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It takes a special kind of cunt to make Zack Ryder look tolerable by comparison. Mojo Rawley is that cunt.

The superkick problem isn't just in WWE, it's all of western wrestling. I would sometimes keep a tally of how many superkicks got used on local shows I would go to and it went over 20 on a 6 match card more than once. I always thought it would be a great gimmick for a comedic character, like a Santino circa 09, to claim they were 'unsuperkickable' and develop a bunch of counters to it. Of course when someone finally did hit him with one he would claim it didn't count because it was a mule kick, or a yakuza kick, any of the interchangeable terms that get used for what's essentially the same kick.

I tend to avoid posting in this thread but bugger it. I'm perpetually single. Most of the time I'm happy this way as I enjoy my own company and independence but then sometimes (as mentioned above) it'd be nice to have someone to sleep next to. Although I go out quite a bit with friends, I rarely go out to places where you'd normally meet people (i.e. bars and clubs) and although I'm on a couple of dating websites they're not really working for me (maybe my profile repels the opposite sex)...

I find myself in the same situation. Dating sites don't seem to be working for me because once you get past the superficial element (I wouldn't consider myself particularly unattractive but I'm certainly no hunk and I don't seem to photograph well) it's hard for me to find someone who shares my interests. The pub/club scene isn't for me because (among other reasons) I'm too socially awkward/anxious to try and have a conversation with someone who hasn't initiated it themselves. Couple my anxiety with a real lack of self confidence and I'm just shit out of luck. Like you, I enjoy my own company but I've been spending too much time with myself and feel like I need to change things up. Essentially I don't want to try and force myself into finding someone, but just letting it happen naturally isn't gonna happen so I'm a bit lost.

One of my friends just posted this on my Facebook for my birthday 

 

The Guest is just wonderful. That soundtrack too.

 

Speaking of love letters to 80s teen slasher movies, I watched The Final Girls over the weekend. I was really looking forward to it based on the trailer, but it's not very good. A good premise and a couple of good performances can't save a poorly written script, and some of the more serious beats come across as laughable. Plus the studio forced a PG-13 rating on it, dunno how you can make an homage to 80s slashers without any norks or gore.

Everything seems to have come together for the first assignment, after I reached out to one more person last night and now find myself just waiting on confirmation that we're good to shoot tomorrow afternoon. I talked it over with my flatmate and he gave me pretty much the same advice as everyone on here. Right now I'm feeling like I should tough it out this year, hopefully next year will be more at my speed, and if I get any of the jobs I applied for yesterday then they're worth dropping out for. It's still not really what I signed up for, but it beats call centres and supermarkets.

I originally applied for 3rd year entry to Filmmaking and Screenwriging at the end of last year, having an HND in a similar subject at grade A I figured I'd be sorted and could get my degree in a year. Come March I was rejected with no explanation so I took a boring job. The contract ended the week clearing opened and the course had slots available so I applied again and got an interview. In said interview, the course leader gave me a flimsy bullshit excuse for not giving me an interview previously and admitted that I should have a slot in 3rd year, but was only willing to offer me 2nd year entry. So from the start I was forced into doing another year that I neither wanted or needed to do.

 

There are 6 modules this year. 4 of them are identical to modules I did in my HND course, and one of the other 2 is called "Introduction to Screenwriting" - I've been screenwriting for over 10 years, so the whole thing feels like a giant step backwards and I'm having a hard time getting motivated. One of my first assignments is a short documentary on someone with an 'interesting' job or hobby, so I've been trying to contact wrestlers and comedians that I know, everyone is either too busy to help on such short notice or is completely ignoring me. The finished product has to be submitted by next Monday, and my group doesn't even have a subject locked in because of this.

 

My group, by the way, is 27 year old me and 3 18 year olds who have come from a radio course, so they have no idea how to make a film. The lecturer as such wants me to teach them while we work. I'm paying to do this course out of my own pocket, I should be getting taught, not teaching. Only one of the kids seems to be trying to get something sorted on the same level that I am but doesn't have the amount of contacts I do so is also having no luck. I had a nervous breakdown this morning and have spent the whole day in bed, which has taken another day off this crazy schedule and is only serving to stress me more. They're nice enough kids but they're kids. I feel a total disconnect to everyone else in my class because I'm much older than most of the rest of them, and because they've all come from 1st year on this course, or different courses at different colleges and all sorts, they already have their little cliques. It takes me a while to get used to new people and become friendly, but it already feels like no-one wants to talk to me unless they have to.

 

For the past couple of weeks I've been struggling to sleep, constantly tired, tense, sore, having tension headaches and just generally stressed to fuck. I have really bad anxiety issues and could feel something bad was brewing all week, so having a simple nervous breakdown in my own company feels like I dodged a bullet. I'm just feeling like I made the wrong decision by starting the course. Even before starting it I was calling it "the best bad option" because it was either that or take another shite job that I'd have hated and probably quit by now. It's gonna be too hard to motivate myself to essentially do a repeat year I've been told I shouldn't have to do, just to get to the point where I *might* want to be at a year later. Plus all the lecturers keep mentioning an honours year to me, as if they're expecting me to do a further year on top of that. I was very clear when I first applied I wanted to do one year, but I've been forced into doing 2 and they already want to make it 3.

 

I just really feel like I'm wasting my time, but I know there aren't many better options out there, which is why I've only been applying for jobs I'd actually want to do. I feel like I've wasted my time even applying for them though, if past experience is any indication I'll be lucky to get a "thanks but no thanks" from half of them. And I'm so stressed out because I don't know what I should really do. I'm considering speaking to the course leader about how unhappy I am in this year, but 3 weeks into the year, even on the off chance I did manage to convince him to let me into 3rd year I'd have a bunch of work to catch up on that would likely stress me even more. Everyone is telling me the same as you guys, but I... I just don't know what to do.

Well I've gone and fucked things up again. I'm 3 weeks into a uni course I wasn't sure if I was going to enjoy before I started it, and having had a nervous breakdown this morning, I've just started applying for full time work as I've pretty much convinced myself it was a mistake going back. So far I've only applied for things in the media sector (where I have qualifications and experience) which kinda feels like a waste of time, I've not been able to even get an interview for most things like that I've applied for in the past. I went back to uni so that I could actually get the chance to work in the media industry and not have to bounce between temporary/dead end jobs, now I'm looking at dropping out and probably having to go back to that life. Fuck fuck fuck.

Christ, I really hope Johnny Ace shows up on Total Divas.

Could only get seats in the very back row for Glasgow at exactly 9:00 today. I've been up the back in he Hydro before and it's still a great view so no real complaints, but presales are making it near impossible to actually get tickets these days.

Nice to see Hacksaw enjoying Scotland. I walked past his stall at the Glasgow Film and Comic Con at the weekend and shouted "HOOOOOOO!" He looked up, smiled and said "that was a pretty good ho, brother!" Made my day.

 

To be fair we had all forgot about Thunder in Paradise.

I have every episode downloaded on my hard drive. It gave Terry Funk, Jim Neidhart, El Gigante and Sting work.

 

Let me know where you found that, I've been trying to track it down forever but can only get German or Russian dubbed copies!

Fucking hell, Fury Road is something special. I'm not sure I've ever seen such a balls to the wall action epic that keeps up that kind of pace for such prolonged periods. Can't wait to see it again.

The only screening of Fury Road I can make on opening night is a 3D one, I'm not happy about it but at least with the Unlimited Premium card I don't have to pay any extra for it. There's no way I'm not seeing it opening night, and I'll probably see it in 2D opening weekend.

 

I'm writing an action screenplay in the 2 weeks before I start a new job, since I keep seeing production companies looking for them in mailing lists from sites like Inktip. It's an old-fashioned revenge story, I'm trying to take a slightly different angle on it but it's probably been done before. Anyway, I trust you cunts - a few good action/revenge films to watch for inspiration?

I'm not sure if I liked it. There were definitely bits I really liked and nothing I particularly disliked, but it... I dunno. It just didn't sit right with me. This was the Phase 2 film I've been least hyped about and I'm still left underwhelmed. I've got tickets booked to see it again on Saturday, I'll have formed a full opinion by then, I think.

Are you at least able to say if there was anything after the end credits? I'm going to see it tomorrow night and will probably stay til the very end just in case anyway, it'd be nice to know though.

I fucking hate that Smackdown crowd noise that sounds like a seagull getting sucked up a hoover. Dreadful. If you have to sweeten the crowd for taped shows at least get some new audio.

 

I can't stand R-Truth for some reason. He's better as a heel but even then I've never liked him outside of Awesome Truth. But he went and fucked that up too, the prick. Just smoke real weed and pay the fine, dipshit. I think it all stems back to when he first showed up as K-Kwik, I never liked that Road Dogg had a new mate with a shit name. Then he shows up dancing with a goofy grin across his bastard face, as if he finds it funny that I waited up til 4 to watch that piece of shit ending to Hell in a Cell last year. Away and chorg Vince, you fucking toad.

No wrestlers for me, but I do share my birthday with Jean-Claude Van Damme, Zac Efron and one of the Chuckle brothers.

I was a couple of months shy of turning 11 when Y2J debuted, I was still a mark at the time and hated him. How dare this little guy with shite hair come in and think he can talk to The Rock and The Undertaker, my two favourites at the time, like that? Around about the time he first won the IC title I began to realise that my hatred of him was all down to how good a job he was doing as a heel, probably the first time I realised that about anyone, so in a way Jericho completely changed the way I viewed wrestling. I still hated X-Pac though. Cunt. I became a big Jericho fan, getting the Y2J t-shirt for my 12th birthday and often finding myself looking forward to seeing what he was doing the most when I watched Raw or Smackdown. I was fucking delighted when he won the Undisputed title, if only my brother hadn't found out about it in school and told me before I had a chance to watch it. I was convinced we were getting a Rock vs Austin unification match, the element of surprise would have been great. Cunt.

 

I guess the first time I started to turn against him was in the summer of 2005 when he got inserted into the John Cena vs Christian feud. I was a big Captain Charisma fan and wanted to see him get a main event run, so to see his one on one title match, his shot at proving he belonged with the top guys, taken away like that irked me. Even when it came down to Cena vs Jericho I was rooting for Jericho, but I was still bitter about Christian getting screwed and didn't really care that Cena was going over in that fued. I was disappointed but not gutted when he left WWE following that run, I was still a fan but felt it was for the best. It let him do his own thing with Fozzy too, who at the time I was really into. I went to see them the night before my 17th birthday, got insanely drunk and managed to high five Y2J before falling on my arse a couple of times and throwing up on the train home. It took a while for him to click with me when he returned to WWE, but the great program with HBK won me over again. It's been hard to care since then though. I wasn't actively watching during the Mysterio IC title feud which I hear was great, I enjoyed his work with Ziggler, and I'll admit one of the last times wrestling genuinely surprised me was his entrance in the 2013 Royal Rumble, but the highlights have been few and far between.

 

Then there's all the shit like this out of the ring. We get it, you love Vinnie Mac, give it a fucking rest. The man's not infallible, and Jericho just makes himself look like a fool any time he goes on a rant like this Reigns one. Plus his hair and tattoos are shit, and his music is indistinguishable from the next metal band these days. I used to be a big fan of Chris Jericho. I enjoyed his first two books, I'm on the fence about whether or not to read the third, because I don't want to either further damage my opinion of a guy I do still want to like, or get suckered back into his bullshit and get pissed off the next time he pulls a Kurt Angle style Twitter special. In fact, fuck him, I hope he never comes back.

Cat Williams.

Would love to watch Atari: Game Over - but it's only available on X-Box Live. Despite it being available on the Xbox site for free with an account, nobody can get it working in a browser, and there's no torrent!

 

http://video.xbox.com/movie/atari-game-over/4B8575C6-BD05-48E8-92C9-C61BA57E8025(doesn't play on Mac or PC, in Explorer, Firefox, Safari, or Chrome).

 

Info here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3715406/

You might say there's a Kickass Torrent...

Great show. Itami vs Breeze was a decent opener, Breeze should have been on the main roster months ago, the guy more than holds his own with the 'big' names in NXT and his character is excellent. Corbin vs Dempsey was mercifully short, nowhere near as bad as I expected, bar that one terrible spot from Dempsey. Speaking of terrible spots, I thought the tag title match was awful. Blown spots all over the place from Sin Cara and Kalisto, Blake and Murphy didn't do anything wrong as such but the psychology seemed non existent in this match. Neville vs Balor was great, a far cry from the MOTYC some people are calling it, but they worked hard and put on an exciting, action packed match that got the crowd going.

 

The Women's title match was the best on the show for my money. A hectic pace with everyone getting their moments to shine, it saddens me how the women in NXT are frequently a highlight of the show but on the main roster Nikki Bella's arse is about the only thing keeping me interested. The main event wasn't too far behind it in quality, I think we all expected Zayn and Owens to put on a great show, it was refreshing to see them mix things up a bit and I thought the finish was great. Zayn doesn't lose anything in fighting as long as he could and looking like a martyr, while Owens looked like an absolute beast that anyone will struggle to beat.

 

I know everyone already knows it, but it's still ridiculous to me how comparing NXT to WWE is like night and day right now. How can the 'developmental' promotion be so much better than the main product on such a consistent basis?

Found and bought a Bluetista figure in A1 Toys in Glasgow today, £17.99 well spent. They didn't have any when I was in on Tuesday but had the whole line of Elite Series 33, the Rollins is outstanding too. Just a heads up that they're in shops now.

I really enjoyed Kingsman too, it won't be for everyone but I thought it was a lot of fun, something too many films lack these days.

I was watching ICW's Square Go earlier. My dad came in halfway through the match and sat down to watch the rest, he generally doesn't like wrestling but enjoys cruiserweights because "they're fucking mental". His favourites were always Jeff Hardy, aka "the wee guy with the mad hair", and the Hurricane, aka "the wee green guy". He changed his tune this time though, marking out for Big Damo, even calling him by the right name. Even non fans can appreciate a good hoss.