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Necro'ing cuz I don't feel like starting a whole new thread to b***h about the SHITLYMPICS! mad

Good god, every day there's an article in the paper about 2010. THIS WAS BEFORE IT WAS EVEN ONE YEAR AWAYYYY. Srsly, eff off already about the fragging olympic village.

Nah Vancouver has the winter 2010. I guess it's only crazy annoying in the place that's hosting it. xd I really like the mascots though, they're cuuuute. A lot of people hate 'em though - say they represent nothing about Canada, but the backstories were pretty good IMO. I mean, better than a frigging question mark like other places have done in the past.

*posts the cuteness*

Sumi is the green one, who is pretty much a living totem pole. It's the paralympics mascot.
The middle one is Quatchi, a sasquatch. I have the stuffed animal for it. xd
And miga, a friggin seabear, lol. Kinda random. It's a killer whale that suddenly could walk and kinda looks like a bear (?)

*jealous*

It might be because I'm challenging to talk to

At work after the US election

Co-worker: "You heard about Obama?"

Me: "Yeah, he's that guy..."

It's weird how much Miga looks like Jingjing?
http://images.google.ca/images?q=jingjing&oe=utf-8&rls=com.ubuntu:en-GB:unofficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

2010 Olympics!! I like Sumi. My dad has the Jingjing plush and a box of all of the 2008 Olympics mascots.

I hate Sumi and Miga, and I hate their cutesy names. I hate that they are abominations, mixtures of several different animals

I like Quatchi, though. They should have just stuck with him, I would have been a lot more cool with that. He is really adorable, and right up my street. I'd like to have a Quatchi doll, but they are so expensive.

But I also have a problem with the Vancouver Inukshuk logo. I mean, I adore Inukshuks, however to say that it represents all of Canada is a farce. It is a northern symbol, it is not throughout Canada shared.
Some people think that if you were to use a native symbol for the Vancouver Olympics it would have made more sense to have something traditional to the local natives, like the Haida for example. But then the argument against that was "The Olympics is a Nationwide hosted event." Bullshit, Nova Scotia isn't paying for it. Saskatchewan (the invisible province, per my theory) doesn't pay for it. And the Federal government kicked in only a minor amount of money considering the total cost. It is Vancouver and the Lower Mainland paying for the Olympics, and the tax payers of BC footing the bill, those poor bastards in Salmon Arm to Vanderhoof paying for this trash. I enjoyed the bumper stickers out at the time of the bid "Health Care before Olympics"

Considering our shitty shitty shitty Provincial government in the form of that horrible person
Mr. Gordon Campbell Right around the time of the bid (before, during, and after) there was all that controversy where they were shutting down rural nursing homes, and separating elderly couples! People who have lived together for 60 years, and moving them to different towns. Things like that didn't just happen once or twice, either. Where is the humanity? Where is the compassion? It's just one of many examples of the selfishness of Gordon Campbell and his ilk, wanting to have a legacy, their fugging claim to fame.

It took Montreal 30 years to pay off their hosting of the Olympics in 1976 (the "O" Stadium is also a crumbling useless mess already), and Vancouver has already far surpassed their spending (adjusting for inflation) Thanks, really, thanks a lot. The next unborn generation is going to be paying for these 4 weeks of 'fun & games' ********

GORDZILLA XD