Leave it to this province to figure out the most expensive way to build a bridge! So I was driving south on hwy 19 near Inverness and I saw a sign that said “Birthplace of Angus L. MacDonald”. WTF!! Why would this stupid province choose to build a bridge in the middle of nowhere on Cape Breton Island only to ship it over 350 km to it’s final resting place? The cost of this project must have been astronomical! Our taxes are probably still paying for it now! I have absolutely no faith in the people running this province whatsoever. When it comes to building bridges they just end up burning them. —Wish I was from somewheres else
This article appears in Jul 25-31, 2013.
um, because ‘back in the day’ there was something called “Sydney Steel”?
Today, we would probably buy our bridge from China and it would have a walmart sticker on it.
Are you sure that is not the birthplace of the person?
Angus Lewis Macdonald was born August 10, 1890, on a small family farm at Dunvegan, Inverness County, on Cape Breton Island.
*MASSIVE-FACEPALM*
calling you a fool would be a grievous understatement
Someone is obviously off their meds.
Phhhht – next you’re going to try and tell us that the Statue of Liberty was actually built in France.
Fucking Upper Canadians think we’re all a bunch of drooling inbred rubes, or what?
I think its awesome that we sold our train tracks to India.
Right, the lead singer of ACDC came from Inverness, a long way from Sydney where the steel for the bridge and tracks came from.
Ajunior gets the square.
This is the most adorable stupid I’ve seen in weeks.
too well written to be anything but deliberate. funny as heck. but…….it’s possible to be that stupid.
this will end up being a long post, but here goes. I got an item on f/b about a psa (public service announcement) video from ‘don’t cook your dog’ site. it portrayed a woman yakking on her cell phone as she drives into a parking lot, gets out of her car, glances lovingly at the baby in his little seat in the back, then locks it up and leaves. follows her around the store with her grocery list. cut to baby in car, getting a little sweaty, unhappy. cut back to mom wondering where the sea salt is. cut to baby, very sweaty. cut to random stranger who checks her makeup in side mirror, notices baby and waves happily to him. leaves. cut to mom in store wandering the aisles. cut to parking lot, baby crying fretfully. woman passing by hears, tries all the doors, no luck. gets into her own car, drives away. back to mom, now in long lineup at the register. closeup baby’s chest as it rises, falls, rises, stops.
now man in parking lot stowing purchases in his car, looks across thru mom’s windshield and sees the baby. rushes over, bangs on window. no response from baby. tries all the doors. locked. runs to his car, gets a hammer, repeatedly smashes against the window til it breaks. all the while yelling at others to call 911 etc. tenderly lifts baby, ambulance arrives. mom arrives. lots of commotion, ambulance drives away with baby and mom ends up in police car.
now…. as can be imagined, there were hundreds of outraged comments. what percentage do ya think said the woman should be charged, they would have kicked her ass, other women should be ashamed of themselves, that damn tv crew should have saved the baby and is the baby ok?
is this why so-called ‘reality’ tv shows seem to be so popular? how do such people even manage to don their underwear in the morning?
“Why does the government put deer crossings on freeways? Wouldn’t it be safer to put them in, like, a school zone? Of all the stupid places to put a deer crossing.. god people are stupid..”
Google it. I think it’s the same person who wrote this bitch. It is absolutely the best thing to happen to me this week. I had it on loop yesterday. Delightful.
Totally how this bitch came about…
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18ux5dhmg1…
swampdonkey, I totally agree. It’s like, if i saw the op crossing the street, i’d want to hold their hand on the way. This is cute. Deer-crossing cute.
I can count to potato.
Lol Cranky! True that!
Don’t forget the bridge would be painted orange too. Or rainbow to bring in the sebastian vote.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFCrJleggrI
crayons- you read my mind.
What bridge? The Canso Causeway one? Because its not 350 km from Cape Breton.
Crayons. They should put Car Crossing signs where the deer cross right next to the Deer Crossing signs so the deer wouldn’t cross where the cars cross.
Ahh the results of modern education come to roost – the loss of the thinking process. And now go get new meds, as your old ones seem to have lost their zip. 🙂 Now, about the birthplace of hockey …..
Next up – a petition to ban Water Polo.
It’s needlessly cruel to make the ponies thrash about in chlorinated water.
I don’t get it…are you saying the bridge was built in cape breton and moved to halifax? say what?