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Date Posted: 15:50:32 02/22/01 Thu
Author: amos
Author Host/IP: NoHost / 195.92.237.210
Subject: Re: Just plain WWF thank you very much
In reply to: Sallerina 's message, "Just plain WWF thank you very much" on 15:33:37 02/22/01 Thu

oooooooooooooooooooooooooh, get you! (think camp!)

Very well put Sal, but you've not converted me. I'm far too intelectual for wrestling. I prefare 'Buffy'. now there is violence with a meaning. At least my Buffy kills vampires (SP?) and with a stake!

Ah my pretty Buffy ;o)









>At this point I really do feel like I have to
>intervene. Firstly, this is to you Kevin, the Dudley's
>are dreadful, Edge and Christian are far cooler. And
>Lita isn't THAT good a wrestler, by the standards of
>say, Molly Holly, (even though she is pretty damn cool)
>And Hannah, I know you do not approve of wrestling,
>but really you don't know alot about it. And you
>certainly do not know anything about the Hardy Boyz,
>please, just because you don't like what they do,
>don't get on your high horse and presume that they are
>unintelligent, because this isn't the case. They are
>actually a pretty articulate pair. I have heard
>various arguments against wrestling, the most common
>ones being -
>1) It's not real/it's all staged
>
>Well do we not all watch soaps on the telly? And are
>these real? Not everything has to be "real" or "true
>to life"
>
>2)It encourages violence
>
>Well if most of the people who came on this site used
>this arguement, I would probably just laugh. Could I
>just ask, what if a mosh pit, if it's not violent? I
>go in mosh pits, I beat and get beaten. I can't really
>object to violence when this is the way I conduct
>myself.
>
>3)Because some people are naive, they think they can
>recreate many of the stunts even though they are not
>properly trained. This had led to injuries and even
>deaths.
>
>Well what total poppycock! Yes, people have been
>influenced by wrestling, but it is ultimately in the
>hands of the individual whether they carry out these
>acts or not. Do you all think Marilyn Manson is to
>blame for the shootings in America? Are horror movies
>to blame for the death of Jamie Bulger? No. It is
>quite clear that this isn't the case. How many Manson
>fans do you know who have killed? And how many who are
>just quite normal really? I think you will find there
>is quite a dramatic difference. Wrestling is not to
>blame for others stupidity.
>
>How can you get so worked up about wrestling? I don't
>know why it annoys you so much Hannah, I really cannot
>see it. You like darts. I think that is boring, and is
>exclusive to fat truck drivers who eat too many pies,
>but I don't get wound up over it. I am not going to
>waste my time getting into a massive debate over it.
>If you like it then that is just fine. Why don't you
>let us that do like wrestling get on and like it in
>peace?
>
>I personally find wrestling - and also my other
>violent passtime, moshing - a highly cathartic
>excercise. If I didn't do this, I may vent my
>frustrations in other, far more illegal ways.
>
>You may all find wrestling a total farcical pantomime,
>but it wouldn't suprise me if you are all the same
>people who sit around watching Jerry Spinger, waiting
>with baited breath for the next
>trailer-trash-drug-dealing-tansvestite-inbred-prostitut
>e to come out and get his/her 15 minutes of fame by
>exposing his/her best friends secret love affair with
>the neighbours dog.
>Yes, it's mindless, but it's sure as hell fun.
>We cannot all be so intellectually gifted as your good
>selves.
>Perhaps one day, god might give me a brain, and then I
>can enjoy the well known detective stories of the
>Hardy boys, and not waste my time watching really
>attractive men parading around with no shirts on.
>
>
>
>Gimme the Hardy Boyz over the Hardy Boys any day......
>
>
>Okay. Speech over.

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