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Eddie Guerrrero is dead.
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Drinky Crow
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"won a WWE Championship" -- wtf
don't you mean "when his character was WRITTEN TO WIN a WWE Championship"
Geezus, Lance Armstrong and an actor are hardly comparable when it comes to legitimate physical accomplishments
don't you mean "when his character was WRITTEN TO WIN a WWE Championship"
Geezus, Lance Armstrong and an actor are hardly comparable when it comes to legitimate physical accomplishments
Arrowgigantic
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Well look, they don't give belts to people just at random. Not even the tag team belts. The belts may not be an athletic achievement per se, but they are an achievement as an entertainer.
Poor Eddie. He had a lot of personality, and was a great wrestler too. At least he went out as a face.
Poor Eddie. He had a lot of personality, and was a great wrestler too. At least he went out as a face.
Littleberu
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Keyser Soze said:
Ahh don't try to make me cry here. There are worst things in this world than that. I know what this kind has done is kinda tough and was probably the hardest thing in his life, but comon, he won a WWE tournament. He's not an athlete, he's an actor that lift weights. You can't deny that.
Drinky Crow
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Yeah, and they didn't give Matthew Perry a part on Friends at random, either
Arrowgigantic
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Then again, for a while a ladder held the hardcore championship in Japan.
Littleberu
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Drinky Crow said:
Ok now I know you're not serious.
It is an accomplishment : But it's no way an "triumphant victory" over his demons.
MrAngryFace
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http://www.ga-forum.com/showthread.php?t=70878&highlight=Veterans+Day
Where were all you dumbfucks in THIS thread? The one about REAL heroes?
Where were all you dumbfucks in THIS thread? The one about REAL heroes?
Littleberu
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Run the tour de france the same year you treated your cancer, then you'll see what is an athlete.
Keyser Soze
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OMG, you all picked such a bad thread!!!
Keyser Soze
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Littleberu said:
He RAN???
Drinky Crow
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He's just another dude in spandex panties. There's more where he came from, and I'm sure they'll all have plenty of tragic character flaws to keep you in convenient self-indulgent television viewer grief for the next ten years as well.
themadcowtipper
Smells faintly of rancid stilton.
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Drinky Crow
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HOLY SHIT NO
I'm half the way there, having been treated for cancer this year. My cancer isn't as serious as Lance's was, no metastates to the brain or lungs. And I could never ride in teh Tour de France and know that right off the bat.
You know what a triumphant victory is? Overcoming hardship and returning to what you love and being the best damn person at it. Lance won the Tour de France and that was a huge victory because he overcame cancer. Eddie returned to the business he loved and excelled. His hardship is not Lance's, his profession is not Lance's, and holding anyone up to the standard of Lance Armstrong is ridiculous.
You know what a triumphant victory is? Overcoming hardship and returning to what you love and being the best damn person at it. Lance won the Tour de France and that was a huge victory because he overcame cancer. Eddie returned to the business he loved and excelled. His hardship is not Lance's, his profession is not Lance's, and holding anyone up to the standard of Lance Armstrong is ridiculous.
MrAngryFace
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Drinky Crow
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He wasn't on the TEEVEE, MAF! Heroes get plenty of air time! Losers just get a box and a kick to the teeth!
Keyser Soze
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WTF is wrong with GAF??
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
Wow...I'm in shock. Not the news I wanted to wake up to...
Drinky Crow said:
Just as a side note, the word hero gets thrown around too much these days. Last week there was a school shooting in which the kid shot the principal, and throughout the whole weekend everyone was claiming the principal as a hero! A hero because he got shot by a kid? Whateva!
Hero's are stupid anyway. If you have heroes youll never be Number 1!
Crush your friends, crush your enemies! There is no team in I!
MrAngryFace
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So ballerinas are atheletes too now? I thought they were DANCERS.
MrAngryFace
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Why arent they in the olympics!
Id think GYMNASTS are atheletes.
Id think GYMNASTS are atheletes.
Drinky Crow
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Fir the record, I think they're athletes. However, half of 'em are on steroids, and the entertainment they provide is largely vaudeville. I have nothing against folks liking wrestling, but in the end, wrestlers are all largely replacable, and unlike veterans or the Nobel set, they've done little to warrant any real respect beyond the ability to score some air time.
The fact that a burned out druggie of a "pro wrestler" gets a huge community outpouring of grief but our veterans collectively barely merit a nod *is* a creepy comment on how Americans especially value the trivialities of their lives and prefer to disacknowledge the dangers.
The fact that a burned out druggie of a "pro wrestler" gets a huge community outpouring of grief but our veterans collectively barely merit a nod *is* a creepy comment on how Americans especially value the trivialities of their lives and prefer to disacknowledge the dangers.
MrAngryFace
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FOR THE RECORD, the only things that bother me about this thread:
1.) The Veterans Day thread made 7 posts, half of them mocking veterans and veterans day.
Yeah thats about it. The rest was just my standard mockery.
1.) The Veterans Day thread made 7 posts, half of them mocking veterans and veterans day.
Yeah thats about it. The rest was just my standard mockery.
DCX
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Are you really surprised? I mean this message board has a certain age group and mentality. I do find it very sad that a Veteran's Day thread gets 7 posts but i'm sure alot of real world topics fall to a similar fate while WWE/Gaming/Girl threads are instant multi-page threads that are bound for the GAF Hall of Fame...it's just life, and it's just the Internet...MrAngryFace said:
DCX
Christoff Yurievich
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I always referred to him, from what I saw of him on commercials, as "the guy with the nice hair". sorry to hear he's dead.Arrowgigantic
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Speaking as a veteran, I have no idea what you're talking about. Nobody joins the army so they can get props on GAF every year and if they don't see a damn big thread they get depressed. I mean, those car magnets are less empty of a gesture.Drinky Crow said:
Veteran's Day is every year, and a message board is hardly the place to celebrate it. On the other hand, Eddie is only going to be dead once, and we talk about wrestling at least twice a week on this board.
It seems pretty obvious to me that there is absolutely nothing wrong here.
MrAngryFace
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None of us RECOGNIZE veterans day anymore, we just go out shopping.
Veterans get propz every year. If you call that 7 post mockery of a veterans day thread propz you have some low standards.
Veterans get propz every year. If you call that 7 post mockery of a veterans day thread propz you have some low standards.
Drinky Crow
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Yeah, and Eddie Guerrero didn't die so he could get a big damn thread on GAF, either.
Speaking as a man whose father is a vet, I know my old man appreciates having people nod their head and say "thanks" once a year, because two tours of duty in 'nam as a frontline field medic kinda gives a person the idea that a little simple respect for the folks who put their asses on the line for our country, ill-guided as it may be sometimes, is in order.
No matter how you slice it, priorities ARE out of whack around here. Of course, I'll admit that's a pretty fuckin' obvious observation, but it never hurts to restate it from time to time. :/
Speaking as a man whose father is a vet, I know my old man appreciates having people nod their head and say "thanks" once a year, because two tours of duty in 'nam as a frontline field medic kinda gives a person the idea that a little simple respect for the folks who put their asses on the line for our country, ill-guided as it may be sometimes, is in order.
No matter how you slice it, priorities ARE out of whack around here. Of course, I'll admit that's a pretty fuckin' obvious observation, but it never hurts to restate it from time to time. :/
Mermandala
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MrAngryFace said:
You're right! I was really moved by your own heartfelt post in that thread.
Drinky Crow
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Mermandala, or, conversely, some people keep their sentiments to themselves?
Don't forget Memorial Day, too. Or Labor Day. Or D-Day in some places, too.Kuroyume said:
I understand that it's a crime that people don't openly speak up about veterans day, but it's a totally different thing that 9/11 taught us. We like our heroes to be larger than life and able to take on the world... not the everydayman like your soldiers or firefighters are. So is it any real surprise that we show more shock when the 'larger than life' people die than the people who make the choice and sacrifice without our praise? Certainly the soldier deserves our praise more than the wrestler, but at the same time soldiers are never really held up on pedastals of invincibility. It's more tragedy and less shock when we see soldiers die than it is when we see our 'Titans' die.
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