The TTC is piloting a simplified revamp of its street-level subway entrances that uses the TTC’s traditional red pylon logo in silhouette. The new design will be installed and tested at the northeast corner of the Osgoode station in April so the TTC can gauge public reaction. “We have such an iconic image for the TTC, so we wanted to make sure when we do replace it we do it right,” said TTC chair Adam Giambrone.
In typical TTC fashion, they’re doing it half-assed. They’re not going to be replacing old signs at existing entrances, just installing the new design at new entrances. The real kicker is this line:
It’s still unclear whether the TTC would survey riders, the general public or design experts on the effectiveness of the new sign.
The TTC will consult design experts then promptly toss their comments in the trash.
I swear that sometimes it seems as though most of the people online on bear sites have the intelligence level of chimpanzees.
A few months ago, I chatted with someone online and we got to the point where he told me he wanted to meet for sex. I asked him “What your schedule like next week?” to which he responded — these are his exact words — “lol busy”. I told him to give me a real response when he was actually interested in meeting up.
A few days ago, we started chatting again. Once again, we got to the point where we started to talk about meeting for sex. He said he wanted to know when I was free, and I told him, “I’m free Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday during the day.” His response: “lol lots of choices.”
Listen. When someone tells you he wants your cock up his ass and that his ass is free on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday, the appropriate response is not “lol lots of choices.” The appropriate response is to choose a day and suggest a time. Saying “lol lots of choices” just shows that you’re an idiot who deserves to be punished by never being allowed to have sex ever.
Furthermore, LOL is beyond stupid. Nobody who uses LOL ever actually laughs out loud. Anyone who uses it should have his nuts cut off. (Or maybe boobs if it’s a girl using it.)
Christian Horizons (CH), a Kitchener-based evangelical organization providing care for developmentally disabled people in group homes, was found by the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) in April to have violated the province’s human rights code by firing an employee because she is a lesbian.
The OHRC also ordered CH to stop requiring employees to sign a lifestyle and morality contract that, among other things, prohibited homosexual relationships.
They also happen to receive most of their funding from the provincial government. Who do they think they are?
For decades, engineers have been conditioned to believe in their own exceptionalism and taught to hold all non-engineers in contempt. Right from their first year of undergraduate study, when they are issued their hard hats and boiler suits and taught their derogatory chants about “artsies,” engineers start learning to dismiss the views of others. Then they graduate and are expected to turn around and take guidance from politicians and the general public in making professional decisions? Never happen.
We need engineers for the skill set but culturally engineering is a corrupted profession. Until something is done to teach engineers a little humility, public transit advocates without that little iron ring will face an uphill fight every time.
Canada, which has made “hate speech” against the law, now struggles to balance political correctness with freedom.
We do not envy the Canadians. They have entrusted to their government a power Americans never would, and they follow it into foolishness. In the week of June 2, a body of bureaucrats called the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal will call on the carpet author Mark Steyn.
Blah, blah, blah. No, Americans would never entrust to their government the power to punish people for exercising their right to free speech.
The American government doesn’t waste time censoring racist newspaper columnists or neo-Nazi Holocaust deniers—there asses and tits on television! But that’s all right—it doesn’t touch political discourse.
For those of you who aren’t aware, employees of the Toronto Transit Commission went on strike at midnight last Saturday, leaving many people without their usual way of getting around the city. The provincial legislature passed a law on Sunday afternoon sending TTC employees back to work right away, and everything was up and running again by Sunday evening.
The strike came as a very unwelcome surprise to most people, as the union had previously promised to give 48 hours’ notice. The head of the union put out a statement a little more than an hour before the strike began claiming that he called for an immediate walkout because he was concerned about passengers assaulting drivers. Nobody believed him.
The reaction from many people was disappointing, but not surprising. The response from most people has been to curse the union for inconveniencing them and to complain that TTC employees make good money and should be content with what they have, given that people don’t make nearly as much as them. Some people have called for the province to declare transit an essential service, thereby removing the workers’ right to strike. Let me get this straight: you make minimum wage and TTC employees make two to three times minimum wage. So instead of trying to gain for yourself the rights that got the TTC employees that money, you want to take it away from them? How does that make sense exactly?
One of the books that has influenced my thinking about the way our society is structured is With Downcast Gays. It made me think about oppression, and about the ultimate oppression: self oppression. The ultimate oppression occurs when we internalize our oppressors’ views of what is good and bad. We no longer need to be told that being gay is bad or that unions are bad; we do it ourselves. The right wing, pro-business, anti-labour mindset is so ingrained in most people that their response when their weekend is disrupted by a union exercising its democratic right to strike is to demand that the right be taken away.
Oh, and that weekend that the TTC disrupted because of their strike? Thank unions that you have a weekend at all.
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