InvertedSmiley

How does everyone actually see this ending?

 

 

I think unless the rioters get bored I can't see a way this ends.

I would seriously fear for other major UK cities right now. Already reports of violence in Liverpool to add to that in Birmingham and London. It's only a matter of time before it spreads to Glasgow, Newcastle, Cardiff, etc.

And, rather inevitably and grimly, there will be lives lost.

Google Maps image of verified riot areas

Quite incredible. It's incomprehensible how quickly this has spread and the level of violence.

I don't see any way out of this without sending in the army.

Alright, I've just watched a Saturday Night Main Event from April 1991, the one with the match between the Ultimate Warrior and Sgt Slaughter where The Undertaker becomes heavily involved. This is right around the time that I started watching wrestling, and I still vividly remember the epidose of Superstars (I think) where The Undertaker locked the Warrior in a casket and took a sledgehammer to it. So there was clearly an on-screen rivalry between the two at that point - but the only match I can find is from the UK Rampage. Is there any reason why Ultimate Warrior vs The Undertaker didn't make it to Pay-Per-View?

WCW said "Hog Wild 1996" would have 250,000 people there. Does anybody know the real attendance?

 

Want to see if it compares with "Bash at the Beach 1995" when they said 100,000 and there was 10,000.

Wikipedia (I know) says 5,000.

As the event was held at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally it's probably fair to say that there were in excess of 250,000 people there. Of course, only a very, very small number of them were there to see the wrestling.

And best I can make out its legal to carry a gun in Arizona so I don't know what the fuck Inverted Smiley was going on about.

I should probably have used one of them winking smileys to make my point more clearly

Just found out what JNLister meant by number 4.

 

Palin is a headcase of the highest order.

 

Having her anywhere near the White House would worry me immensely.

Events like this only go to show that Palin was right all along. If everyone in America was carrying a gun, then the gunman could have been shot before he killed 7 people!

 

Yeah lets just ignore the fact that the Democrat shot was on Palin's "hitlist" you mong.

 

If it turns out that this shooting was politically motivated and the shooter is/was a Republican then Palin is almost certainly finished.

If this Democrat was strapped maybe she wouldn't have been shot!

Palin is a headcase of the highest order.

 

Having her anywhere near the White House would worry me immensely.

Events like this only go to show that Palin was right all along. If everyone in America was carrying a gun, then the gunman could have been shot before he killed 7 people!

Motor City Machine Guns

Kurt Angle vs Mr. Anderson - TNA Lockdown

Beer Money vs Motor City Machine Guns, 2/3 Falls - TNA Whole F'n Show

Jeff Hardy vs Mr. Anderson vs Kurt Angle - TNA Bound For Glory

The January 4th Monday Night War

Rob Van Dam's TNA Title win

'They' reveal at Bound For Glory

Beer Money vs Motor City Machine Guns

Kurt Angle vs Mr. Anderson

Jeff Jarrett

Just seen the verdict in the Tommy Sheridan case

 

So David, you were saying? *whistles*

You're right.

 

Being found guilty in court is a definite sign of guilt.

You undermine any further point you wish to make right there.

Plenty of people have been found guilty of a crime in court only to have the verdict over-turned at a later date.

It's interesting that the charges against Sheridan were dwindling as the weeks went by. I think that by the close of procedings they were down to around 4 out of the original 19.

Are you now saying that the courts are corrupt because he has been charged, convicted by a jury and will likely be to prison for a few years?

 

Shouldn't you be posting in the conspiracy thread if that's the case.

Tommy's the first person is Scottish legal history to be convicted of perjury. I for one wont be holding my breath waiting for the second.

The verdict was barely announced and the News of the World were running adverts for an 18-page pullout on Tommy Sheridan on Sunday.

Scum.

Many of those witnesses who gave evidence during the perjury trial gave quite contrasting evidence in the original libel trial. Wonder if the Crown will be charging them with perjury?

Vince Cable was caught out by two undercover reporters from the Daily Telegraph posing as constituents.

Vince Cable told undercover reporters he had "declared war on Rupert Murdoch" and planned to block his efforts to take full control of BSkyB, according to the BBC's Robert Peston.

 

The business secretary's admission came in conversation with Daily Telegraph reporters posing as constituents.

 

Robert Peston said the Telegraph chose not to publish the "most explosive" part of its investigaton.

 

But a transcript was passed to him by a whistleblower.

 

According to the transcript seen by the BBC's business editor, Mr Cable said: "I am picking my fights, some of which you may have seen, some of which you may haven't seen.

 

"And I don't know if you have been following what has been happening with the Murdoch press, where I have declared war on Mr Murdoch and I think we are going to win."

 

News Corporation, which is run by Rupert Murdoch, already owns 39% of BSkyB but wants to buy up the remaining 61%.

 

The group also owns News International - whose publications The Sun, News of the World, The Times and The Sunday Times account for a third of the UK's national newspaper circulation.

 

Mr Cable ordered Ofcom to investigate the proposal over concerns about press freedom and consumer choice - but he will have the final say and has stressed the need to be politically impartial.

 

The BBC News Channel's chief political correspondent Laura Kuenssberg said the revelation would be "uncomfortable" for Mr Cable and could lead to questions about his future.

 

BSkyB has declined to comment on Mr Cable's remarks.

 

In the transcript, Mr Cable tells the undercover reporter:

 

"Well I did not politicise it, because it is a legal question..but he (Mr Murdoch) is trying to take over BSkyB - you probably know that."

 

The reporter says: "I know vaguely".

 

Cable: "With considerably enhanced..."

 

Reporter: "I always thought that he had BSkyB with Sky anyway?"

 

Cable: "No, he has minority shares and he wants a majority - and a majority control would give them a massive stake."

 

"I have blocked it using the powers that I have got and they are legal powers that I have got. I can't politicise it but from the people that know what is happening this is a big, big thing.

 

His whole empire is now under attack...So there are things like that we do in government, that we can't do...all we can do in opposition is protest".

BBC Link

EDIT to add: Personnally I think Cable is a little too smart for that and was perhaps fully aware that he was being recorded (maybe he was tipped off?) and has chosen to boldly undermine the Coalition. He has always been the least 'on message' member of the government.

Thanks for that.

I can't see a discussion thread for the most recent edition of Impact so I'll ask this here:

Duane will love this one:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11047025

 

The founder of WikiLeaks, who recently released thousands of classified US documents on the Iraq War, is now wanted for arrest on charges of rape and molestation! They are clearly out to get him...

The warrant has been cancelled. I'll bet that the first thought a lot of people had when hearing about this story was that it was more than a little convenient in light of recent events.

People seem way too interested in this. That's what I find creepy.

Been taking a little look at some WWF results from the summer of 1993, purely because I've just downloaded a '93 mod for TEW and like to make things as accurate as possible. Anyway, two things have struck me: 1) Summerslam '93 appears to have been held on a Monday night. Was there any particular reason for this? 2) Was Lex Luger at any point scheduled to have beaten Yokozuna for the title at Summerslam? I understand that this was around the time Hogan left and that perhaps some plans had been changed, but from what I remember of the era and from what I can gather from some of the videos I've looked at from the time, Luger was being pushed to the moon that summer - slamming Yokozuna, the Lex Express etc, and then the Summerslam main event comes and ends in a crappy count-out and Luger doesn't get another title shot. Was there a reason for this? Or was it simply case of wanting to make Luger look like a credible threat and nothing more?

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He hasn't saved the taxpayers any money. He is a millionaire. He had no need to claim any money for living at his partners property. It shouldn't matter if he broke the rules to the benefit of

You can accuse the media of a witch hunt all you want, but it wasn't the BBC or the Daily Telegraph who claimed

You can accuse the media of a witch hunt all you want, but it wasn't the BBC or the Daily Telegraph who claimed

His sexual persuasion has only become a story because that is the reason he has given for claiming

Bad day for David Laws. 'Outed' by the press and put in the shit over expenses to his partner.

 

Our Media have an agenda? No, of course not : :rolleyes:

 

BBC report on the matter

 

 

EDIT Media 1, David Laws 0.

 

David Laws has resigned. So the media have forced the architect of the new regime out, will the rest go now.. Fucking hate this country some times

The MP who would go on to become the face of the recent