PJ Power
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Weinstein should be tested to see if he actually has trouble walking in public (apologies for going slightly off topic)
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TIL that the infamous "Debbie Does Dallas" never had its copyright formally registered in the United States, and was recognised as such in a federal US court decision in 1987. As a result, the film is available in the public domain, and can even be watched or downloaded via a link of the film's Wikipedia page.
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I don't get too heavily involved here even though I'm a paido, so my nominations are probably going to be a work in progress until nominations close.
Positive awards
Post of the Year: TBA
On Topic Poster of the Year: Bomber Pat, Tiger Rick & IandewDiceClay
Off Topic Poster of the Year: Loki, Bomber Pat & Chest Rockwell
MMA Forum Poster of the Year: <blank>
Funniest Poster: Keith Houchen, Loki
Thread of the Year: TBA
Good Egg Award: Keith Houchen, JNLister & David
Negative awards
Dolt of the Year: MPDTT, patiirc & Whistling Skull
White Noise: Devon Malcolm, Lord Mountevans & patiirc
Failed Comedian: UK Kat Von D
Worst Thread of the Year: Veganmania (got to give it a chance for two in a row)
Flounce of the Year: The UKFF web server for its major strop back in the autumn leaving the site offline for around two weeks(?)
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I've long thought that political views simply are not based along a single axis but at least two (as in the Political Compass or Nolan Chart) or even more, and in that sense I've perhaps drifted very slightly rightwards over the years (but would still be regarded as an leftist anti-business leftard lunatic by most in today's Conservative party) to being somewhere slightly to the left of Labour under John Smith's and Tony Blair's early years in the 1990s but still with a big enough gap compared to the left of the party both back then and today. Socially however my bubble along its axis would be kind of steady in the centre whilst having being pulled in different directions from time to time, as I see myself in this sense as a communitarian, which is often seen as a dirty word these days because (a) it sounds too similar to communism, and (b) because it is often derided as anti-liberal, anti-freedom, authoritarian etc. when it isn't. It is simply the recognition that people's live are moulded by the community that they live in or a part of (unless they live in almost complete isolation) and that essentially such communities lay the foundations of indivudal liberties and development, and in doing so being more important and mattering more than the other way round. This doesn't have to mean that individual rights don't exist or are stripped away with, indeed without some basis of such rights, communitarianism couldn't exist. So on that basis, I'd consider myself roughly "centre" on the social axis, and I don't see myself moving away from there any time soon. If I was living in Britain I would have despaired on whom to vote for as both the Conservatives and Labour were repelling, and that while the Lib Dems would probably be the best fit of the three main parties, they badly regressed under Swinson. If I was in Scotland, then SNP it would have been.
Just a final €0.02 from me, while all the warning signs were there that most voters see Corbyn and a cold cup of puke as one and the same, I reckon the point they Jumped The Shark, so to speak, of being a realistic contender to hold government was when they came out with the promise for free broadband to every part of the country. It was a real WTF moment - there had been no signs of Labour adopting such a policy before it was announced, there had been no public campaign to have such a thing except for a maybe a website and twitter account ran out of someone's attic, no other country in the world does anything like this or has even considered it (no, its not the same as a minimum speed obligation which is set to be introduced in the UK next year), and yet when it was announced it was done so using a megaphone and being promoted as a "game changer" when it just reeked of desperation to announce something like this out of the blue, not to mention that it couldn't have come across as more of a middle class entitlement - for those on the breadline trying to feed themselves & their children and keeping warm over the winter, free broadband isn't much cop whereas a free allowance of electricity or something to heat the home with would be far more beneficial (if still essentially an impossible pledge to make). The free broadband policy sounded like it came from the suggestion list of a socialist society student union group at a Russell Group university that was crossed out from it later on once they actually started thinking about it.
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11 hours ago, David said:
I don't think there's been a country I've visited or lived in that doesn't have its issues regarding race and/or religion. Tribalism isn't a British thing, it's a human race thing. It's shit, of course, and we shouldn't stand for it where we see it, but it's always been prevalent wherever human beings exist.
Of course humans have grouped together for forever based around certain identities, wherever it is nationality or sub-nationality, common language, faith, hobbies, football teams etc. but the sense of tribalism/grouping/societies/ghettoing has in itself no excuse or reasoning on its own for allowing racism or other outward prejudices to fester, displayed the most by the level of integration shown by those in such groups through day to day interaction and living with each other. History, culture and morality is far more important in such contributions.
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5 hours ago, Lord-Mountevans said:
Am i right in thinking that despite what anyone thinks, the UK is the most tolerant country in the entire world?
That's some serious autofelliato right there.
If anything, the last five years has allowed a scaringly large amount of people in the UK to peel off their "virtue-signalling" veneer of accomodation and tolerance to those that are not "People Like Us", having been enabled to do so. For all his fault, and boy were there plenty, David Cameron never sought to dog whistle on the prejudices of Middle England to try and win votes. The current Prime Minister, whom was elected on a comfortable majority earlier this month, has never been terribly shy to use terms like "letterboxes", "picanannies", mocking Chinese accents or reciting colonial era poems in Myanmar at a sacred site for Bhuddists, not to mention his recent cozying up to the likes of Steve Bannon. The vote to leave the EU was promoted less soundly on the economic and social self interest of the UK at large and more about subtle and not so subtle popularist prejudices concerning other EU citizens "take er jerbs" and standing in front of posters showing hoards of dark-skinned humans in a queue with "Breaking Point" in big capital letters.
Nope, it is a simple case of far too many Britons, usually English, whom continue to not own their shit, blame everyone else but themselves for the failures arising from their own decisions.
It's the new "I'm not racist, but..."
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"If you watched Baywatch followed by Gladiators then Blind Date on a Saturday evening..."
No, I didn't and most of my peers at the time wouldn't have been seen dead admitting to watching Baywatch or Blind Date.
"...had 4 TV channels..."
Well, I had Sky, and many of my friends could get both RTE channels too. I guess we were lucky.
"...started school with singing in the main hall..."
Nope. Was an early morning roll call, one "Our Father" & one "Hail Mary" (Catholic school) and once a week we'd be in the gym to hear from the principal. We never sung.
"...played in the woods..."
Well, we could have but nobody really bothered other than the odd occasion. And there were plenty of kiddie fiddlers and dirty old men about as there is today.
"...always rode your bike..."
Okay, I'll give you that. But still, paedos.
"...a game was Kiss Chase or Bulldog..."
Nope to kiss chase, and Bulldog was only played in the playground at primary school.
"...with not a computer in sight..."
HAHAHAHAHA! Clearly Amigas, Atari ST's, Commodore C64's, Spectrums etc. never existed not to mention that most boys and girls had a games console. Loads of lending/swapping cartridges for Atari 2600 and later on the Sega Mega Drive.
"...had to be in before dark, got grounded if you were late..."
As long as you told your parents where you'd be and didn't stay out to a ridiculous time, most of the time they weren't concerned, I spent much of my childhood playing outdoors in the summer until 10.30 or even 11.00 in the evening as that was just after sunset.
"...not even the home phone was mobile..."
And? That's because until the networks realised they could sell PAYG to the masses, they were only really for higher end business and well off types with little indoor coverage, that could be listened to with a cheap scanner that had a risk of being easily cloned. At least making calls on a landline after 6.00pm was objectively cheap.
"...vandalism was scratching the school desk with a compass..."
Erm, no. If anything, I see less outright public vandalism these days!
"...you recorded the top 40 off the radio on tape..."
And thus (technically) committing copyright theft i.e. stealing! Tut tut! Only difference really these days is it's much quicker and easier to download MP3s now (other audio compression formats are available).
"...got 10 sweets in a 10p mix..."
Eh?
"...and you turned out ok, then re-post, THIS IS WHEN BRITAIN WAS GREAT BRITAIN!!!!"
I turned out to be a bit of an awkward wreck to be fair, but I'm still here. I'm not going to repost that shit, and was that Britain? I don't live in Britain and never have, instead I spent much of that era either getting out of places because of bomb alerts and attacks and walking to school passing soldiers in full combat gear and weaponry.
Just another attempted nostalgia "Good oul' days" post.
I'd also reckon the author of that piece reckoned that ZaNuLieBour led by Tony Bliar (sic) getting elected in May 1997 was the point when Britain was no longer GGRRRRRRRRRRREEAAT BRITAIN, even though most of the above was still perfectly relevant until the end of the decade.
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Gawd damn double post! Sorry.
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On 12/18/2019 at 9:13 AM, RedRooster said:
I’m still absolutely baffled that the Tories managed to gain such a large majority. What possesses people to vote against their own interests in such numbers?
’Boris is a liar and I can’t trust anything he says...but I DO like what he says...’
It’s bizarre and utterly deflating. Almost one week has gone since the general election and I’m still struggling to process what has happened, and what it actually means.
Homer Simpson, somewhere in England, December 2019...
"...I don't approve of their NHS killing policy, but I do approve of their EU membership killing policy!"
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18 hours ago, hallicks said:
Maybe a return to centrism is the way forward, how's Macron getting on these days?
On the other hand, look into Northern Ireland and see the performance of Alliance, a bunch of Pro-EU socially liberal centerists that if they were standing in Britain would be shouted at by Momentum types as Tory-lite or "wishy washy liberals", in not only the general election, but also the council and EU elections this year. They stood in all 18 NI seats on Thursday, gained an MP in a minor upset and with one exception (which was an exceptional case) they increased their share of the vote in every constituency, some of which now have a locally active Alliance party base that 5 to 10 years ago could have had their membership break into double digits if they were fortunate. On the other hand, of the five main parties that would be economically & socially closest to Labour's Corbynite faction, Sinn Fein didn't have a terribly good night. They managed to retain having seven MPs but outside of North Belfast, which was a special head to head battle with the DUP that saw everyone else bar Alliance drop out, in every other constituency they stood they lost vote shares, losing a total of 6.6% overall, even worse than the DUP. Some of their usually stronger performing seats saw them drop between 8 to 11 percentage points, and they were utterly humiliated in Foyle (which is essentially Derry city) where for years they tried their hardest to overtake the SDLP there and done it in the 2017 General Election with a tiny 165 majority, fast forward to 2019 and not only did the SDLP retake the seat, they did so with an over 17k majority with the Shinners seeing their vote almost halved, suffering a 19% drop in vote share.
Whilst Northern Ireland certainly ain't England, neither is France. The lesson from NI this year is that a positive & progressively thinking centrist political party like Alliance, or to a lesser extent the SDLP, can break the mould from a stagnating Sinn Fein and DUP that has taken its electoral base for granted for too long, with Alliance in particular developing a strong base of young voters and representatives. At the very least, their "sister party" in Britain, the Liberal Democrats, should be coming over to Belfast and take some notes down.
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3 hours ago, Tamura said:
While it's obvious to anyone that the jury got it wrong, the caver got it completely wrong in the first place by suing in America not the UK. He saw dollar signs and sued for $190million, which is way more than he'd have got in the UK. Compared to American cases, British libel cases are much more in favour of the plaintiff as they reverse the burden of proof. If Sally Bercow can lose a defamation case for tweeting "Why is Lord McAlpine trending? *innocent face*", Elon Musk would have zero chance either.
Unsworth would likely have had difficulty bringing a successful libel claim in England based on two fronts - one being under the Defemation Act 2013 which alongside a number of changes to the way defemation cases in England & Wales are handled and proceeded with, now has plaintiffs required to show that if the defendant is not domiciled in the UK, an EU country or any country that is a signatory of the Lugano Convention (Inc. Norway, Iceland & Switzerland), they must demonstrate to the court why such a case should be heard under English & Welsh law as opposed to anywhere else where the defamatory statement was published - if they can't convince the court that holding such a case under English & Welsh law is the most appropriate, then the court must rule that it has no jurisdiction to hear it. This was intended to fight against libel tourism that was plaguing English courts since the late 90's based on prior defamation law - before the 2013 Act, a statement published on the Internet that could be read in the UK, even if all persons involved were neither British citizens or permenant residents, and was hosted on a server outside of the UK, was still actionable. Secondly, the 'Muricans were (somewhat understandably) worried about British courts trying to enforce damages against its citizens whom are ordinary resident in the USA and might even have never visited the UK in their life. Therefore the SPEECH Act was passed in the US Congress in 2010 which meant that foreign libel claims were unenforceable in the USA unless the case was heard under local laws that were equivalent or better to laws concerning libel in the US. So even if Unsworth sued Musk for libel in England, had his case heard and judged that Musk was guilty of defamation, obtaining monetary damages via an application from the English judiciary through Americas legal system would almost certainly fail. They take their "first amendment rights" pretty seriously over there, the bill easily passed without any opposition.
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10 minutes ago, Mr Blake said:
Did Triple Threats get called Triangle matches at one point?Â
IIRC a triangle match is still one-on-one in the ring, the third competitor is at a corner on a ring apron that can only become a legal competitor once they're tagged in by either other wrestler - whoever tags them in then becomes the non-legal competitor until they're tagged back in. WCW used to do them up until the mid-90's as far as I know. "Three Way Dance" was coined in ECW from what I remember.
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I know that Corgan was trying to recreate an authentic 80's studio wrasslin' show, just a shame that Cornette had to go that little bit too authentic. And it's a line that was badly dated anyway - had he mentioned some other food than fried chicken, I doubt he'd be gone.
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18 hours ago, Keith Houchen said:
Wasn't Devon's one part of a comedy show?
Yes, it was. However if it was instead an actual RTÉ news report, I wouldn't be that shocked.
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1 hour ago, David said:
We can call him Mr Prime Minister on here for all it matters. He's Boris, like or not. The brand recognition is already set in stone.
It's only as effective as much as people continue to use it. Not using it is a recognition to disarming the "brand", it might work or it might not work but better that some at least attempt it rather than do nothing and moan about it if only to prove themselves right by never trying in the first place.
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Plus, "Boris" is a handy brand that his supporters have been using for years to promote him with as a cult of personality. Same with "Trump". Also along the same lines, in soccer if you mention "United" then it's quite likely you're talking about only one club and it isn't based in Newcastle, Sheffield, Dundee or Cambridge.
By just referring to the current Prime Minister as "Johnson" or plain old "Boris Johnson", you take out his brand or aura, and (at least trying to) bring him down to the same level of his contemporaries.
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Most countries around the world already thought the UK lost it's collective mind wanting to leave the EU, they couldn't even further believe it that Johnson ended up being PM. Actually leaving the EU won't begin at all to see those countries at all starting to "respect" the UK, most of the EU27 would rather they just fucked off already while every other country or trading bloc prepare to pluck bits from the carcass that hasn't been ravaged by disaster capitalists.
Also, I remember in Northern Ireland that up until the late 1980s you could bring back glass litre bottles of soft drinks to the shops that sold them and you'd get 10 pence back in doing so. The local drinks maker Cantrell & Cochrane, better known as C&C, definitely done this for their brands, not sure who else was involved. You can still get milk delivered to your doorstep here, and they come in glass bottles so the shenanigans mentioned above involving millennials doesn't translate to here - although I'd like to see them try and tackle the old Tetra-paks!
I think it's in Germany and probably a few other places that have a can recycle scheme, namely a "recycle fee" is added to the price of the can you buy at the shop, supermarket, off-licence etc. which you get refunded back when the can is either given at a civic amenity site or an automated collection machine. This means that the likes of students offer to clean up after parties etc. where they collect up all the cans and profit! It's not the worst of ideas.
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On 8/8/2019 at 6:51 PM, Frankie Crisp said:
A girl I went to school with has an eight-year old granddaughter.
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In terms of one liners (or one and a bit) I think Bret Hart in his Hart Foundation 2.0 time with the Anti-USA storyline came out with a belter. In a Raw episode in Pittsburgh, he references previously describing the USA as one big toilet bowl, then going on to say that if it was given an enema you'd stick the hose in Pittsburgh. It made a change from just calling the crowd a bunch of ugly hicks, or laying into the local sports franchise.
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4 minutes ago, BomberPat said:
That's actually a conscious move by either Triple H or WWE - if you watch the first few years of him hitting the Pedigree, they were all like that. But at some point, the execution was changed so that, rather than keeping the arms hooked, Triple H would let go, allowing the person taking the move a little more control over how they take the bump.
Wasn't the change made to let go of the arms done after this infamous Pedigree move?
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"Only" 22 degrees here in Northern Ireland, though cloud cover and high humidity isn't making it comfortable.
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I don't "get" much pop music that is made these days. That's a combination of the fact that I'm at an age & demographic where much of it isn't aimed at me, and just my selective, discriminate opinion. But that's fine - the generation younger than myself is more responsive and involved, I think. And the truth is that for nearly everyone under 70, there tends to be a cognitive bias into thinking that the "best" pop music just so happens to have been around in your teens & early 20's. Of course, that doesn't exclude other eras, but it's a consistent pattern.
However it's rubbish to say that pop songs with crap lyrics that could have been written up in 10 minutes by a nine year old is just a recent phenomenon - I haven't seen one of those "compare lyrics/music" in a while but when they were about I'd often reply by quoting parts of lyrics from songs that made No. 1 in the past. 2Unlimited's "No Limit" being an easy one, "Rollin'" from Limp Biskit, "Barbie Girl" etc.
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Forecast of 23 degrees with clear skies. Absolutely fine by me though I'll still be in the shade when I can between 1 and 4.30 in the afternoon.
I've never understood why so many people think that the warmer the temperature, the better the weather will automatically be. Any temperature above 25c just makes me melt unless the humidity is near rock bottom - the 38c forecast for London would feel like hell.
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'cause Pro Wrestling. The industry is hardly a bastion of morality.