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How did this dude own and operate multiple businesses without knowing how to read?!

I don't believe that he can't read or write. I do believe he probably can only do it at an elementary level and probably had people helping him throughout his professional life with stuff though. Like he probably knew enough to get by.
 

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Didn't watch because my girl who loves the show is screamish when it comes to blood, will watch here at work later tho.

We did see the Darkside of the 2000's though on Jon and Kate Plus 8 and Kate is a bytch for having the other 6 kids cut their two sibilings off.
 

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I don't believe that he can't read or write. I do believe he probably can only do it at an elementary level and probably had people helping him throughout his professional life with stuff though. Like he probably knew enough to get by.

Yeah, I think since being literate is such a common thing, people honestly don't entirely understand what being illiterate means from a practical standpoint. There are plenty of people that legit can't read, but still have enough personal context to know what some text actually means, just from their own experiences. So, using Mick Foley's example, Abdullah could've easily gotten enough context to know what a club sandwich looks like on a menu, and order it because that's something he likes, but couldn't read the description of what's on it.

Also, on Hannibal, fukk that piece of shyt. He was just as grimy as he was describing Abdullah as being, and for someone who made a career out of doing those bloodbath matches, it's crazy that he had Abdullah out there blading him in matches.
 

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That was a good episode. I was clearly irritated with the Hannibal parts though. I just hate seeing scumbags play the victim.

Yeah I agree,they showed him way too much

Good episode though,I like hearing Tony Atlas on these episodes,he's always good
 

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Yeah, I think since being literate is such a common thing, people honestly don't entirely understand what being illiterate means from a practical standpoint. There are plenty of people that legit can't read, but still have enough personal context to know what some text actually means, just from their own experiences. So, using Mick Foley's example, Abdullah could've easily gotten enough context to know what a club sandwich looks like on a menu, and order it because that's something he likes, but couldn't read the description of what's on it.

Also, on Hannibal, fukk that piece of shyt. He was just as grimy as he was describing Abdullah as being, and for someone who made a career out of doing those bloodbath matches, it's crazy that he had Abdullah out there blading him in matches.
So we've had two episodes of Dark Side that in essence revolve around someone being too shook to blade themselves, so they let a savage apply it (and that doesn't even include Nick Gage's crazy ass)

Abdullah don't look like he got much longer to live. Might as well get these stories off. Vice better have fixed his crib up for all the stories he supplies them.
 

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Ewww, this is why I never liked those disgusting ass Jon Moxley blood-matches and shyt. :scust:

I'm surprised his ass aint got hepatitis or some other shyt. :hhh:

It's kind of surprising that none of them got that House In Virginia from all that shyt:francis:
Death matches as a genre just doesn't make any sense. I have to suspend too much reality in a match where dudes are getting real life aggravated assaulted. I can get hit with cinder blocks, light tubes, barbed wire, but the basic ass DDT finisher the other wrestler has is what puts me away.

then you got the foreheads looking an old desk. That can't be worth it. Even Mick Foley for all the shyt he did, by the time he was 36 he was done full-time.
 

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Even Mick Foley for all the shyt he did, by the time he was 36 he was done full-time.
mick went overboard but mick had a unique way of making his matches make sense and could actually work...alot of this deathmatch shyt consists largely of wrestlers who can do fukk all in the ring carving themselves up for no reason...brings me back to incident where that fukk nick gage wrestled david arquette and bladed him on the neck and could have killed him :heh:..back then i thought it was cool..but now nah..i mean oncee in a long while to settle an established money feud..sure thats great but night after night is horseshyt
 
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