Saint John
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Overview
A city in southern New Brunswick, Canada. Not to be confused with St. John's, the capital of Newfoundland.
It is home to the world renown BBC. Once, for a fortnight in January of 1986 by Natiional Geographic, the BBC was under consideration to replace the Pyramids of Egypt as one of the Wonders of the World. The National Geographic people were worried about the impact of all the foot and motor traffic, so they wanted to downplay their historical significance for a few years and use the down time to spruce them up a bit. World renown dolphin surgeon Jeremiah Jones was brought in to paint a mural which was to represent his great achievment to be displayed in one of the Confessional Boothes. Actually, only the first sentense is true, but historical fact has been blended with Strange Brew, so cut loose and have a beer.
Known as the Port City - (walk around uptown at six in the morning on a Monday, and it will be painfully obvious why this is the case).
Soon to also be known as the energy hub, as that sounds better than "polluted, ugly, industrial garbage dump".
If you find yourself in Saint John at any point in your life, turn around, you made a wrong turn somewhere. If you were on your way to Halifax, Moncton is in the other direction.
Things to do
Frikipedia is still searching. It has been 23 years, but the quest continues. In the meantime, it will continue to congregate at the BBC.
Elwood's Pub, located on 112 Prince William Street offers a pretty enteraining atmosphere and usually hosts some great live acts. Watch out for the heavier rock or metal shows, those bastards get all excited and start spitting beer everywhere. Around the corner there's Callahan's Sports Bar or if you just want to enjoy a regular draft while looking at beautify blonde 20 somethings, check out Rocky's, the horniest sports bar in all the lands.
One of the numerous follies of this city is its number of seedy bars, pubs and speak easys.
Employment
- Call centres
- Dole money
- fire breather
Education
If you are in the market for some official looking pieces of paper that tell potential employers that you are qualified and ready to work in their call centres, enroll at UNBSJ as soon as possible. A myriad of useless degrees are only four years and $25,000 away! Just don't try to take any career-based degrees that will get you a job in a field outside of call centres, like Education or Engineering, because you will have to finish your last 2-3 years in UNB Fredericton.
Places Not to Go
If you are unfortunate enough to be living there, or at least staying there for a period longer than a few hours, here are some notable places around the city:
- The 3 Mile
- The AQ
- O'Leary's
- Rocky's
Weather
- Fog all the time, and maybe some rain. Not much else.
- Sun hasn't been recorded since late August 1981, and that day it was minus 36 celsius.
Friki Facts
- Was a childhood home of Donald Sutherland's Arse
- Is Canada's oldest incorporated city, dating back to 1783. The mentality of most residents has not changed since this date.
- Was the landing point for the Loyalists who were kicked out of America after the revolution
- Saint John is currently hosting one of the largest petroleum refineries in North America, owned by one family, the ubiquitous Irvings. The Irvings also own nearly all media outlets in the entire Atlantic Canadian region. Irving and Repsol are building a Liquified Natural Gas terminal and refinery on the outskirts of town with little to no real gain to be had by the general population. That is what makes Saint John so special. You can screw us and enjoy purging your vas defrens all over our rosey red cheeks and we will still call you sir, treat you with respect and give you all our money in the meanwhile. There is another refinery site being cleared very close to where the LNG terminal is being built. These are very huge pieces of industrial infrastructure that are being allowed to go ahead without any true consensus building going on between the voting and taxpaying public, Saint John's rediculously inept city council and the various stakeholders (Irvings, Repsol, pipeline companies etc).
