Fake Facebook pages for Mayor Tremblay and the mayor of Pointe Claire make joke claims like that McMurchie is 108 years old and that Tremblay has ties with criminal organizations. They’re mad: clearly they didn’t get the memo in my previous posting.
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We must still be in the silly season if the “news” that a hot nightclub bars unattractive people can be turned into a scandal. No, it’s not the Journal de Montréal (I haven’t linked to them since the lockout anyway) – it’s the Gazette, which claims that Muzique is “in big trouble” now after a throwaway “no fat girls” notice on Facebook. I’m not sure who they’re in trouble with; glamorous thin people will no doubt still be lining up to get in.
Memo to everybody: life’s too short to take things on Facebook too seriously.
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Tamara
“Memo to everybody: life’s too short to take things on Facebook too seriously”
I guess so, when you are thin…
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Kate
Except that this is about obesity, not about race or any of the other things you list, and with very few exceptions obesity is something we can choose to change.
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Tamara
I agree with you. But also, the standards today of what is fat and what isn’t… aren’t the most attractive girls supposed to be Taille Zéro? And all the rest of us left out? http://hubpages.com/hub/Standards_of_Beauty_An_Illustrated_Timeline The standards is something we could change too! Instead of conforming to the imposed “rule”
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Ian
Exclusive clubs are exclusive: news at 11
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A.
I have to agree with Tamara here – your flippant comment is misguided. Even if it’s conveyed through Facebook, an offensive statement like the one discussed makes people feel badly, and that’s not okay. And while it’s true that people can choose how much to eat, it’s not a black and white issue, and for many, changing their size is not as simple or as easy as making the decision to do so.
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Kate
I’ll have to wear the flippancy badge with pride, then. If someone were being denied housing, work or health care I’d be out there, but access to trendy clubs is, and always has been, restricted to those with youth, wealth and looks. It was probably true in ancient Rome, and remains true today.
Look at it this way: you own a club that’s currently hot. Fashions change quickly and you have to turn a fast buck now before people get bored. Rich people can bribe their way in, and when they’re in, they want to see their peers, or look at some beautiful bods. So your bouncers know, probably without even being told, who to keep out, because if I’m a rich dude spending $300 for bottle service I want to be flattered with what’s pretty, not forced to look at what is not.
As a club owner, it’s not your business to be inclusive. In fact, as Ian points out cryptically, your business flourishes when you’re exclusive, when you exclude.
No, the distribution of looks in our species is not equal. It isn’t fair, but it’s true. So it goes.
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Grants have allowed for the conversion of an empty lot in Old Montreal into a sort of arty venue, at least until mid-October.
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An item and some photos about the Washington Nationals honouring their history including their prehistory as the Expos. Kristian Gravenor talks about the Expos logo and its persistence in the Montreal psyche.
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Workers at the doomed Shell refinery are saying that the official guess of 100 new fuel tankers a year is too low, and that as many as 150, and possibly even 300 tankers will have to come up the river to service the new terminal that will replace the refinery soon.
Maybe they’re right. Anyone know how the crude gets to the refinery now, though? Is there a pipeline, or is it coming in by tanker as well?
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Although notionally protected, the badly damaged Redpath house has been allowed to deteriorate to the point where it can hardly be restored, and the owner can proceed with a profitable new development. Guillaume Saint-Jean posted a photo of how part of the interior once looked.
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If I understand this piece correctly, Mayor Tremblay will choose his next police chief today, but not say who it is till August 23.
It is pretty much a non-story, but I think the hook — or perhaps more accurately, what the writer and editor hoped would be a hook — is the Facebook angle. Unfortunately, many people in big media are still in the honeymoon phase with Facebook and they assume we’re all just dying to read any Facebook-related items. Um. No.