The Ugly Canada Thread - Page 269

O-tacular · #**5361** Posted **Apr 30, 2016, 7:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

Has anybody else seen those ads?

Idiot by Rommheim, on Flickr

W-T-F?!? Only in Montreal...

Rico Rommheim · #**5362** Posted **Apr 30, 2016, 8:09 PM**

The dude doesn't seem to be too keen on the whole thing himself...

FML by Rommheim, on Flickr

Darkoshvilli · #**5363** Posted **Apr 30, 2016, 10:56 PM**

I thought that was Paul Walker for a sec

kwoldtimer · #**5364** Posted **May 1, 2016, 12:40 AM**

The secret of Montrealers' Euro-svelte waistlines revealed! And it ain't pretty.

vid · #**5365** Posted **May 1, 2016, 2:10 AM**

I think it's photoshopped.

kwoldtimer · #**5366** Posted **May 1, 2016, 2:16 AM**

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Originally Posted by vid

I think it's photoshopped.

I was thinking that the pressure from the man-girdle pushed all his fat up into his shoulders and head.

O-tacular · #**5367** Posted **May 1, 2016, 2:28 AM**

Going back to the whole truck debate I saw a jacked up dually today that was even worse than the one I photographed the other day. Couldn't get a pic though.

O-tacular · #**5368** Posted **May 1, 2016, 2:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by niwell

Also Roomsirah got nothin' on Clockzilla. Not even a fair fight. How has nobody else commented on this yet???

Well Clockzilla is King of the Fuglies. I'm surprised SignalHillHiker hasn't commented yet. I even gave the Rooms monster a maritimes theme...

O-tacular · #**5369** Posted **May 1, 2016, 2:32 AM**

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Originally Posted by Darkoshvilli

I thought that was Paul Walker for a sec

Yes! You nailed it. I was trying to place who he reminded me of and you nailed it!

vid · #**5370** Posted **May 1, 2016, 2:36 AM**

If we're back onto that, I want to add that as a Ford Ranger owner, it really is just a car with a bucket by modern standards. I love parking beside late model full-size pickups. If you showed someone a photo of them dead-on, who had never seen a Ford Ranger before, they'd probably assume it was a Ford Taurus or something. (I don't even know if they still make those lol). It's like a baby F150.

It's amazing how big the engine compartments have gotten too. The current F150 looks about the same size as a '90s era F750.

Also is this the appropriate place to bring up that the Nissan Titan looks like an F150? Even the interior looks pretty similar.

O-tacular · #**5371** Posted **May 1, 2016, 2:39 AM**

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Originally Posted by vid

If we're back onto that, I want to add that as a Ford Ranger owner, it really is just a car with a bucket by modern standards. I love parking beside late model full-size pickups. If you showed someone a photo of them dead-on, who had never seen a Ford Ranger before, they'd probably assume it was a Ford Taurus or something. (I don't even know if they still make those lol). It's like a baby F150.

It's amazing how big the engine compartments have gotten too. The current F150 looks about the same size as a '90s era F750.

Absolutely! I actually have a fondness for Ford Rangers. They're much more practical and utilitarian than the ridiculous monster trucks of today.

vid · #**5372** Posted **May 1, 2016, 2:43 AM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Absolutely! I actually have a fondness for Ford Rangers. They're actually much more practical and utilitarian than the ridiculous monster trucks of today.

Up here, they use "mudding" as an excuse. If you don't know the term, that basically means "riding a lifted truck around in circles in a giant mud pit", and some of them do that. You occasionally see mud-covered vehicles driving around the city. For the most part though people with lifted trucks and duallies here are just doing it for show. My coworker has a lifted truck (granted, only 2 inches), and doesn't like using it for work. Go figure. My boss has a standard Dodge Ram (he walked in, picked the first truck he saw with a Ram Box—enclosed compartments built into either side of the bucket—and tow package, and that was it) and without any modifications at all (!!) uses it for work on a regular basis. We do have a loading dock, we just use the International for that.

Has anyone else here seen the classy, sleek, stylish, wheelchair-accessible MV1? They're quite common in Thunder Bay, for some reason:

I love the title Wikipedia gave to that photo, btw. "MV-1 in civilian dress".

kwoldtimer · #**5373** Posted **May 1, 2016, 2:51 AM**

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Originally Posted by vid

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Has anyone else here seen the classy, sleek, stylish, wheelchair-accessible MV1? They're quite common in Thunder Bay, for some reason:

I love the title Wikipedia gave to that photo, btw. "MV-1 in civilian dress".

I've never seen one before, but I wouldn't put it in an ugly thread. It looks highly functional to me.

vid · #**5374** Posted **May 1, 2016, 2:53 AM**

1998 Ford Ranger:

2011 Ford Ranger:

The upgraded the steering wheel.

rousseau · #**5375** Posted **May 1, 2016, 3:23 AM**

Catering to both extremes of the political spectrum in Strathroy Ontario:

lio45 · #**5376** Posted **May 1, 2016, 4:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by vid

If we're back onto that, I want to add that as a Ford Ranger owner, it really is just a car with a bucket by modern standards. I love parking beside late model full-size pickups. If you showed someone a photo of them dead-on, who had never seen a Ford Ranger before, they'd probably assume it was a Ford Taurus or something. (I don't even know if they still make those lol). It's like a baby F150.

It's amazing how big the engine compartments have gotten too. The current F150 looks about the same size as a '90s era F750.

Also is this the appropriate place to bring up that the Nissan Titan looks like an F150? Even the interior looks pretty similar.

I really liked my 1994 Ranger (which I don't have anymore)...

Base model, RWD, manual 5-speed, 2.3, came from the factory with no power steering.

I loved to say that it was actually one of the most -- probably THE most -- "manly" pickups I've ever had due to the lack of power steering (and manual transmission and lack of 4x4 making it trickier to drive in Quebec winters).

We're all used to power steering nowadays... but seriously, not anyone could've driven that thing. I know my gf couldn't... and if you have the arms for it, then you also have to be able to drive stick.

Here is it in all its turquoise glory in my Sherbrooke driveway (pic several years old)

kwoldtimer · #**5377** Posted **May 1, 2016, 8:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by rousseau

Catering to both extremes of the political spectrum in Strathroy Ontario:

Equal opportunity tackiness as good business? Lovely to see so many flags though!

By the way, Rousseau, I think I drove past that "Ontario Gothic Cottage that you posted a few days back, about an hour ago. 7/8 between Stratford and Shakespeare?

SignalHillHiker · #**5378** Posted **May 1, 2016, 8:27 PM**

Our provincial flag really is awful. Especially sharing a flag pole with two Canadian and one American flag.

At least, I think that's the American flag. The blue seems too small?

lio45 · #**5379** Posted **May 1, 2016, 10:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

At least, I think that's the American flag. The blue seems too small?

The pole is flexible and tilted toward us -- explanation consistent with the even more visible vertical compression of the Canadian flag at the top of that pole.

And I'm also assuming these two top flags have rolled around the pole at least once -- notice the Canadian flag at the top also has a less wide red stripe (on the pole side) than you'd expect compared to the white in the middle.

That would explain the blue square being both too narrow and also why the flag seems compressed.

rousseau · #**5380** Posted **May 1, 2016, 11:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

By the way, Rousseau, I think I drove past that "Ontario Gothic Cottage that you posted a few days back, about an hour ago. 7/8 between Stratford and Shakespeare?

I linked to an architecture website for the photo, but I don't know where that specific house is, save for that it's in or around Stratford. I could certainly link to some other Ontario Cottages on Google Streetview that I'm aware of, but I think that wouldn't be something for the "ugly" thread (not wanting to be presumptuous, but I don't think they fall within the purview of the topic at hand).