Post videos of your city - Page 41

matt602 · #**801** Posted **Sep 15, 2015, 3:37 AM**

This thread kinda died so, a Hamilton video:

rousseau · #**802** Posted **Sep 15, 2015, 6:21 AM**

Hamilton has a very distinctive vibe, sort of an endearing gruffness. It's really the only place in Canada that Tom Waits could have written a song about. Funny, I've met a couple of the people in the video, and have seen several more on the street. It's really that kind of place.

If this video speaks to you, then you should move to the Hammer. You'd like it. Even if this isn't really your thing, you could still move there and like it enough, though you might not feel a deep sense of connection to it.

Klazu · #**803** Posted **Sep 16, 2015, 3:16 AM**

Hollywood North

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SignalHillHiker · #**804** Posted **Sep 16, 2015, 9:07 PM**

She was so endearing. I followed her trip.

Toronto, I assume?

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TorontoDrew · #**805** Posted **Sep 16, 2015, 9:21 PM**

Yup, this was on as I was putting my shoes on to go out the door. I know I'm running late when Breakfast Television is over and the Bored housewives show comes on. It did sound like she had a great time and made me think about making the trek out. I have so many friends on The Rock now. I would be a happy man to just hike each day along your rugged shoes and eat seafood none stop. She also made it sound like it's the friendliest place on earth and judging from all of the Newfies I know I believe her.

I did laugh when she said she was a Hotel Whore. Probably not the best choice of words for that show demographic, LOL.

SignalHillHiker · #**806** Posted **Sep 25, 2015, 10:02 PM**

Wow... it always shocks me just how small St. John's actually is from the air. I know, logically, how small it is... two long, linear downtown commercial streets... then rowhouses several blocks wide and dozens of blocks long... then... suburban wasteland. I know it.

But from the air, it completely removes the... "Oh, nevermind, you're cool" feeling that, at least, I get at street level.

If I didn't live here, and watched this, I'd think it was a soulless tourist town that felt deserted from September to June.

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Klazu · #**807** Posted **Sep 26, 2015, 9:39 PM**

The Amazing Race Canada season 3 finale took place in Vancouver and Whistler this week. Seems that they have shot the episode in late May or so.

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SignalHillHiker · #**808** Posted **Sep 28, 2015, 11:07 PM**

Targa finally in Brigus. I'd love to do this, especially in the older villages like Brigus where the streets are really only one lane wide despite carrying traffic in both directions.

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SteelTown · #**809** Posted **Oct 2, 2015, 2:42 PM**

McMaster University's 85th anniversary in Hamilton

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thomax · #**810** Posted **Oct 7, 2015, 3:50 PM**

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SignalHillHiker · #**811** Posted **Oct 11, 2015, 5:57 PM**

Aww...

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lake of the nations · #**812** Posted **Oct 11, 2015, 6:48 PM**

Truly incredible...

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(thanks to rnr_ss for the find)

Klazu · #**813** Posted **Oct 11, 2015, 9:05 PM**

That's one cool Montreal video! Damn.

SignalHillHiker · #**814** Posted **Oct 12, 2015, 1:04 PM**

Awesome MTL video.

Rocket Bakery is my favourite downtown. It's a little too hipster at times, not as bad as Fixed, but it's also popular with proper artists. And they have great, often impromptu entertainment.

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Nicko999 · #**815** Posted **Oct 12, 2015, 10:23 PM**

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Truly incredible...

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(thanks to rnr_ss for the find)

Wow, crazy people! It was well worth it tough.

Klazu · #**816** Posted **Oct 31, 2015, 6:14 AM**

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Trevor3 · #**817** Posted **Nov 1, 2015, 5:37 PM**

Stephenville's new cultural heritage promo. I'm not sure what it's going to be used for, but it's kinda neat. Nothing like teaching our children to salute the star spangled banner as it gets raised up the flag pole!

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rousseau · #**818** Posted **Nov 2, 2015, 2:36 AM**

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Oh my gawd, that is so incredibly lame!

The context is a fairly nuanced opinion piece way back in May (jayzus, a slight against the city you live in hurt that bad? Like, stewing in a low-grade hissy fit for five months bad?) in the Economist about how gentrified "safe" cities lose or don't have much urban edginess, with Vancouver name-checked among others. In response, the creator of this video, so mortally offended at the temerity of anyone not loving the "greatest place on earth," spent five months of intense rumination on this slight, until one day a light bulb went off in his head and he said to himself: "I got it! I'm going to do a Youtube video making fun of people who don't like Vancouver!"

The essence of the video, in short: "Ha ha, you don't love me, you're such an idiot!"

This is one of the most wretched displays of prissy, clueless self-regard I have ever seen in my life. It's far more embarrassing and shameful than the hockey riots, which at least were somewhat understandable. I mean, at one point a girl on a yoga mat gets up and, with no word of a lie, actually states in remonstrance that "Vancouver is rated one of the most liveable cities," so "how could you not like Vancouver?"

Unbelievable. If this video in any way reflects something of the temperament of some (many?) people in Vancouver, then Christ almighty on a pogo stick, that is a sad state of affairs.

Klazu · #**819** Posted **Nov 2, 2015, 3:13 AM**

The video is making some fun about both sides of the "No Fun City" discussion. The IFHT crew is a well-known team of Vancouverite Youtubers making funny videos on various subjects not meant to be taken seriously. I recommend checking out their other productions as well. Lots of fun there.

rousseau · #**820** Posted **Nov 2, 2015, 3:40 AM**

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The video is making some fun about both sides of the "No Fun City" discussion.

Discussion? What discussion?

Wait a minute...there's actually an ongoing discussion about a throwaway line about Vancouver in a casual opinion piece in the Economist from five months ago? Wow. Just...wow. I'm speechless. This is a level of sad that goes beyond your everyday sad.

As for the video, it's a bald-faced cry for help. These are people invested in how others perceive the place they live in to a degree far more disturbing than your average chamber of commerce busybodies. Though I'll admit that there is a certain novelty in feeling a gleeful schadenfreude at how painfully inept this is, mixed in with genuine pity. It's not often that you despise people while worrying about their mental health at the same time.

In the future I'll have to be careful around people from Vancouver. I wouldn't want to upset them by inadvertently making a comment that could be interpreted as betraying anything less than love and undeniable admiration for the place.