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Post by Mid-Carder on Sept 14, 2014 9:36:11 GMT -5
This thread makes me weep
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Post by Savage Gambino on Sept 14, 2014 9:57:28 GMT -5
Leave it to WWE to drop their only Scottish wrestler just as Scotland is coming into the national spotlight.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Sept 14, 2014 10:34:59 GMT -5
Did anyone ever figure out why Flintheart Glomgold was supposed to be from South Africa, yet he had a Scottish accent and wore a kilt?
Thus has bugged me for years.
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Post by Sephiroth on Sept 14, 2014 11:44:17 GMT -5
Did anyone ever figure out why Flintheart Glomgold was supposed to be from South Africa, yet he had a Scottish accent and wore a kilt? Thus has bugged me for years. Vince Russo worked on thst show before he went to WWE?
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Post by Mondai Rogue on Sept 14, 2014 11:51:08 GMT -5
Only if they walk 500 more. Then they'd be a local hero. LOCAL HERO!
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Sept 14, 2014 13:37:49 GMT -5
WWE quite emphatically doesn't know and/or care about what happens outside of its own country, as indicated by their hilarious failures at cultural pandering whenever they come to England.
They also don't care if you're an international fan when they're doing their nationalistic angles or the ones only concerned with internal politics.
At the same time, it's not that unreasonable to do so because why the f*** would three million Americans give a shit about something happening in a country that's about the size of a driveway in Texas?
Hopefully none of that skews too far to political?
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Post by Bo Rida on Sept 14, 2014 14:22:37 GMT -5
If Scotland vote yes Zeb will come out and talk about how England will rebuild an improved Hadrian's Wall with the big swinging GoT style scythes.
Then say America should do the same to make sure Del Rio never comes back.
Then he shows up on NXT trying to keep the Lucha Dragons in Full Sail by trying to convince campus security to build a wall around the university before being escorted away in a golf cart.
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Post by coldo on Sept 14, 2014 15:38:46 GMT -5
They totally need to do a RAW where Rowdy Roddy Piper teams with the Highlanders against William Regal, Bad News Barrett, and Dave Taylor. = Whilst that match may not be great if that was the main event next time WWE come back to what could be an independent Scotland then I could be happy to watch that - if they come back of course that is
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Post by Martin: #TeamBella Treasurer on Sept 14, 2014 15:41:20 GMT -5
WWE quite emphatically doesn't know and/or care about what happens outside of its own country, as indicated by their hilarious failures at cultural pandering whenever they come to England. They also don't care if you're an international fan when they're doing their nationalistic angles or the ones only concerned with internal politics. Yes, regardless of where they are filming TV (Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield) they always show Big Ben and the Thames. "Euros, Euros, yeah yeah!" to a chorus of boos is my favourite .
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Post by Martin: #TeamBella Treasurer on Sept 14, 2014 15:44:10 GMT -5
They totally need to do a RAW where Rowdy Roddy Piper teams with the Highlanders against William Regal, Bad News Barrett, and Dave Taylor. There is a precedent for this haha. A house show I went to in 2006 in Glasgow had Roddy Piper, Ric Flair and the Highlanders vs. Spirit Squad in an eight man tag! It was the week after Piper and Flair won the tag titles at Cyber Sunday.
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Post by zackattack on Sept 14, 2014 18:56:04 GMT -5
The vote is in four days and as a Scot I can tell you that it is basically right now Yes 49% and No 50%.
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Sept 14, 2014 19:17:05 GMT -5
Man, Something about just being able to vote to peacefully break away from England just seems wrong to me. Won't someone think of The Hessians?
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Post by Sephiroth on Sept 14, 2014 19:17:45 GMT -5
The vote is in four days and as a Scot I can tell you that it is basically right now Yes 49% and No 50%. Shall be interest g to see the outcome.
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Post by Sephiroth on Sept 14, 2014 19:27:56 GMT -5
And just to get it out there: if the independence vote doesn't go through, am I the only one who will be making "They gave it all they had captain, they didn't have the power!" jokes?
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Post by lemonyellowson on Sept 14, 2014 20:41:15 GMT -5
I got bothered by it because it's geographically inaccurate. It would be like billing someone from Texas, Mexico now. Not really, everyone from here is from the island of Ireland, whether it "Northern" or "Republic of", those are political terms but geographically he is from Ireland. Would be more like someone being announced as from "Texas, America", rather than "Texas, USA". As a southern Irishman I always liked it! When finlay was announced as from Belfast Ireland, it did annoy me. He's from Carrickfergus. Anyways, I did much prefer it when they started announcing him from Northern Ireland, that's our country. But at the same time, there is technically nothing wrong with being announced from Belfast Ireland as Belfast is in Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland is on the island of Ireland. The question is are the southerners annoyed when Seamus is announced as being from Dublin Ireland and not Dublin The republic of Ireland?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2014 22:58:28 GMT -5
So now that we've cleared up how Xenophobic our UK forum membership is...
Why would the US based WWE company want to care? Looks to me like you want the US to research you, love you, care about you and accept you...while you spit in our face and make up your own xenophobic stereotypes that attack us.
Reread the thread and look at yourselves. It's embarrassing.
I don't see any US posters attacking UK posters, do you? Not just in this thread, anywhere, in any thread. Seems to be just on your end. Link me a US poster attacking the UK. I'll link TWENTY posts from the UK making fun of the US in return.
Think about it. Those stupid xenophobic americans huh?
Don't like my post? Learn to socialize with others then. Most of your forum members are from the US, we're your friends.
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Post by They Killed the Giggler on Sept 14, 2014 23:38:47 GMT -5
"Freedom!!"
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