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Actually, I don’t even think it was hockey fans who rioted in Vancover. I wasn’t rooting for either teams since mine was knocked out. But what happened in Vancouver when it lost the Stanley Cup… well it makes me ashamed to be a Canadian. —Rattale
This article appears in Jun 16-22, 2011.
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Check out CraigsList in Vancouver. A lot of the looted stuff is for sale.
You dont think it was hockey fans who rioted??????? Who were they, then???? And why were they all wearing Canucks jerseys???????? oh let me guess, a “true fan would never behave that way.”
What a load of bullshit!!
Fans or no fans, the looting was uncalled for and likely would have happened if they had won. So it goes.
Gotta love the stupidity of rioters and looters (no protesters here), stealing and causing damage all the while being filmed. They may as well been wearing name tags “Stupid Fuck, 1A Dickwad Lane” come arrest me now.
Hockey fans dont generally bring masks to games. These were not fans ( of hockey anyway)
Every time there’s the potential for a riot, there needs to be a squad of sealers working for the government who are instructed to bash the fucking skulls in of any scumbag, mask wearing anarchist piece of shit.
Well Baz, I don’t think the holiday mellowed YOU out any, did it? The vitriol spewith forward with alacrity.
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Perhaps you needed more of this:
http://epicblueacres.homestead.com/files/Q…
I’m willing to bet that the activists of the Vancouver Anarchist Guerrillas (V.A.G.) were prepared to launch Operation:Fuck Yeah Man, Let’s Rock The Bourgeois Complacency Of All These Little Eichmanns! at the end of the Olympics, but the security scared them off. So they dusted off the Op-Plan for an occasion when there was less risk of an R.C.M.P. sniper putting a 7.62 mm copper jacketed, match-grade round between the Mao cap and the bandana. It may have failed to ignite the long awaited class war, but I’ll bet that any number of cockroach ridden communal squats are boasting some really impressive home entertainment systems today.
Um ya. Sorry guys. Crappy links above. Booo… must be because it’s Friday. >:(
http://cheezburger.com/muffela/lolz/View/7…
I posted this in the last bitch but I’ll post it here again.
After watching the news last night, my suspicions were confirmed. Everything was cool, till some people came and set that first car on fire. They came prepared with bombs and fire starting devices and they were gonna try and instigate a riot win or lose. They could have cared less about the game.
And let me say this: (This goes out to Z)
If you were going to commit a crime in Vancouver on that particular day, wearing a Canucks shirt is going to make you a lot harder to identify.
That being said yes obviously some hockey fans participated in the riot.
Like I said, when you have that large a group of people, some of them will inevitably be fucktards.
Take 100 000 opera fans or Lady Gaga fans or soft rock fans and many of them will inevitably be fucking idiots. I’m not a fan of hockey or of hockey fans and I don’t like the mentality of a lot of them, but call those rioters were criminals, plain and simple, and they were criminals before the game and they will continue to be.
Opportunistic thugs are responsible for those riots, not hockey fanatics.
This does, however make me hope that a Canadian team doesn’t make it back to the finals..
That makes you ashamed to be Canadian? Really? How about what we put up with as free citizens during the G20 summit? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zejD0UkMGGY If you’re only watching the big name news, you’re only getting part of the story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R89oERKCaU…
are you working tomorrow admiral? just got back from taking the littlest tard to get his blood checked. he’s doing otay, gotta up the insulin a bit http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.…
I am, Painey. Sorry I never made it over to your hood this week. The lure of the couch was too powerful to resist. The next week is coming up in mid July
Does the wee moggie still come running to you for his shot?
oh yeah, and he purrs too, just because i’m touching him. i can’t believe you didn’t go for a nice stroll, what with the loverly weather http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/p…
it is pretty stupid. “our team didn’t win, so, let’s… destroy our own, city…”. i guess? is what they were thinking? “our team didn’t win, so, i’ll show you… car”. maybe? “our team didn’t win, so, take that the bay. hey could you record me?”.
Well, the weather may suck a 1000 miles of dead ass but summer has officially begun. Just rescued my first rakin of the season from the dumpster in front of my dacha.
Stoopid pointy-faced cats.
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m86/bct…
haha, sounds like a kid’s book “father ivan and the pointy-faced cats”
THE SPORTS FAN: THE SECULAR “TRUE BELIEVER”
“fan, n. (sl). Devotee of a specialized amusement, as film, football.” (The Concise Oxford Dictionary)
“Nisi crederitis, non intellegitis.” (“Unless thou shalt believe, thou shalt not understand.”) St. Augustine
“When one ceases to believe in God it doesn’t mean that he will believe in nothing. It means he will believe in anything.” (Anon.)
Is there any rational explanation for the Vancouver hockey riots? Insofar as the mind of the sports fan is amenable to rational analysis at all, I think there is.
Man must believe in something, even if it is only a belief in his absence of his belief. If to be a sports “fan” entails that one is a “devotee” of a particular sport, by extension such devotion entails a belief in the inherent goodness of the object of that belief, i,e, the particular sports team. In its turn the sports team, in providing something larger than the individual, something for the sports fan to believe in, something from which he can draw some meaning in his life and provide some content to his own identity – think of the team player’s name on the back of the jersey the fan sports – has come to embody a secular religion. In other words, the sports fan has become a secular “true believer.”
When the team, now the vessel of his identity and belief, does well the sports fan swells with pride. Meaning has been bestowed on his life. His identity has been endorsed on a cosmic scale. All is right with the world.
However, when the team does not do well, particularly when it has the supreme prize (“salvation”) within its grasp but falters at the last moment, apocalypse befalls the sports fan. The foundations of his belief have been smashed, his identity has become uprooted. He undergoes an existential crisis. He doesn’t know who he is.
In order to re-establish meaning and identity, the sports fan must act. Lacking any resources to channel his action, the sports fan acts in the only way he knows how – by violence and destruction. But this response, of course, is not limited to the intellectually vacuous sports fan. Think of Dostoyevski’s “Raskalnikov.” Think of Sartre’s “Roquentin.” On a national scale, of course, think of Hitler.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
P.S. It is tiresomely possible that The Turd (aka Hugo Phurst), unable to engage my argument in any substantive, structured and sustained fashion, will respond in his usual sneering, nit-picking manner. He is without resources. Ignore him.
“This does, however make me hope that a Canadian team doesn’t make it back to the finals..”
Go live in America then, fucking traitor.
I hope the Prosecutor asks every riot Defendant this question, “Are you a Canucks fan”. Then ask “How can you be so stupid breaking, igniting, assaulting or whatever with your unmasked face looking into cameras”.
Sméagol – Why should I “engage my argument” with someone who fabricates facts, misquotes/quotes out of context, and does not check their references?
That was a rhetorical question, by the way.
Tell us again of your days as ‘Head”-master of the boys school in Italy.
Just for you annie.
http://www.motifake.com/coprophilia-coprop…
I think it was Israelis personally. People are smartening up and seeing the atrocities being committed against Palestinians so Israel decided to make a new enemy out of The Vancouver Canucks and its fans.
Re: “The Sports Fan: The Secular ‘True Believer'”
Correction: For “Man must believe in something, even if it is only a belief in his absence of belief” read “Man must believe in something, even if it is only a belief in THE absence of HIS belief.” One of those little slips.
Otherwise, as I am sure you will all agree, it is a brilliant hypothetical explanation of the reasons for the Vancouver hockey riots insofar, of course, as such reasons are amenable to rational analysis at all.
– The Turd (aka Hugo Phurst) 4:36PM – My little postscript, intended as a pro-active measure to discourage my stalker’s vacuous comments on my posts, did not have the desired effect. We see he has “popped up” again with his usual inanities. After a series of empty questions, including that of my “fabrication of facts,” he asserts that the questions were only “rhetorical.” Does The Turd understand the meaning of the word? One can only wonder, then why did he ask his rhetorical questions at all? Naturally, The Turd then proceeds to engage in self-contradiction, fabricating an imaginary reference to the “‘Head’-master of the boys school in Italy.” A boy’s school in Italy? I skipped the video.
Oh well, it’s Sunday morning and things are a bit slow. Time to check out the London Sunday Telegraph.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
A rhetorical question is a figure of speech in the form of a question posed for its persuasive effect without the expectation of a reply.
Yet you replied…..seem it’s you who doesn’t know the meaning.
And your reply didn’t address the retoric, as usual. Weak.
This is not a retorical question….is it commonplace in philosophy, to lie to make a point, or to falsly elevate your position?
Should I go to a philosophy forum, and ask there?
i like turd better than parasite mr. hugo http://www.stuffthatwascool.com/wp-content…
Re: “The Sports Fan: The Secular ‘True Believer'”
: The Turd (10:00AM) – You are one confused Indian, Turd. It is quite true that rhetorical questions are not asked in the expectation of a reply but my “reply” was not an answer to those questions but simply a question as to why you bothered to ask them at all. In any case Turd, they lacked any “persuasive power.”
I really don’t think you should go to a “philosophical forum,” Turd – do they have special forums in Halifax for the Underclass? – since, of course, you would never have understood the answer in any case. But keep studying.
: Paingirl (2:24PM) – Yes, I agree with your preference of “The Turd” over “The Parasite.” Like the property his rhetorical questions are supposed to possess, I find the term more “persuasive,” don’t you think?
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
no i just think the word “turd” is funny. you forget monsieur, i am a mindless simpleton
I didn’t know Hugo was from Bombay.
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Re: “The Sports Fan: The ‘Secular True Believer'”
: Paingirl (4:07PM) – Now Paingirl, you know I never called you a “simpleton.”
(8:17PM) – Did it take four hours to post that check mark? What did it mean? Do you think I should re-think my reply to your previous post?
: Donairious (6:47PM) – Yes, it’s true. You’ll find The Turd under one of the third class carriages of the Indian National Railways which, of course, provide no “conveniences.” He will be there among many others.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
I don’t understand why so many people give you guff, Montreal Man. Bunch of haters up in here is what I’m thinking!
this bitch makes me furious, for so many reasons. and no, not just because i am a hockey fan. lucky for you all im way too lazy to state all the reasons…but i will say, it’s pretty asshole-ish of you to turn on your own country when things get a little chaotic.
we have received enough negative attention about this from the states and around the world, we don’t need our own citizens turning their backs on us. is it slightly ironic to say that, considering what happened?? :/ well anyways….
i personally, LOVE being canadian. obviously there are a few nut jobs walking around this beautiful country but pffff. so minor, in the bigger scheme of things.
and i agree with sodeypop. you can head south of the border ANYTIME!
“Bunch of haters up in here”
No shit, Sherlock. You must have graduated top of your class at C.S.I. academy.
http://files.sharenator.com/demotivational…
“lucky for you all im way too lazy to state all the reasons…”
How does that make anybody lucky?
“No shit, Sherlock. You must have graduated top of your class at C.S.I. academy.”
Vocational schools are not for Das Judens, er raccons. Both.
i dunno, i didn’t want to ramble on n’ on, and bor you?… so therefore, you are lucky? 😛
PS. whats a raccon?
One of the lost Twelve Tribes of course.
Oh they aren’t lost. A couple of times a summer I’m guaranteed to find something much like this, invariably on a saturday morning:
http://daquila.files.wordpress.com/2006/01…
The most I ever rescued at one time was 3. Put the ladder over the side and out they came , like clowns from a Mini Cooper
Look at those bandits trying to claim Ivan Koloff’s dumpster as their rightful homeland!!!
It’s more like the Mexican-US border. They have a nest underneath a shed on the other side of the fence from the dacha but they keep slipping across in search of a better life. I’m like the INS agent who has to help send them back.
Indian Native Squantos?
Israeli Noogie Sadists