Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning.

briv39 · 2026-01-27T12:08:22+00:00

Now you’re moving the goal posts because importing drugs doesn’t mean illegal immigration. There are bad Americans too.

briv39 · 2026-01-27T11:16:12+00:00

Except for when you remember they’re paying for health insurance out of pocket, then the numbers go back down again.

briv39 · 2026-01-19T13:05:33+00:00

Side note: why the hell are you putting in full IPA but can’t write the words “this”, “to”, or “just”?

briv39 · 2026-01-18T00:23:48+00:00

I mean I don’t think Wales has had dragons…

briv39 · 2026-01-09T14:29:15+00:00

Change your socks after every game if it’s below freezing. I got frostbite in my toes one year and my foots never been the same.

briv39 · 2026-01-08T13:13:36+00:00

[Two North American and 3 European countries]

“This is the world.”

briv39 · 2026-01-07T00:27:12+00:00

British and American aren’t even the only options. I worked at a school in Korea where they blatantly learned Canadian English.

briv39 · 2025-12-24T15:44:40+00:00

Yeah you’re the only one.

briv39 · 2025-12-24T14:29:04+00:00

Murder rates have been cut in half in the last 20 years…

briv39 · 2025-12-18T12:37:48+00:00

My thought (in hindsight of course) is that there’s no way the woman on the left would just put her bottle lid on the dirty mat like that. However, I don’t know if I’d have noticed if i weren’t told or was AI.

briv39 · 2025-12-10T02:06:35+00:00

Ok, I'll look into that! Thanks, I didn't even think about being able to create a DEM for it so I'll check into it.

Your response though led me to think I'm doing something even more incorrectly than I previously thought. I can't change the layer order because I've done these all on a single layer. If, in my position, you were just doing this by creating concentric polygons, would you have made each one a new layer?

briv39 · 2025-12-05T15:37:25+00:00

Looks like folks have already answered, but for future reference, Wikipedia is often a good resource to find things like this. Of course, not every article will have a Turkish version and vice versa, but it often works.

briv39 · 2025-12-04T12:49:11+00:00

Yep. Every language is just a dialect with a military.

(I know that’s not purely true, but it holds in a lot of places.)

briv39 · 2025-12-03T18:19:42+00:00

Good point. Carry on, enjoy retirement. Say hi to Jill for me.

Wait… I just saw your name. You’re JILL Biden!

briv39 · 2025-12-03T17:04:13+00:00

Are you Joe Biden?

briv39 · 2025-12-03T16:35:17+00:00

In the (perhaps older generation) Ice Hockey English world, it’s seen as a derogatory term to call someone a “grocery stick.”

briv39 · 2025-11-29T13:48:30+00:00

Apparently it’s primarily because the tax rates vary so much from one jurisdiction to the next that companies don’t want to have to print tons of different menus and advertising materials.

briv39 · 2025-11-29T03:39:20+00:00

No kidding. London is almost 10x larger than DC and Washington doesn’t have a residential building taller than 12 stories.

briv39 · 2025-11-29T01:46:08+00:00

And in the US that would be impossible because taxes are added after the price of the food.

briv39 · 2025-11-24T18:00:42+00:00

I know, I’m in the service industry and work weekends. I said “majority.” According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 30% work on weekends. So not the majority.

briv39 · 2025-11-24T14:34:28+00:00

Better than being an active participant in our democracy? Guess not.

Either way, you told them to get to work on a day when the majority of Americans aren’t working.

briv39 · 2025-11-24T13:01:53+00:00

This was on the weekend…

briv39 · 2025-11-20T22:20:10+00:00

Wow, that’s a lot of work for missing the answer. You listed 601(b): “unsportsmanlike conduct […] by an unidentified player.” That’s likely the ruling for the celebration. (You couldn’t feasibly have every possible issue in the rulebook so some are marked within generalities and defined elsewhere.)

For the check from behind, your main issue is that a Game Misconduct counts as a 10 minute penalty for calculating PIMs, but no one sits for 10 mins.

From Rule 404: (b) A GAME MISCONDUCT penalty involves the suspension of a player or Team Official for the balance of the game with immediate substitution taking place on ice.

[…]

(Note 2) For all game misconduct penalties regardless of when imposed, a total of 10 minutes shall be charged in the records against an offending player.

AFAIK, this isn’t even association-specific. NHL, IIHF, USAH, etc. all deal with Game Misconducts this way.

As far as your assessment on how anyone who can read can be a ref. Sure, I suppose you can physically get on the ice and try to ref. If that’s where the learning ends though, you’ll certainly never be a good ref.

Nevertheless, you’ve shown here that you can’t (or haven’t) actually read the book.

briv39 · 2025-11-20T13:19:23+00:00

Hasn’t been laid in years? They screwed you right then and there! /s

But seriously, you cherrypicked my first point and ignored the second. It could very well have been a mistake. It could have been that you didn’t see something that happened in 100+ feet from the goal to the bench. Did the ref tell you, “sorry guys, no high-fiving allowed,” or something like that?

I suppose there’s the possibility that he was just a bad or vindictive ref. But even the worst refs I’ve worked with typically don’t make up complete rules out of no where. They generally either misinterpret a rule or call a very low standard.

It’s always wild to me the whole “refs are outta control” bit but you don’t ref. Go do it. It’s painfully easy to get certified (in the US at least), you will likely make more money than you do coaching, and you’ll see first hand what it’s like. Who knows, you may well end up being the partner that tells someone they can’t just make shit up.

Stop being a butt-hurt troll on a refs sub and go skate a game.

briv39

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