by Sean Orr | Slowly turning into a Cormack McCarthy novel: Controversial B.C. deer cull will see meat go to the needy. Why stop there? Have you seen how many pigeons are down here? We even named a park after them! #proteinpark
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Bye Bye Bertie: Popular Vancouver diner Bert’s Restaurant will close its doors this week. In it’s place will open Bertand Firkin’s Social Public House and Gastro-Patio.
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“In it’s place will open Bertand Firkin’s Social Public House and Gastro-Patio.”
priceless, cliched, bulls eye on and pandering to the trendy elitist hipsters reader all in one , Sean starts the year with a perfect score
What exactly is controversial about the deer cull? Didn’t specify in the article, and the comments get kinda heated.
““In it’s place will open Bertand Firkin’s Social Public House and Gastro-Patio.”
priceless, cliched, bulls eye on and pandering to the trendy elitist hipsters reader all in one , Sean starts the year with a perfect score”
And yet that would be the sort of place Scout is likely to feature as a new opening, so who’s the joke really on?
Oh, and since pseudo-anonymous snark like that comes across as douchey, let me just clarify that I love what Scout is doing and I don’t want it to stop. It’s just the apparent contradiction between OpEds and the features/advertising that I’m really calling out here.
Part of the reason why most people read Scout is because it doesn’t give those types of restaurants the time of day. It’s all quality here, all the time. I’d say the joke is on you, but I don’t want to sound douchey either.
@wasabian 90% of the time you’re right, which is why I come back. But there are places Scout recommends I’m not on board with. Places that would easily qualify as Bertran Firkin’s Social etc. Which is why I find articles like this just a bit off.
Sorry Dave, you’re just wrong: http://scoutmagazine.ca/2011/09/06/diner-dear-restaurants-for-the-love-of-god-enough-with-the-word-social-already/
more words that need to go from the collective vocabulary (particularly on the Scout comment board):
“hipster”
“gentrification”
“pseudo”
That’s about right.
Great photo. We love Point no Point!
Cool that you recognised it! Such a great spot.
why do “they” not call a cull a kill?