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Why would a grade school put on a murder trial?
Rage gobbling on your way out of a job is akin to the epics of Homer and the accounting of Gilgamesh.
On our way to school today, my son asked if WWE is fake. I told him we need more time to talk about it, so we'll talk when he gets home from school. He said if it's fake he's going to tell everyone to not watch WWE because it's fake. Also, he already knows Vince is a mad man who controls the commentary team and referees by yelling in their ear. He basically came up with the idea "what if Vince controls the matches too!?"A little background info, we watch AEW in our home. We do not watch WWE. So I think he thinks just WWE is fake, and not all of pro-wrestling, so this is going to be a tough conversation. Probably harder than the Santa and Tooth Fairy talk. I'm a bit nervous about it.Parents of Era, please share your advice about how you had this talk with your children. It would be greatly appreciated
Not a parent but I would point a difference between fake and predetermined.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/im-having-an-important-talk-with-my-son-today-pro-wrestling-related-and-advice-appreciated.445775/QuoteOn our way to school today, my son asked if WWE is fake. I told him we need more time to talk about it, so we'll talk when he gets home from school. He said if it's fake he's going to tell everyone to not watch WWE because it's fake. Also, he already knows Vince is a mad man who controls the commentary team and referees by yelling in their ear. He basically came up with the idea "what if Vince controls the matches too!?"A little background info, we watch AEW in our home. We do not watch WWE. So I think he thinks just WWE is fake, and not all of pro-wrestling, so this is going to be a tough conversation. Probably harder than the Santa and Tooth Fairy talk. I'm a bit nervous about it.Parents of Era, please share your advice about how you had this talk with your children. It would be greatly appreciated
Wrestling is real.People are fake.
once the kid knows it's scripted, the magic can go away, but part of the appeal of pro wrestling when you know it's scripted is trying to predict what's coming and knowing about the behind the scenes stuff, etc
why would you ask ree for parenting advice or not just text your mum or some shit
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Quote from: BossAttackIntentional hyperbole to suck you in. 😉If you actually read on you'll see I stated just that while noting the very few films that have poor cinematography, in my opinion (Ant-Man 2, Thor 2). Joke's on you I immediately no longer cared about your op and the lengthy you went to talk about it, and jumped straight to posting a reply because your intro thesis, what do I say hmmm... sucks so much?Like you completely undermine whatever effort you put into this.
Intentional hyperbole to suck you in. 😉If you actually read on you'll see I stated just that while noting the very few films that have poor cinematography, in my opinion (Ant-Man 2, Thor 2).
Excelsiorlef has been annihilated again.Quote User Banned (3 Days): Antagonizing Fellow Member; Thread Derail Quote from: excelsiorlefQuote from: BossAttackIntentional hyperbole to suck you in. 😉If you actually read on you'll see I stated just that while noting the very few films that have poor cinematography, in my opinion (Ant-Man 2, Thor 2). Joke's on you I immediately no longer cared about your op and the lengthy you went to talk about it, and jumped straight to posting a reply because your intro thesis, what do I say hmmm... sucks so much?Like you completely undermine whatever effort you put into this.https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-can-we-talk-about-marvel-cinematography.445589/page-2#post-67899422
cagey, one of the more tolerable PoliERA members, deleted their account, likely due to that Gorilla Glue girl threadhttps://www.resetera.com/threads/tessica-brown-gorilla-glue-girl-has-launched-her-own-hair-care-line.445240/#post-67863608https://www.resetera.com/threads/tessica-brown-gorilla-glue-girl-has-launched-her-own-hair-care-line.445240/page-2#post-67864190 Quote from: cageyEmbarrassingQuote from: KottoWhat I said or the sheer amount of caucacity flowing through this thread?The absolute levels of fragile caucacity in that thread was
EmbarrassingQuote from: KottoWhat I said or the sheer amount of caucacity flowing through this thread?
What I said or the sheer amount of caucacity flowing through this thread?
Quote from: Averon on June 20, 2021, 02:12:57 PMcagey, one of the more tolerable PoliERA members, deleted their account, likely due to that Gorilla Glue girl threadhttps://www.resetera.com/threads/tessica-brown-gorilla-glue-girl-has-launched-her-own-hair-care-line.445240/#post-67863608https://www.resetera.com/threads/tessica-brown-gorilla-glue-girl-has-launched-her-own-hair-care-line.445240/page-2#post-67864190 Quote from: cageyEmbarrassingQuote from: KottoWhat I said or the sheer amount of caucacity flowing through this thread?The absolute levels of fragile caucacity in that thread was Got a one month ban for "white fragility" and "abuse of report system" for reporting Kotto and Aerith for hostile posts, bigoted insults, and pointed out the moderation staff moderates black posters differently when it comes to openly insulting other people versus everyone else on the site. Saw the ban, decided I'm done, requested full account deletion, got called a Karen (lmao) when they granted the request. Petty little people.Ironic bit is, given my career, I do more to fight discrimination in any given workday than these dopes do in a year working at GameStop or some generic IT department while moderating a message board on the side, but I'm the enemy cause I think people shouldn't be assholes to other people.summary -- banned for reporting asshole behavior
Quote from: kg on June 21, 2021, 12:49:25 PMQuote from: Averon on June 20, 2021, 02:12:57 PMcagey, one of the more tolerable PoliERA members, deleted their account, likely due to that Gorilla Glue girl threadhttps://www.resetera.com/threads/tessica-brown-gorilla-glue-girl-has-launched-her-own-hair-care-line.445240/#post-67863608https://www.resetera.com/threads/tessica-brown-gorilla-glue-girl-has-launched-her-own-hair-care-line.445240/page-2#post-67864190 Quote from: cageyEmbarrassingQuote from: KottoWhat I said or the sheer amount of caucacity flowing through this thread?The absolute levels of fragile caucacity in that thread was Got a one month ban for "white fragility" and "abuse of report system" for reporting Kotto and Aerith for hostile posts, bigoted insults, and pointed out the moderation staff moderates black posters differently when it comes to openly insulting other people versus everyone else on the site. Saw the ban, decided I'm done, requested full account deletion, got called a Karen (lmao) when they granted the request. Petty little people.Ironic bit is, given my career, I do more to fight discrimination in any given workday than these dopes do in a year working at GameStop or some generic IT department while moderating a message board on the side, but I'm the enemy cause I think people shouldn't be assholes to other people.summary -- banned for reporting asshole behaviorThey just love their inconsistent moderation. Letting people insult everyone in that thread but banning others for "antagonizing members" makes not much sense.
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QuoteThread has been locked while we review a large number of reports. This may take an extended period of time. Any updates will be added to this post. Thank you for your patience.Total numbers of posts in that thread is 72. Imagine having a forum that has more reports for threads than posts.
They just love their inconsistent moderation. Letting people insult everyone in that thread but banning others for "antagonizing members" makes not much sense.
Two wrongs make a right if you're non-white.
Singing sea-shanties while drinking grog and shandies sounds like something that should be done more often.
Guys, my son is into wrestling. How do I put him up for immediate adoption?Thanks in advance.
Just like how anytime it’s just a table full of nazis, anytime some of these posters see another disagree with them, even politely, all they hear is, “Die distinguished black fellow, look at all this white privilege I have HAHAHAHAHA!”
The joke's on you for being there that long among the psychopaths and racists. Welcome aboard the bore train.
Quote from: Tuckers Law on June 21, 2021, 02:11:50 PMJust like how anytime it’s just a table full of nazis, anytime some of these posters see another disagree with them, even politely, all they hear is, “Die distinguished black fellow, look at all this white privilege I have HAHAHAHAHA!”And then the same folks got really upset that some people expressed concerns about black kids killing each other and making rap songs about it.
This literally sounds like COVID/anti-vaxx conspiracy rolled into one. We're living in a time where more and more people distrust science while a catastrophe is at our doorsteps. People can say it's a movie, but people are also ignoring the power of movies and the reach that they have. A scientist can publish a paper, and it'll maybe be read by a few thousand people, while a movie can reach millions. Maybe it's time to stop making mad scientist movies. Look around and you'll find tons of movies making science the bad guy, or people misunderstanding and thinking science is the bad guy. Hell, people still think Jurassic Park failed because of stupid scientists tampering with DNA when in fact the park failed cause John Hammond was a cheap POS. How many people actually got the latter out of the movie?
.M I know there's more to the movie than what I summarized, but that goes back to my point about Jurassic Park. People think JP failed because we were fucking with genetic power when it's actually human hubris that caused the park to fail.
Quote from: Potato on June 21, 2021, 01:42:19 PMThe joke's on you for being there that long among the psychopaths and racists. Welcome aboard the bore train.
Just got back from taking my mum for a meal out at a local pub, since she's having her kitchen done and so currently has no kitchen. We got sat down and ordered our food and drink via the app, then were hearing a lot of loud chat from a nearby table, which in itself is fine and expected in a pub. Quite quickly the chat was filled with loud exclamations of Fuck/Fucking/Fucker/Fucked at least once per sentence, which was annoying but we just sighed and shook our heads. Shortly after that though one of them went off on a loud racist/xenophobic tirade about how he was getting no government support for sending his grandson to University despite paying into the system for his whole life, but if his daughter in law put on a Burka or his son was "Fucking a Muslim" then they'd be getting all kinds of government money and everything for free.At that point we complained to the staff behind the bar, who did go over to the table and ask them not to swear loudly, and it did settle down at that point for a bit.More or less right as our food was arriving though it started up again and once the girl had finished bringing everything out we asked if they could maybe have another word with the group asking them to just tone down the language a bit, we weren't bothered about the fact they were talking loudly, it was what was being said that was the problem. At that point a guy from behind the bar came to our table and said there wasn't anything else he could do except move us since nobody else was complaining. At this point we'd started eating our food anyway, and moving us to the other side of the place would make very little difference with the volume of the swearing and racism. We tried to stress to him that the fact they were being loud wasn't the issue, you expect loud chat in a pub, but the frequent swearing and racism in a pub focused on sitting down to eat fresh cooked food was the problem. At this point the guys defence was "If we kicked out everyone who came in and was a bit racist about immigrants there'd be nobody left in here", and then re-iterated he couldn't/wouldn't do anything except move us and that he wouldn't ask the guys to move.We just told him we didn't want to move, would just finish our food and then go. On his way back to the bar he did ask them again to ease back on the swearing and racism, to which one of them loudly replied "He's married to a Thai girl so how can he be being racist?"I'm not being some kind of man-Karen by complaining here am I? I mean I was fine with loud talking, and could deal with the swearing even if it was really annoying, but the racist rants was crossing the line and I think I was justified in complaining....right?
