Slapnut

According to numerous folk on Twitter, Finn Balor injured his ankle at the end of his match with Joe at a house show last night and left the arena on crutches. Doesn't sound good, but at least they've taped everything up to Takeover.

I've never really cared for Bull until his match with Tye Dillinger in Cardiff which was genuinely hilarious. Can't imagine he would have ever done anything notable on TV though.

 

He'll turn up in TNA in 90 days doing a Brodus Clay.

- When Finn Balor has a match on the show, it feels special, and important, because it doesn't happen that frequently. I like that.

 

Yeah I felt the same watching it last night.  The aura he has about him is something special, but unfortunately he suffers from what a lot of others suffer from: scripted promos.  You can tell he's reciting lines rather than speaking his own words from the heart.  It's a shame, because you can tell he has a lot of charisma from watching him in shows like WWE 24 and the like too.

Nor does he seem a genuinely malicious and unlikeable person, while Dixie Carter certainly does.

I wonder where oul' Ambrose fits into their 'Mania plans?

It’s going to be nothing other than Reigns/HHH for the Main Event and the rest of the card is default stuff.

I'd love to see an Ambrose/Taker match, though.

 

Big multi-man Intercontinental Title match I'd imagine, possibly with a ladder involved.  Something like Ambrose vs. Styles vs. Owens vs. Ziggler vs. Kofi vs. Neville.

Unfollowing people doesn't always work.  I've deleted everyone I don't care for, and I follow even less.  However, my feed is still completely full of total strangers because my friends have 'liked' their posts.  I don't follow Lad Bible, for example, but I may as well based on the amount of stuff of theirs I see.

One of the things about TNA that drives me nuts is the amount of "Dirtsheets say we have low morale? LOL they know nothing!!!" tweets sent out by the wrestlers.  I know it's partly my fault for following them (although they're retweets in most instances), but for fuck's sake, it's so unnecessary and it's obvious they are being told to tweet that rather than it coming from their own mouths.  I had a falling out with Shane Helms on Twitter the other day because he tore Triple H a new one for hiring AJ, Joe and a few others after apparently telling him for years to hire them.  He's been there, what, a few months?  Josh Matthews is the same, spends a decade with WWE and after a week with TNA he was tweeting everyone who would listen bitching that WWE didn't acknowledge Samoa Joe's time in TNA when he debuted.  It's absolutely pathetic and puts a horrible taste in my mouth.

Bloody hell, I'm going to both Takeover and Wrestlemania, and at this stage I'm looking forward to the former much more than the latter.

It'd probably pay half a million plus all expenses for half a day of work.  I don't think anybody is turning that sort of money down, rich or not.

 

Bloody hell.

It's Just Eat, a once great website now forever ruined.

At the moment, some daft cunt singing "I see you baby, chicken madras" is clogging up the adverts on the radio in work.  I thought the "I need a balti" cunt was bad enough, but this one actually makes me genuinely angry.

Carmella used to have a much more pronounced gimmick "New Yoik" accent, didn't she? There's a bit of a Kofi Kingston gone on there, I think.

 

Yeah I noticed that.  I think she's toned it down since using her real accent in Breaking Ground.

 

 

 

I can just about get over the shitty booking at this point and get behind Kalisto at the Rumble. Won't accept anything less than LoN interference a plenty and Kalisto overcoming it

 

I can see Del Rio winning this one (probably cheating/interference etc) and then Kalisto getting his own back in the Rumble match taking Del Rio out leading to another match for the next month or so.

By which point everybody will be sick to the back teeth of it.

Has anybody used Travelup.co.uk to book flights?  I bought 8 flights to Washington DC with them last night, checked the times 4 or 5 times, as did my partner.  My confirmation email then came through with a completely different flight time.  I emailed them and called them this morning and they are refusing to accept any mistake, claiming that we booked the wrong flight and that's that.  Not happy at all.

Yeah I'll be avoiding the spoilers if that's where they're going.  I always give into the temptation to read them, but moments like James Storm debuting would have been a hundred times better if I went in spoiler free.

Have they taped the match yet?

Monday Night Raw.

 

 

Looks absolutely fucking horrific.  As far as I remember, there was also a month or two last year where every episode opened with some form of Authority or Seth Rollins promo.

Keep us updated on here Keith.  Glad to hear you took it well - I'd imagine many people would take offence to something like that without seeing the positive side.

It's like last year on that snowed off Raw when he was lobbying to be put in the Mania main event on the sly. He's a canny self-promoter, but I'd be genuinely pissed off if I was Roman or Vince.

 

Eh?  Unless I've missed something, wasn't that a storyline?

I'm basically getting a 'No available streams' message, or something to that effect.  I tried 7 or 8 titles yesterday and got the same message each time, until I eventually gave up and started using Phoenix which worked a treat.

 

Is it just me or does absolutely nothing on Genesis work?

What build do you use? Originally I used The Beast and nothing on Genesis worked for me. Now I use Theblackbox and Gensis works like a charm b

 

 

I don't use a specific build, I just download certain apps.

Slap, the best thing to do when dealing with someone with depression is to listen and never judge. It's a situation that requires sympathy and not empathy.

 

I split up with my wife at the end of last year and I'm nowhere near over it. Then I got the sack on Christmas Eve (pending an appeal) On double dose meds and they knock me out. I've no energy but know that staying in my flat all day on my own isn't helping. Small steps and all that.

 

Great to read some positivity in here though, nice one fellas.

 

Yeah I agree, I would never judge her over it.  It's more about gaining understanding about her mindset at the moment, which I'll admit is probably an impossible task for somebody who has never suffered with depression.

 

Sorry to hear about you and your wife Keith, I hope you're up on your feet soon.

 

Hey Slapnut, any chance the over protective mum might be associating her daughters depression with you/your place and is putting pressure (passive aggressively) on her not to venture down there in the form of support? Might explain why she is a bit aloof about it.

 

There may be an element of that to it, but she's actually quite a selfish person so I think a lot of it involves having her baby daughter back in Essex.  Again, I know that's natural motherly instincts, but it wouldn't at all surprise me if she was putting her own needs and wants over her daughter's.

 

@Slapnut, I won't quote as it would be really long but regarding Dublin and you mentioning copious amounts of Guiness, obviously if she's on meds it's not a great idea. I mean I've been alright the few times I've done it but I've been taking it for near on 6 years.

 

If she's just started, I would suggest not letting her drink on them. Hope it all works out!

 

Yeah this entered my mind, but I asked her last night and it turns out she's not on anti-depressants.

Is it just me or does absolutely nothing on Genesis work?

Thanks for the messages chaps, much appreciated.

 

If she won't take the first step, (and if she hasn't seen a doctor yet, I'd highly recommend her to do so), then just give her the ultimatum. Mention you support her fully, but obviously the parental smothering isn't helping and she needs to start getting out and about, just to start feeling more "normal". if she won't step up following your support and any possible treatment, that is a personal decision , in my eyes at least, so just leave it with her.

 

She's seeing a doctor at the moment, but she's only had three sessions at the moment so not long enough to really see the effects.  As far as I'm aware she hasn't been prescribed anti-depressants which concerns me a little though. 

 

One other thing I did forget to mention which is touched upon above is that sometimes Family members don't help with the situation, like I can understand that if I had a child who suffered from depression or any mental difficulties (I say this as I've been out with someone who has) that parents can be protective but at the same time I feel that sometimes they either over protect and influence decision making or they turn a blind eye to the problem itself and don't support them, I've been with someone who had major problems and would always find ways to get what she wants, be manipulative and in a sense make up excuses to cheat or whatever and all her mum ever did was back her up and almost pretend she didn't know what was happening when it was clear as day that she did. 

 

From my outlook, it's overprotectiveness rather than anything else.  Her mother definitely influences her decision making and always has, and I honestly believe there's some truth in the idea that her mother is trying to get her to move back home permanently.  

 

An example of the decision making being influenced - my girlfriend's birthday is on Christmas Eve, so a few days before I asked her what she wanted to do when I went up to visit.  She specifically mentioned that she wanted to get lunch at this Mexican place we've been to a few times.  Later that evening she text me saying that we couldn't go to the Mexican place because her mother said no, it was too far and it meant her sister couldn't go (it wasn't explained why not), and that we'd go to Chimichanga instead.  Of course, being in the state she's in, my girlfriend just went along with this.  I got absolutely livid that her mother was telling her she couldn't go somewhere she wanted to go on her fucking 26th birthday, but I'm the end I gave up and went along with the plans.  The afternoon arrived and we head to Chimichanga - first of all, her sister didn't fucking come anyway, and we drove past the Mexican she wanted to go to!  I couldn't believe my eyes.  I still have no idea why we couldn't go there, but it's an example of her mother being too controlling.

 

Slapnut, first of all I want to say that sounds extremely hard and I'm sorry that you and your lady are going through such a hard time.

I've got a decent amount of experience of dwpression, both in myself and others and sometimes there really isn't a formula. From what you've described she might just find being at her parents away from the fears of the world much easier than being where real life is, which would explain her hesitance. Or it could be the difference between doing something at shorter notice compared to longer notice.

From my experience (both within myself and others), depression often comes with anxiety, feeling out of control and powerlessness. In that case, giving the person as much opportunity to make their own decisions, not feel pressured and like they have an exit strategy just makes anxiety that bit easier to deal with. It might not be the case here, but it also might be.

How long have you been together? If its not long, breaking up may honestly be best for both of you. A friend ofnmibe had a similar problem with a girlfriend, and honestly theyd been together two months and were doing each other more harm than good.



Please let us know how Dublin goes, I hope things work out for you.

 

We've been together for 5 and a half years so breaking up isn't an option in my book.  I've pretty much decided that, save for something out of my hands, we're spending the rest of our lives together, this is just an unfortunate roadblock.

 

I understand what you're saying in regards to making her own decision which will ease her anxiety, but at this stage I feel like her to decision not to step out of her comfort zone is doing her more harm than good.  When she's felt like this in the past, granted it's never been quite this bad, she's always said that making small changes to her day to day life has helped tremendously, something as simple as straightening her hair.  It's frustrating more than anything knowing that there are things that will no doubt help her that she's not comfortable doing right now.

 

I'll keep you updated on Dublin though.  I've got no doubts she'll be her normal self out there - it's a change from the norm, and the copious amount of Guinness will also help.