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1 hour ago, jazzygeofferz said:

Wait until GTA6 is on the way. This is going to be a vicar's tea party by comparison... 

Won't matter. We'll all be dead of old age by then.

15 minutes ago, patiirc said:

Im sorry, but the press thing is utter baws

People havent consumed information in traditional means for a long time and even as far back as 2010 it was being hailed as a digital election. I will try and dig out the reference points when I have time

Every election in the last decade has proved the exact opposite. We all think differently, trapped in our echo chambers of memes, but the vast majority of voters who got the Tories in and voted Leave are still quaffing down newspapers and watching the teatime news on a daily basis. It's why everyone was so shocked by the disparity of the results versus how it seemed online - "How could this be?! Owen Jones said Corbyn had it in the bag! And I've been posting some very funny Tweets about Boris which surely he can't have recovered from..." Meanwhile, everyone's parents are still off down the newsagent every day, and if they do see something online, it's a headline on Facebook from the Murdoch paper they read anyway.

I mean

Fuck me. I felt more emotion in that ten minutes than the entire prequel and sequel trilogies got out of me. I'm an absolute wreck.

A grotto, an unexpected visitor, and an incident at the nativity.

The Christmas special of my show is now up, if you want some creepy festive hauntology of grim British Christmases past.

I might have a wank or something.

14 hours ago, SaitoRyo said:

WWE Untold: Goldberg's Streak is fantastic.

There's an interesting bit I'd not heard before, about Hogan being a cunt by rubbing Deep Heat in his armpit and starting the match by getting Goldberg in a headlock so it went in his eyes.

I've recently discovered what the four most frightening words are.

"Hi Roger, it's Brian..."

8 minutes ago, dopper said:

Can anybody recommend where to go for something that will download and convert Youtube videos to mp3?

 

I just googled it and there were loads of options, but I was wondering if one was more reliable than the rest.

A mate recommended 'Airy' but that appears to be for Mac's whereas I am using a PC. 

For video to mp3, I just run them through https://www.y2mate.com/en64

The Prestige went up on Netflix today. Spoilers etc.

I do really love it, but the entire movie hinges on absolutely nobody saying "mate, your bodyguard looks exactly like you, only in glasses and a false beard!" Not even Michael Caine, who's an expert in magicians using doubles. He even says, over and over again, that Bale's trick can only be achieved with a double, and captures the 'bodyguard', but only uses it as blackmail; "give us your secret or we'll kill your mate." Didn't think to whip off the guy's hat and see if there was a wig attached like those Scottish tam o'shanters with the Russ Abbot hair.

43 minutes ago, chokeout said:

For what it's worth,  I remember Jake Roberts telling this story when he was living over here 

Probably some Keyser Soze shit. He was looking round the room for inspiration while telling a tall tale and spotted a terrarium containing the rotting body of the snake he'd starved to death, then suddenly it's "did I ever tell you about Rick Rude's gangrenous nob?"

The thing that makes me not believe it is that Honky Tonk Man says it's true.

Les off Corrie did a reality show about ten years ago where minor celebrities pretended to be homeless, to see what it was like on the streets. He left partway through, spending all the money he'd got begging on booze and had a terrible drunken breakdown, crying about finding the body, and ranting there'd be more money for homeless if the government stopped spending it keeping prisoners alive; "BRING BACK HANGING, FOR ALL YER RIPPERS!" Every time I've heard him speak, it gets onto the Ripper pretty quickly, so it obviously shaped his entire life.

'None of your fucking business' to every one of those.

Shilton might as well shut down his social media now, like when Dynamite immediately stopped doing the Q&As on his website when Davey died.

Poor bastard. Gone on the same day as Heavy D. He'll be lucky to get a mention.

I spent last Christmas Day taking notes on Jimmy Cricket's sketch show, so this year's probably won't be much different.

All it takes is one opposing fan to piss into the tank and you've got chaos.

Actually, I have a story about this. A few years ago, I ended up back at someone's house after an ICW show in Glasgow, and a load of the wrestlers and crew were there, I think because the house was owned by one of their sisters. I was mooching around the kitchen, but they had a pretty big garden, and the ICW lot were all gathered out there, so I went out to have a look. As I was coming out, Mikey Whiplash ran past me back into the house with Grado following behind, and Grado gave me this look like "ye don't wanna see that, pal," shaking his head.

But I'm a curious guy, so I head down to the bottom of the garden, where I saw this silhouette stood on the water butt, surrounded by a small crowd, who were all cheering and pumping their fists. As I got closer, I set off the neighbour's security light, illuminating the scene. Atop the butt, Vinny Samways dropped his jeans and took it out. I tell you, they fucking stopped cheering when he cranked back the foreskin. "That's a remarkable whiff," said Ian Krankie (who'd done a comedy run-in with a chair at the show that night), before falling unconscious on top of his wife, and ironically, shielding Wee Jimmy from the worst of it, saving her life. All the plants instantly wilted, and I turned tail and ran, with the stink-cloud off his beller chasing like a swarm of angry bees. I slammed the kitchen door behind me, but it started coming through the catflap, so Grado hurled himself down, sat with his back up against it, buying everyone enough time to get out of there. Bravest thing I ever saw. I heard the skin all fell off his back as a result and took about six months to grow in again.

Bye, you mad old cunt.

Val Venis is taking it well. Absolute state of his Twitter. It's funny, looking back at all those Attitude Era pieces in Raw Magazine, or outside articles about the WWE, when they'd pull the "though they pretend to fight for a living, some of these men are very intelligent" line. Without fail, the examples they always used of the two biggest, most thoughtful geniuses always talking about politics backstage were Kane and Val Venis. Now Kane's rallying against his constituents wearing masks, and Val spends all day going on and on about weed and Bitcoin and the great Emperor Trump.

Classic Vince-land idea of what constitutes a big thinker.

7 minutes ago, Suplex Sinner said:

Do we think that Trump(et) will decide to bomb anywhere or press the big red button in the next few months?

I think he'll be be so tied up in trying to win the election he lost, he won't even be thinking about writing mad executive orders or nuking Pennsylvania. He'll still be carping on about it by the time they drag him out of there.

5 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

Do you think once Trump is no longer the president, Twitter will ban him?

Supposedly, his Twitter privilege against being banned vanishes the second he leaves office.

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If President Trump loses the election, he will also have to say goodbye to a Twitter privilege that lets world leaders keep up tweets with certain offensive or misleading content, according to a report.

Trump, as president, has benefited from the Twitter policy that flags content that violates the platform’s rules — but does not outright force their deletion, as is the case with ordinary users, Bloomberg reported.

But if Biden wins the election, come January, Trump will fall into the former world leader category, losing the special treatment, the report said.

Since election night, eight of Trump’s tweets have been flagged by the social media giant.

In one such tweet, the president accused his political opponents of trying to “STEAL the Election.” Twitter said that tweet violated their civic integrity policy.

The point of the world leaders policy, according to Bloomberg, is to diminish the spread of the rule-breaking content. Tweets flagged by Twitter can be viewed, but not liked or retweeted without a comment.

A Twitter spokesman explained to Bloomberg in a statement why flagged tweets from world leaders remain accessible on the platform.

“A critical function of our service is providing a place where people can openly and publicly respond to their leaders and hold them accountable,” the spokesman said.

“With this in mind, there are certain cases where it may be in the public’s interest to have access to certain tweets, even if they would otherwise be in violation of our rules.”

Going out on a high with the most unhinged speech he's ever done. Astounding Tiny Dick Energy.