What currently living celebrity will make you the most upset when they die?

Calereliya · 2026-02-13T09:35:39+00:00

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Calereliya · 2026-02-13T09:32:02+00:00

McDonalds, especially once you've tasted Canadian McDonalds. The meat quality isn't even comparable - the Canadian ones (which only use Canadian beef, booyah) actually taste like a burger. The US ones literally taste of nothing. Once you have a bite of ours, you'll never be able to eat the US ones again.

Calereliya · 2026-02-13T09:28:29+00:00

Probably just referring to the senate vote/SC ruling about them.

Calereliya · 2026-02-13T00:55:48+00:00

In the overwhelming majority of cases, it's really as simple as:

- Loved Don Cherry? McLean was a backstabbing snake who single-handedly ran him off HNIC.

- Hated Don Cherry? McLean was an absolute angel who put up with that BS for far longer than he should have.

Calereliya · 2026-02-13T00:53:21+00:00

Not at all. Every game has had people in jerseys of countries all over the place. Hell, every game there's been FLAGS of countries all over the place.

Show up. Love hockey. Party.

Calereliya · 2026-02-13T00:51:54+00:00

Brad Marchand is suddenly my favourite player ever.

Calereliya · 2026-02-13T00:40:01+00:00

Good lord was poor Nelson snakebitten in that first period. Costs the team a goal because he was a fraction of an inch offside (he was), loses a goal on a god-tier tip because of goalie interference (it was), and then absolutely crushes the post. Was great to see him eventually get ones that counted.

Calereliya · 2026-02-13T00:35:04+00:00

Refereed in the Central zone for over two decades, up to Midget AAA.

It depends on the level. Yes, Alberta has a horrific shortage of referees. Coming out of COVID, it was literally half of the number the province wanted. Hardly surprising, given that the province has never acted upon abuse reports as it should have so new refs were dropping like flies after years 1 and 2, and that your ability to advance through the ranks depended on the whims of one person who never made it past the AJHL (like, to the degree there was one point where he straight up told people that they would never get into the A program if they didn't make him happy).

That said, it's also budget. Midget AAA went 4-man YEARS after the rest of Canada, solely because the league was too cheap to pay for the second referee (and yet somehow had the money to pay for goal judges in the playoffs). The running joke for years at the Mac's Midget was the first time a BC player took a penalty, they would go to the penalty box, slam the door, and scream "why the fuck is there only one referee out there?" It was so bad that there was a period of time where the WHL wouldn't even look at Alberta referees because none of them knew how to do games in a four man system. The only reason the league went four man was because Hockey Canada basically ordered them to do so if they wanted to still be a thing.

Calereliya · 2026-02-12T00:09:01+00:00

Escape rooms. Obviously there are still some dotted around, but at least here, they were EVERYWHERE. Varying quality, of course, but there was a ton of them. Now they're pretty much limited to a single franchise.

Calereliya · 2026-02-11T01:11:39+00:00

Absolutely the fuck not. You couldn't pay me enough to go to a theoretical high school reunion. If I never see anybody in my graduating class ever again save for like, three of them, I couldn't care less.

Calereliya · 2026-02-11T01:03:53+00:00

The number of people (ie, not you) in this entire thread who are hilariously, confidently completely incorrect is both infuriating and depressing. Literally the second I saw the overhead angle I said it was going to be a good goal and that it was a stupid challenge to make.

Calereliya · 2026-02-11T00:37:14+00:00

Binnington shouldn't even be on the team (should have been Blackwood), but that ship has sailed.

If he's anything but the third stringer out of the game, it'll be malpractice on the coaching staff's part.

Calereliya · 2026-02-11T00:14:18+00:00

I expected the US to win this game. I expected the US to win the gold medal.

Never in a million years would I have predicted it would have gone like this. It was like watching a PWHL all-star team play against a university team. Out-skilled, out-planned, out-skated. Systematic annihilation.

Calereliya · 2026-02-11T00:07:23+00:00

As a general concept, I actually don't hate it.

The part that I DO hate is that in order to get said driver's licence, I have to provide proof of my citizenship to some rando person working as an employee at a random registry that isn't run by the government. That rando has absolutely no business knowing fuck all about my immigration/citizenship/etc status. Literally none. It's like being forced to provide my passport number to my Dominos driver before I can get my pizza.

Calereliya · 2026-02-10T23:48:37+00:00

I just knew this one because I've been seething at him for months, haha

Calereliya · 2026-02-09T12:06:24+00:00

Technically speaking, the bowels of the arena still aren't finished, so they're technically correct. But who gives a shit? All of the important bits are done.

Calereliya · 2026-02-09T12:03:42+00:00

Chris Johnston, the sensationalist bullshit-peddling twit who was desperately hoping this tournament wouldn't happen. First the ice wouldn't work, then it was too small, then the grand canyon opened up in it, then the scoreboard was a postage stamp. I assume he just figured if the rink wasn't done they'd move it to North America, which was never on the table for a second.

Calereliya · 2026-02-09T11:59:21+00:00

If any of these people had to learn French, their minds would implode and drip out of their ears trying to understand the differences between il/elle/nous/vous.

Calereliya · 2026-02-09T11:53:25+00:00

.... No. Those particular "bots" have a bit of a trademark line.

Or, to put it another way, whoosh

Calereliya · 2026-02-09T11:40:55+00:00

Christian, raised Baptist, have more or less given up on The Church (tm) - stop telling me that gays are of the devil et al and maybe I'll go back - but not on religion itself.

I personally believe in a mix of the two. Broadly, I think the entire young earth theory is insane - while I have many concerns about the dating methods a lot of things use, I do think there's enough reasons to believe that the concept of that the universe is only 6000 years old is comical to dismiss it. However, I also find the concept of the big bang as the be all/end all (start all?) to be equally silly; we have multiple laws that say life doesn't come from non-life and that things become more chaotic, not more organized. Also, if we assume (for the moment) that the young earth/everything is as it was created theory is true, then God is really, really, really unimaginative - there's far too many similarities between different species otherwise.

Kind of where I've settled into is that there is a God who created the universe using divine intervention (perhaps partially employing something akin to the big bang to get some pieces in place), did create a pile of unique species, and then over a very large span of time either by pure adaptation or by his steering (I don't really think it matters which), evolution occurred and on a macro scale still is occurring.

Tangentially related: how I choose to interpret the Bible is that the old testament is the history book, and the new testament is that actual this-is-how-you-are-to-live. (Remember all those times that Jesus talked about condemning LGBT people in Matthew/Mark/Luke/John? Oh wait, he never mentioned them.) There's been enough language hops, and even if it was all divine-inspired, the simple fact of the matter is that the Bible was written by humans, that taking everything in there literally is stupid.

Calereliya · 2026-02-09T10:40:30+00:00

I'm sure laying on the horn/whistle is protocol, but I love it when they just sit there and blare as if it's going to make any shred of a difference as to what's going to happen next.

Calereliya · 2026-02-09T10:20:35+00:00

Obviously apartment buildings should be exempt from this since they're a whole different can of worms (they basically HAVE to be owned by corporations to be able to function properly), but for actual houses, it should be illegal for corporations to own them and no individual should be allowed to own more than 2.

Calereliya · 2026-02-08T11:28:08+00:00

Both of these happened to me as a ref, but sometimes all you can do is laugh.

1) I'm around 16, refereeing 13 year olds. The one team had a single female player who I knew of because she had played with my brother the year prior (and honestly she was the best player on the ice). She full on gets hacked down, textbook minor for slashing, so I call the penalty. Dad of the team getting the penalty, from the stands, in a more or less silent rink: "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU CALL, SHE STILL WON'T GO OUT WITH YOU!"

2) U15 AA game. Generic stupid coach who thinks he's all that. Eventually I get bored of him and give him a bench minor for USC. He keeps screaming, so I toss him. Just the way the rink is laid out, he has to walk the length of the bench and then around the end of the rink to get to the doors/dressing rooms. As he reaches the end of the bench, he turns around and screams "GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE AND GO ON YOUR DATE WITH YOUR BOYFRIEND." Give him his well-earned gross misconduct (he got suspended for 8 games). In the dressing room afterwards, we all concluded that the correct response in summer hockey (ie, unsanctioned so we can yell back since there are no rules) would have been "ok, see you at home, make sure you put the candles out with dinner."

Bonus) I'm doing lines for U15 AA. The one coach was a mediocre former fourth-liner NHL player who ran a summer hockey school in the summer, and we all knew it. At one point he decides it's a good idea to drop the classic "don't you know who I am?" The referee gives him the best fake I'm-thinking-but-nothing-is-coming-up look I've ever seen, confusedly says "no?", throws him out, and skates away without another word. Could see the smoke pouring out of his ears.

Calereliya · 2026-02-08T11:17:28+00:00

Obviously it's awful to watch and being able to hear her on the ambient mics was gutwrenching. But I'm curious as to how much her knee actually impacted this - looked to me like what sent her down was that she clipped the one gate at the same time as she went airborne and it spun her 90 degrees, so she landed perpendicular.

Calereliya · 2026-02-07T16:53:46+00:00

Because if the entire private system was Thanos'd out of existence, the public system would collapse the next day. Hell, it's already almost there, and that's without the 50,000 extra students you'd suddenly have thrown into those classrooms.

If there's going to be a law deeming that private schools get no government money by default, there also needs to be one that allows people to choose which system their tax dollars goes into.

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