spider
Senior Member
Making a joke is a violation?
Apparently the first human sensibility one loses on the trek to self appointed Oracle status is a sense of humour. Pity.
Making a joke is a violation?
I didn't think a joke was a violation. I simply thought it violated "Make sure your posts contribute something meaningful to the thread.". Not sure why that wasn't self-evident, and then requires several more off-topic posts.Making a joke is a violation?
I think you'll find that would be spelled "self-appointed" oracle, not "self appointed".Apparently the first human sensibility one loses on the trek to self appointed Oracle status is a sense of humour. Pity.
EDIT: This is BS. Why should I post a bland, relatively kind description of Ford that lets him off the hook?
Rob Ford is a shamefully fat and stupid, drunk driving, wife-beating, hypocritical alcoholic bigot who has been arrested on criminal charges ranging from drug possession to assaulting and threatening to kill his wife. He has been publicly accused of physically assaulting not just his wife (on many occasions) but also children on a high-school football team; he has never successfully rebutted those accusations. He drunkenly threatened fellow patrons at a Leafs game and then lied about it only to fess up after being confronted with the business cards he handed out to his victims. He's a loser of sub-average intelligence, and his election as mayor of Toronto will forever mark this city as deserving of the worst the world has to offer.
I knew a Ford mayoralty would be a disaster, but for the first few months after the election I told everyone I could that I was willing to grant Ford the benefit of the doubt if he would hold firm on two particular campaign policies:
1. Control of the police budget
2. Fixing the taxi licensing system
My rationale, at the time, was that Ford was clearly going to do many, many horrible things regarding transit, the budget, etc., but he could still have done these two things as a "maverick outsider unbeholden to special interests", which, IIRC, was what he purported to be.
So far he's zero-for-two on even the kindest of anti-Ford scorecards.
EDIT: This is BS. Why should I post a bland, relatively kind description of Ford that lets him off the hook?
Rob Ford is a shamefully fat and stupid, drunk driving, wife-beating, hypocritical alcoholic bigot who has been arrested on criminal charges ranging from drug possession to assaulting and threatening to kill his wife. He has been publicly accused of physically assaulting not just his wife (on many occasions) but also children on a high-school football team; he has never successfully rebutted those accusations. He drunkenly threatened fellow patrons at a Leafs game and then lied about it only to fess up after being confronted with the business cards he handed out to his victims. He's a loser of sub-average intelligence, and his election as mayor of Toronto will forever mark this city as deserving of the worst the world has to offer.
Rob Ford is a shamefully fat and stupid, drunk driving, wife-beating, hypocritical alcoholic bigot who has been arrested on criminal charges ranging from drug possession to assaulting and threatening to kill his wife. He has been publicly accused of physically assaulting not just his wife (on many occasions) but also children on a high-school football team; he has never successfully rebutted those accusations. He drunkenly threatened fellow patrons at a Leafs game and then lied about it only to fess up after being confronted with the business cards he handed out to his victims. He's a loser of sub-average intelligence, and his election as mayor of Toronto will forever mark this city as deserving of the worst the world has to offer.
It's not personal if he's not participating in the discussion.
So we can personally attack Ford but not UT members? I thought any personal attacks were not allowed?
Such vitriol! I see Ford as more of a friendly buffoon, a lovable oaf, a charming scoundrel. Think of Falstaff. Sure, Prince Hal might make a better king, but which one would you rather hang out with?
So we can personally attack Ford but not UT members? I thought any personal attacks were not allowed?
So we can personally attack Ford but not UT members? I thought any personal attacks were not allowed?
public figure and mostly accurate description