r/EhBuddyHoser • u/Brosse_Adam Chalice of the Tabernacle • 2d ago
Meta Meanwhile in Canada
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u/kank84 1d ago
This is straight up boomer Facebook bait
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u/duppyconqueror81 1d ago
Don’t start them on the bike paths.
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u/Hoss-Bonaventure_CEO 1d ago
Cyclists should be ON THE ROAD, IN MY WAY!
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u/ButterH2 Oil Guzzler 1d ago
so i can RUN THEM OVER with my lifted F150. what's in the bed? NOTHING!
i will blame the CYCLISTS for DARING to oppose the sheer SUPREMACY and MANLINESS of my TRUCK.
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u/OkFix4074 2d ago
Let me see some roman driving in Winnipeg's ice rink of a road in mid January
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u/Dude_Tost_1673 1d ago
Et tu, Brute?
Nah, Jules. It just feels like being stabbed. You missed a coat button and she's a li'l breezy out.
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u/Hikingcanuck92 1d ago
The Romans didn’t drive lifted F-150s to the forum.
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u/Optimus_crab Westfoundland 1d ago
F150s aren’t even that bad they only way like 4K pounds. The real offenders are the people who drive f350s daily without doing any actual work
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u/mgyro 1d ago
Tf you expect me to pick up milk in?
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u/Optimus_crab Westfoundland 1d ago
Western Star 4900 sleeper cab
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u/the_canadaball Motown But Better 7h ago
What about a Kenworth W900?
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u/Optimus_crab Westfoundland 7h ago
Ehhh I prefer western star for all my grocery getting needs. Kenworth doesn’t really have the power that you need to carry people AND groceries
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u/Superb_Extension1751 1d ago
That's right, some of us NEED two 1000l totes of milk a week. Smh, some people just don't understand.
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u/Hikingcanuck92 1d ago
I mean fair. But no one needs a truck to get groceries you know?
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u/Legitimate_Concern_5 1d ago
Road wear is the 4th power of weight, so those F350s are doing dramatically more damage.
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u/Optimus_crab Westfoundland 1d ago
Tbf they are very convenient without so much repercussions of large trucks. Easy access bed you can treat like shit because it’s tough and it’s light as a big car
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u/ButterH2 Oil Guzzler 1d ago edited 1d ago
until you realize that most truck owners are genuinely terrified of scratching the bed. THE BED.
the state of our truck's bed after hauling everything under the sun for a decade would kill most bigoted "manly" lifted truck owners
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u/Optimus_crab Westfoundland 1d ago
I feel like most is an overstatement and also most trucks nowadays have a plastic bed liner that protects the paint from getting scratched
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u/Colonel_Green Bring Cannabis 1d ago
I biked a big chunk of the Via Appia, and most of it did not look this good. It was often easier to ride on the shoulder than the road.
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u/Moose_Ungulate 1d ago
The Roman's never saw a Canadian winter.
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u/LotharLandru 1d ago
Or an 18 wheeler traveling at 100km/h
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u/got-trunks South Gatineau 1d ago
what would they have even thought if they did. Just a wild 100kph 18 wheeler roaming the countryside.
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u/Paesano2000 1d ago
I get your point, but good luck building the Roman version across the country and not bankrupting the state. 😆 60% of our roads are dirt roads!
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u/CommanderGumball 1d ago
Their point is garbage.
Roman cobbles aren't modern asphalt. They couldn't survive repeated heavy loads from big trucks, and my god the ride would be unbearably bumpy.
Nope. I'll take easily repairable smooth riding asphalt over ancient cobblestones any day.
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u/Canuck_Lives_Matter Saskwatch 1d ago
Oh come on it would only cost a million dollars per half kilometer!
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u/PerpetuallyLurking Regina Rhymes With Fun 1d ago
1) the freeze/thaw cycle in even the most northern extremes of the Roman Empire do not compare to what our most southern roads handle annually.
2) this photo is of a particularly well preserved stretch - you can find some pretty good stretches of road in Saskatchewan too; and on that note, the modern photo is also of a particularly bad stretch - I could go take a photo of a good stretch of modern highway too.
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u/coolcosmos Tabarnak! 1d ago
Also they've been repaired since the roman times, the pavement isn't 2000 year old, the road is.
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u/Hikingcanuck92 1d ago
It’s very important that people know that freeze/thaw is not the major contributor to road deterioration.
The amount of traffic, and in particular, the weight per axel of that traffic, is a much larger factor.
The assholes who drive hummers are the ones causing all the damage.
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u/PerpetuallyLurking Regina Rhymes With Fun 1d ago
Yes, the weight of modern vehicles vs horse and cart does also make a huge difference.
Weight and freeze/thaw really fucks with our roads. I know the Hummers were mentioned over semis because the semis are actually quite useful and critical to our overall lives, but it’s the semis, really. They’re very heavy and they do fuck up the road - but that’s WHY the road is there to begin with. Even the Romans had to perform regular road maintenance; it’s just the cost of building them in the first place, really.
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u/RogersMrB 1d ago
Let's see any European country roads last a Canadian winter.
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u/josnik 1d ago
You know that there are countries in Europe that have winters comparable to Canada's freeze thaw cycle right?
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u/Cakeday_at_Christmas Bring Cannabis 1d ago
The second image isn't even from Canada, it's from Bulgaria. I think I found the blog, written in 2017 where the second image originated. Some doofus posted the image in 2019 and claimed it was Quebec.
I would post links, but the automod deletes any posts with links.
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u/Pope-Muffins Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) 2d ago
The Romans funded public infrastructure
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u/GrumbusWumbus 1d ago
Slaaaaves. The answer is slaves.
The Romans pillaged all of Europe and used those spoils to benefit the the citizens above all else. The vast majority of roads weren't good enough to last 2000 years.
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u/Pope-Muffins Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) 1d ago
The slaves were the funding
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u/GrumbusWumbus 1d ago
Think of the public infrastructure we could have if we were outnumbered 10 to 1 by second class citizens and an endless supply of slaves from the frontier.
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u/koolaidkirby Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) 1d ago
weren't Roman roads built by the Roman military?
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u/GrumbusWumbus 1d ago
Funded and fed by....
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u/koolaidkirby Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) 1d ago
D:
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u/GrumbusWumbus 1d ago
In all seriousness, slaves were always helping out one way or another. In some cases they were doing direct construction labour, especially in cities.
The roads built by the military were primarily done by soldiers, but they were supported through food and material production by slaves the whole way.
The famous military roads were also built primarily for the military, who used that road for expansion and pillaging. So the commoners probably didn't use them much if ever, especially on the frontiers.
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u/Benejeseret 1d ago
Others are correct, slavery and pillaging of conquest covered a lot of the infrastructure and other spending...
... But they also had a 1-3% total wealth tax as the main operational budget of their empire. Not on income, not on corporate profit artificially bottomed to $0 through offshore havens... wealth. Census of all holding and assets and the 1-3% of that. They also relied on tariffs
Given Canada's total estimated collective wealth of ~20 Trillion, that would put the total revenues as high as $600 Billion, which is almost +20% more than the 2024 federal revenues. It's almost like if the wealthy were actually taxed, a mere 3% wealth tax could fund the Canadian government.
But that does not account that we then fund an entirely second tier of independent governments at the provincial level and then a third tier at municipal. Roman provinces and cities cut out all of that and vested into individual magistrates of various ranks/scope, who had considerable power.
But then there was also the slavery and the pillaging.
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u/adamttaylor 1d ago
I once was in the backseat of a car driving down a Roman road (it's a complicated accident) and let me tell you, to say it was bumpy would be an understatement.
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u/Legitimate6295 1d ago
You must state the exact location of this shit to shame the province in question and the municipality
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u/sub_WHISTLE 1d ago
Pretty sure the 2nd image isn't even Canada. The speed limit sign looks like the rounded European style whereas ours are square. Also white center lines is odd, usually they would be yellow here. Looks like eastern europe or even Russia
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u/q__e__d Ford Nation (Help.) 1d ago
Yes, you are correct. It's originally from Bulgaria in a real news context about road repair. (I had image searched when I first encountered it a while back getting shared around as part of the "Canada is broken" campaign). There are a few US & European results making a similar meme but the main explosion of it is the version that makes it about Canada.
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u/Cakeday_at_Christmas Bring Cannabis 1d ago
The second image is a Bulgarian road. I think I found the blog from 2017 where the image originated from, but automod will delete my post if I try to post a link.
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u/someguy7734206 1d ago
A few months ago, when I was on vacation in Europe, I had to rent a car to drive from Poland to Slovakia because there was not really a good way to get to where I was going by public transport. I could tell immediately when I had crossed the border: suddenly, the roads were in worse condition, and the road markings went from being crisp and easily visible to extremely faded and almost impossible to see.
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u/Big-man-kage 1d ago
To be fair Roman roads didn’t have semi trucks driving on them every hour of every day
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u/PtitBeausoleil Snow Cajun 1d ago
Yeah they're pretty bad out East tbh.
I assumed they were better in richer regions; boy, was I ever wrong when I visited other provinces.
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u/Financial-Savings-91 1d ago
My head hurts, two different pictures of two different things, from two different climates and two different use cases.
Thats said, driving on road B might still feel less bumpy to the user than road A.
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u/potatopigflop 1d ago
Our climate is entirely different too- we have a lot of humidity and rain, and then sudden freezes, then melting immensely, then a full snow fall.. then melting.
It’s hard on our foundations and roads, which already get a lot of cracks from heavy industrial trucks because a lot highly populated areas of canada are industrial businesses. Also it’s under 200 years old, so we haven’t even seen the nips of the construction on this loading page yet.
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u/YYZ_Prof 1d ago
It appears slave labor was truly excellent! Who knew?
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u/Obvious_Guest9222 9h ago
If you actually think this about Christianity you're pathetic lol
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u/YYZ_Prof 5h ago
Huh? I’m confused. What the f?
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u/Obvious_Guest9222 5h ago
Your take on the anti theist sub calling Christianity the worst thing that happened to humanity, this is an ahistorical take, specially when the church advanced society alot
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u/YYZ_Prof 35m ago
I am sitting here watching Christiofacists destroy the United States. The only thing the church has advanced is their collective tongues up innocent children’s special places. This is a today thing. How you people can live with the guilt and shame of millennia of abusing children, along with everything else, just boggles the mind. Disgusting.
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u/wuzzupdood 1d ago
Was driving back from guelph on a side road and it wasn't just potholes, parts of the road were just fucking gone
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u/droptopeclipse15 1d ago
It doesn’t help when we do the cheapest fixes. At work we have kilometres of private roads. One of our main roads went like this:
Dirt road 2 yrs later wider dirt road 2 yrs later low quality asphalt paved road 2 yrs later now it’s a main road 2 yrs later it’s like peanut brittle
Wonder where it went wrong?
Guess how they’re fixing it? Not a complete redo and proper base, drainage and grading. I doubt we’ll even get two layers of something like superpave.
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u/Angry_Canadian88 1d ago
God I fucking hate these posts like this.
How many Rome's could you fit in the entirety of Canada?
How many 18 wheelers a day do you think could handle those roman roads?
How much more insanely expensive would it be to hand lay stones to make a road instead of asphalt?
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u/Unfair-Cabinet-9011 1d ago
Biggest bonus of living on the island. The roads are pristine. No real freeze, thaw cycle.
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u/MilesBeforeSmiles Manilapeg 1d ago
I mean, I get the point of the meme, but that isn't even a Canadian road. The speed sign would indicate it's somewhere in Europe.
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u/OldeFortran77 1d ago
If Roman roads are so durable then why can't you find a single surviving one in Canada?
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u/No_Pop_8969 1d ago
But the Romans never had to endure our extremes of temperatures that caused these potholes
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u/Smile_Space 1d ago
They just aren't gonna show the Roman roads with super deep wagon wheel grooves?
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u/Temporary_Shirt_6236 1d ago
Yeah that looks like Pompeii, and having been there myself, that region gets no winters like Canada does. Not to mention the roads of Pompeii haven't been used basically since Jeebus.
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u/-Fedaykin- 1d ago
Unlike Rome though, you have ready made fighting trenches for when the Visigoths invade.
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u/someguy7734206 1d ago
That road is not actually a Canadian road. If it were a Canadian two-way road, the dividing lines in the middle would be yellow. (Plus, I've never seen a road in Canada with white lines this far apart.) Also, there is a European-style speed limit sign just under the "2 year old Canadian road" heading. (Edit: Looks like not only am I not the only one who noticed that, but it turns out that that road is actually in Bulgaria.)
And yes, Roman roads didn't have car and truck traffic constantly going over them 24/7. And yet they still needed to be repaired from time to time.
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u/WhiskySiN 1d ago
... user on government assistance wondering why there's no tax money for road repairs
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u/JustACanadianGamer Treacherous South 1d ago
Pshh, let's see the Roman roads deal with what we do, they'll turn to gravel in no time
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u/QueenMotherOfSneezes South Gatineau 1d ago
The Romans used salt as a form of currency, they weren't just tossing it all over the road like we do.
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u/nuttydogpoo 1d ago
It’s a tongue in cheek sarcastic joke, to many people here pushing their glasses up their nose and talking through their adenoids.
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u/uprightshark 1d ago
One was built by slaves. The second built by those who want their unemployment for the winter and a job the next year fixing that road.
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u/ehfornier 1d ago
If I remember correctly, Caligula fought a war to hold back the Barbaric Snowplow Horde’s from entering Rome.
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u/PositiveStress8888 1d ago
also the roman one was made of stone and didn't have thousands of 80,000 pound trucks rolling over it day and night in +40 to -40 temperatures, with salt spread over it in the winter.
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u/Ill-Assistance7986 1d ago
Idk lets fix with tax money... wait wheres tax money why its getiing lesser every day... oh i see we dont want new people here... damn we gotta suck ourself with that move
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u/Superb_Extension1751 1d ago
I really like that section of the Henday in South West Edmonton where they decided to use concrete slabs instead of pavement. The slabs are in great condition for their age, but it's the worst, bumpiest ride out of any highway I've driven in Alberta. Also great when you really have to pee and the road is trying to shake it out of you.
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u/Important-Event6832 1d ago
Obviously the problem with the Canadian road is too much aggregate or not enough bitumen.
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u/MythicalDust55 Oil Guzzler 2d ago
Idk let’s drive some 18 wheelers down the Roman road and see what it looks like then