Ugly Canada 2 (Only architecture, planning and design faux pas) - Page 192

O-tacular · #**3821** Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 3:35 AM**

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Yes. Lavallian isn't it?

Yes. Like two turdlets off the Residences Soleil log.

Acajack · #**3822** Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 1:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Are there any other city specific slurs in Quebec like coupe Longueuil? If mullets can be named after one city, are there other ugly things that can be named after Gatineau?

While not as notoriously famous (coupe Longueuil is known across Quebec), we do have a couple for Gatineau:

Jos Gat
Jos Gatineau
Ti-Jos Gatineau

My kids and their friends also use the term "Gatteux" which I believe is fairly recent.

J.OT13 · #**3823** Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 1:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

While not as notoriously famous (coupe Longueuil is known across Quebec), we do have a couple for Gatineau:

Jos Gat
Jos Gatineau
Ti-Jos Gatineau

My kids and their friends also use the term "Gatteux" which I believe is fairly recent.

There's also "Gino-Gatineau".

Acajack · #**3824** Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 1:52 PM**

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There's also "Gino-Gatineau".

Correct. A variant on "Gino-Camaro" that exists all over Quebec.

His sidekick is typically "Ginette Spray-Net", though that's not city-specific.

stevanford1 · #**3825** Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 2:30 PM**

Rotten Ronalds Burger Barn Of Barf in Moose Jaw SK

Moncton's McDo's ain't wonderful either

Nor is Okotoks's

EDIT: This one in Winnipeg looks like a place that cowboys mosey on down to

O-tacular · #**3826** Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 3:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

While not as notoriously famous (coupe Longueuil is known across Quebec), we do have a couple for Gatineau:

Jos Gat
Jos Gatineau
Ti-Jos Gatineau

My kids and their friends also use the term "Gatteux" which I believe is fairly recent.

Obviously it's said in a derisive way but what does it mean? Who is it targeted at? That's hilarious that Quebec has such city specific insults. I can't think of that elsewhere in the country except maybe 'townie' in NFLD. Obviously Calgarians mock Edmontonians but we don't have slang terms.

O-tacular · #**3827** Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 3:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

Correct. A variant on "Gino-Camaro" that exists all over Quebec.

His sidekick is typically "Ginette Spray-Net", though that's not city-specific.

Ok that I understand.

O-tacular · #**3828** Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 3:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by stevanford1

Rotten Ronalds Burger Barn Of Barf in Moose Jaw SK

Nice Bucket 'O Barf!

esquire · #**3829** Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 4:02 PM**

Sadly that one in Winnipeg was reconfigured to a normal looking McDonalds some years back.

A pat on the back to you for finding these gems stevanford1, some of those like the one in Moose Jaw are just epic!

Acajack · #**3830** Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 4:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Obviously it's said in a derisive way but what does it mean? Who is it targeted at? That's hilarious that Quebec has such city specific insults. I can't think of that elsewhere in the country except maybe 'townie' in NFLD. Obviously Calgarians mock Edmontonians but we don't have slang terms.

They're all derogatory terms for lower-class folk.

Outaouais people are also sometimes derided as "mâcheux de gomme et lanceux(rs) de caillou" (people who chew gum and throw pebbles).

Other terms for people from various regions of Quebec (not necessarily derogatory, though some people are uncomfortable with them):

Bleuets (bluberries): people from Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean

Jarrets noirs (jarret = back of the knee): people from the Beauce

Mangeux/mangeurs de morue (cod eaters): people from Gaspésie

Atlantic Canada actually has some of these:

Bluenosers: people from Nova Scotia

Herring Chokers: people from New Brunswick

Spud Islanders/Bud the Spud: people from PEI

stevanford1 · #**3831** Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 4:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

Sadly that one in Winnipeg was reconfigured to a normal looking McDonalds some years back.

A pat on the back to you for finding these gems stevanford1, some of those like the one in Moose Jaw are just epic!

Thanks.

I used to work down the street from this Retro one

stevanford1 · #**3832** Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 4:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

Sadly that one in Winnipeg was reconfigured to a normal looking McDonalds some years back.

A pat on the back to you for finding these gems stevanford1, some of those like the one in Moose Jaw are just epic!

Did the inside look odd as well, like a Montana's or a Lonestar? Or was it a typical McDo's.

esquire · #**3833** Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 4:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by stevanford1

Did the inside look odd as well, like a Montana's or a Lonestar? Or was it a typical McDo's.

Good question... I never set foot inside of it in its old iteration. It wasn't my part of town.

stevanford1 · #**3834** Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 4:43 PM**

I had quite a few meetings in this poo brown box from hell.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.63851...7i16384!8i8192

I also got food poisoning from the food in the Eggsmart attached to it
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Egg...3!4d-79.625349

Utterly awful area of the Sausage!

O-tacular · #**3835** Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 4:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by stevanford1

I had quite a few meetings in this poo brown box from hell.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.63851...7i16384!8i8192

I also got food poisoning from the food in the Eggsmart attached to it
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Egg...3!4d-79.625349

Utterly awful area of the Sausage!

I would never eat at Eggsmart. Same as I would never eat at Ricky's or Kora's or Humpty's. I did used to enjoy Denny's though.

stevanford1 · #**3836** Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 5:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

I would never eat at Eggsmart. Same as I would never eat at Ricky's or Kora's or Humpty's. I did used to enjoy Denny's though.

all I recall of Ricky's was how bad the food was and how it had the most comically awful décor and exteriors imaginable, a quick google search reinforces this!

I've had Humptys a long time ago and it sucked, I loathe hate Cora's and have not eaten at Dennys since the 80s so I would not know. The American answer to these places is Perkins!

megadude · #**3837** Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 5:09 PM**

I ate at that Eggsmart location when it was Friendly Greek. Ahhh Dixie... what a brutal road.

stevanford1 · #**3838** Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 5:15 PM**

In Ontariariario we have Sunset Grill, basically our answer to Ricky's.

We don’t have Smittys Ricky’s Or Humptys but we do have Kelseys absolutely everywhere and more Montanas and Cora’s than you can shake a stick at!

esquire · #**3839** Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 5:29 PM**

If you're ever in Winnipeg and want to have a bad, overpriced meal in a depressing environment, visit a Salisbury House.

They've been around forever. It used to be a kind of unassuming, blue collar place for a cup of coffee and a sandwich, but it has morphed into the Hell version of Perkins.

They even have their own beer now so you can take the depressing home with you:

O-tacular · #**3840** Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 5:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

If you're ever in Winnipeg and want to have a bad, overpriced meal in a depressing environment, visit a Salisbury House.

They've been around forever. It used to be a kind of unassuming, blue collar place for a cup of coffee and a sandwich, but it has morphed into the Hell version of Perkins.

They even have their own beer now so you can take the depressing home with you:

The branding and packaging for the beer seems industrial. Like it should be on a tube of superglue or a can of paint or something.