Speaking of advanced age...Jesus that one woman who is 31...you would think she limped out on the ice with a walker or something by the way they talk about her. I’m half expecting the morgue to come try to pick her up after the games.

The 14 year olds who’ve been kept in the training dungeon since birth and are living out the fantasies of creeptastic middle age male “coaches” are hard to watch. This shit is refreshing.

We channel all our rage into ice sports. Hockey, figure skating, curling. You’ve never seen incandescent fury until you’ve seen a friendly gathering of portly, middle-aged, sweetheart-looking Canadians all shrieking, “SWEEP! SWEEEEEEEP!” at a TV.

I’m Canadian and for real I will flip a table if Virtue and Moir don’t win. I remember raging out in 2002 also. You’re not wrong that the judging is super corrupt but you are WRONG that nobody cares. Godddd why did you bring up Sale and Pelletier now I’m all heated.

Honestly I think he was emotionally abusive to Alanna. Essentially there are multiple times when Liam gets angry at Alanna for just being herself, and then is nasty with her in front of their whole group (which I think is cruel and humiliating).

Situations like this are why I loathe social media.

oh, well then, enjoy your upcoming coma.

Saaaame. Daine’s mom didn’t do her any favors in the sex department, either, and she was fatherless so, like, it’s a pretty classic ugly pattern. Alanna chose George after having all kinds of adventures, and had remarkably normal young relationships, so their pairing off isn’t icky IMO. He treated her as an equal…

I agree with that assessment. I remember when I read (more like devoured) the Alanna books, the George thing felt natural to me - he seemed older but not THAT much older in how he was written (I think he’s 17 when the books start?). Sort of like the high school boy to your middle school girl, and by the end they’re…

Yeah, Tammy’s fully admitted that she likes older guys, and didn’t really think about how that played out in the books until people freaked out about Daine/Numair. She’s said that Nawat was kind of her joke on that, since technically he’d only been human like a year when he and Aly got together.

This is exactly the kind of heartwarming story I needed. That emotional support hamster article earlier really fucked me up, so thank you for this.

If you want good boots that won’t break right away, look at work boots.
I go for the classics like Dr. Martens and Justin Ropers. They look good and are tougher than nails. Also, they don’t tend to mess you about with valid returns.

Meanwhile I got in a fight with American Eagle who’s boots fell apart after one wear. They refused a refund. ONE WEAR AND THEY SPLIT UP THE BACK

Good on him.