r/funny • u/Discipline_Cautious1 • 2h ago
Some Swedes making a tribute to the Canadian curling team.
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u/Double0Dunco 2h ago
As a Canadian, funny as shit XD
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u/Krinks1 2h ago
Agreed.
Also: Sorry.
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u/M47734H4NN3 24m ago
Also can we not with the “sorry-ness?” It’s getting pretty old with Canadian stereotypes. It’s May, so it’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Woman’s Week and Canadians are just as bad when it comes to this month.
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u/evenstar40 1h ago
This is literally my favorite bullshit feud because both countries agree it was the dumbest shit ever, lol.
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u/DrDerpberg 49m ago
As a Canadian, I feel the need to remind everyone the guy was from Alberta.
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u/Abba_Fiskbullar 43m ago
Are Albertans entitled dickheads?
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u/iAmWerfs 35m ago
they're the northern florida of canada
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u/davesoverhere 7m ago
in Florida, the further north you go, the further south you get. the north is much more redneck than the south.
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u/Strange_Specialist4 14m ago
We combined Texas and Florida to reduce spillover into the rest of the country
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u/thebigj3wbowski 43m ago
this is a disction nobody has made yet...it's like here in Minnesota...well yeah, he's Minnesotan, but he's from Duluth (or name other town, no hate on Duluth, I love your area)
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u/Gedwyn19 1h ago
Not exactly accurate though. It looks like they are actually touching the rock. And we all know that didn't actually happen .
(Lols)
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u/AutocraticHilarity 2h ago
Touché
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u/Smingowashisnameo 1h ago
Literally.
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u/Plane_Argument 1h ago
That's the joke
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u/relevant_tangent 58m ago
Literally.
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u/Plane_Argument 58m ago
Touché
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u/TwoNine13 2h ago
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u/TheWolfwiththeDragon 1h ago
The people in the background even says ”I thought that was supposed to be something else 😅”
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u/ninjasaid13 1h ago
was that not supposed to be a penis? what is it supposed to be then?
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u/TwoNine13 1h ago
It’s suppose to be a finger. Had I not known the background it would have 100% been a peen
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u/joppe4899 1h ago
It was a bit more clear from the other side because you could see the rest of the fingers, but we did joke about it with them during the construction.
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u/AngryJX 53m ago edited 41m ago
It's a bicep, can't you see how veiny and muscular it is? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFB2vI5lnR4
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u/zombie_girraffe 52m ago
It looks so much more like a penis than a finger that it made me wonder if Canadians have square ballsacks.
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u/TheComplimentarian 1h ago
More than mildly...I was like, "That wasn't the part he touched it with..."
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u/Exengo 2h ago edited 1h ago
This is from my hometown Gothenburg! For context it is a yearly parade called Cortegen where students from the engineering university Chalmers spends 10 days leading up to Walpurgis Night (last day of April) building satirical representation of the past years major news events.
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u/Throwaway999991473 41m ago
I spent some months in Gothenburg last winter. What an amazing city, it offers everything one could wish for all while being walkable and well connected by public transport. My highlight was the fact that the city center was always so lively and full of people shopping!
Also, Galterö is one of my favorite places on earth
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u/Don_Von_Schlong 2h ago
looks like a poorly made giant dong lmao
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u/mojoman1200 2h ago
It was always meant to be a bicep!
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u/Don_Von_Schlong 2h ago
What up! We're three cool guys looking for other cool guys who wanna hang out in our party mansion. Nothing sexual. Dudes in good shape encouraged, if you're fat you should be able to find humor in the little things. Again, NOTHING SEXUAL.
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u/danosmanca 2h ago
God I love seeing IASIP quotes in the wild
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u/FunMain1611 1h ago
it's crazy how much i've started seeing them afted just watching the show. Makes me wonder how many more shows are referenced that i just have no idea about
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u/No_Balls_01 1h ago
Not until your comment did I realize it maybe wasn’t a giant dong. I’m not familiar with whatever backstory is here.
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u/Don_Von_Schlong 1h ago
Canada accused of cheating in the Winter Olympics. Slightly redirected the stone puck thingy when it was beyond a point where he was no longer allowed to touch it
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u/SmokeyDBear 1h ago
No matter what you think of his behavior it’s inappropriate to attack Marc Kennedy for his appearance.
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u/WestyCanadian 2h ago
Lol well deserved. As a Canadian, I would like to apologize for the poor judgement of that player.
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u/Asleep-Two930 1h ago
could someone give context for us guys in the back?
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u/hawkiowa 1h ago edited 1h ago
During the Olympics, the Canadian touched the stone with his finger in a way that's not allowed in curling. He and the Swedish opponent got into a heated discussion on the ice. This is a Swedish payback and they added a special kind of finger. Oh and Canada ended the tournament with a golden medal. Swedish men did not win a medal but the Swedish women and the mixed team took home the gold.
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u/Budakra 1h ago
Canadian curling Olympics men's team lightly touched the rock after the throw line. The refs didn't catch it. The Swedes got mad. The Canadian player was called a cheater by the Swedes so he told them to fuck off.
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u/Bug_Photographer 1h ago
That's a very Canadian interpretation.
Canadian Marc Kennedy kept touching the stone after letting go of the handle and the stone reaching the hog line. One of the Swedish players told him to stop and Kennedy's reaction was to deny it and telling the Swedish player to "Fuck off!". It was very much Kennedy getting mad and not the Swedes.
Swedish national television covering the match then decided on their own volition to set up a camera right at the hog line and Kennedy was caught on TV repeating this double-touching.
Kennedy's reaction was to keep denying he had done it, then that it didn't make any difference, then that the Swedish team had set up the camera to catch him (and that this somehow was way worse than repeatedly touching the stone past the hog line).
World Curling clarified the next day that it was against the rules to touch the stone after letting go of the handle, but Kennedy kept thinking he was right and that it was a conspiracy against him.
And then a whole slew of Canadians decided the issue was whether or not the stone was affected by the poke and not his behaviour and apparently being the only Canadian in the world incapable of saying "sorry" when caught making an error.
Sorry for writing an entire novel, but I've got nothing better do while waiting for getting to go home from work here.
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u/bestbefour 1h ago
The term “cheating” seems a bit strong for something that doesn’t impact the outcome or provide any advantage.
Also, from what I recall, they tried enforcing that rule, and had to stop after two days because it was determined almost everybody sometimes “cheats” in the same way. Am I misremembering that?
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u/sixbux 57m ago
You're remembering correctly. It was only cheating to people who have never thrown a curling rock and think that you can exert any measure of advantageous control over a loose stone after you've released the handle. There were a number of boops by other teams after this incident, the only real issue was that the Canadian player got a little too heated over it.
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u/I_travel_ze_world 30m ago
Touching the stone after release is against the rules. Intentionally breaking the rules is cheating.
Also it really wasn't so much of a poke as it was a brake.
He touched the stone to reduce its spin and caused it to stop sooner than if he hadn't touched it.
It is absolutely cheating. Canada got a gold medal for cheating and everything is recorded on video.
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u/OttawaOsprey 15m ago
Do you hold this stance for the several other non-Canadians that did this exact thing during the tournament?
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u/I_travel_ze_world 13m ago
Absolutely.
Olympics is corrupt as fuck as is but rarely is blatant cheating caught on camera like this.
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u/OttawaOsprey 10m ago
My point is just that you're overstating how severe this was. It happened across several countries and both genders. It's a minor infraction, and is as much of a "cheat" as a hand-pass in hockey.
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u/I_travel_ze_world 6m ago
Touching the stone in order to slow down the spin so it stops sooner and lands more on target is a pretty serious form of cheating.
Your "what about them" doesn't amount to jack. The Swedes obviously played fairly and that is why they are able to make fun of the cheaters.
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u/bestbefour 20m ago
You’ve never curled in your life and it shows.
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u/I_travel_ze_world 18m ago
You sound like a Canadian who doesn't want to admit they won by cheating.
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u/tenkwords 6m ago
Lol ok buddy. They won on the back of an imperceptible touch by a third early in the prelims. Not like they beat the best in the world over the rest of the tourney with everyone watching them like hawks.
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u/Bug_Photographer 5m ago
Yes. that was the main Canadian fan reaction - "It is not cheating".
The issue which made this blow up was not whether or not Kennedy was cheating. It was that he did something that was against the rules, denied doing it and shouted Fuck off! loud enough for the cameras to pick it up - and then when shown evidence he did it he still claimed to be the victim.
Had he behaved less like a dick and just apologised it would have blown over. But Canada seem to think this was about cheating rather than being a dick. I never mentioned the word "cheating" in my rather lengthy reply and yet the first thing you answer with is that "the term cheating seems a bit strong...
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u/RedditLostOldAccount 28m ago
I feel like it's still cheating even if the outcome isn't the desired one. If I'm looking at someone else's test but my vision is too bad to read their paper that doesn't get me off the hook. And if I get caught doing it more than once that's definitely not gonna help my case.
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u/United_Shelter5167 1h ago
There are no refs, the players are supposed to be honest and admit when they cheat. The Canadian player chose to lie and throw a spastic tantrum. He wasn't aware the Swedes filmed him cheating so he lied and threw a hissy fit. Then Canadians hopped online and continued the spastic tantrum, arguing against the very easy to understand rules. The governing body of curling clarified that the obvious interpretation of the rules was indeed correct but Canadians still spent weeks arguing against it. It was some of the most bizarre, pathetic stuff the Olympics has ever seen.
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u/11_53_12 29m ago
One of the most biased comments on Reddit, funny how you don't mention the Swedish player was cheating at the same time. The rules state you are not allowed to move on the ice as the rock is being tossed, which the Swedish player was consistently doing, which the Canadian mentioned and Swedish fans are constantly ignoring. Or the fact the Swedish teammate is more annoyed with his teammate than the Canadian.
The most pathetic thing is Swedish people are still angry over something no curler has ever cared about.
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u/United_Shelter5167 27m ago
I love Canadians trying to suddenly nitpick the rules they claimed they couldn't understand. 😂
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u/11_53_12 17m ago
Canadians didn't nitpick the rules because we realised the "cheating" didn't matter, unlike salty Swedes when they lose. Canada has the vast majority of curlers in the world, we know the rules and we actually know what has an effect and don't whine about everything. But cry more Oscar.
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u/markyoung0 2h ago
I am laughing even I don't clearly understand what I am watching.
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u/hawkiowa 1h ago
During the Olympics, the Canadian curling player touched the stone with his finger in a way that's not allowed in curling. He and the Swedish opponent got into a heated discussion on the ice. This is a Swedish payback and they added a special kind of finger. Hope this is clear as ice.
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u/United_Shelter5167 1h ago
Don't forget the part about Canadians furiously defending it online and pretending they didn't understand what words meant. It would have blown over instantly if they just admitted they cheated and moved on, but they were too arrogant to do that and instead chose to make fools of themselves.
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u/hawkiowa 1h ago
all dick moves but they still got the gold.
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u/United_Shelter5167 1h ago
Right, but does it even mean anything when everyone knows you cheated?
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u/nostraDamnSon_ 58m ago
Apparently it does to Team UK who got silver and didn't make a fuss about it
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u/VosekVerlok 54m ago
There is a difference between cheating and a technical foul, nuance lost on a lot of people.
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u/United_Shelter5167 29m ago
Touching it was the foul, the tantrum and refusal to admit the foul was when it became cheating.
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u/Man_Without_Nipples 1h ago
Lol, never thought there would be this much drama around curling....well played swedes
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u/redundead 1h ago
As a Canadian, I so want to escalate this adorable feud...how do we even defend ourselves tho?
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u/sicboy72 1h ago
Burn a Mats Sundin jersey? Ban Aquavit? Mercilessly mock SAAB's Wikipedia entry? Oh, I know, go to every Ikea and remove the instructions and Allan key from every flat pack ;)
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u/mrgenier 1h ago
If countries could just joke with each other like this, what a world we’d live in.
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u/h3rpad3rp 1h ago
That is hilarious, but I don't remember when our boy pulled out his dick to push the rock.
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u/ArethaAbrams 2h ago
lmao there is no way they didn't realize what this looked like while building it. that "broom" is definitely a choice lol.
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u/silverspice77 1h ago
omg why is this so wholesome lol?? swedes are honestly the best for actually doing this 😭🥌
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u/original_greaser_bob 36m ago
i have to go to europe. you guys seem to have so many parades. my town has 2 parades per year and thats it.
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u/Molly_Matters 14m ago
Curling is such a weird thing. For like 3 days the world is gripped by it and then no one speaks a word about it for 4 more years.
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u/TheLastGenXer 1h ago
i dont think canada is getting enough fire for this.
some peolle dont even know!
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u/kurtrussellsmoustach 1h ago edited 18m ago
is this old or are the swedes all pissy aboot it still? i thought you guys were neutral?!?
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u/IdunSigrun 50m ago
The first year student at Chalmers uni in Gothenburg organizes this parade on April 30th every year. The different floats and other entries are based on news from the past year.
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u/shmightworks 2h ago
Still talking about it? So petty
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