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Hush, don't fuck up my chance to do drugs I've not done in months with a girl who lives thousands of miles away.

That's probably got something to do with it, but not the whole answer. Murder rates have a life on their own. They were low at the turn of the century, rose sharply during the 20s, dropped again around WWII, started rising sharply once again in the late 60s, peaked in 1980, slowly dropped a little bit over the next fifteen years, and then dropped dramatically in the late 90s. The quality of emergency room service can't singlehandedly explain all that.

There's already at least a couple indy promotions called FTW, one in Tennessee ("Fusion Tradition Wrestling"), and I forget where the other one is, but I'm sure there are others. I know it's hard to come up with any new name that someone somewhere isn't already using, but any old ECW fan has probably thought of using the initials FTW for their promotion.

I fucking hate Punk and would gladly believe any credible story which made him sound like a douche, but even I don't think this sounds legit. It's a very badly written story which seems terribly confused as to exactly what was going on; on some subjects it magically has all the details, while on others it's maddeningly vague. Seems to go back and forth between trying to make Punk look like a jerk and make the entire crowd that gathered all sound like retards.

I didn't realise there were so many Australian-haters. Read the first post of the "Guns" thread to understand. Yeah, America has its share of deaths, sure. Less of a share than Mexico, South Africa, or Russia, which are just a few examples of significantly higher murder rates, but nobody ever mentions that part.

After the jesus freak screaming on a bullhorn for three hours in Endgame, I doubt anyone's gonna watch another movie you post here. However, I will be perfectly happy to watch the whole thing and provide amother point-by-point detailed critique, IF you find me at least half of the stuff I requested in the wrestling downloads thread.

Speed Racer was always crap, so it's no surprise that the movie looks like garbage. The old cartoon was badly animated with generic plots and had the absolute fucking dirt worst dubbed dialogue and voice acting that has ever been spoken in the history of the English language. The only positive it had going was that, unlike American cartoons, people actually got killed.

Check it for yourself. Our current murder rate is the lowest it's been in forty years. It's now half what it was at its highest point, in 1980.

If you provide me with any of the following requests, if honest men like yourselves should have enemies, then they would become my enemies, and then they would fear you. Kurt Angle vs. Ric Flair, WWE Raw 6-27-05 Kenta Kobashi/Homicide vs. Samoa Joe/Low-Ki, ROH "Unforgettable" 10-2-05 anything from either of the Queen of the Deathmatch tournaments, IWA Mid-South anything involving Mickie Knuckles at all, come to think of it Chuck Taylor vs. anybody every scrap of footage involving Daffney in any capacity Someday, and that day may never come, I may do a favor for you in return...

Actually, the murder rate is down, way down from previous decades. Yet studies show that the news media tends to do more reporting about crime now than they've ever done before. Sets up a false feeling that everything is getting worse. The one thing that is up is the rate of random "I'm gonna go kill everyone I see" massacres. These sorts of crimes have historical precedence, don't forget the Charles Whitman bell tower snipings which happened before any of us were born, but there have been more of them in the past ten years or so than previously. Considering that it's harder to get guns now than it was back when these incidents were more rare, obviously gun control hasn't worked in this particular type of situation.

A bit here from Lance Storm's latest commentary knocking TNA: Let's repeat that: WWE's worst PPV drew more buys than TNA's best show. Also, take a look at how accurate one of his commentaries from a year and a half ago turned out to be, on the subject of the Nash vs. the X Division angle: Of course, that angle proceeded with Nash destroying every X Division member he got near, and then when he was finally supposed to do a job to Chris Sabin, he Mysteriously Hurt His Neck and the whole angle was dropped with nothing ever getting resolved. What a great alternative TNA is.

Seriously? Now THAT'S funny. Jillian is officially the first heel "crappy egotistical musician" character in wrestling history who really DOES have an album out. Thus she has succeeded where the likes of Double J and Three Count have all failed. That being said, I think she's way over the top with the bad singing gimmick. Yeah, I know she's supposed to suck, but she could at least go for a "Ashlee Simpson unplugged" sort of sucking rather than screeching in the way she does, where it's all too obvious that she's trying to sound as off-key as possible.

WWE 24/7 is certainly worth the price. But most people plain can't get it. You have to have digital cable with OnDemand capabilities, and that's less than half the households in the country. I live in a decent-sized suburb just half an hour away from downtown Dallas, but the cable companies don't even run out here, it's either Dish or nothing.

Oh come on, Anderson's a complete hack. Event Horizon was nothing but the mutant result tossing of Hellraiser and Solaris into a blender, Resident Evil turned a great survival horror game into a shiity zombie movie, the best thing you can say about Mortal Kombat is "at least it doesn't suck as much as most video game movies do", and AvP somehow managed to be even worse than the crappy sequels it was following.

I'm not an Australian-hater like so many foreigners are becoming these days, but for GOD'S SAKE, fucking do something about your god damn judicial acceptance of pedophilic gang rape problem. Fuck.

Oh yeah, plenty of bigger problems. Every time I hear a public outcry about anything that's killing people in this country, I wonder why nobody seems to care about the untold millions of deaths in car accidents. Nobody ever seems to give a shit about stopping the number one cause of death in America. Sort of. Those two guys had full-auto AK-47s, iirc. The cops just had their 9mms and 12-gauges, which don't have great penetration on heavy-duty body armor without specialized ammunition. So they went to the gun store and requisitioned a few hunting rifles. I don't know of the rifles even really affected the outcome; one of the robbers was clipped in the back of the leg by a bullet that snuck in between a gap in the armor, and it severed his femoral artery and the guy bled to death pretty quick. The other one shot himself (ironically, it might have been on accident; the footage and forensics are somewhat disputed on whether he deliberately committed suicide or just dropped his pistol and inadvertently shot himself in the face while trying to pick it up again).

It's practically impossible for there to be any real permanent action taken. There are so many guns in this country (more than one gun for every single person), even if they were all outlawed tomorrow, it would take decades to collect them and lots of 'em would just vanish into a new black market which would inevitably spring up. Plus our large, relatively undefended borders make smuggling stuff into the US a relatively easy task. I know it's a tired NRA cliche, but it really is true that if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. One time a maniac broke into my family's home. With an illegal unlicensed pistol that the law said he wasn't supposed to have, he shot my father full of holes. My dad saved himself by loading his legal, licensed shotgun and running the bastard off. So fuck gun control. If the whining assholes who advocate it had their way, my father would be dead right now because of them.

Firstly, every single time a wrestling show is pre-empted and airs on a different night, the ratings go down significantly. It sure as hell happened to TNA when they did that Monday night special. Hell, even in circumstances like the time Raw aired on Sci-Fi because of something else running in that timeslot on USA, and they ran a replay of Raw on USA later that night, the ratings till took a pretty big hit. As to why ECW started at a 2.7 and then dropped? Simple: for a long time, ECW sucked. From its first episode until around the end of the Lashley era, ECW was pretty consistently the worst wrestling show on television. Nonsensical or nonexistant angles, short repetitive matches, lack of big stars, big pushes given to untalented people, and a creative staff which either had no idea how to book the original ECW guys or was actively trying to bury them. A year of pure crap like that will drive anyone away.

I don't buy the 1% number. That would mean that TNA's website gets less than 10,000 hits per week. Then again, maybe TNA's numbers ARE that low. I've seen plenty of kids in the library on WWE.com at some point. Never seen a kid on whateverTNA'sdomainnameis.com.

No they haven't. WWF treated WCW like a threat. WWE treats TNA like they don't even exist. They're not scrapping anything, they just signed a new contract a few weeks ago. As for improving it, hell, it gets better ratings than Velocity or most of Heat ever did, and it's essentially that kind of C-show. It costs them practically nothing to produce since they tape it with Smackdown, so most of the advertising revenue and such that they get off the show basically amounts to free money.

Wrestling doesn't adhere to the same rules as other TV shows, and it annoys me whenever they try to (for example, magic invisible cameras in the backstage areas that the wrestlers never notice, retarded bullshit like Hornswaggle painting a door on the side of a wall). Also, they tend to be under stricter guidelines in terms of what they can get away with. Imagine if they tried some of the same stuff that The Shield does every week; it would be PTC all over again. Wrestling's very worst and edgiest moments like the Kiss My Ass Club or Katie Vick is downright tame compared to, say, any episode of Oz ever. I don't think Joe's promo was all that incomprehensible. He's a young guy and former X division champion, saying he likes the X division and the other rookies, and doesn't like former WWE superstars who coast on their name recognition. Considering that he was standing in the same ring with former WWE champion who moves like a drugged sloth and has shiny gray hair, I don't think it's too much of a stretch for any audience member to figure out what type of guy he's talking about. Of course, the tepid crowd reaction would argue that the audience didn't care or necessarily agree with what he was saying, but that's another matter.

I think I was exaggerating, but it was definitely over 20, maybe 25. Yeah, it doesn't sound right at all, that's why I mentioned it. Oh, for the most part it's not, like most RPGs it all depends on how much time you spend levelling up. Don't do it at all, and you get killed in every random battle; spend too much time getting experience, and you become basically invincible. I just found this one example to be kinda weird because I'd literally killed two or three hours just killing critters and levelling up, but I still got killed in battle. Here's a fun one: damn near any badly-designed ladder or cage match in modern wrestling games. Every time you try to climb up, the computer opponent leaps up and stops you instantly; then it casually knocks you out and climbs to victory without you being able to do a damn thing about it. Seen it too many times to count, in too many different games to possibly be excusable.

Look at it this way: if some random poster here said they were gonna wake up one morning and get themselves a gun, wouldn't the reaction be pretty much the same kind of thing?

I'm not a Punk mark, quite the opposite, but I thought that TLC match was okay. Way too long with way too many highspots, they both should've been dead, but still entertaining while it lasted. The one people should bitch about is the 93 MINUTE marathon they had, which was out of necessity just 75% them laying around in holds. Hero is such a chameleon from year to year and fed to fed that it's like he's a whole bunch of different guys in one. The Hero from the "two guys nobody gives a fuck about" match at the first Juggalo Championshit Wrestling show is a completely different animal from Ironman Hero vs. Punk, which is completely different from Euro Hero trading off spinning wristlocks with Quack & co, is different from Asshole CZW Hero from their ROH invasion, is different from Komedy Kings of Wrestling Hero in Chikara, is different from House Show Hero working random little indy feds all across the country... so forth and so on. He's obviously got all the wrestling skill anyone will ever need and THEN some, but his ability to work it into an entertaining story seems to change depending on his opponent and the particular angle. I haven't seen many of his promos, he seems like a competent if unspectacular talker. He's just fine as a top independent wrestler, but does seem to be lacking that extra oomph, that special something which makes the Bryan Danielsons of the world separate from the herd. The funny thing: the one knock I've always heard about Hero over and over again is that supposedly he's got a shitty look. Everyone from Jim Cornette on down has supposedly said that Hero could play in the big leagues if he would just get some better gear and get in the gym more. Yet he's in the same basic shape and wearing the same kind of stuff that Homicide, Red, and a thousand other indy guys all do.

TNA did the exact same 1.1 rating it's been doing for weeks, with no change despite being up against ECW. That suggests that TNA's audience is entirely made up of people who simply don't watch the WWE's C-show product. Compare that to when they tried to run on Monday night, and got stomped on with an embarassingly low rating going up against Raw. TNA is a failure plain and simple because it's never drawn a profit. They don't charge admission for the fans, their PPV buyrates started low and stayed there, the run infrequent house shows with meager crowds, and iirc under their deal with Spike they don't get any advertising revenue from their TV show. They sure as hell don't make decent money off their merchandise, comparing the WWE dvd sales to TNA's on places like Amazon. They've practically set themselves up to lose money, guaranteed.