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6 hours ago, DEF said:

My Wife's just booked dinner at SIlver Star Steak House and Cafe Mickey. We are half board plus apparently. Any thoughts on what to do for food? Are they any good? Pretty sure breakfast is included too.

Inventions is a character buffet. Better then cafe Mickey for food and characters. It’s in the Disneyland Hotel. I don’t mind Cafe Mickey but the menu is limited

Impact will still be shown on 5 Spike or whatever it’s called these days

2 hours ago, tiger_rick said:

Anything more annoying than Jim Ross saying "Rikishi"?

I’ve always hated him saying SLOBERKNOCKER and BOOGER RED more, but I can see why you find it annoying 

2 hours ago, WyattSheepMask said:

I’m only up to Reigns/Lashley. Both guys are in Black & red, the colour scheme of the show is black & red, it feels I’m watching on a Nintendo Virtual Boy

are you feeling nauseous in that case?

In a recent thread discussing the Mankind/Taker HITC I said we would likely never see anything like it again and how do you top it, death?

That is the scariest thing I think I have seen since. I did wince

I am speaking to a lot of people of a similar age (30's and 40's) who have cut ties with one or both parents. I cut ties with my parents a few months after my first was born. I never realised how toxic or evil they were. I always defended them and then it started to breakdown. The last time we were all in the same room, my mum pulled out a prosthetic bra filler (she had a un-necessary mastectomy) and hit my wife in the face with it and then said she was lucky there wasn't a knife in the room.

It later turns out (as my brother still speaks to them, begrudgingly) the cancer she had (hence the mastectomy) never existed. But she still tells people she fought cancer and won. She is messed up. 

So is there a generation of parents who are just absolute shits? Or are the three of us @SuperBacon

and @Steve Justice , just unlucky?

no not at all. Everything it included. The mastercard thing just gives card holder reserved seating. That show is in the studio (it's not a proper magic show mind), as is the new Marvel Stage show which opened last month and Lights Motors Action which is a car stunt show. Also pretty good.

7 hours ago, DEF said:

I'm off to Disneyland Paris for three days for my Wife's birthday in a couple of weeks. We are staying half board in the Sequoia Lodge (I think). I've not been since I was kid twenty years ago so any tips would be appreciated.

My girl's 8 years old so I'm assuming it will be perfect for her. I'm not really to bothered about stuff for my self but is there anything that I can't miss? 

I’ve not seen it yet, as not been for 2 years myself but my wife and everyone I know has gone says the Mickey and the Magician show is amazing. If you have a MasterCard you can go to City Hall in main st and they have special tickets you can get first thing in the morning for special seats. Hyperspace Mountain, Tower Of Terror, Rock and Rollercoaster, Big Thunder Mountain are must do’s for me. Pirates of the Caribbean is another must do

2 hours ago, Thunderplex said:

Just come back from a weekend away to find we have been raided by slugs.  Front hall looks like Peter Norths been visiting.

Thankfully only in the garden. But we’ve had no rain here and I saw about 5

That’s a terrible situation SB. The problem could be she’ll hate herself for not reaching out before it was too late. She shouldn’t feel that way of course, but the opportunity has been taken from her. 

I fell out with my parents a few years back. I’m ok with that choice and if anything like that happened to them, i’d think I’d cop well. But everyone is different.

the best thing you can be doing is just being there for her and supporting her if necessary. I just hope she doesn’t beat herself thinking about whatever could have been

Just seen Blockers. Pretty funny. John Cena continues to be the Diet Coke version of The Rock, But showed some great comedic chops. Well worth a watch, thought Game Night was funnier overall though.

5 hours ago, Chest Rockwell said:

That sounds less like something you think and more like something they may have told you word for word in said media studies class.

I can barely remember a presentation I had to do last week, let alone remember something word for word some 17 years ago. I do remember seeing a documentary in said class describing the characters like Freddy and Jason as representing the fear of Aids at the time. But I don’t think seeing Nancy as a strong film character is that hard to grasp really. That seems very obvious to me without dissecting the film

Is the original Nightmare on Elm Street Scary? Not really. But I think it is actually a very clever film which played on things such as the rise in missing children in america and the roles of gender, specifically women at that period of time.We studied it in a media class about 18 years ago and, at least the first one, was definitely full of subtext. As they went on they became more generic and Freddy less menacing and more comedic

1 hour ago, johnnyboy said:

Skyscraper

As long as you're happy to suspend all knowledge of gravity then it's an above average Rock disaster vehicle.  Towering Inferno meets Die Hard, but obviously not as good as those.

Is it better then Rampage? I’ll pretty much watch a film with Dwayne in it, but I hated it (probably because I loved the games)

23 hours ago, The Reverend said:

Mattel have confirmed that sadly the next two series of the retro figures will not be getting an official release in the UK ☹️

The first 2 didn’t. They got dribbled out about a year after they were first released. Even Smyths, arguably the biggest chain selling the line (Even those entrance greats at £32 a pop because they have a sound chip in with them), didn’t start selling them until last year 

The Purge films only have small budgets by Hollywood standards. This latest I’m sure was $13 million so I’m not expecting them to look amazing. But I enjoyed this one enough to check out the others

Have you seen the new promotion which has launched on Amazon Prime? It is called Dojo Pro. It is 26 minutes of build and match per show with a tournament style system. Shane Strickland and James Storm were the only ones involved that I knew of. Interesting idea but don't think it has legs. The first show has the worst Mankind tribute act I have seen since the early 2000's.

Has anyone experienced this new phenomena of advertising an offering jobs before they are ready. A few years back, my wife was offered a job with Apple but told they would let her know when a role was ready for her. With myself, been offered a train drivers job in December, but I am still waiting for a training start date (I know someone who joined last year was waiting 9 months for his training start date). Just give me back the old days of offering a job when it is available and not thinking of it in advance.

11 minutes ago, Voodoo said:

Bautista must have missed this one:

 

I think it's a real shame then when you have an opinon about something you can never later change that opinon based on re-looking and evaluating things

1 hour ago, Big Benny HG said:

 

SmackDown used to be on UPN, when that was still a broadcast channel.

I forgot that was broadcast TV. Like the american version of Channel 5 in terms of reach, but it counted

1 hour ago, HeavyT said:

pretty positive its Fox as its billed as a return to "broadcast tv" and its nearly a billion dollar deal.

They have never been on broadcast TV, except Saturday Nights Main Event though

Has it been confirmed yet where Smackdown is going to air? I.e. Is it on FOX or is it Fox Sports as there is a huge difference in reach of audience between the 2

24 minutes ago, Fatty Facesitter said:

“THESE WILL SELL OUT!!!”

If that actually happens, all hope in humanity is lost. 

There is every chance. Doesn't state how many are made.

At least they do come with pockets, which is at least an upside to them

Trump has said he believes the UK is in turmoil and that Boris Johnson is "a Friend of mine" according to a sky news alert I just got. No surprises there is there. I mean he is a racist bumbling buffoon, with shit hair, who isn't fit to be in power. Just like Donald Trump.

27 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said:

Question about the last episode of the latest series of Brooklyn Nine Nine.

 

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when, at the end, they have Fred Armisen playing the violin for their wedding, they recognise him and refer to him by name as Melipnos. When has that character been on the show before? I don't remember him at all.

 

The pilot episode and another a little later on as well. Not as a main character though really so bit of an Easter Egg

1 hour ago, WyattSheepMask said:

If you’ve ever needed confirmation that JBL is an awful human, there you go

What has he delivered exactly? It hasn't been done and the more it goes on the less likely it is looking to even happen. I love it when American's believe everything they hear on Fox News. Guy is an absolute tool.