# Canadian TV manages to surprise me. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 12, 2005, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-tv-manages-to-surprise-me/294161 "2005-03-12T07:21:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-tv-manages-to-surprise-me/294161/1 "2005-03-12T07:21:47Z")
You know, like all good smug Canadians, I’m pretty jaded about the fairly lax broadcast standards that we chilly libertines enjoy, and take every opportunity to laugh up my sleeve at the poor FCC-ridden race to the south of us. Tonight, though, I was caught off guard. I’m the tiniest bit high, and while flipping through the channels, I came across a fellow frolicking ouside wearing only boots and a tuque, gleefully packing snow around his soft parts to see how small his genitals would become. (Pretty small, actually.) For once, I was surprised. I mean, we all do it, but it hardly ever gets shown on the telly. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgonzola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e480ec/32.png) [@Gorgonzola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgonzola)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-tv-manages-to-surprise-me/294161/2 "2005-03-12T08:04:13Z")
I confess I saw this, too. The big surprise for me was that no matter what he did, it really didn’t get any smaller beyond a certain point. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-tv-manages-to-surprise-me/294161/3 "2005-03-12T08:22:17Z")
> [@](#): > > For once, I was surprised. I mean, we all do it, but it hardly ever gets shown on the telly. I’ll have you know that I have never packed Mr. Happy in ice to see how small he would become. I was unaware that it was a sport. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-tv-manages-to-surprise-me/294161/4 "2005-03-12T17:03:19Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > I mean, we all do it, **All** of you, or just the men? ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-tv-manages-to-surprise-me/294161/5 "2005-03-12T17:08:52Z")
This reminds me of the thread where the guy’s testicles hurt after eating pizza. The OP assumed that everyone experienced this phenomenon. Let me assure you that not every guy has packed his nuts with snow to watch them shrink. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-tv-manages-to-surprise-me/294161/6 "2005-03-12T17:14:18Z")
On which channel _was_ this? _boggled_ ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-tv-manages-to-surprise-me/294161/7 "2005-03-12T17:41:11Z")
Cripes, I know that we get a little crazy towards the end of winter and all, but I still have to know… what channel was this? ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-tv-manages-to-surprise-me/294161/8 "2005-03-12T17:51:10Z")
I am now struck with the insatiable desire to pack snow around my balls to see how small they become. Alas, there’s no snow in California this time of year ☹ I suppose I could use crushed ice from the fridge, though ::goes and gets a cup:: ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-tv-manages-to-surprise-me/294161/9 "2005-03-12T18:16:31Z")
We must think of a name for this sport/activity… Snow Balling? Nut Packing? Dong Densification? ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-tv-manages-to-surprise-me/294161/10 "2005-03-12T18:21:51Z")
> [@K364](#): > > Snow Balling? You’re probably going to want to avoid this one. It’s already being used to describe another activity. “So I was walking home with my buddy last night from the bar and we decide to try snowballing. Man, that was a crazy time.” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-tv-manages-to-surprise-me/294161/11 "2005-03-12T18:22:39Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > …while flipping through the channels, I came across a fellow frolicking ouside wearing only boots and a tuque, gleefully packing snow around his soft parts to see how small his genitals would become. (Pretty small, actually.) Damn it, I missed that show. CBC? CTV? Higher up the cable? Is it going to be on again? I miss all the good stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-tv-manages-to-surprise-me/294161/12 "2005-03-12T19:16:26Z")
> [@fruitbat](#): > > This reminds me of the thread where the guy’s testicles hurt after eating pizza. The OP assumed that everyone experienced this phenomenon. Let me assure you that not every guy has packed his nuts with snow to watch them shrink. I guess it’s a Canadian thing, like curling, or Don Messer. I feel sorry for the poor schmuck with the pizza balls, though. That’s just weird. **Kythereia** , **Sunspace** , **Savannah** – it was on Showcase. You know, the one with those great promos: “I’m wearing women’s underwear. Thanks, Showcase!” “I used the F-word today. Thanks, Showcase.” “He got his whole fist in! Thanks, Showcase.” ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-tv-manages-to-surprise-me/294161/13 "2005-03-12T20:02:47Z")
TVO (Ontario’s public television) recently had a kid’s educational show that demonstrated how to shave a dogs balls. Ne shitteth vous pas. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-tv-manages-to-surprise-me/294161/14 "2005-03-12T22:07:54Z")
In Canada, we have a number of ‘arts’ channels that often are little more than an excuse to show soft-core porn. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. ‘Showcase Television’ was originally approved by the CRTC to be a multi-cultural window into world film. They planned to show films from France, India, Africa, etc. Of course, the ratings tanked, so now Showcase’s foreign films are often movies like “Devil in the Flesh”, “Emmanuelle”, and other foreign adult shows. They show a lot of damned good movies on there as well, that you just can’t see anywhere else. On Friday nights, Showcase goes especially risque’, calling the evening “Friday Night Without Borders”. The show in question is some British reality-TV sex show. After that they had some show on the sex underground in Vancouver, and then ‘Red Shoe Diaries’, a series of soft-core porn shorts starring David Duchovny (before X-Files). ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-tv-manages-to-surprise-me/294161/15 "2005-03-12T22:15:30Z")
Snowballing Reason # 234 to avoid snow. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-tv-manages-to-surprise-me/294161/16 "2005-03-12T22:29:26Z")
> [@Sam Stone](#): > > After that they had some show on the sex underground in Vancouver Isn’t that **Kink**? I can’t help but feel that those people are the people I’d least like to get kinky with. I find them gratingly pretentious and god-awful annoying. My husband enjoys the “foreign films” on Showcase. He yelps like a puppy when the boobies appear. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-tv-manages-to-surprise-me/294161/17 "2005-03-12T22:58:39Z")
No, it wasn’t ‘Kink’. I can’t remember the name of the show, but it is apparently a roving show showing the sexual life of various cities, and this week it was focusing on Vancouver. ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-tv-manages-to-surprise-me/294161/18 "2005-03-12T23:07:15Z")
Showcase is an out of control freeforall of nudity on Friday nights. I was a bit surprised one night on Oz when not only did Keller bend over and moon Beecher, but he spread his cheeks too. When I was a kid everyone used to tune into multicultural 47 late at night to watch Italian people roll around naked and fuck in haystacks. The rule seemed to be that if people weren’t speaking English they could do whatever they wanted. Same seems to go for TFO or whatever the French TVO is called. Only the rule there is that full frontal nudity is okay as long as it’s someone really old ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2005, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-tv-manages-to-surprise-me/294161/19 "2005-03-13T00:26:44Z")
**pokey** , that’s still around but it’s changed to Spanish and is on Telelatino in the wee hours of the morning on weekends. ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-tv-manages-to-surprise-me/294161/20 "2005-03-13T00:45:31Z")
> [@Kid\_A](#): > > **pokey** , that’s still around but it’s changed to Spanish and is on Telelatino in the wee hours of the morning on weekends. I’ll set the vcr! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-tv-manages-to-surprise-me/294161.md?page=2)