Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
Member # 33
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I just heard this today: South Park has been nominated for an Academy award: Best Song, namely "Flame Canada".
I like South Park. Although I have not seen the movie, someone DID tell me about the song. Right now, I don't have any beefs towards the song, as it is important to the movie itself (in a way). What my beef is that those Academy award idiots NOMINATED this song, which would be legitimizing anti-Canadian content.
If that song wins, I don't think I will watch the Oscars anymore........
------------------ "My Name is Elmer Fudd, Millionaire. I own a Mansion and a Yacht." Psychiatrist: "Again."
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We'll start throwing Ice Cubes across the border if you don't stop it !!!
And we'll make you live in igloos like we do up here ... and we might be nice enough to give you a team of dogs for your dog-sled in order to go to the eskimo hut to get dried fish, a bison bits !!
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*ahem*. It's "Blame Canada", not "Flame Canada". The movie isn't a bout a load of people writing bad posts on Canadian newsgroups.
Is it me, or are most countries in the world simply incapable of laughing at themselves? The British have for years had to put up with amazingly wrong cultural stereotypes from US TV, everyone from Mr Chumbley-Warner "Good day to you sir. i wear a bowler hat. therefore I am British", to cockney cab drivers "Guv'nr, I wear a flat cap guv'nr, coo, isn't London foggy. Strange, cause it's always foggy on TV, and rarely foggy in real life", and we don't kick up a fuss and boycott US TV. We just grin and bear it, and sip our tea, smug in our own sense of superiority and confident that no-one has ever battered Monty Python, not even us.
If you watched the movie anyway, you'd see the whole things about intolerance, and about the fact that people never want to address the root of the problem, but instead want to find scapegoats. Some kids go to see a Canadian movie and come out swearing? Bomb Canada, rather than trying to understand what the kids are thinking. Some kids go and shoot up a high-school? Blame everything from guns to the internet, to TV, to the amount of sugar they eat daily.
Just try not to be so much up yer own arse, okay? Are you going to say that if they nominated Uncle Fucker (whcih they should have, but didn't have the balls to), it would be legitimising Fucking of Uncles?
Besides, it's a brilliant song. Although for me, not as good as "It's easy, m'kay".
And remember, "When Canada is dead and gone, they'll be no more Celeni Dion".
------------------ "Should we blame the government? Or blame society? Or should we blame the images on TV? NO! Blame Canada!"
[This message has been edited by PsyLiam (edited February 20, 2000).]
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Heh... We'll just cut off the US's beer supply. Then they'll come crawling back...
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That's "running". When you cut off someone's beer supply, they find that they can walk again.
------------------ "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." -- William Pitt Come Hither and Yawn...
[This message has been edited by Baloo (edited February 20, 2000).]
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Oh come on people. First of all, it's a brilliant song. Secondly, it is EXACTLY what is needed. Why? Because it's better produced than the pap coming out of Disney these days, and skewers the whole darned industry in the process. (And by this I'm refering to the fact that a jokey movie about foul-mouthed youngsters has better musical values than the "big" companies.)
------------------ "You are stupid and evil and do not know you are stupid and evil." -- Gene Ray, Cubic
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Elim: Whaddya mean you don't see how it merits the nomination? Sol's right, it's a brilliant song. Far better than the pap that was in Tarzan. It deserves to win.
Just as a test, how many people came out of South Park humming along to Blame Canada, or singing Uncle Fucker? A whole lot moer than those who came out singing any of Phil Collins' songs.
Argue that any of the songs that have been nominated are better than it, and I'll argue that Colin Baker was the best Doctor Who.
------------------ "I'd give anything to be able to turn invisible. I wouldn't use my powers to beat people up, but use them to protect the girl's locker room."
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Every since I read Henry V and the scene with stereotyped members of the four areas of the British Isles, I've often wondered what some think about us. A question I'd like to ask our non-US citizen contributors: What stereotypes of the different parts of the United States stick out most in foreign minds?
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