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Considering how hot I find both Margaret Qualley and Aubrey Plaza, it really shows how bad Drive Away Dolls was that I haven't got round to this one yet. Drive Away Dolls also wasn't helped by Love Lies Bleeding coming out at a similar time, which did the queer noir thing SO much better on every conceivable level.

Not sure where else to put this, so figured might as well start a new topic because eesh, the Jake Hager thing. If you haven't seen it, he's pulled a Rey Mysterio at SlapFight, where he got slapped so hard he started bleeding from the ear and the eye, and has now had to go under emergency surgery. Apparently Dana White has said it's the worst injury he's seen in all his time in UFC, and as much of a cunt as he is, he's seen a lot. I've put the picture in spoiler, not so much because it's outrageously gory, but because it just invokes understandable squeamishness. I mean, PowerSlap is a stupid idea anyway, but Jake has to take some kind of prize for stupidity just for his career choice now being to let people hit him so hard in the face that his eye pops a bit. As someone who hasn't been following much of this at all, is it likely to be banned at some point?

To be fair, we used to have 7 tories. At least 6 of them no longer plan to vote tory.

My partner primarily refers to it as the forum 'of strange pooing men'.

I still feel somewhat like a newcomer, and I started in 2004.

A reminder that, if people want to keep this place going, it's worth donating.

Interesting article in today's Guardian about how and why fish and chip shops are struggling at the moment: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/sep/17/can-fish-and-chip-shops-survive

Thing is, if he were to do the exact same act as a lower-card comedy act, who constantly looks at the lights, it'd be good stuff. If the point was that he lacks dignity and gets himself into fights he can't back up, that'd be fine. But we seem to be expected to take an unserious man seriously.

The logos being off-centre is really annoying me.

Because he isn't very good at this.

70 Up was on last night - if you're not aware, it's a documentary project that's been running since the 60s. They started off with 14 seven-year-olds, and revisited them every seven years. It was quite class-focused, and earlier ones definitely had a point of view, to the point of detriment (including questions that ended up being outrageously harsh like 'do you feel like a failure' to someone in their 20s). But as it's gone on, it's continued to be interesting and, now they're in their 70s, sad in places. The story that's had the most focus is Neil - a bright, sweet and funny kid, who has lived a life with depression and difficulty, going through periods of homelessness and constantly changing vocations and homes. I think that actually brought quite a lot of attention to mental health in some ways. This one is being done in two parts - the first being (surprisingly brief) updates, and the second will be aired next week, which will be looking back more at the series as a whole. It's a fascinating piece of TV.

He's looking more and more weirdly like Norm McDonald.

I've been trying to work that out as well. It's amazing. The ref's hands change position a bit when the camera switches while Orange is in mid-air. I think it was a sequence of three Canadian Destroyers rather than two - Orange did two that just happened to pretty much be in exactly the same place.

On the pretty much opposite side of the spectrum to Ric Flair, I'm going to throw in a shout for Orange Cassidy. It's not all about showmanship - sometimes, it's about character, and everything about Orange Cassidy is perfect in the entrance. The varying hand-drawn 'insert graphic here' or, recently 'media not found' error, is always funny. The addition of the single rubbish firework. From the second he walks out, you get him. And he's had two separate absolute bangers of theme tunes as well. It