Ronnie

8 hours ago, Loki said:

And I got a notification as well.

A notification saying "X linked to a post in a thread you started" or something like that. 

On 3/19/2020 at 7:48 AM, Cheapheat said:

What are the percentages here of fans who just watch American Wrestling? 

Who do you imagine is carrying around those statistics in his pocket? And where do you think he would've got them from?

Good grief. There are people who are now out of work and homeless as a result of COVID-19 and, more directly, an employer closing the doors. Kicked out of their work-provided accommodation with immediate effect:

I know you can't expect an employer who is closing down immediately to require the services of the staff who run it when it's operational, but seeing it so heartlessly written considering the repercussions for the poor staff members beyond losing their income is very jarring. Terrible.

36 minutes ago, tiger_rick said:

Anything after Leicester Forest East.

As a jaded wrestling fan, it's been years since I've marked out, but seeing my home settlement mentioned here has just done it! You can hear that motorway from my parents'. (Well, I can't because I don't know any differently, but my better half reports that it's deafening.)

Edit: That reads as though I'm the stereotypical fat 40-something wrestling fan who lives with his parents and has invented a girlfriend, doesn't it?

To give the landlords a break ... look what someone kindly popped through the letterbox yesterday evening. I've never had one before. What coincidentally great timing, with people at risk of losing their income.

They've made sure to give an example so that they're in legal compliance. If you borrow £200, you'll have paid back £340 ten weeks later. That's easier to parse than trying to make sense of the API, if a figure of 466% isn't enough to terrify you just at the sight of it. You might even decide that needs must and you'll take a loan out of those terms. £200 won't last long, though, so it's fortunate that you can easily jump to £1500 once you're an existing customer.

I suppose you could charitably argue that these people are providing a service, filling a gap in the market etc, and it's true that they've provided the numbers and an illustrative example. But the timing doesn't half look to me like opportunistic parasitism and a fast track to destitution.

I was going to 'not all landlords' but then I saw this and he ruined it for the rest, the twat:

On 3/5/2020 at 12:46 PM, LCJ said:

I remember when Scott Steiner said something to Hogan's wife at an airport along the lines of "Hogan has no business inducting Randy Savage into the HOF" (although it was probably much worse than that)

The naughty part was supposedly "I'm gonna kill Terry", hence the posters going up afterwards.

8 hours ago, Briefcase said:

It's bad enough using public transport at the best of times, but couldn't imagine how awful it is now looking at everyone who sneezes/coughs. 

My better half has developed a cold since yesterday and happened to be on a one-off work visit in London yesterday and today. She said it was agony trying to hold in a cough on the Tube for up to an hour at a time to avoid stares. I've since picked her up and she's working at home now coughing to her heart's content. The little pleasures in life.

9 hours ago, HarmonicGenerator said:

Would Demolition have been a thing if the Road Warriors had gone to WWE sooner?

That's a good call. The arrival of the LOD in the WWF certainly indicated that Demolition was a placeholder.

They weren't as clear a rip-off as the Powers of Pain were, though:

Without Ole, Gene and Lars Anderson (Gene being the only one of them genuinely with that surname) forming the Minnesota Wrecking Crew, the young Marty Lunde doesn't take the name Arn Anderson so that he can team up with his 'uncle', and the two therefore don't ally with Tully Blanchard and Ric Flair a year later. Without Arn's gimmick based on a gimmick, Arn doesn't cut a promo referring to his group as the 'Horsemen', from which the name of the stable came.

7 minutes ago, Onyx2 said:

I'll have chips with no chips please.

Lightweight. I quite fancy chips with chips.

11 hours ago, Frankie Crisp said:

101 Great Goals. 

Where? All that video's done is serve to underline how woeful footie was in the olden days! The video only started to pick up in 84 with the first sighting of proto-mullets.

The incongruity between pornstar and 'taxation is theft' ultra conservative was noted by Foley in one of his first two books, if I'm not mistaken. This isn't a recent thing with Venis.

I don't tend to read the threads where Porkchopcash lingers but when I've seen him in action he strikes me as a troll more than white noise.

Scorch, on the other hand, has been a blight on this place at times, the embodiment of white noise. I grew to hate Jeff Goldblum by proxy, owing to seeing his face all over thread listings as 'Last post by', or dropping into a thread and seeing that Scorch was every third post. I feel a little bit bad saying that because I know that poster has had a difficult time of things away from here and that these say-nothing posting sprees coincide with those periods but, still, white noise, and lots of it, his posts often were.

There are some really pleasant candidates on the list. I've gone with Onyx2, but it could've easily been HG too.

I think Rick's been great, particularly in starting threads. Times have changed and people generally aren't great at reading lots of text anymore, especially me, so Rick's adjustment from the text walls of yesteryear to short and to the point have made it really easy for me to read and enjoy his contributions.

You haven't missed them; they haven't happened yet. The numbers are being tallied but real life has this tendency of getting in the way, unfortunately.

I think I'd try to haggle a few quid off. This seems a tad steep for something that doesn't work and which the seller is saying you should break down to use as ornaments instead.

Much was made during Italia 90 of Peter Shilton's mammoth age. He was 40 and heading towards a total of 125 caps for England, a world record at the time.

I was 11 at the time, soaking up as much information as I could about the forthcoming World Cup. He was presented as being of another generation to the other players in the squad, and that's how I viewed him, this impossibly old talisman without whom England would have no chance of success. He just needed to live long enough to play in those matches.

I'm now older than Peter Shilton was then.

It seems incongruous to me that we rightly have rules in place regarding spoilers but the site isn't configured to implement them, leaving users to their own devices about how to apply those rules. Those with a bit of knowledge use legacy BB code; deprecated five years ago in the software and not guaranteed to work consistently. Others mark their posts as containing spoilers, leaving it to the reader not to notice what's posted below, sometimes in the very next line.

The software provides native spoiler functionality, via a button in the editor. But it hasn't been configured here. Given the existence of spoiler rules, it really should be, across all devices.

Setting it up is easy if you know how to, for those who have access. (Presumably only @Moo.) It's just a case of Customization > Toolbars in the Admin Control Panel, then dragging the spoiler icon into the toolbars (one for desktop, one for tablet, one for mobile). Piece of cake. Could you add the button, please?

We've been pretty good for food this year, halving our meat consumption and losing around a stone each in the last three months. Christmas Day, however, wasn't a day for restraint!

I knocked up some pancakes for my better half. The dark splashes in there are chocolate drops.

I decided that I'd treat myself to some bacon and a few slices of porked pie, both bought from a specialist shop rather than the cheap-and-cheerful supermarket variety. That's Heidi on the chair besides it. The food was safe because she knows that she might be offered a little bit (and she was) but not if she asks for it or tries to take any.

Our girls also get a special breakfast for Christmas and their birthdays.

We didn't get around to eating the main dinner until around 6pm. We had slightly different meals. Ronette has never gotten over being made to eat vegetables as a child, so her plate is bereft of them. We haven't had a roast since last Christmas and she really enjoys Yorkshire pudding, so her turkey, pigs and gammon were served inside a large one. She can't stand the taste or texture of potatoes, so the trick is to cube them very small. That way, they're small crunchy things that only taste of the goose fat and seasoning.

I'm a bit more conventional, with roasted carrots and parsnips. No Yorkshire pudding with mine, since I'm conscious of just how much it fills me up and I didn't want to have to leave anything.

I'm really pleased with how it turned out! The only downside was that the gravy was very watery, although its taste was strong. This was shop-bought stuff, so I would've expected better.

This was going to be the first Christmas Day on which I didn't have to retreat to the bedroom for a post-prandial sleep, which I'm putting down to feeling bloated from Yorkshire pudding in previous years. Unfortunately, man flu happened to coincide with finishing the meal, so I had to head to bed until the worst of it passed around midnight. I'm back to feeling sorry for myself with just a tickly cough and runny nose now.

It's buggy as fuck. Look at this scrollbar while reading the last comment in a thread:

Are you sure it was wise for you, as the inventor of the Loki Pokey, to bring up fecal foibles, mate?

1 hour ago, Devon Malcolm said:

Is anyone going to own up to being @The Spelling Bee! now.

If it wasn't Fog Dude, the gimmick was made for him.

5 minutes ago, quote the raven said:

The link does not work. What kind of services are they suggesting. 
 

 

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/nov/29/revealed-nhs-plans-to-ration-34-unnecessary-tests-and-treatments