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Toronto-Age |OT4| Molested by a Burger Priest
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chaobreaker
Member
Funny how the perception of Jane and Finch being some Crips and Bloods battleground is still a thing for some people.
https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/3tsepu/toronto_street_signs_a_little_design_project_ive/
Nice art, though.
https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/3tsepu/toronto_street_signs_a_little_design_project_ive/
Nice art, though.
User 479360
Banned
The art is great, but I don't see the Jane and Finch one. He must have taken it down.
chaobreaker
Member
It's there, you just have to click a button on the bottom of the imgur page to show the rest of the images in the gallery. Yeah, I know.
Yeah Jane/Finch is a trash-heap of an intersection but it's hardly dangerous nowadays.
criesofthepast
Member
I live not far from there now and grew up there - know it fairly well. It absolutely is more dangerous than the average Toronto neighborhood and one of the poorest run down parts of the city.
Yeah I also live not too far from there and it really isn't that dangerous. I'll give you that it's run down though, has one of the saddest strip-malls I've ever seen.
crimzonflame
Member
Thats not saying much
Cripplegate
Member
Oh yeah and something for the beer lovers of TO GAF. I wasn't sure when this was going to be announced but it looks like the Toronto Star spilled the beans yesterday so:
Goose Island's Bourbon County Brand Stout is coming to Canada for the first time ever, on Friday Nov. 27th, as part of LCBO's Black Friday sale promotion. The LCBO Summerhill location will have a couple hundred bottles of last year's vintage of the Vanilla Rye variant:
http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1146/131782/
I believe it's first come, first serve, limit 1 per person. $35 a bottle.
No idea if that's worth it to anyone here but I'll be trying my damnedest to get one.
Goose Island's Bourbon County Brand Stout is coming to Canada for the first time ever, on Friday Nov. 27th, as part of LCBO's Black Friday sale promotion. The LCBO Summerhill location will have a couple hundred bottles of last year's vintage of the Vanilla Rye variant:
http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1146/131782/
I believe it's first come, first serve, limit 1 per person. $35 a bottle.
No idea if that's worth it to anyone here but I'll be trying my damnedest to get one.
N° 2048
Member
criesofthepast
Member
Well someone's gotta do it. 🌚
Obviously another criesofthepast troll post.
But not sure why my post comes off as a troll? Jane & Finch IS one of the more dangerous areas of Toronto, and that is not my opinion. Didn't Black Creek get ranked least liveable area of Toronto by the city of Toronto's equity scores last year?
Of course it isn't saying much when comparing Toronto to *Insert Any American City Here* - but it still is what it is...one of the more dangerous, run down ugly, and poorest (30% social assistance rate in 2014) areas of Toronto.
Edit: And I have nothing but good memories growing up there.
AlphaTwo00
Member
The typical story of rapid urbanization without the infrastructure, I guess. Quick Wiki (seems to be well sourced enough):
All of this makes the area look grim, when you consider that less than 10-20 minute drive away in any given direction, the wealth distribution is so dramatically different and continues to widen even more.
Damn, that's hard to imagine. On street view, it doesn't look so bad. Maybe I'm not going deep enough.
http://www.blogto.com/city/2015/11/toronto_ranked_best_city_in_the_world_for_young_people/
Apparently, Toronto is the best city in the world for young people.
How is this even possible given our unemployment and ridiculous real estate market?
Apparently, Toronto is the best city in the world for young people.
How is this even possible given our unemployment and ridiculous real estate market?
The study was probably conducted by vindictive baby boomers who want to rake those shitty millennials over the coals and have them pull themselves up by their bootstraps and away from their phones.
I mean who else is gonna serve them their morning coffee? They get depressed if it's someone their age or older doing it but they feel good about themselves seeing younger people having to pay their dues but not actually get paid much at the same time.
I mean who else is gonna serve them their morning coffee? They get depressed if it's someone their age or older doing it but they feel good about themselves seeing younger people having to pay their dues but not actually get paid much at the same time.
Junior Mint
Member
Not sure about the world but I'd say it's definitely the best city in Canada for young people.
Kabuki Quantum Lover
Member
That's officially the saddest thing I've read today.
Cripplegate
Member
If this is the best city for young people in Canada, I'm moving to another country.
Who am I kidding I'm old now it doesn't matter.
Who am I kidding I'm old now it doesn't matter.
But does it have Coors Light tho?
Coors is unfortunately not considered a craft beer.
What is a craft beer exactly? Do they crochet a doily for you to put your beer on?
My impression is that they seem to come from small independent breweries or they are seasonal brews. Not a rigorous definition.
There's no like... craft beer association or anything (I think?)
But it's generally how much volume they produce, and obviously if they're owned by a larger brewery.
i.e. Mill St. Organic is no longer considered 'Craft' because they've been bought by Labatts.
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
I had a snowflake fall into my lunch shawarma. Fuck you #teamwinter
Cash fare hike makes the metro pass a better value!
Nice. In a month or so, more will drop to your lunch
My work is doing a private screening of SW in 3D on the Saturday afternoon of opening weekend. I'm going with my oldest brother.
How did they manage that? I work at a movie theather and was told Disney has actually nixed any special screenings for Star Wars as well as using any passes for it for the first few weeks.
I have no idea but they regularly do these types of things for animated features on Saturday mornings so I usually skip them because I don't want to be in a theatre with a bunch of kids.
forget star wars, who's going to the pure pwnage screening in January?
Do they have not beer?
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
They'll have rum and cokes! :0
That's a bit far west for my taste and I wonder if they have the room to accommodate 17 people and 3 cats.
No fast food is worth lining up for more than a few minutes. If there was no wait would you still have minded the $10?
It's good, probably worth 10 dollars. Fast food meals are approaching 10 dollars nowadays anyways. It's a bit oily for my taste, and I hear the spicy version is better, but I got regular.
The breading and seasoning tastes like, that deep fried dim sum octopus tentacles.
I don't really get the hate for McDonald's. I still like them despite what everybody says, although I just stick to junior chickens and fries.
The worst ones are the Wal-Mart McDonald's. Almost any time I'm there the line is massive, usually extending into the store itself.
I just wanted to get my free coffee but the wait was gonna be at least 10 minutes lol.
Juniors, coffee and muffins for me. Although rarely anymore as I said.
Almost any fast food place is better now is the issue. McDonald's was always shit, but it was dirt cheap and fast. I lived off the dollar menu in the States.
Wendy's 'cheap menu' blows away McDonald's in Canada and it's just as cheap for burgers, better for frosties (vs ice cream / shakes) and fries. The food is actually okay as well.
Then there's the fact that I never have my orders lost at other places so often as I have had McDonald's over the years. Most of them are run terribly, but I can't exactly fault the workers not enjoying their job.
I remember when it was $3.99 for a Big Mac meal.
criesofthepast
Member
Is there going to be a meetup in January? I want to attend one before I am most likely gone for good (cue applause) at the end of that month.
Also, speaking of McDonalds I have like 968388383538453 coupons I can give to you guys - mostly for free big macs, those medium coffee sticker cards (full with 7 stickers), and small fries.
Not to mention the birthday party buses. I was the coolest kid in school for having my birthday on the party bus.
Also, speaking of McDonalds I have like 968388383538453 coupons I can give to you guys - mostly for free big macs, those medium coffee sticker cards (full with 7 stickers), and small fries.
Franchising. I don't think there are any corporate owned McDonalds in Toronto left, maybe even country wide. Franchising ruined them. Say what you want but McDonalds in the 90's was almost all corporate owned in the GTA and was the shit. Remember the pizza? Maybe it was because I was young but I remember it being incredible. The personal sized ones in the brown cardboard boxes and then every Tuesday they would have full pan sized large pizzas ALL YOU CAN EAT for around $10 (for the family not per head) that they would bring to your table.
Not to mention the birthday party buses. I was the coolest kid in school for having my birthday on the party bus.