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Started by Josephus, March 22, 2016, 10:12:49 AM

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Josephus

March 22, 2016, 10:12:49 AM
Civis Romanus Sum

"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

Grinning_Colossus

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March 22, 2016, 10:16:14 AM
Live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse. :(
Quis futuit ipsos fututores?

derspiess

#2
March 22, 2016, 10:19:06 AM
RIP :( 

He was somehow both loathsome and lovable.  And of all things that could have killed him, it ended up being cancer.
"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

#3
March 22, 2016, 10:21:23 AM
There goes the dream of Ford being Canadian PM to Trump's US Pres.  :(

I'm sorry for his family's loss.
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

Eddie Teach

#4
March 22, 2016, 10:40:55 AM
And thus ends Toronto's 15 minutes of international notoriety.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Josephus

#5
March 22, 2016, 10:50:30 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on March 22, 2016, 10:40:55 AM
And thus ends Toronto's 15 minutes of international notoriety.

Whatcha talking' about...we're hosting the 2017 Invictus Games

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/03/16/toronto-to-host-invictus-games-and-prince-harry-in-2017.html

:lmfao:
Civis Romanus Sum

"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

Barrister

#6
March 22, 2016, 11:20:32 AM
RIP Rob Ford.

His antics in the end of course made him deeply unqualified to be Mayor, of course.

But he was so... refreshing.  Conservatives have had a decent amount of success on the provincial and federal levels, but municipal politics have long, long been the sole domain of the left wing.  It was nice to see some push-back on that from Toronto of all places.  And Ford was so unapologetic about his agenda, which simply boiled down to cutting spending.
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Grinning_Colossus

#7
March 22, 2016, 11:41:30 AM
He wasn't as strong on law and order.
Quis futuit ipsos fututores?

Malthus

#8
March 22, 2016, 12:23:36 PM
Quote from: Grinning_Colossus on March 22, 2016, 11:41:30 AM
He wasn't as strong on law and order.

He's the first mayor who could cut down the crime rate simply by changing his recreational activities.  ;)
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

alfred russel

#9
March 22, 2016, 12:25:34 PM
Quote from: Grinning_Colossus on March 22, 2016, 11:41:30 AM
He wasn't as strong on law and order.

He was a man of law and order except in his personal life.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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garbon

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March 22, 2016, 01:46:04 PM
Quote from: Grinning_Colossus on March 22, 2016, 11:41:30 AM
He wasn't as strong on law and order.

I don't remember that episode.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
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