JoeSchmoe
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Sloppy game. Poor reffing.
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40 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:
Super Dave, Strange brew (as a kid) and Kim's Convenience are just a few I liked. But the rest, I don't know, I just could never get into the stuff out of Canada.
When I was a kid, I'd watch SCTA only to hope Bob and Doug would be on. I watched Strange Brew with my kids a few years back. Obviously I'm a lot older now, but it was still pretty funny in a most juvenile way.
Edit: I vehemently disagree with you on the Trailer Park Boys. On the surface it was a crude lowbrow comedy, but it was actually under the radar brilliant.
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Man... As much as I try, I just can't find the old SCTV clips funny. I REALLY respect the cast, and really want to like it, but either it's all dated now or maybe wasn't really all that funny in the first place. That clip really wasn't funny in the least. Was cool seeing the vintage Canadian mall and sports store, and hearing the old Leafs announcer though.
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1 hour ago, Buffalo Super Fan said:
Where in Rochester? Certainly not in Buffalo? The Buffalo Sabres could go 40 years without playoffs and I will never actively root for a Rochester or Syracuse sports team. Both these cities are long time rivals of Buffalo Baseball Bisons so with this Buffalo fan that isn’t happening regardless of the Rochester Americans success and the Buffalo Sabres lack of success. Rochester sports teams aren’t Buffalo sorry. The Buffalo Sabres could potentially move out of Buffalo and I would wait for Buffalo to get its own hockey team back in the NHL or AHL. I am not rooting for a Rochester sports teams. Even when the original Buffalo Bisons moved to Winnipeg to become the Winnipeg Whips. Buffalo baseball fans didn’t flock to Rochester Red Wings games in the 1970’s. That is how I became a New York Yankees fan before Buffalo got Eastern League double a back in 1979 when I was eleven years old. Even though the Buffalo Bisons were double a compared to the triple a Rochester Red Wings. I went to Buffalo Bisons games. This was year number 45 years for old Buffalo Super Fan rooting on the Buffalo Bisons. The markets are too separate markets regardless of the Bills and Sabres having fans in Rochester in my opinion. Go Sabres! Let’s Go Buffalo
When you're doing an internet troll, the key is to flame things up with only a minimum amount of typing. When you invest a lot of time in a troll, the joke's very much on you.
Go Sabres! Let's Go Buffalo
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He's going to be a real humdinger!
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16 minutes ago, Porous Five Hole said:
Checking in on old friends, EJ has no points and is a -11 in 12 GP since the trade. Woof. He hung on one year too long.
I still think we're in fight for a playoff spot if Adams actually did the minimum amount of homework and not signed him.
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20 minutes ago, inkman said:
Maybe I’ll watch it in the off-season. I dislike this team so much, there could be naked supermodels performing my wildest fantasies with my favorite comedian telling the funniest jokes I’ve ever heard and I’m still not going to like it. They haven’t earned my attention.
I immediately have flashbacks to the jokes you see at the urinal where it says "What are you laughing at, the joke's in your hand".
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8 minutes ago, Crusader1969 said:
The 4th line should be guys who wear hard hats and bring it every game. Play physical and provide energy
All the best teams have 4th lines that score more than they get scored against. Robinson, Krebs, and Girgensons aren't it.
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Here's are team PP stats... Skinner is out #1 power play guy.
Skinner is not our problem. OUR REAL PROBLEM IS SKINNER IS OUR #1 PP GUY. If you want to blame anyone, blame Cozens, Tuch, and Tage for sucking so hard compared to last year.
Combine this with the fact that year after year our 3rd and 4th lines are a bunch of scrubs.
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I already posted the advanced stats (ex GF%). It says he's not so good 5 on 5 at 45.8%. The not-so advanced stats (GF%) have him at 55%. That's pretty good actually... 4th on the team.
But it's his PP where he excels. He's far and away our best PP guy.
You might not like it hearing it, but without question he helps us win games.
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He's going to be a real humdinger!
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Does UPL suck again? 🫣
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1 hour ago, PromoTheRobot said:
You're hiring management. Someone your are trusting with money. Plus $60K is what a living wage is now.
In Canada an Assistant Manager in Training at a gas station with maybe two or three employees working at one time wouldn't be anywhere close to 60-80k. You'd likely get about 45k to start and max out at no more than 50 or 55k.
The centrist in me wants to see everyone making a living wage, and for that area north of Utica, $60-80k would be an excellent salary. My only complaint is things haven't kept up in Canada, and now travelling to the US is becoming more and more unaffordable.
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9 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:
it is without a doubt the nicest city in North America IF you don't factor in that housing cost
I know a family that moved back to Niagara from Vancouver because of the weather. Too much rain in Vancouver. My daughter's friend's dad that moved to Seattle said that all the homes in their neighborhood have concrete play areas in their backyards due to marshy conditions. (Thay said, they are still happier in the US vs Canada).
I've never been to Vancouver, but based on the climate data I've looked at (7C highs in the winter and 22C highs in the summer) it doesn't do it for me as a place to live... Even without it being the most expensive place to live in Canada... and despite snowboarding being my favourite pastime. I'd rather live in a small town in the BC interior with a true winter and true summer and take my chances with forest fire smoke. I know the Vancouver ocean is a big selling point but my understanding is it's too cold to swim in. Are there pockets anywhere that are shallow enough to warm up to be comfortable in the summer? The BC interior lakes are more appealing to me.
On paper I think Penticton, Invermere, and Nelson would be more up my alley. Closer to home here in Southern Ontario, I'd like to move to an English speaking town in Quebec in the Eastern Townships and still be driving distance away from my kids (presuming they stay in Ontario). My favourite spot in the world though is the Adirondacks, and I'd gladly move to a small town like Long Lake or Speculator if immigration were a non issue.
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55 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:
Gotta love Dan saying that the 2-1 Thompson goal got the Sabres back in the game and Rob saying after the same goal that it was a brand new hockey game.
That's advanced type stuff that only oil well money can afford.
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3 hours ago, Big Guava said:
I live in the Buffalo area. Lest you forget many places are far closer to Canada than they are across town.
I don't need to read about Fox news propaganda, I live in the areas where you see it happening and talk to people that are from the area about it.
I also go to Canada fairly frequently.
So you are getting the equivalent of American Social Security except far less than what Americans get?
As of right now when I retire, if I only earn the same and never increase my income, which likely will happen, I will be getting roughly $4900 thru Social Security a month.
I believe the "research" I did says the max benefit in Canada is like $1365 a month? Which when adjusted to American Dollars is more like $1011 or so as of today?
Did I miss something?
That's about right for the Canada Pension Plan. Plus as long as you're not a high earner you'll get about another $700 in Old Age Security. Above a certain income they'll claw that back. If you're poor, they'll top you up a bit.
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8 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:
Using a phrase like "media agenda" plants you into the right wing conspiracy camp. Good luck with all that. When it comes to "agendas" just follow the money, not the rhetoric and propaganda. It'll get you closer to actual truth and facts.
Right wing think tanks pump out tons of stuff like that all the time. Any study they can come up with to fuel their machine and their agenda gets funded and published and promoted heavily. They have done that for years. It was all laid out in 1973 by the Trilateral Commission but nobody reads that sort of thing do they. Anyway, it's part of their managing of democracy strategy but we are getting political so let's leave it there. Look into it if you want, if you don't want to don't.
Happiness is a real thing though. Think about it objectively. If Americans were "happy" like those Swedes and Finns, how could a MAGA movement exist? It's based on returning to happy times for people who are unhappy now. The target of anger varies on the left or right but the unhappiness has to be there for the anger to continue. That's just simple logic.
Yep... Them Swedes are all just sitting around eating meatballs on their Ikea furniture singing Kumbaya.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/elections/news/far-right-party-making-inroads-in-sweden/
There's media agendas of all sorts, left and right. Here in Canada though, the media knows what side it's bread is buttered on and skews left given the massive subsidies ($600M worth!).
In any case, NHL players are all going to find a place they like left or right, hot or cold, tax or no tax. Me, I don't mind spending extra tax on a well funded school system and health care, but I'd like to see people be able to pay for services to reduce lineups in the public system.
I always think of Craig Rivet in these discussions. From Northern Ontario, played a long time on Montreal which is an amazing city, moves to the West Coast to the high-end Silicon Valley, but fell in love with Buffalo. Of the NHL cities, I'd want to live in, I'd rank Buffalo high since there's no traffic, I don't like clubbing, I like winter, and the suburbs are good and safe places to live. North Buffalo is nice too.
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17 minutes ago, PerreaultForever said:
With the funding they have you really want to argue that right wing think tanks haven't already put everything out there that supports their view already out there?
You can quantify everything these days. Look at hockey analytics. Everything is quantified. If people are happy, they are happy. You need to consider why that is.
I don't think right wing think tanks give a rats behind about carrying out an international "happiness" survey. And even if they did, as Swamp mentioned, you'd never hear about them since they don't fit the media agenda.
Among the 1st world countries with relatively comparable quality of life, you can crank out whatever result you want depending on the questions you ask and the weightings you give it. As I'm closer to the centre (admittedly slightly right), neither the left or right "happiness" surveys are worth the paper their printed on.
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1 hour ago, PerreaultForever said:
and yet studies on happiness show that Canadians are happier than Americans and those Scandinavian countries with taxes much higher than even Canada are the happiest of all. There is something to be said for having various stesses of life removed by having strong public systems and safety nets in place. Taxes pay for that.
I agree with your second two paragraphs, everybody is different. I love winter, some don't. Some like paying extra for well funded public schools, some would rather save their $$$ and go the private route. Some like big city living with all the hustle and bustle, some like small towns.
I don't agree with the happiness studies though.
Quantifying happiness is nearly impossible, and the groups producing these studies nearly always have a socialist bent (including the UN). I'm sure if a right leaning think tank were to devise a similar study, the results would be completely different. Anecdotally, I have quite a few friends that moved to the US, and as a whole they're all happier there than those of us that are still in Canada. The spread seems to have been trending wider and wider over the last 8 years... I wonder why 😉
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5 minutes ago, Big Guava said:
Canadian taxes are ridonkculous...
Imagine taxes being so high that it is cheaper to pay to go on organized bus trips across the bridge to Buffalo/Niagara Falls and hit up the malls there to buy clothes, losing 1/3 of the value of your currency, if not more, and it is STILL cheaper than buying those items in Canada due to taxes being so high.
Most things aren't not cheaper anymore. Gas and booze still are... Not much else.
Inflation has been bad here in Canada, but it's been way worse south of the border. Now, everything is about the same in USD as it is in CAN, but you're paying close to a 1.40 premium on exchange.
Last summer I was gassing up at a Stewart's Shops in a small town just outside the Adirondacks. They had a Help Wanted ad on the gas pump for an "Assistant Store Manager in Training. Salary $60-$80k / year." Seeing that was a real eye opener as to why prices have really skyrocketed down there. Places had to pay that kind of premium just to get people to work.
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8 minutes ago, inkman said:
I picked a bad night to quit smoking weed. Good news is I’m about to get a 40% raise (my old company wants me back, but I think I have to pass a drug screening to get rehired) Bad news is I can’t get to sleep without weed so booze it is.
Congrats on the raise! Hopefully you figure out the weed thing. My friend was a wake and baker, and it took a bit to get straightened out after giving it up, but he feels better now than he had in a long while.
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Just now, inkman said:
The entire roster is ass
So Robinson is the hole?
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I would really like Greenway if he was on the 4th line.
GDT - Flyers @ Sabres - Friday, April 5, 2024 - 7:00 PM (EDT)
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Krebs, Girgensons, and Robinson can join him.