I want Ford gone, desperately, but I'm starting to get a bad feeling about this.
Years ago I made the huge mistake of clicking on a link and watching a video of some scandal-plagued American Mayor calling a press conference and proceeding to stick a... [
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Apparently Ford just fired his Chief of Staff. [
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If the weather reports show Toronto getting a lot of snow, my Dad will call me up specifically to ask if they've called in the army yet
Such a dad thing. My dad still says, everytime he sees me, "Did your razor break?" (I hate... [
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Holy shit that sad Doug Ford campaign speech just single-handedly guaranteed that the video will be out sooner than later. [
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2 days ago
Please, Metafilter was the one place I was pretty certain was a Levy-free zone. Gross. [
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2 days ago
Yeah I wondered why they didn't delve into the toilets.
I was hoping this was a bit funnier so I could send it to my German mother-in-law.
Also, wurst is awesome. Although, after a few weeks of travelling in Germany and all the wurst and potatoes,... [
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13 days ago
So we had an awesome time. Thanks so much for all the tips.
Here's a really long account that doesn't even include everything we did.
Despite the absolutely freezing weather, we dressed 4 or 5 layers-deep and walked countless miles around the... [
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2 weeks ago
I tried one for Lord of the Flies. [
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2 weeks ago
Peter Dinklage: I mean, I don't know. A disaster, basically, but somehow it works.
Ugh, no, it's cringeworthy. I like the character but many of his scenes stand out to me as ACTING!... [
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2 weeks ago
Do you really believe Lord of the Flies would have a girlie cover treatment if it were written by a woman?
Well, no, but that was sort of the point. These kind of dopey-ass covers are everywhere, and as with most satire, you pick an... [
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2 weeks ago
NYC for a Not-Cool-Anymore Dad and His Daughter
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He will accept the honour with one long, uninterupted speech that begins in a small office and winds through a maze of hallways and streets, eventually following him up several flights of marble steps and triumphantly circling around him at the top.... [
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Walking on Sunshine
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My Elevator/Bad Parenting Anecdote:
We were in Spain this past summer, and after an awesome night and a great dinner in Alicante, I was riding up to our room in the hotel elevator with my 15 year-old daughter. I was trying to make her laugh by... [
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I'd have felt that the apologies would have had more sincerity if they were kept private, rather than providing content fodder for another disposable blog article.
That's the feeling I took away from it too. I hate reading these kinds of... [
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Wow, that's really too bad. I was another one who read the post a few days ago and thought "whew" that he hadn't died and was gearing up for another fight.
Really sad news.... [
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Seems like the whole thing is really rubbing you the wrong way. [
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2 months ago
She's playing a bit of a stupid Twitter game right now, tweeting cryptic things about "truth vs. reality" and responding to one commenter's thought that she may have been attempting irony as "100% accurate." Aparrently all will be... [
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2 months ago
It was really well done technically and he has a good voice but while watching it I had that same feeling I get when confronted with certain types of musical theatre; it's sort of a shifting-in-my-seat discomfort, almost an embarrassment for the... [
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2 months ago
I think you're trying to be funny, but I never get the joke
Maybe they are fudging their answer, in a slightly feline way, in order to appear clever.... [
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2 months ago
I'd like to hear what he does for radio banter/ presentation
He's actually quite easy to listen to; he seems real and natural and comes across as completely un-phony and likeable and I've been a listener for years. That said, I've started... [
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2 months ago
You can only retire from something if you opted to do it in the first place
Exactly. It was hard to hear what the people were saying above the loud, triumphant music-from-heaven; but the whole thing just felt unbearably sad. Not like a... [
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2 months ago
I was in 3rd year at an Ontario university, the same age as most of these women, and this just shattered everybody I knew. Just unbelievable.
At the time it seemed outrageous that anyone would dismiss the fact that these women were targeted because... [
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2 months ago
yes I agree, and especially any post about spiders or bees or bugs that invariably end up with a pile-on of kill-it-with-fire.
Or any post that has anything even tangentially related to Canada, in which someone inevitably makes the... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by aclevername, Doleful Creature
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2 months ago
Wow, how fucking gross.
I guess it would be sort of immature to respond like so:
Q: Do you have a girlfriend? Are you married? Do you like girls?
A: Sorry man, I don't date football players.... [
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2 months ago
This is great.
I love the irony of using multiple clocks as soothing device/insomnia therapy, since the sound of a lone ticking clock is pretty much torture for an insomniac.... [
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2 months ago
I can't actually remember the last time I heard anyone make a comment about someone wearing a bluetooth earpiece
Yeah, sorry, I still think those things are the complete dorkiest; not just nerdy but dorky in an almost aggressive way.... [
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2 months ago
Quite entertaining.
In the late '80's I worked at a shitty club in Toronto called The Big Bop and Floria was the Cigarette Girl at the time.
She was really nice.
The club is a Crate and Barrel now.... [
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