You'd think from all the honking and yahooing last night that perhaps Canadians had landed on Mars or some such monumental event. As I said
before it's kind of pathetic that the only thing that garners spontaneous displays of passion or
national pride are hockey games. Not that it's a bad thing for people to be excited about the local team doing well (On the other hand, how "local" is the team? How many "Canucks" are even from Canada, let alone British Columbia or the Vancouver area? What
exactly is all the pride about?), it's just a tad pathetic that this is the
only thing that gets people excited.
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You know , roman leaders said that about the Gladiators
Date: 2003-04-23 09:22 am (UTC)National pride: have you LOOKED at our leaders lately ? How much do you LOVE the GST ? Our armed forces so far have only been targets for the us fighter pilots to calibrate their bombing systems.
Vancouver has been a no-fun city for so long...let them have this one.
Re: You know , roman leaders said that about the Gladiators
Date: 2003-04-23 09:28 am (UTC)Thing is, I just checked: Of the 25 players, only 14 are Canadian, only 2 are from BC, and only 1 is from Greater Vancouver. The owner is American. Local pride? In what? In the fact that our American owner bought better trained monkeys than some other American?
Trained monkeys .. I thought I saw a few empty typewriters in my office
Date: 2003-04-23 09:46 am (UTC)Don't forget that these brain damaged armored ice-show warriors
could buy or sell you...provided they could string the words together.
Methinks they be hit in the head with the puck a-once-too-many times.
Grr grumble fuckin' Canucks grumble
Actually, speaking of Canadian teams - I think St. Louis was the last team to ever have an all-Canadian roster (back in 1992).
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First of all, why is it standard to celebrate a hockey game by getting wasted and telling innocent bystanders to fuck off for no reason?
And second of all, if this is what they see at national pride, then isn't funny how that same pride gets swept under the carpet as soon as the Canucks lose a game?
bastards!
Date: 2003-04-23 12:45 pm (UTC)I must have been groped by about 15 people (guys & girls included), and had to elbow my way thru the crowd of assholes back to the table from the washroom. Most of us who would have stayed later left early cause we couldn't handle the fucking testosterone in there. It felt like a fight was going to erupt any second, and you could practically smell the blood in the room.
We were getting pretty pissed off by lecherous creeps and skanky women, and the dancefloor was coated in booze.
We finally had enough and left. If that's what Tuesday's will continue to be like, count us out.
And if that is what a "Hockey Fan" is like, they can go fuck themselves...
Celebrating Sports my ass...it's just an excuse to be an obnoxious drunk asshole.
And if the Canucks would have lost, there would have been another friggin riot.
Re: bastards!
Date: 2003-04-23 12:51 pm (UTC)I got groped alot too. You'd feel something on your ass, turn around, and see nothing but a sea of drunk jocks and hoochies, so who the fuck knows touched my ass!
Did you see the amount of young hoochie girls they let in with the Canucks, up at the seating area behind the railing? It was pathetic. some of those chicks couldn't have been older than 19.
Re: bastards!
Date: 2003-04-23 01:11 pm (UTC)Likely. Some of the players are as young as 22.
Re: bastards!
Date: 2003-04-23 01:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-23 07:29 pm (UTC)What? Afraid of a little sweat?
Date: 2003-04-25 09:12 pm (UTC)However, each to their own and if one doesn't like the random noise that living downtown in the urban playground brings, then go move elsewhere. That's what the suburbs are there for.
However, sports fans and those into athletics get a bad rap. What's so frickin' wrong with athelticism? At least some of us get our arses off the couch and do something... I play lacrosse; Seymour and Shauna's Paul play hockey... so does that make us jocks one-and-all lumped in with the rest of these idiots?
I'm sure if it were something that appealed to you, then oh it'd be alright.
Re: What? Afraid of a little sweat?
Date: 2003-04-25 11:21 pm (UTC)I swam competitively for over ten years. I rowed competitively, for a private club for several years and then for SFU. I've been on rugby teams, wrestled, and played football for a while (didn't like it much - found all the armour annoying). I surf (http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=mbarrick&itemid=59933) when I can. I even signed up and trained for the ultimate competitive team sport, war.
There is a great deal of athleticism in my family. My mother was an olympic level swimmer, my father a combat veteran, and my sister swam on a national level and was also a triathlete, several of my cousins were accomplished boxers. I have nothing against athleticism. What I take offense to is ill-mannered yahoos, hooliganism, and a lack of moderation.