About That San Jose Sharks Twitter Feed

Sorry, I kept meaning to mention this. This is very late.

One single Shark refused to wear the Sodomy Rainbow jersey for one single game, citing religious objections.

The San Jose Sharks decided that they're not a hockey club, but a university LGBTQQIA2S+ support club, and permitted the weirdo who runs their Twitter account to make some astonishing claims about how primitive tribal civilizations around the world are not patriarchal at all, and definitely didn't enforce strict gender laws nor look askance at homosexuality, but in fact are even more Raw-Dog for Strange Sexualities than the Castro Street Parade.

Here was the statement from the Sharks' goaltender:

Are you shocked? That's okay, take a moment to recover. I'm going to get a Diet Sunkist while you apply cold compresses to your heads and necks.

Okay back now.

Here was the blistering lecture about how welcome transgenders were in ancient primitive cultures from the San Jose Sharks' social media manager:

"During tonight's game, in lieu of our normal game content, we will be using this platform to offer information and facts about LGBTQIA+ topics," the tweet read. "Our hope is that this content will serve as a reminder that there are issues more important than goals, highlights and wins.
"Hockey is not for everyone until everyone is comfortable playing, working, or being a fan of this incredible game."
From there, the LGBTQIA+ information spree began. Leading off with a discussion of "third genders" in other cultures.
"Worldwide, gender diversity is seen far differently than that in the Western World or as you may know it," the Sharks tweeted. "Most of us are familiar with the male, female, and transgender labels. But in other cultures, the existence of 'the third gender' or even fourth and fifth genders is common:
"The muxe gender is a respected third gender in Zapotec cultures in Oaxaca, Mexico, that has existed for centuries. Gunaa are those who were born as men but who identify as women & are attracted to men. The Nguii are those who were born as men and are attracted to other men.

They were born as men and are attracted to men? Prepare to have your world shaken: That doesn't mean they're a third or fourth (or fifth!) gender. That just means they're gay.

By the way, that last tweet was so outrageously absurd that the San Jose Sharks' media manager actually was embarrassed enough to delete it.

Xe left the rest of the claims up, though:

More from the San Jose Sharks' Director of Twitter Gender Theory:

"The Ninauposkitzipxpe were honored as a third gender in the North Peigan tribe of the Blackfoot Confederacy in northern Montana and Southern Alberta, Canada.
"In some Native American cultures, the umbrella term to describe a third gender is "two-spirit." In South Asia, it's hijras. In Thailand, it's kathoeys. In Ethiopia, it's ashtime. In Polynesia, it's fa'afafine. And many more.
To anyone who hadn't run away screaming after reading that, the Sharks' Twitter account thanked everyone who participated in their Pride Night.
"Thank you all for a night of celebration & reflection about our Pride Community," the team wrote on Twitter.
"We know that one organization can't make all the changes we seek to make hockey (and the world) more welcoming to all, but it's a start.
"With all of you, we can make an impact."

Although the Twitter obsessive did get some "you go girl's!" from Twitter Genderfucks who temporarily pretended to be fans of San Jose Sharks hockey (as the Twitter gender warriors routinely pretend to big fans of Star Wars, comic books, Lord of the Rings, etc., to trick very stupid and very leftwing "creatives" into making half their characters gay or trans), most people kept telling this lunatic, "This is a hockey account, you know."

It was fairly easy for me to give up football because I was already getting tired of it, tired of being emotionally involved with the fortunes of complete strangers who cared nothing for me. I was already halfway determined to stop watching football before the NFL went woke. The NFL going woke just made a decision I was probably going to make anyway even easier to make.

And I know some people just love sports.

I just don't see how people can continue enjoying professional sports when they've all become the loudest, most obnoxious mouthpieces for social Marxism, and so plainly despise the bulk of their actual customers.

The New York Times also pushed this notion that "primitive peoples are all super-into 'genders' that were created in the decadent west five minutes ago," publishing a stupid screed by a "nonbinary rabbi" claiming that the ancient Jews -- patriarchal and against sodomy and masturbation -- were actually super-progressive about celebrating All the 57 Genders. He claims that ancient Jews noted the existence of hermaphrodites -- yes, that's a real thing, it doesn't mean boys can turn into girls or vice versa -- and that they had a word for "androgynous."

Again, David Bowie was androgynous -- he wasn't a transgender. This "nonbinary" wackdoo "rabbi" is taking words that every culture has and claiming that this indicates the ancient Jews loved transgenderism.

I wouldn't take xis "scholarship" too seriously -- he claims the first man, Adam, was transgender, too. And that when Genesis says God created them, male and female, it's not referring to Adam and Eve, but just Adam. So Adam was "male and female."

He also claims the pronoun "them" here is used like a designer pronoun to refer to just one person.

If you're interested in this flake's ideas, he's writing a book about "grieving in a time of planetary crisis."

Is there no end to the amount of absolute crankery, horseshit, lies, propaganda, delusions, and perversions of language, science, and history -- to say nothing of the wholesale rape by scalpel of children -- that we are expected to accept in order to make a tiny fraction of very aggressive mentally-ill people "feel seen"?

Posted by: Ace at 06:30 PM

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1 Yay.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at March 22, 2023 06:32 PM (DTX3h)

2 hiya

Posted by: JT at March 22, 2023 06:32 PM (T4tVD)

3 I cam back to get CJN Speaks not that I don't have it saved

Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2023 06:33 PM (xhxe8)

4 Types, deletes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 22, 2023 06:35 PM (tkR6S)

5 Depends how primitive. Patriarchal societies tend to advance up the civilization scale over time.

Marriage, patriarchy, not eating people, sexual restrictions(like marriage) are all part of civilization as it orders a society into a functioning group where incentives cause people to engage in productive behaviors.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 22, 2023 06:36 PM (eYoxG)

6 Has Trudeau banned Reimer from Canada yet? Because that seems like something he'd do.

Posted by: Flyguy at March 22, 2023 06:36 PM (VrVjC)

7 Like we should all care what some mud-caked savages with bones in their noses wearing banana leaves for pants thought about sex.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 22, 2023 06:36 PM (guGkK)

8 "Sounds like bullshit to me"

The ancestors who raised me.

Posted by: Retired at March 22, 2023 06:36 PM (/+mVZ)

9 James Reimer should ask to be traded to Moscow Dynamo. There, he might some fellow Christians to fellowship with.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 22, 2023 06:37 PM (tkR6S)

10 Yeah its always really cringy and awful when some zealot evangelist gets hold of some neutral platform and starts to vomit their memorized lunacy. ESPN has totally obliterated its brand by this stupidity

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2023 06:37 PM (0hOvj)

11 >>astonishing claims about how primitive tribal civilizations around the world are not patriarchal at all, and definitely didn't enforce strict gender laws nor look askance at homosexuality

I would legit pay good money to ship this freak to that island off the coast of India with the primitive tribesman and film it as he tries to explain the Fallacy of The Gender Binary to them.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 22, 2023 06:37 PM (up/3i)

12 Source 2 counter strike has dropped! Woohoo!

Ace we have to get you into e-sports now that you're not watching the other stuff.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 22, 2023 06:38 PM (maMOn)

13 There have been women who disgusted as men but did not think they were men who joined armies. It's not cultural trannies, just disgusted.

Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2023 06:38 PM (xhxe8)

14 I think that a whole lot of people's patience with this whole gay thing is running rather thin.

I've heard it argued by gay people that the real reason God took out Sodom was not the gay, it was the inhospitality the people there were showing. God was more upset at the whole "we want to rape you!" bit.

Assuming that's true (highly dubious, but ok)... isn't today's LGBT community doing the exact same thing? Demanding that we give them our children and never, ever oppose them? Precisely what is different today than what the freaks in Sodom were demanding that got them a hot dose of fire and brimstone?

Posted by: GanGanowicz at March 22, 2023 06:38 PM (AxRGS)

15 astonishing claims about how primitive tribal civilizations around the world are not patriarchal at all, and definitely didn't enforce strict gender laws nor look askance at homosexuality

Astonishing is the word. Not true, but astonishing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2023 06:39 PM (0hOvj)

16
The normal Goalie should've just said this: That [flag] is a political statement. I don't think it's right, ore even legal, for anyone to force people to endorse any political statements.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 22, 2023 06:39 PM (8st8O)

17 Narrator: We're not in any of those cultures, Fetch.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at March 22, 2023 06:41 PM (Wemf4)

18 SJSharks "Our hope is that this content will serve as a reminder that there are issues more important than goals, highlights and wins."

Fantastic marketing. If there's anything a paying customer and fan of a sport wants more than an escape from life's stress, it's to be lectured about sh*t they don't care about. You thinking that you'll force them to care through badgering and hectoring is not going to proceed how you envision. Pretty sure those goals, highlights, and wins are hella more important than attire and pronouns.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at March 22, 2023 06:41 PM (aXxgO)

19
That fag rainbow "flag" is a Political Statement.
"Global Warming" is a Political Issue.

This is why the above two things are in the "mainstream," today. We never just simply dismissed them both as "political issues" or "Democrat party issues."

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 22, 2023 06:41 PM (8st8O)

20 I nooded.

Also: Diet Sunkist ain't half bad. Save me one, Ace!

Posted by: GanGanowicz at March 22, 2023 06:41 PM (AxRGS)

21 Didn't the jersey sales for Reimer jump after this as well?

Posted by: Flyguy at March 22, 2023 06:41 PM (VrVjC)

22 The primitive cultures welcomed transgender people, and then cut out their hearts as a sacrifice to the gods and read the entrails for signs and portents

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 22, 2023 06:41 PM (udCMm)

23 11 >>astonishing claims about how primitive tribal civilizations around the world are not patriarchal at all, and definitely didn't enforce strict gender laws nor look askance at homosexuality

I would legit pay good money to ship this freak to that island off the coast of India with the primitive tribesman and film it as he tries to explain the Fallacy of The Gender Binary to them.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 22, 2023 06:37 PM (up/3i)

We shouldn't rush to discount the possibility that they might screw and then eat him. Which in some sense is supportive of his claims.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 22, 2023 06:41 PM (eYoxG)

24 Like we should all care what some mud-caked savages with bones in their noses wearing banana leaves for pants thought about sex.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 22

Maybe we can get into the rates of STDs and permanent damage in tribes in Irian Jaya because the chiefs were diseased and screwed all the kids. Like they had to put their seed in the boys or the boys would not be able to produce seed of their own. And the girls they raped for some other reason.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 22, 2023 06:41 PM (maMOn)

25 But, let us grant this lie: that tribal civilizations around the world were all down with women ruling, with trannies and with homosexuals.

Does that make it okay? Does that make it a good idea? Is the existence of this sort of society in the distant past and among stone aged cultures proof that its a good idea or the right thing to do? Are we buying into the ludicrously exploded theories of Rousseau about the noble savage?

I'm reminded of watching an Australian show where this Asian guy talks about how amazing this society was that had no impact on their surroundings except a few cave paintings -- totally at one with nature! And the next narrator says "and they were wiped out, they no longer exist."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2023 06:42 PM (0hOvj)

26
David Bowie was a fruit. An eccentric queer, if you like.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 22, 2023 06:43 PM (8st8O)

27 Is there no end to the amount of absolute crankery, horseshit, lies, propaganda, delusions, and perversions of language, science, and history -- to say nothing of the wholesale rape by scalpel of children -- that we are expected to accept in order to make a tiny fraction of very aggressive mentally-ill people "feel seen"?

Posted by: Ace at 06:30 PM

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To ask is to have answered.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 22, 2023 06:43 PM (3m/gK)

28 U.S. combat deaths WW2 = 291,577 combat; 113,842 non-combat, total = 405,399

Posted by: Archer at March 22, 2023 06:43 PM (gmo/4)

29
btw, notice how the homo hockey fan accuses Normal People of the ones being "aggressive."

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 22, 2023 06:44 PM (8st8O)

30 I'll bet that some ancient societies did, very briefly, indulge trans stuff... after all, moral deviancy is very popular and shocking. I'm sure some societies that are very wicked indulged. Like I bet the Aztecs had a thing about it at some point...

Maybe not, though... just a one way trip to the altar, next to the screaming child they were ripping out the heart of. Something Planned Parenthood approves of, of course.

Posted by: GanGanowicz at March 22, 2023 06:44 PM (AxRGS)

31 I've heard it argued by gay people that the real reason God took out Sodom was not the gay, it was the inhospitality the people there were showing. God was more upset at the whole "we want to rape you!" bit.

...

Pretty sure the conversation with Abraham where God says hey I'm gonna flatten that place came first in the story. His mind was already made up that was just a little more detail on how messed up the sodomites were.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 22, 2023 06:44 PM (maMOn)

32 LOOK AT ME!!!!!

I AM GAY!!!!

I AM TRANS!!!!

I AM NUCKING FUTZ!!!!!

Posted by: Dylan at March 22, 2023 06:44 PM (Z32m1)

33 There's only no evidence of these mythic ghey tranny tribes because they somehow stopped having babies, dontcha know.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at March 22, 2023 06:45 PM (hhu8u)

34 Ancient Jews weren't primitive. By the time we encounter them in the Bible, they're far more advanced than their close relatives but tended to relapse into the same self-destructive behaviors. It's a repeated cycle of "doing the right thing and prospering" and "doing the wrong thing and collapsing".

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 22, 2023 06:45 PM (eYoxG)

35 I pretty sure that if you drop some flamboyant trannie into any primitive society around the world

Being beaten to death is the nicest thing that will happen to them.

I'm really tired of hearing stupid opinions from ignorant dickweeds with little or no real life experience.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 22, 2023 06:45 PM (L1tQx)

36
Democrat Totalitarians: We demand you honor this gay "pride" flag!

Normal People: Nah.

Democrat Totalitarians: Stop being aggressive!

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 22, 2023 06:46 PM (8st8O)

37 I've never been a sportsball fan. Pretty much despise it all in my 29 years of life.
It just never appealed to me.

Did have season tickets to the Portland Winterhawks years ago and the Anchorage Aces when they were active here.

Posted by: Bosk at March 22, 2023 06:46 PM (ZVuYy)

38 About twelve years ago I worked with a guy who had previously been employed by both the Colorado Avalanche and the Nashville Predators. If he was to be believed, a significant portion of NHL players are closeted.

Posted by: Bert G at March 22, 2023 06:47 PM (fF0pk)

39 Bob Hope once quipped that California made homosexuality legal and he was getting out before it became compulsory.
Little did he know at the time...

Posted by: gourmand du jour, waxing foolisophical at March 22, 2023 06:47 PM (jTmQV)

40 Pay close attention to the language that the left uses: that people are trying to "genocide" or "eliminate" cultures and peoples that you refuse to celebrate or endorse.

This is their standard, this is what it means to them. If you don't cheer, praise, and even promote splinter groups or you are trying to annihilate them.

Which explains to you what they want to do to YOU.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2023 06:47 PM (0hOvj)

41 The San Jose Sharks decided that they're not a hockey club, but a university LGBTQQIA2S+ support club, and permitted the weirdo who runs their Twitter account to make some astonishing claims about how primitive tribal civilizations around the world are not patriarchal at all, and definitely didn't enforce strict gender laws nor look askance at homosexuality, but in fact are even more Raw-Dog for Strange Sexualities than the Castro Street Parade.

Now do muslims.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 22, 2023 06:48 PM (9J956)

42 Ace we have to get you into e-sports now that you're not watching the other stuff.
Posted by: TexasDan at March 22, 2023 06:38 PM (maMOn)

That's all gay too, isn't it?

Posted by: blaster at March 22, 2023 06:48 PM (pwExq)

43 I'm going to get a Diet Sunkist while you apply cold compresses to your heads and necks.

Is this addendum to the Horde Emergency Treatment Protocols CDC-approved?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 22, 2023 06:48 PM (a3Q+t)

44 @38

>>a significant portion of NHL players are closeted.

Well, there are a lot of European players in the NHL, so there might be some merit to this.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 22, 2023 06:48 PM (up/3i)

45 And then there's Uganda; which already had homosexuality against the law but now include death penalty for the really weird stuff....like sex with kids.

Posted by: Russkilitlover at March 22, 2023 06:48 PM (iyVGU)

46
btw, the the bullshit lesson in fake tribal history reminds me of the bullshit years ago about all the "same-sex" animals.

Remember the fake "gay" penguins?

That was supposed to be a lesson in how homosexuality is "natural," and occurs "naturally" across species.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 22, 2023 06:48 PM (8st8O)

47 Is there no end to the amount of absolute crankery, horseshit, lies, propaganda, delusions, and perversions of language, science, and history -- to say nothing of the wholesale rape by scalpel of children -- that we are expected to accept in order to make a tiny fraction of very aggressive mentally-ill people "feel seen"?
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No, there isn't.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 22, 2023 06:48 PM (q0Hle)

48 So the Sharks jumped the shark... hey....

And is Reimer any relation to Brian or Bruce/David Reimer of Canada who were abused and in one case mutilated by Dr. John Money so he could claim and make money that performing sex reassignment on children is wonderfully possible?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2023 06:49 PM (5+0fa)

49 Also,+1 for using Genderfucks in a sentence.

I think it was SF who had some kind of welfare for whackos program and they had 4 pages of genders to choose from, and genderfuck was one of them.

Posted by: blaster at March 22, 2023 06:49 PM (pwExq)

50 Hey, All. Did ya miss me?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 22, 2023 06:50 PM (6uZ0Z)

51 Is there no end to the amount of absolute crankery, horseshit, lies, propaganda, delusions, and perversions of language, science, and history -- to say nothing of the wholesale rape by scalpel of children -- that we are expected to accept in order to make a tiny fraction of very aggressive mentally-ill people "feel seen"?

What can't go on forever, won't.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 22, 2023 06:50 PM (a3Q+t)

52 38 About twelve years ago I worked with a guy who had previously been employed by both the Colorado Avalanche and the Nashville Predators. If he was to be believed, a significant portion of NHL players are closeted.
Posted by: Bert G

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Hockey players are just a more butch version of Brian Boitano?

Posted by: rd at March 22, 2023 06:50 PM (Z32m1)

53 There's only no evidence of these mythic ghey tranny tribes because they somehow stopped having babies, dontcha know.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at March 22, 2023 06:45 PM (hhu8u)

Who knew?

Posted by: The Shakers at March 22, 2023 06:50 PM (emlEe)

54 so they're saying watching NHL will give you the hiv.

Posted by: x at March 22, 2023 06:50 PM (ZBPE2)

55 Someone was replying to that account with tales of a native South American tribe where they believe babies are made of semen and so when a woman becomes pregnant her husband lets the entire tribe have a go with her to make sure that the baby is big and strong. Which is much funnier.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 22, 2023 06:50 PM (X4R3E)

56 "Hockey is not for everyone until everyone is comfortable playing, working, or being a fan of this incredible game."

And the LGBTQs won't be comfortable until everyone wears their rainbow robes and bows before their flag. So you normies must sacrifice your comfort and convictions for us.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 22, 2023 06:50 PM (soxWr)

57 @52

>>Hockey players are just a more butch version of Brian Boitano?

And what would Brian Boitano do?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 22, 2023 06:51 PM (up/3i)

58 Hockey players are just a more butch version of Brian Boitano?
Posted by: rd

Old Brian sure could eat some chicken wings.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at March 22, 2023 06:51 PM (hhu8u)

59 Hey, naturalfake.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 22, 2023 06:51 PM (6uZ0Z)

60 CRT (and critical theory) is about destruction of functional traditional culture. They are flooding us with it, and racial conflict, along with the financial theft, the AG/FBI persecutions.

It is unrestricted warfare against America as Founded, and the heritage of our families. But we made these fluckers so rich with bailouts, graft, and schemes ... that they can buy everything and everyone in power, and demand all bend the knee ... kiss their unholy ring.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 22, 2023 06:51 PM (Cus5s)

61 In the 70s and 80s hockey was part of the big 4 of American sports.

You had the Bruins, Flyers and Cadanians. Then Gretzky.

Now hockey is an afterthought in the sports media.

Baseball is going the same way.

Now it's all NFL and NBA.

Posted by: JmT at March 22, 2023 06:52 PM (aYpFd)

62 It's not gay unless you're on the bottom. Or you swallow. Or smile. Or call him back.

Posted by: wth at March 22, 2023 06:52 PM (v0R5T)

63
Maybe later...
Maybe later...
We'll all be
Gaayy-aaa-ay

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at March 22, 2023 06:52 PM (iayUP)

64 What can't go on forever, won't.

It can go on a long time, though. Took nearly 100 years to kick the Soviets to the curb. Took about 100 years of hard work to end institutionalized slavery in the USA. Took about 10 years to end the Nazi regime, probably felt endless to people living in Germany.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2023 06:52 PM (0hOvj)

65 The aliens land here and say there was an advanced civilization but they queered themselves out of existence.

Posted by: blaster at March 22, 2023 06:52 PM (pwExq)

66 That was supposed to be a lesson in how homosexuality is "natural," and occurs "naturally" across species.

Posted by: Soothsayer

Humans are the only species that promote trans.

I don't know too many pools that are trying to become cows.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 22, 2023 06:52 PM (9J956)

67 55 Someone was replying to that account with tales of a native South American tribe where they believe babies are made of semen and so when a woman becomes pregnant her husband lets the entire tribe have a go with her to make sure that the baby is big and strong. Which is much funnier.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 22, 2023 06:50 PM (X4R3E)

There's all kinds of unusual things that primitive tribes believed (and insofar as they still exist, believe).

Most of them died out(or conquered by a smarter group if lucky) because their ideas were horribly wrong.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 22, 2023 06:53 PM (eYoxG)

68 Watched a minor league game last night with a fan of the MN Wild (their minor team was on the ice), he didn't even know about the kerfuffle there (the Wild players didn't wear the rainbow jersey in warm-up, or something equally earth-shaking, and oh so hockey-related).

And there was some russki NHLer who Played the Religious Belief Card (I keed, I keed) and wore his normal jersey in warm-ups.

I'd bet 1,000 quatloos that 99.7% of all NHL players don't think or care much about any of this, and are a bit bewildered about having to wear jerseys to "support" various "communities".

Though the *really* rich and perfect thing is the NHL going down the race-baiting road, about the league being too white. Imbecilic moral narcissism, and racism, have disfigured the society and culture beyond recognition.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 22, 2023 06:53 PM (OTzUX)

69 There's only no evidence of these mythic ghey tranny tribes because they somehow stopped having babies, dontcha know.

But you can dig up the bodies of the guys who thought they were women. All those skeletons are male.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2023 06:53 PM (0hOvj)

70 >>>And I know some people just love sports.

We were at a baseball clinic, with the little's getting some individual instruction. One asked, "what is your favorite MLB team." He seemed perplexed when I told him, "we don't watch much MLB. We mostly watch little league world series and Jomboy breakdowns."

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 22, 2023 06:53 PM (PyOKD)

71 And what would Brian Boitano do?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 22, 2023 06:51 PM (up/3i)

He'd surely kick an ass or two, that's what Brian Boitano would do.

Posted by: Bigger. Longer. Uncut. at March 22, 2023 06:54 PM (B0ahs)

72 Am I gonna have to slapshot a bitch?

Posted by: Bobby Orr at March 22, 2023 06:54 PM (sWM8x)

73 About twelve years ago I worked with a guy who had previously been employed by both the Colorado Avalanche and the Nashville Predators. If he was to be believed, a significant portion of NHL players are closeted.
Posted by: Bert G

Brings a whole nuther meaning to 'high sticking'.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 22, 2023 06:54 PM (qoGsy)

74
Hey! Hey! Bulgaroctonus.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 22, 2023 06:54 PM (L1tQx)

75 It's not gay unless you're on the bottom. Or you swallow. Or smile. Or call him back.
Posted by: wth

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So reverse Cowboy with a reach around for you isn't Gay?

Asking for a friend?

Posted by: rd at March 22, 2023 06:55 PM (Z32m1)

76 Chat AI may be the next big thing, but fix Siri voice to text first.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 22, 2023 06:55 PM (9J956)

77 21 Didn't the jersey sales for Reimer jump after this as well?
Posted by: Flyguy

Yes. In fact, some of the other NHL pro's that have respectfully declined to wear the rainbow mafia colors also had sales in their jerseys jump. It's been underreported (as in not reported at all).

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 22, 2023 06:55 PM (fWTJL)

78 Though the *really* rich and perfect thing is the NHL going down the race-baiting road, about the league being too white. Imbecilic moral narcissism, and racism, have disfigured the society and culture beyond recognition.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 22, 2023 06:53 PM (OTzUX)

That's like complaining the Water Polo Team doesn't have enough black dudes.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 22, 2023 06:55 PM (PyOKD)

79 "Rabbi". He keeps using that word....

Posted by: Inigo Montoya at March 22, 2023 06:55 PM (Wnv9h)

80 Bob Hope once quipped that California made homosexuality legal and he was getting out before it became compulsory.
Little did he know at the time...
Posted by: gourmand du jour, waxing foolisophical at March 22, 2023 06:47 PM (jTmQV)

I'm sure he knew quite well.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 22, 2023 06:56 PM (eoQWY)

81 Nonbinary rabbi. Not kosher.

Posted by: runner at March 22, 2023 06:56 PM (V13WU)

82 My biggest problem with all this is that, like with the vaccine, the objection is framed as only justified because of religion.

No, the objection should be based on logic, reality, morality, what is best for society, what is best for individuals, etc. That is probably the basis of the religious objections as well.

Framing it as a religious issue makes it easy to dismiss, but more important it ignores the harm that all this shit does to everyone, everywhere.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 22, 2023 06:56 PM (+QL0u)

83 Now that they have gheyed the NHL, it is the Sportspocalypse, the complete destruction of every major pro sport as we've known them.

Posted by: Faggerdammerung is upon us at March 22, 2023 06:56 PM (B0ahs)

84 Too bad the Russian teams can't slapshot these rainbow warriors...

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2023 06:56 PM (5+0fa)

85 Do gay people ever talk about anything other than themselves and being gay?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 22, 2023 06:56 PM (b4o9z)

86 Hockey players are just a more butch version of Brian Boitano?
Posted by: rd

Hockey players are maybe the toughest ones out there. Many of the NBA stars don't play most of the games.

Posted by: JmT at March 22, 2023 06:57 PM (aYpFd)

87 What the world needs is an app for digital TV sets that automatically renders rainbow anything to splotches of turd brown. Whoever invents it will be sitting on a gold mine.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 22, 2023 06:57 PM (tkR6S)

88 Jimmy Dean sausage.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BG1eq28gbrw

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 22, 2023 06:57 PM (FVME7)

89 Posted by: Bigger. Longer. Uncut. at March 22, 2023 06:54 PM

Two out of three, how you say, isn't bad.

Posted by: Paolo at March 22, 2023 06:57 PM (a3Q+t)

90 Other 'civilizations'? I suppose that slavery, cannibalism, and human sacrifice might be justified by the same rationalization.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 22, 2023 06:57 PM (6d1ps)

91 Do gay people ever talk about anything other than themselves and being gay?

==

Yes ! They talk about other people talking about them being ghey.

Posted by: runner at March 22, 2023 06:58 PM (V13WU)

92 Took about 10 years to end the Nazi regime, probably felt endless to people living in Germany.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2023 06:52 PM (0hOvj)
No, most Krauts were big supporters. That is, until the Russkies were giving them meat enemas.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 22, 2023 06:58 PM (pohLc)

93 Shut up and skate.

Posted by: sven at March 22, 2023 06:58 PM (Lzpvj)

94 Non-binary Rabbi?

And we Catholics complain about Cafeteria Catholics

Sheesh, talk about a JINO yeah the non-binary Rabbi.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2023 06:58 PM (5+0fa)

95 61 In the 70s and 80s hockey was part of the big 4 of American sports.

You had the Bruins, Flyers and Cadanians. Then Gretzky.

Now hockey is an afterthought in the sports media.

Baseball is going the same way.

Now it's all NFL and NBA.
Posted by: JmT

You can remove the NBA too. NFL and College Football.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 22, 2023 06:58 PM (fWTJL)

96 Is there no end to the amount of absolute crankery, horseshit, lies, propaganda, delusions, and perversions of language, science, and history -- to say nothing of the wholesale rape by scalpel of children -- that we are expected to accept in order to make a tiny fraction of very aggressive mentally-ill people "feel seen"? //

No, because the objective of the Leftist Command Group is not to make a tiny fraction of very aggressive mentally-ill people "feel seen". The objective is demoralizing and oppressing the non-Leftists by any and all means.

Posted by: Gref at March 22, 2023 06:58 PM (AMIL/)

97 Do gay people ever talk about anything other than themselves and being gay?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Pray you never meet a vegetarian gay.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 22, 2023 06:59 PM (FVME7)

98 Diet Sunkist now enters the lexicon.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 22, 2023 06:59 PM (zZu0s)

99 Do gay people ever talk about anything other than themselves and being gay?

I knew a gay dude when I was younger, and he pretty well kept it to himself, just like the normal guys didn't go around talking about how they were normal and loved to have sex with chicks. It wasn't polite conversation, it just didn't come up.

But not many seem to be that way, in my experience.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2023 06:59 PM (0hOvj)

100 "Hockey is not for everyone until everyone is comfortable playing, working, or being a fan of this incredible game."

Huh...?
That could be taken as a threat.
Hey hockey, what ya gonna do when I refuse to become a fan of your incredible game?

Posted by: Diogenes at March 22, 2023 06:59 PM (anj39)

101 Do gay people ever talk about anything other than themselves and being gay?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 22, 2023 06:56 PM (b4o9z)

They do seem to have a thing for Pimento Loaf sandwiches and the best places to get Pimento Loaf Sandwiches, but other than that-

No. No, they don't.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 22, 2023 06:59 PM (L1tQx)

102 The only skaters I remember are Tai Babilonia, Linda Fratianne, and Nancy Kerrigan. And that other bitch who tried to whack Kerrigan.

I wouldn’t have kicked any of them out of bed for eating crackers.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 22, 2023 06:59 PM (6uZ0Z)

103 Notice how that goalie's statement (and I'm guessing it's his own words, the guy's intelligent and articulate - and if you play hockey you know goalies are more known for, well, being weird) contains a simple and perfect and normal expression of respect for everyone and ill will towards none.

That's really all there is to say.

The narcissism raging through (segments of) western society (but mostly American, actually) is amazing in its own right. But the way it is being indulged is pathetic, and destructive.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 22, 2023 06:59 PM (OTzUX)

104 human sacrifice

Tom Kratman wrote about such allowing the Aztecs to perform such since it was the Aztec tradition...

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2023 06:59 PM (5+0fa)

105 Navy: It's not gay if you're underway.
It's only queer if you're at the pier.

Pro Sports: It's only gay if you play.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 22, 2023 06:59 PM (9J956)

106 Bulgaroctonus, um, Katarina Witt ......

(and the Japanese-American from LA, pretty delicious)

Posted by: rhomboid at March 22, 2023 07:00 PM (OTzUX)

107 No, most Krauts were big supporters.

Sure, but that doesn't mean EVERYONE loved it and wanted things to keep going this way. There were good people who were horrified and prayed for this evil regime to end. That didn't want their children raised in evil, hateful government schools, etc. And it felt like it would never end for a while there. Germany was winning.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2023 07:00 PM (0hOvj)

108 Oh, primative cultures are role models now? I expect not to be hearing from women ever again then, provided we can figure out who is in fact a woman.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 22, 2023 07:00 PM (ppBhU)

109 Do gay people ever talk about anything other than themselves and being gay?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Nope. It is inserted (!!) into every conversation.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 22, 2023 07:00 PM (qoGsy)

110 What can't go on forever, won't.

It can go on a long time, though. Took nearly 100 years to kick the Soviets to the curb. Took about 100 years of hard work to end institutionalized slavery in the USA. Took about 10 years to end the Nazi regime, probably felt endless to people living in Germany.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

====================

I am hoping that in 20-40 years we treat these trans-obsessive butchering doctors and nurses like we treated Dr. Mengele. We will need another Simon Wiesenthal to track them down.

Posted by: rd at March 22, 2023 07:00 PM (Z32m1)

111 There's only no evidence of these mythic ghey tranny tribes because they somehow stopped having babies, dontcha know.

But you can dig up the bodies of the guys who thought they were women. All those skeletons are male.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2023 06:53 PM (0hOvj)
----
Interesting point. When archaeologists dig up a mass burial of child skeletons, do they go through and attempt to identify which bones belong to transkids? Or do they just label them as "male" and "female" because that's how the bones present themselves?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 22, 2023 07:01 PM (BpYfr)

112 92 Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 22, 2023 06:58 PM (pohLc)

1) fuck Nazis

2) getting a maximum of 33.5% in the last serious contested election in Germany is hardly "most Germans."

3) Germans who decided "fuck it let the good times roll" on a national pride scale when the die was cast were not all vociferous Nazis.

4) If the rest of the planet woke up one day from this insanity and bombed the unholy fuck out of America neutering us and as was done to the Prussians making certain America would never be a collective force in world affairs again period I would not be happy being cast in as an Obama loving, genital mutilating agent of globohomo....

I grant the Germans the same space.

Posted by: sven at March 22, 2023 07:01 PM (Lzpvj)

113 human sacrifice

Tom Kratman wrote about such allowing the Aztecs to perform such since it was the Aztec tradition...
Posted by: Anna Puma

So if my wife gets her native American tribal card, we can have slaves?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 22, 2023 07:01 PM (9J956)

114 I wouldn’t have kicked any of them out of bed for eating crackers.

Tonya Harding would have eaten crackers in bed, but made up for it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2023 07:01 PM (0hOvj)

115 Pray you never meet a vegetarian gay.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Even worse - Vegetarian Crossfiter gay.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 22, 2023 07:01 PM (qoGsy)

116 Being gay or lesbian in African societies is taboo, usually strictly enforced under pain of death. Now go and explain that away SJSharks.

Posted by: Ciampino --- unbushed was smelly at March 22, 2023 07:01 PM (qfLjt)

117 Yes. In fact, some of the other NHL pro's that have respectfully declined to wear the rainbow mafia colors also had sales in their jerseys jump. It's been underreported (as in not reported at all).
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 22, 2023 06:55 PM (fWTJL)

If a fan buys a Reimer jersey, does Reimer get a cut of the sale, or does all the money go to the league and/or the team?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 22, 2023 07:01 PM (tkR6S)

118 Pimento Loaf?

No uh love for Spotted Dick?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2023 07:01 PM (5+0fa)

119 Diet Sunkist. Sunkist is the fizzy one, right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 22, 2023 07:02 PM (zZu0s)

120 118 Pimento Loaf?

No uh love for Spotted Dick?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2023 07:01 PM (5+0fa)

Head Cheese.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 22, 2023 07:02 PM (zZu0s)

121 Bob Hope once quipped that California made homosexuality legal and he was getting out before it became compulsory.
Little did he know at the time...
Posted by: gourmand du jour, waxing foolisophical at March 22, 2023 06:47 PM (jTmQV)

GLAAD (remember them?) at the time freaked out and wrote Bob a letter about how the poor homos are being repressed, marginalized and bullied. Bob apologized, and not only that, suggested they do a PSA. When they said they didn't have the funding, Bob paid for the PSA (violence against poofdas).

https://youtu.be/ie_L2ylmRSY

I bet he'd be surprised at a lot of things. The biggest lesson: never apologize

Posted by: clutch cargo | now with 100% autocorrect. at March 22, 2023 07:02 PM (zB/T/)

122 106 I don’t personally remember Katarina Witt. Paging Google image search…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 22, 2023 07:02 PM (6uZ0Z)

123 Being gay or lesbian in African societies is taboo, usually strictly enforced under pain of death. Now go and explain that away SJSharks.
Posted by: Ciampino --- unbushed was smelly at March 22, 2023 07:01 PM (qfLjt)

White Supremacy or Colonialism. You know, the usual.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 22, 2023 07:03 PM (eoQWY)

124 * inserts personal image of Satan *

"Will no one rid us of this meddlesome beast?"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 22, 2023 07:03 PM (PwgoT)

125
Even worse - Vegetarian Crossfiter gay.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 22, 2023 07:01 PM (qoGsy)

huh, I did not know Paul Ryan was a vegetarian.

Posted by: runner at March 22, 2023 07:03 PM (V13WU)

126 human sacrifice

Tom Kratman wrote about such allowing the Aztecs to perform such since it was the Aztec tradition...
Posted by: Anna Puma

Druids too. It was part of his Nova Terra / Carrera-verse series.

Posted by: rd at March 22, 2023 07:03 PM (Z32m1)

127 Who was the ice skater with the massive... tracts of land? H something? Or was that a tennis player?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 22, 2023 07:03 PM (zZu0s)

128 >>"Our hope is that this content will serve as a reminder that there are issues more important than goals, highlights and wins.

I thought a pro sports team's entire purpose was 'goals, highlights and wins'.

Huh. Turns out, it's sex stuff. Who knew?

Posted by: DB - monitoring the situation at March 22, 2023 07:04 PM (geLO8)

129 so, are these guys high sticking in the showers ?

Posted by: REDACTED at March 22, 2023 07:04 PM (us2H3)

130 No, most Krauts were big supporters.

-
But after the war none of them had been. In fact, all Germans were actually Austrians.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 22, 2023 07:04 PM (FVME7)

131 Cross fitters are worse than me with the exercise stuff and I am admittedly pretty bad.

Posted by: Piper at March 22, 2023 07:04 PM (ZdaMQ)

132 Do gay people ever talk about anything other than themselves and being gay?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 22, 2023 06:56 PM (b4o9z)

Other than whites they all preface everything with their identity.

Watch any TV show and everyone non-white will say as a fill-in-the blank I represent this or that.

Posted by: JmT at March 22, 2023 07:04 PM (aYpFd)

133 Pray you never meet a vegetarian gay.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 22, 2023 06:59 PM (FVME7)

Who went to Harvard and does crossfit.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 22, 2023 07:05 PM (Wnv9h)

134 OK, Katarina Witt, too. Google image search would indicate that she was pretty topheavy for a skater.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 22, 2023 07:05 PM (6uZ0Z)

135 > I don’t personally remember Katarina Witt. Paging Google image search…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

don't look for her Playboy shoot

Posted by: DB - monitoring the situation at March 22, 2023 07:05 PM (geLO8)

136 https://tinyurl.com/mtbu5b85
20 Tweets from Bad Blue
#19 a gender confused teacher pushes her confusion onto kids

Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2023 07:05 PM (xhxe8)

137 131 Cross fitters are worse than me with the exercise stuff and I am admittedly pretty bad.
Posted by: Piper at March 22, 2023 07:04 PM (ZdaMQ)

Converts are usually more zealous than cradle.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 22, 2023 07:05 PM (zZu0s)

138 I don’t personally remember Katarina Witt. Paging Google image search…
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 22, 2023 07:02 PM (6uZ0Z)

I guess we won't be seeing Bulgaroctonus for awhile...

Posted by: Diogenes at March 22, 2023 07:05 PM (anj39)

139 Katerina Witt was pretty stacked, so was Michelle Kwan

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2023 07:05 PM (0hOvj)

140 No, most Krauts were big supporters.

-
But after the war none of them had been. In fact, all Germans were actually Austrians.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 22, 2023 07:04 PM (FVME7)

No, no, no that's where the Corporal came from. Bavarians! Lederhosen and big beer mugs!

Posted by: Oldcat at March 22, 2023 07:05 PM (eoQWY)

141
Pray you never meet a vegetarian gay.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Even worse - Vegetarian Crossfiter gay.
Posted by: Tonypete

Vegetarian Crossfitter gay who works for Amway

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 22, 2023 07:05 PM (n+4am)

142 eing gay or lesbian in African societies is taboo, usually strictly enforced under pain of death. Now go and explain that away SJSharks.
Posted by: Ciampino --- unbushed was smelly at March 22, 2023 07:01 PM (qfLjt)

White Supremacy or Colonialism. You know, the usual.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 22, 2023 07:03 PM (eoQWY)

===================

Worse! Christians! Especially in the Muslim North Nigeria.

Posted by: rd at March 22, 2023 07:05 PM (Z32m1)

143 Sunkist has caffeine, if you didn't know. Surprising but true

Posted by: ace the Muxe Gender at March 22, 2023 07:06 PM (BvUNN)

144 There is no such thing as trans. There is only mental illness.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 22, 2023 07:06 PM (+Eun6)

145 They are ruining anything they can, this is the point. It doesn't really have anything to do with the gheys insofar as they are a mechanism or tool.

The process is the punishment. Professional sports were long a refuge from the culture wars, PC, "woke" and the rest of it. No longer. If they can destroy the industry, so much the better.

This is why it is the mark of the naïve when they say "why can't they form their own hockey team" (or Boy Scouts, or Football team, or Brigade).

Posted by: Common Tater at March 22, 2023 07:06 PM (z7fHM)

146 Puddleglum, yep (about the otkazniki - refuseniks, hey, I think I've made the perfect little subtle cross-borrowing of terms there!) - about the jersey sales.

"Gentlemen", I tend to agree. It's not that a religious objection is any less to be respected, but it's sort of a narrow basis. Though if these guys object for that reason, then fine.

The "broader" issue is how TFF are "celebrating" and "honoring" and "pride" related to peoples' private lives and druthers part of public life, at all?

Posted by: rhomboid at March 22, 2023 07:06 PM (OTzUX)

147 Thank God Powell understands his job unlike the rest of the Biden idiots.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 22, 2023 07:06 PM (oWBc3)

148 The muxe gender is a respected third gender in Zapotec cultures in Oaxaca,

Were those the ones that ripped prisoner's hearts out of their chests? Or the ones that would torture children to death to "honor" the rain god?

Posted by: 18 at March 22, 2023 07:06 PM (lc5cP)

149 >>Do gay people ever talk about anything other than themselves and being gay?

Out: the love that dare not speak its name
In: the love that JUST. WON'T. SHUT. UP.

(old joke)

Posted by: DB - monitoring the situation at March 22, 2023 07:06 PM (geLO8)

150 Vegetarian Crossfitter gay who works for Amway
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 22, 2023 07:05 PM (n+4am)

Atheist Vegan Mensa Crossfitter Gay.
-the Singularity

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 22, 2023 07:06 PM (zZu0s)

151 Can we dance wif yo skaters?

Posted by: Primitive Cultures at March 22, 2023 07:06 PM (sWM8x)

152 Dear Sharks,

Re:Ancient cultures. One time Zeus and Hera got in a row over who had the better sex, men or women. There was one person they could ask.

Tiresias. Because this fellow had lived seven years as a woman after striking two entwined snakes. So instant sex change from male to female. Tiresias had to wait SEVEN years before spying the snakes again. Being no fool she struck at them and became male again.

Tiresias said it was men who had it better. Hera became furious and struck him blind. Zeus could not undue what Hera had wrought so he gifted Tiresias with the ability of prophecy.

Thus ends the story.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2023 07:06 PM (5+0fa)

153 The Bigfoot people have many genders.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 22, 2023 07:07 PM (63Dwl)

154 143 Sunkist has caffeine, if you didn't know. Surprising but true
Posted by: ace the Muxe Gender at March 22, 2023 07:06 PM (BvUNN)

Caffeinated crap is still crap, ace.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 22, 2023 07:07 PM (zZu0s)

155 Here's an idea, let's paint the rainbow flag on a busy street intersection then get all bent out of shape when people deface it by driving on it!

Posted by: gourmand du jour, waxing foolisophical at March 22, 2023 07:07 PM (jTmQV)

156 > The muxe gender is a respected third gender in Zapotec cultures in Oaxaca

I thought it was a multiplexer

Posted by: DB - monitoring the situation at March 22, 2023 07:08 PM (geLO8)

157 There is no such thing as trans. There is only mental illness.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 22, 2023 07:06 PM (+Eun6)

And grifting. I don't think you can necessarily call the ones who make bank on it but don't chop themselves up mentally ill. And a lot of the bullying enforcers seem to healthy and beefy to be cut up and stuffed full of drugs to me.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 22, 2023 07:08 PM (eoQWY)

158 Zeus was a cad, but he was kind of a pansy too, terrified of his wife all the time. I mean she had good reason to be mad at him but he always had to hide it and try to trick her.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2023 07:08 PM (0hOvj)

159 The San Jose Sharks are just half steppin and want points for supporting the sodomites.

Well, change your name then. Go all out cowards.

San Jose Sodomites has a nice ring to it.

Now for their mascot logo...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 22, 2023 07:08 PM (R/m4+)

160 you may know they're wrong about ghey shit, but is it worth losing your job and everything you own and being tossed into solitary confinement for 3 years and being forced to plea to a fact pattern that your girlfriend got dicked by Ricky Powell?

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 22, 2023 07:08 PM (MLrvz)

161 >Do gay people ever talk about anything other than themselves and being gay?

they like to talk about felching

but then, who doesn't

Posted by: REDACTED at March 22, 2023 07:08 PM (us2H3)

162 111 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 22, 2023 07:01 PM (BpYfr)

Societies that quit having babies die out in about 75-150 years.

Plaintiff's exhibit one from my home region the Shakers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakers

There are a bunch of PhDs who need their degrees stripped and sent to the insane asylum.

Posted by: sven at March 22, 2023 07:09 PM (Lzpvj)

163 Besides, Hera slept around on Zeus too with cute boys.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2023 07:09 PM (0hOvj)

164 so, uh, hockey's gay, huh

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 22, 2023 07:09 PM (MLrvz)

165 Yeah, it was Simona Halep who was the tennis player I was thinking of.

https://is.gd/myNFSY

Uh, don't open that at work.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 22, 2023 07:09 PM (zZu0s)

166 Well, that should pretty much finish off the Sharks.

Posted by: t-bird at March 22, 2023 07:09 PM (Sv58p)

167 how bout someone says, "nah, fuck them gays, i don't even like Jesus or Mohammad, I just sick of this shit"

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 22, 2023 07:09 PM (MLrvz)

168 152 Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2023 07:06 PM (5+0fa)

No Greek on Earth would have bought that nailing a male's backside would create life.

Posted by: sven at March 22, 2023 07:09 PM (Lzpvj)

169 163 Besides, Hera slept around on Zeus too with cute boys.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2023 07:09 PM (0hOvj)

Did Hera turn herself into farm animals for the assignations though?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 22, 2023 07:10 PM (zZu0s)

170 "Tom Kratman wrote about such allowing the Aztecs to perform such since it was the Aztec tradition...
Posted by: Anna Puma

Druids too. It was part of his Nova Terra / Carrera-verse series.
Posted by: rd"

Now that you mention it, some of our ancestors traditionaly had slaves. So...

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at March 22, 2023 07:10 PM (iayUP)

171 Here's an idea, let's paint the rainbow flag on a busy street intersection then get all bent out of shape when people deface it by driving on it!

Posted by: gourmand du jour

already happened
https://tinyurl.com/57btmp78

Posted by: DB - monitoring the situation at March 22, 2023 07:10 PM (geLO8)

172 95 61 In the 70s and 80s hockey was part of the big 4 of American sports.

You had the Bruins, Flyers and Cadanians. Then Gretzky.

Now hockey is an afterthought in the sports media.

Baseball is going the same way.

Now it's all NFL and NBA.
Posted by: JmT

You can remove the NBA too. NFL and College Football.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 22, 2023 06:58 PM (fWTJL)

By the mid-80s, the NHL was gaining a lot of fans in the US due to a lot of games shown on ESPN. That made NHL owners believe they could make a ton of money by setting-up their own US subscription cable channel, rather than renewing the ESPN contract.

Perhaps the biggest business mistake ever made by a pro sports league. Most of the new fans and many of the original fans in non-NHL cities didn't pay to watch NHL on TV in the US. The NHL became a sort of semi-pro sport in the minds of most Americans.

Posted by: Gref at March 22, 2023 07:10 PM (AMIL/)

173 yes, well, you see, the norse people have a profound love for trannies because loki turned into a horse and got pregnant from a dude horse and gave birth to a wolf.

bigot.

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 22, 2023 07:10 PM (MLrvz)

174 They want to sodomize your children in broad daylight and make you like it, if you don't they kill you. Well guess what, they kill you anyway.

Posted by: Eromero at March 22, 2023 07:10 PM (MF3yS)

175 Simona Halep was the tennis player who had such huge boobs she had them sig reduced to a still nice size.

Posted by: Thesokorus at March 22, 2023 07:10 PM (1ais2)

176 There is no such thing as trans. There is only mental illness.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 22, 2023 07:06 PM

Ben Had nails it. Put it on a t-shirt and shut the thread down.

Or, we could just keep mocking them.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 22, 2023 07:10 PM (Wnv9h)

177 Or, we could just keep mocking them.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 22, 2023 07:10 PM (Wnv9h)

I second continued mockery!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 22, 2023 07:11 PM (zZu0s)

178 I thought it was a multiplexer
Posted by: DB - monitoring the situation at March 22, 2023 07:08 PM (geLO

sometimes you need to use a gender-bender to connect a serial cable to a muxer.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 22, 2023 07:11 PM (tkR6S)

179 Ganymede was a wine pourer, not a lover. So Zeus - straight.

Posted by: runner at March 22, 2023 07:11 PM (V13WU)

180 Here's an idea, let's paint the rainbow flag on a busy street intersection then get all bent out of shape when people deface it by driving on it!
Posted by: gourmand du jour, waxing foolisophical at March 22, 2023 07:07 PM (jTmQV)

The thing is in some cities are run by people so stupid they'd actually block off the intersection, have public meetings about it, and then close it permanently so it could become an Intersection for All Peoples.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 22, 2023 07:11 PM (anj39)

181 I’m grateful you cover this topic, Ace, even though it turns my stomach. I actually had to skip your thread this morning about the mom who abused her own son by turning him into a girl via mutilation. Stomach turning…. It’s almost like, I don’t know, demons actually exist and influence humans to commit evil…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 22, 2023 07:12 PM (xT8gx)

182 Speaking of annoying people, I don’t drink soda (shock! surprise!). I do love a good San Pellegrino for my fizzy drink fix, and when I am feeling extra and like I want a soda, I had about 1/4 cup of orange juice, peach nectar or guava juice. Really yummy!

Okay, back to talking about people who are obnoxious.

Posted by: Piper at March 22, 2023 07:12 PM (ZdaMQ)

183 The muxe gender is a respected third gender in Zapotec cultures in Oaxaca

Wanna bet?

Posted by: t-bird at March 22, 2023 07:12 PM (Sv58p)

184
Why the fuck should I give a shit about gender orientation in a tiny, insignificant culture that died out over 600 years ago? I mean, even if I cared about 3rd through 287th modern gender orientations, IT'S A DEAD CULTURE. It has nothing to do with modern civilization.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 22, 2023 07:12 PM (n+4am)

185 sorry, that link is behind a paywall
f***ers

Posted by: DB - monitoring the situation at March 22, 2023 07:12 PM (geLO8)

186 Zeus was a cad, but he was kind of a pansy too, terrified of his wife all the time. I mean she had good reason to be mad at him but he always had to hide it and try to trick her.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2023 07:08 PM (0hOvj)

Yes, the dumbest thing Feminists have ever said is the Patriarchy. There's universally stories of the gods themselves being henpecked and influenced by women all over the world in all times. There others stuff is bad, but the historical stupidity of Patriarchy theory tops the list.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 22, 2023 07:12 PM (eoQWY)

187 169 163 Besides, Hera slept around on Zeus too with cute boys.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2023 07:09 PM (0hOvj)

Did Hera turn herself into farm animals for the assignations though?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 22, 2023 07:10 PM (zZu0s)

Zeus didn't go around spying on her so much so less need for disguises.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 22, 2023 07:13 PM (eYoxG)

188 I read something by Kratman... Watch along the Rhine? About a Nazi SS unit revived to fight Aliens.

It was... interesting, but gimmicky.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 22, 2023 07:13 PM (zZu0s)

189 The muxe gender is a respected third gender in Zapotec cultures in Oaxaca

////////

then move your team to Oaxaca

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 22, 2023 07:13 PM (MLrvz)

190 So last night's game went exactly to my specifications. Good end-to-end action, no stupid "fights", regulation tie leading to exciting 3-on-3 over-time, leading to a shoot-out. Showcasing hockey's (potential, sometimes realized) absolute top potential as an exciting and dramatic team sport.

And watching KHL (Russian league) championship highlights (the "Gagarin Cup") has been fun. Bigger ice surface, more room behind the net, and players are smaller. Not "small", but yikes the size of so many hockey players now in North America. They're yuuge. Combined with a smaller rink and a primitive dominant style (dump and chase) ..... far less interesting or exciting.

I had my group watch last night for any "checking" that occurred within the long rectangle defined by the space between the four in-zone faceoff circles (i.e., open ice, away from the boards). We counted .... one. One. As the raw athletic horsepower of hockey players (as every other sport) has rocketed up in the modern era, the quality of the game ..... not so much.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 22, 2023 07:13 PM (OTzUX)

191 182 Speaking of annoying people, I don’t drink soda (shock! surprise!). I do love a good San Pellegrino for my fizzy drink fix, and when I am feeling extra and like I want a soda, I had about 1/4 cup of orange juice, peach nectar or guava juice. Really yummy!

Okay, back to talking about people who are obnoxious.
Posted by: Piper at March 22, 2023 07:12 PM (ZdaMQ)

*golflcap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 22, 2023 07:13 PM (zZu0s)

192 The thing is in some cities are run by people so stupid they'd actually block off the intersection, have public meetings about it, and then close it permanently so it could become an Intersection for All Peoples.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 22, 2023 07:11 PM

So...intersectionality?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 22, 2023 07:14 PM (Wnv9h)

193 Surprised none of these 4th Wave Femi-nazis have written a story where Hera knocks Zeus off his throne.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2023 07:14 PM (5+0fa)

194 Did Hera turn herself into farm animals for the assignations though?

Nah. One of the weirder parts of art history is the sculptures and paintings of Zeus' various liaisons. Its basically an excuse to do really kinky porn. There are dozens of paintings of Zeus and Leda, with him as a swan, and its pretty graphic stuff. Painted by brilliant artists and hung on the walls of mansions.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2023 07:15 PM (0hOvj)

195 BREAKING: 2018 letter states Michael Cohen paid Stormy Daniels with his own funds, Trump did NOT reimburse
"Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed Mr. Cohen for the payment directly or indirectly," the letter read.

https://tinyurl.com/mt6e3x42

Posted by: redridinghood at March 22, 2023 07:15 PM (NpAcC)

196 Why is hockey going gay? Very confused here.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 22, 2023 07:15 PM (oWBc3)

197 191 182 Posted by: Aetius451AD

The first step is admitting it, right?

Posted by: Piper at March 22, 2023 07:16 PM (ZdaMQ)

198 Perhaps the biggest business mistake ever made by a pro sports league. Most of the new fans and many of the original fans in non-NHL cities didn't pay to watch NHL on TV in the US. The NHL became a sort of semi-pro sport in the minds of most Americans.
Posted by: Gref at March 22, 2023 07:10 PM (AMIL/)

They were also the poster child league for over expansion and too deep playoffs. In the 80s, 16 of 21 teams made the playoffs. Then they added more teams in cities that didn't much care about hockey. Chicago, Boston, Philly, Buffalo, and about as many Canadian cities were real hockey mad towns.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 22, 2023 07:16 PM (eoQWY)

199 >>Do gay people ever talk about anything other than themselves and being gay?

Sometimes they talk about obscure diet sodas.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2023 07:16 PM (ZLI7S)

200 At this point, accepting the forced wearing of the (perverted) rainbow colors is kinda like how the Muslims claim that if you say a certain phrase (they did this for school kids iirc) ... then you Are Muslim.

So be it, all the more reason to not bow to their religious zealotry. But it is not really religious, it is Anti-Christian. Their point is that Christians are the "haters" and you must bend the knee to Their Religion. So that gives the impetus for the Just Say No to kissing their ring (or to kissing anything else they demand).

JJ had some link to why Satanism is not a religion, it is anti-Christian ... a hate for a (dominant) religion.

And in my view, Christianity WAS the founders religion, the "reason for the treason" against The Crown. Individual Liberty, not loyalty to a government that claimed to represent God. (which is basically blasphemy)

Posted by: illiniwek at March 22, 2023 07:16 PM (Cus5s)

201 Watch on the Rhine was Kratman and Ringo. War against the Posleen.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2023 07:16 PM (5+0fa)

202 "The Ninauposkitzipxpe were honored as a third gender in the North Peigan tribe of the Blackfoot Confederacy in northern Montana and Southern Alberta, Canada.
"In some Native American cultures, the umbrella term to describe a third gender is "two-spirit." In South Asia, it's hijras. In Thailand, it's kathoeys. In Ethiopia, it's ashtime. In Polynesia, it's fa'afafine. And many more."

***

"They were honored..."

Yes, Stone Age tribes are notoriously famous for honoring people who are different and expect to be fed without doing anything to contribute to the tribe's numbers.

These nut jobs always come up with some random meaningless little bit of trivia that they can tie into the fact that they're crazier than a shithouse rat.

I can't tell you how many times I've heard some pinhead respond to the statement 'men can't have babies' with a 2-hour dissertation on seahorses.

Posted by: Azathoth at March 22, 2023 07:16 PM (wb1YC)

203 Do gay people ever talk about anything other than themselves and being gay?

Sometimes they talk about obscure diet sodas.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2023 07:16 PM

Ace! Close that tab!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 22, 2023 07:17 PM (Wnv9h)

204 I’ve never understood the physics of ice-skating — how the human body can be supported on a few thin blades. I could never do it.

How women manage to do it so well, with their boobs, just flabbergasts me.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 22, 2023 07:17 PM (6uZ0Z)

205 Hera was a goddess on the level of Zeus. You don't mess with a goddess no matter who you are.

Posted by: fd at March 22, 2023 07:17 PM (iayUP)

206 >>>
Re:Ancient cultures. One time Zeus and Hera got in a row over who had the better sex, men or women. There was one person they could ask.

Tiresias. Because this fellow had lived seven years as a woman after striking two entwined snakes. So instant sex change from male to female. Tiresias had to wait SEVEN years before spying the snakes again. Being no fool she struck at them and became male again.

Tiresias said it was men who had it better. Hera became furious and struck him blind. Zeus could not undue what Hera had wrought so he gifted Tiresias with the ability of prophecy.

...

I just heard of Tiresias on Jonathan Creek.

Posted by: ace the Muxe Gender at March 22, 2023 07:17 PM (BvUNN)

207 come to think of it, pretty much all Greek gods were straight. Or virginal (Athena). Ghey was a human folly. When gods wanted to punish , they made mortals ghey - Narcissus.

Posted by: runner at March 22, 2023 07:17 PM (V13WU)

208 199 >>Do gay people ever talk about anything other than themselves and being gay?

Sometimes they talk about obscure diet sodas.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2023 07:16 PM (ZLI7S)

Pomac !!

Posted by: REDACTED at March 22, 2023 07:17 PM (us2H3)

209 BREAKING: 2018 letter states Michael Cohen paid Stormy Daniels with his own funds, Trump did NOT reimburse
"Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed Mr. Cohen for the payment directly or indirectly," the letter read.

https://tinyurl.com/mt6e3x42
Posted by: redridinghood
__________________

I don't get it. Why would Cohen use his own money?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 22, 2023 07:18 PM (CcoDx)

210 Kristi Yamaguchi, that's it. I think I once played in her home rink up in the LA area as a teenager.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 22, 2023 07:18 PM (OTzUX)

211 Radical trans activists to join forces with Antifa for Trans Day of Vengeance event in DC

https://is.gd/Dt7qfw

It's time the cops start using proper force. They did on Jan 6.

Posted by: Ciampino - unbushed = shaved at March 22, 2023 07:18 PM (qfLjt)

212 Our name is actually what happens when you leave the alphabet people unchecked.

Posted by: The Ninauposkitzipxpe at March 22, 2023 07:18 PM (BXxcV)

213 Oh, primative cultures are role models now?

Oddly enough, they are trying, yes. I was floored when I first heard the cultural relativism schtick in an academic setting. No culture is any "better" than any other, you see.

It necessarily follows then, that no culture is necessarily worse either. Of course someone has to go to school for a long time to get that stupid. This was coupled with another interesting bit of mind-fvckery - the notion that there is no truth, and therefore, any opinion is the equal of documented fact.

This is how you get hordes of people who are all about "My Truth".

Incidentally, all of this dovetails nicely into how otherwise sane and rational people are inducted into self-hypnosis and destructive cults. Breakdown their belief and value systems, and suggest there is no truth, trauma based conditioning, mindless repetition, an "us versus them" mentality, apocolyptic end of world themes, a system of rewards and punishments. More repetition. It is absurd, but it works. Lots of drugs help in this process. Broken homes. Single parent "families".

"There is no Truth, but we'll tell you what it is"

Posted by: Common Tater at March 22, 2023 07:18 PM (z7fHM)

214 Pierson Puppeteers had three genders IIRC - male, female, and neuter. It was the non-sentient neuter that carried the egg to term.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2023 07:18 PM (5+0fa)

215
I read something by Kratman... Watch along the Rhine? About a Nazi SS unit revived to fight Aliens.

It was... interesting, but gimmicky.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop

The best part was the righteous retribution against the duplicitous Darhel in the epilogue. The rest... well, it's frankly just an epic troll of Ringo's readers.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 22, 2023 07:19 PM (n+4am)

216 .>>Do gay people ever talk about anything other than themselves and being gay?

I'm convinced a big part of being gay is the narcissism

you're in love with yourself, so you want to schtup someone just like you in every way, right down to the specific body parts

Posted by: DB - monitoring the situation at March 22, 2023 07:19 PM (geLO8)

217 Zeus was a bit afraid of Hera. Kept hiding his lovers and love affairs from her. Of course, she did the same.

Posted by: runner at March 22, 2023 07:19 PM (V13WU)

218 Do gay people ever talk about anything other than themselves and being gay?

Sometimes they talk about obscure diet sodas.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2023 07:16 PM (ZLI7S)

I hear they have a thing for sous vide.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 22, 2023 07:19 PM (PyOKD)

219 196 Why is hockey going gay? Very confused here.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 22, 2023 07:15 PM (oWBc3)

I mean, Ultimate Frisbee sure.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 22, 2023 07:19 PM (zZu0s)

220 Yeah the gay Greek thing is way overstated. I mean if someone looked at art, music, and entertainment from the last 10 years they'd think America was queer as hell instead of it being like 3-5% of the population.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2023 07:20 PM (0hOvj)

221 Lifetime Blackhawks fan.

I haven't even looked at a hockey Score in over 4 years.

Fuck the NHL.

Posted by: garrett at March 22, 2023 07:20 PM (2a34U)

222 There is no third gender. There are, however, those who are confused by the first two.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 22, 2023 07:20 PM (oHd/0)

223 The athletic difficulty of figure skating (especially the non "figures" part, the jumps etc) should not be under-estimated. It's as difficult as any athletic activity there is. Similar to ballet. Ridiculous strength and skill required.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 22, 2023 07:21 PM (OTzUX)

224 None of the knuckleheads spewing this crap ever admit early people spent all of their time worrying about food and shelter. They did not have the luxury of worrying about the Heinz theory of gender.

In fact, the very civilization these idiots hate and wish to destroy is the very same system which gives these lunatics the leisure time to pursue their designer beliefs.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at March 22, 2023 07:21 PM (2YtOq)

225 Tiresias features in The Odyssey and also in Oedipus Rex

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2023 07:21 PM (5+0fa)

226 Sports franchises are losing asses in seats every year. Marketing is making g a pitch to anyone that will put their ass in a seat and buy swag. Put you fake tits in your favorite jersey and tuck tape your dick with this tape that has your team logo on it. Marketing never rests

Posted by: Ben Had at March 22, 2023 07:21 PM (+Eun6)

227 I don't get it. Why would Cohen use his own money?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 22, 2023 07:18 PM (CcoDx)

history is littered with underlings doing things they think will ingratiate themselves with their superior

Posted by: REDACTED at March 22, 2023 07:21 PM (us2H3)

228 The first step is admitting it, right?
Posted by: Piper at March 22, 2023 07:16 PM (ZdaMQ)

It was well played. Subtle. We do not get a lot of that around here.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 22, 2023 07:21 PM (zZu0s)

229 I mean, Ultimate Frisbee sure.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 22, 2023 07:19 PM (zZu0s)

So, you never played OUR version of Tackle Frisbee?

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 22, 2023 07:21 PM (oHd/0)

230 I don't get it. Why would Cohen use his own money?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 22, 2023 07:18 PM (CcoDx)
******
Probably wanted a job in the WH.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 22, 2023 07:22 PM (NpAcC)

231 I’ve never understood the physics of ice-skating — how the human body can be supported on a few thin blades. I could never do it.

How women manage to do it so well, with their boobs, just flabbergasts me.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 22, 2023 07:17 PM (6uZ0Z)

With me the blades were fine, it was my ankles that were wobblin'. I could make my way around the rink within a few feet of a wall but not in the middle and could not change direction.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 22, 2023 07:22 PM (eoQWY)

232 "No culture is any "better" than any other, you see."

Some taste better than others.

Posted by: A cannibal at March 22, 2023 07:22 PM (iayUP)

233 I mean, Ultimate Frisbee sure.

Add in Pickle Ball. So Ghey.

Posted by: Bosk at March 22, 2023 07:22 PM (ZVuYy)

234 My ancestral primitive tribe would chop off the heads of your ancestral primitive tribe and eat their livers.

#oldwaysarebest

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 22, 2023 07:22 PM (fUnHJ)

235 I think Trump felt sorry for Cohen cuz he took out a loan on his digs to make the payment

Posted by: REDACTED at March 22, 2023 07:22 PM (us2H3)

236 "Our hope is that this content will serve as a reminder that there are issues more important than goals, highlights and wins."
----
Probably coveres already but Ill take the risk

San Jose Sharks recors places them 31st out of the 32 team league. This tweet helps explain their performance. It wouldn't surprise me if SVB's wokeness impressed them enough to deposit all their cash there.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 22, 2023 07:23 PM (fs1hN)

237 Old Genesis (Peter Gabriel era) had a song where they mentioned this Tiresias dude/chick.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 22, 2023 07:23 PM (6uZ0Z)

238 All these cultures they mention are just the decayed degenerate remnants of earlier great Civilizations.

Posted by: Thesokorus at March 22, 2023 07:23 PM (1ais2)

239 >>How women manage to do it so well, with their boobs, just flabbergasts me.

Been around skating most of my life but I've never seen women do it with their boobs. I'm open to it though.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2023 07:24 PM (ZLI7S)

240 Anybody can learn to skate, with the time and effort.

But to skate like a Pavel Bure, or Fedorov, or Bobby Orr, or some of these guys, wow. It's a talent like so many other things.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 22, 2023 07:24 PM (OTzUX)

241 234 Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 22, 2023 07:22 PM (fUnHJ)

I am Anglo-Teutonic we put you in wicker baskets and set you aflame, *or* mom's side of the divide would stab below your shoulder blades and pull your lungs out to make wings.....

You'd think the moonbats would be happy to keep those hobbies buried....but no.....

Posted by: sven at March 22, 2023 07:24 PM (Lzpvj)

242 Lifetime Blackhawks fan.

I haven't even looked at a hockey Score in over 4 years.

Fuck the NHL.
Posted by: garrett at March 22, 2023 07:20 PM (2a34U)

Kane was traded to Rangers. The end.

Posted by: runner at March 22, 2023 07:24 PM (V13WU)

243 The NFL lost me 5+ years ago. If I hadn't already lost interest in MLB, the new rule changes would have done the trick. Was never really interested in the NHL or NBA. No sports fandom for me, and I feel fine.

In other news, the Wifey and I just finished Season 2 of Carnival Row, a series on Prime starring Orlando Bloom. A faction rises to foment revolution and is full-blown commie in nature...and they are not depicted in the most flattering light. I was pretty shocked at them being portrayed as the bad guys instead of as heroes and liberators, and that it got past Bezos and Co.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at March 22, 2023 07:25 PM (AS8r9)

244 Perhaps the biggest business mistake ever made by a pro sports league. Most of the new fans and many of the original fans in non-NHL cities didn't pay to watch NHL on TV in the US. The NHL became a sort of semi-pro sport in the minds of most Americans.

Posted by: Gref at March 22, 2023 07:10 PM (AMIL/)

Hockey was destined to fall behind the other sports. I remember when Toews and Kane got 8m year deals with the Blackhawks coming off Cups.

The stars in the other leagues were getting 20 to 30.

Posted by: JmT at March 22, 2023 07:25 PM (aYpFd)

245 201 Watch on the Rhine was Kratman and Ringo. War against the Posleen.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2023 07:16 PM (5+0fa)

I tried a couple of the Posleen books and could not get into them. I had enjoyed the Troy series so much, so I figured it would be one to try. But I have not been able to get anywhere near as into any of Ringo's other work. His books have an odd feel to them for some reason.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 22, 2023 07:25 PM (zZu0s)

246 I always found ice skating to be a good workout for my snow skiing

Posted by: REDACTED at March 22, 2023 07:25 PM (us2H3)

247 history is littered with underlings doing things they think will ingratiate themselves with their superior

Posted by: REDACTED
_______________

But paying $130,000 of his own money? This makes no sense to me.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 22, 2023 07:25 PM (CcoDx)

248 None of the knuckleheads spewing this crap ever admit early people spent all of their time worrying about food and shelter. They did not have the luxury of worrying about the Heinz theory of gender.

**

My favorite is when they start talking about how much more leisure time early peoples had than we do now.

That phrase always comes out of the mouth of someone who couldn't build a fire outdoors with a can of gas and a road flare.

Posted by: Azathoth at March 22, 2023 07:25 PM (wb1YC)

249 By the mid-80s, the NHL was gaining a lot of fans in the US due to a lot of games shown on ESPN. That made NHL owners believe they could make a ton of money by setting-up their own US subscription cable channel, rather than renewing the ESPN contract.

Perhaps the biggest business mistake ever made by a pro sports league. Most of the new fans and many of the original fans in non-NHL cities didn't pay to watch NHL on TV in the US. The NHL became a sort of semi-pro sport in the minds of most Americans.
Posted by: Gref at March 22, 2023 07:10 PM (AMIL/)

=======================

It should make a comeback, now that you can actually see the damn puck on the Hi-def digital monitors.

Except it has not.

Posted by: rd at March 22, 2023 07:26 PM (Z32m1)

250 243 Posted by: Stu Podaso at March 22, 2023 07:25 PM (AS8r9)

I read that MLB let a game be decided by time out of the batter's box...

everything is the WWF these days.

Posted by: sven at March 22, 2023 07:26 PM (Lzpvj)

251 1) fuck Nazis

-
Kinda interesting personal note. We adopted our two daughters in an involuntary relinquishment of parntal rights. Dad was white supremacist*, wife beater, habitual criminal. (I saw him one time sporting handcuffs in court. He was very simian grinning like a chimpanzee.) An hour ago, my daughter called saying she had seen his obituary. Turns out she has a half brother and half sister we knew nothing about. It's like an episode of As the World Turns.

* We read the DHS file during the adoption process. He had written a letter of apology to the girls' mother after he had broken her arm arguing that she should take him back because their baby (now my daughter) was a pure Aryan and should be raised as such.**

** He needn't have worried. I went to the doctor this morning who, when considering my susceptibility to a particular disease, said I didn't need such vacination because I hadn't any risk factors such as an African heritage since I obviously wasn't African. That's right, I'm a certified cracker /honkey.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 22, 2023 07:26 PM (FVME7)

252 Oh, primative cultures are role models now?

Oddly enough, they are trying, yes. I was floored when I first heard the cultural relativism schtick in an academic setting. No culture is any "better" than any other, you see.

It necessarily follows then, that no culture is necessarily worse either. Of course someone has to go to school for a long time to get that stupid. This was coupled with another interesting bit of mind-fvckery - the notion that there is no truth, and therefore, any opinion is the equal of documented fact.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 22, 2023 07:18 PM (z7fHM)

Even in ancient Rome the intellectual class was full of praise for the pristine morals of Germans and Britons as opposed to the debased Romans. Its a standard elite trope.

But Tater, you are wrong about no culture being wrong -- universally its *our* culture that they allow to be found wrong on every point.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 22, 2023 07:27 PM (eoQWY)

253 " how the human body can be supported on a few thin blades. I could never do it."

amazing science tidbit, that is amazing to me (if I have it right).

The reason those blades glide is that the pressure on the ice turns it to liquid .. so the blades "skate" on the liquid. PV=nRT ... or some such. But the amazing thing is it happens instantly. ... the other amazing thing is that rhomboid still plays hockey, I imagined he was a retired fossil ... ha. party on garth.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 22, 2023 07:27 PM (Cus5s)

254 In the usual Twitter pile-on that followed, one prominent NHL writer said that "maybe the Bay Area isn't the place for Reimer."
How very tolerant of the Left! "Hey boy, what are you doing in our neighborhood?"

I hate them more every day, but I realize it's because they deserve it.

Posted by: Wally at March 22, 2023 07:27 PM (r22q8)

255 At least some NHL players are pushing back. Rest of the sports just swallowed ghey agenda.

Posted by: runner at March 22, 2023 07:27 PM (V13WU)

256 Even in ancient Rome the intellectual class was full of praise for the pristine morals of Germans and Britons as opposed to the debased Romans. Its a standard elite trope.

**

Limousine liberals have always been around. Socrates loved to brag about how cool Sparta was but for some reason he never found his way to move there and live.

Posted by: Azathoth at March 22, 2023 07:28 PM (wb1YC)

257 204 I’ve never understood the physics of ice-skating — how the human body can be supported on a few thin blades. I could never do it.

How women manage to do it so well, with their boobs, just flabbergasts me.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 22, 2023 07:17 PM (6uZ0Z)

The physics of ice skating are the same as for bicycle riding.

Posted by: Gref at March 22, 2023 07:28 PM (AMIL/)

258 NHL has more international players than the rest of the sports world. Maybe that makes a difference.

Posted by: runner at March 22, 2023 07:28 PM (V13WU)

259 At some stage we must ask officially and loudly of these perverts WHY
1. when involved in sports, we need to also involve the sexual mores and habits of EVERYONE, players, officials, families, fans and families, etc.?
2. the importance of celebrating a non-NHL activity (sex) in public?
3. Supposedly in our FREE society, why are we lambasted individually and collectively, should we refuse to 'celebrate' the sexual practices of a tiny percentage of the population?

Posted by: Ciampino - unbushed = shaved at March 22, 2023 07:28 PM (qfLjt)

260 >It should make a comeback, now that you can actually see the damn puck on the Hi-def digital monitors.

that's why I could never get into it- you can't see the puck on TV- just the skating frenzy
I mean, you watch football, you can see the ball

Posted by: DB - monitoring the situation at March 22, 2023 07:28 PM (geLO8)

261 Posted by: illiniwek at March 22, 2023 07:16 PM (Cus5s)

God flooded the Earth in the Great Flood, and then sent a Rainbow as a reminder of his Promise not to flood the earth again, even if they sinned.

The Gays have appropriated that sign, and have used it to remind God that he promised not to wipe us out in a flood, no matter how much they would sin.

They are literally thumbing their nose, at God.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 22, 2023 07:29 PM (oHd/0)

262
I just heard of Tiresias on Jonathan Creek.
Posted by: ace the Muxe Gender

I watched that series!

Next thing you know, Ace will be watching Lovejoy.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 22, 2023 07:29 PM (8st8O)

263 It should make a comeback, now that you can actually see the damn puck on the Hi-def digital monitors.

Except it has not.
Posted by: rd at March 22, 2023 07:26 PM (Z32m1)

Hockey on TV has always been far inferior to seeing it live, even with inferior players. You just can't focus on one thing in Hockey, and it only rarely stops for commercials naturally.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 22, 2023 07:29 PM (eoQWY)

264 >>At least some NHL players are pushing back. Rest of the sports just swallowed ghey agenda.

The entire Rangers team refused to wear the gay sweaters during their scheduled warm up. It was a major thing for about 30 seconds.

If more people and teams just said GFY this would all end.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2023 07:29 PM (ZLI7S)

265 251 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 22, 2023 07:26 PM (FVME7)

Of all the things to hang your personal identity on race is the silliest....like I said "Fuck Nazis" God bless you for raising the kid well.

I find the notion of damning an entire culture for the asshole actions of its leaders to be as silly as bending the entire culture over deifying less than .5% of a population.

At this point I think a carrington event would be a blessing more than a damnation....

and I suspect we are due a die off.

Posted by: sven at March 22, 2023 07:30 PM (Lzpvj)

266 >The physics of ice skating are the same as for bicycle riding.

Posted by: Gref

they race motorcycles on ice
flat track, studded tires

Posted by: DB - monitoring the situation at March 22, 2023 07:30 PM (geLO8)

267 246 Snow skiing is an activity for the maniacally suicidal.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 22, 2023 07:30 PM (6uZ0Z)

268 "...when they've all become the loudest, most obnoxious mouthpieces for social Marxism, and so plainly despise the bulk of their actual customers."

Add to that corporations. For years we supported everything corporate America did, in the interest of furthering free and fair markets. Not to mention providing jobs for Americans. Now they've become the enforcers and financiers of every destructive, anti-social, perverted more and shibboleth the Left proffers. Not only that, they've used it as a coercion tool and weapon against those they employ. They can all go light themselves on fire, along with the sportsball teams and the media. I'll bring the marshmallows.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 22, 2023 07:30 PM (Y45pj)

269 NHL has been chasing the big $$$ of the other big team sports for a long time, to no avail. From the outset it was obvious that path was not plausible - there just wasn't the potential TV revenue there (the basis of the big $ in all sports). But the league has never been a hotbed of business savvy.

There were specific possible turning points back in the 80s, to at least shift their fan base up market a bit ("would you rather have Chevy, or Mercedes, as your advertisers?"), but they said "nah". And a few owners saw the error and pushed for the other path, with support of the then-star players. I spoke with one back then, owner of one of the most famously down-market teams. He was pretty disgusted by the decision.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 22, 2023 07:30 PM (OTzUX)

270 85 Do gay people ever talk about anything other than themselves and being gay?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 22, 2023 06:56 PM (b4o9z)

Turning that hot straight guy who just moved in to 5G.

Posted by: So I've heard. Ask ace or garrett for confirmation at March 22, 2023 07:31 PM (B0ahs)

271 If more people and teams just said GFY this would all end.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2023 07:29 PM (ZLI7S)

right ? like what can they do ? keep them benched and refund the tickets ? lol

Posted by: runner at March 22, 2023 07:31 PM (V13WU)

272 Well, a Web search indicates that the sale of a Reimer jersey does not put money in Reimer's pocket directly. The league gets some of the licensing fees, and a little goes to the team salary pool.

Ironically, the best way to support Reimer by wearing a jersey would be to buy a bootleg jersey. Gets his name out in public, and denies the NHL the loot.

I don't know if bootleg jerseys are available, or where to get one, though.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 22, 2023 07:31 PM (tkR6S)

273 261 Posted by: Romeo13 at March 22, 2023 07:29 PM (oHd/0)

Fire, Plague, Gamma Ray Burst, Natural EMP, Ozone depletion...

man plays his games and I play mine.

//God

Posted by: sven at March 22, 2023 07:31 PM (Lzpvj)

274 I don't get it. Why would Cohen use his own money?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 22, 2023 07:18 PM (CcoDx)

It's I know a guy who knows a guy who is the guy who pays for this and that because he's the guy who pays for this and that for the one guy who knows a guy who knows the guy who pays for things which is why the guy who pays for things gets paid in the first place from the guy who knows the guy who...

A.K.A "Buffers".

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 22, 2023 07:31 PM (R/m4+)

275
Even in ancient Rome the intellectual class was full of praise for the pristine morals of Germans and Britons as opposed to the debased Romans. Its a standard elite trope.

But Tater, you are wrong about no culture being wrong -- universally its *our* culture that they allow to be found wrong on every point.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 22, 2023 07:27 PM (eoQWY)

Usually it was used as a means to chastise an abandonment of prior values, not the adoption of new ones. Nor was it typical to attack the conventional morality and values of their respective societies.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 22, 2023 07:31 PM (eYoxG)

276 Posted by: Ciampino - unbushed = shaved at March 22, 2023 07:28 PM (qfLjt)

Yeah, when is Heterosexual Month?

Hell, when is White History Month?

When is MEN's History month?

Seeing as White Hetero Men, are only about 26% of the US Population? which is therefore, a Minority?

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 22, 2023 07:31 PM (oHd/0)

277 My mom was a really good ice skater.

I love watching pairs skating and ice dancing.

Could watch this over and over-

https://tinyurl.com/t58s8v8k

Posted by: redridinghood at March 22, 2023 07:32 PM (NpAcC)

278 I tried a couple of the Posleen books and could not get into them. I had enjoyed the Troy series so much, so I figured it would be one to try. But I have not been able to get anywhere near as into any of Ringo's other work. His books have an odd feel to them for some reason.

=============

Speaking of perverse sexuality? Ringo's Ghost series has a definite Anti-Hero Hero in it. I heard he had a falling out with his mother over the character in his books.

Posted by: rd at March 22, 2023 07:32 PM (Z32m1)

279 It should make a comeback, now that you can actually see the damn puck on the Hi-def digital monitors.
_________________

One of the networks used to broadcast with the puck highlighted. That didn't last long for some reason.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 22, 2023 07:32 PM (CcoDx)

280
Easy late 90's mystery lyrics?

Watchin' X-Files with no lights on
We're dans la maison
I hope the Smoking Man's in this one
Like Harrison Ford I'm getting frantic
Like Sting I'm tantric
Like Snickers, guaranteed to satisfy
Like Kurosawa, I make mad films

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 22, 2023 07:32 PM (8st8O)

281 But paying $130,000 of his own money? This makes no sense to me.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 22, 2023 07:25 PM (CcoDx)

did it occur to you that you might be just a tad smartter than Cohen ?

it made no sense for Serge Muscat to set the boats afire but there you have it

Posted by: REDACTED at March 22, 2023 07:32 PM (us2H3)

282 Ninauposkitzipxpe was that character in the Li'l Abner cartoons that always had the storm cloud following him around, wasn't he?

Posted by: Kindltot at March 22, 2023 07:32 PM (xhaym)

283
What does dans la maison mean??

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 22, 2023 07:32 PM (8st8O)

284
dammit

nood

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 22, 2023 07:33 PM (8st8O)

285 267 246 Snow skiing is an activity for the maniacally suicidal.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 22, 2023 07:30 PM (6uZ0Z)

LOL... the Tshirt I'm currently wearing says:

I know I ski like an Old Man
Try to keep up

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 22, 2023 07:33 PM (oHd/0)

286 In other news, the Wifey and I just finished Season 2 of Carnival Row, a series on Prime starring Orlando Bloom. A faction rises to foment revolution and is full-blown commie in nature...and they are not depicted in the most flattering light. I was pretty shocked at them being portrayed as the bad guys instead of as heroes and liberators, and that it got past Bezos and Co.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at March 22, 2023 07:25 PM (AS8r9)

Terminal List and Reacher both are surprising they are on Amazon, Gonna watch THE ISLAND, we gave up on Hollywood and really only watch K Drama's

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 22, 2023 07:33 PM (fmn1/)

287 254 In the usual Twitter pile-on that followed, one prominent NHL writer said that "maybe the Bay Area isn't the place for Reimer."
How very tolerant of the Left! "Hey boy, what are you doing in our neighborhood?"

I hate them more every day, but I realize it's because they deserve it.
Posted by: Wally

Your kind ain't welcome in our town. You best just move along.

Posted by: EJ Hradek, don't look at my internet history at March 22, 2023 07:34 PM (C7jzY)

288 After striking for 2 years, I would think Hockey would be smarter than this but no. Its skinsuit city again. But Jack is right: "If more people and teams just said GFY this would all end."

All it would take is pushback, from the silent very large majority. Just people saying "absolutely not"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2023 07:34 PM (0hOvj)

289 AOP I have a place that will do it.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 22, 2023 07:34 PM (+Eun6)

290 275 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 22, 2023 07:31 PM (eYoxG)

Graves lampshades this trope in I, Claudius with Claudius overhearing Livia telling Augustus "Three generations ago we would have left that child exposed," while Augustus tells her, "Now now dear we aren't that way anymore."

The old ways may not be best always, but they are often better than what is being offered as "new."

Posted by: sven at March 22, 2023 07:34 PM (Lzpvj)

291 >>NHL has been chasing the big $$$ of the other big team sports for a long time, to no avail. From the outset it was obvious that path was not plausible - there just wasn't the potential TV revenue there (the basis of the big $ in all sports). But the league has never been a hotbed of business savvy.

Hockey's biggest problem is that by its nature it is mostly a regional sport for kids. Where kids grow up playing it the game is still heavily supported. Where they didn't the game has a much tougher time building a fan base.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2023 07:34 PM (ZLI7S)

292 Once again, the list of 45 Communist Goals rears its ugly head. https://tinyurl.com/ybhn83wf

Point 26: Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural and healthy."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 22, 2023 07:34 PM (nRMeC)

293 Speaking of perverse sexuality? Ringo's Ghost series has a definite Anti-Hero Hero in it. I heard he had a falling out with his mother over the character in his books.
Posted by: rd at March 22, 2023 07:32 PM (Z32m1)

Bad as the Gerrold Chtorr(?) books? I had heard something about that (Ringo), but had not come across anything even close.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 22, 2023 07:34 PM (zZu0s)

294 That's right, I'm a certified cracker /honkey.

Dang, I can't even get that cert and I've been studying.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at March 22, 2023 07:34 PM (Bd6X8)

295 Do we have an email address for this gutsy player and for the SJsharks organization?

Posted by: Ciampino - unbushed == shaved at March 22, 2023 07:34 PM (qfLjt)

296 My favorite is when they start talking about how much more leisure time early peoples had than we do now.

That phrase always comes out of the mouth of someone who couldn't build a fire outdoors with a can of gas and a road flare.
Posted by: Azathoth at March 22, 2023 07:25 PM (wb1YC)

One reason for this is if you overhunt your area, everybody dies. Despite claims, man was always hell on native life no matter how close to nature things were. In primitive agriculture, you could exhaust the soil in a similar way. One area in New Guinea had an elaborate ritual of constant preparing of war by raising pigs which would be used to defeat another tribe so your fields would be on new land closer to the defeated tribe and thus fertile. It used religion to ban warfare between these periods, another advantage.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 22, 2023 07:34 PM (eoQWY)

297 Sam Pellegrino was a striker for Venezia soccer team, IIRC.

Wonderful footwork, too bad he didn't get into a more manly sport like competetive cup stacking or Hula-Hoop

Posted by: Kindltot at March 22, 2023 07:35 PM (xhaym)

298 " In South Asia, it's hijras."

Aren't those the eunuchs who dressed in women's clothes as attendants for the women in the Raj's seraglio, and now that there aren't any Rajs, go around convincing people to pay them to go away so that they don't curse happy occasions like weddings?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 22, 2023 07:35 PM (ou9hh)

299 @193 Surprised none of these 4th Wave Femi-nazis have written a story where Hera knocks Zeus off his throne.

----

When I was young, my local library had a book in which Heracles (aka Hercules; it's a more accurate spelling of his name) was actually a woman named Heraclea. The book was about her adventures.

And that was one of the least weird things about that book.

Posted by: junior at March 22, 2023 07:35 PM (jP5x+)

300 I recommend Chuck Dixon's Levon series. Its like Reacher, but by a better writer and the hero isn't omnipotent and all knowing. Plus he has a daughter to protect, who is hella cool.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2023 07:35 PM (0hOvj)

301 Terminal List and Reacher both are surprising they are on Amazon, Gonna watch THE ISLAND, we gave up on Hollywood and really only watch K Drama's
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio

Reacher we've seen and liked. Terminal List is on the radar.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at March 22, 2023 07:35 PM (AS8r9)

302 While having lots of cameras and a good producer can help a lot, hockey is just not for TV. Not compared to being there. One other thing is that understanding the game, usually by having played it, makes a huge difference in watching and appreciating it. More than other sports.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 22, 2023 07:36 PM (OTzUX)

303 [i[ The muxe gender is a respected third gender in Zapotec cultures in Oaxaca
////////
then move your team to Oaxaca
Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 22, 2023 07:13 PM (MLrvz)

Nowadays in Oaxaca they just call them "Puñales"

Posted by: Kindltot at March 22, 2023 07:37 PM (xhaym)

304 266 >The physics of ice skating are the same as for bicycle riding.

Posted by: Gref

they race motorcycles on ice
flat track, studded tires
Posted by: DB - monitoring the situation at March 22, 2023 07:30 PM (geLO

Ice skate blades and studded cycle tires use the same mechanical action: "Digging-into" the ice. Ice skate blades are not flat. They are concave. In turns, pushing off to accelerate, and to slow and stop, one edge of the concave blade digs-into the ice surface.

Posted by: Gref at March 22, 2023 07:37 PM (AMIL/)

305 246 Snow skiing is an activity for the maniacally suicidal.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 22, 2023 07:30 PM (6uZ0Z)

Skiiing developed in places where you needed it for moving about. It was more like Cross Country Skiing because you couldn't find a lift chair to get you back uphill.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 22, 2023 07:39 PM (eoQWY)

306 NHL has more international players than the rest of the sports world. Maybe that makes a difference.
Posted by: runner

=================

And with Europe? There are more markets to sell your skills if the NHL try to cancel you.

Posted by: rd at March 22, 2023 07:39 PM (Z32m1)

307 The x!ujoxemoqi of Mindanao in the Philippine islands had the wutuiopikimotomemi who were attracted to diseased carabao and possessed three penises, two and a half vaginas and a vestigial anus.

Posted by: San Jose Shark Faggotry Twitter Feed at March 22, 2023 07:39 PM (LaNzR)

308 While having lots of cameras and a good producer can help a lot, hockey is just not for TV. Not compared to being there. One other thing is that understanding the game, usually by having played it, makes a huge difference in watching and appreciating it. More than other sports.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 22, 2023 07:36 PM (OTzUX)

Like Soccer, Hockey as one glaring complicated rule that spoils it - here its "Icing the Puck"

Posted by: Oldcat at March 22, 2023 07:40 PM (eoQWY)

309 One of the networks used to broadcast with the puck highlighted. That didn't last long for some reason.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 22, 2023 07:32 PM (CcoDx)

Gimmickry to try to get eyeballs. It was distracting.

Seriously though, as said above, hockey is made to be watched live. The speed of the action simply cannot be covered by a camera, even with a full ice shot. And the puck is just too small.

Posted by: RickZ at March 22, 2023 07:40 PM (emlEe)

310 When I was young, my local library had a book in which Heracles (aka Hercules; it's a more accurate spelling of his name) was actually a woman named Heraclea. The book was about her adventures.

And that was one of the least weird things about that book.
Posted by: junior at March 22, 2023 07:35 PM (jP5x+)

Heraclea is the site of one of the drubbings the Romans gave the Greeks in the post 1st Punic war timeframe.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 22, 2023 07:43 PM (eoQWY)

311 Could watch this over and over-

https://tinyurl.com/t58s8v8k
Posted by: redridinghood
----

Me like. Some of the best art IMHO are M F duets, singng, dancing, skating. Something about the complementary qualities of the sexes that elevates. I'm old fashioned. Maybe a skating party with all 102 genders could be artistic as well, but I'm skeptical.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 22, 2023 07:43 PM (fs1hN)

312 Speaking of not-PC, I watched "Child 44" last night. The portrayal of Stalinist oppression was truly frightening, given our present circumstances. Highly recommended.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 22, 2023 07:43 PM (sWM8x)

313 Speaking of perverse sexuality? Ringo's Ghost series has a definite Anti-Hero Hero in it. I heard he had a falling out with his mother over the character in his books.
Posted by: rd at March 22, 2023 07:32 PM (Z32m1)

Bad as the Gerrold Chtorr(?) books? I had heard something about that (Ringo), but had not come across anything even close.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop

==========================

Oh No, John Ringo! was more than just a T-shirt slogan.

I still miss the good old days of the John Ringo book of the month club. Seriously, Baen's monthly list had either a hard cover, trade paperback, or paperback book by him every month for a few years. I hope he regains his mojo.

Posted by: rd at March 22, 2023 07:46 PM (Z32m1)

314 312 Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 22, 2023 07:43 PM (sWM8x)

Child 44 looks interesting, the Soviets/Russians have a complicated history of denying serial killing given it was considered a potentially mortal wound to the perception of the worthiness of power.

This looks like they took Chikatillo and transported the story back in time.

Posted by: sven at March 22, 2023 07:46 PM (Lzpvj)

315 Could be worse for Hockey...they could be Soccer.

Posted by: garrett at March 22, 2023 07:47 PM (2a34U)

316 So when are the San Jose Sharks going to be wearing the t-shirt and celebrating normal sex, (normal) marriage and Christianity?

Posted by: Ciampino - What is the Queer Agenda at March 22, 2023 07:48 PM (qfLjt)

317 85 Do gay people ever talk about anything other than themselves and being gay?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
.......

They seem to talk about children a lot.

Posted by: wth at March 22, 2023 07:49 PM (v0R5T)

318 Out: hockey puck

In: butt puck

Posted by: wth at March 22, 2023 07:50 PM (v0R5T)

319 >>Do gay people ever talk about anything other than themselves and being gay?

Ace talks about Superhero Movies and Comics a lot.

Posted by: garrett at March 22, 2023 07:50 PM (2a34U)

320 Tennis is great. But like hockey and boxing you have to see it live. And playing helps too.

Posted by: Thesokorus at March 22, 2023 07:52 PM (1ais2)

321
Speaking of perverse sexuality? Ringo's Ghost series has a definite Anti-Hero Hero in it. I heard he had a falling out with his mother over the character in his books.
Posted by: rd at March 22, 2023 07:32 PM (Z32m1)

Obligatory:

Oh John Ringo No

https://hradzka.livejournal.com/194753.html?format=light

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 22, 2023 07:54 PM (n+4am)

322 I don't get it. Why would Cohen use his own money?

The same reason you were told that Trump paid her.

Posted by: t-bird at March 22, 2023 08:09 PM (ptElO)

323 Who knew that sports was so deep?

I always thought 'sport' was generally about a rigorous pursuit of a common or competing goal or goals using an easily recognized, shared dingus.

Boy, was I wrong!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 22, 2023 08:24 PM (Jg7EG)

324 The sexuality of others is of great interest to those who............(fill in your choice)

Posted by: Paul at March 22, 2023 10:09 PM (OEOB+)

325 14
"I've heard it argued by gay people that the real reason God took out Sodom was not the gay, it was the inhospitality the people there were showing. God was more upset at the whole "we want to rape you!" bit."

Here's the problem with that argument (see Genesis 19 for the original details): when the men of the town come around wanting to rape the angels disguised as travelers, Lot goes outside and *offers his virgin daughters* to them as a replacement (this, by the way, shows you the commitment Middle Easterners had in those days to protecting guests in their households.) That's not good enough for the mob, though: they only want the men (and they say that they'll do even worse to Lot for trying to deny them.) So it's pretty clear that the perverse desire here is a homosexual one.

Posted by: Joe Smith at March 22, 2023 10:36 PM (YlQsV)

326 325 cont: This, by the way, supports a theory of mine, which is that male homosexuality, at least, is in large part about dominance/submission and sadism/masochism. The anus is not meant to have things shoved up it; anal sex is by definition painful, at least at first, and I think the pain is part of the point for both sides, albeit in different ways. The fact that most gay guys take either the "top" or "bottom" role on a constant basis reinforces this.

Posted by: Joe Smith at March 22, 2023 10:40 PM (YlQsV)

327 46 "That was supposed to be a lesson in how homosexuality is "natural," and occurs "naturally" across species."

The other thing is, yes, there is quite a bunch of homosexual behavior among animals. There is also a lot of cannibalism and infanticide. Morality is precisely about NOT doing what your "natural" urges tell you to.

Posted by: Joe Smith at March 22, 2023 10:46 PM (YlQsV)

328 "Is there no end to the amount of absolute crankery, horseshit, lies, propaganda, delusions, and perversions of language, science, and history -- to say nothing of the wholesale rape by scalpel of children -- that we are expected to accept in order to make a tiny fraction of very aggressive mentally-ill people "feel seen"?"

It seems like not, this is a problem.

Posted by: jocon307 at March 22, 2023 10:53 PM (EuROc)

329 157 "And grifting. I don't think you can necessarily call the ones who make bank on it but don't chop themselves up mentally ill. And a lot of the bullying enforcers seem to healthy and beefy to be cut up and stuffed full of drugs to me."

90% of "trans" people (and it's pretty much the same on both sides of the question) do *not* get surgery on their genitals. If you're letting "trans women" into women's locker rooms or bathrooms, it means you're letting guys go in there and swing their dicks.

Posted by: Joe Smith at March 22, 2023 10:54 PM (YlQsV)

330 If I hadn't already lost interest in MLB, the new rule changes would have done the trick.
==
Actually the pitch clock works really well. I was opposed to the idea, but it works, as do the shifting restrictions.

Oh, and the gay flag is missing a color - indigo I believe. It's a six color flag. The rainbow is seven (ROY G BIV)

Posted by: Black JEM at March 22, 2023 11:03 PM (UVyKP)

331 61 "In the 70s and 80s hockey was part of the big 4 of American sports."

While it's true that hockey was bigger in the 70's and 80's than it was in the "Classic Six" days ("Original" is a misnomer), that says more about how niche a sport it was before than about how big it was in the 70's and 80's. For instance, the broadcast networks in the US did not show all the games even in the final series: the weeknight games were generally only on the teams' own local channels. (For that matter, I don't think any final series was shown completely on national broadcast TV, as opposed to cable-only channels, until NBC started doing it in the last few years.) Heck, in those days the NBA was way smaller, too; CBS was still showing finals games *on tape-delay* at like 10:30-11 pm Eastern on weeknights. The NHL has always been much smaller in revenue, media attention, etc, then the others.

Posted by: Joe Smith at March 22, 2023 11:04 PM (YlQsV)

332 190 "And watching KHL (Russian league) championship highlights (the "Gagarin Cup") has been fun. Bigger ice surface, more room behind the net, and players are smaller."

Yes, when I overthrow Gary Bettman and assume the NHL Commissioner's throne, my first edict will be to order all new rinks to be built to international size. It'll take decades for all of the arenas to be replaced, but at least we can get started, and it would make the game a lot more interesting.

Posted by: Joe Smith at March 22, 2023 11:08 PM (YlQsV)

333 198 "Chicago, Boston, Philly, Buffalo, and about as many Canadian cities were real hockey mad towns."

You totally forgot Detroit. I spent much of my childhood in Indiana: my dad and I started going to the Indy 500 each year, and we continued for a while even after we moved away. (I stopped going after the George-CART feud, speaking of stupid sports management decisions.) Anyhoo, one year I was flying back to Philly from the race on Northwest, and changed planes in Detroit. Most of the passengers on the leg between Detroit and Philly were black church ladies going to their denomination's annual meeting, which was in Philly that year. This was just before the Flyers and Red Wings were going to play in the Stanley Cup finals (the Flyers got swept :-( ), and the *black church ladies* were knowledgeably discussing the Red Wings with me. I was like, damn, that's a real hockey town.

Posted by: Joe Smith at March 22, 2023 11:18 PM (YlQsV)

334 213 "This was coupled with another interesting bit of mind-fvckery - the notion that there is no truth, and therefore, any opinion is the equal of documented fact.

This is how you get hordes of people who are all about "My Truth"."

This is the great problem when trying to fight Marxism and pomo thought: according to them, it's totally OK that all they have to sell is self-interested bullshit, because all ANYONE has to sell is self-interested bullshit, and therefore their self-interested bullshit is no worse than anyone else's. This kind of thinking makes it a lot easier for the useful idiots to justify supporting purges and Gulags and such: after all, the other side would do it to you if they had the chance, so it's perfectly fine to do it to them. It also, of course, appeals to the selfish side of our natures.

Posted by: Joe Smith at March 22, 2023 11:24 PM (YlQsV)

335 204 "How women manage to do it so well, with their boobs, just flabbergasts me."

Well, you'll notice that most of the high-quality female skaters don't have a whole lot up top. Surya Bonaly, the black woman who represented France, was a notorious exception; she made up for it by being one of the physically strongest female skaters ever.

Posted by: Joe Smith at March 22, 2023 11:32 PM (YlQsV)

336 250 "I read that MLB let a game be decided by time out of the batter's box...

everything is the WWF these days."

The problem is that a sport which is played basically every day for six months CANNOT afford to have a average game time over three hours; it's simply not sustainable. Even I, who is one of the biggest fans out there, has not watched much in recent years because the games just go on too damn long. I'm about to turn 52, and I'm still below the average age of baseball TV watchers. They need to get game times down to 2:30 at least, and closer to 2 would be better. If this is the only way to whip the players into shape and keep things moving, I'm all for it.

Posted by: Joe Smith at March 22, 2023 11:36 PM (YlQsV)

337 253 "The reason those blades glide is that the pressure on the ice turns it to liquid .. so the blades "skate" on the liquid."

This person claims that it's actually because the ice is always liquid right at the surface:

https://tinyurl.com/5mpnzf4u

Posted by: Joe Smith at March 22, 2023 11:39 PM (YlQsV)

338 279 "One of the networks used to broadcast with the puck highlighted. That didn't last long for some reason."

I actually liked Fox Puck-track, but they allowed the Canadians to humiliate them into getting rid of it. At the very least, you should still have something like that when the puck is obscured by the boards or falling bodies.

Posted by: Joe Smith at March 22, 2023 11:43 PM (YlQsV)

339 308 "Like Soccer, Hockey as one glaring complicated rule that spoils it - here its "Icing the Puck""

Except that unlike offsides in soccer, icing actually makes hockey better, because it means you can't just whack the puck down to the other end every time it enters your zone. You actually do need some kind of offsides in soccer, because otherwise inferior teams would just kick the ball down the field and hope they could catch up to it, but I think they should do it the same way as in hockey--you draw a line somewhere, and if you get the ball over the line onsides, then you can do whatever you want with it as long as you keep it inside the line.

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