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RANT/RAVE (Week of Jan. 21)
Show us your Games face
The other day, I went for a walk in the West End and downtown. I was looking for signs of Olympic fever among the locals. All I managed to find was a couple of people. Unfortunately, they had H1N1.
Anonymous Rantline caller
This is to all the pathetic people worrying about the Olympics, worrying about no snow, worrying about too much security, worrying about infringements on human rights. Don’t worry about it! What you should worry about is transit. That is going to be the Olympic disaster. You wait, you watch, you’ll see, you’ll believe.
Anonymous Rantline caller
Are the Olympics coming to CTV? I haven’t heard a thing to that effect!
Anonymous Rantline caller
The price you pay
Whining about the new parking tax — boo hoo hoo. Your cars are destroying the environment. Most of you don’t need them, and if you doubt what I’m saying, go stand on any street corner and count the number of people in the vehicles that are going by... If you’re concerned about how much it costs you to park your car in our city, why don’t you take on a couple of passengers to help you pay? We’re paying 15 per cent HST; now there’s something to complain about! Get out of your car, get a bicycle, live a longer and healthier life.
Anonymous Rantline caller
Show-offs
Hey, Rantline, I just want to know what’s up with guys who sit on the bus with their legs spread wide apart, taking up two and sometimes three seats. First off, no one wants to see or smell you airing out the old johnson. And secondly, show some frickin’ consideration for other people who might want to sit down.
Anonymous Rantline caller
Silent protest
Proroguing parliament is the act of an autocrat, of a tyrant. It is not the act of a Canadian prime minister, and until parliament sits again, this Canadian will not fly his Canadian flag. And I don’t care who wins the gold, silver or bronze. I will not fly my Canadian flag.
John, Rantline caller
Dual purpose
I was just wondering if the new screening machines that they’re putting in at the airport — will they do MRIs as well? Because I understand that building a new roof for the stadium is so important, but MRIs and our medical system — that’s not really important; people can just die, really.
Anonymous Rantline caller
Wardrobe malfunction
Only in Vancouver. You see them every day, in the dead of winter, even at below-zero temps, wearing thick windbreakers, toques, woolen scarves, mittens, earwarmers and... shorts! What are you trying to prove? That you’re tough? This ain’t California North, and you look like total idiots.
Anonymous
Sign of things to come?
Hey, I’ve got a view of the Woodward’s ‘W’. I mean, that’s pretty sweet. But they just turned the lights on, like, 30 seconds ago, and it’s flickering like some Las Vegas casino horribleness. Hopefully, this is, like, some testing light that’s just really hokey and bad, but if this is the real thing (pause)... this is bullshit. Thanks. I love you guys.
Anonymous Rantline caller
Interior desecration
To the guy who no longer wants his half-dead houseplants in his posh apartment and moved them to the condo lobby: We, your neighbours, hate your fugly plants, too. Don’t ‘decorate’ the lobby with them for our sake. What makes you think we want to look at your scraggly, leafless rejects every day?
Sourbugger
To the blonde with the brunette friend at the Tinseltown screening of Broken Embraces on Wed. night: It is rude and disturbing to put your feet on the back of theatre seats (and to kick the seats) thru’ a movie. Not letting someone into the restroom because they happen to be coming in behind you makes you the coward. It is not an invasion of your “personal space”—don’t flatter yourself! You’re not that significant. Your parents did a shitty job raising you, you vapid, paranoid bully. I curse your movie experiences for the rest of the year: Wishing you long line-ups, sold-out shows, stale popcorn, flat, watery pop, gum on your seat you discover after the show’s over, seatmates who are movie-talkers & cell texters and perpetual seat-kickers who sit behind you! You psycho bitch!
Two undercover policemen attended a domestic violence call yesterday (21-JAN-2010). A man who didn’t speak English answered the door. He couldn’t understand the men identifying themselves as police officers in English, and tried to close the door. So what do the cops do? They drag the guy outside and beat the fuck out of him in front of his wife. And what makes it worse, THE COPS HAD THE WRONG ADDRESS!!!! That this happened in our country is horrific and unacceptable. But we all know how good the VPD is for making excuses and sweeping occurances such as this under the carpet with little to no reprocussions for the officers involved. I hope that the victim in this case can get a good lawyer and sue the pants offf the VPD!
...And thanks for letting me rant! RJ
well thank you city of vancouver for cleaning the streets so yay and vigorously over the past 2 weeks. no doubt residents have experienced the sizable potholes created by the unnecssary cleaning of the west end inner streets. uh, the leaves were gone months ago. so why now, do you choose to chew up the side streets in the west end? prettying things up for the games or is it make-work projects for the would-be snow removal jockeys??
may the olympics melt.
God, what a bunch of whiners. You people need to check your facts before you shoot your mouths off. The City of Vancouver does a rotation of street cleaning between October and January EVERY YEAR. Potholes created by unnecessary cleaning? I think not. Imagine the whining we’d hear if the streets were NOT cleaned. I bet you’re the type who thinks your stinky socks magically wash and dry themselves, then fold themselves and jump into your underwear drawer.
To the fucking idiot who brought two toddlers to the Jan 27 performance of “Poetics” at the Roundhouse: Hey asshole, neither I, nor anyone else, paid $30 to hear inane chatter from a two year old. Also, maybe you didn’t notice, but that was live theatre, so the performers could hear that shit too! We get a brief moment to see some world class talent in this city and this is the respect you show them. A great show was ruined tonight by your selfishness.
Hey Vancouver! Enjoy this Olympic high while it lasts ‘cause when when the party is over the drug dealers (Vanoc and Gordo)are gonna disappear...... and we’re gonna have one hell of a come down.
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