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Shine
Feb 26, 2007

No Muscles For The Majority

rovert posted:

TJ Hawke explaining the TNA ownership stake:


:psyduck:

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rare Magic card l00k
Jan 3, 2011



Shine learned another thing about TNA booking today!

That comment is wonderful, and I want to hug Mr. Hawke.

rovert
Jun 10, 2013
To clear up possible confusion TJ Hawke IS trolling here. He is one of "us".

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

rovert posted:

To clear up possible confusion TJ Hawke IS trolling here. He is one of "us".
You ruined it for me, man. it was so much funnier when I thought it was real.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames
So if it's like holding the TNA championship, does that mean Spike's business model is renewing Impact, waiting until it gets pretty popular for a few months, and then selling it off to BET?

Spermgod
Jan 8, 2012

pink wasn't even a thing why is t#RXT REVOLUTION~!
and i'm so fucking excited for #SCOOPS#SCOOPS#SCOOPS #SCOOPS#SCOOPS #SCOOPS#SCOOPS
:sludgepal:
he knows..
ilsamiri7
9 months ago

Seth rollins should be the new gangrel. Would suit him. Wwe should sign petey williams and the other guy who used to partner chris sabin. Name escapes me. New brood.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Spermgod posted:

ilsamiri7
9 months ago

Seth rollins should be the new gangrel. Would suit him. Wwe should sign petey williams and the other guy who used to partner chris sabin. Name escapes me. New brood.

That has to be a fat woman. Has to be.

Push El Burrito
May 9, 2006

Soiled Meat

sportsgenius86 posted:

That has to be a fat woman. Has to be.

Gangrel was also a fat woman.

birdlaw
Dec 25, 2006

GAYMIEN SANDOW posted:

Gangrel was also a fat woman.

Umm. Wow. This is a bit vampironormative for my tastes. I believe that Gangrel self-identified as a wyvernwymmon.

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

birdlaw posted:

Umm. Wow. This is a bit vampironormative for my tastes. I believe that Gangrel self-identified as a wyvernwymmon.

I think you'll find that he "led a gothic lifestyle", and was never officially confirmed to have vampiric tendencies.

Renaissance Spam
Jun 5, 2010

Can it wait a for a bit? I'm in the middle of some *gyrations*


I Before E posted:

I think you'll find that he "led a gothic lifestyle", and was never officially confirmed to have vampiric tendencies.

I take offense you describing it as a "lifestyle" like he had a choice in the matter.

Super No Vacancy
Jul 26, 2012

gas

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Push El Burrito
May 9, 2006

Soiled Meat
Gangrel had that too.

DarkstarIV
Apr 6, 2010

OFFICIAL RACIST

One day I hope you run into Samoa Joe on the street and tell him: "Please work out."

Also never stop posting in the TNA thread either as you learning how stupid TNA is makes my day.

Writer Cath
Apr 1, 2007

Box. Flipped.
Plaster Town Cop

They found the one person in the world that Russoian writing works on.

Dimebags Brain
Feb 18, 2013





Angry Reactionary Manchild on Reddit posted:

Wtf are you saying your frantic, panicky, overreacting, douche? No matter what you think about what I said. You cannot tell me that the wwe being extremely cautious about head trauma, and banning chair shots to the head and even blood has HELPED the product. When people look back on the attitude era and ecw wtf do you think it is they're missing? It's the edgy content and ultra violence they can't get away with today. You over sensitive, way too liberal, jizz bag. The nfls product is suffering from it too. Out of all the things I named this is the one that I actually do agree with, but I still lumped it in with the others cuz it's poo poo you used to be able to do that you now never could get away with in society

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

i agree, wwe is worse because there's been less gruesome murders and nobody's died in their sleep

birdlaw
Dec 25, 2006

quote:

When people look back on the attitude era and ecw wtf do you think it is they're missing?

Bro, I got the answer bro :russo:

Dimebags Brain
Feb 18, 2013





He also complained about misogyny no longer being allowed in today's overly politically correct environment and how it's ruining the product so the dude is kind of an idiot.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Dimebags Brain posted:

He also complained about misogyny no longer being allowed in today's overly politically correct environment and how it's ruining the product so the dude is kind of an idiot.
poo poo, maybe that actually is Vince Russo.

oatgan
Jan 15, 2009

Vince Russo is opposed to violence against women, idiot.

Sanguinia
Jan 1, 2012

~Everybody wants to be a cat~
~Because a cat's the only cat~
~Who knows where its at~

That post reminds me of a couple months back when some guy called into my local sports radio station to explain that only "liberals," love soccer, and they love it because it's "european."

flashy_mcflash
Feb 7, 2011

I don't even know where to begin
http://www.pyroandballyhoo.com/im-beggin-spike-right-thing-tna/#comment-1555964822

quote:

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PLAY MY ENTRANCE MUSIC AS YOU READ THIS POST,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Reality Is Controlled Knowledge,,,,, my proposal to Mr. Russo,,,

R.I.C.K.

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Hello Russo. You now know that I have reached out for your help now. You have been my idol since I was

just a young boy and are still today as I turn 25.I first started out casually watching wrestling and would tune in to see what all the hype was about back in 1999-2000. It wasn't until your hype coming in with Bischoff to be the new faces of the company story lineis what got me hooked. I remember running home from my friends house where I was eating dinner to get home down theroad to watch WCW Nitro in 2000. I got home and there it was. The entire roster gathered in the ring. I was so intrigued. After this first show on April 10 2000 I never missed another episode of WCW Nitro or Thunder. I recorded them all.

The main guy I got into most was Booker T. I have a bunch of rare wrestling stuff dolls of Jeff Jarrett slapnuts, Bagwell, Booker T, Steiner , and Goldberg. I could tell the difference in the product even back then when you were not around it would quickly get stale. I didn't know that much about your real influence then yet. Not until WCW closed, watched the Invasion realized WWE sucked and just completely quit watching and then picked up on TNA after reading some wrestling magazines talking about former WCW guys there. The first episode I watched of TNA was you unmasking as Mr Wrestling III. TNA was awesome. Sports Entertainment Xtreme is one of the most underrated wrestling groups ever. Some of the story lines and angles you guys pulled off back then were pure gold. And you were still working with a lot of those wrestlers who really had it then. Glen Gilberti, Sanders, Disgraceland, Raven vs. Jarrett, Raven vs. AJ , AJ vs DLO, Russo vs. Tradition... These were my favorite moments in TNA. They are why I created the name TNARICK . The Rick part added in from my efed name Slick Rick who was Russo's picture as well.

I noticed quickly that you never were really going to be given a chance again after those years were over.

For some reason everyone on top wants to hold you back. You never deserved that Russo, you are a creative genius and should be praised by every wrestling fan in the internet wrestling community. Instead they try to bash you and call you names. I met Marty2Hotty on the original TNA Wrestling fan site, totalnonstop.net and he helped the young merealize it was you behind all those magic years I loved. From there I supported you nonstop. I created groups of Russo fans to battle Tradition on the internet. From TNS, to tnarevolution, then I created my own website. Anti-Tradition. For awhile it was actually the #1 forum in the world for actual TNA wrestling discussion. I used common sense and spammed, advertised the website all over the net to get members. (and I was only like 13-15 years old at this time. I was 2003 when I first created it. Whatever that would make me.

Anyways from the moment I started defending you people in the Internet Wrestling Community labeled me as a "troll" . Just because I wanted to support a creative genius who was responsible for so many of wrestling's magic moments that people love so much. But because I want to support you I am a troll? I ran with it. I pretty much defended you to the point of making myself look goofy. I would make myself the idiot

of the situation to get as much of a reaction that I could pull off. At one point I was even 1 of 5 or so moderators first chosen on the official TNA boards. I can play any type of character. I can be a nice guy or I can be a complete idiot. I think being outcasted so much on wrestling boards were part of what

made me so depressed in life. I always thought I was so different. I've lived with severe depression for many years now, and to top it off I am extremely shy as well. It led to me eventually dropping out of school and getting my General Education Diploma. I want one chance at the big times and I know a way I can help you and you can help me mr Russo. I have the ultimate swerve that will rock the entire wrestling community.

The people that have bashed you and tried to disgrace you for all of these years. I want to come to Pyro and Bally Hoo website debuting some of my videos. Here are samples I made for a wrestling forum

of kind of what the TNARICK "The Legend" character is. He is a internet troll who supports the most hated man in wrestling Vince Russo. This is heat right here off the bat.

He eventually leads to a video proposal for Vince Russo to finally meet him in the ring. (I am going to raise money for you to run a Pyro and Ballyhoo Wrestling show. P&BW Pyro & Ballyhoo Wrestling.

Mr. Russo excepts on his podcast. Videos are shown of the real me. And my dream to meet my wrestling idol at this show. Babyface character who is just the real me.

Anyways then we finally do the show. Russo comes out first. Makes his speech about how how much it means to be able to reach out to somebody and be a positive influence in their life. Rick comes out. Rick breaks down and is crying in the ring. He starts his promo

Rick "all these years all I ever wanted was to meet you. It was all it was ever about. It has touched my heart that everyone came to the show tonight to support Russo and p & b w . It meant so much finally achieving that dream..

::Rick puts his hands over his face::

Rick : You know whats funny. I told all of you internet sheep for all these years how big of idiots you are. Dave Meltzer , Dixie Carter, Vince Mcmahon. Its time for a change. Its time for us to take things into our own hands. And if you want to sit back and believe these dirt sheets then you can bite me. Because there is one thing you didn't know about Rick the Legend. It's that I am Victor Venom. I wrote for the big times magazine years ago and I have finally traveled back to present time to take back over the business. And I even got a new motto. R I C K . Reality Is Controlled Knowledge

And Russo. There is nobody better to do it with then you.

::Russo and Rick hug::

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This will be an amazing show. We can use your podcast to hype it up, facebook group, I wall spam it across the net, and flyer the towns and surrounding towns. I am even thinking we get Disco and Mike Sanders involved if you can pull it off to be part of the show. Please let me know if you will give me a chance to live my dream and be part of your website debuting my character. It would mean so much to me and would defiantly be the most exciting thing I have done in my life.

Here is links to some of the stuff I have done to support you over the years:

http://www.angelfire.com/sc3/a...

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Those are all fan pics of supporters of my old Anti-Tradition website and fan signs made.

Vicky Venom has sadly passed away since then and her spirit will def. be one of our characters.

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1 hour 14 minutes into that link you see a TNS Fears TNARICK sign that a member of the audience in the "Sabin Section" who posted on my forum brought to the show. It was all part of my war vs. Tradition on the net.

[img] http://uppix.com/f-tnarickhate... [/img]


A screen shot I saved of me invading the ROHWrestling AOL Chatroom back in 2002-2003. I was absolutely the most hated man alive in their thanks to being a fan of you.

http://www.talkwrestlingonline...

Fantasy TNA show I wrote where I also came up with the "VKM" initials for a stable before they came to tv.

http://s3.zetaboards.com/Anti_...

The TNA fantasy impact series I wrote with Siakalypse another poster on the old VinceRusso.net forums where you, percy pringle, and ed ferrara briefly posted.

So many great characters were made in these 7 or so shows. If only I had the chance to take it to another level.

[img] http://uppix.com/f-tomko53f8c2... [/img]


Heavyweight Champion Tomko who won the belt but cared more about doing

[img] http://uppix.com/f-trytan53f8c... [/img]


Trytan / Ryan Wilson who would play multiple characters on the show, a member of the Fox Sports Net Wrestling Outcasts as well. FSNWO. Scott Steiner going to the retirement home to rescue his brother Rick.

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Elix Skipper in his lawsuit against extends appearing on the Kenny King live show

[img] http://uppix.com/f-court53f8c4... [/img]


Hoyt Benoit and his case on Judge Rudy,,,

[img] http://uppix.com/f-creepers53f... [/img]


Hoyt Benoit pissing on Moolahs grave, aswell as the creepers creeping in the background

[img] http://uppix.com/f-ryan53f8c4f... [/img]


The President of Extendz Ryan Wilson getting ready to perform surgery on Elix Skipper who is discomforted by his small member compared to his peers in Triple X,,,,

[img] http://uppix.com/f-daniels53f8... [/img]


The gay stalker Christopher Daniels doing anything he can to get close to AJ Styles who is freaked out by the whole thing. Even hiding under the shark boy mask to get a feel and freaking AJ out during the match,,,,

[IMG] http://uppix.com/f-vince53f8c6... [/IMG]


RealVince hosing down the nuns

[img] http://uppix.com/f-locker53f8c... [/img]


The drunken Kurt Angle who is a threat to the company and on death watch 24-7 causing havoc,, and Steiner with a prison break out

I even later submitted this series to Glen Gilbertis contest he was hosting on wrestlezone.com and he commented about me in the finish.

"I expected most of the Impacts to be as bad as they were. I could categorically tell you what was right and wrong with each individual submission, but this site doesn't pay me enough. The main problem is that nobody really understands what the term "written show" means. Of course everyone had their ideas and angles, and TNARICK proved that he's got way too much time on his hands."

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I was thinking even if we go on with more shows we could bring in my "realVince" character from this fantasy series. It is you playing a Authority Figure where it is the real you. The Christian you. The babyface authority who always accidentally goes against everything the dirt sheets stand for. He wants to do babyface actions but in reality always ends up being the bad guy or situations end up wrong. A character to mock the IWC as well. Booking tons of pole matches, making crazy stips etc. Funny stuff. The Vince Russo character is the most hated on the internet and to enter this modern day age of wrestling we need to exploit it to the max! It is easy money.

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Anyways Mr. Russo here it all is. I'm offering it out to you like this. You can be a part of this and we could turn this partnership between the two of us into millions of dollars. You can finally have full influence over a show. I want you to help develop the Rick The Legend character more and help come up with video ideas too for the website if you have any. If you want to leave that up to me to figure out on my own thats fine as well.

Give me that one break that I need! This is my cry for help.

Here are sample videos of the TNARICK the legend character. It is just starting out and I have never acted before but I promise you I can master it. I can do anything I put my mind to.

sample vids:

ps: turn up your volume

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TNARICK-The Cartoon Preview somebody created about me.

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Me being a part of your website alone with rally message boards with IWC around the net, and I will be spamming your website as well and promoting it to go along with my vids and character being a part of it.

Google search "TNARICK" and "Russo" with quotations and I bet you will find lots of me battling in your name from the past. Hope you read it all and checked out all of my links. Thanks for your time and please give me a response.

"Titz N Azz" Rick the Legend.

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Now I want you to know who will be the sponsorship for the company as well. server.war2.ru . The best game in the world. Just check it out. I am a administrator there and have been running tournaments,

keeping players online, spamming, and trying to help these guys keep their game alive. Wait how can such a bad guy like TNARICK be doing such good things for another community online? Oh yes I know why because they respect me very much. They treat me the same way that I would treat someone. Not like the IWC who will bash Russo, and Bash Rick just for being his fan.

Here are some of "The Dark Warrior" DW BuRnT's videos.

Someday there will be a feud between DW BuRnT & TNARICK .

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Now you want to get to know the real me? I am kind to all others. I believe in Jesus Christ and I just use these characters as a outlet to make myself look dumb in order to try to get a laugh out of somebody. I want everyone in the world to just be kind to one another. It would really surprise you to see what the real me is like. If you asked me for my last hundred dollars I would give it to you. I never mean any harm to anyone that I "troll",,,, what I like to call it is entertain. Is everything I said really the real me,,, or did you just get owned again?

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My big idea for P & B Wrestling is to take everything at a behind the scenes look at the creative side of the business as it takes place. Also the results for every show will be posted on the website and along with all of the creative brainstorms. The website will also use the best ideas from the fans who post comments on the site. This idea is the reason why its ok for me to be posting all of these spoilers about the show now. With the shows ideas and matches already printed you will get to see the chance of how the wrestlers get into what they are told to do. Everyone who comes to work for us will be properly told what is going

to happen and if they are ok with it before it happens. I think all of your connections in wrestling will be able to find us a good camera crew etc.

The TNARICK Character will never wrestle a match. He will always avoid the situation that rises and someone manage to escape.

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I will be loyal to you forever Russo and really want to start a partnership between the two of us where two guys who really "get it" about the business can benefit from each other. Please think it over.

PS: I need you to make a video for me. I am willing to pay you $100 before you do it if you want. I want you to say the following on camera in a video

"TPWW you messed with the wrong guys. I sent my friend Titz N Azz Rick the legend out to destroy the IWC many years ago using my Vic Venom powers. You need to recognize that now the dirt sheets, dave meltzer, and the entire wrestling world will be at war with TNARICK & Vince Russo sponsored by The Dark Warrior courtesy of pyroandballyhoo.com . Keep checking in because we are about to shake the landscape of professional wrestling. And Owen Brown....... I challenge you to a brown hole special match"

Dario the Wop
Oct 11, 2007

Hell-Sent, Heaven-Bent
The links are down :(

flashy_mcflash
Feb 7, 2011

Dario the Wop posted:

The links are down :(

ah crap, I tried to maintain it but if you click the link there's a gang of photos and stuff that will break your brain.

Blasmeister
Jan 15, 2012




2Time TRP Sack Race Champion

Holy poo poo it just keeps on going


:magical:

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
OH MY GOD MAKE IT STOP :gonk:

Dario the Wop
Oct 11, 2007

Hell-Sent, Heaven-Bent

flashy_mcflash posted:

if you click the link there's a gang of photos and stuff that will break your brain.



EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbLRzabppus

Dario the Wop fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Aug 29, 2014

oatgan
Jan 15, 2009

I challenge each and every one of you to a Brown Hole Special match

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames
It's like a delusional e-fedder cut a shoot promo but forgot he wasn't really his insane conspiracy theorist character.

WeaponX
Jul 28, 2008



can someone get kefin from ae podcast to do his vince russo impersonation and say "I sent my friend Titz N Azz Rick the legend out to destroy the IWC many years ago using my Vic Venom powers"?

Sydney Bottocks
Oct 15, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 32 days!
Reality Is Controlled Knowledge indeed. :stare:

Joey McChrist
Aug 8, 2005

flashy_mcflash posted:

I never mean any harm to anyone that I "troll",,,, what I like to call it is entertain. Is everything I said really the real me,,, or did you just get owned again?

holy poo poo

goldmine

keithy george
Jan 8, 2008

I feel TNARICK has been around for years, going mental on various wrestling forums.

Daniel Bryan
May 23, 2006

GOAT
Not about wrestling, but former wrestler Lance Storm wrote a ridiculous blog about why he would not do the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, nor donate $100 to the charity. I wonder why??

He comes off as a sarcastic dickheaded POS. I bolded the worst parts.

quote:

ALSA Ice Bucket Challenge

August 31, 2014

I've finally been challenged to do the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge (IBC). Well actually I've been "Nominated" twice in fact, by people who apparently don't understand the difference between a Challenge vs. a Nomination. That may be a silly point but considering "Challenge" is right there in the name it drives me nuts that most people seem to get this concept wrong.

Enough picking of nits, there is some serious business afoot that needs to be addressed. Until I was challenged personally I've been content to sit on the side lines biting my tongue happy to stay out of this whole deal. I'm not a fan of beating my head against the wall, and I fear what I am about to say will amount to little more. Like many of you I have clicked on and watched many of the IBC videos. We have done so no doubt because they are very entertaining, and in there lays the rub.

These videos are, for the most part just entertainment. They entertain those who watch, offer a placebo effect of doing good to the person who does them, and generates a whole bunch of money for people who don't suffer from ALS. I know this won't be a popular view, which is why I've stayed out of it as long as I could, but now that I've been called out, I'm going to speak my mind. Anyone who knows me knows I'd rather be right than popular any day, which may explain my rather small circle of friends, so here I go.

There are three basic flaws in this IBC (Or the upcoming Pink-Tober & Mo-Vember campaigns) and it is not until you get to that final third fatal flaw that this whole thing falls apart. This is probably by design because as long as no one looks too deeply everyone can live in denial and just feel good about themselves. Yes I realize that most people involved in this mean well and have good intentions, but a lot of false hope was built on good intentions and when people are suffering from diseases and people are giving away their hard earned money, false hope and good intentions don't really amount to much.

The first flaw is that a lot of people taking up this challenge are just doing creative videos of themselves dumping water on their heads as a vanity project to get attention and pat themselves on the back for all the good they are doing, despite not donating a single penny. The excuse or denial here is "Well at least we are creating awareness, look at the national donations, they are way up". Way to pass the buck. I'm sure you're individual video was the one that made the difference. For those who did in fact donate or are pacified with the "I've created awareness" we then have the second flaw.

What is the ALSA doing with all of this money? The truth is the vast majority of the money you are donating is not going towards research and finding a cure for ALS. The numbers are disputed somewhat. I've heard people claim as low as 7% is going towards research and the ALSA claims that number is closer to 27%. Lets for the sake of convenience and benefit of the doubt, use 25%. Three quarters of the money you donate to help find a cure isn't going where you want it to. Most of it is going towards "Awareness and Education", which could be translated to be read "Advertising and Promotions" to ensure more money gets donated so they can again put only one quarter of it towards what they are claiming it's for in their promotion and advertising. It is a deceitful cycle that keeps a lot of people employed earning great livings while delivering very little of the money donated to the cause they are promoting. To this we offer ourselves the excuse, "Well 25% is better than nothing, that is still a lot of money, and someone has to run these charities" To this I offer you the popular concept of cutting out the middle man. Why are we donating to these Charity groups that only deliver a small percentage of our donations to the research groups? Why not donate directly to the people that are actually doing the work, the people trying to discover treatments and cures?

This is the third and final flaw. The reason we don't donate directly is because then we would discover that the portion of our donation that isn't going towards salaries and advertising, that 25% that we think is actually doing good, is going into the pockets of Big Pharma. Yes the pharmaceutical companies are getting your money. You are giving your money to some of the biggest, richest, most profitable companies in the world. You are helping cover the cost of their research and development programs to allow them to make higher profits. You are not financing new research, this is research they are already doing. This is how they make their money after all. They create new drugs to treat diseases, and when they find a new treatment they patent it and sell it back to you at a huge profit.

Think about that for a minute. Millions upon millions of dollars are being GIVEN to a company to help find a cure or treatment of a disease and if they find a cure/treatment, the people you GAVE that money to will then patent that cure and sell it back to you at a huge profit. Wait...What...profit? I thought we donated to Charity, a non-profit organization. Oh right that's another reason why we don't donate directly to the people doing the research if we did they wouldn't be able to claim it as a non-profit or a charity, and they are creating these drugs with the sole intention of making profits, hundreds or millions of dollars in profits. Yes your good intentioned donations, or at least the part that isn't going towards salaries and advertising, that huge 25% of it, is going towards increasing the profit margins of some of the richest most profitable companies in the world. Doesn't that make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

I think I will end my rant here because I don't want to get started on all of the harm Big Pharma is doing to our medical system. If you've been to the doctor in the last decade you've no doubt already discovered that doctors no longer treat patients, they prescribe drugs to them. If you go to a doctor because you are experiencing severe back pain, the first course of action is to prescribe painkillers. A good Dr. if you are lucky enough to find one of the good ones, will also advice you that weight loss and exercise to reduce the strain on your back and strengthen your core would probably solve your problems completely, but unfortunately most people are too lazy for that and would rather just fill their prescriptions.

And with that we've come full circle and found the root of the problem, laziness; one of the original seven deadly sins: Sloth. It's far easier to just dump a bucket of ice water on your head, wear a pink ribbon in October, or grow a silly moustache in November, than it is to look a little closer and find out that there is a huge problem with the system. While I have not looked as closely as I probably should have, thanks to my friend Paul Lazenby, my eyes are at least open. I will not be accepting the Ice Bucket Challenge, because I do not wish to give my money to Big Pharma and since I have no need to stroke my ego by doing a fun video to illustrate what a great guy I am, I don't see the point.

That said I will be looking into finding an ALS related charity that actually helps those suffering from the disease and donate my $100 to them. If that proves too hard a task I will just go out and find someone who is suffering from the disease and give them my $100.

In closing I would just like to clarify that my intent was not to drat those who have taken part in the IBC or other charity fund raisers. Most of you, as I stated earlier, mean well, I'm just suggesting that if you really want to make a difference, good intentions alone don't really accomplish much.

I look forward to your letters and email,
Lance

ChampRamp
Mar 29, 2010

:siren: SAVE_US.CHR :siren:
Lance is a loving moron

ps. he used you're instead of your

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
I'm not reading any of that. Lance Storm is so boring that I don't even want to bother reading him going full pants on head insane.

Edit: Okay, I read a little of the bold bits. "Doctors no longer treat patients, they just prescribe drugs."

What the gently caress does that even mean? What does he think doctors did before? What the gently caress are you even talking about you massive, loving idiot?

Gonzo McFee fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Sep 1, 2014

Charles Gnarwin
Jul 31, 2014

I joined the #RXT REVOLUTION.
:boom:
he knows...


Gonzo McFee posted:

I'm not reading any of that. Lance Storm is so boring that I don't even want to bother reading him going full pants on head insane.

Let me sum it up for you: Lou Gehrig didn't work out enough.

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Jul 27, 2006

ChampRamp posted:

ps. he used you're instead of your

Nice catch.

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