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Long live The Edge Lord!

For many, but I would like to imagine that this doesn't apply to my friends and loved ones. Maybe that's bc we are in general optionless? Or, more accurately, all options are equally attractive.

Ugghh ... Should have read this before I posted. Sorry, man.

I was thinking: If you're a top school but unlikely to land this kid, why not come out and say that you've crossed him off your list? Then, publically say that you're more interested in Mr X? Seems tacky, but I don't understand how this stuff works, e.g. emoji-fied Miami Vice bears and such. Edit: like make it convincing, e.g. explain why he's not a good fit and why what you're really looking for is a, b, c ... All of which Mr X has in spades. Edit 2: Sorry. I just read upthread and at least 2 others posted something similar.

What's his degree in?

What did Chris Rock say about the difference between being rich and being wealthy?

What sort of millionaires are UFC champs? Like, relative to NBA starters? All-stars?

Especially after the final whistle when Cross pets Brands on the head, and Brands slaps his hand away. Initially, I thought there was an element of sincerity in that act. Then I watched Cross do it to about every top flight guy he beat. Cold blooded ... Kinda like the Nickal helping hand

Smith rolled him so many times he was punched out. Brands' par terre is comical.

Brands not quite as young and looking to scrap and Smith just rolling him like a log.

Then he Barry Sandersed into the sunset.

The scariest Batirov I ever saw was in this mujahedin vid of him in the woods wrestling some dude in full camo fatigues inside a a circle of armed dudes in full camo fatigues with a pistol going to the winner. . . I got my school account flagged for watching that one. I'm not looking for it again.

Their top work was just as scary: Saitiev with that "west point" and Batirov with that modified tulsa-ride-lookin' gut thing, known in medical circles as the "labrum-ectomy." Brutal.

Obviously saitiev could be as technical as he wanted to be, e.g. vs Fundora where he footsweeps his ass to his back and then gets up and dances the chechnuri. But, he just as often was like f-it, dived in on a leg, and figured it out from there, e.g. the second period of the match vs the Cuban. Edit: I forgot how the crowd was straight up laughing at Fundora during the "chechnuri" sequence after the foot sweep.

Watched it again for the first time since I saw it live. He actually shut down about 20 meters from the finish line. What's crazy is that he kept widening the gap even after he shut down.

Yeah, magical golden tablet stories are absurd. However, I don't think an affliation with one religious sect or another has any bearing on one's intelligence. In fact, you can believe those stories and have a remarkable mind. People are complicated. Why not celebrate each other for having the wherewithal to find reasons for getting up everyday?

Intellectual vanity is often a refuge of last resort for the powerless.

Cliche-Accelerated-Neural-Sclerosis (known colloquially as "I refuse to take the time to come up with my own zings) is real too, it seems.

Just reached the vid. You're right. I just hold a grudge against Lee re Cardinale.

Word. That guy shut it down 5+ meters from the finish line to start celebrating and still smashed the world record.

I have his reoccurring dream in which M. Batirov beats the shit out of me. The dream always replays some version of the eye-gouge sequence in the Abas Olympic final (@3:30 in the vid below) with me in the role of Gloucester ... " Out vile jelly!" I don't think there' s any reason to summon a medium to get Jung or Lacan on the line as the meaning is pretty clear: I had a diminutive but savage step- dad -- yada yada yada -- years of self- loathing ensue. Any way, I have a question: If this Abas / Batirov match happened outside a bar at 2 am in street clothes, who much time do you think Batirov would have served? He messed that dude up. Ps if any of you have a link to the full match, could you post it? I need closure so I can get rid of this dream.

I totally missed this. But, yeah Burroughs can be as guilty as the next guy.

Nm Edit: Saitiev the Younger had the same build as Girl at and Hall: super-long torso and short legs.

One of my daughters is dealing with some body-image issues, and this post got me thinking: Wrestlers are pretty ruthless when it comes to judging the size and shape of each other, e.g. we just called the 285s "fatties," the 118s "midgets," that one tall, skinny kid "stick," etc. But, it seems like we just shrugged it off. I don't know of any teammates who were/are haunted by the taunts. What are your experiences? Are there a bunch of kids hurting in silence? Or, are wrestlers generally more calloused?

Well, it's more or less the same point made about great leaders in Henry, IV p. 1 and 2. I think that guy said some other smart things about statecraft, too.