The Soul-Sucking Canada Thread

[Architype]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

This would be fine, except there are 100,000 just like it in London alone.

Kenmore homes is a big developer here, and they have the same four house styles everywhere across the city and surrounding towns.

How can that be fine, it looks like a startled animal.

[MolsonExport]

wow a splashpad at Moronland. There are only a dozen or so in London.

[stevanford1]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

wow a splashpad at Moronland. There are only a dozen or so in London.

Ain't it exciting?

Anyway, I have come to loathe these fugly casinos.

[MolsonExport]

^that second one looks like a repurposed Montana's Cookhouse.

[stevanford1]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

^that second one looks like a repurposed Montana's Cookhouse.

Perhaps they were to busy eating this.

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I hate the decor of that place, cowboy tackiness Yee-Haw!

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Between the decor and the hideous uniforms I think the number one customer must dress like this:

[MolsonExport]

^I'd give him 2 seconds before he fell off of his horse. This is more his style:

huffpost

[stevanford1]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

^I'd give him 2 seconds before he fell off of his horse. This is more his style:

huffpost

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[ssiguy]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

wow a splashpad at Moronland. There are only a dozen or so in London.

You obviously don't like London which is fine as not all cities are for all people. You being a Londoner you naturally see things from that perspective as we all do and again that's fine. What I don't understand is why you think the "soul sucking" buildings and areas are somehow unique to London. In fact London, which is often used as a market testing city, is categorically NOT unique in this regard.

Beautiful and urban Montreal and Quebec City are awash with bland, sterile, and endless "soul sucking" suburban developments. In that regard Quebec is most decidedly NOT a "distinct society".

Perhaps you should remember that London is a HUGE city in geographic area due to a massive annexation 20 years ago. In other words the City takes in all the development while Quebec and Montreal do not. Quebec is very small in area and population in the context of it's metropolitan population much like Victoria and Vancouver. A much fairer analogy would be to use London's pre-war areas as a comparison.

[esquire]

Originally Posted by stevanford1

Between the decor and the hideous uniforms I think the number one customer must dress like this:

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by ssiguy

You obviously don't like London which is fine as not all cities are for all people. You being a Londoner you naturally see things from that perspective as we all do and again that's fine. What I don't understand is why you think the "soul sucking" buildings and areas are somehow unique to London. In fact London, which is often used as a market testing city, is categorically NOT unique in this regard.

Beautiful and urban Montreal and Quebec City are awash with bland, sterile, and endless "soul sucking" suburban developments. In that regard Quebec is most decidedly NOT a "distinct society".

Perhaps you should remember that London is a HUGE city in geographic area due to a massive annexation 20 years ago. In other words the City takes in all the development while Quebec and Montreal do not. Quebec is very small in area and population in the context of it's metropolitan population much like Victoria and Vancouver. A much fairer analogy would be to use London's pre-war areas as a comparison.

Way to totally miss the point, SSIguy. I wasn't ragging on London. I was pointing out that the Marineland (aka Moronland) ad prominently featured a splashpad...and why would this appeal to people living say, in places like London where there are probably a dozen such things.

I really don't understand why you misunderstood my post.

And London is incredibly sprawly, and so are parts of Montreal (have you not seen my disdain for the wastelands of Laval?), Toronto (Miltonization of the universe), and even Vancouver (where I lived for 4 years). I care not where the sprawl is.

[stevanford1]

Originally Posted by esquire

The Montana's uniforms really are hideous. Don Cherry style plaid fugliness!


That girl at the far left looks like she wants to die!

[stevanford1]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Way to totally miss the point, SSIguy. I wasn't ragging on London. I was pointing out that the Marineland (aka Moronland) ad prominently featured a splashpad...and why would this appeal to people living say, in places like London where there are probably a dozen such things.

I really don't understand why you misunderstood my post.

And London is incredibly sprawly, and so are parts of Montreal (have you not seen my disdain for the wastelands of Laval?), Toronto (Miltonization of the universe), and even Vancouver (where I lived for 4 years). I care not where the sprawl is.

Speaking of Latrineland and sprawl, here are the fugly ass parking lots right off the park grounds!
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0749.../data=!3m1!1e3

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0670...7i13312!8i6656

Who on Earth goes to Niagara Falls just to go to the Marineland parking lot to watch abused animals perform tricks?

[Proof Sheet]

Originally Posted by stevanford1

Speaking of Latrineland and sprawl, here are the fugly ass parking lots right off the park grounds!
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0749.../data=!3m1!1e3

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0670...7i13312!8i6656

Who on Earth goes to Niagara Falls just to go to the Marineland parking lot to watch abused animals perform tricks?

Your laugh of the day

https://goo.gl/maps/GCRdhiZSsPseQNWm8

[stevanford1]

Originally Posted by Proof Sheet

Your laugh of the day

https://goo.gl/maps/GCRdhiZSsPseQNWm8

Abuse! Ugliness! Shitty Commercials!

Just down the street from that (you can even see the drop-tower), ugly houses and parking lots

[MolsonExport]

Look, a walrus driving a truck. Their new mascot. Aholer!


Everyone loathes...Latrineland!

[lio45]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

And London is incredibly sprawly, and so are parts of Montreal (have you not seen my disdain for the wastelands of Laval?)

You don't pan Quebec City as much, probably due to not being as familiar with it, but it can compete with the best. (Canadian cities are all disastrously sprawly and ugly; we're lucky in Quebec that we happen to have older city cores, it's not thanks to the urbanism of the last few decades that our cities are half-decent.)

On the left side, an absolutely hideous and tasteless seniors residence, on the right side, a mall; large boulevards with many lanes, nothing very walkable. (This mall was my go-to mall when I lived there, despite living in a ~200 year old property in the center of the old part of town that used to have shops at street level everywhere. An old late-1800s map of Lévis I found actually shows that even my duplex had retail at street level, the map identifies the building as a grocery. This post-WWII "Commercial Flight" was a disaster for city centers but especially so in Lévis.)

https://www.google.com/maps/@46.7992...7i13312!8i6656

[stevanford1]

Originally Posted by lio45

You don't pan Quebec City as much, probably due to not being as familiar with it, but it can compete with the best. (Canadian cities are all disastrously sprawly and ugly; we're lucky in Quebec that we happen to have older city cores, it's not thanks to the urbanism of the last few decades that our cities are half-decent.)

On the left side, an absolutely hideous and tasteless seniors residence, on the right side, a mall; large boulevards with many lanes, nothing very walkable. (This mall was my go-to mall when I lived there, despite living in a ~200 year old property in the center of the old part of town that used to have shops at street level everywhere. An old late-1800s map of Lévis I found actually shows that even my duplex had retail at street level, the map identifies the building as a grocery. This post-WWII "Commercial Flight" was a disaster for city centers but especially so in Lévis.)

https://www.google.com/maps/@46.7992...7i13312!8i6656

Horrid! Nearby, this soulsucking Shittaton Hotel

And this brutalist brute

[stevanford1]

My soul gets sucked every time one of these commercials is shown on CBC Gem.
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The announcer has charisma of a cardboard box!

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by lio45

You don't pan Quebec City as much, probably due to not being as familiar with it, but it can compete with the best. (Canadian cities are all disastrously sprawly and ugly; we're lucky in Quebec that we happen to have older city cores, it's not thanks to the urbanism of the last few decades that our cities are half-decent.)

On the left side, an absolutely hideous and tasteless seniors residence, on the right side, a mall; large boulevards with many lanes, nothing very walkable. (This mall was my go-to mall when I lived there, despite living in a ~200 year old property in the center of the old part of town that used to have shops at street level everywhere. An old late-1800s map of Lévis I found actually shows that even my duplex had retail at street level, the map identifies the building as a grocery. This post-WWII "Commercial Flight" was a disaster for city centers but especially so in Lévis.)

https://www.google.com/maps/@46.7992...7i13312!8i6656

Sure, I have family in Levis, so I am quite familar with the lousy parts. But Quebec City has such a lovely core and setting, and some great inner city neighborhoods, that almost make me forget the lousy sprawlsburg outside.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by stevanford1

My soul gets sucked every time one of these commercials is shown on CBC Gem.
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The announcer has charisma of a cardboard box!

The Brand Power ads must be trying to be bad on purpose. There is no other explanation.