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Post by "American Cream" Dusty Loads on Sept 17, 2013 10:24:14 GMT -5
gawker.com/video-that-proves-pro-wrestling-is-fake-also-proves-it-1324515858I didn't know this particular video had such popularity but here is an article on another site talking about the same thing. This article is condescending or doesn't seem like it is. I had a subscription that I paid for back in 2009 and for some reason, I still get them in the mail every couple months. I've checked my bank account to make sure I'm not being charged and I haven't. They mostly go from mail box to trash can. Wow, that somehow makes me have even less respect for Gawker. why?
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Sept 17, 2013 10:28:14 GMT -5
Maybe they changed the text or something, but the gawker article was actually pretty respectful. No they kept it the same. Still lazy. They don't even base their opinion that the video makes people respect wrestling more on ANYTHING.
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Post by The OP on Sept 17, 2013 10:29:55 GMT -5
Tue, but at least it wasn't so tacky and condescending like the maxim one.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Sept 17, 2013 10:39:11 GMT -5
Tue, but at least it wasn't so tacky and condescending like the maxim one. Yeah, as I stated the problem I have with Gawker goes beyond this little blurb. As I stated before Maxim is a fluff publication no one reads for the articles. Gawker on the other hand takes itself wicked seriously and then spits out the same fluff a wanking teenage would skip past in Maxim. Even if the stances are different.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2013 16:33:35 GMT -5
OH MY GOD WRESTLING IS FAKE!!!!!! i have wasted my life
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Sept 17, 2013 18:35:48 GMT -5
But.. it's, it's not real.
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Post by The OP on Sept 17, 2013 19:22:02 GMT -5
But.. it's, it's not real. It's still not real to me, dammit!
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Sept 18, 2013 0:32:55 GMT -5
Maxim is the TV 14 version of playboy. Maxim is the shitty version of the now incredibly shitty Playboy It's shit squared
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Post by The Man They Call Asher on Sept 18, 2013 0:40:26 GMT -5
At first I was like "Awww, that's cute."
Then I read the dig they made at DDP and Jake. F*** off, Maxim. How many people did you pull off the shit-heap?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2013 14:37:24 GMT -5
It's hilarious when any sort of media outlet runs a story like, "We've blown the lid off of pro wrestling - IT'S FAKE!" It's like they're living in the '50s, where there was still any thought that it might be a legitimate sport.
FAN, I've got a real scoop: "Keebler cookies NOT ACTUALLY MADE BY ELVES!"
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Post by Wolf Hurricane on Sept 18, 2013 15:02:56 GMT -5
It's hilarious when any sort of media outlet runs a story like, "We've blown the lid off of pro wrestling - IT'S FAKE!" It's like they're living in the '50s, where there was still any thought that it might be a legitimate sport. FAN, I've got a real scoop: "Keebler cookies NOT ACTUALLY MADE BY ELVES!" MY WHOLE LIFE IS A LIE!!!
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Post by molson5 on Sept 18, 2013 18:42:08 GMT -5
This is probably their most commented on and visited article they've posted in years. That's why it's there, the opinion expressed doesn't matter. Post something about wrestling, positive or negative, and wrestling fans will find it and comment on it.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Sept 18, 2013 18:43:43 GMT -5
Maxim is the spike tv of magazines.
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Post by percymania on Sept 20, 2013 17:47:10 GMT -5
Maxim is a real thing?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2013 5:56:36 GMT -5
A nice little article taking a few jabs at something that is already outed as not real? BURN THOSE MOTHERF***** ALIVE AND THEIR GODDAMN MAGAZINE!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2013 7:04:38 GMT -5
I can't wait for Maxim's next piece of cutting edge journalism, telling us about this newfangled telephone gadget! Tefeloam? What the hell are you talking about?!
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Post by Toates Madhackrviper on Sept 22, 2013 0:58:08 GMT -5
This is probably their most commented on and visited article they've posted in years. That's why it's there, the opinion expressed doesn't matter. Post something about wrestling, positive or negative, and wrestling fans will find it and comment on it. Because wrestling fans are potentially the most insecure and overly defensive fandom on the internet. Sadly.
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Post by "American Cream" Dusty Loads on Sept 22, 2013 3:48:32 GMT -5
This is probably their most commented on and visited article they've posted in years. That's why it's there, the opinion expressed doesn't matter. Post something about wrestling, positive or negative, and wrestling fans will find it and comment on it. Because wrestling fans are potentially the most insecure and overly defensive fandom on the internet. Sadly. While I agree, you can't really blame us sometimes since wrestling is usually looked down upon as being for inbred hicks. and I gotta say, none of you hicks seem inbred
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Post by Toates Madhackrviper on Sept 22, 2013 3:53:54 GMT -5
Because wrestling fans are potentially the most insecure and overly defensive fandom on the internet. Sadly. While I agree, you can't really blame us sometimes since wrestling is usually looked down upon as being for inbred hicks. and I gotta say, none of you hicks seem inbred Oh I totally agree that it comes from someplace its motivated and its totally understandable but it has lead to us being on a hair trigger for getting defensive and often we do it in circumstances where its not necessary because we're so used to having to defend ourselves.
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Post by "American Cream" Dusty Loads on Sept 22, 2013 4:00:42 GMT -5
While I agree, you can't really blame us sometimes since wrestling is usually looked down upon as being for inbred hicks. and I gotta say, none of you hicks seem inbred Oh I totally agree that it comes from someplace its motivated and its totally understandable but it has lead to us being on a hair trigger for getting defensive and often we do it in circumstances where its not necessary because we're so used to having to defend ourselves. Yeah, I'm totally guilty of that sometimes. I hadda bite my tongue at my job (i'm a bartender) while I had raw on one of the TVs due to it being a slow sports night and one of the regulars starting going off about wrestling being for "idiots." I at least had the sense not to screw myself out of any money the guy would give me haha.
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