The Ugly Canada Thread

[SignalHillHiker]

Originally Posted by Architype

They never used to have that before, I feel cheated. Nothing makes me miss NL like bologna.

Yech. I do love balogna and beans, mixed together of course, with breakfast, with buttered toast dipped in tea. Has to be molasses beans, though, not that shitty tomato sauce stuff. That flavour combination is just wrong. But otherwise, no.

[SkahHigh]

Originally Posted by Architype

They never used to have that before, I feel cheated. Nothing makes me miss NL like bologna.

I come from NB, I can tell you bologna is an Atlantic provinces thing.

[kwoldtimer]

Do people in Atlantic Canada pronounce "bologna" as "ba-LO-nah" or as "ba-LO-knee". The latter was the norm when I was growing up in Kitchener, and I never understood why.

I wonder if anyone ever pronounces it like the name of city? It strikes me that it would need to handcrafted from heirloom pigs that received daily massages for that to work!

[SkahHigh]

Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

Do people in Atlantic Canada pronounce "bologna" as "ba-LO-nah" or as "ba-LO-knee". The latter was the norm when I was growing up in Kitchener, and I never understood why.

I wonder if anyone ever pronounces it like the name of city? It strikes me that it would need to handcrafted from heirloom pigs that received daily massages for that to work!

In the french part they say "ba-LO-nay"

[SignalHillHiker]

Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

Do people in Atlantic Canada pronounce "bologna" as "ba-LO-nah" or as "ba-LO-knee". The latter was the norm when I was growing up in Kitchener, and I never understood why.

I wonder if anyone ever pronounces it like the name of city? It strikes me that it would need to handcrafted from heirloom pigs that received daily massages for that to work!

Both seem common enough. Mom says blow-na. Dad says something much closer to blow-knee but the last syllable is so clipped it's definitely not a firm knee.

[Laceoflight]

Speaking of baloney [ba-l'eauuuu-né, or bo-logne], I hereby nominate the famous "Neo-Roman House of Abercorn", located in the village of Abercorn, QC, as the ugliest in the province.


Link to article «Le projet d'une vie»

Citation from the article :
« J’aimerais juste être reconnu comme quelqu’un qui a réalisé son rêve. »


From Panoramio.

[Marty_Mcfly]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

I'm still furious this is a thing. I sent it to every group chat I'm in, and got the same response from everyone.

[FrAnKs]

Originally Posted by Laceoflight

Speaking of baloney [ba-l'eauuuu-né, or bo-logne], I hereby nominate the famous "Neo-Roman House of Abercorn", located in the village of Abercorn, QC, as the ugliest in the province.


Link to article «Le projet d'une vie»

Citation from the article :
« J’aimerais juste être reconnu comme quelqu’un qui a réalisé son rêve. »


From Panoramio.

[vid]

Bologna is also very common food among poor native people. It's basically poverty food. In Northern Ontario, we fry the bologna in a pan and eat it like a poor man's back bacon.

[lio45]

Originally Posted by Laceoflight

Speaking of baloney [ba-l'eauuuu-né, or bo-logne], I hereby nominate the famous "Neo-Roman House of Abercorn", located in the village of Abercorn, QC, as the ugliest in the province.


Link to article «Le projet d'une vie»

Citation from the article :
« J’aimerais juste être reconnu comme quelqu’un qui a réalisé son rêve. »


From Panoramio.

It's actually not that offensive in person. I've passed in front of it several times (going from my grandpa's place outside Granby to the nearest TD Bank in Richford, I drive that portion of Route 139 through Sutton and Abercorn; both villages are lovely IMO, and so is Richford).

Sure, it's not tasteful, far from it, but I've REALLY seen worse!

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by SkahHigh

In the french part they say "ba-LO-nay"

My family - check!

[Marty_Mcfly]

Originally Posted by vid

Bologna is also very common food among poor native people. It's basically poverty food. In Northern Ontario, we fry the bologna in a pan and eat it like a poor man's back bacon.

It's pretty much the same here, but I guess we have many more people living near that poverty line in rural NL.

You couldn't pay me enough to eat bologna; taking away any context behind "what it's made of" it tastes like shit, raw or fried. I did always joke about making a bologna wellington, but I was never serious. Stuffed bologna with undercooked sauteed onions is something else.

[osirisboy]

Originally Posted by Franco401

PETITION: Ban these shitty memes from this thread and impose a rule of ugly buildings only

I totally agree!

Have a thread for all the meme stuff (which is basically the same 10 memes regugitated over and over ) and have a thread for just ugly buildings. Simple.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by osirisboy

I totally agree!

Have a thread for all the meme stuff (which is basically the same 10 memes regugitated over and over ) and have a thread for just ugly buildings. Simple.

You want ugly buildings then post some. Otherwise let the thread continue organically as it has.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by Laceoflight

Speaking of baloney [ba-l'eauuuu-né, or bo-logne], I hereby nominate the famous "Neo-Roman House of Abercorn", located in the village of Abercorn, QC, as the ugliest in the province.


Link to article «Le projet d'une vie»

Citation from the article :
« J’aimerais juste être reconnu comme quelqu’un qui a réalisé son rêve. »


From Panoramio.

That's tacky but overall not the most offensive I've seen. The worst part is the statues lining the compound perimeter. Is that just a retaining wall or is there some kind of bunker under it?

Still not as bad as Brossard's mafioso etruscan villa.

[O-tacular]

Also still much better than Calgary's pink stucco castle. Check it out on MLS as it's for sale. Could be yours for only 3.4 million.




See link for the awful interior.

http://www.calgaryrealestatelink.com/listing/c4079788-1507-96-av-sw-calgary-alberta-t2v-5g4/

Prestigious & Elegant! This elaborate estate with classical detailing sits on a huge corner lot in upscale Pumphill.

[osirisboy]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

You want ugly buildings then post some. Otherwise let the thread continue organically as it has.

Well you have to agree it's two totally different topics. One A discussion about architecture and another of pictures of nickel back and trump

[lio45]

Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

Do people in Atlantic Canada pronounce "bologna" as "ba-LO-nah" or as "ba-LO-knee". The latter was the norm when I was growing up in Kitchener, and I never understood why.

I wonder if anyone ever pronounces it like the name of city? It strikes me that it would need to handcrafted from heirloom pigs that received daily massages for that to work!

In Quebec it's pretty much always both pronounced "baloney". That's how everyone would spell it. Incidentally, I feel like we're doing a favor to the city of Bologna by helping disassociate it with this stuff. There are many people who are both architecture/urbanism fans and foodies on this forum, I'm pretty sure we'll all be in agreement...

However, that being said, I'm pretty sure the official name for it is still "saucisson de Bologne". I haven't looked at a package of this stuff in decades, so don't ask me. I'd be hard pressed to name a more disgusting food.

[SignalHillHiker]

"Backyards" in downtown St. John's.

See those little two-floor rowhouses on the right?

May 28, 2017 by R C, on Flickr

This is their backside...

May 28, 2017 by R C, on Flickr

[SignalHillHiker]

Also, this mis-matched duplex... and the house on stilts to the right to provide off-street parking.



That fake brick thing wouldn't be so bad if it was a local - that's how most of the neighbourhood bars look compared to their surroundings. But it's just a house.





Maybe it used to be a bar?