I am looking forward to leaving a “city” laid out for horse and buggies, that is filled with drivers who are doing anything but watching the road, 20 something girls dressed like whores, young men with their heads up their ass dressed like gangsters, adults acting like cousin Cletus in from the country partying it up in their arrested development glory.
A big thanks to the slumlords and lazy homeowners who think it’s okay to not clear or salt the walkways in front of their houses. Pride, it’s pretty hit and miss.
Halifax progressive? HA… we still have human waste floating in our harbour, a bastion of academic purists who think saving termite invested fishing shacks is how we maintain our heritage. Heritage built on subjugation of an indigenous people, herding the black community into geographically challenging locales and maintaining a cute, homespun persona, decked out in a fucking kilt, a pair of rubber boots and a sou’wester to welcome tourists to our quaint province. A province filled with suspect natives, many who still hold their racist values steadfast.
What gets me are the people in this “city” who stare at you. What the fuck is up with that? Are our streets filled with the mentally ill on day passes? No, it just reinforces the provincial attitudes and ass backward, economical deprived personality of this place that can’t get out of its own way. It’s all tiresome as shit. —LetMeOutofTimeWarp
This article appears in Mar 3-9, 2011.
“Are our streets filled with the mentally ill on day passes? ” – Yes, but there’ll be one less after you leave.
Are you black, an indian, or just a fucking apologist?
So, where are you going anyway? Hehe.
You sound like a crotchety old curmudgeonly fuck.
Don’t let the door hit you on the cunt on the way out.
(dedicated to MM)
“A province filled with suspect natives, many who still hold their racist values steadfast.”
Hate to break it to you, but not only whites are racist in Nova Scotia. Think about those mobs of young blacks attacking random whites in the north end. Kind of like a black version of Romper Stomper or American History X if you ask me.
Good luck in the town you’re heading to. With an attitude like that you’ll be writing the local newspaper in every city you end up in.
But seriously, good luck.
OP the best thing about Halifax is seeing it in your rear view mirror.
The racism problem is definately alive & well in Nova Scotia. But unlike some places, its everyone hates everyone else here, but in truth its not 100% of people only about 99 %.
fuck you hugo.
I’ve lived here all my life and I can’t really disagree with a lot of this.
For example, we have a house inhabited by white people on a main artery in this here town that has a black lawn jockey right out front (they’ve taken it in for the winter) and thousands of people a day drive by without batting an eye.
Am I the only one that feels this is a classic racist symbol? Yes, I know the Underground Railway connection but I doubt that’s the sentiment here.
No wonder people think we’re hillbillies.
No mention of where this cat is headed… kinda wonder what city OP is headed to that isn’t an outpost of colonialism. Kinda doubt they are headed to Liberia…
Maybe we should listen to what the op has to say rather than saying good riddance.
1) Girls dress like whores everywhere in the western world
2)Most of the demographic is intelligent rather than the stereotypes mentioned
3)Everywhere has slumlords
4)Halifax is not progressive and i agree with that.
5)Heritage people piss me off too, a building can be old and still have a good modern use.
6)Economy based on tourism doesnt really work here
7)Never been stared at once here.
8) Agree the economy is deprived and needs a swift kick up the arse, i.e stop spending money on fucking tourism.
9) I’ll write aboriginal thing later, not that anyone gives a fuck about my uninformed opinion.
10) I dont give a fuck about the OPs uninformed opinions, life goes on.
I never understood this indigenous crap, people have migrated for centuries, do people honestly think after discovering america and all its natural resources and trade that they were going to turn around and say “ah you got here first nevermind we’ll go find somewhere not inhabited”.
” black lawn jockey” OMG I’ve seen those and had no idea what it was! Hmmm wow.
For shame! There will be no fucking of Hugo unless it’s of the gleeful kind.
I, for one, applaud the OP. Makes a lot of perfectly valid comments!
Thanks for the offer truthfirst, but I do so much, prefer women 🙂
So where/when are you going? – asked innocently, with batting eyes
well, what can i say o.p., SEEYA.
How dare anyone to look at anybody in the eyes. What a maroon.
@ Anglo. I’ve been really enjoying your comments as of late.
I agree with all of what you said. I was even thinking some of your points as I was reading the bitch.
gibson – were you talking to me or the OB?
😉
Thanks i just thought i was full of my own shit. 🙂
People should take the blinders off. Halifax really is a small town run by people who think it is a big city. Between Spring Garden Road, Quinpool, and a few side streets it doesn’t really offer much. It reminds me of the ‘main drag’ tour in New Waterford Girl.
But hey, it’s better than Lower Sackville.
The people who run Halifax don’t think it’s big and don’t want it to grow big, hence our official urban sprawl policies and Luddite fanatics holding back progress and any building larger than 5 stories and not made of logs and hay.
When is this troll going to tire of writing different bitches about how much they hate Halifax?
sorry guys I’m really bored tonight…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdiz0k0Rudw
Sorry, that last link was the wrong one!!
Click this instead!
Slightly less annoying, but not by much
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bMLrA_0O5I
..do you work for the chamber of commerce? 🙂
Sometimes the truth hurts…or some of it anyway.
It’s not so much that it hurts, I acknowledge the problems with this city and worked and volunteered for community development in my area.
This is merely irritating in the same way as repetitive bus bitches and tipping bitches, but lamer because writing more than one bitch about the same subject posing as different people is really sad.
Of course we’re in a time warp – don’t you see Bill Murray every day on the set of Groundhog Days panhandling on SGR?
What is OB talking about?
It’s wonderful here! This is one of the best places on the fucking planet. This is typical Canadian fair. Go ahead and get out to see the world OB, go for it! Pack and probe baby!
We’ll hold you spot though, you’ll be back.
Just think what the office towers would look like if the white man had never reached N America.
The Norse?
An archeological dig at L’Anse Aux Meadows, NFLD, circa 1960:
Helge Ingstad: ” Do you know vot I tink zis is?”
Anne Ingstad: “A Spade?, you stuupid lutefisk eating mother-focker.
Okay, not as funny as “Burnt Toast” but still one of my favorite Heritage Minutes.
Amen brother/sister. The truth hurts but is still true nonetheless. You forgot – will defend their hopeless backwards and pathetic ways to the end (even though they all say it themselves) rather than actually change for the better.
It’s funny how people take offense to the truth.
It’s 2011 and the city still looks the same since 1990 with a few ugly buildings up.