May 2025 Wrestling Talk

[AxB]

26 minutes ago, supremebve said:

I really feel like Cleveland decided, "fuck everyone who doesn't like us, we're just going to do dope shit for ourselves," about 10-15 years ago.  It's a city that is hated by people who've never been,

The greatest heel faction on the US indies for the last ten years was 44OH!. Their gimmick was being from (near) Cleveland.

[supremebve]

45 minutes ago, AxB said:

The greatest heel faction on the US indies for the last ten years was 44OH!. Their gimmick was being from (near) Cleveland.

That makes them babyfaces in my book.  I was born in Warren, Ohio and about 75% of my family lives within an hour of Cleveland.  

[Curt McGirt]

I can tell how many of you don't go into the Land of Confusion because we have a whole food thread about this shit over there 

[twiztor]

update:

i drove by the Popeye's on my way home from work. Their sign said the lobby was open 10am-10pm, with drive in 10am-12 midnight. there was 1 car in the drive thru, and 3 in the lot. i assume 2 were employees, but maybe the lobby was actually open? needless to say, i didn't stop. 

[Peck]

16 minutes ago, twiztor said:

update:

i drove by the Popeye's on my way home from work. Their sign said the lobby was open 10am-10pm, with drive in 10am-12 midnight. there was 1 car in the drive thru, and 3 in the lot. i assume 2 were employees, but maybe the lobby was actually open? needless to say, i didn't stop. 

I don't know why fast food places even have lobbys any more. The only people who use them are 85+ year olds getting their senior coffees. Why the fuck would I want to sit in an understaffed and under cleaned store to eat a meal?

[Curt McGirt]

59 minutes ago, twiztor said:

update:

i drove by the Popeye's on my way home from work. Their sign said the lobby was open 10am-10pm, with drive in 10am-12 midnight. there was 1 car in the drive thru, and 3 in the lot. i assume 2 were employees, but maybe the lobby was actually open? needless to say, i didn't stop. 

It's a drug front.

[Cliff Hanger]

2 hours ago, Peck said:

I don't know why fast food places even have lobbys any more. The only people who use them are 85+ year olds getting their senior coffees. Why the fuck would I want to sit in an understaffed and under cleaned store to eat a meal?

Drive-thrus won't serve me because I can't drive. Should I not be able to eat Taco Bell, or should I have to pay Doordash to carry food 800 feet?

[bobholly138]

12 hours ago, supremebve said:

Top 5 in cities that don't feel like they were built by our corporate overlords.  New Orleans is one of the few American cities that you can't mistake for 25 other cities.  New Orleans feels like New Orleans from the moment you get there until the moment you leave.  If you were on a reality show where you got on a plane went to sleep and woke up in a different city and had to guess where you were.  New Orleans would be the easiest city to guess.  Everything from the sights, the smell, the sound, the taste, and feel of the city are unique to New Orleans, and it's awesome.  

You are right. No other town looks or smells like it. 

For me,and guessing some of this comes from going over there at least a few times a year since I can remember,it changed after 2005. Not just what Katrina did to the city. Like the feel of the city changed. 

I will still goto NOLA for a show or concert. But it hasn't been a destination city for me for a long time now. 

She claims I've been a cranky old man since I was in my early 20s. Told her no I was a drunk cranky old man in my early 20s.

[bobholly138]

9 hours ago, supremebve said:

I meant the former not the latter.  If you asked 100 people what city has the best hot dog, you might get 100 answers.  If you asked what city has the best gumbo, jambalaya, beignets, or po' boy all of them will say New Orleans.  I couldn't imagine going to New Orleans and looking for Mexican food.  I don't want anything in New Orleans except for food from New Orleans.  

The last 3 trips to NOLA we ate at Juan's Flying Burrito. A Lucha themed Mexican place. Amazing food. And one location is far enough from the Quarter to not be packed and easy parking.

But yea I normally would get some kind of seafood while down there. Picky about seafood. Grew up in a family where both my grandpas worked the Gulf and my dad did on the weekends,then when I got older that was his main job running a shrimp boat.

So sure there is great seafood in NOLA. Nothing beats my memories of it being summer we just dumped the net from a 1 hour haul. And I get told "pick out the biggest one I am gonna boil them with corn and taters for dinner"

Sitting on the back of the boat,picking the shrimp and seperating them. 

Shit sorry sounding like Forest GUmp here. This was 86 and 87 mostly.

[bobholly138]

2 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

It's a drug front.

No that is the two cell phone repair and accessories stores in town. 

Got a new phone,odd brand so cant just get a case anywhere. We got 4 cell stores in town so hit one by the now dispensary.... Walk in inch of dust on everything. Guy walks out of the back looking surprised to see a customer.

Hand him my cell ask if they got a case for it. Get told he has never heard of that brand so nope.

Goto next store same thing. Dust on everything,seeing cell phone chargers in package that have to be 10 years old hanging on pegs. This time guy is at counter watching something on  his tablet.

Figured both are fronts for something. 

Had a great burger joint in the town I grew up in. Amazing burgers and cheap. Hand cut fries. And a can of cheap soda,faygo or RC was like 5 bucks. Was place you walk in place order,step to the side and get order and leave. 

Was there 2 years,leave the coast,come back to Xmas the next year place is boarded up. Was drug front. Allegedly some part of the Dixie Mafia was running shit thru the burger place. 

 

[Curt McGirt]

There's an actual -- get this -- vacuum repair store here on a corner downtown, right down from the police department! It's had the same sign in the window for 20+ years. As soon as I saw that episode of The Wire where they identify the convenience store with the bank-grade glass and no stock as a drug front, I immediately thought of that place. That probably isn't one, but we have so many goddamn smoke shops and casinos that've cropped up around town in the last ten or so that I presume some have to be.

EDIT: Actually, it wasn't that spot in The Wire that made me think that, it's Joe's shop where it's just a junk store where he tinkers and fixes toasters. Now, who needs a vacuum cleaner fixed anymore? 

Edited May 24, 2025 by Curt McGirt

[zendragon]

6 hours ago, Peck said:

I don't know why fast food places even have lobbys any more. The only people who use them are 85+ year olds getting their senior coffees. Why the fuck would I want to sit in an understaffed and under cleaned store to eat a meal?

Honestly parking and walking in an getting a togo order is faster than the drive through often enough

[odessasteps]

Had a similar conversation w my boss yesterday about waiting in line vs picking up vs curbside delivery. 

[AxB]

My local 'obvously a drug front/ money laundering operation' shop went out of business in the pandemic. No more £1 DVDs for me.

But it did have the 'ridiculously low stock levels and obvious lack of attention' thing. Like who ever heard of a DVD shop that doesn't arrange the shelves alphabetically?

[The Natural]

1 minute ago, AxB said:

My local 'obvously a drug front/ money laundering operation' shop went out of business in the pandemic. No more £1 DVDs for me.

But it did have the 'ridiculously low stock levels and obvious lack of attention' thing. Like who ever heard of a DVD shop that doesn't arrange the shelves alphabetically?

Pissed me off when I sorted the DVD's in alphabetical order in the charity shop I worked for until it closed in the pandemic to see customers/staff mess it up. As a big fan of films, it was cool to do and I picked some great films up in perfect condition: The Dark Knight, Batman Begins, The Good, the Bad & the Ugly, Memento and Pulp Fiction to name a few.

[Brandon Bones]

10 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

It's a drug front.

Oh.  What can I get?

[supremebve]

The single most obvious drug front...Crumbl Cookies.  I have not met a single person who likes those terrible, piece of shit, cookies, but they keep popping up everywhere.

[Log]

2 minutes ago, supremebve said:

The single most obvious drug front...Crumbl Cookies.  I have not met a single person who likes those terrible, piece of shit, cookies, but they keep popping up everywhere.

My daughter is OBSESSED with that place. We get cookies from there almost weekly. She tracks leaks of their menu before they’re announced. The one by us is constantly busy. Cookies are pretty damn good, too. 

[Niners Fan in CT]

On 5/22/2025 at 10:56 PM, The Natural said:

Don't like Las Vegas hosting WrestleMania two years running. Don't like a middle of the month April WrestleMania two years running. WrestleMania should either be the end of March or start of April.

WrestleMania under the TKO banner is soulless, overly corporate junk catering to Casino owners and people with money to blow who are still Hulk Hogan fans and remember Stone Cold being a thing 30 years ago.  It's not for us. 

[Niners Fan in CT]

49 minutes ago, supremebve said:

The single most obvious drug front...Crumbl Cookies.  I have not met a single person who likes those terrible, piece of shit, cookies, but they keep popping up everywhere.

I have a Crumbl about 15 minutes from me so I've been there a few times now.  I don't hate it but the flavors often tell me they are appealing to kids under 12 who think mixing all this sugary stuff on top of one cookie would be awesome.  

[twiztor]

so in honor of AEW featuring Ricochet vs. Mark Briscoe in a Stretcher Match this weekend, i post this question:

What are the best stretcher matches in wrestling history?

[HumanChessgame]

What I liked most about food in New Orleans was that I could walk into just about any dive bar (which means basically every other establishment in town) and get a decent meal at any time of day. The first place I ate there was an alligator sausage poboy at a bar a few blocks from my hotel.

[JLowe]

20 hours ago, The Green Meanie said:

I'm from Houston. And, I'd say the exact same thing for Houston.

Houston smokes New Orleans for quality and variety of food options. 

[The Natural]

33 minutes ago, twiztor said:

so in honor of AEW featuring Ricochet vs. Mark Briscoe in a Stretcher Match this weekend, i post this question:

What are the best stretcher matches in wrestling history?

Batista vs. Shawn Michaels at WWE One Night Stand 2008.

Honourable mention to RVD vs. Sabu at ECW The Doctor Is In 1996.

Edited May 24, 2025 by The Natural

[Log]

Sid vs El Gigante, obviously.