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 fedge
    
Location: Gaud Corners, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
you blight up my life™®
 |  |  | The Nickel Belt
< on 11/18/2007 10:18 AM >
|  | | | From an article in my town's local newspaper, Clarington This Week:
| I spent last weekend in Sudbury. I was not a hostage. Remarkably, I went there voluntarily. It’s been some time since I’ve been to the town that nickel built and I can’t say that a whole lot has changed in the interval. It still seems just as hard and grey as the rock it’s built on. Weird too, to be in a place where people very obviously continue to enjoy smoking in elevators. And, as beautiful as the drive up is, and it really is, I couldn’t help but feel as though I were actually driving back through time. Back to somewhere in the Depression era perhaps. Hwy. 69, starting around Parry Sound, is littered with the rusting, rotting shells of abandoned gas stations, restaurants and all manner of failed businesses. The closer you get to Sudbury, the thicker these derelicts become. The Chamber of Commerce may as well erect billboard after billboard shouting the words ‘I’d turn back if I were you’. |
This is probably the most UE-related article I've ever seen in the paper! Here's the rest of the article, which, oddly enough, goes on to great length how the author feels "creepy" watching the young waitresses and their tight butts at a restaurant he visited in Sudbury.
18-odd Years Of UER-ing! |
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KONG
  
Sus scrofa domestica
Location: Kingston, Ontario
Gender: Male
| | Re: The Nickel Belt
<Reply # 1 on 11/18/2007 12:54 PM >
| | | | What's the point of the whole article?
Is it shit on Sudbury day?
I mean, has this guy been to Oshawa?
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fedge
Location: Gaud Corners, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
you blight up my life™®
| | | Re: The Nickel Belt
<Reply # 2 on 11/18/2007 1:24 PM >
| | | | Posted by El Diablo
I mean, has this guy been to Oshawa? |
There are some very nice parts of Oshawa I'd be proud to live in!
They are bordered by Hwy 2 to the north, Townline Rd to the east, Olive to the south and Harmony to the west - to be specific.
18-odd Years Of UER-ing! |
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manitou
Location: Mississauga/Toronto/Waterloo
Gender: Male
I was born with an inherent knowledge of every abandonment in the world!
| | Re: The Nickel Belt
<Reply # 3 on 11/18/2007 2:08 PM >
| | | | That appears to be the most pointless article I have ever read.
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KONG
Sus scrofa domestica
Location: Kingston, Ontario
Gender: Male
| | Re: The Nickel Belt
<Reply # 4 on 11/18/2007 4:10 PM >
| | | | Posted by fedge
There are some very nice parts of Oshawa I'd be proud to live in!
They are bordered by Hwy 2 to the north, Townline Rd to the east, Olive to the south and Harmony to the west - to be specific.
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There's also some very nice areas in Sudbury.
I'm sure this guy can find a restaurant with young girls in tight pants in Bowmanville if he looked around.
There doesn't seem to be much of a point to this article other than to shit on a place he hasn't spent much time in.
I guess, at least, he's showing how ignorant he is.
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NoSuchPerson
Stop, or I'll ask you again!
| | Re: The Nickel Belt
<Reply # 5 on 11/18/2007 5:47 PM >
| | | | It's pretty unfair for him to crap on Sudbury like that.
I mean, Sudbury was founded back in 1890 or whatever it was as a small lumber camp which later turned into a mining community. Just what exactly was buddy hoping he'd find, a gold plated city?
Hell, their most noticable feature is a smoke stack that's the tallest thing around other than the CN Tower...
That said, the Greater Sudbury area is one of the most beautiful areas I've ever been to in Ontario.
Unit calling radio say again? |
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inviolate_light
Location: toronto
Gender: Male
| | Re: The Nickel Belt
<Reply # 6 on 11/18/2007 6:10 PM >
| | | | Notice in the by-line at the bottom, it says that he is a resident of Durham. He should be used to cities like Sudbury. ...coming form the Oshawa area and all.
But it really isn't much of an article anyways. It IS in fact classified under "opinions". So it's just one guy's lame opinion.
He is right about highway 69, though. At least the article reminded me that next time I am up near Parry Sound, I should keep heading north for a bit.
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Agent Skelly
Web Sheriff
Location: Oregon Territory
Gender: Male
Prenez De L'Avance Avec Chrysler!
| |  |  | | Re: The Nickel Belt
<Reply # 7 on 11/18/2007 8:18 PM >
| | | | ....Ontario has like the weirdest hate of other municipalities I have ever seen.
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mortimer
Location: teronno
| | | Re: The Nickel Belt
<Reply # 8 on 11/19/2007 2:37 PM >
| | | | Naw, we just can't take jokes from people that don't live somewhere. Sort of a 'locals only, but don't talk shit about us when you leave, cause we'll whine till the cows come home' kinda thing.
It's just a (not very funny) humour column, I don't think Sudbury needs to be defended from anything.
yep. |
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micro
Gender: Male
Slowly I turned
| | Re: The Nickel Belt
<Reply # 9 on 11/19/2007 2:45 PM >
| | | | I think the guy's picture says it all. "I'm wearing this hat and I'm here to annoy the living fuck out of you."
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Arc_Tangent
Arrr, I'm a PIRATE!
Location: Steel-Town
NYAH!!!
| | | Re: The Nickel Belt
<Reply # 10 on 11/19/2007 5:13 PM >
| | | | was he there... on vacation?
[15:17:47] <Arc_Tangent> Hirnduebel: you rock.
[15:18:15] <Hirnduebel> Arc: You're a rock yourself you rock! |
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KONG
Sus scrofa domestica
Location: Kingston, Ontario
Gender: Male
| | Re: The Nickel Belt
<Reply # 11 on 11/19/2007 9:17 PM >
| | | | OMG I WONDER IF HE WENT TO THE SLAG!?111
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GreyDeath
Location: Ontario
Gender: Male
The Darkness is coming...
| |  | Re: The Nickel Belt
<Reply # 12 on 11/21/2007 2:50 AM >
| | | | Posted by El Diablo
OMG I WONDER IF HE WENT TO THE SLAG!?111
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If so, it's a shame he wasn't melted.
-Me!
Im not stupid, Im Canadian! |
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Air
Location: Canada
| | Re: The Nickel Belt
<Reply # 13 on 11/21/2007 5:05 AM >
| | | | Posted by El Diablo
OMG I WONDER IF HE WENT TO THE SLAG!?111
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he better have gotten some chicken first.
BTW: If anyone finds my MIA roll from the slag dump @ the school nearby, drop me a line. kthxbi
[last edit 11/21/2007 5:06 AM by Air - edited 1 times]
"The extraordinary beauty of things that fail." - Heinrich von Kleist |
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fivepointsix
Location: Sudbury
Gender: Male
| | Re: The Nickel Belt
<Reply # 14 on 11/21/2007 2:50 PM >
| | | | hey i live in sudbury - what's this about smoking in elevators? it just doesn't happen. smoking in sudbury is banned everywhere - just like the rest of the province....
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KONG
Sus scrofa domestica
Location: Kingston, Ontario
Gender: Male
| | Re: The Nickel Belt
<Reply # 15 on 11/21/2007 9:24 PM >
| | | | Posted by fivepointsix
hey i live in sudbury - what's this about smoking in elevators? it just doesn't happen. smoking in sudbury is banned everywhere - just like the rest of the province....
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Yeah we know.
Sudbury was actually one of the cities that fully banned smoking a few years before the provincial government did.
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GreyDeath
Location: Ontario
Gender: Male
The Darkness is coming...
| | | Re: The Nickel Belt
<Reply # 16 on 11/22/2007 11:57 PM >
| | | | Posted by El Diablo
Yeah we know.
Sudbury was actually one of the cities that fully banned smoking a few years before the provincial government did.
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The provincial government banned smoking? Huh...
-Me!
Im not stupid, Im Canadian! |
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KONG
Sus scrofa domestica
Location: Kingston, Ontario
Gender: Male
| | Re: The Nickel Belt
<Reply # 17 on 11/23/2007 12:56 AM >
| | | | Sorry..
Smoking in any indoor workplace or public space.
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strike300
Location: Gretna, Louisiana
Gender: Male
| | Re: The Nickel Belt
<Reply # 18 on 11/24/2007 11:13 PM >
| | | | What's the deal with the dude who wrote the article? He said something about taking a narcotic (?) pain reliever while wearing a dress backwards? Why is he wearing a dress? Is this some Canadian thing I don't know about (the word "dress" meaning something else)?
Slightly OT: I like the idea of banning smoking in public places, but they should have a smoking section in coffee shops. I love Tim Horton's coffee, but I hate having to sit outside to enjoy a cigarette and a cup of coffee.
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fedge
Location: Gaud Corners, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
you blight up my life™®
| | | Re: The Nickel Belt
<Reply # 19 on 11/25/2007 2:31 AM >
| | | | I'm not even a smoker but I was baffled that the government would ban smoking as long as the restaurant had a vented smoking room. So, businesses spent big bucks to build these vented smoking rooms then shortly afterwards the government banned these smoking rooms as well. It's beyond silly.
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