Look, I really did give it a shot. I wanted to like it. The drunken renderings of classics tunes and chants in a large crowd appeals to me for some reason. Fearless is one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs. Oh, and although I rarely wear a scarf, I’ve been complemented by girlfriends on my ability to pull one off.

But really, it just doesn’t grab me, and so I’ll leave the rest of you all to it. Enjoy, and may your Union kick some ass.
- Hesh_

You have certain stereotypes in mind, my friend. Soccer is by far the bluest collar sport in the world. Hockey is much more boujee and privileged in comparison.

Having said that, not everyone has to like everything. I am a fair weather Union fan myself.

You have certain stereotypes in mind, my friend. Soccer is by far the bluest collar sport in the world. Hockey is much more boujee and privileged in comparison.

Having said that, not everyone has to like everything. I am a fair weather Union fan myself.
- PT21

Oh, c’mon man! It was a joke.

But they do have those fancy club scarf things.

Oh, c’mon man! It was a joke.

But they do have those fancy club scarf things.
- Hesh_

You got me there, man. I see it now.

Keep swinging from my nutsack
- THE BLACK HAND

Dude, you don't have a nutsack. You have a gash and wear pretty pink panties that are always in a bunch cause you have the wit of a wet sneaker!!

Its funny to have any guy, myself included, on a sports site such as this, claiming to be a leader and not a follower. That's what the ha ha was for.
- PT21

I've basically managed my entire life from the age of 25 on in the corporate world. When I was laid off from the corporate world started my own business 15 years ago and have been running my own since. I guess we all have different descriptions of what a leader is, but always managing and running things is my definition. You are welcome to your own determination of things. Thanks!

I've basically managed my entire life from the age of 25 on in the corporate world. When I was laid off from the corporate world started my own business 15 years ago and have been running my own since. I guess we all have different descriptions of what a leader is, but always managing and running things is my definition. You are welcome to your own determination of things. Thanks!
- Phillywhiteout

A good leader can read a room and use logic. I’ve never seen you do either one. Now, perhaps you don’t like a guy so you want to go after him, but maybe, just maybe, other Flyers fans might follow other Philadelphia sports teams. Congrats. You manage like Michael Scott.

Also, he’s laughing at you because you clearly FOLLOW a sports team. That’s why you’re here. Regardless of what you do in your personal life, you follow a sports team.

You got me there, man. I see it now.
- PT21

Pinkos tend not to be boujee

Dude, you don't have a nutsack. You have a gash and wear pretty pink panties that are always in a bunch cause you have the wit of a wet sneaker!!
- Phillywhiteout

Sir, I am capable of finding my own porn and prefer such findings to occur later in the day, and without the whiff of pedophilia. Or cross-dressing.

Thanks!!!

Pinkos tend not to be boujee
- Hesh_

Really? I thought all soccer fans go to attend games with a keffiyeh right before attending a Free Palestine rally?

Really? I thought all soccer fans go to attend games with a keffiyeh right before attending a Free Palestine rally?
- PT21

Do they do that before or after the donnybrook between fanbases with blackjacks and broken bottles

Oh, c’mon man! It was a joke.

But they do have those fancy club scarf things.
- Hesh_

Scarfs are an underrated accessory.

SCARVES can make a hoodie passable in the coldest of weather.

Geez.... ek is just inviting the trolls today, huh?

What a glorious Padres 2 run HR

Methinks you doth protest too much. Moreover, your protestations about bel canto opera belie its origins and contemporaneous appeal. Finally, for most of the periods when operas were being written, most operas were approved by the aristocracy to satisfy its perception of the taste of the masses. Certainly, someone like you should recognize the significance of that distinction though it is possible that you embrace that perspective given your crétinisation of anyone who disagrees with you. That seems to be a recurring response from you to most things you disagree with, which is frankly a response to end a debate rather than having one (e.g., You are too dumb to understand what an educated person like me thinks).
- iamscore2day

It is fairly evident you know nothing about what you are talking, as bel canto is a style of singing in opera, like crooning in lounge music or yodeling in country. If anything, it made opera more accessible by playing up the drama explicitly.

Regarding the origins of opera or anything that has come to us from pre-modern Europe relating to entertainment: In those days, before a way to spread sound (like gramophone/radio), the written word (printing press), the visual (photographs, tv/movie), everything had to be sampled first hand to be experienced. The common bloke was too hand-to-mouth and oppressed to do any such sampling. As such, EVERYTHING, including the piano, guitar and violin, poetry, painting, decorative pottery, tapestry and so on, was produced for the aristocracy. Within that realm, at least opera and Elizabethan plays were all about letting the masses share the experience. So, your implication that it has some elitist connotations above and beyond pretty much anything from that period is completely misguide and the opposite of what is true.

More to the point, in modern times, and before the last few decades, opera was woven into the fabric of day to day life in Italy esp the south. That is the tradition that was imported to South Philly. Even now, in old barbershops, pastry shops, sausage and pasta shops, you will find the odd picture of Caruso. The broadcasts of the Met from NY used to be on radio sets of the rich and the poor across our region.

Today guys with class-envy wedgies stuck in their ass crack have anointed such professions/options as elitist, all the while patronizing a sport where the median salary is twenty times what a median pro opera singer makes. Do you know where Ice Hockey origunated? In Eton, the most elitist and snobbish school in the history of mankind.

Scarfs are an underrated accessory.

SCARVES can make a hoodie passable in the coldest of weather.
- DrMidnite

In really cold weather I prefer a balaclava.

Do they do that before or after the donnybrook between fanbases with blackjacks and broken bottles
- Hesh_

After that incident in the mid eighties involving the many deaths of the Italians due to hooliganism by Liverpool fans, there was a lot of attention paid to who does these things. They found that the drunken yob was no more likely to be in the middle of such a fracas as was the accountant, the lawyer, the banker, who also joined in all this rioting and fighting covertly.

Btw, my man, I am sorry about the snippiness last night. When dudes are together in a small room, such things happen, especially if I am one of the dudes. Sometimes humor doesn't translate well across social media.

My point last night stands, but my apologies if I caused any offense. I have nothing against you.

Now I am really moving on.
- PT21

Are you seriously trying to play that off as an attempt at humor? Now that's funny.

You realize, that apart from the judgment of cretins, I did not violate any of my rules.

Maybe, you don't though. In which case, I have to quote his majesty...


- PT21

Of course not. How can you violate a rule that is not meant for you. Only for others.

Ho ho. Once again, your attempt to be literary ends up being just stupid.

I won't nitpick through the wasteland of howlers you have provided me here, except to say that a canard is not a fig leaf or a diversion, which is the way you are using it, but an unfounded rumor/slander/etc etc.

- PT21

https://hockeybuzz.com/bo...post_id=22465435#22465435

Your post above is a violation of rule #3

3. Give the debater the benefit of doubt and address the larger issue. Stop trying to score cheap points like repeatedly bringing up irrelevant things. For example, stop saying what someone said about JG coming to Philly or whether Risto was one of the best in NHL. That is not what you are discussing now.

Another good example is your pet move. Find a word and claim that a poster has not used a word correctly or has not formatted a sentence correctly rather than addressing the larger issue.

What a glorious Padres 2 run HR
- penguininnevada

I don't follow MLB, but congrats to the Phillies and their fans!!!

It is fairly evident you know nothing about what you are talking, as bel canto is a style of singing in opera, like crooning in lounge music or yodeling in country. If anything, it made opera more accessible by playing up the drama explicitly.

Regarding the origins of opera or anything that has come to us from pre-modern Europe relating to entertainment: In those days, before a way to spread sound (like gramophone/radio), the written word (printing press), the visual (photographs, tv/movie), everything had to be sampled first hand to be experienced. The common bloke was too hand-to-mouth and oppressed to do any such sampling. As such, EVERYTHING, including the piano, guitar and violin, poetry, painting, decorative pottery, tapestry and so on, was produced for the aristocracy. Within that realm, at least opera and Elizabethan plays were all about letting the masses share the experience. So, your implication that it has some elitist connotations above and beyond pretty much anything from that period is completely misguide and the opposite of what is true.

More to the point, in modern times, and before the last few decades, opera was woven into the fabric of day to day life in Italy esp the south. That is the tradition that was imported to South Philly. Even now, in old barbershops, pastry shops, sausage and pasta shops, you will find the odd picture of Caruso. The broadcasts of the Met from NY used to be on radio sets of the rich and the poor across our region.

Today guys with class-envy wedgies stuck in their ass crack have anointed such professions/options as elitist, all the while patronizing a sport where the median salary is twenty times what a median pro opera singer makes. Do you know where Ice Hockey origunated? In Eton, the most elitist and snobbish school in the history of mankind.
- PT21

LOL. You should do a podcast where you can bloviate about your perspectives on these and the other various historical references. Bottom line, the only one you are impressing with all of your posturing in hockey message board over these inane and obscure cultural references is yourself. I just hope you remember the important point of not believing your own BS but that truth seems to be in serious doubt.

"Radio sets of the rich and poor ..." priceless.

LOL. You should do a podcast where you can bloviate about your perspectives on these and the other various historical references. Bottom line, the only one you are impressing with all of your posturing in hockey message board over these inane and obscure cultural references is yourself. I just hope you remember the important point of not believing your own BS but that truth seems to be in serious doubt.

"Radio sets of the rich and poor ..." priceless.
- iamscore2day

Kudos to you on countering that BS. Although he has successfully changed the subject to a debate on opera in an attempt to change the narrative away from his errors.

I've basically managed my entire life from the age of 25 on in the corporate world. When I was laid off from the corporate world started my own business 15 years ago and have been running my own since. I guess we all have different descriptions of what a leader is, but always managing and running things is my definition. You are welcome to your own determination of things. Thanks!
- Phillywhiteout

sorry we didn't all read your wiki page

I'm convinced MJL is the 'Chris Gaines' of Bill Meltzer

They haven’t been able to recover since the Farabee goal that was waved off.