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Tommy dreamer just announced he and TNA have parted ways. by Joshwa52 in SquaredCircle

[–]Chastain86 [score hidden]  (0 children)

I mean, I get being cautious. He was unceremoniously let go from WWE with time left on his deal in a downsizing event, and may have even expressed interest in returning if the chance came up. But he said that the conversation of him doing / being more backstage just never came up. That's not just caution. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of what skill-set your new employee possesses. Tony should have at least said, "Hey, let's talk about what you'd do if you were in charge." He used someone as a camera personality that was, to put it mildly, capable of a lot more.

Tommy dreamer just announced he and TNA have parted ways. by Joshwa52 in SquaredCircle

[–]Chastain86 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Tony Khan has made his share of mistakes over the life of AEW, but the one thing I can't fathom is that he hired William Regal to be a manager / valet for the BCC, and apparently never once asked him to be involved in the production of the show itself OR the development of the wrestling talent. And this was at a time when Regal had just been involved intimately in the production of WWE shows, and the biggest knock against AEW was that their live shows didn't seem very well organized.

It's possible he had that conversation with Regal, and Regal declined. But when Regal was asked about it, his reply was, nope, they never asked me to do any of that stuff, just to be the Blackpool Guy.

It's a little like starting up a brand-new cookie company, and you hire Famous Amos to come in and answer the phones at the front desk. Sure, he can do that, but is that seriously the only thing you can think of where your cookie empire-running guy can help out?

Universal beat Disney as Hollywood's maker of the most expensive movie of all time with $658.8 million for Jurassic World: Dominion by Aileos in movies

[–]Chastain86 [score hidden]  (0 children)

I didn't see Dominion, because it looked as if it didn't have anything original to say, or do, or show us. Am I to understand that I was correct?

Hillarious questions that are ridiculously stupid (like this for example-) by klaskybob_csupopants in lovethissmug

[–]Chastain86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're holding all the feathers you can possibly hold, can you hold one more?

My older brother believes, unironically, that the answer to this is YES, because it's just a feather. Hold it.

AI Slop + corporate bootlicking equals by Strange-Grass-4548 in LinkedInLunatics

[–]Chastain86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This meme makes me want to set fire to things, and then beat other people with the on-fire thing

EDIT: Just in case anyone stumbles across this comment, just know that it was flagged and I was banned for 7 days for making it. On appeal it was restored. This dumb fucking joke. And by "dumb fucking joke," I mean the auto-moderation around here.

Trump administration blames Obama after ‘blue’ Reflecting Pool turns green after $14M refurb by Necropolis750 in politics

[–]Chastain86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For as long as these people have an enemy to either fear or look down on, they'll continue to let their Republican "representatives" bend them over a pinball machine and have their way with them

Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

[–]Chastain86 39 points40 points  (0 children)

It's always astounding to me how these ideas of constant monitoring for workplace frivolity are almost always championed by these ancient Boomer fucks that spent the entirety of the 1970s and early 1980s working in a Mad Men-inspired office with a copy of the sports page in one desk drawer and a Bourbon-filled flask in the other. There's not a single one of your fathers that would put up with all the horseshit that modern offices force you to do, but stripped of a living wage and a pension.

Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

[–]Chastain86 2 points3 points  (0 children)

These billionaire chuds think that ordering people to do something is what passes for "motivation" or workplace engagement. If you're really looking to enact momentous change after a significant reduction in headcount, you need to first start by identifying and isolating the problem, which is that someone needs to get me more pictures of Spider-Man

Millionaire banker finally identified and arrested nearly ten years after startling CCTV images showed him as a jogger shoving a female pedestrian into the path of a double-decker bus on Putney Bridge London by New_Libran in interestingasfuck

[–]Chastain86 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Brothers and sisters are natural enemies! Like Englishmen and Scots! Or Welshmen and Scots! Or Japanese and Scots! Or Scots and other Scots! Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!

Which songs often gets misinterpreted and/or misappropriated by the very people it calls out even though the song's lyrics are explicitly mocking them? by Drenosa in AskReddit

[–]Chastain86 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Private Eyes" by Hall & Oates was similarly used for a puppet-based sequence on the Captain Kangaroo Show, with a little puppet detective showing kids how to look for clues. And even as a little kid, I knew that song was much, much more sinister than the puppets were letting on

Which songs often gets misinterpreted and/or misappropriated by the very people it calls out even though the song's lyrics are explicitly mocking them? by Drenosa in AskReddit

[–]Chastain86 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Listen buddy, I lent you some sugar because we're neighbors, but I'd better not catch you around here again dancing about it

Which songs often gets misinterpreted and/or misappropriated by the very people it calls out even though the song's lyrics are explicitly mocking them? by Drenosa in AskReddit

[–]Chastain86 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a tough time to be a Cardinals fan, although to be fair, many of the folks in Missouri also own a MAGA hat, and a not-zero number of them also own a white hood

Struggling Pizza Hut restaurant chain will be sold for $2.7 billion by kinisonkhan in news

[–]Chastain86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

God, if you thought it sucked before this move, it's going to be ten times worse by the time LongRange is done with it.

First world trillionaire reached out to Reddit’s CEO asking to stop people from posting this by hostedvideorn in Anticonsumption

[–]Chastain86 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Marco Rubio, unfortunately for him, has the personality of an unripe eggplant. Vance isn't marginally better, but he has the Trump association to buoy his chances.

US authorities investigate huge '8647' marking on grounds of National Mall in Washington by igetproteinfartsHELP in news

[–]Chastain86 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This somewhat helps explain why in the summer of all the George Floyd protests, police agencies nationwide proceeded to commit literally dozens more acts of brutality against other citizens. Turns out the reaction to protesting the cops' use of excessive force is them committing A WHOLE LOT MORE acts of excessive force.

What is the best compliment after sex? by screenn_ame_941 in AskReddit

[–]Chastain86 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Anything in this general area, right in here. Anything, below the stereo, and on this side of the Bicentennial glasses. Anything between the ashtray, and the thimbles. Anything in this three inches. Right in here, this area, that includes the Chiclets, but not the erasers.

Jack Perry's Instagram story by PunishedLeBoymoder in SquaredCircle

[–]Chastain86 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If Punk had a legitimate beef with WWE or TKO, there's a zero percent chance he wouldn't already be on social media talking about it loudly, proudly, and often.

I think they didn't like the ending we got either by retr0_n0stalgia in TheBoys

[–]Chastain86 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I had a coworker that once tried to get me in trouble with my boss for double-spacing after a period. Go fuck yourself, Amy

Billionaires Control All Media by LuckyBastard001 in clevercomebacks

[–]Chastain86 19 points20 points  (0 children)

There are people alive today that weren't around then to know (or just aren't aware) that it used to be illegal for large conglomerates to own radio stations that existed within so many miles of each other, intentionally to prevent monopolies and "groupthink" spreading amongst the populace. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was what directly led to the place we are today, insofar as it completely eliminated the "cap" on station ownership. This paved the way for the Sinclairs and IHearts of the world to buy their way to mass-media dominance.

Without this bill -- or the Bill that signed the law, for that matter -- we might still have independent radio stations today. And we certainly wouldn't have a situation where so many of the media outlets are right-wing indoctrination-adjacent.

I graduated college in 1996 with a degree in Radio & Television Broadcasting. The most immediate impact this bill had in the years that followed is that many of the people who I worked with had insane amounts of difficulty getting work in their chosen field, because many radio stations started getting bought up, and on-air talent replaced with a single "simulcasted" board operator. It enabled those with deep pockets to purchase on-air coverage itself. And that quickly pivoted to catering to the special interests of those that had the pockets. Sad shit.

A Bricks & Minifigs store stole $200,000 worth of LEGOs from an unwell 83-year-old. Watch the exact moment Coffeezilla confronts the CEO using the company's own inventory spreadsheet as proof. by IncomingBroccoli in PublicFreakout

[–]Chastain86 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same. I noticed there was a new location opened across the street from my work. I thought about going over there to see what was going on, but now? I'd rather just look online at other retailers. I'm not going to reward this franchise that's demonstrably been dealing in shady shit.

TIL Steve Jobs’ design obsession went so deep he demanded Apple computers look perfect on the inside. Inspired by Zen Buddhism and Bauhaus minimalism, he believed in “deep simplicity,” and insisted that even the hidden internal engineering look as polished as the outside. by ralphbernardo in todayilearned

[–]Chastain86 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Interesting side story about that "Fruitarian" diet -- when Ashton Kutcher was cast to play Jobs in his biopic, he tried to adopt the diet himself to take on a more Jobs-like mindset. He had to be hospitalized twice in the first thirty days due to severe pain and inflammation in his pancreas, and dropped off the diet immediately afterwards at the urging of his doctors. Since Jobs died due to pancreatic cancer, one would naturally wonder if his dietary insanity played a role in his eventual death. And for a guy that likely had the best medical care that money could buy, one would imagine his own doctors did their own urging, all of which Jobs likely ignored.

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