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[betenoire]

Originally Posted by honeybarbara

it could annoyingly scratch at your door with it's toe nails till you let it in.

Well now I -really- hope it brought Thing with it because somebody needs to clean the coffee off of my monitor now.

Lordamercy.

[betenoire]

So apparently Marg Princess Warrior showed up at Mayor Ford's place to try and get an interview with him...so he ran back inside and called 9-1-1.

Jackass.

Ford calls 911 on CBC comedians

[Linus]

Originally Posted by betenoire

So apparently Marg Princess Warrior showed up at Mayor Ford's place to try and get an interview with him...so he ran back inside and called 9-1-1.

Jackass.

Ford calls 911 on CBC comedians

What. A. Dumbass.

I would kill to get an interview with Marg Princess Warrior (I still say she'd make a great PM).

[betenoire]

Originally Posted by Linus

What. A. Dumbass.

I would kill to get an interview with Marg Princess Warrior (I still say she'd make a great PM).

I know! I would want to be in politics in Canada JUST so that she would ambush me for an interview!

(Hey, Linus. Is there any way I could get you to move this thread back to the Canada forums? I'm not sure why it ever got taken out of there. Since it's not super active Canadians are unlikely to come across it in the "news" forums and if it's Canadian content they're looking for the first place most people would look is in the Canada forums. Please?)

[betenoire]

45 Canadian movies you should see - according to Strombo

I am still raw that eXistenz was left off of the list.

Jesus of Montreal is also a cool movie, although it's not an english movie and that's what the list is of. But still.

Isn't Hard Candy canadian???

[Linus]

Originally Posted by betenoire

45 Canadian movies you should see - according to Strombo

I am still raw that eXistenz was left off of the list.

Jesus of Montreal is also a cool movie, although it's not an english movie and that's what the list is of. But still.

Isn't Hard Candy canadian???

Nope. US. Although that is a great movie.

Another film, although french, that's good is Les Boys. I actually enjoyed it both dubbed and subtitled.

[betenoire]

Originally Posted by Linus

Nope. US. Although that is a great movie.

Another film, although french, that's good is Les Boys. I actually enjoyed it both dubbed and subtitled.

Really? But Hard Candy has so many Canadians in it! I guess we're the only ones willing to be in a movie like that (it's one of my favourites)

(Well, I guess by "so many Canadians" I really just mean Ellen Page and Sandra Oh)

[Linus]

Originally Posted by betenoire

So apparently Marg Princess Warrior showed up at Mayor Ford's place to try and get an interview with him...so he ran back inside and called 9-1-1.

Jackass.

Ford calls 911 on CBC comedians

And Ford, of course, had to use his sense of entitlement.

Sources say Ford turned on the dispatcher, yelling: “You … bitches! Don’t you f--king know? I’m Rob f--king Ford, the mayor of this city!”

[tapu]

Canadianz

i haz one

mm-hmm!

[betenoire]

Sources say Ford turned on the dispatcher, yelling: “You … bitches! Don’t you f--king know? I’m Rob f--king Ford, the mayor of this city!”

What a douchebag. Where'd you read that, Linus?

[Linus]

Originally Posted by betenoire

What a douchebag. Where'd you read that, Linus?

Check the front page of HuffPost.ca (http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/)

[betenoire]

Originally Posted by Linus

Check the front page of HuffPost.ca (http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/)

Haha, I love it. He's like a trustfund kid! "Do you know who my father is?"

[Kelz]

I hate Ford. I despise the guy! It's embarrassing he's the mayor. He's a one term wonder mayor lol.

One of his volunteers during his campaign was circling a parking lot and rolls up beside me while I'm trying to load the groceries in my car and starts asking me who I'm voting for. Now I'm a civil person so as politely as possible I said, "I'm undecided but I can assure you, I won't be voting for him" And he says asks me "why?" WHY!?!? So my partner steps in and says "Because he's homophobic" he starts pulling away and says "Well check the polls" At that point I lost it and told him to f*** off. Felt good

[Linus]

Originally Posted by Kelz

I hate Ford. I despise the guy! It's embarrassing he's the mayor. He's a one term wonder mayor lol.

One of his volunteers during his campaign was circling a parking lot and rolls up beside me while I'm trying to load the groceries in my car and starts asking me who I'm voting for. Now I'm a civil person so as politely as possible I said, "I'm undecided but I can assure you, I won't be voting for him" And he says asks me "why?" WHY!?!? So my partner steps in and says "Because he's homophobic" he starts pulling away and says "Well check the polls" At that point I lost it and told him to f*** off. Felt good

From what I've been reading (via CBC and HuffPost.ca) this guy is actually worse than Mel Lastman -- and that is saying a lot.

[EnderD_503]

Originally Posted by Linus

From what I've been reading (via CBC and HuffPost.ca) this guy is actually worse than Mel Lastman -- and that is saying a lot.

Oh god...dude...not even the same league as Lastman. Lastman wasn't exactly world's best mayor, but Ford is like a parody of the worst redneck bigot you could possibly think of. Not even the conservatives wanted his support in the past two election campaigns. Have you seen the TweedleRob and TweedleDoug caricatures? They've been vandalized all over the city, lol. He really is the worst mayor this city has ever had. From privatizing garbage pick up west of Yonge, to him and Doug's whole "hey, let's build the world's largest ferris wheel on Toronto's lakeshore! And a giant mall! Tourists will flock!" venture, to selling off/trying to sell off the city's low income housing units (cause we need more condos! everyone wants to buy condos! Never mind poor people can't find places to live! They're just lazy anarchists!), to lying about the whole transit city deal with the province...to every other stupid idea the dude has ever had. This city is going to be a mess by the time he's done with it. He's even mentioned trying to decamp the Occupy movement currently set up in St. James park. And if he does I get the sense the shit will really hit the fan, cause a surprising amount of people here are supporting the movement.

I also wonder if Rob or Doug (aka co-mayor) have any knowledge whatsoever of Canadian culture in general. First Doug claims he has no clue who Margaret Atwood is, now Rob doesn't know who Marg Warrior Princess is ()...seriously, where have these guys been? Under a rock?

And yeah...this whole 911 call on Marg was just beyond stupid. I keep thinking to myself "no, he can't be THAT fucking stupid"...then he goes and does something stupider than the last time. Apparently he tried to deny calling police dispatch "bitches" and throwing insults at them...little did he realise...it's a fucking 911 call. They record it you moron! You can't deny something they've recorded you saying, and the police ain't exactly your biggest fans as of late.

Then he tries to lie about how the Marg thing went down, saying she came running out of the van scaring his young daughter who supposedly went screaming back into the house "and freaking out." Uh...duuuhh, you don't think there were cameras filming the whole thing, Mr. Ford? As Marg said "unless the child was in his suit coat, there wasn't any child there." And of course, he has to tell us how intimidated and afraid he was. And again gotta love Marg's reply to that one "I'm a 60 year old woman with a plastic sword..."

So yeah, in conclusion, he is definitely fucking worse than Lastman. Lastman I didn't question as a sentient being. Ford is like a character you'd expect to be in Family Guy or the Simpsons. Fucking hate the guy and his "gravy train" bullshit with a passion, and can't believe how many idiotic people who haven't been able to figure out that not paying taxes = no money for city/no money for public services fell for his campaign. Oh well, never mind he's shut down all sorts of museums, is screwing everyone over by wiping out public services...but damn, at least he got rid of those pesky vehicle registration fees! *megaeyeroll*

Did I mention I really fucking hate him?

[betenoire]

Kobo Vox (it's in COLOUR!) has just been released - retails at 199.

http://www.thestar.com/business/arti...ark-price?bn=1

I'm really digging the looks/reviews of this toy. I don't have an ereader yet - but I think this is the one I will get. It looks FANTASTIC.

Things about it I think are cool:

1 - Kobo is Canadian.

2 - cheaper than the Nook Color. So there.

3 - Has an AFFS+ (advanced fringe field switching plus) screen, which is apparently used on technology in fighter planes. Basically it means "you can see the screen outside in the daylight" - which is pretty amazing.

4 - The "Pulse" social feature is kind of a virtual bookclub intergrated into the book itself. You can see how popular a book is, how many people are reading it at that moment, discuss the book, etc. It's apparently the most advanced/useful/fun "social" feature on any ereader thus far.

5 - Their own android app store! And they are all FREE. So there.

6 - You can view books from other devices on Kobo and vice versa - which not all ereaders support.

I think I might buy this for myself soonish.