2024/2025 Season trade rumours and speculation thread

[5abi]

Originally Posted by Jay Random

Ooooh, look. Another rabid left-winger who thinks Europe is just like Alabama because it doesn't agree with him!

Do you think the liberal party should be banned?

[Lewis_D]

The funniest part is that the original hillbilly comment reads as if it was directed at Canes management, who are likely mostly Canadians anyways lol.

[Bingo]

I just wish people that get into these vendetta like personal wars every day of the week would ask themselves if they have a role in getting to where we are. Or are all 12 of them (guessing) assuming it's the other guy's fault?

Tiring, and drags the site down.

[Groot]

Originally Posted by Jay Random

The so-called joke involved a claim that everyone in North Carolina is stupid, and that all the smart people had to be imported from somewhere else. You try telling that to anyone from North Carolina, and you are liable to find yourself with fewer teeth than you accuse them of having.

No, the actual original quote that got you all in a tizzy is...

Good for the kid and his camp - #### those hill billies.

You then tied it to intelligence by bringing up the research triangle or whatever lol.

And no, most people I've known don't take themselves so seriously that when a very common stereotype is used in a joking manner they would resort to physical violence.

[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by 5abi

Do you think the liberal party should be banned?

No, but I think it should be called to account for its BS.

[Eubee]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Please shut up about this topic forever. You are a coward.

Says the sites biggest keyboard jackass.

[Dan403]

You guys are really ####ing boring.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Eubee

Says the sites biggest keyboard jackass.

Ah crap someone dingled the bigot bell.

[TheIronMaiden]

Talking about politics in the main forum should always lead to a suspension. I don't care what side your on, take it to the off topic.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

Talking about politics in the main forum should always lead to a suspension. I don't care what side your on, take it to the off topic.

I mean sure but a thread discussing a former player getting threats from the Russian government exists on the first page with nary a single issue raised about its existence on FOI.

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

I mean sure but a thread discussing a former player getting threats from the Russian government exists on the first page with nary a single issue raised about its existence on FOI.

Great if I don't want to read about politics. I can choose to not click that thread because I read the title.

Popping into the Trade Rumors Thread and having to read Facebook comment section political debates without warning is lame as ####.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

Great if I don't want to read about politics. I can choose to not click that thread because I read the title.

Popping into the Trade Rumors Thread and having to read Facebook comment section political debates without warning is lame as ####.

You can also scroll past? We can scroll and not click if it’s thread titles, but we cannot scroll and click away if it’s posts? What is this?

[Paulie Walnuts]

The likes are hilarious and so telling.

[Bingo]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

You can also scroll past? We can scroll and not click if it’s thread titles, but we cannot scroll and click away if it’s posts? What is this?

I think you know the difference.

One advertises what you're getting into and you can choose to avoid it. The other takes a well defined topic completely into the weeds making it unreadable.

[Redrum]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

The likes are hilarious and so telling.

No kidding, what kind of dummies want to read about what they click on?

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Bingo

I think you know the difference.

One advertises what you're getting into and you can choose to avoid it. The other takes a well defined topic completely into the weeds making it unreadable.

I genuinely don’t because there’s a lot I’m not interested in that happens in a thread that I just scroll past. Case in point: the circular fights between the same 5 posters over literally nothing. I find them all entertaining posters, but when they do the spider-man thing and go on a 20 post “you’re a homer!” or whatever thing I just scroll past.

I’m just playing devil’s advocate here over why politics is the line. Hell, there was more than politics that was off topic in this conversation. And it’s not like I’m dying on the hill of politics because I brought it up (I didn’t mention politics at all). It’s just like… what are people getting upset at? That someone went on a diatribe over a hillbilly joke? That someone mentioned the Liberal party? They’re literally talking politics in the E=NG thread right now. I’d rather read a page of people being bitchy every once in a while than 4 pages of people arguing over the definition of a rebuild again.

“So, any trade rumours?” is basically a meme in this thread for how often it goes into the weeds on something off topic, but in the many years we’ve all been here, I think we can agree that even when things get a little wacky they always find their way back as soon as something on-topic that’s worth a discussion is brought up.

[Bingo]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

I genuinely don’t because there’s a lot I’m not interested in that happens in a thread that I just scroll past. Case in point: the circular fights between the same 5 posters over literally nothing. I find them all entertaining posters, but when they do the spider-man thing and go on a 20 post “you’re a homer!” or whatever thing I just scroll past.

I’m just playing devil’s advocate here over why politics is the line. Hell, there was more than politics that was off topic in this conversation. And it’s not like I’m dying on the hill of politics because I brought it up (I didn’t mention politics at all). It’s just like… what are people getting upset at? That someone went on a diatribe over a hillbilly joke? That someone mentioned the Liberal party? They’re literally talking politics in the E=NG thread right now. I’d rather read a page of people being bitchy every once in a while than 4 pages of people arguing over the definition of a rebuild again.

“So, any trade rumours?” is basically a meme in this thread for how often it goes into the weeds on something off topic, but in the many years we’ve all been here, I think we can agree that even when things get a little wacky they always find their way back as soon as something on-topic that’s worth a discussion is brought up.

I didn't bring up politics either.,

I was more focused on the same 12 posters with a heavy grudge toward particular people that drag things into a personal circular link on a daily basis.

I think if you wade into the WJC trial topic you can expect things to get heated and go off topic with opinions that derive an emotional response. But if you're doing it in the trade rumours thread you're likely hung up on a feud and wrecking things for others.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Bingo

I didn't bring up politics either.,

I was more focused on the same 12 posters with a heavy grudge toward particular people that drag things into a personal circular link on a daily basis.

I think if you wade into the WJC trial topic you can expect things to get heated and go off topic with opinions that derive an emotional response. But if you're doing it in the trade rumours thread you're likely hung up on a feud and wrecking things for others.

Is your focus any better, though? There’s some hyperbole there, but you going off and criticizing some unnamed 12 for these grudges and fueds you imagine playing out daily isn’t that different from jayswin popping a comment about some terrible off topic opinion.

Anyway, not trying to get overly meta here. I’m sure this conversation also fits into the scratching-out-your-eyes category for the trade aficionados. I just think things naturally course correct, and they’re actually made worse by people commenting on them, as I’ve demonstrated.

[Bingo]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Is your focus any better, though? There’s some hyperbole there, but you going off and criticizing some unnamed 12 for these grudges and fueds you imagine playing out daily isn’t that different from jayswin popping a comment about some terrible off topic opinion.

Anyway, not trying to get overly meta here. I’m sure this conversation also fits into the scratching-out-your-eyes category for the trade aficionados. I just think things naturally course correct, and they’re actually made worse by people commenting on them, as I’ve demonstrated.

Well I said keep it to hockey two days ago.

Those that weren't could have just read that and acted accordingly instead of arguing about arguing.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Originally Posted by Lewis_D

The funniest part is that the original hillbilly comment reads as if it was directed at Canes management, who are likely mostly Canadians anyways lol.

Tuslky is American, and so was Wadell.

Tulsky is a scientist as well. Interesting guy.