2010 Olympic Mascots revealed. Artists forget that Vancouver is in Canada, not Japan.

[Gusto]

PFFFFT. i'm on your side. fucking sweet ass bear.

[ash1ee]

my mum and dad put on heidi and howdy costumes and came to our school as a part of the calgary'88 olympics festivities.

and i still don't understand how and where they got those costumes from.

[NinjaBoy]

Originally Posted by ash1ee

my mum and dad put on heidi and howdy costumes and came to our school as a part of the calgary'88 olympics festivities.

and i still don't understand how and where they got those costumes from.

They'll explain when your older...

[galaxie]

Originally Posted by miss.myra

Uhh this was news to me? does that make me un-educated?

Was this news to anyone else?

I only knew this because in gr 5 I did a big project on seals. lol.

[ash1ee]

Originally Posted by galaxie

I only knew this because in gr 5 I did a big project on seals. lol.

thanks to grade 4 AND grade 5, i'm a manatee genius.

[galaxie]

^ manatees are so fucking cool
we see them in Tim's dad's canal now and then! dolphins, too!

[omega_image]

Originally Posted by galaxie

Almost everything I learned about the US as a child/teenager was what I saw on TV - having mostly American TV stations is pretty good for that.

that in itself is a conundrum.

anyways, here's the deal. trying to argue that americans are as smart, or nearly as smart as canadians, on a canadian board is a moot point.

but aside from personal views of americans, how can you even begin to argue when you have the laughing stock of the world as your president?

[Gusto]

Originally Posted by omega_image

but aside from personal views of americans, how can you even begin to argue when you have the laughing stock of the world as your president?

because their intelligence is not related to his. :P

[rawb]

I HAVE A MANATEE o

[omega_image]

Originally Posted by Gusto

because their intelligence is not related to his. :P

.......they should keep telling themselves that.

[prozac]

Originally Posted by rawb

I HAVE A MANATEE o

COWS OF THE SEA o

[galaxie]

Originally Posted by Séguin

It isn't that American's don't know anything about Canada... It's that they can't point out most countries, or major cities on a world map.

Here, have some of them play this, and see how far they get:
A work safe link, and somewhat fun game

Just FYI, on that application on facebook the US average is over 2 points higher than the Canadian average, and they have 50,000 more players. Just sayin'.

[Grapes]

Originally Posted by Gusto

because their intelligence is not related to his. :P

Then how did he get elected?

[Gusto]

Originally Posted by Grapes

Then how did he get elected?

through the electoral process. a vote is a decision based on any number of factors. it's not a representation of a persons intelligence.

[Grapes]

So you figure someone like George Bush could be elected here in Canada, or in England.

[Grapes]

Sorry Gusty, but if just more than (less than??) 50% of the voters in the US of A bought that moronic baboon's bullshit, that IS a representation of their intelligence. Or at the very least their gullibility.

[Gusto]

no i don't. they are different places with different people. like i said, there are many factors besides intelligence... like religion, morals, ideals, goals, military record and general attitude. you could have the smartest man in the world as your president, but if his vision is different than yours, you're not going to be happy.

besides, he barely took the first election (thanks to florida). and the second was during wartime which changes everything.

[Gusto]

Originally Posted by Grapes

Sorry Gusty, but if just more than (less than??) 50% of the voters in the US of A bought that moronic baboon's bullshit, that IS a representation of their intelligence. Or at the very least their gullibility.

haha... sorry dave, i think you're wrong. ;)

that assumes that all of the people that voted for bush are unhappy with how they spent their vote. it also sounds like you're saying someone is only intelligent if they agree with you, haha.

(disclaimer: i don't like bush either)

[Grapes]

Originally Posted by Gusto

no i don't. they are different places with different people. like i said, there are many factors besides intelligence... like religion, morals, ideals, goals, military record and general attitude. you could have the smartest man in the world as your president, but if his vision is different than yours, you're not going to be happy.

Would an intelligent person be overly impressed that Bush is a devout, born again Christian? (IE someone who believes that the vast majority of the people on FnK are going to hell?)

Would an intelligent person be impressed by Dubya's military record? (Not if they did their fucking research@!)

Would an intelligent person share George W Bush's morals and ideals?

It doesn't wash, man. Yes there are a multitude of factors that decide someone's vote, but that man scores a big fat ZERO on so many of them as far as the thinking individual is concerned...

His election and subsequent RE-election speaks to the gullibility, naivety, ignorance, greed and malice of a disturbingly large chunk of that nation.

[Silverwinged]

wow, mascots on the first page... george bush being a BAC on this page!

gotta love fnk.

[Gusto]

Originally Posted by Grapes

His election and subsequent RE-election speaks to the gullibility, naivety, ignorance, greed and malice of a disturbingly large chunk of that nation.

well now you've added a lot of other adjectives to the list that i agree with. all i'm saying is that the fact that bush won those elections is not a direct reflection of the nations intelligence.

some people got what they wanted when they voted for bush. some people wanted to go to war. some people are bible thumpers. i guess you could consider them unintelligent, but it all depends on your perspective. a smart person that decides to vote for bush is still a smart person afterwards, even if it turned out to be a poor decision in the long run.

anyway, ya, we took this to msn. ;)

[M.C. BEAR]

I wore miga right out the bitch gave me the clap clip rip rip rappety rip rip ra- rap fuckin hate the clap

[M.C. BEAR]

rap rap rippidy rock

[cubed]

Originally Posted by ash1ee

my mum and dad put on heidi and howdy costumes and came to our school as a part of the calgary'88 olympics festivities.

and i still don't understand how and where they got those costumes from.

My Aunt ran a portion of the Vancouver leg with the Olympic torch that year.

[galaxie]

Originally Posted by Gusto

well now you've added a lot of other adjectives to the list that i agree with. all i'm saying is that the fact that bush won those elections is not a direct reflection of the nations intelligence.

some people got what they wanted when they voted for bush. some people wanted to go to war. some people are bible thumpers. i guess you could consider them unintelligent, but it all depends on your perspective. a smart person that decides to vote for bush is still a smart person afterwards, even if it turned out to be a poor decision in the long run.

anyway, ya, we took this to msn. ;)

I agree with this 100%
Some Americans just vote Republican, it's just the way they were raised and religion plays a part in it as well. As surprised as I always am when I meet young people who say they're "conservative", I learned that most of them don't even understand what it means to be conservative. It has everything to do with being raised Christian and often coming from a military family or town. Even though this seems stupid to us, it's just the way it is in the States. Americans have two options - Republican or Democrat. If you're somewhere in the middle it can be difficult to figure out who you should be voting for.

And while we're on the topic of electing idiots, I don't think we Canadians can really talk. Does the name Stephen Harper ring a bell? I don't know if he's more or less of an idiot than Bush since he's basically Dubya's lap dog!