Canadian entertainment and media thread - Page 103

vid · #**2041** Posted: **Mar 17, 2009, 8:42 PM**

Elaborate? In my house, a complicated dinner is one where you have to put the margarine in after removing the Lipton Sidekicks from the heat.

Ayreonaut · #**2042** Posted: **Mar 17, 2009, 9:18 PM**

Imperial margarine at that, talk about complicated.

I use butter, I'm such a badass.

highdensitysprawl · #**2043** Posted: **Mar 17, 2009, 9:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by mr.John

That's it? I was expecting something elaborate,you my friend are no Paul Prudhomme

He's obviously suffering from living in a city with little in the way of restos....ditto goes for poor proletariat coffee in the City at the top of Superior.

harls · #**2044** Posted: **Mar 18, 2009, 3:49 PM**

Today I cancelled my contract with Bell Mobility (apparently you have to notify them a month in advance that your contract is over). I wanted to keep my number available for whichever gang of shysters I decide to go with later on, and the woman at Bell told me, "Make sure you do not transfer your phone number until after such-and-such date, or you will have to pay a $100 fee". WTF is with all of these nonsense fees? Fee for activation (service rep hits enter on keyboard, that'll be 35 dollars, sir); Fee for scratching your ass on Tuesday night, fee for mentioning fee fee, what a bunch of garbage. Hot, rotten, steaming garbage.

MolsonExport · #**2045** Posted: **Mar 18, 2009, 5:26 PM**

^how "mobile" of Bell Mobility.

Rico Rommheim · #**2046** Posted: **Mar 19, 2009, 3:24 AM**

Never owned a cell phone but I'm getting one tomorrow. Any suggestions, I'm on a shoe string budget.

and for fuck sake, can someone tell me what the fuck 'pwned' means?

MolsonExport · #**2047** Posted: **Mar 19, 2009, 3:29 AM**

pawned? maybe from a pawnshop? or perhaps, preowned?

Ayreonaut · #**2048** Posted: **Mar 19, 2009, 8:37 AM**

It's "owned", apparently replacing the 'o' with the nearby 'p' is teh coolz. It's also acceptable to replace the 'ed' with a simple 't'...pwnt!

highdensitysprawl · #**2049** Posted: **Mar 19, 2009, 12:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by harls

Today I cancelled my contract with Bell Mobility (apparently you have to notify them a month in advance that your contract is over). I wanted to keep my number available for whichever gang of shysters I decide to go with later on, and the woman at Bell told me, "Make sure you do not transfer your phone number until after such-and-such date, or you will have to pay a $100 fee". WTF is with all of these nonsense fees? Fee for activation (service rep hits enter on keyboard, that'll be 35 dollars, sir); Fee for scratching your ass on Tuesday night, fee for mentioning fee fee, what a bunch of garbage. Hot, rotten, steaming garbage.

That $35 activiation fee can be negotiated as a terms of signing up with a company. If you bundle your services (in other words you basically have a Rogers or Bell tattoo on you) you can negotiate all sorts of deals...they want your business and they want you indebted to them.

If you don't use a cell much, 7-11 have good Pay as you Go phones with decent rates and no contracts. Ditto for Petro Canada.

harls · #**2050** Posted: **Mar 19, 2009, 12:34 PM**

I know that if you sign up with Fido online, they waive the 35 dollar activation fee. They bury this information in a link at the bottom of the page somewhere, like it's a treasure hunt and clicking it is a 'reward'.

MolsonExport · #**2051** Posted: **Mar 19, 2009, 12:57 PM**

speaking of pre-owned, doesn't bother you that instead of "used cars" we have "pre-owned vehicles"? Pre-owned? wtf is that? It is a used car (very often, from a rental fleet)...and I have no faith whatsoever in their b.s. "optimum" or "certified" crap.

I am not old; I am "post-young".
The bread is not stale, it is "post-fresh"
That bike is not second-hand, it is pre-used.

mr.John · #**2052** Posted: **Mar 19, 2009, 1:31 PM**

Question ..does anybody in Canada give a shit about March madness? you would think by watching those brown nosing American wannabes on TSN,Rogers,The fan....and listening to radio shows (hardcore sports radio) that all of Canada can't wait for this pile of over-hyped American crap to begin. Getting back to hardcore sports radio, what a train wreck that station is,their announcers have to be the biggest collection of untalented losers in North America

kirjtc2 · #**2053** Posted: **Mar 19, 2009, 1:34 PM**

Only because they added it to Pro-Line.

Seriously....Canadians are so disinterested in regular season NCAA ball that the networks don't even show it, and then we're supposed to go all ga-ga over March Madness? I don't get it either.

mr.John · #**2054** Posted: **Mar 19, 2009, 1:50 PM**

Will Puke win it all,or will the Tar Pits stage an upset, and what will Godzilla do this year ,these are question that have to be answered

Acajack · #**2055** Posted: **Mar 19, 2009, 2:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by mr.John

Question ..does anybody in Canada give a shit about March madness? you would think by watching those brown nosing American wannabes on TSN,Rogers,The fan....and listening to radio shows (hardcore sports radio) that all of Canada can't wait for this pile of over-hyped American crap to begin. Getting back to hardcore sports radio, what a train wreck that station is,their announcers have to be the biggest collection of untalented losers in North America

Amen Alleluia! Yes, the wannabe Yanks have been a huge problem in Canadian sports journalism for some time (since the early to mid 80s I would say). There are a few exceptions but for the most part the wannabes are in control of the medium.

For example, seems that in recent weeks every time I turned Rogers SportsNet on they had U.S. college hockey games playing. Now, I know that the calibre of play is pretty good in the Hockey East conference in particular, and that many Canadians play there, but geez, how much coverage of CIS hockey do we see in a given year? Even CHL junior hockey, which is probably in the top five most popular sports genres in the country, gets totally anemic national TV coverage outside of the Memorial Cup.

And it’s not just live coverage that is lacking, it’s also the billing that Canadian stuff gets on sports news programs. As has been said, if you watch Canadian sports news in English, you’d think the entire country (which is called Canada, in case anyone forgot) is coming to a screeching halt because of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.

Of course, the just-completed CIS men’s basketball championship just ended, and it didn’t merit the saturation media coverage that March Madness is getting and will get from the Canadian media. Perhaps this is part of the reason that the championship game last weekend only drew 8,000 people to the 20,000 seat Scotiabank Place in Ottawa, despite the presence of the hometown powerhouse Carleton Ravens.

Note that I am not a person with a narrow view, and I recognize that the NCAA tourney has an excellent calibre of play. It’s a compelling thing to follow for some people. I am not much of a basketball fan but am a big follower of World Cup Soccer, where there are no Canadians taking part of course.

My problem isn’t so much that people take an interest in stuff from the States (or other countries I guess - but let's be frank it's almost always American stuff), but rather that the upshot is that Canadian stuff has to be blatantly and deliberately ignored.

kirjtc2 · #**2056** Posted: **Mar 19, 2009, 2:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

My problem isn’t so much that people take an interest in stuff from the States (or other countries I guess - but let's be frank it's almost always American stuff), but rather that the upshot is that Canadian stuff has to be blatantly and deliberately ignored.

It might not just be a US thing. How many European soccer tournaments do the networks say we have to care about?

mr.John · #**2057** Posted: **Mar 19, 2009, 2:25 PM**

What's even more annoying these windbags who are reporting on March madness don't know their ass from their elbows when it comes to college basketball..."I got TEXAS A&W and UCLUCY in my bracket" shut the fuck up and go report on curling

manny_santos · #**2058** Posted: **Mar 19, 2009, 2:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by mr.John

"I got TEXAS A&W and UCLUCY in my bracket" shut the fuck up and go report on curling

Why didn't anybody tell me about Texas A&W?! I should've gone there and eaten Teen Burgers every day!

The sad thing with university sports, except for football, most people don't care at all. Western was playing against Carleton in the CIS basketball semi-final (and almost won until Carleton scored 2 points right on the buzzer), and until that night nobody at Western cared about the basketball team. Suddenly there was a huge drunken crowd at the campus bar cheering them on.

The crowd for this past weekend's Queen's Cup, the all-Ontario hockey tournament which Western won, was even more pathetic. Empty seats abounding.

Acajack · #**2059** Posted: **Mar 19, 2009, 3:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by kirjtc2

It might not just be a US thing. How many European soccer tournaments do the networks say we have to care about?

The only soccer events from abroad that would benefit from anything close to saturation TV coverage similar to NCAA basketball (or football around bowl time) here in Canada would be the World Cup and the Euro tournament. Note that they only happen every four years.

There is actually very little TV coverage in Canada of European club soccer, even of the world’s best leagues like the English Premier League. You do get a little bit of coverage on TSN of select European tournaments like the Champions League with top clubs from various countries playing against each other. But other than that, the pickings are very slim.

Certainly when you combine the massive coverage from U.S. media that cross the border into Canada, then add on the coverage from Canadian media (both live and in sports news shows and talk shows), one can say that the phenomenon is much, much more a U.S.-centric one than “foreign-centric” or even “Euro-centric”.

mr.John · #**2060** Posted: **Mar 19, 2009, 3:22 PM**

A national embarrassment