Tommy!

2 hours ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

The poor sod found one of the victims of the Yorkshire Ripper and was considered a suspect for a short time

I remember reading about it and it included snipits from a few interviews with him about it and it really fucked him up by all accounts and is quite sad, he attributed it as part of the fall of his first marriage and his now long-standing drink problems.

Didn't he also get let go from Corrie for selling stories to the TV mags and couldn't find other work, resulting in his already heavy drinking getting worse?

He's an alcoholic with accusations of assulting his partner and with a history of selling stories to magazines who print spoilers, he'll never fit into wrestling.

2 hours ago, Carbomb said:

But then, when you consider that barbers also used to sell condoms, maybe the blue's appropriate

If your penis is going blue I'd suggest a softer grip.

3 hours ago, Keith Houchen said:

For some reason we popped like that “bar when England scored a goal” meme. 

This one?

20 minutes ago, Maikeru said:

I refuse to pay those PLE prices (Clash in the Castle, Money in the Bank) for nosebleed seats to watch a show I can see for free on TV - so this was more my cup of tea.

Slightly off topic but back in the day when I went I'd prefer the house shows to TV tapings because you'd get a better show.

I remember more than once people dry running thier upcoming ppv match nearly beat for beat rather than watching a load of skits on the screen or run in finishes at the tapings.

Another big spoiler for all the only connect fans here

Never finished it. I loved all the little side stories and quests and ancillary characters but the main story and core teams of Railroad / BoS / Institute / Minutemen bored me once I'd got to the institute because ultimately I wasn't really routing for anyone of them like I had in NV where I was invested in the characters and outcomes more. The best bit was bumbling about with that detective or piper seeing the world.

I do remember a pirate ship full of robots though, which was fun. 

On 10/28/2023 at 4:05 PM, King Coconut said:

Is this the first televised genocide? 

Off topic but how widely reported were the events in Bosnia at the time? I remember the conflicts being on the news a lot but can't really remember how well known during it that side was, or how it was reported here.

A man with a full nelson on a dog

9 minutes ago, gmoney said:

Lidl do some fake sausage McMuffin

Aldi do a range of knock off McDonald's which I think includes sausage and egg muffins too.

Never tried them to know if it's any good.

Off topic but I'm fascinated with russian history late 19th to early 21st century, should anyone have podcast recommendations.

54 minutes ago, CharlesTuckerTheThird said:

Today I found out that, to the surprise of nobody, Vladimir Lenin thought Joseph Stalin was a dick.

And the opposite way around too I believe.

I picked up the MGS set and started at 1 and I'm as shit as ever. Died 5 times just getting to the lift

1 hour ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

TBF to Pete when he posted the link the article was senior Tory arrested on rape charge. It was only later when Crispin Blunt outed himself the article was updated.

To be fair it is really fucking lazy to just post a link and no real information, context or opinion in either event.

1 hour ago, Keith Houchen said:

scene from a Japanese schoolgirl’s toilet 

Billy Joels Ill fated first draft?

1 hour ago, Vamp said:

Every year down my road people do fireworks in their drive, putting rockers in glass bottles and aiming them out towards the pavement. 

That's not to mention that the fireworks people in my area use are bigger than the fireworks I've seen professional firework people use (I'm friends with a couple of people who do professional fireworks shows). 

So might not be needed where you are, definitely needed where I am. 

It was just a joke about Spiderman going halfway across New York to check someone's got the right permit chief, not a genuine debate on fireworks and antisocial behaviour policy.

59 minutes ago, DavidB6937 said:

Surely the explanation is "different people find different things funny". Shocker.

Exactly, some people even used to find Uncle Zeb funny for fucks sake.

30 minutes ago, Vamp said:

God I wish they'd bring that in over here. 

Officious busy bodies going massively out their way to moan about something that doesn't really affect them?

We lead the world in that, surely.

10 minutes ago, Carbomb said:

Hire-purchase, you Yank bastard

On tick, you posh bastard.

I used to live a couple of doors down from a donner place, they did amazing lahmacun (?) and from what little I understood it was always beef.

Good times, I'd occasionally walk to the shop just past it for what I needed and a bottle of wine, drink half the wine walking to the donner shop, get tea and finish the wine on the way back to the house to eat and a have a short nap.

6 minutes ago, Mr_Danger said:

He had a Porsche, £20k half of the deposit and the ability to pay back the other £20k within a year. Plus a missus who’s dad could afford to borrow them £20k over a dinner. That’s pushing the definition of skint in my book.

Things like that are relative to your accustomed lifestyle to a degree. I know people, cunts mostly, who genuinely consider themselves hard up because they didn't go skiing over winter.

The fact that others aren't eating for the two days before payday is so beyond thier experience they don't comprehend it and generally get a shock when I've seen them challenged on it.

2 hours ago, air_raid said:

"dangan" which as well as the name of his entrance theme, means "bullet" in Nipponese

As Joey Style used to love to tell us if I remember right. It was his "Rellik is Killer spelt backwards"

I always liked the sliding forearm to a seated opponent Masato Tanaka did the few times I saw it. Google tells me it's apparently called the "sliding D".

I always liked his roaring elbow and tornado DDT too, but I don't think they're in the spirit of the thread.

My quiz show hate is stalling to fill time, which I'm sure the producers ask them to but it's unbelievable irritating.

"Well I know it's not A because blah blah, and it can't be C because blah blah"

Just answer B and get on with it you twats.

On 10/16/2023 at 7:31 PM, Tommy! said:

I'm also thinking of giving symphony of the night a try, I've plays 0 Castlevania games before, good idea or bad idea to jump in there?

Symphony and Rondo of blood is £3 on PSN at the minute FYI, so I've jumped in. 

Died a lot already and hardly got more the 10 minutes in.