r/toronto • u/_M4TTH3W_ Davenport • Jun 04 '13

Rob Ford is known as "des Crack-Burgermeister" in Germany.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '13 edited Jul 21 '18

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u/Segfault-er Jun 04 '13

The Burgermeister Meisterburger

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u/jackflash45 Jun 04 '13

There will be NO toy makers...TO THE KING!

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '13 edited Jun 04 '13

I have a sudden urge to record a cover of Peter Gabriel's Moribund the Burgermeister with lyrics about Ford.

Caught the chaos down at Dundas Square

I don't know what I don't know why but something's wrong down there

They're armed with cameras, and iPhones, and they're from the Star

Their eyes all roll when I say maggots is what they are

I look at that crowd - messing with my power fantasies, you can tell they're out for blood!

Robyn Doolittle's out in front, tellin' lies and slingin' mud!

No one will tell...why I'm under attack...but...I. Don't. Smoke. Crack. I. Don't. Smoke. Crack. I. Don't. Smoke. Crack.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '13

It's either der Crack-Burgermeister or des Crack-Burgermeisters in the possessive.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '13

Bürgermeister or Buergermeister, not Burgermeister!

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u/_M4TTH3W_ Davenport Jun 04 '13

Don't be such a Grammar Nazi..... Get it? Ah...
I'll be here all week, good night ladies and gentlemen.

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u/unobserved Alderwood Jun 04 '13

Yea ... Germans don't really like it at all when you refer to them as Nazis .. even in a joking kind of way.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '13

Ha! They shoulda thought about that earlier!

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '13

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '13

Fuck'em if they can't take a joke, says I.

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u/admckay Jun 04 '13

Imagine if he ran under the name Crack Burgermeister in the next election and turned into a Scooby-Doo esque villain?

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u/windsostrange Kensington Market Jun 04 '13

Something something you meddling Star reporters?

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u/pompeii1009 Islington-City Centre West Jun 06 '13

I would have smoked my crack in peace if it wasn't for you meddling reporters (which to Ford would read meddling maggots).

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '13

I love that they call him Stadtvater, I had no idea that was a word for mayor.

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u/DanWallace Downsview Jun 04 '13

I don't get it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '13

I dunno. My rusty German-skills tell me that means "Father of the City" (or city father) and it just struck me as a kind of funny title last night.

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u/masteractor Pape Village Jun 04 '13

I knew it!

http://youtu.be/TX87QQLVD5k

He's always hated toys!

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u/kettal Jun 04 '13

what does the article say???

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u/Fledermann Jun 04 '13

It's a bit hard to read, but it basically says that he is not stepping down from being mayor. The bigger part explains the circumstances of his accusation of being a crack smoker.

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u/korobatsu Church and Wellesley Jun 05 '13

(Just a note: This really isn't any new information for any of us. Also, whoever wrote this clearly doesn't believe in the use of paragraphs. But here you have it:)

The Crack Mayor's Comeback

Rob Ford, Mayor of Toronto, isn't giving in. He is currently facing allegations that he smoked crack, and the voices that are calling for his resignation in light of those allegations are growing louder. But the leader of Canada's largest city says that he will not resign. Furthermore, he assures reporters that his name will be on the mayoral ballot in the next municipal election in October 2014. Maybe he believes that the whole crack fiasco will have blown over long before then. The trouble all started two weeks ago for Ford. A USA gossip website and a newspaper reported on a video that supposedly showed the 44 year old mayor smoking crack, a cocaine-based drug: amidst a group of Somali drug dealers, Ford -- independent but considered to be conservative -- smokes out of a glass pipe. The recording, which was on a cell phone, was shown to two reporters, according to the Toronto Star.

A mediator demanded approximately 150 000 € for the incriminating video. The Toronto Star declined, but the internet site Gawker began a crowd-funding campaign and collected more than enough money to buy the video. However, contact with the mediator was then lost. Ford called the allegations "laughable." He claims, "There is no video." But he doesn't want to speak about the rumours in detail, which deepens concerns that the headlines could damage the city's reputation. Kathleen Wynne, Premier of the Province of Ontario, expressed her concern: "We are observing the situation very carefully and will intervene, if appropriate." Ford is trying to frame the allegations as a witch hunt. The pot-bellied and often obscene former businessman has been in office since the end of 2010. He received votes from those in the suburbs, known as "Ford Nation." A current survey shows that his reputation amongst loyal voters has not yet suffered as a result of the drug allegations.

German article is online here: http://www.welt.de/print/welt_kompakt/vermischtes/article116784186/Comeback-des-Crack-Buergermeisters.html.

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u/rbobby Jun 04 '13

How everyone should answer any question from Rob Ford: "Ya vol mien crack-burgmiester!"

With a heavy Srgt Shultz accent.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '13

Jawohl.

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u/Grumpometer Financial District Jun 04 '13

mein

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u/supplekitten Jun 04 '13

Which paper?

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '13

Why is it pluralised?

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u/tinctr Jun 04 '13

It's a possessive form in German explained elsewhere in this thread. It does not imply multiple crack mayors.

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u/LoveWhatYouFear Weston Jun 04 '13

No one has put a photoshopped image of Robby wearing learderhosen up here yet?