The Ugly Canada Thread

[harls]

I took this photo, and about 30 minutes later, some black dude came and took the wheel of this.. thing (Chewbacca reference).

[TorontoDrew]

I love the running board, like you need a step to get into this thing.

[kwoldtimer]

Originally Posted by harls

I took this photo, and about 30 minutes later, some black dude came and took the wheel of this.. thing (Chewbacca reference).

Has the guy who used to wander the Market in a "disco-Mariachi" outfit, schlepping the big boom-box, upgraded to an automobile, perhaps?

[SignalHillHiker]

This high school is brand new. And replaced one near (like, two blocks outside) the core.



It's opposite a filled-in big box store area and our second-largest mall, but the four-lane between them still hits high speeds (illegally, of course).

I wish they'd've built something nicer AND in the old location.

Holy Heart is also ugly:



But it's in the core (in the small but sparsely-built block or two that separates Rabbittown, my neighbourhood, and Georgestown). It has the province's best high school theatre program. They put on off-Broadway-level shows every year with decent teenage acting but amazing sets and costumes, and host lots of theatre-related events after-hours.

Booth that was replaced with the first high school above was much lower class and didn't really have the city's best of any particular program, but it was still A LOT of life at the far end of Merrymeeting Road that I visually miss every day during the school year. All those kids are just gone. I might see a dozen or two people walking around that corner as I go through today, whereas before it could be much more.

Suburban shift sucks.

[SignalHillHiker]

lol Not so much ugly but this just came up in my feed. That house looks like it has a bewildered expression, right?

[GeneralLea]

That house looks fine. Expression? I don't see anything like a face, unless it's a two mouthed face somehow. 3 bedrooms sounds nice.

Also...that Holy Heart school is unfortunate, makes it look like secondary school is a hospital for whoever goes there. The brown and light brown high school looks fairly good I'd say.....better than some of the renovated 60's or 70's secondary schools you'll see in the GTA.

[kwoldtimer]

The only bewildering aspect is the placement of the hydro wires/meter on the front of the house, rather than on the side. And that is ugly.

[Franco401]

Holy Heart looks like a pretty good example of well-preserved early midcentury modernism.

[TorontoDrew]

Slap some bars on the window it could pass as a prison.

[Franco401]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

Slap some bars on the window it could pass as a prison.

You can say about nearly any building.

[O-tacular]

Here it is! The undisputed king of the road of ugly pickup trucks!







Also spikes! Cause your vehicle doesn't take up enough space already. It needs an extra 4 inches of clearance on either side or you'll get chewed up like the gladiators with the chariots in Rome. Why not add a ram on the front of it and go full Mad Max?



Apparently the d-bag who sold it or had it re-poed shelled out 60K in upgrades. All for this useless tank that gets 5 miles to the gallon.

Here was another interesting small man syndrome truck from the same lot:

[mcminsen]

1155 Thurlow Street in the West End of downtown Vancouver (developed by the Central Presbyterian Church) will contain:

-CPC seniors housing (non-market rental)
-Galilee + Christ Alive Church
-Little Rae Kids Club (daycare/preschool)
-market rental housing units

The church space on the ground floor and the seniors housing immediately above come replete with coloured windows covered with thousands of crosses. +++++++++++++

Every day the old folks can look out their windows and see... a cemetery.



Sept.23 '17, my pics









Aug.21 ’17, my pic

[itom 987]

Lordy lordy lordy...

[SignalHillHiker]

Driving out Logy Bay Road past the Bally Haly Gold and Country Club. My God, how much asphalt do these people need? How many streets are the rest of us subsidizing for them?

[ScreamingViking]

Note the Senators decal amid all the bling. A dedicated fan, despite the oddball aesthetics.

Originally Posted by harls

I took this photo, and about 30 minutes later, some black dude came and took the wheel of this.. thing (Chewbacca reference).

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by mcminsen

1155 Thurlow Street in the West End of downtown Vancouver (developed by the Central Presbyterian Church) will contain:

-CPC seniors housing (non-market rental)
-Galilee + Christ Alive Church
-Little Rae Kids Club (daycare/preschool)
-market rental housing units

The church space on the ground floor and the seniors housing immediately above come replete with coloured windows covered with thousands of crosses. +++++++++++++

Every day the old folks can look out their windows and see... a cemetery.



Sept.23 '17, my pics









Aug.21 ’17, my pic

That cross pattern is so random and ugly. And those colours are horrid. Anthing wih pink and green glass like that is an abomination of design.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by harls

I took this photo, and about 30 minutes later, some black dude came and took the wheel of this.. thing (Chewbacca reference).

He's back..: from the future! The crocs sign is perfectly placed as the cherry on top of this pile of ugly.

[SignalHillHiker]

Man, these municipal logos...

http://vocm.com/municipal-elections-2017/

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by harls

I took this photo, and about 30 minutes later, some black dude came and took the wheel of this.. thing (Chewbacca reference).

Saw this car in the market in Ottawa a few days ago. My kids call it the Back to the Future car.

[MolsonExport]

Reposted from another thread. St. Lambert is one of the nicest suburbs in Montreal but there is also this (on sale for $265,000)

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