General Chit-Chat Thread - No Spoilers

[Butters]

a lot of the stigma with wrestling back then was people thought if you watched it you believed it was real and therefor were stupid. you couldn't possibly watch it for entertainment knowing it wasn't real.

 

[Butters]

a lot of people still think that to this day.

 

[Barry Poppins]

a lot of the stigma with wrestling back then was people thought if you watched it you believed it was real and therefor were stupid. you couldn't possibly watch it for entertainment knowing it wasn't real.

That is still a thing now. People just don't get that it's literally a last bastion of live fucking theater.

 

[Butters]

well, to their credit, when you make characters like kane and the undertaker, and the fiend it makes it hard to believe any of it is real.

 

[Barry Poppins]

Pretty much lol

 

[Butters]

when you have people throwing fireballs and it's clearly fake then maybe they are on mattresses or a trampoline

 

[Butters]

most casual people don't know what the ring is made of.

 

[Barry Poppins]

"Wrestling is fake, you know that right?" "You mean the Undertaker isn't really an Undead wizard zombie that controls lightning?"

 

[Hoss]

Then you see a woman being thrown ten feet in the air through some planks and onto a hard gym floor

 

[Deezy]

I was like, "they don't put their storylines on the news"

The news is a work

 

[Barry Poppins]

Then you see a woman being thrown ten feet in the air through some planks and onto a hard gym floor

 

[Butters]

deezy filling in for kif

 

[Hoss]

Did you watch the video Grim?

 

[Hoss]

It was hardcore af

 

[Deezy]

Lady flatbacked the bump....too bad the guy delivering the move could barely lift her