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Old Posted Jul 28, 2013, 4:14 AM
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Exclamation Rob Ford's Toronto

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Brilliant set! Nice to see the city hasn't been robbed of it's energy and uniqueness.
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It most certainly is not! I was expecting scenes from Etobicoke.
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Old Posted Jul 28, 2013, 1:40 PM
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Haha me too. Great pics man.
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Old Posted Jul 28, 2013, 3:04 PM
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Vibrant! Thanks for sharing, flar!

Toronto always looks beautiful. Such a full of life city! Wonderful shots, as usual.

Congrats and greetings from Madrid, Spain!
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EXcellent. I wouldn't mind another 50 pics, though.
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Old Posted Jul 29, 2013, 2:28 AM
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Great thread title... one of the grittiest portrayals of Toronto I've ever seen. Bravo.
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I was expecting the antithesis to your last thread, instead we got a nice compliment to it.



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one of the grittiest portrayals of Toronto I've ever seen.
I swear this comment is made in every Toronto thread.
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Old Posted Jul 29, 2013, 9:30 AM
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I'm rather surprised anyone would think this thread seems gritty; the set really doesn't seem gritty at all to me. It seems typically flar-style, ie. colourful, funky, textured, random,"step into the picture" realism.

Overall, Toronto's actual urbanism isn't exactly what I'd call gritty either. There are a few gritty parts, but generally it's just a random, spontaneous, jumbled mess of urbanity.
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Ford and Flar - both legends in their time.
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I too was half expecting a tongue-in-cheek set of shots around Etobicoke. Nice work flar. If you don't mind me asking, where did you take shot #17?
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I can not get enough Chinese porn, where is that shop???......Our best northern neighbor's asset..
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The last set is the best.
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Nice pictures! Almost each one gives me memories of my time in Toronto in the summer. I especially like the one on the Gardiner Expressway of the view of the skyscrapers. I love that view in person as I drive into the city.
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21... ha. And 41 really captures Toronto modernism well. Great set.
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I wasn't sure if the thread title was meant to be ironic, or an accurate description, but I'll assume it to be "in spite of". Great shots as always. Noted that #29 looks like Toronto's version of an Eastern Canadian/NL row house, which I hadn't seen before.
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Flar's Toronto shots
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Please Ford go away
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I'm rather surprised anyone would think this thread seems gritty; the set really doesn't seem gritty at all to me. It seems typically flar-style, ie. colourful, funky, textured, random,"step into the picture" realism. .
All of which can be "gritty". "Gritty" doesn't just mean rundown hellhole.
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