Lorne Malvo

AEW's Timeline Youtube series has compiled the entire Ruby Soho/Cool Hand storyline (aka the most feel-good storyline of the year). That's the afternoon sorted.

Strange. Triller had the entire show for me. Althought Dynamite did end half-way through Kenny's promo (before Okada came down), then the rest of the promo/beatdown played out on the Rampage feed for me.

It's mad what a change of scenery can do for a show. This was your standard nothing ROH show but the fact it was in Dailys Place with the sun shining just made everything pop a little more.

Couple of exciting bits though; it looks like they're finally cracking on with a Nyla Rose face run, which is massively overdue. Shes way too hilarious and likeable to play a heel her entire career.

 Also, Daddy Magic and Cool Hand back together! I wouldn't mind them having a sustained run in ROH, although the way TK books this show they'll likely lose to the Undisputed Kingdom then quietly split again.

Skye Blue vs Willow was a cracker. That powerbomb to finish it off was brutal! 

Really enjoyed O'Reilly vs Romero too, those kind of chess-match fights are right up my street. Although every single time I see Kyle I remember someone on here (may have been @Supremo) describing him as being 'dressed like an Inbetweener' during his NXT title run, so I always struggle to take him seriously. Thanks for ruining Kyle for me!

I thought 'I'm a Matt Taven girl' was the worst AEW t-shirt but Action Andretti has it beat with 'Every flight is a red eye flight'. Poor bloke must be knackered.

That Shibata vs Jericho match was brilliant! Laughing my head off at Shibata hulking up with the bin on his head.

Swerve vs Christian is going to be a lot of fun.

Bit sad to see Ethan Page go, but he's one of those that is a victim of AEW having a huge stacked roster. He had a decent run (his I Quit match against Nese was excellent and the American Top Team stuff was fun), but it's a shame that he seemed to spend about 2 years drowning in the Hardys Lake Of Contractual Bullshit.

@FLips That Croc-het is absolutely brilliant! I want one. I was a big fan of the PS1 platformer and Croc was one of my faves (Gex and Pandemonium deserve more respect too).

That South Park game was an absolute stinker. Even as a kid that would persist with any old shite on the PS1, I gave it about 10 minutes, got lost, got sick of the turkeys and never played it again. Dire.

6) Thread tags abolished

19 minutes ago, Lorne Malvo said:

5) People who go above 5 in a thread called 'your 5 policies' are barred from a political career.

😬

1) Nationalise public transport, WiFi, water, energy, all basic services. Nationalise your mum while we're at it.

2) Private rental sector abolished.

3) You can only slate a wrestling show if you've actually watched it. Would make On-Topic much more bearable.

4) There would be a 6-month trial of banning all social media. I genuinely believe the country wouldn't be as stupid as it is if shit-for-brains didn't have access to Facebook or Twitter.

5) People who go above 5 in a thread called 'your 5 policies' are barred from a political career.

I might be the thickest man alive but it's only just clicked that Hey! (EW) is a play on the letters AEW. I thought it meant Hey Each Way or something, or that the EW was some in-joke I didn't understand. Absolute div.

Scoop - The interview part was very entertaining and the makeup effects on Sewell and Anderson are incredible, but when the original interview exists and is readily available, I'm not really sure we need a dramatization of it? It was decent enough, anyway.

Kong x Godzilla: The New Empire - This is such a weird, inconsistent franchise and this movie pretty much sums that up. Everything to do with Kong and/or Dan Stevens was wildly entertaining, everything to do with Rebecca Hall and her daughter was quite boring and I veered between entertained and bored from scene to scene. I love Brian Tyree Henry but his role in these movies makes my teeth itch, just the absolute worst 'comic relief'.

That's all I managed to catch this week. Had that Really Bad Shits bug going around so the only thing I've been watching is the bathroom wall. Hoping to finally catch Immaculate and a few others next week!

7 minutes ago, Factotum said:

 but you can throw stats around all you like,

11 hours ago, The Gaffer said:

X is post-apocalyptic Home & Away where some of the characters are religious fundamentalists who play water basketball. 

 

As in Alf Stewart Home & Away? Because if so, I'm instantly sold.

38 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

Hey baby x

Only the bog-standard template kits for Sunday league teams and the like - I don't fuck with your replica Ajax shit.

I'm getting increasingly infuriated with people treating emails like Whatsapp.

Just for context, I work for a football kit supplier so the majority of my emails are from customers giving me details on sponsor logos/badges/sizes/squad numbers etc etc.

It's quite common now for me to receive emails in quick succession like this;

"I need 14 football tops"

"Actually 15 lol"

"Shorts aswell"

"Nike please"

"Number 6 has to be a large"

"Actually make it an XL"

And repeat this process for discussing how the badge should look, how the sponsor should look, etc.

It is so fucking frustrating. It's not that hard to compile everything you want into one document then send it over in one go!

I think 12 years of working here may be taking its toll.

Thanks Cool Hand, Lornes crying.

Didn't expect to get teary-eyed watching Rampage but here we are!

1 hour ago, The Gaffer said:

He's back and he looks like Phil and Grant's long lost, twice-as-hard-as-fuck brother!

 

"Alright?"

Monkey Man - A fine addition to the John Wick-esque genre with enough of Dev Patel's personality in it to stand out from the Wick clones. Wouldn't mind a few more of these. Still think Nobody is my absolute favourite of this particular sub-genre but Monkey Man isn't far off.

Kung Fu Panda 4 - The most consistently 'good' franchise in animation delivers yet another solid entry. Changes the dynamic up from the previous three and is a lot of fun. I think 5 might be stretching it though.

Wicked Little Letters - Surprise of the year! I thought this was funny as fuck with some brilliant casting. Had a great time with this. (Side note, Jessie Buckley is very fit in this).

3 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

Did anyone hear actually read the books as a kid? Its absolutely fine for us to all go "Yeah they were shit! Badly drawn characters and rubbish dialogue!" which I do actually agree with, but then I didn't read them as a child, and love them as a child. My actual children did though.

I loved the first 4 as a kid, especially Prisoner of Azkaban and Goblet of Fire. I think the gap between Goblet of Fire and Order Of The Phoenix killed my interest though. The fifth book came out when I was 13 and I thought it was a load of shite - I was moving onto things like Stephen King and more grown-up literature at the time (and the Darren Shan series, which was my personal YA obsession) and Harry Potter had cooled off significantly in my social circle at the time so that may have had a lot to do with it. Never finished the fifth book and never bothered with the rest.

I did attempt to re-read them about 10 years ago and got halfway through Chamber of Secrets and gave up. Couldn't be arsed.

I'll never bother attempting to read them again because shes a fucking ghoul who needs to find something better to do with her millions.

I hate hate HATE this song. Just the most 'bleugh', doesn't-mean-anything song of all time. Dreadful.

27 minutes ago, Mr_Danger said:

Why do wrong people call the midday meal lunch but the people who serve it dinner ladies?

You've got dinner ladies working in the same canteen where people are eating out of lunch boxes. Makes you think, doesn't it?

Showing the All In footage was really fucking stupid. No idea what the point was. Hopefully now it's out of their system and they can just carry on producing good TV.

Copeland has been a revelation in AEW. I get a massive kick out of seeing him do things like a headscissors. Him, Briscoe, Kingston and Willow Nightingale is the faction I didn't know I needed. When did his Spear get so good, too? I'm still haunted by his 'running hug to the leg' he used to bust out on 2010 Smackdown.

Didn't mind Ospreay having a dig at Triple H at all. His "if you're not in it for the grind, I don't want you" line was such a ridiculously stupid and petty way of deflecting that he didn't land the signing he wanted it deserved a Nelson Muntz-esque 'ha-ha!' But he put on an average Wrestlemania, so we'll let it pass I guess.

As shite as Jericho is, I really enjoyed the trios match. Shane Taylor Promotions finally won a match! Shibata and Hook have such a cool energy not even Chris Jericho (who is slowly turning into Krang) can diminish them.

Tony Schiavone's 'what a night!' as Mariah May kissed Shirakawa got a hearty chuckle. Dirty old get.

Alex Marvez is absolutely shite at everything, but somehow it's adorable. His shouts of 'turn on the lights!!' were hilarious.

Good main event. Just your standard Dustin Rhodes high-drama match. Thought the blade job added a lot as Dustin looked like he was struggling for everything out there.

A decent Dynamite (other than the obvious 'what the fuck is Tony Khan thinking' moment).

"We never get bored talking about wrestling"?

Somebody hasn't seen the ratings thread.

Not sure if I've got the dreaded Cove or some other godforsaken illness, but I've been absolutely fucked since Friday night. Shaking like a shitting dog despite wearing about 6 layers. Can't stop coughing, even moreso at night. Throat is in agony, struggling to speak. Bunged up, dodgy stomach, and the worst part of it all is a constant chest/heart pain which makes me convinced I'm going to get rushed into A+E at any given point. 

Sick of it.