Results tagged “theyheardthenewstoday”

Sadly, it is not that easy. more ›

Sometimes, you never know what's going to make the vox populi explode. If you had told us that the biggest news story of last week would be a scandal involving a sleeping TTC ticket collector which turned into an internet meme, we probably would have looked at you funny. But this news story wasn't just about one sleeping collector, as much as numerous commentators who wanted to pretend that falling asleep on the job never, ever happens in the private sector, and that in the private sector you get fired the moment you do anything that doesn't profit your employer directly. (Aside: a friend of ours commented to us over the weekend that it took him six months to get permission to fire a delinquent, non-unionized employee in his private sector firm, and that said permission was ultimately rescinded.) more ›

We understand why you'd be confused about that, "lguy." Fred Armisen is in fact offensive, but that is mostly because he sucks so very, very badly. more ›

If there's one thing people agree about, it's that they hate politicians a lot more than they hate prostitutes. Everything else is up for grabs. more ›

While we here at Torontoist appreciate a bad pun as much as the next conglomerate of web writers collectively writing in the first person plural, said pun was unfortunately the high point of this weekend's internet commentary on David Miller's announcement that he would not run for a third term as mayor. more ›

It's not just you, Random Internet Guy. more ›