Happ Hazzard

The banks weren't responsible for the wellbeing of the country. They were private institutions. That the government had to bail them out is ENTIRELY the fault of the government for placing the country in the situation where banks failing would be catastrophic.

Labour were simply spending money they did not have, even during the boom period. It might be "nice" to have all the various services and healthcare that they provided, but if the country can't afford it, we shouldn't have had them in the first place. It isn't the governments job to perform every little service in people's lives, it is people's responsiblity to manage their own lives, get jobs, don't have kids if they can't afford them, and if they do have kids, to raise them properly, not to rely on SureStart centres to tell them how to wipe their arses.

Through immigration, the increase in needless public sector jobs (for the middle classes) and benefits (for the lower classes) Labour tried to buy themselves an electorate. Enough people saw through it and they got voted out. I don't see them coming back anytime soon, and if they did, it would be a disaster for the country. How much tax do you expect "the rich" to have to pay? 90%? More? When the highest earning 10% pay over half of all tax revenue, you are heading for very shaky ground, as it only takes a minor exodus to leave the country in dire straits, with the public sector bankrupt and social security a distant memory.

"But after sucking up two lines the fighter turned southpaw - and switched to his left nostril for the third."

Horrible news.

Don't think I ever conversed with the guy, but I was with the aforementioned NOAH event in Coventry with another forummer who spoke to him there so I might have met him in passing.

Tenryu and his partner (Ashura Hara?) "legitimately KO" Stan Hansen, leading to Stan Hansen waking up, and going into a rage, attacking the Japanese wrestlers outside the ring, shouting "nobody potatoes me!" on the house mic, and giving Giant Baba a slap. Probably the only ever Stan Hansen top

I'd read about this in Power Slam years and years ago when it first happened but never saw it. It's from ECW's Anarchy Rulz 2000 PPV. An angle is going on in the back and the producer accidently switches to the production truck. Paul Heyman (realising the camera is pointing at them) goes ballistic. Brilliant.

 

It's at 2:25.

http://www.youtube.com/user/MaffewJapanese...u/1/ZesTkcghTU8

I think it was a work. Why would they have a camera filming them all in the production truck anyway?

I bought Dutch Mantell's book, came the other day but when I tried to read it all the pages started falling out. I've got a replacement coming, so hopefully it won't be the same. Book seems decent enough but more a series of stories or topics than an autobiography.

Not counting Season 4, how many TUF contestants have already had UFC fights before going on the show? I was always surprised that Joe Lauzon ended up on Season 5 when he'd already defeated one of the coaches (Jens Pulver).

Reading Bret Hart's book at the moment, though I took a break yesterday for the new PowerSlam.

 

I'm not all that arsed about Bret's early years, but I bet Hitman will get very good indeed when the WWF comes calling...

You didn't enjoy reading about his brothers pissing in his face?

Roddy Piper ventures in to the world of music and makes an appearance on TV-AM to promote his single. Piper is interviewed by Lorraine Kelly and Mike Morris, plus we get to witness the quality video aswell.

 

I believe that is longtime regional star (and Piper's "minder" at the time) Len Denton (aka the Grappler) sat on the TVAM sofa next to him.

The Pakistan vs Australia game today might just be the best Twenty20 game I've ever seen. Incredible performance by Hussey. If England win the toss on Sunday, they need to put Australia in to bat first, regardless of the conditions.

Lindsay Lohan, looking pretty hot for a 53 year old.

This is the one of the best wrestling books I've ever read, certainly the best non-autobiography. There's a lot of books on Stampede considering it was never a particularly well-reknowned territory at the time it was running, I don't think the Apter mags even acknowledged it until it's rebirth in the late 80s. I wish there were books as comprehensive as this one about some of the other territories.

Someone pointed this out on another forum and I thought it was funny.

Shawn Michaels vs Tito Santana at WM 8, during their staredown at the start of the match, Tito informs Shawn that "you have a booger on your nose". Shawn wipes it off.

Rachel Riley off of Countdown

I've seen this "Super Soaker" ad plenty of times before, but only just noticed that the "contracts" that Cornette has for Sunny to sign are actually a copy of the Wrestling Observer.

On a related note, Ian Huntley has just had his throat slashed.