commercials for Little Mosque On The Prairie flogged by CBC during the Games

Those commercials annoyed me, one for being overplayed and also calling it Canada's favourite comedy. Does anyone even watch that show?
I saw it once and thought it was trying to hard to be Corner Gas but failed.
But I guess if we're happy with mediocrity, then that show should rank on top.

Sorry about that.

/No, please... you first.

That article makes me very very angry. I'm going to write a nasty letter of complaint.

/brb

I'll be over here writing a polite letter of somewhat less than complete enthusiasm.

I make it my mission in life to be as Canadian as possible under the circumstances.

Some people call me a daredevil - I was the first to try cherry-flavoured popsicles when they started selling them here last year and they were good but the cherry flavour hurt my mouth and I hurled it to the floor of the Mac's Milk - but that's just the way I roll, if it's OK with you. Is it OK with you?

And thank you very much for reading this comment.

40below: and I hurled it to the floor of the Mac's Milk...

You do realize that calling it "Mac's Milk" shows how old you are, eh?

I don't think that store has been called "Mac's Milk" since the late 70s.

I'm as dry as a popcorn fart and I'm gosh-darn proud of it!

Well he's got a point. You can be moderate and still have some fire in you for god's sake. Just because your neighbor to the south (hi!) comes off as all kinds of insane, doesn't mean you have to go the exact opposite direction. You've got a huge spectrum of behavior to cover before anyone in the world goes "Oh hell, it's the Canadians. They're such a pain in the ass."

/Moderation good, doormat bad!

Bill_Wick's_Friend: You do realize that calling it "Mac's Milk" shows how old you are, eh?

I don't think that store has been called "Mac's Milk" since the late 70s.

I don't like change. Except when I get a bunch from the Brewer's Retail when I get off the chesterfield and take back a few cases of stubbies. Otherwise, change puzzles and frightens me.

Bill_Wick's_Friend: You do realize that calling it "Mac's Milk" shows how old you are, eh?

I don't think that store has been called "Mac's Milk" since the late 70s.

Maybe not officially, but you still see it refered to as Mac's Milk in the papers and on the news when one gets robbed.

strathcona: Bill_Wick's_Friend: You do realize that calling it "Mac's Milk" shows how old you are, eh?

I don't think that store has been called "Mac's Milk" since the late 70s.

Maybe not officially, but you still see it refered to as Mac's Milk in the papers and on the news when one gets robbed.

I'm new around here, hadn't heard of that one. Another addition to my ever growing Canadian Glossary.

RetroGnome: I saw it once and thought it was trying to hard to be Corner Gas but failed.
But I guess if we're happy with mediocrity, then that show should rank on top.

One of the greatest crimes in the history of North America is that "Trailer Park Boys" isn't on American televsion, but "Corner Gas" is.

Can someone explain this to me?

sigdiamond2000: One of the greatest crimes in the history of North America is that "Trailer Park Boys" isn't on American televsion, but "Corner Gas" is.

Can someone explain this to me?

It's truly an abomination before God.

sigdiamond2000: One of the greatest crimes in the history of North America is that "Trailer Park Boys" isn't on American televsion

Americans don't deserve what is possibly the funniest show on television.

zeph`: Americans don't deserve what is possibly the funniest show on television.

It actually played down here for about a week and a half on BBC America...edited for f*cking foul language if you can believe that.

CANADA!! Er, YEAH!

Hey, c'mon people, fourth and fifth place are nothing to be ashamed of.

sigdiamond2000: zeph`: Americans don't deserve what is possibly the funniest show on television.

It actually played down here for about a week and a half on BBC America...edited for f*cking foul language if you can believe that.

So it was just a series of BEEEEP whenever anyone talked? How the BEEP is that supposed to BEEEP work, Julian? BEEEEP the BEEEEP kitties BEEEEEP the other day and I BEEEEP Mr Lahey and BEEEEEP stolen barbecues.

Meh Canada!

wh0mprat: So it was just a series of BEEEEP whenever anyone talked?

Yep, pretty much. It was ridiculous. BBC America must've realized quickly that it was pointless to try to air an edited version of that show because, like I said, it was only on for a very short time.

PH Neutral: Meh Canada!

Excuse me, but the national anthem is actually:

"Oh? Canada."

Thank you.

sigdiamond2000: RetroGnome: I saw it once and thought it was trying to hard to be Corner Gas but failed.
But I guess if we're happy with mediocrity, then that show should rank on top.

One of the greatest crimes in the history of North America is that "Trailer Park Boys" isn't on American televsion, but "Corner Gas" is.

Can someone explain this to me?

Brent Butt is connected to the Illuminati.

sigdiamond2000: edited for f*cking foul language if you can believe that.

When it's on during primetime (5:00PM-8:00PM) up here (on Showcase, generally) it's censored for language - which, for a show of its nature, is an absurd exercise in futility. It truly does need to be shown in its original form though - very few shows come anywhere close to being as funny as uncensored Trailer Park Boys.

"Judge: Now although I am opposed to that kind of language in the courtoom, I'm going to allow it, as unfortunately it is part of your right to a fair trial.

Ricky: Thank you. My first order of business is to tell the prosecutor to shut the fark up, and wipe that stupid farking grin off his face ...

Ricky: The defense rests, everybody can fark off. Except you (points to the judge) I didn't mean you. But those two guys, and him (pointing to the prosecutor). Can you get out of the way? (to camera man) Please!"

♫ "Our country reeks of trees..." ♫

strathcona: Bill_Wick's_Friend: You do realize that calling it "Mac's Milk" shows how old you are, eh?

I don't think that store has been called "Mac's Milk" since the late 70s.

Maybe not officially, but you still see it refered to as Mac's Milk in the papers and on the news when one gets robbed.

Didn't a lot of convenience stores have signs that described them as 'milk' stores? Becker's used the plastic jugs like the US had, but wasn't there one called Bantam? At least in Southern Ontario.

Canada is like America's Canada.

"In women's field hockey, for instance, a group of parents and supporters came forth with four proposals to make sure the team gets to the Games in 2012 after failing to reach Beijing."

How much you want to bet those four proposals were
(1) Give us more money,
(2) Give us more money,
(3) Give us more money,
and (4) Get CSIS to assassinate all the other players
?

I love Canada, and I enjoyed the Olympics... but I'm proud that my country prioritizes health-care and peace in Afghanistan over a nationalistic dick-waving competition. Our mediocre medal-showing is fine with me.

Oh, and the CBC coverage sucked donkey balls. From inscrutable camera work and editing to painful non-sport segments (Sook Yin Lee, Jian Ghomeshi, I love you guys, really I do - The Wedge was cool, and so was Moxy Fruvous - but seriously, STFU NAO!), to those painfully bad Little Mosque ads, it was just driving me batty. It's like they WANT us to question their funding.

about 1/10th the population of USA
basicly 0 federal funding (guess we have better things to spend money on then the highschool jock)

i have to say the canadian olympic team must have worked very hard and we should be proud of their accomplishments

Cue the anti-Canada snarkers...

I don't get it 18 medals for a country of 32 million isnt that bad.

There's something about every Canadian i've ever met that's very unsettling. They just have this sort of air about themselves, i wish i could explain it...

Americans don't deserve what is possibly the funniest show on television.

Oh wait, there it is.

RetroGnome: commercials for Little Mosque On The Prairie flogged by CBC during the Games

Those commercials annoyed me, one for being overplayed and also calling it Canada's favourite comedy. Does anyone even watch that show?
I saw it once and thought it was trying to hard to be Corner Gas but failed.
But I guess if we're happy with mediocrity, then that show should rank on top.

Both that show and Corner Gas are unfunny. Some of us Canadians actually have a sense of humor.(that's right, I left out the U)

When success is punished, mediocrity is the baseline.

zeph`: sigdiamond2000: edited for f*cking foul language if you can believe that.

When it's on during primetime (5:00PM-8:00PM) up here (on Showcase, generally) it's censored for language - which, for a show of its nature, is an absurd exercise in futility. It truly does need to be shown in its original form though - very few shows come anywhere close to being as funny as uncensored Trailer Park Boys.

"Judge: Now although I am opposed to that kind of language in the courtoom, I'm going to allow it, as unfortunately it is part of your right to a fair trial.

Ricky: Thank you. My first order of business is to tell the prosecutor to shut the fark up, and wipe that stupid farking grin off his face ...

Ricky: The defense rests, everybody can fark off. Except you (points to the judge) I didn't mean you. But those two guys, and him (pointing to the prosecutor). Can you get out of the way? (to camera man) Please!"

fark this court. fark Jim Lahey. fark Randy. fark those two idiot cops right there. fark suit dummies; as a matter of fact fark legal aid. fark Danny and Terry's Buffalo Chicken Wings. fark all the old wood in here. fark the moon, fark corn on the cob, fark squirrels. fark me, fark you, fark everything!

oldfarthenry: ...as dry as a popcorn fart...

There's an expression you don't hear much these days.

JDAT: Canada is like America's Canada.

No. Canada like is Mexico's America

Brown Sauce: oldfarthenry: ...as dry as a popcorn fart...

There's an expression you don't hear much these days.

I always liked "Colder than a witch's tit"

/Witch tits are actually quite warm
//Sweating like a pedophile at Disneyland

I love Canada - keep the BC Bud and Quebec Gold flowing, guys! Great jorb!

I still like Canada. Great outdoors stuff to do there.


\I can't wait for hunting season.

As a Canadian, we like the world to think we're mediocre.
We don't want people flooding our country, we love being smally-big[sic]. We have resources and we appreciate them.

Ah, "Little Mosque on the Prairie"... The difference between Canada and the US is that in our shows, Muslims are these goofy weird neighbours who move into a small oddball community and wackiness ensues. In American TV shows they try to blow up Los Angeles and get tortured by Jack Bauer.

Anyway this article is rubbish, the Olympics don't measure a country's worth or even the real worth of its sports policy. In fact they exist only to make money. There, I said it. We should be happy for athletes who have excelled, but their accomplishments are not our own, no matter what team jacket they wear. And anyone who finishes "only" fourth in any Olympic event could probably clean this writer's clock at any sport, so how about some STFU, Bruce Dowbiggin.

Pxtl: "In women's field hockey, for instance, a group of parents and supporters came forth with four proposals to make sure the team gets to the Games in 2012 after failing to reach Beijing."

How much you want to bet those four proposals were
(1) Give us more money,
(2) Give us more money,
(3) Give us more money,
and (4) Get CSIS to assassinate all the other players
?


Probably, but there's also no getting around the fact that any federally-connected initiative in Canada involves a labyrinth of pointless regulations and small-minded officialdom which almost instantly neuters it and slows it to a crawl.

I mean seriously - I work with Federal Agencies. Things are over-managed and over-regulated to a point where it is a miracle that anything gets done, ever.

What sucks about Canaduh?

Well the people don't know that Canada is a fascist society where the police kill people and American television is blocked by the Great Firewall of Canada. All for your Canadian Heritage protection.

/Bunch of f*cking pussies here in Canada.
//And the news is like Fark. No real news to cause the people to overthrow the government.

zeph`: It truly does need to be shown in its original form though - very few shows come anywhere close to being as funny as uncensored Trailer Park Boys.



"We need more sh*t puppets for our play Randy, and we need angry sh*t puppets but they aren't mad at us. Sh*t puppets only get angry at other sh*t puppets"

I wouldn't call the French-Canadian women I saw in Montreal mediocre. Most of them don't even look like they are trying and they're still beautiful. Love the pony tail look so many of them have goin.

DRFA

qrb912: I still like Canada.

Me too, specifically Emilie Heymans.

Putting the "eh" in "meh" since sometime after America was founded