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Shit, I didn't notice that but you're exactly right. (one of the only SFW pics)

I seriously thought that was Vince when I saw the Youtube preview image.

Of course not. Aside from 50/50 booking making that impossible, WWE can't hold off on a hot angle for a few months, let alone years.

Motherfuckers act like they forgot about Angle

It's awesome that ROH is giving us wrestling's first "self-hating closet butch gay vs out flamboyant gay" feud. I hope we get vignettes of Silas trying to teach The Boys stereotypically butch manly things like woodworking, car repair, drinking Coors Light, voting Republican, etc., only to be stymied at each turn, until he gives up and embraces his true nature. I want Dalton Castle and leather daddy Silas Young making a run at the tag titles.

The odds of success in any creative field are so slight nowadays, man, and I applaud your choice to join us working joes. As I get older, I see all entertainment industries becoming so homogenized that there's really no room or even a desire for creativity or fresh voices. The money people in music, film, literature, etc have become so risk averse that they will only bet on a sure thing most of the time. So unless you're writing another teen dystopian YA novel or a 50 Shades ripoff, the odds of making a real career in writing are so slim, it's laughable. Ditto music, TV, etc. Nobody wants "the first" something, the just want "the next..." They already have people shoveling exactly the crap that needs to be made to get their expected ROI, why do they need anyone else? TLDR version: there's no more money in entertainment so good on ya. Make cash at a job you're not emotionally-invested in, then spend it on enjoying life.

I've mentioned it here before, but I second your love of Banshee. I thought the long, visceral, They Live-style fights that highlight nearly every episode would get old. They didn't. I posted a video of it a while back but the fight between Nola and Clay was incredible. It's not just all the fighting and fucking, though. The plot is insane and well-written and even the secondary characters, like the reformed neo-nazi who joins the police force ("I realize my appearance my be unsettling..."), are awesome. The show is seriously addicting. It's sad that the fourth season will be the last but I'm positive it's going to be great.

I'm not sure if anyone here watches Ray Donovan but it's turned into a pretty nice religious allegory. I don't mean the storyline with the priest; I mean the battle for Bunchy's soul, between the luncha girl who threw away his jorts and his father who just wants help beating up Armenian gangsters.

To keep the Matthew Lillard love going, here's another seriously great interview with him discussing a bunch of his roles, going from playing teens to playing an adult, and feeding his family for 10 years by playing Shaggy. If you haven't watched The Bridge, he was really great in that show.

Vince was right when he said, "Tell Sabu I said fuck Sabu."

When you see it, you will... When did Batista take his hip hop tour to Barclay's?

I thought it was okay-ish. Definitely a slow, "table-setting" episode. I like that, because of the long-form narrative that TV offers, we can get to see the world slowly unravel instead of having to join things after everything has already gone to shit, as we see in zombie movies. Things are falling apart exactly as they really would. We wouldn't go from normal to *BOOM* streetfuls of zombies; it would happen slowly, right under our noses, unnoticed or disregarded until it was too late. That being said, if it didn't have the built-in Walking Dead goodwill, they definitely wouldn't have had the leeway to make a pilot episode that was so slow.

I must be an outlier. I've had multiple MRIs in my life and actually found them quite relaxing.

Why is Face Fuck Me Girl cosplaying Mario? My boner is so confused right now.

Careful about asking these questions. I've read people complaining about the existence of: One very minor Middle Eastern character One normal gay relationship One quick instance of explicit gay sex as evidence that the show is pushing a liberal agenda on us. There are people out there watching TV who see anything outside of their acceptable norm (white male hetero characters) as evidence that Librul Hollywood is trying to indoctrinate us.

The Baltimore GAB crowds. Those are the pinnacle of crowds IMO. You're welcome!

The best description for this, which I think I read on Deadspin, was that Snyder and the Shanahans treated him like a little kid treats a toy car he gets on Christmas morning. Just play with it like crazy and run it all over the house until it breaks. They had next to zero concern for this guy and his health in his one good season. He was playing an insane style that was destined to lead to injury and nobody told him to try something different because it was too fun and got the team some positive attention and success for once. He was absolutely the fun new toy for a shitty organization that usually never sees Christmas and doesn't know how to act. As you said, they ran him into the ground. I remember the play where he first injured his leg, doing some weird-ass twisting dive with one leg up in the air, instead of just sliding, against Haloti Ngata. Why wasn't he coached not to do that and to instead slide properly, especially when someone three times your size is bearing down? Nobody on the Skins gave a shit as long as he was winning and grabbing headlines. They ruined this kid's career and now the team and its awful fans are acting like it's his fault. I'm split on his personality. Part of me thinks he's a stupid toolbag who speaks in bumper sticker cliches and Under Armor slogans. Part of me thinks, fuck it, hes an NFL QB, and a young one at that, and that's the perfect combination for this kind of dumb behavior so I can't blame him. If you choose to see it as arrogance instead of the youthful cluelessness of a guy who got too much too fast and was never told no, then you dislike him because he has no right to be so cocky considering where his career is.

In some alternate universe, Music Sting talked Wrestling Sting into sitting in for a set with the Police, only for the band to turn on Wrestling Sting and beat him down halfway through "Everything She Does is Magic."

There is a wrestling aspect to Trump's success, I think. It really is a matter of being "good on the mic." He just talks, like, normal. Free and easy. He jokes around like a normal person. He says things like, "Hey, did you see Fallon last night? Funny guy, kind of an idiot, but whatevah." There's a wrestling aspect to his success but I disagree with your assertion that it's his ability to speak plainly. Rather, the wrestling aspect is his ability to use cheap heat. He's just going out there and saying the most outlandish, chauvinistic and racist shit possible to 1) get coverage from the press and 2) get the support of the worst part of the Republican base, the angry white guys and dumb yokels too stupid or blinded by hate to know they're being worked. I'd commend him for exposing our awful political system for the carny shitshow it is, but now his act is just getting dangerous and irresponsible. A few days ago, two clearly well-informed Republican voters in Boston assaulted and pissed on a homeless Latino while ranting about how Trump is right about these immigrants. Trump took no responsibility and just said the two were "passionate' about wanting America to be great again. So yeah, Trump is a heel getting cheap heat and then sneaking out the back door when the riot starts and the marks burn down the arena.

She's had it for a while. It's only noticeable because she was quite slim for while. She's not fat by any means, but she's gained weight. Could be for any number of reasons. No one is fat-shaming her. Nope, we're just discussing her "gut" and whether or not her shorts still fit. That's much better than fat shaming. Vast improvement. We've come so far. (For the record, i was unaware that she had a "gut' or "had" to change shorts.) Funny, I thought the whole conversation about her "gut" was meant to be a sarcastic dig about WWE's image-conscious ways. Nobody here is seriously looking at Paige going from 105 to 110 like, "woah, slow down on the Monster Thickburgers, lardass!"

An oldie but a goodie

Probably all of them since "they dominate every other sport" (tm Watts).

Team McD

Page must be road buddies with Kevin Owens.

I've been to a great deal of live wrestling but in very few buildings: Baltimore Arena over multiple name changes. It's amazing it's been there since 1962. The old Capitol Center for whatever 90s Survivor Series was there Verizon Center (Starrcade 97) Philadelphia National Guard Armory for the ROH show with the Kobashi Joe Ki Homicide tag. Basketball City in NY for whatever ROH show had Danielson & Joe vs KENTA & Marufuji The minor league baseball stadium in Frederick, MD, whose name escapes me. WWE used to go there every Summer until it rained one year 2-3 matches in and they had to cancel the show and come back in September to make good. A few tiny places somewhere in the Baltimore area, probably converted grocery stores, for some local sleazy indies back in the day. I did get to see King Kahlua vs Tom Brandi! Yay. The Clarence Du Burns "arena" where ROH did a bunch of tapings when they first got on Sinclair. I guess I'd say the Baltimore Arena was the best purely for nostalgia reasons. You name any legend from the late 70s and on and I probably saw him there live. I was there for everything from the Bunkhouse Stampede shows to Attitude-era Raws. I even saw Bruno's last match there, teaming with Hogan against Gang & Bundy. The minor league stadium was also awesome due to the cool atmosphere of seeing big name wrestling outdoors at a small venue like that. The main of one of the shows was Benoit defending the title against HHH and we had seats on the field itself. The Du Burns arena was fun because I knew an employee who got me in free and also because the bathrooms were in the same hallway as the locker room, so you'd always run into wrestlers when going to take a leak. Worst would probably be the Verizon Center. We were a few rows from the very top of the arena and it was just awful. Definitely one of those "vertical" arenas where everything above lower concourse just sucks.