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Grandasaur Egg
Oct 14, 2005

GROOR
http://www.xtranormal.com/xtranormal/episode.php?aid=206495&mid=20090410232611478

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galumphing lummox
Aug 30, 2006

so THAT's how you pronounce obamailure

Blockade
Oct 22, 2008

i have no idea what to say to this

myself
Jul 17, 2001

uhhhh hahahaha what the gently caress

Boffo Beach Babe!!!
Mar 7, 2003

viva la revolucion

Tzen
Sep 11, 2001

what the hell

Toadvine
Mar 16, 2009
Please disregard my advice w/r/t history.
lol the apron

PyongyangPlayazClub
Aug 22, 2006

Cops give a damn about a negro
pull the trigger kill a nigga he's a hero
Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares
one less hungry mouth on the welfare
welp,

BigRed0427
Mar 23, 2007

There's no one I'd rather be than me.

Why is Paradol ex a butcher?

kylexjack
Mar 9, 2009

by elpintogrande
Incredible

PyongyangPlayazClub
Aug 22, 2006

Cops give a damn about a negro
pull the trigger kill a nigga he's a hero
Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares
one less hungry mouth on the welfare
lol even a chris benoit reference

it has it all

MaggotMaster
Nov 25, 2006

by Lowtax
lol

POTUShead
Sep 23, 2006

its disturbing to hear forum phrases verbalized aloud

Kungfubar
Aug 24, 2002

then one morning i woke up and i thought oedipus oedipus oedipus oedipus
lollin and shouldnt be

CrumFUNist!
Nov 27, 2005

baquick abummer

Sympodial
Apr 3, 2009

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
I love that awkward pause

Truth
Feb 24, 2005
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.

Complete Failure
Jun 3, 2007
baquack obomber

Zaiquiri
Mar 14, 2007
oBAMailure

Oxygen Frog
May 11, 2005

A specter is haunting Europa
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch?e=20090410235037964

Prince of Dicks
Sep 9, 2003

eat shit sexhavers
the last 15 seconds were ok

FearOfABlackKnob
Nov 5, 2008

by Ozma
pro thread

rum sodomy the lash
Nov 24, 2007

by Fistgrrl

Newcastle
Jul 10, 2003
best interview of 09

Xephero
Jul 23, 2007

by Tiny Fistpump
whatever happened to him anyway, he doesn't even post in his blog anymore, which he usually does whenever he stops posting in lf. i'm worried about him :ohdear:

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This thread brought to you by a tremendous dickhead!

LuckySevens
Feb 16, 2004

fear not failure, fear only the limitations of our dreams

interview megathread request

Hootie Hoo
Nov 13, 2008

by angerbot
oh-BAM-miller

Octopus Dropkick
Sep 12, 2007

)-( e l l o
|> o s t s

LuckySevens posted:

interview megathread request

kyoon

the
Jul 18, 2004

by Cowcaster

POTUShead posted:

its disturbing to hear forum phrases verbalized aloud

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
and, to be fairer,

Hootie Hoo
Nov 13, 2008

by angerbot
i always liked paradol ex, and i've even found myself agreeing with him somewhat post-election

Blockade
Oct 22, 2008

Hootie Hoo posted:

i always liked paradol ex, and i've even found myself agreeing with him somewhat post-election

You have no idea what you just started do you

Reaganball Z
Jun 21, 2007
Hybrid children watch the sea Pray for Father, roaming free
The Obamailures look from pig to man and eagerly discuss the differences.

Butlercide
Aug 6, 2001

Hootie Hoo posted:

i always liked paradol ex, and i've even found myself agreeing with him somewhat post-election

he just wrote a lot of words about how politicians suck it wasnt that enlightening and he was wrong about a ton of other poo poo also he defends drunk driving and talked about how college was for losers (dropped out of film school after a week because the professor was *gasp* a regular person instead of terrence malick)

Blockade
Oct 22, 2008

told ya

Cialis Railman
Apr 20, 2007

is the website broken or something, I can't make movies?

Petanque
Apr 14, 2008

Ca va bien aller
would have been better had you made the announcer and pex have two different voices

microsoft sam as pex would be pretty good I think

Grandasaur Egg
Oct 14, 2005

GROOR
he's a butcher because it was by far the best selection of the few models they have, and still kind of makes sense

Apotheosis posted:

is the website broken or something, I can't make movies?

just keep trying, it says there are errors but eventually it works

e. there's only 3 male voices, american, UK, and aus, unfortunately

Butlercide
Aug 6, 2001

Blockade posted:

told ya

also a huge misogynist

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Truth
Feb 24, 2005
this took forever but i like it

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch?e=20090411001952970