LOL! I obviously never said that I thought the market crash was caused by a friggin' skyscraper... I never meant anything of the sort since that statement makes... well.. no sense at all. It was quite the other way around.
Like it or not, you stated:
SP!RE said:
But I'm just saying, if the market didn't allow for 1 Bloor to be so tall, then... well... it shouldn't. That's unrealistic, unsustainable, etc. etc.
And in doing so implied that there was something in particular about 1BE which either contributed to the crash or caused it to suffer in ways other buildings didn't. The statement does indeed make little sense but you're the one who said it and instead of getting all huffy you could articulate further what you meant, or how I (and others) misinterpreted it.
Also, the quote about Number One Bloor being "just another Toronto skyscraper" is being taken too far. People are running with it. It might be inaccurate entirely (or a marketing surprise the developer has up their sleeve) or simply an unimportant detail so early in the process.
Yeah, I am running with it because instead of hinting at future greatness, GG has chosen the Balsillie route whereby in lieu of engaging people directly, one goes on a wild, circumventing goose-chase before anyone can figure out what the original intentions are/were.
Pick your battles. I have no idea where you even got the idea to argue with me about statements I made that are hardly material to debate. I still can't believe you even suggested that I would think 1 Bloor East caused a market crash. That's... friggin hilarious to be honest.
Pick my battles? You can't possibly be reading the previous two posts with which you are taking so much umbrage correctly, for I consistently state that I had/have nothing against you, so much as your and others willingness to accept Canada as being second rate. You even continue this asinine line of reasoning below...
Canada is Canada. I can accept the way we operate and I think it's strange that it upsets you so much. I have travelled alot, spent time living in very different places at times, and Canada by comparison seems pretty functional to me. Slow, steady progress in a conservative fashion is fine for me. And that's my opinion, which you won't be regulating. Approaching any culture takes a sense of humour and humility.
What a statement. Here's what I get from that:
Canada is Canada. We're fine doing things beige. I've been all over the world and no one does mediocre like Canada. Conservatism, blah, blah, Blah, functional, blah, slow, blah, steady...
And the fact that you had to state that I could not 'regulate your opinion' makes you come off like Sean Hannity.
This is a ridiculous argument though, and a waste of bandwidth. We'll have to wait for the renderings I guess, then be underwhelmed when the finished product doesn't even meet
those standards.
