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Post by Andy Martin on Oct 4, 2022 11:41:40 GMT -5
General rule of thumb, if you paint all people of a segment of the population with the same brush that will upset people. Like, if I said Rhode Island residents who enjoy hot tubs are all degenerate swingers I’d expect people from RI with a hot tub to be a little annoyed with me. While true, stereotypes exists for a reason. For instance, I’m from Alberta. You have plenty of thoughts about that, probably and they’re all true. Shit, I’m from Alberta, too and BOY do I have some thoughts.
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Post by bob on Oct 6, 2022 19:43:37 GMT -5
a few months in Trips has made things better
- that's not saying much but it's refreshing not to hear phrases no one uses which sound awkward coming from the mouths of the announcers repeatedly
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Post by aka Cthulhu on Oct 8, 2022 6:06:01 GMT -5
If he wanted to continue to get acting gigs he basically had to. I wouldn't be surprised to hear WB forced him to. Yeah, I don't like it, but that was realistically his only option, especially given he has been learning Chinese for years and very specifically is interested in that. Beyond that, there are other people that would have been screwed over who worked under him, and if a project got shelved due to this, it'd hurt them a whole lot more than it'd hurt him. There's a similar incident in the VTuber sphere. Long story short, Coco Kiryu from hololive mentioned Taiwan when she was reading google analytics or something, which led to a lot of backlash. Eventually the agency dissolved their China branch of VTubers, and stopped streaming at bilibili. Effects still persists to this day, even when Coco moved on.
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Post by Mozenrath on Oct 8, 2022 7:00:36 GMT -5
Yeah, I don't like it, but that was realistically his only option, especially given he has been learning Chinese for years and very specifically is interested in that. Beyond that, there are other people that would have been screwed over who worked under him, and if a project got shelved due to this, it'd hurt them a whole lot more than it'd hurt him. There's a similar incident in the VTuber sphere. Long story short, Coco Kiryu from hololive mentioned Taiwan when she was reading google analytics or something, which led to a lot of backlash. Eventually the agency dissolved their China branch of VTubers, and stopped streaming at bilibili. Effects still persists to this day, even when Coco moved on. Right. Much as I hate anyone having to capitulate to that shit, the threat of reprisal is a very real one.
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Post by sarkerpolseng on Oct 30, 2022 21:54:23 GMT -5
Wonder what he has been doing with all this time on his hands?
Feel bad for whoever is cooped up with him.
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Post by Hulk With A Mustache on Oct 31, 2022 11:53:48 GMT -5
Wonder what he has been doing with all this time on his hands? Fee bad for whoever is cooped up with him. I like to imagine that he’s making his own show with WWE action figures and filming it.
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Post by bob on Oct 31, 2022 16:39:59 GMT -5
still hard for me to believe that we never would've learned how much to a sleaze Vince was if the company never had a public stock offering
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Post by jimmyjackezekiel on Oct 31, 2022 19:38:05 GMT -5
still hard for me to believe that we never would've learned how much to a sleaze Vince was if the company never had a public stock offering Let that be a lesson. Everyone. Don't steal from the Til. That's why we got rid of volunteers to run the snack bar at my old job. Not be though. I never stole anything from there. Every snack I had on the job I paid for right then and there.
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Post by dangerousdanpotato on Oct 31, 2022 21:18:50 GMT -5
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Post by thechase on Nov 1, 2022 11:10:19 GMT -5
Gonna take you to schoooool I've never been cooooolll
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Nov 1, 2022 16:39:21 GMT -5
Maybe he'll get back into voiceover work:
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Post by Fade on Nov 2, 2022 15:35:27 GMT -5
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Post by CubsFan71 on Nov 2, 2022 17:01:58 GMT -5
He’s coming back isn’t he?
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Post by ayumidah on Nov 2, 2022 17:34:57 GMT -5
He’s coming back isn’t he? The report I just read ended with "Fightful.com noted that according to WWE sources, Vince McMahon is “done” with his various roles and won’t be coming back."
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Post by The Heartbreak TWERK on Nov 2, 2022 19:25:02 GMT -5
Imagine morale being at an all time high and ratings generally being the same or better, and then think, "We should bring the pathetic old untalented and uncreative hack who made everyone miserable back!"
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Post by Jonathan Michaels on Nov 2, 2022 20:18:05 GMT -5
Maybe he'll get back into voiceover work: I mean, he was legitimately pretty good in Camp WWE.
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Post by Mozenrath on Nov 2, 2022 20:33:09 GMT -5
I do not think he is coming back, no. The investigation being over doesn't really make much difference, it just wasn't going to be perpetual.
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Post by XIII on Nov 2, 2022 20:47:38 GMT -5
Vince probably found a new hobby as a serial killer or something he’s too busy to come back.
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Post by fw91 on Nov 2, 2022 21:01:30 GMT -5
Just for the sake of discussion, Does he have the power to comeback just like that if he wanted to?
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Post by schma on Nov 2, 2022 21:05:36 GMT -5
I always wonder how an investigation can cost millions of dollars. I get that you probably need to bring in a specialist but ostensibly this was an internal investigation that should have had cooperation from WWE. How the hell does that cost 19.4 million? Are there a bunch of people lining their pockets?
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