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Toronto factory worker finds World War II-era hand grenade in a box of used clothing. The bomb squad was called in. If Torontoist had found the grenade, though, you know we would be all like, "Hey! Free hand grenade!"
Facebook declares breastfeeding pictures to be "obscene content." It's cleverly following the example of Livejournal in caving to uptight moralistic fuckwits.
Dalton McGuinty promises to freeze taxes. Again. Despite all the new-spending promises he's made in the last few months. So the Grits aren't just going to give you a pony, they are going to give you a free pony! In comparison, the Tories will not give you a pony, and the NDP will give you a pony but charge you for it. (This has been another handy installment of "Describe All Provincial Political Campaigns In Terms Of Ponies.")
Ontario is the child poverty centre of Canada, with 44 percent of the country's poor kids. Now admittedly we only have 40 percent of the country's population, so we're slightly above our, you know, going rate. Not that child poverty isn't bad, but it would have been nice for one of the multiple news reports on the topic to have pointed this out.
Prominent lawyer found guilty of professional misconduct, disbarred. T. Sher Singh, a member of the Order of Canada, took money from clients and did nothing for them. Torontoist understands that everybody wants to make a lawyer joke right now, so please, take this time and go nuts. We're sure your lawyer joke will be better than anything we can manage.
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If Facebook wants to eliminate offensive material, they should start with 90% of those new Facebook applications that everyone feels the need to add. I'm tired of being SuperPoked by a vampire in a really good mood holding a fortune cookie while demanding that I answer a question about my stripper name while reading a Bible Quote of the Day.
When I was a teenager, I used to work at Tim Horton's, and some customers would absolutely flip out to me if some mom brought out the boob to feed her hungry baby, demanding that I remove her from the store. Because breastfeeding can only lead to raunchy public sex and the collapse of traditional marriage, you know.
Here's an idea: how about not staring instead.
Will somebody please buy Bird a damn pony...
Or, how about they delete the thousands of "I want to be a model!" and "Canadian Hot Girls!" groups where poor young things upload photo after photo of skanky dress and pouty-lip poses?
The child poverty moniker is just plain annoying. Every kid is poor, because they don't earn income, period. Only their parents and families do.
I'm all for making it easier for the less fortunate to hang on to sparse cash, but honestly, it's not child poverty. It's just plain old regular poverty.
Facebook is going to start losing users if it doesn't get more democratic about the rules, or at least having a better way of complaining than making a group.
Facebook (and pretty much the rest of society) and obscenity.
A war and young kids getting blown apart is ok, we can show violence, death, mayhem and war on TV and the net....
but mister, You put even a hint a nip or ariola and we will shut you down. (oh no, I'm not exaclty sure I spelled ariola correctly, and I can't check because I'm at work and the porno-nazis would discover me looking up "ariola". I'm gonna have to go with my instinct, I can see "ariola" in my mind, it certainly looks right)
Breastfeeding, only the most natural thing in the world.
"Sir....Sir, that woman...is....is...oh, I can barely say it...she is NURT-uring her child....and I must ask you to make her leave as I will not tolerate it!"
What I always find fascinating is how you can show 98% of a breast in some ad (or see them on strip club billboards walking down the street), but the second a millimetre of nipple shows, that's it—INDECENT! Pasties, opaque fabric or superimposed stars = not indecent.
Perhaps we should give babies straws?
At my Tim Horton's job, what I found most alarming is that one of the reasons people complained was because they "were trying to eat" and it made them lose their appetite. This was before Tim's went non-smoking and the air was a fog of cigarette smoke...the smell of which also permeated the taste of the donuts. I had to hold back on saying, "the breast milk is for the baby—YOU don't have to eat it."
"All provincial political campaigns," Bird? ;-)
It was an installment, Tindal. The Greens' pony policy will be discussed as soon as the Green Party does something newsworthy. Set yourself on fire or something and we can talk!
Marc: Maybe that's just the polite way of saying "Your screaming, starving child is driving me up the wall." Not to mention there's a lot of (male and female) tennis balls in tube socks wandering around out there that you just don't want to see in a state of undress.
Chris Taylor: so the solution to the problem of screaming, starving babies is to ... starve them longer?
As for your second point, I'm sure that we can establish a basic rule of decency, and enshrine it in law, such that one must be at least as fit and attractive as Chris Taylor before feeding a child in public.
Or, solve the problem with burqas! But then Stephen Harper won't let you vote. God, this is complicated.
Eric, maybe your natural reaction is to impose your worldview on others via the majesty of the law. I would rather see fewer and simpler laws than have the state poking into every nook and cranny it doesn't belong.
I'm just suggesting to Marc that there's other reasons (beyond 19th century prudery) that someone could get tired of public breastfeeding.
But by all means don the niqab if that sort of thing floats your boat.
Children aren't screaming when they're in the midst of being breastfed. In fact, I can't even remember a case where the kid was screaming before. A more offensive sound was CHFI playing that "saiiiiiiling, take me awaaaaaay" song about eighty times every shift on the restaurant's speaker system.
Hah! Christopher Cross is always the wrong answer. To anything.
"Will somebody please buy Bird a damn pony..."
Very funny. I laughed out loud at work and could explain it to nobody.
I think in all of my time in restaurants and misc. eateries, I've come upon no mothers breastfeeding. I did indeed meet one in a park, and she was quite discreet.
Maybe my experience is anomalous ... maybe everyone else is so frequently tripping over babies at their mothers' teat, at work, at play, at their grandma's wake, that they just CAN'T STAND IT ANYMORE.