He was also a contrarian prick on the Lang & O’Leary current affairs show. There were times when she seemed to be gathering all her mental strength to not call him an asshole on the national public broadcaster. I always got the impression that despite their years doing the show together, on commercial breaks they’d be…

Thanks, that’s very kind of you to say. (Yay civility!)

Well, I think he’s being a LOT douchey, not a little- but yes. And I think all people deserve to be treated with respect, no matter their age and sex (it also drives me fucking crazy to see adults casually butting ahead of kids in lines). Otherwise, we are agreed.

Preach it, BobbyD.

You’re suggesting the senior citizen won’t cherish the memory? Or just that they have less lifetime left in which to cherish it, therefore their memories are of less value than a kid’s?

And then what happened? Did he smirk at you? Pretend you didn’t exist? Were there words? What a dick!!

Let’s hear the top 5!

He had “truck balls” when they were in fashion, until his wife (who has regular pedicures, and semi-frosted highlights, and a toe ring) finally told him she was embarrassed to be seen in the passenger seat. He refers to the President as “Barack HUSSEIN Obama”. He only mildly regrets the hundred bucks he spent on the…

Just saying, I wouldn’t want that personal info on me published even for doing a good deed. Because privacy.

Agreed on everything you said, from how the incident went down, to the towering rage directed at Triple O for having a dissenting opinion (which he or she is defending with nothing but civility).

You’ve summed it up exactly.

I agree that you’ve expressed your opinion in a civilized fashion, and commenters who don’t agree with you are wrong to call you names and hurl invective. You’re coming out way ahead in that regard. Having said that, I disagree with your position. Here’s why (with a qualifying disclaimer, I’m watching this without…

Show her the entire strip-n-make out scene, and see if her resistance doesn’t soften a little.

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Honestly, I love it here. But mountains and sea coast would be nice too...

Sadly, now it’s known everywhere. Lucky Toronto, known for our crack-smoking former mayor and our uber-douchey radio star.

Cue the one person on every thread who chimes in to let us all know that they’re too cool to follow the news, and/or too lazy to operate Google on their own.

I don’t even work in media, and still knew the rumours about him. Enough so that I warned a friend of mine who was about to become his intern on Q a couple years back. Seems most of my friends in the arts and cultural industries in Toronto all know at least one person he’s dated, and everyone has stories.

Just add “joking!” or whatever. Some folks are trying to institute “sarcasm” marks, by enclosing the meant-to-be-funny bit in straight brackets, buuuuut there’s a way to go before that’s universally understood. Anyway, you were gracious when stuff was pointed out, so thanks for that.

It’s true, we need so much more clothing in extreme winter places: good coat(s), boots, gloves, scarves, hats, sweaters. At a bare minimum. (Ha. “Bare.”)