In Which I Explain Some Simple Truths
by PPP on Oct 30, 2008 5:12 PM EDT
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PrintI am not rich. If I was I would buy a sports bar and spend my time hanging out with my regulars, greeting new patrons, trading jokes with everyone, and having a good time. This is a close approximation to what I envision it might be like during Leaf games:
See, there's LD drinking heavily at the front and Jared trying to hit on her and a lot of people having a good time with lots of good conversations. Obviously I would have much larger televisions but that's the general vibe I'd want to establish. Since I don't have the money to set that up I have worked to create an online version of a sports bar and luckily so far I have attracted the right kind of partner in Chemmy and the right kind of crowd in all of the rest of you with one notable exception.
You're probably wondering where a lot of your comments went. I'm sorry that some of them were lost in the cross-fire but at the end of the day it was a necessary move. Chemmy and I run this site for the simple reason that we love the Leafs and love talking about the Leafs with other people that love the Leafs and love talking about the Leafs. Everyone here also has one other characteristic in common: the ability to reason.
We run this site for fun. No one makes any money off of this site. I don't want to have to make posts like this one. There are community guidelines to ensure that newcomers understand what they are getting into when they join our growing family. If you are thinking of joining or commenting more then I suggest that a good idea is to get the lay of the land to get a sense of the vibe. No one's asking you to assimilate but recognize the environment that we are trying to develop.
If you don't then I don't want the stress of having to wonder if you're going to scare off commenters that I really like having around and whose opinions I enjoy reading just like I would not let some guy come into my bar and start calling a regular patron a douchebag. Especially not after four goddamned warnings. 170 of 171 (even the freaking Montreal fans) have understood that simple truth and fit into the group just fine and I appreciate it.
So that's why the Ban Hammer came out and some of your comments were lost (apparently any replies get deleted which is a shame). I hope you'll all agree with the decision because I honestly took it while thinking of the best interests of our group. Plus, I look freaking great wielding a hammer:
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Way to govern, brother.
That guy was a strange cat.
A Toronto sports blog, where we unequivocally and unapologetically support the home team...
i'll really miss...
the emo string…Mattblacks “Dear God” pic was priceless…
that said, way to rock a loin clothe PPP
Anybody throws me against the boards I'm gonna piss all over myself.
by blurr1974 on Oct 30, 2008 5:16 PM EDT up reply actions
I saw it the other day whilst looking for something else….and I thought to myself “I know where that’ll come in handy at some point…”
If it's after midnight, it must be time for hockey!
ditto
i’ve got boatloads of favorited links for pics like that…but in the context of the thread, just awesome…
Anybody throws me against the boards I'm gonna piss all over myself.
by blurr1974 on Oct 30, 2008 5:19 PM EDT up reply actions
The “dear God” pic helped make up my mind. If people are putting that sort of thing up I can only imagine what they are holding back.
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I was wondering..
When, not if, the hammer would fall.. Shoulda had a pool going!
I for one was really impressed how the folks here handled it though. I myself resisted the urge to really unload but felt rising above and keeping things light would help out more.
Yay!
you're a better person than i...
apologies if i offended anyone.
Anybody throws me against the boards I'm gonna piss all over myself.
by blurr1974 on Oct 30, 2008 5:24 PM EDT up reply actions
No worries, we’ve all felt the urge to rip someone a new one via the interwebs.. I learned a while back it’s just not worth it and it can just escalate things. Live and learn!
by LeafFanInVan on Oct 30, 2008 5:26 PM EDT up reply actions
i tried...
i really did. the other day, i decided i would no longer directly engage, but that lasted about 24 hours…oh well.
seriously, I love this place, and it does have a very virtual sports bar feel to it. Shoot i only signed up in September, and I’m already north of 1700 comments and posts…
Anybody throws me against the boards I'm gonna piss all over myself.
by blurr1974 on Oct 30, 2008 5:29 PM EDT up reply actions
It’s hard to avoid engaging when it’s so in your face.
seriously, I love this place, and it does have a very virtual sports bar feel to it.
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'zackly
what i really mean though, is that there are a bunch of characters milling about, and we’re all here for the Leafs. We’ve got differing opinions on a myriad subject, and we discuss them and call out each others mothers and make fun of each others faces, and then, like any good drunk, hug it out and have a good laugh.
also, like any good drunk, i can be a bit chatty and irrational…
Anybody throws me against the boards I'm gonna piss all over myself.
by blurr1974 on Oct 30, 2008 6:26 PM EDT up reply actions
same here. I’ve had similar situations both online and IRL. A younger me would have tried battling but now I just don’t see the point anymore. But hey, if there’s a better place where I can drink, talk about the Leafs, call a stranger’s mom a whore, talk about imagined sexual escapades with goalies AND hug it out, I have yet to find it.
I love you guys
Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing
Not to mention a knowledge of Dethklok!
I thought I was the only one!
by LeafFanInVan on Oct 30, 2008 6:59 PM EDT up reply actions
can someone explain what this story is about?
"I'll take some Cream Pie" - Barack Obama
"THATS WHAT SHE SAID!"
by MapleLeafs85 on Oct 30, 2008 7:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Dethklok
Is the most brutal metal band EVAR
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 30, 2008 7:51 PM EDT up reply actions
F**k Tank Nation
Got the Ban Hammer for all around pain in the assery
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I wonder
if he’s stupid enough to make a new username and start trolling us again
"I'll take some Cream Pie" - Barack Obama
"THATS WHAT SHE SAID!"
by MapleLeafs85 on Oct 30, 2008 10:45 PM EDT up reply actions
Meh, I can see his IP so if he decides I can just keep banning him over and over again. I doubt he will though. I don’t know if he thought I was being serious the five times I warned him but c’est la vie.
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Nope
I am surprised how much you and Eyebeleaf held back. Anyway, onwards and upwards.
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I am proud of myself, usually I unload on those types, You’ve seen how I go at Sens fans.
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 30, 2008 10:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Yup
And I appreciate everyone holding back.
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I think
it was more of a matter of us having more important things to talk about with people with whom we would rather speak to than holding back on some jackass who doesn’t get the idea of clever banter
"I'll take some Cream Pie" - Barack Obama
"THATS WHAT SHE SAID!"
by MapleLeafs85 on Oct 30, 2008 10:46 PM EDT up reply actions
same wavelength
LeafFanInVan stole my comment.
You and Chemmy do a tremendous job PPP. More respect then ever.
by general borschevsky on Oct 30, 2008 6:16 PM EDT up reply actions
Hey, I'm still here....
so it wasn’t me! Phew.
Good work on running the site PPP (and Chemmy). You guys deserve all the accolades you receive (and much more). This site is ran how all sites should be, at least in the mind of this guy. I predict great successes for PPP, and much of that (if not all) is how you two run things around here.
Cheers
Like I said, 170 of 171 get it and I love it.
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Looks like...
I missed out on some action this afternoon. I’m new to these here parts and really enjoy it whenever I stop by. Soooo, I’m guessing whoever got the axe had it coming. PPP – that’s how an enforcer does it.
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Chemmy is the skill player :)
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As long as your bar isn’t some hipster joint charging six bucks for a PBR I am down for whatever.
Ain't nothing but puck drops and poke checks, babydoll.
by Wrap Around Curl on Oct 30, 2008 5:57 PM EDT reply actions
$6 for PBR?
I would pay you to drink it.
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Man $6 beer (or 4 euros) would be a god-send.
I was paying $14 for a bottle of Canadian on Wednesday night…………
Would also like to add that this is a great site and that, as a collective, Leafs fans have a lot to worry about without someone speading the hate. Spread the love people.
Daymn
Strip clubs have expensive beers!
by LeafFanInVan on Oct 31, 2008 12:05 PM EDT up reply actions
I like PBR
F*** Haters.
Who got the boot? I’m 99% sure but I don’t want to blurt out a dumb guess.
$%$ it.
GOOD RIDDANCE TO KIM! WHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hahaha no not Kim. Yet.
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I don’t post here as much as everyone else but I do read pretty much every article and a lot of the comments. I’m guessing a lot of people are curios as to who it was lol, that being said my guess is “F**K Tank Nation”.
that was my guess too – I can’t help but think I missed something, again.
I blame the time difference.
ditto
I feel really bad when I get some time to check in here and see a post like this.
Thanks for keeping this place so fun, PPP and Chemmy. I hope you know we appreciate the hard work that you do.
by Karina on Oct 30, 2008 6:50 PM EDT up reply actions
I still want to see what a F**k Tank looks like. I imagine a Sherman with a dildo as the gun barrel, only it shoots out cherry flavoured lube or something instead of shells.
Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing
sadly
google image search is turning up no results. well, none that aren’t creeping me out a little, anyways.
F**k Tank
What all of Wendel Clarks lovers think they got hit by
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 30, 2008 7:07 PM EDT up reply actions
also,
HAMMERTIME! (doodoododododododododod)
Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing
break it down
Anybody throws me against the boards I'm gonna piss all over myself.
by blurr1974 on Oct 30, 2008 6:51 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm honestly surprised
nobody did that. I felt I had to
Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing
i got yer back...
just took me a while to get my work day finished up…it’s hard work pretending to work all day…
Anybody throws me against the boards I'm gonna piss all over myself.
by blurr1974 on Oct 30, 2008 6:55 PM EDT up reply actions
i'm loving it...
i keep reloading my homepage just to press it again…
Anybody throws me against the boards I'm gonna piss all over myself.
by blurr1974 on Oct 30, 2008 7:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Well played PPP
I haven’t been participating as much so far this season for a few reasons, none of which say anything about this excellent crew.
But, I’ve come to trust your judgement PPP – if you feel the need to ban, go right ahead and ban. We’ll abide Hab fans, and dare I say it, Sens fans…just not psychos.
-C4C
Banning sucks, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. I’ve seen entire boards destroyed by an unwillingness/inability to deal with trolls.
It’s the job of the bouncer to tell some people, “It’s folks like you what cause unrest….”
Leaf, the universe and everything.
Bingo
The Red Patch Boys’ forum has gotten worse because no one wants to ban the people that are ruining it.
Of course Chemmy gets to play good cop. Bastard.
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Wow
I leave for one afternoon and miss all the excitement, damnit, I love getting in the thick of these little spats.
Also, I don’t try to hit on women, I gets the digits, when I’m sober enough to stand that is.
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 30, 2008 7:09 PM EDT reply actions
well played….well played
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 30, 2008 7:13 PM EDT up reply actions
bow chicka bowow
I refuse to do the lazy condensed version!
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 30, 2008 7:17 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm guessing you get
this number 202-452-7468.
Go ahead and give it a try – if you have a free LD number..
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by TorontoPassion on Oct 30, 2008 7:23 PM EDT up reply actions
or LD plan
if you want to use the english language
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by TorontoPassion on Oct 30, 2008 7:24 PM EDT up reply actions
I have unlimited LD
at work but am terrified to call these random mystery numbers…
That 647 number is GTA though I can call that on my cell as it’s also a 647 number
"God's in His heaven. All's right with the world." - Robert Browning (1812-1889)
if i had a buck for every time i dialed that as a kid
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stamkos
with his first nhl goal.
not leafs related – but throwing it out there anyway.
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About time
Now get back to the bench rookie biatch!
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C’mon Stamkos, bite the puck, make Vinny look like a dick!
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 30, 2008 7:52 PM EDT up reply actions
am i the only one
who has no faith in melrose’s ability to develop this kid? he (melrose) is a sideshow, at best.
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by TorontoPassion on Oct 30, 2008 8:26 PM EDT up reply actions
if
tonights game has anything to say about it than yes, 2 goals and an assist…dunno bout their quality tho, box score isnt that specific
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 30, 2008 8:35 PM EDT up reply actions
the kid’s got talent and a nose for the net. no doubt he’s going to score some goals this year no matter who he’s playing for or with. i just question how much he’ll develop as a pro with melrose at the helm.
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by TorontoPassion on Oct 30, 2008 8:38 PM EDT up reply actions
HUGE
fist pump outta stamkos tonight. where’s eyebleaf when we need to discuss the hard-hitting issues of the night!?
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by TorontoPassion on Oct 30, 2008 11:43 PM EDT up reply actions
How long...
did F**k Tank Nation last on here?
I only really noticed him/her/whoever they are last week with the whole back and forth over Ponikarovsky… which was a bit ridiculous frankly.
As for Stamkos… How long before Melrose’ gets the axe for NOT making the bolts into Stanley Cup champs overnight? Koules and Barrie are kinda sorta idiots… not saying… just saying.
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
- Sir Winston Churchill
I'm pretty sure he's talking about the Leafs.
100% agree
Especially with the Melrose thing. Shouldn’t have hired him in the first place. But I guess that’s what you have to do in an attempt to sell regular season seats in Tampa. He should be fired mid-season, but won’t.
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by TorontoPassion on Oct 30, 2008 8:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Alex Ponikarovsky
would have been proud of the way we fought for him. I still think tank nation was a mole. A really, really, weird mole.
Anyway, this post is a serious love-in. It’s fucking great. One big group hug.
HUG IT OUT.
A Toronto sports blog, where we unequivocally and unapologetically support the home team...
yeah
He reminded me of the Sens trolls that keep popping up over at the Battle Of Ontario, except with better taste and decent photo shop abilities.
A grim reminder of what we will all have to deal with when the Leafs are good again, those types will be coming out of the woodwork.
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 30, 2008 8:44 PM EDT up reply actions
Wow
Just read the new Berger post on hockeybuzz. That could be the worst piece of drivel I’ve ever had the experience of reading….and I T.A. undergrads.
I don’t know why, but every time I see that guy I imagine he snorts when he laughs.
Stupid to think, I know – but I just can’t help it.
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wow. its basically a big F U to the whole city. what a guy.
like eyebleaf said: glad its all hugs and kisses around here.
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by TorontoPassion on Oct 30, 2008 9:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Ugh
Usually I can read his garbage and laugh it off, but that one made me honest to god angry.
There was a distinct and obvious hate message behind that whole thing. I can’t comprehend why he hates Leaf fans so much, but I don’t care, the man is a hack.
Part of me wants to write him a venom filled email, part of me wants to write his superiors and demand an apology for that offensive and one purposed pile of dog shit. All of me wants to break his nose.
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 30, 2008 9:03 PM EDT up reply actions
I honestly thought it was a joke until about 3/4 of the way through. I kept thinking, it’s not April Fools yet, is it?
Maybe its like an online halowe'en costume...
And he’s going out as a buzz-kill
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The second I read the first half pararaph
I wanted to write that moron is: “The only thing we hate is you, stop writing before you cause our eyes to hemorrhage uncontrollably and the only thing we can do to stop it is to put a gun to our heads.”
- The mindless moronic Maple Leafs fans who you try so hard to dupe with nonsense and garbage
"I'll take some Cream Pie" - Barack Obama
"THATS WHAT SHE SAID!"
by MapleLeafs85 on Oct 30, 2008 10:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Can’t too much rage.
I’m addicted to ragahol
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 31, 2008 10:19 AM EDT up reply actions
holy crap
I thought the exact same thing but I didn’t know how to say it eloquently so I left it alone.
I have to learn that nothing on this site is eloquent (cept for 1967ers fanshots) but that’s why we love it
"I'll take some Cream Pie" - Barack Obama
"THATS WHAT SHE SAID!"
by MapleLeafs85 on Oct 30, 2008 10:43 PM EDT up reply actions
:O
You cut me to the quick!
*how’s that for eloquent mon ami?
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umm....
don’t you mean deep? (without the to the)
"I'll take some Cream Pie" - Barack Obama
"THATS WHAT SHE SAID!"
by MapleLeafs85 on Oct 30, 2008 11:32 PM EDT up reply actions
ha
howie’s funny…“You(meaning us, the fans I guess) bitch… and moan… and go insane over the always-accurate appraisals of the team in the media. ”
Anybody throws me against the boards I'm gonna piss all over myself.
by blurr1974 on Oct 30, 2008 10:49 PM EDT up reply actions
PPP just punched out all FTN’s blood.
Down Goes Brown - Because it's technically possible that things may get better before we all die.
by Down Goes Brown on Oct 30, 2008 9:36 PM EDT reply actions
Clark
would be proud
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 30, 2008 9:45 PM EDT up reply actions
I was guilty
of prodding him with my blunt pointy stick once in a while just to see how he’ll react… I’m like that, I’m not sure why, it could be my inner asshole but I do get a kick out of antagonizing people like FTN.
Anyway, mad freaking props to PPP… you gave him FOUR warnings (equates to FIVE chances) before you dropped the ban hammer? Your patience is inspirational and would put Ghandi to shame.
"God's in His heaven. All's right with the world." - Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Yeah, PPP and I had been talking about it for a while.
I think FTN had a lot of good ideas but he needed to focus on not being a complete jerk to all of the regulars here. PPP tried to get him to fly straight but in the end it just didn’t work out.
“It’s not you, it’s me… nah just kidding it’s you.”
Pension Plan Puppets*
* Blog contains less than 2% puppet content by weight.
also
it got kinda old when he’d post the same kinda funny .gif in every single thread AND do a fanshot of it.
Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing
Yes
That was quite irritating
"God's in His heaven. All's right with the world." - Robert Browning (1812-1889)
that friggen 8 ball jacket gif alone was gonna send me at his jugular
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 31, 2008 10:20 AM EDT up reply actions
ya
can someone explain that to me? i didn’t get that one….i’m not hip and with it like the rest of you cool cats.
Anybody throws me against the boards I'm gonna piss all over myself.
by blurr1974 on Oct 31, 2008 10:30 AM EDT up reply actions
colour me stupid
because I didn’t either
"God's in His heaven. All's right with the world." - Robert Browning (1812-1889)
What’s with the Devils logo by the way? There’s no way in hell a bar like that exists in Newark…does it?
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Nice bar pic. I’m the one in the red shirt wondering where the restrooms are.
Leaf, the universe and everything.
i’m the one in the restroom…
Anybody throws me against the boards I'm gonna piss all over myself.
by blurr1974 on Oct 31, 2008 11:40 AM EDT up reply actions
TODAY!!!
Seriously – the cartoons on the urinals can’t be THAT good….
Leaf, the universe and everything.
i’m writing down all the “for a good time call” numbers…
Anybody throws me against the boards I'm gonna piss all over myself.
by blurr1974 on Oct 31, 2008 12:32 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm the one
right behind you
"God's in His heaven. All's right with the world." - Robert Browning (1812-1889)
See that inexplicable metal hand in the top left corner? Yeah, that’s me. I’m a bond villain henchman part time.
by LeafFanInVan on Oct 31, 2008 12:07 PM EDT up reply actions
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