Down by the River
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My buddy and I are going halfers on a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue. Just waiting til we get down South where the price will go down.
On that note, anyone know why there isn't as much of a drop in price of whiskey when you go down to the states relative to other spirits (i.e., vodka, gin)?
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He's taking crack off the streets of Toronto
And into his friend's crack den
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Both are still banned substances, or is there a double standard you're not willing to admit when it comes to leftists and crime?
1. I can talk in extremes too. Homicide and theft are both criminal offences. We should treat each type of offender the same.
2. There's a difference between acknowledging it happened and lying through your teeth about it until you cannot possibly keep up the lie any more.
3. There's a difference between using a drug on a weekend with friends while being conscious of your decision and using crack cocaine in a drunken stupor.
4. The crack cocaine issue is just one of about a dozen or more problems concerning Rob Ford.
5. Any rational person understands that marijuana and crack cocaine are two different drugs with varying degrees of severity. So, you are either an irrational person or your political beliefs are forcing you to act irrationally in the name of conservatism. If your political orientation is forcing you to make stupid decisions, what does that say about your ideology?
I think one of the biggest crimes on this board is that the mods have not forced you to change your user name.
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Not for smokling crack, which is NOT a criminal offence. B
Justin Trudeau should resigned too since he admitted to smoking pot. Pot is still illegal.
hmmmmm? Crack is not illegal but pot is?
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Chris Hadfield ejected from movie theatre for loudly heckling Gravity
Written by Ian MacIntyreTuesday, 29 October 2013 15:58
Eyewitnesses reported that during last night’s 9:15pm Real3D screening of Gravity, a lone man (later identified as retired ISS Commander Chris Hadfield) began muttering under his breath and chuckling to himself. By the 30-minute mark, Hadfield reportedly made numerous rude comments such as, “Nice Soyuz procedure, Hollywood!” and “Oh yeah, because that’s what hypoxia as caused by rapid cabin decompression looks like you idiots!.”
“It was the damndest thing,” recounted Isabelle Tremblay. “My boyfriend and I were like, ‘what a jerk’, and he went back to talk to him. But then he came back to our seats and he was like ‘I’m pretty sure that was that astronaut guy. You know, from the news.’ So we just let him go. I mean, what do you do? An astronaut probably gets George Clooney’s character struggles a little better than I do.”
Hadfield’s alleged berating of the film continued unabated. During one crucial and deathly silent scene involving Sandra Bullock’s character’s desperate attempt to reach her vessel and avoid dying in the void of space, the man who brought honour and fun to Canadian space exploration let out a long, piercing, and altogether perfect fart.
Eventually, theatre staff was notified, and the Canadian living legend was loudly removed from the cinema. Witnesses report that he did not go quietly. One patron recalled, “The last thing I heard him yelling was, ‘Have you been to space? Because I’ve been to space!’”
“But he’s still a hero, I suppose.”
At press time, Commander Hadfield’s family and friends were really hoping he never finds out about the 1996 horror classic: Leprechaun In Space.
http://www.thebeaver...ing-gravity.htm
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Anyone have any horror movies to recommend for Halloween?
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Shawn Horcoff get's told:
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I am in no way condoning anyone's actions in this incident but...........I had no idea that being surrounded by bikes means you can run over(attempt to kill) people without consequence? If the driver of the SUV does not get charged for attempted murder than this is a complete joke. On the flip side those bikers asked for this kind of incident by riding around like blind ignorant fools on the streets. Everyone in this situation is to blame. Especially the fellow riders who could not recognize a situation that was escalating. How did cooler heads not prevail ???
There is no evidence that the driver 'attempted to kill anyone'. How can you think that he intended to murder anyone? He was in a dangerous situation and needed to get away. When you're surrounded by 30 bikers, you really don't have any other option.
If you believe that "on the flip side, those bikers asked for this kind of incident", then how can you also fault the driver? If people go asking for an incident and then force another individual into a high-risk situation, it is hard to see how the driver of the SUV would be culpable.
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like something didn't precipitate that action.
Just look at the way they were riding. They were taking up the entire highway, not just a lane. I hate when biker groups do this.
I was in the left lane once and needed to get into the right lane to take an exit. 20 bikers were all straddling one another in the right lane. I put my signal on to try and get into the right lane. Not a single biker would give me room to get into the right lane. My options were to run them over or miss my exit. Obviously I chose the latter. Still, I don't get where this sense of entitlement comes from. I guess because they are in a group they assume they are invincible and can do whatever they want.
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This is awesome. Will be my most consistently visited thread on CDC.
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He's too scared to take a risk for a finish. Ever since getting tko'd by what's his name and losing his title.
Champions who finish fighters and do it while taking risks are better imo. Cain Valasquez is another one who's above him.
This seems to be a preference in style rather than a definition of who is a better fighter. In my mind, the better fighter is the one who can win without taking chances. It shows that they are so technically sound that they can beat anyone on a given day. Those who take risks may do so for different reasons. Silva may take risks because he is a showboat. Others may take risks simply because they are unsure that they beat their opponent on the balance of their abilities.
I don't think you can say that GSP doesn't take risks because he is 'scared'. For one, he is fighting guys who are better and thus more difficult to KO or TKO. I think GSP doesn't take risks because he wants to win fights.
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I'd go Pettis, Silva and Jones ahead of GSP.
All three are risk takers and finishers for the most part and still win, apart from Silva's showboating KTFO.
Being a risk taker doesn't make you a better fighter. These guys can't help but be risk takers because they don't have the type of dedication to their game plan. I don't know if GSP is a better P4P fighter than Silva or Jones, but I think the fact that he is able to win without taking risks is a sign of a better fighter.
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Goalies:
Luongo
Price
Smith
Defence
Keith Seabrook
Weber Doughty
Staal Subban
Pietrangelo/Hamhuis
For the forward group, I honestly have no idea. I think these guys are locks:
Crosby
Stamkos
Giroux
Tavares
Toews
Bergeron
These guys are likely:
Getzlaf
E. Staal
Carter
Couture
That leaves three forward positions up for grabs
Bubble:
Hall
Eberle
Kunitz
St. Louis
Richards
Thornton
Nash
Sharp
Perry
Not in the picture:
Marchand
Lucic
Neal
Benn
J. Staal
Andrew Ladd
The group of forwards that I'd take to Sochi:
Bergeron Crosby Stamkos
Giroux Tavares Carter
Toews Richards Couture
E. Staal Getzlaf Nash
Hall
Obviously there are a lot of centres there, but moving from centre to the wing really isn't all that hard. The wing is a pretty easy position to play.
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Anyone know where I can watch episodes of 24/7? Rangers/Flyers or Penguins/Caps, I don't care which. Just jonesing for some hockey.
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I was wondering if someone could breakdown why it is that Horvat is rated such a better Prospect than Gaunce?
From what I have read they both seem to be projected great 3rd line centers with a possible ceiling of good 2nd liner centers
Horvat has more offensive upside. 16 goals in 21 playoff games.
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"Canucks have too many centres"
The Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup dressing 5 natural centers a night (Toews, Bolland, Shaw, Handzus, and Kruger).
That's just a fraction of the centres who were in the Bruins' lineup:
Soderberg
Bergeron
Campbell (yes, I know he was injured for the SCF)
Kelly
Krejci
Marchand
Peverley
Seguin
Go ahead and look for yourself:
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I'm not saying Tortorella does this ALL the time, but I think, in certain situations, Tortorella puts on his media persona in order to distract media attention from his own players.
This was how I interpreted his post-game conferences with the media last year, especially in the Devils/Rangers series. When his team played poorly, he acted like a dick. He was short and curt with the media and this resulted in the media playing the same conference over and over again, joking about how long the next one would last, etc. All the while, there was no talk about how players like Gaborik weren't scoring any goals. It seemed to me like it was a distraction technique, and if that was Tortorella's intention, it sure worked.
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I am a lifelong Canucks fan, Always a fan- win or lose. This is my home team, and I cheer for the home team because they represent me in the league, in the media and around the world. I'm proud of it. That is why it hard to accept this hiring. This guy is
arrogant, abusive, loudmouth, disrespectful and happy to throw players under the bus. He doesn't represent me, my city or my province. Gillis waited and waited til the coaching candidates were picked up and thought he had to take this guy because nobody else wanted to coach under him.
I may just have to cheer for my team from afar this year because I don't think my stomach could take his circus behaviour and seeing him behind the bench.
I think the team needed a new voice, and someone who could light a fire or two but torts is waaayy too over the top.
Oh really? Did the Canucks organization agree to be your representative? That's neat.
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Canucks' hiring of John Tortorella feels an awful lot like Mike Keenan 2.0
When John Tortorella's name first surfaced in connection with the Vancouver Canucks, the response was essentially, "This is a joke, right?"
Tortorella, after all, was the complete antithesis of everything Mike Gillis's administration supposedly represented. Gillis was a man of reason and intellect.
He was a new-age thinker who based organizational decisions on cool logic, metrics and analytics. The Canucks under Gillis were many things. But they were always rational and thoughtful.
Until today.
Tortorella is the kind of knee-jerk decision that other organizations make, not the Canucks. Yes, he represents a personality type diametrically opposed from his predecessor, Alain Vigneault. But he also represents a personality type diametrically opposed to Gillis's core values. He is loud and profane; narcissistic and temperamental. He is emotional to the point of irrationality. Tortorella, in fact, is so far removed from Gillis and his methods that this hire had to come from somewhere else; somewhere, and we're just spitballing here, like Canucks ownership.
And when ownership gets involved in decisions of this magnitude, it's a sure sign the organization is in a state of dysfunction.
The Canucks have built their brand on touchy-feely sentiments like "We Are All Canucks" and "Our Team Our Way." True, those slogans had a Hallmark feel to them but, in good times, they sent the message that the city and the province were all invested in the Canucks, that the team cared about its fans.
Tortorella, without putting too fine an edge on things, basically extends the middle finger to those fans.
That he is obnoxious is a given. And I hope when he lands here, we get the full Tortorella, the vainglorious, I'm-smarter-and-more-imporant-than-everyone-here guy we saw in New York. That way, at least he'd be true to himself. I'm just not sure he can be any other way, which is going to make things very interesting.
Francesco Aquilini, the man presumably behind this decision, is labouring under the misapprehension that the team needs a butt-kicker, a motivator to shake it out of its lethargy. That would be fine if this were 1964. But you don't reach players with the drill-sergeant approach anymore. Today's player has to be self-motivated and maniacally driven or he never reaches the NHL. The thought that players like the Sedins, Alex Burrows and Kevin Bieksa grew fat and lazy under Vigneault's watch is insulting to them and their years of service to the Canucks.
But, in much the way exasperated parents think military school would benefit their wayward teenager, Aquilini thinks Tortorella is just the man to set the Canucks straight. That's fine in theory. But in reality, Tortorella's personality is simply an impossible fit for this organization. If the Canucks were about egos and stars, then maybe this might work. But under Gillis's watch they've been about something else. They've been about the collective. They've policed themselves. Most of those players have also taken substantially less to play in this environment.
How is Tortorella going to go over with them?
If there was a country-club atmosphere with the Canucks, it started with Gillis's vision for the team. He was the GM who was going to make Vancouver a destination franchise for other players. He was the one who was going to provide every conceivable edge -- meals, sleep doctors, mind rooms, sports psychologists -- to the players. The real problem with the Canucks in 2013, of course, had nothing to do with that and everything to do with miscalculations on a number of fronts by Gillis. The ongoing Roberto Luongo soap opera not only cost the team prime assets, it was a distraction throughout the season. Gillis acquisitions like Keith Ballard and David Booth contributed very little. Organizational depth was eradicated by five years of bad drafting. The deadline acquisition of Derek Roy was a bust.
if Aquilini thinks Tortorella is going to fix all that, good luck. But what this feels like is the start of another Mike Keenan era in Vancouver. If you need reminding, that was two years of chaos in the late 1990's, in which the organization completely alienated its fan base; two years in which the Canucks became irrelevant. They came out of that turmoil largely unscathed, mostly because Brian Burke was able to rebuild the team in two short years.
Who knows? Maybe they'll get lucky again. But look at it this way. They're going to need it.
Yeah, Tortorella doesn't give a damn about the fans.....
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Vancouver media is scared crapless and are already trying to run Torts out of town so that they don't have to face his wrath.
I can't say whether the hiring will be positive or negative, but at least give it a chance before deciding whether it was successful or not...
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So what, 2 guys with an opinion, others may not agree.... what's is there to learn from?
That there are alternative opinions aside from those provided by Sportsnet "analysts"
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Darren Dreger says that Tortorella is the right fit for Vancouver.
EDIT: Aaron Ward agrees.
And both of them communicated that message without yelling at me through the TV.
Kypreos and MacLean could learn something here.
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I'd love to be wrong, but I really think this is a mistake. If they wanted more of the same, why not just keep AV?
No, this is not going to work out well.
In what ways are AV and Tortorella similar?
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Farhan Lalji:
Doesn't sound that great.
I hate comments like this. How does Lalji know this? Who did he talk to? Who was excited? Who had mixed feelings?
Hold yourself accountable by citing your sources, don't just throw bull**** into the twittersphere.
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2013-14 Prospect Points Tracker
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Coming into this thread takes a lot of the sting off of a 5-1 shellacking.