Technico Support

You can support family, friends, even yourself, and still “other” the fuck out of everyone else. “One of the good ones,” “I have black friends,” etc.

I know we all get wrapped up in the fun gimmick of "Hogan lusted after Elizabeth!" but in actuality, the Hogan/Savage angle was an awesome story. When I rewatched it, I noticed it's a real tragedy. Hogan the character was completely innocent. It was Savage who couldn't get out of his own paranoia-filled head and who threw away their friendship. It's probably the deepest thing McMahon ever accidentally stumbled upon. Now Hogan the person, IRL? That dude derailed Savage's reign and little brothered the fuck out of him (matching red and yellow and Real American at SummerSlam? Fuck outta here).

These jabroni ingrates are making noise about unionizing, dude. Well not on my watch, brother! -Much love, HH

And for some people, it's all they have going for them/a source of false self esteem. I work in IT. I worked once with a guy who was a short, frail nerd, balding already in his 20s. All that is just whatever, who cares, but he had a terrible personality to boot. Just a massive wiseass and know-it-all. He was hugely into guns, most likely because it was the only thing that could make him feel "MANLY~!" considering his slight frame and general aura of wimpyness. Anyhoo, he also had a huge lisp and just would not stop talking about his guns. So anytime I hear "Sig Sauer," I hear him saying "THIG THAUER." Fucking dork. Thank you for listening.

Only in Achewood. I need to go back and revisit those comics, because there were many fun turns of phrase like that. It was such an early to mid aughts thing. Nobody gets it when I make a joke about someone getting aroused by ladies sitting on sheet cakes. MURICAAAAAAAAA (hawk screech)

There was a post of a big boob woman holding a gun and wearing a t-shirt that could be construed as anti-trans, and the caption was "come and take it, Islam!" So three spaces on the far-right bingo card (guns, Islamophobia, transphobia), and throw in objectifying women if you're feeling extra spicy. Dustin gave it a like and Mustafa Ali called him out on it. Dustin backed off with the "this is not the person I am" thing and "I just liked the gun." Which could be given the benefit of a doubt if not for Dustin's history of pro MAGA and other right wing issue support, like anti vax, on social media. But it gets ignored in a lot of wrestling fandom spaces because good working punches, I guess.

Hey hey, this weekend's beer was Bengali, by Sixpoint brewery. Delicious, fresh tasting, with some citrus flavors and maybe a little apricot, thought that may have been my mind playing tricks on me due to the orange label reminding me of Magic Hat #9. Sixpoint beers used to be easier to find and in greater varieties but, say it with me now, they got bought out by a bigger beer company and cut back on their product range. Anyway, I recommend this one, always a favorite.

Whole lot of benefit of a doubt here. Maybe Dustin, old white guy from Texas, who has liked a ton of objectionable shit in the past, simply believes in the content of the post he liked.

A real heel would have swapped them for Morgan Wallen CDs. Or maybe Jelly Roll or some shit like that.

Calling Disney the lesser of two evils when compared to this government is like saying George Gulas was the lesser of two wrestlers compared to Ric Flair. You're technically right, but holy shit.

Really good writeup. Thanks! One thing that bugged me was the backslide. Knight got caught with his feet on the ropes, but then Jericho did the same and didn't get caught. I feel like that kind of thing makes the ref look incredibly dumb. The heel is supposed to play the ref for a fool, not the babyface. And yeah, that 10 punch in the corner looked terrible.

I really hope Drake straightens his shit out. I remember his really fun 2012-13 PWG run where he was clean and sober, and he always came off as the nicest, coolest, most positive dude on podcasts. I'm not blaming moving to far-right, MAGA-ass Florida for a job with WWE for his downfall, his trip down the QAnon MAGA rabbit hole, and his drug relapse, but I'm not not blaming that either.

As my hair on top got patchier and patchier over the years, the trimmer guards got closer (from an 4 at first like 10 years ago to no guard last year) and shaving frequency got higher. Finally I said ahh fuck this and moved to a Remington Balder Pro and shave it super close (damn near bald) every other day, sometimes daily. If I’m feeling extra spicy I’ll razor it smooth in the shower.

YES A lot of people don’t take the plunge because “omg it needs to be super meaningful because I’m gonna have it forever!” Well what’s meaningful now may not be meaningful to you in a few years. You’re just paralyzing yourself with a ridiculous ideal. Just find something that looks cool to you and go for it. I have two meaningful tattoos for my wife and daughter. The rest, just shit I thought looked cool.

Christian coming to AEW with a new character and having a fun run >>> (infinity)>>> Copeland coming to AEW as a nostalgia act

Icarus: worst wrestling tattoo HOF first ballot

If we’re talking about worst chants today, the discussion begins and ends with “you deserve it.” It kills kayfabe, is cringe as fuck, and just reinforces the idea that titles should be handed out as rewards instead of “this person can draw as champion.”

Not that I know of. I was being facetious. Googling it: Huh. That's crazy. I still wouldn't recommend it because general anesthesia is expensive as fuck. I've heard some people use skin numbing products, but that those could possibly make it harder to tattoo you properly and have other issues. If you want a tattoo but are afraid of the pain, I'd recommend getting it somewhere with more muscle and fat. My bicep and tricep stuff didn't hurt, but inside my uppper arm hurt like a motherfucker.

As a person with multiple tattoos, I can tell you, just from my own experience, nothing just "ends up bigger than I thought." Any reputable artist will apply the stencil first to give you an idea of size and placement. I mean freehanding is not out of the question, sure, but even then, you can tell how big it is because getting tattooed hurts and you can obviously feel the fucking thing going on you and you can also look in the mirror. Cody acting like "I didn't know it would end up on my jaw" like he couldn't feel his actual jaw being tattooed is ridiculous. Unless he did the whole thing under anesthesia with the most disreputable artist he could find.

HELLO (only the Gentile) LADIES! Val gonna come back working that “Southern white meat babyface who happens to be low key antisemitic” gimmick the Chuck Taylor joked about. I feel attacked I feel attacked x2

Oh man I loved TNM. I played it up until a few years ago, when Oracle VirtualBox updated and broke the VM I had it installed on, and even Oliver couldn't fix it. They had some weird-ass teams in it that I could never remember. When did IRS and Big Bubba team as The CPAs?

Maybe that's just her cover story? I say that because I remember laughing at an interview they did in a magazine swearing they're not a Christian act, while in the photoshoot for the article the guy in the band is wearing a beanie that says "King of Kings" on it. I'm guessing it's more along the lines of "band gets hot baiting the religious crowd, then tries to cross over and distance themselves when popularity hits a certain point. But I don't really know. That's exactly the track that was in her playlist!

My wife had a Jars of Clay song on one of her playlists and it was always so hard to not just crush her with "hey you know these dudes are singing about Jesus, right?"

Thanks! It's sustainable because, like any other business filled with people who love what they do (music, wrestling, any other arts), it's filled to the brim with self-delusion that stems from love of the art. You're finally making a living doing what you love, so you lie to yourself, denying how horrible and impermanent it is. Everyone thinks, "sure, it might be bad and there may be layoffs, but that won't happen to me!" There is never a shortage of marks. My embittered (but trying to be positive and see the good every day!) old man advice to anyone is: get a shitty job that makes money and keep your hobby your hobby. Not just because of what I wrote above, but also because once you make the thing you love your job, you will grow to hate it.