New Lynah scoreboard

[French Rage]

I don't care for Lynah having bathrooms.  Back in the days of Beebe Lake we just went in the woods.  Now kids have to have fancy urinals with fancy corporate urinal cakes in them.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

I don't care for Lynah having bathrooms.  Back in the days of Beebe Lake we just went in the woods.  Now kids have to have fancy urinals with fancy corporate urinal cakes in them.

You need bathrooms.  Where else would you hide the chickens?

[Scersk '97]

I don't care for Lynah having bathrooms.  Back in the days of Beebe Lake we just went in the woods.  Now kids have to have fancy urinals with fancy corporate urinal cakes in them.

You're right. Those socialist, free bathrooms? What a waste! Better to monetize them.

We should have screens above the urinals, obviously. And why not add ear-splitting advertisements, preferably with soulless techno: "This bathroom brought to you by Shortline! We gooooooooooo the distance!"

Those moments when I'm not sold to or exhorted to "just do it?" Man, I don't like them. I end up contemplating the emptiness of my existence. And that doesn't make me want to buy anything...

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

I don't care for Lynah having bathrooms.  Back in the days of Beebe Lake we just went in the woods.  Now kids have to have fancy urinals with fancy corporate urinal cakes in them.

You're right. Those socialist, free bathrooms? What a waste! Better to monetize them.

We should have screens above the urinals, obviously. And why not add ear-splitting advertisements, preferably with soulless techno: "This bathroom brought to you by Shortline! We gooooooooooo the distance!"

Those moments when I'm not sold to or exhorted to "just do it?" Man, I don't like them. I end up contemplating the emptiness of my existence. And that doesn't make me want to buy anything...

Apparently you haven't been to an NHL or AHL arena recently.  You can be sure there will be ads above the urinals.

[redice]

I don't care for Lynah having bathrooms.  Back in the days of Beebe Lake we just went in the woods.  Now kids have to have fancy urinals with fancy corporate urinal cakes in them.

You're right. Those socialist, free bathrooms? What a waste! Better to monetize them.

We should have screens above the urinals, obviously. And why not add ear-splitting advertisements, preferably with soulless techno: "This bathroom brought to you by Shortline! We gooooooooooo the distance!"

Those moments when I'm not sold to or exhorted to "just do it?" Man, I don't like them. I end up contemplating the emptiness of my existence. And that doesn't make me want to buy anything...

Apparently you haven't been to an NHL or AHL arena recently.  You can be sure there will be ads above the urinals.

And, sometimes inside the urinals...

[RichH]

Agree with BearLover - looking forward to watching replays

Bleh. You can watch replays when you get home.

I mean, there's already proof of what happens when you construct a video board by observing the crowd at Schoellkopf. As soon as the whistle blows, about 2900 heads will instinctively snap to that end of the ice to watch whatever visual noise/activity gets put on the TV. Most of our society are already conditioned to doing that. The fans will be quieter: There's less incentive to start chants and cheers, or even discuss the play with your neighbor when there's a digital babysitter. I'm fully expecting that he "buzz" level of Lynah will be even more reduced. They'll crank up the sound when they play the "BUY TICKETS TO RED HOT HOCKEY" commercials and take away more time from the band/cowbell/students. And by October of next year, more than half of the student sections will only know Lynah with a glowing TeeVee directing and commanding most of their attention.

I simply don't trust Andy's minions to show restraint with the new money-printing toy.

[Trotsky]

Agree with BearLover - looking forward to watching replays

Bleh. You can watch replays when you get home.

I mean, there's already proof of what happens when you construct a video board by observing the crowd at Schoellkopf. As soon as the whistle blows, about 2900 heads will instinctively snap to that end of the ice to watch whatever visual noise/activity gets put on the TV. Most of our society are already conditioned to doing that. The fans will be quieter: There's less incentive to start chants and cheers, or even discuss the play with your neighbor when there's a digital babysitter. I'm fully expecting that he "buzz" level of Lynah will be even more reduced. They'll crank up the sound when they play the "BUY TICKETS TO RED HOT HOCKEY" commercials and take away more time from the band/cowbell/students. And by October of next year, more than half of the student sections will only know Lynah with a glowing TeeVee directing and commanding most of their attention.

I simply don't trust Andy's minions to show restraint with the new money-printing toy.

As usual Rich puts things more diplomatically than I.

Lynah has been the closest there is to a church for me, and hitherto it's escaped the worst of our shit-for-brains consumerist killing jar culture.  If and when it dies it will be just one more corpse plowed under by the greedy idiocy that infects our public spaces.

When I build my time machine it won't be to kill Hitler but David Ogilvy.

[Scersk '97]

We should have screens above the urinals, obviously. And why not add ear-splitting advertisements, preferably with soulless techno: "This bathroom brought to you by Shortline! We gooooooooooo the distance!"

Apparently you haven't been to an NHL or AHL arena recently.  You can be sure there will be ads above the urinals.

Actually, the visual ad creep doesn't bug me that much; indeed, I've chuckled at more than a few over-urinal ads. I can look at them or ignore them.

But audio ad creep and audio intrusions (like "Jock Jams" shoved into every stoppage) make me want to tear out patch cables and kick over amps. The idiots who think "it's just one short ad" or that they're "giving the people what they want" don't seem to realize that what they're actually doing is suppressing crowd involvement. And none of us can just "ignore them." That's not the way our ears work.

It's all anti-human.

[Cop at Lynah]

Unconfirmed rumor that the new scoreboard has already been damaged.  Apparently they didn't have the protective barriers up and it got smacked by a puck.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Unconfirmed rumor that the new scoreboard has already been damaged.  Apparently they didn't have the protective barriers up and it got smacked by a puck.

Schadenfreude.

[Trotsky]

We should have screens above the urinals, obviously. And why not add ear-splitting advertisements, preferably with soulless techno: "This bathroom brought to you by Shortline! We gooooooooooo the distance!"

Apparently you haven't been to an NHL or AHL arena recently.  You can be sure there will be ads above the urinals.

Actually, the visual ad creep doesn't bug me that much; indeed, I've chuckled at more than a few over-urinal ads. I can look at them or ignore them.

But audio ad creep and audio intrusions (like "Jock Jams" shoved into every stoppage) make me want to tear out patch cables and kick over amps. The idiots who think "it's just one short ad" or that they're "giving the people what they want" don't seem to realize that what they're actually doing is suppressing crowd involvement. And none of us can just "ignore them." That's not the way our ears work.

It's all anti-human.

Exactly so.

If you are the least bit on the spectrum audio advertising is a human rights violation.

Not only does it ruin everything outside your head, it makes it impossible to think coherently inside your head.  It's Harrison Bergeron.

[Scersk '97]

If you are the least bit on the spectrum audio advertising is a human rights violation.

Oh, I'd say a great many of us are at least a bit on the spectrum...

[Cop at Lynah]

Make that two times the scoreboard has been hit with a puck and damaged

[Trotsky]

Make that two times the scoreboard has been hit with a puck and damaged

It's a start.

[ugarte]

Make that two times the scoreboard has been hit with a puck and damaged

It's a start.

i know it's still the preseason but i really hope shooting accuracy is a point of emphasis going forward