Man am i pissed. I just tried for 30mins to watch the Sven Kramer disqualification video on CTV without luck. Like many others, this video is incorrectly linked on the website. the NBC site is 1000% more professional, but of course i can't see the video there, because you cant view it out of the US.
CTV's coverage in general has been nothing short of pathetic. first of all, the people covering the events, the commentators and personalities are nothing short of a joke. tamara taggart who i have talked about before has the personality of a bitchy highschool preppy, putting on a fake smile and pretending to be friends with everyone - plus she's butt ugly. then theres that corpse Robertson, who should have retired years ago. his face basically hangs off the bone, and he reads like a computer generated robot voice. his live conversations with other reporters are a joke, as he reads from prompts - this is the best we have????? seriously?
then there's the replays....you can tell a network has no idea what it's doing when it fails to clearly distinguish between live events and replays. Ever watch a professional network, and see LIVE written on the screen, those four words tell us EVERYTHING. Fucking CTV low budget, small town morons.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Big surprise - frogophones kick up a stink over the lack of french at games
Do these quebec politicians really have such miserable lives that they have to sit around looking for things to complain about, measuring the frequency and concentration of english to french at every single public event.
Check out this story on CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/02/14/olympics-french-charest-moore.html
Rather than sitting back and enjoying the opening ceremonies these morons were busy making a fuss over the fact that there wasn't enough french used in the openning ceremonies. BOO HOO....hey quebec here's a lesson in history and geography, this is BRITISH columbia, and the British did win the war no? When you host the games you can speak all the french in the world you like...meanwhile we hosted it in a language that the world speaks - english.
Check out this story on CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/02/14/olympics-french-charest-moore.html
Rather than sitting back and enjoying the opening ceremonies these morons were busy making a fuss over the fact that there wasn't enough french used in the openning ceremonies. BOO HOO....hey quebec here's a lesson in history and geography, this is BRITISH columbia, and the British did win the war no? When you host the games you can speak all the french in the world you like...meanwhile we hosted it in a language that the world speaks - english.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
opening ceremony - moments of spectacular with alot of yawn...
ok, first the good. the whales, swimming through the stadium - holy shit that was amazing....BUT what the fuck was that tap dancing moron doing? as ever, it's annoying being forced to listen to everything in french, and seriously, who are we kidding, the people in quebec can get by with english.the olympic IOC president, jacques rogges - complete asshole, and what a stiff, the guy has no personality. what else??
then there was the epic failure of the hydrolic lift on the cauldron, what a spectacular fuck up of canadian engineering. jesus, i hope the moron who designed that thing lost their job.and the awkward look on everyones face as they waited for this thing to come, that never would. ouch.
oh yeah all the first nation stuff, ok that was necessary but a little obligatory and then the performances...well they were just ok. brian adams and nelly furtado looked about as comfortable together as a match and a box of TNT, and KD Langs hallelujah was not uplifting or appropriate at all, it was somber and sad.
when all was said and done at the end i was "is that it?" like having sex with a girl you've wanted to fuck for a long time, and realizing that it wasn't everything you thought it would be so too are the olympic opening ceremonies. and like the long time to find your pants, and get dressed, look for your keys and then the awkward goodbye after the lay...so too was the idiotic ending which saw wayne gretzky walk out of the stadium and then drive through the streets of vancouver on the back of a truck, in the pouring rain and light another cauldron - this time a functioning one.
then there was the epic failure of the hydrolic lift on the cauldron, what a spectacular fuck up of canadian engineering. jesus, i hope the moron who designed that thing lost their job.and the awkward look on everyones face as they waited for this thing to come, that never would. ouch.
oh yeah all the first nation stuff, ok that was necessary but a little obligatory and then the performances...well they were just ok. brian adams and nelly furtado looked about as comfortable together as a match and a box of TNT, and KD Langs hallelujah was not uplifting or appropriate at all, it was somber and sad.
when all was said and done at the end i was "is that it?" like having sex with a girl you've wanted to fuck for a long time, and realizing that it wasn't everything you thought it would be so too are the olympic opening ceremonies. and like the long time to find your pants, and get dressed, look for your keys and then the awkward goodbye after the lay...so too was the idiotic ending which saw wayne gretzky walk out of the stadium and then drive through the streets of vancouver on the back of a truck, in the pouring rain and light another cauldron - this time a functioning one.
Monday, February 8, 2010
olympics make their contribution to global warming...
As we speak, trucks are bringing snow from Manning Park, (more than 200KM east of Vancouver), to deposit on Cypress Mountain for the 2010 olympic games. Once the trucks dump the snow, helicopters will place it on location on the mountain, thats right, helicopters...furthermore pipes have been laid throughout the olympic course and dry ice will be pumped through those pipes in an effort to keep the mountain cold enough for the snow to remain...can you imagine how much fuel, electricity and energy all this effort involves?all of this will make for at best poor to average conditions on the mountain, but at what cost will it come to to the environment, and ironically, further contribute to the very reason the weather is warmer in the first place!
The real stink of it...2 hours to the north lies Whistler Blackcomb, with some of the best skiing conditions in North America, and plenty of alpine snow.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Two Small Dicks with big Bills...
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/02/02/bc-twosmallmen.html
Well one read of this article by CBC on Vancouver moving company, Two Small Men with Big Hearts and it should be obvious who NOT to use when moving. I haven't had experience with these monkeys. when it comes to moving I don't scrimp, and I would encourage anyone with valuable possessions to find a reputable vendor, but also the important lesson is to do your homework.
One quick google search on this company and the first 10 links are complaints. That's a red flag, in addition, just hit the BBB site and do a search, and that should be the end of the story. These distributed franchises are disasters in general when it comes to quality of service, because the parent has very little control over quality assurance. I avoid them like the plaugue except when i want a burger or a sub :)
Well one read of this article by CBC on Vancouver moving company, Two Small Men with Big Hearts and it should be obvious who NOT to use when moving. I haven't had experience with these monkeys. when it comes to moving I don't scrimp, and I would encourage anyone with valuable possessions to find a reputable vendor, but also the important lesson is to do your homework.
One quick google search on this company and the first 10 links are complaints. That's a red flag, in addition, just hit the BBB site and do a search, and that should be the end of the story. These distributed franchises are disasters in general when it comes to quality of service, because the parent has very little control over quality assurance. I avoid them like the plaugue except when i want a burger or a sub :)
Sunday, January 31, 2010
michael bubble boy rant
i am going to make this quick, but i hate the guy. first of all they compare him to frank sinatra - NO FUCKING WAY! he doesn't have half the charisma, class or personality of frank, and lets not even joke about his voice. he's a native of vancouver, and I;ve heard from people that know him, that he's arrogant and egotistical. i just love the name, "boob ley" - its fucking BUBBLE!!!
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
The Pivot Legal Society
this is a very active organization that takes on cases that involving vancouvers homeless. what they have become however is an overzealous, attention seeking group of grandstanding lawyers who are interested only in creating melodrama to benefit their own attention seeking agenda.
their primary platform has been housing for low income earners, namely crackheads and junkies. and they have a very strong position on keeping affordable housing in the DTE for the crackheads. Here's my problem, why is there such a strong insistence from groups like these, and other radical left wing advocates of the junkies to keep them in the DTE?
Vancouver downtown areas are some of the most expensive real estate markets in Canada. The DTE is currently dotted with many low income properties. you can spot them a mile away. they are decaying, dirty filthy and attract drug dealers and all manner of bad seeds. now the radical left wing loonies, like to complain hi and dry about the condition the owners keep these buildings in...but let me ask you something. if you owned real estate in the DTE, and you were forced to rent it to crackheads at discount rates, crackheads who defecate, use drugs and destroy your apartment, would you spend money on remodelling it?
the other issue is money, why on earth would you spend money housing crackheads in expensive inner city real estate, when you could house 4 times as many in lower cost areas? why put these people on the doorstep of their vices and addictions? why put so many disaffected and challenged people together in one place? none of it makes any sense, but if you raise one question about any of this, you will be met with instant and swift barrage of abuse from a legion of social welfare advocates.
I agree people have a right to housing, but not housing wherever they want it....otherwise all of us would like to trade up to newer neighborhoods. if people are going to accept help and housing, they should do so on the terms and in the location that makes sense, and the DTE makes NO sense.
If the DTE is ever to change, and cast aside it's drug addicted alley ways and war zone image, we have to change the makeup of the residents. we have to remove the crackdens and so called "low cost housing" and replace it with families, young professionals, businesses and entertainment. (not methodone clinics and pharmacies and pawn shops).
their primary platform has been housing for low income earners, namely crackheads and junkies. and they have a very strong position on keeping affordable housing in the DTE for the crackheads. Here's my problem, why is there such a strong insistence from groups like these, and other radical left wing advocates of the junkies to keep them in the DTE?
Vancouver downtown areas are some of the most expensive real estate markets in Canada. The DTE is currently dotted with many low income properties. you can spot them a mile away. they are decaying, dirty filthy and attract drug dealers and all manner of bad seeds. now the radical left wing loonies, like to complain hi and dry about the condition the owners keep these buildings in...but let me ask you something. if you owned real estate in the DTE, and you were forced to rent it to crackheads at discount rates, crackheads who defecate, use drugs and destroy your apartment, would you spend money on remodelling it?
the other issue is money, why on earth would you spend money housing crackheads in expensive inner city real estate, when you could house 4 times as many in lower cost areas? why put these people on the doorstep of their vices and addictions? why put so many disaffected and challenged people together in one place? none of it makes any sense, but if you raise one question about any of this, you will be met with instant and swift barrage of abuse from a legion of social welfare advocates.
I agree people have a right to housing, but not housing wherever they want it....otherwise all of us would like to trade up to newer neighborhoods. if people are going to accept help and housing, they should do so on the terms and in the location that makes sense, and the DTE makes NO sense.
If the DTE is ever to change, and cast aside it's drug addicted alley ways and war zone image, we have to change the makeup of the residents. we have to remove the crackdens and so called "low cost housing" and replace it with families, young professionals, businesses and entertainment. (not methodone clinics and pharmacies and pawn shops).
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