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tomwaits
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 Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 7:47 pm Post subject: Hab Fans Go Berserk! |
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http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=fcaba077-b2e5-4ff1-b8c4-a5942df5dc85&k=32319
Torching cop cars, assualt, looting...
Ooh hoo the playoffs started. But just started, jee if I was inclined to turn over cop cars I'd at least have the good sense to wait until the third round.
Interesting sociological discussion on why fans go nuts when the team WINS rather than loses. Gotta like English footie fans who go ballistic BEFORE the match. Booze of course is the main reason. You drink more when your side wins.
But Jesus what's next---rioting when you squeek into the playoffs?
Come on Montreal---riot if and when you win the Cup. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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| The habs need it bad. They won the cup at least twice a decade until the nineties. Now it's been 15 years. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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| It wasn't Habs fans. Montreal has some punks and trouble makers who will use the cover of celebrating a win for the city to steal and cause mayhem. It was people taking advantage of legitimate fans. That's what I understand. |
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canuckistan
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Joined: 17 Jun 2003
Location: Training future GS competitors.....
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Adventurer wrote: |
| It wasn't Habs fans. Montreal has some punks and trouble makers who will use the cover of celebrating a win for the city to steal and cause mayhem. It was people taking advantage of legitimate fans. That's what I understand. |
I disagree. Montreal has a fine tradition of rioting during and after hockey games. And not just for hockey.
http://info.detnews.com/redesign/history/story/historytemplate.cfm?id=56
I was downtown for the last ones in '93 & '94.
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genezorm
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: Mokpo
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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| people from toronto are just jealous. montreal knows how to have a good time. |
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TexasPete
Joined: 24 May 2006
Location: Koreatown
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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| They won the first round. Big, effing deal. That's no reason to riot. Particularly when they had to go to game 7 with the 8th place team. Either winning this series will be their rallying point or a sign of trouble they'll have with better teams. Either way, i'm hoping for a Pens/Habs series at some point int he playoffs. |
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PGF
Joined: 27 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:46 am Post subject: |
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| I thought this was going to be about habaneros- the hotest peppers on the planet. da mn |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:37 am Post subject: |
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| The pepsis sure do love burning down their home. |
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ciccone_youth
Joined: 03 Mar 2008
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:57 am Post subject: |
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the pepsis??!!!!!
i'm half offended, half laughing.
i love MTL but people get ridiculous there when it comes to hockey. |
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TexasPete
Joined: 24 May 2006
Location: Koreatown
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| The pepsis sure do love burning down their home. |
Don't get it.  |
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ciccone_youth
Joined: 03 Mar 2008
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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| why are quebecois called pepsis anyways? where does that come from? |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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From what I understand from what the police said, some people took advantage of the other fans being there, so they could steal, and it happens. I think the same thing happened when Serbians were rioting in the Balkans and these women were caught on camera stealing TVs. People who are not really fans will use the cover of the crowds to steal.
I am not saying drunk fans won't go nuts and cause damage, they will, and they have, but some from what the police said from what I read were using the cover of the fans to break the law. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 4:04 am Post subject: |
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ME SO CRAZY
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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| ciccone_youth wrote: |
| why are quebecois called pepsis anyways? where does that come from? |
It's a very, very old slur. A bit like grandmothers who call any Italians "DPs". Another very very old slur.
Right, long time ago Coke ruled the shelves of the grocery store. It was a very pricey drink. Pepsi came along and to get market share priced themselves cheaper. It become that rich people drank Coke and poor people drank Pepsi. French Canadians were long screwed out of cush government and corporate jobs and were an underclass. So they drank a lot of Pepsi. So like Americans would make fun of black people by referencing watermelon and fried chicken, English Canada would make fun of French Canadians by calling them Pepsi drinkers or just "pepsis". Yes, it's a very offensive term to people of a certain generation. Maybe even today. For the record I am half French Canadian and grew up in Montreal. Can a half black person call himself nigga? A half jew call himself "*beep*"?
DP is another funny one my pepsi grandmother would apply to the Italians in her neighborhood. DP stands for "displaced person". The DP designation was given to WWII refugees who had no ID, no home, and were brought over to Canada. Their designation was "DP" and it stuck as an insult. |
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scribld
Joined: 06 Sep 2007
Location: Gyeongsan, Gyeongbuk-do
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| Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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| $500,000 in damages, and 16 police cars and 10 businesses damaged. That's not just a small group of troublemakers taking advantage of a celebration. |
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