Rob Ford, Toronto Ex-Mayor, Dies Aged 46 From Cancer

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35872594

Some of us will remember Ford as the man who lied about smoking crack cocaine.

[Gromit]

What a fantastic man, he will be dearly missed, but a least he died knowing he had made a difference.

[Zacs-Master]

Mikey, have you taken sort sort of 'hippocracy' pill today. Bemoaning one thread for being insensitive and then highlighting the fact that someone who has recently died was CC user?

[mikey4444]

Not at all Zacs....I am of the opinion that Ford will be remembered more for his drug addiction than anything else.

[Zacs-Master]

and you don't see that as being insensitive?

[Baldric]

Thoughts are with his family, if he had one, other than that,
Who ???

[stuey]

The Trump of Toronto: He was, locally, quite controversial.

[bazwillrun]

I read the news feeds i then come on here and its deja vu all the time with mikey just regurgitating the same headlines on here...

[mikey4444]

Stuey...I think it was his constant denials about being a drug addict that was worse than the actual drug taking itself. I seem to remember that there was some film or photos and it was clear that it was him, but he still kept denying it.

[stuey]

It was a frenetic media and social networking frenzy locally as far as I'm concerned: a tempest in a cracked tea-pot, one might say.

[mikey4444]

Stuey...you were much closer to the events than I was, so I will accept what you say.

[Peter Pedant]

Mikkey Cancer ? what did he have ?

and Mikey dont say - oh two lines of coke most days to wake up

god he looks a big guy to get drunk or high if you are paying the bill

[stuey]

Petah, he was always a big man, but the treatments that he was on obviously exacerbated the situation.

[-Talbot-]

divebuddy
Some of will not. I mean, come on, do we really care. Are we going to get RIP threads everytime someone dies.


RIP?
I thought it was more of a "rejoice at that news" thread.

[douglas9401]

I've written myself a wee memo to the effect that, if I get seriously ill, come out as gay or claim asylum just to be sure I get a sympathetic comment or two on Answerbank.

[stuey]

Douglas, I do believe that your horny shagginess will be remembered by all:)

[douglas9401]

Outstanding in my field maybe? :-P