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"Celebrity Wrestling"

Anybody watching it? I thinks it's really good.

Pandaemonium wrote:
> Ant wrote:
> Pandaemonium wrote:
> Feel free to act all petulent and stroppy.
>
> Heh, you had to get your little cheap shot in there, didn't you?
>
> Why yes, because when someone gets on their high horse and tells me
> "You may be interested to know why and how pro wrestling grew
> into it's current state of 'choreography'. The again I'd likely be
> wasting my breath." and describes it as "an athletic
> display by two men telling a story through the medium of physical
> contact,"
>
> I feel like they're acting petulant and stroppy. Simply because
> someone dares give an opinion on their beloved "sport".
>
> *Shrug*
>
> you like WWE / whatever, no skin off my nose. Good on ya. You're not
> getting upset about it and making it out to be something it's not.
> Cong here however, is.

Meh, whatever, if you knew me, then you'd probably discover that I'm probably the least petulant or stroppy person on the planet. Guess you'll have to take my word on that though. My opinion of your opinion is that it's ill-informed and without having any proper understanding of what you're talking about.

I liken it to a public schoolboy raised on 'rugger' and 'cricket' saying that football is a 'game for poofs, because there's no physical contact'. I don't stick my nose into things which seem ridiculous to me by giving my opinion on something I don't know enough about. I wouldm ask you to show the same respect.

I'm far from upset, would be nice for someone criticising the 'sport' to actually have an understanding of it for once though...but then I guess that's asking too much.

And yeah, I'm obviously gay because I love oiled up fat-men in spandex. Ok now?

When it comes to pro-wrestling, like the WWE, I think that the little athletic guys who do all of the flips and spins and all of that kind of stuff are very impressive and deserve credit for what they do. It may well be all scripted but it still takes a lot of talent and training to be able to do it.

However, the big fat blokes who just make their name by being able to pick other guys up with one hand, well, they don't earn as much respect because that doesn't really take as much training or skill.

In conclusion, little acrobatic blokes = good, big fat men = bad.

Ant wrote:
> Pandaemonium wrote:
> Feel free to act all petulent and stroppy.
>
> Heh, you had to get your little cheap shot in there, didn't you?

Why yes, because when someone gets on their high horse and tells me "You may be interested to know why and how pro wrestling grew into it's current state of 'choreography'. The again I'd likely be wasting my breath." and describes it as "an athletic display by two men telling a story through the medium of physical contact,"

I feel like they're acting petulant and stroppy. Simply because someone dares give an opinion on their beloved "sport".

*Shrug*

you like WWE / whatever, no skin off my nose. Good on ya. You're not getting upset about it and making it out to be something it's not. Cong here however, is.

Pandaemonium wrote:
> Feel free to act all petulent and stroppy.

Heh, you had to get your little cheap shot in there, didn't you?

Celebrity Wrestling sucks. But, as some of you know, I'm quite into WWE and pro wrestling as a 'sport' (I know technically it's not, but it's just the easiest way of putting it.) Admittedly the WWE comes up with some shockingly poor stuff sometimes, but there are some hugely talented wrestlers out there who often amaze me in their matches. Characters like The Rock are also fantastic entertainment.

I don't know many people who are into it really and I understand that, so I only really chat about it on the forum here.

But anyway, I watched some of Celebrity Wrestling, and yes, it sucked. And since when was Jade a celebrity, let alone her ex boyfriend?

Yup, pretty much. My friend's quite into WWE, and I think no less of him for it because well, watching it with him it's actually very funny, in a kinda "is that intentional?" way.

In fact one of the 'story lines' I saw was when some wrestler pushed another big one over, and he fell on his pregnant wife and killed her baby. Not only was the acting so terribly funny, but just the thought of that, as if they were really trying to do it seriously (which I just cannot believe).. it's brilliant.

And yeah, they're very physically fit and some of the moves you see are quite incredible, but it's still a prescripted pantomine of oily men playing to the crowd, no matter how strong they are.

Woah woah woah, you're missing the point here. You're getting really baffled and bogged down in the semantics of Gay S&M Pantomime.

Celebrity Wrestling sucks. Celebrity Anything sucks. Celebrity Magazines suck.
This show appeals to hormonal teens that aren't brave enough to hijack their parents pc for porn and retarded people who like the pretty leotards.
That really is all there is to it.

WWF/WWE/WWhatever its called? They are physically fit, they are talented athletes. But they are involved in Kabuki for rednecks and teens obsessed with muscle-men.
Fin.

Light wrote:
> Cong_Man wrote:
> I disagree completely, I think I'm watching an athletic display by
> two men telling a story through the medium of physical contact

So you like watching gay porn?

Cong_Man wrote:
> I doubt professional footballers see it as a laugh though, I imagine
> they take it quite seriously.

*Shrug* They probably would to be honest, considering it's a sport where they don't have to pander to the latest good guy / bad guy plotline designed to sate the appetite of the crowd.

I'm not saying wrestlers don't have to work hard or have talent, it's just that football doesn't rely 50/50 on acting (in the ring, although I admit to liking The Rocks recent movies) then athletic ability (apart from players that dive, some of those jokers deserve oscars...)

Feel free to act all petulent and stroppy.

> Cong_Man wrote:
> Stuff

> Light wrote:
> You prefer it to honest-to-God
> fighting, that's your call. Just don't expect everyone else to share
> your obvious love of it, and for christs sake, don't try to be all
> prissy and condescending about your superior knowledge of it. My 3
> year old neice knows more about Barbie than I do. Doesn't mean anyone
> looks up to her.

Light wrote:
> Dude, it's theatre for rednecks.

Yeah, because the only people who watch it are rednecks? What a load of Tosh. Wrestling is huge in Japan, Australia and the UK. I don't see many rednecks there...