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I think The Menzingers have just dropped an album of the year in After The Party. This will surely see them gain fans from the mainstream in the same way The Gaslight Anthem did a few years back.

It's fucking anthemic. Describes perfectly the end of your 20s/early 30s, and every song is gold. Reminds me of Springsteen in parts, another album which makes you wish you were born in New Jersey or somewhere...(maybe not present day USA but still)

Check it out.

Alton Towers. Must've been about 7. The Gladiators were on park. I remember being on a ride (might've been Corkscrew), with Rhino and Saracen who were in front of me, both closed their eyes the whole way round and when someone said "Put your hands up Rhino" he let out a girly "Nooo!" Immense memory

I should get my wife to post here. She's a fright nights actor at Thorpe Park and has some EXCELLENT stories.

Literally just came to post that sketch, that had me in bits. Moose lambs...

Btw, thanks to Lister for the info on impeachment, very interesting stuff

 

Now there are no free breakfasts if you stay on property I may have to go there for breakfast too

I was stunned when they announced that. No longer will I be able to fill my pockets with those little rolls.

WHAT!!!??? That saved us so much money last time. Because the vouchers for a "cake and hot drink" are shit...

Can someone actually explain impeachment, what needs to happen, who can start it, and whether it could actually be done for incompetence. I mean, who is the Presidents boss? (Don't be a smart Arse and say the American people either

I have a book on US politics but it's all the way over the other side of the room.

I watched War Dogs today. I really enjoyed it. Jonah Hill is something of a stamp of quality for me, I gotta say. I don't think I've seen any film with him in that I haven't liked.

Seen The Sitter???

Fucking hell...can never unsee that now...

Just watched Riddle vs Shibata from Rev Pro. First time seeing either of them and blown away. That Riddle is incredible, masses of charisma, very likeable and looks the part too. Great match.

Similarly to that Bacon I popped onto r/SquaredCircle the other day and read some of the comments for the Cena AJ match. They're usually amusing and you still get the "Cena can't wrestle so AJ must've called the match" stuff.

 

If I need a reality check that I'm not mental then that place is good reassurance. However, someone said in regard to the match, "That's how you chain" and I almost leg dropped my laptop.

 

Wrestling fans outside this place are the worst.

I'm quite pleased everyone called him out on his bullshit and he ended up deleting his account. Fuck him, and others with that attitude. This place definitely reaffirms with me sometimes that not all wrestling fans are deluded.

An amusing Twitter exchange just happened where this absolute dick was ragging on a girl because she likes Reigns and Cena, and only likes them because they're hot. Anyway, he said to her "you don't even understand ring philosophy", to which I replied "Do you mean ring psychology?" And he said "No, that's something different"

He then blocked me, after I asked him to explain and he has since deleted his account. Which is funny obviously.

Aaaaanyway, is there such a thing as ring philosophy??? I'm not the biggest wrestling expert but I've never heard this phrase before.

 

Don't want to languish on a point, but here's a perspective.

It'll be a cold day in hell before I listen to Ja Rule on anything...

 

 

I shall remain silent like the thousands of white men at a rap concert

Are you seriously suggesting that everyone at a hip hop concert is saying that word along to the artist and everyone else is just standing there OK with it? Don't know how many shows you've been to, but this wouldn't happen.

Are you for real? Yeah I think everyone would be OK with that.

If whitey only sang that one word then I could see an issue

I genuinely can't understand how you can think this. I must've been going to the wrong kind of gigs for the past 20 years, and observing the wrong kind of behaviour.

Oh and Scott, 1994? Jesus...

I shall remain silent like the thousands of white men at a rap concert

Are you seriously suggesting that everyone at a hip hop concert is saying that word along to the artist and everyone else is just standing there OK with it? Don't know how many shows you've been to, but this wouldn't happen.

 

Derailed slightly but I have to say if you think saying the N-word is OK in rapping along or otherwise, then fucking hell...

 

I have listened to hip hop my whole life and have never once said that word whilst rapping along. I've done hip hop karaoke countless times and have never said that word in doing it. In fact I don't think I've ever seen anyone use it there.

 

Lolz

Excellent addition to the thread, thanks for coming.

Derailed slightly but I have to say if you think saying the N-word is OK in rapping along or otherwise, then fucking hell...

I have listened to hip hop my whole life and have never once said that word whilst rapping along. I've done hip hop karaoke countless times and have never said that word in doing it. In fact I don't think I've ever seen anyone use it there.

Jesus, this has opened my eyes and no I'm not a fucking snowflake or any other word that wasn't used before 6 months ago.

Oh back on (and off) topic, Trump-Arnie at WrestleMania?

Whilst having a look what films Kevin Smith has made over the last few years I stumbled across Tusk. After watching a few clips I'm almost tempted to give it a go. Is it as terrible as it appears or is there a tongue in cheek charm to it?

 

I remember him spouting about Jersey Girl being his Annie Hall coming of age film but to be fair he's probably never topped his first film. Red State was quite interesting but was ultimately disappointing and whilst I'll unapologetically sit through Jersey Girl whenever it's on it certainly wasn't his Annie Hall. Outside of the nostalgia of being a teenager and loving everything he did he's pretty shit really isn't he?

Avoid Tusk. It's so bad and I'm a huge Kevin Smith fan...

Ok, so gave Godfather 3 another go (maybe 3rd time?) every time, about 30 minutes in I think "this isn't as bad as I remembered"...well it is. It's fucking shit. Garcia is awful, Coppola is awful, the script is shit. The story is boring, even Keaton and Pacino just seem so bored.

Joe Mantegna is the only good thing in it.

I've read Easy Riders and Raging Bulls, but this doesn't get mentioned so if anyone can recommend a good book/article on this I'd appreciate it because I want to know the in depth story of how this piece of shit got made.

I know Coppola was forced to make it due to a previous flop, but I want to know more about the script being written in 6 weeks, Duvall etc

I can't believe as well that this got nominated for Best Picture back when it was just 5 films, and that Roger Ebert gave it a higher rating than 2.

What a shit film. I have a weird thing where I HAVE to watch trilogies in order (ie I'll never just watch Return of the Jedi for instance if it's on), but I'm never watching that again.

Teachers is brilliant, I need to go through them all again. Well, series 1 & 2 anyway- I think it went to pot from series 3 onwards. And yes, Maggie was lovely- top unconventional hottie right there. Kurt and Brian are one of my favourite double acts in tv as well.

The casting of Brian is inspired. There's a bit when Susan has the breakdown in Series 1 and he's back in the classroom subbing and he tells the kids that lots of people come back from breakdowns and a kid asks "Yeah, like who?" and he looks blank for about 10 seconds and says "Stan Collymore"

Excellent stuff.

My school had a smoking (lower school) and non smoking (upper school) staff room. The smoking staff let us use theirs during free lessons in the sixth form.

Blimey. We had to stand at least 50 metres from the school otherwise you'd get then confiscated. To be fair I get it. Kids in uniform smoking outside school gates isn't great.

I've been surprised by the amount of smoking they do in Teachers in the school. It's from 2001, they're smoking in the staff room, the toilets, Bobs office, Susan's office...everywhere!

I've been rewatching Teachers. Fantastic as I remember. Some thoughts.

Andrew Lincoln is a great actor. And very handsome.

The music is so of its time, but a top soundtrack (SHE LEFT ME ON A FRIIIIDAAAAY)

James Corden. Lol.

They smoked a lot in the school. This got me thinking. Did teachers used to smoke in the staff room? I started smoking at 15, and we just to stand outside the gates, but on recollection I can't remember seeing any of my teachers smoking anywhere.

Kara Tointon as a school girl made me a bit uneasy, but it's fine as I would've been 16 when this came out. (The Leon effect)

Susan was very fanciable.

Finally, why the FUCK did Simon let Maggie go??? Maggie??? She was lovely. (Just looked her up, and she's still fit. In Sherlock I see)

I hated Jenny then and I hate her now.

Cheers for the recommendations chaps...any from the actual EC PPVs worth checking out?

Can anyone recommend some decent Elimination Chamber matches? I've barely seen any and want to watch the best ones

Those meatballs in that sauce look amazing. It's like a gravy right?

I can't be arsed to go through his entire feed, it's just an opinion I've had based on the last couple of months of seeing him/his opinion/thoughts or whatever. I think he comes across as arrogant, defensive and shits on other people's opinion as they don't know as much as him.

It's not based on one tweet or conversation, it's just a random thought...hence why...

I have no problem with him shilling the Observer, prompting it or whatever, obviously as you point out, he's running a business. I wouldn't put that much work into something for nothing either.

It's his high and mighty attitude that I can't stand. He thinks his opinion is more important and worthy than anyone else's.