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DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


what is this human being tree

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DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


RangerScum posted:

here's some advice: you're 23 so you think you've got life figured out pretty good, but actually your still a loving idiot

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


akadajet posted:

the only way to respond to this is a simple "lol"

yep

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Chris Benoit is a murderer. He killed his wife and child. We will probably never know exactly what he was thinking. Obviously I did not know Chris Benoit. I never saw him in person and never spoke to him. But he represented something very special to me. In such a cut-throat, dirty, dark, often disgusting, business he was one of the good ones. When people talked poo poo about wrestling and the bastards involved in it, you could always muffin out Chris Benoit as the exception to the rule. He was the one you could muffin to as a true professional who honored the sport he loved, who was passionate about it, who proved that you could dedicate your life to professional wrestling without being insane or scum or a monster. He was the ace in the hole. He was the one who wasn't in it for the pussy or because he was a failed jock in another sport or because he wanted to get rich quick or because he wanted to be a movie star or because he saw wrestling as a means to an end. He was in it for professional wrestling. He was dedicated to being the best professional wrestler he could be, and it showed in the ring.

I wanted to be a professional wrestler since I was a little kid, and one of the very worst moments of my life was a cold night in San Antonio when I was on the phone to my girlfriend a thousand miles away and finally admitted to myself and to her that coming to Texas to be a wrestler had been a mistake. Coming to grips that I was simply not athletically or charismatically talented enough to be a professional wrestler was one of the worst moments of my life. The business glorifies the boyhood dreams that come true. My boyhood dream wasn't going to come true, and it was an upsetting, soul-crushing revelation that upsets and discourages me to this day.

Since then I lived vicariously through Chris Benoit in a lot of ways. He wasn't a man who was destined to be a WWE champion. He couldn't talk. He wasn't charismatic in the usual way. He was quiet. He was short. The only thing he had going for him was his work ethic. He wasn't a third generation wrestler. He wasn't physically gifted. He wasn't someone who had words come easy to him. But through sheer effort he was able to become one of the greatest professional wrestlers in history. By 40 years-old.

Chris Benoit was only forty, and he was already a legend on the verge of myth. That's how talented he was, and how respected.

I cannot reconcile in my mind that the man who unnecessarily gave back so much to the sport could end his life the way he did. I can't understand how a man could spend weeks and months trying to give back to younger guys like MVP, putting forth the care and effort to help them find their voice in the ring, and that that same man could strangle his wife and child only weeks later. It doesn't make sense. It shouldn't have happened this way. Not for him, not for Nancy, and not for their child.

Chris Benoit owed me nothing. But I still feel the loss. I selfishly lived through many of his accomplishments and now feel lost. I can only speak for myself, but I feel that for a lot of us Mondays and Fridays are rocks of stability in a storm of stress and uncertainty. Every week the show goes on. Every week the show is from somewhere new, somewhere in the world, but every week it comes into our homes.


And that will continue. But Chris Benoit is dead. And he died a murderer. And whether it be insanity, drugs, or just the actions of a clear-eyed monster, what is done is done. And one of the pillars for the guys backstage and one of the pillars for fans is gone. And everything that pillar held up is tainted and dripping with blood.

Chris Benoit was a murderer. And I don't know how to accept that.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Mr. Despair posted:

gently caress


YEAH

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


HookShot posted:

If she doesn't follow "sliders to the right" as gospel already you should probably sever

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


HookShot posted:

edit2: arrggghhhh it's like bright green WHERE ARE YOUUUUU

mods new thread title pls

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


grats :toot:

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


HI FEYD
HI STILGAR

:buddy:

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


8th-snype posted:

she's too good for you. maybe find someone a little trashier like an olympus shooter

BITCH I'M FABULOUS

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


iSheep posted:

I got to hang out with Otis the Cat again:



HI OTIS

OTIS

HI

:3:

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Mrenda posted:



Some day I'll have money and buy this dogge A Best Italian Sandwich.

YOU GO PET THAT DOGGE RIGHT NOW

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007




I'm zoe and i like trying to hide my rage behind my floofe and a carrot

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


A Saucy Bratwurst posted:

It was just funny watching all these tourists with expensive as gently caress cameras around their necks using iphones. Saw a dude with what looked to be an L telephoto on his canon using digital zoom on an ipad.

I suppose I can understand it to a certain degree since it's force of habit for so many people these days. Digital zoom sucks on every phone but if I want just a quick wide angle snap of something, I'll usually grab for my phone before my camera, even if I have both on me.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


8th-snype posted:

Well it's also easier to just open the camera on your messaging app and show the suckers back home how sweet the view is from your vacation.

This too!

in other news, hi I'm winston and I enjoy hiding under ottomans

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


iSheep posted:

Hi Winston!

Sorry for disturbing you!!!

it's cool, we get hella relaxed around here

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


helmacron

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Ric posted:

Is this the weekend thread now? I want to join people in celebrating the weekend and its achievements.



what was the photo

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007



"I'm a pro! Did.... did I do it right?"

Me after every photo I've ever taken.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007




hi i'm winston and i attacked a fisheye lens

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


good dogge

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


365 Nog Hogger posted:

Sink photo is cool.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


8th-snype posted:

I dont know but it's a rad dogge

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


HI MILTON :dukedog:

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


HI TRIPOD CATTE

HI BLANDAVERAGE'S CATTES

HI KRONOS

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


soundmonkey make that second sentence the canon thread title

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


365 Nog Hogger posted:

its a good pic

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


nog hogger nooooooooo :(

E: dakana get in here and post that rad fukkn dogge you saw

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


HI BRIX :dukedog:

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


And pats and belly rubs

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


HI NIPPLEDOG

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


HI NAMELESS CATTES OF FART AMPLIFIER'S PARENTS :radcat:

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


it's me

i'm bert landry

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


pls give margaret so many pats

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


dakana posted:

he is good.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


HI JODY

YOUR FRIENDS SEEM NICE :yayclod:

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007




hi i'm winston and i look hella dramatic on film

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


hey guys


hey




hey





it's the weekend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEJHrmliVQw

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


dakana posted:

Dramatic Winston says bring back the weekend thread

hail satan

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DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Shortbus owned and watches down over our shitposts from catte heaven

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