Little Johnny

12 hours ago, Onyx2 said:

Best British Promotion: OTT. A standout year for the Irish company.

2 hours ago, garynysmon said:

Same.

My only real issue with 2000 WCW is how sad it is to see shows held in smaller and smaller arenas which they often can't even fill.

But if I'm going to watch a three hour show I'd rather it be a ridiculously overbooked clusterfuck featuring stars I actually know and remember rather than something like a modern NXT Takeover show which, while I'm sure is technically brilliant and features some good wresting, I'd imagine that lacks much in the way of stuff I can laugh at or take the piss out of.

Some of my most watched PPV's ever are what many would these days call 'shit', such as Wrestlemania 9, Starrcade 90 etc. 

They are shit though, Gary, and no mistake. As was the majority of WCW's 2000 stuff. And in the long run, Vince Russo's whiplash 'something for everyone on the roster' booking was just as numbing an experience as today's match-heavy presentation.

The fact that you, much like everyone else, is getting older doesn't really come into it.

4 hours ago, johnnyboy said:

"Low regulation economy" is code for sack people without reason or comeback.

Never forget that HR are there for the benefit of the employer, not the employee.  I always make my staff aware of the recognised union in our workplace so at least they have the option to join.  Ad hoc legal advice or tribunal support is going to be out of the reach of most people if they have to pay for it out of pocket, which clearly benefits the company.

There has been a terrible Little Johnny shaped misunderstanding here as I completely agree with you. I once had a HR rep (or one of their greasy equivalents) inform me that I was getting a safety briefing firstly “because it’s our legal obligation” but secondly because they cared.

2 hours ago, MPDTT said:

3. Unions - they wanted to give unions more power - sectoral collective bargaining, a return to secondary picketing, remove restrictions on industrial action...just a return to the 70s! Basically undo all that Thatcher achieved following the winter of discontent, ensuring militant unions can't hold the country to ransom. No thank you. I favour further limiting or even banning industrial action. Unions were relevant when employment law wasn't robust enough. Now it is. I'd ban strike action in a whole raft of industries starting with rail and airlines. 
 

A human resources manager who thinks trade unions should be abolished? Now I've heard everything!

1 hour ago, David said:

I may be the only one thinking this, but five years in politics is a long fucking time. By the time the next election rolls around (if it takes that long, of course) much of what was promised in 2019 will have been forgotten, or will be easily explained away. 

Even if the "racist locals" aren't happy, they'll still be there, they'll still be pissed off at the intellectual snobs who look down their nose at them and call them racists, and they'll still vote accordingly. And by accordingly, I mean that they'll vote the exact opposite of whichever party is being championed by those they see as looking down on them and calling them racists.

It's the same "basket of deplorables" argument recycled ad nauseam since 2016 though, isn't it? Which handily ensures that many actual victories get the additional gloss of becoming moral victories. I'm beginning to wonder how many so-called Conservative voters are even proper racists anymore, as opposed to noble Northerners, barely managing to discharge their righteous spite vote before the ballot pencil grinds to dust in their furious grip.

21 hours ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

correct @David,

Can his opinion on Boris Johnson's name be correct though, when he isn't planning to vote? (No, it can't.)

Mike Gapes has been sufficiently bamboozled (his tweet since deleted) by the abundance of tactical voting sites as to endorse this somewhat problematic offering.

6 minutes ago, Carbomb said:

since WcW went under, he's been the only game in town

Since who went under?

Quite unfortunate that the weekend Richard finally decides to go for broke with the wind-ups is the same one that a sex offender waltzes in and steals his thunder. What are the fucking chances*?

*Obviously higher on here than in most communities but you get my point.

Yeah, when I saw Barcelona finish the game with an attacking axis of Ousmane Dembele, Thiago Alacantara's younger brother and a winger from the B Team, my immediate reaction was also "too many cooks in the kitchen".

If you like Summerslam chat, you'll love this:

1 hour ago, Snitsky's back acne said:

My point is that I am sure there are those who were/are outraged about WWE [or whatever] who cancelled their Network subscriptions etc. and DIDN'T feel it necessary to declare it on any public discussion forum.

Would you say that there is no "one size fits all" solution?

2 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

Life is too short to get hung up on trivial things.

Indeed and as you know, once you've had that realisation, you'll find that you suddenly have time to dedicate to the important stuff, like listing more well-rounded strikers than Harry Kane.

Did anyone mention Danny Ings last time?

I'm confident that a year of fiscal conservatism will finally get Chelsea to pull their ruddy socks up and learn that they can't go on relying on handouts.

I guess we're finally back in the Premier League phase of the cycle. Is Southgate going to be able to accommodate both Lampard and Gerrard in his midfield? You know, I think he is.

14 hours ago, Joe Blog said:

I can almost visualise the Irish bar that serves English Breakfast

On 1/29/2019 at 4:52 PM, Accident Prone said:

Doesn't shock me really that DCW brought that up. He had a go at Finn Balor recently for having the apparent audacity to wear lipstick. Strikes me as a bit of a playground bully.

He might simply cave now that it's been flagged though, like you did in the Alexa t-shirt debacle.

I assume Burnell is crazyshady. I think MPDTT is just a dreamer. And good on 'em.

Dolt of the Year:
Mab - A genuine idiot, wasting his and everybody else's time by simultaneously attempting to play dumb.
Ambulance Chaser - Races into the Raw thread every Tuesday like a semi-literate Scott Keith, invariably stunned that this week's offering wasn't to his satisfaction.

White Noise:
Carbomb - Seems to have fallen into the bAzTNM trap of assuming that a half-remembered tidbit from 1993 is intrinsically valuable.
SpursRiot2012
Egg Shen

Failed Comedian: UncleZeb, Carbomb, Your Fight Site

Worst Thread of the Year: Doomed anecdotal megathread

Flounce of the Year: Michael_3165 returned from a flounce this year, if that's enough to qualify him. The bellend.

On Topic Poster of the Year: BomberPat, tiger_rick

Off Topic Poster of the Year: Devon Malcolm, Mr_Danger, Astro Hollywood

MMA Forum Poster of the Year: David, wandshogun09

Funniest Poster: gmoney, Keith Houchen

What about Starrcade 1997 then? No one can deny that buy rate was down to Nash and the Giant.

3 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

It’s like some Spurs fans don’t remember how fucking shit we’ve been for most of my lifetime.

In fairness, you stopped watching football for most of that.

21 hours ago, Carbomb said:

I've said this before, but it bears repeating: Eddie/Brock was venomous.

It didn't bear repeating. That was fucking awful.

When you go to the pub and ask for a Coke and they reply "Is a Diet or Zero sugar version alright?" 

Of course it fucking is just pour me a bloody drink.

16 hours ago, SpursRiot2012 said:

In fact, I might write a series of articles based on the many alleged incidents of harrassment, both sexual and otherwise, in the WWF/E, historically, against women and have just shot an email over to their media relations team asking for a comment on the Randy Orton story from Court Bauer's podcast. I'm not expecting much if anything back but we shall see.

I don't think that's an indication of his guilt though. They probably only reply to journalists.

Perry Saturn should have ended Goldberg's streak at Slamboree 98.

On 10/5/2017 at 9:14 PM, scotswizard said:

Stephanie loves us. Holly Willoughby more interested in the slaps lol.

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZV-dzgjWH0

It's not real, mate. It's television.