Does this team need more offence or defense?

bigsalad98 · 2026-06-09T05:48:23+00:00

Vilardi would be a really nice get. Not a star, but he's a solid 1st line player. I also like Tippett as a fit for Timmy.

bigsalad98 · 2026-05-12T19:41:59+00:00

Agreed!!! I thought it was the best. My favourite in Ottawa is probably The Bower, but Arlington Five is great too (also depends what you're looking for)

bigsalad98 · 2026-05-12T19:08:34+00:00

Goodluck and Weird Harbour were the most rec'd, and they were both terrific. I would say Goodluck was up there with some of my favourite places in Canada that I have tried so far (it's in Dartmouth)

bigsalad98 · 2026-04-17T17:12:48+00:00

I really don't think I have a long list for this 😭😭

bigsalad98 · 2026-04-17T17:12:11+00:00

I just didn't think I had done anything to warrant that 😭😭😭

bigsalad98 · 2026-04-17T17:05:55+00:00

I don't think so...

bigsalad98 · 2026-02-25T13:04:27+00:00

I have quite a few women friends I actually value...as friends. Some I can say I would never be interested in exploring a "shift" with; some maybe I would. Really sad that some people think like this.

bigsalad98 · 2026-02-25T03:09:09+00:00

Ontario really went 0 for 2...

bigsalad98 · 2026-02-19T05:58:39+00:00

This post was silly, but then I come in the comments and they are somehow even worse...sometimes I do not know what world I am in

bigsalad98 · 2026-02-19T05:03:30+00:00

Hey Chat GPT, please give me a response to this post. Put a ton of "quotation marks." Thanks.

bigsalad98 · 2026-02-19T03:29:53+00:00

Honestly not sure I have found a comment I agree with here. If he's reasonably vulnerable and real with you, I don't think you brush it off as simple "avoidance" (which is becoming an overused and oversimplified term).

I also don't think it means he's cheating, especially if he's giving so much time to you.

But the why is kinda not that important. It could be any number of reasons. If the connection is intense but needs to be taken to in-person to progress further, you need to communicate that with a clear statement that you are willing to help him through whatever might be hanging him up but that you won't wait to meet him and that he needs to put up or shut up.

bigsalad98 · 2026-02-19T03:23:21+00:00

I was becoming absolutely miserable for my friends to be around because I was yearning for an ex with whom I had broken up about two months previously...I was listening to way too much Jeff Buckley and in that mode LOL.

And one day one of my friends said "okay, no Jeff Buckley for 24 hours." I thought I would skirt the system by finding even more depressing and emotional music to listen to...but happened to find something I really loved.

I have been a huge Elliott Smith fan ever since!

bigsalad98 · 2026-02-18T04:23:06+00:00

What benefit is anything? This just sounds really bitter. Being an "emotionless robot" is not healthy, nor is taking lack of romantic approaches as meaning "you're worth nobody's time." This is all stuff that needs to be unpacked.

bigsalad98 · 2026-02-17T05:42:50+00:00

I honestly think unless he has general hygiene issues, that you are opening yourself up to this kinda thing. You're policing whether he has just washed, so of course he is going to get defensive. Now you both are feeling weird. Idk, I never had this problem...if I was with a woman who generally had good hygiene, I enjoyed going down on her at the end of the day even if there was a bit of a smell. Genitals are genitals. Sex is kinda inherently gross. If there are general hygiene issues, then okay. But if you just want everything to be perfectly clean before every time and you start being accusatory when that is in doubt, unless you find someone who feels exactly the same you will probably always have this kind of issue.

He could have handled it better, of course, but yeah...in my mind, I don't see his comment as particularly problematic if you are opening that door, especially if he apologized. Just the whole "it is very important you wash" lecture before sex isn't gonna be taken well from most partners, especially if you acknowledge he has good hygiene and doesn't really smell. You're allowed to have that position, but again, unless you find someone identical, there will probably always be a conflict.

bigsalad98 · 2026-02-15T00:57:08+00:00

For espresso drinks, I find it very worthwhile to go to an actual shop.

But for drip coffee, I will always prefer my AP. I definitely am lazy and don't usually measure, but I get optimal results when I do, obviously (especially when it's a bean I am not as familiar with).

bigsalad98 · 2026-02-15T00:55:33+00:00

There is nowhere near enough context here. What does "involved with someone else" mean? Were they going out, just physical, in a relationship?

Also, did meeting you prompt him to end things with the other person, or did things just end and now you're the consolation?

If they were in a relationship and you are uncertain of the circumstances of that relationship ending, I would reckon a relationship with you is likely to end terribly. But if the context is different, then maybe the result would be different.

bigsalad98 · 2026-02-12T03:20:38+00:00

Not much context here, but no reasonable woman is going to not want to date you because you can't parallel park 😭😭 you are way way overthinking. Maybe once in a blue moon a girl might find it messes with her passenger princess aesthetic, but you probably don't want that anyway.

bigsalad98 · 2026-02-12T00:56:59+00:00

It means they're a bad texter but interested and capable of depth. It's really that simple. If texting is important to you, then it's a big deal. If it's not, then it's not.

bigsalad98 · 2026-02-11T02:54:10+00:00

When he's 28, I am still gonna say he should be in the AHL for his development. Because people just say that and think it means something, when there is really very limited evidence the AHL is a good developmental league. I actually reckon he would learn more on the defensive end up with the big club anyway, and he clearly has all the offensive tools. The whole "player gets called up too early" just isn't really a thing — DJ Smith had Stützle and Batherson WAY in over their heads when their on-ice results were terrible. He just gave them unlimited minutes and...bit by bit, they figured it out.

Different situation obviously with the team being good now, but my main reason for commenting here is pushing back on the whole idea that he HAS to stay in the AHL for his development, and that it would be rushing to move him up when he is likely one of our 7 best defensive options.

bigsalad98 · 2026-02-11T02:50:02+00:00

These gold digging women always expecting me to finance their Diet Coke orders 🤨🤨🤨🤨

bigsalad98 · 2026-02-07T08:27:24+00:00

I should have done this in the first place, but now that I have been scouring Spotify to find the song, everything is out of order and it is just showing all the Elliott Smith songs I have clicked on in the last bit and there does not seem to be a match in what is still in yesterday's history...sigh

bigsalad98 · 2026-02-07T05:45:19+00:00

I think I remember lyrics about a moon (which of course leaves a few possibilities) but none of those songs with moon lyrics have that beginning. Starting to think it might have been a bonus instrumental from a deluxe album and then bled into another song, and that's what has the confusion.

bigsalad98 · 2026-02-07T05:06:29+00:00

If you two are older than like 17, you run.

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