I love coming into this thread simply for Rob Ford pictures because I always tweet them to friends! He always looks so god damn ridiculous!
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I love coming into this thread simply for Rob Ford pictures because I always tweet them to friends! He always looks so god damn ridiculous!
Snow!
lunarworks
Member
Snowing here. I shoulda got the snow tires put on last week, but I haven't been at the office for two weeks, where they're kept. :/
I hope it's just McGuinty being passive-aggressive with Rob Ford. The province doesn't want the whole thing underground, because it's pointless and way too expensive. So, they're resorting to threats, rather than just coming out and saying it I suppose.
I hope it's just McGuinty being passive-aggressive with Rob Ford. The province doesn't want the whole thing underground, because it's pointless and way too expensive. So, they're resorting to threats, rather than just coming out and saying it I suppose.
McGunity's not in a strong position either sadly. He just got smacked around by the Conservatives and the NDP for acting like a dick.
lunarworks
Member
I guess that's why it calls for passive-aggressiveness, then. It's what you do when you're in no position to stand up for yourself.
Lostconfused
Member
Needs more gravy.
Just north of Steeles, it's mostly snow too. Not alot but usually what we get on first snow. I can still see the grass poking out of it, but snow is snow. I love it when everything goes white.
Zombie James
Banned
SNOE!
-Pyromaniac-
Member
Such a shitty and depressing morning because of the other turned out to be a pretty nice day outside by 1.
I'm really tempted to pick up a Fan Expo premium package for next year. They have a limited block open right now, where you can buy a deluxe or premium pass. I went for a deluxe last year and I thought it was worth it.
Lines weren't so terrible (better than last year!), but the premium gives me quick access and a goodie bag. Would be nice if they show what's inside the goodie bag first, though. And I forgot the cost of last year's but for anyone curious, it's $89 for a deulxe pass, $129 for the premium.
Lines weren't so terrible (better than last year!), but the premium gives me quick access and a goodie bag. Would be nice if they show what's inside the goodie bag first, though. And I forgot the cost of last year's but for anyone curious, it's $89 for a deulxe pass, $129 for the premium.
BladeWorker
Member
if the general population were paying a whit's attention to provincial politics right now, I might agree with you.
But they aren't.
And, pretty much anyone who really cares about transit in this city wants more of it. So, he who comes out swinging with the bucks to support transit - and lord knows Metrolinx has more dollar-winning credibility around here than the TTC - wins.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
McGuinty barely has a majority, so... people did care I suppose.
Oh yeah, whatever happened to the Conservative MPP who wanted to be speaker?
Oh yeah, whatever happened to the Conservative MPP who wanted to be speaker?
BladeWorker
Member
He doesn't, people pay more attention during writ periods - though judging by turnout, only barely - and he dropped out of the race before voting began.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Wait, so... did the Liberals have to nominate one of their own as a speaker then?
BladeWorker
Member
the party doesn't make parliamentary nominations (well, not explicitly). Individual MPPs nominate a colleague who may choose to stand for nomination.
The speaker is currently a Liberal (this guy) though Klees was considering a run (which might well have been successful; the guy's well-respected across the board, despite being somewhere to the right of Randy Hillier wrt social politics).
Here's what I think happened: in a tie vote, the speaker is asked to vote, and most always votes with the government. PC Party brass would have seen this as an MPP trying to undermine them (and at least in part, they'd be right) so they put the kaibosh on him so the man wouldn't have to end his political career as a pariah of the party he served well for 30 years.
I suspect there's more to it than that, and it's not being published. But ultimately, that's what it amounts to.
Santa don't work for cheap.
Seems like a terrible idea. Are there no other malls in the city doing Santa. Yorkdale, or Yonge and Eg?
STC probably. Haven't been there in a while but someone told me that they were already set up by last week.
DevelopmentArrested
Banned
Is this a joke?
Yorkdale has him 10-8pm M-S and 11-6pm on Sunday with only a 1 hour break in the afternoon on each day. How do they screw that up at the fucking Eaton Centre?
No.
http://www.torontoeatoncentre.com/en/custom/Pages/SkypeWithSanta!.aspx
I saw on the news parents showing up at the Eaton Centre with their kids only to find out there wasn't one.
I heard she has a channel on a certain free webcam site.
DevelopmentArrested
Banned
That is fucking weird and stupid.
Aren't Yorkdale and the Eaton Centre both Cadillac Fairview? Whoops nope, Yorkdale is Oxford.
Yeah, there was one woman who pulled her kid out of school for the day to see Santa and was upset to learn there wasn't a Santa there.. I was more surprised at the fact the kid got a day off school to see Santa.
BigJonsson
Member
Rob Ford vs The Star is getting fun, he is acting like a child
I need details !
God, so stupid. This is basically what happens when stuff like this is run by the types of people who don't understand the internet but are pretty sure it's the future of everything.
lunarworks
Member
I wonder if The Star's creative use of Ford photos is a direct result of him snubbing them, or them just plain not liking him at all.
added_time
Member
Come on ride the crane - hey ride it - woo woo
lunarworks
Member
Nice. Did you take that?
BladeWorker
Member
Third option: the man can't take a good photo.