BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!

Subject: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 05:23 PM

Check this out, eh?

"Canadian Idiot" song

OUTRAGEOUS, eh? Man, this really ticks me off. Don't get mad, fellow Canucks, get even! Picket the American embassy in Ottawa. Poke fun at their pathetically weakening dollar. Use their flag to blow your nose in. Kick an American eagle in the tailfeathers.

Do it now, eh? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 05:30 PM

Ahhh... vicey versy there LH, eh? Are you GREEN with envy or wha?

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 05:33 PM

Wierd Al is cool... I love his stuff.

The original idiot, in case you don't know.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 05:37 PM

Envy of what, pray tell? ;-) I'm serious about that. I don't particularly want 15,000 nuclear bombs.

Funny video, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 05:47 PM

"Envy of what, pray tell? ;-) I'm serious about that."

That he is copying an "AMERICAN" video.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 05:52 PM

Oh.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Amos
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 05:57 PM

Why is it I knew without opening this thread that it had to be a Little Hawk spayshul, eh?

I dunno what dat boy is ahn aboot, ya know?


A

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 06:01 PM

My first thought as well, A. But, it's endearing, in a Canuck way. The lad means well.

He's like a lot of us Canucks... A Little Too White and Nerdy. >;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: maple_leaf_boy
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 06:10 PM

He bashed curling. I love curling, and it is a real sport.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 06:21 PM

WHAT? He bashed curling? Nooooo. I don't believe that.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: olddude
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 06:36 PM

I thought I heard some smear against Captain Kirk there ... Beam me up scotty

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 06:38 PM

I don't think he got around to mentioning Shatner in the song. That in itself is an insult!

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: maple_leaf_boy
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 06:45 PM

Well, it was a funny take on Canada.

I think he's just poking fun at the stereotypes, and he really doesn't
see Canada that way. Rapper "Classified" did a video poking fun at
Canadian stereotypes.

I like the part with the Mounties. The only times I've seen them wear
those uniforms were at ceremonies and parades. They usually wear dark
blue uniforms when they're on patrol. And we also have the OPP and
QPP in Ontario and Quebec, and independant police forces in urban
centres. I've only seen Mounties in suburbs and rural areas. Like in
Halifax, they have a Halifax Regional Police, and in the suburbs like
Sackville, they have the RCMP. And in Truro, N.S., they have an
independent force, while in the surrounding areas, they have the RCMP.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 06:51 PM

We have the Royal Canadian Mounted here in Moncton. Long story. But, they wear the traditional brown shirts, which I have made "alluding fun" to before. We up country call em Yellow Stripes on accounta the pants.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 06:54 PM

gnu....THIS is the original American Idiot

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 06:57 PM

Sheesh. Canada will never be able to match that.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 07:29 PM

Unfortunately, that is hard to watch, LC. But, the spirit of this thread as intended by LH, I believe, is just good natured fun. I know I need some these days because of that kinda stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 07:42 PM

I wish they'd bring back the stubby beer bottle.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 07:47 PM

sIx... 3000M against 30M... ain't gonna happen. Get used to suckin long necks down.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 07:50 PM

Geeeez gnu ... the stubby was so ..... Canadian.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Ed T
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 08:11 PM

Last spring, around "rollllll-up the rim" time, McDonalds shot a burger rocket over Tim's bow. They started giving coffee away free...think'in their new brew was better, and this would lure Timbit lov'in, drive-tru, half-tunners away from their double doubles.

It didn't work. Our star Timmy just squeezed old Ronald by the McNuggets and didn't loose a pay'in customer.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 08:20 PM

sIx... and they fitted so much better in a cooler. More beer and more ice. But Yank corporations don't look at such practical and logical economies they way ordinary Canucks do. To them, the long neck bottle is sexier and more marketable. If you drink from a long neck, you'll not end up looking like a stubby.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 08:24 PM

I tried to watch the video but that kind of racket drives me batty.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Jeri
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 08:26 PM

Short trip.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 08:41 PM

Jeri... naughty girl! Hahahahaaa.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: leeneia2
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 09:00 PM

The catter formerly known as leeneia is now leeneia2

Okay, guys. I watched LH's video and caught on that it is a parody of 'American Idiot' by Green-, um a band called Green Something.

Let me tell you that I pay absolutely no attention to rock music. Never have. I have never (to my knowledge) heard a number by Pink Floyd or REO Speedwagon, Motley Crue or U2. Never watched, either, of course.

So tell me something. Is the video of Greensomething doing the song 'American Idiot' a parody? I refer especially to the guitarist doing the splits and jumping in the air as he plays. Or is that how rock actually looks? Help me out here.

Gotta tell you that the Canadian guys look a lot cuter and more approachable than the Green- guys.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 09:06 PM

Of course, 2, Canucks are much more handsome. And, much more approachable. Take Shane McBride for example. Please.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: chazkratz
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 09:28 PM

About twenty=five years ago my family and I spent a week in Vancouver, Whistler, and Victoria and I've been suspicious of Canadians ever since...no population could all be that goddamned nice without having a hidden agenda. Whenever the wind comes from the north I get a chill down my back.

Charles

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 09:51 PM

Shouldn't that be a "vicuous" attack?

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 09:52 PM

Or maybe "vacuous"?

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 09:56 PM

You may be right, Rapaire. If so, it'll be the first time in ages. ;-) Have a Canadian beer and celebrate, man!

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 10:00 PM

Green Day is a pretty annoying rock band, and yes, the video in the first post is a parody of a song by Green Day.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 10:24 PM

Thanks, but I'll have a Moose Drool.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: mousethief
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 11:27 PM

It's revenge for "American Woman".

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: chazkratz
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 11:46 PM

Have you ever tasted Moose Tracks ice cream? It's wonderful, for a low fat ice cream: It's a Safeway Select flavor, now in both original and chocolate (original: vanilla with a rich vein of dark chocolate candy; chocolate in the same vein with some peanut butter flavor as well).

Charles

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 07:28 AM

We have a similar ice cream here... Muddy Hoof Prints. Tastes, ahhh, let's say musky.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: robomatic
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 02:13 PM

As usual, Stan Rogers said it earlier and more better:

ARTIST: Stan Rogers
TITLE: The Idiot
Lyrics and Chords


I often take these night shift walks when the foreman's not around
I turn my back on the cooling stacks and make for open ground
Far out beyond the tank farm fence where the gas flare makes no sound
I forget the stink and I always think back to that eastern town

/ D ABm G Bm / G D - A / 1st / G D DA D /

I remember back six years ago, this western life I chose
And every day, the news would say some factory's going to close
Well, I could have stayed to take the dole, but I'm not one of those
I take nothing free, and that makes me an idiot, I suppose

   So I bid farewell to the eastern town I never more will see
   But work I must so I eat this dust and breathe refinery
   Oh I miss the green and the woods and streams and I don't like cowboy clothes
   But I like being free and that makes me an idiot I suppose

   / G D A D / G D Bm A / D ABm G Bm / G D DA D /

So come all you fine young fellows who've been beaten to the ground
This western life's no paradise, but it's better than lying down
Oh, the streets aren't clean, and there's nothing green, and the hills are dirty brown
But the government dole will rot your soul back there in your hometown

   So bid farewell to the eastern town you never more will see
   There's self-respect and a steady check in this refinery
   You will miss the green and the woods and streams and the dust will fill your nose
   But you'll be free, and just like me, an idiot, I suppose

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 02:19 PM

That song isn't about an idiot, it's about an ordinary man trapped in an idiotic system.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 02:20 PM

About time someone posted those lyrics! One of my favorite songs, and personally applicable.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: artbrooks
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 02:47 PM

Canada has culture?

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 02:51 PM

Oh! Now we're getting nasty!

You have been placed on the list of those who are to be snowballed, artbrooks. Better take cover, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 03:00 PM

LH... if you can throw a snowball that far before it melts, the Blue Jays wanna talk to ya.

Blue Jays... baseball... bah. Even though Canuck's invented it, it's just sommat to keep kids busy in the summer.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 03:04 PM

Don't say that to a Cuban. They're religious about baseball.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 03:24 PM

I know Canucks who are religious about baseball who aren't even Cuban... or religious.

I just don't understand why. It's not like it's a proper sport, like curling.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 03:30 PM

What I don't get is why more people aren't into Tiddlywinks in a big way?

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Ed T
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 04:17 PM

I didn't check the blue cliky. Fill me in...
Did someone in the USA actually write a song about Stephen Harper?

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 04:20 PM

Certainly not! No, it was the usual stuff: hosers, Tim Hortons donuts, and so on.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 04:21 PM

The line is... "I don't wanna be a Canadian idiot."

So, it CAN'T be about Stevie 1.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: mousethief
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 07:28 PM

What I don't get is why more people aren't into Tiddlywinks in a big way?

They might as well carry it on ESPN -- they think poker is a sport.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 08:18 PM

There you go. Can you see Stallone facing off against Hulk Hogan at the Tiddlywinks playoffs? I can.