pattycakes
Senior Member
Like whaaaaaaaaat?
There's still Traveller wire taps, plus other redacted info from Brazen 2 to come, maybe next week.
Like whaaaaaaaaat?
Where is this information from? Never knew this.The life expectancy during the Roman Empire was about 28 years. By medieval times, with some provision of care, the life expectancy increased to around 33. By 1900, life expectancy increased to 50, by 1950 it increased to 65, and by 2000, in the West at least, it has increased to around 80.
So during the Roman Empire, by age 30, you would be an old man, or "elder" as is written in the books of the time.
Local evidence of this "average age" discussion can be had by strolling through Toronto area Pioneer cemeteries and noting the disproportional number of pioneers who died as children as opposed to the number of 70 and 80 year old deaths.
There's still Traveller wire taps, plus other redacted info from Brazen 2 to come, maybe next week.
Ah, okay. I get it now. You hate hypocrisy. Thanks for clearing that up.What I hate is the hypocrisy of a Councillor who was convicted of drunk driving after a night being entertained by lobbyists piling on Rob Ford's because of his personal failings.
^^ above comment relates to this picture:I'll give him the benefit of the doubt here. Anyone can take a single frame of the movie of any of our lives and makes us look less than great. You're taking what you know/think you know of him and ascribing context. He might just be yawning for all we know...
Where is this information from? Never knew this.
We're not done debating the Scarborough subway after all...
I've been concerned with how Ford will be able to claim that the "coup d'etat" has resulted in a lefty tax and spend City Hall with tax increases going up above the 1.75% Ford is pitching. It's a smart strategy and Ford Nation will eat it up.
But tonight I heard about how some Councillors are proposing to deal with this. They're going to call his bluff. They're going to dare him to cancel the Scarborough Subway so that the 1.75% can be met. Ford either votes to cancel the Scarborough Subway or he votes to re-affirm a 2.5% tax increase. I don't know if it'll work and if there will be an appetite to re-open the Scarborough Subway debate yet again but it's a good idea.
I believe any connection with Mario Cortellucci may have been looked at during the whole Ferris Wheel/monorail vision, but it'd be interesting if anyone came across the name in their Crackgate sleuthing. And IIRC there was something about a $30k donation to his campaign.
That's why divorce was uncommon before the 1900's. One of the partners would die off due to disease, accident, or lack of life savings skills we have nowadays.
No they don't. Since they're paid with taxes, the very fact that there is a difference between the gross and net amounts of tax dollars given to them, doesn't mean they've paid taxes. On the contrary, they've simply been given less tax, but the public purse is still in the red. For example, if we hire another hundred city workers at $100k gross and $80 net, well, the public purse isn't ahead by those $20k of extra "tax", but is in fact in the hole for the $80k a head.I would also like to take this time to point out that....wait for it....politicians are taxpayers as well! Oh, what!
According to my math, most of them pay more in taxes than I do. "Taxpayer-funded junket"? I submit to you the partially politician-funded junket.