Ugly Canada 2 (Only architecture, planning and design faux pas)

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by Proof Sheet

If those are the natural options of a place to be buried then cremation is the only option.

Imagine telling someone that they can go pay their respects to a family member...'oh yeah, its next to the Tim Hortons' drive thru lane

This double double's for you b'ye!

How about here for a nice quiet place for reflection

https://maps.app.goo.gl/VGN97RgsQdNqnXUC7

https://maps.app.goo.gl/LxbXbfsYGJtJqYB29

Basically where Highway 401 and 427 meet near the Toronto airport.

The headstones mirror the looming commie blocks in the background:

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6700...oASAFQAw%3D%3D

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by Proof Sheet

If those are the natural options of a place to be buried then cremation is the only option.

Imagine telling someone that they can go pay their respects to a family member...'oh yeah, its next to the Tim Hortons' drive thru lane

How about here for a nice quiet place for reflection

https://maps.app.goo.gl/VGN97RgsQdNqnXUC7

https://maps.app.goo.gl/LxbXbfsYGJtJqYB29

Basically where Highway 401 and 427 meet near the Toronto airport.

My gawd, that is horrible. It would be nicer to be interred on the moon than in the no-man's land between highways. One thing is for sure: you don't want to have a grave-side service, with semis blasting by at 110km's/hour.

Found an article on this soul-sucking graveyard: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/res...cb19b38f0.html

There, long-haul rigs speed past in a wind-boom blur. Sports cars flash by as they weave. Jetliners come in low on approach to Pearson’s nearby runways. The constant whoosh of transport gives new meaning to the phrase whistling past the graveyard. As final resting places go, this one offers scarce peace, not to mention little menace.

The cemetery is a small reminder that the GTA wasn’t always a sprawl of suburbs and superhighways. Cows once grazed on the surrounding lands, circa the mid- to late-1800s, when farmers made the horse-and-wagon haul to the St. Lawrence Market to sell their beef. There was a blacksmith shop, post office and tavern not far away, near the present-day Eglinton Ave.

On the other hand, maybe its better that unproductive usage of land be reserved for unproductive land.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Calgary has one beside a Tim Horton's drive thru / loading dock:

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8630...oASAFQAw%3D%3D

Somehow this is even worse than the 401/427 cemetery. At least you don't have to enter a Rim Whoreton's parking lot to access the damned thing, unlike that awful one in Calgary. Maybe it is a grave for all those that died young due to subsiding on Rimmie's "food" and fumes from pickup trucks?

[Gresto]

The drones in the drive-thru might as well just take a right straight into the cemetery. It's actually metaphorically suitable to put a graveyard next to the totem of mindlessness, and human invention at its lowest that is a drive-thru.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by Gresto

The drones in the drive-thru might as well just take a right straight into the cemetery. It's actually metaphorically suitable to put a graveyard next to the totem of mindlessness, and human invention at its lowest that is a drive-thru.

I only came to appreciate drive thrus having small children. And during Covid.

I used Tim’s drive thru on the weekend after Costco. Tried ordering chocolate timbits for the kids and the ESL drive thru person barked something unintelligible to me three times that I couldn’t understand. They said honey glaze. Apparently a Tim Horton’s coffee and donut shop had no flavours except honey glaze timbits. But they didn’t explain why. Just barked a different flavour at me. Same thing happened the time before. They were cleaning a machine and couldn’t do French Vanilla coffee.

[Nashe]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

My gawd, that is horrible. It would be nicer to be interred on the moon than in the no-man's land between highways. One thing is for sure: you don't want to have a grave-side service, with semis blasting by at 110km's/hour.

Ghost: "oOoOoOo... You know what? I can't even hear myself haunt here. This is unacceptable."
Zombie: "Yeah, we're not gonna bother either. A bunch of us tried to start the apocalypse last year and every single one got run over in the first 30 seconds. Barely got above a slow shamble. It's not right, man..."

[WhipperSnapper]

Ghosts haunt where they die. Any ghosts in that cemetery will predate the cemetery.

[MolsonExport]

Honey Glaze? First of all, it doesn't have any honey, and second of all, it is dunked, not glazed.

Rimmies barely sells donuts anymore, and what they do sell is very subpar.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Honey Glaze? First of all, it doesn't have any honey, and second of all, it is dunked, not glazed.

Rimmies barely sells donuts anymore, and what they do sell is very subpar.

Honey glaze is the Galen Weston of donuts.

[O-tacular]

All this talk of cemetery’s paved over by development and highways made me think of cemetery hill in Calgary. Graves were dug up and moved to accommodate the worst stroad in the city Macleod Trail. Conveniently the Chinese cemetery was the section that was moved to create its own segregated section:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/oUGXdZhuaYgGxbqz7?g_st=ic

[MolsonExport]

Nothing is sacred when it comes to dollars, it would seem. Stroads elbow out caskets and tombs.

[O-tacular]

Nothing uglier than our dipshit Premier spouting chemtrails conspiracy theories.

https://pressprogress.ca/the-pentago...-over-alberta/

[MolsonExport]

The chemtrails include a special compound that make people vote liberal. They also cause wokeism.

[WhipperSnapper]

It makes a great movie but, why would rich people want to lower the global population?

There so much concern over countries with declining population and then there's Canada with out of control real estate, etc. as a product of record population growth and our response has been to raise the numbers even higher. Among other things, the major puppeteers are land barons.

[O-tacular]

‘Tis the season.

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[ScreamingViking]

Maybe Hortons will come out with a poutine coffee
(first thing that came to mind when I saw the pumpkin guts lol, though 'poutine coffee' doesn't seem so bad on second-thought given the gravy currently served at Timmy's)

I bet the resident French troll of the Quebec thread would have a heyday with that one.

[Loco101]

I can see them trying to do their own version beaver tails soon. They've got the equipment and packaging since they are currently serving their version of pizza.

TimTails / Queues de Tim

[ScreamingViking]

Originally Posted by Loco101

TimTails / Queues de Tim

Make sure you clear that with the French poster. Though it seems there's always a counter-argument in that poster's psyche.

"Can I please order a TimTails double-double?"

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by ScreamingViking

Maybe Hortons will come out with a poutine coffee
(first thing that came to mind when I saw the pumpkin guts lol, though 'poutine coffee' doesn't seem so bad on second-thought given the gravy currently served at Timmy's)

I bet the resident French troll of the Quebec thread would have a heyday with that one.

That would be amazing! Add maple syrup for the full trifecta!

[WhipperSnapper]

Does Tim's have a sweet potato latte? Just add gravy and cheese curds