I think I could actually watch the WWE if it weren't for the wrestling itself. I get a kick out of all of the stuff in between, but can't suspend my disbelief enough for the wrestling. Many of the wrestlers are actually fairly talented actors, and quite fun to watch given how over-the-top the characters are meant to be.

Having met a couple of wrestlers and people of the WWE through work, I can honestly say that the ones that I have met are extremely intelligent and genuinely friendly/awesome people. I used to laugh at the WWE for being fake or the impression that they and their fans are hicks, now I just have mad respect for them. They are true entertainers.

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The narrowness of your definition of intelligence depresses me and is ironically not very intelligent

You talk about improving the gene pool yet you appear to lack a basic understanding of the fundamental importance of genetic diversity.

Even if we accept the premise that risk takers are idiots (which is so demonstrably not true I can barely be bothered to try but feel free to go read up on the Nobel laureates, plenty of "idiots" in there!) they are still essential to a healthy and diverse gene pool.

Mountain climbers, Motor racers, American Football players, Alligator wrestlers etc. etc. This is the same gene pool that brings us Astronauts, Fire-fighters, Soldiers etc.

Some of them may simply be "showing off" but
A. this is what they feel the need to do in order to feel stimulated and alive (they are wired up differently to others, they require higher levels of risk in order to feel the same level of stimulation you you might watching TV)

B. Watching such individuals perform or simply appreciating their existence is a source of untold pleasure for many of the rest of us (you dislike all dangerous sports? They are just as "pointless" by comparison)

But most of all

C. They all die in the end, just like EVERY HUMAN THAT HAS EVER LIVED. Putting all your emphasis in life on just staying alive and un-injured seems a little foolish in the grand scheme of things don't you think? The result is the same whether you spend your life racing powerboats or knitting jumpers in a padded room. You still die thus rendering any choices you made about how to spend your life entirely arbitrary and temporary (unless your religious but even then I'm not aware of anyone believing that risk taking alone sends anyone to hell or otherwise).

"Better to live an hour as a tiger, than a whole lifetime as a worm"
-The cat (red dwarf)


Also do you have a better way of getting an alligator out of a pool for a reasonable cost? The only alternative I can think of would be to tranquillise it but that would A. shift the risk of death and injury to the animal and B. be very hard to administer underwater. Nets and ropes seem like they would be prohibitively expensive and horribly impractical here also.

Hoisting the alligator above his head actually strikes me as potentially one of the safest way to carry the thing away, out of the water with no feet on the ground etc. but then I'm not an expert in dealing with Gators......crucially however neither are you and if i was going to take advice on how to get rid of one I'd be much more inclined to listen to people who have clearly spent their whole lives doing it than some random person who bases advanced genetic theories on a comedy film (for the record a very enjoyable one which was clearly not intended to be realistic).

I was willing to put money on the pro arm wrestler from the start for that very reason. I wasn't really prepared for it to be just that lopsided though. That guy is crazy.

He's was never a good wrestler, so he can die in a fire.

You destroyed your entire point by posting that. Ventura is a 9/11 Truther nutbag who wasn't a good wrestler.

>> ^criticalthud:

this guy's had a lifetime of blunt trauma and physical repercussions and everyone blames drugs and alcohol. wonder how well that spine is moving eh?
i mean really, how many times do you need your head slammed to start developing scar tissue in the cranium and throughout the nervous system. ? not very many.
drugs and alcohol are the escape valve for putting your physicality through a meat grinder.


well said

"In the late 90s Scott Hall was as big maybe bigger..." than Hulk Hogan or Andre the Giant? No he fucking wasn't. He was a sidekick and he will always be a sidekick. I'd really love it if someone who actually KNOWS shit about wrestling would talk about it rather than this idiot.

Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant were cultural icons, people who didn't watch wrestling know about them, just like Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock. No one knew about Scott Hall, no one cared about Scott Hall. And smarks would remember him as a completely crappy wrestler.

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*promote

Thank you very much for the promote.

man, he was my favorite wrestler...

A dildo! A bong! No, wait... a squid! Oh, I see, it's a person. The Heat Miser! No, Elvis! I know... it's Lincoln! Yep, there's his beard, alrighty. Wait a sec... that ain't Lincoln. Hmmm... Chuck Norris? Wait, what the hell is that thing? A bunny? One of those headless dudes from Serious Sam? What is he wrapping... around... Sumo wrestler! Headless Sumo wrestler! He's leaning against a cactus! Nope, he's TIED to the cactus for some reason. Now he's... I have no idea what that is, but it looks like it would make a cool lamp.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^G-bar:
If it werent for dawkings and dicks like him, degrasse would still be hiding beneath his science table. We shouldnt tip toe around forced ignorance

Really? You think deGrasse would be scared? The big black college wrestler needs to be protected by fucking Richard Dawkins really?!


I wasn't expecting Degrasse to punch Creationism out of existence
But you know what I meant. It was the Harsh words of people such as Hitchens and Dawkings that led the way to let Atheism out of its closet.

>> ^G-bar:

If it werent for dawkings and dicks like him, degrasse would still be hiding beneath his science table. We shouldnt tip toe around forced ignorance


Really? You think deGrasse would be scared? The big black college wrestler needs to be protected by fucking Richard Dawkins really?!