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  1. It’s situational. Being tall tends to be an advantage in business settings but it’s not as great in a foxhole. I know you want to scoff at the assertion but yes, there is actually research which found correlation between height and salary. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/679675?seq=1
  2. That's fair. Ah, you mentioned that privilege usually involves factors beyond people's control; which I agree with, so I was mentioning other factors besides race which can give someone privilege as well.
  3. We'll have to agree to disagree there. Did I say there aren't poor white people?
  4. So because the Irish were discriminated against back in the day, privilege based on ethnicity doesn't exist? You don't have any control over being born into a family with money either; but it's pretty damn hard to say with a straight face that being born wealthy doesn't give you privilege compared to someone born into poverty. It doesn't make the person with money "bad" but it does mean they likely won't know hardships that poverty stricken do; which is a privilege.
  5. My apologies, I can see you're really trying your hardest here.
  6. How does racism being so institutionalized back in the day, where you could be the "wrong kind" of white, invalidate what I've said? I normally wouldn't even mention it, but since you brought it up, you may want to look into the studies which examined incomes and career opportunities based on height. Spoiler: tall people tend come out ahead. ( for the pun)
  7. That's pretty much the finer point that a lot of people who froth the mouth over the idea of privilege don't seem to understand (or ignore). Having privilege doesn't mean you've never faced adversity, haven't worked your ass off for what you have, or just had $&!#ty things happen to you over the course of your life in general. It just means you'll more than likely never have to deal with specific stressors that others will based on something as superficial as their ethnicity.
  8. Whoa, fact based statements now? What a rare treat.
  9. You don’t strike me as someone who would fair well dealing with actual adversity due to their ethnicity at all
  10. With Guentzel being out that long, and with a 6 million dollar cap hit going away with him, Benning should be on the phone selling Beartschi as hard as possible.
  11. There’s no way tv stations want to sign on to a potential extra hour and a half for every game. Playoffs are one thing but that’s a hard sell for the regular season.
  12. This one hits close to home. It’s also a teargas canister, not a flashbang, but I’m sure that didn’t make much of a difference to the guy who got hit in the nads with it.
  13. For those tracking the standings, the Coyotes just gave up 3 goals against the Stars!
  14. Svechnikov might have something to say about that but damn, what about those hands on Hoglander?
  15. Hoglander did it again! 

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    2. smithers joe

      smithers joe

      i wonder if it will repair my enlarged aorta? 

    3. coastal.view

      coastal.view

      so this will be a new scoring method in the nhl in the next short while (couple of years or so?)

      interesting that lacrosse technique and skills are appearing in the higher levels of hockey

      could change the game a bit

    4. 6string

      6string

      Goalies in the future may have to be more elevated and not squated with play from behind the net if this catches on.

  16. Oh, he can piss right off with the diving but something tells me the kids who want to emulate McDavid aren’t focusing on that part of his game.
  17. How long was Crybaby Crosby a thing? I’m sure McDavid will be just fine.
  18. That's definitely going to change over the next couple of years when kids who were 11 or 12 when McDavid broke in to the NHL start getting drafted.
  19. I won’t say don’t stream games from sites found in Reddit but just be aware that a lot of the sites that you can stream games from are sketchy AF. My advice would be to set your dad up with a VPN. It’s a service that spoofs your computer’s location so that regionally locked websites will work in other countries. They’re about $5-$10 a month, legal, and very easy to set up; in fact most will have very easy to follow tutorials and once set up, they’re extremely simple to work with.
  20. 1. 6ix9ine 2. Prince Phillip 3. Queen Elizabeth 4. Prince Andrew 5. Conor McGregor 6. Bill Shatner 7. Nichelle Nichols 8. Hulk Hogan 9. Patrick Stewart 10. Buzz Aldrin 11. Harrison Ford 12. Betty White 13. Kirk Douglas 14. Paul Manafort 15. Angela Lansbury 16. Wilford Brimley 17. Alex Trebek 18. Jimmy Carter 19. Vince McMahon 20. Andrew Lloyd Weber
  21. They were the home team; so I was stuck with them. No regrets though.
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