The Great Canadian Skyline Thread! II

[Chadillaccc]

moved.

[Chadillaccc]

Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

And the insult was not necessary. What is it with Calgary forumers lately ? Is it the early winter that makes you so defensive ? Enough already.

Every time someone mentions something positive about Calgary, you and many others feel the need to chime in and put it down. We're defensive because we know this city is worth defending and don't care for the biased misinformed opinions of people who know nothing about the topic. You clearly know little to nothing about the city, so why do you bother? Does it satisfy your ego? You already live in one of the coolest cities on the continent so I don't know what you could possibly get out of it. No one needs a telephoto lens to make Calgary look dense, trust me, or just trust your eyes and the hundreds of cell phone pics (obviously without telephoto) that I and many others have posted. The mountains begin only 60 km from downtown, no one needs a telephoto for that either. We are proud of our beautiful city. If you haven't lived here then you wouldn't understand why we feel the way we do, Freeweed summed it up perfectly and eloquently today:

Originally Posted by freeweed

You just summed up a big part of why so many people like us are ga-ga over this city, once they've lived here for a while. And yes, I am specifically thinking of some recent discussions in the Canada forum.

I'm coming up to 10 years in Calgary now, and it's been unbelievable. It never gets old, and I never get bored of the new stuff happening here. Because it's constant and pretty much always better than the last.

Just wait till you've been here 5-6 years (average lifecycle for a big tower or ten). It will blow you away to walk around downtown or the Beltline, and realize just how much didn't exist when you first moved here. It's just plain stunning to think about.

PS. sorry to bring this up again, I just thought it needed addressing.

[Beedok]

I think part of the problem is that there's very few shots showing out of downtown density for Calgary. That and the extreme size of the downtown absorbing everything.

[Chadillaccc]

I try to post pictures often of our suburban skylines and urban "suburban" areas like Marda Loop. My cell cam is the shits though, and now that it's winter, everything just looks dead and grey. However, I have a feeling Santa is bringing me a fancy shmancy new camera for Christmas! No telephoto though, shucks!

But just a question, when does anyone ever show pictures of Ottawa outside of the cores of Ottawa + Gatineau (which is pretty much equivalent to our CBD + Beltline) ? I'm pretty sure I've posted more pictures just of Calgary's suburban dense areas than I've ever seen of Ottawa from anyone on here outside of the cores. Also, sorry if I'm sounding confrontational, I don't mean to. It's hard to convey tone and type eloquently when I'm this tired.

[Martin Mtl]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Every time someone mentions something positive about Calgary, you and many others feel the need to chime in and put it down. We're defensive because we know this city is worth defending and don't care for the biased misinformed opinions of people who know nothing about the topic. You clearly know little to nothing about the city, so why do you bother? Does it satisfy your ego? You already live in one of the coolest cities on the continent so I don't know what you could possibly get out of it. No one needs a telephoto lens to make Calgary look dense, trust me, or just trust your eyes and the hundreds of cell phone pics (obviously without telephoto) that I and many others have posted. The mountains begin only 60 km from downtown, no one needs a telephoto for that either. We are proud of our beautiful city. If you haven't lived here then you wouldn't understand why we feel the way we do, Freeweed summed it up perfectly and eloquently today:




PS. sorry to bring this up again, I just thought it needed addressing.

I have been on this forum for as long as it exists and I have never, not even once, made a derogative comment about another forumer. Yes I will give my opinion on pictures, buildings, etc, but never on a person. It's simply not true that I put down every post about Calgary.

The comment about the telephoto was made with a smile. It is undeniably true that one can make a city look denser than it is with a telephoto. There is nothing wrong in pointing this out on a discussion forum. The forumer who posted the pictures responded by suggesting that I was on "drug" for saying that.

I've learned my lesson. From now on, I will keep away from everything about Calgary, thank you very much. You guys are too much for me.

[G.S MTL]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Every time someone mentions something positive about Calgary, you and many others feel the need to chime in and put it down. We're defensive because we know this city is worth defending and don't care for the biased misinformed opinions of people who know nothing about the topic. You clearly know little to nothing about the city, so why do you bother? Does it satisfy your ego? You already live in one of the coolest cities on the continent so I don't know what you could possibly get out of it. No one needs a telephoto lens to make Calgary look dense, trust me, or just trust your eyes and the hundreds of cell phone pics (obviously without telephoto) that I and many others have posted. The mountains begin only 60 km from downtown, no one needs a telephoto for that either. We are proud of our beautiful city. If you haven't lived here then you wouldn't understand why we feel the way we do, Freeweed summed it up perfectly and eloquently today:




PS. sorry to bring this up again, I just thought it needed addressing.

GOD You're such a drama queeen Chad.

[G.S MTL]

Chadillaccc NOT everyone will like Calgary or Montreal or Toronto! everyone is entitled to their own opinion/choices period. DEAL with it dude.

[Chadillaccc]

Sorry Martin, I guess I didn't see that context, and I would assume neither did KW before he accused you of being on drugs.

No one is asking you to stop responding to anything Calgary, that would be a shame.




Thanks for the input G.S, I think I knew that already. I never said people need to like it, I said they should know a bit about what they're talking about before they open their mouths.

[ZeDgE]

People are entitled to their opinions. However, when they are based on non truths or lack of knowledge I don't see why they should not be questioned. This seems to be the case alot here especially when it comes to Calgary. Can't say I'm too surprised at the defensiveness that occurs. And when you have people basically being called 'douchebags' for doing so, its not helping much.

[G.S MTL]

Originally Posted by ZeDgE

People are entitled to their opinions. However, when they are based on non truths or lack of knowledge I don't see why they should not be questioned. This seems to be the case alot here especially when it comes to Calgary. Can't say I'm too surprised at the defensiveness that occurs.

You want to start too?... really ? OMG lets feel sorry for Calgary.. should I even mention Montreal?? should I? right.. No I won't! I know how great Montreal is regardless of what others say. Montreal has something that no other city in Canada has or will ever have. Thats my opinion! my experience. PEACE.

[kw5150]

Yawn, boring. It depends how far you zoom in. End of story

Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

Simply not true. Read and learn.

But here if you don't want to click:

The area size captured by a photographic lens can be expressed as a diagonal angular field called Angle of View. Generally speaking, a focal length range that provides a similar perspective to the human eye is considered to be somewhere between 40-60mm. With this established as a standard focal length, those with shorter focal lengths are called "wideangle" and those with longer focal lengths are called"telephoto". The shorter the focal length becomes, the wider the angle of view (wideangle), while the longer it becomes, the narrower the angle of view (telephoto).

A photographic lens provides a visual effect, making closely located subjects larger while remotely located subjects smaller. As the focal length becomes shorter in a wideangle lens, this perspective difference expands making closely located subjects even bigger and remotely located ones even smaller (exaggerated perspective).

In contrast, in a telephoto lens, as focal lengths become longer, less difference is observed between close and distant subjects, making it appear as if they are closer regardless of the distance between them(compressed perspective).

And the insult was not necessary. What is it with Calgary forumers lately ? Is it the early winter that makes you so defensive ? Enough already.

[ZeDgE]

Originally Posted by G.S MTL

You want to start too?... really ? OMG lets feel sorry for Calgary.. should I even mention Montreal?? should I? right.. No I won't! I know how great Montreal is regardless of what others say. Montreal has something that no other city in Canada has or will ever have. Thats my opinion! my experience. PEACE.

Uh.. ok

I'm not going to argue with you and pretend I know more about Montreal because I don't. I was born there though. Fact.

What is kind of funny is we 'Calgarians' get this same type of stuff in real life, not just on these forums. Its like a fact of life, putting up with ignorant people (in general) and dated stereotypes among many other things. I've learned to ignore it mostly, but on here it seems different because you expect better with the type of community it is here. People who have a decent knowledge of cities and what they are actually like. Oh well, I'm done.

/feelsorryforme

[Chadillaccc]

*jaw dropped* sigh... that's some point you made there...

[kw5150]

I really hate how the Quebec forumers say "under the breath" insults, then we get defensive, then they say: "What did I do?"

[G.S MTL]

you know what I love though? is when a Calgarian who's obsessed with his city and says Calgary will surpass Montreal in population LOL. You know... its quite amusing to be honest. I just keep my mouth shut though. hahahahahahahahaha ..... ha ... and another ha. I'm done.

[Chadillaccc]

When did anyone ever say Calgary would surpass Montreal in population? Are you 12?

KW, that phenomenon is hardly exclusive to forumers from Quebec, people from all the regions do it, except for maybe the Atlantic.

[G.S MTL]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

When did anyone ever say Calgary would surpass Montreal in population?

KW, that phenomenon is hardly exclusive to forumers from Quebec, people from all the regions do it, except for maybe the Atlantic.

oh lord. Do I have to go back and look at every single post?? really?... Please don't make me. LOL

[Rico Rommheim]

Boring!

[Chadillaccc]

Yes, because no one ever said that. I remember the argument that we had on facebook. I only said Calgary is growing way faster than Montreal, I never said anywhere that Calgary was surpassing Montreal any time soon, you took everything I was saying completely out of context. Then for some reason, you stated how Montreal has more people than all of Alberta, even though that wasn't related at all to the conversation about population growth. Regardless, it happened like 6 months ago. If you're so certain, than be my guest. If not, stop acting like such a ridiculous child and be civil.

And don't send me any more personal messages. They won't be read due to the shockingly immature tone of your banter on here.

[Razor]

Well I have to hand it to some Calgarians..Ottawans can use some of their civic pride..Considering that there is a 2.2 billion dollar light rail with underground down town tunnel, major free way widenings, a few tall towers waiting to start, and a huge Landsdown revitalization project where the CFL team will return going on right now, this whole forum should be lighting up like light brite right now with all things Ottawa. Where the hell are they
c'mon take a few pages from Calgary's book!