The Tramp

The Tramp, of Championship Beer and Trampionship Wrestling

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Those that enter the ring at WrestleMania do so in the footprints of legends. Set to Freddie Blassie's intro to WrestleMania XV

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This week The Tramp takes a quick look at the Enzo and XFL news, but also previews this weekend's big shows including the big East Coast Indie shows - #Spiritof76 from Beyond and WWR's Five Year Plan - and of course NXT TakeOver and WWE's Royal Rumble!

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[unclefather]

Who? Who did this? I want names and social security numbers. I’m about to ruin someone’s credit for this post specifically

[ogaycanyousee]

What the fuck, BuzzFeed?

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

BIPITY BOPITY IT’S TIME TO STOPITY

[buzzfeed]

😏

[thetrampcb]

We’re in Poe’s Law territory. If I had just seen the post and not the source and somebody asked me where it came from, I’d assume Clickhole.

[heathens-and-kings]

It’s way too late for this, but it’s important to note that NASA didn’t discover the new earth-like planets. It was a group of astronomers lead by a dude name Michaël Gillon from the University of Liège in Belgium. Giving NASA credit for this gives the United States credit for something they didn’t do, and we already have a problem with making things about ourselves so. just like…be mindful. I’d be pissed if I discovered a small solar system and credit was wrongfully given to someone else.

[weareallkosh]

This is valid. NASA’s involvement in this was predominantly in the use of of Spitzer data to validate findings from a primarily European funded program (TRAPPIST). There were Americans (or at least, an American) on the team, but beyond it being a collaborative and data-sharing arrangement this isn’t primarily an Agency achievement.

[heathens-and-kings]

I’m here for the Belgians in the tags and also…totally didn’t know trappist was the name of a beer, I fucking love learning shit on my own posts. 

[tha--snazzle]

Yay for Belgians! And yeah, it totally explains the name. I thought I was being an obnoxious beer nerd by thinking that, but nope.

[thetrampcb]

As another obnoxious beer nerd, I feel the need to clarify that it’s not a beer made only by Belgians. A couple years ago America actually started brewing Trappist beer.

Trappist refers to beer made in a monastery, either by the monks or under their supervision, must be non-disruptive towards the worshipful primary purpose of the monastery, and the venture must be non-profit.

The beers made by Trappist breweries tend to be Dubbels or Trippels, but there doesn’t seem to be any requirement for this to be the case to maintain the Trappist qualification. Breweries making the same style beers often call them “Abbey ales” to evoke the idea of a Trappist monastery without infringing upon the International Trappist Association’s trademark.

But to bring it back to “YAY BELGIUM!” it should be noted that, while “Trappist” isn’t exclusive to the Belgians, they do have more Trappist breweries than all other nations put together do.

[transmissionsgeekroom]

I’ve read every single Spidey issue to this point and I can’t for the life of me remember Cissy Ironwood.

Amazing Spider-Man Annual #16 1982 John Romita Jr, John Romita Sr, and Roger Stern

[thetrampcb]

Try Marvel Team-Up.

Issues 80, 81, 90, and Annual 2

[buzzfeed]

The Downfall Of YouTube’s Biggest Star Is A Symptom Of A Bigger Illness

The schadenfreude over YouTube star Felix Kjellberg’s sudden fall from grace overlooks a much bigger, more insidious pattern of young men testing boundaries in the angriest corners of the internet.

“The online alt-right is built on lulz, and on an insulated privilege enjoyed by people without any personal context for or historical understanding of the things their privilege lets them say. Rewriting Felix Kjellberg’s history to make him a monster — pulled along by the gravity of recent high-impact cautionary tales like those of Milo Yiannopolous and Richard Spencer — is investigative laziness that obscures a much more important fact: that “edgelords,” the boys and men who group together online for the explicit proliferation of hate speech and misogyny, will almost inevitably keep pushing the line until they end up in a truly dark place.

Because PewDiePie’s relationship to his following, like that of Milo to his own fans, is both a reciprocal system of validation and a male personality cult, we don’t diagnose it as anything out of the ordinary: We take it at face value, because “men are men.” We can demonize “them” (the ones who go too far) as an idea, continue to ignore them in reality, and then act shocked when their need for attention finally intersects with their ability to make themselves heard.

This isn’t about being right. Of course joke-racists, trolls, and budding fascists are wrong; of course they’re out of control, abetted by corporations who provide them with platforms to organize and speak. This is about understanding what lies beneath this dark side of the internet, and how to stop it.”

[thetrampcb]

This is some bullshit, @buzzfeed. You need to be better than this.

Trying, multiple times, to tie Pewdiepie to Milo doesn’t serve anybody. Milo is not an entertainer. He has built his empire on hatred - on being the token minority in a movement that hates people like him by proclaiming his hatred for other groups they hate as well.

Pewdiepie is an entertainer and hatred has never been his goal. Entertainment was.

The “Death to Jews” video was a stupid fucking video and the joke wasn’t funny.

That doesn’t mean that it was meant in bad faith.

The entire point was to try to see just what horrible things they were willing to to for $5. It’s not a very original premise, but the joke rested on the idea that “Death to Jews” is a horrible thing to write and display.

It was a horrible joke but it wouldn’t be a joke if he really felt that way.

Pewdiepie has gone out of his way to distance himself from the alt-right that has endorsed him, while Milo embraces the hatred spewed by the vast majority of his fans.

Say Pewdiepie’s not funny. Say his videos are dumb as shit. Say most of his fans are mindless children with horrible taste. But don’t say that, other than a passing physical resemblance, that he has anything in common with Milo.

That’s some bullshit.

[trumpgrets]

Brian Cash can put a figure to the cost of Alabama’s new immigration law: at least $100,000. That’s the value of the tomatoes he has personally ripening out in his fields and that are going unpicked because his Hispanic workforce vanished literally overnight.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/14/alabama-immigration-law-workers (via trumpgrets)

“ Cash gets angry when people tell him that his Hispanic workforce was taking jobs away from Americans. Since the new law began two weeks ago only two American citizens have come by his farm asking for work. “

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Wish me luck

I’ve got a job interview in a few hours - only the third one I’ve had since leaving my old job almost a year ago.

A lot of that is because I haven’t been trying as hard as I should, but part of the reason I haven’t been trying is because only getting three interviews is pretty defeating.

It’s a vicious cycle.

I’m very nervous because the job would pay excellently, especially relative to the area I live in. The schedule would likely be very inconsistent, but that’s not something I haven’t had to work around in the past.

It would likely throw my schedule for wrestling stuff into disarray, but whatever. That’s spare time work anyway. Having cash in my pocket would give me more time with friends, which I’ve been missing out on lately.

Here’s hoping!

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Elias Samson is a Rock God - Video Dailymotion

Watch the video «Elias Samson is a Rock God» uploaded by TrampionshipWrestling on Dailymotion.

So, this was made for YouTube - hence the end card - but it kept getting blocked by Content ID. I’m ok with losing a monetization claim, but honestly, I felt a block was too much. So here it is.

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A Murder of Promos

It's weird, but this is all I could hear during that Natty/Nikki promo on Smackdown Live

WWE has come a long way in the past year or two in advancing how they treat their women wrestlers, but promos like this are not evidence of it.

[staff]

Tumblr likes wrestling?

Yes, Tumblr likes wrestling. 

To the casual channel-flipper, professional wrestling might look like base, unsophisticated brawling. If you stick around and pay attention, you’ll find out that it’s a flamboyant, convoluted opera. Also it makes for some truly excellent GIFs. Here are some wrestling Tumblrs:

Wrestling Giffer (@wrestling-giffer)

If you want to gain an appreciation for the pageantry and choreography of pro wrestling, flip through this Tumblr. It’s a good mix but it’s especially fond of…collisions.

Shitloads of Wrestling (@shitloadsofwrestling)

This one’s got some really interesting nuggets of history, including the time Vince McMahon admitted pro wrestling is fake and the US government set up a Senate Democratic Task Force on Professional Wrestling.

Wrestling out of Context (@wrestlingoutofcontext​)

It’s wrestling, but get this: no context. If you’re not looking to learn about kayfabe and decade-long feuds but you still want to see the Strong People act goofy, this is the Tumblr for you. Look how happy the good boy is!

80′s Wrestling Pics (@80swrestlingpics​)

A lot has changed since the eighties but thank goodness those belts never went out of style.

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That’s really rad. Thank you, Tumblr staff!

Also, there are MANY other wrestling blogs. I urge everyone to do some diving into the Tumblr wrestling community. Some of my favorites are:

@tapemachinesarerolling @totaldivasepisodes @wcwworldwide

Just support pro wrestling. It’s all awesome!

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Holy shit! Congrats for the shout-out!

[clickholeofficial]

Government In Chaos: Donald Trump Signed An Executive Order That Just Says “HOT CUBE” And Federal Agencies Are Scrambling To Interpret It

Typically, a president works hand in hand with federal agencies to enact policy, but Donald Trump is clearly dead set on shattering that mold. Just two weeks into his presidency, he has once again sent the federal government into complete chaos with a single stroke of his pen: President Trump has signed into law a piece of paper containing only the words “HOT CUBE,” and federal agencies have been scrambling to figure out just what that means ever since.

Oof. Looks like the Trump administration really bungled the rollout on this one.

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“FUCK Dr. Death!” [May 2016]

Prior to the debut of Jesse & Festus, current WWE Raw Tag Team Champion Luke Gallows was still in developmental with his future partner, Ray Gordy. Gordy is the son of Terry Gordy, who teamed with Dr. Death Steve Williams in The Miracle Violence Connection. While Gallows & Gordy were in developmental, Dr. Death was one of the coaches, and made the choice to give copies of his famously not-so-great book, How Dr. Death Became Dr. Life, out to students to read. When Dr. Death decided to do a quiz based around the book, Gordy to offense to that, which led to an altercation with a top executive in the WWE. Trust me, this is a story that you want to hear!

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WWE Raw Tag Team Champions The Club and WWE Raw Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair [January 20th, 2017]

At the Royal Rumble pay per view, these three had a highly successful evening that further cemented their place in wrestling history. The Club (Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson) defeated the team of Sheamus & Cesaro for the WWE Raw Tag Team Championships, and Charlotte Flair had a successful WWE Raw Women’s Championship defense against her challenger, Bayley. On Monday night, this team of champions joined forces to take on their respective opponents from Sunday night, only to fall victim to their title-less opponents.

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COUSINS!

Something just feels right about a Flair and an Anderson teaming together.

Karl Anderson actually took that as his last name because originally he was supposed to be one of the Andersons, and while that hasn’t been part of his character for years now, there is an argument to be made that he and Charlotte are kayfabe cousins

[cinematicnomad]

@dollyp shared a story on twitter about refugees after the news of trump’s new ban (which has, thankfully, for the moment been stayed by a federal judge)