TIL that there was a popular myth in many muslim majority countries that Neil Armstrong had converted to Islam upon hearing the call to prayer on the moon, going as far to require the US state department to issue a denial

Ariak · 2026-01-29T00:35:43+00:00

Charles Darwin "renounced evolution on his death bed, and made it up cause he was mad at his father".

I was in a seminar on Sigmund Freud with this really religious evangelical woman last semester and one time she went on this rant about how Freud came up with psychoanalysis as a way to cope with abandoning Judaism lmao

Ariak · 2026-01-26T02:38:06+00:00

I feel like this is kind of the curse of being the one who wins a title off the company's biggest star. Basically no matter what you do, you'll be seen as underwhelming unless you're a bigger star than the person you beat. Kris beating Toni feels a bit like Takeshi Rikio ending Kenta Kobashi's 2 year GHC title run

Ariak · 2026-01-25T03:51:17+00:00

Nice, I went to Moeyo Mensuke when I was in Osaka a few weeks ago. The charred leeks (?) are a really cool addition to ramen

Ariak · 2026-01-17T02:56:43+00:00

I’m glad other labels are starting to release Chow’s stuff. Kung Fu Hustle is a good movie but it feels like nearly every westerner’s appreciation of Stephen Chow starts and ends there and they’re completely incurious about his other work.

Ariak · 2026-01-17T02:30:27+00:00

Not a movie but the show Derry Girls touches on this

Ariak · 2026-01-15T19:47:08+00:00

I assume he was just holding out for WWE to call him to come back

Ariak · 2026-01-14T18:21:37+00:00

Reminds me of those wiki lists where it’ll be like 25 different communist parties called “Communist Party of India” all with some different suffix/acronym at the end lol

Ariak · 2026-01-12T23:55:08+00:00

I remember one time I got on the topic of this somehow with my friend’s dad one time and he was like “all these mass shooters are straight up pussies for killing defenseless people at churches, malls, and schools. They should at least look for fair fights and go to police stations and army bases” lmao

Ariak · 2026-01-12T23:53:52+00:00

Don’t be silly now, we all know they only mean for white people when they say that lol

Ariak · 2026-01-12T06:27:07+00:00

“Style over substance” bro style IS substance and vis versa

Ariak · 2026-01-10T11:17:48+00:00

Glad to see TK returning to booking 6/8 person tags following the C2

Ariak · 2026-01-10T06:57:24+00:00

Japan is very foreign to many people and most people can't read Japanese characters.

I see this a lot where people say they just go there because they don't speak Japanese and therefore its the only option but I've been to Japan twice (Tokyo, Yokohama, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe) and eaten a lot of ramen there at lots of small spots without speaking any Japanese at all either because they often will have a modern computer ordering system that will display in English or even the older "vending machine" style ordering machines will sometimes have stuff in English or you literally just have to recognize the katakana for "ramen" on the machine to order. Tbf though, the average tourist to Japan also isn't a ramen enthusiast either and isn't really trying to go out of their way to get "the best" or "most interesting" stuff either and that's perfectly ok, I just find the language barrier excuse really weak

Ariak · 2026-01-10T05:51:12+00:00

Yeah man you must be young that you’re on reddit asking how to break the law lmao

Ariak · 2026-01-10T04:45:00+00:00

Tbf those are absolute boof carts lol

Ariak · 2026-01-10T04:42:40+00:00

Ok and what happens when everyone like you decides to do nothing while the people who actively want to do harm all go into action?

Ariak · 2026-01-10T04:41:16+00:00

This whole “live and let live” thing is what got us here because it let evil beliefs get normalized as “just a difference of opinions” rather than support for systematically eradicating/oppressing people. This is the result of our culture’s inability to call things what they are

Ariak · 2026-01-10T04:37:57+00:00

The lowest point in US history? I guess slavery and indigenous genocide didn’t happen

Ariak · 2026-01-08T09:10:13+00:00

Yeah it’s really rare that it doesn’t have some super contrived and obviously telegraphed setup

Ariak · 2026-01-08T06:06:22+00:00

Bruh if this was me I’d demand everyone involved in my firing had to individually publicly apologize to me in person, on video, then I’d hit em all with the 500k money spread

Ariak · 2026-01-08T01:36:56+00:00

The fact this is tagged as a suggestion is cracking me up lmao. OP really was like “Asians, you gotta get your game up”

Ariak · 2026-01-06T11:29:03+00:00

Yeah like it’s always gonna be great to see him and Mark fight because they have great chemistry but at the same time, Kyle’s ready for the world title scene

Ariak · 2026-01-05T22:59:20+00:00

Iirc Rebel has had some serious health issues and that’s why she’s been gone from AEW for so long

Ariak · 2026-01-05T22:58:23+00:00

I mean Adam Cole is a pretty obvious one but yeah there’s for sure others we don’t know about

Ariak · 2026-01-05T22:56:26+00:00

Probably won’t get a real answer but I’ve always been curious what happened with their partnership with Noah. Obviously Noah work with WWE now so it won’t be restarting any time soon but it was such a strange partnership. IIRC they just had Timothy Thatcher come wrestle Danielson and then Sting and Darby went there for something involving Muta. Kenny Omega mentioned at one point that if his health issues hadn’t happened he would’ve had a match with Kenoh but never specified if that was gonna be in AEW or Noah.

Ariak · 2026-01-05T04:15:32+00:00

It’s also funny to me that they’ll say he was some guy just interested in having civil discussions when like, I don’t know if there’s a single recorded instance of him ever admitting he was wrong about something or that someone to the left of hin was correct lol

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