You know what fucking rocks? Watching hockey in HD does.

[LeftyMom]

It's easy to see the puck, no weird halo effect or any crap like that needed. Seriesly, it's like watching live hockey, but the beer is cheaper and I don't have to pay for parking.

[mainegreen]

1. Drink enough beer and things will be blurry again.

You'll end up always looking at where the puck was half a second ago. If you can see it through the beer goggles.

[LeftyMom]

16. My TV is bigger than I am. I think I'd pass out before I could drink that much beer.

Or my bladder would explode, one or the other.

[Lasher]

34. HD rules!

Folks come to my place to watch football games. I have developed a better appreciation for the cheerleaders.

[ghostsofgiants]

2. A few notes...

1) Watching hockey precludes rocking, in HD or not.
2) How hard is it to see a black puck on white ice, anyway? I don't even watch hockey but whenever my family or roommates have it on, it's never hard to follow the puck.
D) Hockey is lame.

[Dr. Strange]

5. Dude...

you don't like hockey, you don't like Rush. Why do you hate Canada?

[ghostsofgiants]

15. I don't drink beer, either.

But I do like maple syrup.

[Dr. Strange]

18. Maple syrup was invented by Rush.

They came up with the idea while playing hockey.

[ghostsofgiants]

19. But it's not crappy music or a lame sport, so I don't mind.

[nemo137]

32. A point by point rebuttal

1.) Incorrect
2.) Surprisingly
D.) Wrong.

Debate Result: I win.

[ghostsofgiants]

33. My response...

1) Pssshhh.
2) Pssshhh.
D) Pssshhh.

Quit drinking the Kool-Aid, yo.

[nemo137]

35. Sir!

While I respect your badass choice of sig-line coming, I would remind you that I come here to get away from the madness that is GD: P. Please have just a wee bit of decorum!

[leftyclimber]

3. Amen, sister.

And the Pens just swept. :party:

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. You *are* aware this is baseball season, no?

What are you, Canadian or somethin'? :P

[Rhythm]

24. you got a problem with that, eh?!

:hi:

:pals:

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. Take off

Hockey is for hosers. :P

[GOPisEvil]

6. I will know this feeling in...7 days!

I upgrade to HDTV next Wednesday! :bounce:

[Robb]

8. Friggin' early adopters

Myself, I plan to wait until analog broadcasts cease, then start a letter-writing campaign to the Weekly Nickel Shopper about how no one told me I needed a new TV.

Then, I'm going to start going to court and town council meetings in my spare time. God, I wish I was retired. :D

[GOPisEvil]

9. I bought a new TV with HD. Might as well get HD service.

I got a SMOKIN' deal from my cable company for phone, internet and HD. Only 6 bucks more than I pay now for regular cable and internet only. :thumbsup:

[Robb]

10. You know, I really need to get out and have a beer with you and watch that teevee

Maybe this is the summer.

Anyhow. A pox on you and your nice picture. I was watching the Masters with so much snow I couldn't see the ball. :D

[GOPisEvil]

12. I missed the Masters in HD this year.

Good thing there's a next year! :D

Come on down. There's always SOMETHING cool on HD!

[AteAlien]

7. the woman I'm going to visit in two weeks and one day

has a 12 year old son who is nuts about hockey. I've got to relearn the rules.

Yes. I have a one track mind these days and nights.

[Pierre.Suave]

11. yeah, I know...

I think HD in general rocks, but Hockey in HD is awesome, you can see the spittle flying off their faces when they get checked into the boards...

[flvegan]

13. The Red Sox v Yankees are on, and you're wasting HD on hockey?

I don't even know you.

[LeftyMom]

14. Unless they're both going to lose somehow, I have no interest in that game.

:popcorn:

[flvegan]

17. Look, the Giants suck. That's it, that's all.

It'll be okay. At least you dumped ole bighead.

It's quality baseball. 24 run game right now.

Besides, you think football is played with helmets and field goals. Heathen.

[LeftyMom]

20. Soccer is for little kids and greasy foreign guys who shave their legs.

It is not football.

It is not even a sport.

It's a conspiracy on the part of parents to make kids run around in circles for an hour so they'll sleep long enough for their parents to have uninterrupted sex.

God only knows why foreigners haven't figured this out- next thing you know they'll be getting drunk and turning cars over for the world kickball championships or because Henri stole Sven's Pokemon cards or some childish shit.

[flvegan]

21. Funny. See, hockey is just like football.

Just without the ice, the uber padding, the sissy icing calls and the dipshit unsportsmanlike conduct.

One footballer knocks another down, they pick the other up.

Oh, and footballers use their heads. Not so much in the NHL.

[LeftyMom]

22. Hockey is self-policing.

You get a bad call, or no call, or their guy is too rough with your guy? You don't go wailing for an official, you don't make a goddamn international incident out of it, one of your guys goes and roughs up one of their guys. And since that kinda sucks, and nobody likes getting their ass beat, it's a very clean sport for the most part.

Unlike soccer, which is full of skinny wimps and drama queens faking injuries trying to draw a call, which is okay when it's school age girls, but not so much when grown men are playing a sport for school age girls.

[flvegan]

25. So...hockey is like the Lounge

and the Mods are the refs.

Got it.

[LeftyMom]

27. Lounge fights are more soccer.

Some twit gets offended about god knows what, starts yelling shit you nobody understand, thinking that'll get the authorities to punish the evildoer who looked at them funny or something, and then you have to rewind your tivo to see if anybody even came within ten feet of them, or if they're just pitching a fit because their frilly underpants are on too tight, which is usually the case.

[flvegan]

28. Not.

Please.

[LeftyMom]

29. I'm totally swayed by that detailed counterargument.

BTW, I need your nutritional opinion: is beer and peanut butter oatmeal cookies a good dinner, or should I walk up to the store (driving is right out) and get some soy delicious to increase the protein level?

[flvegan]

30. To suggest that

the Lounge and the average football match were more akin than the Lounge and a hockey match are just silly.

The "goons" for football have nothing to do with the sport, unlike hockey.

"Hey, I'm going out there to run around until I have the chance to take up fisticuffs with the guy that perchance, checked my right winger too hard." Then, I'll do what I can to ensure that ESPN has me and my "foe" pounding each other remarkedly well.

Hi, we're bloody idiots. :hi:

As for your question, yes, beer and peanut butter oatmeal cookies are a fine "dinner" so long as that type of dinner isn't a habit.

Freak.

[LeftyMom]

31. Wrong!

You were supposed to tell me to walk over to Safeway and get some ice cream for the sake of my health.

But I've decided that I might be a bit too tipsy to be walking around by myself at night, so I'm going to go watch Mythbusters downstairs instead. Beer, junk food, and blowing shit up. Could anything be more American?

[TommyO]

23. HD in general rocks!

I got my 42" widescreen in March of last year, I got my TiVo HD in August and got two cable cards for it. If something is available in HD, I'll record that over the SD version, it's a no-brainer.

[mainegreen]

36. I'm kicking this because two people are very funny in this thread

and more people need to read it for laughs.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

37. I don't get the HD thing

Call me crazy, call me a luddite, but I'm just not all that wowed by HDTV.

Yes, the picture is much clearer and yes you can see the beads of sweat on the player's faces.

But in the end, it's still just TV. It's not real. It's not tangible.

When the prices of HDTVs come down to those of normal TVs, then I'll be happy to buy one. But I've got no burning desire to waste all that money right now for one, especially in today's economy.

And people who voluntarily forgo a trip to a sporting event just to sit in their living room watching an HDTV and then claim it's just as good--I'm sorry, but that's just plain lame in my book.

[jakefrep]

38. Hockey rules. HDTV is overpriced crap.

I don't get the hype about HDTV. The improvement in picture quality over my current TV doesn't justify the inflated price tag.