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Yes the album version is more of a dance version and that's sadly how she performs it live although she still does the hey, hey, hey part. Although the Summer Mix is the version that was released as a single in most countries including the UK. 

edit: Yeah I like Belinda

Not sure how you would count this, but Geoff Downes from Buggles, Yes and Asia did his own version of Video Killed the Radio Star. The instrumental version works well, but I'm not a fan of the version with Glen Hughes. Not better than the original, but it's worth a listen. Strangely Bruce Wooley, a member of  Buggles who co-wrote the song but didn't appear on the famous version, recorded it (and many Buggles songs) and released it before Buggles did. 

Van Halen Balance, something about this album cover, it's fucking strange but brilliant. 

Def Leppard have good album covers in general

3 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said:

There's plenty of evidence that Rowling is an anti-semite from her books (I believe) and now this. She should be thankful that she's the world's most famous terf as it's covered up her other prejudices.

I've never read or seen a film based on any of her books, any elaboration on this? Does she have tight fisted characters with big noses and stuff?

Sorry, I'm confused, Warhammer players actually know what a woman is?

Weren't JCP and AWA both expanding heavily in the 70s and 80s? Starrcade pre-dates Wrestlemania and I think that was JCP starting their aim of national rather than just being a larger regional, but they had been growing massively pre Starrcade. JCP pretty much took over the other NWA promotions. It was happening anyway, at the same time, so I don't think it was even light years ahead of it's time. 

14 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

Good point, I'm not sure they would've been no. I just remember at the time it was well received and was handled well that's all. 

It was dealt with well, a lovely triumphs story. Maybe it worked as something that people didn't really see or hear of outside of this storyline so people didn't think to hard about it. It was probably pretty ground breaking. Now days it would be seen as shoving an agenda down our faces, sadly. A phrase I see and hear a lot. I don't hate (insert minority group here) and I understand the want for equality I just don't want their agenda shoved down my throat. So you want them to have equality, you just don't want to see or hear them.

58 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

I'm not sure, I always found Shakespeare boring.

To your earlier point about the 2000s being the golden years if tolerance, I think you're sort of right. Look at Hayley in Corrie, which was (and I might be wrong) the first openly trans character in a major TV show, and by and large, one of the most positive (and positively received) portrayals of all time.

We've gone massively backwards and it's all for bullshit reasons.

So you think people would have been as polite if it was a trans woman playing the part? I'm not sure they would.

I find it all so odd, people even complaining about drag queens? Drag queens have been around for years, as a kid Barry Humphreys and Paul O'Grady were household names, doing family TV in the 80s and 90s and I feel like nobody batted an eyelid? Am I remembering it wrong. 

I was aware of that Harry Ramsden fact actually. Matthew Corbett was at a show in Crawley last week. Bet some of the parents were well chuffed. 

To anybody who ever fancies it, the show is a mix of usual sooty slapstick, crowd involvement, singing and magic. The kids can have a pic taken with Sooty and Richard Cadell after.

Wasn't sure where to put this. I took my son to the theatre today. We saw Sooty and it was great fun. The parents and grandparents often more engaged as they had watched the show as kids. It's amazing a hand puppet can age so well.

What I posted in Woke,

"A new managers job has been made at my organisation. Public conveniences and animal welfare. Both previously managed by Street Cleaning, with 1 guy (me) doing SC and PC (80% the latter), 1 guy doing SC and AW (A 50/50 split) and one just doing AW. So I have no experience with animal welfare and they have none with PCs so will be interesting. PCs has 10 times the budget despite less staff. The manager will manager 2 members of staff. I obviously need to read up on Animal Welfare. Does anybody work on anything like that? Apart from DDA 91 and AWA 2006 I don't know where to look."

37 minutes ago, JLM said:

I’m sure animal welfare is considered woke by some people, but I suspect this post was intended for the Work thread. 

Well I'm sure I heard some old bloke complaining about millenials identifying as a cat

A new managers job has been made at my organisation. Public conveniences and animal welfare. Both previously managed by Street Cleaning, with 1 guy (me) doing SC and PC (80% the latter), 1 guy doing SC and AW (A 50/50 split) and one just doing AW. So I have no experience with animal welfare and they have none with PCs so will be interesting. PCs has 10 times the budget despite less staff. The manager will manager 2 members of staff. I obviously need to read up on Animal Welfare. Does anybody work on anything like that? Apart from DDA 91 and AWA 2006 I don't know where to look.

I get he's raised money for charity, but I still think he's a twat.

For some reason I've always found Vicki Pepperdine's face intriguing. I'm not sure what it is 

3 minutes ago, Snitsky's back acne said:

Reading a report on wrestling observer about Tony saying he had overspent this year.

According to them, on saying he needed to make cutbacks, he said 'On one song alone, I spent like a years pay for most pro wrestlers in this business'.

 Tone, mate, that just makes you sound like a twat. Stop it. 

He thinks he looks cool, look at me I can spend all this money on a song. I'd just say why pay wrestlers better.

5 minutes ago, no user name said:

And marketable is different from being good. Brittany spears is marketable but there are much better singers than her.

He's big, a bit scary looking and can do the monster heel formula well enough. Isn't that what you really need? He can talk reasonably well but he's got a mouth piece and that does the job.

He may not pull off good TV matches such as AJ Styles but that's not what he's there for. 

This all depends on what you think a good wrestler does. It's why people like Jeff Jarrett are under rated. People often underestimate the importance of a good heel getting the face over.

Can I just say I'm surprised with Ash by Elegance, watched her Vs Brookside. She's not the greatest in ring but actually having a character helps her and she's carryable.

12 minutes ago, Carbomb said:

Just to check: you guys aren't saying that anyone who's not particularly a fan of Cena automatically believes that some indie button-basher in pleather should be headlining WrestleMania, right? Because that was a really annoying thing that happened on here a lot, back in the day.

I totally believe that Paul Travell vs James Tighe should main event Wrestlemania every year. 

I'm not a Cena fan, more because I could never get behind the character. I never really understood it, except with kids. I didn't like Hogan but I understand it.

He was a bit like Hogan in that he bumped, then did a come back. It's very formulaic ala Hogan but if it gets people invested then fair enough. The style works, providing you know when to sell, when to come back etc. As has been mentioned his move set was weird, it didn't suit a big bastard.

7 minutes ago, LEGIT said:

How much are tickets likely to be?

I'd imagine similar to Money in the bank last year, the combo tickets will go out first too. I checked and it said £60-750. The £60 and £90 ones were apparently very limited though, as if to say we had cheaper tickets. But if people will pay it, why not charge it. 

8 hours ago, weevil said:

Someone on reddit worked out a bunch of statistics on how each gladiator performed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gladiatorsuk/comments/1brrz9k/complete_gladiators_2024_series_1_statistics/

 

I thought Viper was a bit shit, that table pretty much confirms it. I think he can take being a bit shit though if the producers think he's doing his job of being over as a heel. But Legend is doing really well and doing better as a bad guy. I'm sure I've read that Gladiators faced the axe if they lost too much, except for Wolf because he was great in other ways. They should try and have some of the Gladiators have events that they are the best at. Just have Giant and Bionic do the duel, the old one had Shadow and Warrior the only men who did it. 

3 hours ago, garynysmon said:

In fairness Cardiff is a pretty sorry excuse for a castle anyway. 

I’m sure WWE are referring to this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop's_Castle,_Glasgow

The fact that it last stood in the 18th century is neither here nor there…

Pretty sure there is a few in Glasgow such as Crookston and Newark. Probably a fair few within 20 miles such as Dumbarton, which I think has a pretty big castle. Given McIntyre was the home town hero in Cardiff, 20 miles in WWE terms is practically your flat mate. 

39 minutes ago, air_raid said:

Weirdly enough for the time they did blow that off in singles at SummerSlam, serving as a transition to Dusty putting Ted over.

Without going down the rabbit hole too far a lot of the practices of the WWF in the 80s through to about 94 (and definitely by 95 with the advent of one PPV a month) PPVs rarely represented the big feuds (a main event aside) and often the matches existed to set up the next serious runs and any matches that did feel like blow offs had non finishes or finishes designed to continue rather than finish the run. Mania VI is a decent example - they set up Duggan vs Earthquake and Boss Man vs DiBiase as big feuds for the road, neither of which will end up blown off at SummerSlam. In turn SummerSlam sets up  Teddy vs Dusty, Quake vs Boss Man and LOD vs Demolition - none of which will get a full blown PPV feud ender either.

Yeah I understand the difference it setting up feuds, how basically the title match at Rumble 91 was there to set up Warrior vs Macho Man and a USA vs Iraq feud, two birds with one stone. The USA vs Iraq, doesn't actually finish at Mania either, there was a 2 vs 3 tag at Summerslam (unsure if it ended there). The Rumble in its self was there to start feuds or carry them on at a PPV without blowing them off.t. It's easy to forget at times, but I understand when they were running 10 house shows a week over 2-3 touring schedules (that being the main source of income) they had to give people a reason to buy a ticket.

@Chili probably a fair comment. 

Fair enough. 

I think it's Sapphire more than Dusty that I see as a bit shit. Had it been Macho Man vs Dusty in a singles match I'd look upon as a higher end match, and one that definitely sits high up on that card.