Accident Prone

1 hour ago, Keith Houchen said:

Can’t remember who works with a Musk lover but this could be a nice topic of conversation. 

 

Fuck sake, the one week that the fucker is off on holiday too.

It's 2022 and people are still spending their free time by playing an internet troll on a wrestling message board. It would be funny if it wasn't so tragic.

20 minutes ago, Lorne Malvo said:

Sole wasn't a pun, don't ban me.

The UKFF Loves Jim Davidson.

16 hours ago, Chili said:

Where's that pic of him in his SS shirt when doing one of the WWF European tours. 

The Last Ride doc definitely turned me completely off him, from his wardrobe of awful slogan klaxons to that tragic scene where he's in full gear next to Bret Hart, a stroke survivor and much older, but Bret looks so more healthy and content. 

No wonder Undertaker spent decades trying to protect his character and keep kayfabe as he's an absolute bellend with daddy issues in real life.

Anyone who heats up fish for lunch in the work canteen.

It's NOT a crime, but it should be. The fucking stench of last night's dinner wafting through the office should be punishable to the fullest extent of the law.

Al Wilson - Show And Tell

Excellent song only made better if you've seen THAT scene from Malcolm In The Middle.

14 hours ago, RedRooster said:

Sean Ross Sapp is generally pretty accurate. Is he being ‘worked’? Maybe, but he seems savvy enough to be able to make a judgment call on the information his sources are feeding him.  

I tend to take SRS's report's with more than a grain of salt since he was booked by GCW to appear in their Spring Break battle royal. Something about a wrestling journalist getting paid to take part in a match, for the biggest indie in North America, and on one of their biggest shows of the year, just rubs me the wrong way (not that wrestling journalism is some pristine, squeaky clean profession that doesn't attract wrong'uns in any way, shape or form).

So while I don't doubt that MJF is a little frustrated with his initial contract not reflecting his current position in the company, I look at the source and I look at MJF using it in his promos, and I'm more inclined to believe that there isn't much fire to this smoke right now.

23 minutes ago, Vegeta said:

I remember starting that a year or so ago on the hardest mode and kept dying in the lift fight so I lost interest, may go back but don't know if I have the morale for it haha 

Ah man, that one was a ballache! Took a couple of hours and a lot of swearing. You have to completely ignore the henchmen once the big Bane dudes enter the fray. Just concentrate on dodging and evading the smaller bad guys, whilst hammering the Batarangs at the Bane dudes as they'll trample over the regular fuckers with a little luck. Do this until the big bastards are groggy so you can apply the sleeper hold then rinse and repeat. Same works for the semi-final boss where you have TWO Big Bad Bane Dudes to contend with.

Be sure to go out of your way to grab the Riddler gimmicks as this will help with the essential health and combat upgrades.

I've heard that Arkham City on hard is a little different as you'll have the counter-alert mechanic but the enemies take a lot more punishment to defeat. I'll find out over the weekend I guess!

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

Hot take, Rock/Hogan was a million times better than sex pest Allin vs half-dead Hardy.

Hot take, I can't remember a single thing from Rock vs Hogan despite having seen it a dozen times, but I can reel off from memory every single spot from the first bunch of TLC matches.

A spot like that was never really going to go over well on here (especially considering who is actually performing the move, and rightfully so) but I'd stop watching wrestling completely if I couldn't enjoy something as spectacular as that.

3 hours ago, d-d-d-dAz said:

*edit* I just saw the Darby bump again. Fucking idiot. Imagine looking at Jeff, struggling to walk or think, and thinking ‘I want to do what he did… but more.’ Just absolute garbage of the highest order, especially in a match with no heat or stink on it whatsoever… and he’s fine immediately after? Fuck off.

That Darby ladder dive was ace, that's proper pro wrestling right there. Stick your 'Less is More! Work a hold! Hogan vs Rock!' shtick up your boring arse.

Finished Arkham Asylum on HARD last night, and it was equal parts frustrating and rewarding. The boss battles were the worst, just rock solid affairs that had my fingers numb at times. The Croc set piece was a slog, the fights where you're dealing with the Bane-A-Likes and multiple henchmen sucked, but the WORST was the Poison Ivy boss fight. I ended up just hammering the counter and Batarang buttons during that one, not bothering with anything else and just hoping that my health would last until the end.

Really glad I went through with it all and suffered until the very end though, as each obstacle was immensely rewarding to finish. It's still one of the best games of all time and maybe I'll go back to it in a decade to finish all the challenge maps.

3 hours ago, gmoney said:

Black Books series 1 is better than the other 2 series, and I reckon that's probably down to Linehan's involvement in that series.

I compare series 1 of Black Books to series 1 of BlackAdder, in that both are almost unrecognisable when it comes to character dynamics and the way the episodes are crafted from that point on, and that's probably why I enjoy both first series considerably less than the proceeding series'.

As bad as GAME is/was, they will never match GameStation. I had a mate who worked at a Birmingham branch during their shutdown and after the till had closed on the very last day, the management team threw every last bit of unsold retro gaming software and hardware into a big skip. Consoles and games just broke and smashed, and the employees weren't allowed to buy or save anything as the manager kept saying "All this stock belongs to the liquidators now and they want it binned". I assume those managers were promised positions at GAME and other related retailers if they hugged the company line that badly during it's final death breath.

They had a similar policy at Staples, where we were instructed to destroy perfectly fine computers, laptops and printers whenever one came in for a third-party warranty claim. Tech retail is full of this shit.

12 hours ago, Chili said:

I think it won the UKFF's sitcom, and rightly so. Its got such a brilliant odd world of characters, the only good performance Ardal O'Hanlon ever did. Love the lads still working the gimmicks. 

Not even being written by ya know etc can even ruin it. 

It also won the UKFF's 'Best Christmas Special' vote as well, IIRC.

I love Ted, and not even the association with fucking Glinner can ruin it. The same applies to Black Books, but thankfully he wasn't really involved during series two and three (which is where the show really found it's identity and flow, weirdly enough).

Also, fun fact: If you search "Father Ted Cosplay" on Google Images, I am always in the top three results.

He's not spoke to me this morning since I said that Elon could've helped cure a multitude of life-threatening diseases and conditions with that Twitter money. He replied with something akin to "Well a platform for true free speech is bigger than all of that" before putting on his headphones. Sorry to hurt your feelings, David! See you in the canteen!

1 hour ago, Your Fight Site said:

Can you pull the, “This isn’t really appropriate for the workspace” card?

I don't have that social integrity to pull that one off, haha!

That's great to hear! Last time I was at Slam Dunk:Leeds it was when they were set-up in and around the University. It was a good time except for the end when someone stole my phone and wallet during Reel Big Fish, so naturally I've not gone back to Leeds since then.

On 5/7/2022 at 9:51 PM, The King Of Swing said:

Working in an office sounds like pure hell.

New guy at work has been sat next to me, and for the past three weeks he has spoken about nothing except for politics. Fucking loves politics he does, and if he had half an erection on him he'd take politics to the nearest grotty hotel and shag it until the moon was up and the work day was over.

No matter how many uninterested one-word answers I give ("wow", "yeah", "really?", "yeah...") he just carries ON and fucking ON.

What makes it worse, is that he's a down-the-middle devil's advocate fence-sitter who loves Elon Musk. Oh fuck, if he couldn't have sex with politics he would absolutely take Elon as a close second. Pure hell.

Looks like I'm off to Slam Dunk: Leeds! I'll be catching the train at 6am, chucking my bags in at the hotel desk, and then fucking off to see bands who will more than likely be cancelled for incredibly dodgy shit within the next five years.

I'm a bit wary to be honest after I caught COVID from a Funeral For A Friend gig in March, so I'll be hanging back for the most part (and besides I want quick access to the bar/toilets).

Sketching out my day, I think I'll be seeing The Bronx, Hot Water Music, Cancer Bats, Hot Mulligan,  Amity Affliction, The Used, Dropkick Murphys, Spanish Love Songs and then Sum 41 as the main event. Quite looking forward to seeing Sum 41 and The Used, as they both cancelled their 2010 Download slots AFTER I had bought a ticket to see them and I was gutted, so it'll be great to finally see them live.

Backlash should've been the WrestleMania 2000 card. The main event especially should've taken the place of the lacklustre 4-way; Rock winning the big one in a singles match with Trips, with a bonus Steve Austin return, AND it would've made the 'Mania 17 main event even sweeter with that added layer.

You could take Backlash 2000, and make some slight edits to add in some 'Mania 2000 matches for the authentic effect, and end up with a show to make everyone happy;

WWF World Tag Team Title Three Way Ladder Match
The Dudley Boyz vs. Christian & Edge vs. The Hardy Boyz
WWF Light Heavyweight Title Match
Dean Malenko vs. Scotty 2 Hotty
Bull Buchanan & The Big Bossman vs. The Acolytes
WWF Hardcore Title Six Pack Challenge
Crash Holly vs. Hardcore Holly vs. Perry Saturn vs. Tazz vs. Taka Michinoku vs. Funaki
Kurt Angle vs. The Showster (The Big Show)
WWF European Title Match
Eddie Guerrero (w/Chyna) vs. Essa Rios (w/Lita)
Cat Fight (Special Referee: Val Venis)Terri (w/The Fabulous Moolah) vs. The Kat (w/Mae Young)
WWF Intercontinental Title Match
Chris Benoit (c) vs. Chris Jericho
Kane & Rikishi (w/Paul Bearer) vs. D-Generation X (The Road Dogg & X-Pac) (w/Tori)
WWF World Heavyweight Title Match (Special Referees: Shane McMahon)
Triple H (w/Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley & Vince McMahon) (c) vs. The Rock

Foley makes an appearance in the main event to help even out the odds for The Rock. He can do his flying nothing elbow and then get twatted out of commission by Trips.

As for the missing tag teams (T&A, Head Cheese, Godfather & D'Lo, Headbangers, MSP) and Viscera, you can have a battle royal or tag gauntlet to get them on the show.

That's my best EWR booking in quite a while.

Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder. I went into that film blind and let out an audible "OH FUCK OFF" when the closing credits noted him for his portrayal of Les Grossman. Anytime an actor can lose their real life identity in the role, especially an A-lister, gets a massive nod from myself. That's probably why I don't rate DiCaprio as highly as everyone else, as whenever I watch a film of his I'm well aware that it's just Ol'Leo putting on an accent in a silly hat.

Put in an order on Friday morning, and the package arrived the very next day. Excellent stuff! Cheers!

Fantastic bit of sithousery this morning on the way to work. I was driving up a dual carriageway in the left-hand lane, and this person driving a BMW behind me was right up my arse, and I'm not in a rush so I slowed down. I got the flashing lights and everything, but kept it steady (and they could've easily and legally overtook me in the right-hand lane).

Then I slowed down even more to let a car over and I caught them in the mirror full on waving their hands and smacking the steering wheel in rage. THAT's when they went into the right hand lane and overtook me, and I made sure to copy their flailing hands with a shit-eating grin as they sped past.

Thing is, we were only seconds away from a roundabout and they went into the far, far right-hand lane for their exit, which makes their furious anger and attempts at bullying even more confusing. A good start to the day.

One of the risks is that the IPTV provider could up and leave at any point. Your mate could pay £60 only for the curator to get cold feet or feel like they're on the cusp of being caught, then they'd just yank the connections and delete everything. No refunds, obviously.

A friend of mine (definitely not me) bought into a similar thing on another service, but they did a 3-month trial and concluded that while it is a great deal, the provider could definitely decide that the heat is too much and the jig is up.

Also, if your mate is paying by PayPal or by any account that links you to the service, you could also go down if the provider is caught in the act. Then there's the shitstorm if your internet provider decides to get in on the action too.

Obviously, this is all precautionary and comes from tales that my mate read elsewhere. Your mate and my mate will probably be fine, with the biggest risk being losing a bit of cash. Personally, I'd say invest in a decent VPN and look into cyber currency first. But then again, my dad does it and he's the least-tech savvie and least tech-secure man on the planet, and he's doing okay (apart from all his personal info probably being sold to a bajillion schemes and scammers, but I doubt he cares).

2 hours ago, Merzbow said:

myabandonware.com let's you play the smaller DOS games in a browser, including the old Champo 96/97 etc.

Excellent! Time to relive my days of being a footy fan by taking the Villa squad all the way to the top! Mark Bosnich 4 life.

Also, I found this gem; http://jhollands.co.uk/spaceplan/

One of those games where you do stuff, minimise the window to do some actual work while it ticks along in the background, and then go back to it.

I'm back, baby...to procrastinating at work.