The Ugly Canada Thread - Page 136

HomeInMyShoes · #**2701** Posted **Sep 14, 2015, 6:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by SkahHigh

Notice how the signs says "Beautiful condos". I believe that is false advertising.

Everyone knows real beauty is on the inside.

O-tacular · #**2702** Posted **Sep 14, 2015, 6:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by SkahHigh

Notice how the signs says "Beautiful condos". I believe that is false advertising.

Yes but I'm sure the Great Prices part is true. Not sure about your average Joe but you'd have a hard time convincing me to live in that thing.

O-tacular · #**2703** Posted **Sep 14, 2015, 6:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

Everyone knows real beauty is on the inside.

Oh no! It even has a mural...

HomeInMyShoes · #**2704** Posted **Sep 14, 2015, 7:53 PM**

I stand corrected.

SignalHillHiker · #**2705** Posted **Sep 14, 2015, 7:54 PM**

There's no way Edmonton did that to itself. Judging the outside, I think my people were somehow involved.

O-tacular · #**2706** Posted **Sep 14, 2015, 8:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

There's no way Edmonton did that to itself. Judging the outside, I think my people were somehow involved.

Lol! Yeah you guys love your bright coloured stucco!

Edmonton 'benefits' from a large Italian community and lots of blue collar jobs. The result is a pseudo Jersey Shore.

HomeInMyShoes · #**2707** Posted **Sep 14, 2015, 8:20 PM**

^Stucco? Are you insane? Vinyl siding for the finest in St. John's now.

They really should have built a canal. Or maybe a beach if its Jersey shore they were going for.

O-tacular · #**2708** Posted **Sep 14, 2015, 8:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

^Stucco? Are you insane? Vinyl siding for the finest in St. John's now.

They really should have built a canal. Or maybe a beach if its Jersey shore they were going for.

They can do one better! How about a full scale pirate ship in a mall?

jasperjournal.ca

HomeInMyShoes · #**2709** Posted **Sep 14, 2015, 9:06 PM**

^At least if The Venetian was connected to WEM it might make sense in a hillbilly 'classy' kind of way.

MolsonExport · #**2710** Posted **Sep 15, 2015, 1:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by SkahHigh

Notice how the signs says "Beautiful condos". I believe that is false advertising.

That place is positively Lavalesque

Jaws · #**2711** Posted **Sep 15, 2015, 1:57 AM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

They can do one better! How about a full scale pirate ship in a mall?

jasperjournal.ca

Christopher Columbus was a pirate? Good timing on your part. That section of WEM opened 30 years ago last week.

O-tacular · #**2712** Posted **Sep 15, 2015, 2:05 AM**

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Originally Posted by Jaws

Christopher Columbus was a pirate? Good timing on your part. That section of WEM opened 30 years ago last week.

That's the problem with WEM. Even in spite of recent renovations it still has hideously tacky relics from the 80's. Worst of all is that dump they call the Fantasyland hotel:

This one's the Hollywood Luxury theme room, err I mean Jersey Shore. This is the least offensive one I could find.

Then there's this crap:

Who wouldn't want a soak in that hot tub? It honestly reminds me of Leisure Suit Larry.

And they still charge premium prices for these 'fantasy' suites.

O-tacular · #**2713** Posted **Sep 15, 2015, 2:22 AM**

Speaking of hot tubs and Leisure Suit Larry, am I the only one who thinks you'd contract a venereal disease sitting in this thing?

O-tacular · #**2714** Posted **Sep 15, 2015, 2:25 AM**

In fairness to Edmonton we have this mess just outside Calgary in Blazac, I mean Ball Sack.

http://fdscene.com/Commercial-Retail-Theming/crossiron-mills-themed-shopping-area.html

http://www.avenuecalgary.com/Shopping-Style/CrossIron-Mills-Expansion/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrossIron_Mills

http://fdscene.com/Icons-Public-Art/entry-6-activity-public-art-icon-crossiron-mills-2009.html

Blader · #**2715** Posted **Sep 15, 2015, 2:27 AM**

^^^
These rooms/themes are borrowed from the ubiquitous love hotels in South Korea and Japan.

To be clear I'm referring to the hotel in the WEB.
The room, in Osaka, I stayed in had chains and shackles against the wall. Of course it had the obligatory mirrors above the bed and hard core porn running on the television.

ssiguy · #**2716** Posted **Sep 15, 2015, 2:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by SkahHigh

Notice how the signs says "Beautiful condos". I believe that is false advertising.

...................and this boys and girls is why nuclear weapons are your friends.

Boris2k7 · #**2717** Posted **Sep 15, 2015, 2:59 AM**

I made the mistake of pulling off the highway to fill up at the Costco at CrossIron Mills once... never again. Even with two highway exits I think it took a little over an hour and a half to get in and out of there.

itom 987 · #**2718** Posted **Sep 15, 2015, 3:13 AM**

Crossiron Mills is a relatively new mall, and it's already out of date.

West Edmonton Mall for the most part, has a neutral interior that lasted for at least 10 years.
The SantaMaria replica actually looks like a boat, who ever did it did a very good job.

O-tacular · #**2719** Posted **Sep 15, 2015, 3:35 AM**

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Originally Posted by itom 987

Crossiron Mills is a relatively new mall, and it's already out of date.

West Edmonton Mall for the most part, has a neutral interior that lasted for at least 10 years.
The SantaMaria replica actually looks like a boat, who ever did it did a very good job.

WEM at least has the edge for the watermark which is still cool (though the joints in the slides hurt like a mutherfucker). Is that boat an actual replica of Columbus' ship? It always looked like a Disneyfied version of a ship to me.

osirisboy · #**2720** Posted **Sep 15, 2015, 3:46 AM**

Those rooms are the tackiest things I have ever seen!! So much so that they are actually cool!!