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Post by patbat on Jan 24, 2019 9:48:59 GMT -5
I'll second this--growing up, wrestling was the sole province of the most desperately redneck kids, and as an adult it's still weird to me when I encounter people who wouldn't be caught dead at a tractor pull or NASCAR event but who enjoy wrestling. When I was a kid-kid (late 80s), it seemed like a pretty normal kid thing to be into. When there was that surge in popularity when I was in late middle school/high school (I graduated in 2000, I'm thinking of the "Stone Cold Steve Austin" era, NWO, etc.), the kids into it then were pretty terrible. So, either I wasn't aware of it's redneckishness as a child, it wasn't as redneck for a 5-10 year-old kid to be into wrestling, or maybe I was just a little redneck child?
But you know, I do know a few people who, like you said, wouldn't be caught dead at the terrible hick things I enjoy as an adult (demolition derbies and tractor pulls), but are totally into wrestling.
We were kid-kids in the same time frame, so it must have been specific to my tiny rural shit town.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Jan 24, 2019 9:51:22 GMT -5
I still love Soul Coughing and Always Sunny, but I’ve purposely avoided AVC darlings Community (due to rabid fanbase) and Brooklyn 99 (due to Andy Samberg). That is exactly why I avoided B99 for a long time (ditto for friends of mine), but the Andy Sambergness is swiftly lowered, and also balanced out by everyone else, and now I love it like burning.
After avoiding it for the same reason as you, I watched a couple seasons of Community (on the recommendation of a long-time friend who knows my tastes) and it was really, really underwhelming and not all that engaging IMO.
So.
I don't know what my point was.
I've never had any desire to watch Always Sunny though. <--on topic after all
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Post by Liz n Dick on Jan 24, 2019 10:44:45 GMT -5
Professional wrestling confused me as a child (in the early '80s), and I was never able to get past that as an adult. I remember watching it at a friend's house once, and it was so clearly fake... but everyone pretended like it was real? Neither of my parents had any interest in it, so I couldn't get a suitable explanation from them of what the point was, and by the time I was old enough to get that it is, as described by some fans here, basically a big, loud, dumb soap opera, the ship had sailed. (When I was in college I rode on a plane once with The Undertaker, Newark to Cleveland. He was in first class, but one of his crew guys was sitting next to me, in the middle seat. The guy on the other side of him was a huge fan, so the two talked the entire flight about the upcoming match. It was treated in this conversation as if it was a real sports event, and when they parted as we disembarked from the plane, there were good luck wishes as you'd give to someone about to do an unscripted athletic venture. I was baffled anew. That said, The Undertaker was an impressively enormous human being, seemed very approachable and friendly with his fans, and his crew carried his urn [? I guess?] in a special travel case in the plane cabin with them.)
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Post by Pastafarian on Jan 24, 2019 10:53:18 GMT -5
Professional wrestling confused me as a child (in the early '80s), and I was never able to get past that as an adult. I remember watching it at a friend's house once, and it was so clearly fake... but everyone pretended like it was real? Neither of my parents had any interest in it, so I couldn't get a suitable explanation from them of what the point was, and by the time I was old enough to get that it is, as described by some fans here, basically a big, loud, dumb soap opera, the ship had sailed. (When I was in college I rode on a plane once with The Undertaker, Newark to Cleveland. He was in first class, but one of his crew guys was sitting next to me, in the middle seat. The guy on the other side of him was a huge fan, so the two talked the entire flight about the upcoming match. It was treated in this conversation as if it was a real sports event, and when they parted as we disembarked from the plane, there were good luck wishes as you'd give to someone about to do an unscripted athletic venture. I was baffled anew. That said, The Undertaker was an impressively enormous human being, seemed very approachable and friendly with his fans, and his crew carried his urn [? I guess?] in a special travel case in the plane cabin with them.) I wonder if all the people who say they like wrestling because it's a soap opera with body slams and spandex like the show "Glow"?
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Post by Pastafarian on Jan 24, 2019 10:55:54 GMT -5
When I was a kid-kid (late 80s), it seemed like a pretty normal kid thing to be into. When there was that surge in popularity when I was in late middle school/high school (I graduated in 2000, I'm thinking of the "Stone Cold Steve Austin" era, NWO, etc.), the kids into it then were pretty terrible. So, either I wasn't aware of it's redneckishness as a child, it wasn't as redneck for a 5-10 year-old kid to be into wrestling, or maybe I was just a little redneck child?
But you know, I do know a few people who, like you said, wouldn't be caught dead at the terrible hick things I enjoy as an adult (demolition derbies and tractor pulls), but are totally into wrestling.
We were kid-kids in the same time frame, so it must have been specific to my tiny rural shit town. Didn't realize you'd returned, welcome back to our tiny online shit town!
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Jan 24, 2019 11:00:13 GMT -5
Professional wrestling has been going downhill ever since Dick the Bruiser died.
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Post by Liz n Dick on Jan 24, 2019 11:49:06 GMT -5
When I was a towheaded boy my grandmother called me "Gorgeous George", after the wrestler. Even so I was ambivalent to wrestling when I was young, but the advent of the WWF ruined any enjoyment I had of it at all - wrestling used to have a sort of naif sincerity, a plucky DIY attitude, and the WWF had the soul (or lack thereof) of a marketing executive. It fit with the rest of the 80s shift in kids entertainment though; it was basically episodes of, I don't know, GI Joe - an empty, corporate money grab. I will not stand for this besmirching of GI Joe's good name, sir! PISTOLS AT DAWN! (Pistols that fire color-coordinated lasers, of course.)
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Jan 24, 2019 14:31:32 GMT -5
I wonder if all the people who say they like wrestling because it's a soap opera with body slams and spandex like the show "Glow"? Me me me, I do! Also, I loved Community, but the fans were so annoying that even when I was an Old Country lurker I avoided reading the comment sections on the reviews there. I think I love Brooklyn 99 more, though.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Jan 24, 2019 14:49:54 GMT -5
Professional wrestling confused me as a child (in the early '80s), and I was never able to get past that as an adult. I remember watching it at a friend's house once, and it was so clearly fake... but everyone pretended like it was real? Neither of my parents had any interest in it, so I couldn't get a suitable explanation from them of what the point was, and by the time I was old enough to get that it is, as described by some fans here, basically a big, loud, dumb soap opera, the ship had sailed. (When I was in college I rode on a plane once with The Undertaker, Newark to Cleveland. He was in first class, but one of his crew guys was sitting next to me, in the middle seat. The guy on the other side of him was a huge fan, so the two talked the entire flight about the upcoming match. It was treated in this conversation as if it was a real sports event, and when they parted as we disembarked from the plane, there were good luck wishes as you'd give to someone about to do an unscripted athletic venture. I was baffled anew. That said, The Undertaker was an impressively enormous human being, seemed very approachable and friendly with his fans, and his crew carried his urn [? I guess?] in a special travel case in the plane cabin with them.) I wonder if all the people who say they like wrestling because it's a soap opera with body slams and spandex like the show "Glow"? My husband certainly does! (I also enjoyed GLOW)
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Post by MarkInTexas on Jan 24, 2019 15:45:13 GMT -5
I, for the most part, hate horror, so I rarely subject myself to a horror movie or TV show, no matter how popular or critically acclaimed it is. So, no, I haven't, nor do I have any plans to ever see Hereditary, or The Witch, or It Follows. My interest in slasher films is sated by having seen the original Halloween, the original Nightmare on Elm Street, and the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre back in high school. I'm good with never seeing any of the various sequels, prequels, ripoffs, and reboots.
That also extends to horror-tinged TV shows. Never seen The Walking Dead, never intend to. Saw all of one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer 20 years ago, and I'm good. Zero interest in American Horror Story, other than MAN ASS (which I can find online). I haven't gotten around to The Haunting of Hill House, or The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, or even Stranger Things.
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Post by Pastafarian on Jan 24, 2019 20:59:19 GMT -5
I wonder if all the people who say they like wrestling because it's a soap opera with body slams and spandex like the show "Glow"? Me me me, I do! Also, I loved Community, but the fans were so annoying that even when I was an Old Country lurker I avoided reading the comment sections on the reviews there. I think I love Brooklyn 99 more, though. I've not yet seen it, probably because I was like "wrestling...I don't know..." but I keep hearing it's really good. And you and Pedantic Editor Type have good taste so I'll give it a shot!
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Jan 25, 2019 8:42:11 GMT -5
I've avoided Stranger Things out of pure spite that Netflix went so hard promoting it and totally ignored The Get Down, which came out around the same time. I don't give a shit about 80s nostalgia or homages. Pastafarian, it's deeply silly, but WWE does make it pretty easy to figure out what's going on in the storylines; they usually preface matches with recaps from the last week or two. And yes, it's all fake, in the sense that it's choreographed and the outcome is predetermined, but wrestlers (except Ronda Rousey, who is The Worst in every conceivable professional and personal way) still have to have the extensive training and athletic skill to pull off those moves convincingly and safely. That's why I think it's fun to watch.
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Post by moimoi on Jan 25, 2019 14:54:43 GMT -5
HAIM, Charly Bliss, and any other 'band' that seems to have been spawned by Instagram.
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Post by fab on Jan 29, 2019 7:59:41 GMT -5
until a day or two ago, I would've said that I've avoided the most recent popular modern media platforms such as Instagram. but I joined it since I wanted to find some sound clips / demonstrations of guitar stuff from small companies who somehow have built a website but don't properly showcase their products. (seems like sales 101, but what do I know.)
I find the platform to be rather bewildering in a few ways. I think I've been "followed" by some bot accounts (or desperate hangers on trying to boost their brand?) automatically, in spite of the fact that I haven't posted anything and am just looking to sift through the dregs of the platform to focus on useful stuff.
all I want is to peaceably lurk, watch clips of my cousins' dogs do silly adorable things, and occasionally drool over expensive instruments I could never justify owning even if I could afford it. is that so much to ask?
I guess my contribution here is "Twitter" in that I briefly tried it a long time ago, thought "hey these interesting people who do interesting things sometimes share interesting links" but then my attention span waned. I was auto-flagged as a bot eventually (?!?!) since I apparently didn't post stuff or retweet enough or something. and nothing of value was lost.
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Post by fab on Jan 29, 2019 8:00:46 GMT -5
I will not stand for this besmirching of GI Joe's good name, sir! PISTOLS AT DAWN! (Pistols that fire color-coordinated lasers, of course.) The weird PSAs were the best part of that show. Friends and I used to yell "Barbecue!" at each other because of one (it was the 80s, we had to make our own enjoyment). you've seen these, right?
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Post by Lurky McLurk on Jan 29, 2019 10:40:09 GMT -5
(except Ronda Rousey, who is The Worst in every conceivable professional and personal way) I make no particular claims with respect to her personality (other than that, like most professional sportspeople, she seems quite odd), but she really is rather good at judo. I mean, really rather good.
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Post by Liz n Dick on Jan 29, 2019 11:25:12 GMT -5
I guess my contribution here is "Twitter" in that I briefly tried it a long time ago, thought "hey these interesting people who do interesting things sometimes share interesting links" but then my attention span waned. I was auto-flagged as a bot eventually (?!?!) since I apparently didn't post stuff or retweet enough or something. and nothing of value was lost. I joined Twitter too early. Hugs was on the vanguard with that, being all up in that "cutting edges of media technology" area that librarians are in, so we were both like, "Yeah, let's try this goofy Twitter thing!" And it made no sense to me and totally sucked because I can't deal with 140 characters. And no one else was on it, so there wasn't even, like, anything interesting to do following other people. A few months later it got huge, but I was like, "Eh, I tried it and hated it, so I can't be bothered to do that again." For a while I worried I was missing out on something, but it pretty quickly became clear that no, I was right about it from the start. Facebook is another thing I've avoided. I don't even own a Facebook! (I'm on Instagram, though, so Facebook owns me.)
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Jan 29, 2019 11:26:28 GMT -5
(except Ronda Rousey, who is The Worst in every conceivable professional and personal way) I make no particular claims with respect to her personality (other than that, like most professional sportspeople, she seems quite odd), but she really is rather good at judo. I mean, really rather good. Oh, she's no doubt excellent at judo and MMA. But she leaves so much to be desired as a pro wrestler.
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Post by patbat on Jan 29, 2019 11:38:52 GMT -5
I make no particular claims with respect to her personality (other than that, like most professional sportspeople, she seems quite odd), but she really is rather good at judo. I mean, really rather good. Oh, she's no doubt excellent at judo and MMA. But she leaves so much to be desired as a pro wrestler. I'd add that she left much to be desired as an MMA fighter too, once it was discovered that she had a glass jaw.
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Post by Pastafarian on Jan 29, 2019 12:25:26 GMT -5
Televised golf. I don't much care one way or another for sports, but can appreciate a good throw in basketball or a particularly long pass in football. I won't go out of my way to watch them but if I was hanging out with people and they put on a game I wouldn't object.
Golf though? On tv? The fuck?
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Post by Liz n Dick on Jan 29, 2019 12:48:03 GMT -5
Televised golf. I don't much care one way or another for sports, but can appreciate a good throw in basketball or a particularly long pass in football. I won't go out of my way to watch them but if I was hanging out with people and they put on a game I wouldn't object. Golf though? On tv? The fuck? That's a good one! I've discovered that my capacity for watching any number of esoteric or stupid sports on TV is nearly limitless... with golf being the one that goes too far. What a snore!
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Post by fab on Jan 29, 2019 13:34:58 GMT -5
Televised golf. I don't much care one way or another for sports, but can appreciate a good throw in basketball or a particularly long pass in football. I won't go out of my way to watch them but if I was hanging out with people and they put on a game I wouldn't object. Golf though? On tv? The fuck? it's mostly to sell equipment to people who are too lazy to even play golf. so capitalism, but with the laziest form of aspiration and perspiration? (reaching for the remote and the beverage)
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jan 29, 2019 13:44:00 GMT -5
Televised golf. I don't much care one way or another for sports, but can appreciate a good throw in basketball or a particularly long pass in football. I won't go out of my way to watch them but if I was hanging out with people and they put on a game I wouldn't object. Golf though? On tv? The fuck? That's a good one! I've discovered that my capacity for watching any number of esoteric or stupid sports on TV is nearly limitless... with golf being the one that goes too far. What a snore! My grandfather, despite (to my knowledge) never having golfed, nor (being Jamaican and dark-skinned) probably welcomed at many of the country clubs in the 80s and 90s, would watch golf on TV and fall asleep almost instantly. I am also reminded of a George Carlin routine comparing televised golf to "watching flies fuck".
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Post by LazBro on Jan 29, 2019 15:37:34 GMT -5
Well damn, I finally got around to this thread and both of my candidates were taken today. Well, sort of.
Social media. That counts as a media, right? I don't have a Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, MySpace, Swazzychat ... any of them. And now that most person-to-person communication has moved on to texting, I barely even have email. TIF is my only connection to other people online.
Televised sports. So golf was mentioned a few hours ago. I extend that to all sports. I actually like attending sporting events, especially hockey (go Stars), but watching sports on TV is the most boring thing I can imagine. The only sporting event I might watch on TV is the Super Bowl, but only if I"m attending a party, and even then it's only the commercials I'll likely watch.
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Post by moimoi on Jan 30, 2019 21:32:06 GMT -5
Most musicals beloved by theatre kids: Rent, Les Mis, Grease, Hair, etc.
Note, I loved Fela and I'm okay with Hamilton, but if it's mainstream enough to air on anything but PBS, it's not for me.
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Post by Hachiman on Jan 31, 2019 2:36:30 GMT -5
TEDTalks. Do TEDTalks count? I don't even know if I am writing it correctly and I don't care enough to check. YouTube. YouTube celebrities. Popular YouTube Channels. Vloggers. I just don't follow YouTube.
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Post by Nudeviking on Jan 31, 2019 2:52:29 GMT -5
TEDTalks. Do TEDTalks count? I don't even know if I am writing it correctly and I don't care enough to check. YouTube. YouTube celebrities. Popular YouTube Channels. Vloggers. I just don't follow YouTube. There's stuff on YouTube other than 90s alterna-rock music videos and videos of alleged ghost shit?
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Post by Hachiman on Jan 31, 2019 3:01:20 GMT -5
Nudeviking The hell if I know. I only know YouTube for having music videos, videos that nitpick popular movies, that weird Star Wars reviewer guy, old tv episodes from PBS shows, and the German guy who makes slingshots and crossbows using rubber bands.
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Post by Liz n Dick on Jan 31, 2019 9:56:06 GMT -5
Most musicals beloved by theatre kids: Rent, Les Mis, Grease, Hair, etc. Note, I loved Fela and I'm okay with Hamilton, but if it's mainstream enough to air on anything but PBS, it's not for me. Oooh, yeah, Rent! That's another one that I wouldn't know if one of its songs walked up to me and kicked me, and I'm proud of it. Ugh, theater kids. ::shudder:: I think I've atmospherically picked up a shred or two of Les Mis here or there along the way, but I've also never seen that one. I was a Phantom of the Opera-or-die kid when I was aspiring to be theater-y in middle school (it was new at the time, so it was, like, the cool thing for us 13-year-old wannabe theater dorks to be into, I swear!) and I felt like Les Mis was challenging my beloved's primacy. So I always hated it in a zero-sum kind of way. Being a rational young teen, and all. And sure, now I'm 30 years older, but you know what? FUCK LES MIS!
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Post by moimoi on Jan 31, 2019 10:05:57 GMT -5
Most musicals beloved by theatre kids: Rent, Les Mis, Grease, Hair, etc. Note, I loved Fela and I'm okay with Hamilton, but if it's mainstream enough to air on anything but PBS, it's not for me. Oooh, yeah, Rent! That's another one that I wouldn't know if one of its songs walked up to me and kicked me, and I'm proud of it. Ugh, theater kids. ::shudder:: I think I've atmospherically picked up a shred or two of Les Mis here or there along the way, but I've also never seen that one. I was a Phantom of the Opera-or-die kid when I was aspiring to be theater-y in middle school (it was new at the time, so it was, like, the cool thing for us 13-year-old wannabe theater dorks to be into, I swear!) and I felt like Les Mis was challenging my beloved's primacy. So I always hated it in a zero-sum kind of way. Being a rational young teen, and all. And sure, now I'm 30 years older, but you know what? FUCK LES MIS! Yeah but also fuck Phantom. Andrew Lloyd Webber is a hack.
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