{"id":1628,"date":"2012-01-08T11:43:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T16:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2012-01-08T13:23:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T18:23:43","slug":"oh-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/?p=1628","title":{"rendered":"Oh Montreal…"},"content":{"rendered":"

You slay me so, in so many ways but the real topper?<\/p>\n

HABS fans. \u00a0They\\’re fucking nuts!<\/p>\n

I used to live adjacent to downtown and I was really, really close to the bell center. \u00a0So close that when this riot broke out<\/a>\u00a0I could hear it from my apartment. \u00a0It was total chaos. \u00a0I\\’m all about standing up for causes that you believe in and protesting things that you feel are wrong with this world but Montreal would seem to top that. \u00a0At least in Canada.<\/p>\n

I pay scant attention to\u00a0politics, I respect the fact that French IS Quebec\\’s\u00a0official\u00a0language and I also respect their right to hold onto their culture. \u00a0It would be no different if I was to move somewhere else. \u00a0Like Egypt, Sweden,\u00a0Saudi Arabia and so on. \u00a0I\\’m not ignorant like that. \u00a0Although the\u00a0ignorance\u00a0that runs rampant in this province in regards to\u00a0separatism\u00a0and the language laws ? Blows. My. Mind. \u00a0Clearly, we all can\\’t just \\’get along\\’. \u00a0In any case, I love this city<\/span><\/strong>, I love living here and I love the life that I have here as well.<\/strong> \u00a0However, when Jason Rockman posted this on facebook I was floored:<\/p>\n

\\”OK, I love the French language, I am a die hard Montrealer and am engaged to a francophone…but this??? Seriously?? These protesters can blow me…\\” <\/em><\/p>\n

The Rockman of course is\u00a0referring\u00a0to this article<\/a>\u00a0and the Gazette did a\u00a0lengthier article on this as well<\/a> which was also posted on facebook with the caption:\\’\u00a0\u00a0 Is language important, or should the Canadiens win at any cost? What do you think?<\/em>\\’<\/p>\n

My thoughts on this? \u00a0I could care less about hockey period. \u00a0I don\\’t care, I don\\’t follow games and I refuse to jump on the Habs fan bandwagon just because I live here. \u00a0It\\’s a game kids, or as my friend Ali said: \\’It may only be a game to some, but to the rest of us it\\’s like a religion on the weekends\\’. \u00a0Fair enough, I have my share of things that I\\’m passionate about too. \u00a0Not so passionate that I start riots and set things on fire, but still…<\/p>\n

Here\\’s the thing, after doing a quickie bit of research, left wing player Erik Cole<\/a> of the Montreal Canadiens, is AMERICAN! \u00a0Well, well… \u00a0I\\’m willing to bank on it that there\\’s countless others who are either not from Canada, let alone from this province. \u00a0Yet you give a shit if their coach is English? \u00a0You have got to be kidding me! \u00a0Hands down, Montreal has a good team. \u00a0Even I, the non hockey follower knows that. \u00a0It\\’s pretty hard to ignore when you live here. \u00a0However I\\’m willing to bet that if Montreal takes home the cup this year or anytime soon, you\\’re not going to give a flying fuck if the coach is English, French or Swedish for that matter now are you?<\/p>\n

I\\’m thinking likely not…\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Here\\’s what a few people on facebook had to say about this:<\/p>\n

Ken:<\/strong> Who gives a shit if the coach ONLY speaks English instead of joual? As long as they win, it doesn\\’t matter, t\\’se?<\/em><\/p>\n

Theresa:<\/strong> wtf! What a bunch of crap. Who cares if he can\\’t speak frnech, have you been to Montreal? EVERYONE can speak English there anyway. (OK I\\’m going to interject and say almost everyone. Although most people can from my experience, even if it\\’s just a little<\/em>)<\/p>\n

William:<\/strong> I think that the future of French in North America would not be questioned if we paid as much attention to school drop out rates or functional illiteracy as we do to this kind of symbolic nonsense.<\/em><\/p>\n

Jennifer:<\/strong> right – we should keep turning away the BEST Doctors, Nurses, Teachers, etc…. because they can\\’t speak french…. It boggles me why people accept it!<\/p>\n

Derek:<\/strong> I read the Gazette and La Presse regularly. The blatant favortism of Francophones from La Presse, RDS, and the Quebec media in general is disgusting. I want a winning product that shows up to practice in Brossard and the Bell Centre for games. I don\\’t care if the coach is a bilingual Francophone or a unilingual Anglophone. I care about winning. Perhaps this is why the Habs have not been relevant since Patrick Roy was our goalie. I can\\’t speak for other Habs fans, but I do not ever want to see the faces of Mario Tremblay or Rejean Houle again.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sandra:<\/strong> What ever happened to hiring the best person for the job? I am from Quebec, born and raised a francophone, and I don\\’t agree with the crap about the Mighty French attitude…I wish after all these years they would finally join the rest of us and give up on a francophone only-is-the-only-way attitude…<\/p>\n

Billy:<\/strong>\u00a0England\\’s\u00a0national soccer team is coached by an Italian who speaks poor english… Do you see the English protesting at having their coach not speak English ? No.. only retards like Mario Beaulieu does….If i\\’m the habs I tell all thse losers who are still mad at this to F#$@ off<\/em><\/p>\n

Cheyenne:<\/strong> I don\\’t hear them yelling \\’go habs go\\’ in french.<\/p>\n

Franca:<\/strong> WTH. the sweet taste of victory is universal amd surely understood by all. Since when did jumping for joy from a well-deserved win say, \\”oui, on gagne en francais qu\\’en anglais?!\\” What if the guy were anything other than Anglophone, then what? Leave language issues out of hockey, svp.<\/em><\/p>\n

Brian:<\/strong> The man was put in the position to coach the team (in a championship, winning fashion – not for his speech or linguistic skills!) … if he was from a winning Russian, Swedish, or Czech team, and couldn\\’t speak a word of English or French, but led the team to the Stanley Cup, would the \\’critics\\’ care?? No, of course not! Their complaints are purely anti-English, not about any abilities of the person. Disgusting, to say the least…<\/p>\n

Matt:<\/strong> The political situation in Quebec is what has destroyed the Canadiens. You want a competitive team-not a political circus. Why is it when we have good English players they can\\’t get out of town fast enough. I\\’ve been a fan here in Wisconsin since the 1967 expansion but I don\\’t think I will live to see that 25th Stanley Cup.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lucette:<\/strong> There are more important issues in Quebec to take care of.Ils y\\’a des choses au Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 s\\’occuper qui sont plus importantes.<\/p>\n

Dafne<\/strong>: In the meantime in Qc… food depots can\\’t be filled, unemployment rises, people with mental health issues has no treatment, there are no family doctors, the bridges are falling appart…should I continue??<\/em><\/p>\n

And the list of comments goes on and on… \u00a0I personally think the whole nation could benefit from being bilingual in some fashion or another. \u00a0I understand the frustration, it\\’s no different for me being someone who\\’s first language is English and trying to communicate with someone who doesn\\’t speak it all and vice versa. \u00a0It DOES go both ways. \u00a0I get that. \u00a0But it\\’s been a political circus for far too long and dragging sports into this long debacle of non sense is really too much.<\/p>\n

Even for me. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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In other news, I happened to stumble upon this<\/a>. \u00a0Thought I would share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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