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What's the deal with Mayor Rob Ford??

Started by OttoVonBismarck, November 04, 2013, 03:09:31 PM

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Eddie Teach

#210
May 02, 2014, 01:34:41 AM
Quote from: viper37 on May 02, 2014, 01:30:56 AM
it's up the good people of Toronto to decide if they want him as their mayor.

It's mainly up to their neighbors.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Malthus

#211
May 07, 2014, 01:12:02 PM
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Josephus

#212
May 09, 2014, 09:21:22 PM
Ford's wild and crazy night (warning links to a Toronto Star article...not for cynics)

http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2014/05/09/rob_ford_one_wild_night_in_march.html
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Josephus

#213
June 11, 2014, 07:04:38 PM
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Malthus

#214
June 12, 2014, 07:49:17 AM
Quote from: Josephus on May 09, 2014, 09:21:22 PM
Ford's wild and crazy night (warning links to a Toronto Star article...not for cynics)

http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2014/05/09/rob_ford_one_wild_night_in_march.html

Sounds like a fun guy to party with ... if you don't mind the occasional punch in the face.  :D

Real hospitable, too. Why, he'll offer to share his wife.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Caliga

#215
September 10, 2014, 07:17:30 PM
0 Ed Anger Disapproval Points

HVC

#216
September 12, 2014, 01:47:12 PM
Rob Ford out, Doug Ford in.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Malthus

#217
September 12, 2014, 01:48:09 PM
Rob Ford has pulled out of the mayoral race because of his stomach tumor - to be replaced by his brother, Doug Ford.

However, Rob is still running for councellor - his nephew, Mike Ford, has withdrawn to make a place for him.

A general shuffling of the Fords.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

derspiess

#218
September 12, 2014, 01:48:25 PM
:(
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Malthus

#219
September 12, 2014, 03:10:10 PM
It will be interesting to see if Doug polls better or worse than Rob.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

derspiess

#220
September 12, 2014, 03:11:25 PM
Well he can't be half as entertaining.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Malthus

#221
September 12, 2014, 03:13:40 PM
Quote from: derspiess on September 12, 2014, 03:11:25 PM
Well he can't be half as entertaining.

They both have exactly the same policies (the two more or less formed a unit). So the issue is whether his brother's - entertaining - habits helped him politically, or hurn him politcally.

My own theory is that part of Rob Ford's appeal was exactly that he drove his enemies (meaning, most of us  :P ) nuts with his reprehensible antics, and that this actually made his followers like him the more - that he was, in effect, trolling us (albeit not wholly conciously): as in 'look at those effite downtown elitists clutching their pearls and fainting as our "bad boy from the 'burbs" Rob gets wasted and stirs up shit'. Doug lacks that bizzare form of charisma.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Admiral Yi

#222
September 12, 2014, 03:17:33 PM
What kind of third world tin pot dictatorship are you guys running up there?

Malthus

#223
September 12, 2014, 03:20:29 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 12, 2014, 03:17:33 PM
What kind of third world tin pot dictatorship are you guys running up there?

:huh:
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

derspiess

#224
September 12, 2014, 03:25:54 PM
Quote from: Malthus on September 12, 2014, 03:13:40 PM
My own theory is that part of Rob Ford's appeal was exactly that he drove his enemies (meaning, most of us  :P ) nuts with his reprehensible antics, and that this actually made his followers like him the more - that he was, in effect, trolling us (albeit not wholly conciously): as in 'look at those effite downtown elitists clutching their pearls and fainting as our "bad boy from the 'burbs" Rob gets wasted and stirs up shit'. Doug lacks that bizzare form of charisma.

I can totally see that.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall
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