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Best Not WWE Name
This poll is closed.
Up North 70 41.92%
New York 21 12.57%
Titan 12 7.19%
Stamford 18 10.78%
The XXX Porno Wrestling on the Other Channel 46 27.54%
Total: 167 votes
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bartok
May 10, 2006



So they could have killed Max Mini too? Jesus this loving company!

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ChrisBTY
Mar 29, 2012

this glorious monument

I'd feel better about this if somebody was punished for this.
Any of this.
But no. They're (mostly) rewarded for it.
Remember kids; karma works in reverse. A good deed never goes unpunished, a sin never goes unrewarded.
So shed your worthless socializing instincts and gently caress over the world in your rise to relevance.

The Berzerker
Feb 24, 2006

treat me like a dog


jesus christ. thanks (I guess?!) to The Cameo for more details? jesus loving christ

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012



With how the brackets look we're probably getting the Owen stuff vs Crown Jewel in the third round

Wazzu
Feb 28, 2008

Are you sure I'm winning the Rumble? That does'nt seem right.....

Low Desert Punk posted:

it's actually insane how WWE completely got away with killing owen and then forcing his friends to go out and wrestle on the mat he died on.

just truly worthless human garbage in this company

Being somewhat fair to them, they hadn't had a death before, and seen people recover from the worst is what they do. They do need an actual policy on what to do in this situation, remember when it legit looked Enzo might have died (or at least become paralysed). The show continued!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iteqaH6S9gs

The Cameo
Jan 20, 2005


I mean, there’s a reason it’s the #1 seed

And it’s good to remember in the future as the brackets get the real awful stuff up against each other

Davros1
Jul 19, 2007

You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible



I voted for Owen because of all the reasons everyone mentioned. Plus, with Punk, I can't help to think that if it had been another wrestler in his shoes, he would've told them to just tough it out.

Sockser
Jun 28, 2007

This world only remembers the results!




CM punk got a bad draw in this bracket, he'd make top 8 starting in any other match

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN
https://twitter.com/NY64Tournament/status/1074155586076454913

Vince making people figuratively kiss his rear end or Vince making people literally kiss his rear end? Tough choice here.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!

Web Jew.0 posted:

MRT I think you should share this on SquaredCircle.

So you know how Jerusalem has no idea how twitter works (or did maybe he does now) I think that's a Red It thing but I have no idea where or how to post there so if someone else would like to, I'd appreciate it!

I'll have more details about Owen and some of the other #1s in future rounds. I didn't have a ton of time to post tonight or I'd have included more. It's one of those things where if I get started I won't stop until 20 minutes later.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

MassRafTer posted:

So you know how Jerusalem has no idea how twitter works (or did maybe he does now)

I figured out that you put your reply above the original statement for some reason. Also sometimes you put your reply over somebody else's reply of somebody else's original statement. And that something called a ratio is.... bad?

SatoshiMiwa
May 6, 2007


The Senate stuff is worse cause it lead to Linda in the cabinet probably though there is a slight hope she could end up in Jail with the rest of the Trump cabinet

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!
They kept updating Stand Up for WWE until 2012 (I assume with the second Senate run) and the last article is defending Eugene.

https://www.wwe.com/inside/standupforwwe/wwe-responds-hartford-courant-july-2012

The Berzerker
Feb 24, 2006

treat me like a dog


SatoshiMiwa posted:

The Senate stuff is worse cause it lead to Linda in the cabinet

it's this

Web Jew.0
May 13, 2009

MassRafTer posted:

So you know how Jerusalem has no idea how twitter works (or did maybe he does now) I think that's a Red It thing but I have no idea where or how to post there so if someone else would like to, I'd appreciate it!

I'll have more details about Owen and some of the other #1s in future rounds. I didn't have a ton of time to post tonight or I'd have included more. It's one of those things where if I get started I won't stop until 20 minutes later.

I'll do it. Do you have a one-sentence summary for each thing for people who don't want to listen to the whole podcast?

Smoking Crow
Feb 14, 2012

*laughs at u*

Web Jew.0 posted:

I'll do it. Do you have a one-sentence summary for each thing for people who don't want to listen to the whole podcast?

WWE bad

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!

Web Jew.0 posted:

I'll do it. Do you have a one-sentence summary for each thing for people who don't want to listen to the whole podcast?

Only in the replies to each poll. I was going to make a google doc file but Smash Bros game out. I'll try to whip something up I'm basically not doing anything tomorrow since I'm so sore from aerials.

ARMBAR A COP
Nov 24, 2007


MassRafTer posted:

Only in the replies to each poll. I was going to make a google doc file but Smash Bros game out. I'll try to whip something up I'm basically not doing anything tomorrow since I'm so sore from aerials.

You know what they say: when you lose small mind you'll free your eyes

mkay0
Nov 7, 2003

I crawled the earth, but now I'm higher
2010, watch it go to fire
Kiss My rear end Club is probably among the least offensive things in this tournament for me. A heel is mean, then got beat up. Kind of tacky, but hardly on the level of actually manipulating an election.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!

mkay0 posted:

Kiss My rear end Club is probably among the least offensive things in this tournament for me. A heel is mean, then got beat up. Kind of tacky, but hardly on the level of actually manipulating an election.

Vince didn't get beat up half the time, in at least two cases someone would turn on the person kissing his rear end either during the kiss or after. Happened to JR and then Foley got turned on too for helping Melina.

Wazzu
Feb 28, 2008

Are you sure I'm winning the Rumble? That does'nt seem right.....

mkay0 posted:

Kiss My rear end Club is probably among the least offensive things in this tournament for me. A heel is mean, then got beat up. Kind of tacky, but hardly on the level of actually manipulating an election.

....how would you feel if your employer forced you to literally kiss his asscheeks, in front of the world? Like it's just a gross misuse of power and disgusting thing to ask of your employees.

The fact that McMahon has done worse things doesn't stop this been a ludicrously unprofessional thing that you shouldn't ever do.

Wazzu fucked around with this message at 06:49 on Dec 16, 2018

Hako
Jul 14, 2017

by FactsAreUseless

Wazzu posted:

....how would you feel if your employer forced you to literally kiss his asscheeks, in front of the world?

Maybe we should ask the porn industry about kissing asses, or you know shows on HBO. These are carnies playing characters, let it go this isn't Nickelodeon.

Vince MechMahon
Jan 1, 2008



Hako posted:

Maybe we should ask the porn industry about kissing asses, or you know shows on HBO. These are carnies playing characters, let it go this isn't Nickelodeon.

When your comparison is porn, where the industry is super shady in a lot of ways itself, you should probably take a step back.

Also the CEO of HBO isn't having Peter Dinklage kiss his rear end on TV specially to humiliate him. In fact, even most porn stuff like rear end eating isn't shown as embarrassing, but something both parties are into, unless you get into weird S&M stuff.

ChrisBTY
Mar 29, 2012

this glorious monument

There's an argument to be made that maybe it could have been a legitimate heel tactics if the guy coming up with the bright idea wasn't the goddamn millionaire boss.
You don't get to pass it off as just heat when you have the power to make people do things.
Actually; I wonder if that counts as sexual assault. Probably not, somehow.

Vince MechMahon
Jan 1, 2008



On the porn thing, ironically, performers actually have iron clad contracts in most cases as well, signed in advanced of any scene, and if any of those rules are broken during a scene, it's a huge legal issue for the producers. No one is showing up to set and being told "by the way, you're also kissing the directors rear end, and if you don't agree your career is hosed."

Porn: treating it's performers better than WWE since at least the aughts.

Shayna Baszler
Oct 24, 2001

i'll always take care of you
Muldoon
Owen Hart didn't really die

SatansOnion
Dec 12, 2011

Baron Corbin posted:

Owen Hart didn't really die

Just wait 'til you see the program he's been working on with Andy Kaufman

poo poo's gonna rule

Hako
Jul 14, 2017

by FactsAreUseless

Vince MechMahon posted:

On the porn thing, ironically, performers actually have iron clad contracts in most cases as well, signed in advanced of any scene, and if any of those rules are broken during a scene, it's a huge legal issue for the producers. No one is showing up to set and being told "by the way, you're also kissing the directors rear end, and if you don't agree your career is hosed."

Porn: treating it's performers better than WWE since at least the aughts.

Pretty sure if an employee said no boss sorry I'm not kissing your rear end, nothing would happen. But what you have is a bunch of week minded carny adults that can't think for themselves and will do whatever someone tells them to do for laughs. Maybe they should have become pornstars if they were so worried about it.

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN
... yeah, I'm gonna be following the redtext advice here

Hako
Jul 14, 2017

by FactsAreUseless

Benne posted:

... yeah, I'm gonna be following the redtext advice here

I'd like to know how I'm wrong. If your boss asked you to kiss his rear end would you? I'm guessing not. So why do we feel sorry for the carnies that say "yes boss I'll kiss your rear end"? They are working professionals just like yourself. Stop playing the victim card for them.

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN
There's a long fruitful discussion to be had about the hosed-up power dynamics and toxic work environment that Vince McMahon has fostered over the decades, which eventually leads to situations like talent agreeing to and/or coerced into kissing his rear end on live television. But it's late and I'm tired so I'll just say you're a loving moron and move on with my life.

Hako
Jul 14, 2017

by FactsAreUseless

Benne posted:

There's a long fruitful discussion to be had about the hosed-up power dynamics and toxic work environment that Vince McMahon has fostered over the decades, which eventually leads to situations like talent agreeing to and/or coerced into kissing his rear end on live television. But it's late and I'm tired so I'll just say you're a loving moron and move on with my life.

hosed up power dynamics means nothing, they are working professionals and can easily have said no I'm not doing that.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

Hako posted:

hosed up power dynamics means nothing, they are working professionals and can easily have said no I'm not doing that.

You sound like an absolute oval office of a person

Hako
Jul 14, 2017

by FactsAreUseless

Rarity posted:

You sound like an absolute oval office of a person

Answer the question, if your boss asked you to kiss his rear end would you say yes or no?

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Neodoomium
Jun 20, 2001

You are now hearing this
noise in your head.



Always support labor over ownership

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

Hako posted:

hosed up power dynamics means nothing, they are working professionals and can easily have said no I'm not doing that.

yo if the guy who had my chosen profession in a monopoly gave me an option between eating his rear end on TV and being unemployed and blackballed from the industry then i would flip him the double bird and backflip out of there. Who gives a poo poo about mortgages and bills n poo poo?

Then me and my cousin would totally devils triangle Kate Upton.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
Vince literally started the Kiss My rear end Club the second the invasion angle was done with the kayfabe and real reason being that the wrestlers had no leverage so they would be forced to do whatever Vince wished.

Wazzu
Feb 28, 2008

Are you sure I'm winning the Rumble? That does'nt seem right.....

Hako posted:

Pretty sure if an employee said no boss sorry I'm not kissing your rear end, nothing would happen.

Vince and the rest would likely hold it against you and career may be massively sabotaged.

Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

Hako posted:

Answer the question, if your boss asked you to kiss his rear end would you say yes or no?

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

I would say yes, then wink and say just kidding. i would remind my boss that i have an open carry license and can legally shoot anyone for no reason at all, let alone if they tried To out-power me in dynamics

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Shayna Baszler
Oct 24, 2001

i'll always take care of you
Muldoon
really upset that Jerusalem didn't put "kiss my rear end" as the probation reason

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