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Syt

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Quote from: Berkut on January 12, 2016, 05:13:28 PM
I know it isn't fair, given my own delight in pretty geeky stuff...but when someone admits to being a professional wrestling fan, I can't help but mentally drop them a few rungs down on the mental acuity ladder.

:lol: :hug:

Also, I've done a few wrestling AARs on the forums in the past. ;)
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Barrister

Quote from: Syt on January 12, 2016, 05:18:30 PM
Quote from: Berkut on January 12, 2016, 05:13:28 PM
I know it isn't fair, given my own delight in pretty geeky stuff...but when someone admits to being a professional wrestling fan, I can't help but mentally drop them a few rungs down on the mental acuity ladder.

:lol: :hug:

Also, I've done a few wrestling AARs on the forums in the past. ;)

:hug:

I went through a 2-3 year phase where I was deep into wrestling.  Don't follow it now and don't care to, but there is definitely a more intellectual way to appreciate wrestling if you dig into the behind the scenes/kayfabe side of things.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Josephus

I secretly was a wrestling fan during its hey day in the late 80s, early 90s....but wouldn't admit that in public, or on the Internet or anything.
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Syt

I watch it on and off, but mostly watch stuff from when I followed it more closely (early to mid/late 90s).
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Malthus

Quote from: Barrister on January 12, 2016, 05:31:42 PM
Quote from: Syt on January 12, 2016, 05:18:30 PM
Quote from: Berkut on January 12, 2016, 05:13:28 PM
I know it isn't fair, given my own delight in pretty geeky stuff...but when someone admits to being a professional wrestling fan, I can't help but mentally drop them a few rungs down on the mental acuity ladder.

:lol: :hug:

Also, I've done a few wrestling AARs on the forums in the past. ;)

:hug:

I went through a 2-3 year phase where I was deep into wrestling.  Don't follow it now and don't care to, but there is definitely a more intellectual way to appreciate wrestling if you dig into the behind the scenes/kayfabe side of things.

Intellectual appreciation of pro wrestling kayfabe? I suppose; but isn't that like intellectually appreciating the quality of writing of hardcore porn movie scenarios from the '70s?  :P

"As we can see, in this one the single mom needs help from a handyman while her husband is away; note the foreshadowing in the way the "handyman" is stroking his "tools" ... " 
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

garbon

Quote from: Malthus on January 12, 2016, 05:43:14 PM
Quote from: Barrister on January 12, 2016, 05:31:42 PM
Quote from: Syt on January 12, 2016, 05:18:30 PM
Quote from: Berkut on January 12, 2016, 05:13:28 PM
I know it isn't fair, given my own delight in pretty geeky stuff...but when someone admits to being a professional wrestling fan, I can't help but mentally drop them a few rungs down on the mental acuity ladder.

:lol: :hug:

Also, I've done a few wrestling AARs on the forums in the past. ;)

:hug:

I went through a 2-3 year phase where I was deep into wrestling.  Don't follow it now and don't care to, but there is definitely a more intellectual way to appreciate wrestling if you dig into the behind the scenes/kayfabe side of things.

Intellectual appreciation of pro wrestling kayfabe? I suppose; but isn't that like intellectually appreciating the quality of writing of hardcore porn movie scenarios from the '70s?  :P

"As we can see, in this one the single mom needs help from a handyman while her husband is away; note the foreshadowing in the way the "handyman" is stroking his "tools" ... " 

Makes me think of this that I just saw /all the paper I wrote about Baby's Got Back in high school.

"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

dps

I  wasn't ever what I'd call a fan, but I used to enjoy watching wrestling a bit back in the late 70's to late 80's but after that it got too cartoonish and crappy for my taste.

Malthus

Quote from: garbon on January 12, 2016, 05:45:34 PM

Makes me think of this that I just saw /all the paper I wrote about Baby's Got Back in high school.



:lol:

Exactly.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Barrister

Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Eddie Teach

I'd still like to know what "to all skeet skeet motherfuckers" means.  :hmm:
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Malthus

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on January 12, 2016, 05:54:39 PM
I'd still like to know what "to all skeet skeet motherfuckers" means.  :hmm:

I'm not sure we have the intellectual acumen to process the true meaning of that profound phrase.  :hmm:

Something to do with the generative life force expressing itself.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

garbon

Quote from: Malthus on January 12, 2016, 05:58:39 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on January 12, 2016, 05:54:39 PM
I'd still like to know what "to all skeet skeet motherfuckers" means.  :hmm:

I'm not sure we have the intellectual acumen to process the true meaning of that profound phrase.  :hmm:

Something to do with the generative life force expressing itself.

:D

Thankfully there is a great lyrics site these days.

http://genius.com/44123

Quote"Skeet skeet" is slang for ejaculation (which can also be used as a verb) but the "Skeet Skeet motherfuckers" are Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz' homies at their record label, Skeet Skeet Records (so named because Lil Jon was originally producing music for porn..)

I definitely didn't know that backstory...so the more you know?
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

garbon

Actually appears to be a lie. I'm sad. :(
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Josquius

I used to be really into wrestling.
Then I got to around 8 years old or so and somebody decided to convince me it was fake. 
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celedhring

I was really into wrestling as a kid, then I got into it again a few years ago, in an ironic kayfabe thingie, until I realized it was just stupid.