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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.

I really need a shortcut to the Big Damo meme at this rate. Real “I’m a military wife, you must address me by my husband’s rank” type shit. And how can Cody speak on this? If his point is "the children of wrestlers already paid their dues because their lives were hard because their wrestler parents were absent," come the fuck on. Dusty was pretty much retired and present as a dad for him, filling his head with nothing but big fish stories his whole life and turning him into the Dusty-worshipping goober he is today. It was Dustin who had an absentee father and got the rough life. In other words, Cody continues to be the worst. Shocking, I know.

Yeah, I almost wrote “aged like milk as soon as he said it” and I really should have!

Juggalo Championship Wrestling is obviously Faygo

I thought Klondike Bill was more into eating used underwear. This post brought to you by “shit I never thought I’d even think about, much less write about, today.”

He also watched the door, just in case.

Blake Monroe turning down more money from AEW because WWE was her dream is some real monkey’s paw shit. That Nick Khan statement about WWE definitely not benching people aged like milk.

Conversely, I used to go to wrestling matches (WWF and Crockett) and AHL (Baltimore Skipjacks) games at the Baltimore Arena as a kid. It’s now apparently the CFG Bank arena and has been remodeled, killing all its charm. It used to have a really characteristic ceiling and that’s gone now, from what I can tell. It was definitely one of them and you’re exactly right, that was the context. They were alluding to AEW hurting their pay scale by outright saying they were paying guys above their worth. What a couple of assholes.

My only rebuttals are: 1) This is corporate America we're talking about here. If they can cut pay to keep the line going up, they will. To me, it's very likely that the existence of a well-paying alternative means WWE would have to pay better. Without AEW, they'd only need to pay more than something like New Japan or TNA, right? 2) Didn't HHH himself bitch about AEW throwing off WWE's payscale? I believe this was around the time Swerve left.

"Redundancy consultation process" is some of the most amazing corporate bullshit bingo ever. Bet you ass whoever kicked off the redundancy consultation process isn't going to be the ones losing their job. At the same time, folks, this is the games industry. I only worked in it for 4 years (LOL my name is in the MobyGames listing for two commercial games which is hilarious) and saw 2-3 rounds of layoffs. Projects ramp up, people get hired, projects finish, people get fired. Everyone is a temp and nobody wants to believe it.

I guess I should re-read the book, because I read it like 25 years ago and can't remember shit about it.