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8 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

It's not that.

It's that he is an absolute prick.

He says completely objectively...

15 minutes ago, BigJag said:

America is so deeply entrenched into supporting Israel. Is it as simple as Israel being their spear tip in the middle east? Any backwards step,despite it's humanitarian benefits, would be an unacceptable sign of weakness to them. So it seems.

Worth remembering that its an election year in the US next year, so the campaign trail starts pretty soon in earnest. The government aren't going to sanction anything even vaguely contentious that might lose votes. Its spineless, but there's definitely one eye on that campaign involved in any foreign policy decisions at the moment. 

The crowd may not have reacted how he hoped to that line, but in general I thought the presentation of Punk on this show was actually pretty good. Putting lots of pieces in place for future programmes, more interactions, just a bit more effort put into it all. 

Just watched the finale after bingeing the whole series this week. Really picked up steam in the second half of the season and feels like the stuck the landing on the finale. Hoping for a second series as at points the whole thing felt like a warm hug from an old friend. 

Emery is an excellent manager, and it shows with what he's doing at Villa. If he hadn't been directly after Wenger at Arsenal I think he might have done ok for us, but that was a proper poisoned chalice and whoever came in next was always going to be a sacrificial lamb unless they won the league pretty much instantly.

Obviously, I hope we beat them on Saturday, but I do quietly hope he does well over the season and they get top 4, feels like he got a rough ride with us and probably deserved better. 

Maybe it doesn't stand for Positive Mental Attitude?

Maybe it's Punk Means All-Elite.

He's the under the Devil mask, lads. Long term storytelling. 

Just now, air_raid said:

Actually it isn't - I saw the photos in WWF Magazine then was disappointed not to have that colour Bret in the game regardless of how many Brets appear. It's because for the motion capture process certain colours gave them problems capturing all the details so they had to record the wrestlers wearing one colour then digitally colourise them the right colour later.

Presumably this is why Taker had those cracking red accessories in these photos, so they could digitally alter them to purple. A shame as those red trims looked amazing. 

1 minute ago, air_raid said:

I've literally only ever heard it from Arsenal fans on Twitter.

Sounds like it's probably just a bit of slang used by a variety of people then. Without dragging this off topic, there are moronic idiots who support every club in the land, so not an exclusive bit of terminology I suspect. 

36 minutes ago, air_raid said:

Should have gone with simply "It's Cult of Personality, by Living Colour." And waited for him to call you a "melt" in reply. Whatever that is.

I have literally only ever heard that term used by Chelsea and Spurs fans, or characters in Danny Dyer films. 

6 hours ago, Chili said:

I mean, it's actually a chart hit by an actual band from 1988. You could have gone with with that.

It also featured prominently on one of the most commercially successful video games this century, but whether pretending to play a plastic guitar is more or less embarassing than watching lads in pants playfighting is debatable I suppose. 

 Bring back downvotes.

17 minutes ago, lanky316 said:

It's depressing but not a surprise. Thomas Partey was publicly outed as a rapist. We saw evidence in which he admitted to it and laughed about it. No punishment, played on and largely forgotten about. It's bullshit and add in the pathetic partisanship of football support and "our lads can do no wrong" type mentalities just paints a more depressing picture.

Ongoing police investigation, as per probably best to not start throwing names out there. This is not a private forum. 

9 hours ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

KO is asked about this weeks returns

 

In fairness, Punk was gone by the time Owens made it to WWE, and Orton has been a mainstay for the majority of his main roster run, so while I appreciate there is a backstory there, it's probably far more a case of he likes and is close with Randy (who he has worked with loads) and hasn't worked with/seen Punk in years, than something necessarily indicative of a beef there.

Owens seems like a pretty professional dude, I doubt he's refusing to do business or starting aggro with anyone unless provoked.

That interview question, and the follow up has very much been framed in a way to shit stir (and I'm not against such tactics but it's very deliberate) for clicks. 

7 hours ago, DavidB6937 said:

Typing Like This Is Embarrassing.

 

The way that's written, with the first letter of every word capitalised is hurting my brain. Flair needs to get in the bin. It's been embarassing for years, it's just in a different company now. 

EDIT: DOUBLE POST

17 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

I’d say this was when I saw the Dubs in a different light. Whenever we’d have visitors come over from Ireland my dad would make us stick this on as we recorded it. The whisky and the songs were flowing. It’s a long watch but some great stuff on here, including The Pogues joining them for Irish Rover (with Christy Moore on bodrhun!)

 

This has brought back a weird childhood memory of this show being on a recorded VHS (back when Channel 4 used to show The Late Late) that my dad later also recorded an episode of WCW Worldwide on for me where the future Raven debuted as Johnny Flamingo (as well as an episode of Get Stuffed and McLeod because there were on before/after at stupid o'clock in the morning). I must have watched that tape a hundred times, including the episode of TLLS as I got older, and less for the wrestling as time went on. 

4 minutes ago, Loki said:

And isn't that amazing for a lad born and raised in Kent, who went to public school, as Shane McGowan was?  He had an even posher upbringing than me, he went to Westminster School!  

I have a couple of Irish friends who are a bit down on The Pogues because of this, but that's rubbish isn't it.  Yes, most of the members were British, but the music is deeply rooted in Irish nationalism.  They're hardly singing about cider and King Arthur.

Not to be a pedant, but I think "second generation Irish" is probably more accurate tbh. I'm not sure how Shane McGowan or indeed any members of the band would appreciate being called British. 

Proper gut punch this one. The Pogues were a huge part of my childhood, and although it was coming (recent pictures of him were a pretty heartbreaking indication that he wasn't long for this world) it's still terrible.

I was lucky enough to see The Pogues live not far off twenty years ago. Even then, a shadow of his former self Shane McGowan was a presence like no other. But, seeing him in his heyday must have been something else. I think you get a bit of that from this. Just a whirlwind of a man. RIP.

Wardlow's hair looked a bit messy. almost like he's had a hat, or even say, a mask on. I don't know if he will be under the devil mask, or part of the angle but that's a great little easter egg if it turns out he is involved. 

Was it the Wrestle Me lads who described him as a "Dark sex wizard"? There was definitely a phase where that accurately described Taker. 

Apparently it's a smaller set up due to Taylor Swift doing a couple of extra dates at Wembley.

https://wrestletalk.com/news/aew-taylor-swift-eras-tour-all-in-london-2024-tony-khan/

1 minute ago, d-d-d-dAz said:

I think this is the key to how they handle it… https://www.instagram.com/p/ChgNoAyNQt4/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

He has to go down the route of ‘I fell back in love with professional wrestling, and the truth is once you’ve been bitten by the bug - whether its the first time or the twentieth - all roads lead back to the WWE. This place has the best talent in the world, performing on the biggest platform, and if I truly believe I’m the best in the world, then this is where I’ve got to be. There’s a lot of water under the bridge, some of it toxic to drink, but as my new best mate Paul said it’s a clean slate. It’s 2023, this is a new company, under new management, and I’m a new CM Punk who’s standing in this ring saying… I’m going to be the new World Heavyweight Champion.’

Enter Rollins. Big fight. Away we go. ‘YOURE A CANCER YOU HAVENT CHANGED’, ‘FUCK YOU I JUST WANT TO WRESTLE.’ Blah blah blah.
 

I don’t think there’s much else they can do. I think there instinct will be to have him almost apologise to the WWE universe (‘I may have had problems with individuals, but I never meant for you guys to get caught in the crossfire, you’re the best fans in the world’), but that’s such a hard line to walk. I think he has to just be positioned as the guy that fell back in love with wrestling, and position it as completely logical that anyone who thinks they’re any good has to be in the WWE.

I largely agree with this, and I think that's roughly where they'll go. Punk is too stubborn and too smart to make it an apology, he'll talk about how much he loves the fans, and there will be some allusion to having worked somewhere else and things not working out but he wants to wrestle, and he wants to bring things full circle. There will almost certainly be some chat about unfinished business and wanting to main event Mania, and then Rollins can get involved and they're off to the races. 

4 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

Blitzkeith Bop?

Rockaway Keith 

3 minutes ago, The King of Old School said:

https://twitter.com/wrestlelamia/status/1728651002658910511?s=19

😂

There's another video doing the rounds where you can see Randy is waving at Punk, so I imagine he was waving back, although admittedly it's far more hilarious if he's waving at a seemingly irate Rollins. 

I know it's been done before many times, but sticking the signature up on screen, seemingly going off the air and THEN playing the music was a tremendous touch.