An Olympic Mockery

You know what really grinds my gears?! How some people attempt to use a peaceful sports event like the Olympics in Sochi as an excuse to bash and discredit Russia and their human rights violations, such as the gay and lesbian rights violations that have been blown out of proportions through various news articles such as Stuart Williams article published in Yahoo! Sports called UN's Ban in Olympic gay rights plea, US warns of toothpaste bombs. Now just to make it clear, I have nothing against homosexuals and believe that everyone has the the right to love who ever they want and deserve to be treated equally and the same as everyone else. But what makes me mad is that some of the articles that have come out such as Stuart Williams, that bash Russia for banning protests during the Olympics (which as stated in the news articles, is also against the Olympic committee policy), so people focus on the Olympic events. Protesting during the Olympics goes against the whole point of what the Olympics stand for! If Countries can observe  the Olympic Truce and stop fighting, people should be able to stop protesting for a couple weeks and focus on and support their Olympians as they compete! If anyone is interested in reading the article, the link is at the bottom of the post.
Not to mention who are we to go into other countries and state that their beliefs and values and wrong and that they should adapt our way of thinking, when we don't like people immigrating to Canada and attempt us to change our traditions to meet their beliefs, its hypocritical!

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On a lighter note Canada is doing awesome in the Olympic games! Go Canada Go!
Stay classy Calgary!



Stuart Williams article: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/pro-gay-demos-worldwide-target-sochi-games-sponsors-040922094--oly.html

What "What Grinds My Gears - Calgary Edition" is all about

To start this off, I am going to mention that this particular blog was created for a GNED class at Mount Royal University, and yes it is a spin off from the adult cartoon Family Guy. Following this, the aim for this this blog is to rant about a mixture of stupid, silly, frustrating and very irritating things that happens around the city of Calgary and 'grind the gears' of pretty much every citizen of this beautiful city.

With that said a parental warning of sorts will have to be given before any rants can really begin, mainly because of the adult humor, the types of images being posted, as well as the topics maybe considered untasteful to those that are either too young to understand or were simply born without a sense of humor. So if you happen to be one of those members of the internet that happens to stumble upon this blog and find its contents offensive you then should click the “back” button in your browser and go back to doing what you normally do on the internet, you have been warned!

With the parental warning all cleared up, and everyone knows what to expect from the content found on this blog, do you know what really grinds my gears? All the small parking spaces that can be found throughout Calgary! It is understandable that the Calgary Parking Authority and various other businesses, that make money from people parking, want to fit as many cars in as possible in their lots to make an extra dime and so they make the spaces only big enough to fit a medium sized sedan. But this is ridiculous, seeing the amount of people in this city that drive trucks and SUV’s, myself being one of them, is huge! We would all love to be able to find a parking space that we could not only fit your vehicles into but also be able to get out of that parking stall after without having to conduct a 40 point turn (which for some drivers in this city is harder than brain surgery).

Now, some members of society might respond to that by simply stating that it is our fault for driving such a large, gas guzzling vehicle in the first place and that we should switch to something small and hippy such as a Honda Prius. But have those people ever seen how hard it would be to get a quad, a deer, as well four fully grown man into one of those tiny matchboxes, it simply would not work! Stay classy Calgary.