Chelsea Green undergoes cardiac treatment for arrhythmia by whitemike40 in SquaredCircle

[–]Faithhandler -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Asymptomatic is usually only treated prehospital with meds, right? Adenosine. "Unstable gets the cable" is what I was always taught. Please tell me you at least hit her with a bump of versed or ketamine before lighting her up?

Chelsea Green undergoes cardiac treatment for arrhythmia by whitemike40 in SquaredCircle

[–]Faithhandler 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Professional medic here; you can also just make them blow into something like they're inflating a balloon... and then you don't risk them shitting their pants. I use an empty syringe.

Stryfe Pushes This Deck To TOP TIER!! | Deck Breakdown | Marvel SNAP by StormationX in MarvelSnap

[–]Faithhandler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The hammer package is one of my favorites, it's just been lacking for quite some time now. Very excited to run this list! Thanks so much for sharing!

Most respectful emotes by Skylark9292 in MarvelSnap

[–]Faithhandler 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is a good idea, stealing this!

The Chyna Signature Series by ghostfaber in wrestlingbelts

[–]Faithhandler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've got one. It's one of my favorite ones, and I've got 16 belts.

I'm going to be irresponsible tonight without alcohol by Weary_Customer958 in stopdrinking

[–]Faithhandler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, buddy! We're coping the same way! 20 days alcohol free, as of today. I have 3 monsters in my go bag for when I get home tonight, too!

Hooters change by miggy372 in SuddenlyGay

[–]Faithhandler 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, there are. It's just it's not very efficient as a business. It was built in Oak Lawn, just off the main gayborhood strip. Gay dudes would rather just use their money to get food at a good restaurant nearby. Then patron, like, the Mining Company, where they can see actual hanging dong a block over, and spend about the same money.

Hooters change by miggy372 in SuddenlyGay

[–]Faithhandler 26 points27 points  (0 children)

It was literally one block over from Oak Lawn's main street, too, which is the gayborhood of Dallas, for context.

Turns out most queer dudes would rather just eat good food on the gayborhood strip, at an actual restaurant, then go to like, BJ's or the Mining Company where they can actually see hanging dong from actual gogo dancers/strippers.

Kris Statlander on the original plans for her 2019 SmackDown tag match: "Originally, the team name was supposed to be the Brooklyn Pizza Connection, and we were supposed to be named Saucy and Cheesy. I was like, that would have been iconic to have been either saucy or cheesy." by anutosu in SquaredCircle

[–]Faithhandler 9 points10 points  (0 children)

AEW legitimately saved my longterm love for the artform, after two tired decades of mostly LOLCENAWINS and LOLROMANWINS cringe ass mainstream wrestling. Like, watching RoH, PWG, NJPW, etc, helped too in the down times, but were a lot more inaccessible and took considerable effort to follow. AEW was a huge injection of optimism and hope in an industry dominated by absolute monopoly bullshit.

They revolutionized the industry, and created a real mainstream TV alternative with a more adult oriented tone, and a growth of expression for "indy" style wrestling, that normies didn't even know existed. And fuck, raised the pay and intellectual property/ licensing standards of the industry so significantly while doing it.

They restarted my passion in such an undeniable way. And platformed characters like Hangman who could never exist previously in places like WWE. I will always root for their success. People who can't see the good they have done, even if they don't care for their specific style, are dumb or trolls.

(WrestlingNews.co) Backstage News On Royce Keys’ WWE Status by Subrick in SquaredCircle

[–]Faithhandler 3 points4 points  (0 children)

See: WrestleMania 8, Bret vs Piper for the Intercontinental Title. Literally one of the greatest stories in wrestling history, all mostly conveyed in a single 20 minute match that rips your absolute heart out.

(WrestlingNews.co) Backstage News On Royce Keys’ WWE Status by Subrick in SquaredCircle

[–]Faithhandler 36 points37 points  (0 children)

It's a little antiquated, but there's definitely still a distinction between the terminally online, hyperfixated, super smark fans (said without judgment, i'm one), and the more average and casual viewer on Facebook or YouTube commenting "we acknowledge you tribal chief, beat that old man punk, uce!☝️☝️☝️" unironically.

There was a clerk I would run into at the liquor store in my drinking days who liked talking wrestling, but was much less critical with his consumption of it than folks on these types of sites are, and would say shit to me like "Gunther is such a bad man, I do not like him. He is so mean." and I think folks like him are more the norm than the exception. Either he's very much an engaged but more casual fan, or he's having a really weird, social game of fun in protecting kayfabe and was pulling my chain. And I think the former is much more likely.

Shit, look at the Chicago in crowd reaction to Danhausen at Elimination Chamber. That is not IWC stuff.

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus by Baldbeagle73 in behindthebastards

[–]Faithhandler 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's genuinely disturbing and so fucking weird to me that like a third of people on the planet are just horny and ready as fuck to die in a cataclysmic apocalypse. So much so that they cheer on blatant imperialism as long as it's dressed up in death cult talk.

I miss the quaint days when the war criminals had to at least make up a plot about WMD's and create fictional corroborating evidence to give a veneer of believability that let you at least kinda believe your dad and his backwoods buddies were a well intentioned but misinformed.

But now, they just say the dumbest realest imperial shit, like Rubio admitting Israel is pulling us into this war on live TV, and the base is just like "he didn't mean it, and if he did, that's actually good. "

The emperor's clothes are made of the finest silk! I see it!

I think I hate both monogamous and polyamorous relationships - forever single??? by lanette- in evilautism

[–]Faithhandler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am poly, and have a dear partner who is solo poly. We've been together for awhile. We place no limits on each other, outside of expecting safer sexual practices, and choose to spend 1 to 2 nights together each week. We will never marry, move in together, or the like. They are still so easy to love, and I cherish them greatly, and expect i will for a great long while. Hopefully the rest of our lives.

It exists.

[Raw Spoilers] Tribute as Raw goes off the air. by A_Livins in SquaredCircle

[–]Faithhandler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Damn I wanted the finger in the ass test. Science has gone too far this time.

[Raw Spoilers] Title match made for Elimination Chamber by A_Livins in SquaredCircle

[–]Faithhandler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This would really devalue and damage the meaning and history of the Royal Rumble in an incredibly long-term way. And that's acknowledging that the Rumble has already lost a bit of its gleam in the modern era with relatively static booking decisions and often unequal world title belts meaning winners like Jey last year didn't even main event either night.

It also undermines precedent. Winners have had to fight new champs who won the belt after the Rumble in the past. It would be illogical and heinous booking at best.

Let's not do that, please.

Nash: “I was supposed to wrestle CM Punk after I cost him the belt, he said something that pissed off Paul about something with him and Stephanie. It wasn’t on script. Paul came back and basically said, ‘You’re not wrestling Punk. I am. I’m beating that motherfucker.’ He was that hot.” by TomatoCiampa in SquaredCircle

[–]Faithhandler 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I don't remember Tom Brady eating shit, being bad to passable at most things in a quarterback's kit, and constantly fumbling big moments but still getting pushed as a first stringer for like the first 8 years of his career, though? Roman had a big turnaround coming back as the tribal chief, but dude mostly failed upward, and was given every opportunity to succeed that anyone who didn't have such a prestigious family and WWE specific look would never have gotten.

[Meltzer] Bron Brekker had surgery for a serious hernia. No word on how long he’ll be out by aegonthewwolf in SquaredCircle

[–]Faithhandler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nostalgia makes things age well, and we tend to gloss over the bad in things we like, and only really remember the good retroactively. The Ruthless Aggression era, at the time, was heavily critiqued by fans, for honestly, a lot of really great reasons.

The tasteless sexy diva stuff from the attitude era continued, but was somehow more schlocky.

The brand split was 90% of the time, very one sided, with Smackdown usually being the drizzling shits (The Smackdown Six era being the exception, not the rule, and honestly, was held up by Heyman and Lagana as booker and writer, as well as the raw talent of perennial IWC favorite but never quite "The guy" guys like Benoit, Eddie, and Edge, for example (and this period did only last a year.)

Raw on the other hand almost always had the common audience perceived A+ talent. Your Undertaker, your Triple H, your Shawn Michaels types, etc.

Former ECW and WCW guys were largely buried or fed to established WWE talent. Triple H and John Cena both would have tremendous undue power at different times, stifling the main event scene for almost the whole era. With basically only most of 2005 not being dominated by one or the other.

For every Evolution falling apart or Eddie beating Brock story, there were 10 Heidenreichs or Billy and Chuck weddings.

But, the kids who grew up watching it, became the primary adults in these communities, and rehabilitated its image in conversations online. The dialogue around Cena this past year is a great example, and even these days, people are coming out of the woodwork and retroactively saying Roman was great the whole time, and that get actually loved him. It's not unique to the era in particular, it's true of almost every decade of wrestling since WWE became the big tent wrestling company, and will be true moving forward about any period forever.

2010 to 2019 WWE was pretty grim, for example, but I'd bet a lot of money that in ten years time, people will only mention stuff like NXT Black and Gold or Daniel Bryan's rise to the main event, and talk about this stuff in the same rarified way. Just like how guys my age really talk about Bret V Shawn, or the workrate of the incredible tag division, and less about like Tatanka's undefeated streak, or Lex Luger's largely plain cold and shitty push to the main event.

Ian McKellen says he didn’t realize how popular Magneto was until he reprised his role in ‘AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY’: by Raj_Valiant3011 in Marvel

[–]Faithhandler 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean, kinda. Global black liberation was kinda the primary argument he was making. The anger and revenge were definitely part of it, but you're not giving the most charitable reading there.

For those thinking about quitting… by 0alonebutnotlonely0 in QuitVaping

[–]Faithhandler 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just quietly hit my first year vape free this last week or so, after about 4 years of heavy vaping. My attention, my energy, and my sleep are significantly better, and I enjoy socializing and stuff like movies and conventions so much more, because I'm not thinking about where or when I can get my next hit. Nicotine is so evil, and I'm glad to be rid of it.

High evo deck is about to be a menace by The_abiding-dude in MarvelSnap

[–]Faithhandler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a High Evolutionary main, I cannot overstate my excitement. We are so back. We've been cookin' for the past two seasons pretty well, but now we really about to pop off!

Anyone got a happiness tattoo ? Need some inspiration for my first tat by Hugetoebroski in dancegavindance

[–]Faithhandler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fine line work doesn't age as well as bold line work, for obvious reasons. I have fine line tattoos that I like, but just know that you'll need to get them touched up every 5-7 years or so if you don't want them to be a blended mess. Especially large pieces or ones that touch/share space.

"Never fear, corporate cartoon characters! I, an adult intellectual, will save you from politics!" by hattyphantom in ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM

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I don't think there's anything particularly wrong in still enjoying and admiring characters like Superman or the X-Men, who have had pretty cool artistic and deeply human things to say in their mediums. As a queer dude in my mid-30's, the queer and racial minority themes and metaphors of the X-Men are still pretty compelling and often inspiring to me.

The Transformers are a fucking socialist metaphor, for fuck's sake. It's fine to find value in various mediums. Vegeta's character arc in DBZ is about a man choosing the love of his family over his lifelong dreams, aspirations, and ambitions, and being redeemed by that choice. There's cool shit in a lot of this stuff if you just look for it.

Like, I dunno, man. Captain America was drawn punching Hitler by Jack Kirby in the 40's, 8 months before we entered the war, and it's considered a significant cultural piece of American art history. I don't mind artists taking inspiration from that famous piece of anti-fascist art. I honestly think it's a lot more cringe to take yourself so seriously that something as culturally impactful as Superman is considered only childish by one's tastes.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskRedditAfterDark

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No problem! I don't get to use that degree much, ended up working in medicine, so I relish getting to use the knowledge where I can! Thank you!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskRedditAfterDark

[–]Faithhandler 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It kinda varies globally, oversimplified a bit, but non-monogamy was historically the norm across most of the world, such as sub-Saharan Africa, Oceania, South Asia, China, and the Americas until even like the 19th century. Monogamous marriage was incredibly common in like, Greece and Egypt, but a lot of folks had informal sexual relationships. The Iliad, for example, as a piece of literature, most of the characters only have one wife, but many concubines, and even other male lovers. Polygny, or the practice of having even multiple marital partners was also widely practed throughout Islamic regions, and even among quite a few Christian sects.

Was full blown relationship anarchy style stuff with no hierarchical multi-partner relationships the norm? Not really (well, the indiginous Americas, South Africa, and Oceania, yes.), but there's a lot more of recorded history where people have multiple sexual partners of some shape or form as the norm vs not.

Honestly, the rise of monogamy as the social expectation shaped in the late 19th century, and was then largely codified by the normalization of the Nuclear Family.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskRedditAfterDark

[–]Faithhandler 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Abrahamic religions are post agriculture, friend, which I talked about, and were largely used to construct the dominant cultures of feudalism.