Opposite Day
by Mattblack on Oct 24, 2009 7:30 AM EDT
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PrintThat's right kind folk of the Barilkosphere, it's opposite day here at PPP Amalgamated Heavy Industries. Why undertake such a Ben Onerous task, you might say? Frankly, we've been looking forwards and doing things the right way for coming on for four weeks now and the results have been.....disappointing. So let's shake things up!
Henceforth, the following rules apply: The Toronto Maple Leafs currently stand astride the Northeast division, unbeaten in their first seven games - their 1.000 win percentage the envy of the Western world. Jason Blake (who does not suck...or does he...I've confused myself now) is streaking towards his third consecutive Hart and Rocket Richard successes. The Canadiens forward line continues to terrorise the league with their old style, knuckle swapping brand of hockey. A soberly dressed Don Cherry made a reasonable point about Alexei Ponikarovsky - in which he pronounced the Ukrainians name correctly. Twice. Upon which, Ron MacLean punched him to the floor.
PPP certainly doesn't make tearful phone calls in the small hours to Brian Burke, wondering why Antropov won't come back. The people of Vancouver realise they live in a beautiful city of their own and continue to focus internal issues. Ron Wilson shares a cheeky glass of Chardonnay with Howard Berger in front of an open fire.
The Leafs will beat Vancouver tonight. And the svelte, boyish figure of Kyle Wellwood won't score the winner in overtime. Please please please.
- Let's focus on tonight then. Leafs 247 has the keys to the game, The TrucuLeafs have their own inimitable preview and Maple Leaf Hot Stove has the latest news on the Leafs in the PT zone.
- Normally I wouldn't link a sworn enemies game preview, but I really wish I'd thought of doing this picture first.
- The folks at MLHS have been busy indeed, and here be their inaugural podcast - featuring star of stage and screen DGB. PPP not featured due to scheduling conflict with having rented 'Steel Magnolias' that night.
- Pavel Kubina has been speculating on why our Western cousins can't stop talking about us.
- Somny at his Vintage Leafs are back, with conclusive proof that hockey was played in Ancient Greece.
- And speaking of the ghosts of Leafs past, bkblades at Fallen Leafs pines for our lost Swedish captain.
- Toronto Mike is not a happy camper with the Leafs lot right now.
- But let's not part on such a low point. Your non-hockey link for today features The Gentleman Rhymer performing Chap-Hop History or Thirty Years of Hip Hop.
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is that picture where it says “OFfense defense goatendng FUCK” real or photoshopped.
i hope its real.
Raycroft a surprise starter? Please say yes.
by general borschevsky on Oct 24, 2009 9:05 AM EDT up reply actions
Thank God this long dreary PRE-SEASON is over and we can finally play some meaningful games.
GO! LEAFS! GO!
by general borschevsky on Oct 24, 2009 9:07 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
opposite day
so…do I have to change my name to Winner Domi?
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so you have to change your name to MichellWhite?
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 24, 2009 11:36 AM EDT up reply actions
And you’ll be JuliefromLakeshore, yes.
Harder, better, faster, stronger because our work is never over.
JanetfromParis!
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 24, 2009 11:46 AM EDT up reply actions
clearsighted wagon rider?
Brain: The irony of it all, Pinky. Years of trying to take over the world, and all I had to do was say "truculence".
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by blindfolded tank driver on Oct 24, 2009 1:28 PM EDT up reply actions
I suppose I will be golfballeventually
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by puckurgently on Oct 24, 2009 1:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Pavel Kubina it is for me...
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by Marc Pilgrim on Oct 24, 2009 1:48 PM EDT up reply actions
Opposite Day means that I actually rented 300.
Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.
THIS IS MADNESS!
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 24, 2009 11:50 AM EDT up reply actions
The links part of the FTB is opposite day proof. You big baby.
Harder, better, faster, stronger because our work is never over.
“Pavel Kubina” is intentionally opposite for “Kavel Pubina”.
Too subtle.
by general borschevsky on Oct 24, 2009 12:08 PM EDT up reply actions
I guess...
“Tarcy Ducker” was too obvious?
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by Marc Pilgrim on Oct 24, 2009 1:55 PM EDT up reply actions
I wonder what happened to...
Sats Mundin?
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by Marc Pilgrim on Oct 24, 2009 1:59 PM EDT up reply actions
he’s still deciding how he is going to reply to the opening day GDT
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 24, 2009 2:00 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Nice one.
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by puckurgently on Oct 24, 2009 2:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Die Tomi isn’t doing too bad. Anyone who speaks German can’t be terrible, right?
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Ich habe eine große Wurst in meiner Leiderhosen.
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by puckurgently on Oct 24, 2009 2:03 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
hhahahahahah! well played!
Brain: The irony of it all, Pinky. Years of trying to take over the world, and all I had to do was say "truculence".
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by blindfolded tank driver on Oct 24, 2009 2:04 PM EDT up reply actions
I heard....
Jurtis Coseph was playing hockey in Europe.
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by Marc Pilgrim on Oct 24, 2009 2:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Wo ist der Bahnhof, bitte?
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by puckurgently on Oct 24, 2009 2:11 PM EDT up reply actions
Guys…read Kavel/Pavel’s thing…just one little proviso from a Canucks fan.
No one is obsessed with the Leafs. God…get over yourselves. Once a year we have a communal jokefest out here, adn the Leafs are the butt of it. Probably because of the sheer number of expatriates…its all in fun.
BTW-If you are the “big dog”…sometimes you just have to sit back and take it a bit…don’t be so sensitive.
Looking forward to game night…wait…afternoon….Fuck!!!
Peace
vancitydan
once a season? really? we hear about that type of stuff a lot more from our bretheren who live on the west coast
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 24, 2009 12:50 PM EDT up reply actions
once a season? really?
Yes, really. They do it once, from January until December, and that’s all.
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by Down Goes Brown on Oct 24, 2009 12:52 PM EDT up reply actions
I guess the blame
should fall on the Vancouver Sports Media, who spin their webs of Leaf-hate, and the people who mindlessly believe everything they say.
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by Marc Pilgrim on Oct 24, 2009 1:04 PM EDT up reply actions
wrong. Bye.
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by Karina on Oct 24, 2009 3:51 PM EDT up reply actions
Come ON guys. Win a few games, and the chorus from across the country, not “out west” will quiet down I am sure.
I know I only give it to my Leaf friends when they suck…its better when they don’t…sort of like a competition between equals…ya know.
God…what do you guys want? You are pissed when people are joking about the team, or pissed when they get some perceived slight.
Look at it this way….why would you make jokes about Welly’s weight? because it was funny?
Exactly….just the karmic wheel spinning ’round boys and girls!
vancitydan
no we’re pissed because this happens every year, every game against a “rival” no matter how the leafs or they are playing. The reason we are so testy this year is pretty evident is it not? You expect us to be all sunshine and lollypops in a situation such as this? You personally may only give barbs about the leafs when they are terrible, but if that is true then you are in a small minority. The leafs could be undefeated right now and we’d still be taking shit from all sides about how they would blow it and hear the call of 1967 over and over again.
You really expect any less when you poke a pissed off bear?
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 24, 2009 1:04 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
pissed off bear
very apt description.
Now I want beer.
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by Karina on Oct 24, 2009 3:51 PM EDT up reply actions
No…but that is what i was saying about being the “big dog”.
The Lakers and Yankees fans get the same thing all the time. They shove it back in people’s faces in a supremely arrogant way because their team wins more than it loses. They each have a superduper star.
I suspect the nerve being close to the surface is because of the current situation. Not being able to shove it back when your friend from the “Coast” calls…wanting to talk puck…
Which you have my sympathies for.
vancitydan
GOD FUCKING DAMMIT PEOPLE
OK, LOOK. it seems like both the Leafs fans or the Canucks fans are just endlessly repeating themselves. I’m SO DAMN SICK of this argument because nobody can accept that either side will budge. Honestly, you all might as well be arguing with a brick wall, for all the progress that’s being made. I for one, say FUCK. THIS.
I probably won’t be watching the game or chat in the game thread, because no matter what happens, I’ll still be mad. Are you guys happy? I hate the Canucks now. Congradufuckinglations. I hope you feel better about yourselves. FUCK.
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I’ll talk puck all day long, but when the opening shot is from the west coast saying “zomg the leafs are like a cigarette machine without players HAHAHAHA” its kind of hard to get into that mood.
If you wanted to talk hockey so bad, you should have come over with “hey, I hope we play macdonald and beat you, because the nucks have a lot of injuries”\
or something of that like
really, you come over and start cracking jokes on the leafs on a leafs site and dont expect a negative retort and then claim it is “all in good fun” but then bitch when we start making fun of your team and city? pot meet the kettle, its black too.
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 24, 2009 1:19 PM EDT up reply actions
It's the same thing...
I don’t think any of us would go on a Canucks site to start shit with the ’Nucks fans.
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by Marc Pilgrim on Oct 24, 2009 1:23 PM EDT up reply actions
seriously....
when was the last time anyone has seen a cigarette machine? Really?I’ve heard of them, but never seen one
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I’ve seen them in Germany, but they don’t have the Players brand or anyone who would get NHL jokes over there.
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by puckurgently on Oct 24, 2009 1:27 PM EDT up reply actions
i remember there being one back when i first moved to Kitchener (I was 4) it was right next to the hockey card machine in the Loebs
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 24, 2009 1:28 PM EDT up reply actions
with bubble gum in each pack?
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by blindfolded tank driver on Oct 24, 2009 1:32 PM EDT up reply actions
Geez…just reread my posts Jared…there was no HAHAHAHAHA in it all all…
god…unclench that sphincter a little.
You might hurt yourself!
I called you guys on your “woe is me” victim shit is all. You can’t have it both ways. If you are going to be so sensitive, this is going to be a long day…what happened to the fun Jared from yesterday.
I never “cracked” a single joke at your expense…just gave a sense of perspective.
vancitydan
good rule of thumb
if you have to explain it’s not a joke, then maybe it’s not such a joke
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usually a good way to go about these things.
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by Wendelsaurus Rex on Oct 24, 2009 1:54 PM EDT up reply actions
And now I’m saying something.
“Woe is me” victim shit? You suffered this massive head trauma when, exactly? No one here is playing the victim. Though if someone were, I’d look in the mirror, what with your team’s (and media’s) need to whine that big bad Toronto is hurting them. I’m all for fun sparing between teams as part of a rivalry, but for that to happen, you need a couple of things:
1) The teams need to play each oher a number of times in a relatively short period of time, as the old ‘familiarity breeds contempt’ line holds true – 3 games in 5 years does not meet this standard.
2) The insults should either be extremely witty, creative or totally true – preferrably all three. Again, the ‘Leafs are like a cigarette machine’ doesn’t work, as we don’t even have those any more and good lord, with how crappy the Leafs are, you’d think people would be able to come up with something a little fresher and funnier.
And as for the whole ‘perspective’ chesnut, well that’s crap. We don’t actually insult the Canucks for weeks before we meet them in the occasional game, so when the major dailies in your city spend the week before the game publishing articles on ‘The Laffs’, we are completely in the right to think it is childish and infantile.
But you have made your point. Congratulations. Instead of me hating your team due to playoff battles, or great games in the regular season, I hate your team because you can’t seem to shut the hell up.
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by Mabel on Oct 24, 2009 1:49 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Hey...
I don’t even think the major newspapers here (as anti-Leaf as they are…) don’t go around writing articles with “Canucks Suck” and such.
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by Marc Pilgrim on Oct 24, 2009 1:51 PM EDT up reply actions
thats because they are too busy writing “Leafs suck”
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 24, 2009 1:55 PM EDT up reply actions
True dat.
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by Marc Pilgrim on Oct 24, 2009 1:56 PM EDT up reply actions
Things getting whines about by Leafs fans…include but not limited to ;
Vancouver papers making jokes at the teams expense.
Again..GET OVER YOURSELF…no one insulted your team for weeks…jesus christ…its been a couple days with no hockey and the papers were filling space.
And Mabel? I will talk as much as I like…its a free fucking country and I haven’t trolled you guys once.
You can’t be “the biggest team in the NHL”…"the richest’…and not take some good natued babrbs.
Take it like an adult and stop whining…jeezuz…
Whats next…running to Bettman…“those Vancouver guys were mean to me daddy…fine them or something!”
vancitydan
/facepalm
no one insulted our team for weeks? You really have no idea what you are talking about do you?
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 24, 2009 2:15 PM EDT up reply actions
- facepalm -
Sounds like you’re doing all the whining about our Wellwood jokes and angry letters and such.
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by Marc Pilgrim on Oct 24, 2009 2:19 PM EDT up reply actions
Us, running to Bettman? Oh wait – right – opposite day. Almost thought you were being unintentionally ironic.
by general borschevsky on Oct 24, 2009 2:19 PM EDT up reply actions
yeah, see, now what I did there was called exaggeration to drive home a point.
my sphincter is fine though, thanks for asking. You seem to be missing the point that YOU arn’t necessarily the problem, your fan base and your media are. You are just the one who made the descision to come over here and “call us” on something that you seem to have no actual grasp of.
You cite personal experience as proof that you dont obsess over the leafs, but your medias reaction to the leafs coming to town spouts otherwise.
The overt response of fans on message boards claiming the Canucks deserve the leafs first round pick because ron wilson said he wouldnt mind having the sedin twins on his team say otherwise.
Fun Jared is here, he is just tired of you not getting it
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 24, 2009 1:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Whatever dude. You guys were all over Nucksmisconduct dealing some crap yesterday….
I tire of the fucking whining Jared….“no actual grasp of?”
I tire of you guys because of the arrogant proclaiming that your beloved Leafs are “something”…when they are not…win a fucking game first.
God…you come to the Canucks thread and we welcome you guys with good humour…I point out some shit and now a whole bunch of insecure people go from being above it all to insulting me personally.
I get it. I have gotten it for a loooonnnnggg time with the Leafs…was even a fan of your team at one time.
Yeah…no one has insulted your team for weeks Jared…don’t make pronouncements like that. I write for the Canucks on another site…I read the papers here most every day…its been this week or less.
What ….now you all want a piece because I hit a nerve.
Bring it on…like the French guy in Python…“I told them we already had one”…and..“I fart in your general direction”
vancitydan
you can express you opinons
but that DOES NOT MEAN you get free range to be an asshole. seriously
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dear god you are thick
1-first off, you are a wagon jumper, that automatically makes your opinion lower than dirt
2- When did I ever say that it was JUST Canucks fans making fun of the Leafs, as an ex leaf fan you should know that it comes from all sides all the goddamned time.
3-When teams like the Sens and Habs get in on the “leafs suck lol” wagon it is tollerable because the teams have something of a rivalry and their newspapers and radio stations dont go out of their way to dedicate a full week to leaf bashing
4-I don’t want a piece, I want you to stop spouting the same dumb crap over and over again like its gospal
5- I had a great sense of humour back when this was funny, you hear the same joke every 5 mins for a week and it gets old and irritating.
6-stop making this about you, YOU didnt hit a nerve your whole damned over blown pay attention to us toronto city did, ,you are just the one that is present for the return lashing
7 you keep saying that the big dog should be expected to take a few bites, well yeah, that makes sense, but dont get pissed off when the big dog bites back
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 24, 2009 2:26 PM EDT up reply actions
…was even a fan of your team at one time.
This statement, uttered many times, has never once been true. You are a Leaf fan, now and forever, born that way, for all time until the end of eternity, and that’s that. Don’t pretend you were ever ONE OF US. You have no idea what it’s like.
p.s. If you fart in the general’s direction be prepared for Major Shit.
by general borschevsky on Oct 24, 2009 2:27 PM EDT up reply actions
Also my name got botched again.... :p
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I guess the General’s point was not made strongly enough?
Harder, better, faster, stronger because our work is never over.
:D
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by Marc Pilgrim on Oct 24, 2009 1:22 PM EDT up reply actions
I’m kind of bummed that this will be yet another Leafs game that is blacked out on the NHL Gamecenter live (yes, I caved and subscribed – no cable this year) but at least I can stream it from CBC. The quality is pretty sucky compared to Gamecenter, though.
Just a warning to anyone thinking of getting Gamecenter to watch Leafs games – you will be disappointed. Personally I do find it to be worthwhile just to see the games that I’d otherwise never get to see, like lots of Sharks and Philly games.
shut up
seriously., SHUT UP. you’re not giving canucks fans a better name. You’re making them look worse.
Subtitle: You’re an asshole. shut up
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Rule #1 when dealing with trolls: Do not engage them reactively. It gives them power! Plus it causes stress.
Just relax, it’s ok. I used to be the biggest `net rager of all time and it’s a terrible feeling getting super worked up over it. It’s reaaaaaally hard to just let it go, though. I know from experience. We need a 12 step program for it.
by LeafFanInVan on Oct 24, 2009 2:27 PM EDT up reply actions
Sure, you’re doing a great job maintaining ;)
by LeafFanInVan on Oct 24, 2009 2:28 PM EDT up reply actions
No, teams with a national fan base that are shown nation wide usually suffer from the blackouts. That seems pretty “real” to me, has nothing to do with how good they actually are!
by LeafFanInVan on Oct 24, 2009 2:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Callling the WAAAAHHH-mbulance again.
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by Marc Pilgrim on Oct 24, 2009 2:26 PM EDT up reply actions
heres a joke
what do you call the Stanley cup in vancouver?
lost
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 24, 2009 2:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Grow a sense of humour domi…i posted that you guys are giving Canucks fans a bad rap above…and a bunch of you guys are attacking me…I said nothing to be ashamed of except the last post.
Because I tire of the level of anger.
I wear your label of asshole like a badge of honour baby boy
But yeah…I tire of you now…not here to have a flame session…so, come on over to Nucksmisconduct on teh game thread and show us all how classy you can be.
Troll…you guys can’t handle the TRUTH.
So…enjoy the mediocre team. Great fans…mediocre team…i guess thats why no one has a sense of fucking humour!
vancitydan
Yes, making jokes about a Canuck player for being fat....
is not a great sense of humour. – rolls eyes -
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by Marc Pilgrim on Oct 24, 2009 2:29 PM EDT up reply actions
NA-NAH-NAH....
NA-NAH-NA-NAH….
He-ey-ey……Goodbye.
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by Marc Pilgrim on Oct 24, 2009 2:30 PM EDT up reply actions
I have a sense of humour
but an allergy to idiots, I;m just asking you kindly to yell at a wall. Maybe the wall will listen to your rambling better
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my dad always said, if your expecting a classy entrance, dont wear overalls covered in pig shit
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 24, 2009 2:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Whatever…have a nice day folks…enjoy your fantasy world.
Just remember, I was playing nice until you guys got the insults going.
Thus…my clean overalls are just fine Jared….
see you guys at game time!
vancitydan
dude…just stop, seriously.
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 24, 2009 2:42 PM EDT up reply actions
ARE YOU FUCKED!!!???
Honestly, we’ve managed to handle the good-natured ribbing between us and some of the guys on Nucks’ Misconduct but you have handled youself like such an annoying little bastard that we don’t want to deal with your shit. Can you not reason with yourself that “oh hey, I’m being an asshole, people have called me an asshole (which they haven’t called anybody else when they were on our site), so maybe I SHOULD STOP BEING AN ASSHOLE!!!”.
Goodbye.
Try not to be a dickweed at the GDT. (If you even bother showing up.)
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by Marc Pilgrim on Oct 24, 2009 3:21 PM EDT up reply actions
Definition of a troll
Blatantly antagonizing with inflammatory remarks.
vancitydan, you are a troll… and ‘used to be a fan’ of the Leafs – it is you who are pathetic and your opinion means nothing. If you have a problem with the Leafs, Leafs fans or whatever it is not that intelligent to to their fan site and badmouth them.
You are a troll, whether you think so or not.
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Oct 24, 2009 2:48 PM EDT reply actions
see? I got angry and my grammar went to shit. oh well. Enjoy the game tonight.
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Oct 24, 2009 2:49 PM EDT up reply actions
The real problem here-
There is a fundamental problem with Canuck fans that I’ve been trying to get a handle on since I joined PPP, and I think I finally figured out.
When I spent three years out in Vancouver (1993-1996 if you can believe it, the Leaf’s moments I missed and the rioting I did catch) I was working pretty much every single night, particularly Saturdays, so I missed so much live hockey it was not funny at all. I have very few memories of Canuck fans at all except for large group criminal activities.
Hockey seemed to be something that was no more important, and possibly less if it wasn’t for 1994, than BC Lions football. Even baseball seemed to be, in some senses, a comparatively viable sport- when I road-tripped down to Seattle to catch the Jays, 20,000+ Jays fans from all over western Canada would be there at the game, filling out that godawful Kingdome and making a ruckus.
I’ve read lot’s Vancouver media over the last while, and they rank, in terms of indefensibly bad hockey coverage, right at the bottom with Ottawa, and maybe even worse.
The problem, that has only really crystallized since I wrote the Vancouver-based MBA with Mabel, is that the entire city has a profound denial or selective memory problem when it comes to hockey- it’s like trying to get the victim of a crime to recount what actually happened and they keep telling you that everything is fine, nothing happened.
The problem is that they have literally no significant historical moments to cling to, and they are latched on to a single playoff series win against the Leafs like it’s the last food on earth. They so easily forget that whenever they enter into a hockey-based argument, that they represent the only Canadian team that doesn’t have a single Stanley Cup win to their credit. They literally are the sad kid on the block who doesn’t understand that they aren’t picked last for the pickup game because they lack talent, but because they’ve never, ever won anything of significance.
So they make up this fallacious story where they are better than the Leafs in so many ways, they make up or exaggerate their rivalries in order to have some semblance of public dignity, but it only makes it worse. I mean, at least Ottawa made it to the Cup finals in the first 20 years of their renewed existence.
And that’s what I think finally caused this thread to snap- the fact that they don’t realize that don’t have a single hockey leg to stand on, yet they demand to be treated as if they do, which makes them very much like the Snes fan base.
No matter how much you try to patient and understanding, no one likes the whiny kid on the block who has a vastly over-exaggerated sense of entitlement.
So when you come over here, we’re watching very carefully to see if you’re deluded or if you have a healthy sense of reality. As Leaf fans, we also value a fan’s capacity to laugh at themselves, and I see very little of that with Canuck fans.
So, vancitydan, you might want to rethink your approach to this community. If you search our threads, you’ll see that fans of many different teams are welcome here, but with reasonable conditions. Because we not only love the Leafs here, we also love hockey and hockey reality in general.
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by kidkawartha on Oct 24, 2009 3:55 PM EDT reply actions 10 recs
rec’d, hard.
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by Karina on Oct 24, 2009 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions
As Leaf fans, we also value a fan’s capacity to laugh at themselves, and I see very little of that with Canuck fans.
Bingo. And rec’d. Nice job, kidk.
by general borschevsky on Oct 24, 2009 4:38 PM EDT up reply actions
testify Kidk
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Albert Einstein
by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Oct 24, 2009 4:40 PM EDT up reply actions
One thing to add though
I think that the silent majority of most NHL fan bases are actually pretty good hockey fans who care a lot about their team and are secure enough in their love for their team that they don’t feel they need to resort to ignorant comments.
Yesterday, over at Nucks Misconduct I really didn’t have a problem with the vast majority of the comments made by their fans. I have met and spoke to quite a few Vancouver fans who are reasonable and understand that we are going through a pretty shitty time right now.
Let’s not do what has been done to Leaf fans for years, generalize about the behaviour of there entire fan base.
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Oct 24, 2009 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
But what we’re talking about here, really, is the contingent of core fans. Personally, I’ve just never encountered the sub-species of Canuck fan that you’re talking about, plan, although I’m as certain as you are that they exist as with all fan bases.
I’m also trying to figure out why I-
a) thought I’d done an MBA on Canuck fans (I was sure that I had), and
b) thought I’d done said fictitious post with Mabel, when I did the LeafNation one with her.
Weird.
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Dude, you’re making way too much sense on opposite day. Rec’d.
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by mauvais gardien de but on Oct 24, 2009 5:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Rec'd to the max.
Way to tell ’em, kid.
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by Marc Pilgrim on Oct 24, 2009 6:02 PM EDT up reply actions
That was an amazing read, kidk.
The problem is that they have literally no significant historical moments to cling to, and they are latched on to a single playoff series win against the Leafs like it’s the last food on earth. They so easily forget that whenever they enter into a hockey-based argument, that they represent the only Canadian team that doesn’t have a single Stanley Cup win to their credit.I don’t fully agree with this part. I believe Canucks fans cling to the 2 Finals appearances more so. I don’t think many forget that the team has not won a Cup (and that they are the only one that has not). I think that fact is a lingering annoyance with the Canucks fanbase, especially the ones who are old enough to have watched them since their NHL arrival. They aren’t in denial. They’re pissed!
1994 is significant in Canucks fans minds because that team was within a goal of going to OT in Game 7 of the Finals. That’s what is clinged to more than anything else. The win over the Leafs is secondary.
Of course, I’m generalizing, just as you were. There are people true to both our opinions. Personally, I don’t see the ones you described all that often. People are aware, man. 2 Cup Final appearances and 2 losses = no Stanley Cup. And then, like a fan pointed out at our site, the other significant historical events in Canucks history are failures, like Gretzky potting his 802nd goal against Van, for example. It really is sad.
Anyway, I’m rambling. The jist of your comment belongs on a headline somewhere. Well done!
by Sean Zandberg on Oct 24, 2009 6:16 PM EDT up reply actions
We are still more focused on the 93 playoffs… it also featured Gretzky quite prominently…
That year was definite weak sauce.
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Albert Einstein
by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Oct 24, 2009 6:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Game 7 hatty. And that Leafs team would have beat Montreal too. Just my opinion.
by Sean Zandberg on Oct 24, 2009 6:33 PM EDT up reply actions
And that’s what Kerry Fucking Fraser stole from Canada- not a guaranteed Cup win for the Leafs by any means although I agree with you, but the last chance to see a Leafs/Habs final.
We should’ve turned the Kings into powder that last game.
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Wow…read the first posts boys, no one insulted you.
I told you guys to maybe relax on taking the joking too seriously.
For that, a bunch of you labelled me a troll.
Whatever.
I wish you guys the best. Enjoy the game.
And remember, its just a game….
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Seriously
The thing that bothered me the most is that you don’t use ‘reply’ at all.
Is it that hard?
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