no longer so manpainy

but still crying over Boostle. Grown-ass adult that likes comics (header drawn by @afraid-of-thunder) I'm older than Bruce Willis was when he made Die Hard.

[mattsmanpain]

Smeat

[cracked]

The real guy’s name was Chuck Wepner. In 1975 he was a liquor salesman in New Jersey by day, boxer by night. And he got the same deal as Rocky. A lottery ticket of a fight that, if he won, would make him the champion of the world. It was considered such a big deal at the time that Wepner made the cover of Sports Illustrated, despite the fact that he looked like this.

Remember how by the end of his climactic fights, Rocky’s face always looked like an animal you’ve never seen before had been run over by a truck? And the unrealistic amounts of blood leaping off of Rocky’s face in slow motion every time he got punched? Wepner’s boxing nickname was “The Bayonne Bleeder” because his face would spurt blood pretty much the moment a boxing glove touched it (Wepner had more than 300 stitches in his face – he was apparently not the most elusive boxer of his era).

Instead of Apollo Creed, Wepner simply had to face one of the best boxers in the history of human civilization - Muhammad Ali. The champ wanted an easy fight as a warm-up to a real match later, so we’re guessing he was looking at a list and picking between “The Bayonne Bleeder” and a guy named “Brittle Ribs Ranalli.” Ali and Wepner would split the purse 94% to 6% in Ali’s favor.

Just as in Rocky, Ali toyed with Wepner early on and just as in the film, Wepner knocked Ali down, shocking the boxing world.

9 Absurd Movie Premises That Actually Happened

[trashfuckpopsuicide]

[certified-p0ser]

i lov how this resurfaces whenever there’s a major upcoming election

[laserdeadpool]

Guy Gardner by Chris Moreno

[ndiecity-deactivated20241101]

hate tweets that are like “men will live in apartments like this and not see any problem” *picture of a poor person’s house*

[fujiwaradivebar]

[ndiecity-deactivated20241101]

i was thinking about that tweet when i made this post, thank you

[transarsonist]

And there’s a tv, two pillows, might bring some string lights for ambient if I decide to come back for another

[tartrazeen]

Sorry, you’re not in the tax bracket for friends or companionship

[memewhore]

[aenima1996]

[doyouremem8erme]

[henk-heijmans]

A Palestinian boy plays with a cat in the grounds of an abandoned house close to his home in Gaza City, 2013 - by Mohammed Abed (1968), Palestinian

[weonsinnombre]

[parkchanwoohoo]

[appendingfic]

when a cultural activity easily allows you to let small children participate

alternatively, a child dragon being greeted by the clan

[cactuskat]

The gather to meet the youngling

[lassieposting]

Have y'all ever seen that video of elephants in a sanctuary absolutely booking it across the enclosure to meet the New Baby, because

[katestewartt]

"Try our new AI tool", "Use ChatGPT", "Our AI assistant can help"

[algernonagon]

You guys think Bart would survive knowing his dad used to be a real hunk. Like.

Same guy. Holy whiplash, Batman.

Mind you he’s also notorious for being a certified HOMEWRECKER.

I’m just saying, if I found out my dad had pull like its tug of war, to the point that it ended a whole marriage, I would never recover.

[snepital]

He forgot books exist in the 80s

[possumtion]

I think they’d get along

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Do you ever think about how crazy it is that like

In the Pokemon games

Its canon to the general lore of this fictional universe that actual shooting wars have been fought

And Pokemon have fought and killed in them

Somewhere out there is a Poliwrath who has seen the light go out in a mans eyes

Somewhere out there is a Snorlax haunted by the screams of the dying

Somewhere out there is a Wooloo that has done war crimes O_O

[hay-bails]

my beautiful wife, vigilante peacemaker

[soberscientistlife]

nerd humor

[biglawbear]

I guess the joke bombed