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Just a thought or 10

While switching channels I have come across Street Outlaws. Then I decided to stop switching and watch it for more than just a few minutes.                        

To those of you that were around in the 19 50’s and 60’s you will understand. If I called this Professional Wrestling you would understand better. It’s just as fake and just as entertaining. Oh wrestling is still around and everyone knows it’s fake. But they watch it anyhow and call it entertainment.

Let me point out a few things I saw in ½ an hour of wasting time.

1. If these guys and gals have REAL jobs they don’t mention them. And yet they all seem to be feed pretty good.

2. They have HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS invested in shops, tools and cars. And no spongers, income or donators.

3. It’s always at night so you can’t see the background. No mention about saving up to buy this or that auto part or tool.

4. The roads aren’t normal. But then blacktop doesn’t show off the skid marks as well.

5. When they show a driver racing along he is always fighting the wheel with BIG turns. Let’s review. This is a STRIGHT track. If I had a car that loose I wouldn’t drive it to church with Mom in the back seat.

6. Every driver is dressed up like he’s ready for a space shot. Except that farm guy that races a truck. He wears a hat that I wouldn’t drive Mom to church in. And to keep his persona going he races “The Farm Truck” They all forgot to give it a special name like Terminator or Death Trap or Goliath and on and on. Just Farm Truck.  

7. I have never seen so much black clothing. Every now and then they do a wide angle shot to show off the crowd. To be an “Outlaw” you must wear black. So says the producers. Let’s face it. White doesn’t look “Outlaw’ish” enough.

8. They have all this fancy equipment and then have a guy with a flashlight start the race. But I guess it helps the show look street-ly.

9. Their “street” rods are trailered everywhere. (more money) I thought these were supposed to be “STREET” rods?

10.  The cops show up now and then and threaten everyone with arrest. They “threaten”. Then go home and drive Mom to church.

I guess 10 items is enough. You get the idea. Someplace in the next hundred years we will be subjected to “Hackers Hangout” or some such nonsense. But wrestling will still be around, though a bit greyer and “Airway Outlaws” sounds better anyhow. You won’t be turned into a pillar of salt for watching. Just be sure to call it what it is. “Time Wasted.”