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IOC Trademarks Part of Canadian National Anthem
gravis777 sends us to BoingBoing for news that the International Olympic Committee has trademarked a line from the Canadian National Anthem and is threatening to sue anyone who uses it. The line in question is "with glowing hearts." "The committee is so serious about protecting the Olympic brand it managed to get a landmark piece of legislation passed in the House of Commons last year that made using certain phrases related to the Games a violation of law. The list includes the number 2010 and the word 'winter,' phrases that normally couldn't be trademarked because they are so general."
Most of us Canadians don't know the words anyway.
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"The IOC are a bunch of fascists - with glowing hearts"
How was that? Sue me.
I hereby claim invention of the phrase 'fuck litigious international committees', and release this phrase into the public domain.
Please will the insanity stop?
2010 2010 2010
They can kiss my ass with glowing hearts.
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Is it 2010 base 10, or 2010 base 8? 'Cause that still leaves a lot of wiggle room.
Oh no!
2010 winter
with glowing hearts afire
I mock Olympics
How dare they not consider the French Version on the same level as the English version. This is an insult to Quebec. Its time for revolution! Viva Quebec!
I O C
Shut the fu-u-uck up!
Go fuck yourselves
You greedy heartless fucks.
With glowing hearts,
We will block your channels
Say goodbye to your ratings!
Fu-u-u-uck you,
I O C_______,
You're the Sciento-lo-gy!
Of organized
Spo-o-o-orts
Shove Winter up your ass 2010 times.
Shove the medals up your ass and go-o broke.
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.. oh wait ....
that they are able to subvert the host country's laws so effectively? I know that they have muscled around 'smaller' countries, but I would think that Canada wouldn't be so easily swayed. What am I missing that makes the IOC so powerful? Is it simply the 'investment opportunity' and business that the Olympics bring? Is national pride so easily wounded that we have to kowtow to their every whim? Its no secret that the IOC is incredibly corrupt and profit driven... how come modern democratic states aren't telling them to fuck off and clean up their act? Instead the US, Britain, Canada, etc. seem to be bowing and scraping to meet their every demand.
I really think it's time to just bury our heads in the sand. This world has become fucking crazy. What happened to common sense? What happened to old-fashioned business? Why can't we trust a smile and a handshake anymore?
I know this sounds a little pie-in-the-sky, but it's how I feel. I run a business. I'm honest. I make enough money for me, my business partner, and our employees. As honestly as I can. Sure, cheap, slimy people sometimes snake a customer away, but the ones to come to us are loyal. Almost crazy loyal. This world is truly getting sad.
Clearly the Olympics isn't about games anymore, that's why I stopped paying attention. I hear more about the crap surrounding it than the games itself. It's not fun anymore.
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It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
The Olympics are for sell outs and commercialization. It baffles me why people still put such high value on this parade of stupidity. I almost feel sorry for the athletes that participate.
It's become such a joke.
No, the Queen of Canada is Canadian. The Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is British. The Queen of Australia is Australian. Legally, they are three completely separate entities; they just happen to inhabit the same hot body (M'am).
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