the lemur
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Today I learned that the French equivalent of 'sober as a judge' is 'sobre comme un chameau' - 'sober as a camel'.
I don't know about that. A camel can at least do its job.
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Today I learned that the French equivalent of 'sober as a judge' is 'sobre comme un chameau' - 'sober as a camel'.
I don't know about that. A camel can at least do its job.
kaboi
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EKOS is also the only firm to call the recent provincial election correctly.
Their methodology seems to be the most solid: landlines plus random dialing of cell numbers. Landline only, which is what Forum uses, results in over representation of average over 60 and PC voters. (Seriously, how many people do you know who still have a landline?) Online only, which is what Ipsos relies on, is based on voluntary sign up.
I'm looking forward to an EKOS poll on Toronto mayoral race. We'll finally get a sense of where the race is really at.
casita
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Has anyone ever seen RoFo's toes?
How can we comment on a baby toe that we have never seen or does not exist?
evvabeing
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just thought i'd take a second to remind us of this tweet...
https://twitter.com/troutspawn45/status/469258477722812416
https://twitter.com/troutspawn45/status/469258477722812416
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dienw
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Someone at the sit-in tweeted a few times that he wasn't limping and he was wearing dress shoes.
AlvinofDiaspar
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Councillor Sarah Doucette commented on that awkward aspect on Twitter:
Don Peat @reporterdonpeat 7h
Rob Ford fighting the election with a broken left baby toe http://ow.ly/zhGdk #TOpoli
Sarah Doucette @DoucetteWard13 · 6h
@reporterdonpeat Wow a broken baby toe is excruciatingly painful, I couldn't walk for a few days and was then on crutches.
https://twitter.com/DoucetteWard13/status/489859472907460608
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Don Peat @reporterdonpeat 7h
Rob Ford fighting the election with a broken left baby toe http://ow.ly/zhGdk #TOpoli
Sarah Doucette @DoucetteWard13 · 6h
@reporterdonpeat Wow a broken baby toe is excruciatingly painful, I couldn't walk for a few days and was then on crutches.
https://twitter.com/DoucetteWard13/status/489859472907460608
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Lamport Davenport
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I don’t’ understand the fuss about the new $650,000 washroom at Sugar Beach. Considering the price of Toronto real estate, and what some people will pay for a house that’s almost ready to collapse, I’d say it’s a bargain. To say nothing of its location and new plumbing, most real estate agents would be touting its potential for an open-plan kitchen and an upstairs extension.
What is it about Toronto’s obsession with taking away public toilets? Other cities in the world still have public toilets because people have to, you know, *go*. In Toronto, because of their potential for improper use, the solution has always been to take away the toilet.
Poop on that.
What is it about Toronto’s obsession with taking away public toilets? Other cities in the world still have public toilets because people have to, you know, *go*. In Toronto, because of their potential for improper use, the solution has always been to take away the toilet.
Poop on that.
Lamport Davenport
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Gout can be extremely painful, BTW. But nothing that drugs can't cure, e.g. colchicine and morphine.
Is stubbing your toe and kicking the wall the same thing? Even if you do it repeatedly, like insanity? Or in a drunken stupid?
TOBorn
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Clearly, Rob Ford has never renovated a bathroom. It's a costly endeavour even when all the plumbing already exists and you're only putting in one toilet.
kbdid
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I am gaining my internet degree in podiatry today. Looks like reasons for operating on baby toe: it's terribly crushed, cut/bleeding/infected to all hell/contains crystals that sometimes form due to long-term gout. None of these treatments would be able to wait months. Add to the toe mystery why Ford would be at TW when he lives in Etobicoke. Maybe he was dumb enough to jam his toe last night/this morning and go wait in emerge - but I'm assuming he has a family doc who would have him go to an x ray locally.
casita
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My understanding was that Metro Police had a lot of them shut down: "In 1969, deputy police chief Harold Adamson told the Globe and Mail the city’s public toilets were “frequented by every-increasing numbers of homosexuals.” Deputy chief Bernard Simmonds said an average of six men a month were charged with gross indecency at TTC washrooms."
http://spacing.ca/toronto/2014/07/09/happened-public-washrooms-toronto/
tiffer24
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Maybe the toe needed 911?
Oriana
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Just picked this up from Newstalk 1010 (because I only have so many free clicks elsewhere). Foot and Coach:
NEWSTALK 1010 has been told Ford has had ongoing issues with the toe and somehow aggravated the injury.
At first, Ford's office said the Mayor planned to have surgery to address the problem some time next week. The Mayor's spokesman has since said he in fact has no immediate plans to have an operation.
Meanwhile, Mayor Ford's brother, councillor Doug Ford, confirms the Mayor's sobriety coach is taking a step back.
He will not be with Ford day-to-day.
Councillor Ford says his brother is ready to tackle his addiction without round-the-clock support and that Mayor Ford will be in touch with the Montreal-based addictions treatment specialist on a regular basis.
- See more at: http://www.newstalk1010.com/news/20...nds-rob-ford-to-hospital#sthash.dFWY3THb.dpuf
AlvinofDiaspar
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Well no, if it is a normal washroom it'd plausibly be excessive - but considering the site is contaminated with no sewer access? That's an entirely different ballgame. And the thing is - it wasn't even that amazing looking a washroom, certainly doesn't have pink umbrellas or granite outcrops.
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sno man
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The 'toe thing' was largely Doug (talking out his ass, as usual), I think one of the Mayor's staff release updates this morning said 'toe' too, likely on Doug's comment or order certainly post Doug statement. The only thing we can be certain of is whatever it is/was it was/is not a 'toe thing'. We can be certain of this because Doug said that's what it was.
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