AEW - DECEMBER 2023

[AxB]

Once in my job, we would have two cashiers on duty at the same time. For a while, everyone was partnered up with the same person each time, but then after about 5 weeks they broke those pairings because one person refused to work with another. And 3 weeks later, they refused to work with their new work partner either. So then they were paired up with me, for two weeks, until we had a falling out and they refused to work with me any more.

By the time they left (it was voluntary, but they were well on the way to getting fired), there was only one other employee who was both willing to tolerate (and be tolerated) working with them.

[Curt McGirt]

It's so nice that we'll be killing this thread soon

[John E. Dynamite]

2 hours ago, Elsalvajeloco said:

RUDY IS SAWFT

so is foie gras. it's french and expensive and worth it and i shun their haters.

Rudy 2023 Highlight Reel of Dudes Going "Actually Nah I Don't Want To Do This" will be the finest thing produced by the league all year.

[Zakk_Sabbath]

25 minutes ago, AxB said:

Once in my job, we would have two cashiers on duty at the same time. For a while, everyone was partnered up with the same person each time, but then after about 5 weeks they broke those pairings because one person refused to work with another. And 3 weeks later, they refused to work with their new work partner either. So then they were paired up with me, for two weeks, until we had a falling out and they refused to work with me any more.

By the time they left (it was voluntary, but they were well on the way to getting fired), there was only one other employee who was both willing to tolerate (and be tolerated) working with them.

I really want to believe that you ended up having beef because you were like "We don't use plastic bags in lane 7. You keep that shit on lane 2." Then a month later, during the regional manager's visit, they used em anyway, yelling about "REAL PLASTIC!" the whole time.

[Elsalvajeloco]

12 minutes ago, Zakk_Sabbath said:

I really want to believe that you ended up having beef because you were like "We don't use plastic bags in lane 7. You keep that shit on lane 2." Then a month later, during the regional manager's visit, they used em anyway, yelling about "REAL PLASTIC!" the whole time.

Dude, I came into this thread to retort and make fun of Rudy Gobert being softer than baby shit. However, you got me thinking about watching "Nature Boy" Buddy Landell loosely (AND I MEAN LOOSELY) choking Dirty White Boy with a cheap, flimsy plastic bag in Smoky Mountain Wrestling over the weekend in my 1994 rewatch. 

Why haven't we heard more about folks in supermarkets trying to suffocate each other with plastic bags? WHY DON'T THESE FOLKS WANT TO WORK TOGETHER TO MAKE MONEY?!

[Stefanie Sparkleface]

4 minutes ago, Elsalvajeloco said:

Dude, I came into this thread to retort and make fun of Rudy Gobert being softer than baby shit. However, you got me thinking about watching "Nature Boy" Buddy Landell loosely (AND I MEAN LOOSELY) choking Dirty White Boy with a cheap, flimsy plastic bag in Smoky Mountain Wrestling over the weekend in my 1994 rewatch. 

Why haven't we heard more about folks in supermarkets trying to suffocate each other with plastic bags? WHY DON'T THESE FOLKS WANT TO WORK TOGETHER TO MAKE MONEY?!

This is the real root of plastic bag bans, isn't it? To force people to work together! You can't suffocate someone with a paper bag!

[AxB]

You can if you ball it up and stuff it in their mouth.

[Stefanie Sparkleface]

2 minutes ago, AxB said:

You can if you ball it up and stuff it in their mouth.

That's it, I can't work like this. Someone get me DVDVR Collision.

[John from Cincinnati]

50 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:

It's so nice that we'll be killing this thread soon

The thread will make the new year. Niners will run out of steam. 

[Zakk_Sabbath]

I had us off of it!!!!! C'maahhhn Jaaaaaaahhhnnnnn

[Log]

24 minutes ago, AxB said:

You can if you ball it up and stuff it in their mouth.

In like 82 or 83, Poffo’s promotion held a show at my tiny hometown’s high school gym. Main event was Savage vs Leaping Lanny. This event became lore in my town once wrestling blew up. “You know, Macho Man wrestled here!” A friend of mine’s older brother was there. He said, during the main event, he wadded up a paper cup and threw it into the ring and yelled, “Use the cup, Macho Man!” Savage picked it up, grabbed Lanny in a headlock and grinded the cup in his face. “Use the cup, Macho Man!” became a battle cry for us. 

[Dog]

On 12/17/2023 at 10:58 AM, odessasteps said:

When you say "everyone", ....

Do you want AEW to fail? Why? Do you want wrestlers to have fewer options and less bargaining power?

[Curt McGirt]

4 hours ago, AxB said:

You can if you ball it up and stuff it in their mouth.

That just reminded me of Ash in Alien trying to kill I think either Sigourney or Yaphet Kotto by rolling up a magazine and trying to stuff it down their throat 

I said the thread should die and then it got really funny immediately. Y'all are the best.

[Octopus]

Even with the injuries, what a fantastic year Danielson has had! The MJF IronMan feud that involved a build up with tv matches against Rush, Bandido, Thatcher, and Takeshita. An Anarchy in the Arena. The Okada match where he broke his arm and still submitted him with his legs. The Ricky Stark matches. The Sabre Jr epic. The short TNT title contender ship match against Swerve and then the match with Christian. And now the current Continental Classic. I haven’t seen the recent ROH match but it sounds good. Good stuff!

[Shartnado]

12 hours ago, Sparkleface said:

This is the real root of plastic bag bans, isn't it? To force people to work together! You can't suffocate someone with a paper bag!

Yeah, you can only make them calm down with a paper bag. "Seems like you're getting worked up, there! Here, breathe into this! That's it, it's nothing worth getting choked up for. Keep breathing."

Edited December 19, 2023 by Shartnado
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[odessasteps]

7 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

That just reminded me of Ash in Alien trying to kill I think either Sigourney or Yaphet Kotto by rolling up a magazine and trying to stuff it down their throat 

I said the thread should die and then it got really funny immediately. Y'all are the best.

It’s a porno mag that he is trying to stuff down Ripley’s throat. SYMBOLISM ~! 

[Raziel]

39 minutes ago, odessasteps said:

It’s a porno mag that he is trying to stuff down Ripley’s throat. SYMBOLISM ~! 

I mean, lets be fair, Geiger designed the Xenomorph, what in that movie *isn't* Symbolism?

[odessasteps]

There’s a well known academic book called Alien Zone edited by Annette Kuhn that was require reading in the 80s and 90s classes about science fiction. It’s got a whole section on all the symbolism and what not in Alien. I probably have read any of it since 1993 or so, but it was very good at the time. 

Edited December 19, 2023 by odessasteps

[FourPostMassacre]

10 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

That just reminded me of Ash in Alien trying to kill I think either Sigourney or Yaphet Kotto by rolling up a magazine and trying to stuff it down their throat 

I said the thread should die and then it got really funny immediately. Y'all are the best.

I’m still waking up so for a minute I read Ash and was like what hell is this dude talking about Bruce Campbell in Alien did I miss a crossover episode of Ash versus Evil Dead…

Then it hit me

[Dolfan in NYC]

There's gullible, and then there's whatever this is.

 

[Godfrey]

16 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said:

There's gullible, and then there's whatever this is.

 

There's no way, right? This has to be Max working the sheets

[odessasteps]

Maybe he’s try8ng to do a Pillman ans become a free agent as a shoot to further the angle.

[ExcellenceofAirPollution]

21 hours ago, StretchMediatedHypertrophy said:

And now we're talking about internet fans from the early 2000s as somehow representative of the casual fan. Wow. Yes I was there. This is Hyatte. I member.
 

LIES! 

Hyatte was 90's, MNW Scoopscentral.  His Nitro recaps were my favorite as a teenage smark, and his relevancy died with WCW.  He died later.  RIP.

[Just Dave]

21 hours ago, Niners Fan in CT said:

Not every job works the same way.   Draymond Green punched Jordan Poole in the face at practice because they got into an argument.  Do you really believe Jordan Poole had any leverage in that situation where he can ask the front office to get rid of Green?  They had to patch things up for the betterment of the team for that season and move on.  Wrestling is not an office job either.  It's fine that the Bucks decided they didn't want to work with Punk and do an angle but Tony Khan's job as a promoter is to see if things can be worked out (yes, for monetary reasons and also for the health of the work environment in general).  Instead Tony gives Punk his own show where Punk could seemingly tell certain performers they weren't allowed to be on that show and have creative control.  That was somehow Tony's best answer to the issue.  

I kinda like the Warriors analogy, except that in the AEW scenario Jordan Poole would have an EVP title that complicates things. I have no idea what the Bucks actually do. Shit, I think anyone here who's ever read a single one of my posts probably knows who I'd pick if I had to fire either Philliam or the Young Bucks. I'm just saying it isn't that simple. TK has apparently chosen to run the backstage portion of his company a certain way, and I don't see any path around firing Punk after repeated demonstrations on Punk's behalf that he didn't care about conducting himself in a professional manor backstage. 

Also, for all the flack he gets, I think it's worth mentioning that Tony Khan was able to make Jade Cargill look like a star for 3 years while hiding her weaknesses. IMO, it's some of his best work as a wrestling booker. That's what drives me insane about him. The same guy who saw two fairly nondescript Dark wrestlers and put them together in his head as the Acclaimed and figured out how to make Jade Cargill look so good that WWE grossly overpaid for her can't figure out that sending performers out to do media generally helps with ticket sales.

[Go2Sleep]

If TK strapped the rocket he did to MJF without a new contract, he's the biggest idiot ever and deserves for his company to fail.

Wouldn't mind seeing the alternate universe where this is true, though. Lots of doom and gloom only for AEW to keep on skating by at the same level with Swerve and Will Ospreay at the top.