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Owen Hart's Enzeguri was a real staple for years. This one isnt the best but it looked incredible more often than not. Loved Bulldog's delayed vertical suplex too.

22 hours ago, Devon Malcolm said:

they were finally starting to garner some semblance of respect as a wrestling company again

Behave!

I'm still making my way through the New-Gen podcast. Listening to an episode at the mo where they mentioned TNA becoming Global Force Wrestling. Stick that down in the massive pile of stuff I've forgotten ever happened.

16 hours ago, Keith Houchen said:

Bought some Space Raiders Pickled Onion Rings from the WTF section in Iceland. I made a terrible mistake. They’re very bad. 

I got the Pickled Onion "Fish n Chips" and they're pretty bad too. Been waiting ages to try them.

The Walkers Max Texas BBQ from their Pizza Hut range are banging though.

I'm a Frasier virgin. Sort of, anyway. It's been on our telly a million times on Channel 4 in a morning but I've never paid attention to a second of it. The first episode of the 2023 one is the first one I've ever watched properly. I've now seen it twice because me and the missus watched ep 1 & 2 last night. I like it. Very warm and funny. Big Nick L fan but he sticks out like a sore thumb. I'm hopeful that will settle down.

I then started the original series and I'm 6/7 episodes in. Really enjoying it but too early to form an opinion. One thing I find a bit soul destroying with Yank sitcoms is the realisation that there's about 3 million episodes of everything to catch up on! 😁

Very good. The previous Maccies advert with the smug overly-happy bastards in the traffic jam raising their eyebrows at each other is the worst advert I've ever seen though.

TIL not to be flippant.

Frozen mince is genius. Any frozen veg and fruit are too.

13 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said:

What is the thing that doesn't matter? I'm struggling to understand this bit Rick. Definitely appreciate the sentiment of not feeling qualified to comment but this seems pretty flippant. 

Religion. And yes, definitely flippant. Apologies.

The FA's response last week, which was clearly "not a fucking chance we're picking a side here" is absolutely how I feel. They all seem like cunts fighting over something that doesn't matter (again). 

Noticed your own, your very own, @Onyx2's YouTube channel is 10 subs short of 1,000 which I think is a big deal because you can monetise at that point. It's free, so get subbed and help him out. He's way too nice to come on here and ask, so I'll do it for him. He's a top, top man and a proper UKFF Good Egg.

https://www.youtube.com/@BigSpud/featured

10 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

Yeah I don’t share that. They’ve done nothing to show any intention of that. The way they (Well, that Luke Akehurst bollocks and his ilk) brag about how big business are cutting donations to tories and donating to Labour instead show who their priorities lie with. 

That's always going to happen. They're not stupid. The money has to come from somewhere. People have still got to invest in the country. The difference will be that the money funds spending on services, health, benefits and helping the most vulnerable. Not on making up the shortfall on tax avoidance and making your mates a couple of billion. They're the principles of Labour. Even New Labour. This all feels very New Labour. That wasn't for everyone either, particularly the most left but it was alright by me.

I'm well aware we won't agree here. That's alright. 

2 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

My point was more regarding getting the tories out as a priority. Generally when people say it, there is a line they won’t cross. 

Yeah, but that's fairly obvious I'd say. I wouldn't vote BNP, UKIP or the albino kid from Lewis. I'd see any of the other parties as preferable to the Tories.

It is sad that they're the choices but given they are, that's what we have to work with. It's OK being an idealist, but that gets us nowhere.

I would rather Corbyn had won in 2017. It was a good campaign and he had my vote. I'm not going to bang on about it for the next 20 years though. 

5 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

Starmers tactic send to be doing nothing and let the tories destroy themselves without interference, and it’s the best tactic.

Agreed, great tactic. 

I don't think Starmer will have groundbreaking policies or be what the proper left want. I think Labour will be a ruling party that puts the people at the bottom ahead of the people at the top and that will always be where my interest lies. No matter how much better off I might be personally under the Tories.

4 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

 

I meant it's good but just not great. Like Triple H.

2 hours ago, Keith Houchen said:

Hypothetical time. Had the tories not lurched further to the right and UKIP carried on with their increase in votes, they’d have been a likely opposition party. Would you have voted for them to get the tories out?

I don't think UKIP were ever likely to become any sort of opposition choice but to answer the question - No, I consider a party that is solely racist and bigoted worse than a party of cruel bastards, some of whom are racists and bigots. But it's a close run thing.

1 hour ago, Loki said:

He's absolutely right though, the Labour Party needs to get its message out and The Sun is the UK's largest paper.  His job is bigger than placating Liverpudlians.  He should never have made that pledge in the first place.

Absolutely right. I hate The Sun. Can't understand why anyone buys or reads it. But it's a crucial outlet.

Completely agree with Pat and Geoffers but having a governing party who isn't those cunts IS the only thing I am interested in.

Think it was Pat who said yesterday that he's not sure it happens and I'm not either. Stuff like this is why. The only thing that beats Labour next year is Labour.

Finally saw Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Been on my to watch list for about 5 years. It's good. A beautiful film. Phenomenal cast and performances. I enjoyed a lot of the attitude from Mildred and the dialogue and that it wasn't afraid to show the bigotry in a small town. Mildred is a great character. Wouldn't we all love to go around booting teenage pricks in the balls (or fanny)? She's brilliantly vulnerable too.

It's not great. Firstly, because I watch all films like a 5 year old and I want to see what happens! I'm deeply unsatisfied by any sort of "non-finish". A lot of the plot is a bit shallow too. Some of it feels incredibly well written but there's a lot of stuff happens with no repercussions. I didn't get when it was supposed to be set either. Early on, Willoughby mentions DNA. Later, Mildred answers a mobile phone. Given everything else felt like it was about 1976, they were pretty stark moments.

I was really captivated by it, it had some highlights and I'm glad I watched it so I'd go around 6* on Big Dave's 9* system. It was just missing something. Like a fucking ending.

12 hours ago, WeeAl said:

In the same vein as @ReturnOfTheMackand @SuperBacon have said there, our health trust got word today that we have to try and cut £25M in spending, between now and the end of the financial year, on such things as new/replacement furniture, equipment, stock, stationary, printing, travel, training etc. 

On the same day, before the word came down about the above, my boss had gotten our estates department to do him a favour and put up a small bit of an old bench in a repurposed area of the canteen, to try and fit some extra seating in via two or three bar stools that we were planning to purchase. He had recently gotten a couple himself for the house that were £70 for the pair from IKEA. Even though they are going to stick the arm in, it can't be too bad. 

So we went to the "proposed supplier" the first in line for the contract for such stuff. There's no prices on their website because you have to phone up, tell them what organisation you are and then you get put through to someone that deals with your account etc (so they can figure out how to charge, is the commonly held thought, right or wrong).

So, a single bar stool, that doesn't cook you breakfast, doesn't massage your back or give you a happy ending nor fuck all. It doesn't even look particularly nice. They want £587+VAT each. In Northern Ireland. The whole system is rotten to the core. Needless to say, our new coffee bar bench will now be repurposed again, as an empty storage shelf, for all the stock that we're no longer allowed to purchase. 

This is completely believable. Every dealing we have with the council over our football ground, they tell us to get the work done and bill them because pricing the jobs using council contractors always come out 2/3 times higher.

There's a massive amount of wastage in the civil service and the NHS. I do get why the Tory approach is to try and squeeze it and force people to be efficient. Whereas Labour just chuck more money at the problem. The latter works though. Services are better under Labour government. More people are employed. More money is passed around. The former doesn't work and never has. It just leads to higher waiting times, angrier, more miserable people and employees and it hasn't touched the deficits.

16 hours ago, Keith Houchen said:

At least we will probably have Labour taking over by then, so they can reassure us by telling us how now is not the time for that and how, for at least 5 years, they’ve inherited the mess from the last government. And then do fuck all. 

I know you're not in this boat but, honestly, this sort of narrative is what drives the "They're all the same" bullshit that keeps stupid people voting for the fucking Tories time after time. I know Labour aren't the party the left wants them to be but, they'd still rule with far more empathy and sense of fairness than these awful bastards ever would. The only way I see that Labour don't win the next general election is if everyone who doesn't lean right spends the next year arguing amongst themselves like that last few years.

Poor lass just couldn't afford to pay Keir Starmer's Meat Tax.

1 hour ago, SuperBacon said:

Is this another Man United "gag"?

No, that wanker David Frost has actually claimed it today. 30 mins, he reckons. Putting aside the effect on climate it would have if hundreds of thousands of us started flying internally all over the place, but the disingenuous cock clearly thinks everyone lives in airports and only travels to airports. 

Saw "I love Movies" over the weekend. I think I liked it, despite the main kid being a bit of a dick. Not sure if anyone else has seen it? It's set in 2002, mainly based around a video store and the lead, a dorky Jewish kid who loves films (definitely a Jewish SuperBacon or D-Mal) and is a wannabe filmmaker ends up working there to try and save cash to go to film school at NYU. He has serious issues from his home-life and has fucked up with his friends. The older store-manager (utterly stunning Romina D'Ugo) strikes up a bit of a friendship and they learn a lot about each other, until she gets fucking sick of him too. It's a pretty good film once you get your head around what the point is and what is going on - which maybe only I struggled with - and the only real knock on it is that after being quite heavy for a comedy, it's all a bit too cute at the end.

Watched loads of films recently. That's loads for a normal person anyway, probably as many as @SuperBacon watches in a day (sorry!) Can't remember them all now. Watched "What We Did On Our Holiday" which is a bit old now but I really liked it. Billy Connelly is tremendous in it and the kids are brilliant little actors who get some great lines. I didn't know or had long forgotten that it's by the people who did Outnumbered so I spent the whole thing mentioning how much it feels like Outnumbered on holiday. I think it's better than that though and Billy Connelly is the reason.

If you want something light and a bit ridiculous, Murder Mystery on Netflix is pretty good. It's not a complicated whodunnit, it just looks good and moves quickly. I like Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston together, they have good chemistry for this sort of film and there's not much to dislike in this one. We watched something else involving Celia Imrie and a barge but fucks if I can remember that one.

19 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

I assume they are a bit flashy for RL though?

RL has some one off kits that are flashier than football. Hull FC's "Hull Fair" inspired kit last year was a neon mess but certainly flashy.

19 hours ago, Tamura said:

I originally booked a trip for mid-2020 all the way back in October 2019, obviously I don't need to explain why that didn't happen. 

Perfect social distancing, surely?

42 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

Really great to see Tyson Fury looking so well. 

Not heard that before....

Pulled some carrots for tea the other day. Size of this fucker. Bigger than my head. Nearly.