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  1. I can't stop thinking about how, in his 14th minute of fame, MC Hammer tried to segue to G Funk with a song about shoe fetishes.
  2. Whenever I read “ducking,” I always assume someone’s phone auto-corrected “fucking.” Which just makes this weird.
  3. For me, John Wick 1 is like Dexter season 4: It's better to pretend they stopped there.
  4. I just saw Danhausen, Hook, and Darby figs at my local Wal Mart yesterday.
  5. Just re-reading this, I'm still smiling and shaking my head. Vince spent his whole career trying to portray himself as something bigger and more legitimate than what he actually was. He wasn't a wrestling promoter. He was a producer of entertainment. He wasn't a carny who ran a successful carny small business, who was then able to go public and get even bigger. He was a respectable big businessman who should have been looked at the same as we view any other CEO. And then he went head to head with the real deal and got treated like a chump in one month.
  6. I'm totally cool with a squash. I grew up on Wrestling Challenge and WWF Superstars. I'll gladly watch Ricky Ataki get his ass whopped in 1:30. What I don't need is something like Juice Robinson vs older than me Chris Daniels in a two seg JTTS match that's just there to eat up time on TV. If your TV is short squashes and meaningful matches, that's cool. It's the in-between matches, where there's no story, no doubt to what the finish will be, and it goes long, that I just can't deal with.
  7. It's amazing. To summarize: Vince is removed from power because he's a rapist Vince muscles his way back in by holding any potential sale hostage Vince decides to sell to Endeavor because Ari promises to let him stay in creative A month after the ink is dry, Vince is removed from creative It's awesome that the "I'll owe you one, pal" guy, who built a career on empty promises, ends his career on someone else's empty promise. The "secure the bag" crowd will say "at least he got paid," but that wasn't what Vince wanted. He specifically maneuvered for his position in creative and he got out-carnied. Reminds me of Kanye getting fucked over by Nike. That's what happens when "rich" gets into a showdown with "wealthy." It feels good to see it. Not that I'm one to root for any corporation or billionaire. But in this specific case, where a detestable small time carny finally got his comeuppance, I'm cool with it.
  8. Too many people get hung up on worry over regretting a tattoo or “omg I need to find something super meaningful!!” Just find something that looks cool and go for it. If you’re worried, get it someplace easy to cover with clothes. So no Cody type stuff.
  9. Need to add "No Easy Way Out" and "Burning Heart," both superior tracks from Rocky IV, IMO, to that playlist. I ran 8.5 miles today. Was seriously considering stretching it to 10 for a personal best but I had to get back home in time for a meeting. Love that hybrid work environment.
  10. One would say that Brian Adams crushed your hopes of a Summer of 69.
  11. That was a rough episode. Six matches, four are glorified job matches, and the main ends in a screwy finish. Remember when WWE was the only place that booked matches where it was clear that creative was like, "uh oh...how do we get out of this one?" I hope this is an aberration and AEW can get back to just booking winners and losers. I'm not a wresting matches for wrestling matches' sake guy. I'm not going to eat up JTTS matches just for the love of wrestling. If I were, I'd still be subbed to ROH. All that being said, I did watch Mack vs Joe because Willie Mack is awesome. I typically FFWD Joe matches because he's dull and predictable and "badass man who is badass and beats people up very badass" is passe for me. But Mack has a fun character and is entertaining. I'm probably the only person in the world who would say "Willie Mack made Samoa Joe watchable" but that's fine. Statlander/Skye was easily the match of the night. I agree with everyone here who said that Edge cutting a promo on Starks that legit buried him was awful. So either he beats a vanilla midget wannabe Rock, or a vanilla midget wannabe Rock beats him. That's fucking dumb, and "don't bury your opponents because either way you get fucked in the end" is first day of wrestling school stuff. I did like the two segment setup and playoff of CJ/Action/Miro. Bullet Club Gold abandoning the antisemitic gimmick was smart. This was a two hour Rampage and I did not like it. And next week we get Collision AND Battle of the Belts. Fuuuuuuck.
  12. Are you me? I've had this exact same thought many times. Dude had six gimmicks under the same name, which is insane. Hitting the tilt-a-whirl in Wrestlefest was always a highlight.
  13. The only time I experienced horrible pain from tattooing is from the big piece I have on the inside of my upper right arm -- if that phrasing is unclear, I mean the part of the arm under the armpit. The skin there is so tender, I would absolutely not recommend it. The weirdest feeling I ever had was when I was getting my right shoulder tattooed and the guy hit bone and it vibrated down my shoulder blade. But yeah, as long as you're getting it in a meaty place, you should be fine.
  14. For me, it was realizing that Nash is always the smartest guy in the room and that it's really not worth listening to an hour or so for two nuggets of genuinely interesting stuff. Worse than that was how Sean Oliver skeeves me the fuck out. He has this Howard Stern hanger-on vibe, like Sal the Stockbroker. He tries too hard to be "one of the boys" and says cringeworthy shit like asking Nash about "banging rats," and comes off as such a wannabe.
  15. Brian Cage is really good in his role as a big guy who's going to do a lot of shit, but still unselfishly bumps and sells like a motherfucker for guys smaller than him (which is everybody). Gunn actively brings down The Acclaimed for me. Or maybe The Acclaimed is just fair to middling anyway, but Gunn takes them from "passable team" to "just a gimmick" territory. Instead of being begrudgingly fine in two on two matches, they're a gimmick vehicle for Gunn.
  16. Reminds me of Caprice always saying THAT'S IT, RICCABONI, I PROMISE YOU THAT! He's correct 99% of the time, so it feels like he knows the finish already and we're in a "Russo predicts the Rumble winner" situation.
  17. That was a dumb post by MJF. Like you said, he shouldn't have brought up the story in the first place. Yes, it's his story, not a gimmick like Mohammad Hassan, but it's also the story of millions of other marginalized people and it shouldn't be cheapened by being used in a wrestling angle. This isn't an author or filmmaker using their lives' tales of antisemitism for books or films, respectively. Unlike other entertainment forms, wrestling has always been lowbrow and cannot be trusted to deal with heavy subjects with the dignity they deserve. This is why we should not do angles on racism, rape, domestic assault, antisemitism, and the like. Wrestling has never proven it can do this stuff justice and it always ends up being crass. I'd love for that to change but, in an artform where any complex conflict must always come down to guys in their underwear pretending to fight, I don't see how it ever will.
  18. Yeah, this feels a lot like the time Human Tornado told Excalibur it would be fine to call him the N-word in a promo. Like just because MJF was in on the angle doesn’t make it less boneheaded.
  19. Yep, it was the finish to the first blood match at Starrcade 86. Fun psychology in the match as Dusty bloodied JJ with the Bionic Elbow right at the start, teaching us that Tully had to avoid it at all costs. The only drawback was that, since JJ played into the finish, he had to hang out and manage Tully for the rest of the match with a bloody face.
  20. I'm laughing at the term "INFAMOUS Wednesday night wars~!" If it's infamous for NXT losing almost every week, resulting in HHH getting demoted and NXT being taken over and turned into a technicolor cartoon Vince fantasy, then yes, quite infamous.
  21. You're correct in your rememberings. No idea what this goof is going on about. Then again, this kid is only in the spotlight now because he's got Punk's arm up his ass.
  22. I guess WWE finally finished the stack of prep school yearbooks and have moved on to stealing names from strippers.
  23. I’m not epileptic but WWE production makes me completely understand epilepsy. I know I tend toward hyperbole in my writing but that shit legit overwhelms me.
  24. I'm the opposite (but also old)...I haven't watched WWE in years, but if it's on TV and I take a peek, the onslaught of bright colors and constant motion drives me away. It's just too much. It feels like a wrestling show taking place inside a Dave and Buster's inside a Chuck E. Cheese's. For a couple of "old school pros," FTR sure did booboo face their way through their opening promo. Fletcher/Danielson was so good! But yeah, I had to rewind that tope because that boy nearly died. If the Iron Savages lean any further into this new gimmick, they'll start carrying jam and syrup to the ring. Riccaboni >>>>>>>> (infinity) >>>>>>>> Qanon-ass Kevin Kelley Caster stealing/paraphrasing Ice Cube's "I'm Utah, I got multiple bitches" line. Eddie vs Komander was a little sloppy but Eddie made it work through sheer force of will. JR talks his size queen bullshit about a dude's physique so it must be a day that ends in a Y. That arena was empty as fuck. More black drape than a funeral.
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