The Ugly Canada Thread - Page 122

O-tacular · #**2421** Posted **Aug 20, 2015, 1:44 PM**

Lol! Just waiting for someone to auto tune that interview.

O-tacular · #**2422** Posted **Aug 20, 2015, 1:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

They build hotels there because a) land is cheap(er) and b) people go there for training like you did and other reasons - like flying in and out - and so there is that demand to serve.

I know I know. It just seems so terrible that these hotels' locations end up isolating their visitors from the real city and taint their experience of the place so badly. Until this trip I had always looked at the hotels by the airport in Calgary and wondered who the hell stayed at them, feeling sad and embarrassed if that was their only experience of Calgary. Now I know the truth. Cheap work travel.

Acajack · #**2423** Posted **Aug 20, 2015, 1:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

I know I know. It just seems so terrible that these hotels' locations end up isolating their visitors from the real city and taint their experience of the place so badly. Until this trip I had always looked at the hotels by the airport in Calgary and wondered who the hell stayed at them, feeling sad and embarrassed if that was their only experience of Calgary. Now I know the truth. Cheap work travel.

If it's any consolation it now exists in every city in the world. Even the most attractive ones.

O-tacular · #**2424** Posted **Aug 20, 2015, 1:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

If it's any consolation it now exists in every city in the world. Even the most attractive ones.

Sad but true. Yet another example of corporate culture ruining things.

davidivivid · #**2425** Posted **Aug 20, 2015, 2:40 PM**

Good lord that is ugly!! A rich (and shady) guy recently build this monstrosity in St-Ulric de Matane, Qc.

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/North_America/Canada/Central/Quebec/St-Ulric/photo1378077.htm

Acajack · #**2426** Posted **Aug 20, 2015, 2:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by davidivivid

Good lord that is ugly!! A rich (and shady) guy recently build this monstrosity in St-Ulric de Matane, Qc.

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/North_America/Canada/Central/Quebec/St-Ulric/photo1378077.htm

Maybe he's looking to purify his soul and is just nostalgic for the simpler times of old days gone by...?

Nouvellecosse · #**2427** Posted **Aug 20, 2015, 3:26 PM**

I thought that was the Amish pavilion at Euro Disney

O-tacular · #**2428** Posted **Aug 20, 2015, 4:46 PM**

Yes that is the finished exterior cladding.

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Originally Posted by Design-mind

Update on Torode's project on 9th.

O-tacular · #**2429** Posted **Aug 20, 2015, 4:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by davidivivid

Good lord that is ugly!! A rich (and shady) guy recently build this monstrosity in St-Ulric de Matane, Qc.

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/North_America/Canada/Central/Quebec/St-Ulric/photo1378077.htm

Is the horse real or a statue?

kwoldtimer · #**2430** Posted **Aug 20, 2015, 5:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by davidivivid

Good lord that is ugly!! A rich (and shady) guy recently build this monstrosity in St-Ulric de Matane, Qc.

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/North_America/Canada/Central/Quebec/St-Ulric/photo1378077.htm

Can eccentric trump ugly or is it just eccentric AND ugly?

O-tacular · #**2431** Posted **Aug 20, 2015, 5:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

Can eccentric trump ugly or is it just eccentric AND ugly?

Look it's Hogwarts!!!!

MolsonExport · #**2432** Posted **Aug 20, 2015, 5:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

I know I know. It just seems so terrible that these hotels' locations end up isolating their visitors from the real city and taint their experience of the place so badly. Until this trip I had always looked at the hotels by the airport in Calgary and wondered who the hell stayed at them, feeling sad and embarrassed if that was their only experience of Calgary. Now I know the truth. Cheap work travel.

I find myself in these hotels when I miss a connecting flight at Pearson...Air Canada will often put you up in one of these hotels in distributioncentreland.

MolsonExport · #**2433** Posted **Aug 20, 2015, 5:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by davidivivid

Good lord that is ugly!! A rich (and shady) guy recently build this monstrosity in St-Ulric de Matane, Qc.

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/North_America/Canada/Central/Quebec/St-Ulric/photo1378077.htm

You mean, in St. Uglyc de Merde, Qc

O-tacular · #**2434** Posted **Aug 20, 2015, 5:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

I find myself in these hotels when I miss a connecting flight at Pearson...Air Canada will often put you up in one of these hotels in distributioncentreland.

The funny part was our hotel was one of 3 that go by the name Airport Hilton Garden Inn but it took a 20 minute shuttle ride to get there from the airport.

O-tacular · #**2435** Posted **Aug 20, 2015, 6:39 PM**

Calgary's version of that QC castle. It was listed at 11 million about a year ago.

Calgarysun.com

Nicko999 · #**2436** Posted **Aug 20, 2015, 6:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Yes that is the finished exterior cladding.

Holy —

O-tacular · #**2437** Posted **Aug 20, 2015, 7:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by Nicko999

Holy —

Isn't it awesome? Looks like it's still under construction. I am mystified by their colour and material choices. The shiny metal bands dividing each section are especially bad.

11a2b3 · #**2438** Posted **Aug 20, 2015, 9:02 PM**

In Ottawa...

http://www.mainstreeter.ca/index.php/201...vations-projected-to-meet-2013-deadline/

Boris2k7 · #**2439** Posted **Aug 20, 2015, 9:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Isn't it awesome? Looks like it's still under construction. I am mystified by their colour and material choices. The shiny metal bands dividing each section are especially bad.

And the usual types were all like, "relax people, it isn't finished yet."

Xelebes · #**2440** Posted **Aug 20, 2015, 9:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by 11a2b3

In Ottawa...

Reminds me of the short that played before Inside Out.

Laval, you're not alone!