Unfortunate Olympics-themed commercials: what's your "favorite"?

I'm thinking about the AT&T one, where the snowboarder floats off the track and into deep space while Lou Reed sings "Perfect Day."


All I can think about is all the people who got executed-by-airlock over the course of the 2000's Battlestar Galactica series - it always looked a lot like that.


:scared:

When HAL starts offing the crew during their spacewalks.

:scared:

I can't think of any other Olympic-themed commercials. :P

I want to go there. NOW.

Seeing Michael J. Fox in it adds some poignancy too.

I love B.C. The provincial capital Victoria is my favorite city there. I have never been to the U.K., but it feels like it when I go there, lol. Enjoyed the times I have spent in Vancouver too, but one of my unfulfilled wishes is to go deep into the mountains up north for some camping and hiking. It just looks stunning!

But not England, oddly enough - when I was in college I spent a few weeks in the summer with friends hitch-hiking around the Scottish Highlands, Wales, Nothern Ireland, and Republic of Ireland. (We skipped England and took the cheapest boat from Ireland to France, and from there hitchhiked through France and Germany to Berlin, and then back west to Amsterdam and out from there, by midnight bus back to Paris, where we lived in the airport for 6 days until we get ANY cheap standby flight back to North America--which was going to Montreal; we hooked up with other stranded Americans in the airport to get seats on that flight and charter a bus to New York.) Incredibly beautiful. (I also loved the fact that it was July and I could still wear my favorite thick wool sweaters - oh, I am the worst half-Brazilian ever! :D)

I also love the high mountain peaks of the Blue Ridge and the Smokies - conifers and mosses and licheny rocks, all day long.

And Vancouver looks like all of the above, but with whales and ravens and eagles...and queer culture and nightclubs and public transportation too!! Best of all possible worlds!

:D

By the time we were in Berlin, we had no money left for even the youth hostels. We bullshitted our way in to do laundry, but at night we were sleeping in a park in the red-light district. Before we put our sleeping bags down, we had to kick a shitload of needles out of the way.

It was a really welcoming town, though. I was there with a female friend, we met two guys on the Kurfurstendamm strasse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurf%C3%BCrstendamm), right under the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser_Wilhelm_Memorial_Church). They invited us to come stay with them for the night. They were trinket vendors and hash dealers - one blond uberGerman looking guy, one kind of dark and middle-eastern looking.

Turns out they lived in a squat in what used to be the Eastern side--this was in 1991, only two years after the Wall came down. No running water. No electricity. Graffiti everywhere. They were cute and smart and funny (in our mix of broken English and broken German), and my friend Rachel and I conferred privately and agreed that the idea of putting out with these guys for a safe place to sleep was by no means unpleasant to us.

They never even broached the subject. At all. We just got high, talked about music and politics, cuddled, and fell asleep.

But for the adventurous traveler on a VERY THIN BUDGET, then yes. :rofl:

Great story. Definitely not an itinerary for the faint-hearted. :D

...when my other friend Anya and I were hitch-hiking out of the Black Forest in SW Germany, and we got picked up by an Italian trucker....


and I was sitting on the hump in the middle, and he was trying to grope us with one hand and drive with the other, and I was NOT into it, so I started yanking his steering wheel back and forth...

at 135 km/hr on the Autobahn.

He let us off pretty quick, and we were glad. :rofl:

For the record, in 2 months hitch-hiking and sleeping rough in the streets around western Europe--including major cities (Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris) this was the ONLY time I felt seriously threatened enough to need to fight back.

I would NEVER try this anywhere in the US. I know better.

than I have in any other state save my own. Vancouver, Victoria, Nelson, Rossland, Kelowna, Kamloops, Penticton, Prince George, Williams Lake, Cranbrook, Creston, etc.

She's purdy.

are kids to their Moms.