The Ugly Canada Thread - Page 349

Acajack · #**6961** Posted **Aug 24, 2016, 5:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

some ugly painted sister knockoffs

When you zoom out of Streetview, there is a location that is identified as "Main Sewage Treatment Playground"!

I guess there is supposed to be a space between "treatment" and "playground" and they aren't referring to a single place.

Acajack · #**6962** Posted **Aug 24, 2016, 5:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Yes, pretty regularly - especially on Backtalk and Crosstalk, given their format (generally they have a guest for the first hour). Visiting celebrities often call in when they're in town as well. But the overall tone of all the shows is more politics than entertainment.

The hosts also become local celebrities in their own right - and, actually, usually are before they become host. Pete Soucy was known for being Snook, for example, and I think Paddy Daly was pretty well-known in local hockey circles before becoming host.

That's interesting. Given the size of the market it sounds like talk radio is filling the role of TV talk shows in St. John's.

TorontoDrew · #**6963** Posted **Aug 24, 2016, 6:44 PM**

90 Adelaide Street East deserves to be on here. I hope it's rentals which means maybe one day it can be replaced. It has such an awesome location as well.

Posted on: s3.amazonaws.com

SignalHillHiker · #**6964** Posted **Aug 24, 2016, 6:50 PM**

It looks like every unit has its own private driveway. Kind of interesting.

theman23 · #**6965** Posted **Aug 24, 2016, 6:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

When you zoom out of Streetview, there is a location that is identified as "Main Sewage Treatment Playground"!

I guess there is supposed to be a space between "treatment" and "playground" and they aren't referring to a single place.

Nope, thats the actual name.

O-tacular · #**6966** Posted **Aug 24, 2016, 7:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by theman23

Nope, thats the actual name.

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O-tacular · #**6967** Posted **Aug 24, 2016, 7:58 PM**

Here's some fugly for ya!

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Calgary...!8m2!3d51.0486151!4d-114.0708459!6m1!1e1

TorontoDrew · #**6968** Posted **Aug 24, 2016, 8:10 PM**

With a different colour it would look right at home on a beach in Florida.

SignalHillHiker · #**6969** Posted **Aug 24, 2016, 8:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Here's some fugly for ya!

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Calgary...!8m2!3d51.0486151!4d-114.0708459!6m1!1e1

For some reason, Bender from Futurama screaming in pain immediately came to mind.

I don't even think it's that bad, though it does look like they simply enlarged a child's arts and crafts project.

kwoldtimer · #**6970** Posted **Aug 24, 2016, 8:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

Toronto Life does have a few pages that cover the cocktail party and red carpet circuit with photos and such. Which I guess isn't surprising given the relatively dearth of true fanzines devoted to that type of stuff in Canada.

Local lifestyle magazines (Toronto Life would be the big leagues example) do better in SOntario as far as local focus goes. The lowbrow stuff would be the supermarket checkout tabloid stuff that's mostly from the States or something like the Canadian version of Hello!

Acajack · #**6971** Posted **Aug 24, 2016, 8:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

Local lifestyle magazines (Toronto Life would be the big leagues example) do better in SOntario as far as local focus goes. The lowbrow stuff would be the supermarket checkout tabloid stuff that's mostly from the States or something like the Canadian version of Hello!

We even have one here in Gatineau: http://www.flecheoutaouais.com/#flecheoutaouais

There is no celebrity content whatsoever. Though there are articles on local culture.

They do have a print edition, which is free and easy to find in grocery stores, theatres, pâtisseries, etc. all over the region.

kwoldtimer · #**6972** Posted **Aug 24, 2016, 8:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

Grey/black is so done in Toronto. Still see pinkish brick with red brick trim used here. It boggles the mind. A huge variety of glazed colours were used in the 1960s. Love to see a return to that era.

I remember that blue and white were fairly popular in that shiny glazed brick. You still see bits of it here and there, although more on commercial buildings than residential.

MolsonExport · #**6973** Posted **Aug 25, 2016, 12:50 AM**

Princess Diana has been dead nearly 20 years, and they still have her on the cover?

SignalHillHiker · #**6974** Posted **Aug 25, 2016, 1:06 AM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Princess Diana has been dead nearly 20 years, and they still have her on the cover?

Several times a year, yes.

kwoldtimer · #**6975** Posted **Aug 25, 2016, 1:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Princess Diana has been dead nearly 20 years, and they still have her on the cover?

Perhaps there's an in-depth report inside about her still being dead.

Laceoflight · #**6976** Posted **Aug 25, 2016, 1:08 AM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Several times a year, yes.

Ohhh that's sad. You don't get to know about Marie-Mai's weddingS and wedding dressES. Sad for you

O-tacular · #**6977** Posted **Aug 25, 2016, 4:59 PM**

Saw this lovely crackshack complete with rusting farm equipment the other day.
This streetview is a year old so it's been sitting this way for a while.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@51.0314393,-..._fra4VXMpLNfw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

Trevor3 · #**6978** Posted **Aug 25, 2016, 6:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

That's rough, Acajack.

*****

A cultural one. Our most popular magazine at the grocery this morning:

It serves the lowest common denominator in our society - basically our version of Fox News: obsessed with the Royal Family, religion, local beauty queens, AMERICAN SOAP OPERAS, Coronation Street, family values, and anyone anywhere who has ever visited here or said something nice about us.

The frequency of Royal Family profiles is... insane. Diana has probably been on the cover 20 times since I moved home in 2012.

Some of the most recent past issues as reference:

The Newfoundland Herald could probably best be described as the quintessential "reading material of Nan's bathroom".

Their treatment of NTV's generally awful on-air personalities as celebrities on equal footing as Hollywood A-list movie starts is particularly amusing. Eddie Sheer has to be the worst weatherman in North America.

Acajack · #**6979** Posted **Aug 25, 2016, 6:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by Trevor3

Their treatment of NTV's generally awful on-air personalities as celebrities on equal footing as Hollywood A-list movie starts is particularly amusing. .

Comments like this always make me smirk.

What's a celebrity anyway?

Three quarters or more of the world's population have never heard of Dr. Phil.

Jerry Seinfeld is a nobody to the vast majority of people in the province of Quebec.

MolsonExport · #**6980** Posted **Aug 25, 2016, 6:47 PM**

wikipedia