The Ugly Canada Thread - Page 129

O-tacular · #**2561** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 2:56 PM**

Are Come By Chance and Happy Adventure in the same vicinity as Dildo?

O-tacular · #**2562** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 2:57 PM**

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Casino New-Brunswick

I am blown away that nobody in southern NB has blamed the tackiness of the building on official bilingualism, duality and Société des Acadiens du NB...

Wow! That lighthouse.

Acajack · #**2563** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 3:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Wow! That lighthouse.

Hey there bucko! Don't you go blaming that crap (solely) on Acadians now!

O-tacular · #**2564** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 3:10 PM**

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Hey there bucko! Don't you go blaming that crap (solely) on Acadians now!

Well New Brunswick is largely Acadian no?

Acajack · #**2565** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 3:14 PM**

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Well New Brunswick is largely Acadian no?

About one third.

Xelebes · #**2566** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 3:19 PM**

Black Chiac Shellac? (I know it's just outside of Moncton but. . .)

Acajack · #**2567** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 3:22 PM**

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Black Chiac Shellac? (I know it's just outside of Moncton but. . .)

Now THAT is a brainwave!

SkahHigh · #**2568** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 3:36 PM**

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Well New Brunswick is largely Acadian no?

34% of New Brunswick speaks french as a first language. Not all of them are technically "Acadians" though. I come from Edmundston where in all of Madawaska County people consider themselves as "Brayons". They have a distinct dialect.

Linguistic map of New Brunswick (blue/green is francophone and red is anglophone):

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c....PNG/912px-Nouveau-Brunswick_langues.PNG

Acajack · #**2569** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 3:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by SkahHigh

Linguistic map of New Brunswick (blue/green is francophone and red is anglophone):

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c....PNG/912px-Nouveau-Brunswick_langues.PNG

I know the grey is for reserves but what is the yellow-orange near Moncton?

SkahHigh · #**2570** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 4:00 PM**

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I know the grey is for reserves but what is the yellow-orange near Moncton?

Orange also means majority anglophone, I'm guessing with a bit of francophone as well, so the opposite of green.

Acajack · #**2571** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 4:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by SkahHigh

34% of New Brunswick speaks french as a first language. Not all of them are technically "Acadians" though. I come from Edmundston where in all of Madawaska County people consider themselves as "Brayons". They have a distinct dialect.

Goode pointe. About 15% of New Brunswick francophones are not Acadians. They are mostly concentrated in the NW as you say, where most people are descended from migrants from Quebec.

O-tacular · #**2572** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 4:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by Xelebes

Black Chiac Shellac? (I know it's just outside of Moncton but. . .)

MolsonExport · #**2573** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 4:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Wow! That lighthouse.

the red mansard pseudo-roof is somehow even more offensive to my eyes.

MolsonExport · #**2574** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 4:48 PM**

Has anyone been to Marineland? That place is beyond ugly. And the conditions for the showcased animals are absolutely atrocious.

Xelebes · #**2575** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 4:51 PM**

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Chops down a whole tree to make a casino.

O-tacular · #**2576** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 4:55 PM**

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Has anyone been to Marineland? That place is beyond ugly. And the conditions for the showcased animals are absolutely atrocious.

The song alone makes me never want to visit it. I imagine it's worse than SeaWorld as they probably don't have the same kind of money. They've been doing a TV blitz lately all the way here in Alberta and it just seems desperate.

O-tacular · #**2577** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 4:56 PM**

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the red mansard pseudo-roof is somehow even more offensive to my eyes.

The bad HDR photo enhances its ugly roofline even more it seems.

MolsonExport · #**2578** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 5:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

The song alone makes me never want to visit it. I imagine it's worse than SeaWorld as they probably don't have the same kind of money. They've been doing a TV blitz lately all the way here in Alberta and it just seems desperate.

this wretched song/ad saturated the airwaves for fucking eons:

• Video Link

1overcosc · #**2579** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 5:35 PM**

^ That one is stuck in my head forever. Right up there with the Sleep Country Canada jingle.

Acajack · #**2580** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 5:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

the red mansard pseudo-roof is somehow even more offensive to my eyes.

The whole thing looks like something neo-capitalists would have built in Eastern Europe somewhere circa 1995, a few years after their country abandoned communism.

Or maybe how these same neo-capitalists would have renovated/modernized a communist-built facility to make it "spiffier" (sic).