Official Canada appreciation thread - Page 10

**Slime Slayer** · 09-01-2015, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Dudebro

Benoit does not reflect on anyone except himself. His race, nationality, religion, ect have nothing to do with what he did. The only ones who should share any shame is WWE for pushing him to use drugs and not helping him when he got all messed up.

Actually, thinking about it, the religion portion of your statement is up for debate. He did lay bibles at the feet of his son and wife after he killed them. Perhaps his faith in them going to a heavenly afterlife influenced his actions.

**Dudebro** · 09-01-2015, 09:06 PM

Yeah but I don't recall religion being mentioned as a motive. If anything I think the bibles thing was his attempt at redemption and a way to show his remorse. It may not make a lot of sense to us but we're also not brain damaged from steroids or w.e he was on.

**Tails** · 09-01-2015, 09:09 PM

I honestly never looked into it. Something I really don't wish to google.

**Slime Slayer** · 09-01-2015, 10:02 PM

Pretty sure the motive is still up in the air, and forever will be.

**CatalystiCam** · 09-02-2015, 03:11 PM

Oh wow, I forgot about that. Yeah, I used to watch WWE, and I remember that quite clearly. On a side note quick, all the Canadian wrestlers happened to be my favourites usually. Namely Edge by far, as well as Jericho & Christian.

Benoit... Yikes, liked him, but not as much as the others, and when that came out, it was just unbelievable. I remember there was some flickering conspiracies that the guy Benoit dragged his wife away from exacted his revenge in that manner, but that's a far cry from the truth I'm sure. In reality, I'm sure diving off 20 foot ladders head first as a signature move could not help the Concussions in the slightest.

Watched a study on it a few years later when it happened to be on, on a road trip I was on with my grandparents. Concussion studies weren't actually super far-along until they actually decided to study Benoit's brain, fun fact. Enough concussions can actually change who you are, effect the ability to feel happy, and with enough of them, can cause the person to completely go psychotic. There was evidence of this with Benoit, and they further matched the studies to a bunch of football players off the 1970's CFL's Edmonton Eskimos, and found some similar instances from that team's players having believe it or not, had similar psychotic-tendencies from all of their concussions, and some who had done some gruesome crimes as well.

TL;DR, a quick memory jog and I was able to remember the documentary I had watched. This was aired on CBC, so it's probably news to some americans here. Figure better to go off that, than my memory of the matter. Give it a watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsHNUpZhqUA

Fascinating stuff, but Concussions are no joke. They are horrible to a person, and football to this day is one of the leading concussion-causes. As such is a big reason I'm not big on football, even though I already wasn't to begin with.

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There was evidence of this with Benoit, and they further matched the studies to a bunch of football players off the 1970's CFL's Edmonton Eskimos, and found some similar instances from that team's players having believe it or not, had similar psychotic-tendencies from all of their concussions, and some who had done some gruesome crimes as well.

Just rewatched the video. Must have remembered this from elsewhere, as it's not in the video. Just a bunch of NFLers were in this video for premature deaths and the such.

**Dudebro** · 09-02-2015, 03:40 PM

Of course nothing is confirmed and never will be but I think it's plainly obvious that his brain damage and drug use(including booze) lead to this. They said his brain looked like the brain of an 85 year old with alzheimer's, that's hard to ignore.

**CatalystiCam** · 09-03-2015, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Dudebro

Of course nothing is confirmed and never will be but I think it's plainly obvious that his brain damage and drug use(including booze) lead to this. They said his brain looked like the brain of an 85 year old with alzheimer's, that's hard to ignore.

Oh for sure, I think I remember seeing another report that he was likely about to die as well due to how messed up the brain was.

**Slime Slayer** · 09-03-2015, 12:09 AM

There is no question, being a professional wrestler is extremely taxing, and will more than likely cut your life short.

**Seahawk** · 10-19-2015, 05:55 PM

Happy Election Day Canada. How'd it go? Is the Harper I hear so many bad things about gonna stay or go?

**CatalystiCam** · 10-19-2015, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Seahawk

Happy Election Day Canada. How'd it go? Is the Harper I hear so many bad things about gonna stay or go?

It's in the process of being counted. Though it looks like the East is going to decide everything, and the west of the country won't matter due to lack of seats. Regardless of the outcome, that process has always bothered me.

30 Liberal, 1 Conservative, 1 NDP seat at current.

300+ seats TBD.

I'm not harsh against any of the 3 really.

The Harper thing is a bit skewed. The guy himself I'm not convinced is bad. He's a puppet and a fall guy at the moment, who's been undermined by his own currently corrupt party. My prediction is that he loses, steps down and goes to another party, or just goes to a different job/retirement altogether. Don't blame him, because the country hates him and like I said, I'm not even convinced he's the evil currently in that party. I could be wrong, but from everything I've read that no one pays attention too, there has been a lot of questionable things happening within the conservative party itself that suggests some undermining.

My aunt said it best during the Alberta election. Sometimes one wins not due to popularity, but to vote someone else out. I think that's definitely present here considering how badly people are campaigning for Harper to be out.

**Slime Slayer** · 10-19-2015, 09:21 PM

Looks like Trudeau Jr. will be the next PM. I didn't vote because I didn't know who to vote for. I almost think Harper might have been the better option.

**CatalystiCam** · 10-20-2015, 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by stevencassidy13

Looks like Trudeau Jr. will be the next PM. I didn't vote because I didn't know who to vote for. I almost think Harper might have been the better option.

Yeah... I'll be honest, I was very much torn myself. Very skeptical of Trudeau after his father. My vote was more municipally than anything. Conservative guy has been in this city for like 40 years I guess and is a big part of the religious community in a religious city (Most churches per capita). He was promising to build 10 more churches if he wins... NDP girl was going to finally tax churches and put the money towards university so it didn't cost so much... Conservative guy won by a landslide again. So much for my university costing less.

**RU Joe** · 10-20-2015, 12:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Seahawk

Happy Election Day Canada. How'd it go? Is the Harper I hear so many bad things about gonna stay or go?

I'm afraid those bad things you've heard are true, SH.
How bad can Harper be, you ask?
Well, he's bad enough to inspire this song, but pay close attention to the words flashing on the screen because they tell quite the story about how our country has been managed.

< Double facepalm time.

Blue Rodeo - Stealin' All My Dreams

And more to my surprise, American citizen John Oliver {of HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver} has risked 6 months in a Canadian prison as well as a $5000 CAN fine by outright telling Canadians NOT to vote for Harper:

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Canadian Election

I'll finish by adding that this is the first time I ever saw stickers like these, and they are everywhere in Vancouver, since last year:

^ the mere fact these stickers exist speaks volumes about Canada's political situation, I think.

**Slime Slayer** · 10-20-2015, 01:04 AM

All the way on the opposite side of of the country, and I see those stickers all over the place too.

**Kugyince** · 10-20-2015, 12:21 PM

I see our puppet is still in place. Status quo maintained. Good on ya, America-lite!

**Dudebro** · 10-20-2015, 12:50 PM

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American citizen John Oliver {of HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver} has risked 6 months in a Canadian prison

I'm sure he's shaking in his boots

**Slime Slayer** · 10-20-2015, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Kugyince

I see our puppet is still in place. Status quo maintained. Good on ya, America-lite!

The puppet changed last night.

**Kugyince** · 10-20-2015, 08:50 PM

They're all politicians. Same difference.

**Slime Slayer** · 10-20-2015, 10:44 PM

I just hope his SJW type stuff was just a ploy to get that demographic.

**Dudebro** · 10-21-2015, 10:45 AM

Nope sorry, this guy is a plant for the militant SJW, LGBT and Feminist agenda. Canada is now under their control. They plan on taking away the rights of the straight man. If you're not gay married by now you better watch out.