[quote]baretta wrote:
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If you watch wrestling and enjoy it, you are probably mildly retarded. You should outgrow it by the time you start buying your old clothes. …
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You probably would have to be retarded to buy old clothes, especially if they were yours.
[quote]Steve4192 wrote:
Dweezil wrote:
Anyone who doesn’t grow out of wrestling is either a hick or suffering from some kind of lapse in their emotional development that causes them to find comfort in slabs of man-meat hugging and storylines that are fall somewhere between something written by a 14 year old on deviantart and second tier soap operas on Telemundo.
http://ww3.ics.adp.com/streetlink_data/dirWWE/annual/HTML1/wwe_ar2006_0025.htm
Average North American attendance: 4,990
Average North American ticket price: $37.34
Average International attendance: 9,160
Average International ticket price: $ 69.18
Strange.
For a ‘sport’ that only appeals to inbred yokels and trailer trash, they sure do seem to do pretty well with the cosmopolitan and sophisticated European crowd.[/quote]
If Europeans were so “sophisticated” why do they still have bad teeth?
[quote]baretta wrote:
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“Sophisticated” isn’t the word that I would use to describe Europe. That is the world marketing firms use to sell European products. North American quality of life is ahead of most other places in the world.[/quote]
Very true.
[quote]Steve4192 wrote:
http://ww3.ics.adp.com/streetlink_data/dirWWE/annual/HTML1/wwe_ar2006_0025.htm
Average North American attendance: 4,990
Average North American ticket price: $37.34
Average International attendance: 9,160
Average International ticket price: $ 69.18
Strange.
For a ‘sport’ that only appeals to inbred yokels and trailer trash, they sure do seem to do pretty well with the cosmopolitan and sophisticated European crowd.[/quote]
“International” does not equate “European.”
“European” does not equate “sophisticated.”
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
I just read where he strangled his wife and smothered his little boy. I’m sure he was mentally ill. If not, I hope he gets his punishment in Hell.[/quote]
It is my understanding that if he believed that Jesus is the Son of God and died for all “our” sins, he goes to heaven. That there were bibles next to his wife and son make me think he was a believer.
And if Jesus died for “our” sins, HH, then who are you to judge? Isn’t this your faith? Do you presume to trump Jesus as judge, jury and executioner? Interesting.
[quote]Dweezil wrote:
Liking professional wrestling is just admitting you have really, really bad taste. … It’s a bunch of shitty actors playing make believe while they’re oiled up and half naked.
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You mean like in that “300” movie? Agreed, people who watch action movies/wrestling are pretty much a bunch of hicktard mongloids (and possibly gay).
I understand that wrestling garners a lot of attention in Mexico. And Japan. And Europe. Rather than indicating that people are free to spend their money and time as they see fit, I see this as a clear indication of the ever-decreasing IQ of the general public. We better do something about all this damn “freedom” shit, or we’ll all be back up in the trees!
Yes, I’m from Arkansaw and to me, “dressing up” means putting on shoes and splashing on some “Old Spice”. I had a great deal of respect for the work that Benoit did in the ring, and I thought he was probably a pretty stable kind of guy in real life. It would appear that I was wrong, and he was seriously fucked in the head.
[quote]baretta wrote:
“Sophisticated” isn’t the word that I would use to describe Europe. That is the world marketing firms use to sell European products. North American quality of life is ahead of most other places in the world.[/quote]
I guess I should have included [sarcasm][/sarcasm] tags for the humor impaired.
[quote]Addicted wrote:
EMTERIC wrote:
Please T.C. would you step up to Kevin Hench the sports writer for fox and put him in his place if anyone can It would be you.
He gives a list and run down of all the wwf wrestlers who have died blaming steroids on their death stating that so and so died from pain killer O.D. but then adding that he used steroids in the past so it must have been the juice and others who killed themselves with gun shot’s and saying this guy also used A.S. in the past, WTF iF I had a good way to articulate my thought’s I would do it but sad enough I cant seem to put my thought’s on paper/screen very well.
http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/6964262?MSNHPHMA
This is my favorite:
Sorry pops, but COCAINE contributed to your sons death. Crazy/[/quote]
Agreed. The number of heart attacks on that list is staggering, but when you read that “so and so died after choking on his own vomit from comsuming 90 pain killers… oh, and steroids killed him too.”
WHAT!!! 90 F-IN PAIN KILLERS and you guys are STILL blaming steroids somehow. I don’t doubt that steroids taken in large amounts can have ill effects(as with ANY substace, water included), but to see that someone injected too much heroin, or took too many pain killers, and then make the HUGE jump to steroids is just stupid.
[quote]Dweezil wrote:
blackartsviper wrote:
OK this whole line is totally childish. It is like what people say about adults who still play video games. If you care what other people do with their time then you must be a really small person. It is there life not yours.
Liking professional wrestling is just admitting you have really, really bad taste. It’s like walking into your prom wearing a “Big Dog” t-shirt with sweat stains around the armpits. It’s like ordering a hamburger in a Chinese restaurant. It’s like getting a tattoo of an anime character on your wrist. It’s a bunch of shitty actors playing make believe while they’re oiled up and half naked.
Anyone who doesn’t grow out of wrestling is either a hick or suffering from some kind of lapse in their emotional development that causes them to find comfort in slabs of man-meat hugging and storylines that are fall somewhere between something written by a 14 year old on deviantart and second tier soap operas on Telemundo.[/quote]
Wow, Dweezil. It’s creepy that you even care. Seems to be some sort of psychological disorder that infuriates you that people watch a television program. And you tell others to grow up?
You aren’t experiencing a “roid rage” episode right now, are you?
[“The boy had old needle marks in his arms, Ballard said. He said he had been told the parents considered him undersized and had given him growth hormones.”
“The boy was very small, even dwarfed,” Ballard said.
I read this today in the NY Daily News. Let’s hope this is not the case. Once the toxicology tests come back, hopefully more light will be shed on this matter. It’s crazy to think someone ‘may have’ injected their kid with HGH because he ‘may have’ been born a dwarf. That’s the parents genes at work, not the kids. With all the craziness that this story is generating, let’s hope that’s one less log in the fire.
Either way it is a sad, sad thing for his other 2 kids to have to deal with.
[quote]Dweezil wrote:
The street is a dirt road, the houses are double wides, the shutters are made out of siding from a station wagon. The dogs are chained to trees and emaciated while the toddlers are drinking Keystone light. The Christmas lights are up all year round and they’re running low on funyons and cheese puffs.
The people on this street prefer the dollar store to Walmart because when they go to Walmart they have to get all dressed up. One would assume there is a Calvin pissing on something sticker within at the least a 2 mile radius.
The fact that I am a living adult who witnesses this requires some kind of judgment to be made.[/quote]
But that this actually drives you to wail about the travesty of life…
You need a hobby. Or a girlfriend to take your mind off all these important issues (like telling others how they should live) in your community. They’re happy with their low brow entertainment and you’re upset by it. Who do you think has the problem?
Stop your self righteous pontification.
[quote]baretta wrote:
There is no reason a father should ever hurt a 7 year old child, who is completely innocent of anything at that age. It makes me sick to imagine the fear that kid was experiencing leading up to his death, by his own father, a person that should protect and love him.[/quote]
Duh. That is the biggest straw man in the world. As if you’d find anyone to argue that killing a 7 year old child, his own, no less, is a good thing. Wow. Way to stand up for what’s right.
[quote]If you watch wrestling and enjoy it, you are probably mildly retarded. You should outgrow it by the time you start buying your own clothes. Flipping through the channels and passing it makes me dumber.
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Let’s also include Oprah, American Idol (and every reality tv show), cartoons and comics… ESPN and all sports in general, as none of these add to the evolution of a better society.
You sure impressed me with your opinion, baretta. NOT
[quote]JMB wrote:
This whole conversation reminds me of the quote from Max von Sydow’s character in the Woody Allen movie Hannah And Her Sisters: “Can you imagine the level of a mind that watches wrestling?”[/quote]
Can you imagine the level of blandness of a mind that watches a Woody Allen film?
[quote]kroby wrote:
Can you imagine the level of blandness of a mind that watches a Woody Allen film?[/quote]
uh… touche’?
[quote]fightingtiger wrote:
If you are ignorant enough to stereotype the entire audience of a television program as inbred hicks, simply because of your perception of that tv show, then how different are you from the white supremacist?[/quote]
Well, for a start, I haven’t killed any black people.
Recently, anyway.
I was going to kill Professor X. I had a wooden menorah I was getting ready to burn on this lawn, but then I saw a balloon and I started chasing it down a street.
Long story short, I ended up becoming an honorary member of a Girl Scout troupe and I made $42,000 over the course over a two day weekend selling refurnished Blackberry’s at a gun show for MSRP.
Gymnastics are on ESPN all the time, and they aren’t staged.
If you changed that to Cartoon Network and made it just for Adult Swim you probably wouldn’t be far off the mark.
The reason it’s actually impossible to refute my statement that all people who watch wrestling are hicks is because it’s true. This is like evolution, and you’re a creationist and you’re yelling about us coming from monkeys. Let’s get with the program, chief. John Cena isn’t captivating anyone other than malformed youths and people who think possum should be a dietary staple.
We have people to count it for us now. I am actually sitting in a chair lined with 100 dollar bills. The casing for the chair is made largely out of gold and any glue is actually the congealed blood of Christian children.
It’s pretty comfortable.
[quote]Steve4192 wrote:
http://ww3.ics.adp.com/streetlink_data/dirWWE/annual/HTML1/wwe_ar2006_0025.htm
Average North American attendance: 4,990
Average North American ticket price: $37.34
Average International attendance: 9,160
Average International ticket price: $ 69.18
Strange.
For a ‘sport’ that only appeals to inbred yokels and trailer trash, they sure do seem to do pretty well with the cosmopolitan and sophisticated European crowd. [/quote]
International events are less frequent and there isn’t a NASCAR in Europe to keep their trailer trash occupied, so this is a pretty big deal
The Euro is trading at 1.3 to the dollar. That is listed in dollars.
[quote]JMB wrote:
“International” does not equate “European.”
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In terms of WWE ticket sales it does. The vast majority of their international business is done in western European countries.
[quote]JMB wrote:
“European” does not equate “sophisticated.”[/quote]
I was being sarcastic.
[quote]kroby wrote:
You need a hobby. Or a girlfriend to take your mind off all these important issues (like telling others how they should live) in your community. They’re happy with their low brow entertainment and you’re upset by it. Who do you think has the problem?
Stop your self righteous pontification. [/quote]
Yes, I am very, very angry. Right now. I am furious about their choice in entertainment. Because by mocking them and pointing out that your average wrestling fan above the age of 18 has an IQ on-par with the temperature inside a meat locker I am infact entering into a state of rage.
Be careful, I might reach super-saiyan level 11 and start a small wrestling federation out of my backyard. It will be very extreme. Pants will be optional.
[quote]kroby wrote:
You sure impressed me with your opinion, baretta. NOT[/quote]
I would like to give you mad props for what you did here, by the way
It’s like you had me for a second. First off you were all like, you know, “you impressed me with your opinion”- but that was pretty confusing because it seemed you didn’t like his opinion.
It’s like you knocked me off balance for a second but then you dropped them bomb:
NOT!
BAM oh my god
It was like, “holy shit.” I actually said holy shit out loud, and my dog looked at me, and my dog was like “holy shit” too because what you did there was actually set it up so that people thought you were impressed by his opinion just so you could KNOCK IT DOWN. All of the sudden you were over here but it was like a juke and you just blew past everyone.
Seriously my heart is racing that was incredible.
[quote]Steve4192 wrote:
I was being sarcastic.[/quote]
Noted.
[quote]Dweezil wrote:
kroby wrote:
You need a hobby. Or a girlfriend to take your mind off all these important issues (like telling others how they should live) in your community. They’re happy with their low brow entertainment and you’re upset by it. Who do you think has the problem?
Stop your self righteous pontification.
Yes, I am very, very angry. Right now. I am furious about their choice in entertainment. Because by mocking them and pointing out that your average wrestling fan above the age of 18 has an IQ on-par with the temperature inside a meat locker I am infact entering into a state of rage.
Be careful, I might reach super-saiyan level 11 and start a small wrestling federation out of my backyard. It will be very extreme. Pants will be optional.
kroby wrote:
You sure impressed me with your opinion, baretta. NOT
I would like to give you mad props for what you did here, by the way
It’s like you had me for a second. First off you were all like, you know, “you impressed me with your opinion”- but that was pretty confusing because it seemed you didn’t like his opinion.
It’s like you knocked me off balance for a second but then you dropped them bomb:
NOT!
BAM oh my god
It was like, “holy shit.” I actually said holy shit out loud, and my dog looked at me, and my dog was like “holy shit” too because what you did there was actually set it up so that people thought you were impressed by his opinion just so you could KNOCK IT DOWN. All of the sudden you were over here but it was like a juke and you just blew past everyone.
Seriously my heart is racing that was incredible.[/quote]
“This shirt is black not”
[quote]kroby wrote:
baretta wrote:
There is no reason a father should ever hurt a 7 year old child, who is completely innocent of anything at that age. It makes me sick to imagine the fear that kid was experiencing leading up to his death, by his own father, a person that should protect and love him.
Duh. That is the biggest straw man in the world. As if you’d find anyone to argue that killing a 7 year old child, his own, no less, is a good thing. Wow. Way to stand up for what’s right.
If you watch wrestling and enjoy it, you are probably mildly retarded. You should outgrow it by the time you start buying your own clothes. Flipping through the channels and passing it makes me dumber.
Let’s also include Oprah, American Idol (and every reality tv show), cartoons and comics… ESPN and all sports in general, as none of these add to the evolution of a better society.
You sure impressed me with your opinion, baretta. NOT[/quote]
The point I was making is a rebuttal to the fact that some people think there was a reason for a man to have a breakdown like that, and were waiting for all the details to form an opinion. You’ve taken my post out of context.
TV has very little to do with the advancement of society. Of all the “reality” TV, wrestling is by far the show that probably has the stupidest audience. The plot lines could have been written by a child and the show itself appeals to people that like shiny objects, loud noises and sweaty half-naked men.
Your opinion of my opinion means very little to me.