Tulse
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Yes, where is Renata in all of this?
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Rob Ford's Toronto
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arksi
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More of a mail order bride vibe for me.
Huge Seagull
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Hotmail Shyster actually said, "Why would they even do that?" What a total shitshow.
Clarification: I didn't mean to say Ford's humiliation is hilarious.... it's very sad actually. Was referring to blog link about the reality show.
TheTigerMaster
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On tomorrow's episode of Rob Ford's Self Destruction: released wiretap transcripts show Rob Ford soliciting drugs from Sandro Lisi. Tune in tomorrow! Same bat time, same bat channel!
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]TheTigerMaster
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Ugh... I'd rather not. I'll watch anything but that!
Parsley
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Lies, crack video, drunken rant video... Hate to quote the mayor but...'anything else?'
TheTigerMaster
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I don't know why the media isn't pushing this angle of the story more.
adma
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One thing I'm finding is that a lot of us are putting the "matriarch" on an unnecessary pedestal. Look, remember folks: she's the "matriarch" in a heavily patriarchal family. She only seems more commanding than she is because she's widowed, and because she comes across as halfway "normal", because she's of a pre-drug-casualty generation where "halfway normal" is default mode, at least among her kind of classic postwar blue-collar aristocracy. But otherwise...her cloudy goody-nicey delusion is perfectly characteristic of that neo-Stepfordian state of being that's the typical housewife within a postwar blue-collar aristocracy. You can tell that the dotted line representing Doug Sr. is still watching her every move, making sure she falls in line and is "good" and "proper". And you can see why she'd be so cloudy re the gravity of what's presently happening to "Robbie" and, indeed, the whole family--"how could it be? everyone's so nice!"
rightwingSUVdriver
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A Ford quote from one of the Renata articles:
One of the striking things about that line of defence, both in the above quote and in its more recent expressions, is that Rob is excessively proud when he owns up to something. It's as if admitting a mistake were the same as dealing with its implications. "OK, yes, I have a serious drinking problem and I smoke crack. Now that I've admitted it, we can all move on." It's striking because it implies an ethical code where the main transgression is getting caught. The acts themselves, and what they say about the person committing them, are beside the point. It's almost like he's steeped in a criminal culture...
One of the striking things about that line of defence, both in the above quote and in its more recent expressions, is that Rob is excessively proud when he owns up to something. It's as if admitting a mistake were the same as dealing with its implications. "OK, yes, I have a serious drinking problem and I smoke crack. Now that I've admitted it, we can all move on." It's striking because it implies an ethical code where the main transgression is getting caught. The acts themselves, and what they say about the person committing them, are beside the point. It's almost like he's steeped in a criminal culture...
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Lansdude
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So weird seeing Patrick Stewart cracking Rob Ford jokes.
ParkdalePetunia
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That and I would bet money that if he did something wrong as a kid, his parents only made him apologize without doing anything to rectify it. I think a lot of Ford's problems comes from the way he was raised (beyond simply being raised in what is most likely a criminal world). I'm not usually a parent blamer but the interview today showed it. Rob never has to face consequences.
themarc
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Tis... kinda weirdly impressive too. I bet Ford isn't even a Trekie. I am - and I'd totally do a victory lap if Captain Picard referenced me....
Johnny Au
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Jean-Luc Picard: Look out! The Borg have assimilated Ford Nation! We are next! We must do something about it!
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