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AK-47
Jul 10, 2001


DM Punk posted:

Mike Bailey's 5 year US ban is offically up today.

https://twitter.com/SpeedballBailey/status/1373061729983164417

Uno was the first featured opponent in the video, Speedball to AEW confirmed!

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Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

he accidentally got banned again

davidbix
Jun 14, 2016

Wow, Bix. First K.Rool, then Steve and now SEPHIROTH? Your dream game is real!

Seams posted:

I think the amount of work you put in to this is impressive, but I still felt kind of grubby reading it tbh.
This absolutely crossed my mind at first, but at the end of the day:

* This all grew out of public social media posts from Boebert and her mom that they still left up long after she became a conservative media celebrity with her restaurant. In fact, some of the posts were after she started getting attention for the restaurant. (Whereas even Maria Lane had deleted her side of the YouTube comment war a decade or so ago.) Almost everything else sourced in the article is literal public record that's used to check the social media posts.
* Boebert appears to have lied about her father to reporters (when "he wasn't around; I don't like to talk about it" would be an entirely reasonable and acceptable answer) and possibly even lied on government forms where she checked off "multiracial" as her ethnic background.
* Everyone had ample time to respond to requests for comment/interviews and tell us that they found the reporting personally objectionable.
* I made a point of writing it as sympathetic to Boebert and her mom; my editor had the same intentions, as we both felt that even if it doesn't excuse her bullshit, it certainly explained a lot and made us feel terrible for their younger selves.

Mob posted:

Bix I've been wondering: did the library give you a key or just give up and install a microfiche reader in your apartment
Ha! I've had to do very little microfilm or microfiche research, actually. Only for stuff like the heydey of the New York Observer. And the central NYC Public Library location by Bryant Park has smallish USB microfilm readers hooked up to Windows PCs, but it looks like they're expensive specialist hardware. Surprisingly, though, when I reached out to Mecklenburg County Court, they already had a huge digital archive, it's just not online. I had the records emailed to me (gratis!) within hours.

Davros1
Jul 19, 2007

You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible



I just glad Bix is done with that story so he can finally tackle THE REAL STORY

https://twitter.com/davidbix/status/1373092712715522050?s=20


Seriously, I MUST KNOW

Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

the big story after that should be pushing dave lemzter to answer why he gave 5 stars to both david starr and jordan devlin in the same match

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Davros1 posted:

I just glad Bix is done with that story so he can finally tackle THE REAL STORY

https://twitter.com/davidbix/status/1373092712715522050?s=20


Seriously, I MUST KNOW

Especially when he could keep doing the implant DDT

RealFoxy
May 11, 2011

I'm not making a fucking QCS thread for this but seriously can we take a harder stance on Kiwifarms freaks like this guy, Jesus Christ seriously, you used to be better at knocking these creeps down. I guess ADTRW mods aren't responsible like GBS mods are.
I never even connected the dots that he was using it because of the iconic TLC spot to Jeff Hardy, I thought it was just because he was fighting larger opponents and couldn't use his other finishers as easily on them.

flashy_mcflash
Feb 7, 2011

https://twitter.com/ShinsukeN/status/1373087685896765442

joke!!r

Malcolm Excellent
May 20, 2007

Buglord
If nakamura blew rollins head off on the next smackdown I would tune in the week after to find out what's next for the joke!!r

mooseinfants
Dec 22, 2014
I wasn't very smarky in the late aughts but I don't remember his spear looking bad

Weedle
May 31, 2006




my takeaway from the boebert story is that it seems likely enough that i’m very entertained by choosing to believe it, and also that the phrase “Will Stan Lane be there?” is now funnier to me than i ever thought possible

Digital Jedi
May 28, 2007

Fallen Rib

Malcolm Excellent posted:

If nakamura blew rollins head off on the next smackdown I would tune in the week after to find out what's next for the joke!!r

He attacked him tonight to defend Cesaro's honor

Nak vs Seth at Fastline this Sunday

mooseinfants
Dec 22, 2014
Love to watch all these cool wrestlers get built up only to be fed to dork rollins

Orange Carlisle
Jul 14, 2007

Destroy My Sweater posted:

I always loved this bit from Nash.

"Squisher?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRpVfsEf9LU

I had never seen this clip before and the very last line made me legit laugh out loud and not just internet lol

Duke Pukem
Oct 23, 2010

Three cheers for dark beer!


mooseinfants posted:

I wasn't very smarky in the late aughts but I don't remember his spear looking bad

his spear was not good

Mob
May 7, 2002

Me reading your posts

davidbix posted:

This absolutely crossed my mind at first, but at the end of the day:

* This all grew out of public social media posts from Boebert and her mom that they still left up long after she became a conservative media celebrity with her restaurant. In fact, some of the posts were after she started getting attention for the restaurant. (Whereas even Maria Lane had deleted her side of the YouTube comment war a decade or so ago.) Almost everything else sourced in the article is literal public record that's used to check the social media posts.
* Boebert appears to have lied about her father to reporters (when "he wasn't around; I don't like to talk about it" would be an entirely reasonable and acceptable answer) and possibly even lied on government forms where she checked off "multiracial" as her ethnic background.
* Everyone had ample time to respond to requests for comment/interviews and tell us that they found the reporting personally objectionable.
* I made a point of writing it as sympathetic to Boebert and her mom; my editor had the same intentions, as we both felt that even if it doesn't excuse her bullshit, it certainly explained a lot and made us feel terrible for their younger selves.

This is all understandable, and good journalism ethics, but personally since she's a public figure and a piece of poo poo I don't care about her privacy a bloo bloo bloo issues.

quote:

Ha! I've had to do very little microfilm or microfiche research, actually. Only for stuff like the heydey of the New York Observer. And the central NYC Public Library location by Bryant Park has smallish USB microfilm readers hooked up to Windows PCs, but it looks like they're expensive specialist hardware. Surprisingly, though, when I reached out to Mecklenburg County Court, they already had a huge digital archive, it's just not online. I had the records emailed to me (gratis!) within hours.

I figured as much but I know from that other subforum you were deep diving the due diligence(Quadruple D's) on Woody Allen so I figured you might be going old school at times

Mob fucked around with this message at 05:53 on Mar 20, 2021

JUNGLE BOY
Sep 23, 2019

Brandi has a better spear than Edge

Shard
Jul 30, 2005

All spears are judged under the eye that is The Gore and pretty much most are found wanting.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

DM Punk posted:

Mike Bailey's 5 year US ban is offically up today.

https://twitter.com/SpeedballBailey/status/1373061729983164417

Congrats to Hasty Mark Billings for his NXT contract

davidbix
Jun 14, 2016

Wow, Bix. First K.Rool, then Steve and now SEPHIROTH? Your dream game is real!

Mob posted:

I figured as much but I know from that other subforum you were deep diving the due diligence(Quadruple D's) on Woody Allen so I figured you might be going old school at times
There honestly hasn't been much of a need, at least for the type of stuff I've worked on. Newspapers.com and its competitors are a wonderful resource, as are NewsLibrary.com (which is pretty inexpensive) and the Gale General Onefile database that I have access to as a resident of New York State. For court records and government records, nothing I've had to pursue in person has been on microfilm. The only time I've needed to use microfilm at all in the last several years was to go through the NYPL New York Observer archives. (Which reminds me that I never made an appointment with the New York Historical Society to view their hard copy collection after they reopened, which I needed to do both because NYPL was missing reels and because I was missing stuff I should have been able to find because of eye strain etc reasons that I suspect migbt be lessened if going through the physical newspaper.)

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

Robots confuse squirrels.


I also thought Edge's spear looked fine.

WatermelonGun
May 7, 2009
edge’s spear would be more popular and good if he was called “Edgar”

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

Cavauro posted:

the big story after that should be pushing dave lemzter to answer why he gave 5 stars to both david starr and jordan devlin in the same match

It was a good match

Lead Pipe Cinch
Mar 10, 2003

Heavy Metal Bakesale


https://twitter.com/theadampage/status/1373274143148404738?s=21

Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

Quantum of Phallus posted:

It was a good match

:)

TwoHeadedDeer
Nov 24, 2020

I will be made a new creature, one bright day
https://twitter.com/CiaranRH/status/1373202986705559553

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Tanahashi's biggest fan

https://twitter.com/YTR_CHAOS/status/1373202974948782088

Dacap
Jul 8, 2008

I've been involved in a number of cults, both as a leader and a follower.

You have more fun as a follower. But you make more money as a leader.



RealFoxy posted:

I never even connected the dots that he was using it because of the iconic TLC spot to Jeff Hardy, I thought it was just because he was fighting larger opponents and couldn't use his other finishers as easily on them.

His other finishers were an implant DDT and a flatliner, both of those are pretty easy to hit on bigger guys.

Lead Pipe Cinch
Mar 10, 2003

Heavy Metal Bakesale


Dacap posted:

His other finishers were an implant DDT and a flatliner, both of those are pretty easy to hit on bigger guys.

Was the Flatliner what he called the Edgecution, or was that a different finisher. Feeling like maybe he called that the Downward Spiral.

Ganso Bomb
Oct 24, 2005

turn it all around

Lead Pipe Cinch posted:

Was the Flatliner what he called the Edgecution, or was that a different finisher. Feeling like maybe he called that the Downward Spiral.

Flatliner was Downward Spiral, I think maybe the electric chair drop was the Edgecution?

NienNunb
Feb 15, 2012

Edge's spear is good I like it. It's a different type of spear than Goldbergs obviously, but one that isn't devoid of merit. The Flatliner is a dogshit finisher, poo poo on my shoes.

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
Edgecution is a leglock similar to the Sharpshooter

Edit: I'm a thinking of the Edgucator, Edgecution is what he called the implant DDT

El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Mar 20, 2021

Vince MechMahon
Jan 1, 2008



What was the Edge-O-Matic? I remember it too.

Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

nevermind

a big fat bunny
Oct 4, 2002

woo look at 'em gonk



Vince MechMahon posted:

What was the Edge-O-Matic? I remember it too.

i too remember the Edge-O-Matic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP8ff-RNk5c

Joey McChrist
Aug 8, 2005

Vince MechMahon posted:

What was the Edge-O-Matic? I remember it too.

he'd grab them from behind and pull them backward so they'd land between his legs, like a reverse x-factor

Pope Corky the IX
Dec 18, 2006

What are you looking at?
One of his moves should be called Edging Grandpa.

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.
reddit thread

I matched with somebody impersonating Britt Baker on Tinder. I’d say it’s going pretty well so far.

Procrastinator
Aug 16, 2009

what?



sting is livid

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Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

britt baker spelled her own name wrong to remain untracked on tinder but put up pictures

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