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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Aug 8, 2024 22:04:17 GMT -5
It went downhill when the Todd thread was locked. We need more Todd.
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bob
Backup Wench
The "other" Bob. FOC COURSE!
started the Madness Wars, Proudly the #1 Nana Hater on FAN
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Post by bob on Aug 8, 2024 22:06:38 GMT -5
we need more anal bleeding
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Aug 8, 2024 22:10:57 GMT -5
we need more anal bleeding I don't mean to be crass...
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ayumidah
Patti Mayonnaise
DOOM TIME!!!!!
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Post by ayumidah on Aug 8, 2024 22:13:45 GMT -5
I still enjoy it here but I do keep to myself a lot outside of shitposting during shows sometimes, either because I don't feel like I have anything constructive to add or I don't want to misspeak and make things worse.
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Cranjis McBasketball
Crow T. Robot
Knew what the hell that thing was supposed to be
Peace Love and Nothing But
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Aug 8, 2024 23:12:13 GMT -5
I hope you don't require internal organs. Because I sold yours to a shady back-alley doctor in Bangladesh. Oh, my organs? I use those all the time. Listen, I know a guy, no bones, should be pretty easy to catch...now.
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Glitch
Grimlock
Not Going To Die; Childs, we're goin' out to give Blair the test. If he tries to make it back here and we're not with him... burn him.
Watching you.
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Post by Glitch on Aug 8, 2024 23:43:27 GMT -5
if it sets everything else back to normal then allow me to apologise and say that Hulk Hogan is an inviting altruist with a full head of hair Not enough! You also have to say that No Holds Barred is the highest grossing movie of all time, and that Hogan beer cures impotency!
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J. Hova
Don Corleone
Emotionally exhausted and morally bankrupt
Posts: 2,051
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Post by J. Hova on Aug 9, 2024 0:27:31 GMT -5
Our shenanigans used to be cheeky and fun, now they are just cruel and tragic.
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Perd
Patti Mayonnaise
Leslie needs to butt out for fear of receiving The Bunghole Buster
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Post by Perd on Aug 9, 2024 0:40:46 GMT -5
Our shenanigans used to be cheeky and fun, now they are just cruel and tragic. Which makes them not shenanigans at all, really.
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Post by Hot Noodle Truck on Aug 9, 2024 2:26:12 GMT -5
Probably around the time Demented stopped kicking people in the groin. It kept things jovial somehow.
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lucas_lee
Hank Scorpio
Heel turn is finished, now stripping away my personality
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Post by lucas_lee on Aug 9, 2024 4:43:56 GMT -5
Things were going good when Max Landis was posing as his ex girlfriend
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Aug 9, 2024 4:59:47 GMT -5
Things were going good when Max Landis was posing as his ex girlfriend Every once in a while I randomly remember and that and think to myself "God, it's insane that it happened, isn't it?".
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Sephiroth
Wade Wilson
Surviving
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Member is Online
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Post by Sephiroth on Aug 9, 2024 5:24:49 GMT -5
I’m starting to wonder if I ever knew what fun was. I’ve had years to think about it and I still don’t understand what was so funny about “Sweatsock” Lothario… Someone once had their autocorrect change Ric to Rice and he was called Rice Flair for about 12 years….you never know. She’s still Nipple H to me dammit
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Aug 9, 2024 5:31:20 GMT -5
I was hoping someone would speak up about this just the other day I made a post and suddenly I was hit in the back of the head with a large object, woke up and all of my bones were missing! what's up with that? Slepp needs them more than you do. As this thread shows, serious discussion is the path to the essence of FAN. Racism leads to frustration. Frustration leads to food. Food leads to laughter. So you're saying that in order for us to find harmony, we have to be racist first? Talk aobut a journey of self discovery.
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Post by The Legend of Groose on Aug 9, 2024 6:26:42 GMT -5
Our shenanigans used to be cheeky and fun, now they are just cruel and tragic. Which makes them not shenanigans at all, really. EVIL SHENANIGANS!
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Post by The Legend of Groose on Aug 9, 2024 6:28:08 GMT -5
Probably around the time Demented stopped kicking people in the groin. It kept things jovial somehow. I am truly blessed to have my groin kicked everyday. <3
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Post by SkullTrauma on Aug 9, 2024 7:01:48 GMT -5
the incessant need to "call shit out" has gotten really old. like, i'm on your f***in side but holy shit just leave it at the door. you're not telling anybody anything they don't already know, and endless whining isn't gonna change anyone's mind about anything. we're here to talk about oiled up people play-fighting.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Aug 9, 2024 8:16:54 GMT -5
I find it quite ironic to be accusing the forum as a whole of being the fun police when this thread is trying to explicitly police what people are talking about.
I agree that this forum used to be more fun. You know what else was more fun? Being less aware of how horrible the world was, how much horrible shit was going on it, and not knowing what Covid-19 was.
Another hallmark of when this forum was 'more fun,' and I've been lurking since 2006 or so, was that transphobia was fine, homophobia and racism were way more tolerated (this is not an accusation at the mods, it was a different time and I sure as shit had different perspectives on what qualified as homophobia or racism at the time), female wrestlers were openly treated as pieces of meat in multiple threads. I for one am very pleased that we don't have as much of any of that shit any more.
As far as the discussion topics being what they are, well. I've got bad news for you there, mate.
First of all, if a thread about Logan Paul can't proceed with usual discussion without transphobia being brought up, well, I'm afraid that you have Logan Paul to blame for that shit. You don't get to decide what people talk about, and if it's in the news, well, I'm afraid this is a discussion forum so that kind of shit will get discussed. That's how it works.
Second of all - I am one of the people who will often bring up stuff like a wrestler being a gross creep or whatever in a thread, or talk about the wider issues of, for example, the lack of equity for non-male wrestlers in the industry as a whole. Some people, cjb in particular, may remember me going on pretty endlessly in the AEW section about the women's division not getting enough time, or the lack of non-white people in the main events, and what I eventually realised was that it just wasn't worth talking about any more because AEW weren't going to do anything about it and we were just arguing and going back and forth and nobody was changing their minds. So you know what I did? I left the threads.
I used to be someone who would be all in on a thread about a serious topic to do with some grim news story, and what I realised was that I just. Didn't actually need to pollute my mind with that stuff. If a thread is obviously about something you don't find fun and don't want to talk about, don't click on the thread. If you are enjoying a thread, but then the discussion goes in a different direction, you can both 1. reply to the thread without commenting on the controversy at all which people do all the f***ing time, 2. just stop going into that thread. I will admit this takes a strong degree of self control and I fail this test myself a lot of the time. But it's absolutely doable. You also can be like me or Moth or Doo Doo or countless others on here who can actually do some amount of shitposting even within a serious thread so that it doesn't take on too much of a suffocatingly serious tone. These things are not mutually exclusive.
The forum is different now. Guess what. Reality is different now. When I first joined this place I was a regular on about 20 forums, and this is the only one that is still open, never mind that I actually log into. I will grieve for a long time if this place ever closes, because it is a safehaven for me, and it being full of 'fun police' is part of what makes it a safehaven for someone like me.
Nobody forces you to log on. Nobody forces you to reply. Nobody forces you to discuss. Nobody forces you to click on any thread. The block function exists. Administrate your own life, don't blame other people for ruining your 'fun.'
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Dead2009
Trap-Jaw
Horror Movie Guru
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Post by Dead2009 on Aug 9, 2024 8:23:39 GMT -5
Fun Police is what they call the Police Academy franchise in Japan. I love Police Academy.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Aug 9, 2024 8:52:10 GMT -5
I find it quite ironic to be accusing the forum as a whole of being the fun police when this thread is trying to explicitly police what people are talking about. I agree that this forum used to be more fun. You know what else was more fun? Being less aware of how horrible the world was, how much horrible shit was going on it, and not knowing what Covid-19 was. Another hallmark of when this forum was 'more fun,' and I've been lurking since 2006 or so, was that transphobia was fine, homophobia and racism were way more tolerated (this is not an accusation at the mods, it was a different time and I sure as shit had different perspectives on what qualified as homophobia or racism at the time), female wrestlers were openly treated as pieces of meat in multiple threads. I for one am very pleased that we don't have as much of any of that shit any more. As far as the discussion topics being what they are, well. I've got bad news for you there, mate. First of all, if a thread about Logan Paul can't proceed with usual discussion without transphobia being brought up, well, I'm afraid that you have Logan Paul to blame for that shit. You don't get to decide what people talk about, and if it's in the news, well, I'm afraid this is a discussion forum so that kind of shit will get discussed. That's how it works. Second of all - I am one of the people who will often bring up stuff like a wrestler being a gross creep or whatever in a thread, or talk about the wider issues of, for example, the lack of equity for non-male wrestlers in the industry as a whole. Some people, cjb in particular, may remember me going on pretty endlessly in the AEW section about the women's division not getting enough time, or the lack of non-white people in the main events, and what I eventually realised was that it just wasn't worth talking about any more because AEW weren't going to do anything about it and we were just arguing and going back and forth and nobody was changing their minds. So you know what I did? I left the threads.I used to be someone who would be all in on a thread about a serious topic to do with some grim news story, and what I realised was that I just. Didn't actually need to pollute my mind with that stuff. If a thread is obviously about something you don't find fun and don't want to talk about, don't click on the thread. If you are enjoying a thread, but then the discussion goes in a different direction, you can both 1. reply to the thread without commenting on the controversy at all which people do all the f***ing time, 2. just stop going into that thread. I will admit this takes a strong degree of self control and I fail this test myself a lot of the time. But it's absolutely doable. You also can be like me or Moth or Doo Doo or countless others on here who can actually do some amount of shitposting even within a serious thread so that it doesn't take on too much of a suffocatingly serious tone. These things are not mutually exclusive. The forum is different now. Guess what. Reality is different now. When I first joined this place I was a regular on about 20 forums, and this is the only one that is still open, never mind that I actually log into. I will grieve for a long time if this place ever closes, because it is a safehaven for me, and it being full of 'fun police' is part of what makes it a safehaven for someone like me. Nobody forces you to log on. Nobody forces you to reply. Nobody forces you to discuss. Nobody forces you to click on any thread. The block function exists. Administrate your own life, don't blame other people for ruining your 'fun.' Ashley being referred to as the tranny. Mickie James and Arbys. Just gross.
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lionheart21
Patti Mayonnaise
Once did a thing...
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Post by lionheart21 on Aug 9, 2024 9:04:34 GMT -5
Which makes them not shenanigans at all, really. EVIL SHENANIGANS! "I swear to God, I'll pistol whip the next guy that says shenanigans!"
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