Ganja:
Yes, we are lamer with greater frequency than the Americans or the Brits (don't know enough about Oz).
The Beachcombers are lame, Heritage Minutes are lame, French textbooks from Grade 6 are lame, Molson "I am Canadian" ads are lame, Annana Pineapple is lame, Weird Al Yankovic is lame, Ready or Not is lame, Royal Canadian Air Farce is lame, those "Canadian Girls Drinking Team" T-shirts are lame, Nickelback is lame, this show we're talking about here and all its entries are lame.
American patriotism and jingoism is frightening, the British class system is disheartening, German history is horrifying, much of the development of current China is sobering, even the xenophobia of picture-perfect Switzerland is a shocker. Being lame isn't the worst, but I will call a spade a spade when I see one and our problem - smaller than those bogeymen of other countries - is that much of our cultural output is extremely lame.
The sad part is that for every lame Canadian Content artist, I know, read, and see a dozen truly great Canadian cultural contributors that either don't get more notice or have to emigrate to another country where - surprise, surprise - they make it big.
