Originally posted by darvlayOh come on now. The tobacco? Canadian cigarettes taste like crap, the beer isn't what it used to be since they teamed up with US brewers. Germany wins hands down on the beer. Definately has some great Hockey players, and western Canada definately has some nice sights but I've been all over Canada and I've met some dumb,fat and obnoxious people there. Most of them around the Toronto area and the snowbirds who clutterup the states of FL, TX, AZ and CA with their RV's in the winter. If you saw a beautiful woman in Canad it was a tourist.
The problem with Canada is that we breed the most beautiful women in the world, we brew the best beer in the world, we play the best sport in the world, we provide free healthcare to the entire nation, we export the funniest comedians and brightest minds, we have the tastiest beef, produce, tobacco and marijuana, we have some of the most beautiful landscapes ...[text shortened]... st obnoxious people in the world!
I am so ashamed to be part of such a dreadful nation. 🙁
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Originally posted by TheBloopMy, oh my, two posts full of complete and utter ignorance, 1 after the other...
Are there any other sports in which a 1-0 lead is considered insurmountable?
Soccer is the only one I can think of…
slim, sawwker is an imported sport to Ireland. We are ranked 15th in the world at it. Not bad considering we have a population of only 4 million. Hurling and Gaelic Football are our two national sports, which, I would have thought that somebody as well travelled and worldly as yourself would have known. The irish people are happy enough supporting sports without completely BS marketing and Hype. Our championships are known simply as The All Ireland Hurling/Football Championship 2005. I don't think the organisers would get away with calling it the World Series of Hurling/Football, as most Irish people know that there is more to the world than just Ireland.
Bloop, my clueless friend... in case u weren't aware, Liverpool won the Champions League Final on Wednesday night, by coming from 3-0 down against one of the best club teams in the world.
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Let us not forget curling. The first time I saw the sport, I laughed and laughed. Then I watched it again, and again, and, well, I was hooked.
(I could go off on a lengthy rant about the political and social differences of Canada, and the general superior nature of the nation as opposed to the States, but it is Saturday, I have coffee, and there's not a need in the world which requires me leaving the house today. Catch me on a day when I have had to be out in the world, and I'll give forth volumes on this topic.)
Originally posted by Chef GaneshaDid you catch Jennifer Jones' winning rock in the 10th end at the Scott Tournament of hearts this year? Unbelievable. 🙂
Let us not forget curling. The first time I saw the sport, I laughed and laughed. Then I watched it again, and again, and, well, I was hooked.
(I could go off on a lengthy rant about the political and social differences of Canada, and the general superior nature of the nation as opposed to the States, but it is Saturday, I have coffee, and there's ...[text shortened]... me on a day when I have had to be out in the world, and I'll give forth volumes on this topic.)
Originally posted by Ragnorak"Hurling" ? You've made vomiting into a national sport ?
My, oh my, two posts full of complete and utter ignorance, 1 after the other...
slim, sawwker is an imported sport to Ireland. We are ranked 15th in the world at it. Not bad considering we have a population of only 4 million. Hurling and Gaelic Football are our two national sports, which, I would have thought that somebody as well travelled and worldl ...[text shortened]... n Wednesday night, by coming from 3-0 down against one of the best club teams in the world.
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PS - It's not spelled "moose" in Canada , it's -"muus" .
Originally posted by slimjimFortunately, that won't be necessary. You see, while superficially compliant, Canada has a long-term plan to subvert the US. Right now, there are hundreds of thousands of crypto-Canucks ready to bring down the States from within. Canada has been particularly successful in the world of entertainment:
Yeah, after almost 200 years they should try it again. Ottawa would last about 2 minutes.
- Awful singers to destroy American morale.
- People like Jim Carrey, who secretly put pro-Canadian subliminal propaganda in their films.
- More and more US TV shows are now made in Canada. Don't you think that's a bit suspicious? If you watch TV, listen to see if the minor characters have Canadian accents, and watch out for the 'made in Canada' notice at the end.
Originally posted by AcolyteNot only that, but Canada also imports young Americans for release back into the States when the time comes. They do this easily enough because of the insane price of American tertiary education, and it will only become more sinister if conscription is reintroduced south of the border.
Fortunately, that won't be necessary. You see, while superficially compliant, Canada has a long-term plan to subvert the US. Right now, there are hundreds of thousands of crypto-Canucks ready to bring down the States from within. Canada has been particularly successful in the world of entertainment:
- Awful singers to destroy American morale.
- Peo ...[text shortened]... or characters have Canadian accents, and watch out for the 'made in Canada' notice at the end.
Originally posted by Ragnorak
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Bloop, my clueless friend... in case u weren't aware, Liverpool won the Champions League Final on Wednesday night, by coming from 3-0 down against one of the best club teams in the world.
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You should know that my 1-0 comment was a joke... Actually, I'm kind of surprised you hadn't heard it before...
But actually, you may have (a little) more respect for me after I tell you a couple of things...
When I was a teen-ager, a couple of my cousins came over from Germany... and they showed us some tricks about dribbling a socccer ball, and stuff like that... and one thing I noticed after playing a little bit of soccer with them is that I felt like I'd never been that tired in my life... I played basketball, baseball and football (American, of course), and while you can get plenty tired in those sports, at least you get breaks due to stopages of play... soccer is truly continuous, and I think it was all of the "stop and go" running that wore me out...
Also, today I have a nephew (who'll be 14 later this year). He plays in some soccer league, and I would sometimes hear from my in-laws (his grandparents) that he had a soccer game and that he scored a goal or two, or whatever happened... I always reply the same way: "What those kids are doing isn't soccer...if you want to see soccer, you need to either watch the World Cup or go to Europe and/or South America to see a real soccer game."
I think that there are a couple of main reasons why Soccer is not televised in the U.S...
(1) Scoring is rare, and because of that, soccer lacks what baseball, basketball and football have in abundance: statistics. Americans love statistics...
(2) Because of the continuous nature of play (i.e. no time outs, clock keeps running), how would they ever fit all those Cialis/Viagra/Levitra commercials in during a game? Soccer has far fewer interruptions than any of the 3 (or 4) American Sports, which makes it more compelling to spectators, but much less attractive to the TV industry, which favors pauses in the action, into which commercial messages for the aforementioned Cialis, etc. can be inserted.
And, I'll say another thing about soccer fans from countries outside the USA... Americans claim to be huge fans of their particular team, be it whatever sport, but it's nothing compared to fans of Soccer Teams all over the world... I read one time that a 100 hour war actually broke out betwen El Salvador and Honduras in the late 60s that left about 6,000 people dead and 12,000 wounded. This was inspired by a soccer game between the two countries (I don't know who won the soccer game OR the war)...
And when Brazil and Argentina played a couple of years ago, violence broke out in a village in Bangladesh... the people who were fighting were supporters of the two respective teams..I don't know where that game was actually played...
So I actually have a lot of respect for soccer (at least as it's played outside the US).
And, as far as fans go, over here we pretty much save the rioting and looting for the night our team wins the championship (it started in the 80s when Detroit won the NBA title, and has spread to other sporst, such as Boston, after the Red Sox won it all last October). In soccer, a riot can happen any time, any where... they do take it seriously..