Originally posted by Maxy@Feb 11 2014, 10:13 PM
Honestly I think there'd be something wrong if America did better than Canada at really anything in the Winter Olympics. Winter sports are to Americans what Summer sports are to Canadians. There's a few but overall most people just don't give a shit

Summer waht? :ph34r:

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Originally posted by Maxy@Feb 11 2014, 08:43 PM
Honestly I think there'd be something wrong if America did better than Canada at really anything in the Winter Olympics. Winter sports are to Americans what Summer sports are to Canadians. There's a few but overall most people just don't give a shit

Unless were doing good, then obviously its America fucking rules suck our dick world. But if were doing shitty, it of course becomes "its Winter Olympics...In Russia no less...think we give a fuck?".

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Originally posted by Merica@Feb 11 2014, 10:15 PM


Unless were doing good, then obviously its America fucking rules suck our dick world. But if were doing shitty, it of course becomes "its Winter Olympics...In Russia no less...think we give a fuck?".

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I think all the Americans who went over gives a fuck. Argument is invalid.

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Originally posted by Maxy@Feb 11 2014, 08:43 PM
Honestly I think there'd be something wrong if America did better than Canada at really anything in the Winter Olympics. Winter sports are to Americans what Summer sports are to Canadians. There's a few but overall most people just don't give a shit

idk, I think every Canadian gets nervous when an American needs to beat a certain Canadian score (see womens moguls)

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Originally posted by Maxy@Feb 11 2014, 07:43 PM
Honestly I think there'd be something wrong if America did better than Canada at really anything in the Winter Olympics. Winter sports are to Americans what Summer sports are to Canadians. There's a few but overall most people just don't give a shit

Originally posted by Hallsy@Feb 11 2014, 08:44 PM


350 Million vs 35milllion

Doesn't matter. Half of America never sees snow or ice for winter sports. The closest Ice Rink to me is over an hour away. People just don't give a shit about winter sports and the most popular winter sport here is either Snowboarding or Hockey, both of which are probably not in the top 5 most popular sports in the country. I mean where's India and China's Olympic hockey team? I mean they have sooooo many more people in those countries

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and anyone notice that all Canadian athletes are from Quebec? Good thing we didnt separate :ph34r:

Hamelin, Bilodeau, Dufour-Lapointe (x3) etc. etc.

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S42  Raptors  50 10  8  18  +4     35   63  12.83

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S41  Raptors  7   1   2  3   +1     2   11  16.21

S42  Raptors  4   0   0  0   0       2     6   12.81

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Originally posted by Maxy@Feb 11 2014, 08:52 PM

Doesn't matter. Half of America never sees snow or ice for winter sports. The closest Ice Rink to me is over an hour away. People just don't give a shit about winter sports and the most popular winter sport here is either Snowboarding or Hockey, both of which are probably not in the top 5 most popular sports in the country. I mean where's India and China's Olympic hockey team? I mean they have sooooo many more people in those countries

the closest rink to me is a block away :ssst:




#China

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S42  Raptors  50 10  8  18  +4     35   63  12.83

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S41  Raptors  7   1   2  3   +1     2   11  16.21

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Originally posted by Maxy@Feb 11 2014, 06:52 PM

Doesn't matter. [b]Half of America never sees snow or ice for winter sports. The closest Ice Rink to me is over an hour away. People just don't give a shit about winter sports and the most popular winter sport here is either Snowboarding or Hockey, both of which are probably not in the top 5 most popular sports in the country. I mean where's India and China's Olympic hockey team? I mean they have sooooo many more people in those countries[/b]

does china/India see snow?

Originally posted by Snappy@Feb 11 2014, 06:54 PM
and anyone notice that all Canadian athletes are from Quebec? Good thing we didnt separate  :ph34r:

Hamelin, Bilodeau, Dufour-Lapointe (x3) etc. etc.

:lol:


yup :ph34r:

Fact of the matter is, unless a country is proficient in something to the point where they readily dominate the country just doesn't give a flying fuck. Hence why Canada doesn't seem to care about the Olympics in the summer, same way the Americans don't give a shit about the Winter Olympics.

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Originally posted by Maxy@Feb 11 2014, 07:59 PM
Fact of the matter is, unless a country is proficient in something to the point where they readily dominate the country just doesn't give a flying fuck. Hence why Canada doesn't seem to care about the Olympics in the summer, same way the Americans don't give a shit about the Winter Olympics.

But Canadians do care about the olympics in the summer. So maybe stop trying to make excuses.

Originally posted by Hallsy@Feb 11 2014, 08:58 PM


does china/India see snow?

What does that matter? By your logic since we have sooooo many more people than Canada we should be better? Since China has about 3x as many people as America, as does India. They should be better. You can't use population as an argument because it literally means nothing when a vast majority of the population doesn't care about the sport at hand :lol:

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Originally posted by Harry@Feb 11 2014, 09:01 PM


But Canadians do care about the olympics in the summer. So maybe stop trying to make excuses.

Very few do. No different than America in the winter, some care some don't. I really don't give a shit about either Olympics. I think they're fucking stupid in general. So I'm not making excuses because frankly I don't care if some guy from where I'm born wins a hunk of medal for winning a glorified pissing match.

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