2010 Winter Olympics
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Anyone interested in these? It seems like half the city is in favour, while the other half is not.
I know I'll be watching hockey and skiing for sure.
Amazing city, if you guys ever get the chance to make it.
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I know I'll be watching hockey and skiing for sure.
Amazing city, if you guys ever get the chance to make it.
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Cool video though
Anyway, I'd love to get up to B.C. just to fish :P I used to visit Canada quite a bit (only a 5 hour drive from Central PA) but I don't have a passport so I haven't been up in awhile. I just love the entire country haha.
i plan to watch some hockey.
... But I have a feeling it's going to be a fucking pain in the ass for me. I work right in front of Olympic Village... getting to work is going to be terrible. :P
Probably canada vs sweden
The Olympics should be pretty sweet. I enjoy watching anything really, what ever is on the tv at the time is fine with me.
as for the olympics. hockey and all the snowboarding with tricks (hate the racing) is what ill be watching.
il watch it all specially the downhill skiing , boardercross, half pipe( woot for double corks!) and of course them hockey games!
itll be an interesting experience having such a huge event in our city but I think the inconvenience will outweigh that for me. I have heard rumor of around an hr wait to get through security for some skytrains. although I also heard rumor of a free beer garden being set up somewhere so maybe it wont be a complete loss
Much like my good friend, Pixel Masher, I'm also not too keen on these Olympic Games...None of the sports I like are in the Olympics and it's totally butt fucking my commute to work. The city can barely function on a regular day, adding this into the mix is going to make it a complete gong show. Though, I may change my tune if this beer garden thing is true.
I will probably end up just going downtown for whatever reason and being caught up in whatever kind of a zoo it is (especially if there is a free beer garden).:)
Friends and I are probably just going to check out a lot of the interesting events and stuff going on around the city. They are all off from school for two weeks. Also I have heard from multiple people now that the free beer gardens do in fact exist, so we're going to get our provincial taxes worth.
Google came up with these two (there are probably more) and some of the wording they use on their site leads me to believe that admission will be free but everything else cost money. Guess we'll see!
http://www.danielgroup.ca/Daniel_Group/olympics.html
http://www.nowpublic.com/sports/vancouver-2010-olympics-german-fan-fest-beer-garden-opens-2573876.html
Link to the official gallery page: http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_leonardo_da_vinci.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympic_games/vancouver_2010/luge/8513595.stm
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But seriously, I like snow.
edit: missed the previous post about this.
I'm thinking of hitting up the German place if anyone in the area would like to meet up.
hehe, sampson - maybe he'll do a bradbury and get gold !
on another (inapropriate) note:
http://hungrybeast.abc.net.au/stories/vancouver-2010-inconveniently-hot
Scary stuff
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why don't the have those poles covered up by part of the track on the side if stuff like that can happen. 2 more feet on the sides and he wouldn't have gone off the track.
oh...my bad...SPOILERS!
I have the Opening Ceremonies streaming right now on my other monitor. Tuning it out mostly, but it's nice to have on.
Edit: Wow, again with all of the Native stuff. The announcer has said a dozen times now how multi-cultural we are here in Vancouver, but all that's being represented is our native populations. It's crazy how much emphasis they are putting on this.
I mostly feel like my city is being pillaged. We'll be paying for this for a long time. But they're growing on me a little bit.
but I watched the opening ceremonies tonight and it gave me a new empty feeling.... does anyone else see that whenever Canada wants to present how full of culture we are its always asking Native Canadians to show up and prove we are culturally strong.... But ANY other time in regular day to day life nobody gives a fuck that they are totally hurting?
I think this whole Canada is Native rich stuff is a total farce! Not because Native Canadians arnt culturally rich, but if I was Native I'd tell Canada to eat a bag of balls the next time they asked me to dance on TV - because as soon as the red light is off, Canada forgets completely about them. I dont hear a single thing about Native canada unless Canada is beaking off to the rest of the world about how strong our cultural society is.
Maybe im just not listening? Tell me im crazy so I dont have to hate hate hate.
The guy with feather face sitting in the crowd of dignitaries was wikked!
Not absolutely true. I know treaty Indians get tax free something like $100K lump sum from the federal gov't when they turn eighteen (from treaties made ages ago). Some burn through that cash pretty fast with trucks and what not, but still...I won't classifiy them as persecuted or barred from succeeding in society just like non-aboriginals. They don't have to remain living in their res if they don't want to. Alcoholism is obviously a problem in their community, but...it's an individual's choice right?
I could go on forever about this, but it's not really the place - hah.
I watched the opening ceremonies, unintentionally, at a pub. There were some pretty lights and shit, but I think the message being sent was ridiculous.
I might watch some of the events if I'm not busy ice fishing with my old friend Nantuk.
Edit> Anyone else think KD Lang looks like Wayne Newton?
OMG I KNOW!!!!!!! my girl and i were just like ooooo noooo. so embarrassing!
there's native stuff all of the place guys... maybe you just arent looking? and this was more about the roots of our country. we are culturally strong. just because we dont see native canadian stuff everywhere you go doesnt make that not true. This was about the roots. where we came from. if you wanted to see it, you could. there are performances all over the place. reserves all over the place. sight seeing locations... all over the place. Those are our roots. they were showing culture, and if you look around this country, you`ll see that its more true today that we are culturally strong. not just natives, but cultures from all over the world. and if you wanna say oh, its only when tons of tourists come to the city is when the art comes out. well, for the olympics specifically, its the THEME they chose. doesnt mean they are trying to make it seem like every place in canada is like that. though, im sure tons of people might take it that way. but hey, they already thing we live in igloos, so whatever.