Gus Mears

A frustrating loss. It'll probably be another ten years until we have a chance similarly good to win or split a test series in India. Much like the Ashes, feel like we've let some results slip through our fingers.

At least it has been a good contest by and large. A far cry from some of the shite served up in recent tours when we had the likes of Gareth Batty playing games and Zafar Ansari, who literally quit cricket to become a lawyer about 6 months later. Pitches have been better than the embarrassments from last time too.

Turkey mince hash for tea. Bloody lovely.

Was delighted to watch Selby batter O'Sullivan the other day. It's the best match in snooker and Selby has had such a shit time off the table recently that I think few would begrudge him a win in this tournament.

So, he'll inevitably lose to Zhang Anda this evening.

@CAREBEAR LUVVA That was tremendous. New Jack looking cooked in the five yards between entrance and ring, Sandman leaning on his kendo stick like an old man with his cane, the Man Who Ate Justin Credible failing to throw chairs into the ring and his mic not working.

This is another one I watch quite often. The legendary barbed wire Christmas tree match - TNA at its worst/best.

@Chest Rockwell I'm pretty sure that was the PPV when loads of the roster didn't appear due to 'Elevated liver enzymes' (aka steroids). 

I envision the Punjabi Prison clogging up space in the Titan Tower basement forever. The wrestling version of this 

While 'good' is in wrestling is very much subjective, what matches do you find yourself going back to which by your standards are shite and why?

I barely watch wrestling nowadays, but this gets an annual run out in the Mears house at Halloween along with Beetejuice.

It's absolutely horrendous by any conceivable metric, but also wrestling in its purest form. Four comicly large men doing awful pretend fighting. Kane is the smallest by a distance in a four man match! How could you not love it?

13 minutes ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said:

Jimmy is going to play until he is fifty. I'm sure the only thing that keeps him running is that he knows Murali was a chucker and he wants to take his record away. 

I think it was Butch who once mentioned that he would go on Murali compilation videos and post 'NO BALL' in the comments and it's always made me laugh.

Enjoy it while you can I guess. It's not like he's going to get fitter as he approaches his mid 30's. I find it hard to imagine him lasting much longer in the game than a few more years. It'll be a sad day when he hands over the captaincy to Jimmy.

Ben Stokes bowling in the nets gives me The Fear. He can't help but bring himself on for a ten over spell of banging it in before wondering why his leg has fallen off again.

Anyone tried this? Moretti with salt in. It sounds well shit and I have no intention of purchasing it, but am interested if anyone can confirm it's as bad as I imagine.

I used to love it when they'd go 2008 Jericho with people who were already dull as ditchwater. Why in God's name would you try and make Jack Swagger more boring.

Couple from the past few days.

8 hour slow cooked lamb Leg. I adore this recipe. I've always struggled to get a roast lamb Leg how I want it and this takes all the work out of it (other than having to set an alarm on a Saturday to put it in the oven)

It's a bit Plexy's breakfast, but a nice Monday night meal. Haddock baked with dill, Swiss chard, sugar snap peas, roast chickpeas and some wacky oregano wedge potatoes I did pn the fly.

Pointless as well. If you are having a fry up then commit to it. Replacing all the good items with shit alternatives isn't going to make it healthy and all you have done is halved your enjoyment at the same time.

Might need to make a standalone ambient music thread, but really enjoyed the below from an old episode of Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone, which is probably the best thing on 6 nowadays.

Arvo - Robin Richards

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

God, I hope I get to see him face Rahkeem Cornwall. The immovable object vs another immovable object.

The new veg stall in town. What a fair man!

That's one of the strongest contenders this thread has ever seen. 

I've nicked this from Reddit I'm afraid but found it really interesting.

Looks like Richard's plan to run a show is really...

On the ropes.

I am fortunate to have bought a place a couple of years ago thanks to my lifelong bachelor great uncle and my dad popping their clogs within a fortnight of one another and me inheriting enough for a deposit (that something like that can be deemed 'fortunate' in any capacity is insane). Still getting whiplash from cunt former landlords even in the land of milk, honey and equity.

I'm getting hounded by a debt collection agency for a £33 gas bill for a property I haven't lived in for 3 years for a period after I had moved. The letting agency have deleted the end of tenancy emails and the landlord is basically refusing to send me any correspondence proving that I had moved out for the period in question over 33 fucking quid. This bloke owns about 10 properties so must be well hard up and I know this is his standard way of doing things because he joked about a similar circumstance when I moved into the place and he was refusing to settle up a bill in a period when it was his responsibility then. Isn't his details being referred to credit reference agencies is it? The utter cunt.

1 minute ago, Frankie Crisp said:

1. I’ve been in this flat for two days and have already blocked the toilet twice

Feel for you here. Few things more heartbreaking than getting new digs and realising you've been lumbered with a duff khazi. And it's not even like you can inquire when you're viewing. Maybe Partridge got it right.