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Originally Posted by hb2k
Totally right - I hate it when smarks refer to marks like they're better than them. If you are a wrestling fan, you're a mark, plain and simple. If KK is right, and Destor gets criticised, I'm with him on this one for sure.
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The biggest offender is simply not present, so unless he comes back...
...But I've made threads to this end in the past, and gotten shit for it.
I won't pretend that some of us aren't in the know, but if you're a fan, you're a mark. If you're a fan of Benoit, you may be looking for different qualities, but you're a freaking mark.
All "smart" really means in carnie terms is someone who's wise to the game. Smart checklist:
Do you know that wrestling is staged?
Do you know how things work?
If you can answer 50% of those questions correctly, you're part of a minority of 95% of people over three with any sort of common sense at all.
If you answered 100% yes, you're part of the wrestling fandom, nothing special, but you're aware of what's going on. Big deal.
Then you get the people who actually
call themselves smarks, who think they know what's best for wrestling, that they're better fans than everyone else, etc. 85% of them suck. There are a number of them who are not this huge sucking waste of space, but you usually end up with the mentally handicapped ones.
The core point though is if you're not a wrestling "mark," "smart" or not, you don't have any place on a wrestling board. The only non-marks involved in wrestling seem to be the WWE writers, and a few of the wrestlers (Brock's love seemed to be money, not wrestling).
And believe me, the smarks will defend their faves to the death. Kurt Angle could tattoo a swastika on his forehead and start killing Jews and blacks, and the smarks would defend him like mere mortal marks defend Hogan or Taker. Benoit could rape someone in the showers and it'd be the cool thing to do. And if Jericho was holding down the roster....Well, Hell would freeze over...but that's not the point.