From last Saturday night's game between the Los Angeles Kings and Chicago Blackhawks...
Love the (hockey-related) comment at the end...
(edit: I
don't know how that works - saluting Veterans sent to - mostly useless -
wars, who you don't provide adequate care for upon their return, yet
celebrate by merely applauding their service yet don't want your taxes
to foot their hospital and mental health bills; then
again we do that here too, and the Feds even made our Veterans' Day no
longer a mandatory holiday, so they don't even get an actual day's
honour, just a random ''oh was it today?'' type of day...)
Showing posts with label Nationalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nationalism. Show all posts
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Boo-Hoo: How Cry-Babies Are Making A Huge Fuss About Something That Shouldn't Even Exist In The First Place
It's playoff season in the NHL, and that means ''more of the usual'':
1. The Montréal Canadiens are in them and the Toronto Maple Leafs are watching them on TV trying not to think of the number ''1967''
2. The San Jose Sharks will choke
3. The Cup will not come back home to Canada
4. Montréal fans will boo the Star-Spangled Banner, the opposition's best players, and their own team's players who aren't giving maximum effort
4A.Too many people will get their panties up in a bunch about booing the opposing team's national anthem and will call Montrealers ''classless''
Case in point, right here.
First of all, in the modern-day NHL, where games are played on two continents (the season starts in Europe nowadays, remember?) and has teams consisting of players from as many as 15 different countries, the singing of Canadian and American national anthems before a game is pretty retarded.
When more than half a team leaves for Europe in the summer, you can't make the point that they're playing for their adopted city as if it were representing a country; the best of them play for their own countries whenever they can, be it at the Olympics, the World Championships, the World Cup, friendly tournaments... all occasions where it makes sense to have national anthems, because countries are pitted against one another.
Current-day NHL? Not quite.
Now, assuming you still go ahead with singing them, one anthem is yours, the other is the enemy's. Except in the province of Québec, where it can be argued that both anthems are actually ''enemy'' anthems, but I digress. So one's ''good'', the other's ''evil''. Montréal is known accross the league as having the most intimidating home crowd, with Philadelphia being a close second. Why wouldn't they add a little bit of intimidation by showing their colours right from the start?
It's funny that during the past year, while the health care debate was raging in the U.S., all you'd hear from those opposing health care reform was how bad ''the Canadian system'' was, how we're nothing but a bunch of commies that have to wait in line and die of common colds, that we're half-civilized retards, that we're the cousin with no friends your mom forces you to bring along when you're playing with your friends...
Oh, but if we boo your national anthem, you start crying? Call us classless?
We define class.
We let you have our best doctors (they make up between 15 and 25% of your medical corps), we give you our entertainers (apart from rappers, they're now half of your charted music and our actors earn a third of your highest-grossing films).
We can drink beer without becoming ready-for-combat overweight apes, yet we don't mind when you cross the border to drink here legally at age 18 and behave like idiots. You won't see us piss in the middle of the street in NYC at 4AM, but you'll see Americans doing it here on Crescent Street.
Americans always piss on us, and all we do is a little harmless booing.
Boo-hoo. Boo you.
1. The Montréal Canadiens are in them and the Toronto Maple Leafs are watching them on TV trying not to think of the number ''1967''
2. The San Jose Sharks will choke
3. The Cup will not come back home to Canada
4. Montréal fans will boo the Star-Spangled Banner, the opposition's best players, and their own team's players who aren't giving maximum effort
4A.Too many people will get their panties up in a bunch about booing the opposing team's national anthem and will call Montrealers ''classless''
Case in point, right here.
First of all, in the modern-day NHL, where games are played on two continents (the season starts in Europe nowadays, remember?) and has teams consisting of players from as many as 15 different countries, the singing of Canadian and American national anthems before a game is pretty retarded.
When more than half a team leaves for Europe in the summer, you can't make the point that they're playing for their adopted city as if it were representing a country; the best of them play for their own countries whenever they can, be it at the Olympics, the World Championships, the World Cup, friendly tournaments... all occasions where it makes sense to have national anthems, because countries are pitted against one another.
Current-day NHL? Not quite.
Now, assuming you still go ahead with singing them, one anthem is yours, the other is the enemy's. Except in the province of Québec, where it can be argued that both anthems are actually ''enemy'' anthems, but I digress. So one's ''good'', the other's ''evil''. Montréal is known accross the league as having the most intimidating home crowd, with Philadelphia being a close second. Why wouldn't they add a little bit of intimidation by showing their colours right from the start?
It's funny that during the past year, while the health care debate was raging in the U.S., all you'd hear from those opposing health care reform was how bad ''the Canadian system'' was, how we're nothing but a bunch of commies that have to wait in line and die of common colds, that we're half-civilized retards, that we're the cousin with no friends your mom forces you to bring along when you're playing with your friends...
Oh, but if we boo your national anthem, you start crying? Call us classless?
We define class.
We let you have our best doctors (they make up between 15 and 25% of your medical corps), we give you our entertainers (apart from rappers, they're now half of your charted music and our actors earn a third of your highest-grossing films).
We can drink beer without becoming ready-for-combat overweight apes, yet we don't mind when you cross the border to drink here legally at age 18 and behave like idiots. You won't see us piss in the middle of the street in NYC at 4AM, but you'll see Americans doing it here on Crescent Street.
Americans always piss on us, and all we do is a little harmless booing.
Boo-hoo. Boo you.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Everybody is A Fucking Nazi
It has existed as far back as I can remember: the late 70s, the 80s, the 90s...
Every single time someone who is prone to exaggeration disagrees with someone, it's what they resort to. 'That Person' is Hitler; his supporters (or staff) are Nazis.
In 2003, in his Quest For World Domination, I mean the War On Terror, George W. Bush invaded his second country in 18 months - a country of impure, coloured, backwards, retarded, living-in-caves-and-having-sex-with-animals people, according to his press releases.
His opponents compared him to Hitler. Of course.
Then Hurricane Katrina happened, and people hated him so much that, for some inexplicable reason, he went from the worst human of all time to, just, racist - or, as Kanye West put it, he doesn't like black people.
Speaking of black people, one of them was elected to bring grace and intelligence back to the White House. He came in with the worst deficit of all time, the worst economy, two wars that were quickly going nowhere... and while some people complain he hasn't made enough changes, his opponents seem to rather want to be in yet more wars, have less freedoms, more Patriot Act-like laws, have the rich pay no taxes at all and the poor no services at all. And when they're not adding Hitler moustaches to his pictures, they're taking a happy waive out of context to make him Nazi-ish:
Oh, and Hitlerizing figures isn't only for American politicians - in this column, Texan douchebag/idiot (but not Nazi) Gil Lebreton, who probably doesn't even realize he has French roots and likely thinks the French would still support the Nazis if they were invaded today, says the display at the Olympics reminded him of Berlin, circa 1936, although he is obviously too young to have actually covered those games - he's likely only seen images out of context. Anyhow, he says the Canadian Patriotism - clearly, unlike American Patriotism - is close to Nazi-ism. This despite the fact that our cars don't have Canadian Flags as bumper stickers, convenience stores don't sell flags nor have any on their rooftop or property, that half our stores don't allude to our country...
And, by the way, I'm not one myself - I'm actually quite the opposite, I don't really consider ''Canada'' to be my country. I'm a Montrealer first and foremost, and if I had to choose a country and set its limits, just about where borders are at the moment, I'd be a Quebecer - just not with the leaders we have at the moment. But that's beside the point. And so is the fact that Lebreton is a complete moron.
The point is that no one is fuckin' Adolf Hitler. Hitler went to war with a whole continent, killed millions of humans including a few million Jews, specifically, and he instilled terror among even his own people. Joseph Stalin killed an estimated 60 million of his own people. And no one's a fuckin' Stalin either.
At best, Bush is a fucking retard who was manipulated into being Richard Nixon. At worst, he is George H.W. Bush's son, heir, and the Worst President Of All Time. At worst, Obama is going to fail at being Martin Luther King, and at best he will be Nelson Mandela.
Notice how neither is Hitler.
Same goes for the Vancouver Games: they were a celebration of the things foreigners have come to expect from Canada - beavers, mounties, aboriginals (despite the inability to actually see any on their trips), more than the diversity of the inhabitants, the richness of the natural resources, the fact that they promote discussion rather than conflict in almost every sentence they utter.
Just like if Americans hosted the Olympics showing blatant racism, fat people, terrible beer with little to no alcohol content, celebrated five-patty hamburgers, wars for oil, shopping malls, pollutions and waste of water and food, instead of the ideals that (once) made the U.S. of A. a great country. And even that wouldn't be Nazi-riffic.
Leave Hitler alone. By speaking his name, you're lessening the plight and deaths of millions and soiling their memories.
No one is Hitler. Except Gary Bettman - that short fucking dictator has to be brought down, for the good of All.
Every single time someone who is prone to exaggeration disagrees with someone, it's what they resort to. 'That Person' is Hitler; his supporters (or staff) are Nazis.
In 2003, in his Quest For World Domination, I mean the War On Terror, George W. Bush invaded his second country in 18 months - a country of impure, coloured, backwards, retarded, living-in-caves-and-having-sex-with-animals people, according to his press releases.
His opponents compared him to Hitler. Of course.
Then Hurricane Katrina happened, and people hated him so much that, for some inexplicable reason, he went from the worst human of all time to, just, racist - or, as Kanye West put it, he doesn't like black people.
Speaking of black people, one of them was elected to bring grace and intelligence back to the White House. He came in with the worst deficit of all time, the worst economy, two wars that were quickly going nowhere... and while some people complain he hasn't made enough changes, his opponents seem to rather want to be in yet more wars, have less freedoms, more Patriot Act-like laws, have the rich pay no taxes at all and the poor no services at all. And when they're not adding Hitler moustaches to his pictures, they're taking a happy waive out of context to make him Nazi-ish:
Oh, and Hitlerizing figures isn't only for American politicians - in this column, Texan douchebag/idiot (but not Nazi) Gil Lebreton, who probably doesn't even realize he has French roots and likely thinks the French would still support the Nazis if they were invaded today, says the display at the Olympics reminded him of Berlin, circa 1936, although he is obviously too young to have actually covered those games - he's likely only seen images out of context. Anyhow, he says the Canadian Patriotism - clearly, unlike American Patriotism - is close to Nazi-ism. This despite the fact that our cars don't have Canadian Flags as bumper stickers, convenience stores don't sell flags nor have any on their rooftop or property, that half our stores don't allude to our country...
And, by the way, I'm not one myself - I'm actually quite the opposite, I don't really consider ''Canada'' to be my country. I'm a Montrealer first and foremost, and if I had to choose a country and set its limits, just about where borders are at the moment, I'd be a Quebecer - just not with the leaders we have at the moment. But that's beside the point. And so is the fact that Lebreton is a complete moron.
The point is that no one is fuckin' Adolf Hitler. Hitler went to war with a whole continent, killed millions of humans including a few million Jews, specifically, and he instilled terror among even his own people. Joseph Stalin killed an estimated 60 million of his own people. And no one's a fuckin' Stalin either.
At best, Bush is a fucking retard who was manipulated into being Richard Nixon. At worst, he is George H.W. Bush's son, heir, and the Worst President Of All Time. At worst, Obama is going to fail at being Martin Luther King, and at best he will be Nelson Mandela.
Notice how neither is Hitler.
Same goes for the Vancouver Games: they were a celebration of the things foreigners have come to expect from Canada - beavers, mounties, aboriginals (despite the inability to actually see any on their trips), more than the diversity of the inhabitants, the richness of the natural resources, the fact that they promote discussion rather than conflict in almost every sentence they utter.
Just like if Americans hosted the Olympics showing blatant racism, fat people, terrible beer with little to no alcohol content, celebrated five-patty hamburgers, wars for oil, shopping malls, pollutions and waste of water and food, instead of the ideals that (once) made the U.S. of A. a great country. And even that wouldn't be Nazi-riffic.
Leave Hitler alone. By speaking his name, you're lessening the plight and deaths of millions and soiling their memories.
No one is Hitler. Except Gary Bettman - that short fucking dictator has to be brought down, for the good of All.
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