psycoskunk said:

I know the person well, (not the guy in jail, but the guy in my class) so it'd be best not to assume that I don't know people I've hung out with. He's not the kind of guy who'd lie as a joke. And even still, it's not something to joke about.

I've been trying to find links for the story, but I can't find any. But at this point, I really don't care anymore. Believe me, don't believe me. Whatever. It's up to you.

psycoskunk said:

Insult? Up to this point I haven't insulted or b****ed at anyone at all during this thread. In fact, the only one who's really done that is you, so...

psycoskunk said:

Employee of Vancouver...?

If you mean that he's taking the same course as me so he can become an employee somewhere in Vancouver, then yes. I guess that would make him an employee of Vancouver.

Have you ever tried calling CBC?! It is a nightmare! I was part of a radio interview that my mom was doing for Co-Op Radio and I had to call in. Unfortunately, it took about 20 minutes for my call to get through and even then, I was put on hold for about an hour.

psycoskunk said:

I know the person well, (not the guy in jail, but the guy in my class) so it'd be best not to assume that I don't know people I've hung out with. He's not the kind of guy who'd lie as a joke. And even still, it's not something to joke about.

I've been trying to find links for the story, but I can't find any. But at this point, I really don't care anymore. Believe me, don't believe me. Whatever. It's up to you.

mark_is_god said:

ask yourself why? why would they even bother keeping these people locked up until after the Olympics, it serves absolutely no purpose.

jonnythan said:

Well, you are the only retard posting. So...

psycoskunk said:

Believe me, don't believe me. Whatever. It's up to you.

psycoskunk said:

Right now in Vancouver, if you get arrested from now until the Olympics, no matter what you were arrested for, you'll be held in jail until after the Olympic and Paralympic Games. You won't even get a trial, nothing. Just right in jail.

psycoskunk said:

Imagine yourself as the mayor of a large city in Ireland. You feel proud that your city was selected to host the Winter Games. You feel overjoyed, yet somewhat uneasy, as your city has hit a few snags. Your city has a large homeless population, the largest in the UK. The opposition is questioning whether the Olympics are a good idea to have in the city while health care and education funding is at an all-time low. To make matters worse, your city is already in serious debt. The media is still talking about how your city was selected for the Games and how great it'll be, despite these problems. Of course, as the news doesn't really pertain to the rest of the world as greatly as it does to your city, so they just report about the games. Nothing about the debt, all-time lows for education or even the homeless.

But lo and behold! A saviour. The IOC has created an Ireland branch, known as IROC (Ireland Olympic Commitee). They reassure you that the Games will be a hit and that they'll help finance the Games, as long as they're put in charge of the majority of the preparation. You agree, naturally.

Here's where the problems begin. The First Nations community (let's pretend Ireland has a large First Nations community) is in an uproar that the Olympics are happening on Native land that's still yet to be treatied. Protests start going on. In order to try to quell the protests, IROC reassures them that there will be a large Native influence on the games, which makes people satisfied.

Eventually, the logo rolls out and it looks like this:



This eases some of the tension. IROC also insists that the mascots will have a First Nations influence as well, but when they're revealed...



Massive outroar! The mascots look like they belong in Pokemon and bear a striking resemblence to the Beijing 2008 mascots.



To make matters worse, more protests break out and you find out that you're overbudget and not even done with a quarter of the construction on the venues. The venues in the two neighbouring cities where some of the events take place are almost complete, which is really the only good news thus far. At this point you remember: The homeless population! They'd make your city look bad. So you need to deal with that too. IROC says they have a solution to both the protestors and the homeless: Increased security. All it takes is some more money, but you're overbudget as it is, so you start to cut back on different policies, including education, health care and enviromental issues.

At this point, a specific band of First Nations people are in an outrage because one of your sponsers apparantly stole the design of the Olympic sweaters from the Cowichan people, who have been making traditional sweaters since before your city was founded. To make matters worse, it turns out that they sent a letter to IROC before, volunteering to make authentic 2010 Cowichan sweaters for the Games, but IROC didn't respond to their letter and took the designs instead. Now the Games almost seem like too much trouble. And with the games just around the corner and the venues still not fully built, you know that pulling this off will be difficult. So you start asking various construction and architectual companies to complete the venues. Eventually, you find a company to undertake the task. However...

The company that'll finish the construction is Scottish. You realize that it's a contradiction, as the games are being held in Ireland, yet a Scottish company is builing the venues. More outroar and rage by the public. The venues are done, but at the cost of being massively overbudget and with a general displeasure among the populous, things look bad. IROC's solution: More security. But they also have a more... questionable suggestion. To keep anyone who's arrested from January of the new year until the end of the games in holding until March 1, when they'll start trials. You know this is a terrible idea and confront them about it. "That's preposterous! that's like self-sabotage! And what will the media say when they find this out?" In which case, the response is "They don't have to know."


*Wonders how many points his post got.*

And I admit I got mixed up. They'd put you in holding, not in jail. I forgot what it was called.

scotiangold said:

What the hell is a troll?
I have not heard anything about that on the news and since they even feel entitled to post when the janitors that will clean up after the olympics having a smoke,or other crap(as long as it says " Olympic",you would think that someone somewhere would hear that on the news.
By the way,Vancouver ain't the only Canadian city with a huge homeless problem.And what about what it costs just to try to get by with luxuries-such as food,rent...etc.These are also huge problems and I DID hear on the news that "Daffy"Harper closed Parliament until AFTER the Olympics.
That's the real retard right there.

scotiangold said:

Really?!That sounds kind of meaningless and stupid to me!

psycoskunk said:

Wow. I have lost so much respect for you. I actually thought that you contributed to the forums in a positive way, but I can see that that's not the case.