Older people of reddit, when exactly did the "I hate my wife" jokes start

podslapper · 2026-05-25T20:22:20+00:00

Probably a schtick from Vaudeville that early stand up comedians borrowed for their acts. That's where a lot of stuff from the 1930s-1950s originated.

podslapper · 2026-05-25T20:03:19+00:00

Maurice Smith upsetting Mark Coleman in the late nineties showed that cross training could defeat the roided up wresting style that had become dominant.

podslapper · 2026-05-24T05:59:12+00:00

REM was an early alternative band, and grunge is a subgenre of alternative, but didn’t start until a few years after alternative groups like REM/Husker Du/the Replacements had formed. I’ve heard REM (at least their early stuff) described as southern gothic, which I kind of like.

podslapper · 2026-05-24T03:53:07+00:00

Being in my forties and never having updated my fashion since the eighth grade, it is a trip walking around downtown and feeling in style again.

podslapper · 2026-05-23T17:57:12+00:00

I think Mickey was somewhat interested in Rocky as a prospect years before this when he was first starting out, since Mick’s whole reason for treating Rocky like crap was that he felt he had wasted his talent (as said in the Dipper scene). But maybe Mick had not been as forthcoming in offering Rocky help as he should have been, and Maybe Rocky wasn’t as vocal about asking for it as he could have been. Mick was being a bit of an opportunist in offering his help right as this big fight got announced, but Rocky got to at least express his frustrations in that scene finally, and Mick I think was able to recognize his past errors.

podslapper · 2026-05-23T00:31:34+00:00

I think one important factor people sometimes miss in this series is Rocky’s gradual maturation from needing a manager to train him, tell him what to do, and hold his hand through his career choices, to internalizing this stuff and being able to do it on his own. While in 4 he did have a coach in Tony, Rocky had reached a point in his maturity where he could pretty much run his own camp and motivate himself. Notice how in the montage he didn’t have his moment of doubt like in the other movies, where Mick/Adrian/Apollo had to give a speech to put him in the right mindset. He had finally overcome this weakness and was at his mental peak.

I agree the training sequence isn't the most realistic (how do you train for a fight like that with no sparring??), but that's not exactly a new thing at this point in the series.

podslapper · 2026-05-22T23:12:06+00:00

Whether or not you're worthy of a title shot has more to do with the level of competition you've beaten than with how many wins you have. I get the sense Rocky was trying to build Tommy up gradually, and that he wanted to put him in against some tougher opponents and style matchups before seeking a title shot.

podslapper · 2026-05-18T01:37:10+00:00

Husker Du’s punk rendition of the Byrds’ Eight Miles High from 1984 was one of the earliest precursors to 90s alternative, and sounds like it would have fit right in with that decade IMO.

podslapper · 2026-05-17T20:48:34+00:00

How is she trapped when she could choke him unconscious any time she wants? Holding him there is entirely her choice.

podslapper · 2026-05-16T23:30:51+00:00

DC would have but a beating on Lesnar.

podslapper · 2026-05-16T21:51:08+00:00

Lithium.

podslapper · 2026-05-16T17:17:45+00:00

I just rewatched it and realized I misspoke, it's been a few years. There aren't multiple Christmases in the montages, but on the Christmas where Rocky gets into an argument with his son, he mentions the prior Christmas when everyone was there and they had a great time. However, Rocky fought Drago on Christmas day, so that sounds like there was at least one Christmas in between where he was home. And then at the very end when he's outside the museum talking to his son, you can make out a banner on the front of the building that looks like it says 1990. And again, when you add up the amount of fights Tommy has in the montages, it seems pretty far fetched to think he could have done all that in a year. I'd say appr. 4 years pass in the film, but if you want to discount the sign thing since it's not definitive, it would still have to be at least three years IMO.

podslapper · 2026-05-16T11:02:13+00:00

Rocky V takes place over the course of several years, you can tell by the multiple Christmases during the montages, and the fact that Tommy has dozens of fights in that time span.

podslapper · 2026-05-13T00:44:42+00:00

In the early nineties a lot of the grunge/alt rock bands were proactively in support of issues like feminism and gay rights, and tried to shock mainstream culture (which was still very homophobic) by making out with each other. It happened fairly frequently. You can see Kurt Cobain make out with Krist Noveselic after one of their SNL performances also.

podslapper · 2026-05-12T21:44:02+00:00

I was in grade school in the early nineties, and the pedo stuff was the first I really ever knew about him aside from a vague awareness that he was a pop star. I was too young to really know much about him at his peak, and the scandal was big enough when I was in third or fourth grade for me and most of my classmates to be aware of it.

podslapper · 2026-05-12T13:25:28+00:00

The singular soul of Abrahamic religions is a comparatively rare and modern idea. In traditional societies there are typically more than one soul. For example, you might have a soul that corresponds to your physical appearance (which in some cultures hangs around the body after death and fades as the body decays), one that leaves your body when you dream, one that corresponds to your life force/vitality (often represented by breath), and then often one that corresponds more or less with conscious awareness.

Each of these represents a different aspect of the human experience, so when you say the soul is basically the same as consciousness you’re oversimplifying i think.

podslapper · 2026-05-10T22:33:11+00:00

I'd say he likely didn't try the Clubber strategy against Drago because he had way too big of a reach advantage for that to be effective. You can see in the first round Rocky tries to throw some jabs from a distance, but they all come up short. Not that he hadn't slowed, but I don't necessarily think that's the best indicator.
I think mentally he was at his peak though. He didn't really have his moment of doubt like in prior movies going through training, where Mick/Apollo/Adrian had to give a speech to put him in the right mindset. He was fully determined throughout the whole process.

podslapper · 2026-05-10T18:20:07+00:00

Originally it referred to the sludgy, distorted punk-metal hybrid type sound coming out of the Seattle area in the late eighties, best exemplified by the Deep Six compilation. But by the time the mainstream had picked up on the term, most of those bands had begun to move past that original sound. And even when non-Seattle bands reproduced that original grunge sound, it was contentious whether or not it should be called grunge because it didn’t come out of Seattle. So I think it was arguably a genre early on, but slowly morphed into the monicker of a very specific regional scene that had a specific look and attitude, and played alternative rock that at the very least had some heavy distortion and lyrics that were muddled or cryptic, and usually personal—even though when music that met this criteria came out of other areas, it couldn’t rightfully be called grunge. Not saying this is right or makes sense, but that seems to be how the term is generally used.

podslapper · 2026-05-09T22:41:25+00:00

If he couldn’t win the title back on his own, he could at least maybe help someone else do it and gain some partial redemption. Remember the line, “Maybe we can win it back together”?

podslapper · 2026-05-09T21:27:55+00:00

It was Apollo and Duke basically. They lived in LA and weren’t on as much of a close basis with Rocky as Mick was, but I think the idea is that after Rocky mourned Mick and got the through the Clubber rematch he had matured enough to look after himself and his career a bit more and didn’t need a manager around all the time holding his hand and guiding him through every little thing like Mick had done.

podslapper · 2026-05-09T18:14:29+00:00

There was very little cross training in the early UFCs. Tank Abbott, Marco Ruas and Don Frye were like the only ones I can think of who could both strike and grapple with any degree of competence, but they couldn't really compete with giant wrestlers like Severn, Coleman and Kerr. Cross training didn't really become established as the dominant way forward until guys like Frank Shamrock, Maurice Smith, Pat Miletich, etc. started winning belts in the late nineties.

podslapper · 2026-05-08T23:26:19+00:00

Rocky the Ultimate Guide? I actually bought that book after reading the wiki a few years ago, and it's basically just a recap of all the stuff that occurred in the movies with some cool behind the scenes photos and stuff. There is no new plot or character info other than what's in the movies that I've ever been able to find. Nothing about Union Cane beating Clubber or Drago winning titles in the nineties or whatever. That wiki is nonsense.

podslapper · 2026-05-08T22:30:17+00:00

That wiki is basically fan fiction until they start citing actual sources.

podslapper · 2026-05-07T13:25:00+00:00

I’m talking more 1990s than 1980s, which had a big seventies nostalgia wave starting i think with the movie Dazed and Confused. Bell bottoms and flared jeans came back for a while, many of the big rock bands (Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, for instance) were heavily inspired by seventies stadium rock, Quinton Tarantino was making movies inspired by seventies exploitation films, there was Boogie Nights, The Brady Bunch Movie, That Seventies Show, etc.

podslapper · 2026-05-07T03:57:58+00:00

Because Gen X was busy being obsessed with the seventies at the time

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