Novocastrian

I've just got in from a very long evening in a slightly notorious bar in Ottawa.

I suggested to many of the temporary friends I made there that these Olympics are a total disaster and embarrassing to Canada.

I'm still living. In fact most agreed.

Elizabeth I

LOL, and we're all melting in the heat and humidity down here, funny old world init mate?

Alan2005

Canadian news media redefines parochial; it's like reading the dorset evening echo. Read a bangkok post yesterday - it had international news and even some analysis in it - you know, like when a journalist does some in depth investigation and presents their conclusions in more than 10 words.... amazing!

Oink

Its like reading a high school yearbook every day. "Like yeah, what did they think of me?"

Londonuck

Its hardly been mentioned on the tv news. I caught some of the downhill on BBC2 last night at 6pm but apart from that its not been mentioned since the start and the lack of snow. I had actually forgotten about it. They're more concerned with the 6 nations rugby, Champions League back and John Terry's appetite for blond ladies.

Oink

Good for them. But for those of us that actually live in Canada, the Olympics are relevant.

bsmith

"Vancouver needs to stop being so touchy about criticism of the 2010 Games. Ridicule is all part of the Olympic ideal."

"Piss off Brits," concludes a furious email typical of the Guardian's Vancouver Olympics mailbag, "and stop producing so many ugly women."

"I am deeply disappointed at the tone of this article," fumes a response to my colleague Martin Kelner's intentionally amusing article about the unintentionally amusing opening ceremony, "and the tone of many Brits or expat Brits enjoying the hospitality of our country."

"To which the only appropriate reply is: do lighten up, Canada! Sorry for coming over all capital letters about it, but Olympic hosts are SUPPOSED to be teased. You basically pay billions of dollars for the world to laugh at you. Deal with it."

guardian.co.uk

Alan2005

Try and keep up at the back...

Oink

They do seem to be getting all lemon about it. Tricky little ***ts.

Londonuck

Im sure it is. Just trying to point out that most in the UK are completely unaware of the anger stirred up by two columnists.

Partially discharged

exciting and baseball in the same sentence...surely you jest or your body and soul have been taken over by a cradle

I wasn't aware that the Jays had won the Stanley Cup (I'm sure it was a typo at your end)

Partially discharged

Which 'notorious' bar in Ottawa? Was it a beer sold in quarts kind of place, a faux oirish bar or one more attuned to the pleasures of the flesh. That sums up most of them here.

dbd33

I, otoh, have a subscription to the print version of the Gruan. It nicely balances the Daily Mail viewpoint seen posted here with increasing frequency.

dbd33

Grey Cup, is it? They won something twice leading to a car horn being sounded in the street. By contrast, when Greece won Euro NNNN the streets were jammed with people dancing and waving flags late into the night. Football is the big game here (or there since I'm sitting in Guelph).

el_richo

The "Brits" don't have much of a say as to what goes into these publications so why angle your displeasure in this generalised way?