Jazzy G

This could have some big repercussions across the wrestling industry if it goes through, as there are legal challenges exoected. Here's a link to the CNN article, as opposed to one from a "rag sheet, brother". 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/23/success/ftc-bans-non-compete-clauses/index.html

Alexi's On Fire?

On 4/19/2024 at 11:03 AM, andrew "the ref" coyne said:

Just wanted to come on here to say that the new Transformer's ONE movie trailer is the biggest pile of steaming shit imaginable and I hate it. 

Have a nice weekend everyone. 
 

 

It started looking interesting, then suddenly takes this huge shift to bad jokes and I lost all interest. 

Picked up a game called Torment on Vinted because I'm on a bit of a cryptic crossword thing at the moment . It's from 1995 and looks deceptively simple. You have 4 pads of different style crossword grids, some of which are easier than others, and a pile of about 200 clue cards. The clues aren't particularly cryptic or anything, but have very open answers. The idea is to try and get as many legitimate answers to the clues into the grid as you can, and there's a point system at the end. Obviously this means you have to make sure the answers you give fit the appropriate number of letters on the grid. I haven't had chance to play it yet, but know a friend who's interested in having a look so when our schedules line up we'll have a bash at it, and a few others I've acquired.

I also counted my Top Trumps collection the other day, before a couple of others arrived. I'm currently at 93 sets. 

@DavidB6937yeah, the people getting all upset about Jodie Whittaker being cast as the Doctor in spite of them loving Missy, and there having already been references to other Timelords having changed gender previously was ridiculous. I haven't seen as much for Ncuti Gatwa, but I'm sure it's there outside of my echo chamber. Plus he's great.

@lanky316what a wonderful, well written comment. 

Why do we dip bread in soup, but dunk biscuits in brews? Is cereal soup? Is a hotdog a sandwich?

Race Across The World was a good start. The new visual style is interesting, but it's still a great show. I like all the contestants, but my favourites are Shirley and Brydie.

I saw a great post about it somewhere that boiled down to "you know Juliet was oiginally played by a boy, right?" It really is an awful state of affairs when people get upset by such things. Didn't they kick off when a black actress was cast as Hermoine in that wizard play as well? The other, similar furore was when they found the earliest fossil of a British person a few years back, and when they reconstructed it with computers realised that they probably had dark skin because they'd come over from Europe/Africa originally. Mind you I'm one of those weirdoes who tells people if Jesus was to come back he wouldn't get into America because of the colour of his skin, and St George wouldn't be do very well in England because of his being Syrian.

Technically as a non-binary person I'm "trans" as well, simply on account of not being the gender I was assigned at birth. All people want to do is exist, but the media and government make it all this horrible thing to try and protect their cushy little statuses. I got a pinbadge on Temu that sums it up well. It says "Equal rights for others doesn't mean fewer rights for you. It's not pie."

18 hours ago, westlondonmist said:

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. 

They need to get that extra gladiator back in Gauntlet as well. That could be all the difference. There are definitely gladiators who are good at certain games. Watching Fury smashing lasses off the top of that Edge thing, and just marmalising them in powerball and the ring immediately comes to mind. Nitro up the wall. 

The show definitely needs some refinement for the next series. I think I read somewhere that Bradley & Barney are back for the next series. Hopefully the writers can wind down the jokes a bit. 

Lotus 3 is a banger I played it loads on Amiga. Kim Justice has a video out about Hugo The Troll which looks interesting. 

@FLipsis the save battery in the NBA Jam cartridge alright? I was gutted when I dug out my Megadrive copy of TE and it'd gone. Great game. I also love DK 94 on my 3DS, in spite of it only being the Game boy ROM. Nintendo missed a trick there by not having a Super Game Boy option with their original Gameboy games. 

Apparently the losing finalists picked up injuries during the final. You can see one of them twisting their ankle during The Edge. If they'd been at 100% throughout I don't think it'd been as close as it was. That short filming schedule didn't do anybody any favours. Hopefully they take a little more time to film the second series. Rumour has it there's a celebrity christmas special coming as well. Who would be good on that? Do they trot out some of the older Gladiators for a crack?

On 2/2/2024 at 3:10 PM, JNLister said:

Trial by Trolley is a very fun party game where winning is really not the point. It's based on the old philosophical question of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem. In the game you have one player each round as the trolley operator choosing which track to send the trolley down, killing everything in its path. Everyone else is in two teams and you get three "good" cards (eg God, a taco truck, a lifeguard saving a drowning man, a talking dog) and pick one for your track to try to dissuade the trolley operator. You then pick one of three "bad" cards (eg reanimated Osama Bin Laden, a doctor who is secretly poisoning patients, the only person who saw you do the worst crime of your life) and pick one to go on the opposing track. You then get 30 seconds to argue why the driver should pick the other team's track. As said, it's really not about winning but about the comedy/arguments/surprising revelations about character that ensue.

I saw Smosh playing this. It looked like a lot of fun. I managed to get a copy of Joking Hazard for £9 on Amazon, but haven't had chance for a proper playthrough of it yet.

The last one we played was First World Problems, which is one of the millions of Cards Against Humanity adjacent games available at the moment. It's your typical "prompt/response" game with prompts such as "I had to go to therapy because..." or "my girlfriend dumped me because... ", and such responses as "My ripped jeans got ripped, so I had to buy some new ripped jeans." it's not too bad. A couple of naughty cards in there. One of the prompts just says "Fuck...", and I almost won a round with a response of "*sigh* another dick pic" when the prompt was "I came home today to..."  With the right group of people I have no doubt it could be a great game.

I've got a copy of Funemployed on the way, which looks like it plays similarly to Apples To Apples. I also have another Big Potato game I haven't had a proper play of yet with people. I'll find the right friends ro have a crack of that as well at some point. I also managed to get one of those among us/mafia/secret werewolf type games in Blackburn's new Autism charity shop for £3 when a brand new copy was going for £25 in Waterstones. 

Finally, I suddenly seem to own a shit load of Top Trumps cards, and have more in the way. Some old, some less so. The most "interesting" ones are probably the "The Queen" set, the Harry & Meghan Royal Wedding set, and two sets called "the ultimate deck" which are ostensibly Top Trumps Top Trumps. Each card is a previous Top Trumps set, with the usual kinds of numbers (rarity, age, how informative they are etc). I also have the limited edition NHS hospitals ones, and the Key Workers ones which were both presumably rushed out during Covid. If ever I was going to make an interminably dull video series for YouTube, it would possibly be reviewing these. 

It meant I only had to do 6 hours at Samaritans instead of 7. Which was good as I'm a bit knackered. 

Have A Nice Play: A Tale Of Cum And Sweatsocks?

Very much so. He only debuted at Survivor Series in 92, won the Rumble, and was champion by Mania. It's almost like Flair's run. 

Do Benoit & Eddie Count as they both wrestled in title matches on what was ostensibly the last two matches on the card at Mania 20 (Yeah, they had that Undertake return in between, but that was more about the entrances), but were in the first two matches at Wrestlemania 21.

Or how about Yokozuna? He wrestled two matches each for the WWF title at Wrestlemanias 9 and 10, then was tagging with Owen against the Smoking Gunns at 11.

25 minutes ago, TibBo said:

The substitution situation is getting really silly now. Is the health and safety stuff too on the ball these days for a show like this to work as a tournament?  In series 2 of the original show Deane had a huge cut right between his eyes, they just stuck a plaster over it and he carried on.

It's probably the schedule exacerbating thngs. I think it was taped over the space of a week or 10 days? They'll have probably taken a few months to film the originals, giving contenders and gladiators a decent bit of time to recover from any knocks they might have received. 

It does feel a bit daft that they've had to keep rolling out replacements. I've managed to have part of the final spoiled for me, and there may be some unhappy reactions. 

I had wondered why Fury wasn't in The Edge, but saw she was on Powerball instead. 

Barney isn't too bad, I think if he had somebody else to present alongside it might not be as bad. It's Bradley with those awful jokes. 

She was so unlucky in that Eliminator. 

2 minutes ago, air_raid said:

@Jazzy Gto thread. Pastries & Cakes rides again!

You'll never bake alone. 

22 hours ago, Carbomb said:

Sounds like a Tory MP.

 

 

Cody's advertising vodka, is married to Brandi - hope he doesn't start a stable with Bailey in it.

I wonder whether they could persuade Nigel McGuinness over. What's Timothy Thatcher doing at the moment? 

On 3/21/2024 at 6:22 PM, Frankie Crisp said:

A technologically inept mate asked me to sort out 12 tickets to see Stevie Nicks for him earlier, as a gift for one of his nieces.

Everyone knows gigs cost a fortune for top artists and yes, Stevie Nicks is brilliant, but fucking hell.

fixed it.

Scholes isn't much better with his "Wishing you well in your recovery, boss". Owen Hargreaves at the end was so touching, and Sven shedding a tear as well. Really nice moment.

Meg from I'm Autistic, Now What?

On 3/19/2024 at 5:51 PM, SuperBacon said:

Thick as shit.

 

I think I actually feel more stupid after watching that.

26 minutes ago, TheBurningRed said:

Some lovely messages and Michael Owen being a weirdo. 

Did he understand the brief? All the other messages were really heartfelt, then Owen's there as if he's doing a birthday greeting on Cameo.

Starmer's is very much trying to court every vote he can. I've been saying for a while that I feel a Starmer's Labour government would be "less bad" as opposed to "better" if that makes any sense? I totally understand why he's doing what he's doing, but to be doing interviews with the S*n and all the "at least we're not the Tories" campaigning really isn't filling me with hope. 

6 hours ago, BomberPat said:

And this book title, which sounds like someone drunkenly and increasingly aggressively quizzing you on Wally's whereabouts:

 

I think that one's "Where's Wally Now?" which has Wally travelling through time.

There's a lady on the Apprentice tonight by the name of Solitaire Townsend. Presumably at least one of her parents really enjoyed Live & Let Die.