I'd high stick it!

Thanks for the Herpes ad, Canada.

Bring em on!

Should read "Vancouver Stanley Cup Runner-Up Riot"

If hot chicks rioting is wrong then I don't want to be right

I just don't understand rioting over a sport. Seems a bit lack in the cause department. And intelligence department.

This thread is sadly lacking in Canadian pageant camel-toe.

Petulant Dwarf: I just don't understand rioting over a sport. Seems a bit lack in the cause department. And intelligence department.

Canadians...

That is the homeliest pageant winner in the history of forever.

The Vancouver cops are hilarious. They biatch about spending money to 'patrol' the streets of the peaceful Occupy protests, but then they will spend over a million dollars to charge people with one charge of 'participating in a riot'(plus another bogus charge of 'mischief'). Some people will get charged with theft, but the cops dropped the puck and did the same thing they did 20 years ago, which is "no riot is going to happen, as people of Vancouver are so farking nice and peaceful".

/Hey police..... The Whabulance is coming for you.
//We now return you to the standard articles of Kanadian RCMP murdering and assaulting people in the brain fog of Steroid abuse.

Petulant Dwarf: I just don't understand rioting over a sport.

They weren't rioting over a sport. The game was a catalyst and nothing more.

Bob_Laublaw: Petulant Dwarf: I just don't understand rioting over a sport.

They weren't rioting over a sport. The game was a catalyst and nothing more.

OK, then was there any reason for the riot? Other than a whole lot of angry drunks together in the same place?

The Gordie Howe Hat Trick: Petulant Dwarf: I just don't understand rioting over a sport. Seems a bit lack in the cause department. And intelligence department.

Canadians...

Psh. Spoken like someone who's never spent time in East Lansing, MI. :)

FrancoFile: OK, then was there any reason for the riot? Other than a whole lot of angry drunks together in the same place?

The undercurrent fueling the younger rioters in the crowd was based upon marginalization, particularly related to housing and wage reality that doesn't support any real definition of success in a metropolis like Van. That particular navel has been gazed at a lot since the riot.

Aidan: The Gordie Howe Hat Trick: Petulant Dwarf: I just don't understand rioting over a sport. Seems a bit lack in the cause department. And intelligence department.

Canadians...

Psh. Spoken like someone who's never spent time in East Lansing, MI. :)

Is it anything like East St. Louis? I got lost there once during the day...

Bob_Laublaw: That particular navel has been gazed at a lot since the riot.

Well, I'd sure glaze her navel.

/frost her doughnuthole too

Her obvious bullshiat comment of her illustrious AW career:


"It's a great way of expressing myself on stage," she wrote. "And letting people see me exude my confidence by being myself."

Is her FB page open for comments?

A GIS for the Miss World Canada led me to this lovely pic (new window). It's not her, but dayum me likey and I just had to share.

Do they at least have maps?

cig-mkr: Meh, OK I guess:
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Petulant Dwarf

I just don't understand rioting over a sport. Seems a bit lack in the cause department. And intelligence department.


And never the twain shall meet.

The Gordie Howe Hat Trick: Aidan: The Gordie Howe Hat Trick: Petulant Dwarf: I just don't understand rioting over a sport. Seems a bit lack in the cause department. And intelligence department.

Canadians...

Psh. Spoken like someone who's never spent time in East Lansing, MI. :)

Is it anything like East St. Louis? I got lost there once during the day...

Dunno, could be. The joke a couple years ago was that East Lansing goes up in flames after a game regardless of whether the Pistons win OR lose.

"It's a great way of expressing myself on stage," she wrote. "And letting people see me exude my confidence by being myself."

Ugh... I'm already sick of her sh*t.

FrancoFile: Bob_Laublaw: Petulant Dwarf: I just don't understand rioting over a sport.

They weren't rioting over a sport. The game was a catalyst and nothing more.

OK, then was there any reason for the riot? Other than a whole lot of angry drunks together in the same place?

That's exactly it. They allowed lots of people to gather on the streets, created a rowdy atmosphere, let them get drunk and then had no activities planned for the dispersal. It wasn't properly organized as a festival (i.e. with band venues, food, and general distractions). Basically they just said to tens of thousands of drunk people -- "game over now go home". It was really irresponsible of the city. They should have either disallowed the congregation and public drunkenness in the first place, or they should have made it a proper sporting host event.

Every big urban bar or nightclub in the world has problems with fighting and vandalism when they let the drunk people onto the street at closing time. I don't know why people didn't expect the same effect times 1000 in this case.

I'm not saying it is right for people to riot. Just saying a city is irresponsible if it doesn't expect such behavior.

Bob_Laublaw: FrancoFile: OK, then was there any reason for the riot? Other than a whole lot of angry drunks together in the same place?

The undercurrent fueling the younger rioters in the crowd was based upon marginalization, particularly related to housing and wage reality that doesn't support any real definition of success in a metropolis like Van. That particular navel has been gazed at a lot since the riot.

Don't be a farking retard.

The Cup riots had nothing to do with the #Occupy philosophy and protests. NOTHING. Sure, you might want to say as much looking in hindsight, because they're the same sort of people - but it wasn't. It was just the game. It was the sport. That's all it was. Your lens of history might be rose-coloured, but it ain't truthful.

starsrift: Bob_Laublaw: FrancoFile: OK, then was there any reason for the riot? Other than a whole lot of angry drunks together in the same place?

The undercurrent fueling the younger rioters in the crowd was based upon marginalization, particularly related to housing and wage reality that doesn't support any real definition of success in a metropolis like Van. That particular navel has been gazed at a lot since the riot.

Don't be a farking retard.

The Cup riots had nothing to do with the #Occupy philosophy and protests. NOTHING. Sure, you might want to say as much looking in hindsight, because they're the same sort of people - but it wasn't. It was just the game. It was the sport. That's all it was. Your lens of history might be rose-coloured, but it ain't truthful.

Absolutely. Hooligans looking to make trouble, plus underwhelming police presence, plus drunken crowd looking to get sucked into the action. There was no discontent other than the TV audience watching and wondering where the police were so they could start dropping cannisters of tear gas into the mob.

jabelar: FrancoFile: Bob_Laublaw: Petulant Dwarf: I just don't understand rioting over a sport.

They weren't rioting over a sport. The game was a catalyst and nothing more.

OK, then was there any reason for the riot? Other than a whole lot of angry drunks together in the same place?

That's exactly it. They allowed lots of people to gather on the streets, created a rowdy atmosphere, let them get drunk and then had no activities planned for the dispersal. It wasn't properly organized as a festival (i.e. with band venues, food, and general distractions). Basically they just said to tens of thousands of drunk people -- "game over now go home". It was really irresponsible of the city. They should have either disallowed the congregation and public drunkenness in the first place, or they should have made it a proper sporting host event.

Every big urban bar or nightclub in the world has problems with fighting and vandalism when they let the drunk people onto the street at closing time. I don't know why people didn't expect the same effect times 1000 in this case.

I'm not saying it is right for people to riot. Just saying a city is irresponsible if it doesn't expect such behavior.

Precisely, except it was over 100,000 people. And it's more irresponsible than you've even highlighted, because the City refused an increase of the police budget and changes in the policing plan around the hockey playoffs, despite sufficient warning of anticipated chaos and the Chief of Police repeatedly asking for more money to put cops on the streets that night (it's not at all that Vancouver cops are incapable of managing crowds of similar sizes, types and drunkenness levels - they did during the Olympics. When they had funding to actually put cops on the street.)

City Hall's plan was "Hey, let's encourage all these kids to come in from the suburbs by creating zones where everyone will watch the game, get absolutely shiatfaced and farked up on hockey, and mill around downtown afterward and hope nothing goes wrong." However, as any Vancouverite under 30 can attest, a riot was widely anticipated after the Stanley Cup Final; it was considered a given.

starsrift: Bob_Laublaw: FrancoFile: OK, then was there any reason for the riot? Other than a whole lot of angry drunks together in the same place?

The undercurrent fueling the younger rioters in the crowd was based upon marginalization, particularly related to housing and wage reality that doesn't support any real definition of success in a metropolis like Van. That particular navel has been gazed at a lot since the riot.

Don't be a farking retard.

The Cup riots had nothing to do with the #Occupy philosophy and protests. NOTHING. Sure, you might want to say as much looking in hindsight, because they're the same sort of people - but it wasn't. It was just the game. It was the sport. That's all it was. Your lens of history might be rose-coloured, but it ain't truthful.

Occupy and the hockey rioters are totally different types of people, you wouldn't catch your typical hockey rioter (young, male, kind of a dumbass bro, and from Surrey) dead at a political event; and you wouldn't catch an Occupy protester dead at any riot that didn't involve ending corporate personhood or opposing an oil pipeline or whatever.

Forget her, who's the chick on the left with the nice legs?

Rufus Lee King: Do they at least have maps?

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Y'now...every time I see that photo, I just want to give her a carrot.

COME AT ME BRO?

Ishkur: Anarchists from out of town using the cover of the mob to destroy public property and evade capture and identification.

Not the hockey riot.

jaytkay: Ishkur: Anarchists from out of town using the cover of the mob to destroy public property and evade capture and identification.

Not the hockey riot.

In Oakland the "Black Bloc" are local and will show up for any mass action.

DreamyAltarBoy: jaytkay: Ishkur: Anarchists from out of town using the cover of the mob to destroy public property and evade capture and identification.

Not the hockey riot.

In Oakland the "Black Bloc" are local and will show up for any mass action.

And this is relevant because...?

Rufus Lee King: Do they at least have maps?

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Classic...I still LOL watching her brain cell work overtime.

bobbette: starsrift: Bob_Laublaw: FrancoFile: OK, then was there any reason for the riot? Other than a whole lot of angry drunks together in the same place?

The undercurrent fueling the younger rioters in the crowd was based upon marginalization, particularly related to housing and wage reality that doesn't support any real definition of success in a metropolis like Van. That particular navel has been gazed at a lot since the riot.

Don't be a farking retard.

The Cup riots had nothing to do with the #Occupy philosophy and protests. NOTHING. Sure, you might want to say as much looking in hindsight, because they're the same sort of people - but it wasn't. It was just the game. It was the sport. That's all it was. Your lens of history might be rose-coloured, but it ain't truthful.

Occupy and the hockey rioters are totally different types of people, you wouldn't catch your typical hockey rioter (young, male, kind of a dumbass bro, and from Surrey) dead at a political event; and you wouldn't catch an Occupy protester dead at any riot that didn't involve ending corporate personhood or opposing an oil pipeline or whatever.

[a car that the bikers demolished earlier has been towed to the Halls of Justice]
Kid: Hey Mister! What happened to the car Vancouver?
Bubba Zanetti: What do you think happened?
Kid: Looks like it's been chewed up and spat out.
Bubba Zanetti: Perhaps it was a result of anxiety.

Ishkur: FrancoFile: OK, then was there any reason for the riot?

Anarchists from out of town using the cover of the mob to destroy public property and evade capture and identification.

They seem to do this with every large public event -- Olympics, economic summits, political conferences.... and they've even infiltrated OWS.

The conspiracy doesn't stop there. They've even infiltrated the Miss Canada pageant!

Anarchists, man.

starsrift: The Cup riots had nothing to do with the #Occupy philosophy and protests. NOTHING. Sure, you might want to say as much looking in hindsight, because they're the same sort of people - but it wasn't. It was just the game. It was the sport. That's all it was. Your lens of history might be rose-coloured, but it ain't truthful.


Good post, except this has very little to do with Occupy since that's not at all what I referred to. I'm talking a dynamic specific to Vancouver. There is a generation of Vancouver kids aged 30 and younger who'll not have the opportunity to achieve what a lot of their parents were able in that city. In a market in which an abandoned crackhouse goes for a million and a cost of living putting a typical semblance of middle class achievement out of reach. That is a huge part of the mob's willingness to celebrate civic destruction. To say that undercurrent wasn't at play is specious.

Don't be a farking retard.

And the notion that the of the extent of damage is mostly related to the game is high thinking.

jaytkay: DreamyAltarBoy: jaytkay: Ishkur: Anarchists from out of town using the cover of the mob to destroy public property and evade capture and identification.

Not the hockey riot.

In Oakland the "Black Bloc" are local and will show up for any mass action.

And this is relevant because...?

Only disagreeing with the part about the anarchists always being from elsewhere. Those idiots will crap in their own kitchen. Other than that, completely irrelevant.

Bob_Laublaw: The undercurrent fueling the younger rioters in the crowd was based upon marginalization, particularly related to housing and wage reality that doesn't support any real definition of success in a metropolis like Van. That particular navel has been gazed at a lot since the riot.

I recognize the economic situation in Vancouver, and it's effect on the younger generation there... but I don't see the connection to the riot. Correlation is not necessarily causation, as they say. Certainly none of the people who have been identified as participating in the riot have brought that issue up, at least that I've seen.

I think sometimes drunk assholes are just drunk assholes. Sure, the situation was exacerbated by a certain cadre of angry "anarchists" or black blocers or men who want to watch the world burn. But I can't get to some outpouring of rage against the socioeconomic landscape from what started as a hockey riot.

"Former Miss World Canada contestant and Miss Congeniality award winner"... in other words, a typical Canucks fan - always a bridesmaid, never a bride.

Suck it, loser biatch!

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Maybe it was just about time that they had one.

But... it twaaas, und ugly, ting.

/vootschteps