1. Have you seen that stupid stupid stupid ad for McDonalds? The one where the idiotic woman, out on a date in an obviously good restaurant, asks the waiter if she can have a burger in a box with a yellow M on it? All the while her poor companion wants to crawl under the table, and who can blame him? So McDonalds - is your point that all your customers are as boorish, rude and uncouth as this woman? Or are all your customers stupid enough to believe a Big Mac is better than a good meal in a good restaurant? Either way McDonalds, you've insulted all your customers with this piece of crappy advertising.
2. Two Tim Horton franchisees who need their asses kicked and kicked hard are the two in Ontario who each recently fired an employee. One fired a female employee because she allowed a homeless person to eat in the restaurant and the other fired an employee because she gave a free Timbit to a cranky child. The storm of negative publicity forced both franchise owners to overturn the decisions but I haven't eaten in a Tim Hortons since.
3. Another place I won't eat in is Nathaniels in Owen Sound. Owner/chef and chief idiot Dan Hilliard fired waitress Stacey Fearnall who shaved her head to raise money for cancer. Owen Sound has a new village idiot and hopefully, a failing restaurant.
3. Toronto sports columnists. With the exception of the Globe and Mail, sports columnists in Toronto are among the worst anywhere in the country. If you want to know how bad they are, read the New York Times to understand how pleasurable it can be to read knowledgeable columnists who are also excellent writers.
4. Bob McCown - must have got his start as a sports columnist on a Toronto paper. Full of himself, he seems to believe that the more obnoxious and rude he is the more gravitas he takes on. The master of the cliche, McCown is a tiresome bore who's schtick was stale five years ago.
5. Companies that use call centres where the people on the end of the call don't speak English clearly, have no understanding of what the problem is nor how to fix it. When I find myself dealing with one of those, the company has seen the last of my business. And given the state of our economy, I will not deal with any companies in the future that have moved jobs offshore from Canada.
Ending on a positive note, the world is a better place tonight because Jessie Helms is no longer in it. The former North Carolina Senator was one of the most bigoted, racist politicians in the US. He opposed the establishment of Martin Luther King Day, opposed paying dues to the United Nations and earned the nickname Dr. No because he was opposed to every enlightened, compassionate pieces of legislation introduced in the Senate. He's gone and we are the better for it.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
5 comments:
Bob McCown is not as bad as David Pratt. He's on Coast 1040 now in Van and on Sportsnet sometimes. Yeesh. He used to have a show on TSN that was filled with stupid analogies, really stale cliches, and his inane laughter.
Hard to believe anyone can be worse than McCown but I'll take your word for it. Only question is how they survive.
Hey Grumpy:
I hate to go off-topic here.. but could I get an updated email address from you? I was trying to write you using the one I have for you at Prog Blog, and its bounced back to me saying it's not valid.
Try grumpyintoronto@gmail.com
I'm having mega problems with email.
My vote goes to Bob McCown for the most annoying thing in Toronto, but sharing that title must be shared with the knob at Rogers television who shoves Bob McCown's TV ad spots down our throats at every opportunity. Speaking of those spots, notice that Bob is down to one TV promo, having shot himself in the foot in both other ads by saying the NFL will NEVER come to Toronto (yeah, you hit the nail on the hammer that time you dork... no doubt he will be attending the Buffalo Bills games all the same, despite deriding anyone who believed that an NFL franchise would ever play here... eat that Humble Pie Bob) and telling everyone in the other promo spot how the Leafs management will never alter the status quo... seems that the team is changing just a little these days Bob.
All of this has a downside though... now that Bob has only one spot left that doesn't show him up to be the ignorant slob that he is, we have to listen to that one spot over and over about how he likes to be rude - guess that is the one thing he is good at because his knowledge of sport seem to be a little shakey at best.
Oh yes, there's that other one about how if he could play on any team with any player for any event... i don't know about anyone else, but if he could appear with any great name in any sport for any event, I would stick him in a ring with a young Mohammed Ali for 12 rounds.
To quote McCown himself, "Now that would be something".
Post a Comment