Smackdown - Tour of Australia.
We get tickets through work through an international credit card provider that's not Mastercard, Amex or Diners. Not sure if the tickets reflect their views on Newcastle clients (send the Sydney folk to the rugby, Melbourne folk can go to the MCG box for AFL and Newcastle? Hmmmmm, wrestling? Perfect!)
I wrestle with my conscious and societal normsh but wrestling isn't real so it's ok. It's just make believe - thankfully most grown-ups know that (although there were many there the other night that are in for a big shock). But the kids don't know it. I even had to ask if the wrestling these days is less convincing than when I was a kid. Cos back then I had no idea it was fake (Killer Kowalski, Mario Milano etc - sure it was on a small B&W screen with dodgy camera work and I was 6 but I don't think I could comprehend the fact that it might be staged). And if somehow you could get away with the argument that it's only make believe - the punters there should be demanding their money back because it such rubbish - punches missing by at least six inches, the idea that a 200kg muscled animal can suddenly be incapacitated because another actor is holding his finger?
Just another example of keep 'em dumb and keep 'em happy. It seems to work with commercial tv
We get tickets through work through an international credit card provider that's not Mastercard, Amex or Diners. Not sure if the tickets reflect their views on Newcastle clients (send the Sydney folk to the rugby, Melbourne folk can go to the MCG box for AFL and Newcastle? Hmmmmm, wrestling? Perfect!)
I wrestle with my conscious and societal normsh but wrestling isn't real so it's ok. It's just make believe - thankfully most grown-ups know that (although there were many there the other night that are in for a big shock). But the kids don't know it. I even had to ask if the wrestling these days is less convincing than when I was a kid. Cos back then I had no idea it was fake (Killer Kowalski, Mario Milano etc - sure it was on a small B&W screen with dodgy camera work and I was 6 but I don't think I could comprehend the fact that it might be staged). And if somehow you could get away with the argument that it's only make believe - the punters there should be demanding their money back because it such rubbish - punches missing by at least six inches, the idea that a 200kg muscled animal can suddenly be incapacitated because another actor is holding his finger?
Just another example of keep 'em dumb and keep 'em happy. It seems to work with commercial tv
