nate5054
Hank Scorpio
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Post by nate5054 on Oct 16, 2022 16:19:23 GMT -5
Remember that time Howard Finkel came out and introduced CM Punk and the crowd gave him such a loud pop that it brought a tear to his eye? That should've been a heartwarming moment. If it wasn't for Cole and the commentators shitting all over it and laughing at him. I'm sure that was a Vince directive. My guess is he just couldn't help himself and didn't care that Finkel was kind of admired as the ring announcing voice for WWF for ages.
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bog
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Post by bog on Oct 16, 2022 17:36:41 GMT -5
Honestly, never. Then again, I don't let other people's words and actions affect my emotions in general. That's literally impossible Human beings are affected by the words and actions of other human beings
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Post by Pooh Carlson on Oct 16, 2022 19:21:57 GMT -5
I don't personally know the WWE, nor does the WWE personally know me. So none times is the answer.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2022 19:59:22 GMT -5
Honestly, never. Then again, I don't let other people's words and actions affect my emotions in general. That's literally impossible Human beings are affected by the words and actions of other human beings It's not impossible. You can train yourself to not care what other people think.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2022 20:13:03 GMT -5
In this day and age there is usually one or two things each show that make me shake my head but I haven't been outright insulted by an angle or outcome since Jinder won the title. That was more based around the fact that we have a pretty extensive list of amazing workers in the past who were overlooked.
I try to steer clear of the messy Saudi argument and just look at them as the next show on the list or I likely wouldn't watch it at all. WWE up until recently was nothing more than background noise for me so it was easy to not let emotions into the product...This is probably the most I have been invested in a decade
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Post by "The Natural" Bustin Loads on Oct 16, 2022 20:16:18 GMT -5
Replacing Aliyah with Shotzi
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Post by CubsFan71 on Oct 16, 2022 20:56:10 GMT -5
The whole Be A Star thing while Vince was being well, Vince. As someone who’s been bullied his whole life, I found WWE acting like the moral compass on bullying highly offensive. Not to mention amazingly hypocritical
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Post by Toilet Paper Roll on Oct 16, 2022 20:58:28 GMT -5
That's literally impossible Human beings are affected by the words and actions of other human beings It's not impossible. You can train yourself to not care what other people think. And especially when its a poorly written show with underdeveloped characters who say stuff that usually doesnt have any repercussions outside the next month or so. It's a TV show
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DichEvans
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Post by DichEvans on Oct 17, 2022 0:38:39 GMT -5
I am concerned that people are taking wrestling so seriously they would be offended. When I don't like something (Hit Row), I just don't watch
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malloc
Team Rocket
asian cookbook
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Post by malloc on Oct 17, 2022 1:52:39 GMT -5
I put this one on Sky more than WWE and just bad timing. I thought it was bad taste it didn't offend me everyone always says it didn't air on British TV but I remember seeing it on the big TV in my parents living room. It was the garrotting of the Undertaker airing after the 7/7 bombings. It was recorded before the attacks so you cannot blame WWE, but it aired after the attacks and no-one thought to ring up Sky and say hey maybe dont air this one. If it dint air and is some mandala effect nonsense than its my own fault for torrenting the episode and being disappointed with content even if I thought the whole Hussan angle was in bad taste.
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Mozenrath
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Post by Mozenrath on Oct 17, 2022 1:57:12 GMT -5
They've had some offensive stuff over the years, but I found it troublesome and offensive when Vince was making regular TV appearances after the allegations came out. He knew that the audience was going to give him pops and it felt like he was going out of his way to say that he isn't accountable for anything he does. This was probably the one time I can say I was truly offended/disgusted, as opposed to just rolling my eyes at how distasteful or inappropriate something was. All that "then, now, forever, together" stuff was just gross. Don't turn your personal sex scandal into a "we" team thing, you clueless old lech. "Offensive" isn't the word I'd use, but I also thought they veered into some really unnecessary territory with the Snitsky foot fetish stuff. There's a lot that happens in wrestling that doesn't have anything to do with wrestling, but this seemed especially forced and over the line into personal bedroom details. They were essentially kink-shaming Snitsky and reinforcing the idea that people with fetishes are all creepy perv-monsters who can't control themselves. I think it was moreso just WWE trying to push Edge and Lita as being these sexually wild people that Lita would bribe Snitsky to do her bidding by letting him worship her feet, plus probably them thinking Snitsky would sell it in a funny way. Whether or not they accomplished either of those things, yeah, is obviously up for debate.
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Post by David-Arquette was in WCW 2000 on Oct 17, 2022 4:02:10 GMT -5
Never offended. Surprised, shocked, annoyed, and patronised, however.
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Post by government mule on Oct 17, 2022 5:02:57 GMT -5
Only thing I can think of that is truly horrifying in hindsight was the treatment/presentation of Melanie Pillman the day after her husband Brian died. I had no real memories of it happening live and I would have only been 12 so my processing of it would be vastly different, but if they did that tomorrow, it would be horrific. Vince pulled some Fritz Von Erich exploitation shit there, he had no right to mess with someone's grief.
Still not happy about the Saudi blood money either.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Oct 17, 2022 7:06:40 GMT -5
Actually seeing as we're bringing up the Warrior award, the first recipient was the make a wish kid I was already skeptical of how much they patted themselves on the back for. There's an excerpt from Bret's book about Warrior not bothering to spend 2 minutes to go see a Make A Wish kid backstage when he was champion, and even Hogan was pissed about how much of a dick he was being. Hogan is one of the other people in the top 10 make a wish granters. Way behind Cena as everyone is but yeah. Doesn't surprise me, this
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Oct 17, 2022 7:07:32 GMT -5
I am concerned that people are taking wrestling so seriously they would be offended. When I don't like something (Hit Row), I just don't watch Fundamental lack of understanding of the question
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Post by DrBackflipsHoffman on Oct 17, 2022 7:41:20 GMT -5
I listen to TOOL ive never CRIED
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Post by cornettesracket on Oct 17, 2022 12:15:30 GMT -5
I’ve never been offended by the definition of the word, but WWE many times have left me puzzled as to what the point of that segment or angle was about.
The closest I’ve gotten is my mother who is a nurse who happened to be watching raw the night hogan crashed into the ambulance, and I remembered being seriously pissed off at that, and my mother is rarely annoyed by stuff to that level.
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Post by cornettesracket on Oct 17, 2022 12:15:30 GMT -5
I’ve never been offended by the definition of the word, but WWE many times have left me puzzled as to what the point of that segment or angle was about.
The closest I’ve gotten is my mother who is a nurse who happened to be watching raw the night hogan crashed into the ambulance, and I remembered being seriously pissed off at that, and my mother is rarely annoyed by stuff to that level.
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Post by rudiger on Oct 17, 2022 13:39:07 GMT -5
As an alcoholic I really despise angles with drugs or alcohol. Shit will never go over with me.
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Jake, The Jake, Jake
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Post by Jake, The Jake, Jake on Oct 17, 2022 19:17:13 GMT -5
Rock being presented as a Cool Dude Who Everyone Loves And Has Birthday Parties For all while he constantly hurled homophobic and transphobic insults at Cena was pretty frustrating at the time.
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