99-Year-Old Volunteer Retires; Consumes Great-Granddaughter

The Star would have you believe that it"s "icing." I ask you, who puts icing on an infant?

Lamest stab at humour I've come across in a long, long time.

This post is of Cal quality - Topping you can do better.

Hexadecimal: "I adore children! But, I could never eat a whole one." - ReBoot

People also seem to forget the difference between "blog" and "big budget mainstream media company." Torontoist is about city esoterica that happens to catch a writer's eye, however societally insignificant it is to current events. Like anything, just ignore the stuff that doesn't turn your crank.

And with that death grip, that kid isn't going anywhere! She looks good for 99. I'll bet by the time that little girl gets old, humans will all be living well into our hundreds (if we have any natural resources left and the air is cleaner by then).

It's just a joke, Jerrold. I bet that she's a very nice woman. My great-grandfather lived to 105 and had a good sense of humour; he probably would've laughed something like this off.

I get that it's a joke. But it's at the expense of an old woman and a young girl. And who benefits?

I highly doubt that the family and friends of this highly respected volunteer would find your calling the young girl a "nonagenarian interfamilial cannibalistic sacrifice" on a website read by thousands in their city very funny.

While it may be hip in the blogosphere to criticise the mainstream media for their ineptidude in journalistic integrity, it's not hip to make a mockery of some of our most valued volunteers and citizens.

I'm not over-reacting or anything. I'm just calling it what it is - childish, insensitive, and disrespectful.

My $0.02

Fixed Kate, thanks. I actually looked up the difference between intra and inter in the OED, but then...uh...never looked at the pages. Thanks very much. :)

And Jerrold, I respect your opinion and I know where it's coming from. This post can be construed of as mean, I agree - but it's also just a joke, and I really hesitate to say that it's at their "expense." I also think that bringing what these people would hypothetically think doesn't serve any purpose (because I, personally, would hope that the family raising that kid would have a sense of humour about a funny photo of her and great-grandmother). However, if anyone in the family objects and wants me to talk to me about it, my e-mail's at the top of the site - and if you'd like to continue this conversation with me, Jerrold, my e-mail's there for you too.

If you wanna talk about mean, I would bet that the Star had way more flattering shots of that woman and they very intentionally chose that one because it was kinda funny-looking and they explicitly knew it looked like she was gonna swallow that little one whole. I'm sure she (and the family) is OK with that, and I would hope they would have the sense of humour to be OK with our jokes too.

Plus, the woman was published in the country's largest newspaper and blogs have a right to comment on something so public, and obviously in jest. It's not like we're publishing a paparazzi upskirt as she stepped out of a car with Britney. What?

I'm not terribly offended, even though I do find it shows a lack of tact. Feel free to carry on laughing and at the geriatric lady eating a baby with denture breath. :P

I dunno, I found this light-hearted. I didn't think it was mean.

Also, Kate? YES. Thank you!

WHINERS!

I'm with Jerrold, there's insufficient media commentary (or actual humour) here to justify the end result, a suggestion (and yes I understand that it's tongue in cheek) that some innocent individual is a cannibal. You want to do media criticism, then do media criticism, you want to do humour, go ahead but you can do better than this, this is just sad.