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It's gone now (thank you Jesus, and possibly Rippa), and I didn't touch any settings.

Two quick random things in no way related to ongoing discussion. ROH on Stadium: I'm a cord cutter who uses Sling for the majority of my TV. The only affiliates I get up here in the DC burbs are my local NBC and FOX stations, neither of which is owned by Sinclair, so I don't get ROH. Sling just added Stadium and Comet, both Sinclair channels. Stadium has "ROH wrestling" listed in their channel guide but no description. Does anyone know if these are new episodes, best-ofs, old episodes, what? A fun new expression! I listened to Cabana's latest podcast, a live one from the Jericho cruise. He had a quick sit down with the Briscoes and Mark, describing Jay's wrestling style, called him "stiff as a wedding dick." I laughed and laughed.

Is HHH pop culture aware enough to come out as dressed as Thanos for Mania?

When people bitch about how the mainstream views wrestling as classless, tacky, lowest common denominator garbage, look at what happened last night and you can understand why. A guy came back from leukemia. LUEKEMIA. And it was turned into a merchandising ploy and lame grab at heat in mere minutes. Vince is a horrible old time carny and he just can't help pandering to his most disgusting, cynical instincts. I mean you have a "women's revolution" going on but he won't stop his search for the next set of big tits with a blonde who can't work attached, because that's what he really wants. The rest is just a PR move performed under duress by a company dragged kicking and screaming into modern times. Any time this company does anything half decent, it steps on its own dick in service of its stuck in the 1970s owner. So don't blame non-fans who "just don't get it" for looking down on this usually-awful business. Blame its most visible steward who thinks he can Make Wrestling Great Again by taking it back to a time where any heat was good heat and the fans were just dumb rubes ready to be conned out of their last nickel, even if it means reducing a cancer survivor to just another gimmick.

If you're going to use a visual illustration of two guys wrestling, don't pick the one that looks like a guy giving a dude a hammerlock, reacharound, and finger in the butt.

Best to you @Cliff Hanger. It really sounds like you're dealing with this more rationally than she is. Talking about the "expectations of labels" after over three years is a little flaky, doubly so for acting like it never happened shortly thereafter. But who am I to judge? Everybody has a private war they're fighting. Be strong, my dude. Also, TIL about "double depression."

I guess I'll finally watch the Queen movie this weekend but, judging solely on the "can you believe this bullshit editing?" clip I saw last week, holy fuck is it insane that 1) this won best editing and 2) Malek won for best actor. The clip I saw had more unnecessary cuts than a Shield run-in and Malek came off like Austin Powers. The whole scene looked like it was written and shot by Tommy Wiseau. Maybe it'll be redeemed by seeing the whole film, but hearing about the movie's portrayal vs actual reality, I'm not hopeful. https://twitter.com/pramitheus/status/1089188260071514112/video/1

Our legal system at work. Jesus Christ.

Who's in the JTG spot, throwing his phone in the toilet and going on vacation?

Step one: DON'T CALL IT "BLACULA" ?

LOL I thought the same. He doesn't know his name, only knows him as "guy I got turgid over last week."

McMahon vs. Inoki - I went with McMahon. He killed the territories and is trying to do it again, promoted a lifestyle of travel, hard drugs, and steroids that killed a lot of guys, keeps his company running via shitty labor practices and loopholes, helped cover up Jimmy Snuka murdering his girlfriend, helped a certain orange con man/failed real estate developer stay in the public eye, actively wrecks his company's booking, the list goes on forever. Bischoff vs. Russo- Bischoff. Russo was a shitty writer who wrote shitty wrestling. Bischoff was a weak leader, so desperate to be one of the boys that he handed over the keys of the company to them, which led to WCW dying. There were a lot of other factors but Bischoff not leading properly and stepping on his dick the entire time got the ball rolling, turning wrestling in the US into a dull one-party system. Misawa vs. Onita- Have any high-profile garbage wrestlers died in the ring? Michaels vs. Hogan vs. Nash vs. HHH - I picked Hogan for being the poster boy for the lifestyle I mentioned in the McMahon writeup just up above. How many guys eventually died trying to be the next Hogan? Heyman vs. Lawler vs. Danzig vs. Rotten- I picked Heyman for the proliferation of a dangerous garbage style in the US. As @SorceressKnight said above, without Heyman, you have no Rotten or Zandig, and I can't think of any long term damage Lawler did to wrestling.

Both were stupid Abrams mystery boxes and I'm glad Johnson threw them out. Better to get rid of them than go into the third movie with them weighing down the plot and begging for a good resolution that you know won't be delivered.

Vince didn't fire him after refusing to drop every title he ever had, not doing jobs, showing up all kinds of fucked up on numerous occasions, and in general being a spoiled, difficult asswipe every step of the way. Austin or no Austin, if Vince hadn't fired Michaels by then, I doubt he ever would.

oh god why oh why did i scroll back up

The fact that "Misawa was bad for wrestling" is not as contentious a statement as @christopher.annino thought it would be gives me hope.

She was absolutely justified in doing that. Wrestling has a long history of sabotaging relationships via booking like this and Vince is a fucking sociopath. I have no doubt at all that he booked her to be with Ziggler just for shits and giggles to see what it might do with her real life relationship. If tipping off TMZ put the breaks on a dumb angle essentially designed to fuck with performers' real lives, good.

Exactly! As long as Gilligan and company are working on it, it's pretty much a slam dunk. Who knew a series about the sleazy lawyer would turn out so amazing?

He has returned (as He has been known to do) to get his dad's heat back after His losing effort with Shawn against the McMahons.

LOOOOL one of the biggest bigots I used to know would frequently cheat on his girlfriend (later wife) hooking up with black girls in the club. So I have firsthand knowledge that this is factually inaccurate. There's all kinds of cognitive dissonance and mental gymnastics going on when your dick is involved in the decision making process. Also, fucking someone from the group you hate is obviously some racists' kink.

What's the over/under on how many indy workers were named "Chris Michaels" and "Suicide Kid" back then? Notice they had to specify the territory of the ranked versions.

That's what happens when it's 4 degrees and snowy/icy one week and 60 the next.

Meltzer mentioned this morning that Fox is already hedging its bets. I can't remember the exact wording but the gist is that a Fox exec said that Smackdown on Fridays would be "short term" or something. See, Fox picked up SD to get guaranteed ratings on what is traditionally a soft night. Well now Fox has some Friday night shows doing really well so they're having second thoughts. I forget the numbers, but SD would be either 1/4 or 1/2 the ratings of these shows.

Every damn time someone refers to the European Union by their initials, all I can think of is Da Butt. And yes, I guess we shouldn't be speaking in code...this movie feels like exactly what you said. From the first shot of the first trailer, where the song starts and the main guys says in "this is a great song" in the squarest way and his voice sounds like the voice Eddie uses when imitating white guys, and the mother has to teach the son about the rhythm of the song (he should automatically have rhythm, right??), then you see their all-white group of friends, and they're hanging out in a yacht....jesus. This absolutely feels like a battle between conflicting views of "blackness."

Not celiac, just wanting to sample the offerings...I've tried New Belgium's Glutiny and two of Omissions's beers (I forget which two). They're not too bad, but I get where you're coming from. Not a lot of selection out there. On the "how's it going" front, I did my taxes and I'm pretty pissed that a Republican tax act passed in 2017 made my refund drop by a few thousand. Aside from that, I can't complain.