i still want my money back for that piece of shit game
no he doesn’t, you’re the king, go listen to cheesy nickelback lyrics and play your shitty rpg, no one loves you and you’ll never amount to anything in this life
But no, go down theBillboard 100. I can’t see anything in the top 50 I’d choose over some random Nickelback song. You can feel free to like Lady Gaga, the Black Eyed Peas and Miley Cyrus all you like. Doesn’t change the fact that only one of those acts actually has (a) musician(s) involved. The rest are dancers who lip-sync to pre-recorded midis.
Oh, and FF8>Whatever shit you’re playing right now (probably).
Fuck, that was so embarrassing. I am born canadian and so is half my family, but I could not believe that cheesy stereotype comedy routine on a national stage. Like, everything was perfect, then they had to bust out the bullshit. I almost died inside when that second city lady made the pee joke, and the world was here was written in yellow cursive. omg…and the word balloons. so dumb.
as an not-even-that-proud American, i am very glad the Canadians won, and all of us Americans should be too. let me tell you why.
imagine the possible chaos if Canada had lost. there would probably riots. everything would have gone sour at the closing ceremonies that’s for sure.
Canada is like the USA’s little brother. Though we hate to lose to our little brother, the victory means so much more to him. As an older brother, we are much more mature and we can take the loss and not really care. But if he would have beaten him, he would have probably kicked, screamed, and thrown a tantrum.
^ And American fans riot, lighting fires, overturning cars and causing property damage after one American city beats another American city in the championship.
See: Phillies, Lakers, Celtics, Steelers, and Broncos fans to name a few
The closing ceremony spoofing the opening ceremony technical failure was really nice to see, a great example of Western self-deprecating humor. If that technical failure would have happened in Asia (any country), you’d best believe they’d be too ashamed to laugh at themselves or reference it in anyway, like the BSOD at Beijing. Self-parody is one of the great things about Western civilization, glad to see our neighbors up north are able to laugh. Nickelback still sucks. William Shatner is still amazing.
No it’s just this spudlyff8fan guy. Most of the US SRKers are pretty chill but that dude seems to have some hardcore issues with Canada. I love every minute of it!
I actually would have to agree with this post. Not to say American fans don’t start riots but still.
Yeah but not over a hockey game. Riots over hockey games happen all the time in Canada. Fuck, there’s some every year the habs make it into the playoffs.
It’s hard to put a critical eye on the Olympics especially since I live in Vancouver and am basically getting a rosy version of all this. I was one of the few people who were sour grapes towards it all, saying that it will be a fiasco, but like how Commodus from Gladiator threw a huge ass party to hide the obvious problems of his empire, it’s difficult not to be swept up into the Olympic spirit and patriotism when your national anthem is sung multiple times every day. Pwn the Odium’s failure soon was ignored in favour of setting gold medal records and an amazing hockey game and while I try to keep up to date with the things that are less than glowing with the games, it does seem to come off as something to deal with either after the games, or as whining.
The other problem is that I don’t see Vancouver as a world class city. We are a great city, we are a nice city, but we don’t seem to be one fit for the world stage. When you go to other cities, it’s packed full of people with places to go and a lot of times I don’t feel that even in the summer. Sure some main avenues here and there, but there is a certain lack of bustle when compared to other cities. If anything the venues are representative of this, in some ways created to accommodate the increased amount of people looking for afternights entertainment, it created venues that took an average of an hour or even 3 to get into. However to many out of towners, perhaps the city of Vancouver is the venue and there are certainly a heck of a lot of places to visit than some erected tent for $8 booze.
In the end I hope that the games worked out, I really do. I really do feel that achieving so much, it sort of puts us a bit more on a reputable place on the world stage for national pride, a great country to visit and live in and a great country of sports competition. Problem is that the rest of the province is footing the bill for a 3 week party that helped in the short term but I fail to see the long term benefits despite what people say. It’ll be unknown whether this’ll work out for us because my work today seemed representative of what to expect from the future. Dead for business while the world parties the fuck outside not caring. I mean business is great for the short term but it really felt a bit ominous. I would love for the games to be a benefit to the city I live in all shapes and forms, but like a drunken spree of happiness, here comes the hangover. Who knows? Perhaps we are in a better position than Calgary or Montreal to pay off our debts easier, it is the 21st century afterall.
Like how bitter the Canadians were after they got raped the first game against us. They squeaked by and got lucky. And like Raziel said, its probably better they won or half their population would’ve committed suicide.
And its funny how shitty Crosby played the entire game, scores a goal, and all of a sudden he’s the best. I can’t wait until a week later when everyone completely forgets about the olympics and all the canadians can go back to talking shit about him.