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hafilax
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East Van
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Feb 26, 2010 - 04:34pm PT
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Funnier still is the price people pay for Stella, Heineken or Becks which aren't all that much better.
Microbrews all the way. Isn't Elsinore a micro? ;-)
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blahblah
Gym climber
Boulder
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Feb 26, 2010 - 04:46pm PT
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PTPP: Miller Genuine Draft is not at all a discount beer in the US, it is the same price at Bud and Coors, which are often times referred to as "premium" domestics.
At at SIGNIFICANTLY lower price point are many beers such Pabst (and a whole bunch of other legacy regional brands that are now made in the same place), Bush, and Miller High Life (not MGD), and othes.
All of the above would be known to any American beer drinker (not talking about a beer snob, talking about a real beer drinker), so glad I could clear that up for you.
Back to the Olympics: you Canadians are finally starting to ruffle my feathers.
Check out this article:
Johnny Weir responds to mocking broadcasters
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/02/26/johnny.weir.mocking.ppl/index.html?hpt=Sbin
Talking trash in hockey is one thing (although those female goons shown in the picture above are a bit much), but I thought Canada was such an open, tolerant, accepting place. Ha.
Edit, back to beer:
In bottles or cans, huge brands are Coors Light, Bud Light, and Miller Lite. Pretty much every mega brand that has a regular beer has a light beer too, and light beer significantly outsells regular beer (so much so that "light" almost goes without saying as the default nowadays).
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Chief
climber
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Feb 26, 2010 - 05:12pm PT
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If they get past the Slovaks, screen Miller and go high and right boys!
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Feb 26, 2010 - 05:23pm PT
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Hey Anders,
We just kicked your Norwegian ass! in men's pursuit speed skating!!
[Or at least the 1/4 of your ass! that's Norwegian]
Aw right, it's the Merricans vs. the Dutchmen! C'mon you wooden-shoe-wearin' canal-skatin' mo-fo's - kick some Merrican ass!
Well, I'll be buggered - it's gonna be another US-Canada gold medal final! Congrats to the Yanks!
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Mighty Hiker
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Vancouver, B.C.
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Feb 26, 2010 - 05:49pm PT
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Riley apparently needs to cut down on his red meat and/or beer intake.
Current medal standings of the five countries with the largest number of medals:
1. Norway 20 (= one medal/243,000 citizens)
2. Canada 17 (= one medal/2,001,000 citizens)
3. Germany 26 (= one medal/3,145,000 citizens)
4. Russia 15 (= one medal/9,462,000 citizens)
5. USA 32 (= one medal/9,649,000 citizens)
As noted earlier, this should probably also be adjusted for things like GDP/citizen, % of citizens living in or within 100 km of places with a mean winter temperature of freezing or below, and include the top ten in each event, rather than top three. But Canada is barely in the top ten overall, and Russia and the USA are duking it out for 22nd and 23rd. It was courteous of the Norwegians to allow the Canadians a victory earlier today - magnanimous victors and all. I guess when you're that good, you can afford to be. No other country is even close to them.
Ice hockey is boring, contrived, and violent, and in its present form has no place in the Olympics. It's an embarrassment to our country that of the two 'sports' which supposedly represent our national character, and are getting grotesquely over-emphasized, one is ice hockey and the other is curling - which isn't even a sport. I had hoped that both Canada and the USA would lose today, to spare us more ice hockey nonsense. Well, maybe part of my wish will come true.
The Norwegian curlers' clown trousers are a fitting comment on the game of curling.
But hey, it's all fun and games, isn't it? No one takes any of this seriously, I hope.
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bmacd
Trad climber
Washedup, Hasbeen, BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 26, 2010 - 07:20pm PT
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No one takes any of this seriously, I hope.
Just you it seems, try and be positive for the finale here Anders. It's almost over ....
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Feb 26, 2010 - 07:25pm PT
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That Bernard on the Canuck Womens Curling team is super-hot IMO!!!!
Not super-model kinda hot, I never liked that type, just babe-alicious!
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Feb 26, 2010 - 07:36pm PT
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Norway won the gold medal in the men's 7.5 km biathlon relay today. Their anchor skier was Ole Einar Bjørndalen - it is the 11th medal he has won in the winter Olympics. Austria was second and Russia third. Canada 10th.
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Mighty Hiker
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Vancouver, B.C.
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Feb 26, 2010 - 09:38pm PT
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Canada won the silver medal in women's curling, defeated by the Swedes in overtime. How Swede it is, apparently.
The Canadian women's hockey team has apologized for its on-ice post-game celebration last night. A spokeswoman didn't say "We wanted to drink Howe Sound Brewing beer, but couldn't get any. And the part about the cigar being Cuban simply isn't true, although it was a fatty." OK, I made that last part up. They were having a good time after they thought everyone had left, but there was some snoopy photographer there.
1/8+ plus hybrid American. My father's mother's mother was born in Wisconsin. Her parents' names were John Wesley Chapman and Mary Josephine St. Louis. Which suggests English and French ancestors, but as they were born in the 1850s, could mean almost anything. I will see if my father can add to this. We know more about my father's father's family, back to 16th century or so, and my mother's family.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Feb 26, 2010 - 09:57pm PT
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I'm with Bluering - Cheryl Bernard is MILF-O-Licious! Congrats on her silver. {sigh}
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Feb 26, 2010 - 11:34pm PT
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And guess which country just got its TENTH GOLD MEDAL, and now has the lead in number of golds???!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111111111111
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bmacd
Trad climber
Beautiful, BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 26, 2010 - 11:36pm PT
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PTPP holy smokes ... Unbelievable !!
we are in the lead with Gold medals, wow ...
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blahblah
Gym climber
Boulder
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Feb 26, 2010 - 11:37pm PT
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OK just watched short track 500m, Canadians won gold and something else.
They DQ'd Apolo Ono for making the slightest, most inadvertent contact with one of the Candadians who was blocking him as Apolo was going to pass from 4th to 3rd place.
I don't know much about the sport, so can someone who does tell me if that was a legitimate ruling or was it another case of "hometown" judging?
It also looked to me like the Canadian who won knocked over the Korean who was leading until he wiped out, but again, I don't know enough about the sport to say much.
DOUBLE EDIT--BREAKING NEWS--JUST HAD AN INTERVIEW WITH ONO: HE CALLED OUT THE CANADIAN REF AS MAKING A BIASED DECISION BASED ON NATIONALITY. WOW! A CLASS ACT LIKE ONO WOULD *NOT* MAKE SUCH AN ACCUSATION LIGHTLY.
Edit--goddamit, now that US-Canada hockey game is going to be incredibly important for the gold medal count (US is looking pretty good for overall medal count, but I admit gold meal count is worth "2nd place" objective).
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Feb 26, 2010 - 11:57pm PT
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Blahblah, I am incensed that this speed skating coverage was not available for me to watch live! I can flip between channels, I'm a guy. Sheesh.
I did not see the race, but no doubt it will be shown in detail now that the hockey game is over.
Here is what the Toronto Sun wrote:
"In replays Ohno could be seen giving Tremblay a nudge with his hand, causing the chain reaction crash."
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blahblah
Gym climber
Boulder
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Feb 27, 2010 - 12:00am PT
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Ono ABSOLUTELY put his hand on the hip of the CA skater. If that's ground for DQ, then it was justified. I just don't know the rules.
Sounds like you Canadians are getting screwed on TV coverage just as we are here in the US, I can't fathom why Canada TV didn't show the 500m finals, it was really good with two, somewhat independent crashes at the end.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Feb 27, 2010 - 12:05am PT
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Canadian Charles Hamelin won two gold medals in short track speed skating tonight, the 500 m, and the 5,000 m relay. Another Canadian won a bronze. The 500 m event is being described as "chaotic".
Canada now has 10 gold, 7 silver, and 4 bronze. The newspapers noted today that 14 medals had been won by Canadian women, six by men, and one joint.
It looks like Canada may make it into the top ten medal-winning countries after all. Of the countries with the most medals, the current standings are:
1. Norway 20 medals (one per 243,000)
2 - 7. Austria, Slovenia, Switzerland, Latvia, Sweden, Estonia
8. Canada 21 medals (one per 1.62 million)
9 - 13. Finland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Croatia, Netherlands
14. Germany 27 medals (one per 3 million)
15 - 21. Belarus, South Korea, France, Australia, Poland, Russia, Kazakhstan
22. USA 34 medals (one per 9.08 million)
23 - 26. Italy, Japan, Great Britain, China
Admittedly, some of those countries aren't famed for their winter weather or wealth. But Canada and Norway are fairly similar in climate and economies, as is much of the USA.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Feb 27, 2010 - 01:30pm PT
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Women's 30 km cross country today, men's 50 km cross country tomorrow. Nice to see the Olympics ending with the events that more than anything epitomize their spirit, and winter sport.
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micronut
Trad climber
fresno, ca
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Feb 27, 2010 - 02:10pm PT
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I know this is gonna make some of the northerners angry, but Canada has had an uncanny ability to "advance" or win medals on Canadian Referee judgements throughout these games. The short track has been the most obvious, on more than one account. Canadian skaters advancing on tacky calls.
Has anybody else seen or felt this way. I was a full time athlete for many years and lived and trained at the US Olympic Training Center in the 90s. I am all for purity of sport but am well aware how desperate countries get for their "medal count" to shine. Korea did it a fair amount in Seol (boxing), China was a mess, it was probably even seen in Atlanta or Squaw.
It just seems that in these games Canada kinda does what it needs to get the medal. Shady? Am I alone here?
By the way, country medal counts are kinda lame in my opinion. The individual athletes tend to think they are for the couch potatoes back home really.
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blahblah
Gym climber
Boulder
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Feb 27, 2010 - 02:35pm PT
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micronut--yes, hometown reffing has got lots of attention, you're not the only one to notice it. But I don't think this is unique to this Olympics, I think it's business as usual. There is even "legal cheating" (not sure what the right phrase is) by things such as allowing Canadians to go down the bobsled track MUCH more often than the rest of the world.
Many of the reffing calls seem more-or-less defensible on an individual basis, but when they ALWAYS go in the Canadians' favor, we sort of start to figure it out.
That's why it is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT for US to win in hockey tomorrow--to give the Canadians a much needed dose of humility once and for all (or at least for 4 more years)!
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