74 Replies to “Money Well Spent”

  1. This was not made from traditional First Nations materials using First Nations tradional tools. Thus it is a monument to racism and oppression.

    1. Have I mentioned that all Canadians are stupid no matter where the hell they live. Put your mask on and s t f u.

  2. Depanneur tabarnac!

    That said, I love the fact that Volkswagen sponsored that average Canadian’s response. The content algorithms DO work!

  4. Maybe Montreal is paying homage to Richard Wagner and his best-known work. It would be presumptuous, however, to think that the St. Lawrence could be passed off as the Rhine.

  5. Average? “Martin” aka Matthew Giuffrida is above average. Without him we’d not know what’s going on for real in Montreal. He’s got all the accents down pat of all his characters. For the tearful “Portuguese guy” you must understand French– what a funny guy! Matthew is alledgedly making a movie or a TV series might be coming soon, not sure which. Watch for him. His body is natural comedy.

    As for that “RING” – that’s hardly Art. It’s a government grant to make someone a millionaire. What a price, eh. Reminds me of what most mayors are doing everywhere.

    Thanks to OttawaMJ who introduced him to us last year.

  6. This is YOUR money spent on crap.

    That is why it is “art” and worth millions.

    Vincent Van Gogh sold only TWO painting in his entire life.

    1. I love the big blue o-ring.

      I drive by my squandered tax dollars and sigh deeply, it is a window into infinity (and my soul) that reminds me of my oppressive lack of melanin and my climate crimes (past and future).

      Clearly we in Calgary did the hoop better. However, as always, the Quebecers will do the cost overruns and federal funding guarantees with a sense of pure professional grift. We are so lame at milking taxpayers outside of Calgary. Really second raters.

      Somewhere a Bouressa gets richer and a Qaddafi spawn will get Hunter Biden levels of coke.

      Canada’s big guy will get his cut when the trough runneth over. It’s in Papineau isn’t it?

    2. I chuckle every single time I drive the Deerfoot, past the puckering ring.
      I celebrate with the, literally, tens of people who have flocked to that desolate suburban Calgary neighbourhood to gaze upon the perfect monument to the ‘greatness’ that was the Nenshi regime.

  9. Calgary has something similar. And it has meaning…but not what the City had in mind. Imagine the “Peace Bridge” (some call it the Chinese finger trap bridge)….now imagine it going into the blue ring….back and forth, back and forth. That is what the City is doing to the taxpayers.

    1. I lived in Harvest Hills Calgary until a few yrs ago….looking out our large Kitchen Window to the East…said blue cock ring filled the frame. $417,000 CAD.

      Thank that Rat Phuque Nenshi and his gang of Artsy Bitches…for pissing away said tax dollars on that garbage.

      As,for Martin..!! I love this guy..!!

  11. “We have potholes where we can see the f_ck_ng core of the Earth!”. Classic! I’m stealing it.

    Here in Cowtown we have the $1/2 Million blue ring overpass light post way off to the side of the Deerfoot at Airport Trail. We have the $800K progressive dystopian buckled beam and broken concrete sculpture near Calgary Olympic Park on Hwy#1 where most tourists can witness our shame of being Canada’s CO2 Capital. We have a $300K sculpture by the science centre so shiny that people’s jackets were catching fire on sunny days. Yep the West has more than its share of stupid artists and money wasting progressive politicians. The evidence of their wanton insipid wastefulness is everywhere.

    1. Montreal might cancel theirs once they find out that lowly redneck Calgary had one first. I do like the fact that Calgary’s was much cheaper at ‘only’ 500,000!

      1. Nonononononono! They’ll make theirs bigger, shinier in order to show those hayseeds out west how to do it properly.

        1. Weld some hooks on it so the morons who spent the money can be hanged from it. Something, something, in the wind.

  12. I think Montreal’s big ring is symbolic. It represents just how big the a-holes really are in Montreal and environs. We have a similar piece in Calgary – our big blue ring – which, along with its $500 grand price tag, has been an object of derision for years.

    1. The symbolism is showing its true colors. The lone ring represents the other missing rings from the O GAMES all those years ago in both cities and how we’ve fallen as cities since then. Ditto, that goes for Canada too. Nicely put, we’re done like dinner. We’re just an empty hole now. How sad.

      1. This is nothing but Bread and Circus’s while us plebes watch Rome burn , how they have wrecked the economy , our lives and continue on the road to utter ruin.
        THEY think we have forgotten what they did to us , especially these last 2 years.
        They want us to move along , nothing to see here folks.

        Well , I haven’t forgotten and neither shall I forgive.

        From Neil Oliver , about sums up how I’m feeling.

        https://www.gbnews.uk/gb-views/partygate-beergate-porngate-its-one-childish-tantrum-after-another-we-need-some-grown-ups-in-the-room-says-neil-oliver/284599

  13. Here in Edmonton, whenever I take Whitemud Drive when I go to and from my house in B. C., I cross the North Saskatchewan River. Right beside the bridge, there’s a stack of shiny balls. I have no idea what they’re supposed to represent, who put them there, when they were put there, why they were put there, or how much they cost.

    As far as I can tell, those balls are supposed to be some sort of modern art masterpiece:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmtqp9KWICs

    1. Every significant City of Edmonton construction project requires, by law, that a percentage of its cost be set aside for “public art” to be placed on, or near, the project.
      Hence, the people of Edmonton got to pay for, and “enjoy” (hard & repeatedly) the wonder that is “Talus Dome.”
      To be fair, it is slightly better looking than these stupid ‘rings’ although its place beside a freeway is rather stupid.

      1. If you want a taste of 80’s industrial nihilism, which was more creative and funnier than anything in the last 30 years, check out Wall of Voodoo’s version. Play it loud.

          1. Music genre. During that era lots of bands predicting stark future because they read Orwell, Heinlein, Asimov etc. They were off by about 30 years. But they weren’t saying “you need to…”. It was just music.

        2. That’s precisely what I posted … and nothing says industrial nihilism than discordant trumpet noises … forward to the 4:00 mark … which follows some superb discordant flying-V guitar. Deliciously nihilist.

          Obviously mocking those melodic Mexican coronets in the Johnny Cash original

  16. 25 tons it is.
    crikey. dont ever walk under that one, might be the same bunch that built the falling-apart-olympic-stadium-roof ‘arm’ that . . . . . fell apart from weak concrete. seems the moanrayall mafioso know how to mix concrete lasting only long enough for the body to sink in davie jones locker.

  17. The “Average Canadian” response?

    I gots me a serious mancrush on that guy. I wonder if he has a Twitter account I can (now) follow?

    (Oh, and you just know — five megabucks is the estimate; it’ll end up being more…)

  18. I wonder if the ring was created in the fires of Mordor?
    One ring to bind us all, and perhaps imprison the citizens permanently under Liberalism!

    That wouldn’t that be the Trudeau riding…would it?

    2. Marc Miller, the federal Liberal Minister of Crown–Indigenous Relations, is the MP for that riding.
      He is too busy bending over for the indigenous folks on behalf of white Canadians.
      His ring is larger than this new planned one.

  20. I may not know art but I know what I don’t like. There should be a law prohibiting any level of government from spending on art. Fix the roads.

  21. Kinda looks like a star gate from the series can’t remember the name, but it was about star gates where you can travel to other planets. One can only hope the Lowrentian elites get sucked into an alternative reality where they actually end up on at a slave colony.

    1. The original movie was Stargate with Kurt Russell and James Spader, which is a fun flick if you’re willing to suspend your disbelief.

      It spawned a number of TV shows and the one you might be thinking of was Stargate SG-1 with Richard Dean Anderson and Amanda Tapping.

      1. Off topic, but just a tidbit. When I visited Vancouver for a large Convention in the 80s I found myself accidentally within RDA’s space. I just looked away, thinking that I was wrong in my assumption and that he looked familiar. Richard Dean Anderson was, in fact, doing the MacGyver series then in Vancouver. A hotel front doorman later confirmed my sighting as accurate.

        1. Similarly, much of the re-booted Battlestar Galactica was filmed in Vancouver, as well as parts of the B. C. interior.

          I recognized some of the local landmarks from my UBC days.

          Now that I mentioned Lotusland, what artsy phartsy messterpiece will it construct for urban bragging rights?

          2. Just what we need: a monumental Maggot memorial…..

            Then again, we already have one, don’t we–he who suffers from Convoy Coward 19.

    2. The series is actually called “Stargate SG1”, which spun off “Stargate Atlantis”, and Stargate Universe, or something like that, but that last one bombed, which is why I didn’t bother to acquire it. It all started with the movie “Stargate,” with With Kurt Russell as Colonel Jack O’Neil, and James Spader as Daniel Jackson.

  25. Saskatoon City Council was talking about a $500,000 art piece … by the garbage dump FFS! Don’t know if that plan is still on.

  26. its ugly and stupid

    and it weighs 50,000 pounds!

    what a waste of material, effort and money.

  27. Mayors should never go to conferences to learn stupid ways to waste money. Vancouver also gets a new Hollywood sign to say vancouver on the only part of the north shore that has not been ruined by new housing.

    At least they could have written it in unprounciable coastal salish to very woked.

  28. Maybe could not be a better symbol of our times. A great big effing zero. They give zero f-cks about us and it is what I think about the political class. Our “elites”. More carbon tax, skyrocketing housing costs, woke schooling, fake climate crisis, fake covid, fake everything, fake art. It can be argued there is a time for good public art but this ain’t it and this ain’t even good art.

  30. “It will be heated to prevent ice buildup in the winter”.

    Heated by what? Fossil fuels?

  32. Runners up were a stick oriented at an odd angle to the sky and a submerging plunger – the latter being copy-righted.

    1. The oddly angled stick will be installed underneath, after the ring is in place, to fully symbolize what government does to the people.

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