RavishingRickRudo

Why bitch about me in this thread? I already gave the reasons for the soup treatment, and it seems to work pretty well. I don't need to PM a mod because the mods are smart enough to know which threads to close, they do good work, what I try to do is prevent people from seriously responding to a shitty thread. Laugh and mock that all you want, you guys really aren't any different.

*"Ultimate Fighter 3" bounced back from last week and did a 1.9 rating on Thursday night. "Unleashed" featuring Royce Gracie did a 1.4. - LAW 1.9, fuck yeah! This is the weirdest viewing audience. You think Tito/Forrest had anything to do with it? Or was last week just a blip? Granted, we haven't gotten the full picture and can only speculate from just three ratings, but damn, I'm confused.

I'm sure you do. And the whole point of the soup thing is to get it moved or closed, so that would be great as well.

Go back to the peanut gallery, take Slayer with you.

Off topic is off topic. What does them thinking Melina is good looking have to do with Randy Orton being suspended? What does someone drawing anime pictures of wrestlers have to do with Randy Orton being suspended? I don't care about threads going off-topic. However, I am not the one speaking out against it while doing it myself. I am just pointing out the hypocrisy in those two dumbfucks bitching about me doing it as if they weren't doing it in the same fucking thread for a longer period of time. I had, what, 3 or 4 posts related to cereal? Then after that, after being asked to stop (which apparently never happens to me, according to Lushus) I did and then balanced it out with posts that were on topic, offered a different perspective, and helped add to the discussion. Lushus had as many if not more posts regarding a fucking cartoon than I did about cereal. How about you go and actually read that thread before you go on talking about it, eh?

BTW, the only reason I started those two soup discussions was in response to threads that were made by, guess what, TROLLS. Trolls live to be responded to, you ignore their trolling and they go away. The thing is, people here tend to feed trolls and respond to these threads and it proliferates. What the soup discussion does is it curbs that until the thread gets closed and the trolls move on realizing that its useless to start retarded threads.

The issue was about me "derailing threads". I bring up Melina being hassled and relating it to the possibility of Orton being the cause of it and their response is "Melina has a gap in her teeth" and "she's good looking". Which is just one instance of many in that thread alone about them going off topic and off point. Yet they feel they have the right to bitch about ME derailing threads? It's pure hypocrisy. Porter, how many worthless one line posts did you make in that thread? Next time you make comments about what I post, take a look at your own and realize how fucking shitty they are and then shut the fuck up.

It's a powerful thing, soup. You never know how popular it is and how many people care about it until you actually sit down and talk about it. Ruins lives, really.

Btw, guys, get over it. I called you morons a while back. So what? Quit crying about it.

I agree...when anyone else constantly does stuff like that, they get warned, banned, whatever...but, oh, it's okay when he does it...bullshit. I don't give a fuck how smarky he is, that doesn't give him the right to derail a thread just because HE doesn't like it...oh, by the way Rudo, it's severly unfunny and oldhat and switching it up with cereal doesn't make it any funnier or newer. - Canadian Chick - My next post - Porters Next 2 Posts - Black Lushus' next post Now, I know I am such a huge troll who has done the soup treatment while quality posters such as Black Lushus and Porter do nothing but add insight and well-crafted posts that always add to the greater knowledge of this board (why, I had never noticed Melinas teeth before) and I am just running around CRAZY and UNCHAINED on TSM, but I wish to defend myself against these rather slanderous allegations by stating that the soup and cracker treatment was used all of TWO times, in threads that had "KANYON IZ A FAG" as its content, and the third time I used it, when told to stop by a mod, I did (as shown above) and actually did something that superposters Black Lushus and Porter failed to do - ADD SOMETHING TO THE DISCUSSION. But shit, talking about Melina and anime pictures of WWE wrestlers clearly is better than whatever I bring to the table... "Well-reasoned arguments", I think they are called? Clearly not as good. Another word for "troll" those is.

I feel the love, I really do.

"James, you forgot to flush the toilet." "Jesus, Spock, don't you see the sock on the door knob. I'm gettin my Kirk on here."

So Spock and Kirk crash on a mysterious island and the movie intercuts flashbacks with the present day? "Spock... What do these numbers... mean? FOUR?.... EIGHT? .... FIFTEEN??"

http://streaming1.vidilife.com/vidilife/vi.../5216/48203.wmv The 20 Greatest Comebacks in UFC/PRIDE. Great vid. Not so great music.

Styles as an honest announcer is a bit of a laugh. He's always been a bitch-boy, doing what he was told, saying what he was told to say, it's just he has a different hand up his ass now.

It would be odd to have that concept and then have coaches. They would need someone like Miletich as a coach (also with the comeback story) and, like, Frank Shamrock.

BEHOLD THE AWESOME http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CosM-f6V_sg Cro Cop vs. Fedor Promo Vid before their fight at the GP Finals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ObrQxYAIo&search=pride Also: The Opening ceremony from the event http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG8Mc-ktME4 The end credits to the quarter-finals (I think this was posted before, but fuck it, its hilarious) As much as I love the UFC, PRIDE just smokes it in terms of presentation. Nothing can top Wanderleis kid wearing a cookie monster Tshirt, or the Chute Boxe team yelling HEEEEEY! in Shoguns ears.

I hear that the Hammer House enjoys Ranch while Team Quest is more Sweet and Sour. AKA? Honey Mustard.

Taylor mainly looks annoyed in pretty much all (candid) pictures it seems. Which is hilarious. And Kellie/Katharine is a great relationship. Take solice with the fact that Katharine would be the man. "Wuts that?" "GOSH" "Ain't that one of them hobbits from Lord of the Rings?"

Ever since you became just Adam you haven't been so nice, guy. I don't know if it is illegal, but it is generally unwise given the injury rate among fighters to hold one day tournaments. Plus, though I like the idea of building the LW division, it wouldn't be the big deal that I was suggesting UFC put on a Live Spike Card. Though a LW title match + a MW or WW title match would fit the bill.

This, btw, is the best photo. She has some nice gams, too. It's a shame she's always coverin em up. (Yes, I did write that just so I could use the word "gams")

It's interesting... where ones focus is directed in that picture... The photographer clearly is a filthy, filthy, wonderful man, with how the mic stand is positioned and how she holds it and where she holds it to. How the couch is shaped. I do love how the third pic shows off her curves. Her waist-to-ass deal there is quite the, um, thing. And BOOBIES!

Ya, next season will be its last, as it is the last on both Graham and Bledels contract. The disagreement with the WB came from Amy wanting 2 seasons, I hear. Apparently they offered her 5 million for one season and she still turned it down.

I should note this is one of the things I love about MMA. The more guys who get over, the better it is, and there isn't this worry about upstaging the top guys, since the top guys are the top guys because they deserve to be there and are that good. And stars can be made in just one fight. However, there is a problem of sustaining stars and creating superstars. Few guys in MMA are superstars - Chuck Liddell is one, Rich Franklin is close, Matt Hughes is getting there as well, Tito and Forrest are up there. And that's about it (actually, thats a heckuvalot more than the WWE has). The unpredictable nature which can sometimes create stars often hurts companies because guys lose, and so much emphasis is placed on wins and losses. Fans want to get behind someone who doesn't lose, they want to cheer guys and feel confident in saying "My guy is going to kick that other guys ass!" and then end up being right. This is a form of fan gratification that the WWE simply doesn't have right now - to have fans confidently rally around a wrestler, and I think that's partially, if not subconsciously, because few wrestlers have had the chance to shine and validate that support due to the glass ceiling.

There's also negatives about that, though. Taking control of the card is important for a booker in regards to long-term planning, but there is something to be said about allowing every guy to go out there and get himself over as much as possible, so you can get as many potential new stars over. The WWE has had such control over their wrestlers and continually force a select few guys for one reason or another (and rarely has to do with talent or overness) down the fans' throats that they severely limit that potential, which is why there are so few new stars created in that company. They want to control everything to where the guys who amazingly do get over on their own are often punished because the structure doesn't allow it, so the WWE will try to -at best- fit them in down the road, and by then most of the heat is gone. However, if you just have everyone trying to get over and doing all these wild stunts, and have no control, it will be a disaster. There's an Indy show I go to that is a perfect example of that because they put on all these insane matches in a row and by the last match the crowd is spent and that's the match everyone came to see, and that's the match the company spent the most money on. And by the end of the night, there isn't one or two stand outs, there are just a bunch of guys who get jumbled together in my memory. So, as a company, you want to still present a clear voice and focus - because that effectively transfers over to the audience. PLUS, in regards to marketing, it's easier to have a clear vision and put the money around that vision, rather than have this blurred view and end up wasting money on trying to push everyone. That's why the WWE was so successful, when they had a star like Austin, Rock, or Hogan to push, they would and could centre everything around them. But then you get a situation like you do today when the guys who have the focus have had it for too long and its not shared and few fresh guys get put on top and it gets boring. So there has to be a middle-ground. Where you have enough freedom in your card or roster to have guys to potentially stand out, but a rigid enough structure to where you make the most effective use of your time, money, and fan support. A very hard balance, which is why when companies find a successful formula they tend to drive it into the ground.