"Niche sport in a nothing country"...
The quote at the top of my status comes from a BBC commentary on the 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riots. If I was head of the Canadian Olympic committee I'd have that printed up as a banner every where Canadian athletes stay as motivation, and maybe to generate a little hate, and aggression.
Brits I've met invariably refer to Canadians as Americans and when
The quote at the top of my status comes from a BBC commentary on the 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riots. If I was head of the Canadian Olympic committee I'd have that printed up as a banner every where Canadian athletes stay as motivation, and maybe to generate a little hate, and aggression.
Brits I've met invariably refer to Canadians as Americans and when
you challenge them on it the refrain is "well same ting ain't it?". Every English person I've met who has voluntarily moved here seems to slag anything Canadian as inferior to that in the UK, making you wonder why the hell they even bothered coming here in the first place.
They go on about a "special relationship" with the US, yet seem to forget that Americans had a revolution and emphatically rejected things British. However if playing Tonto to the American Lone Ranger makes you feel like like a big man... go ahead fill your boots.
Oh and remember, according to the British press... Vancouver was "the worst Olympics ever".
In sum wishing the Canadian 2012 Olympic squad did better if only just to give a big middle finger to the country whose public in many ways still thinks of you all as "colonials".
Go Canada Go!!!
They go on about a "special relationship" with the US, yet seem to forget that Americans had a revolution and emphatically rejected things British. However if playing Tonto to the American Lone Ranger makes you feel like like a big man... go ahead fill your boots.
Oh and remember, according to the British press... Vancouver was "the worst Olympics ever".
In sum wishing the Canadian 2012 Olympic squad did better if only just to give a big middle finger to the country whose public in many ways still thinks of you all as "colonials".
Go Canada Go!!!
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