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Whacking it in here, don't fall into the trap of thinking the BBC's projected national share (Labour 34, Conservative 25, Lib Dem 17, Other 24) is a sign the opinion polls are off or that we're headed for a hung parliament/narrow Labour win. These figures are a projection of what the national vote share would have been in yesterday's local elections if every ward in the country had been voting. They are not meant to relate in any way to what would have happened/will happen in a general election. They are useful only for comparing to previous PNS figures. (Short version: no real change from last year.) The difference is that in local elections, many more people are voting in a contest where somebody other than Labour or Conservative has a serious shot at victory, so the Lib Dems and others get more votes. In a general election, the seats cover bigger and more diverse areas, so it's more likely to be a straight Labour-Conservative battle and make tactical voting necessary. (There's also a possible factor of people treating local elections as the place to do the protest vote/vote with their hearts but treat the general election as a straight choice between the two main contenders for government.)

Goddamnit. Twat status confirmed.

One thing that may be an issue if WWE does come under these rules is that the most recently-public standard booking contract has a one-year no compete if you are fired for a disciplinary breach (as opposed to WWE just giving you a 90-day notice release). That sounds like exactly the thing these rules would stop.

Yep, that's right. (The old contracts used to auto-renew for another year unless the wrestler specifically gave notice to end them during a particular period, though that's not the case in the most recent ones made public.)tm

Note the FTC ruling is for employees, not independent contractors, so it wouldn't affect WWE wrestlers. As noted, it wouldn't make much difference to the standard WWE release anyway. They'd just switch from "we're ending the contract but we'll pay you for 90 days if you don't go on TV elsewhere" to explictly stating "here's your 90 days notice of us ending the contract; we won't be booking you in the meantime so you just get your downside."

Bit late replying to this, but the answer's no. The TV network owns the rights to the footage and hasn't shown any interest in making it available in any way.

Forgot to mention, I did the Lord's tour and saw the driest display caption ever:

The County Championship is back, baby:

FWIW, Terry and Dory Funk sold the Amarillo territory in 1980 because they'd figured out cable TV would mean somebody went national and there'd be no room for local promotions.

Oof. Showed the BBC News report of this on Gogglebox and somebody described him as "The Mick Hucknall Forrest Gump."

I think it's generally a workplace rule that if you're in a fight with colleagues where you're the first to get physical and you get suspended and then you come back and less than a year later have a fight with a colleague (three feet in front of your boss) where you're the first to get physical, you're probably not getting the benefit of the doubt.

Surely it's as simple as the guy who takes out Rock has to be clearly established as retired/immortal/legend, otherwise you question why Rock isn't having a match with him next rather than wrestling either Cody or Reigns.

Played Tokkaido: Crosswords, aka the first expansion for the base Tokkaido. It's pretty simple stuff: each location now has a secondary option that adds a little twist. For example, at the farm where you get cash, you can instead gamble your money on a dice roll. The hot springs (where you randomly get either 2 or 3 points) has a bathhouse where you pay a coin for a guaranteed 4 points. Most of them are along the lines of "instead of normal thing, pay a coin for something better" which makes the money management more key. It really doesn't dramatically change the gameplay, just adds a little variety if you've played the game a lot.

It's heavily rumoured to be Minneapolis but it's an indoor stadium (albeit with a glass roof and most of one end.) But supposedly they haven't yet chosen between there and Vegas.