Hurricanes Lounge XXXI: The Self Quarantined Edition

[MrazeksVengeance]

Well, I do, but we haven't had ethnic or racial tensions since we drove out Germans after WW2. No hard feelings today. It's probably good to have this sort of mutually historic experience between everyone on the continent. Everyone going with and against each other.

 

[SlavinAway]

Well, I have decent history knowledge to know that many crucial battles were decided by a lack of timely and thorough scouting.

Sounds like poor planning!

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

Sounds like poor planning!

Well to show an example where proper scouting changed the history was the battle of Gaugamela where Alexander the Great's Macedonians noticed that the battlefield was cleared of vegetation and stones which implied the usage of scythed chariots.

So the Macedonians were ready and when chariots came charging they were greeted with a rain of javelins and well if you get hit by a speeding javelin on a speeding chariot the physics... stack against you.

Those who got through were easily avoided by the infantry which opened up its ranks.

 

[Ole Gil]

Has anyone talked about Justin Williams being in Lord of the Rings yet?

 

[Stickpucker]

"I'll take 'Things you won't ever see me do because I'm angry' for $200 Alex."

The real keepers are the angry cleaners.

 

[WreckingCrew]

I turned my rage into a hardcore, no-holds-barred house cleaning, declutter and semi-renovation. My wife and kids went to stay at her mom's house for a week; I rented a 30-foot rollout dumpster, tossed out all the junk and cleaned the house from top to bottom. I bet this house hasn't been this clean since it was built in 1932.

I kind of want to borrow you and piss you off so you'll rage clean my house...but I also get the feeling if i did that it'd be so clean there would literally be nothing left in my house...

 

[Lempo]

I'd have thought there's any amount of women who would throw your stuff out of the house if you piss them off enough.

 

[Roboturner913]

I kind of want to borrow you and piss you off so you'll rage clean my house...but I also get the feeling if i did that it'd be so clean there would literally be nothing left in my house...

To be fair, most people do not accumulate enough junk over 5-6 years to fill up 1400 cubic feet of dumpster. My wife has hoarding tendencies.

 

[WreckingCrew]

To be fair, most people do not accumulate enough junk over 5-6 years to fill up 1400 cubic feet of dumpster. My wife has hoarding tendencies.

2 years into home ownership I still have 1.5 empty bedrooms in 1300 SQ ft house lol

 

[MinJaBen]

2 years into home ownership I still have 1.5 empty bedrooms in 1300 SQ ft house lol

Shit gets real when you’ve had kids for a decade or two...and then your parents start downsizing. We’ve got more furniture and paintings than walls to place them. Unlike Robo, my solution is more like to involve a pile in the back yard and some matches.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Shit gets real when you’ve had kids for a decade or two...and then your parents start downsizing. We’ve got more furniture and paintings than walls to place them.

Exactly. And while a walk up attic seemed like a great feature when we bought our prior home 16 years ago, it became a catch all. Particularly after my wife’s father passed away. When we downsized and moved this spring, it was 1 garage sale, 1 big truckload picked up by Habitat Restore, multiple pickup truck runs to the dump, ReStore and GCF, selling tons of stuff online, and a 15 yard dumpster for the rest. Granted, we moved to a house 1/2 the size with no attic space at all, no crawl space or basement either and minimal garage space. It was refreshing getting rid of all that stuff.

 

[the halleJOKEL]

glad to hear the election will be delayed this year as it would be unfair to vote during a pandemic

 

[MinJaBen]

glad to hear the election will be delayed this year as it would be unfair to vote during a pandemic

But get the kids in school!

 

[Sens1Canes2]

glad to hear the election will be delayed this year as it would be unfair to vote during a pandemic

No one has learned anything yet? It’s been 3 1/2 years.

Tweet for reaction, get told “sir you actually can’t do that,” soft backpedal. Rinse, repeat.

Stop falling for it.

 

[the halleJOKEL]

No one has learned anything yet? It’s been 3 1/2 years.

Tweet for reaction, get told “sir you actually can’t do that,” soft backpedal. Rinse, repeat.

Stop falling for it.

it is good to not listen to the president

 

[Roboturner913]

Honestly, I think people started ignoring him a while ago

 

[Sens1Canes2]

it is good to not listen to the president

This one, definitely.

 

[DaveG]

Yep.

We're done with this line of conversation for now.

I usually am not a fan of the whole "no politics" thing but... yeah no politics. This has gotten WAY too political over the last few pages.

 

[Stickpucker]

it is good to not listen to the president

We have a president? I thought the country kinda just ran itself.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Is it political if we ignore his political decisions and just discuss the end results of said decisions?

For instance, Americans are now banned from traveling to most countries in the world due to the rampant spread of disease in the US. This comes at a time when many Americans would probably be looking to travel (either for summer trips or other reasons...like pre-empting a bad result for a certain upcoming election). Is that too political to discuss?

Also, is discussing COVID (either here or in its respective thread) considered too political? Frankly, it’s maddening that it’s even considered a political issue in the first place (it’s a VIRUS. It doesn’t care if you lean left or right), but since it has become one, what’s the line we can’t cross in that regard?

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Keep America in your thoughts and prayers...

...can't even use that line now

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Keep America in your thoughts and prayers...

...can't even use that line now

If Facebook has taught me anything, the virus is still around because there hasn't been enough thoughts and prayers.

Also, you should totally join this obvious-to-everyone-except-me-apparently-MLM-scheme.

 

[Roboturner913]

Is it political if we ignore his political decisions and just discuss the end results of said decisions?

For instance, Americans are now banned from traveling to most countries in the world due to the rampant spread of disease in the US. This comes at a time when many Americans would probably be looking to travel (either for summer trips or other reasons...like pre-empting a bad result for a certain upcoming election). Is that too political to discuss?

Also, is discussing COVID (either here or in its respective thread) considered too political? Frankly, it’s maddening that it’s even considered a political issue in the first place (it’s a VIRUS. It doesn’t care if you lean left or right), but since it has become one, what’s the line we can’t cross in that regard?

It's hard to not discuss politics in a climate where the simple act of putting on a face mask in the midst of global pandemic as seen by many as a political statement.

Meanwhile, back home in Louisiana, there is literally not one single ICU bed available. I told my mom, just stay home and do not go anywhere, I will have food and necessities shipped and delivered to her.

 

[Lempo]

I don't know. Blackhawks are banning using headdress from the fans. Brad Marchand has an opinion that a reporter is the problem when suggesting Tuukka Rask's headdress choice is a problem. Meanwhile, outside of the arenas, there are paramilitary folks without insignia allegedly doing thangs somewhere that is not Crimea.

I've been enough to the Politics board to know it's a cesspool, but... I really don't know if the blanket ban of politics-related matters really cuts it in times like these. It's coming just too close to sports to effectively pretend it's not there. Really feels like HF closing itself into a bubble with the returning circenses like Prince Prospero would try to seal himself into an abbey. Didn't work for him either.

 

[Lempo]

And then again, I don't know. NBC tapes a Rask interview with him wearing a Boston Police cap. Then the Boston hockey team releases a BLM supporting statement. After that NBC runs the (according to Rask) pre-taped interview, allegedly saying that it's live.

And this happens in a world where a Trump-supporting former NHL hockey player commentator is currently suing NBC for wrongful termination, and where Boston sports has a certain reputation.

An Athletic reporter posts a tweet:



Twitter frenzy ensues. The toxic hockey culture gets called out a plenty in retweets and replies, with vocal expectations on what the NHL should do now.

You can make plausible cases either way if this was an accident or if it was a deliberate move by NBC, the broadcasting partner of the NHL with the contract negotiations upcoming, and what were the true motivations behind it if it indeed was deliberate.

Could be nothing. Could be "Let's hint the sport is racist to make Fox Sports a bad optics choice for the NHL", if you subscribe to the bold "businesses are in it to profit" worldview.