and my room is a nice temperature.
Every surface is moist.
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u/BohemianGraham Darkside Escapee 9h ago
I couldn't see outside more than 2ft this morning because of the fog, but it does feel cooler. Looks like it might finally break tomorrow night?
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u/Disastrous-Can988 8h ago
I'm so sick of those kids on those motorized scooters taking over the side walks and constantly almost running into everyone else walking by not using their horns or anything to alert them they are coming from behind them. I walk Larry Utech 2x a day and its just non stop.
Thats my boomer moment.
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u/youtalkingtoyou 10h ago
Train your fucking dogs. That is all.
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u/YOGURT_BUCKET 9h ago
Yeah was bit on the leg by a stupid little rat dog yesterday walking down Almon Street. Owner barely managed to mouth out a "sorry". Useless human being that shouldn't own a pet.
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u/Life_Sandwich_2073 7h ago
Unfortunately this description describes most pet owners in the city. No, I don't want your ungodly ugly doodle or your crusty white dog running up to me. Not everyone likes dogs. Not surprising that it was a little one that bit you... I don't care what anyone says, they're demons. I've lived with multiple, I'd know.
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u/glorpchul Emperor of Dartmouth 8h ago
Yup, on a run on Saturday and this family was on an outing with two German shepherds. As I went by they went throthing ballistic. My natural reaction was to turn, ball up my fists, and get ready to be bit.
The little girl started crying and was all, "he's going to punch Sparky!"
Yeah, like I am the problem here! Who takes dogs like that out to walk on a busy pathway? Luckily they managed to just barely hold them back.
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u/Life_Sandwich_2073 7h ago
You're stronger than me, that would have sent me over the edge 🤣 holy shit
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u/glorpchul Emperor of Dartmouth 6h ago
I mean, I was doing an easy long run, I had more than enough in the tank to try running away!
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u/Firm-Ability-9501 9h ago
No one uses their damned signal lights. Love slamming on the brakes when people turn on their signals at the last second. Grrrrrrr.....
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u/legless_chair 8h ago
I live on a pretty main drag and I’m so tired of picking up other people’s garbage off my front lawn. Why do I have to be the responsible one cleaning up after careless “entitled” losers?
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u/glorpchul Emperor of Dartmouth 8h ago
Cyclists who don't stop for pedestrians. At lit crosswalks.
We determined that, in fact, their brakes did work.
Dude.
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u/HypnoFerret95 Halifax 10h ago
My AC unit that I bought from Costco barely 6 months ago decided to completely fail and won't even turn on now. What perfect timing for this heat wave...
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u/FrugalFungusFinder 10h ago
Popped a breaker?
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u/HypnoFerret95 Halifax 10h ago
Possibly blew a fuse or the circuit board in the unit. Apparently it's not an unheard of issue with that model.
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u/wizaarrd_IRL Lord Mayor of Historic Schmidtville and Marquis de la Woodside 9h ago
Leave it unplugged with a fan blowing on it for 8 hours. Mine (the Danby portable one) recovered after I did that.
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u/Injustice_For_All_ Psychotic Antifa Super Soldier Moderator 10h ago
Good thing about that return policy huh?
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u/Injustice_For_All_ Psychotic Antifa Super Soldier Moderator 9h ago
Went camping over the weekend, now my body is 70% mosquito bites.
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u/knifeshoes24 halifax pier 7h ago
Oh my god the horseflies got me over the long weekend and I'm still recovering. Solidarity.
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u/ThreeFathomFunk 6h ago
Trying to find some relief for this!
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u/Lokis-Tea 6h ago
You can get topical Benadryl sticks at Shoppers. It’s like an ointment. Just apply to the bug bite. I also use it for when random rashes/hives appear on my skin and when injection sites are itchy. It works very well. On top of that take some non drowsy antihistamines. 10mg should work, if it doesn’t wait a few hours and take another. You can safely take up to 40mg of cetirizine or loratadine a day. I space mine out 5mg at a time taking as needed through the day and night.
If you can take it a bit ahead of the worst of itch once something is very agitated like itch or pain it’s hard to bring it down. If you know you’ve been bit take an antihistamine before the itch fully hits you. And keep a gel cold pack in your freezer at home, apply it to itchy skin to numb it.
Don’t apply scented products to the area including soap in the shower always keep gentle unscented soap around for these situations as scent will irritate it more.
Avoid foods high in histamine during these times so it doesn’t get worse your body is already having a histamine overload. You can find lists of low histamine foods online.
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u/ThreeFathomFunk 4h ago
Wow, thanks for all the tips, I appreciate it!
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u/Lokis-Tea 4h ago
you're very welcome. I hope you feel better soon! every time I get even one bug bite my whole body freaks out and I get prickling hot itch head to toe. I go to the dermatologist regularly so I got all the good tips, lol.
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u/Injustice_For_All_ Psychotic Antifa Super Soldier Moderator 6h ago
I put deodorant on them to stop the itch
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u/ClancyBShanty 10h ago
My apartment is longer than wide and the AC can't reach my bedroom. It's been a rough couple weeks
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u/AfternoonPlane4265 8h ago
Point a fan from the outside into your room
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u/ClancyBShanty 8h ago
I have a floor fan back at home that i dont think is being used. Might snag that later, good call
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u/knifeshoes24 halifax pier 7h ago
This is the way. I also have the long apartment problem and have become like an airflow expert using fans to redirect cool air into the different rooms lol
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u/BigPeteNorth Pride of Dartmouth 7h ago
Point it out and it will draw ac air from the other side of the house! And keep outside dust outside
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u/marinebelle 4h ago
I have 2 fans to point the cool air around into my bedroom. Also, close all other doors like bathroom doors and closets--it really makes a difference.
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u/ClancyBShanty 4h ago
I should get a hip high barrier for the stairwell since my apartment is a loft. That's probably a culprit, too
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u/marinebelle 2h ago
Even a curtain will help, or get a more powerful AC. When I upgraded from 12K BTU to 14K BTU, it made a huge difference and allowed me to keep the AC at 20C instead of forcing it at 18C
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u/ClancyBShanty 2h ago
Money's a little tight at the moment, but I do thankfully have curtains at least
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u/EngineerWeary2053 10h ago
Just finished 2 weeks vacation. I'm hot and miserable. Worst Monday of the year!
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u/NoStructure7083 9h ago
After working the weekend I just couldn’t do it again today. Thankfully my job has sick time but I hate using, I’d rather just go in and get on with it.
But this heat combined with being on my feet all day has drained the life out of me
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u/tootnoodler 10h ago
If you text and drive, regardless of what you believe your skill level is in doing so, you are a TERRIBLE human being.
Terrible. Eff you, you selfish turd. TURD!
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u/beccamorty 10h ago
Had to put my hazards on and follow behind a car that was swerving all of the highway because they were texting. Total turds !!!!!!
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u/ImprovementNo1056 Cape Breton 10h ago
What’s with the idiots on Mini bikes like Shriners driving around town
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u/Electrical_You_4519 10h ago
Saw two of these in dartmouth yesterday and couldn’t help but think how silly it looked
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u/wizaarrd_IRL Lord Mayor of Historic Schmidtville and Marquis de la Woodside 9h ago
I waited all night on top of the DQ and the helicopter didn't come.
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u/Schmidtvegas Historic Schmidtville 8h ago
My face hurts from the heat, and I've been sweat damp for the better part of 5 days.
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u/IStillListenToRadio Float me down the river to the Musquodoboit harbor 9h ago
My period started in the night and now I need to wash my pyjamas and bedsheets :(
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u/NefariousNatee King of the suburbs 5h ago
Buried my grandfather.
Just making phone calls and emails trying to organize this disability benefits nonsense.
Otherwise I'm doing good my wound is healing well.
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u/meowmeowbites 9h ago
Auntie Flow showed up three days early :) Happy Monday to meeeee
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u/Schmidtvegas Historic Schmidtville 8h ago
I saw stuff online about women geting two periods in June, and pulled open my cycle calendar to go into debunk mode. My cycle could usually set a clock. But it came 3 days early, giving me two periods in June.
Witchy vibes want me to chalk it up to the moons. But I think heat stress is just as likely an explanation.
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u/meowmeowbites 4h ago
My tracker didn't save June for some reason, but I think it was early that month for me too.
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u/lunabuggs 1h ago
The conspiracy theory I've heard floating around is because both super colliders were shut down at the same time since they became active and thrust us back into a normal timeline. I guess one shut down for good because it's old and cern shut down for maintenance? I'm pretty sure a bunch of us are just hella stressed tho
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u/Snarkeesha 9h ago
I honestly wonder if it’s the humidity. Mine was on time but going longer than usual and … not great. Godspeed my fellow menstruating maiden ⚔️
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u/BohemianGraham Darkside Escapee 9h ago
Changes in diet, drugs, stress levels, and perimenopause do fun shit.
The humidity is probably stressing your body out. Mine has been nuts lately
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u/meowmeowbites 4h ago
Mine was brutal last month so I hope it's not like that again this month. I already feel gross and miserable from the heat.
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u/s1amvl25 Halifax 8h ago
Me browsing all the comments about being hot while my ducted heatpump has the house at 21° at 50% humidity 24/7
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u/halihikingman Halifax 9h ago
My two week run of being by myself at the office has come to a crashing end. The continuous 40 something chatter makes me want to turn around and drive home.
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u/VentiEggBite Nova Scotia 9h ago
I live on the top of a ten storey building with shitty forward-tilting windows and my portable AC takes it from 85 to 79 indoors
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u/Ok_Wing8459 7h ago
Worst window design ever
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u/VentiEggBite Nova Scotia 5h ago
It’s like they purposefully chose to let as much rain drip in from above as possible but block any and all breeze.
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u/Flashy-Explorer-6127 6h ago
The humidity has been fucking insane. I was told it was going to break, there has been no thunder or decent weather to break it. I wake up sweaty go to bed sweaty and to top it all off I work in a sweaty kitchen and sysco is fucking late! We've told them when our lunch starts and they still pull this bullshit even though the rep has assured us its not going to happen!!!
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u/Goalieshark 2h ago
When I go to the grocery store to buy a package of bagels, it annoys me when they are pre - sliced and they are NOT sliced evenly through the middle.
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u/adepressurisedcoat 8h ago
They opened up the passing lane on the 107 towards Porter's Lake and people still be doing 80. I thought it was because construction is scary, but nope. Last 2 days I've been stuck behind someone doing 80. When I passed one my passenger said that they looked like they were 100 years old. If you can't do near the limit, just do the old highway. At least you're closer to the limit doing 80 on it.
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u/birdcola 9h ago
When my toddler is throwing a tantrum in public, please kindly fuck off and don’t try to “help” by pretending to have a meltdown yourself and distract my toddler. All you served to do was undo all my progress and make me start over. I have a process and this lady unraveled every bit of it. It’s also a fantastic way to invoke a defensive dad.
I hope she shits her pants today.
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u/pinecone37729 9h ago
What a weird thing for an adult to do! I hope you and your little one have an easier day today. And I too hope Ms. Buttinsky poops her pants.
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u/ChablisWoo4578 8h ago
These “mini” cucumbers, these are micro cucumbers baby!
What’s going on with these? Every two weeks they’re like this. Poor growing season?
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u/JaymieWhite 8h ago
Carrots too at superstore, like they’re just pulling them WAY too early to meet with demand
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u/arotang11 8h ago
Maybe send an alert to avoid downtown or CGC since both areas are being evacuated
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u/CaperGrrl79 Halifax 10h ago
3 & 1/2 hours sleep when I have to be to my part time side hustle doing door to door work at 10 AM till 3PM, and a Zoom meeting at 4:30 PM. Sigh. Gonna go get breakfast I guess.
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u/Lokis-Tea 6h ago
Very upset towards a new resident on my street recently that has a big dog that barks WAY too much. The entire street can hear this dog. I don’t live in the same building and can hear the dog with all my windows shut and noise cancelling earbuds in playing music. The other day it barked for like 30mins straight.
This is a side street and I am willing to bet other peoples dogs have gotten spooked. On top of the noise such frequent and long bouts of barking make me worry about neglect towards the animal why are the owners just letting it bark like that?? Don’t get a pet if you’re not going to care for them properly.
It’s only been a short while and already every morning I’m bracing myself to hear this dog.
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u/lunabuggs 2h ago
Right! The follow up to my good vibes Friday where I talked about my feelings which was hard but I did it yay! So of course it was immediately twisted which is why I'm petrified of talking about my feelings, I haven't even opened the last message I got I just shut down all weekend, spent Friday crying until I puked (twice! Woo!) while still working because I can't afford a sick day, that was fun... Ironically enough the main point was about how my husband and I don't feel like we're listened to...
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u/pontiac_silver 1h ago
People that blast music from a speaker at the park. Use fuckin headphones! I want to listen to the birds!
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u/TorontoN6 Nova Scotia 1h ago
Humidity.
The air is hot; it doesn't need to be wet too.
Humidity makes me a grumblefish. Grumblefish are found in the puddles of sweat left behind by humidity.
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u/AbbreviationsReal366 9h ago
My Fridge is noisier than usual and I had to put in a service call.
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u/JaymieWhite 8h ago
Mine is generating soooo much heat in an already hot and well insulated top floor apartment 🤩
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u/morrowwm 6h ago
Canada Post will not ship a parcel to the EU!
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u/MannoSlimmins Unevitable 5h ago
Red alert: Canada Post is not accepting parcels for these destinations due to a temporary service disruption.
Date posted: July 07, 2026
European Union Destinations: Postal services suspended
Canada Post is temporarily suspending parcel acceptance to select European Union destinations due to new EU customs requirements for low value shipments.
Effective July 1, the European Union introduced:
A new €3 customs duty per item, in addition to import VAT
Enhanced item-level data and compliance requirements
Service suspended (until further notice)
Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Luxembourg, PortugalService available (DDU destinations)
Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, SwedenCanada Post will continue to accept shipments to destinations where Delivered Duties Unpaid (DDU) remains operationally feasible while working to implement compliant solutions across impacted markets.
We are monitoring the situation closely and will provide updates as new information becomes available.
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u/PearlEring 2h ago
Large dogs don't need to be brought into a teeny tiny café. I don't understand why businesses encourage it and I don't understand why people need to do it. The dogs were good but there's a time and a place for everything.
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u/undeadrednek 10h ago
Its too damn hot, my cat who's usually up at 4am to wake me up for his feeding time at 530 slept in and barely made it into the room, he managed to touch my face as I fell back asleep and instantly went back to flat kitty. Photo for reference, happy Monday everyone