Although I do like it a bit more in the summer. There is some really cool stuff here, like Red Rocks and the airport, but it's still so mediocre...
CycloneRanger is right though, being so close to the mountains is pretty cool.
But summers are incredible. I can't deal with heat. I moved to Lake Havasu two years ago and promptly moved back.
As for it being "so mediocre," to each his own I suppose. Unless I have a chance to live in, say, Europe for a few years, or the Mediterranean or something, I don't think I could live anywhere else.
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Oh man, Canada's Wonderland. I go there once or twice a year.
though i only went to school there through second grade, because i was a crazy ADD child so my parents felt private school would be better for me
but i lived there until 9th grade
though when i was a baby my parents lived in an apartment in quincy
You went to either Xavarian Bros. or Bishop Feehan.
And next time I need to go to Good Samaritan, I'll ask for "Shaz's dad"
My bf and his brother went to Xavarian.
podly went there
uhh i went to DCD from 3-8th and noble and greenough for hs
I've never even heard of those. I'm surprised, most private school kids from our area wound up going to either one of those two. Even the non-catholics.
Somebody needs to post Boston city hall. That someone... is me.
I dare all of you to find an uglier building.
Challenge accepted:
Challenge won:
There's actually an even uglier building on campus, but I can't remember the name of it.
Bullshit. I reopen the challenge:
Reid Hall, a classroom building in my old city (MSU - Bozeman, MT).
Ah, Reid Hall. Only you can combine the flat brick look one might expect of a bunker or prison, with the crappy 60's-style tiled windows and entryway one expects of...well, of shitty college buildings built in the 60's (actually 1959...it was ahead of its time).
Ah, nothing breaks up the green spaces and charming 19th century architecture of our campus like your forboding empty brick exterior, featuring nothing but a door to invite students into your hateful belly. Inside? Oh, inside you'll find puke-yellow tile, puke-yellow and puke-green chairs, delapitated desks, bare cement, and urinals that look like some kind of post-modern art (no, really, if they weren't in a line in a men's room I wouldn't know what the fuck they were).
Oh, and no building is complete without the vertical slabs of cement jutting out. Classy.
The beautiful stairwell window. Something about this just says "I want to spend my entire day in this building. Then kill myself."
You're drab. You're outdated. You're run-down inside and out. You were ugly when you were built, and now you're both ugly and antiquated. Someday you'll be demolished, and nobody will care.
These pictures don't really do it justice. It's actually much uglier in person. There's actually a whole 'nother wing not even pictured. It's like they were trying to combine every kind of terrible style in one building...and they did it.
You guys think you have it tough driving? Massachusetts has rotaries that exit onto other rotaries, and short bridges with five way intersections on either end. This one rotary has two of the state's most dangerous intersection.
Our other insane intersections include
and
Now, Newton used to look like this:
Looked like this for most of my life and that of my mom's (a native):
and now looks something like this:
On behalf of Waltham, my college town, I am forced to say "you call that a castle? This is a castle."
While I've already posted for my sort of home town and London has been done, I feel it necessary to post some shots from Wellington, NZ. I lived there for five or so years during university and also worked there. It is basically the NZ city I most like and the one I want to move back to when I'm done with Europa
The harbour
Victoria, University of Wellington Law School - and the largest wooden neo Classical building in the Southern Hemisphere. I spent several years there and while the schooling experience was average to good, the building was simply amazing
Parliament!
That image was from David Icke's forums! Apparently it is a Masonic symbol?
Where I will be living come fall for two years to complete my second degree.
Lethbridge, AB, Canada. How quaint. How Canadian prairie chic.
The skyline from the university side of town.
What this thread makes me realize is that I go from living in one shithole to living in another shithole while others here live in the some of the most beautiful, important, cosmopolitan cities in the world.
*grin* hey! I'm from Lethbridge. I was wondering where I'd dig up pictures to show people but you did the work for me.
Yep, Lethbridge looks like that. Maybe more brown, on average.
On the plus side, Lethbridge is probably the nicest place to live in Alberta. Very liberal (especially among students and the 30-and-under crowd) for Alberta, which makes it a lot more tolerable. I find it's way, way too hot, though. But the best part of Lethbridge IMO is that it's only an hour and a half away from the mountains. Or maybe it's that it's near BC and SK, which I happen to enjoy a lot more. And it's near Montana too, which is another pretty place to visit.
Somebody needs to post Boston city hall. That someone... is me.
I dare all of you to find an uglier building.
Challenge accepted:
Challenge won:
There's actually an even uglier building on campus, but I can't remember the name of it.
Bullshit. I reopen the challenge:
Reid Hall, a classroom building in my old city (MSU - Bozeman, MT).
Ah, Reid Hall. Only you can combine the flat brick look one might expect of a bunker or prison, with the crappy 60's-style tiled windows and entryway one expects of...well, of shitty college buildings built in the 60's (actually 1959...it was ahead of its time).
Ah, nothing breaks up the green spaces and charming 19th century architecture of our campus like your forboding empty brick exterior, featuring nothing but a door to invite students into your hateful belly. Inside? Oh, inside you'll find puke-yellow tile, puke-yellow and puke-green chairs, delapitated desks, bare cement, and urinals that look like some kind of post-modern art (no, really, if they weren't in a line in a men's room I wouldn't know what the fuck they were).
Oh, and no building is complete without the vertical slabs of cement jutting out. Classy.
The beautiful stairwell window. Something about this just says "I want to spend my entire day in this building. Then kill myself."
You're drab. You're outdated. You're run-down inside and out. You were ugly when you were built, and now you're both ugly and antiquated. Someday you'll be demolished, and nobody will care.
These pictures don't really do it justice. It's actually much uglier in person. There's actually a whole 'nother wing not even pictured. It's like they were trying to combine every kind of terrible style in one building...and they did it.
I think you're underestimating this building. For example, it is tastefully accented by a giant wasteland, which the architect hoped would attract people to the building by allowing the wind to build up to the point that people cannot leave:
And that's still the most photogenic side. Here are some of the others:
And you can't forget the beautiful interior:
Of course, there's also a slightly more "eccentric" building:
It houses the the Mental Health Center. Clearly, it was a custom job.
You guys think you have it tough driving? Massachusetts has rotaries that exit onto other rotaries, and short bridges with five way intersections on either end. This one rotary has two of the state's most dangerous intersection.
Our other insane intersections include
and
Pfft. Swindon has a real man's roundabout:
Notice that traffic is forced to drive in the wrong direction inside the middle circle.
Lieberkuhn on
While you eat, let's have a conversation about the nature of consent.
I thank the potential existence of every deity that I don't live in Swindon. Roundabouts give me panic attacks even when they're empty and there's only one of them.
Apparently the key is to always give priority to traffic coming from the right and obey the yield barriers. If you do this, you will apparently survive your journey into the roundabout of living hell
Lieberkuhn on
While you eat, let's have a conversation about the nature of consent.
So... why does that traffic monstrosity have the inner patterns? You could achieve the same thing with a single rotary. Yeah you can make your way to the right without going all around this way, but the inefficiency in that pattern would just slow everything down I'd think
It's an extremely high traffic area, and a single roundabout would lead to severe congestion. The shortcuts afforded by this monstrosity serve to keep the traffic flowing, believe it or not.
Lieberkuhn on
While you eat, let's have a conversation about the nature of consent.
You guys think you have it tough driving? Massachusetts has rotaries that exit onto other rotaries, and short bridges with five way intersections on either end. This one rotary has two of the state's most dangerous intersection.
Our other insane intersections include
and
Pfft. Swindon has a real man's roundabout:
Notice that traffic is forced to drive in the wrong direction inside the middle circle.
You guys think you have it tough driving? Massachusetts has rotaries that exit onto other rotaries, and short bridges with five way intersections on either end. This one rotary has two of the state's most dangerous intersection.
Our other insane intersections include
and
Pfft. Swindon has a real man's roundabout:
Notice that traffic is forced to drive in the wrong direction inside the middle circle.
City planners trying to summon Cthulhu is just the worst.
To be honest, I didn't really see a lot of it on account of playing hockey all day. We went to Fort Crook Billiards on Sunday night and caused a ruckus there with the locals (they didn't like us Kansas City boys being loud and drunk in their bar). A lady at the rink welcomed me to Omaha, so that was cool.
Although there's a cyclist in the foreground BE WARNED! Lisbon is not a city that was built for cyclists, it has 7 hills so it's not like the Netherlands or some place flat like that. That's why we have trams built specifically to go up streets.
Anyway, it's a very fun city to visit. Lots of things to see, several restaurants and amazing views.
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But summers are incredible. I can't deal with heat. I moved to Lake Havasu two years ago and promptly moved back.
As for it being "so mediocre," to each his own I suppose. Unless I have a chance to live in, say, Europe for a few years, or the Mediterranean or something, I don't think I could live anywhere else.
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Challenge won:
There's actually an even uglier building on campus, but I can't remember the name of it.
podly went there ..o.o
uhh i went to DCD from 3-8th and noble and greenough for hs
I've never even heard of those. I'm surprised, most private school kids from our area wound up going to either one of those two. Even the non-catholics.
Bullshit. I reopen the challenge:
Ah, Reid Hall. Only you can combine the flat brick look one might expect of a bunker or prison, with the crappy 60's-style tiled windows and entryway one expects of...well, of shitty college buildings built in the 60's (actually 1959...it was ahead of its time).
Ah, nothing breaks up the green spaces and charming 19th century architecture of our campus like your forboding empty brick exterior, featuring nothing but a door to invite students into your hateful belly. Inside? Oh, inside you'll find puke-yellow tile, puke-yellow and puke-green chairs, delapitated desks, bare cement, and urinals that look like some kind of post-modern art (no, really, if they weren't in a line in a men's room I wouldn't know what the fuck they were).
Oh, and no building is complete without the vertical slabs of cement jutting out. Classy.
The beautiful stairwell window. Something about this just says "I want to spend my entire day in this building. Then kill myself."
You're drab. You're outdated. You're run-down inside and out. You were ugly when you were built, and now you're both ugly and antiquated. Someday you'll be demolished, and nobody will care.
These pictures don't really do it justice. It's actually much uglier in person. There's actually a whole 'nother wing not even pictured. It's like they were trying to combine every kind of terrible style in one building...and they did it.
Our other insane intersections include
and
Now, Newton used to look like this:
On behalf of Waltham, my college town, I am forced to say "you call that a castle? This is a castle."
The harbour
Victoria, University of Wellington Law School - and the largest wooden neo Classical building in the Southern Hemisphere. I spent several years there and while the schooling experience was average to good, the building was simply amazing
Parliament!
That image was from David Icke's forums! Apparently it is a Masonic symbol?
Kelburn - the suburb I lived in for 5 years
Random coastal shots
*grin* hey! I'm from Lethbridge. I was wondering where I'd dig up pictures to show people but you did the work for me.
Yep, Lethbridge looks like that. Maybe more brown, on average.
On the plus side, Lethbridge is probably the nicest place to live in Alberta. Very liberal (especially among students and the 30-and-under crowd) for Alberta, which makes it a lot more tolerable. I find it's way, way too hot, though. But the best part of Lethbridge IMO is that it's only an hour and a half away from the mountains. Or maybe it's that it's near BC and SK, which I happen to enjoy a lot more. And it's near Montana too, which is another pretty place to visit.
I think you're underestimating this building. For example, it is tastefully accented by a giant wasteland, which the architect hoped would attract people to the building by allowing the wind to build up to the point that people cannot leave:
And that's still the most photogenic side. Here are some of the others:
And you can't forget the beautiful interior:
Of course, there's also a slightly more "eccentric" building:
It houses the the Mental Health Center. Clearly, it was a custom job.
Pfft. Swindon has a real man's roundabout:
Notice that traffic is forced to drive in the wrong direction inside the middle circle.
There's like 8 roundabouts in that intersection.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
Apparently the key is to always give priority to traffic coming from the right and obey the yield barriers. If you do this, you will apparently survive your journey into the roundabout of living hell
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It looks all right to me.
City planners trying to summon Cthulhu is just the worst.
At Night
The Old Market
St Cecilia's
Pedestrian Bridge
Heartland Park
And of course you have to have the Red Sea...
I was in Bellevue yesterday for an all-day hockey tournament. That's about the extent of my Omaha experience.
Although there's a cyclist in the foreground BE WARNED! Lisbon is not a city that was built for cyclists, it has 7 hills so it's not like the Netherlands or some place flat like that. That's why we have trams built specifically to go up streets.
Anyway, it's a very fun city to visit. Lots of things to see, several restaurants and amazing views.
Obligatory Cherry Spoon:
View from my floor at work (I have a window cube! On the other side of the building :-():
Skyline:
Lakes!:
I love how I knew that was Swindon just from that comment.
Swindon is a bad bad place.