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  1. Is Kincaid the guy from Appalachia?  That's an interesting dude and I wish he'd won the Top Prospect Tournament instead of another 5'3" 130lb tiny tiny flippy guy.  There is literally nothing interesting or new about they guy who won, who is so ho-hum that I honestly can't remember his name right now despite having asked about him in the ROH thread yesterday.

  2. 19 minutes ago, caley said:

    I'm particularly fond of the WWE's current "Well, I'm not sure how to explain this..eh go ahead and do it anyways" writing style.  

    [Inside WWE writers room]

    "This whole Undertaker thing has kind of backed us into the corner.  If Undertaker loses, he looks weak losing to a non-wrestler and can't return.  If Shane loses, we can't have him kayfabe run Raw after.  I don't know what to do."

    Yeah, that's what happens when you pull a desperation angle out of your ass, pile on nonsensical stips in a sad attempt to heat it up more, then run it in a vacuum.  You end up just pretending it didn't happen once it's done.

    I'm still trying to understand the following:

    Why did Shane agree to a match in the first place?  He already had blackmail material on Vince so what leverage did Vince have on him to make him work the match?  That makes zero sense.
     

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    Shane: I have something on you, so just hand over Raw or else.

    Vince: I'll hand over Raw but first you must wrestle.......The Undertaker! (tm Teddy Long)

    Shane: Um, no.  That's not how blackmail works.

     

    There was some sort of intimation in Shane's return promo that he was still in power and was above Triple H and Steph, but that was quickly forgotten about.  WTF?

    Why did Undertaker fight for Vince? 

    Why, if the company was on the line, did everybody else in the company treat this storyline like it wasn't happening?

    Why did the match not have 8-12 run-ins like everybody thought it would?

  3. 14 minutes ago, Cristobal said:

    What was even the point of the Taker match?

    Nothing at all.  They just needed another big match for Mania.  Vince is lazy, unimaginative and has no faith in anybody from this generation so that was they best they could come up with.  We should have known, when HHH and Steph were nowhere to be seen -- in an angle where their jobs were supposedly on the line -- that nothing was going to come of this.  I mean come the fuck on.  It was an angle where the entire future of the company was at stake and nobody outside the principles involved with it even talked about it.  Damn.  It was a hotshot angle that existed in a parallel universe and had nothing to do with the existing storylines.

  4. They'd need to make Smackdown totally different from Raw to make it a better show.  It's can't just be a Raw Lite, meaningless two hours of programming because Raw is already too god damn long as it is.  The brand split/different titles ideas are great but they should change the look, too.

    I remember hearing from either Court Bauer or Alex Greenfield on a podcast talking about how they proposed back in the day for Smackdown to be a totally different show like this, complete with a different director, producer and crew.  There was initial agreement from Vince but he changed his mind and somehow it was shot down.  I don't know how, but it just didn't get dunn.  I mean done.  Sorry for the typo.

  5. On 4/10/2016 at 8:58 PM, muhammedboehm said:

    Purely using rotten tomatoes scoring 

    Jackson 29 

    Caine 13

    Streep 5

    Never mind total miss read the previous post I blame my phone 

    Michael Caine doesn't give a shit.  Is the weather nice where they're shooting?  Do I have bills to pay or somethign big and nice I'd like to buy?  I'm there.

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    “I have never seen (Jaws: The Revenge), but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.”

     

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  6. 7 hours ago, caley said:

    That video is amazing.  "We're representing Will Smith because we get jiggy...wiggy".  I also love that it's a 4:19 video and about two minutes are just the entrances.  You also have to give credit to Public Enemy for doing a table spot in a 2:00 minute match in front of very few people in the pouring rain.

    2-3 posts in a row mentioned bands and wrestlers, so forgive my confusion as I imagined Chuck D powerbombing a dude through a  table

     

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  7. 1 hour ago, JonnyLaw said:

    I too hate when other fans' enjoyment of a match lessens my enjoyment of a match.

    I take it you're cool with the people sitting near you talking through a movie, too.  After all, why should you care if that's how they personally enjoy it?

    For me, the reaction of the live crowd is part of the show.  It's more exciting to watch a great match if the live crowd is reacting along with it.  So a bunch of ignorant chucklefucks singing through a  match for their own amusement kind of brings things down a notch. 

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  8. Oh holy shit that is fucking amazing. 

    Speaking of...if the interviewer does ask a wacky outside the box question like those listed here, feel free to choke them the fuck out.  Drag their unconscious body to the HR office, explain what happened.  Any company worth a damn will hire you on general principle.

  9. Oh I do, too.  Job interviews are just a bullshit game and everybody knows it.  The key is really to just not say anything that would disqualify you and to be personable enough that they think you can get along.

  10. And the answer to that is something the lines of "hopefully here, advancing my career to the next level and contributing...I hope you find me to be a valuable addition."  Put it in your own words, smile, try to sound natural, not like you're reading a script on Raw.  This is the place where you're telling them you want to stay, conform and contribute, even if you don't mean it...not where you talk about your lifelong dream of eventually quitting work to raise llamas.

    A company wants someone who is good and who will stick around so they don't have to go through this hiring bullshit again.  Last guy I hired, we only had 3 applicants who could even get to the interview stage.  So yeah, make them think you're that guy who will be there in 5 years.  If you have any answer to any question contradicts that narrative, like "I may be going back to school in a year," just lie.

  11. In all seriousness, Meltzer is the closest, most credible thing wrestling has to a journalist.  On a note related to your post, stay away from the "talk" tab in the Mania 3 Wikipedia page.  Or read it next March Madness to put things in perspective when you think some of us are getting a little ridiculous.

  12.  

    9 minutes ago, The Natural said:

    I'd go higher on the Triple Threat match. Dave was generous with his Street Fight ratings.

     

    You can say that again.  On a five-star scale, 2.5 is average and that Taker/Shane match was certainly below average.  Spot, lay around, spot, lay around, rinse, repeat.  Thank God and Jesus and Mr. McMahon for the 'skip ahead 10 seconds" button.

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  13. I saw a vapid news story a few days ago about job interviews that really pissed me off.  It was about goofy questions interviewers ask, like "how many basketballs do you think could fit in this room?" and other wacky~! "outside the box" questions.

    As someone who has been on both sides of the interview table, I hate shit like this.  It comes off like the interviewer thinks he's clever and is having some fun at the expense of someone who wants, maybe desperately needs, a job.  Christ, have some fucking empathy. 

    Guys looking for jobs: if you're in front of an interviewer, odds are your resume matches what they need.  At this rate, you just need to prove you're a guy they'd like to work with and not fuck up the interview.  Just prep for standard job interview questions, try to anticipate what they might ask about your experience, and be enthusiastic about the job -- I got my first job in my current field based on lies and enthusiasm.  Once you're in the room, unless they're just huge assholes, you just have to prove your resume isn't bullshit and that you have a personality that meshes with theirs.

    That was some rambling shit but I want to say good luck, my dudes.

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  14. Apparently the Trip & Steph S&M Swingers Club/Skeleton Army (featuring masks from Silver Shamrock) was:

    Itami

    Dash & Dawson

    Chad Gable

    Chris Girard

    Blake & Murphy

    Enzo

    The Drifter

    Drake Wuertz & 2 other refs

    I need a sequel to last year's Wrestlemania 24 Itami special where we follow Hideo all day to culminate in that dumb bullshit

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