Jingus

I would get along a lot better with feminists if they'd stuck to topics that were even vaguely backed up by facts. Like, you wanna talk about how the media's images of perfect female bodies (well, perfect after the makeup artists, costumers, personal trainers, dieticians, plastic surgeons, and airbrushers/computer graphics specialists are all done with them) have a horrible effect on the self-image of young girls, then I'd agree. But if they start babbling about how the male patriarchal culture is all centered around rape and women don't need men for any reason and blah blah blah, I start looking around for some sort of phallus-shaped object to slap* them with. And yes, some people here have some serious issues. Why is it that every time the attractiveness of any WWE Diva is under discussion, some yahoo always says that she looks like a transvestite? (Aside from the dirty little secret that the female wrestlers mostly do steroids too?) *Okay, not really, I'm too much of a pussywhipped "gentleman" to actually hit a girl, but there have been times when I really wanted to.

Yeah, goddamn, I know the course designers on NW enjoy being blatantly unfair (if you're too short, you can't win, period). But there's a difference between "unfair" and "fucking impossible by any member of the human species".

Oh yeah, Reeves was painfully miscast, I would've gone with a Clive Owen type. But the movie was so much better than I'd expected it to be, I was dreading some sort of Johnny Mnemonic Goes To Hell fiasco, that I thought it was pretty good. Also, it makes me cry that Marsters can't seem to find any work besides Smallville ever since his old tv shows died.

Oh GOD yes. And I'm a confirmed ECW mark, but that shit never made sense, especially when in the same match they'd go back and forth between tornado brawling and waiting for the hot tag! That's one of those things that's become a cliche because of intellectually lazy wrestlers putting together cookie-cutter matches. In general, it's a thing that heels do to pantomine "hey face, hit me, fire up for a comeback". It's also got the added advantage that if the guy doesn't turn around in time, you can just club him over the back, and then raise 'em back up in the axe handle so he can hit you this time. But when it's used in an identical fashion damn near every time you see it, it loses its effectiveness. Just like my biggest pet peeve, the sleeper hold spot that puts the babyface down on the mat, the ref checks him, the arm drops twice but somehow in between #2 and #3 he magically regains consciousness, stands up, elbows the guy in the guy exactly three times, then bounces off the ropes to continue the match. Jesus CHRIST I got tired of seeing that spot three, four, five times a night back when I was a commentator.

Holy fucking shit, that's brutal. The jump into the splits climb, that round copper thing with the crappy handholds, the Die Hard "catch yourself on this rope and try not to get your head cut off" slide bit... jesus, that made me hurt just watching it.

I aim to please. And to win "whose life sucks more" contests. My misery dick is bigger than ANYONE's, dammit.

Actually, I'm from Tennessee, just moved to Texas recently. But, yeah, just from knowing the locals, I knew that Bush would win the electoral votes and Gore would be locked out of his own state (he'd just gotten too dang liberal for the bible belt's taste). But we couldn't have just invaded and then left as soon as we got Saddam. I mean, we blew up a LOT of shit taking out his government. If we hadn't stayed to help rebuild the infrastructure and at least attempt to enforce the peace, things in Iraq would be a lot worse off than they are now. And even the terrorists don't seem to consider the Americans their biggest enemy; they kill way more fellow Muslims than they do of us.

Stop dreaming about me. And c'mon, inspiring a fight like me vs. Luke? You must be at least two hundred pounds to get on that ride.

I was wondering that too. Technically, any land on earth is an island, if you just back up far enough in your view of it.

I don't know about a hand, but I think I got a finger for ya. I've had dreams with wrestlers in them too. Pretty random, usually in the setting of a wrestling show, but since I worked at least one show per week for about five years it's no wonder my neurons have reconfigured to include them in my somnaic landscape.

Um... which part of it do you think is bullshit? Cuz you quoted the whole thing, but it can't be ALL bullshit.

Speed 2... thumbs up?! That statement is antithetical. Then again, Roger is the same guy who gave Anaconda three and a half stars. Sometimes those guys really can't tell good mindless action flicks from bad ones (Constantine didn't deserve the complete burial it got).

American Gladiators had some really fucking cool events, but it just doesn't match the nihilistic pleasure of watching a hundred people in a row FAIL to beat the world's most satanically difficult obstacle course.

They've repeatedly proved that they're going to do absolutely nothing. At this point, I wouldn't trust the UN to do a pull-apart on a wrestling show. What do you mean, "you people"?! [/sykes] Anyway, I'm not a republican, or a conservative. Hell, I voted for Nader. (I knew Bush was winning my state no matter what, so I just randomly picked my choice.)

Except he's let them do that show for the past decade. I also think a Ross/Bradshaw team would be great. It would finally give Ross a color guy with something worthwhile to say other than interjections of "Puppies!" (seriously, he's toned down some in recent years but go listen to Lawler in any match involving a woman in any way from a few years back, he never shuts the fuck up about sex). I miss good old Joey Styles. You know, the one who did such an amazing announcing job on the first One Night Stand. I don't trust this Tenay Lite clone they've got sitting next to Taz(z).

Yeah, it's like, jesus, don't ever show the guys marking out for Orton's kicks any tapes of old Bruiser Brody matches, or their heads might explode.

Alright then, what's the comparative number of serious injuries from Vietnam to Iraq? And yeah, soldiers are gonna get irreperably damaged. That's kinda what they do. This isn't a draft situation, every one of these people knew the risks and still volunteered anyway. You could argue about the ever-lengthening tours and how some people are being kept there too long to maintain their effectiveness, and then you'd have a point, but don't just go "war is hell" and make that an argument.

So, which one is it? We should deploy more troops, or we could never deploy enough troops?

Pretty much my feelings too. Especially those kicks, they look so goddamned weak, I can't believe anyone would buy that they could put someone on the shelf.

Oh. Are they? Never noticed. We need welshjerichomark back.

He's probably just pissed off that you guys refer to soccer as "football". In Texas, American football is damn near literally a religion. Many of the high schools around here have bigger & more elaborate football fields than your average college. We've got at least a dozen brits, but no scots or irish. How does that work?

Oh yeah. When you've doing live commentary on a match, it's easy to fall into a pattern and say the same stuff. When I was doing play by play, I had this annoying tendency to say "One, two, NO!" every time there was a near fall.

Cuz my mom's insane with germ-based OCD and insists that we are all required to wear shoes if we go outside (or even into the garage) but are verboten to wear them inside, because she's got some theory about how wearing shoes inside the house makes our oldest cat vomit a lot. So I wanted some shoes I could get in & out of quickly and easily, plus they were hella cheap at walmart.

Freud would've had a lot to say about this one. I think Kitana's hawt. We should organize an internet petition for her to show more brestsies.

The Iraq-Vietnam comparisons are bullshit anyway. Vietnam had an American death rate that was literally about a hundred times higher than what we're currently experiencing.