Hi students – we love your enthusiasm, but please keep the noise down. people work, children go to school, old people don’t like noise. noise = screaming profanities, slamming cab doors, smashing beer bottles, etc. etc. also, FYI, garbage belongs in the garbage – FYI 2 – garbage includes cigarette wrappers, cardboard beer cases, Dal Gazette, plastic drinks cups, old Subway garbage, Tim Horton’s garbage, and yes, cigarette butts are garbage. No garbage can in sight? no problem! just take your garbage home with you to where you live and dispose of it there. thank you from your tax-paying neighbours in the South End, and thank you to all students who know how to live quietly and cleanly.
—sleep deprived
This article appears in Sep 10-16, 2009.
Isn’t there a “boring student bitch” tag yet? I suggest “Damn College Kids!” or something much wittier.
How about:
“Keep offa my lawn!”
I was just gonna say that, RubyJane.
GET OFF MY LAWN
Get over it OP. You chose to live in the South End. Students will be students.
As much as I hate for my opinion to fall on the side of someone from the south end:
Being a student does NOT give you carte blanche to act like an asshole.
Where most people see students being students all I see is some moron tossing garbage and pissing on driveways.
while being a studnet does not give you carte blanche to act like an asshole, MANY students don’t act like assholes….and I’m pretty sure you’d be wishing they were around if all the universities went away — like it or not, they’re a HUGE HUGE HUGE economic driving force for Halifax.
I’m getting kind of sick of students being dumped on when they actually do more good for this city than bad. If it’s such a hardship, move to the burbs. Students tend to live DT-South End and SOME live in the North ends with a few in CP. But hay, I live in CP and I’ve never had an issue with students. And I can guarantee that any DT area in any city is going to be noisy and full of behaviour that you described here, OP.
Not saying there aren’t fucktards amongst the student population, but there are fucktards in almost any city amongst any demographic. If it bothers you THAT much, move off the peninsula.
The worst is the rich snotty T-Dotters who really don’t give a fuck about anyone but themselves, the guys with their popped collared pastel coloured shirts, board shorts, and cool sandals, the girls with their Lululemons, ugg boots, and designer sunglasses, and both with their me me me I’m sooo much better than you attitude that everyone loves about Torontonians. I’ve always said that the universities here should put a limit on the number of T-Dotters they accept each year, say maybe, I don’t know, 5? That’s not to say that everyone from Toronto is like this, of course, but there is definitely a noticeable reputation for it.
[Insert “jealous Maritimer with a chip on his shoulder about Toronto” comment here].
“As much as I hate for my opinion to fall on the side of someone from the south end”
Murder Junkie, why do you have a hate-on for people who live in the South End?
And just how many decades have people been complaining about this shit? Student mayhem has been part of south-end life even back in the early 70s when I was attending SMU. Either suck it up or buy McNab’s Island.
The Dal Gazette is not garbage
The Gazette is used to wrap garbage
Hey, don’t knock the Dal Gazette – rolled up they make great tampons.
Hahahaha oh god
Jennie –
It’s not that I hate people from the south end. I just come from a much crappier part of town and have trouble feeling sorry for anyone who can afford to live down there.
Notice how both the student bitches played the tax-payer card? It must be weird to go though life visualizing “tax dollars at work” all around you, but I guess that goes along with owning south end property.
Hey Murder Junkie, I know several people who live (not students who rent) in the heart of the south end and are definitely not rich. Quite the opposite actually – some of them are even on social assistance! Not everyone in the south end is some rich snob and not everywhere there is nice. Check out Mitchell Street for example, it’s a bit sketchy. There are even a few rooming houses (more commonly known as “crack houses”) in the south end too – one on South Park Street near the Victoria Road intersection, and another on Barrington Street between Green and Smith Street, across from the Tim Horton’s. Sketchy black dude is always hanging out on the front steps there. Actually that whole part of Barrington Street used to be a bit sketchy up until a few years ago – there was the Lighthouse Tavern (a classic really, on par with the Midtown if you ask me), the ice factory, old rundown warehouse buildings, etc.
So because someone has a higher income and can afford a larger home they don’t deserve any sympathy when a group of yahoos moves in to terrorize the neighbourhood? That’s interesting logic.
I too live in a “crappier” part of town. But I certainly don’t begrudge anyone who has the means to live in a more affluent neighbourhood.
Wasn’t the Lighthouse a strip joint?
My experience with students on my (temporary) property, a.k.a. the bus, has usually been good. Most students are polite when I greet them, aren’t excessively loud on the bus, etc…
Then there was Sunday night on the 10…the highlight of which was a group of drunken frat boys outside my parked bus yelling, “Where’s the fucking bus driver!!?” which I could hear from inside the SUB’s front doors. All I can really tell you OP is that these guys will likely blow their money in September (esp. if they’re drinking on Sunday night) and there should be less alcohol use in October *crosses fingers*.
“Sketchy black dude is always hanging out on the front steps there.”
fucking racist
Thanks for your point of view, Jennie. Mine is still that I don’t pity the rich – but that wasn’t even the point of my original comment (that being a student should in no way reflect on your behavior as a human being).
Both of these student comments seem to imply that these are property owners who pay lots of tax, however, the point about the south end being not 100% wealthy is well taken. Historically it’s the best we’ve got isn’t it? Kind of like The Lighthouse was a really bad stripjoint, but it was the only one in Halifax.
So if the universities were in the north end, and those residents were being subjected to loud parties on a Tuesday night, urinating in the flowers, and strewn pizza plates on the yard, etc. would you have sympathy then?
I hope your kidding about the racist comment FucktheCoast,I wouldnt consider calling somebody black racist, would you be offended if someone said sketchy white dude? the politically correct thing is getting out of hand these days.
Kirbul, ‘Sketchy black dude’ by itself may not be racist, but when it is set in the context of rooming houses which are assumed to be crack houses, it implies a stereotype.
Jennie as I originally stated – my opinion DOES fall on the side of someone from the south end – or the north end with regards to anyone acting like an asshole on their property regardless of whether or not they’re a student. I don’t pity the rich because they’re rich – not because of assholes partying on Tuesday nights.
I get how you’re trying to expose me as someone who doesn’t think everyone is equal because of their wealth or where they live based on a preamble which was only meant to imply that the OP should consider themselves lucky to even have that address. You seem to be a prime example of someone who’s so politically correct you lose track of the main point in your witch-hunt for off-color remarks.
I just think it’s absolutely ridiculous to hold some sort of grudge because someone has more than you – more money, a bigger house, a posher address, whatever…
Your comments suggest you have some sort of chip on your shoulder because you can’t afford a south end address.
I also think “I don’t pity the rich because they’re rich” is a bizarre statement. I’m pretty sure south enders aren’t looking for your pity. They’re just sick and tired of bozos moving in and disrupting the peace of the neighbourhood year after year. I sympathize with that, regardless if it’s happening in Spryfield, Bedford, Lower Sackville, or the south end.
half joking, but why does it hale to be “sketchy black dude” why can’t it just be a sketchy dude. it puts out the impression that somehow if someone is black hanging around on their fuckin stairs they’re automatically sketchier than a white guy standing on his steps.
I said “sketchy black dude” simply as a description of the person and slightly tongue in cheek by the way, in case anyone else might know who I mean perhaps, not as a racist comment. Of course there’s other people hanging around there too who are white and most people there, even the stereotype of your average crackhead bum, is white, but it seems to always be this particular “sketchy black dude” who’s hanging out / passing out on the front steps at this place from my observation. If he was white, then no, I probably wouldn’t have said “sketchy white dude,” but then again white people are the vast majority here in Halifax and being white is therefore not a notable physical trait. If you saw a white person in Africa, for example, then of course more than likely you would describe them as white. Then again this is The Coast… people love to throw the racism accusation around. Does it make you feel morally superior? Personally I didn’t think a description of someone’s notable traits was racist! Next time I’ll say, I don’t know, sketchy dude with dark hair, average height, raggedy clothes, missing teeth… you know the one.
Anyway, there is no need and no point in turning this into an argument about race when it didn’t even cross my mind as a problem in the first place. How about we keep bitching about those God damn students!
Ohh, and yes, the Lighthouse was a rather… interesting place. Unfortunately they tore it down just before my 19th birthday! If you ever get to look into the parking garage of the condominium building that is there now, though, you can still see the blue and pink tiles of what was once the men’s and women’s washrooms. Yet another remnant of Halifax’s past.
qpmzwonxeibcruv didn’t make any “fucking racist” statement at all. merely he pointed out an observation and provided more “detail” if anything.
fu.ckthecoast LOVES to overgeneralize and possibly create pointless arguments for his/her own stupid amusement. they probably think they’re a crusader who’s “stirring the pot” if anything.
So for a few years the students have fun, and then when they get their degree, they walk a few blocks down and end up working in a call centre. Woohoo. Break open another case of Keiths.
nice goin’ fat:
aren’t you the fucker that had the disgusting picture of a bunch of dicks with syphilis juice pouring out of them? anything you say is basically invalid. All I was doing is pointing out how its funny that people feel the need to throw “_____ black guy” into any story that would be fine without it.
by the way, you obviously have a lot of time on your hands, anyone that consistently posts here from anywhere from work must have a REAL colorful social life.
Thanks you and goodbye.
meanwhile, back to the point which seems to be getting lost. could we please have respect for our neighbours whatever neighbourhood we are in? there are noise bylaws for a reason. I don’t wake my student neighbours up at the crack of dawn with my lawnmower. and I don’t throw my garbage around the city because I’m too drunk or too lazy to dispose of it properly. as I write this another party of 40-50 people is going on in our neighbourhood, more screaming obscenities outdoors while people try to sleep. yes, I pay taxes, and checking out my Frenchy’s wardrobe, I am definitely not rich. we choose to live in the south end because we like it, not because rich people live here. have some respect if you want it back