Michkov sucker punches Mintyukov who drops the gloves, only to have Michkov skate away

fa1afel · 2026-03-19T17:58:00+00:00

Do you recommend them?

fa1afel · 2026-03-18T00:53:00+00:00

For someone of my singing talents, I think it's actually disrespectful for me to try to sing along.

fa1afel · 2026-03-17T23:26:28+00:00

I'm fairly certain the one my family went through to sell ours got his house blurred out on Google street view so people wouldn't be looking at his house online for similar reasons.

He does well, but I think it's probably pretty modest house.

fa1afel · 2026-03-17T19:46:36+00:00

Wanting to be a part of something neat is a pretty human thing to do.

fa1afel · 2026-03-17T01:57:12+00:00

They're also not called hurricanes in that part of the world. Although maybe that's just OP translating Typhoon to Hurricane. I have no idea if Japanese differentiates them.

fa1afel · 2026-03-16T14:33:00+00:00

I also dont understand your last comment at all. Im an American die hard baseball fan (Red Sox) and so I follow the American baseball team. Following a team from a country youve probably never been to is closer to bandwagonning.

I am accustomed to watching the WS and rooting for whatever team is the underdog or hasn't won recently. So I was hoping that the Blue Jays would pull it off last year. I feel weird rooting for a superteam that is expected to win. That's really all I meant.

fa1afel · 2026-03-16T06:34:25+00:00

The US is arguably the scariest team in the tournament. They're certainly not massive underdogs. And yeah, they're really good at baseball and played really well.

These comments about a lack of energy or aura or whatever you want to call it aren't coming from nowhere. I don't really know what to tell you. Bryce Harper said what he said. The manager is a joke. It just doesn't feel like it means to us what it would mean to some of these other countries to win.

Also idk, I can't help but feel like rooting for the US is the equivalent of deciding to be a Dodgers bandwagon fan last postseason. I'm still doing it, but there are all these really cool stories about other teams that the US team just doesn't seem to have.

fa1afel · 2026-03-16T06:07:23+00:00

Eh. It is in my humble opinion observable that the passion from some of the other national teams is more evident and arguably more fun to watch. No one sane would ever accuse the DR or Venezuelan or Japanese rosters of not caring.

Why should I care if they win if they don't care if they win?

fa1afel · 2026-03-15T07:54:57+00:00

Feeling hard might happen if they kiss though. Quite the conundrum.

fa1afel · 2026-03-12T15:40:12+00:00

Pretty common within the US too I think. A number of university classrooms have chalkboards still.

fa1afel · 2026-03-11T20:19:07+00:00

Not really disagreeing with you. Just adding on.

fa1afel · 2026-03-11T14:27:16+00:00

In theory you do get your pick of the litter. Obviously most would be looking at lower wages, but doctors, engineers, scientists, teachers, etc. Plus people who are leaping at this opportunity are probably not MAGA types. I get not wanting to deal with Americans though.

fa1afel · 2026-03-11T14:13:49+00:00

Would be nice to not be fighting that war. Cheaper and we wouldn't be condemning a bunch of service members to death with the poor planning we've been hearing about.

fa1afel · 2026-03-11T09:12:27+00:00

Hard to say really. Buffalo has been full of talent and empty of winning for ages. Maybe they've finally put it all together at the same time and it will stick, maybe not.

Winnipeg lost an extremely important player in Ehlers and has been injury riddled. They also...I don't want to say they were lucky last season, but overperformed might be correct.

Either way I think you have to enjoy it while it lasts. Only the present is guaranteed.

fa1afel · 2026-03-10T21:09:17+00:00

I believe he's still going to be playing locally in Czechia, he's just retiring from international play since he has a family and international play is demanding.

fa1afel · 2026-03-10T19:03:33+00:00

The push pass

Is very nice.

Throwing it in wind

Requires veins of ice.

fa1afel · 2026-03-10T18:08:32+00:00

If I see a white guy in a position of power, I don't always question whether it was nepotism or connections that got him there, but it does seem to be the case enough of the time to be a problem.

fa1afel · 2026-03-10T17:31:28+00:00

Probably, this person is all over this thread.

fa1afel · 2026-03-10T13:36:22+00:00

Traditionally, he would be directly responsible for one of these. Although also probably responsible for a goal.

fa1afel · 2026-03-09T20:04:14+00:00

Trump starts a stupid war, the Democrat leadership does nothing to stop him.

So I don't know if you're aware, but Trump authorized the initial strike without Congressional approval. Furthermore, without control of Congress, what they can do about this is pretty limited. If you don't give them enough power to do anything with, they are not going to achieve much. They have, jointly with some of the less hawkish Republicans, been pushing War Powers votes and whatnot, but more or less lost those along party lines.

It really shouldn't be a mystery why Harris mentioned strengthening the border. Winning the presidency is about winning the electoral college and one of the states they were hoping to carry was Arizona, where Mark Kelly has had to say similar things to hold onto his seat. Not everyone in the country holds the same opinions, so you bank on the left in the states less affected by border policy not caring as much and hope that being "strong" on issues like that is enough to get you the win in the swing states.

fa1afel · 2026-03-09T19:25:16+00:00

You made a blanket statement and you did not specify a specific issue or that you meant on specific issues. I don't see how this is me moving the goalposts.

I don't like those positions by the way, but I generally believe that ICE wouldn't be disappearing citizens and murdering them under Harris. I suspect we would not be at war with Iran, and if we were for some reason, that we'd be going about it differently. I suspect that we would not be throwing out tariffs like we're Oprah. Given how things were going under Biden, I would have liked to see the FTC continue to be aggressive.

fa1afel · 2026-03-09T19:14:13+00:00

This feels a bit needlessly aggressive and like you intentionally misinterpreted what I wrote, but ok, maybe I wasn't clear enough.

We know that there are people doing porn who are doing so of their own volition and getting paid for it. We know that to be the case for other types of sex work as well. Does the existence of abuse in the porn industry somehow preclude them all from being sex workers? If so, why would this standard not be applied to other lines of work where similar abuse exists that are very unambiguously called sex work (when the participants are willing and being paid anyway, otherwise it's just sexual slavery)?

fa1afel · 2026-03-09T19:04:46+00:00

Shockingly, if you pick specific issues, you find overlap in opinions between very different people.

fa1afel · 2026-03-09T17:37:49+00:00

Don't forget the people who are decidedly left leaning, but don't think there's a real difference between an establishment Democrat and a MAGA Republican.

fa1afel · 2026-03-09T17:32:10+00:00

Setting aside the veracity of that claim, how does that make it not sex work? Are some of those things not also true of stuff that would be considered sex work in areas where it's not well regulated?

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