12-10-2008, 11:59 AM
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#781
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Crushed
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: The Sc'ank
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Originally Posted by J pold
I think you’re a bit more down to earth than most of the girls I date or have dated (of course I’m basing this on a message board, which seems insane but what the hell).
Also I think it’s just me but I wouldn’t want my girlfriend to ask me if I think Keenan should still be playing Bertuzzi with Iginla, or why we don’t practice our powerplay. When I’m dating a girl there are thing in my life that I want to keep to myself, to kind of be my own. And hockey is one of them.
And like Gozer said, it kind of forces you too decide between your friends and her, which almost always ends in disaster.
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Fair enough. It's all preference really. If my boyfriend said to me what you just said, then I would understand. I might be a little disappointed, because I would probably want to talk hockey with my boyfriend given that most guys don't want to talk hockey with me, but I also get that he's got guy friends he wants to do guy things with...
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12-10-2008, 12:04 PM
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#782
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by FireFly
That works both ways tho... I'd love to have someone I could take to games with me all the time. If I ever get a boyfriend again and he doesn't like hockey, I'll be in the same position I am now... It's hard to find worthy, hockey loving friends to go to games with. 
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See that’s where you and I differ. I have a surplus of friends who would be more than happy to go to games with me if I had an extra ticket.
Now if I have a girlfriend who loves hockey she is going to expect that I take her. Which is fine and normal, But let’s say I had 10 tickets. If I bring her to the majority of the games than my friends are kind of like what the hell, especially if they have taken me too some games, if I bring my friends to a majority of the games my girlfriend is now pissed because I care more about my friends than her.
The above conundrum is solved by not having a girlfriend who likes hockey. Who would be happy with going to a few games a year but knows that your friends would much prefer the tickets.
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12-10-2008, 12:08 PM
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#783
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by J pold
See that’s where you and I differ. I have a surplus of friends who would be more than happy to go to games with me if I had an extra ticket.
Now if I have a girlfriend who loves hockey she is going to expect that I take her. Which is fine and normal, But let’s say I had 10 tickets. If I bring her to the majority of the games than my friends are kind of like what the hell, especially if they have taken me too some games, if I bring my friends to a majority of the games my girlfriend is now pissed because I care more about my friends than her.
The above conundrum is solved by not having a girlfriend who likes hockey. Who would be happy with going to a few games a year but knows that your friends would much prefer the tickets.
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See, I'm a girl and like the other girls in this thread, the majority of my girlfriends, who are the majority of my friends, do not like hockey or are fairweather fans. In this scenario, I'd rather take someone who likes hockey.
Also, if you have 10 tickets, why can't you take your gf to 5 games and your friends to 5 games? If she's the right kind of girl, it's just as fun to get drunk with her and talk hockey.... I'm just saying. Sounds to me like your hockey loving girlfriends are not the right kind of girlfriends and it has nothing to do with whether or not they like hockey.
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12-10-2008, 12:14 PM
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#784
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Took an arrow to the knee
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Toronto
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Originally Posted by Eastern Girl
Fair enough. It's all preference really. If my boyfriend said to me what you just said, then I would understand. I might be a little disappointed, because I would probably want to talk hockey with my boyfriend given that most guys don't want to talk hockey with me, but I also get that he's got guy friends he wants to do guy things with...
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Want to send my girlfriend an anonymous email with some advice.
Unlike J Pold, I don't even go out to watch the Flames. I watch them online with GameCenter, usually in the bedroom on the bed. We're in a one bedroom apartment, so there ain't many places to hide. I'm a more 'intense' watcher of hockey, as I like to put it, and don't really enjoy watching it with others (if my girlfriend was into it, then yes, that would be awesome, though). She is okay with it sometimes, but other times, it definitely becomes a "me or it" thing. She has actually admitted to feelings of jealousy over the Flames, haha. At least she's made that first step, I suppose.
She's also not from North America, and is into Cricket, so she doesn't really have any of that tradition of hockey some other women might have. It's rough going.
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12-10-2008, 12:28 PM
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#785
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by FireFly
Also, if you have 10 tickets, why can't you take your gf to 5 games and your friends to 5 games? If she's the right kind of girl, it's just as fun to get drunk with her and talk hockey.... I'm just saying. Sounds to me like your hockey loving girlfriends are not the right kind of girlfriends and it has nothing to do with whether or not they like hockey. 
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It’s like I was explaining to EG, most of the girls on this site are much more down to earth, perhaps it’s because they are older than the girls I meet. But at my age the girls (at least the ones I come across) are a bit too needy. They kind of expect you to place them over your friends, which for me is difficult because I have a very close knit group of friends.
So for me going to hockey games is like a sanctuary where I can just hang-out with my pals. It’s really an unspoken understanding between all of us, we understand that if one of us has a girlfriend that it’s a big commitment but when it comes to hockey (mostly the Flames) we want you to come out and watch a few games.
I don’t want to come across as I guy that hates on girls for liking hockey. I think it’s cool but just not something that I’m into that’s all.
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12-10-2008, 12:31 PM
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#786
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Section 222
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Less talky. Bring on the NOODZ!!!
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12-10-2008, 12:46 PM
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#788
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by wittynickname
I'd probably be the one telling him to go watch with his friends, so he wasn't annoying me while I was trying to watch the game. 
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LOL, me too.
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12-10-2008, 12:47 PM
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#789
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GOAT!
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Originally Posted by FireFly
See, I'm a girl and like the other girls in this thread, the majority of my girlfriends, who are the majority of my friends, do not like hockey or are fairweather fans. In this scenario, I'd rather take someone who likes hockey.
Also, if you have 10 tickets, why can't you take your gf to 5 games and your friends to 5 games? If she's the right kind of girl, it's just as fun to get drunk with her and talk hockey.... I'm just saying. Sounds to me like your hockey loving girlfriends are not the right kind of girlfriends and it has nothing to do with whether or not they like hockey. 
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One of my exes actually got up off the couch and started vacuuming the living room during a Grey Cup game that I was trying to watch. She was upset that I didn't want to talk about her sister's husband. This was after me spending the entire week doing everything she wanted to do just so I could get 4 hours of quiet time to enjoy the game.
Those are the kind of women I tend to meet.
Last edited by FanIn80; 12-10-2008 at 12:51 PM.
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12-10-2008, 12:49 PM
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#790
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by FireFly
That works both ways tho... I'd love to have someone I could take to games with me all the time. If I ever get a boyfriend again and he doesn't like hockey, I'll be in the same position I am now... It's hard to find worthy, hockey loving friends to go to games with. 
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This is also same for me. Currently my kids, though older, are still willing to see games with me. Maybe they always will, but if not, I'm stuck with no hockey loving friends to go with.
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12-10-2008, 12:49 PM
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#791
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Silicon Valley
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Originally Posted by bigtmac19
None of my female friends are into hockey.
I just always have been, and it's unfortunate for me there isn't anyone close to me to have an intelligent conversation about hockey with.
Thank goodness for everyone here on CP.
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Almost none of my friends that are guys care about hockey
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Thats an incredible pic, nice!
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12-10-2008, 12:51 PM
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#792
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by FanIn80
One of my exes actually got up off the couch and started vacuuming the living room during a Grey Cup game that I was trying to watch. This was after me spending the entire week doing everything she wanted to do just so I could get 4 hours of quiet time to enjoy the game. She was upset that I didn't want to talk about her sister's husband.
Those are the kind of women I tend to meet.
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wow.. that is brutal.
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12-10-2008, 12:52 PM
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#793
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by bigtmac19
This is also same for me. Currently my kids, though older, are still willing to see games with me. Maybe they always will, but if not, I'm stuck with no hockey loving friends to go with.
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I love going to games with my family, my dad and mom in particular. And my brother flew out from Ontario and we're going to the Florida game Friday,
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12-10-2008, 12:54 PM
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#794
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Crushed
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: The Sc'ank
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Originally Posted by FanIn80
One of my exes actually got up off the couch and started vacuuming the living room during a Grey Cup game that I was trying to watch. She was upset that I didn't want to talk about her sister's husband. This was after me spending the entire week doing everything she wanted to do just so I could get 4 hours of quiet time to enjoy the game.
Those are the kind of women I tend to meet.
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I've never vaccuumed during a game, but I do everything I can to ruin football games for my brothers, because they do everything they can to ruin hockey games for me. It's an unfortunate thing that has really gone too far, as we all end up missing large chunks of games we'd really like to watch... It's become a game of
one-up-manship...
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12-10-2008, 01:01 PM
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One of the Nine
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The last long term relationship I had started in the spring of 2004 (lasted 2.5 years; it's been all meaningless flings and debauchery since, but I digress). We met and fell for each other while the Flames enjoyed their marvellous Cup run that year. It was a magical spring - as many of you may recall - and this poor girl quickly became synonymous with it. Thus, it was all downhill from there, even in my numerous attempts to assimilate her with other sporting successes in the interim. Things suffered especially with a lockout season for the NHL - and the next spring, no playoffs at all (our sex life then was tragic) - and then a merciless defeat by the Ducks the next spring, and even worse trouncing by the Wings the spring after that. She was a great girl, but in my head she could never live up to the spring of 2004.
So the message here is, keep your sports and your girls (or boys, if you're a girl, or gay) seperate. They are, after all, seperate loves.
(This thread=wayyy derailed)
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12-10-2008, 01:02 PM
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#796
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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Back on track folks.. I came back from lunch hoping for some new mugs to ugh at..
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12-10-2008, 01:05 PM
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#797
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Not the one...
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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
I came back from lunch hoping for some new mugs to *ugh* at..
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Probably should have kept that to yourself.
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12-10-2008, 01:10 PM
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#798
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Auckland, NZ
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Originally Posted by Phanuthier
Almost none of my friends that are guys care about hockey 
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It took me 10 years to get some of my best friends to enjoy hockey. Only in the last couple years have they picked up on it. I was just an anomoly with the people I hung out with.
Other than that, I don't really have any friends that play sports, go to the mountains, go on random trips to Vegas, anything like that... pretty hard to get an 'eclectic' crowd to do those sorts of things. Hockey is a start, though... and a great one too.
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12-10-2008, 01:13 PM
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Often Thinks About Pickles
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Okotoks
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Originally Posted by bigtmac19
This is also same for me. Currently my kids, though older, are still willing to see games with me. Maybe they always will, but if not, I'm stuck with no hockey loving friends to go with.
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If ya got extra tickets, I'll go with you. Just don't tell my wife, cause she'll want to go in my place.
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12-10-2008, 01:26 PM
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#800
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Loves Teh Chat!
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Originally Posted by Locke
Wow, a 13 year old having kids. In my books thats crazy.
I see you state that you just started University, and yet I didnt see you at any of the CP meets....
We had:
REDVAN (MGD) - Locke (Rickard's Red) - Kipper is King (coke)
Philly06Cup (cant remember) - Torture ( Rickard's White)
lamberger (White) - Da Chief (OJ)
Berger_4 (White)
Cap: Drunkenness.
I'm just bugging ya.... 
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Made a fix for ya Locke.
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