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I’m not super excited by this but I’ll probably watch it anyway.

2 minutes ago, Joe Blog said:

MJF bores me to tears, Miz lite. Is this an unpopular opinion? Do most people like him? 

He’s the second coming of Roddy Piper in terms of mic skills and playing the heel role. Super talented. I’d say he’s better in the ring than Piper was though. He’s brilliant.

12 minutes ago, Factotum said:

MJF lost absolutely nothing by losing how he did. Jericho is a big name who you would be stupid to fake a retirement for. When Jericho decides its time, that will mean even more when he loses. 

How do you know MJF lost nothing? Time will tell. He’s a good talent who should be climbing up the card toward main event status. Not jobbing to a 50 year old out of shape Jericho.

46 minutes ago, Mr_Danger said:

Piers Morgan is the king of playing the cancelled card whilst insisting he left his shitty morning show of his own accord. Usually whilst he’s promoting his best selling book or one of his latest articles about non white females being shit.

Morgan is a cock of the highest order. Always quick to jump on the bandwagon. “Come on Britain, let’s get Brexit done. Vote Conservative!” and then constantly complained during the Covid Crisis about the shit Government that he helped enable. He knows nothing about football either. Was saying “Wenger out” for years. Now look at his beloved Arsenal.

Local Facebook had a woman upload a picture of a Bentley parked across two parent and child bays at Sainsbury’s. Opinion was divided. I was in the “Bentley Driver is parking like a twat and should pay their Butler to do the shopping instead” camp but I decided not to comment.

1 minute ago, RedRooster said:

Why should who care? Viewers?

That’s a strange logic. Wrestling, at its heart, is a story-based medium. You’re as well as to ask ‘why invest in story’

Why watch anything if you don’t care about the consequences?

As for what you say about Jericho, why do you care that much? It’s just pro wrestling.

Why should AEW care about the stipulation being final? Everything is kayfabe. Anyway, my main point was MJF should’ve got the win simply because he’s a young (and good) talent with plenty of years ahead of him to draw money. Jericho is (or at least should be) towards the end of his career.

1 minute ago, RedRooster said:

If Jericho’s not wanting to retire, there’s not really any value in having MJF win.

AEW has made a big point of establishing that their stipulations stick, so if you’re suggesting (and I don’t know if you are) that they break the stip after his tour, that would really hurt their credibility and how people view any future stipulations they decide to run.

Why do they care that much though? It’s just pro wrestling. Going by that logic, AEW probably shouldn’t have bothered with the retirement stipulation and still have MJF go over. Jericho has had his thirty years in the spotlight and should step aside by doing jobs for younger talent.

Didn’t watch the pre show. Couldn’t be bothered.

Miro v Kingston was quite good. They’re finally pushing Miro correctly. No more pink Minnie Mouse t-shirts and saying he’s the best at video games. He’s actually being presented as a badass at last so well played AEW.

Moxley v Kojima was crap. Biggest disappointment of the night. Was just boring and when Suzuki appeared at the end, Excalibur got over excited about someone the vast majority of the audience won’t know. That fight Suzuki had with Moxley looked fake AF too..

Baker v Statlander was ok but by no means a classic. Britt Baker is proper over now though so fair play to her. Probably could have had a better opponent than Statlander though.

Lucha Bros v Young Bucks was fun. Probably a few too many gymnastic routine spots but fun nonetheless. My mate told me that Meltzer and Alvarez are saying it was “the best cage match ever” though so they’re clearly on the take.

Casino Battle Royale was a bit underwhelming but it was good to see Ruby Soho back and she looked like was having fun. Noticed JR called her by her WWE name.

Jericho v MJF wasn’t bad but why have Jericho go over? He’s going on tour with Fozzy soon. They could have done a kayfabe retirement and got the younger guy over some more but noooooo.

Punk v Allin was decent. Punk hasn’t lost a step since he’s been gone. Darby’s dives are the best in the business too. Punk was as over as you’d expect. I liked this.

Wight v Marshall was short . Thankfully. Pointless and crap.

Omega v Cage was good. A fun match but the actual match finish seemed to be a bit anti climatic. Seeing Cole and Danielson at the end was good. I’m of the opinion that WWE dropped a bollock letting Adam Cole go. They could’ve put him on Raw but then with Vince in charge, they’d have probably ruined him anyway so maybe he was right to join AEW.

Overall, thumbs up but it wasn’t as good as most people are saying.

The BBC and Channel 4 often had a habit of showing American programmes a long time after they’d already been on satellite/cable. ITV didn’t really do that too often (if ever) IIRC.

I know that David Letterman had a “historical backlash” from licking Jennifer Aniston’s hair in 1998. Whilst it is weird and creepy and wouldn’t fly today, I don’t recall a fuss being made at the time.

40 minutes ago, SaitoRyo said:

It's kind of a weird feeling watching the flintstones lately. With their stone age drive-in movies and their caveman bowling, it just seems so dated.

I remember watching the Flintstones in the eighties and thinking that it was a Stone Age version of the sixties if that makes sense (which is when the cartoon was made).

Whilst on the subject of old Hanna-Barbera cartoons, I always thought the Jetsons was crap (even as a kid).

6 hours ago, JohnKringler said:

Bad Girls hasn't aged well, from what I watched last night.

I agree. I binge watched the whole series of Bad Girls during lockdown. It got to the point where I was glad it ended.

3 hours ago, wordsfromlee said:

I rewatched Men Behaving Badly last year and some of that really has not aged well. Like the second episode of series two, 'Rent boy', which is about Gary is worried that Tony is actually gay and he's stuck sharing a flat with him.

I’ve been rewatching some of this on Prime Video recently. I also noticed that Gary sometimes used words like “bitch” and “bint” when angry with certain women. Not sure that would fly today. At least not in one of the nation’s most popular sitcoms anyway. Caroline Quentin was funnier than I remembered as Dorothy though. Sarcastic and very funny with it.

1 minute ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

BSB had a thing called the Galaxy Club which was the kids bit. They had a sketch show called Hold The Pickle which was Paul Hendy, Rebecca Front and Lee Evans before any of them were known. I have never seen anyone reference it.

I didn’t have BSB but I think Chris Evans presented a show on there too. I also think BSB were who Andy Gray and Martin Tyler commentated for before Sky Sports (Sky Sports being a result of the merger between Sky and BSB).

The BSB Squarial used better technology than what Sky were using at the time and could even be used indoors. It was the Betamax of Satellite systems.

This advert used to be on a lot.

Think even Cheggers himself admitted later on that Sky Star Search was a “load of rubbish”.

11 hours ago, patiirc said:

DJKat was great especially for Turtles, Diplodos, and other low cost import shows. 

Diplodo? That’s an obscure reference. I remember first seeing that on French TV when I was on holiday. Then I saw it a year later in English on Sky. Was made by the same people who created Inspector Gadget.

I remember a Sunday evening music chart show presented by Pat Sharp and later by Terry Christian.

I used to watch WWF Superstars every Friday night at 10pm. Think Freddie’s Nightmares was on afterwards at one point but it was a bit crap IIRC.

I also recall a lot of old American programmes like Family Ties, Growing Pains, ALF, Diff’rent Strokes, TJ Hooker and the Man from Atlantis. Even some Australian stuff like E Street (a “rival” to Neighbours which nobody cared about) and even the Young Doctors was shown from the beginning.

I also remember Games World including Big Boy Barry and his mate Lesley (played by David Walliams before he was famous).

I miss the late 80s/early 90s version of Sky Channel/One in some ways. It kind of became more mainstream when they started showing the likes of Friends in the late nineties and wasn’t the same since.

38 minutes ago, TheBurningRed said:

They did a couple of years ago when they played over here. Manchester got St Anger and Twickenham got Frantic. 

That’s a shame. They must’ve played St Anger when I went for a beer then because I don’t recall that.

6 hours ago, hallicks said:

There’s some great stuff on “one hot minute”, probably because it had Dave Navarro from Jane’s addiction on guitar and he forced them to do something a bit different. Then they brought the old guitarist back for Californication and the rest is very dull history. 

Word is the band never play anything from One Hot Minute live anymore. There was also a rumour that Dave Navarro was sacked from the band “for not being good enough”. Not sure I believe that though. Probably just a clash of egos or creative differences.

Metallica never play anything from St Anger live anymore either but that’s probably for the best.

RHCP have a reputation of being more of a studio band. Most people I know who saw them live said they were disappointed.

Yellow by Coldplay. Seemed to help launch the band to superstardom. God knows why.

Unless you’re a racist and want immigrants to leave or stay out of the country, I’m struggling to see any benefits to Brexit so far. Everything is worse and yet the leave voters still say they were right.

https://youtu.be/Iof5pRAIZmw - Guile Street Fighter 2

The stuff I remembered anyway.

14 hours ago, Slapnut said:

I can’t imagine this will be a popular opinion here, but this show was my first experience of Pat McAfee and I have to say I found him to be the most overbearing part of the show, even more so than Michael Cole. I found him particularly irritating during Nakamura’s entrance.

I didn’t see any of his NXT work so that may have something to do with it, but I’m really surprised at how much love he gets here.

You’re not alone on this. McAfee was far better as a worker in NXT and seemed like a natural but now he’s just an annoying commentator because…. WWE.

My local Odeon was often £14 a ticket for adults. You’d expect to take home the Blu Ray for that. If you paid for those gimmicked seats that move or buzz (or whatever it is they do) then it was even more. They had to cut the prices because not enough people were going. But yes, I still say they bought too many sweets. I prefer Cineworld who are just as good as Odeon but cheaper.