It’s far too nice a weekend to spend it coughing up a lung, I say. I have plans! Outdoor plans for both Saturday and Sunday! I’m sick of the hacking and the bone-rattling barking. I have no symptoms other than a hijacked esophagus, thankfully, but that’s quite enough.
I took my camera to work today for the first time in a long while so I could shoot some random photos in the sunshine on the way home. I haven’t done that lately because I’ve got so many to process from recent trips, but I really needed some distraction from this annoying cough. I tried listening to music and reading a book, but a camera in my hands seems to be much more effective.
I found this part of the article particularly amusing:
Although Montreal would likely be the most fervant Toronto-hater in the country because of long-standing sports and cultural rivalries, Spence and Nerenberg found that’s not the case.
“The West only started hating Toronto in the way it does now in the last 20-30 years,” Nerenberg said. “This is a trend that Toronto isn’t really aware of. It’s news to them.”
Top honours go to Vancouver, Nerenberg said. “Vancouver is much more resentful.”
Another snort from Mr. Toronto.
“I think here’s what happens, is you have somebody who can’t cut it in Toronto. They like to lay around and smoke pot all day and maybe do the occasional kayak. So they move out to the ‘mountainlands’ where they can basically escape the responsibilities that we carry in Toronto to make the country work.”
But there is a bright spot to all the resentment. In a country threatened by political divisions and western alienation for years, hating Toronto is a great unifier.
“French, English, we can all hate Toronto,” Nerenberg said brightly. “What we discovered is that you could go to the most remote Inuit village in the Far North of Canada and you will find people who hate Toronto.
“You can go as far west as you want to go, you’ll find Toronto haters. You can go as far east. Rich, poor, short, tall, with mustaches, without mustaches, it doesn’t seem to matter. All these people can be unified by hating Toronto.”
I wonder how I can get a hold of this film now that it passed through Toronto already?
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