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Originally posted by TheDemon +1 all the way. and correct me if I am wrong, but Canada has now officially hosted the winter Olympics more than any other country?

The USA has actually hosted it 4 times and the most I believe.

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Are you guys watching this live now? They just added some adjustments to the luge run for extra safety. Full of padding now. I still believe no one else with come close to the padding anyways. It's only there for those who lose control.

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Originally posted by 7-4-7 We are not China. We are not Greece. We have neither the exorbitant budget or 15,000 people to run around the stage as a bunch of street fighter characters for slave wages; as was the case in China. Nor did we inject fake fireworks, lipsink swapped children or $100 million american dollars. We are on a budget, as the whole world is now. This was a stunning embodiment of the subtlety of our nation. We are proud, in difference, and are prone to share, not force that which we are proud of. KD Lang, the Joni Mitchell Song, the poetry and the Whale Sequence were incredible. And perfect. Sad this didn't feel right for some Canadians.

Bingo.

Were the 1992 post-recession budget winter olympics so memorable?

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For those who don't know the Pedobear story...I give my naive Poles a SILVER medal for this one;

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Polish newspaper claims 'Pedobear' is 2010 Vancouver Olympic mascot A Polish newspaper mistakenly identified "Pedobear", a notorious internet meme, as one of the mascots of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The Gazeta Olsztynska published an image showing the bear alongside genuine Olympic mascots Quatchi, Sumi, Miga and Mukmuk to illustrate a feature about the Games. It appears that the newspaper lifted the picture from Google Images, unaware that it had been created as a prank by Michael Barrick, a Canadian artist and graphic designer. Pedobear, who is on the far right of the picture, was originally devised by members of the anarchic 4chan message board as a way of mocking users who expressed a sexual interest in young people. Since then a tasteless internet trend – or meme – has emerged in which users insert the bear into other photos in a contest to create the most inappropriate composite image. On his blog yesterday Mr Barrick wrote that online amusement about the newspaper's error had sparked a surge of interest in his artwork, and hinted that the financial burden of the Games on Canadian taxpayers was the motivation for his mischievous creation. He wrote: "There seems to be a Tweet about this coming up every minute or two. The day before this started I was amused by the 27,000 hits I got in January. Yesterday alone I got 120,000 (with about one third coming from Poland) and today is looking like it will top that by at least double." He added: "Maybe I'll just keep the money to help cover the price gouging, raised taxes, disappearing arts funding, and all the other "benefits" we Vancouverites are getting from the games that are kicking me in the back pocket." The four genuine mascots of the Vancouver Olympics and Paralympics were inspired by traditional native creatures.

Because a German paper used the pic in the KIDS section of the newspaper, so I give the Germans the GOLD.


Die Glocke ("The Bell") has also published the picture... in the children's section (Spielplatz means "playground") !

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Last edited by Abercrombie on Feb-13-2010 at 23:24

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Originally posted by Abercrombie Were the 1992 post-recession budget winter olympics so memorable?

That's a crappy excuse at best, the games were budgeted about 6 years ago, int the middle of the biggest booms BC economy has ever seen. And that money wasn't enough with a shit load of over spendings left and right, so more of it was added.

And the West hasn't really been affected by recent economic turmoil and it's already recovering what little it has lost with the financial crisis...

We're not China or Greece, but Canada has done alot for the rest of the world, and it's a great time to show off and present a modern image to the world. Honnestly, i didnt see the whole thing, so if they did in fact highlighted those achievements then my apologies.

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Call me cynical, but the sheer amount of native imagery is starting to look exploitative. We're talking about people that we shit on 364 days a year, and yet when we want some culture from them, we're all of a sudden their best friend.

Hmmm... makes me think of a drug dealer or a pimp.

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Originally posted by magikb The USA has actually hosted it 4 times and the most I believe.

Ya you're right. Canada is right behind them.

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Originally posted by smuncky http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...EMONY_PANO.html

they look like members of the snuggie trance club

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Jennifer Heil.... FIrst place!

We got a medal!!!!!!!!!!!

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