The Great Canadian Skyline Thread! - Page 439

Brizzy82 · #**8761** Posted **Dec 7, 2015, 12:33 AM**

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Originally Posted by Beedok

To some. My one professor who works and lives in either Cincinnati or Cleveland always talks about how the US cities are soulless and depressing. So clearly it's a matter of personal taste.

I don't want to beat a dead horse this might be the dumbest thing I've read all day. The idea of some schmuck from Ontario calling the cities that birthed the O'Jays, The Ohio Players, Zapp, and Anita Baker "soulless" is just too much.

Cincinatti is incredible.

rousseau · #**8762** Posted **Dec 7, 2015, 12:45 AM**

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Originally Posted by mistercorporate

I think the first three-quarters starting from the left of this shot are wonderful, but the upper quadrant of the remaining quarter is a jumble of anonymous green and brown residential that does an injustice to the CN Tower. Maybe it's just this angle, but still...ugh.

Franco401 · #**8763** Posted **Dec 7, 2015, 1:31 AM**

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Originally Posted by Brizzy82

I don't want to beat a dead horse this might be the dumbest thing I've read all day. The idea of some schmuck from Ontario calling the cities that birthed the O'Jays, The Ohio Players, Zapp, and Anita Baker "soulless" is just too much.

Cincinatti is incredible.

He's not some shmuck from Ontario, Beedok specifically said the prof lives in either Cleveland or Cincinnati and can call them soulless if he wants.

Beedok wasn't saying anything personal except that he thinks it's matter of opinion.

Don't be an ass.

Acajack · #**8764** Posted **Dec 7, 2015, 1:40 AM**

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Originally Posted by Franco401

He's not some shmuck from Ontario, Beedok specifically said the prof lives in either Cleveland or Cincinnati and can call them soulless if he wants.

Beedok wasn't saying anything personal except that he thinks it's matter of opinion.

Don't be an ass.

Nice avatar.

Irving über alles.

Beedok · #**8765** Posted **Dec 7, 2015, 2:00 AM**

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Originally Posted by Brizzy82

I don't want to beat a dead horse this might be the dumbest thing I've read all day. The idea of some schmuck from Ontario calling the cities that birthed the O'Jays, The Ohio Players, Zapp, and Anita Baker "soulless" is just too much.

Cincinatti is incredible.

Might've been Cleveland and some other cities (is Zapp Frank Zappa? That's the only name I might recognise).

caltrane74 · #**8766** Posted **Dec 7, 2015, 2:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by Beedok

Might've been Cleveland and some other cities (is Zapp Frank Zappa? That's the only name I might recognise).

OK, I know you're joking

Beedok · #**8767** Posted **Dec 7, 2015, 2:08 AM**

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Originally Posted by caltrane74

OK, I know you're joking

No.

caltrane74 · #**8768** Posted **Dec 7, 2015, 2:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by Beedok

No.

Its called Google. Use it.

Beedok · #**8769** Posted **Dec 7, 2015, 2:38 AM**

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Originally Posted by caltrane74

Its called Google. Use it.

Well yes, using google I could find all sorts of obscure things. It doesn't change the fact that I've never heard of them.

caltrane74 · #**8770** Posted **Dec 7, 2015, 2:51 AM**

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Originally Posted by Beedok

Well yes, using google I could find all sorts of obscure things. It doesn't change the fact that I've never heard of them.

Trust me you've heard of them, you've heard them. Their music is from the early 1980's but it basically laid down the foundations of urban/pop music from 1990's onward. Of particular importance, they brought the talk-box to the forefront in popular music, itself the forerunner of auto-tune that everyone despises in popular music today.

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ssiguy · #**8772** Posted **Dec 7, 2015, 3:37 AM**

That's a great shot of Hamilton, I hardly recognized it.

lio45 · #**8773** Posted **Dec 7, 2015, 3:44 AM**

Please go check this photo thread and report back to tell us with a straight face that you do find it depressing... I'd like to see that!

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Beedok · #**8775** Posted **Dec 7, 2015, 4:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by caltrane74

Trust me you've heard of them, you've heard them. Their music is from the early 1980's but it basically laid down the foundations of urban/pop music from 1990's onward. Of particular importance, they brought the talk-box to the forefront in popular music, itself the forerunner of auto-tune that everyone despises in popular music today.

They may have been pioneers of a genre, but that doesn't mean I've heard of them. I had zero name recognition for any of them.

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Originally Posted by lio45

Please go check this photo thread and report back to tell us with a straight face that you do find it depressing... I'd like to see that!

I didn't call it depressing. I said my professor who lives in Ohio finds the whole region depressing (can never remember if he's in Cleveland or Cincinnati, but he definitely seems unimpressed with the mid-west in general).

Chadillaccc · #**8776** Posted **Dec 7, 2015, 4:43 AM**

Not exactly a skyline shot but a very cool pic of Gatineau from Parliament nonetheless!

http://mediastyle.ca/blog/

csbvan · #**8777** Posted **Dec 7, 2015, 4:56 AM**

^^^

Fantastic!

Hali87 · #**8778** Posted **Dec 7, 2015, 5:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by Beedok

I didn't call it depressing. I said my professor who lives in Ohio finds the whole region depressing (can never remember if he's in Cleveland or Cincinnati, but he definitely seems unimpressed with the mid-west in general).

A lot of it is probably just a matter of interests/social circle.

Nouvellecosse · #**8779** Posted **Dec 7, 2015, 5:29 AM**

And I'm sure some of it is the psychological effect of urban decay, and the sense that some parts of the rust belt have "seen better days".

Chadillaccc · #**8780** Posted **Dec 7, 2015, 5:51 AM**

http://www.vancouvereconomic.com/