Undefeated Steak

This might be more mind blowing than today I learned, but TIL.

Boiling water doesn't get hotter the more bubbles there are or how much steam it's giving off. It stays the same temperature. No matter how high you turn the flame on your cooker up, boiling water stays the same temperature.

https://sciencenotes.org/does-boiling-water-get-hotter/ 

I watched HBK/Undertaker from 26 recently. It was amazing, but I'd put Cena/CM Punk ahead of it.

I've gone for Triple H/Undertaker from 27. The HIAC from the following year was great, but their match at 27 was the perfect WWE main event-style match in my eyes. The stories, the characters, the build up, entrances and *that* near fall. Breathtaking. 

What a decade it was for great matches though. Lesnar/Rollins/Cena would've come a close second for me if it was on there. 

There might have been better 'wrestling' shows than WM30 but nothing's coming close to that for me. Second best event ever in my books. Everything from the Hogan/Austin/Rock promo to the Streak ending and Daniel Bryan winning the belt. Spectacular. 

Rick's been my favourite on-topic poster since I joined the forum. Ian also is superb but doesn't seem to post as much? Supremo is great, as is Harmonic, but I've gone with BomberPat. Been the standout poster whenever I've browsed on-topic.   

You'll love this then. If the moon was one pixel

The distance between the earth and the sun is about 150 million miles. The distance between Jupiter and the sun is about 750 million miles.

Baffled me learning this. No matter how many images of the solar system I've seen, if you asked me to draw it to scale I'd have always put earth closer to all the other planets than the sun. 

Pete.

Got back into a book I'd started last year. Common Ground by Rob Cowen. It's incredible. Blurs memoirs with delightful adventures out in the British countryside, and it has you pausing to reflect at almost every page. I won't spoil it in case you want to read it, but the first chapter is easily my favourite opening chapter to any novel.

If you're looking for escapism in a book then I highly recommend you give this a shot. 

Is there a saying about how a great book finds you? Gotta say this is 100% how I feel with Common Ground. Unlike anything I've read before and I'd never even heard of it before I'd seen it in the shop.

3 Wrestlers to build your company around:

Psycho Orton. Killer heel at the top of the card for the first year. Brock Lesnar. Have him wrestle three or four times a year. Have Orton go over Lesnar at the first Steakmania in the best double turn since Bret vs Austin. Thirdly, it'd be a badass Roman Reigns. I'd build the company around Reigns.

3 Wrestlers to build the mid card around:

Jericho, Daniel Bryan and AJ Styles. Three of the best who can work with anyone and make them look great.

3 tag teams 

I'd have a bitter heel team of Rollins & Ambrose; try and get some mileage out of Matt and Jeff Hardy, and push a new team with a couple of younger guys.

Women

Becky, Charlotte, Alexa Bliss

Wildcard

CM Punk. Would love to see a program with Punk and Orton at the top of their games.

27 minutes ago, BomberPat said:

...the reason WWE are getting such big money on TV deals is because as more people stream onDemand, it's only significant live television that keeps people watching TV at specific times...

But not every channel gets to have an FA Cup Final...

As Prime make more forays into live sport, that's where the interest has to lie, not in people wanting to watch Summerslam '93 or old Mid-South footage.

That's the point. If the Network went onto Prime and with it the 'PPV's', Wrestlemania, and other live shows, Amazon would be getting their 'FA cup' with them every month. Also, nothing to stop Amazon from getting WWE to put on another exclusive 'live' weekly show, be it NXT or something.

For every person posting on a forum about Summerslam 93 there'll be ten kids who are eating up everything they can on the network that features Reigns, Lesnar, Cena, Orton.

The TV companies will keep pumping big money into live programming for the reasons you give, because they have to to. As soon as the tipping point is reached where total commercials ad spenditure becomes less than the networks are able to justify paying for the content, then the bubble will burst.

The TV rights fees can only go on an upwards trend for so long, the potential audience for traditional cable viewing will only go down from now. Are WWE still going to be getting mega money from TV ten years from now? 

Wouldn't be at all surprised to see WWE end up on Prime. Bezos will plough pits full of money into content over the next decade and WWE have already proved there's 2 million or so people who are willing to pay for a monthly content subscription. How many Network subs are already paying for Prime, we don't know. But there's already a couple of million primed (no pun) customers there for the taking, whichever OTT service picks them up. Would Amazon offer a deal to prevent an ESPN or Disney purchase of the WWEN? Whatever dus wens think, the real grown ups obviously see value in Vince's programming, as evident by the big money deals the TV stations keep throwing at them. 

The Network brings in roughly $200 million a year. I don't know what the running costs for it are. Would Amazon be willing to pay $200m+ a year for WWE's library, who knows?

The ubiquitous Audible ads show how relentless Amazon are in trying to grab audiences. The longer people spend on Amazon-owned digital properties the better it is for them. They don't need to sell ads on their own shows the way TV networks always have.

Prime has the potential to be the ultimate form of what TV networks could've only ever dreamed of. An almost self-contained online universe that seeks only to promote itself and related services and products. Amazon will likely do to broadcasting what they did to retail within the decade. Music, film, TV, books. A Spotify buy out could be huge but I'll refrain from digressing.

Let's say the average person watches 10 hours of WWE programming a month on the Network. That's a huge coup for Amazon, '20 million hours of guaranteed content consumption', or however the executives spin it. How much would Bezos be willing to part with for 20 million extra hours spent on his channels?

I signed up to Prime recently, mainly for the boxing day footy. It feels like it's really lacking some substance though. WWE programming would be a big boost to its library.

If Amazon go big for WWE on Prime then the next few years would be the perfect time for a legit WWE competitor (I don't follow enough AEW to know whether they have the potential) to come along and land a deal with Netflix.

Ralphy, are you on Universal Credit or similar? Have you considered getting a budgeting loan and finding somewhere to live on SpareRooms? You can find a house share in most cities outside of London for about £400 per a month with all your bills covered. Use your budgeting loan as the deposit. Then sign on for housing help. You won't get the full amount covered but you should still be left with £300-ish a month for yourself after you cover your rent.

That would give you a boost of independence without having to take on too much of a commitment. You'll have enough money in your pocket every month to easily cover food and travel (if you're not daft with it) and have some money for spending on whatever you want.

Then look at doing an Open Uni degree or some courses or whatever. Don't rush anything, but if you're struggling and just out walking all day then you're not going to feel much better anytime soon. The walking is great, I've done it before where I'd fuck off out the house for 12 hour walks to escape it all. The endorphines feel good from the excersise, but it's no way to make you feel any better in the long-term (trying not to sound too harsh, I've been there before). 

It's a cliche, but nothing changes if nothing changes. If you get a live-in job just to get away from your dad then there's a big chance it will do your head in and you'll quit within a year and be back where you're at now.

You could be in a worse position. The budgeting loan and whatever money you would've paid your dad as board would more than cover moving into a house share. 

Noticed I was walking a few yards away from Mo Salah recently. He went into a phone repair shop. 

Thought we had an on-topic stuff you've been watching thread but couldn't find it.

In my mind, Brock's fresh off battering Cena at Summerslam and I'm excited to see what the future holds for the three members of The Shield. Haven't watched WWE outside of YouTube in forever.

Signed up for the Network over the weekend after reading great reports from the Royal Rumble and Raw. Watched Shawn vs Undertaker from 26; Hogan vs Rock, and Bret vs Stone Cold. When WWE get it right, they don't half get it right. Loved every minute, would be nice to get back into current WWE again after that.

His hands were made for holding a lowki pokey. More accessory opportunities there than a Hasbro.

Anybody know if the Smackdown highlights will be shown on the C5 on-demand? I can find Raw on there but no sign of SD. 

13 minutes ago, air_raid said:

In 1990, maybe. The wait for this match to happen at Mania will feel protracted and they’ll be wrapped by the PPV after it.

Unless you're like me and don't actually watch any WWE. I'm hoping they can simmer it until Wrestlemania 40, which will likely be the next show I watch.

Halfway through Springfield Confidential by Mike Reiss and it's great. Some nice trivia in it and it's the right amount of funny.

Also taken advantage of my new library membership and got a stack of books out. Re-reading Thinking, Fast and Slow; Long Walk to Freedom, and a couple of work-related books. 

A returning Edge with an on-form Orton programme has enough history and material to go well into the summer. Really excited to see where they'll go with it, which is nice to be able to say.

Imagine having to call up your boss on Monday and tell them you can't come in for a few days because you got hurt at an orgy with SBA. 

Eminem albums have gone the same way as Wrestlemanias. Wouldn't have a clue what number we're on or what was on the last one. 

I've only listened to one track (Darkness) from his new album but felt obliged to post in here because I enjoyed it so much. Then again, I loved French Montana's album so maybe you should give it a miss. 

As much time has passed since the launch of the WWE Network and now as the time that separated Wrestlemania 12 (Bret-Shawn Ironman) and John Cena debuting on Smackdown. 

On 1/15/2020 at 8:18 AM, Onyx2 said:

Disappointing lack of WWE stock price in this thread. 

Only just caught up on this thread but if anyone on Wall Street sees that picture of Slapnut there'll be people jumping out of office blocks.

Came over to see my girlfriend last night. We had a candle lit and some board games out. First night seeing her after I'd moved away a couple of weeks ago. Put a playlist on YouTube on her phone as that's the one connected to the speaker, and the first ad that played was for a dating app!

The most realistic plant-based steak has been revealed. Unfortunately it looks like it could be cleaned up to reveal a medieval artifact.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/jan/10/most-realistic-plant-based-steak-revealed