2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread
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you're dull
Shreddy
Truth Through Character
I'm Pie 1, Sasaferrato.
I have been since 2003 I believe.
If you have any other basic questions you'd like any help with, don't hesitate to ask will you? You senile tory twunt?
So you think spending fifty billion dollars of taxpayer money during a recession for a two week party is about sport?
Take your head and put it back up your ass where it belongs pus for brains.
Seeing any "sport" here dickhead?
Feck off.
From Canada as well, I presume?
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
From Canada as well, I presume?
It was a good OP (and I'm not a regular reader of JC2). Interesting parallels coming up about the 2012 Olympics.
Politics and hockey in on thread =
Shreddy
Truth Through Character
I was hoping that was exactly what JC was getting at by starting this thread, because yes indeed there are political, fiscal, security and civil rights parallels to be drawn re: London 2012.
@JC
Johnny, that was good OP as twistedAM pointed out. Esp. the rounding up the homeless in temporary concentration camps (otherwise know as Olympic "shelters"
), and the civil liberties bit. All timely topics that Londoners should and will be caring about.However, if you wanted it to remain a political/civil rights thread, you should've left out the pretty pictures. It deviates from your OP. Because as we know, pretty pictures will be percieved as civic boosterism, and that type of thing brings out the whinging poms on these boards with their 'Canada's dull/I hate winter sports' shite.
*I'd like to thank my friends visiting from New Zealand for teaching me a new word today. I didn't even know what a "pom" was until about two hours ago. I think it's a keeper...
I'm happy to get you a "Medical Aid for Palestinians" donation certificate in the name of any well-known Vancouver pro-Olympic politician you care to name, for any comedy flypostering you might think of???
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Two things to start. The city passed a bylaw which allows them to arrest vagrants, homeless etc, if they refuse to go voluntarily to a shelter. For their own good, of course.
Also, I heard today that they passed another law. If you put up an anti olympic sign in your window, say, they can give you 24 hours notice, then the police will come onto your property and take it down, and slap you with a hefty fine.
Say what now?
it's been going on/building up for month's. Joanhy's jus noticed.
http://submedia.tv/stimulator/2009/02/22/the-five-cock-rings-of-death/
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
First bit of Olympic news in awhile.
They had the torch lighting dry run in Greece today.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/10/21/sp-torch-relay-athens.html
The actual lighting ceremony is tomorrow; then the torch is flown back to Canada on a govt jet, to be paraded around the province, and throughout the country.
I wonder if they've hired those big Chinese guards this time.
They had the torch lighting dry run in Greece today.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/10/21/sp-torch-relay-athens.html
The actual lighting ceremony is tomorrow; then the torch is flown back to Canada on a govt jet, to be paraded around the province, and throughout the country.
I wonder if they've hired those big Chinese guards this time.
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
They've passed a law that is an abrogation of a basic civil right, imo: the right to free speech.
The good news is, that the local media have gotten on the blower to the major world agencies - Agence France Presse, etc., and alerted them to the situation. The agencies have said that they'll be very interested in any such activity.
So if the police and city workers with boltcutters break into someone's apartment to remove a cardboard sign that's deemed to be anti-olympic, it will be loudly trumpeted throughout the world media.
Here's an article about the subject. Looking it over, the proposed amendments might not have been passed into law as of yet.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/10/09/bc-anti-olympic-sign-law-bccla.html
Johnny Canuck3
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Soon as the torch gets back.
We're doing the opposite from London: liberalizing the alcohol sales hours, and in essence, setting up giant bars everywhere.
Stanley Park is going to have a bunch of huge party tents at the zoo, Brockton etc.The big changes here are to the infrastructure. They have spent an amazing amount of money on road construction, etc. I had to take a trip to the boonies today, and ended up going over two completely new bridges, one across the Fraser, and one across the Pitt River.
Johnny Canuck3
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p.s. Before anyone gets upset about the idea of the poor zoo animals being disturbed by a bunch of drunken louts in toques - not to worry. There are no actual animals in the zoo, or at least, very few. The PC police took care of that long ago. Now there are signs and murals talking about the animals that used to be on display there.
There are still fish, mammals at the nearby Aquarium, but since they'll be underwater, I assume all the raucous noise will be muffled for them.
There are still fish, mammals at the nearby Aquarium, but since they'll be underwater, I assume all the raucous noise will be muffled for them.
spring-peeper
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Soon as the torch gets back.
We're doing the opposite from London: liberalizing the alcohol sales hours, and in essence, setting up giant bars everywhere.
The big changes here are to the infrastructure. They have spent an amazing amount of money on road construction, etc. I had to take a trip to the boonies today, and ended up going over two completely new bridges, one across the Fraser, and one across the Pitt River.
Will those electronic billboards put up by the First Nations gonna be visible from any of the new highways?
Did you try that new skytrain yet?
no pics of the medals????
spring-peeper
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kained&able
Here for the football.
wrong olympics
Johnny Canuck3
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Will those electronic billboards put up by the First Nations gonna be visible from any of the new highways?
Did you try that new skytrain yet?
One of the stations for the new subway line is about 4 blocks from my house. I never take the car downtown anymore.
Not sure about the billboards.
The cops announced today that they won't be going in and taking down signs. Also, there will be no 'designated protest zones', as there have been at some other large events like this. Protest will be allowable anywhere the public can gather, so long as it's done lawfully.
Johnny Canuck3
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The torch was lit today in Athens. It goes around Greece for a few days, then comes here to start the longest in-country torch relay ever, 45,000 km.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/11/21/bc-olympics-torch-relay-2010.html
Btw, I'm about to become very busy at work, so if you don't see much of me, that's the reason. I asked ed to ban me voluntarily for a few days, but I seem to still be here.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/11/21/bc-olympics-torch-relay-2010.html
Btw, I'm about to become very busy at work, so if you don't see much of me, that's the reason. I asked ed to ban me voluntarily for a few days, but I seem to still be here.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Congrats on hosting the Olympics. Personally, I think better you'all than us. I couldn't stand the noise--we get enough of that with the College World Series.
Johnny Canuck3
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Congrats on hosting the Olympics. Personally, I think better you'all than us. I couldn't stand the noise--we get enough of that with the College World Series.
I'm expecting that it will stay relatively quiet around our house.
There will be fireworks every night, but that's down at False Creek, about three miles from where I live, and even those will only be five minutes per night.
Johnny Canuck3
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The original chairman of the Vancouver Olympic Committee, Jack Poole, died today, one day after the lighting of the olympic flame in Greece.
Guy on the left.
Pancreatic cancer.
Guy on the left.
Pancreatic cancer.
Shreddy
Truth Through Character
I like Canadians. They're relatively clean and make nice pets.
I'm filthy and notoriously hard to keep. But I look smashing and apparently clean up well...relatively speaking.
Johnny Canuck3
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The olymic torch in Haida Gwaii.
"Oh, fuck off to the correct forum - you've been here long enough to know better & no one cares where your from, or thinks you're special, you provincial fuckwit."
typical remark from someone who lives in a cheek-by-jowl, class ridden nation living well past its shelf-life - a well-placed blow to the head would put it out of its misery
typical remark from someone who lives in a cheek-by-jowl, class ridden nation living well past its shelf-life - a well-placed blow to the head would put it out of its misery
