After you, Toronto tells Zurich (TO 3rd most courteous city)

[building babel]

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"SHOCK!! HORROR!! GBOYKOVEKIN THE HUMAN SOPORIFIC INDUCES MASS NARCOLEPSY AT URBANTORONTO PRIDE FORUM MEET!!"

"He was so polite, and innocent, they all fell asleep" passers-by tell medics.

"Why are all those men sleeping?" confused tots ask parents.

"Never seen anything like it" - Medical Officer of Health.

 

[Darkstar416]

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Also, I happened to bike around the gay village as well and a guy caught my eye. I propositioned him and discovered that he was visiting from Montreal and looking for a sauna, so I asked a random passerby if he knew of any - unfortunately, he did not.

Haha. My late night bike rides aren't usually that exciting.

 

[adma]

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The smart aleck answer I might give to the sauna question is, "go to Thunder Bay" ;-)

 

[gboykovekin]

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Can't wait for my innocence to rub off before the Saturday meet...

 

[Bogtrotter]

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"I realized that I had crossed some kind of friendly-line without knowing it, and that perfect strangers were now going to be saying hello to me. I immediately turned around and went back downtown" -Archivistower

I wholeheartedly agree- who the hell wants strangers bugging you. :rollin Actually i was pretty embarrassed one day when some guy muttered somethingto me in broken English. I shook my head at him and kept walkin- but the person next to me stopped- it turned out he was a tourist looking for 'eatons plaza'. Urban suspicion- oh well.

 

[adma]

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I wholeheartedly agree- who the hell wants strangers bugging you.

Yeah, I read that as "buggering", too. Sounds like a reason talk radio callers would give for not going anywhere near downtown Toronto during Pride Week

 

[SD2]

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Alvin, Wylie:

You both make valid points. If it's just one paper on the train I'll leave it...but if I see a lot of unused papers, I'll take my copy with me.

 

[Oliver Tweed]

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Okay, it's official: leaving papers on the train is a good thing. I love it when I sit down and there's one sitting there that I haven't read. I will even pick something off the floor if it's not obviously dirty. I don't lick my fingers after it, though.

 

[gboykovekin]

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^Heck, I even read the scrunched and obviously stepped-on newspapers and then after I finish reading it, put it in the newspaper recycling.

 

[GregWTravels]

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I remember some talk last year or earlier this year about moving all the trash and recycling bins off the platforms for security reasons. Is that idea dead, or is there a point in the future when we won't see recepticles on the platforms?

I remember one year I was showing a friend of mine around from Chicago. We grabbed some cans of coke, and after we were done myself and one of my local friends carried the cans two blocks until we reached a recycle bin and threw them out. My Chicagoan friend was amazed not just that we carried them past 2 garbage bins to recycle the cans, but also that we didn't just drop the cans when we were done.

 

[gboykovekin]

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^ I'm pretty sure they moved to clear plastic bags to hold the garbage/recycling.

 

[adma]

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In my case, it isn't so much my leaving subway papers for others to read (or not), it's that I don't pick them off the racks at all--that is, virtually all my subway-paper reading is "mooched" from what's already on board the trains or wherever else...

 

[EnviroTO]

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This rebuttal struck me as strange:

"Chinese people show their politeness in a different manner. In traditional Chinese culture, there's a strong hierarchy structure, a sense of superiority and inferiority," Man said. "For example, youngsters do not expect their elders to hold the door open for them."

It makes no sense to me. In Canada or elsewhere there is no expectation that the elderly would hold the door open is there? Assisting the elderly is also considered polite here. I don't understand the excuse for being impolite because of a cultural importance on age... it should be reflected with greater politeness, not less. Younger people should be showing greater politeness to older people and older people should be displaying a normal level of politeness to younger. I fail to see how respecting older people translates into disrespecting younger people.

 

[wyliepoon]

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TTC's newest ad campaign...

 

[ahrvojic]

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^ Those ads are an embarrassment, but not because of their message. They look like they were slapped together in Word for a school project with... English... to... match...