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[xp_loa]

I turned the tv on and there is a hockey team with a pissed off penguin apparently? Why is he so angry?? Quick someone explain hockey to me and why players (not the goalie) can apparently just be in the goal area??

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[xp_darcy]

I can't believe this isn't a question about Gritty, tbh. But also hell, I don't understand goalie laws because it's like, sometimes the goalie can leave the crease and it's fiiiiiiiiiiine but another goalie does the same thing and it's Very Bad Actually and the same is true for being in the goalie's home and depends on if the player/their team pushed them in or YOUR team did but it's not always clear.

[xp_loa]

Looked up Gritty, and now I have many questions about that too. But hmmmm -- okay, so Who's Line but it's goal(ies), got it, okay, I'll just keep watching these guys with knives on their feet keep going round and round to get goals.

[xp_darcy]

I don't watch hockey that seriously but I'm pretty sure the rules are made up and the refs are an extra obstacle? That's what reddit says. 🙃

[xp_cypher]

Yeah, that tracks.

[xp_darcy]

You would know more than me, Mister Adorable-Tiger-Stripes-Hair (yeah I found those pics, no regrets).

[xp_wildchild]

wait wait WAIT WAIT are you telling me he had hockey hair

[xp_darcy]

Pretty sure it's a universal rule that all hockey players of a certain age do that one bleaching effect. Unless their parents were scarier than tween peer pressure. :)

[xp_wildchild]

Man that is just so fuckin' delightful that I don't even know what to say about that.

[xp_cypher]

Bro, you grew up in Montana, didn't you play youth hockey?

Glass houses, etc.

[xp_wildchild]

nah. I played. uh. Football.

[xp_cypher]

...hey, did you know that school districts put like, ALL their old yearbooks up online these days?

[xp_wildchild]

That's my evil twin, Mullet Gibney.

[xp_cypher]

I mean, it was the 90s, even goddang Superman had a mullet.

(I did not, just the aforementioned questionable hair coloring decisions)

[xp_wildchild]

It was 2001. I was eleven.

[xp_darcy]

It's adorable (When my contact photo for everyone's phones is middle school me, it's Doug getting revenge for letting people know he was an adorable child.)

[xp_wildchild]

I mean somewhere around here there's pictures of pre-powers me where I'm literally a good foot shorter, 100 pounds lighter, and had some hella braces, no shame.

[xp_darcy]

Some children are just adorable like that.

[xp_blink]

oh I remember that!

[xp_daredevil]

GRITTY!!!!

[xp_darcy]

I do love your enthusiasm for the chaos, ridiculous man. ♥

[xp_daredevil]

I'm a new yorker.

[xp_darcy]

But gritty is from PHILLY. It's not the same sort of chaos. Or maybe it is. I'll defer to your ~native new yorker~ expertise.

[xp_daredevil]

Philly is a different kind of chaos than New York. New York is more...abrasive hating everything chaos of too many people in too small of an area. Philly is more like "revolutionary fuck you."

but you gotta respect.

[xp_darcy]

I do appreciate a good revolutionary fuck you, maybe that's why I enjoy gritty so much.

[xp_daredevil]

the red coats had to go

[xp_darcy]

The jokes write themselves when the lawyer who literally wears a primarily red coat says this without twitching with laughter, tbh.

[xp_daredevil]

it's RED?!!? I HAD NO IDEA!

[xp_darcy]

You're such a little shit, babe.

[xp_daredevil]

well, yeah.

I thought that was obvious?

[xp_darcy]

Ugh, stop that, you're making me want to smoosh your face and also smother your face. I can feel your smug THROUGH THE SCREEN.

[xp_daredevil]

that is a common response to me, yes.

should I have foggy order you a tshirt?

[xp_darcy]

Yes, absolutely, I'll feed him spicy foods and we can complain about how ridiculous you are as a human being. Lovingly.

[xp_daredevil]

he will be delighted.

[xp_darcy]

it's nice to have friends that understand your particular brand of ridiculous :p

[xp_longshot]

The way I see it, is a bit like offsides in football. You know, rules inserted to make watching it and arguing fun. No one understands it.

[xp_loa]

Love it, absolutely love to hear it. I cannot wait to argue hockey with people now.