I think they made the Bear-whale too short, though.

http://www.tsn.ca/olympics/news_story/?ID=...71&hubname=

They look like something you'd find in a Nintendo game or something.

I'm impartial, since I like the Summer Olympics.

it's a yeti, or a lumberjack who hasn't shaved, ever

What aboriginals believe in tiny, fuzzy and ultimately cute monsters?

They have a serious lack of imagination, if you ask me.

Why does Vancouver seem to only ever do anything for the Olympics when they are high as hell? First they have an Inuit Inukshuk even though there are no Inuit in British Columbia let alone fucking Vancouver. Jesus Christ its like they seem to think that an Indian is an Indian even an Inuit... wait White people that want to be all touchy feelie and not want to show off our First Nations... that explains it... White People... arg

I hear that. All this embarrassment about having killed off the majority of the native population is just silly. I mean, their whole "living in harmony with nature" bit wasn't even out of a better ideology - they'd already killed most of the big animals so it was harmony or death.

I say stop feeling guilty or pretending that an apology is anything more than emotional semen on the memory of the killed. Like it's better if we feel bad. We killed them. I think we're all getting sick of the ridiculous attempts to "atone" in ways that don't include returning the land to the people you took it from.

Indeed, almost every western civilization got rich(er) by either slaughtering or enslaving(often both) some other group of people . Be it africans, asians, aboriginals, or native amercians, they we're all on the short end of colonial domination at some point and most are still suffering from the aftermath. So now what? We sure as hell aint gonna give the land and riches back, so we'll just say we're sorry every once in a while and do something to promote their culture. We might even donate some money to buy off the guilty feeling, just we can tell ourselves we did the best we could.

To be fair to imperialist white people, they got rich dominating and killing other white people a lot more often than they did foreign people.

Verby two things, first Canada handled the First Nations much differently than America did, hell Canada was better... no thats not the word... less bad than most other countries. Second, in British Columbia large amounts of First Nations weren't killed, merely put on reserves and in residential school. I would go into this more but I rather not since I don't feel like getting banned for flaming, trolling, and other stuff.

Yeah, not all white treatment was horrible. The Mauri people indiginous to New Zealand were treated pretty well and fragments of their culture survive through to today without much effort.

That doesn't change the fact that white people are instilled with guilt about the actions of a bunch of white people a long time ago while a lot of natives are given the impression they are owed something because their ancestors were treated badly.

Both things are incorrect. All peoples in any nation should be treated as citizens equally unless they choose, for their own reasons, to segregate themselves. Jews have traditionally segregated themselves, for example. Half in, half out type of deal. Of course, when people start referring to themselves as something other than their nation (people who call themselves African-American or Aboriginal-Australian), I say that's deliberate segregation. Either you're an American (or Australian or Englishman or Indian or Pakistani or whatever) or you're something else instead.

But that's a whole other area in which my views, while logical and internally consistent, are deemed wrong by both conservatives and liberals of all nations.

They're sho cyute!

Now I have to hug a walrus.

I hate those dubily posts!

Very odd choices for mascots. Things that are crossbreeds of animals that couldn't possibly breed with one another, and fictional creatures? Very creative!

Yes, that's it. Hug the viciously aggressive animal known for goring anything that approaches his territory.

They want you to come hug them.


If by creative you mean inadequate.

Aside from the fact that next to nobody in a real country cares about the Olympics (all the good countries steal 90% of the medals anyway), we're not imbeciles [outside of certain countries I could name] and having a "cute" mascot waved around is embarrassing.

The Sydney Olympics had Mel, Syd and Ollie (after Melbourne, Sydney and God knows what else, presumably) as mascots. A Google search will probably show you just how retarded they were.

I assure you all, most of my fellow countrymen were voting for Fatso the Big-Arsed Wombat. Our overwhelming majority was ignored.

Democracy is a lie.

Well, by creative I meant original ("original" because they invented animals). But I don't really think they're good choices. They look like they stepped out of Happy Tree Friends.

Women?

Oh yeah, I went there.

I always pictured women as disembowling more than goring.

To gore suggests greater possession of phallic accessories than your average female.

Actually, females are very good at digging their hands into your body, which you might've known had you ever engaged one in a poke war.

Exactly. Perfect for disembowlment.

You need a somewhat singular "horn" or "tusk" to gore properly. A hand doesn't cut it.

Your phallis is as sharp as a tusk?!

How do you do it?

Grinding wheel.

Quality grind-stones.

My suggestion for an Olympic mascot is a giant, angry, wadded up peice of lined paper.

Ok no idea what the hell they were on there but, if you think thats bad, look at the logo for London 2012.Linkey I still think someone should be shot for paying a couple of million pounds of taxpayers money for a jigsaw puzzle.

You're right... it is pretty ugly, both in design and color. What the heck is it supposed to be?

I honestly couldn't tell you, just know its the logo for all the merchandise and stadiums and such for the Olympics in 2012. It was also £400,000 so I was out a little bit with the costing in the above post

Well, it's still an awful lot of money for a neon jumble!

There was a paper that just ridiculed it, and made all sorts of pictures with it, I think they managed to make Italy and a leg if I remember correctly, amongst other things. Its insane, I wanted a good logo!

Yeah, but being English you must be used to not having nice things.

If your referring to sunshine your right

Well, sunshine, personality, dental care.

It's all much of a muchness.