To the big stupid cruise ship blowing its big stupid horn this morning:
Fuck you, and fuck your industry! No-one needs to hear you trying to herd your old, obese American passengers back onto the ship all day, no-one needs to see you blocking up the waterfront, and no-one needs you dumping your shit and garbage DIRECTLY INTO THE OCEAN! Halifax doesn’t need you, and no-one likes you. Fuck off and stop with the fucking horn!
—Landlubber
This article appears in Sep 24-30, 2009.
Ummm… halifax DOES need the money that the tourists bring into the city. And I suspect the horn had something to do with the fog this morning. I get the feeling you must be new in town… and it’s not as if we don’t dump our shit and garbage directly into the ocean, at least for now.
Cruise ships are a fact of life in Halifax now. If you don’t like foghorns in the morning, why do you live next to the water?
Someone’s cranky when they wake up. Get some earplugs or something and deal with it.
Stick a half dozen beach whistles in each ear.
Harbour = Fog
Fog = Foghorn
Foghorn = One pissy little Bishop’s landing Yuppie.
Halifax is a working harbour, Fuckie.
I like to listen to foghorns while I’m laying in bed (train whistles as well).
From 2002 to 2008 cruise ship’s passengers, crew and the line itself have dropped 318.9 million into our economy. They can toot their horn all they fucking want and you can go jump in the harbour.
“Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance, everybody knows it’s true”
Obese American passengers… right. In fact, most of them are old, but not obese. And most of them are actually pretty nice people if you talk to them.
We should be proud people inexplicably choose to cruise to Halifax over say Cuba.
♫ the thought that life could be better
is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains
like a train in the distance ♫
= )
/bitch off
I love you HKM
/bitch on
Most Americans aren’t that bad, they just get a bit of a bad rap from the few who are assholes I think. In some ways, I prefer Americans over Canadians to be honest (yes I’m Canadian, please don’t kill me). Oftentimes they seem more upfront, aren’t afraid to say what’s on their mind, and just have more personality. These can be both good and bad traits, of course.
In one particular, informal case study, I found people in Seattle way nicer than people in Vancouver. Sure they were ignorant and didn’t know much about Canada (one woman thought Victoria, BC was up near Alaska), but they were generally talkative, friendly, and had personality… more than I can say about a lot of people I met in Vancouver.
I love the cruise ship tourists! Most are super friendly and a lot are older, just spendin’ their retirement savings.
This is just a case of someone wanting the world to cater to them just because, as Matthew Luthor stated, someone probably bought an overpriced condo at bishops landing.
Suck it up. You live next to a working harbour and you DON’T expect fog horns in the, wait for it: FOG!!?? You’re a special kind of stupid, OP.
No ship horns = Halifax Explosion all over again. They blow them for a reason, so ships don’t ram into ships.
Halifax doesn’t like ANYBODY. Not even those fat tourists who just want to spend their money here. If this bitch is not case and point over how bad Halionians suck…
kay, you’re going to overlook everyone else on hear telling the OP to suck a lemon, and instead focus on the OP themselves as the ‘case and point over how bad Halionians suck…’?? Not one commenter agreed with the OP…and neither do I!
Yeah but kay will use anything to continure her anti-Halifax rants, which, unlike Rick Mercer’s, are very tedious.
no, sheep_chick, I mean shoe_chick, I’m actually focused on everyone here “telling the OP to suck a lemon” and “suck it up”… right on the edge of the oh-so-typical “if you don’t like it leave” default sort of response one can count on Haligonians for. Such a nice place to live *gag*
This entire blog is full of “anti-Halifax rants” but I know my opinion is so very special… *yawn*… you bitches are beggin’ for a sock puppet. Is that what you want? Because I’m not going to give it to you.
It’s OK if you don’t like Halifax Kay…what’s frustrating and insulting is that you insist that ALL Nova Scotians are the same and somehow our assholes are the only assholes in the world.
You mean we’re not? Wow that’s a relief.
LOL…sheep chick.
What’s the matter Kay, don’t you have any friends in Halifax? because ego and stupidity are not complimentary traits-and that’s going to be a problem wherever you move.
I said in a previous post, Scoob, I’ll take quality over quantity any day
Most normal people feel the same way when it comes to chosing friends- quality over quantity….which is likely the reason you have no friends- as I already suggested above.
funny how it works both ways, huh? I have lots of friends, Scoob. Some of them are Haligonians, most are not.
Well, I think I’ll call that a win. Unless Kay’s Haligonian friends are a bunch of hateful reprobates, I think Kay just acknowledged that there are at least a few friendly Nova Scotians. Whew.
The ‘if you don’t like it then leave’ statement is not exclusive to Halifax. It is a standard response anywhere when you go there and complain to the natives about all that you think is wrong with them and their town.
Oceanlady, you are so Nova Scotian. Of course that’s how everyone reacts when it’s pointed out they’re doing something WRONG. Nova Scotians, I find, follow it up with some kind of threat like, “if you don’t like it then leave… before I kick your ass”
kay that’s not a threat it’s a promise.
Somebody tried that once. They met UFC chick. Sad but true.
Kay, your knack for hijacking almost every single thread amazes me. You took some idiot complaining about fog horns and made it into about how much better you are than all nova scotians. Kudos.
I think kay is actually quite amazing, and I’m even one of those evil born and bred Nova Scotians. She’s got some skill, that’s for sure.
She has mad trolling skills. I thought Bad Mr Frosty might challenge her, but he was a flash in the pan whelp.
Speaking of Mr Frosty, I wonder where he has been lately. I kind of liked some of his posts.
I’m pretty sure Kay and Mr Frosty had a tawdry affair going on there for a bit.
You can visit and harass him at:
http://www.myspace.com/badmrfrostymusic
No, I am not stalking him = ) He suggested in one of his posts that we check out baDmRfRosTy, Halifax. He has some tracks there if you are interested. You can listen and pine away for him, qpmzwonxeibcruv. = p
Hey…he’s a rocker! baDmRfRosTy-Desi/Kay, Desi-baDmRfRosTy/Kay…naw.
Although, they were batting their eyelashes at one another.
Landlubber – all ships have their garbage picked up and disposed in the manner allowed by federal laws. Throwing orage peel or an apple core into Halifax Harbour from a ship has been an offence for over 30 years.
As for their shit – modern ships treat it on board in a manner prescribed by law, usually to US Coast Guard standards which are higher than the standard of the shit you put out.
In other words you are full of shit and you are blowing more than hot air.
Lol HKM, thanks for the link.
Careful what you wish for…
I feel sorry for kay. I couldn’t imagine going through life so bitter and hateful. Life must truly suck for her. But it is what you make it. You act like an asshole all the time then people are going to be assholes to you.
That’s pretty cool HKM! Yep, it’s definitely him, and a bit more easy, amateur spying has found that his name is John Peer and he is on Facebook with a bad ass goatee. If you’re in the Halifax network you can view his profile. Seems like he’s a pretty active fellow – apparently going to “Alabammy” soon. Check him out and add him as a friend:
http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=john+pee…
(Apologies to The Coast if this violates your privacy laws or whatever – remove it if you have to).
Once again Kay, you are wrong about me. I am not a Nova Scotian! Nice try though! LOL!
In spite of massive pressure from family and friends, no, I never signed up to Facebook. He is at Facebook under baD mR fRosTy, as well, I think.
Admit it hkm you are a stalker. Without checking, I’d take hkm word for it that he is on FB under that name as well, she checked. That’s what stalkers do.
I like to call it thorough research, Balls = p
If everyone ignored Kay, she’d shut up. Doesn’t everyone remember this tatic that your elementary school teacher taught you about that one attention-seeking ADD kid? Maybe its just me.
Yeah….that’ll happen.
Miles decided he wanted to keep her around as a pet, but he hasn’t taught her obedience training yet. Better get a leash on her, Miles.
I can just imagine kay finally returning to whatever state from whence she came.. and they can have her… 🙂
But you KNOW she’ll be telling everyone how “backwater” us Haligonians are.. how rude and retarded our culture is.. we’re all ghetto in her eyes I think..
I’m not a native NS’er myself.. having retired from the navy here, I’ve decided this IS home however. I personally have traveled the world pretty much, and I find people in the maritimes to be kinder than most.. it’s part of why we have so many call centers here.. people here are more friendly, and eager to assist..
Having worked at a call center for 5 years, I know that my co-workers and myself were proud of our efficiency and our ability to service our clients.. too bad the economy “tanked” and they closed our office, laying us all off…
But I still love my life here, and won’t be leaving anytime soon..
Oh and I believe if you can’t handle the cruise ships, you got to move farther away from them dude… wake the fuck up!! Can’t hear them from Lower Sackville at ALL!!! LOL
HKM, I don’t think Kay could be kept as a pet. I just think we have to learn to live with her. I’ve tried putting some newspapers down, but she still shits wherever she wants.
= ) Goodnight, Miles
Come on people, just think how boring LTWWB would be without kay. I love idiots. They give me my laugh of the day. Actually many many laughs.
I’m new to the commenting on Bitches game…but god damn this Kay one seems to be shooting their lips off about everything.
Someone needs to take you out for a friggin ice cream or something.
OP…..I live downtown myself, I moved downtown knowing the noise that comes with it….that’s why i spent 2.99 on earplugs. As everyone else stated, if you don’t want to hear fog horns, don’t live on the ocean. There’s boats in them waters….
Kay: I said in a previous post, Scoob, I’ll take quality over quantity any day
Your posts say otherwise, Kay…you definitely go for quantity over quality with them.
Oceanlady, if you are who I think you are living just on the other side of the boarder does not disqualify you… if you are who I think you are you spend enough time in NS to qualify quite nicely and you fit right in as a ‘victim’ around here, don’t you?
RaphEmer, friends are to bitch board comments as apples are to oranges. Nice try though, sheep. And you’ll notice I had an opinion, posted it and then spent the rest of this thread slapping down evil bitches so I guess, if I’m guilty of anything, it’s having the last word. boo hoo. I’m sure you’ll get over it.
LTWWB is a community, and every community has different people. It wouldn’t be what it is without kay, admit it.
Jesus, Kay, why do you think you know everyone on LTWWB? You have severe delusions of grandeur. First it was HKM now Oceanlady? Wtf? Can you see me right now?
It’s like romper room.
I’m curious Kay…just where is it that you think you know me from? Workplace? Socially?
Oceanlady: She probably just knows you from being one of the Nova Scotian ‘enemies’ she battles on the days when she forgets to take her meds….
Want to know what I find soooooooooooooo boring?
Kay’s constant – almost complusive – use of the word “sheep”.
Now Jennie, it’s not her fault if she has an unnatural obsession with ovines. We should all chip in and get her one of these, it would probably help with her frustrations – http://www.muttonbone.com/
Sometimes you bitches make me laugh really hard… SwampDonkey
OceanLady, did you just take on a new roommate? A music student?
American cruise ships ARE full of fat, ignorant old people. Think about it, who has the money to afford travelling from shopping mall to shopping mall on a big dumb barge? I worked down on the pier and had many awful interactions after they all get herded down the gangplank. ie. Mistaking Dartmouth for PEI.
That being said, they pump us full of money, and are most likely gentler on the harbour than we are.
Kay, I did not. Why? Is this someone who you think I am?
Most people know that it’s useless arguing with a wall. Kay however, could argue with a wall for eternity…and win.
She’d at least have the last word.
every community needs a fool.
I think if there were a community fool contest though, kay would certainly win.
Maritime law requires any ship to sound certain horn signals when departing a berth, it’s not to call back passengers, they are told when to be on board. Perhaps before you open your face you should do a little research. Of course that would involve a little imagination, and judging by the bitches I’ve read it’s something your lacking