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And some dead kid's empty seat in the third row.

19 minutes ago, LaGoosh said:

The only thing I don't like about the card is that it's on a Sunday, bring back the Saturday PPVs!

It's a bank holiday though, so that's something.

30 minutes ago, Supremo said:

My biggest worry is that it leads to Callis bringing in Ospreay as the new God of Professional Wrestling. The matches will obviously be great, but I just want connect with Will's character at all. He sucks the life out of everything, bruv.

Ugh, fuck. They've hinted at it in the past and I'd completely forgotten. But you're almost certainly right. The larger a part he has in the show, the less interest I have in watching it.

15 hours ago, LaGoosh said:

Save some for Barry. It's been a tremendous season and the latest episode was absolutely hilarious. 

Considering how intense the show has been, I wasn't expecting it to be as funny an episode. Gene being absolutely peak Gene was amazing.

Especially considering how short a show it's been, it's astonishing how much they've packed into it. If they stick the landing, it's going to end up on a level with shows like Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, in less than half the time.

1 hour ago, Lorne Malvo said:

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power - I thought this was a massive missed opportunity. It should be the easiest argument in the world to say that Hollywood is inherently sexist and that the male gaze in turn leads to #MeToo and the wage gap in the industry, but I dont feel like Nina Menkes makes those connections clearly at all and her choice of clips is puzzling at times. A big letdown.

I thought it was flawed, but I did think it was interesting. I had some issues with some of the clips - particularly those that are actually using the tropes to subvert what's being talked about, but at the same time, even those doing that are still performing the trope. I also had some issues with how Menkes seems to purely position her own work as the answer. 

But at the same time, it got me thinking - the clip from Mandingo showed how rare it is to see these things with the genders reversed, and it's made me think about the prevalence of it all, and what that means.

So I'm very glad I saw it, and I think more people should, even if there was a better version to have been made about the subject.

Archer was also weirdly likeable in some of Danhausen's pre-AEW videos. He clearly finds Danhausen funny and tries to keep up (while Danhausen refers to him as the Murder-bird and generally confuses him), and it's oddly adorable. There's a potential big-dad-that-kicks-the-shit-out-of-bad-guys babyface there.

49 minutes ago, Tommy! said:

His return in the run up to the rumble for me. What's great in both is how HHH sells it, great look of fear and outrage when he could have shit on it.

My second is the Austin Survivors series 96 promo, *I don't dance son*. For all that followed that's always what I think of when it comes to Austin.

The 2000 return is also amazing - Foley's timing on 'I think you know him...' is great, but you're totally right. HHH's reaction is absolutely phenomenal. 

For me, the earlier one tips it though, mainly because it's funny. "Boy dude, you sure are eye candy for the chicks" makes me laugh every time.

Cactus Jack's WWF debut is one of mine. The three faces of Foley interacting is just superb, and - just like the later Cactus Jack return - it's a real goosebump moment.

On top of that, every line in the three faces video is superb - my standout being 'The pinfalls in the hot dog stands! The pinfalls in the street! The chairs, the tables... it's not exactly a love thing.'

And then the match is really fun too.

That's a great price for the proximity, but won't the view be shocking from there? I'd have loved to have been closer on some levels, but ended up getting low tiered seating for exactly that reason.

3 hours ago, Carbomb said:

The one after that, whilst not the best, wasn't bad, I thought:

 

Very 90s.

I absolutely preferred that one to the light blue one. I'm not sure why, but the light blue one is my least favourite one from that era of Man U strips. I even preferred the grey one.

8 minutes ago, jazzygeofferz said:

It's especially bad after the Chris Packham and Christine McGuinness documentaries, which were both really good.

Yeah, but there's an audience there for it, who are desperate to have it confirmed that, actually, it's all gone too far. It's the benefit scroungers narrative aimed at a different group of people.

6 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

Has he? It sounds like he gave exactly the same information about himself and his life to four assessors and the paid ones all reached the same conclusion that someone with more expertise dismissed? I’m not sure what it was he lied about? It’s a long article so I may have missed it (This of course adds to my partners theory that I have ADHD!)

It seems kind of bullshit to go 'undercover' with private clinics, while being upfront about what he's investigating to the NHS clinician - that's introducing an incentive (proving the NHS is better) to one clinician that the others didn't have.

I've seen quite a few people angry at that article. This thread does a decent job of explaining why.

I see a lot of the increase of people being diagnosed being, in large part, about increased understanding of things like ADHD - particularly with regards to women - and a (long-overdue) reduction in stigma.

At 68, my mother's recently been diagnosed with ADHD. While she's been an incredibly high-achiever, she would have likely benefited a lot from a greater understanding of this when she was younger. Someone else close to me has been considering a diagnosis, realising that ADHD could be a better explanation for a lot of her issues than the depression it was assumed to be for a long time. This understanding could have been literally life-changing - but her biggest hesitation is around her behaviour as a child.

It's difficult, complicated stuff, and it's difficult not to feel defensive and see this kind of thing as being people looking to write off people I care about as trend-chasers.

29 minutes ago, DavidB6937 said:

Thing that probably messes with me the most is having Teams on my phone. It feels like there's an expectation to be more available now beyond work hours. Even though people say "oh I wasn't expecting you to read/respond!" .. as if I'm going to ignore it if I know it's there.

I don't have Teams on my phone anymore, but when I did, I eventually used the 'quiet time' feature, where it mutes notifications on regular hours that you set. So you can set it to mute notifications outside of work hours, while you're set to 'Do not disturb'.

I found that a huge different-maker, in terms of not *having* to feel present at all times.

9 minutes ago, Lorne Malvo said:

I'm very much the opposite when it comes to work. I really need that divide between work life and my own time and space so I choose to come into the office everytime (although it does help that the office is a 15 minute walk so I'm not out of pocket). I tried working from home when we were coming off furlough, and doing work emails and quotes etc while sitting in my scruffs in my gaming chair really fucked my head up. It was like I could never be fully switched on or off.

It's the old thing of working from home can = living at work.

I've found that buffer space between work and home really important. I've ended up using a local co-working space (because, for various reasons, working at home is less of an option than I'd like), and I tend to go for a walk or grab a coffee or a drink before heading home. For the most part, it's a similar function to the commute, giving me a little time of personal time and space while I decompress from one and go to the other.

2 hours ago, Matthew said:

Her overtly exaggerated facial expression she made, I found really off putting. I think she was trying to look like she had a cool “attitude”, but she just looked… odd - to put it politely.

Case in point at 2:32:

She should have kept it more subtle like these lads:

Have battered chips been a regular thing and I've just not seen them before? I'm dangerously intrigued.

1 hour ago, Fatty Facesitter said:

If it's a familiar location to BTE viewers then that makes a degree of sense. Perhaps some callbacks to older clips like that might have been a good addition to in that case. 

I wouldn't go as far as to say it's familiar - it was used in a couple of skits around Luchasaurus trying to figure out doing a Canadian Destroyer (the simplest wrestling move after an armbar) IIRC, but it wasn't like a regular location or anything. It certainly wasn't an intentional callback.

4 hours ago, mim731 said:

Wembley stadium has an 11pm noise curfew I believe. Given the length of AEW shows I imagine that rules it out as they'll presumably be running it close as it is.

Maybe more likely he plays live with them during the show as part of his own entrance somehow. Which sounds mental and egotistical as fuck, but it's Jericho so can't be ruled out.

I think Jericho can be an absolute dick at times, but he's also been a big part of AEW's first years and the song is clearly over as fuck. As secondary hobbies go for wrestlers, he's probably been more successful with Fozzy than he had any right to be, even if most of that is just because of his wrestling celebrity.

As a result, if he has the opportunity to play at Wembley Stadium, I think it's kind of awesome. It's an odd crossover thing to do, and after years of touring, if he and his mates get to play their song to a hugely receptive crowd at a legendary venue on the back of a company he helped build... I don't entirely get why anyone's getting sniffy at that. Even if it's a bit tragic, it's such a specific crossover with what he does, that I'm like fair fucks to him.

Vince was notorious for it. Who else? (Genuine question)

1 hour ago, Boycie said:

Just to clarify guys, I just think its a slippery slope to go down when honest people (presumably) are hounded out of their livelihood. You clearly disagree and that's fine. 

They weren't honest. She claimed her husband wearing a Britain First t-shirt didn't mean he was a supporter, just that "it was convenient at the time". They claimed the dolls weren't racist, while joking about pictures of one of them being hanged. 

They got the publicity they were after. They got fucked by it. They're not victims in this.

24 minutes ago, Matthew said:

I had that message re: coach booking. So I’m thinking just ignore booking, as no need, rock up to Wembley with my “fuck Big Green Coaches” sign, and enjoy some rasslin’?

To be fair, the deadline for booking it appears to have been last July,  if you read the real one above, so you may as well.

Yeah, I got a similar one.

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27 minutes ago, Boycie said:

Maybe we shouldn't be celebrating people losing their businesses/livelihoods. 

Maybe we should.

1 hour ago, Statto said:

*Raises hand*

I realise I'm probably extra biased as he's a Norfolk lad & I saw him on a ton of ridiculously tiny shows over the years (including ending up sitting next to his very lovely but rather bemused parents on one occasion) but I do have a soft spot for Kip. I've been quite enjoying his "Batman villain plus henchmen plus associated crazy women" stable with Butcher & Blade, to the point it's turned me round on those two. Previously they'd been chopping block material for me.

I like Kip - as you say, he's a Batman villain and, importantly, a shit one who creates grand machivellian plans that achieve nothing. He's a midcard to lower-midcard heel, and he's fun in that role.

And, talking of which, I saw the ad he was in, and it was just a talking-to-camera hype bit, which he's fine at. He'll probably get a match, and for him to be able to say he's wrestled one of Sting's last matches and performed at Wembley? I'm pleased for him for that.