05-25-2021, 09:12 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Calgary, AB
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I wouldn’t be sad if he was put out to pasture at this point. He’s almost unbearable with his Oilers homerism, and awkward forced puns and jokes all the time.
I’d love for Tim from Tim and Sid to take over as host now that Sid has already moved on.
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05-25-2021, 09:14 PM
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#22
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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Lots of tortured interpretations when it’s pretty much “If you have a picture of a guy with his shirt off there’s something wrong with you”.
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I'm pretty sure the Twitter mob thinks Ron MacLean made a joke about Kevin Bieksa catching HIV. People's minds too in the gutter.
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05-25-2021, 09:17 PM
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#23
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Kelowna, BC
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Why is this evena discussion. The comment doesnt even make full sense. Ron's fine.
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05-25-2021, 09:20 PM
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#24
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Originally Posted by gt4flames
Why is this evena discussion. The comment doesnt even make full sense. Ron's fine.
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05-25-2021, 09:21 PM
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#25
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
I wouldn’t be sad if he was put out to pasture at this point. He’s almost unbearable with his Oilers homerism, and awkward forced puns and jokes all the time.
I’d love for Tim from Tim and Sid to take over as host now that Sid has already moved on.
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I dont even care about that crap.
Does he understand that HNIC isnt a Poetry Slam? And that he wasnt actually a member of the Tragically Hip?
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05-25-2021, 09:26 PM
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#26
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Norm!
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I'd like to see Ron go, but not for that, he's awful, I don't think he has much integrity and is a weasel. There are better people out there then him that could do that job. He should have been shown the door when Cherry was. When he comes on I flip the channel.
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05-25-2021, 09:27 PM
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Truculent!
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I definitely cringed there.
He was making a "you're so gay" joke.
It was unpleasant to watch.
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05-25-2021, 09:27 PM
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#28
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Quote:
Originally Posted by gt4flames
Why is this evena discussion. The comment doesnt even make full sense. Ron's fine.
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So the TV host made a comment that makes no sense but he’s fine? 
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05-25-2021, 09:28 PM
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#29
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All I can get
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Tarpov?
Wasn't he the Russian National Team coach in the Soviet era?
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05-25-2021, 09:37 PM
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#30
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Geeoff
I'm pretty sure the Twitter mob thinks Ron MacLean made a joke about Kevin Bieksa catching HIV. People's minds too in the gutter.
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“Tarp Off” I understand. I don’t know how you can put a good spin on “positive for something.”
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05-25-2021, 09:39 PM
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#31
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Geeoff
I'm pretty sure the Twitter mob thinks Ron MacLean made a joke about Kevin Bieksa catching HIV. People's minds too in the gutter.
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I mean, like I said, surely that can't be what he meant. It can't possibly. No one would be dumb enough to think that was an okay joke to make, much less Ron McLean, who is at the very least experienced enough not to make that type of blunder on the air. It's not like he's some hockey player with no broadcasting experience they plucked out of a locker room.
But... what else could it have meant?
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05-25-2021, 09:40 PM
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First round-bust
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Yeah you really can't be making jokes like that. Cringeworthy and inappropriate.
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05-25-2021, 09:42 PM
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#33
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Originally Posted by troutman
“Tarp Off” I understand. I don’t know how you can put a good spin on “positive for something.”
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Doesn’t one have to add a fair bit themself to decide on the bad spin?
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05-25-2021, 09:43 PM
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Pent-up
Join Date: Mar 2018
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wastedyouth
I definitely cringed there.
He was making a "you're so gay" joke.
It was unpleasant to watch.
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You think that was unpleasant, wait for the apology.
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05-25-2021, 09:44 PM
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#35
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“If you are an Oiler fanboy, you are definitely positive for something.”
Positive for Stupidity.
Isn’t that what Ron meant? Like positive as in yes and not HIV positive.
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05-25-2021, 09:48 PM
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#36
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Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 868904
“If you are an Oiler fanboy, you are definitely positive for something.”
Positive for Stupidity.
Isn’t that what Ron meant? Like positive as in yes and not HIV positive.
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Except it wasn’t what he said. “If you have pictures of a guy with his tarp off”...
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05-25-2021, 09:49 PM
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That Crazy Guy at the Bus Stop
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Springfield Penitentiary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 868904
“If you are an Oiler fanboy, you are definitely positive for something.”
Positive for Stupidity.
Isn’t that what Ron meant? Like positive as in yes and not HIV positive.
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Correct. I’m pretty sure Bieksa had just said he was really positive about something.
It’s also kind of weird to have shirtless pictures of coworkers and I believe that’s the context. I think they’re talking about a fellow SN panelist.
But it’s also not cool to make thinly veiled gay jokes, which is how it has been interpreted, intentional or not.
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05-25-2021, 09:49 PM
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#38
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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
Doesn’t one have to add a fair bit themself to decide on the bad spin?
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Uh, not really. In what contexts, in common parlance, would you say someone is "positive for something"? It's either drug testing or some sort of illness, and the first type of illness associated with "positive" is generally HIV. Due to prevailing circumstances, maybe COVID, but I don't see how that would make sense. And even the drugs thing, what would having a picture of a man with his shirt off have to do with you taking drugs?
I'm struggling to find a generous interpretation here.
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05-25-2021, 09:49 PM
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#39
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GioforPM
Except it wasn’t what he said. “If you have pictures of a guy with his tarp off”...
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Oh, he’s body image positive
Cool
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05-25-2021, 09:49 PM
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#40
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Central Sierra, CA
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Ron was having fun and he thought he was back in the early 90s for a moment. He's human, but that is over the line these days and the moment will cost him. I actually like Ron, having grown up watching him every week, but anybody who was alive in the 80s knows what he meant.
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