Just wanted to rub it in a little

[blazespinnaker]

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These olympics will inspire a lot of boys and girls out there to become great hockey players.

And so the cycle continues. Great jingoist fun!

[Serge_Tomiko]

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I am sooooo hung over....

Hey, what is the significance of this The Shaena Project note on your site?

Congrats to your hockey team, by the way.

[GRG55]

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These olympics will inspire a lot of boys and girls out there to become great hockey players...

Or maybe it'll make them want to do this intead...

120 km/hr, inches from the ice surface, and no brakes :eek:



And here's what you do if you win gold doing such crazy things, and you're Canadian...stroll down the streets of Whistler imbibing Molsons...

Men's Skeleton gold medal winner Jon Montgomery.

[GRG55]

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A great effort by the USA to come back from two goals down. Sudden death always seems a lousy way to put an end to a match up as good as this was.

One thing about these Olympics...every Canadian that didn't know all the words to the national anthem knows them now...

See ya in 4 years in Sochi!

A little postscript on the above...:p

First the nitwits running our country from the rarefied reaches of Ottawa [instead of fluoride they must put a stupidity inducing chemical in the water there] decide to study the national anthem lyrics, mere days after Canadians finally figure them out...with the help of American Stephen Colbert [see pic below ].

Conservatives eye new lyrics for our national anthem

Published On Thu Mar 4 2010

OTTAWA—Three days after Canadians belted out “O Canada” to celebrate the nation’s Olympic hockey win, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives are asking whether the anthem should be changed.

The phrase “In all thy sons command” has some women calling for a gender-neutral version, Industry Minister Tony Clement says, citing an email from a constituent.

“For 50 years ..... I’ve listened to our anthem and felt excluded by the line,” Tina Prietz, 60, of Huntsville, Ont., wrote to Clement. “Yes, you’ve guessed it, I’m female.”

The Conservative government said in Wednesday’s throne speech it will ask Parliament to examine the original wording of the anthem...

Late-night TV host Stephen Colbert, right, and Michael Bublé sing the Canadian national anthem at the Vancouver Games. (Feb. 17, 2010)

STEVE RUSSELL/TORONTO STAR

With that announcement it was open season and the radio stations started running contests to write new words to replace the apparently highly offensive phrase in the opening lines to the anthem...

O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command...

The best one I heard was "...with two beers in hand". Sort of captures the essence of the nation. Now if they could work in something about our gender-neutral universal health care, it'll be complete...:rolleyes:

Unfortunately the government, fearing Canadians might be having just a wee bit too much fun at its expense, has backtracked.

Harper gov't says Canadian anthem lyrics won't change

After strong reaction poured in from across the country about the government's proposal to modify the lyrics to "O Canada," the Harper government now says it will not go forward with a review of the song's lyrics.

Earlier in the week, the throne speech mentioned a proposal to modify a lyric in the Canadian anthem. It promised to look into the wording of 'O Canada' to make it more gender neutral, suggesting the line, "all thy sons command" could be replaced...

...The government now says it will longer be considering changing the lyric "all thy sons command" because of public disapproval.

"We heard loud and clear and we thought to put this one aside," Treasury Board president Stockwell Day told CTV News...

D'oh!...

[Aetius Romulous]

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The only stat that matters: Canada by the Numbers

Edmonton water consumption during Gold Medal game

This explains my country as well as anything I suppose.

[GRG55]

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The only stat that matters: Canada by the Numbers

Edmonton water consumption during Gold Medal game

This explains my country as well as anything I suppose.

"...with two beers in hand..."

[santafe2]

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Recession? What recession?? ;)

Being honest, I didn't watch 10 minutes of the Olympics. Glad you guys won because we didn't care if we won or lost. Really, it would have been awful if we won. Now if you want to discuss US college basketball...we're all over that. I know, the love of a particular sport, or sport in general, is not really something one can explain, but I'm still glad you guys won. It would have been wrong for us to win something we didn't care about.

[GRG55]

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Being honest, I didn't watch 10 minutes of the Olympics. Glad you guys won because we didn't care if we won or lost. Really, it would have been awful if we won. Now if you want to discuss US college basketball...we're all over that. I know, the love of a particular sport, or sport in general, is not really something one can explain, but I'm still glad you guys won. It would have been wrong for us to win something we didn't care about.

Ahhh, basketball. All I can say is that we're pleased to hear that a game invented by a Canadian [James Naismith] in the 19th century is able to bring so much entertainment pleasure to you Americans in the 21st...

Given our long, cold winters, you'd think we'd spend more time indoors improving our basketball skills, but it's such a wimpy, slow-paced game...compared to ice hockey...;)

[jk]

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Ahhh, basketball. All I can say is that we're pleased to hear that a game invented by a Canadian [James Naismith] in the 19th century is able to bring so much entertainment pleasure to you Americans in the 21st...

Given our long, cold winters, you'd think we'd spend more time indoors improving our basketball skills, but it's such a wimpy, slow-paced game...compared to ice hockey...;)

i think the wimpy thing is watching sports instead of playing sports. [thus can i offend every participant in this thread with a single sentence.]

[GRG55]

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i think the wimpy thing is watching sports instead of playing sports. [thus can i offend every participant in this thread with a single sentence.]

While we are on the topic of watching sports, Scuderia Ferrari took first [Fernando Alonso in his debut with the team] and second [Felipe Massa] at the season opening Formula One race at Sakhir Circuit in Bahrain this weekend. Lewis Hamilton put his McLaren-Mercedes across the line third.

The Arabian Gulf is serious Ferrari country, so the natives will be ecstatic....

[LargoWinch]

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i think the wimpy thing is watching sports instead of playing sports. [thus can i offend every participant in this thread with a single sentence.]

jk...you are really an enigma aren't you?

[santafe2]

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jk...you are really an enigma aren't you?

Not so much. jk may not watch sports. Several of my friends don't watch any sports and are avid outdoors people with the same idea. As I've mentioned before, almost no one at work drives a car to work even on the worst day. It's a badge of honor to trudge in an hour late when it's 12 degrees and snowing. Personally, I don't get that level of commitment and have been known to fire up the CO2 belching machine to get into work in some comfort, (all 2 miles of the big commute).

But that doesn't mean that a lot of us sports watchers are not also crazy competitive at the sports / activities we participate in. It's probably the business crowd I call my friends, but we do both with equal zest. Screaming at the TV during the Final Four or heading down a single track just a little too fast for our middle age bodies, both are activities many sports fans love.

I really wish I could care about hockey and soccer but while there's American football and US college basketball, I'm not going to have time to indulge them and still get outside for some "real" sport.

[jk]

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jk...you are really an enigma aren't you?

i've never thought of myself as enigmatic. my belief about myself is that i'm quite direct and open. what's not clear?

as for sports, i really find them pretty boring to watch. it's hard for me to identify with laundry- that's what people do if they root for a team, since the individual players go to and fro. they root for the uniforms. feh, not for me. i'm not enough of a group identifier to care even about my alma mater's teams, my regional professional or my country's teams: "so what?" is my thought. it's very nice for the people involved, i suppose, if they win, or at least enjoy playing the game. but it gives me no special joy to watch them at it. i suppose a parallel phenomenon is that i don't especially enjoy pornography. i'd rather participate.

getting back to sports: i play squash 5 times a week, do strength training once a week, enjoy hiking and in recent years have taken many of my vacations as hiking trips in the southwest. but i'd rather read about the many things that interest me than watch others play games.

[santafe2]

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as for sports, i really find them pretty boring to watch. it's hard for me to identify with laundry-

I find that completely unfair. Just one example. I've played basketball my entire life and while I've played and coached a few kids leagues, I've never seen examples in my personal life of players like Jordan and Bryant who have abilities no one in my local group can hope to have. We watch them from a couch but they inspire us toward our own smaller goals in their sport.

[jk]

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I find that completely unfair. Just one example. I've played basketball my entire life and while I've played and coached a few kids leagues, I've never seen examples in my personal life of players like Jordan and Bryant who have abilities no one in my local group can hope to have. We watch them from a couch but they inspire us toward our own smaller goals in their sport.

watching one or two outstanding athletes for their individual performance is not, in my observation, what most people get most worked up about. they root for teams. they root for laundry.