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I think I need to be taught to read again.

Why did Jonny Storm cut his hair?

Sometime around 2005-6, I think. You could ask him on Twitter.

Am I right in thinking this is Arn Anderson, Chris Jericho, Gregory Helms and Christian?

 

Yep. Jericho setting the tone for Chris Hero's everyday clothes for the rest of his life, there.

This might warrant its own thread, I guess, but the Superdome has been confirmed for Wrestlemania XXX. Nifty logo too. And yes, it is XXX, not 30.

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Swish as fuck, no?

Yeah, it has been doing the rounds. You can see why they might want to just announce it instead of trying to hold off for another month and a half.

They haven't used either in an official capacity. I just wrote XXX without thinking.

That's what everyone is saying, but I just think it would be odd to start promoting WM30 just as promotion for WM29 is about to kick off.

They normally announce the venue for next year's about this time, don't they? Then have the video package for it at Wrestlemania. Plus, if the rumours of New Orleans are true, they might even be doing the video package tonight.

I think it was just the general old-man vibe of his hair and get-up. He looks like a slob next to his sharp-as-fuck dad. Not saying he didn't before, but the grey fuzziness and the jumper accentuates it quite a lot.

Jesus christ, Casualty is awful. My mum's watched it religiously for years and my sister's grown into that tradition too (hence me moaning about it here instead of Twitter or Facebook). They're constantly correctly guessing how each storyline is going to play out in the episode, then claiming it's because they're amazing at predicting it because they've watched it for so long, completely ignoring how bleeding obvious the writing is. The first ten minutes of every episode is a ceaseless bombardment of Chekhov's Guns. "Ooh, I bet this'll happen and this person'll turn out to be that." Yes, of course you do, because THEY JUST TOLD YOU IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS THAT THAT IS PRECISELY WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN.

On top of that, everything in the script is incredibly ham-fisted. Tonight, in 2013, we actually had a bratty goth teenager dropping a tissue on the floor and refusing to pick it up because "I'm not a cleaner". Then some old guy came over and smack talked her about respecting the hospital. It's so bad. It's not even like something a child would write. It's like something an adult would write with the intention of setting the world to rights, only to be fucked off by every agent they sent it to. Except they weren't. They got signed up. And it got broadcast on BBC One on a Saturday night. Fuck Casualty. Fuck it so much.

My missus thought they were brothers when I showed her that. That's mental. I bet he loves being rich and not giving a fuck about having to inherit the world's most stressful job.

Fuck's sake, I'd rather Styles/Daniels again than RVD/Lynn. Other than that, it looks worth a watch. It is cool that they're bringing back some old guys for it, even if it's nobody I particularly care about. Actually, that's good - they're selling it to me on the vibe of the thing rather than the specific guys involved. Having the indy guys as an X-Division B roster is kind of a cool idea, too.

So how much do we think this is intended to cash in a bit on any buzz that may still be around from the WWE cruiserweight show that never was?

Pillman was in to custom jewellery (like the Hollywood Blondes chain he gave Austin, that he still wears)

Wasn't the story about the domestic incident with Debra that she'd broken the chain while they were arguing, and that sent Austin nuts?

The new Coheed and Cambria album has left me pretty underwhelmed. Sentry the Defiant would be great if someone had remembered to produce the verses, and there was another one that I quite liked (Gravity's Union, I think), but they're a long way from their best. Ascension is definitely the superior of the two, which is kind of a let down for a double album with a staggered release.

I meant bottom right. Completely shat on my own joke there. Fuck's sake.

Click the pic to visit the TBS WCW Thunder website... or what's still left of it. It's a bit like when you see those photographs of the insides of derelict cinemas or whatever.

http://static.tbs.com/sports/thunder/t_images/images.htm - Bottom right. Can't for the life of me figure out whose chin that is. Anyone help?

I don't think it did, but a few people definitely have it knocking about. It was downloadable from the old RQW website IIRC.

He knocked about in IPW:UK for a while as part of the Iron Lions with Andy Simmonz, then I think he disappeared for a bit and came back as part of the Thrillers, post-Haskins and Redman. No idea what he's doing now. Really was the almost man of Britwres.

It really is fighting over crumbs, but even I, in the tiny insignificant places I had in BritWres, found it incredibly easy to get sucked into the drama, even if it was just developing opinions or feeling like I was part of a "side" when something kicked off. It's just an enveloping environment.

By this point, I'm convinced Ohno's just got a really awful metabolism. He's not an idiot, he's gotta know that he won't get far looking like that. I guess if he's really not trying, someone in charge at NXT is going to have noticed and he'll get bumped off if he doesn't turn it around. Until then, I really hope they put him in a singlet or something.

I know it's a bit neckbeardy to bang on about WWE's attitude to physiques, but fuck me, if they don't think Wyatt looks like a guy who could fuck you up, I dunno what they're looking at. Hopefully they're over that now he's gone all awesome.

It was pretty cool the first couple of weeks and when Hogan and Sting were hamming it up playing Murtaugh & Riggs, though.

I was in bits at the backstage segment where Sting swung that bat at three of them and they all took a big Three Stooges bump.

I hope its true for comedy purposes.

I don't know for certain, but I can absolutely believe the title-promo thing being the cause of it. Shane's a bizarre guy with some really funny ideas of what's important.

DEN PERRY from Phoenix Nights, who was there with his family, jumped on stage to do a little routine with Iceman

And yet I couldn't see it.

I'll just be off to get my coat.

He is, isn't he? I mean he turns out plenty of dross, too, but when he's on his game, nobody can touch him.