Uhhh.. What the Fudge?

[ltmurnau]

What the hell does this have to do with anything?

Vancouver schools could offer Olympic curriculum

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 3, 2008 | 1:30 PM ET
CBC News

Teachers in Vancouver will soon have the option of incorporating Olympic themes and teachings into the curriculum, following a Vancouver School Board decision to create a committee to look at how the Olympics will be taught in schools in the lead-up to the 2010 Vancouver games.

But vice-chair of the board Carol Gibson made it clear the Olympic curriculum will be based strictly on educational criteria.

"They are very concerned and very clear about what the educational value of a particular topic is, and they're also very professional, so [they are] unlikely to permit any commercialism into the classroom around that," Gibson told the CBC on Monday.

Comments

[bruiseblue.livejournal.com]

I just spent a week in Vancouver, and was subjected to more Olympic crap than any human ought to be forced to endure.

Including, right downtown, a porta-potty looking small silver building with an electronic 'Olympic countdown' clock on it. Egads. Right on the grounds of the Art Gallery. That's so wrong.

Also saw the actual electronic porta pottys, which supposedly arent' FOR the olympics but really they are. They're scary, and silver, and heavily covered in advertising. And people were lining up! I so don't get people.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

You don't get people; I don't get people. Much of the time I don't particularly want them either.

[bruiseblue.livejournal.com]

I want a select few, and everyone else is just really annoying.

Especially in crowds. WTF is with people in crowds? Or government... I guess government is like a special kind of crowd, subject to the same lowering of the IQ phenomenon?

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Tommy Lee Jones said it alll in Men in Black: "A person is smart. People are stupid."
Government is not stupid, or at least the part of government that gets things done. VANOC etc. is not government; it's a Chamber of Commerce circle-jerk gone hog-wild....

[bruiseblue.livejournal.com]

I suppose so..

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

My search continues for the most unsavoury metaphor I can use for the 2010 Olympics and all the Babbitry connected with it.