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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.

LOL who knew working out as fast as possible with shitty form could be a problem?

I don't understand what's wrong with liking a wrestler for whatever reason you like them, and wanting to see them succeed as opposed to being mired in fart and dick joke purgatory but that's just me. Is that the argument? That there's a class of fan who like certain wrestlers for the wrong reasons? Because tha's a ridiculous point of view.

That was my interpretation when I saw the first trailer. What's more indicative of this struggle than a yacht named "BeYachtCh?"

What is the spectrum of wrestling fans, from super hardcore to "casual," anyway? Is "hardcore" an Observer subscriber? Someone on this site? Someone on /r/squaredcircle? Someone who watches WWE and also New Japan and maybe some indies? Is someone who watches every WWE show and knows it's fake "hardcore?" I don't even know what we're talking about here. Regardless, I think that as entertainment becomes more and more narrowcasted and niche, with so many choices, the "hardcores" are all any entertainment endeavor may have left. What is a "casual" fan, anyway? Wrestling has always been a super niche product. Are there people who go from having zero interest in ever watching wrestling to actively watching, who then fall off later? I don't get it. With the stigma that comes from watching men in their underwear pretending to fight (Marty Sugar can only put me on ignore once for disrespecting fake fighting, so I don't care), does wrestling really create brand new fans that often? I mean, I suppose it does, but I don't exactly know how. If there's a point to this rambling (and, hopefully, entertaining) post, it's that wrestling companies should just cater to the people who actually like them instead of booking toward casuals. If there are people who may become fans, they'll just find something cool you're doing and decide to watch. To actively pursue an audience that most likely would never give you a chance is really dumb.

I love PWG's "screaming gorilla" design but I'd draw the line at wearing it as a jacket patch.

Problem with that is that WWE doesn't do nuance, and that kind of thing is required for storylines that reflect current events. Exhibit A: "We're two American-born men of Middle Eastern descent who are fed up with how our people have been portrayed since 9/11!" TITLE CARD: Two weeks later... "Alalalalalala death to American infidels! Where are my pointy toed boots and kaffiyeh!? Let's round up some dudes to do some clever gang attacks that look suspiciously like those beheading videos!"

The entire Tom Jones "Reload" album is kitschy, insincere bullshit. It was only enjoyed by shitty people who thought it was OMG SO RANDOM to hear an overrated Vegas lounge singer cover songs you never thought he would. It's Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine with none of the style, wit, or self awareness. Check out this cover of "Kiss." No feeling whatsoever, just karaoke being performed by a used car salesman.

It's obvious Renee's non-answer is because they have no clue how to reconcile a heel character who is IRL married to a babyface announcer, and no interest in dealing with it in any creative way.

Just thinking about what I wrote there...what is the consensus on how WWE writing works? I know that everything comes down to Vince in the end, but does he get down to the level of rewriting every single interaction on the show? Or are the writers just that bad? Or are they just so beaten down and good at knowing his tastes that they write in the exact way he would? The dialogue in that YouTube video comes off as speechifying at best and, at worst, like an alien trying to approximate human interaction. The delivery (essentially it's acting by people who are not actors) does it no favors, but this writing is Star Wars Prequels level bad. :18 seconds in is just cringeworthy. "Obviously I'm in a bit of a precarious situation with this...listen, no one is entitled to know what goes on behind closed doors between an husband and wife!" Who would say that, as opposed to, "it's none of your business?" Nobody, fired up and having a confrontation, speaks like this and it's fucking awful.

According to a magazine I was reading yesterday (remember those?) it's going to be called a "Buddi Doll." I mean, it's a cute reference to My Buddy, which Chucky was based on, but come on.

Wait wait does anyone here think that Renee/Graves thing is a shoot? Come on, my dudes. Just like with every pre-written promo, they're talking in a way that real people never talk. And their delivery, especially Renee's, is more wooden than an 18th century dildo.

Having to pretend to get multiple inoculations in your ass while a crazed septuagenarian cackles with delight off camera like he's Uncle Hank in Requiem for a Dream is enough to make any dude quit.

That's the crux of the whole thing -- listening to the chorus, quite literally at that, and never paying attention to the lyrics. Same the corny-ass Today Show plays Foreigner's "Cold As Ice" for winter weather forecasts.

It was something like this (spoliered for obvious reasons)

Jesus. These are horrifying. From Funko's new "Uncanny Valley" line, no doubt.

That was like 12 years or so ago, I think. I definitely don't have it but maybe I'll try to recreate it! I just tried to image search to see if it was online anywhere and it's not. But there IS an Urban Dictionary entry for it. That is fucking hilarious.

The high point of my entire time ever posting here is going to be "SIT ON THE DILDO BLENDER, TOUGH GUY" and my Duggan photoshop featuring ol' Hacksaw gripping said marital aid, isn't it?

Did the world really need an overearnest white girl coffeehouse cover of the fucking SAFETY DANCE? Because we got one.

I heard Eddy Grant's "Electric Avenue," a bright and sunny song about rioting in protest of poverty, racism, and unemployment, last night and it made me want to write this topic. What's your favorite example of songs that are constantly misused and misinterpreted? This might as well be called the "Born in the USA" or "Pink Houses" topic, but I didn't want to get political and, honestly, those two are easy targets we should just get out of the way from the jump. So what'cha got?

DDP is really missing the boat if his next infomercial doesn't tout this as a feature. "BRO! Arthur was a 450-pound shut-in who needed two canes to walk, bro! Now he's 185 pounds, can do parkour and sucks his own dick, bro!"