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  1. These are clickbait articles for those of us that can't resist seeing the stupid things that the now grown Millennials are doing to themselves and the newest generation. We still have all of the other big stuff to worry about as well. Just look at who's president. He's giving smart bomb technology to the Saudis now as if the people in the Middle East needed high-tech ways to kill people.
  2. Before nukes, we could cull the herd a bit with wars, but now enough people are living long enough to whine about a game everyone played in school. Question... Do they still do "shirts vs. skin" games in school gym classes or have they outlawed that too because the fat kids get picked on?
  3. Okposo is a good leader in the locker room. The Sabres need all of the leaders that they can get. It just would be nice if he didn't cost 6 million per.
  4. Skinner will get traded after the Sabres roster fills out in a few years. He'll be perfectly fine for the first 5 years of of that contract, so the Sabres will have to trade him in the first 4.
  5. No worries. I posted the same exact thing. P*ss poor teams can't continue to bleed away talent.
  6. The Pegulas are worth 4.5 Billion dollars and spend money like crazy. There's no "internal cap". The first thing he said when he bought the Sabres was that he wasn't in it for the money and that if he wanted to make more money, he'd drill more oil wells on the vast tracts of shale land that he owns. The Pegulas spend money like crazy. On a whim, they dropped over $100 million on Penn State so they could have their own Div. 1 hockey team along with a new arena. They built the Harborcenter out of their own pockets for over $200 million and counting so they could develop the downtown area which they sunk millions more into. The Sabres were on a shoestring budget when Galisano owned them. After the Pegulas bought the team, they opened the chequebook wide. To be honest, that was what accelerated the Sabres' downfall. He gave free reign in spending to a terrible GM like Darcy Regier who went out and got players like Ville Leino and Christian Ehrhoff among others who flopped hard and the team has yet to recover from it.
  7. Yes it does. Right on par with Okposo's terrible contract....
  8. What other options do they have? It's a top-heavy team. They've already hemorrhaged top talent away by trading ROR and Kane. You can't keep losing your top guys and expect to get better. Is he worth 9 million? No. He's worth about 7.5 million. Skinner's agent knew that the Sabres had no choice but to pay the extra 1 yr./1.5 million premium. I'd imagine that the Sabres will likely trade him away in 3 or 4 seasons once the team is competitive again. I don't think his play will drop in that span of time and by then 9 million contracts will be more normal than they are now.
  9. Overpayment for a player who is highly dependent on having a good centreman and who doesn't generate supplementary offence (low assist totals). $9 million/season contracts should be reserved for players who make others around him better. That said, it's tough to blame Botterill for acquiescing. The Sabres can't keep bleeding away talent if they ever want to make the playoffs again any time soon. They are a top heavy team that is going to have to build the bottom half of the roster with younger and cheaper players now. Reinhart's bridge deal is up after this season so he's going to need to get paid as well. Fortunately Sobotka and Sheary come off of the books after this season. The only albatross contract after that will be Okposo's.
  10. Those darn handmaids keep running to Canada no matter how much I yell at the computer screen for them to turn back.

     

    Most people reading this are going to wonder what I'm talking about.  :lol:

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    2. SabreFan1

      SabreFan1

      Oh ok.  I was getting a bit weirded out that you of all people would be taking a regular discussion that serious so I had to ask. 

       

      I just think you are taking the original post more serious than most.  That's all.

       

      That is soooo the perfect tweet for Serena.  Her character is one of the story telling devices about people not thinking that extremism will affect them until it does.  I wish more people would realize that these days especially when it comes to things like privacy and giving governments and companies blank cheques to violate everyone's in the name of security and profit.

       

    3. HerrDrFunk

      HerrDrFunk

      There's probably some latent Canadian pride behind my responses :gocan:

       

      Yep, that sounds about right for her. The look on her face when she was lead away after her big moment flopped was like "yep, you set this up. Why are you surprised?"

    4. SabreFan1

      SabreFan1

      Don't take my Canada bashing too serious.  I had some of the best times of my life on Lundy's Hill/Lane in Ontario when I was young.  Back then they let Americans legally drink at 19 yrs. old.  Not to mention, the Canadian side of Niagara Falls is prettier.

       

      I was actually bummed to find out that the main club that I used to go to was eventually taken over by morons and ended up going out of business as a result.

  11. This is why I want Benning to stick with drafting. I'm not a big fan of the President of Hockey Ops position because it's usually a recipe for FO head butting but the Canucks need to get someone who has final say over UFA signings and equal say on big trades. Benning gets absolute control over scouting/drafting and smaller roster filling trades. Benning in my opinion is a top 5 GM in drafting. Pair/team him up with a true horse trader in the FO, and the Canucks' rebuild will go faster and the Canucks will become an organization to reckon with for some time to come.
  12. Anybody remember when I said Tyler Myers wasn't as good as people thought? There are more than a few Jets fans that don't even want him anymore.
  13. Then there's the bodily implants like knee and hip replacements that aren't good enough to get approval in the U.S. that then get exported to foreign countries. I watched a news piece a year or two ago and it was sad what some people had to go through. They assumed they were getting the same quality parts that millions of people were getting in the United States. Say what you want about the litigious society here, but it helps protect against the shadiest of companies.
  14. I know from nurses that I've dated and what little I've read in articles, that in the US, every state is different when it comes to licensing everything from lawyers, to nurses, and doctors. Some are easier to get licensed in and you get plenty of chances, and others are pretty stringent on their testing and licensing.
  15. Everyone realizes that. That's why most are saying to put her through the testing in order to actually get certified. Realistically though, her career in medicine is over even if she does eventually get certified. What she did is considered fraud and it makes her untrustworthy. I hope she gives getting her credentials a shot though. She could try and do something like home-care nursing.
  16. They didn't list any in the article. The person who wrote the article was more concerned with getting the point across that they are implementing a new system that will detect something like this in the future.
  17. She did get away with it now until last month. She used another nurses credentials and license number. She only got busted when she tried to take an outside-run training class and the real nurse's place of employment showed up as being somewhere else.
  18. If there's a practical part of a nursing exam, she'd likely ace it. It's the written part that might trip her up. Sounds like she worked in a few specializations over the years but a board exam would have a little bit of everything.
  19. Not that I'm condoning what she did, but to be honest after 20 years on the job with no incidents, I'd be fine if she were my nurse. That's how they made nurses years ago, they learned by doing... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/woman-faked-being-nurse-jonquiere-20-years-1.5157101
  20. Giant cruise ship vs a much smaller boat and a concrete pier earlier today.

     

     

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    2. Ghostsof1915

      Ghostsof1915

      MV Queen of the North was worse.

      She sunk in Wright Sound and two people lost their lives. 

       

       

    3. Shift-4

      Shift-4

      Size does matter

    4. Ghostsof1915

      Ghostsof1915

      @Shift-4 Especially in physics. :)

  21. He testified in front of the US Congress last year. He alternated from lying his arse off to being smug in his answers. https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/21/opinions/mark-zuckerberg-misled-congress-privacy-nyt-alaimo/index.html
  22. MLK was a well known philanderer, but it's one heck of a leap to go from sleeping around to condoning a rape. Short of a first or second-hand witness, this one needs to be taken with a huge grain of salt.
  23. Holy smokes. It looks like Alex Trebek may beat the odds of a 97% death rate. His tumors have already shrunk by more than half! https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/alex-trebek-shares-mind-boggling-pancreatic-cancer-update-n1011321
  24. I was at a bar. Back when I used to drink, I enjoyed Ice Picks (iced tea,vodka). Never mix copious amounts of vodka with milk. The milk will curdle and ball up in your stomach and you'll be heaving alcohol and curdled milk. Also, I was playing the whole thing off and only mentioned something when I rubbed my eyes. Chugging down milk would have gotten me a lot of razzing after I bragged that I wouldn't have a problem with whatever they put on the wings. To this day I wonder if they bartender overheard me and told the cook to pour some kind of pepper extract into the sauce.
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