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Big Jock Knew

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    I've just finished reading The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. It was recommended to me by a friend; we're both starting teacher training next year and she is compiling a list of books that would interest young adults, so I've started doing the same. From Wiki:

     

    The Fault in Our Stars is the fourth solo novel by author John Green, in which a sixteen-year-old cancer patient named Hazel is forced by her parents to attend a support group, where she meets and falls in love with the seventeen-year-old Augustus, an ex-basketball player and amputee.

     

    If you've read any of John Green's other novels, it's quite similar but he seems to have hit the motherload here. I am not one for becoming emotional when watching a film or reading a book, but this is really powerful. In essence, it is pretty much a romance story. I don't usually go for that kind of thing at all but the two young characters are extremely likeable and human. There are bits where it verges on cheesy but it's a heartbreaker. Think 'My Girl' with terminally ill teenagers. I'd recommend this. Fox have apparently acquired the rights to make it into a film, which will no doubt be Oscar weepy fare.

  2. My thoughts on the finale of Sherlock:

     

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    I think I'm easily pleased, but I thought it was bloody fantastic. Desperate for series 3 now. I know the show is clever and everybody likes to take a stab at working it out, but I'm a bit perturbed at the outcry for a forensic explanation into how Sherlock faked his own death. He's fucking Sherlock Holmes, that's how. End of story. In case you haven't noticed, the show isn't cinema verite or ultra-realistic. There has been quirky scenes throughout; his rescue of Irene Adler in 'A Scandal in Belgravia' and the sword-brawl he has with a Middle Eastern assassin INSIDE 221b Baker Street without Watson noticing in 'The Blind Banker' are examples.

     

    Also, whoever said it'd be a better ending if Sherlock was actually dead...what? Are you made of stone? If it wasn't revealed that Sherlock is still alive at the end, it probably would have been the most grim ending to a television show in history. Even though we know he done it to save his friends, who'd want Sherlock Holmes to commit suicide and leave a disgraced legacy behind? I have to admit being quite moved by Martin Freeman's performance in the last scene. I think he has been fine as Watson but he seems to get such tall praise for a role that I think is quite hard to focus on because Cumberbatch is so electric on screen. The grave scene was hard to watch.

     

    Bring it on!

     

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  3. Tonight is WWE's 145th and final PPV of the year, so there will be chatting in the chatroom!

     

    On the agenda:-

     

    * Who really runs the UKFF News Twitter?

     

    * Will Soap login as soon as I leave?

     

    * Which British porn star may or may not be dead?

     

    All this and more!

     

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    Whoops. Sorry.

  4. I too got almighty drenched on the Maid of the Mist. It didn't help that some South American lady held onto me for dear life as we went under the falls. Why, I have no idea.

     

    For dear life, surely?

     

    Sorry, I should have clarified. She was with a group of her own friends/family. Why me?

  5. He'd have been called a mark, buried, rapped in the shower and beaten to shit by Bob Holly if he'd have paid $1500 for a fake belt a few years ago. The lose of The Undertaker, Benoit, JBL and Bob Holly has really changed the locker room etiquette.

     

    For the better.

     

    Ryder seems like he is having a great time, more power to him. I think he belongs on the show if he can make the role he's currently in his own - I don't think he is capable of main eventing any time soon, but he is over with the fans and is good fun.

  6. When you consider that Matthew Macklin entered Germany a week prior and put in a performance the whole country could have been proud of yet 98% of the people that watched over the weekend never even knew that that fight happened you gotta know that something is seriously wrong and unfair.

     

    The difference is Macklin boxed superbly and was deserving of the win, probably only losing because of the judges being a mob of homers or the fact that Sturm had a good last round. Haye was an embarrassment in his pre-fight build up and performed admirably, but still way below par of what he promised or what was expected of him.

     

    I also don't believe in this whole "you have to support your countryman" bullshit in boxing. I'm prepared to accept that I'll lean towards a home-grown boxer if I think he deserves it, but Haye isn't worthy of my support. He is a talented fighter but he is an insufferable knob. I'm still disappointed that Klitschko didn't knock him out.

  7. As far as the heavyweight division goes, I'm more interested in seeing how the Vitali Klitschko vs Tomasz Adamek fight goes than I am in seeing Wladimir beat Haye again.

     

    If Haye's a blown-up cruiserweight, Adamek is a blown-up light heavyweight.

     

    Wlad spoke like a complete cock. He's not good enough? He fought and beat the guy you wouldn't touch, you prick!

     

    Are you kidding me on? Haye has been running his mouth for months. It doesn't matter that he "sold the fight" - he is not a promo guy. See, this is the problem with wrestling fans. Haye should be embarrassed by the way he's conducted himself. He didn't have the tools to back up his ludicrous bravado and lost quite convincingly on the night. He has also further disgraced himself by blaming the loss on a relatively superficial injury.

     

    I fail to see how Wlad can be considered a bigger cock than Haye in this circumstance.

  8. Haye was soundly beaten. Sky News' coverage of the fight post-weigh in on Friday was absolutely cringeworthy. Comparisons between him and Muhammad Ali are just about the most insulting thing I've seen in sport for years. There is no similarity between them: Ali was the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time and his trash-talking was done with style and charm. Haye is a knob who runs his mouth.

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