[QUOTE="sephy37"]anyone else getting the new Harry Potter book tonight?hbk91

You sad, sad man. :P

On another note, I bought it today for my sister. I don't read Harry Potter but I thought it'd be a good b-day present for her.

I don't get Rowling though. She's not really that good an author, just a great storyteller.

Give me a C.S. Lewis epic, Tolkien clas5ic or a great Doyle book any day over Rowling.

Also I got the ending if anyone cares not to wait yet.

Bush deserves to die without any question whatsoever, a bullet is too quick though ive got a much better idea.

I want to inject him with a massive dose of LSD so that he never comes out of it and lives the rest of his life in a horror world not knowin whats real and whats not or whether he's even awake or not.

Its the least he deserves.

l34052

At least have some humanity.

He does not deserve to die. No-one deserves to die. We are ALL people. He deserves to pay for his war crimes though.

Yeah I'm watching it.

I'm predicting Woods will come trumps, mainly because he always creeps around the last ten right until the last day and on the last day just rapes everyone of any effort they've put into the past few days.

But I want McGinley to win.

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[QUOTE="Total-KO"]

Well it does, because it's that particular age and gender which tend to not know nor care for the politics and roots of the wrestling business.

I respect them for that, but I like knowing more about wrestling than the front we see on TV.

SwimPUNK

It's more that they don't know, not don't care. If they were to learn about it then they'd be just like you, they'd enjoy knowing more about wrestling than the front we see on TV. Smart fans are terrible for the business. WWE tries to shield the masses from smart fans and dirt sheets but whenever they try to keep kayfabe on a sotry there are 100 other websites looking for page views who will do anything in their power to break it. I wish more people would get off of the internet and step in the ring. That way there'd be more smart people in the lockerooms and less on the internet. No ( most ) professional wrestler(s) would (n)ever come out and say to the fans what's planned as far as angles, results to matches, morale in the back, etc and it's becuase they have so much respect for the business and the boys in the back.

I kind of hate being a smart fan. I can't watch most matches without looking at them so critically. I already know the parts of match and what's supposed to be going on at certain times and it's just hard for me to look at a match wihout thinking of that and enjoying it for what it is.

Same here. Sometimes I actually see some of these smarks and think that they'd be put to better use by working for TNA or WWE. Not just ranting on their computers on how much they 'know' about what goes on in wrestling. Fact is, we only know what we read, not the reliability of PWinsider, PWTorch etc.

Imagine if all of these Wrestling sister news company were actually owned by WWE. We'd all look so stoopid. :P

I liked Rikishi, right up to where WWE pushed him into tat angle into running Stone Cold over.

LAX as faces will work, if the crowd generally want to see them as faces. However, the whole point of being a thug is that you AREN'T liked, andthat you have this renegade attitude. A face LAX would probably be a modern day robin hood gimmick where they steal from the rich and give to the redneck audience.

[QUOTE="Total-KO"]

First off, define 'over'. Most would say that it is the ability to put onto the crowd a front, that you are who you say or your character says you are. For instance, if Triple H is hated by the crowd and is a heel, he is over with THAT crowd. The same applies to a face. If a good guy wrestler pulls off to the crowd that he or his character is genuinely a good guy, then he is over with THAT crowd.

With the Wrestlemania 22 and 23 crowd, he was NOT over. With SummerSlam 2005 & Summerslam 2006, he was NOT over.

With the regular audience who watches WWE, is he over? That's debatable. Certainly, WWE merchandise sales for John Cena certainly suggest so.

But John Cena, for some reason bah gawd, John Cena is not always over. In particular, the events I mentioned above were where? In the North West of the US. A professional wrestling hotbed. Hell, why do ya think ROH is located there? The North West is full of hardcore wrestling junkies who know what they are talking about? And what trend can be set there apart from Cena hate?

They are all in the 16-30 demographic who majorily attend wrestling shows. That's why the hate is so deep and resoundful. This area of 16-30 males tend to dominate attendance of wrestling shows because it is such a hot bed to them.

With that said, FACT: John Cena is not majorily over with the North West to Mid-West crowd.

But to the World? Well, that's hard to say.

I think Cena is over, because wrestling, moreover WWE, is particularly appealing to kids and the older demographic is turning to UFC so no wonder Cena is over. The sexy single moms who bring their kids wanna make Cena their new kids daddy so no wonder they cheer. Kids & moms/women alike are blind too. You really think 10 year olds care about Jeff Hardy being a spot monkey? Or how Batista is slower than a Fiat Panda going 1mph?

No. All they care about is who is most publicised. Who gets the limelight more often. When Benoit and Eddie got their 2004 push, EVERYONE was behind them. When they gradually faded for the generation of Cena and Batista, they all fell for those who were pushed.

What am I saying? John Cena's fans are blind. Just as blind as the haters. Just my opinion.

bulletproofcow

That was a mistake on my part. I suck at geography. I meant to say North East.

First off, Total KO, the stuff you mentioned near the end has nothing to do with age or sex or anything that you mentioned in relation to that. Is has to do with having a critical eye and being a smark. Not everyone is a smark. Not everyone has that critical eye. Does that make them blind? Sort of, but I respect the fact that they can sit down and enjoy the show for what it is ( whilist knowing that it's fake ) instead of having that critical eye.

SwimPUNK

Well it does, because it's that particular age and gender which tend to not know nor care for the politics and roots of the wrestling business.

I respect them for that, but I like knowing more about wrestling than the front we see on TV.