# I cant do WHAT anymore? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 23, 2002, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-do-what-anymore/133501 "2002-10-23T11:21:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2002, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-do-what-anymore/133501/21 "2002-10-23T19:42:20Z")
Good lord… I’m banning ME from watching it! Yipes! ---
**Author:** ![CRorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2002, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-do-what-anymore/133501/22 "2002-10-23T20:27:50Z")
Yup that’s quality entertainment right there. Simulated sex with a simulated corpse. At times like this I wonder if I should bother to register to vote just so I can try to counter-act the damage done by people who enjoy shit like that. But then I realize that I can always work overseas. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2002, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-do-what-anymore/133501/23 "2002-10-23T20:33:40Z")
Someday, if you both live long enough, you will thank your mother for what she did for you when she said that. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2002, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-do-what-anymore/133501/24 "2002-10-23T20:53:30Z")
Well, now I know what it takes to disgust me. The TMI thread couldn’t do it, but **Lou** , in just over ten posts you have done what nobody on this board could do. Or maybe it was WWE what did it. Iunno. EW either way… ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2002, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-do-what-anymore/133501/25 "2002-10-23T21:04:03Z")
Another vote for Lou’s mom. If I had kids that were watching that, I’d change the channel myself. Ick. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2002, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-do-what-anymore/133501/26 "2002-10-23T21:32:03Z")
**CRorex** , as a longtime fan who keeps up-to-date with as much inside information as I can, I feel it fairly safe to say that even among loyal, longtime WWE apologists there is a backlash against this storyline. I have yet to hear of any fan who liked it. It’s a pitiful storyline attempting to shock the mainstream media into giving the WWE product free advertising. It isn’t working, so hopefully it will be dropped quickly and, if we fans are lucky, quietly (wouldn’t be the first time an angle was abandoned in the middle). [For the record, I didn’t watch the segment. I took care of other stuff, and when I returned and it was still going, I turned to MNF and/or Monk - whichever didn’t have commercials] ---
**Author:** ![fizzestothetop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e79b87/32.png) [@fizzestothetop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizzestothetop)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2002, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-do-what-anymore/133501/27 "2002-10-23T21:37:41Z")
You know, I’m kinda glad I stopped watching that about two years ago. Dear god, that’s just wrong. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2002, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-do-what-anymore/133501/28 "2002-10-23T22:09:54Z")
Sorry **Lou** - yer mom gets my vote too. Crap such as you described wouldn’t be happening on my TV either. ---
**Author:** ![glarGH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/76d3ee/32.png) [@glarGH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glarGH)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2002, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-do-what-anymore/133501/29 "2002-10-23T22:14:54Z")
EWWW. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2002, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-do-what-anymore/133501/30 "2002-10-23T22:33:10Z")
That is frightening and disturbing and wrong in so many ways. SO many ways. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2002, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-do-what-anymore/133501/31 "2002-10-23T23:07:27Z")
Why the hell did Triple H agree to do a vignet like THAT?!? Holy hell, I’m glad I stopped watching wrestling… ---
**Author:** ![airdisc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19adc/32.png) [@airdisc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/airdisc)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2002, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-do-what-anymore/133501/32 "2002-10-23T23:15:13Z")
Another vote for the mom. I’m glad I haven’t watched pro wrestling in at least 3 years. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2002, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-do-what-anymore/133501/33 "2002-10-23T23:33:47Z")
Heck, I’m glad I’ve _never_ watched pro wrestling. Ye gods. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2002, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-do-what-anymore/133501/34 "2002-10-23T23:48:06Z")
This thread is perfectly illustrative of why I don’t watch wrestling. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-do-what-anymore/133501/35 "2002-10-24T00:04:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE \* > \*\*Why the hell did Triple H agree to do a vignet like THAT?!? Holy hell, I’m glad I stopped watching wrestling… \*\* My thoughts exactly. Man, I always defended the WWF/E, just because it’s not meant to be taken seriously, and is much more enjoyable to those who realize that. But, man, I really can’t defend that. Lou, I understand that many people don’t “get” wrestling, but really, taken in the context here, can you really blame her for this decision? And, BTW, who was supposedly in the casket? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-do-what-anymore/133501/36 "2002-10-24T00:09:24Z")
That doesn’t sound like WWE. That sounds like something from _Hustler_ or something… ---
**Author:** ![B.Pants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@B.Pants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Pants)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-do-what-anymore/133501/37 "2002-10-24T01:07:49Z")
Naw, not regular Hustler. They don’t even stoop to corpses. I’d feel cleaner “reading” a Hustler than I would watching ANY wrestling, let alone wrestling mixed with necrophilia. Not to mention the message sent by the comment about “she didn’t have to die if she had just let him touch her beautiful breasts”. If I killed every girl who wouldn’t let me near her naughty bits… ---
**Author:** ![Snugglebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snugglebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snugglebear)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-do-what-anymore/133501/38 "2002-10-24T01:29:23Z")
Lou E. Thunder I can recommend a good psychologist. I suggest that you see one…soon. That is really not hardy har har funny. On the flip side it makes me think about how I grew up watching looney toons… ---
**Author:** ![SparrowHawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@SparrowHawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SparrowHawk)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-do-what-anymore/133501/39 "2002-10-24T01:33:34Z")
Lou, if I were your mom, not only would you not be watching that, you would be spending the time you were not watching it with a nice therapist who could help you figure out what the fuck was wrong with you that made you file that under “comedy”. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-do-what-anymore/133501/40 "2002-10-24T01:51:11Z")
I’ve been a semi-fan of wrestling for a while now. I know it’s fake. I like it for the same reason I like watching Jackie Chan and Jet Li movies, even though I know they’re not really beating people up either. The little story lines between the fights were goofy, sometimes funny, but mostly stuff I’d fast forward through if I could. What you describe, however, goes beyond what I’ve ever seen on the show, and I’d have serious qualms about ever wanting to watch it again, let alone letting my (currently nonexistant) kids watch it. What gets me, though, is that in their out-of-character interviews, most of the people in WWE, particularly Vince McMahon, Mick Foley and The Rock, seem like very intelligent, compassionate, family-oriented people, and I have a hard time imagining them going for something like this. Has anyone else seen this segment or seen any news reports about it? This only thing I’ve found is [here](http://www.knowyournews.com/bbs/messages/1110.html) at a site calling itself a “news and rumor” board, that includes **Lou** ’s post verbatim. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-do-what-anymore/133501.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-do-what-anymore/133501.md?page=3)