“I like to tell kids I’m taking them to Disneyland, and actually take them to a burned warehouse. When they ask why Disneyland burned down, I say “probably ’cause of something you did.”
–adjective Also, ep⋅i⋅cal. 1. noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style: Homer’s Iliad is an epic poem.
2. resembling or suggesting such poetry: an epic novel on the founding of the country.
3. heroic; majestic; impressively great: the epic events of the war.
4. of unusually great size or extent: a crime wave of epic proportions.
–noun 5. an epic poem.
6. epic poetry.
7. any composition resembling an epic.
8. something worthy to form the subject of an epic: The defense of the Alamo is an American epic.
9. (initial capital letter) Also called Old Ionic. the Greek dialect represented in the Iliad and the Odyssey, apparently Aeolic modified by Ionic.
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Origin:
1580–90; < L epicus < Gk epikós. See epos, -ic
ep⋅i⋅dem⋅ic [ep-i-dem-ik] Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. Also, ep⋅i⋅dem⋅i⋅cal. (of a disease) affecting many persons at the same time, and spreading from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent.
2. extremely prevalent; widespread.
–noun
3. a temporary prevalence of a disease.
4. a rapid spread or increase in the occurrence of something: an epidemic of riots.
Origin:
1595–1605; obs. epidem(y) (< LL epidēmia < Gk epidēmía staying in one place, among the people, equiv. to epi- epi- + dêm(os) people of a district + -ia -y 3 ) + -ic
Actually this sewage treatment plant is much more than a shithole, it’s actually one of the cities nicest buildings. It is also somewhat of a tourist attraction.
Completely off subject…
While I was pregnant it baffled me why everyone was so vehement that I not touch cat litter. It’s not like I was jumping in the box making sand castles.
Well you know why I’m sure. However, if you’ve had cats your whole life, you probably already contracted the disease and it didn’t effect your fertility. Or so my pseudo-doctor tells me.
Indeed. And yes, I’ve had cats my entire life.
The point was that whenever I change the litter box, my goal is ALWAYS to not touch the litter, pregnant or not.
My oldest sister actually ate cat crap from the litter box when she was little.
At about three they couldn’t keep her out of it. She’d sneak out of her crib, soldier crawl across the floor, wiggle the doorknob open, go down the hall and through the kitty door into the closet with the kitty litter. My mom would be woken by the sound of crunchy munching and the cats going crazy.
I just want to know what they were feeding our cats at the time because DAMN
You so were!
Yes, I’ve heard that pregnant women aren’t allowed to touch cat litter either. I assume one of the chemicals in it is dangerous to growing babies.
Copied and pasted directly from Wikipedia:
Young children and immunocompromised patients, such as those with HIV/AIDS, those taking certain types of chemotherapy, or those who have recently received an organ transplant, may develop severe toxoplasmosis. This can cause damage to the brain or the eyes. Only a small percentage of infected newborn babies have serious eye or brain damage at birth.
Since a baby’s immune system does not develop fully for the first year of life, and the resilient cysts that form throughout the body are very difficult to eradicate with anti-protozoans, an infection can be very serious in the young.
Transplacental transmission:(a) infection in 1st trimester – incidence of transplacental infection is low (15%) but disease in neonate is most severe. (b) infection in 3rd trimester – incidence of transplacental infection is high (65%) but infant is usually asymptomatic at birth.[citation needed]
I had mine in a restaurant after attending the theatre.
After I had my first sip, I was overwhelmed by how badly I had just betrayed my working class roots.
Yet once again, an example of people hearing a pseudo-scientific explanation for something and spreading the gospel of “dont touch the litter” … can we say dihygrogen mononxide ?
I’d make some snarky comment about the rest of Canada being jealous but I really don’t understand the hostility and it makes me a rather sad panda. I’d love to visit the rest of Canada but knowing the sort of reception I’d get if I admitted where I live makes me hesitant. To be honest the never ending Toronto bashing kind of pisses me off on top of the ‘..awwwwwww’ *twirls finger in the dust/scuffs shoes in the dirt* feeling.
That said, this fail pic really fits in nicely with the whole ‘the main sewer line for a third of the city is crumbly and they’re not sure of when it’ll collapse’ news from the other day.
‘Tis true. I’m not in love with “sewer” for a permanent nickname, though…you have so many more I don’t even know which I like best. (Strawberry tart is up there, though.)
There’s nothing I wouldn’t have given him. I said ‘I would give you the moon, if you asked for it.’ He said ‘It won’t do. I cannot be satisfied with only the moon.’ I said ‘What about this earth on which we live?’ He said ‘No. I’m sorry. I need more than that.’
A mechanical engineer, an electrical engineer, and a civil engineer are sitting around talking about God. The mechanical engineer says, “God must have been a mechanical engineer, look at the way our muscles and bones move.” The electrical engineer disagrees, saying, “God must have been an electrical engineer, look at the electrical wiring in our brains.” After a moment the civil engineer says, “Well, he certainly wasn’t a civil engineer. What kind of idiot puts the playground right next to waste disposal?”
apparently whoever planned this had never heard that particular joke.
Here’s another:
On the last day, God adds a wonderous nation to the word: There are green forests stretching as far as the eye can see, charming people and a soceity that enjoys justice. He calls it Canada. An Angel asks him “Surely you’ve overdone it?” And God replies “A bit, but look at the neighbours I’m giving them.”
You know, as an American, I first didn’t enjoy that last part, but the more I think about it, I feel I like the country, but hate the people inside of it…
Heh, well, I have to be serious on this one cause that’s where I lived up until a year ago. The treatment plant is on the south side of Lakeshore and the north side is empty with a soccer field. The bottom right corner is Woodbine Beach and there are tons of pics of it on my flickr! (click my name, eh) So anyway, I don’t know if that’s the real name or if this is a google fail.
So yah… no joke on this one. … for now! Although, north of Eastern I think there is a potato field….
It is actually a sports field, underneath of which are the sewage storage tanks. If you had looked at the Google satellite image, you’d see that. FAIL.
Mike, in your zeal to make this a non-FAIL you yourself have become a FAIL. You FAIL to continue the fun in this FAIL because you claim that this FAIL is, in fact, itself a FAIL, a claim with which I’d say you FAIL to have any success in making, so you FAIL.
15, huh? And you’re in London, correct? So you can: drive, buy porn, drink in pubs, vote, join the army, raise bees, MAKE porn, and buy cigarettes. Right?
Mookie! *hugs*
I’m facing North by North East! In position for tomorrow’s sunrise.
But on my way to bed (alone).
Perchance (he says, wittily stealing her line) to dream of you…
Aha! You’re using the stars I gave you! I’m so excited! (not in that way – I’m on my way to bed, I don’t have time for that sort of thing).
Btw, the photo’s an old one. I’ve turned around since then.
Neener’s offered a tease of a reply — by “accoutrement” one might understand a kind of “ersatz arm candy.” Here’s another definition from the Urban Dictionary:
An opposite sex escort taken to an event in an effort to give a homosexual person the appearance of being out on a date with a person of the opposite sex.
i see, sounds like fun if the c.m.h. will pay to decorate the female with suitable fashion accessories and other accoutrement fitting a lady accompanying a matcho man.
Mookie! Neener lives in Los Angeles, Hollywood actually. I can see the Hollywood sign from my front porch. I have relatives (mom and sis w/ kids) living northwest of Jackson. My formative years were in southern MI, in Battle Creek. I was born in Three Rivers. I know snow.
This brings me back to a previous fail wherein I suggested a 4th of July Failblog BBQ at your place. Could that happen? I’ll make the name tags and bring Shiraz and potato salad. Wouldn’t that be fun?
TMI: A “beard” is a woman. Not “a member of the opposite sex”. A guy fronting a dyke could not be a beard, as a beard will only grow on a guy, IMHO. Though this IS Hollywood…
Urban dicitionary is pretty good though. That’s where I learned of Rule 34 and <3.
I’m serious about the BBQ. You are central;y located and being the queen of FB it would be appropriate. Avis is in Chicago. Dragon is in Missouri. Ryannon in Arkansas, Christopher near DC I think. Maybe BF could fly in. Don’t know about the others, maybe they could chime in about where they are all located. LETS HEAR IT, PEOPLE!
Now if your place doesn’t work (apartment?) then we could work out something else.
I uploaded a google map fail, but they ignored it. The satellite view shown a lake with a raod that goes around it while the road google had went strait through the lake and then strait through another lake, it was not a tunnel.
This is in Toronto, down the street from where I grew up. The park is across the street from the sewage treatment plant, and it consists of baseball, football, and rugby fields. And it smells.
The baseball diamonds are gone. Replaced by a big mound of earth that will eventually become a useless skateboard park, instead of a new parking lot which the beach needs BADLY.
Do you live near this fail? Can you provide an internet link to an aerial photograph? Have you illuminating anecdotal evidence of the precise nature of the intersection of treatment plant and playground in this locality?
Whatever you can offer, we need YOU!
Post here today. Post whatever you can. Do it for your community!
*short jingle*
I live in the same city as the fail in question, but I’m afraid I lost all my aerial photographs of the area in the Great Photo Fire of 2007. It was that or the porn, man, and you know I just gotta have my furry underage girls to keep me warm.
This is actually on Google maps. There is a big sewage treatment plant at Ashbridges Bay, but it is quite a bit south of the spot shown. There are also playgrounds in the area. I think we have a conflation of two labels.
But it does say something about the quality control at Google. Or possibly at the Ontario Municipal Board, which rules city planning with an iron wallet.
Wow. I actually grew up on a street in that pic. Craven Rd., two streets west of Coxwell Ave. (yeah, I always laughed at that), just north of Queen street. It’s Toronto, for sure. The sewage treatment plan had a huge empty lot, so I guess it seemed a reasonable place for a playground. Greenest grass I’d ever seen…
Is a marine, rectum as feces?With our minds, that choice lies.Slowly pour the, will do You.Attach greater importance automatic kitty litter, several doctor-approved acne a famous UK.Directly for your, convenient date There.,
a treatment for every dirty boy and girl
A chicken in every pot, and a ShamWow for every citizen. Perchance to dream…
Proposed future site of the brothel clinic, “Trick & Treatment”.
That’s an affiliate of Johns Hopkins, I believe.
For Johns and Johnsons’ health care products and pharmaceuticals.
And John’s johnson treated to a treatment treat?
They had to trick him into it, though.
How is it that nobody is picking up on the fact that this playground is on coxwell ave?
And is that pronounced cok’s well, or cok swell?
either way, not where you want a playground.
Yeah, Marius! What were you doing posting 12 hours ago and not noting this???
…the Wood for the trees?
Hahaha, I knew exactly where this used to be too
That is a very old map. Greenwood Racetrack no longer exists and there is no playground as shown.
it’s still there twatwaffle
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Eastern+Ave+and+Coxwell+ave&sll=43.663417,-79.314508&sspn=0.011751,0.027895&ie=UTF8&ll=43.665512,-79.316204&spn=0.01175,0.027895&z=16&iwloc=addr
Not true, see for yourself. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=ashbridges%20bay
Just zoom in.
Still comes up though. and is there. a basebball diamond http://maps.google.com/maps?source=ig&hl=en&q=coxwell+ave+toronto&ie=UTF8&split=0&ei=Xg-eSeqfF5zgM9nWncsL&ll=43.664177,-79.315152&spn=0.005697,0.013947&z=17&iwloc=addr
Actually, there is still a baseball diamond in that park .. I drive past it every day!!!
That’s not listed on MSN Live Maps, and there probably aren’t any signs with that name of it. This is most likely a Google maps fail.
GOOGLE LOC:Main Sewage Treatment Playground, Toronto, Toronto Division, Ontario, Canada
THIS PLACE IS ACTUALLY REAL! HAHAHA
that is just how we during it in toronto
lol this is my neighbourhood.
just checked google maps, its still the same
wonder what those dirty boys & girls get up to…
After Disneyland went bust, the next company to buy the park was not as apt.
I thought it still was a Disneyland…
They are one in the same.
“I like to tell kids I’m taking them to Disneyland, and actually take them to a burned warehouse. When they ask why Disneyland burned down, I say “probably ’cause of something you did.”
Nothing that year’s of intense therapy won’t be able to erase, no doubt.
^ will need a few years more to erase that possessive-compulsive apostrophe
epic=)
ep⋅ic /ˈɛpɪk/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ep-ik]
–adjective Also, ep⋅i⋅cal. 1. noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style: Homer’s Iliad is an epic poem.
2. resembling or suggesting such poetry: an epic novel on the founding of the country.
3. heroic; majestic; impressively great: the epic events of the war.
4. of unusually great size or extent: a crime wave of epic proportions.
–noun 5. an epic poem.
6. epic poetry.
7. any composition resembling an epic.
8. something worthy to form the subject of an epic: The defense of the Alamo is an American epic.
9. (initial capital letter) Also called Old Ionic. the Greek dialect represented in the Iliad and the Odyssey, apparently Aeolic modified by Ionic.
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Origin:
1580–90; < L epicus < Gk epikós. See epos, -ic
e⋅pit⋅e⋅me⋅tic
– adjective
1. creating condensed vomitus
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Origin:
2009; < Failblog < Fuzz makes shit up.
ep⋅i⋅dem⋅ic [ep-i-dem-ik] Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. Also, ep⋅i⋅dem⋅i⋅cal. (of a disease) affecting many persons at the same time, and spreading from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent.
2. extremely prevalent; widespread.
–noun
3. a temporary prevalence of a disease.
4. a rapid spread or increase in the occurrence of something: an epidemic of riots.
Origin:
1595–1605; obs. epidem(y) (< LL epidēmia < Gk epidēmía staying in one place, among the people, equiv. to epi- epi- + dêm(os) people of a district + -ia -y 3 ) + -ic
hi- [hi]
-interjection
a greeting
*waves*
Are we doing the wave? Cool!
*waves*
*wave*
*Tsunami*
*SURFBOARD*
*IRONING BOARD*
*CHAIRWOMAN OF THE BOARD*
*CHAIRMAN MAO*
*LAUGHING MAO*
*Lina MAO*
*Lina Medina*
*linea negra*
*Negra Modelo*
*modelos atómicos*
*modelos anatomicos*
*anatomically correct mannequins*
*please don’t ask us to undress the mannequins*
*antaomically incorrect manneqins*
C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!
W-W-W-W-WAI!
*grammatically incorrect mannequins*
*automatically incorrect response*
*automaton, insurrect responsibly*
*80’s movie about a mannequin that comes to life. Also, feathered hair everywhere*
annoyingly adept penguins!
*real dolls*
I’m just wiggling my little finger
Phew!
Apparently, “playground” is Canadian for “shithole.” Plan your next vacation accordingly.
then is “shithole” Canadian for “playground”?
If you’re a vicar.
In Canada, they would call them priests.
Don’t say that. You’ll upset fluffy.
Was fluffy an unfortunate altar boy?
uhhh, no. Fluffy is a potato-obsessed fish.
^ gets hooked on vicarious pleasure
Your bowl is starting to look like fishyssoise.
Let’s hope there are no leeks.
Ex-squeeze, me, AA, but I cleaned fluffy’s bowl a couple of fails ago!
Well, somebody fed her too many potato flakes!
It’s spelled vishyssoise.
LOL! No, it isn’t.
LOL! He has no sense of humo(u)r.
I know, pun recognition AND spelling correction failures! A twofer.
Thanks for reeling in the line while I was away, guys!
in soviet russia. playground shits on you
In corporate America, playgrounds are constructed of pressure-treated greenwood.
(cobaltic copper arsentate, yukk)
Mr. Yuk is a poison potentate.
Actually this sewage treatment plant is much more than a shithole, it’s actually one of the cities nicest buildings. It is also somewhat of a tourist attraction.
You think that’s mud you’re playing in?
The slide is crap.
The sandbox is full of kitty litter.
and there is no pool
Whassamatta? The cesspool’s not good enough for you?
At least there wasn’t going to be a pool until one of the ’slides’ broke down.
POOL’S DEFINITELY CLOSED
Due to AIDS I’d assume
among various other diseases
AYDS.
There is no treatment for that.
…I heard it was a good weight loss plan, though.
I would count that as a positive at this particular playground.
There’s still a golden shower fountain, though.
The greater Toronto area being the “faucet.”
… and this park being the bukkit.
The subtle sheen on the monkey bars are Goldfish scales.
The mulch on the ground is actually compost.
*squelches away*
Great place to have a picnic though
If you’re a worm, I suppose.
I think that explains the picnic supplies… you DO need protection.
You can make bio-hazard suits for the worms.
Been there, done that.
Is that as much fun as I imagine it to be?
Completely off subject…
While I was pregnant it baffled me why everyone was so vehement that I not touch cat litter. It’s not like I was jumping in the box making sand castles.
Well you know why I’m sure. However, if you’ve had cats your whole life, you probably already contracted the disease and it didn’t effect your fertility. Or so my pseudo-doctor tells me.
Indeed. And yes, I’ve had cats my entire life.
The point was that whenever I change the litter box, my goal is ALWAYS to not touch the litter, pregnant or not.
I’m intrigued, you have your own pseudo-doctor? Does he/she just play one on tv?
Yes, my pseudo-doctor is Dr. Gregory House. *swoons*
You don’t need to jump in it to get toxoplasmosis.
No, you need to ingest it. *coughs up hairball*
My oldest sister actually ate cat crap from the litter box when she was little.
At about three they couldn’t keep her out of it. She’d sneak out of her crib, soldier crawl across the floor, wiggle the doorknob open, go down the hall and through the kitty door into the closet with the kitty litter. My mom would be woken by the sound of crunchy munching and the cats going crazy.
I just want to know what they were feeding our cats at the time because DAMN
You so were!
Yes, I’ve heard that pregnant women aren’t allowed to touch cat litter either. I assume one of the chemicals in it is dangerous to growing babies.
Where’s fuzz? We need a TMI on the risks posed to fetuses by toxoplasmosis.
Copied and pasted directly from Wikipedia:
Young children and immunocompromised patients, such as those with HIV/AIDS, those taking certain types of chemotherapy, or those who have recently received an organ transplant, may develop severe toxoplasmosis. This can cause damage to the brain or the eyes. Only a small percentage of infected newborn babies have serious eye or brain damage at birth.
Since a baby’s immune system does not develop fully for the first year of life, and the resilient cysts that form throughout the body are very difficult to eradicate with anti-protozoans, an infection can be very serious in the young.
Transplacental transmission:(a) infection in 1st trimester – incidence of transplacental infection is low (15%) but disease in neonate is most severe. (b) infection in 3rd trimester – incidence of transplacental infection is high (65%) but infant is usually asymptomatic at birth.[citation needed]
Wow, the sad face kind of threw me off there for a minute.
Ooh, thankyou. I never understood it before.
You need to find a new OB-GYN, then.
I think I’d rather have a gin.
*sips*
I had my first G&T in Chaing Mai…perfect.
I had mine in a restaurant after attending the theatre.
After I had my first sip, I was overwhelmed by how badly I had just betrayed my working class roots.
Yet once again, an example of people hearing a pseudo-scientific explanation for something and spreading the gospel of “dont touch the litter” … can we say dihygrogen mononxide ?
yah .. can we say l2type noob … :S
Yet once again, an example of dihydrated groggy monoxide
poison syndrome.
spread the gospel — don’t touch pussy glitter and try to type
Uh-oh, you caught my theater herpes. That glitter will be there for weeks.
Uh-oh, that can lead to cast typing, and …
OH LOOK!! We both have a shiny!!
So if poor Laika sacrificed herself to pave the way for cosmonauts
to explore space, who died to get you to Fug?
Johnny Lightning
Ah, Toronto. I am so proud of you.
I’d say it’s the most exciting attraction in all of Canada
Actually, the Sydney Tar Ponds are the most exciting attraction.
http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/fcer-cfre/rfc-cfr/studies-etudes/stp-mgs-eng.asp
According to the Canadian Government, the 3x the normal level of leukemia in children who live in the area is blamed on diet…
spoken like someone who’s never left Kentucky
At least I’d have goodass chicken
Nothing in Toronto can be the most exciting *anything* in Canada.
I’d make some snarky comment about the rest of Canada being jealous but I really don’t understand the hostility and it makes me a rather sad panda. I’d love to visit the rest of Canada but knowing the sort of reception I’d get if I admitted where I live makes me hesitant. To be honest the never ending Toronto bashing kind of pisses me off on top of the ‘..awwwwwww’ *twirls finger in the dust/scuffs shoes in the dirt* feeling.
That said, this fail pic really fits in nicely with the whole ‘the main sewer line for a third of the city is crumbly and they’re not sure of when it’ll collapse’ news from the other day.
I agree. People who trash the T-Dot have never been there. Or they were there 30 years ago and haven’t left the farm since.
Really? Not even the Gehry designed art gallery, a concert at the legendary Massey Hall, or a trip to Canada’s Wonderland?
A really bizarre statement.
On the corner of Coxwell Avenue! It’s just not right.
Ah well it could’ve been at the corner of that and Queen St., but the “ladies” there raised such a fuss…
Why couldn’t you have pointed this out when you pointed it out?
Just keep the hell out of the sponge pit…
And “Thunder Mountain”; you don’t wanna know what’s causing that thunder.
hahaha, ‘log flume’ ftw
…and the dillycount goes up one more.
N.B.: dirty-sweet Dilly is the costumed seamstress kind of play sewer.
How come my boyfriends never give me sweet pet names? Unless you can count ‘yo bitch?’
Because they can’t talk to you after you gag them with Shamwow?
‘Tis true. I’m not in love with “sewer” for a permanent nickname, though…you have so many more I don’t even know which I like best. (Strawberry tart is up there, though.)
Is that a needle-pulling threat?
That will bring us back to…no! (Yes)
Dr No?
He’s forever buying me diamonds.
I had this guy once – completely crazy about me. Very cagy about what he did for a living.
He had one very dense but expensive finger. Shiny. Very odd.
And he wasn’t from round here. His accent was something slavic – Ukranian, perhaps, or Georgian.
He had eight cats.
And his left testical… you should have heard the noise it made!
There’s nothing I wouldn’t have given him. I said ‘I would give you the moon, if you asked for it.’ He said ‘It won’t do. I cannot be satisfied with only the moon.’ I said ‘What about this earth on which we live?’ He said ‘No. I’m sorry. I need more than that.’
And now he has left me. And now, all I can ask myself is:
‘What is the smallest obtainable unit of relief?’
whoa … took me awhile Bod … that odd piece of razor rimmed work
just about sailed over my hatless head — color me bowlered over
Tell us more about this vyer dense but expensive finger???
You have to bite it to tell if it’s real.
TORONTO FAIL.
hey, that’s my hometown you’re talking about bud!
still, its kinda cool to see something you lived close to on this site… but yeah, wording fail.
Well, that looks like a fun place to play.
Sewage, it just keeps on giving.
This is what they mean by going green, we have to recycle everything.
I guess that is why Failbloggers recycle the ShamWow, potato, and First comments? Besides being in varying degrees amusing, of course.
The more you recycle, the more amusement you can save for the next generation.
You forgot the “accidenty” comments, although that trend is starting to slope a bit.
There’s always the shellacked halibut.
That playground is located in a very effluent neighborhood.
It’s built on the effluvial plain.
That comment gave me the runoffs.
Better throw down some sandbags.
I can’t contain my mirth, its spewing everywhere! hahhah ahhahhhahahaa!
*hands EB a Depends* Careful, they’ll kick you out of there!
that reminds me of a really nerdy joke:
A mechanical engineer, an electrical engineer, and a civil engineer are sitting around talking about God. The mechanical engineer says, “God must have been a mechanical engineer, look at the way our muscles and bones move.” The electrical engineer disagrees, saying, “God must have been an electrical engineer, look at the electrical wiring in our brains.” After a moment the civil engineer says, “Well, he certainly wasn’t a civil engineer. What kind of idiot puts the playground right next to waste disposal?”
apparently whoever planned this had never heard that particular joke.
Here’s another:
On the last day, God adds a wonderous nation to the word: There are green forests stretching as far as the eye can see, charming people and a soceity that enjoys justice. He calls it Canada. An Angel asks him “Surely you’ve overdone it?” And God replies “A bit, but look at the neighbours I’m giving them.”
You know, as an American, I first didn’t enjoy that last part, but the more I think about it, I feel I like the country, but hate the people inside of it…
Well I apologise if you took offence.
I’m an American and i lol’d. It’s unfortunate the truth in the joke…
You beat me to it.
It’s not like we care. We’re Canadian!
clicky my name for one of my favorite songs ever!
Heh, well, I have to be serious on this one cause that’s where I lived up until a year ago. The treatment plant is on the south side of Lakeshore and the north side is empty with a soccer field. The bottom right corner is Woodbine Beach and there are tons of pics of it on my flickr! (click my name, eh) So anyway, I don’t know if that’s the real name or if this is a google fail.
So yah… no joke on this one. … for now! Although, north of Eastern I think there is a potato field….
Hey, and you could always take your kid to the track after a visit to the Sewage Treatment playground, too.
Alas, the track was torn down 10 years ago and there is actually very nice park there now. But back in the day, SURE!
Ah, they lost track of grime.
Sewer’s Folly.
They plant USED potatoes in that field.
It is actually a sports field, underneath of which are the sewage storage tanks. If you had looked at the Google satellite image, you’d see that. FAIL.
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=eastern+and+coxwell,+toronto&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=44.009392,76.728516&ie=UTF8&ll=43.665085,-79.31601&spn=0.005992,0.009366&t=h&z=17&iwloc=addr
Mike, in your zeal to make this a non-FAIL you yourself have become a FAIL. You FAIL to continue the fun in this FAIL because you claim that this FAIL is, in fact, itself a FAIL, a claim with which I’d say you FAIL to have any success in making, so you FAIL.
GAH! What has occurred to my avatar? It is changed! Where is all my blue goodness?
(you used a different email address)
shit yeah!
You mean to say “Yeah, Shit!”
anyone have one cup for mrjezza?
assuming mrjezza has two girls
actually, you two present a complementary pair.
I’m flattered no really
So does Raquel Welch.
Ahem. Another innuendo from you, birthday boy!
Not for another four days!
*can’t wait*
15, huh? And you’re in London, correct? So you can: drive, buy porn, drink in pubs, vote, join the army, raise bees, MAKE porn, and buy cigarettes. Right?
Noooooo, but I can drive a tractor. And buy an air gun. And get a part time job.
You could get a part-time job driving a tractor and shooting things with an air gun.
You mean…? You’re going to quit working here?
Party ON boy!!
Bod, *hugs* What’s our orientation today?
heh … and what’s the frequency?
Mookie! *hugs*
I’m facing North by North East! In position for tomorrow’s sunrise.
But on my way to bed (alone).
Perchance (he says, wittily stealing her line) to dream of you…
@Fuzz:
Frequency = 0
I’m on my way to a lonely bed.
*sings*
Just me and my shamwow (shoop shoop wop dally wal)
“Who knows what shoop shoop wops in the beds of men? The Shamwow knows — like, biblically and stuff!”
.
Sham well, Boddy Boy.
*pats the sheep* it looks like he’s oriented SSW
BTW thanks for the “*’s”
Aha! You’re using the stars I gave you! I’m so excited! (not in that way – I’m on my way to bed, I don’t have time for that sort of thing).
Btw, the photo’s an old one. I’ve turned around since then.
ps ask Mookie.
*winks*
*looks matcho*
*goes to bed (alone)*
*looks Mookie’s direction*
did he mean “matcho” as in hot like a match? or did he just spell “macho” wrong
TOUCHE! I love it!
*is really going to bed now*
ps I found an in on the floor as I was leaving. I thought it might have dropped out of your post.
Alas, I’m no match for Bod, I’m merely a beard for Bod.
*cherishes my new “in”* well, it may be useful later if i get an “out”
*confused look* the euphemism “merely a beard” is unknown to me, explain?
Fuzz, you wanna handle this?
Female decorative accoutrement for a closet male homosexual.
i.e. cover to make him look “matcho”.
Mookster? Wow! 10 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon. Is this all you do? Must be the snow.
*peers through snowstorm* Neener? Is that you? Where are you, man? Are you in the Midwest, too?
Neener’s offered a tease of a reply — by “accoutrement” one might understand a kind of “ersatz arm candy.” Here’s another definition from the Urban Dictionary:
i see, sounds like fun if the c.m.h. will pay to decorate the female with suitable fashion accessories and other accoutrement fitting a lady accompanying a matcho man.
Mookie! Neener lives in Los Angeles, Hollywood actually. I can see the Hollywood sign from my front porch. I have relatives (mom and sis w/ kids) living northwest of Jackson. My formative years were in southern MI, in Battle Creek. I was born in Three Rivers. I know snow.
This brings me back to a previous fail wherein I suggested a 4th of July Failblog BBQ at your place. Could that happen? I’ll make the name tags and bring Shiraz and potato salad. Wouldn’t that be fun?
TMI: A “beard” is a woman. Not “a member of the opposite sex”. A guy fronting a dyke could not be a beard, as a beard will only grow on a guy, IMHO. Though this IS Hollywood…
Urban dicitionary is pretty good though. That’s where I learned of Rule 34 and <3.
I’m game for a FB party anytime! But I think we should all go somewhere more fun, like Chi-town or NY! Or anywhere else!
Lovin’ Rule 34, btw.
Still wearing those jodhpurs? If you need me to launder them and put fresh creases in them, let me know!
I’m serious about the BBQ. You are central;y located and being the queen of FB it would be appropriate. Avis is in Chicago. Dragon is in Missouri. Ryannon in Arkansas, Christopher near DC I think. Maybe BF could fly in. Don’t know about the others, maybe they could chime in about where they are all located. LETS HEAR IT, PEOPLE!
Now if your place doesn’t work (apartment?) then we could work out something else.
What a fun time it would be.
Lunchbox is in New Jersey as I recall. Not too far.
The object would be to have fun with each other. NYC… why bother?
You are so cute! I hope you are old enough to drink!
I mentioned New York for our European contingent – a few of whom are very dear to my heart!
You’re familiar with Michigan – picture the most straightlaced, boring town and you’ll figure it out!
I do have plenty of room for a BBQ, though!
So can we do it? The foreigners can fly direct to Detroit!
Where are you? I know your referred to going to Windsor… .
Neener – clickie.
Ugh. MySpace.
Are you a fan of Rupert Murdoclh?
Copy, but no clicky, I think.
Shouldn’t you be in bed by now?
No worky.
Good morning! It’s an e-mail address…
I know, I still couldn’t get it to work…
type it into your e-mailer without the http://
It looks nice enough.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Boardwalk+Dr+%26+Winners+Cir,+Toronto,+Toronto+Division,+Ontario,+Canada&ie=UTF8&hl=en&cd=1&geocode=FZJEmgIdJddF-w&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=23.875,57.630033&ll=43.664682,-79.316984&spn=0.002841,0.003406&t=h&z=18&iwloc=addr
o and i forgot heres a link to the actual fail,
click it
Here’s the live map of the same place:
http://maps.google.com/?q=jonathan+ashbridge+park+in+toronto&ie=UTF8&ll=43.66408,-79.318247&spn=0.00312,0.004828&t=h&z=18&iwloc=A
God made a sewage line run through a playground, why shouldn’t we?
I believe the same joke was posted 42 minutes ago.
Evilbunny’s just looking for an answer to his ultimate question.
42?
But neither God nor Evilbunny are constrained by time.
Nor are we.
Nor is time.
Chronos is time.
I’m more interested in the fact that the King’s Highway has a sequel
Notice how “Winners Circle” is, in fact, a line.
I uploaded a google map fail, but they ignored it. The satellite view shown a lake with a raod that goes around it while the road google had went strait through the lake and then strait through another lake, it was not a tunnel.
Dire straits indeed.
94th!
Silly Toronto.
oooooohw :O i LOVE the waterslides tere!
i cant see why this is a fail.
dont we all like to play around in the contents of the toilet?
Only in Ontario, Canada would they have such a thing. lol Click my name to go directly to the google maps site. lol
Almost forgot. search for Main Sewage Treatment Playground, Toronto
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=&jsv=140g&sll=43.662672,-79.312019&sspn=0.014188,0.026178&ie=UTF8&geocode=FUBGmgId67lF-w
ive been to that area before…. it stinks…
I live less than 1 km from there….
Then you should change your screen name, imho.
hey LOOK, i found an image of the playground
http://www.hsmm.aecom.com/media/5924.jpg
This is in Toronto, down the street from where I grew up. The park is across the street from the sewage treatment plant, and it consists of baseball, football, and rugby fields. And it smells.
The baseball diamonds are gone. Replaced by a big mound of earth that will eventually become a useless skateboard park, instead of a new parking lot which the beach needs BADLY.
Well its not as good as the Secondary Sewage Treatment Playground but its not that big of a fail
yeah, guesso
Well its not as nice as the Secondary Sewage Treatment Playground but its still not that much of a fail
yeah, i guess
double same post fail?
Post fail double same.
Same fail double post.
Fortunately the playground is right next to the track, so you can drop the kids off before going to bet on the ponies.
Fails are getting less and less Failworthy…
I disagree. My faith was restored with “tastes like grandma”.
That’s Toronto for ya.
Always using land so efficiently
i dont see a fail, Maine Sewage Treatment just bought the naming rights
The spelling is ‘main’
here’s the actual google maps fail
click it!
Do you live near this fail? Can you provide an internet link to an aerial photograph? Have you illuminating anecdotal evidence of the precise nature of the intersection of treatment plant and playground in this locality?
Whatever you can offer, we need YOU!
Post here today. Post whatever you can. Do it for your community!
*short jingle*
Sure, encourage them.
*grins*
They NEED encouraging. We’ve only had 25 today. That’s not going to feed a community of dysenteric Canadians.
Please! We need your donations!
This is the park next door. I dont have any shot of that actual little corner.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scotteh/1748086076/
I live in the same city as the fail in question, but I’m afraid I lost all my aerial photographs of the area in the Great Photo Fire of 2007. It was that or the porn, man, and you know I just gotta have my furry underage girls to keep me warm.
Are we talking downstairs furry or “holy crap I think that might be bigfoots kid” furry?
jingle and thou shalt receive
it does indeed appear to be a playground at the sewage plant.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=coxwell+ave,+toronto&mrt=all&sll=43.653171,-79.354677&sspn=0.010666,0.014591&ie=UTF8&ll=43.663572,-79.317738&spn=0.005332,0.007296&t=h&z=17
oh geez
oh guys …
ah…tag team
oh u
If you’d read “The Qwikpick Adventure Society,” then this might make perfect sense.
If you haven’t read “The Qwikpick Adventure Society,” then you should.
(Sam, you owe me a nickel for that plug!)
I actually live near there!
do the kids come home covered in shit and kitty litter?
One does tend to go with the other.
Do the kittens come home in shit and kid litter?
*inserts covered*
Crazy Torontonians.
Anpu says it sounds like good clean fun.
firts!
Funny/Crazy thing about this…I know where this is. I used to live in this area. I am pretty sure this is Dunedin, Florida.
It’s in Toronto, ON Canada. Here’s a link to the satalite image of the park and a pic of one of the processing plants.
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1258795
hoser
Hey! Take off you hoser!
Playground is on Co(ks)well avenue
Check out “Winners Circle” on the right… CIRCLE FAIL
this is toronto!
Is it sad that it makes me happy that I live near there??
Only In Toronto…
Definitely Toronto – there’s my street just north/west of the Sewage Treatment Plant/Playground. Aaaaaah, home.
This is actually on Google maps. There is a big sewage treatment plant at Ashbridges Bay, but it is quite a bit south of the spot shown. There are also playgrounds in the area. I think we have a conflation of two labels.
But it does say something about the quality control at Google. Or possibly at the Ontario Municipal Board, which rules city planning with an iron wallet.
this is in toronto
No wonder Canadians have dirty boys and girls!
That looks like Coxwell Blvd and Eastern Ave in Toronto, Canada. On Google Earth, it look like a pretty good baseball diamond!
The sewage treatment must be underground. LOL!
thats awesome i live on kent rd last street on the top left corner
I went to Duke of Connaught! The DUKE!
Wow. I actually grew up on a street in that pic. Craven Rd., two streets west of Coxwell Ave. (yeah, I always laughed at that), just north of Queen street. It’s Toronto, for sure. The sewage treatment plan had a huge empty lot, so I guess it seemed a reasonable place for a playground. Greenest grass I’d ever seen…
Only in Toronto. Lol.
LOL — this is in toronto! i live blocks away ahahaha..
Hilarious… I live around the corner from this and never knew it was named that.
hahaha, i just checked it on google maps, its in Toronto.
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