Gus Mears

According to wrestlingobserver.com, Chris Hero wrestled a 3+ hour Gauntlet match for charity on Sunday night.

Surely that's some kind of record?

Depends how far that you want to go back. In the early years of pro-wrestling matches went for hours with relative frequency, although this was partly due to matches being best 2/3 falls as standard. Pretty sure Ed 'Strangler' Lewis once wrestled for 6 hours in a match causing almost all of the audience to leave.

From Memphis (daddy) the amazing 'Lance Russell's Nose' by Jimmy Hart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFk0viRI7Ok#t=142

Have gone through all of the original based on the recommendation of this thread. Really good, but felt that it nosedived somewhat in quality half way through season 2.

Can't believe I didn't watch it before though, huge fan of Lynch's work and Blue Velvet is one of my favourite films ever. Will certainly take a look at the new mini-series when it comes out. Thank you UKFF!

On a slightly happier note, Wade Barrett is doing the BBC football predictions with Mark Lawrenson this week.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32276357

I love it when people who don't know a thing about wrestling have to write a story about it, always lots of slightly clunky language. Think he's also on Football Focus on Saturday with an extended version of the predictions if anyone is interested.

One of my mates who played the old Smackdown games but didn't watch the TV shows was adamant that Undertaker's manager was "Paul Beaver".

I am unable to watch anything in the 'On Demand' section for some reason. The stream works fine and I can acess certain things via  continue watching ,but whenever I try and load anything else it just has an endless buffering symbol. It was working fine on my laptop until a few days ago, then I switched over to my PC and have had this problem. Sent an email to technical support and got bugger all back, has anyone here had/solved this issue?

I think it's a testament to how unbelievably shit dangerously is that he's managed to cram almost as much drivel into the past couple of months as Richie and C-Rock managed to fit into an entire calender year.

As someone who just tends to read rather than post here, It's a pretty sure sign that a thread isn't going to be worth reading in the near future when dangerously turns up. He's like an uncharismatic enigma, dull as fuck and arse-achingly annoying in equal doses.

Here are a couple in the same vain.

Desperately shit, yes. But this has all been IN THE PAST 2 HOURS. This person actually has that fucking "don't deserve me at my best" Marilyn Monroe quote as her Facebook banner as well.

That second one is just her begging on bended knee for some unfortunate knob to ask "what's wrong hun?"

The vapid (usually unattractive and exceedingly bitchy) women who post those fucking "If you can't deal with me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best" style things.

By the same token for the opposite sex, people who repost stuff from LadsBible or something which wasn't funny in the first place and isn't improved by being reheated and posted again with insightful comments like "lol top bant!!" underneath it. Actually, anything with the words "lad" or "banter" in is probably to be avoided in my book.

In terms of other stuff, I appear to have a deluge of people I know turning into tin hatted conspiracy mongs. Nearly all of them have half of the Facebook page taken up with conspiracy bollocks, the other half with stuff about how baked they got last night.

Oh, also stuff like this

Sorry to mention Hitchcock again, but after someone talked about how some of them had aged badly a few pages ago I watched The Birds again last night. Christ almighty did that look dated, to the extent where I found it tough to watch without laughing every time the birds attack someone. Also I can't work out what it is, but I just don't like Tippi Hedren for some reason. She seems to exude this sense of unpleasant cockiness in The Birds, not just self confidence, but more "you're a bit up yourself aren't you?".

Going to continue the Hitchcock theme by watching Dial M for Murder later, another one which I haven't watched in a few years.

Just woke up from an odd one a couple of minutes ago, so remains relatively fresh in the mind. Dream where I was on a plane with Bill Goldberg, Norman Smiley and a variety of other WCW guys (why on earth i specifically remember Norman Smiley I'm not sure). Things were going fantastically well, Bill and I were having a great chat about all sorts, then he got angry because I said my favourite wrestler was Ric Flair, not Goldberg. He chased me round the plane (which was exactly like the map of a plane in Counter-Strike Source) until eventually I was cornered me by the pilots cabin. He then proceeded to spear me out of the plane door and I fell several thousand feet before waking up.

Shit on a number of levels that one, not only does my brain Bill Goldberg think I'm a dork, but I proved him totally right by having him chase me around a Counter Strike map.

Was about to come on the post the logo, looks top banana in my view.

Mercedes Benz Superdome is a cool venue from NFL games I have watched taking place in it. Looks almost like a flying saucer from outside from what I can remember.

Winward and Encona are my two go-to West Indian hot pepper sauces, with Winward being slightly the hotter of the two, but Encona cleaning up when it comes to the flavour stakes.

I use Winward a fair bit to add some spice if I'm doing a tomato based pasta sauce from scratch. The Dunn Rivers one I usually use has a less thick consistency and tastes a bit more fruity (if that makes any sense whatsoever) so doesn't go so well with a rich sauce. Will definately give the Encona one a try though, seem to have some top flavours according to the website.

I can't get the thought of that canned chicken out of my head and I feel like I'm going to spew just thinking about it. Who in their right mind conceptualized putting a whole chicken in pork pie flab and then canning it? That thing makes my occasional tin of steak and gravy look like 3 start ala carte dining at Madison Park by comparison.

Seems to be a fair amount of hot sauce chat. The one I use a lot is Dunn River's West Indian hot sauce. Spicy without blowing your head off and unlike a lot of hot sauces has an excellent taste. Also costs about 60p in Tesco as compared to Tobasco's much shitter version that costs about four times as much.

Have been listening to a lot of 6 Music recently. Without a doubt my favorite station right now. If you can get past a couple of things (utter love affair with Richard Hawley for example) it's got some cracking music on it. Sean Keaveny, Lauren Laverne and Steve Lamaq are all imminently listenable and Stuart Maconie's Freakzone is a constant on a Sunday night for me. Add me to the love with the Craig Charles show as well, catch it a couple of times a month if I can.

On the flip side, 5 Live phone in shows (usually around 10 in the morning) are shockingly crap. Listened to one the other day with genuine bewilderment on how they found the people phoning in.

On North by Northwest, this wont be as popular as the shower scene from Psycho or others, but if one scene for me personally sums up how good Hitchcock was it's the bit when Cary Grant is running out of the UN building and the shot is filmed from the top of the skyscraper. It would have been so, so easy to just film Grant running for a taxi, but instead Hitchcock decides to film in from 500 foot in the air creating a scene that looked totally different from anything I have seen since.

And I would agree with it (Rear Window) being my favorite Stewart performance (I've only seen him in about 5/6 things to be fair). Vertigo I think it often picked as being a "better" film (by critics anyway) but I find the tension built in Rear Window far more convincing than Stewart descending into near madness in Vertigo.

I'm a huge Hitchcock fan and watched Rear Window for the first time in a year or so the other day. I forgot how brilliant it is, my favorite Hitchcock film narrowly pipping North by Northwest.

The claustrophobia created as the film progresses is astonishingly well done. I've seen the film multiple times and still was bricking it for James Stewart's character at the end even now. Going to continue the trend and watch Vertigo again tomorrow.