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1 hour ago, safe sex said:

My fave style of wrestling will always be the 70s/80s/90s mid-South/WCW style. The new stuff is too fast and flippy and makes it completely impossible to suspend any disbelief

This. There’s a pro wrestling school in Austin that puts on shows every two weeks or so, and the style reminds me of the old territories. 

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24 minutes ago, Red Five said:

We don't even really talk about it here anymore when the President sends out messages to the world that are 100% nonsense. Forget actual news outlets treating them as if they are real stories they need to be covering. Just, "Yep, the president is insane alright. Nothing new there. So, wrestling talk?" 

Maga wants people in prison for Biden's mental acuity, but all the Trump Truth Social batshittery is A-OK.

Let's imagine the reactions if Obama did <fill in the blank with any of the crazy shit Trump says or does>.

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10 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

This. There’s a pro wrestling school in Austin that puts on shows every two weeks or so, and the style reminds me of the old territories. 

I missed out on Wrestlecircus tickets before they folded, but wasn't aware of a school in town. Very cool.

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I thought this was a parody at first....

 

Guess it is lost on the Trump administration the story highlights an immigrant family

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42 minutes ago, C-Man said:


Posted at 1:49AM.

(Or does the time reflect where the person who is reading it is located?)

 

I think it is based of the time zone of the device that sent it.

Either way, why does America's Grandpa need to be up at 2 am blabbering nonsense?  

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2 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

I think it is based of the time zone of the device that sent it.

Either way, why does America's Grandpa Batshit Crazy Uncle need to be up at 2 am blabbering nonsense?  

Fixed it for you

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1 hour ago, safe sex said:

I missed out on Wrestlecircus tickets before they folded, but wasn't aware of a school in town. Very cool.

I’ve been to both (several times) and I much prefer AAPW. Wrestle Circus was more polished and they brought in some established talent. But it always felt like a one-off event. There were no promos, no storylines, etc. You were just there to watch two people fake fight each other, with no narrative context. Kind of takes the fun out of it. 

AAPW is rougher in terms of the actual wrestling. It’s a school, and the performers are students with varying amounts of experience and talent (some are really talented, though). But they put more effort into creating storylines and characters that make the show what it should be: a stupid soap opera that allows you to enjoy the obviously fake fighting as a work of immersive fiction. Hell, there was a turn at a recent show that even my wife was fucking stunned and upset by —  jaw dropped to the floor, gasped, stared at the screen in shock — and she thinks wrestling is stupid nonsense (which… fair enough). 

Plus, it’s like $20 and BYOB. Definitely worth checking out if you’re a fan of the territories from the 70s and 80s.

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12 minutes ago, Red Five said:

In my 48 years on earth I have never once even for a second understood the appeal of pro wrestling. Even as a kid I was always lost. Diff'rent strokes. 

right behind you at 46 and same. never could suspend disbelief.

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3 minutes ago, Red Five said:

In my 48 years on earth I have never once even for a second understood the appeal of pro wrestling. Even as a kid I was always lost. Diff'rent strokes. 

The narrative psychology of the business is fascinating. A good live wrestling show has you suspending disbelief and consciously participating in the scam at the same time.

Because I grew up watching wrestling as a kid, I immediately understood what Trump was doing back in 2015 and how he was working crowds. As noted upthread, he’s a carnie. A damned good one, too. He used the crowd psychology of wrestling to get a shitload of people rooting for him and against everyone else in a way that is simultaneously both very real and entirely tongue-in-cheek. Wrestling fans root for their guy NO MATTER WHAT and they’re entirely comfortable distorting morals to justify the bad behavior of their hero while denouncing the other guy for far less. They know what they’re doing; they just think that’s what they’re supposed to do. Trump basically telegraphed that politics isn’t a serious thing that they have to apply their rational brains to, but can instead approach it with the kind of  shameless hypocritical bias that  wrestling fans employ.

Ironically, wrestling fans seem to understand this better than most groups, and they fucking hate Trump and others like him (Hogan, McMahon, HHH).

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1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

There is no chance Trump knew who Charlamagne Tha God was before that.

 

He’s posted about him before.

 

But I’m confused as to what the post was actually saying. Was he mad that Charlemagne (who is on the shit list of the Black community and is trying to get off it) was on Lara’s show? 

 

EDIT: okay, I see that Charlemagne was hosting TDS and outlined the symptoms of dementia and showed how Fat Boy has them. That’s what has him mad.

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4 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

The narrative psychology of the business is fascinating. A good live wrestling show has you suspending disbelief and consciously participating in the scam at the same time.

Because I grew up watching wrestling as a kid, I immediately understood what Trump was doing back in 2015 and how he was working crowds. As noted upthread, he’s a carnie. A damned good one, too. He used the crowd psychology of wrestling to get a shitload of people rooting for him and against everyone else in a way that is simultaneously both very real and entirely tongue-in-cheek. Wrestling fans root for their guy NO MATTER WHAT and they’re entirely comfortable distorting morals to justify the bad behavior of their hero while denouncing the other guy for far less. They know what they’re doing; they just think that’s what they’re supposed to do. Trump basically telegraphed that politics isn’t a serious thing that they have to apply their rational brains to, but can instead approach it with the kind of  shameless hypocritical bias that  wrestling fans employ.

Ironically, wrestling fans seem to understand this better than most groups, and they fucking hate Trump and others like him (Hogan, McMahon, HHH).

Yeah, I needed John Oliver to explain all that to me.

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1 minute ago, Pancho said:

 

He’s posted about him before.

 

But I’m confused as to what the post was actually saying. Was he mad that Charlemagne (who is on the shit list of the Black community and is trying to get off it) was on Lara’s show? 

 

EDIT: okay, I see that Charlemagne was hosting TDS and outlined the symptoms of dementia and showed how Fat Boy has them. That’s what has him mad.


What's the story here?

 

His daily show appearances are pretty hit or miss with me. Sometimes I agree, other times I don't.  I will say he's gotten better over the years.

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7 minutes ago, Pancho said:

 

He’s posted about him before.

 

But I’m confused as to what the post was actually saying. Was he mad that Charlemagne (who is on the shit list of the Black community and is trying to get off it) was on Lara’s show? 

 

EDIT: okay, I see that Charlemagne was hosting TDS and outlined the symptoms of dementia and showed how Fat Boy has them. That’s what has him mad.

 

Actually, no Charlamagne was actually on Lara’s show lol

 

 

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7 minutes ago, Covri said:


What's the story here?

 

His daily show appearances are pretty hit or miss with me. Sometimes I agree, other times I don't.  I will say he's gotten better over the years.

 

He said a lot of hurtful shit about Kamala and Dems prior to the election and gave Fat Boy praise in some areas. He did it before the 2020 election too with Biden.

 

He’s probably a step below Shaun King on the Black community’s hate board. You already know who is #1 for 12 years running.

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3 minutes ago, Pancho said:

He’s probably a step below Shaun King on the Black community’s hate board. You already know who is #1 for 12 years running.

Carlton from Fresh Prince.

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1 hour ago, Red Five said:

In my 48 years on earth I have never once even for a second understood the appeal of pro wrestling. Even as a kid I was always lost. Diff'rent strokes. 

 

If you think of it as soap opera for men, it makes perfect sense.

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3 hours ago, miguelito said:

A friend of mine went to midget luchador wrestling in Bandera a few weeks ago.  

True story.

And a 100% guarantee that no one in Bandera was able to see it on TV.

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22 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

If you think of it as soap opera for men, it makes perfect sense.

Or think of it as an action movie or Western or something. No one goes to the theater and thinks it’s weird that the audience is so invested in seeing Luke Skywalker win a choreographed fake fight against a walking cartoon character in a goofy mask.

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2 hours ago, Red Five said:

In my 48 years on earth I have never once even for a second understood the appeal of pro wrestling. Even as a kid I was always lost. Diff'rent strokes. 

 

2 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

right behind you at 46 and same. never could suspend disbelief.

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I started suspecting something might be up when we moved to southeast Texas and got cable. I saw a match on TBS where the Freebirds were being cheered instead of booed. 
 

 

Then I realized the people in Atlanta are all just assholes

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4 hours ago, pacman said:

I thought this was a parody at first....

 

Guess it is lost on the Trump administration the story highlights an immigrant family

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Who paid the tariff because it’s a foreign film?

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Yeah it’s crazy that people thought a pizza parlor had kids in the basement but they also believe Donnie isn’t guilty of having sexual with underage girls. 

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4 hours ago, Red Five said:

In my 48 years on earth I have never once even for a second understood the appeal of pro wrestling. Even as a kid I was always lost. Diff'rent strokes. 

Same.  That or "reality tv".  I've never seen a single episode of any reality series and any wrestling I've seen has been by accident at bars.

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7 hours ago, safe sex said:

The new stuff is too fast and flippy and makes it completely impossible to suspend any disbelief,

They got rid of all the personalities, and all the wrestlers are the same.

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3 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

They got rid of all the personalities, and all the wrestlers are the same.

That’s usually what happens when you stop letting them be their own gimmicks and instead leave everything to the comedy writers 

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44 minutes ago, Clintonaldo said:

Yeah it’s crazy that people thought a pizza parlor had kids in the basement but they also believe Donnie isn’t guilty of having sexual with underage girls. 

* a basement that literally doesn't exist

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Karoline says he should get a Nobel Peace prize for stopping five wars in six months.  You can’t make this shit up.  Oh wait, she did. 

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17 minutes ago, VABuckeye said:

Karoline says he should get a Nobel Peace prize for stopping five wars in six months.  You can’t make this shit up.  Oh wait, she did. 

Yep, I know. And she said "Noble". If the committee doesn't give it to him he is going to go full blown nuclear, like a 8 year old. He'll accuse the world of being against him and everything being rigged. Non stop. Just like he does EVERY DAY!

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Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, safe sex said:

I have such a crush on those ladies. 

Me too. I would let them tag team me.

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