I thought about going for the aforementioned festival again but opted against it because, idk, I just need some unstructured time to do absolutely nothing and loaf away from town. How long's your roommate on vacay, Will? :)― mh, Friday, August 10, 2018 3:45 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― mh, Friday, August 10, 2018 3:45 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha i think until the end of august? idk he's been cagey about it (this is the thread where i complain about my roomie now apparently lol, v montreal)
― challops trap house (Will M.), Monday, 13 August 2018 13:32 (five years ago) link
Please continue to avoid Montreal during peak times. For booking your visits, consider November, a month in which your visit will be considered respectful, rather than simply being another piece of clutter in a world already dying because of plastic that can't break down in the ocean. Don't like dolphins? Got it.
― fields of salmon, Saturday, 25 August 2018 00:54 (five years ago) link
Someone other than fields of salmon : what's the earliest in the year I can go to Montreal and it be pleasant out? Wikipedia seems to suggest June
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 25 August 2018 06:13 (five years ago) link
The end of May is usually quite pleasant, though two years ago it snowed on May 6 so June makes sense as an absolutely safe bet.
― rob, Saturday, 25 August 2018 13:07 (five years ago) link
yeah june is the safe bet
― sean gramophone, Saturday, 25 August 2018 23:54 (five years ago) link
Thank you
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 26 August 2018 09:07 (five years ago) link
Have you tried a sour beer? Have you trieeeed a soooooour beeeer? You should look for them. They're apparently really critical recently, so you should ask people who are working to earn university degrees that you already have or are earning about sour beers! Good luck!
― fields of salmon, Saturday, 1 September 2018 02:34 (five years ago) link
Do you have any sour beers
― fields of salmon, Saturday, 1 September 2018 02:40 (five years ago) link
I'm more a natural wine guy
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 1 September 2018 03:53 (five years ago) link
Where to stay in Montreal if I probably want to be in mile end plateau little italy, dont really want to airbnb, dont have high standards?
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 00:34 (five years ago) link
https://casadelpopolo.com/pensione-popolo/https://hotelcastleruins.com/there's also an apartment owned by/above the restaurant La Khaima (on airbnb i think) that seems ok
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 00:46 (five years ago) link
also heard good things about Chez Maggie Maguire, a b and b that doesn't have a website (though i wonder if it's closed?)
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 00:50 (five years ago) link
there’s a p nice auberge on carré st louis
― flopson, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 02:16 (five years ago) link
just get an airbnb in milend tho
Thanks for the suggestions
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 03:34 (five years ago) link
i believe there are a few (earth, not air) bnbs on st hubert btwn maisonneuve and ontario, which are supposed to be quite nice, it's south of plateau and mile end and etc, but also a short walk to the metro
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link
I will be monitoring all of your IP addresses. If any of you use keywords that indicate you might come north of the tracks I will dispatch a bunch of angry bees and wasps I have been hiding in a tent-like structure in my back garden.
― fields of salmon, Sunday, 14 April 2019 21:14 (five years ago) link
you want people to avoid coming to your city with all of the fervor of someone who has lived here for approximately 4 years. it is impressive
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Monday, 15 April 2019 15:24 (five years ago) link
can't believe people are now building their own artisan-quality tent-like structures instead of just buying tents
― mh, Monday, 15 April 2019 21:31 (five years ago) link
googling "north of the tracks" "montreal", looking for airbnbs in villeray
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Monday, 15 April 2019 21:34 (five years ago) link
thinking about sour beers
the best part is that fields of salmon posts like an angry old man and we’re youth wandering around doing youthful distasteful things and he’s like a year older than me at most
― mh, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 00:36 (five years ago) link
Fields, which part of Montreal you from?
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 04:38 (five years ago) link
I have never heard anyone refering to any place as ‘north of the train tracks’ in my 20 years here. Which train tracks? There are 3 tracks that go east-west across the island.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 04:42 (five years ago) link
Maybe this whole time Fields was a senior living in VMR who sure hates the sight of youngsters hanging around Canora station.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 04:44 (five years ago) link
I assume he's referring to Mile Ex.
xp
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 07:00 (five years ago) link
"do you have any sour beers" is usually my first question on entering any soi-disant craft beer pub. i won't come to montreal
― imago, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 07:41 (five years ago) link
Ask if they have 'de la bière sûre' and fields of salmon will have no choice but to relent.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 07:53 (five years ago) link
having read his posts itt i'm genuinely concerned fields of salmon might be a member of gy!be
― imago, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 12:08 (five years ago) link
I doubt a member of gy!be would live in the plateau during the peak horribleness years.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
going to be wandering progressively north on the plateau next week hollering about sour beers fyi
― untuned mass damper (mh), Friday, 16 August 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
i had a sour beer when i was in montreal.
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 18:47 (four years ago) link
doing the thing i do where i think about moving to montreal after visiting it but then definitely not doing that
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link
relatable
― mh, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
you both live in p terrible cities, should probably do it imho
― flopson, Thursday, 3 October 2019 00:43 (four years ago) link
Which sour beer, Jim?
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 3 October 2019 00:59 (four years ago) link
was at dieu du ciel, was a wheat, sour cherry type deal iirc.
xp. flopson you were liking vancouver a year ago lol
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 3 October 2019 16:08 (four years ago) link
Ha dope! Dieu du Ciel is still undefeated after all these years imo.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 3 October 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
i'm back to liking it again actually. but i feel like i'm always one friendship/relationship away from the threshold of being unbearably lonely and socially alienated. it's one of the worst places imaginable to be depressed in
other than nature and east asian restaurants (which admittedly i place a large weight on) vancouver is pretty terrible on the merits. people are boring and dumb (ON AVERAGE... but east coasters' stereotype of west coast is not entirely inaccurate imho), have bad fashion sense, not outgoing at all, very little communal public social life, the music scenes are mostly collections of isolated groups of friends with 9-to-5s, cool underground parties instantly get discovered by irish and australian bros on work visas, no good grocery stores, no good museums or galleries, super weird layout where the few good neighbourhoods are really far apart, zoning is way too sparse and residential, bizarre pervasive local ideology that's a mix of dumb mystical bullshit like astrology and these confusing rhetorical references to indigenous politics (everyone here loves to preempt everything they say with 'i recognize that i am a white-supremacist genocidal colonizer') that have no actual political substance and are more like a new-age self-help thing(?), housing crisis that no one is doing anything to fix and even many leftists/progressive blame on 'chinese foreign money' or 'developers'
if i weren't doing my phd here i wouldn't stay. having said that, it's a lovely place to do a phd in; a cozy, small, quiet city that's not too full of distraction. ubc and my department especially are fantastic. and i actually get the appeal for a glaswegian bc my great-grandfather moved here from there (after getting destroyed by winters in montreal and winnipeg) in like the 1910s or whatever because he liked the weather
― flopson, Thursday, 3 October 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
I'm a big fan of Station Ho.st.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 3 October 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
bizarre pervasive local ideology that's a mix of dumb mystical bullshit like astrology and these confusing rhetorical references to indigenous politics (everyone here loves to preempt everything they say with 'i recognize that i am a white-supremacist genocidal colonizer') that have no actual political substance and are more like a new-age self-help thing(?)
It’s the same in the anglo community in Petite Patrie/Mile End/Parc Ex/PSC/St Henri too, fwiw.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 3 October 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
One of the many reasons I struggle in 100% anglo settings tbh.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 3 October 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
xp i mean that ideology transcends space but it's nowhere near as bad in mtl as in vancouver
― flopson, Thursday, 3 October 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link
the mtl music scene is more "pc" perhaps but also has way more queer and poc people, and also way better bands and parties. the vancouver music scene is either unpolitical weird bougie shit like house djs pairing up with overpriced tapas restaurants to cater a 30$ party that sells out in advance, or like a weird high school dynamics version of pc/call-out culture, like this one person who runs a popular underground venue space banned their ex from the venue (and his whole band had to leave their jamspace!) bc he started seeing someone else a couple months after they broke up
― flopson, Thursday, 3 October 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I trust it is more pervasive in Vancouver, in Montreal you can still have many english speaking friends who don't subscribe to these ideologies.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 3 October 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
I was going to say that IME the ideology you described above is mainly the one of white people with fine art degrees/musicians. Montreal is large and diverse enough that you can have a great social life in media/art while almost being able to ignore those type of people.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 3 October 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
it's every demographic here. i went to church once and the minister started his lecture by acknowledging that he was a genocidal colonizer and asked everyone to say it back lmao. and then the sermon was some vague shit abt how we should listen to indigenous stories but not tell them to each other
i think indigenous sov is super impt and there are good things about the way they're foregrounded here, and i even like some of the more symbolic stuff like land acknowledgements. but a lot of the discourse around it is v weird and often avoids political subtance & is kinda otherizing or wtv
― flopson, Thursday, 3 October 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
i once pressed a friend who is particularly egregious w this stuff and they told me that canada should cede all power to indigenous leaders so that they can implement eco-socialism. which, i mean that sounds fine to me if it were to happen, but just goes to show how little that ideology thinks through the political tensions involved (incl within indigenous communities)
― flopson, Thursday, 3 October 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link
oh sure, make the indigenous people do all the governing for you, as if their lives haven't been negatively affected enough already
― mh, Thursday, 3 October 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
Not the biggest fan of pulling on the first come first serve land sovereignty thread; but really yes, dealing with those white progressive communities is often navigating signal virtuousness waters.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 3 October 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link