CombatWombat

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"I think it definitely just shows how much this fan base and started kind of a bunch of new traditions here," said Canadian Olympian Sophie Jaques after watching the duckies rain down onto the ice following her overtime winner in Vancouver's season finale.

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CombatWombat @feddit.online 4h ago

Respect to the Victoire for choosing to unambiguously throw the gauntlet:

Minnesota enter as the back-to-back Walter Cup champions and were the third place team in the regular season. Montreal chose Minnesota rather than selecting fourth place Ottawa who needed a point on the final night of the 2025-26 regular season to qualify for the postseason at all.

CombatWombat @feddit.online 12h ago

Yep. I've seen it in real life. Whether this particular image is AI or not, that was a real tent at Seattle Central.

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CombatWombat @feddit.online 1d ago

I served a mission for the Mormon church in Russia. One of my companions (the other teenager who is assigned to you as a stranger and must stay within earshot of you at all times for the next few weeks or months) was really enamored with the idea of tracting, or going door to door asking people if they want to talk about Joesph Smith. He had watched too many Mormon missionary movies and was very disappointed to discover the Russian Federation has made tracting illegal. But he really wanted to do it, so we rang a random apartment and claimed to be a postman and snuck into an apartment building to knock doors.

Things started off okay. Russians generally have two doors, a normal wooden door on the inside, and a thick, metal fire door with five deadbolts (three in the wall, and one in the door and ceiling). Mostly, folks would open the inner door, ask what we wanted and then tell us to go away (fair, considering what we were doing was as rude as it was illegal).

But then we got a nibble! A single man invited into his home. The first thing that seemed kinda strange was that he locked and bolted the fire door. This was a little strange — usually people would leave the fire door ajar when they had guests and only lock the inner door — but not enough to really spook me. He led us into the kitchen and made a quick pot of tea and we launched into the first discussion.

The discussions are pretty well rehearsed. The first one, if I recall, has eight parts, and we would give them in sequence — I would do the first part, then say the handover phrase and look significantly at my companion, and he would do the second, then hand it back until either the investigator got bored or we got to the call to action, where we issued some thing we wanted them to do — come to church, pray, read the Book of Mormon, what have you. My companion was starting this round, and was pretty invested in preaching so I don’t think he really noticed as our investigator lit a cigarette, put out the match in a tumbler, filled the tumbler with vodka, and shot the vodka and match together. He made the handoff, though, so at least I could start to figure out a way out of the situation.

Pretty quickly into my segment, the investigator derailed the conversation. Turns out his wife had just given birth to twins, and the prognosis was poor — he was worried they wouldn’t make it. He grasped a kitchen knife and he told me that if god was going to take his newborns from him, he intended to take us from god. I don’t think I ever in my life spoken better Russian, beautiful, flowing, eloquent, explaining it wouldn’t help his suffering and offering prayers and blessings on his children’s behalf. He had this gleam in his eye that really unnerved me, and I really felt I was pleading for my life.

Until my companion finished his tea, and the investigator seemed to forget the whole line of questioning in his haste to be a good host. I quickly made some excuse, but apparently my companion had completely tuned out because he launched into the next part of the discussion as if nothing had happened! I cut him off pretty quick and told him we needed to go, now. When we finally got out of the apartment, I sat down on the top step and began to sob, and my companion looked down at me, amazed, and asked what happened — apparently he had no idea we were ever in any danger.

In any event, I’ve never gone door-to-door soliciting ever again.

CombatWombat @feddit.online 1d ago

You’re good people.

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CombatWombat @feddit.online 2d ago

I can’t find anything without a paywall on this one, but I wanted to say that this isn’t gonna make anything easier for the Torrent tonight.

CombatWombat @feddit.online 2d ago

Good for you! Take all the time you need — we can hold down the fort.

CombatWombat @feddit.online 2d ago

Brits’ll do anything to avoid using the metric system

CombatWombat @feddit.online 2d ago

Everyone's got a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

CombatWombat @feddit.online 2d ago

If the season had ten more games, would we have made the playoffs?

The Torrent have scored five goals in three of their last four games. That is almost a quarter of the 62 goals they scored all season up to this point. The team is producing and performing well at the right time for the draft

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CombatWombat @feddit.online 2d ago

Sure, I guess you could apply license fees for hunting permits on billionaires to conservation efforts if you insist.

CombatWombat @feddit.online 2d ago

I'm too soccer-brained, I took a beat before I realized you didn't mean the Vancouver Whitecaps. I'm not ready to give up hope for DC just yet

CombatWombat @feddit.online 2d ago

I think a big part of my comfort with describing it as a vast majority is because I have an expansive definition. From what I'm given to understand, most people think of a kinsey 1 as het and a kinsey 5 as gay, but those are both clearly bi for me

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CombatWombat @feddit.online 2d ago

How much time have you spent considering your sexuality, and when did you last consider it? I suspect a lot of people chose a sexuality a long time ago under significant social pressure and don't have a great memory of it because there was kind of a lot going on at the time.

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CombatWombat @feddit.online 2d ago

I mean, the guise we use for hunting is that it's for population control to properly conserve the environment. I suppose if you wanted to say there were some populations that needed controlling on environmental grounds, like billionaires or something, I might be amenable.