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Offline Squidward von Squidderson

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« Reply #90 on: February 03, 2018, 04:51:55 pm »
He’s only guilty of being a creep, as far as I can tell....    but creeps don’t make for good political leaders, so he was turfed. 

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« Reply #91 on: February 04, 2018, 11:30:08 am »
This seems to be 'on topic':

https://ipolitics.ca/2018/01/29/metoo-journalism-new-rules/

The 'new rules' are, in fact, standards and are, in fact, 'new' in that they are updated to apply new strategies to accurately publicizing misdeeds.

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« Reply #92 on: February 06, 2018, 10:46:24 am »
I don't even like to be alone in the office with a woman for fear that a disagreement may turn into an accusation of untoward conduct.
Men wouldn't make such accusations against you?

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« Reply #93 on: February 06, 2018, 12:42:03 pm »
Would Brown's conduct still be "deeply disturbing", and so on,  if he were an accountant rather than a politician. 

Accountants can do deeply disturbing things too, but it takes a lot more to lose their career over it.  That's pretty much the point I'm making, this isn't about #MeToo running amok, it's about a politician having less than stellar past and it costing him his career.

Heck, this isn't even a man/woman issue.  I would love to run for office but I have my own skeletons in the closet from my younger days so I went into, you guessed it... accounting.   ;)

There is a different set of rules for politicians and Patrick Brown learned that lesson the hard way, unlike me.

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« Reply #94 on: February 06, 2018, 12:45:20 pm »
Hmmmm, if having a pristine past is necessary to be a politician, perhaps we will now have less of them....that wouldn't be a bad thing.
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« Reply #95 on: February 06, 2018, 12:48:31 pm »
Accountants can do deeply disturbing things too, but it takes a lot more to lose their career over it.  That's pretty much the point I'm making, this isn't about #MeToo running amok, it's about a politician having less than stellar past and it costing him his career.

Heck, this isn't even a man/woman issue.  I would love to run for office but I have my own skeletons in the closet from my younger days so I went into, you guessed it... accounting.   ;)

There is a different set of rules for politicians and Patrick Brown learned that lesson the hard way, unlike me.

I prolly wouldn't make the cut either.  Fortunately, I went into Project Management.  I think most people are surprised that we get any at all, so they don't seem to care about what we do to get some.   :D
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« Reply #96 on: February 06, 2018, 10:04:32 pm »
The latest #MeToo blowback comes from a former Toronto mayoral candidate who claims that journalist Steve Paikin tried to pick her up.

As with the Aziz Ansari case and count #1 against Patrick Brown, I ask: "WHO GIVES A ****?"

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Offline Michael Hardner

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« Reply #97 on: February 07, 2018, 02:31:00 pm »
Well, we are now down to 1 complaint making the news, albeit two famous people involved.  I know someone who knows Sarah Thomson so I will be asking about this in the future.

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« Reply #99 on: August 28, 2018, 12:27:32 pm »
https://www.cnn.com/videos/cnnmoney/2018/08/28/louis-ck-surprise-ny-appearance-es-vpx.cnn

Louis CK comes back to the stage in NYC.   :o

Interesting. Seems it went well. It will be interesting to see if it translates into marquee standup again. I don't see him ever getting a TV show again but who knows.
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« Reply #100 on: August 28, 2018, 02:22:43 pm »
I was glad to see Chris Hardwick be re-instated and the allegations about him shown to be false.  I hope he can sue that Chloe Whateverhernameis for the stress and embarrassment and probably loss of income during the time he had to fight it. (Which I think he and his wife handled with a lot fo dignity.)
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« Reply #101 on: November 02, 2018, 11:21:55 am »
A 72 year old newswriter for PBS is suing them for gender discrimination after they fired him because two women complained they were subjected to sexual harassment when he said "Not bad' about a picture of Meghan Markle. Apparently they had both previously said a picture of Justin Trudeau was "hot" but the network had no issue with this.

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/man-fired-from-pbs-for-saying-meghan-markle-is-not-bad-the-woman-who-complained-had-called-trudeau-hot#comments-area
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Offline Michael Hardner

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« Reply #102 on: November 02, 2018, 12:00:06 pm »
A 72 year old newswriter for PBS is suing them for gender discrimination after they fired him because two women complained they were subjected to sexual harassment when he said "Not bad' about a picture of Meghan Markle. Apparently they had both previously said a picture of Justin Trudeau was "hot" but the network had no issue with this.

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/man-fired-from-pbs-for-saying-meghan-markle-is-not-bad-the-woman-who-complained-had-called-trudeau-hot#comments-area

It may be time to put an end to all such comments in the workplace.  But firing for one comment is too much.

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« Reply #103 on: November 02, 2018, 12:32:40 pm »
Sure glad I'm retired, the world has gone nuts.
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« Reply #104 on: November 02, 2018, 01:02:03 pm »
Sure glad I'm retired, the world has gone nuts.

'the world'

Do you think this one example means 'the world has gone nuts' ?  Think about it.