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Hello fellow wh2000k posters, with the launch of AEW and the news/mainstream attention its bringing I've been thinking about how people perceive this the perfect sport. In the past in threads people have commented on how they would be mortified to wear a wrestlers t-shirt in public or converse about a sick piledriver they saw, Understandable its a fake sport after all. I'm mostly bringing this up as a.) I'm bored at work (please talk to me im so bored), b.) i only wear wresting shirts to work at my retail job so i talk about wrestling to strangers a lot, and c.) past discussions of this always interested me. Twenty minutes ago one of the baristas at my local coffee place was asking about my njpw shirt and seemed very into what I was saying about it. Maybe they will tell me about a sick poison rana they saw soon... Also post the good merch i need new clothes!
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I wear a lot of SPLX and other wrestling shirts that aren’t super obvious that they are wrestling shirts
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Jul 26, 2019 00:33
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Stone Cold shirts were back in vogue in the Calgary hipster scene
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Jul 26, 2019 00:34
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Also the best wrestling shirts are found here: https://www.threadless.com/discover/s/Mabson
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Jul 26, 2019 00:35
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Tomahawk posted:Also the best wrestling shirts are found here: https://www.threadless.com/discover/s/Mabson Oh hell yah 
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Jul 26, 2019 00:38
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i went to a night club in a daniel bryan t shirt once and people were very complimentary so I say go for it.
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Jul 26, 2019 10:14
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I mostly wear wrestling shirts at wrestling events, but I do occasionally put them on. I keep it to myself at work, though.
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Jul 26, 2019 10:15
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Personally, I only wear New Japan Pro Wrestling shirts, so that when people inevitably ask me about Japanese wrestling, I can do all of my favorite gestures and catchphrases, like telling them to "suck it" as I violently gesture towards my phallus zone.
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Jul 26, 2019 10:26
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i think online wrestling merch stores should design and sell an entire section of intentionally very subtle merch, and that it would be worth the cost and time, in terms of opening up an extra bit of the market. not many millions, but possibly 1 million. buyers. or more. this is not just because some people are embarrassed about wearing wrestling shirts because it's wrestling, but because it looks bad, artistically. i believe a side-effect of this section of merchandise would be that it would often look less bad.
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Jul 26, 2019 10:30
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Cavauro posted:i think online wrestling merch stores should design and sell an entire section of intentionally very subtle merch, and that it would be worth the cost and time, in terms of opening up an extra bit of the market. not many millions, but possibly 1 million. buyers. or more. this is not just because some people are embarrassed about wearing wrestling shirts because it's wrestling, but because it looks bad, artistically. i believe a side-effect of this section of merchandise would be that it would often look less bad. Like a t-shirt that says "I'm not a wrestling fan, honest"
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Jul 26, 2019 10:32
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I've been a wrestling fan for 28 years but only ever worn wrestling t-shirts as a kid or when I used to Backyard Wrestle.
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Jul 26, 2019 10:58
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Oh right I cut up the Naito "Cabron" shirt and use it as a back patch.
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Jul 26, 2019 23:01
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I've got some shirts that only see the gym, but I do have some signed event posters/ wrestler shots on my cubicle walls at work
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Jul 26, 2019 23:06
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Honestly, I don't see this fandom as something shameful, and I'd happily wear, like, a lion mark NJPW shirt or AEW logo shirt or Bullet Club in public But a wide, wide majority of merch for individual wrestlers is just absolutely tacky as gently caress and I'd never wear it unless I was going to a wrestling show and specifically wanting to show my support for that person
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Jul 27, 2019 14:34
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I used to be the only person at my job that was a fan (or at least an open fan). I was able to convert two of my co-workers, now the 3 of us go to our local indy every month. I wish I could get them into NJPW but they seem pretty content with WWE / NXT right now.
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Jul 27, 2019 16:39
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The only wrestling shirts I own are an OSW What Bar? t-shirt and an NWO Wolfpack t-shirt. I wear them whenever because the What Bar? shirt can pass as a non-wrestling shirt and only the nerdiest of fellow wrestling geeks get it. As for the Wolfpack shirt, I get a lot of "Too Sweet"s from strangers but now I'm worried that non-wrestling fans will think it is Q-Anon related or some poo poo.
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Jul 27, 2019 19:58
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My Speedball Mike Bailey has Korean writing on it not Japanese like I assumed. Thank you stranger for talking shop with too.
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Jul 27, 2019 21:32
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i only own one t-shirt it is the stone cold steve austin one where his arms are rattle snake heads and i wear it any day i am not working.
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Jul 27, 2019 21:41
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I've got the Daniel Bryan "Respect the Beard" "I Said Yes" and the "Yes Movement" shirts. I've got 2 LIJ shirts, Kenny Omegas 8 bit bullet club shirt and a Bullet Club tanktop. I did have to explain to my parents that Los Ingobernables de Japon was not a gang thing.
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Jul 27, 2019 22:07
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i have an F4W/WON shirt, an Okada, Best Friends, Bruiser Brody, Bret Hart, and LIJ. I wear them around because I dont give a poo poo and they're all cool designs Just don't buy hideous, gaudy wrestling shirts that are embarrassing to wear. This goes for every WWE shirt and most shirts on PWT there is nothing wrong with pro wrestling, but being embarrassed by it makes non-fans think there is, because it must really be poo poo if even the fans are embarrassed by it This goes for actual professional wrestling, not sports entertainment. Basically dont be ashamed of liking something if that thing is actually good
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Jul 27, 2019 22:27
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I have 2 El Generico shirts and a Prince Devitt shirt that I will wear regularly. I hate having to hear the same arguments about "You Know It's Fake, right?" whenever I watch Wrestling in a public place.
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Jul 27, 2019 22:39
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Anyone use wrestling terms in casual conversation? Can't count the number of times I've said "heel turn" "bunch of marks" and "keeping kayfabe" especially when talking politics.
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Jul 27, 2019 23:51
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I've used the terms 'sold' and 'no-sold' in casual conversation before. Also if I were the sort to wear slogan T's I would absolutely rock the A Boy and His Dinosaur T-Shirt because I am gigantic loving nerd and I'd rather have people unfamiliar with the brand think that it's a Dinosaur Jr concert T or something rather than being a part of 'Tapout badass' culture which seems cover like 90% of wrestling Ts out there. Well that and the "Tapout Badass' aesthetic is exactly who I am not. As far as whether I'm ashamed or not, well I have invasive thoughts telling me to be ashamed of everything I do and everything I am but they're just that, invasive. gently caress them. ChrisBTY fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Jul 28, 2019 |
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Jul 28, 2019 00:49
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bartok posted:Anyone use wrestling terms in casual conversation? Can't count the number of times I've said "heel turn" "bunch of marks" and "keeping kayfabe" especially when talking politics. I refer to bad guys in films as "heels", it drives my wife mad.
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Jul 28, 2019 08:02
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Been enrapturing my co-workers with the life and times of Orange Cassidy. If that doesn't work I show them highlights of that Shingo/Osperay match.
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Jul 28, 2019 08:45
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Dell_Zincht posted:I refer to bad guys in films as "heels", it drives my wife mad. Love your newsletter, Mr. Meltzer 
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Jul 28, 2019 10:33
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Dell_Zincht posted:I refer to bad guys in films as "heels", it drives my wife mad. Stan Lee did this in 1960s comics. Daredevil would be thinking to himself "I'm a real heel for doing this to poor Foggy but nobody can know that mild mannered blind lawyer Matt Murdoch is really Daredevil". It's weird.
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Jul 28, 2019 10:38
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The term predates its use in wrestling from memory, I'm pretty sure if was the "nice" way of calling somebody (or yourself) a shitheel, which effectively meant you were an rear end in a top hat.
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Jul 28, 2019 10:40
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'baby face' and heel are both slang words from before organized wrestling took them on, that stopped being used for anything else because that happened a ton in the 1800s to early 1900s
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Jul 28, 2019 14:46
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I haven’t worn or owned a wrestling shirt since I was 14 and wore my APA shirt (“Breaking Necks, Cashing Checks,” not “Always Pounding rear end,” thank Christ) to a SmackDown taping and a couple dudes where were probably in their late-20s started giving me poo poo for liking the Acolytes in the concourse. My little brother’s Hardy Boyz shirt went unremarked upon.
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Jul 28, 2019 14:55
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bartok posted:Anyone use wrestling terms in casual conversation? Can't count the number of times I've said "heel turn" "bunch of marks" and "keeping kayfabe" especially when talking politics. Not so much in 'casual conversation', but I've found that a lot of wrestling terms are useful for discussing fiction and storytelling.
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Jul 28, 2019 16:38
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bartok posted:Anyone use wrestling terms in casual conversation? Can't count the number of times I've said "heel turn" "bunch of marks" and "keeping kayfabe" especially when talking politics. "mark" is an infinitely useful word that applies in all walks of life. There will always be chumps, so there are always marks i say "for a shoot" a lot too
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Jul 28, 2019 16:54
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I bought a ryback rules shirt from rugged wearhouse, and hell, he does rule
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Jul 28, 2019 17:11
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I local froyo chain still has access to Ryback froyo cakes, so my wife gets me one every year. Everyone loves the big cake
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Jul 28, 2019 17:31
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I did the crate from Pro Wrestling Tees for a while and got a couple of shirts that I'll wear regularly. People seem to like the "wear this shirt in the worst town you've ever been in" SCU shirt whether they know about it or not. For every one good shirt I got, there were two or three absolutely awful ones that may as well go in the trash, however.
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Jul 28, 2019 17:42
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I'll frequently wear my Tanahashi Iron Will tank top in public, but the Sanada one I have is too small for me. I kinda want the Breathe with the Switchblade shirt as well, even if gently caress YOU SWITCHBLADE.
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Jul 28, 2019 18:15
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my old boss used to wear wrestling shirts almost exclusively. it was kind of embarrassing to me that i worked for a man who, in his mid 30s, wore jorts and nxt schwag, but he owned the place so if he wanted to wear a booty-o's tshirt to interview the governor, that was his prerogative. tbf, politicians should have to contemplate the meaning of "booty" while being interviewed
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Jul 28, 2019 18:21
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Guy in our training dept. at work wears basically only WWE shirts. And like, relatively current ones. He's currently got a lovely Orton one and the Ronda 'Piper' style one in heavy rotation. Otherwise a few guys in the office wear Bullet Club or Elite shirts sometimes.
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Jul 28, 2019 21:00
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Eat This Glob posted:my old boss used to wear wrestling shirts almost exclusively. it was kind of embarrassing to me that i worked for a man who, in his mid 30s, wore jorts and nxt schwag, but he owned the place so if he wanted to wear a booty-o's tshirt to interview the governor, that was his prerogative. tbf, politicians should have to contemplate the meaning of "booty" while being interviewed destroy the hierarchy of clothes and liberate yourself from this thinking.
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Cavauro posted:'baby face' and heel are both slang words from before organized wrestling took them on, that stopped being used for anything else because that happened a ton in the 1800s to early 1900s much like the "inside" term for "person of colour" that persisted to a regrettably late date
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