The dead thread

[MolsonExport]

not much happenin here in London Dungeon. Even Ldoto is posting less lately. Why is this thread so dead? I wish there was more to talk about here in London, but the city lacks major attractions, events, buildings of note, etc.

I lament my adopted town. I've travelled extensively, and I've seen how things could be so much better.

Step 1: get rid of the incumbents in City Hall.

Step 2: suggestions? anyone? anyone? Buehler?

[sparky212]

Step 2: better mass transit

[manny_santos]

Nothing much new going on in London lately, although there was a report on A-News last week about a new plant opening, owned by a Korean company.

If there's any other news, the new Student Services building at Western, adjacent to Western Road, is now open. I got a look at the first floor earlier this week and it's quite nice. The exterior is almost complete. Near there a new patio is being built for the Spoke, near the entrance to the UCC. Their patio was displaced by the Student Services building construction. Renovations continue in the lower level of the UCC, although some new floor tiling is now complete.

[ldoto]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport
not much happenin here in London Dungeon. Even Ldoto is posting less lately. Why is this thread so dead? I wish there was more to talk about here in London, but the city lacks major attractions, events, buildings of note, etc.

yes you are right on that!! Even Ldoto is posting less latelyI have been on vacation the last three weeks in california and working O.T at work all month.

[manny_santos]

It's been very quiet these past few days...

Then again, there's been nothing going on lately. London Transit is running as normal, the Hale-Trafalgar overpass is years off, unemployment is low...

[ForestryW]

Old East developments? Anyone? Anyone?

[MolsonExport]

Us London forumers are much more modest than those down the 401 in KW. The latter would generate seemingly hundreds of posts for some little project (e.g., opening of a 3 storey building anchored by a Shoppers Drug Mart), and thousands of posts for a moderate-sized project (e.g., the world-famous Bauer lofts). Even if I am slightly exaggerating, I am not joking. Even if things have slacked off quite a bit since WaterlooInvestor's tantrum(s) where he basically packed up his toys and left the party.

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Us London forumers are much more modest than those down the 401 in KW. The latter would generate seemingly hundreds of posts for some little project (e.g., opening of a 3 storey building anchored by a Shoppers Drug Mart), and thousands of posts for a moderate-sized project (e.g., the world-famous Bauer lofts). Even if I am slightly exaggerating, I am not joking. Even if things have slacked off quite a bit since WaterlooInvestor's tantrum(s) where he basically packed up his toys and left the party.

It probably helps that U of Waterloo has a well-established Planning program. I know quite a few people on SSP Local: Waterloo who are in Planning at UW. Maybe as high as 50%. I'm unaware of a similar program existing at UWO, so maybe that explains the difference in activity levels. It's not because there is nothing of interest going on in London, because there is.

[manny_santos]

Originally Posted by Cambridgite

It probably helps that U of Waterloo has a well-established Planning program. I know quite a few people on SSP Local: Waterloo who are in Planning at UW. Maybe as high as 50%. I'm unaware of a similar program existing at UWO, so maybe that explains the difference in activity levels. It's not because there is nothing of interest going on in London, because there is.

A geography minor in urban planning is available at Western, but that's the extent of what Western offers in that area. I was enrolled in it at one time but I decided not to pursue it further after second year. Ironically, I'm planning to go back into that field now that I have my undergraduate degree in management. There are some professors at Western involved in urban planning research, including that "food desert" study from a year or so back.

Originally Posted by manny_santos

A geography minor in urban planning is available at Western, but that's the extent of what Western offers in that area. I was enrolled in it at one time but I decided not to pursue it further after second year. Ironically, I'm planning to go back into that field now that I have my undergraduate degree in management. There are some professors at Western involved in urban planning research, including that food desert study from a year or so back.

Interesting.

Though that's not really the same as having an official Planning program with hundreds of people in it at any given time, which was my point.

[rousseau]

Was just in London yesterday, down from St. Ratford. Half the people here go to London for "big city" things, and the other half go to K-W. Don't know the reasons for the divide, exactly, because K-W is a lot closer and faster to get to, and has more to offer than London in many ways. Though that seems to be a more recent development, and I also know when it comes to medical specialists, London is the preferred destination.

In any case, once again I was struck by the abundance of female pulchritude in London on the streets and in the one shopping mall we visited. Very, very noticeable and eye-catching, and veritably impossible to ignore as a male of the decidedly hetero type. Why is this, I wonder? Without meaning to slag other cities, it must be said that places like Hamilton and K-W really do pale in comparison to London in this area. In all of my travels to Canadian cities far and wide, only Toronto compares when it comes to the proportionate plenitude of female beauty on display.

A very singular phenomenon.

[go_leafs_go02]

I'm from London, and am a reasonable poster around, I just don't post where there's barely any discussion. The busier the better in my books. And I go to school in Hamilton, so I lurke there, a fair bit, and I lived 8 months earlier this year in Vancouver, so I read and post the most there still.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by rousseau

Was just in London yesterday, down from St. Ratford. Half the people here go to London for "big city" things, and the other half go to K-W. Don't know the reasons for the divide, exactly, because K-W is a lot closer and faster to get to, and has more to offer than London in many ways. Though that seems to be a more recent development, and I also know when it comes to medical specialists, London is the preferred destination.

In any case, once again I was struck by the abundance of female pulchritude in London on the streets and in the one shopping mall we visited. Very, very noticeable and eye-catching, and veritably impossible to ignore as a male of the decidedly hetero type. Why is this, I wonder? Without meaning to slag other cities, it must be said that places like Hamilton and K-W really do pale in comparison to London in this area. In all of my travels to Canadian cities far and wide, only Toronto compares when it comes to the proportionate plenitude of female beauty on display.

A very singular phenomenon.

Well London does have a much prettier downtown than K-W (what downtown?). Must be all those milk-fed Western gals...

Is downtown St. Ratford deserted in the winter months? I enjoy going out there in the summer (very nice downtown urban fabric), but have yet to visit in the winter. My biggest complaint about London in the Winter is that there is buttfuckall to do here, unless you enjoy spending the day at Masonville or White Oaks.

In my books--and mind you, this applies only in summer months--Montreal beats Toronto hands down in the babe department. I also love Vancouver women, but that is mainly because I love Asian women.

[rousseau]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Is downtown St. Ratford deserted in the winter months? I enjoy going out there in the summer (very nice downtown urban fabric), but have yet to visit in the winter.

The tourists stop coming in November, so there's a lull then, but then the Christmas shopping seems to keep things fairly busy right up to that fateful day on the 25th when we commemorate the orgiastic conception of Satan by the Easter Bunny's virginal son and erstwhile prophet Mohammed ("please be upon him"--ooh, sounds saucy!). Or however that story goes, I forget. But yeah, January, February and March are absolutely dead.

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

My biggest complaint about London in the Winter is that there is buttfuckall to do here, unless you enjoy spending the day at Masonville or White Oaks.

Not to get city v city again, but it's downright funny how much London has going against it while still blowing K-W out of the water in terms of urban fabric and womanly charms. I mean, the streets are a boring grid, the rural roads outside the city are flat and laid out in a boring grid, and London is eons away from anything interesting to do.

And yet, it still craps all over K-W. In K-W the streets were laid out in 1850 by a drunken farmer following his drunken horse around; if K-W had any half-decent urban fabric to speak of it would veritably ooze Parisian charm, or at least Bostonian charm. But no, K-W is ugly and depressing. The countryside outside Waterloo has rolling hills of the sort that leave cyclists breathless both physiologically and spiritually, but the little hamlets and villages around K-W are bland, utilitarian and suburbanized outposts of mediocritude full of vinyl siding and fat women in sweat pants (St. Jacobs is a tourist trap, and was never a looker to begin with).

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

In my books--and mind you, this applies only in summer months--Montreal beats Toronto hands down in the babe department. I also love Vancouver women, but that is mainly because I love Asian women.

Okay, I've never been to Montreal in the summer, but I have been to Montreal enough times that I know it doesn't compare to Toronto in this biological metric. Toronto is immigrant goddess central, there's just no way Montreal can keep up. Oh sure, there are a few francophonic lasses in Montreal with a litheness of step that is exotic in its apparent un-North Americanness, I've seen them too, but on the whole my sense is that Montreal has a lingering reputation that isn't based on any currently observable reality. And I should know, because I'm on the internet and am an expert on these matters.

I lived and travelled in Asia for six years and married an Asian type, so I know a bit about a certain politically incorrect form of fever, and, once again, Toronto seals the deal on this score, too. Basically, Toronto has everything. There is no need to leave it. I wish I could afford the real estate there so that I could live in a nice house in the Annex suitable for having home offices and two or three more bedrooms. Ah, Toronto, you live in my dreams!

Gosh, I look like a Toronto booster in this post. I hadn't meant to, but there's no getting around the fact that the Swiss know how to run big cities.

[flar]

I thoroughly enjoyed my seven years in London

I was married the entire time I lived in Hamilton, and it wasn't much of a problem because Hamilton is surely last among Canadian cities when it comes to beautiful women.

Ottawa is okay. It's a tough call between Toronto and Montreal. I think something in Montreal can make an average girl more alluring.

[MolsonExport]

^a little of that joie de vive. laisser les bon temps rouler.

[manny_santos]

I've only been off the 401 into Kitchener twice, but I do prefer London's downtown to Kitchener's. More vibrant. One comment I've heard is that it may be because Kitchener has expressways right in the city.

There's no denying the physical beauty of London girls, but as a generalization, London girls tend to be very stuck up, fake, and shallow. Again, only a generalization.

[rousseau]

Originally Posted by manny_santos

I've only been off the 401 into Kitchener twice, but I do prefer London's downtown to Kitchener's. More vibrant. One comment I've heard is that it may be because Kitchener has expressways right in the city.

A comment that makes no sense. Kitchener-Waterloo was very small a hundred years ago when they were handing out beautiful commercial blocks and houses. It has grown terrifically in the past twenty years, coincidentally part of the dark postwar period for architecture and urban planning.

Originally Posted by manny_santos

There's no denying the physical beauty of London girls, but as a generalization, London girls tend to be very stuck up, fake, and shallow. Again, only a generalization.

Don't know about fake or shallow, but in my experience there's a pretentious standoffishness in London, regardless of sex. You notice it immediately if you're coming from Hamilton, where people tend to be straightforward and unpretentious.

You notice this especially in the service industry in London, where people in shops and restaurants feel they are debasing themselves by having to cater to you. My theory? It's part of the British colonial legacy that persists more in London than in other areas due to London's relative provincial character.

[flar]

London is probably the stiffest city I can think of, I had had enough of that by the time I moved away. Ottawa would be a contender too, if not for the dash of French influence.

[SlickFranky]

The secret to London's beautiful sights...they're students from the GTA. UWO recruiters do an amazing job!