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Ontario police: Bieber charged with assault

CanadaJohn said:
Hey, speaking of musicians in Houston, did anything come of our Mayor Ford's visit last year and his suggestion that your summer music festival could spend some time here in Toronto, kind of a cross border exchange of emerging talents to broaden exposure?
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First I have heard about that, so I guess it wasn't a big sell. But I'd pay big money for tickets to see Rob Ford snorting a line backstage. LOL.
 
CRUE CAB said:
Na, hell Vince Neil killed people in a Pantera.
Brett Michaels from Posion killed someone with a Ferrari 358.
Sid killed Nancy.
Johnny Cash set a forest fire.
The list goes on.
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Didn't the drummer for Def Leppard lose his arm in a wreck with Brett Michaels ?
 
danarhea said:
I bash Bieber not because I am interested in his personal life, but because it is fun. I can't think of any other musican here in Houston who doesn't also get a kick out of bashing Bieber. We do it because his music is pretty much dumbed down and shallow. LOL.
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All Pop is dumbed down and shallow.

The only Houston Band I know is " Dead Horse ".

They're long gone and so are the days I spent listening to their music.
 
It is sometimes hard to have something sound better then a Bieber song. I just need to step on my cats tail.


Hard on my cat that is.
 
CanadaJohn said:
That's a funny thing with Canadian celebrities. When they're strictly Canadian and virtually unknown in the US, we're always pushing for them to get recognition in America and perplexed if they don't but as soon as they make it big in the US we start to lose our affection for them and criticize that success.

I believe it's a definite Canadian inferiority complex at play, but we are getting better at accepting success on the world stage.
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Indeed. Also it is because we live next door to a country that feasts on patriotism. We like our heroes to be quiet an unassuming; even better if they are dead like TC Douglas, Terry Fox.

Unlike the US though, our leaders do not become heroes simply because they die. Pierre Elliot Trudeau is as vilified today as if he were alive.
 
danarhea said:
First I have heard about that, so I guess it wasn't a big sell. But I'd pay big money for tickets to see Rob Ford snorting a line backstage. LOL.
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Maybe it was Austin, not Houston - the music festival seemed to be a big deal.
 
CanadaJohn said:
Maybe it was Austin, not Houston - the music festival seemed to be a big deal.
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Ahh, you must be talking about South by Southwest. That's in Austin. Houston has South by Due East. People get them mixed up all the time. LOL.
 
CanadaJohn said:
No, I'm defending him because I'm a Canuck - we try not to be overly judgmental. If you can find a comment of mine where I've criticized the private life of an American, or someone of another nationality, you're point may be valid - but I bet you won't find one.
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Congrats on your defense then. I know a few Canuck friends of mine and they will defend SCTV, the McKenzie brothers, Tim Horton's and the Only You song but they have never defended Beiber. :peace
 
PoS said:
Congrats on your defense then. I know a few Canuck friends of mine and they will defend SCTV, the McKenzie brothers, Tim Horton's and the Only You song but they have never defended Beiber. :peace
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Nothing to defend about SCTV and Tim Horton's - they're national treasures. While not my particular taste (I'm not a beer drinker) the McKenzie brothers are also extremely popular here - Canadian's love making fun of themselves. "Only You" song? What's that? And Bieber, we don't so much defend as excuse his youthful indiscretions and hope for a quicker transition into adulthood.
 
CanadaJohn said:
Nothing to defend about SCTV and Tim Horton's - they're national treasures. While not my particular taste (I'm not a beer drinker) the McKenzie brothers are also extremely popular here - Canadian's love making fun of themselves. "Only You" song? What's that? And Bieber, we don't so much defend as excuse his youthful indiscretions and hope for a quicker transition into adulthood.
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Take off, you hoser. Take off, eh? LOL.
 
CanadaJohn said:
"Only You" song? What's that?
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Im not sure if it was a song in a record or from a movie but I recall someone (who was drunk) describing it to me, basically a Mountie on a canoe with a guitar singing to the girl and singing, "Only youuuuoooouuuuooouuuu" and then some twangy music. He told me every Canadian knows that song...
 
PoS said:
Im not sure if it was a song in a record or from a movie but I recall someone (who was drunk) describing it to me, basically a Mountie on a canoe with a guitar singing to the girl and singing, "Only youuuuoooouuuuooouuuu" and then some twangy music. He told me every Canadian knows that song...
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Ahhh, you're probably referring to the Indian Love Call, a song from the 1920's, from a play at that time and a movie, Rose Marie, from the 1930's, most famously popularized by Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald - Eddy as a RCMP officer (Mountie) and MacDonald as an Indian maiden. It is, because of the Mountie connection, an iconic symbol of Canadiana.
 
CanadaJohn said:
Ahhh, you're probably referring to the Indian Love Call, a song from the 1920's, from a play at that time and a movie, Rose Marie, from the 1930's, most famously popularized by Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald - Eddy as a RCMP officer (Mountie) and MacDonald as an Indian maiden. It is, because of the Mountie connection, an iconic symbol of Canadiana.
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Thanks for the info, Ive been searching for the exact term for years! I think one of my friends explained it to me but I was too drunk to remember. :thumbs:
 
CanadaJohn said:
Ahhh, you're probably referring to the Indian Love Call, a song from the 1920's, from a play at that time and a movie, Rose Marie, from the 1930's, most famously popularized by Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald - Eddy as a RCMP officer (Mountie) and MacDonald as an Indian maiden. It is, because of the Mountie connection, an iconic symbol of Canadiana.
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I thought it was Monty Pythons lumberjack song?
 
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