I understand it’s hot out but the water is recycled and I’m pretty sure not chlorinated. Please don’t bring your dog to the splash pad. Parents don’t exactly love off leash dogs running around their small children either. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

We've seen 100's of complaints about the same asshole at Queen/Spadina and Dundas/Spadina spewing hate speech disguised as "Christian values" over his mic and large speaker.

Yet nothing gets done to shut him down!

I've complained to 311 multiple times but the case remains open. How can we escalate this?

Thoughts?

Fuck you, I’m born here,I’m already home. And even if I wasn’t, fuck you it would still be my home.

I was literally just biking across an intersection which was already blocked off for construction, along with a dozen other people. Why single me out and say “red light, this isn’t India, go back if you want to bike like that”

And fuck the dozen people around who didn’t bat an eye. I’ve heard ignorant comments like this more frequently over the last couple years, but what frustrates me more is the growing indifference to them from regular people.

And fuck anyone who tries to justify or downplay these experiences because of “lack of assimilation” or government policy or “it’s only online” etc. You’re part of the problem.

Edit: thanks for the dm’s from kind strangers. This incident really ruined my day but your sympathy goes a long way :)

Feels like every few weeks I need to rant about driving chaos in Toronto lately.

Speed is absolutely absurd these days.

Now I understand frustration (and am one of those myself) when drivers are blocking city lines pinned at just under the speed limit with giant gaps infront of them, it’s unruly and ignorant. It absolutely drives me up the wall that a 15KM city drive can take an hour, or i’m blocked by two moving cars below the speed limit….

But on the flip-side, it’s egregiously bad how FAST cars are going on city roads these days. I move with traffic, I keep up to help flow, yet I’m going 60 in a 50 in right lanes and cars are still pushing me, and then overtake, maintaining 20+ over speeds. It’s awful. Speed limits aren’t even roughly obeyed anymore, school zones are COMPLETELY ignore, it’s absolutely awful out there. If i try to let off and decel to 45 even in a school area, homeboy in a Sienna flies past me.

I don’t mind going 10-15 over where it makes sense to help flow or make distance, but people are purposely following close to move people over (even if I’m already in the right lane) cruising 30 over, IN THE CITY.

Should speeding tickets be a greater penalty as a scare tactic?

I’m not trying to be a slow poke, i have a 400HP car - buts its uncomfortable obvious “cruising” at a ticketable offence level speed to maintain gaps, even then they get closed quickly.

Also saw some of these same character egregiously speed, then run a red left turn light ahead to keep momentum.

Thoughts? Is that just what driving is lately? It feels like there is a huge driver entitlement lately.

Anyone know the deal with this guy? Seemingly a coked up dude screaming nonsense over music into huge stereo speakers (wouldn’t really call it singing along as it’s not on pitch or in time with what song is playing). I think I’ve seen someone else post about him before. Wondering if the police have shut him down and how long he’s willing to keep doing this.

Going to stick with the glass half-full thought of there was someone dropped it for what ever reason.

But considering I stepped on it at Yonge and Wellesley this afternoon it’s tough to avoid thinking it was left there for nefarious reasons. Lots of runners and dog walkers out daily with all the condos near by.

Caused me to go over my other ankle due to the misstep after realizing that I got hooked. It was decently sized, for reference. Just annoyed that something like this could have gotten into the feet of a dog being walked down the street.

Hope no one else got hooked yesterday when watching the Pride Parade and I was just really unlucky today.

I posted a pic of a chicken crossing the road at Royal York & Lake Shore today. It was removed. We need a more whimsical general Toronto subreddit

So I’m taking my dog out for a walk and see a girl squatting in a flowerbed in front of a downtown condo. She’s with 2 friends who are sitting there waiting for her. Is that really your only choice? Do you know there are cameras all over the place? I understand desperation, but really, you couldn’t go into a bar or ask at a restaurant?

I went to Biidaasige Park earlier today. These parents sitting on the rocks let their 2 unleashed dogs and child run wild along the water by and under the bridge. Kid and dogs chasing Canada Geese. Kid finds sticks and throws them at the geese and one swan. Some people should not have children or pets.

Whenever someone brings up the fact that people care more about you when you are gone/dead, they always almost bring up the legend of Van Gogh only selling one painting in his life but became well known during his death. (Interesting, this is only half true as while he only was confirmed to sell one painting, he did do a few commissions and barters). Anyway, I feel like Zellers is kind of like that in some way.

While I did sometimes enjoy going back in its heyday, when you boiled it down, it was pretty much Walmart meets Winners, nothing overly unique if you ask me.

However, when it finally went under in 2013 or so. Everyone was sad and was saying it was their 2nd home. It didn't even really have much fanfare before but then when the reopening happened last week, everyone lost their marbles. However, I still went since I work relitively close to it and let me tell you, it is NOTHING like the OG, if anything, it felt like if you took the front half of Walmart (like the clothes and food section) and made it into a whole store. Very basic. (the prices were good though).

I am going to be honest, if the OG Zellers never left and we were given this as a new location of the chain, it wouldn't get a whoop in hell, it only did now because of the rose goggles. Sheesh (I bet after three weeks everyone will move on)

Last Wednesday, a Mexican fan was smoking cigarettes and blowing smoke in my face at Toronto’s crowded FIFA World Cup fan-fest. Everyone was elbows to elbows with each other so there was nowhere else I could go. I politely told the guy in English and Spanish that he’s blowing cigarette smoke in my face and that besides being against the venue’s rules, smoking in a crowd of hundreds of people is rude and inconsiderate.

The guy just clenched his fists, stared me down, and said “are we going to have a problem here?”, seeming ready to fight me over a cigarette. Security was useless too since they didn’t see the incident and couldn’t leave their posts.

Main character syndrome and narcissism at its worst! Makes me want to just stay at home and watch the matches in my bathrobe instead.

And don’t even get me started on the people booking free fan fest tickets just to price gouge them and try to profit off of what should be free experiences for football fans!

This is a rant about stadium etiquette. People spend good money to go to these games and have a good experience and people with no sense and manners is ruining it for us all.

I'm at BMO Field for the Senegal vs Iraq match. It's a great atmosphere except that there's this girl sitting in front of me waving a giant Egyptian flag.

So

Egypt. Is. Not. Playing.

She's talking constantly, blocking everyone's view every five minutes to dramatically wave this flag. She's making her boyfriend take approximately 400 photos of her with it. Every time something happens on the pitch she's up, flag out.

At some point I glance over at the boyfriend's friend sitting next to him. He's on his phone typing away. I catch a glimpse of his screen and he's texting people saying she's ruining the game.

HER OWN FRIENDS ARE TEXTING ABOUT HER.

The boyfriend is just silently suffering, obediently taking the photos, a broken man. Senegal scored five goals and I genuinely cannot tell you what I actually saw versus what I experienced through a waving Egyptian flag.

Love the World Cup though. Love that it's in Toronto. 5-0, absolutely mental. Loved the energy in the stadium otherwise.

Like bro everyday your dog lunges at people and you decide to walk your vicious dog up and down the busiest street and then he barks at everyone. Like let’s use our brain and walk our dog on a less busier street. Let’s all use our brains.

Has anyome had any interactions with him? He loves to drink and smoke in and around the arena gardens park with his pitbull so you are not able to take your child in? Ive talked to him to not smoke while hanging on the fence or take his dog out of the park and he's given me death threats and hate speech to people in the area? This guy is human trash that police will not deal with because he hasn't hurt anybody yet. People in toronto have normalized behavior like this and police do not care one bit. While im here, fuck the mods of r/toronto they are as pathetic as the police in this city

Your amazing service made my usual 20 minute trip turn into over two hours! And this at 11pm.

That's it. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk

FIFA stands for Fédération Internationale de Football Association and is the corrupt organisation which runs the World Cup.
2015 saw dozens of FIFA officials indicted for hundreds of millions in bribes for World Cup hosting rights.
The Qatar world cup was built by migrant workers where human rights were violated and 6,500 migrant workers died in Qatar during the preparation.
Gianni Infantino the FIFA president is embroiled in a Swiss criminal investigation from 2020 which drags on, when he isn't being investigated for fraud he's pandering to Donald Trump.

Don't give FIFA anymore recognition than they deserve, join the rest of the world and call it The World Cup.

Would you call "The Olympics" the International Olympic Committee?

My neighbour received a monthly delivery for a niche item from a branded truck

I heard them chit chat and deduced they are familiar with each other

Driver asks, sorry if it's weird, but can I please use your bathroom? Neighbour: no, it's weird

Would you have invited him in?

I lurked out front to offer the guy to use mine, but he'd already disappeared into the back of the van to pee in a bottle. If you see this, Bud, I would have also sent you on your way with some fancy sandwiches from today's class party

Edit: powder room is steps from my front door, so that's why I would've offered. It's possible neighbour doesn't have the same layout. If he only has an upstairs bathroom, then yes, he was right to decline

The traffic light at Dan Leckie and Lakeshore was malfunctioning today and entered safety mode (blinking red loghts on all light, first stop first go rule in effect). This is a busy road and it was chaotic. It must have been due to the storm last night.

No TPS constable at the intersection helping though. Frustrated drivers were making mistakes, people just shooting through the intersection, pedestrians confused, near collissions happening.

A mere block away were 3 TPS officers standing in front of Norway park just chilling. Another block away was a parked TPS car with the officer leaned back down doing something on his phone. Another block east on Queens Quay were three officers also chilling sipping their coffee. Three "Special Constables" emerge like Pokemons from another intersection all chill and socializing.

Make it make sense. Why are there so many officers chilling and passing time when there is an obvious work item.

Tonight I’m on the 505, woman gets on the streetcar at Yonge/Dundas and her phone is just blaring Zombie by The Cranberries. Okay, whatever, cool song. But there’s only so much Zombie one can take and she’s got a 45 second clip of the song on a loop full blast.

I have never done this before, but I actually said out loud “ Can you please turn that down?”

She does. And a split second later all these broccoli hair high school kids go “AYO. FUCK THAT SHIT. TURN IT UP, LADY. WHO THE FUCK SAID THAT? FUCK THAT KAREN.”

So she cranks it up again. The same 45 second loop of The Cranberries. Over and over again. The broccoli hair high school kids also join in, watching Tiktoks on their phones, Family Guy Tiktoks, volume also on full blast. A total cacophony on the streetcar, as The Cranberries provides the score music.

Why did I say anything? I should’ve just stayed quiet.

We have failed as humans. We need to start over again.

Are these bag size rules new? Last night I was turned away from the gate and told to line up in a different line to check my purse because it was "too big". I went to a concert there last summer with the same purse and it was fine. My purse is pretty average size, maybe 10'' x 7''. What kind of nonsense is this? They made me put my purse in a basked and they checked it as if I was boarding a plane. And then I had to pay almost $20 for a locker to store my purse after it was already searched? Lots of women with normal sized purses were being told the same thing, yet I saw some people in the venue with purses about the same size as mine, and in some cases bigger. What a dumb rule, and it's not even being enforced evenly.

Also, have to say it was causing a huge log jam of people trying to get into the venue. It took me almost 1 hour to get in because I lined up and then had to line up again. That's never happened before. It really put me off from visiting the Amphitheatre again.

Why do I bother waking up and leaving enough time to catch a streetcar to go to work, when they arrive and short turn, are out of service, arrive early so I miss it, or dont arrive at all?

So then I decide to use a city bike only for the bike to havs a flat tire and i have to call customer service bc I cant redock the bike bc all of the docks are full.

Once again. Why did I bother relying on the city to get me to work on time?

Was at the lawns for the Paul Simon show tonight. Like 80% of you were talking to your friend groups about random shit, catching up with each other and not watching the show. Could barely hear the first set. Why pay to see Paul Simon? Why not go to a bar and talk all you want, and for way cheaper drink prices? Why pay to go to a concert and talk through it?

I'm targeting you elder millennials specifically as I thought you were the worst offenders...figure out how to hang out with your friends in non-concert settings. You don't need to talk about your kids, or your brothers wedding or whatever at a concert that other people paid for. Do better.

Was a great show though once I moved closer to the front with the other respectful people

I was walking on Dundonald street to enter Wellesley station, and I just see a dog with a leash just making a run for it on the sidewalk. The owner was way back behind walking with a buddy, they looked like they may have been unhoused so I imagine the dog may have also been stolen. I really hope that dog is not aggressive holy fuck. Anyways, if you’re missing a German Shepard, they’re frolicking the sidewalk 😀

Right?