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Yay, @Kaz Hayashi is back - welcome back sir.

I absolutely loved reading this, as whilst I’m now totally removed from wrestling and haven’t followed in years for reasons already stated, I can’t ignore that it was a massive part of my childhood and helped form my early adulthood. All the horrendous stuff aside, I have a lot to thank it for in making my younger years very special.

I’d suggest that actually, accounts from people’s childhood memories going to any show with bemused parents would make for an amazing threads. Dads are great, basically.

I want to delve a little into my own archives to check my memory holds up, but I have great memories going to UK shows with Big Daddy and then later Bulldog when I was a kid. I don’t want to dilute the thread from Kaz’a intentions, mind.

This has properly made my day.

Edit: totally forgot to mention how your dad’s Paul Bearer meal enquiry made 4 people on the train look at me weird when I started laughing quite hard.

I was in a sandwich shop about 20 years ago and a rather unattractive woman walked past the door. One of the builders waiting for his BLT said to his mate “Jesus, I bet she’s got a fanny like a busted pork cheese”.

I had Power Move Pro Wrestling on my original PlayStation and loved it, but haven’t played it in years and so can’t comment on whether it’s worth playing now.

https://www.thesmackdownhotel.com/games/power-move-pro-wrestling

I got RDR2 when it came out, played through the opening few hours which seemed like it lasted forever, got to camp, got excited that I could now do stuff, got overwhelmed and then stopped playing.

Reading all the posts above make me want to go back and experience all that good stuff.

My main problem with games like this is an odd anxiety that I get whereby I think I’m somehow playing it wrong, or doing the wrong stuff or not following the game where I should be following. If I could get over that and just enjoy my time in the game, I’m sure I’d get much more from it.

It’s odd, actually, as I had no such anxiety with BoTW when being presented with a seemingly endless world to explore and it remains my favourite ever game.

I should also add that I get bored quite easily, which may explain why the opening of the game frustrated me somewhat.

Ipswich is somewhat famously in Suffolk though 😁

20 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

All those 6th fingers on display

Hey!

Two twerps who I thought had gone away.

4 hours ago, westlondonmist said:

I think the problem with saying MPs can't earn anything else is that the job has no real stability, elections can be called early, you can be deselected etc. It could put a lot of people off being an MP. There needs to be strict maximum hours you can do though and if you need to have a KPI on number of votes and debates you attend to make sure you are still doing your job of MP.

I'd only support number 5 if Jeff Goldblum was in the party. 

I get that, I really do, but I would consider being an MP more than just a job, it comes with a very specific responsibility and too many just don’t serve their constituents as well as they should. Also, any job comes with an element of insecurity. I’m less bothered with MPs earning extra money than I am them spending time away from their core duties.

1) Nationalisation of all energy and rail.

2) Watertight regulation on how a company can operate. I'm looking at the newer "gig economy" brands initially. If you want to play big company with a nice a logo and brand, a head office, advertising, apps, the whole lot, then you're a company who need to have staff on permanent contracts with clearly defined roles, and you need to be accountable for every penny of tax you owe.

3) Fee-free education. It simply should not cost anybody anything to learn.

4) No second jobs for MPs. If you want to be an MP, be one - not a crap presenter on GB News.

5) 50% of GDP spent on research to bring dinosaurs back to life - for as long as it takes. This is actually my top priority, and my aim would be to have a fully functioning Jurassic Park by 2030.

I have zero clue what goes through the minds of marketing people.

I’m more and more convinced that many American parents traveled forward in time and got their kids’ names from Bob Mortimer episodes of Would I Lie to You.

Didn’t know where else to put this, but a clip of Lenny McClean being all hard and that showed upon my Instagram feed this morning. Apart from Lock Stock, I knew nothing about him so headed to Wiki and so found this gem of an edit.

I played drums in a garage band circa 1999. We were called Albino Al Pacino. I couldn’t tell you why.

Final leg of the journey home, a change at a nearby station. The train’s waiting for us, I open the door and get a face full of vape from the bloke standing inside. This didn’t end well for him, put it that way.

I’m running on fumes having had no sleep since Saturday night and am now sick to the back teeth of vaping.

We got to MCO in Orlando to fly home yesterday lunchtime and joined the queue to drop our bags. A couple with their little girl (who looked about 8 ) were in front of us with 4 massive suitcases and 2 carry on bags.

The bloke immediately left them to it and walked over by the bogs and spent the next 20 minutes openly vaping. Inside an airport.

We then watched as his wife and kid struggled over to him with their bags, he just walked empty handed in front of them vaping away.

When we got to the gate, there he was, again on his own, clouds of vape billowing from his gob every time the back of anyone official-looking had been turned.

When we got onboard, the wife was pleased to find we weren’t sat near him (I wouldn’t have been able to hold my breath had I been sat next to him). We were however sat opposite another bloke who was more than happy to just vape on the fucking plane anyway. He was sat next to two really small kids who hadn’t been seated with their family, but there he was on a plane, vaping away like it was totally fine.

As we’d already taken off and the seatbelt sign was on, staff didn’t spot him until about 15 minutes into the flight when they basically told him they would turn back, land and evict him from the flight. It didn’t stop him though, he grabbed more than a few cheeky puffs throughout the flight and was really on it during landing.

I might sound like a grumpy sod, but it’s something I despise generally and it’s the kind of stupidity I never thought I’d ever actually see. People in general being cunts like that boil my piss something chronic.

Liverpool probably have the “easiest” final run in, but then they’ve been poor the past few games. If they can pull things together, I can see the other two dropping points between now and the end of the season.

It'll be interesting to see what the Liverpool squad looks like when a new manager takes over, I’m not sure Salah will look at the kind of offers likely to come his way and not be tempted - especially with Klopp gone.

Wishing the happiest of birthdays to @Devon Malcolm - one of the genuine good ones 🎂 

I’ve seen TV’s Botched and can confirm that yes, sometimes, ears are part of your face. See also anybody that Picasso painted.

8 hours ago, hallicks said:

He looks like a young Harold Bishop

Mmm, ah.

UK Fan Forum theme

Courtesy of AI-generated music site Suno.

Over to you.

Sorry it’s not a photo, but we were at Universal Studios this afternoon having a sit down talking how it would be cool to see RixFlix in the flesh, and he walked past literally as we were talking about him - so we made his live stream.

56min 40sec

Ortis Deley from the Gadget Show not being able to find his boarding pass at Gatwick this morning.

Happy birthday @PunkStep. You’ve made a man you’ve never met who’s feeling pretty chipper due to being on his way to Orlando, suddenly grumpy knowing someone is having a curry tonight. Have some Pakora for me.

2 hours ago, FLips said:

Got this 26” whopper for £50. My wife said she wishes I looked at her the way I look at it. 
Took us both about 15 minutes to get it up the stairs. 

If ever you feel down, just know you’re living the life all of us wish we were. Bravo, sir. Bravo 👏 

TIL that whilst Whole Nut chocolate bars contain hazelnuts, Fruit and Nut contains almonds.