For all the poor decisions the cowardly HRM council has made in recent weeks, months and years, I thought they would get this one right.
But if it turns out the successful bid goes to Emera instead of one of the beer companies, I will be truly pissed.
Adding the cost of the rink to my way-too-high power bill is pretty much the same as adding it to my way-too-high property taxes.
All this while municipal services and representation continue to deteriorate. For shame. —Vote Them Out Vote Them Out Vote Them Out 2012
This article appears in Nov 24-30, 2011.
this whole province is run by a bunch of sandy vag’d old ladies it would seem.
It would be nice if they would accept funding from anyone who offers for this. Of course they could also charge people to use it. A simple $2 fee would cover most of the bill. Why are they so afraid to charge per use?
Firstly, Neville, that’s what comes from too much sex on the beach (vastly overrated, IMO). The one time I tried it, I got so much sand in my vag, I thought I was gonna lay a pearl.
Secondly, I thought naming rights was more of the state’s thing, you know, because it’s ruled by corporations. I thought with its tax base, NS wouldn’t have to pimp out naming rights to the highest bidder…
I agree INFY. I don’t skate, why should my tax dollars pay for other people to? We have lakes that you can skate on free of charge any time the temperature permits. I suppose we have public baseball/soccer fields and basketball courts and stuff but ice rinks require a lot of maintenance. Like full time, not just someone to cut the grass once in a while.
Right, and naming it after a bunch of thieving fucking bastards is soooooo much morally better than naming it after a beer company. Fuck Emera! If they name the oval after them, how long until they’ll start imposing user fees, (reveiwable quarterly), to offset the cost of electricity for the chillers and lights?
Seriously, WTF is wrong with this city council? It’s fine to have a civic holiday pretty much sponsored single-handedly by a beer company, (Natal Day – Keith’s), but not ok to name a skating oval after one? Where’s the logic?? I don’t understand? It’s not like they’re going to be setting up a bar and selling beer at the oval, (although, I wouldn’t necessarily be opposed that either), or flooding the ice surface with the stuff. So where’s the issue? And don’t feed me some cock & bull story about beer not promoting a healthy, athletic and active lifestyle…Well, I guess you better pull the sponsorship of just about EVERY SPORT KNOWN TO MAN then if that’s the case. Count the beer ads the next time you watch Hockey Night in Canada or the Superbowl if you don’t believe me. The people that oppose this are probably the same backwards-thinking damaged people that voted against Sunday shopping too.
Your problem OB is that for some strange reason you actually thought Concert Pete and his minions would make the right decision. Rule of thumb, whatever you think the right decision should be, count on Council to do the opposite.
How many of us had their first drink at a young age by raiding our parents liquor cabinet (usually just tossed in an unlocked cupboard) or taking a beer that was in the fridge? Probably most of us. How much do you want to bet all of these tards that oppose beer naming rights have beer in the fridge at home or go out to a restaurant with their children and order a beer/wine? That right there is what normalizes the consumption of alcohol to young people, not by going to the Oland’s Tree Lighting Ceremony. If they really want to do something about the abuse of alcohol, there are many BETTER things to do than refuse to let a beer company name something. They shouldn’t let any telecommunications company name anything either, because phone usage can cause cancer. They shouldn’t let an oil company name a stadium because oil causes pollution, they shouldn’t let a milk company name anything because they make cows work, yadda yadda yadda.
Make no mistake – if the taxpayer were 100% on the hook for this the general public would have the same influence on the naming of this oval (none). With that (and the financial irregularities of the past few years) in mind HRM council should not be so choosey about which corporation is allowed to give a little back in exchange for a logo or 2 displayed here and there.
how about something real simple, like THE OVAL? didn’t take much effort now, did it? oh, and petey kelly, you can send my cheque to the food back, for services rendered.
The government makes hundreds of millions of dollars off liquor sales every year. They are the true purveyors of alcoholism, not the beer companies who can’t even sell their own product. Only Halifax city council (I’m assuming mostly that twat from dartmouth G. Macnutbag), would make a correlation between a beer company wanting to give back and support their local neighborhood, and children automatically becoming alcoholics because of their sponsorship. What a bunch of fucking tools!!!!
Tommy sez: “I don’t skate, why should my tax dollars pay for other people to?”
Well, Tommy, I don’t play basketball or attend professional sporting events…you see where I’m going here, right…? ☮
xeno., i would have helped you remove it, in a very fun way. think on it next time you go.
Why don’t we just call it the CUNT?
That’s actually a great idea, Baz. Because 2 thirds of council would probably fight to the death, thinking it was named after them and we could start with a clean slate
Wait until the Occupy protesters move in on the ice.
Nice mouth, Victor. You eat with that mouth? You kiss your mother with that mouth?
i’ll call it the oval, just like i call the skydome the dome, i don’t give a shit what it’s called now. i can see the *viagra velodrome* coming soon
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I don’t skate so why should I pay for other people to?
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And I don’t walk, so why should I pay for a walking track etc and so on? I can’t play soccer, and so on.
Because the collective group pays. I don’t have cancer, but I’m cool with my taxes paying for people who do. I can’t get in a pool, but I’m cool with my taxes paying for those that can. It all evens out, TJ.
Wpaul
And yes, I’ll be on the oval with my sledge, when it opens. Can’t wait! Me and my girl are going to go skating, and I can’t wait! Squeeee!
More semantics. Who cares what they call it? I really don’t care. Call it the Halifax Oval. Name it after a person. Everybody is just going call it the “oval” anyway.
I still call it skydome too… rogers center doesn’t quite have that nice ring to it.
am I the only one that thinks it should be named the Haliptical?
halifax elliptical… makes sense…
then again, everyone will just say oval anyways.
it’s short, sweet, and has been called that for a year.
Ain’t going to change now.
You know if Molson gets it, it’ll soon be called the Moval…
So to end this debate, we should have it sponsored by Ovaltine.
then all this bickering would just be done and it would be the Oval once and for all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5OWoG44VAw
Ivan – we’re STILL LOLing at my house over your suggestion from the other day!
http://www.thecoast.ca/RealityBites/archiv…
>: ) – If SOBova were here she’d say something along the lines of “Please don’t encourage him. It only makes him worse”
Glad I could brighten your day, Snoob
PG – I think Viagra would have to be for a more phallic building. The Viagra Tower and more of a Vagisil Velodrome?
excellent names snubiz
: )
Off to my skating lessons! Woohoo!
i took adult skating lessons, it sorta helped but i still windmill my arms a lot. i really don’t fall well
This oval has been nothing but a fiasco from day 1.
People were outraged it was destroying a part of the commons, even if only for awhile. Baseball players were up in arms it took playing fields away.
People were upset at the cost of a temporary facility.
But Then
When it went over like gangbusters, And people were raving about how great it was.Then the powers that be ,with some citizens vocal assitance ,decide to make it permanent.
But the damn thing was built on a sand base instead of a gravel base…which to me is unbelievably stupid…seeing as the trucking cost of either is the same & gravel is cheaper to buy then sand -this is based on my personal costs of putting in a gravel driveway & the cost per load & the cost of buying sand per dumptruck load for my property-
So they tear the damn thing up & are rebuilding it.
The damn thing is a money pit, now people are arguing about money to run it, money for naming rights, user fees , to no user fees & making it tax payer funded….
So I suggest we call it THE MONEY PIT.
Which we can shorten to “THE PIT”
& hopefully we won’t pluralize the shortened name until those electric bills really get high & someone needs a rethink on how to continue to fund it ~;)
Speaking of Viagra – that’s me when I’m on skates – long and stiff! But I didn’t fall this week! Last week – Timmmm berrrr!
and we can make the middle an actual pit for people who don’t want to risk surviving the fall leaping off the bridges.
hop in the pit and your money troubles go away.
poof.
that’s why i worry about skating at the ovaltine, no boards around the edge, to hang onto
hey, if we’re lucky enough, it wouldn’t even cost a penny.
http://blogs.discovery.com/.a/6a00d8341bf6…
sinkholes are wondrous things…
so much so I sometimes forget they are real.
There were metal tube barrier-y things last year to grab on to – at least in the bleacher areas – which was very helpful. I found the problem to be groups of people standing around chatting in those areas. They seem unaware of how much they’re messing the less skilled among us! Hard to get momentum going when you have to slow down and creep around them!
maybe i’ll get a whistle to blow