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Mr. PortnoyMr. Portnoy

I am currently on a hot streak of fixing things around the house

For 42 and a half of those years, I couldn't fix anything. But all of a sudden, in the last year or so, I got hot. I was touching things, and instead of breaking them, I was fixing them. And I even amazed myself.

This is a personal anecdotal claim that his wife immediately disputes by saying he only changed a lightbulb.

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Void
Apr 14, 2017
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Overtime hockey is the worst experience in sports when your team is playing

You know what else is bad is overtime hockey when your team is in it. If another person's team is in it, it's great... But when it's your team, you just want to eat a gun.

The stress of overtime hockey is a well-documented sentiment among NHL fanbases.
Loss
Apr 14, 2017
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

There is no such thing as home ice advantage in the NHL playoffs

You know what I don't like about playoff hockey is that there's basically no home ice advantage. It doesn't exist. The ice is the same everywhere you go.

Statistically, home teams do win at a higher rate in the NHL playoffs, but PFT is arguing the physical environment doesn't change.
Win
Apr 14, 2017
#15187
Big CatBig Cat

The Bulls will give the Celtics a good series in the first round

I think the Bulls are going to give the Celtics a really good series.

The Bulls famously took a 2-0 lead as the 8th seed before losing the series 4-2 following a Rondo injury. The series was much more competitive than predicted.

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Mr. PortnoyMr. Portnoy

Late-night TV news commercials for products like CarShield are frauds

When I see them up there, those products are fraud... I mean, they wouldn't be advertising there if they weren't a fraud. I have an occasional check with the FTC site and the Better Business Bureau to see various of these companies have all sorts of consumer complaints against them. And what a shock!

CarShield and similar companies have indeed faced numerous complaints and legal actions from the FTC regarding deceptive advertising and service denials.
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Mr. PortnoyMr. Portnoy

If a commercial starts by saying 'this is not a scam,' it's probably a scam

When they started with the reverse mortgages... the ad started with a sentence: 'This is not a scam.' I mean, that was the furthest thing from my mind until he put it in my head that this might be a scam. Why are they saying it's legit? It never occurred to me that it's not, but now I'm going to start to investigate it.

While logically sound in terms of consumer skepticism, it remains an opinion on marketing rhetoric.
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Mr. PortnoyMr. Portnoy

The New York Times was desperate for Alex Cooper to say something negative about Barstool Sports

It was obvious to me... that the New York Times was salivating to get [Alex Cooper] to say something that would be damaging to Barstool. And she didn't. They couldn't resist getting [the sidebar about Dave Portnoy] in there.

The editorial intent of a publication is inherently subjective and cannot be definitively proven.

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