Ronnie

8 minutes ago, Onyx2 said:

As someone who hasn't read any Transformers in nearly 30 years what about it is queer positive? 

A few of the starring cast have romantic relationships, even though they're all referred to as "he". And we find out that a new character introduced in Lost Light as "she" used to be "he" but changed it because "she" just felt right.

@Chris B is absolutely right:

1 hour ago, Keith Houchen said:

Worth noting Lee Anderson was a Labour councillor until very recently. 

Yes, he's a bit of a prick, and memorable to me for being so thick that he actually got busted setting up a chance encounter with a mate as a "random" constituent. They likely all do it but not when they're mic'ed up!

19 hours ago, Keith Houchen said:

After a year or two and tried really hard to get banned. He didn’t take the “At, not with” award very well. 

It was around a decade later!

He wasn't happy at winning his award, so announced his departure in a private message to neil, decrying him as a "cunt". He popped back to Paid a year or two later to say that he didn't leave because of the award but because neil is a cunt, and that he was better than the rest of us because he was on £150k a year. And that was it for a long time, before he discovered

17 hours ago, hallicks said:

“The tories are cunts” thread

, had a pop at just about everybody in it, and then took some shots at Butch in a private message.

It all might have been very different had he been a little less unfunny.

1 hour ago, Magnum Milano said:

Was 'seasider' allan_cheapshot from Twitter?

Yep, plus a few other names on here during his returns, too.

I imagine that we all fell for Kurt Angle's switcheroo against the Undertaker:

https://youtu.be/ybfixGZyiD4

Although I've never been to the place, never seen a photo it, never even given it a thought in my life, this tweet appeared in my timeline as I was absent-mindedly scrolling, whereupon I muttered to myself: Hull.

2 hours ago, dopper said:

From PWinsider:

 

That doesn't half show what a load of bollocks the justice system in the US can be, though. About four of those eleven indictments are various versions of "she lost her license at some point", and then there's "possessing a pair of scissors without a license".

It's a good job he had £12 million lying around ... 

It doesn't really give one the impression that he'd have been found not guilty whilst not breaking a sweat in the courtroom, does it?

23 minutes ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

Evens that an affair between the 2 will be in one of the Sunday papers within the next few weeks.

I won't be betting against that:

42 minutes ago, Callum1993 said:

Wasn’t there that rumour that he wanted to do a storyline where he was the father of Steph’s baby too? 

A bit more than a rumour: it featured on the 2006 McMahon DVD. Steph wasn't having it, and reported that Vince suggested Shane take the role of inseminator instead. Still a no, for some reason.

5 hours ago, Magnum Milano said:

Manley is always a quality interview ... Thought Helen Chamberlain was really good too conducting the interviews.

I love Manley, probably because of a kinship owing to my resemblance to him, and your lines above bring to mind a fantastic moment when he got Helen corpsing in the middle of an interview:

That's wonderful ... and he followed it up with a Nashism, too! (And then took a whitewashing off Taylor, which he didn't mind because -- channelling Big Kev again -- "I've got £50,000 in my bank".)

It should be rejoins, of course: he's done a stint there before, fitting right in and, ironically, calling for something to be cancelled because it offended his sensibilities:

10 hours ago, 5pints said:

What's the story behind this one?

Joe_the_Lion in Bad Jokes and Bike Spokes:

There was HIGNFY you and Top Gear too, in which he excelled at portraying his character, and had Clarkson and the audience eating from the palm of his hand. He even makes an allusion to a "portrayal" at one point:

The only person who didn't seem to have his eye off the ball was Eddie Mair, standing in for Andrew Marr in 2013:

Otherwise, Johnson has had everybody (a Conservative mayor in London!) fawning over him as a result of his portrayal of "Boris", and the widespread propogation of by the media, parliamentarians from all parties, and the man in the street got him the top job in this country (although not quite as high as the level to which he aspired), a role he was always categorically unfit for.

24 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said:

And shakes everyone's hand at the end of a shift.

And here's that ridiculous blast from the past that Chest is referring to!

1 hour ago, Chest Rockwell said:

How much do the proper frothing at the mouth racists actually turn out to vote? I'd be interested in seeing the data on that. Instinctively I expect it to be low.

The BNP got 563,743 votes in 2010. Although that was a one-off (because they had 338 candidates to the following elections' 8, 10, and 1), I suppose those same people might have turned out too in later elections giving their vote to somebody else. And I think we could safely guess that they didn't vote Green, LibDem or Remain!

49 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

This is a really interesting point (maybe one for another thread?), and one that I don't think I'm best equipped to have a massively relevant opinion on to be quite honest.

Thoughts?

I was discussing this not long ago with a French friend who's been over here for 20 years or so. Remember '92 Heenan's: "Thank you, oh, thank you! It's not a skirt! It's a kilt!"? He remembered something similar after France had won the World Cup in 98, with a tearful fan doing a Heenan when Zidane appeared on screen: "Zizou! T'es français!" Well, yes, having been born and raised in Marseille, Zidane was indeed French.

10 hours ago, King Coconut said:

Very definitely British for the time being then. 

It's even better for her than that: I've just heard someone on Radio 4 commenting on how joyful it was to see her among the English fans joining in with Sweet Caroline.

2 hours ago, Chest Rockwell said:

Just edit your original post.

It's easier than even that, if you're not on mobile:

The BBC Archive has taken note that today is Vince McMahon's birthday, and shared a clip from Newsnight from 1985. What particularly caught my ear is hearing him use the expression "sports entertainment business", demarcating what he does from "the wrestling business", all the way back then, years before he came clean to the New Jersey Senate in 1989.

On 7/30/2021 at 9:01 PM, BigJag said:

No worries. I'll have to go back through the thread to find the Devastator collector.

@Ronnie. What do you think of this?

https://www.thechosenprime.com/mmsdtdestroyerdemolisher

Oh, I'm not really a collector. I just have a few different versions. As for that one: they look more like me (short and fat) than the behemoth that Devs is supposed to be.

4 hours ago, Keith Houchen said:

This is the man who said he couldn’t afford to live on the PMs salary. I’m sure his supporters agree that you shouldn’t have kids if you can’t afford them. 

His past self thinks he might have gone a bit OTT too:

13 minutes ago, Carbomb said:

my parents went in 2019, and the sheer fucking paperwork just to get a visa/permit to go there on holiday was ridiculous.

We went in 2019 too and the paperwork in our case was a doddle. From memory, it involved filling out a form online, then heading down to the embassy, leaving our passports behind. They returned to us in the post with visas added not long afterwards. I wonder whether a bit of racism was involved: we were all pig-pink in our party, whereas I presume your folks weren't.