The Off Topic Topic

[Caliga]

Canadians seem to have a higher ratio of generally mocked bands and artists(Bieber/Dion/Nickelback/Snow) to well-respected ones(Neil Young, arguably Rush and Drake).

Rush makes up for all of them.



Maybe all of them but Celine Dion though.

[Eddie Teach]

Higher than who?

The US and UK.

[Ideologue]

Canadian musical acts are just like American musical acts. It's the same artists & the same tours.

Canadians seem to have a higher ratio of generally mocked bands and artists(Bieber/Dion/Nickelback/Snow) to well-respected ones(Neil Young, arguably Rush and Drake).

Indeed, and the likeliest root cause is Canada's state-run music industry, and its lack of profit motive.

[Malthus]

Canadian musical acts are just like American musical acts. It's the same artists & the same tours.

Canadians seem to have a higher ratio of generally mocked bands and artists(Bieber/Dion/Nickelback/Snow) to well-respected ones(Neil Young, arguably Rush and Drake).

Indeed, and the likeliest root cause is Canada's state-run music industry, and its lack of profit motive.

CBC! CBC!

[Valmy]

Canadian musical acts are just like American musical acts. It's the same artists & the same tours.

Canadians seem to have a higher ratio of generally mocked bands and artists(Bieber/Dion/Nickelback/Snow) to well-respected ones(Neil Young, arguably Rush and Drake).

Indeed, and the likeliest root cause is Canada's state-run music industry, and its lack of profit motive.

They are freeloading on the US Market.

[Barrister]

Canadian musical acts are just like American musical acts. It's the same artists & the same tours.

Canadians seem to have a higher ratio of generally mocked bands and artists(Bieber/Dion/Nickelback/Snow) to well-respected ones(Neil Young, arguably Rush and Drake).

Indeed, and the likeliest root cause is Canada's state-run music industry, and its lack of profit motive.

Meowtf?

[Malthus]

Canadian musical acts are just like American musical acts. It's the same artists & the same tours.

Canadians seem to have a higher ratio of generally mocked bands and artists(Bieber/Dion/Nickelback/Snow) to well-respected ones(Neil Young, arguably Rush and Drake).

Indeed, and the likeliest root cause is Canada's state-run music industry, and its lack of profit motive.

Meowtf?

He's poking fun ay Yi's take on the Canadian pharma industry in another thread.

[Ideologue]

It's a callback.

[Admiral Yi]

Just had a bite of North Korean rice cake.  A pastor my parents know just got back from there.  My mom was not clear on how a) a US citizen could travel there and b) bring back NK products.

[Josquius]

b) surely would be something the Norks would actively encourage.
a) however does seem mysterious, especially a pastor; is he Korean ethnicity? I hear they especially get weird about that.

[Admiral Yi]

b) surely would be something the Norks would actively encourage.
a) however does seem mysterious, especially a pastor; is he Korean ethnicity? I hear they especially get weird about that.

My mom said he's from North Korea, which is also kind of weird, because I've met him and he looks 40ish or so, too young to have come south before the war like my mom did.  I would think NK would be especially uptight about granting legal entry to folks who had jumped the border and fled the workers' paradise.

[Josquius]

You'd also have to be fucking insane to go back under such circumstances
Maybe she means North-South Korea (i.e. the only real Korea)?
Or the Chinese parts near the border full of Koreans (i.e. your mother is an old school Korean nationalist)?

[crazy canuck]

Canadian musical acts are just like American musical acts. It's the same artists & the same tours.

Canadians seem to have a higher ratio of generally mocked bands and artists(Bieber/Dion/Nickelback/Snow) to well-respected ones(Neil Young, arguably Rush and Drake).

Indeed, and the likeliest root cause is Canada's state-run music industry, and its lack of profit motive.

They are freeloading on the US Market.

[Admiral Yi]

Maybe she means North-South Korea (i.e. the only real Korea)?

No.

[Syt]