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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Tom Servo on August 31, 2006, 01:22:00 pm
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I'm heading up there this weekend. First time. I'll catch the tail end of a movie festival, but that's all I've got scheduled so far.
Anyone know anything going on right now or generally cool things I should check out?
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Anyone know anything going on right now or generally cool things I should check out?
the ladies.
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yeah, i think vansmack has a list of places to hit in montreal.
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Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
yeah, i think vansmack has a list of places to hit in montreal.
I wrote a novel about this last time somebody asked or the time before that or the time before that. We need to make a sticky for this...
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I'd be interested in tips also. I'm gonna go the F1 Grand Prix in Montreal next year, if I guessed correctly about what weekend it'll be when I made a tentative hotel reservation. By the time the actual weekend is announced the rates are jacked 3x normal rates
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I'm headed to Montreal this weekend myself (Fri and Sat).
For live music listings, check out:
http://www.montrealmirror.com/listings/li_vens.htm (http://www.montrealmirror.com/listings/li_vens.htm)
I have a Friday night show picked out.
The Osheaga Music Festival is going on Sat and Sun, though I'm not going.
http://www.osheaga.com/ (http://www.osheaga.com/)
Bands include:
Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals Sonic Youth Flaming Lips Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Dinosaur Jr. K-Os Metric Damian ??Jr. Gong? Marley G. Love & Special Sauce Wolf Parade Bedouin Soundclash The Stills Brazilian Girls Joseph Arthur Malajube The Magic Numbers Lady Sovereign Kid Koala Starsailor Islands World Party Amon Tobin Grace Potter & the Nocturnals Bell Orchestre Bush Tetras Call Me Poupée Crystal Clyffs DobaCaracol Duchess Says Final Fantasy Herman Düne James Chance The Hidden Cameras Think About Life The Hushpuppies We Are Wolves +more
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Originally posted by Weird Little Self Loathing Man:
I'm headed to Montreal this weekend myself (Fri and Sat).
For live music listings, check out:
http://www.montrealmirror.com/listings/li_vens.htm (http://www.montrealmirror.com/listings/li_vens.htm)
I have a Friday night show picked out.
The Osheaga Music Festival is going on Sat and Sun, though I'm not going.
http://www.osheaga.com/ (http://www.osheaga.com/)
Bands include:
Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals Sonic Youth Flaming Lips Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Dinosaur Jr. K-Os Metric Damian ??Jr. Gong? Marley G. Love & Special Sauce Wolf Parade Bedouin Soundclash The Stills Brazilian Girls Joseph Arthur Malajube The Magic Numbers Lady Sovereign Kid Koala Starsailor Islands World Party Amon Tobin Grace Potter & the Nocturnals Bell Orchestre Bush Tetras Call Me Poupée Crystal Clyffs DobaCaracol Duchess Says Final Fantasy Herman Düne James Chance The Hidden Cameras Think About Life The Hushpuppies We Are Wolves +more
Excellent, thanks.
Who was it that was good at digging up old posts? I'd like to read the Vansmack novel...
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Originally posted by Tom Servo:
Who was it that was good at digging up old posts? I'd like to read the Vansmack novel...
Before you get too excited, it was a tour of Le Red Light De Montreal. If you're still interested, I can summarize.
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There are some quality strip joints on St. Catherine, if that's your thing. There is also some really good record stores as well. My recommendation would be Beatnick Records on St. Denis.
A word of caution, though. Don't eat the poutine at Burger King. Now matter how cheap it is, no matter how good it looks at 4am. Don't eat it.
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The Basics: Always remember, prostition is illegal in Montreal.
Strip joints are divided into two camps: (1) non-contact, and (2) full contact. Yes, patrons that pay for a dance are encouraged to playfully make contact with the dancers at full contact joints, for $10 CDN. Always ask at the door before you go in. NEVER bring your significant other to a full contact strip joint. Trust me.
The girls don't work for the club - they're independent and go from club to club making all their money on dances. A little known secret is that you can invite girls from non-contact clubs to contact clubs if you want to. If she agrees, a polite gesture is to offer to pay her entrance fee at the next club as she paid to come into this club.
The dancers, bouncers and folks in attendance are generally more relaxed at Canadian strip joints than they are in the States. I would recommend you try not to act American when a smokin hot stripper sits down to be one of the guys. That's just what they do. Just buy her a drink. The drinks are cheaper, the dances are cheaper and people are having a great time. Actually, the best advice is the only time you should act American is when you tip a girl - most other folks will not tip the girls.
You don't have to participate in lap dances. It's fine just to go in and enjoy the scenery. If you gawk for too long, you should at least buy a dancer a drink or two.
The women are gorgeous. Try not to arrive before 9 PM on Friday or Saturday for the best pickings, but at most times Montreal will have better girls than you'll ever see at any strip joint in DC.
Most strip joints you've heard of (Super Sexe, Chez Paree) are non contact. Try not to ask the locals (they'll send Americans to bad ones) and don't ask a cabbie (he'll take you to the furthest one). I've had good look with door men, bartenders you've been tipping well through out the night and concierge's for advice on good strip joints.
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it's like i said: the ladies.
but at most times Montreal will have better girls than you'll ever see at any strip joint in DC.
it's not just the strip joints, it's everywhere. i don't know if it's the water, or the poutine (non-BK, of course), or the euro sense of fashion... but MTL has some of the most beautiful women in the world.
girl-gawking in montreal, on a nice summer day, is pretty damn hard to beat in my opinion.
do try poutine, but get it from a non-chain type of place (ideally from a chip wagon/snack truck, but hard to find downtown).
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And if you're a person with any class and respect for women, you don't patronize strip joints.
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Never been to Montreal, but that sounds like my experience in Vancouver. I was the only dude tipping dancers and they were so grateful. And gorgeous. That was 10 years ago and since then I haven't gone back to DC joints... maybe to GGs once, and they had some skank hassling us every ten minutes to buy jello shots... I guess we had "Shmoe" written all over our faces
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And if you're a person with any class and respect for women, you don't patronize strip joints.
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foufounes electriques (http://www.foufounes.qc.ca/ and http://www.myspace.com/foufounes) (http://www.myspace.com/foufounes)) is a nice dive to check out, right downtown (87 ste-catherine est), way cheap drinks and used to have some legendary punk and ska shows... no idea what they're up to these days.
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i'm going to montreal in 2 weeks for my cousin's wedding
i'm excited, i've never been there
i don't have anything else to add..just felt like chiming in
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Originally posted by sweetcell
it's not just the strip joints, it's everywhere. i don't know if it's the water, or the poutine (non-BK, of course), or the euro sense of fashion... but MTL has some of the most beautiful women in the world.
Originally posted by Mixed Veg
Never been to Montreal, but that sounds like my experience in Vancouver.
I was going to say something similar, since Vancouver is my only experience with Canada. There are beautiful women everywhere in Vancouver (although I wouldn't know about the strip clubs). And I've heard that about Montreal before. Does this hold true throughout Canada or something? I still wish I'd made a trip up to Montreal when I was living in New York. I'll have to attempt that sometime...
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While we are on the subject, I have found that, as a whole, Canadian men tend to be much more attractrive than those in DC. It's not just the ladies, so remember that the next time you get dressed in your frumpy attire and look in the mirror and wonder why the women in DC are so ... dull. :roll:
Just a friendly little ego recalibration for some of you who think that you are God's gift to gorgeous Canadian women.
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That's because Canada, at least in the cities, is made of of slender white people.
Originally posted by Jaguar:
While we are on the subject, I have found that, as a whole, Canadian men tend to be much more attractrive than those in DC. It's not just the ladies, so remember that the next time you get dressed in your frumpy attire and look in the mirror and wonder why the women in DC are so ... dull. :roll:
Just a friendly little ego recalibration for some of you who think that you are God's gift to gorgeous Canadian women.
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Originally posted by Jaguar:
Just a friendly little ego recalibration for some of you who think that you are God's gift to gorgeous Canadian women.
Just to clarify, I consider myself God's gift to all gorgeous women, not just gorgeous Canadian women. And I tip.
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Originally posted by vansmack:
Originally posted by Jaguar:
Just a friendly little ego recalibration for some of you who think that you are God's gift to gorgeous Canadian women.
Just to clarify, I consider myself God's gift to all gorgeous women, not just gorgeous Canadian women. And I tip. [/b]
And you aren't in DC.
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Originally posted by Jaguar:
And you aren't in DC.
[blushing]
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Police: 4 dead, including gunman, after shooting
MONTREAL, Quebec (CNN) -- At least four people are dead and 13 more wounded after a Wednesday shooting at Dawson College in downtown Montreal.
A recorded message at the college administration office said two gunmen were killed, but police would confirm only one dead shooter.
One of the gunmen was shot by police, the message said. Eight students were critically wounded, police said. (Watch students flee the scene -- 1:38)
Police cordoned off the 12-acre campus after the incident and searched a nearby shopping mall for suspects, a police spokesman said.
A SWAT team was in the college because "we believe there might be other suspects inside the Dawson College," a Montreal police spokesman told reporters.
Police were using search dogs in a door-to-door search for the gunman or gunmen Wednesday afternoon, another spokesman said.
The shots were randomly fired in the cafeteria and atrium, and students said they didn't think anyone was targeted, said reporter Genevieve Beauchemin with the television station CFCF. Students told Beauchemin that at least one of the gunmen was dressed in black.
'He had no emotion'
A student told Global News in Montreal that one of the shooters was in his early 20s and was wearing a trench coat.
"He was saying nothing, just shooting. He told people to get away, and that was it," the student said.
Another student, Daniel Mightley, 21, said the shooting began outside the college. Mightley said he was heading to lunch when he saw one of the shooters to his right. The gunman, who was wearing a black trench coat and had a mohawk, fired a shot and "everybody just ran inside," he said.
"I saw his face and he had no emotion in his face whatsoever," Mightley said. "He was walking very slowly toward us and just shooting."
Mightley said he saw at least one person get shot.
Police had not yet determined how many people were shot, said Sgt. Giuseppe Boccardi.
"My understanding, at this moment, is that most of the students have exited the college grounds," Boccardi said.
Video showed students streaming from the campus after the midday shootings.
"People were literally running for their lives," said Beauchemin, describing what the students told her was a "stampede."
Emergency personnel and police, in bulletproof vests, wheeled people on two stretchers to ambulances. Boccardi said he couldn't provide a description of the victims.
A first-year student who didn't give her name said she saw one victim who had been shot in the leg being helped across the street, and another who had been shot in the stomach lying on the sidewalk.
"We were just sitting in class, and we were listening to the teacher and we heard guns going off," the student said. "We looked outside and everyone was screaming and crying and there were people that got shot that were running away.
"And then our teacher left, and he came back and said the gunmen were inside and we had to leave."
The college has 7,000 day students and 3,000 night students, according to the Dawson Web site.
In Canada, students as young as 16 can attend colleges, which generally serve as bridges between high schools and universities.
This is not the first shooting at a Montreal college. About 17 years ago, Marc Lepine opened fire at Ecole Polytechnique. Fourteen female students were killed in the December 1989 shooting before Lepine killed himself.
Lepine left behind a three-page letter blaming feminists for his not being able to get into the school.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/09/13/montreal.shooting/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/09/13/montreal.shooting/index.html)
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Michael Moore is crying somewhere in a corner right now...
Originally posted by ggw?:
Police: 4 dead, including gunman, after shooting
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I heard that only two people, gunman included, died.