Canadian entertainment and media thread - Page 210

SignalHillHiker · #**4181** Posted: **Aug 16, 2012, 3:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by The Gibbroni

OH GOD!! I heard so much Great Big Sea in Halifax that I never want to hear them ever again! I even worked two of their shows. Those guys and the inescapable bagpipes. UGH! Bagpipe induced nightmares of drowning in a Great Big Sea of tartan vomit... bagpipes...

That said, Quebec folk music is very similar to Newfoundland and Maritime folk. They have shared Celtic roots and feature much foot-stomping. Maybe a little more spoon action in Quebec folk.

"If there's music in hell, it'll be bagpipes."

Although, these Croatian/Bosnian Croat girls prove not all cultures make them sound quite as annoying:

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Acajack · #**4182** Posted: **Aug 16, 2012, 4:06 PM**

Not a bad use of bagpipes here either:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NRqSrPTPv8

harls · #**4183** Posted: **Aug 16, 2012, 7:40 PM**

Maybe Chad Kroeger could have a bagpipe solo on the next Nickelback album?

manny_santos · #**4184** Posted: **Aug 16, 2012, 10:38 PM**

With all the negative press about Marineland today, I wonder if we can sue them for falsely advertising that everyone loves them.

I'm not taking sides, but I think Marineland could handle this better from a PR standpoint. A press release and continuing to air the same TV commercials doesn't cut it anymore.

SignalHillHiker · #**4185** Posted: **Aug 16, 2012, 10:44 PM**

^ Obviously, Marineland needs the Nickelback with bagpipes commercial.

SignalHillHiker · #**4186** Posted: **Aug 16, 2012, 11:35 PM**

A conversation I overheard between my parents and my neighbours (who are their age; and now good friends) this evening:

Neighbour Wife: My darling, sure people are going to think he's after beating me. I can barely walk.

Mum: ME TOO, girl! I never thought it'd be such work just to go berry picking out in Avondale. We were there all day for 2 gallons. And I lost half of mine trying to catch a ****ing cat.

Dad: You ladies forget: you're old now.

Neighbour Wife/Mum: *Various grumbles/curses*

Neighbour Wife: Kayaking tomorrow afternoon, then, pet? Shall we go ahead with it? Eh b'y? ****, we might as well.

Mum: Of course! I've got a ****ing tire around my waist since I perfected my Hollandaise recipe. I need whatever workouts I can get. I'm even parking half way across town to go to the bloody corner store. IN HEELS!

Neighbour Husband: Well, ladies, I'm sure the home has a fine game of bingo on if you're not feeling up to kayaking.

Sometimes, I feel as though my family are aliens who can act ALMOST human but not quite all the way... love it, though.

vid · #**4187** Posted: **Aug 17, 2012, 12:15 AM**

They're more human than most of my family.

You guys think I am fucked up; my family would blow your minds.

SpongeG · #**4188** Posted: **Aug 17, 2012, 5:00 AM**

what happenned with marineland?

manny_santos · #**4189** Posted: **Aug 17, 2012, 2:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

what happenned with marineland?

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/a...neland-animals
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/arti...om-commercials

This story comes up every few years, but this one seems to be garnering a lot more attention.

SpongeG · #**4190** Posted: **Aug 17, 2012, 9:45 PM**

ah thats too bad

SignalHillHiker · #**4191** Posted: **Aug 19, 2012, 6:46 PM**

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WHERE!? Where did she go twice daily!?

SignalHillHiker · #**4192** Posted: **Aug 19, 2012, 6:50 PM**

Most famous song from Newfoundland in Canada?

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Xelebes · #**4193** Posted: **Aug 19, 2012, 7:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

Not a bad use of bagpipes here either:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NRqSrPTPv8

Northumbrian smallpipes are fairly interesting.

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SignalHillHiker · #**4194** Posted: **Aug 19, 2012, 8:51 PM**

My latest karaoke choice. I can't hit the last note, I do it lower (which makes the climax annoyingly unsatisfying if you know the original), but I can do the rest well enough to shut half the bar up.

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SignalHillHiker · #**4195** Posted: **Aug 19, 2012, 9:05 PM**

When I get married, I will have a Newfoundland wedding - the whole works.

The main thing that I've noticed about Newfoundland weddings that isn't universal (but certainly exists elsewhere as well) is that the man who catches the bride's garter PUTS IT ON the girl who catches the bride's bouquet. And there's music, and cheering, and theatre just as the groom/bride do.

I want that. And everything else.

And part of that is wanting a Newfoundland folk song as my wedding song.

And this will be it:

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SignalHillHiker · #**4196** Posted: **Aug 19, 2012, 9:34 PM**

Sorry, I've had LOTS to drink... and that ALWAYS means Fields of Athenry must be sung!

Hats off, b'ys, show some G'ddamn respect.

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SignalHillHiker · #**4197** Posted: **Aug 19, 2012, 11:23 PM**

One more karaoke favourite right now, or rather two weeks ago... but still...

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The last one, I lose my heart at "Don't come back at all..."... at this one I lose it at, "My seat's been taken by some sunglasses..."

SignalHillHiker · #**4198** Posted: **Aug 19, 2012, 11:37 PM**

Israeli is not Canadian, of course... but it is one of those nationalities likely to have Canadian members and to have Canadian citizens interested.

So... my favourite Israeli Eurovision entry of recent years (second only to Will You Dance With Me, with an Israeli woman singing in Hebrew and a Palestinian woman in Arabic, and then both in English), Shiri Maimon.

I actually like the lyrics, "Now that love is gone, where do I belong? Was it right or wrong? Look at me, now... finally I know it's time to say goodbye. Suddenly, all by myself, I feel alive."

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SignalHillHiker · #**4199** Posted: **Aug 19, 2012, 11:45 PM**

Of all the songs St. John's has gotten before the rest of North America, this one was the most obvious. It seemed to become popular and died in St. John's more than a year before it surged to the top of the club charts everywhere else in North America.

It was the one we all heard on the Top 40 a year later and thought, "Holy s****... THAT song? Seriously? Wow... we're not that bad after all!"

In retrospect, it wasn't much to get excited about, hahaha...

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SignalHillHiker · #**4200** Posted: **Aug 20, 2012, 12:18 AM**

All picked TODAY.