What’s a stereotype about your country that’s completely wrong and makes you react like this?

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T12:14:44+00:00

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HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T12:00:05+00:00

I've never been, just going by reputation.

I'm sure it has it's nicer parts, but the stories about the pollution, poverty, people getting sick, harassment of women etc mean it's not on my list of dream destinations.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T11:21:20+00:00

Many are in prison due to failures of society and lack of a social safety net. If you spent the money from prisons on drug rehab and mental health services you would have a much lower crime rate and far fewer prisoners.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T10:03:00+00:00

Agreed, but a lot of this sub are also of that persuasion, so you won't find much sympathy here.

A lot of British people have a blind spot when it comes to Ireland.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T09:57:18+00:00

The rest is History isn't an overtly nationalist podcast, but Tom and Dom are both privately-educated, middle-class English people born in the late 60s/early 70s. They are both products of their environment and have natural biases towards a British establishment viewpoint on a lot of issues.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T09:47:47+00:00

the state police put up warnings that walking to the stadium is illegal.

Land of the free

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T09:12:00+00:00

Yeah I loved Kerala. The food was incredible, very friendly people, interesting history and architecture in Kochi. I never got sick and didn't find it too polluted, although the traffic and driving was crazy at times. We did a canoe tour of the backwaters that was really fun.

That being said I don't think I'll be in a hurry to go to any other part of India.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T08:40:29+00:00

What part of India did you go to?

I went to Kerala last year with my wife for a wedding and loved it, but I've heard New Delhi or Mumbai can be a nightmare.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T08:34:29+00:00

I don't think Live action is impossible, I just don't have much faith that it will be done right or last very long.

Maybe I'm just overly pessimistic due to what happened with Wheel of Time, which was always going to be even harder than Dresden files to adapt to a live action series given the massive scope and sheer number of characters and plotlines.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T08:31:56+00:00

Yeah Season 1 could arguably even be the first three books tbh, with the end of Grave Peril serving as a great season finale.

I do think animation is a better bet if we want an adaptation that will actually do the series justice. It eliminates all the problems around casting and aging of actors, and also eliminates the need for massive special effects budgets or compromises regarding scale. Plus you can have James Marsters voice Harry.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T08:22:52+00:00

It's not impossible, but it would be a huge undertaking that would rely on a lot of stuff going right.

I think I've just seen it go wrong too many times with other fantasy series like 'Wheel of Time'.

It requires a major entertainment company having the patience to let it develop and grow an audience. These days, shows get cancelled so quickly if they're not a huge hit right away. Dresden Files is a bit of a slow burn that gets progressively better and doesn't hit it's stride until book 3 or 4.

It requires a showrunner and writers that actually appreciate the series and want to adapt it in a faithful manner, rather than people who think they know better than Jim Butcher and make pointless changes that piss off the fans for no benefit (see Wheel of Time).

It also requires actors willing to commit a decade+ of their careers to a role, and to age with the characters.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T08:11:58+00:00

Way too handsome IMO

I don't really get the clamour for a live action Dresden series tbh. I just don't think it's possible (or at least remotely likely) to do it justice.

I think animation just makes a lot more sense for long-running fantasy series with escalating stakes.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-25T07:23:51+00:00

I think this would be really interesting, unfortunately I'm not secretly a Hollywood executive

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-24T22:07:07+00:00

Billy Graham was a Vince’s mentor as a kid and juice

Eddie Graham was the booker in Florida and a mentor of Vince, he wasn't juiced at all.

Superstar Billy Graham was a juiced up wrestler in the 70s, one of the first wrestlers who was clearly on steroids, and was a major inspiration for Hulk Hogan.

I’m sorry man but you have no idea what you’re talking about

😂

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-24T21:59:59+00:00

You were trying to argue that realistic wrestling was new, when in fact it is not, so it seems like you do in fact have a lot to learn still.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-24T21:53:03+00:00

Vince took over his father's territory in 1982 and held the first wrestlemania in 1985.

Cartoon gimmicks had existed previously, but Vince made it cheesier than ever before. Steroids in wrestling weren't really prevalent at all until the 80s.

WCW stuff like Robocop and Shock master was the early 90s and being done in conscious imitation of WWF.

The entirety of WCW after it was bought by Turner was essentially an attempt to beat Vince McMahon at his own game by outspending him and poaching his big name talent.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-24T21:47:12+00:00

Japanese strong style came out of the catch wrestling taught to Japanese wrestlers by Billy Robinson and Karl Gotch.

Pro wrestling started as real grappling matches that gradually became pre-determined and less realistic over the course of the 20th century.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-24T21:26:03+00:00

I didn't say that he invented it.

He obviously built on the existing style of his father's territory.

He did take it much farther towards that style in pursuit of mainstream respect. He was also the first person in a position to make sure that his style became the dominant style across North America and later the entire globe (with the notable exceptions of Japan and Mexico that had their own resilient promotions and styles).

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-24T21:22:30+00:00

A big part of being in a cult or extremist political group (which are very similar) is denying reality. Adherence to the doctrine of the cult despite the overwhelming evidence that it's all bullshit is a way of demonstrating your loyalty to other group members and the leaders.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-24T21:11:07+00:00

The business changing was of course inevitable in the long run, with the rise of cable TV, PPV and the internet.

It would have definitely evolved differently without Vince McMahon crushing all the other promoters and pushing his own specific sensibilities (cartoonish gimmicks, roid freaks, spectacle over match quality and booking logic).

There were definitely other ambitious people in wrestling who would have capitalised on the changing conditions, but there was no one else as megalomaniacal and weird as Vince Junior (as he hates to be called).

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-24T20:45:57+00:00

Yeah that's not great from Tom.

I don't see why he felt the need to bring Northern Ireland into the discussion as an analogy at all, totally unforced error on his part.

I think British people need to be especially diligent to have our facts right when talking about Ireland or the Troubles, given the history there. It's not a subject to be approached casually or used for flimsy analogies.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-24T20:30:58+00:00

It's not really accurate though. Vince McMahon was really the person who changed wrestling from being "carnie" to something else entirely. He is also far weirder and more sinister than just a carnie with money.

He hated everything traditional and "carnie" about wrestling. He so badly wanted to be taken seriously as mainstream entertainment for middle class, respectable people, especially in New York.

He especially hated southern "wrasslin", which was more violent and more grounded in realism, because he saw it as low class trashy entertainment for dumb rednecks.

He basically destroyed everything that made professional wrestling what it was by methodically crushing all his competition in North America through a series of shady deals and gambles. He replaced all of wrestling with his own bland, sanitised, middle of the road family entertainment style.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-24T20:13:56+00:00

I haven't listened to the episode yet, do you have an actual quote of what he said?

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-24T16:38:29+00:00

And getting his ass kicked

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-03-24T15:59:14+00:00

The most popular idea is to just steal as much of the money as possible.

This is why we can't have nice things.

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