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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ristamar" data-source="post: 168114" data-attributes="member: 1207">You know, this whole 'booing' thing will be all but completely forgotten in a month, if not much less...   until it inevitably happens again.  Everybody loves to bury the hatchet, but make sure you leave the handle poking out of the ground, just in case.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Yes, the fans booing the Canadian National Anthem were jackasses, and yes, given the recent tragedy, it was in extremely poor taste.  Still, I guess I find the ensuing, yet somewhat shrouded, back-and-forth sniping interesting, in some ridiculous, grotesque fashion.  'You booed us.''Well, you booed us first.''Yeah, well, back in '81, So-And-So from your country flubbed up in X ceremony, which is about the equivalent of defecating on our flag.  In fact, he DID defecate on our flag!''So, back in '93, you guys punked us out when Mister-Respected-And-Prominent-Figure came to X game while visiting YOUR country, was jumped and kidnapped by your hooligan fans, then dressed up like *Hitler in drag and forced to watch a subtitled Ukranian version of Leonard Part 6 on BETA format.'Big deal.  You guys weren't at all supportive when Nasty-International-Incident-#0254 happened.  And by the way, I almost forgot to mention that so-and-so-Pop-Star, from your country, I might add, sounds like a hippo with bronchitis when (s)he sings our anthem.''Is that so?!  Well...'  *etc. etc. etc. etc.**NOTE:  I didn't see any Hitler references in the thread thus far, so I felt obligated to add one.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />If diplomatic relations were influenced and/or judged by sports games and the conduct of fans attending said games, I'm fairly sure this planet would be a dead, radioactive rock tumbling lifelessly through space by now.Anyway, I just wanted to add my own inane thoughts to a thread that, IMO, now seems to be going nowhere.  Carry on.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> THE CREATOR OF THIS POST WOULD LIKE TO STATE THAT HE IN NO WAY MEANT ANY OFFENSE OR DISRESPECT TOWARD THE FOLLOWING PARTIES:  SO-AND-SO (FROM THE INFAMOUS '94 INCIDENT), THE FLAG CREATOR(S) OF WHICH FLAG SO-AND-SO DEFECATED UPON, MISTER-RESPECTED-AND-PROMINENT-FIGURE, READERS THAT MAY ENJOY DRESSING UP AS HITLER AND/OR IN DRAG, BILL COSBY, THE CREATORS OF THE NOW-DEAD BETA FORMAT, THE FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS AFFECTED BY NASTY-INTERNATIONAL-INCIDENT-#0254, AND HIPPOS WITH BRONCHITIS.</blockquote>

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