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Ride The Gravitron: May 2, 2008; by FactsAreUseless

you must be a real pussy to cry over the death of some one you never even met

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:28

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Doctor Shapes: Mar 17, 2009; Ask and ye shall receive.

i cried when your mom died lol

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:29

Doctor Shapes: Mar 17, 2009; Ask and ye shall receive.

wait that's awful

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:29

a messed up horse: Mar 11, 2014; by Nyc_Tattoo

sorry about your mom op

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:30

WILDTURKEY101: Mar 7, 2005; Look to your left. Look to your right. Only one of you is going to pass this course.

only Steve Irwin

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:30

Cnut the Great: Mar 30, 2014

I was trying to go to sleep a few minutes ago and for some reason the enormity of these events finally hit me and I couldn't stop crying. I have no real life friends who give a poo poo about professional wrestling, so this is basically the only place I have to express these feelings, but I really feel the need to express them.

I would like this thread to be about our personal feelings about the death of Chris Benoit, and how it has personally affected us. Just TV-IVing about the details as they come in, or wondering about the WWE's future, and all of that bullshit has no place here. I need to write about my feelings about Chris Benoit. Obviously these posts will be mocked elsewhere on the forums, but gently caress em. If you feel the need to say anything, say it.

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Chris Benoit is a murderer. He killed his wife and child. We will probably never know exactly what he was thinking. Obviously I did not know Chris Benoit. I never saw him in person and never spoke to him. But he represented something very special to me. In such a cut-throat, dirty, dark, often disgusting, business he was one of the good ones. When people talked poo poo about wrestling and the bastards involved in it, you could always muffin out Chris Benoit as the exception to the rule. He was the one you could muffin to as a true professional who honored the sport he loved, who was passionate about it, who proved that you could dedicate your life to professional wrestling without being insane or scum or a monster. He was the ace in the hole. He was the one who wasn't in it for the pussy or because he was a failed jock in another sport or because he wanted to get rich quick or because he wanted to be a movie star or because he saw wrestling as a means to an end. He was in it for professional wrestling. He was dedicated to being the best professional wrestler he could be, and it showed in the ring.

I wanted to be a professional wrestler since I was a little kid, and one of the very worst moments of my life was a cold night in San Antonio when I was on the phone to my girlfriend a thousand miles away and finally admitted to myself and to her that coming to Texas to be a wrestler had been a mistake. Coming to grips that I was simply not athletically or charismatically talented enough to be a professional wrestler was one of the worst moments of my life. The business glorifies the boyhood dreams that come true. My boyhood dream wasn't going to come true, and it was an upsetting, soul-crushing revelation that upsets and discourages me to this day.

Since then I lived vicariously through Chris Benoit in a lot of ways. He wasn't a man who was destined to be a WWE champion. He couldn't talk. He wasn't charismatic in the usual way. He was quiet. He was short. The only thing he had going for him was his work ethic. He wasn't a third generation wrestler. He wasn't physically gifted. He wasn't someone who had words come easy to him. But through sheer effort he was able to become one of the greatest professional wrestlers in history. By 40 years-old.

Chris Benoit was only forty, and he was already a legend on the verge of myth. That's how talented he was, and how respected.

I cannot reconcile in my mind that the man who unnecessarily gave back so much to the sport could end his life the way he did. I can't understand how a man could spend weeks and months trying to give back to younger guys like MVP, putting forth the care and effort to help them find their voice in the ring, and that that same man could strangle his wife and child only weeks later. It doesn't make sense. It shouldn't have happened this way. Not for him, not for Nancy, and not for their child.

Chris Benoit owed me nothing. But I still feel the loss. I selfishly lived through many of his accomplishments and now feel lost. I can only speak for myself, but I feel that for a lot of us Mondays and Fridays are rocks of stability in a storm of stress and uncertainty. Every week the show goes on. Every week the show is from somewhere new, somewhere in the world, but every week it comes into our homes.

And that will continue. But Chris Benoit is dead. And he died a murderer. And whether it be insanity, drugs, or just the actions of a clear-eyed monster, what is done is done. And one of the pillars for the guys backstage and one of the pillars for fans is gone. And everything that pillar held up is tainted and dripping with blood.

Chris Benoit was a murderer. And I don't know how to accept that.

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:30

Node: May 20, 2001; KICKED IN THE COOTER; Taco Defender

this is me

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:31

Rodnik: Dec 20, 2003

I cried a lil when MJ died. Fuckk off OP.

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:31

mazzi Chart Czar: Sep 24, 2005

I didn't have pot to smoke, so I shed a single tear a Mitch Hedberg.

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:32

Bethamphetamine: Oct 29, 2012

Jim Henson and Tupac. Totally unashamed, A++ would cry again.

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:32

Space Whale: Nov 6, 2014

Nelson Mandela died on the final birthday my mother was alive to celebrate, so that was oddly emotional.

Then she died in March so :smith:

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:33

BONE DOG: Jun 7, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

I have had a couple friends who were also celebrities who have died and I cried when both of those people died.

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:33

Snooze Cruise: Feb 16, 2013; hey look,
a post

OP I would consider the World Trade Center to be a celebrity of buildings so I would like to ask why you are so god drat unamerican.

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:33

owl milk: Jun 28, 2011

Do It Once Right posted:

Jim Henson and Tupac. Totally unashamed, A++ would cry again.

your old

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:35

Cnut the Great: Mar 30, 2014

mookface posted:

I have had a couple friends who were also celebrities who have died and I cried when both of those people died.

i was friends with robin and joan as well

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:35

Gatekeeper: Aug 3, 2003; He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.

Volume posted:

you must be a real pussy to cry over the death of some one you never even met

wayne static and i met several times in fact and i was loving crushed

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:36

Aves Maria!: Jul 26, 2008; Maybe I'll drown

Node posted:

this is me

wasn't this at some loving apple store lol

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:36

TEAYCHES: Jun 23, 2002

i cried when noam chomsky died

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:36

Gatekeeper: Aug 3, 2003; He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.

TEAYCHES posted:

i cried when noam chomsky died

you'd be a monster if you didnt

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:37

Bethamphetamine: Oct 29, 2012

owl milk posted:

your old

I'm not that old.

Oh, I remembered another one:

Jesus I'm a crybaby.

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:38

BONE DOG: Jun 7, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Cnut the Great posted:

i was friends with robin and joan as well

it was neither of those people

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:38

Wise Fwom Yo Gwave: Jan 9, 2006; Popping up from out of nowhere...

I cried when Chick Hearn died.

It also coincided with the death of basketball broadcasting for me, so that's a thing.

gently caress your unfeeling heart opp

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:38

Bro Nerd Alpha: Aug 27, 2012; going on pussy patrol

I called out of work when Pual Walker died. I'd like to think him and Dale are racing in heaven and the winner gets dinner with Jesus.

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:39

Sponge Baathist: Jan 30, 2010; by FactsAreUseless

I cried when Dave Brockie died but not when Corey Smoot died on the tour bus

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:39

STONE OF MADNESS: Dec 28, 2012; PVTREFACTIO

when princess diana died my mum turned from her ironing, slick with tears and said "she was the p - people's princess"

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:43

BONE DOG: Jun 7, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

STONE OF MADNESS posted:

when princess diana died my mum turned from her ironing, slick with tears and said "she was the p - people's princess"

lol really wow

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:44

Aves Maria!: Jul 26, 2008; Maybe I'll drown

I cried when bambi's mom died. rip bambi's mom

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:46

Vertical Lime: Dec 11, 2004

Cnut the Great posted:

I was trying to go to sleep a few minutes ago and for some reason the enormity of these events finally hit me and I couldn't stop crying. I have no real life friends who give a poo poo about professional wrestling, so this is basically the only place I have to express these feelings, but I really feel the need to express them.

I would like this thread to be about our personal feelings about the death of Chris Benoit, and how it has personally affected us. Just TV-IVing about the details as they come in, or wondering about the WWE's future, and all of that bullshit has no place here. I need to write about my feelings about Chris Benoit. Obviously these posts will be mocked elsewhere on the forums, but gently caress em. If you feel the need to say anything, say it.

-----

Chris Benoit is a murderer. He killed his wife and child. We will probably never know exactly what he was thinking. Obviously I did not know Chris Benoit. I never saw him in person and never spoke to him. But he represented something very special to me. In such a cut-throat, dirty, dark, often disgusting, business he was one of the good ones. When people talked poo poo about wrestling and the bastards involved in it, you could always muffin out Chris Benoit as the exception to the rule. He was the one you could muffin to as a true professional who honored the sport he loved, who was passionate about it, who proved that you could dedicate your life to professional wrestling without being insane or scum or a monster. He was the ace in the hole. He was the one who wasn't in it for the pussy or because he was a failed jock in another sport or because he wanted to get rich quick or because he wanted to be a movie star or because he saw wrestling as a means to an end. He was in it for professional wrestling. He was dedicated to being the best professional wrestler he could be, and it showed in the ring.

I wanted to be a professional wrestler since I was a little kid, and one of the very worst moments of my life was a cold night in San Antonio when I was on the phone to my girlfriend a thousand miles away and finally admitted to myself and to her that coming to Texas to be a wrestler had been a mistake. Coming to grips that I was simply not athletically or charismatically talented enough to be a professional wrestler was one of the worst moments of my life. The business glorifies the boyhood dreams that come true. My boyhood dream wasn't going to come true, and it was an upsetting, soul-crushing revelation that upsets and discourages me to this day.

Since then I lived vicariously through Chris Benoit in a lot of ways. He wasn't a man who was destined to be a WWE champion. He couldn't talk. He wasn't charismatic in the usual way. He was quiet. He was short. The only thing he had going for him was his work ethic. He wasn't a third generation wrestler. He wasn't physically gifted. He wasn't someone who had words come easy to him. But through sheer effort he was able to become one of the greatest professional wrestlers in history. By 40 years-old.

Chris Benoit was only forty, and he was already a legend on the verge of myth. That's how talented he was, and how respected.

I cannot reconcile in my mind that the man who unnecessarily gave back so much to the sport could end his life the way he did. I can't understand how a man could spend weeks and months trying to give back to younger guys like MVP, putting forth the care and effort to help them find their voice in the ring, and that that same man could strangle his wife and child only weeks later. It doesn't make sense. It shouldn't have happened this way. Not for him, not for Nancy, and not for their child.

Chris Benoit owed me nothing. But I still feel the loss. I selfishly lived through many of his accomplishments and now feel lost. I can only speak for myself, but I feel that for a lot of us Mondays and Fridays are rocks of stability in a storm of stress and uncertainty. Every week the show goes on. Every week the show is from somewhere new, somewhere in the world, but every week it comes into our homes.

And that will continue. But Chris Benoit is dead. And he died a murderer. And whether it be insanity, drugs, or just the actions of a clear-eyed monster, what is done is done. And one of the pillars for the guys backstage and one of the pillars for fans is gone. And everything that pillar held up is tainted and dripping with blood.

Chris Benoit was a murderer. And I don't know how to accept that.

rip paradol ex

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:48

Nigmaetcetera: Nov 17, 2004; borkborkborkmorkmorkmork-gabbalooins

mookface posted:

lol really wow

my sister cried for days when she died, and we're in america. she also felt guilty and like she hadn't done enough to keep her safe which is just loving lol to me

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:48

soy: Jul 7, 2003; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

I was pretty sad when vilerat died he was a celebrity in goonfleet :smith:

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:49

opus111: Jul 6, 2014

Nice honey trap thread, op. I don't even cry at funerals. I save my tears for the yearly play through of FFVII.

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:50

Helpimscared: Jun 16, 2014

I think I cried a little when Robin Willams died, they had some short film about him before the movie I had gone too see that day.

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:51

GreatGreen: Jul 3, 2007; That's not what gaslighting means you hyperbolic dipshit.

hitler

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:51

Bethamphetamine: Oct 29, 2012

TEAYCHES posted:

i cried when noam chomsky died

Do we need to specify tears of joy or tears of anguish?

Because even if you never met a celebrity like Margaret Thatcher, she probably affected your life in a very personal way regardless.

Bethamphetamine fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Jan 22, 2015

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:51

Idiot Kicker: Jun 13, 2007

Wise Fwom Yo Gwave posted:

I cried when Chick Hearn died.

It also coincided with the death of basketball broadcasting for me, so that's a thing.

gently caress your unfeeling heart opp

basketball died sometime around 2005

# ? Jan 22, 2015 00:52