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Rarity posted:Have you heard Alice Glass's solo stuff? She's got some absolute crackers Yea she’s awesome. Surprised she isn’t more popular. I do not share thus surprise regarding the WWE, why they’re not more popular is clear.
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little evil me is a sally street reference.
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Nick Jr. Face posted:
These dudes hate immigrants
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Cavauro posted:little evil me is a sally street reference. it’s actually an austin powers 2 reference
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Jul 12, 2021 22:40
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too recent for Vince
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ARMBAR A COP posted:These dudes hate immigrants I think Brock naturally hates every other living being in existence besides his wife and maybe Paul Heyman
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man, Mine wasn't like that
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Nick Jr. Face posted:
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ARMBAR A COP posted:These dudes hate immigrants Brock IS one I'm not disagreeing with you however
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Great Job!
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Man, Brock's face got super weird after his MMA run.
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I'm trying to find a non-racist way to say this, (and probably failing). So please forgive me. But I am an ESL Teacher, and I don't like the way that the interviewer, (and her opponent), are speaking at native level speed and intonation to Sarray, who is clearly not at all fluent in English. She is clearly trying her best, and uses her limited language skills to get across the point, (She is sad Toni Storm won't fight her, but accepts the challenge of the red headed wrestler), but it is a horrible position for her to be put in. It takes away all emotion and naturalism away from the promo/interview, and makes the posing/pretention of the other girl look even more affected and artificial than it should. This could all be solved by having an interpreter. Sarray gets to emote, and use her own words, so the whole thing gets to seem more like actual human interaction rather than a script being recited, (the way she says yeah and agrees to the fight at the end in particular looks like she didn't understand a word that was said, but knew she had to agree to the fight so just said "yeah"), and as an audience we can relate more to the performers behaving as if they were real life humans. For a company that already has a racist attitude and disposition towards wrestlers with "foreign" accents that do speak perfect English, this seems to not only be placing an unfair burden on Sarray, but also actively punishing her and hindering her ability to get over by shining a glaring spotlight on her perceived "flaws", (Not speaking English is not a flaw, just that Vince thinks it is). She deserves better. Again, I apologize if any of that came across as racist.
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I mean at this point it feels like they have enough Japanese wrestlers that just having a dedicated translator would be a good idea to hire.
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Jul 13, 2021 02:50
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Dimebags Brain posted:I mean at this point it feels like they have enough Japanese wrestlers that just having a dedicated translator would be a good idea to hire. Nakazawa is currently that for AEW and he's there every week helping coach people, amongst others helping each other out Also lol when WWE fired Chris Hero (The first time) because he was rubbing staff the wrong way by teaching the actual rookies how to emote better or apply moves in better ways BrigadierSensible posted:She deserves better. Again, I apologize if any of that came across as racist. Kairi Sane and Io never got that benefit, they were always expected to speak in English from day one.. Nakamura was a man of few words to begin with. Tozawa's English is actually pretty drat good, but he doesn't cut promos so it doesn't matter. RealFoxy fucked around with this message at 02:57 on Jul 13, 2021 |
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Jul 13, 2021 02:53
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a lot of these new wwe themes loving suck lol
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Who even does the music for WWE right now anyways?
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Majinfoose posted:Who even does the music for WWE right now anyways? def rebel
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Alaois posted:def rebel *deaf
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RealFoxy posted:Tozawa's English is actually pretty drat good, but he doesn't cut promos so it doesn't matter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRll-dMmgug
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BrigadierSensible posted:I'm trying to find a non-racist way to say this, (and probably failing). So please forgive me. It's funny you mention this, because I remember a year or two before Sarray moved to the US she mentioned how much she was struggling to learn English, and had started a YouTube channel in hopes of learning English and reaching out to fans. She only uploaded like a few videos though because people ended up being huge loving dickheads towards her in a Q&A, making fun of her struggling to learn English. But yeah, the ceiling for Japanese talents in WWE right now is the lowest its been in awhile. Akira Tozawa is currently feuding over the 24/7 title, and both the RAW and NXT Women's titles are held by women who have borderline negative levels of charisma and presence. And then you have Asuka constantly losing week in and week out and losing whatever is left of her credibility when she's losing to increasingly shittier and shittier gimmicks. I saw someone post a picture of where she was just last year, and she was the RAW Women's Champion feuding with Bayley and Sasha. And now she's losing to pretty much everyone on the main roster. Worst part is there are people out there actively defending it, because they seriously think it's leading to some sort of big heel turn when in reality its more likely Vince and/or Bruce just got bored of her. This is why I'm glad neither Io or Sarray are being called up any time soon. As an aside it's interesting this is all coming up now that Stephen A. Smith is making headlines for his dumb as gently caress remarks about Asians in sports.
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I barely watched the show. Raw Clips Finish to Bobby Lashley vs Xavier Woods https://streamable.com/jlrbqc Alexa's Playground https://streamable.com/hewazh Drew and Jinder https://streamable.com/0pkne2 Doudrop! https://streamable.com/b8wqig Finish to Asuka vs Alexa Bliss vs Naomi vs Nikki Cross https://streamable.com/dgklw5 Finish to AJ Styles vs Ivar https://streamable.com/qj6td2 Finish to United States Championship Match - Sheamus vs Humberto Carrillo https://streamable.com/768apk Ricocohet https://streamable.com/5cv2ww Finish to Falls Count Anywhere Match - John Morrison vs Ricochet https://streamable.com/w2n7w5 Lashley ends the show https://streamable.com/cvw1q8 Digital Jedi fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Jul 13, 2021 |
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DarkstarIV posted:It's funny you mention this, because I remember a year or two before Sarray moved to the US she mentioned how much she was struggling to learn English, and had started a YouTube channel in hopes of learning English and reaching out to fans. She only uploaded like a few videos though because people ended up being huge loving dickheads towards her in a Q&A, making fun of her struggling to learn English. I realize that this may be a dumb question, but has anyone ever heard of WWE hiring a Japanese-to-english language instructor specifically to help these wrestlers learn? Is that a thing that happens? It seems like it should be, and same with the Mexican wrestlers. That and acting coaches, to help all wrestlers learn how to try to make the terrible backstage segments written by washout sitcom writers be slightly less bad Except WWE doesn't want to spend money, right, right... rotinaj fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Jul 13, 2021 |
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Jinder steals a sword, turns out Drew knew he was and planted a replica. After Jinder destroys the replica, Drew destroys the motorcycle. Drew is at least smarter, but I'm not sure I like him.
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Wazzu posted:Jinder steals a sword, turns out Drew knew he was and planted a replica. After Jinder destroys the replica, Drew destroys the motorcycle. Is this fanfic or did this happen tonight lol
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rotinaj posted:I realize that this may be a dumb question, but has anyone ever heard of WWE hiring a Japanese-to-english language instructor specifically to help these wrestlers learn? Is that a thing that happens? It seems like it should be, and same with the Mexican wrestlers. That and acting coaches, to help all wrestlers learn how to do the terrible backstage segments written by washout sitcom writers be slightly less bad I think they had someone there when Kairi was first hired on, but I have no idea if they still work there or not. Io Shirai took English lessons before coming to the US and is mostly fluent in it. The only thing really holding her back is her accent, but that's something that lessons probably won't be able to hammer out. As for Asuka, I know she mentioned in an episode of KanaChan TV a little while back that she was taking private English lessons.
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Barreft posted:Is this fanfic or did this happen tonight lol It made me curious so I went to wwe.com to check and yes... that actually happened.
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Digital Jedi posted:I barely watched the little bit that I caught of the show.
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I'm ashamed to admit the name Doudrop is growing on me. Or she's growing on me and im just forgiving the name
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STAC Goat posted:It made me curious so I went to wwe.com to check and yes... that actually happened. So wait.. Jinder has a motorcycle now? Why? They're battling over swords? .. y'know what it's midnight and I'll probably get probed so less thought put into this the better.
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Blaise330 posted:I'm ashamed to admit the name Doudrop is growing on me. Or she's growing on me and im just forgiving the name Should be ashamed.
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Barreft posted:So wait.. Jinder has a motorcycle now? Why? FUCKFACE MORON fucked around with this message at 05:07 on Jul 13, 2021 |
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DarkstarIV posted:It's funny you mention this, because I remember a year or two before Sarray moved to the US she mentioned how much she was struggling to learn English, and had started a YouTube channel in hopes of learning English and reaching out to fans. She only uploaded like a few videos though because people ended up being huge loving dickheads towards her in a Q&A, making fun of her struggling to learn English. Sorry to be possibly belabouring my point. But when you have the company that thinks that Cesaro and Kevin Owens, (both of whom speak perfect idiomatic English), talk funny, and that the IIconics and Buddy Murphy, (for whom English is their mother tongue and speak it at a native level), have too much of the stink of "foreigner" about them, then the deck is truly and honestly stacked against poor Sarray, and other non-English speakers. Also, forcing her to do an interview where the interviewer rattles off a lot of garbled, native speed, idiom filled rapid fire questions at her in a language she barely understands, so that her only choice is to answer in 2 or 3 word sentences, ("Sarray sad" "Sarray want fight Toni Storm." etc.), is putting her in an awful position where she is bound to fail. Because what I want to say is this is a cyclical spiral against her. Because forcing her to do that promo makes her look bad in the eyes of the boss, "look at that foreigner! Nobody will ever want to cheer for her.", it also makes her look bad in terms of the fans "That was a horrible speech, she can't talk at all. I don't care about heror her character." which leads to the cycle of punishment/de-push leads to getting less over leads to a greater de-push leads to getting less over leads to more punishments etc. All the while, a woman who is working hard to first learn and THEN perform in a very difficult second language, is probably being yelled at every day that the reason she advancing in her career is because she can't speak English. Destroying her confidence and making it harder for her to learn and/or practice speaking a 2nd language in public. All of which could be easily avoided by 1)giving her help support in language learning, 2)not forcing her into having to deliver promos until she is ready to do so, and/or 3)just get an interpreter, or have one of the thousands of generic dudes in suits pretend to be an interpreter on TV for her. All of this poo poo doesn't just apply to Sarray or Japanese wrestlers. It is relevant for all non-English speakers. I just thought of it because of how blatant it was in that one promo clip I saw.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Sorry to be possibly belabouring my point. imagine if wwe was a sane company that would have the wrestlers who sucked at wrestling learn how to wrestle better, the wrestlers who suck at promo learn to promo better, and the foreign wrestlers learn how to communicate in English more easily, all with actual instructors, coaches, speech pathologists and the like coming in to help. Imagine if they had actual movement scientists and the like working in the performance center to help keep people from just blowing out their shoulders/knees all the time down there, like they do Imagine if the company spent money reinvesting in their own performers, giving them the best possible chance to succeed
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Imagine a wrestling company run by Donald Trump, but only by one of his best friends with the same ideology. I just can't imagine
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coconono posted:Soooo is Alexa not spooky powered anymore Pretty sure she still is. Saw a video posted elsewhere of Doudrop throwing her over the barricade and Eva Marie going to check, just for Alexa to be gone mysteriously, and Eva freaking out. It's very, very, very stupid. But then again that's the RAW Women's Division in a nutshell right now, where there are zero, quite possibly negative levels of redeeming factors.
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Before I go to bed, is Jinder seriously back and feuding with Drew over fake swords and a motorcycle. I feel gaslighted here
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DEAR RICHARD posted:this is the only way i can watch raw even then, I'm still skipping thru half the video. and they all end up being loving rollups or distraction pins
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Hirez posted:even then, I'm still skipping thru half the video. and they all end up being loving rollups or distraction pins I'm kinda at the point where you could convince me that losing by rollups isn't even considered protecting the losing talents anymore since it happens so often in main roster WWE. And for the times people do lose via finisher, that's a borderline burial in modern day WWE. Simon Miller is going to have a hell of a day tomorrow updating the rollup meter.
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