Which Cities Have "Pedigree", and why? - Page 3

stevanford1 · #41 Posted **May 21, 2020, 2:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

I guess it would look more like Jacksonville.

Which would make it look better!

https://www.google.com/maps/@30.3270...7i16384!8i8192

JAYNYC · #42 Posted **May 21, 2020, 2:48 AM**

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Originally Posted by stevanford1

What is it you don't like about the CN Tower?

What's there to like?

Look, I get it. You live in Canada, and are appalled at the notion that someone isn't blown away by your national icon.

It's not even technically a building. I'm not impressed by a tall pole with an observation deck and an uninspiring design.

softee · #43 Posted **May 21, 2020, 7:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by JAYNYC

What's there to like?

Look, I get it. You live in Canada, and are appalled at the notion that someone isn't blown away by your national icon.

It's not even technically a building. I'm not impressed by a tall pole with an observation deck and an uninspiring design.

It's 44 years old and it still looks futuristic (especially at night), at its base it's wider than most big office towers, so it's far from looking like a "pole", and it's still taller than any building in NYC or anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere. IMO, it just looks better than most other tall TV/observation towers around the world.

JAYNYC · #44 Posted **May 21, 2020, 8:05 AM**

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Originally Posted by softee

it's still taller than any building in NYC or anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere.

Wait, did you actually just attempt to compare something in Toronto's skyline - that's not even a building - to something in NYC's?

Here's a more accurate point of reference for the CN pole:

Source: LA Times - https://www.latimes.com/travel/deals...421-story.html

BillM · #45 Posted **May 21, 2020, 12:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

I have a bad feeling that this thread will start to get very stupid, very fast sometime around the end of page two or beginning of page three when people start trying to argue subjective opinions as objective facts.

If not that, it'll become a versus thread.

My usual caveat: Is [city] being the best [city] it can be?"

About right on target.

pj3000 · #46 Posted **May 21, 2020, 1:02 PM**

Toronto has a way bigger dick than Vegas does

pj3000 · #47 Posted **May 21, 2020, 1:11 PM**

Philadelphia has a strong pedigree.

Pittsburgh is inbred.

kool maudit · #48 Posted **May 21, 2020, 1:23 PM**

The CN Tower is a sleek, graceful, soaring minaret of buzz, and the best tower of its type. That's the objective truth and now we can move on.

LouisianaRush · #49 Posted **May 21, 2020, 1:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by stevanford1

What is it you don't like about the CN Tower?

I love Toronto, but I think of all the major observation towers, the CN Tower is pretty bland. I think Toronto could have done so much better with the design to really make their skyline pop, but that is just my opinion. Hey it could be worse, it could be the Tower of Americans, San Antonio or Sunsphere, Knoxville. I would take Toronto's downtown any day over the city where I currently live.

To me these Observation/Communication Towers are the most beautiful of the ones I have visited:
- Sky Tree, Tokyo
- Tokyo Tower, Tokyo
- Space Needle, Seattle
- Berlin TV Tower, Berlin
- Eiffel Tower, Paris
- Oriental Pear Tower, Shanghai
- Canton Tower, Guangzhou

pj3000 · #50 Posted **May 21, 2020, 1:50 PM**

^ but none of those towers have the pedigree of the CN Tower

The North One · #51 Posted **May 21, 2020, 2:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by softee

it's still taller than any building in NYC or anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere. IMO, it just looks better than most other tall TV/observation towers around the world.

Who gives a shit? lol

JManc · #52 Posted **May 21, 2020, 2:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by pj3000

Philadelphia has a strong pedigree.

Pittsburgh is inbred.

No way. Pittsburgh's got ketchup, terrible towels, and Mr. Rogers!

stevanford1 · #53 Posted **May 21, 2020, 2:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by pj3000

Toronto has a way bigger dick than Vegas does

. And a scrotum!

Which yer gonna love!

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stevanford1 · #54 Posted **May 21, 2020, 2:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by JManc

No way. Pittsburgh's got ketchup, terrible towels, and Mr. Rogers!

But does it have tomato pie like Philly?

iheartthed · #55 Posted **May 21, 2020, 2:16 PM**

Defense of the CN Tower is the most Canadian thing in this forum.

stevanford1 · #56 Posted **May 21, 2020, 2:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by iheartthed

Defense of the CN Tower is the most Canadian thing in this forum.

Timmies Eh?

Crawford · #57 Posted **May 21, 2020, 2:32 PM**

Alan Thicke defending CN Tower while eating Timmies would be the most Canadian thing ever.

stevanford1 · #58 Posted **May 21, 2020, 2:44 PM**

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Alan Thicke defending CN Tower while eating Timmies would be the most Canadian thing ever.

Acajack · #59 Posted **May 21, 2020, 2:45 PM**

I am not known for being a Toronto booster or even a rah-rah-rah Canadian, but I think the CN Tower looks pretty good in the skyline and from various vantage points in Toronto and area.

Back to my usual self... on a broader level I don't think Toronto has much pedigree (in the sense that were are discussing it here) - if any even.

stevanford1 · #60 Posted **May 21, 2020, 2:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

Back to my usual self... on a broader level I don't think Toronto has much pedigree (in the sense that were are discussing it here) - if any even.

Nor Do I! Montreal on the other hand...