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Post by Mozenrath on Sept 6, 2019 19:05:22 GMT -5
I do hope it's just dark humor, sure, but this is also the sort of thing a lot of people really do buy into. People, definitely, yes, but I'm not sure Bryan is one of them. Keep in mind also the divided viewpoints on Brian Kendrick, where either he is a nutjob or just knows how to spin weird shit to get paid to do shoot promos. See, that's why I can't just assume the best, though. Some wrestlers are very, very weird people who buy into awful things. Like, when Billy Jack Haynes, Rousey, and others are your peers, it's hard to say what someone couldn't possibly put stock in, you know? |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Sept 6, 2019 19:15:44 GMT -5
People, definitely, yes, but I'm not sure Bryan is one of them. Keep in mind also the divided viewpoints on Brian Kendrick, where either he is a nutjob or just knows how to spin weird shit to get paid to do shoot promos. See, that's why I can't just assume the best, though. Some wrestlers are very, very weird people who buy into awful things. Like, when Billy Jack Haynes, Rousey, and others are your peers, it's hard to say what someone couldn't possibly put stock in, you know? Yeah I can see that. It's only the writing in the book that's making me think otherwise - we don't know any of these guys, really. |
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Post by ayumidah on Sept 6, 2019 19:30:11 GMT -5
Daniel Bryan subscribes to eugenics. What a delightfully horrible thing to read today. Is this not just an incredibly strange, long-winded joke built onto a real observation about murder? He talks about it being genetically irresponsible for them to have kids, then jokes about when they would de-evolve the species. I took it to mean even though he thought having kids would be genetically irresponsible, they still would have kids anyway, thus spreading along their "defective" genes and hindering the evolution of the human species further. |
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Post by Shark on Sept 6, 2019 19:59:26 GMT -5
Why were WWE's ropes always extra padded at the turnbuckle end back in the day? Unlike say WCW or current-WWE, where the ropes are all basically the same width. WWE uses actual rope that they cover with tape. As someone else said, they just used up the end of the roll. I think now they either use less tape or just wrap it differently. Those ring crews are like a NASCAR pit crew too. I've seem them have to do the change over from Smackdown to 205 Live when the latter used purple ropes and they changed that whole ring in a matter of moments. WCW and other companies used cable that was covered by rubber, I think, so that's why they had a more uniform look. Bryan Danielson is a weird f***ing dude. On the edge and Christian podcast he said him and Xavier Woods have a plot to harvest breast milk from women Were they trying to make boob cheese? |
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Post by mcstoklasa on Sept 6, 2019 20:26:09 GMT -5
Remember when Austin had a logo on his black trunks in 96?
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Post by IgnahtaSempria on Sept 6, 2019 21:22:34 GMT -5
I wonder if twenty years from now people will be nostalgic for 2000s mid carders (like people are for late 80s and early 90s today) like Carlito, Mr Kennedy, MVP, Matt Morgan, Mark Jindrak, etc. I don't know about nostalgic, but I did just recently discover that Antonio Thomas of the Heart Throbs went on to become Thomas Santell, and is currently tearing it up in Beyond Wrestling. His current gimmick is basically "what if George McFly from Back to the Future was an old-school catch wrestler?" |
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Post by IgnahtaSempria on Sept 6, 2019 21:29:17 GMT -5
Anyone remember when Tyson Kidd invented the Dungeon Lock, which was a Sharpshooter/triangle choke combination, during his stint in NXT, then he got put on the main roster and he never did it again?
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Post by mcstoklasa on Sept 6, 2019 22:53:42 GMT -5
Anyone remember when Tyson Kidd invented the Dungeon Lock, which was a Sharpshooter/triangle choke combination, during his stint in NXT, then he got put on the main roster and he never did it again? I was probably too distracted by his ridiculous hairdo |
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Post by Macho Pichu on Sept 7, 2019 0:20:48 GMT -5
Can I get more on this, plz? I just reread that part, I was partially wrong about what he said but yeah, here's what he said word for word in the book: "It is my belief that due to modern medicine, humans have stopped evolving in a way that produces healthier adults. I say this because many children who two hundred years ago would have died are now living to successfully reproduce. They thus pass on their genetic deficiencies to their children, who then pass them on to their children, and so on and so forth. I am one of those children: sick my entire childhood and even still often sick as an adult. Without modern medicine, I would have surely passed before I could procreate. Who knows, I still might. Regardless, I affectionately refer to myself as a defect. Bri is also a defect. I will let her explain her own defectiveness in her own book, should she choose to write one. Before we started dating, I pointed this out to her, and also told her it would be genetically irresponsible of us to have children as it would weaken the evolution of humans going forward. What we should be doing as a species is breeding intelligent superathlettes, like having John Cena make babies with Jackie Joyner-Kersee. It became our little joke, both of us being defects. And we will, at some point, try our best with the de-evolution of our species." The last line's meaning skipped my notice because I was distracted with what he'd said before that, but yeah. What chapter was this in? I experienced the audiobook version, and don't remember it, so it must have been delivered with some kind of tone that would allow me to write it off. I'm going to relisten to that part and see why that is. |
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Post by ayumidah on Sept 7, 2019 2:07:00 GMT -5
I just reread that part, I was partially wrong about what he said but yeah, here's what he said word for word in the book: "It is my belief that due to modern medicine, humans have stopped evolving in a way that produces healthier adults. I say this because many children who two hundred years ago would have died are now living to successfully reproduce. They thus pass on their genetic deficiencies to their children, who then pass them on to their children, and so on and so forth. I am one of those children: sick my entire childhood and even still often sick as an adult. Without modern medicine, I would have surely passed before I could procreate. Who knows, I still might. Regardless, I affectionately refer to myself as a defect. Bri is also a defect. I will let her explain her own defectiveness in her own book, should she choose to write one. Before we started dating, I pointed this out to her, and also told her it would be genetically irresponsible of us to have children as it would weaken the evolution of humans going forward. What we should be doing as a species is breeding intelligent superathlettes, like having John Cena make babies with Jackie Joyner-Kersee. It became our little joke, both of us being defects. And we will, at some point, try our best with the de-evolution of our species." The last line's meaning skipped my notice because I was distracted with what he'd said before that, but yeah. What chapter was this in? I experienced the audiobook version, and don't remember it, so it must have been delivered with some kind of tone that would allow me to write it off. I'm going to relisten to that part and see why that is. It's chapter 3: Makin' Groceries. Now I'm curious about the tone of it there. |
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Post by Fade on Sept 7, 2019 4:04:06 GMT -5
“The Kings” DX theme by RUN DMC is awesome and it bums me out it didn’t get a lot of play.
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Post by Long A, Short A on Sept 7, 2019 9:33:54 GMT -5
I want a female superstar to come out for a blood feud in a red dress that looks like the one Monica a.k.a. Goonica wore when she popped Brandy in the face.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2019 10:14:41 GMT -5
Eventually Mr. Perfect started cracking jockstrap jokes about Aldo Montoya on the air.
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Post by mcstoklasa on Sept 7, 2019 10:15:16 GMT -5
Remember Renegade?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2019 10:24:19 GMT -5
Hogan's "Ultimate Surprise", LMAO. Dude actually won the TV title. Beat Arn I believe. Sad story though. He killed himself in his early 30's.  |
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Post by mcstoklasa on Sept 7, 2019 10:27:25 GMT -5
Hogan's "Ultimate Surprise", LMAO. Dude actually won the TV title. Beat Arn I believe. Sad story though. He killed himself in his early 30's. Keep kayfabe on YouTube have done a pretty good doc on him |
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Post by Macho Pichu on Sept 7, 2019 13:23:01 GMT -5
What chapter was this in? I experienced the audiobook version, and don't remember it, so it must have been delivered with some kind of tone that would allow me to write it off. I'm going to relisten to that part and see why that is. It's chapter 3: Makin' Groceries. Now I'm curious about the tone of it there. Jesus Christ. I just relistened and he reads it pretty damn straight. I must have tuned it out last time. |
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Post by Push R Truth on Sept 7, 2019 16:58:23 GMT -5
The best thing that happened to the Shockmaster was him falling down. The gimmick was shit and at least that debut was interesting.
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Post by Tom Turkey on Sept 7, 2019 17:17:31 GMT -5
Hogan's "Ultimate Surprise", LMAO. Dude actually won the TV title. Beat Arn I believe. Sad story though. He killed himself in his early 30's. He got a big megapush, even though people saw right through him being a Great Value Ultimate Warrior, then the push stopped once the actual Warrior called out WCW for their ruse. |
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Post by ayumidah on Sept 7, 2019 17:36:21 GMT -5
It's chapter 3: Makin' Groceries. Now I'm curious about the tone of it there. Jesus Christ. I just relistened and he reads it pretty damn straight. I must have tuned it out last time. Oof. |
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