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I KNEW these things weren't legit!
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You know, I just found out that Restaurant Stakeout and that other hidden camera show on Food Network are staged, too. So its been a rough week for our illusions all around I guess.
The day I learned Pawn Stars is (mostly) staged is the day my world came crashing down. I still enjoy it but have to watch Antiques Roadshow if I want the real stuff.
ReplyDeleteIf I'm WWE I'm distressed that less than a thousand people gave enough of a shit to tweet.
ReplyDeleteThe Stakeout show is laughably staged. Just an awful, awful show.
ReplyDeleteIt's getting a lot harder to watch Food Network at all over the past few years, and that's pretty much the only channel that I've ever watched in a decade (RAW notwithstanding.)
I found this to be particularly odd. During the whole Cyber Sunday/Taboo Tuesday era, EVERYONE (from current stars, to former stars, to former execs, to former writers) insisted that the voting was legitimate. And now, they've put so much emphasis (especially when Raw moved to 3 hours) on this RawActive thing. So why fake it? Why even bother, instead of just making Kane vs. Punk?
ReplyDeleteThat has to be rather embarassing. You have roughly 4 million viewers and about .00025 percent of them actually tweet in for Raw Active.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Food Network has the fakiest shows right now. Restaurant Stakeout is so damn obvious too, sad really. I miss Good Eats.
ReplyDeletePoor WWE: this seems to be the only election they can rig.
ReplyDeleteYou shut your whore mouth! RICK'S STILL REAL TO ME, DAMMIT.
ReplyDeleteI see what you did there.
ReplyDelete0.00025% of 4 million viewers would be 10 people. #mathfail
ReplyDeleteI want to like this 1,000 times.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe a wrestling company would lie to us like that.
ReplyDeleteCould be worse. At least he didn't spend $50 million to lose the hashtag contest!
ReplyDeleteCan we get the university geeks to start making "Free D-Bry 2012" trendy signs to further the belated cause of rescuing this endangered species?
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes crashing down and it hurts inside, you gotta be man. It don't help to hide.
ReplyDeleteYeah that was a good one.
ReplyDeleteI miss Mario too.
And just in general seeing instructional shows in the evenings.
Mario is/was the shit. I haven't enjoyed Iron Chef America as much since he left. Speaking of another annoying trend, do we really need a new Iron Chef every 6 months? What the hell?
ReplyDeleteThanks to Scott, I drop that line about every day. I'm gonna get fired.
ReplyDeleteYou beat me to that line. 900+ people out of 4 million
ReplyDelete#WeDontGiveAShit
#GetToActualWrestling
Didn't you feel more compelled to read the review knowing that in five paragraphs you'd find out who was chosen?
ReplyDeleteSo, If I am crunching the numbers right, each blue state was leading the poll 9-7??
ReplyDeleteAnd as usual, the media fails to read the fine print, such as this from hashtagbattle.com:
ReplyDelete"Which tweets count?
We only count the Twitter hashtags that are significant and valid.
Significant (to us) means a tweet that’s been retweeted or contains a
link. Valid means we’ve removed any bots or spammy sources"
They are not counting _all_ hashtags. In fact, their count is only a very small subset that is not indicitive of the whole. So this proves nothing.
Please stop repossessing cars in the daylight.
ReplyDeleteNo, we do not. And it annoys me.
ReplyDeleteForgione has a losing record, and Zakarian I think is barely over .500 too. Doesn't exactly scream elite level.
In other news the sky is blue. Now to peter with the weather.
ReplyDeleteLol yup
ReplyDeleteWHO DARES DOWNVOTE PROPER ARITHMETIC???
ReplyDeleteAre there any legit reality shows anyway? COPS?
ReplyDeleteI finally got a chance to watch the shield interview and I think you guys are out of your minds. Reigns is clearly the star. Rollins is midcard. Ambrose is a weird looking guy that gets released.
ReplyDeleteThe Ultimate Fighter is mostly clean. They air the "house drama" out of order occasionally but they don't have the producers order them to do stupid stuff. They engineer drama the old fashioned way; they cast emotionally disturbed manchildren and give them free alcohol. It's had about a 60% success rate so far.
ReplyDeleteThe best proof for how not rigged that show is, is how awful this season was. I can imagine Dana White considering taking an entire bottle of pills after that thing finished taping.
I am shocked that you have this opinion.
ReplyDeleteBook it chump.
ReplyDeleteOKAY YA GOT ME!!!
ReplyDeleteWindows calculator lies then! Blasted Microsoft product...
ReplyDeleteactually I can attest that cars are in fact repoed in the daylight. Seen it myself.
ReplyDeleteYou know who else was a "weird" looking guy who's awesome on the mic? CM Punk.
ReplyDeleteYou may think Ambrose is weird looking, whatever that means in the context of professional wrestling, but can you honestly think he can't deliver a believable promo? Last night was proof enough that he can.
I like Reigns too, agreed there.
Dougie was pouting last week that CM Punk has been a champion for over a year while being up there with people who drew money. He's a contrarian for contrarian's sake.
ReplyDeleteJust going on first impressions.
ReplyDeleteI pretty much just watch Chopped now on Food Network. Fixed or not, I get a kick out of the throwed-off basket ingrediants. 'Your mystery ingrediants are...Cheetohs...Brown Ale...Bok Choy...Ass of Rooster. You have fifteen minutes...GO'
ReplyDeleteI used pickled yak anus in the other thread.. So I get where you're coming from.
ReplyDeleteFair enough, so am I. I have been hearing about John Moxley/Dean Ambrose from some of these posters forever and I decided not to search out youtube stuff and just wait and see what he has to offer when he got called up. I was really impressed by his delivery on his promo. You weren't. That's ok, but to say he's going to get cut because he looks "weird" on a show featuring The Great Kahli and Hornswaggle s not a normal comment from you. You're a bit too smart for that, unless you were going out of your way to elicit a response. You would never do that.... :-)
ReplyDeleteHe's not a midget or a giant. Right now, he's Deuce.
ReplyDelete1000 people is 0.00025th (or 1/4000th) of 4,000,000. Percentages are an additional 100 times higher, as 100% is the total sum of a number.
ReplyDeleteWalking down by factors of ten from a more easily understandable 25%:
25% of 4,000,000 is 1,000,000 (one fourth, 1/4th)
2.5% of 4,000,000 is 100,000
0.25% of 4,000,000 is 10,000
0.025% of 4,000,000 is 1,000 (what you were thinking of)
0.0025% of 4,000,000 is 100
0.00025% of 4,000,000 is 10 (what you actually said)
So I think it's more likely you were misinterpreting than your calculator being wrong.
Nothing that's not a 24/7 live feed is completely legit. Everything else is edited according to the bias of the staff.
ReplyDeleteSavage was a way bigger star. That's just a fact.
ReplyDeleteWhich means nothing.
ReplyDeleteIn tonight's new episode, lamb testicles (excuse me...'lamb fries') were an ingredient. A repeat earlier had celery soda...
ReplyDeleteNot to you apparently. Just the rest of the world.
ReplyDeleteI wish this sentence made any sense. I'll let you have another crack at it. Proceed.
ReplyDeleteIt's not my responsibility to educate the ignorant. Find a third grader to explain it to you.
ReplyDeleteWhen I find him I'll point him in your direction. Maybe he can explain to you how to make arguments that are actually coherent. For example, I said you were being a baby because CM Punk was up there as champion as long as some of the biggest stars in wrestling. Kind of weird, but whatever.
ReplyDeleteYour response is to write something about Randy Savage being a bigger star. Indisputable, but what that has to do with CM Punk being champion for 53 weeks is lost on anyone with functioning brain cells.
Then when I rightly call it for the irrelevant, ridiculous BS that it is, you say it means something to the rest of the world. What Savage being one of the biggest pro wrestlers ever has to do with Punk being champion for 53 weeks is, again, lost on anyone with the aforementioned brain cells.
Perfect 10! Dougie you are amazing.
ReplyDeleteLulz u got trolled
ReplyDeleteI feel bad that you're so threatened by me.
ReplyDeleteseriously that is such an epic and beautiful troll of this blog I had to upvote it.
ReplyDeleteDougiechised!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteOh jobber. When will you accept that other people are allowed to have opinions?
ReplyDeleteLol dougie I tip my cap to you. That moxley line is hof level trolling and it made me laugh my ass off. I kinda enjoy your gimmick bro, you do it well.
ReplyDeleteYou guys are probably right. When you see a three man power bomb, it's usually one of the two guys helping that gets the big push, not the guy delivering the power bomb.
ReplyDeleteI felt like I had to dig a little with Dougie. I do it every now and again to see if he's fishing or being legit.
ReplyDeletePhew, at least he's not Domino
ReplyDeleteI don't care that that show is even the least bit staged, why? Because its entertaining, informative, and cause explosions. The worst culprit is those stupid fucking tow truck shows. OMG the tow truck guy is being shot at by a German Panzer tank driven by Mork from Ork, this must be truths!!
ReplyDeleteBryan and AJ themselves tweeted about the fact that Bryan lost the poll, perhaps they're making a storyline out of it? Or WWE really doesn't want fans to vote for Daniel Bryan.
ReplyDeleteNo need to miss me you guys, I'm right here.
ReplyDeleteOh, you meant the chef...
I DARE!
ReplyDeleteWhy does it have to be a boy? Such sexist assumptions are not tolerated on the Blog of Doom!
ReplyDeleteTHERE ARE *FOUR* LIGHTS!
ReplyDeleteThey're ALL smaller, vanilla Kevin Nashes. Reigns has a little vanilla swirl in him, so he might get a Tensai push out of this.
ReplyDeleteAll of the endless Twitter bullshit we have to put up and they can't even get 1,000 people... sorry... 1,000 Members of the WWE Universe™ to vote on this shit? Dear God.
ReplyDeleteAmbrose's facial expressions and weird tics are off the map. I haven't seen anybody on the roster right that can do that type of stuff.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a work to build the Kane-Bryan story line...maybe im giving them too much credit...
ReplyDelete408 people need their heads checked.
ReplyDeleteWhitney Houston was a nice touch.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that a lot of you guys actively watch the Food Network is like "...what the fuck?" to me...
ReplyDeleteNo foolies... Im just like baffled...
i didnt even know there was a food network til like a year ago.
WHERES MITCH?!?!
ReplyDeleteKnowing how to cook impresses the ladies from my experiences, so yeah...start watching.
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame isn't it?
ReplyDeleteOr you know, the guy that gets the most mic time.
ReplyDeleteHow many words did Reigns speak again?
but i know how to cook... right within my heterosexual limits...
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't matter the amount of words, it matters the amount of impact. Reigns had more impact. Watch and see.
ReplyDeleteI've never watched a minute of the Food Network, but I grew up in an Italian family.
ReplyDeleteBoom.
Reigns came off like Manu did during the early days of Legacy. Except no lisp.
ReplyDeleteManu never decided when interviews were over.
ReplyDeleteMaybe people are finally realizing that Twitter is fucking stupid...
ReplyDeleteI thought that Shield promo was ass, from everybody. I know Ambrose can cut good promos, as I've seen them, but people here are letting their Moxley love blind them. He was stilted and wooden as an infomercial actor in that promo.
ReplyDeleteIt's a shameful thing. Lobsterhead.
ReplyDeleteUltimate Fighter hasn't been worth a crap since Season 10. The house drama is so forced and so awful.
ReplyDeleteJust show training. Or replace TUF with Primetime specials. Anything.
Last season of TUF was OK. The wrong guy won but he had a super babyface story with his Dad dying during the filming of the show so at least they get a feel good moment out of everything. I rarely get sucked into that kind of thing but I was cheering my ass off for that kid at the finale. The live format really helped out also even if it was hell for FX and DVRs everywhere.
ReplyDeleteTUF's problem is that MMA in the US has changed. The guys on the first 3 to 6 to TUFs were good fighters, some of whom were legitimately insane so it made good TV. These days if you've had a handful of pro fights and look like you might be halfway decent you're already in some kind of organization so all TUF has left is a bunch of crazy guys with 1 or 2 fighters who might turn out to be a top 10 guy in their division. Maybe. If they get lucky.
For reference look at the TUF variants airing in other countries. Since there is so much more untapped talent it's actually still interesting there.
Kane=that guy needs to be protected and made to look like a threat
ReplyDeleteBryan=Bury that goat faced fucker
My response=Fuck this company
fewer than a thousand tweets. give up on the social experiment, please.
ReplyDeleteRestaurants
ReplyDeleteNot even close to the same thing. Invite her over, have some stuff cooking, glass/bottle of wine, nice table set up...guaranteed lay.
ReplyDelete