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I'm gonna be honest here, sounds like you need to be more selective in who you trust for your various services.

The way you describe these people, it sounds like you're going with your "uncles friend" type of people or the trashy companies that are ran by someone pushing their staff to do quick/slop jobs for high profit.

Get that exterior worker to small claims before their business mysteriously dissolves into oblivion.

You can can give me a million dollars to paint your ceiling, but that's not going to make me Michelangelo.

You need to find the people that take actual pride in their work, which is incredibly hard to do. Failing that, the established businesses that stand behind their work. If that autobody tech doesn't warranty the paint job, they aren't worth your business. If the guy re-fixing the drains is covering it on their own dime and making it right without a fuss, then that's something to remember next time. Everyone makes mistakes, its how they handle them after the fact that's important.

oh they definitely care about your money

I expect the New World Order to get up to some crazy shit but pandas, buckets of blood, and sex appeal don't mix.

I knew pandas were savage but this is a new low for them

I think they’re talking about WWE. Buckets of blood? I don’t think so.

Such a great set of episodes. And so many!

Wrestling is theater on steroids....literally.

It is, at its best, the peak of stupid trash reality television in a live show format. Nobody watches Pro-Wrestling for the intellectual and deep content, they watch it for fun. Its satisfying the same stupid lizard brain that gets off to giant monster movies.

I say this as someone who loved the Attitude Era and watched a bit of the 2016-2020 WWE era.

I always thought it was just acceptable softcore porn for gay people. Like being gay wasnt as accepted as it is today. It was an insult in schools. It was a constant witch hunt and if someone thought you were gay you were fucking finished.

It was cool, however, to watch incredibly muscular guys, oiled and sweaty, in their underpants and tight vests, repeatedly try to lie on top of eachother, and doing flips that involve ramming their crotch against the others butt.

Isn't wrestling the Days Of Our Lives for guys? I never understand why people like it, watch any other combat sport and actual fighting takes place.

Sounds like you understand it perfectly, you just don't appreciate it.

The first season of GLOW talks about the connection between soap opera and wrestling, btw, in addition to being damn fine television.

Don’t besmirch Days like that, wrestling is Passions for manly men.

That's pretty close. But people don't watch it for the fighting...or rather, they don't watch it to see one person put their combat skill against another to see who is better.

It's more like a mostly-improv stage play with some pretty impressive stunts and acrobatics. When the show is on, every performer treats the situation as deadly serious and "yes ands" as hard as they can.

My favorite thing is when someone has to pretend that their opponent has real magic powers.

A friend won tickets to a local one and it was a lot of fun. It was like a huge group of LARPers and everyone got to participate in the spectacle in their own way. Definitely not a gender thing, either.

I guess it was like one of those themed restaurants with actors and events through the evening, where the whole point is everyone can get into it and have fun on a pirate ship or in Dracula's castle or whatever the theme is.

But, I struggle to see how it could go to the scale and detail of what's in the US. Watching it on TV seems more concerning than entertaining too. I had a housemate that played a White Mage in FFXI, and Pineapple Juice was how the class restored mana points. Dude started drinking nothing but pineapple juice IRL. That's probably the only way I can explain "Pro Wrestling" in the US. It must be targeted at that guy.

Yes it is. The fighting is just connecting tissue.

I'd love to read about all those wacky and preposterous story arcs they had over the years.

Edit: I don't know what Days of our lives is but I understand it's a soap opera.

Yeh. I always thought that the audience was kids and teen boys.

Yeah, because watching people ACTUALLY beat each other into a bloody pulp is REAL entertainment for REAL men!!

Soap operas are stupid and not entertaining at all!

Sort of. My great grandmother watched wrestling matches in the 1950s in the south. Apparently it was the same stuff back then. My grandma always rolled her eyes when her mother would talk about it. Its just entertainment.

But you kinda pegged it. Some of the outlandish and crazy shit was entertaining. You could actually watch the heel get taken down or the face triumph over insurmountable odds. In actual fighting sometimes the asshole just wins.

Seems to be fine for the question itself. Doing it this way is common, though typically the opener talks about premise more with the example being a short second paragraph.

Though I could definitely see having it as a reply due to length, also at least to stop non-answer top-level replies and at most to get engagement with their self-answer.

Collapse of what?

Please elaborate, at least tell us the country

People were becoming smarter on computers and still are in many ways.

The problem is generally twofold:

1. Computers/the internet is a tool, not an adequate education system.
2. Corporatization and late-stage capitalism has turned virtually all mainstream Western websites into pro-faacist hellscapes with controlled opposition

If it's any consolation, I have some friends who worked in close proximity to Undertaker's podcast location and said when they ran into him he was still cool.