lol I mean... I dunno there's always a need to read the room?

There's certain friends who are going to be more touchy and you just respect their feelings and don't push the boundaries. Then there's other friends where you can be ruthless to and if people who didn't know you walked in they'd think about calling the police.

Can honestly say I've never run into an issue where I've "hurt" someone in that way. Except like ten years ago when I was dating a half black/half white girl and I sincerely HAD NO IDEA the M word was racist.

To elaborate further--what a horrible way to find out lol

I think that its really more about the content than the person on the receiving end. It aint that deep for them to HAVE to make the joke, so they just kinda don't do it. Which I respect and appreciate. And it's arrogant to say its all about me; they might legit not feel comfortable making those comments for themselves.

And you've probably never run into an issue where you've "hurt" someone because theres still tact aka a limit to the things you're going to say to a person, friend or not.

which word? Mullatto? Mutt?

It's like that episode of Seinfeld when Jerry was making all those Native American jokes with noooooo chill in front of a woman who was Native American and he had no idea lmaooo.

Mullatto. :nono: Honestly, we just threw it around in High School. had no idea it was offensive in any way.

I don't think I've ever said that word out loud in my life. And it's not from a place of "Oh its so bad I can't say it" I've just never been in a situation where it would be said or thought of. And I have a few bi-racial cousins.

in fairness to you there are a few things I said in high school that I'd never even think to say now. Maybe because I'm black and am not gonna tell someone else "cmon now thats not offensive" because I've been told that before.

the main thing I won't say on this website is "Eli Drake" because Noid would destroy me.

there was an episode of curb your enthusiasm where larry had the same problem. Saw it like 8 years after the fact. Felt validated. lol.

Anybody read WWE 50 or WWE Legends?

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My parents grew up in Appartheid South Africa. As Jews it wasn't exactly easy for them either. (dunno why but feel the need to qualify that lol)

The derogatory term there for the natives and mixed folks is "kafir" and not the n-word. So they grew up and they were these liquorice balls called "N-word-balls". They didn't realize what they were saying until they moved to North America.

Very good show at seeing situations that I relate with

Never even heard of mullatto

I just don’t care much for ROH. I used to like going to the shows back in the Dabilsron era but every time I try to watch I can’t connect.

Never heard smells like teen spirit?
"A mullato an albino a mosquito my libido..hey"

They're pretty bad now. They're pretty much what TNA used to be- WWE lite. The booking is terrible. And they saturate their shows with New Japan and Bullet Club but don't present interesting matches with them because their own roster is so shallow. For example on one of these War of the Worlds shows Tetsuya Naito is facing Beer City Bruiser. Does anyone have interest in that?

:lol: I was just busting chops.

ROH seem to be growing pretty well, but it's not something I have interest in anymore. I just don't...care. Everything seems really sterile. There's probably nothing offensively bad, but nothing jumps out as something I'd actually want to see either.

I appreciate your sensitivity putting it into quotation marks, but I am not offended by you using the term, Shadrick. My rage is directed towards Eli Drake, and only Eli Drake.

Same. Nigel's run was the last time I cared about it felt like the promotion meant something.

Nigel's run might be the greatest title reign from any promotion of the 2000's. Either him or Okada right now.

I really loved Nigel McGuinness in the ring. Dude felt like he wanted to kill people, and that he was a pro at doing it.

You know what sucked? When TNA did that poll to get a contender for the TNA Title, and Desmond Wolfe won, and they had him lose.

ROH's problem besides Sinclair refusing to expand their budget is that their head booker, Delirious, has been really terrible going back years.

Every bright spot they've had in recent years either doesn't get capitalized or becomes ruined quickly afterwards.

For example, the partnership with NJPW has been very beneficial to them but they've haven't really built off of it with their stars. At this point, ROH would be in a lot worse shape if NJPW were to bail since NJPW gets a lot less benefits sticking with them than before.

Then you have the handling of the Women of Honor tournament which was mind-boggling dumb. Not only did Delirious make sure his girlfriend had a spot and had a big warmup win over Stardom's top star but also had the winner be someone who before was mostly a jobber or low tier female star for the company. Been rumored Stardom isn't as fond of working with ROH now as they were prior to the tournament.

Heard smells like teen spirit hundreds of times.

Never understand what the fuck he's saying though.

The bloom fell off the Dalton Castle rose quite quick.

I had to look up whether or not he was still the champion. With Jericho working with New Japan, I was kind of hoping that they would talk Sinclair into paying Jericho a lot of money to come in and work with Castle as a homophobic heel citing his religious beliefs as reasons to hate Castle, lol. I know it wouldn't fly, but god that would be good heel shtick.

At this point a WWE/ROH relationship probably works best for them. Trade talent and try and keep things rotated and fresh. Dolph Ziggler & Drew McIntyre could head over for a tag team run; The Briscoes can come into NXT for a stint, etc. I dunno, just spit-balling. I don't really care about ROH, and I'm ready for Jay Lethal and The Briscoes to move somewhere else.

Apparently Cody had a real stinker with Hiromu Takahashi at ROH War of the Worlds. Apparently the mascots were the most over thing and Cody lost the crowd.

Might be hard for The Briscoes considering WWE pulled an offer in the past due to some homophobic comments they made. Don't think The Briscoes ever apologized for it or changed their views on the topic.

I'm pretty sure AJ Styles was a homophobe too.

Doubt he ever publicly threatened to legit beat up someone over it like one of The Briscoes did to teachers and others. Making things worse was it happened right as WWE was close to finishing the paperwork on a contract for the team.

With Styles, people usually point to some insults he made in promos or the joke involving him being really popular with the gay community as the basis for his homophobia.

I'm sure I've read something about AJ Styles blatantly saying that he does not want gay people teaching his kids. Like the Jay Briscoe stuff, just without the threat of the violence.

WWE went to Saudi Arabia, so they could have at least used The Briscoes as babyfaces on that show.

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I love the Rollins resurgence.

It’s great but I’m reluctant to “get behind it” as I’m just waiting for them to do something dumb to fuck it up.

You're once again spewing fake news about something. It was only Jay Briscoe who was in trouble for "homophobic comments." And he wasn't signing to WWE when he made the comments, he was ROH World champion.

As for AJ Styles, he had this match against Bryan Danielson at ROH Main Event Spectacles. A lot of people point to this match when they're grappling on the ground and you just hear AJ Styles yell "come on faggot!"

I can see the reluctance but Rollins is a beast in the ring. As far as the WWE is concerned, he is up there with Styles and Bryan.


On a side note, am I in the minority if I feel that both of Styles' WWE Championship reigns have been underwhelming?

Keep him as an IC title workhorse and not the star of the show and he'll be fine.

I think I would enjoy Rollins as the star of the show. If they book it right.

nvm.

Rollins should be the face of the WWE.

They'd ruin him if he were. Keep him where he is.

If you aren't the chosen one, they'll book you to fail then blame it on you when it doesn't work. If you are the chosen one, you get chance after chance after chance after chance and they ignore you getting booed out of the building lol

WWE was very interested in them even while Jay was the champ. Then the homophobic thing happened, both suddenly left ROH for a bit but later returned because WWE pulled their offer once they found out.

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More people point towards the interview AJ Styles where he got caught off guard with the gay community question and responded in a way most took as him possibly being homophobic.

No, but for a while I had the WWE 50 DVD. Had some #PrettyCool stuff on there, but I dunno...guess I didn't see myself using it all that much so sold it to like an F.Y.E. or somewhere shortly after I'd watched everything.

They never even left ROH....

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The briscoes are from about 20 minutes from me. I've driven by their farm they did promos at..its funny

Sounds like menu music while you're making a CAW.

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Watched some of it and noticed they failed to mention Toots Mondt, co-founder along w/ Jess McMahon.

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Man, it must suck to be John Cena. A few months ago he was trying to get a main event match with The Undertaker at WrestleMania, as a part time wrestler part time movie star, and about to marry a beautiful woman. Now, after losing that match, he has been on the way down, he hasn't had a successful movie since then, his wife and him appear to be on the outside, and now look at him. A door man at a midscale hotel who will park your car if you tip him a fiver. Hell, most fancy hotels don't let you get your chin that scruffy, so he's probably one more customer complaint away from the dole. What a fall from grace.

Was a bit surprised to see Cena with facial hair. Dude's always clean shaven.

This never gets old

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Yeah, but the other stuff is still there, and it is mad homophobic. And they do PR Saudi Arabia. They’ve always had double-standards, but if they wanted Jay Briscoe, it wouldn’t matter what he’s said in the past.

Didn't realize that Owen Hart very briefly won the WWF Title on home video.

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What are you talking about, Noid? What other stuff?

God I loved Owen's theme. Perfect chicken shit heel. Would've loved to see him run with the belt, even for a month.

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Too bad Vince still got his way in the end with Matt Morgan getting the doomed gimmick. Probably also the inspiration for Goldust's stuttering phase.

He looks like a lesser Whalberg here.

Probably the greatest GIF I've ever seen

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Watching Gargano Ciampa from TakeOver for the first time. Just wow.

The stuff mike adamle pointed out -- "faggot," and basically having an "ain't no body teaching my kids about queering" attitude, which I am sure I have read about. I remember because it made me think "Fuck, do I still love AJ Styles? Yeah, he's too fucking good in the ring." I'm pretty sure it was a fairly large news story in the wrestling world for a while. It was during his New Japan years, I think.

It's odd that Matt Morgan gets fucked over because Vince felt he was "good enough" to pull the gimmick off.

I always wanted to see a skit where Triple H was doing some major renovation work and tried to knock down a wall by smashing a sledgehammer hand-first into a wall with painful and hilarious consequences.

I just tried to run through a WrestleMania card in my head for next year, and it’s actually really hard to position people into exciting positions. Is there anything in particular you would like to see?

Styles vs Rollins?

Maybe the biggest WWE fuck up ever. He should have headlined a few Wrestlemanias I don't get what they were thinking.

Whoa! That doesn't bode well with me, Noid-san. Can you dig up some AV proof? Cheers.

Wonder what AJ will do when one of his kids turns out to be gay.

If it's anything like my mom's insinuated, he'll disown the child

Send him to Shinsuke to commence ball-punching so that the kid won't be tempted to use his equipment.

I honestly doubt it. He seems like a dumb video game jock. If he learned his kid was gay I bet he'd be mad at first and then get the fuck over it.

I mean for Christ's sake Dick Cheney's daughter is a lesbian and he got over it

He don’t want one, no?

It's pretty prejudiced to not accept AJ for who he is, because of his beliefs.

Isn’t it fucking crazy that he’s in the WWE?

I heard about this promo on a podcast today and Jesus fucking Christ it's amazing lol

Lol I've seen that. Still great.

juicy house :rofl:

I just looked at Pwinsider's twitter for the first time -- why do they write in all caps for everything, very embarrassing

unreadable...much like their actual website


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This is hardly a gif.

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Baring any last minute changes, Lesnar is currently set to break CM Punk's modern WWE record for longest major title reign on June 11th.

Punk held the WWE title for 434 days while Lesnar's Universal reign is at 408 days as of today.

I never watched WCW when I was younger and I think I am going to go back and watch it. I plan on starting at the formation of the NWO and go through all the way till the end.

If you include house shows, the gap between Punk and Lesnar as a fighting champ gets a lot worse.

For the record, we are not counting the Universal Title as a World Title. So, this countdown of days stuff is irrelevant. Punk will still be the longest reigning World Champion in the modern era.

If WWE strives to be ROH then they should definitely put Rollins and the face of the company.

If they wanna see another boom, become as massively popular again as they pretend to be and maybe even re-capture some of that mainstream appeal they crave so badly, then they'll just keep him where he is as a good midcard guy while looking for a guy with the look, charisma and personality to put on the marquee.

We're not counting the WWE Title as a world title either. Only the World Heavyweight Title. Batista is the longest reigning world champion of the modern era.

CM Punk couldn't even main event as World Champion. He was that boring and bland. You should be thankful to have a Champ that's special like Lesnar

It popped into my head, but my problem with it is that it feels like an A2 guy against a B1 guy. Styles is amazingly well-rounded as a worker, but he doesn't feel like the star of the company. Seth Rollins is great in the ring, but doesn't have that star personality, and shines when he's not put in that position. The match would be great, don't get me wrong, but I think it would need to be lower on the card than the main event.

I'd love to see it as an IC Title match though. Or maybe Styles wins the US belt and it's a unification match and we can end this goddamn brand split?

I can get why people don't see it, because he's been fucked up so badly in WWE and TNA, but there's a parallel universe where the dude was a legitimate draw in wrestling.