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the_siobhanAm still sniffly and tired and can't seem to catch a full breath. But I'm back to work and mostly walking around.
Man, were colds this brutal when I was a kid, or was I just too distracted by all the other shit I hated about my life to notice how terrible I felt?
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Somebody who lives in one of the slumlord apartment buildings behind my house had an actual Nazi flag hanging from the balcony yesterday. Who the fuck does that? A couple of my neighbours called the cops but I have no idea if they actually did anything about it.
There was an article in the Torontist last week about the history of Toronto's Chinatown neighbourhoods. Some of the hand-wringing over Asian immigration is depressingly reminiscent to the current gnashing of teeth in the comment section of every article ever about Syrian refugees. At one point the Province passed an actual law against white women working in Chinese laundromats lest they be sold into white slavery. Seriously.
The more things change, the more they stay the same I guess.
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There are two grocery stores right by my work, in the heart of the downtown business & condo district. I don't normally shop there because they are ridiculously expensive, but occasionally we will run out of something so I'll pop in on my lunch hour. And they are so weird. Tiny little things squished between the food court and the luggage shops, they manage to have a massive section of organic vegetables and imported cheeses and an extensive hot ready-to-eat food counter. And almost nothing else that I associate with grocery stores. Like on different occasions I have gone in there looking for pasta sauce or dish soap or freezer bags, and nope. Very odd.
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Something to get pissed about when Yet Another streetcar has passed me by too packed to get on. The first plan for a downtown relief line was in 1910.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/A_1910_subway_plan_for_Toronto_-a.jpg
Man, were colds this brutal when I was a kid, or was I just too distracted by all the other shit I hated about my life to notice how terrible I felt?
Somebody who lives in one of the slumlord apartment buildings behind my house had an actual Nazi flag hanging from the balcony yesterday. Who the fuck does that? A couple of my neighbours called the cops but I have no idea if they actually did anything about it.
There was an article in the Torontist last week about the history of Toronto's Chinatown neighbourhoods. Some of the hand-wringing over Asian immigration is depressingly reminiscent to the current gnashing of teeth in the comment section of every article ever about Syrian refugees. At one point the Province passed an actual law against white women working in Chinese laundromats lest they be sold into white slavery. Seriously.
The more things change, the more they stay the same I guess.
There are two grocery stores right by my work, in the heart of the downtown business & condo district. I don't normally shop there because they are ridiculously expensive, but occasionally we will run out of something so I'll pop in on my lunch hour. And they are so weird. Tiny little things squished between the food court and the luggage shops, they manage to have a massive section of organic vegetables and imported cheeses and an extensive hot ready-to-eat food counter. And almost nothing else that I associate with grocery stores. Like on different occasions I have gone in there looking for pasta sauce or dish soap or freezer bags, and nope. Very odd.
Something to get pissed about when Yet Another streetcar has passed me by too packed to get on. The first plan for a downtown relief line was in 1910.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/A_1910_subway_plan_for_Toronto_-a.jpg
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Date: 2016-02-09 10:53 am (UTC)Would it be illegal under Canadian law?
Who the fuck does that?
I think you know the answer to that one.
But people like these: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/26/baby-hitler-parents-lose-custody-kids-even-though-judge-says-no-abuse.html
OTOH, I can't imagine it staying there for too long.
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Date: 2016-02-09 07:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-02-12 07:08 am (UTC)And, if you are anywhere near York/Richmond Hill, I think the person who defaced the mosque may have just outed themselves... that or they're just super serious supporters of Swastika, Ontario ... but I doubt that.
I can't work out if hanging out the flag is more passive or aggressive than compared to what we're seeing about the place.
(I've driven over the "white lives matter" graffitti. That they didn't hashtag it says something, but grammar is not a strong point - and I'm sure it actually says 'White Lives Matte'.)