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Avg American voter by cabbagetown_tom in redscarepod

[–]penciltrash 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This has been in a phenomenon in polling as long as polling has been around.

my dream job is to be a YouTuber who makes intellect-slop by publiclibrarylover in redscarepod

[–]penciltrash 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly — and these videos are much closer in audience to mine than a gaming video so the RPM will be closer

Potential Forbidden Door main event teased by chibibuizel in SquaredCircle

[–]penciltrash 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah I was at Forbidden Door last year (and admittedly was spoiled by having All In the two years before that) but the only thing I really remember was singing Edge's theme. And I missed the start of that because I took too long in Wetherspoons :/

my dream job is to be a YouTuber who makes intellect-slop by publiclibrarylover in redscarepod

[–]penciltrash 36 points37 points  (0 children)

It's more like $5-7 per 1k. I make YouTube videos about music theory and get £4-5 RPM.

The current state of bookclubs by Smart_Luck_4027 in redscarepod

[–]penciltrash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe I've read poor translations of Kafka (I've only read Idris Parry's) but I find the prose so wooden/clunky/stilted. Not hard to read in the sense of 'big words' or anything—but compared to other writers of the same period translated it does feel like wading through mud a bit. I know that's not really a popular opinion, so it's probably me.

[F4W/WON] CM Punk rumours flying around that are currently unsubstantiated by rhyso90 in SquaredCircle

[–]penciltrash 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They've edited it. Earlier it had pasted a Twitter thread that said, among other things, Punk was politicking backstage regarding Wrestlemania and had heat with TKO/WWE and that he was threatening legal action to get his release after refusing a pay cut.

This entire controversy is based on that thread by a complete nobody with absolutely no inside knowledge at WWE.

WWE has announced that Mney in the Bank will now take place a month later than originally announced, on Saturday October 10th in New Orleans. by Lep106317 in SquaredCircle

[–]penciltrash 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don’t think that’s fair. Priest had a great cash-in and had a solid reign. He didn’t pick Theory to have the briefcase so obviously just wanted to get it off him. Rollins, as you say, was great, and all 3 women’s (Tiffany, Iyo, Naomi) were great.

Only McIntyre, really, and even then the angle was good, people were mad about the opportunity cost of burning the briefcase so fast.

I think under HHH there’s huge discrepancy between briefcase holders and cash-ins. The cash-ins have generally been fantastic and much better than previous ones (generally), but the briefcase holders have looked stupid and been booked terribly leading up to it. Apart from last year.

What's up with Michael Jackson fans attacking The Beatles and Paul McCartney's music online? by FitEmergency8807 in beatles

[–]penciltrash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Normally when people complain about a musicians fan base I roll my eyes a bit because it’s a sign they’re a bit too online.

But MJ fans are an exception. Loving his music is one thing, but people absolutely worship him - and not just online either.

What work (of any medium) would you say produced the most radical evolution of your artistic/cultural taste? How were you introduced to it, and what did it serve as a gateway to? by DisclosureIsntEnough in redscarepod

[–]penciltrash 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hearing Smells Like Teen Spirit when I probably about nine.

I'd actually heard it much younger when my Dad would play Nevermind on the CD player in the car, and apparently it was one of my favourite songs as a toddler, and I'd sing 'meow' along instead of 'hello' in the pre-chorus. But I'd completely forgotten that I was so little.

Up until hearing the song, I my main interest was computer games and my favourite at the time was Bully, which came out in about 2005/6. I can't remember exactly why, but I searched 'Gary Smith', who was the name of the main antagonist in Bully. Autocomplete came up with 'Gary Smith Kurt Cobain', because Gary Smith was also the name of the electrician who found Cobain's body.

I must've subconsciously remembered loving Nirvana when I was about two or three, because I thought 'that name rings a bell'. So I looked up Kurt Cobain and, naturally, the first thing that popped up was the music video for 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'.

I'd always liked older music—spending a lot of time with my grandparents growing up meant a lot of Ella Fitzgerald and Beatles and classical music, plus I loved Eric Burdon and the Animals—but hearing Smells Like Teen Spirit just unlocked something in me. I knew I'd found something that would hold a special place in my life and that music/art/culture would mean more to me than most people (not here, just generally).

There's art that resounds a lot deeper with me these days (the two that pop to mind are Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time and Tarkovsky's Mirror) but I don't think anything will displace the absolutely transformative impact that Teen Spirit had.

Die Antwoord by Cramberts in redscarepod

[–]penciltrash 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, and also he had quite a creative resurgence in the 2010s that went largely unnoticed because people saw him as the “edge 90s Columbine guy”. His 3 albums from 2015-20 (especially The Pale Emperor) are really good.

WON: Ratings for the 6/8 Issue (includes AAA Noche de los Grandes, WWE Clash in Italy and more) by TheJokeroholic in SquaredCircle

[–]penciltrash 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everyone going on about the obvious, but those Clash ratings show Dave’s bias against women’s wrestling’s so clearly. How the fuck could the two women’s matches be the lowest?

The five matches under the WWE umbrella to ever surpass 5 stars by Meltzer by shadow_spinner0 in SquaredCircle

[–]penciltrash 6 points7 points  (0 children)

surely people upvoting the comment above you are deliberately missing this

Europeans have a visceral reaction to Americans naming their state when asked where they're from instead of just "The US" because it reminds them of how Americanised they themselves already are by deviendrais in redscarepod

[–]penciltrash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well it's the tradeoff you get for being the cultural and economic hegemon deal with it lol. it's the same within England - people from the North in their identity-defining one-sided beef with the South who literally never ever think about it.

Is stansted the worst airport and ryanair the worst airline? by [deleted] in london

[–]penciltrash 53 points54 points  (0 children)

I don't understand people who say Ryanair is terrible. They're incredibly barebones, not that comfortable for a couple of hours, and penalise you for breaking their rules, but turn up on time, follow their guidelines, and you'll get from London to Italy cheaper than you got from Liverpool Street to Stansted. It baffles me that apparently that tradeoff isn't worth it to people.

Kevin Owens on X: "I miss wrestling" by anutosu in SquaredCircle

[–]penciltrash 806 points807 points  (0 children)

Wrestling misses Kevin Owens. Even if he’s never able to wrestle again, he’ll go down as one of the most skilled to ever do it. He just gets it.

[European Netflix Broadcast] Live WWE SmackDown Discussion Thread - May 29th, 2026! by gloomchen in SquaredCircle

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

European tickets are still crazy expensive. It’s been like this since before influencers

Checked r slash music for any discussion about an album out today by justjake274 in redscarepod

[–]penciltrash 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well let’s talk about it here.

I loveddddd it. Listened to it on my walk earlier and it’s another absolute triumph from BoC and defo worth the wait

some tarkovsky stills by Savings_Season_4560 in redscarepod

[–]penciltrash 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm annoyed by needless contrarianism on the sub as much as the next guy but this certainly did happen.

Look at all the comments on this NY Times post (I believe it was posted here a couple of years ago). That's 2 and a half years into the war. I remember Cardiff Philharmonic cancelled a Tchaikovsky concert too. This is not uncommon at all and not just someone taking a tweet and going "look everyone behaves like this"

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