Chris B

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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Important Information

If you have purchased a coach discount voucher for Big Green Coach, Ticketmaster UK will send you an email with the unique discount code and instructions of how to book your coach ticket approximately 10 weeks before the gig, so you will have no excuse if you miss your coach. Your confirmation email will include a link to a dedicated page on the Big Green Coach website from which you MUST book, using your discount voucher code, to confirm your coach seat(s) and your seat at Wembley Stadium. Failure to book on the Big Green Coach website will mean that you are not booked on the coach. Failure to travel on your assigned coach means that you will be denied entry to your event. To complete your travel purchase and to confirm your coach seat, you MUST book your coach journey through the link provided on your email and you MUST travel on that coach in order to attend AEW All In. The deadline for booking your coach journey will be 26th July 2022. Failure to book by this time may result in you being unable to use this service, which will then mean you are not allowed in to see the show, and will have to stand outside looking sad before walking back in the rain to some godforsaken part of West London. Disclaimer: Big Green Coach will deliver the coach element of your purchase. Ticketmaster UK Limited accepts no responsibility for the delivery or quality of the services to be provided by Big Green Coach. If you have any queries relating to the non-ticket elements of the coach package please contact customerservice@biggreencoach.co.uk

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.

35k? That's not bad *at all*.

Just now, Matthew said:

I’d been panicking all morning, but you reckon it’ll be alright without the coach being used, yeah?

Probably best to get the coach, just in case.

Was it @tiger_rick that got a picture of himself reading a book on the front row during a Jeff Jarrett 1PW match?

I may have got the person and the promotion wrong here, to be fair. But the idea still makes me laugh this many years later.

25 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said:

Also I note they actually have muskets which is nice.

They're used really well in the film too - in the middle of the swash-buckling, it adds a lot.

The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan

Holy shit, this is fun. First French version of The Three Musketeers in 60 years, and it's just exactly what you want from it. It's fast-moving with great fight scenes and plenty of sexy Frenchness. It's a much more down-to-earth version than the US versions over the decades, and they keep a lot of plot plates spinning in an easy-to-follow way. A bunch of the fight scenes are done with single camera shots, frantically following the action, and it really works.

Camille's brother from Call My Agent plays D'Artagnan, and he's incredibly likeable in the role. Vincent Cassel plays Athos and brings a lot to the role. Eva Green plays Milady and... I mean, Jesus Christ. There's never been more perfect (or sexy) casting.

It's French and subtitled, so it's on a frustratingly low number of screens, but if you can catch it, do. Perfect Saturday afternoon cinema. Deserves to be a much bigger hit.

45 minutes ago, LaGoosh said:

I feel pretty strongly that you absolutely always should headline your biggest show with the biggest available match possible no matter what. 

When you account for PPV buys, ticket sales, reputation, presentation, fan experience...there's no good reason not to that I can think of. It'd be like intentionally holding off on Rock/Austin at Wrestlemania 17 then putting it on Fully Loaded to boost the buyrate. Insanity.

And the previous year, they'd held off Rock beating HHH until the following PPV to boost that buyrate.

I'm not saying it'd be a bad idea to have Punk vs Omega at Wembley - hell, I'll be buying tickets and it'd be a hell of a match to see. But it seems like the Wembley show is already perceived as a big deal and has a lot of interest already. You could end up with a show that's already pretty loaded and doesn't need Punk/Omega. Whereas they might be able to get a second big-deal show in the US built around that feud.

With All Out 2021, they had CM Punk's first match along with Danielson and Adam Cole debuting. It was the biggest show they had - so they didn't need Omega/Hangman there, even though it was the biggest match they had at that point. 

It also all depends on timing. They've clearly got a storyline in mind with The Elite that's likely to see us over the next couple of months. Should they put that all on the backburner, just to rush a match that they can do any time?

As I said, for me, the biggest pressing reason to do the match as soon as you can is whether you think Punk is back for another year or two or if he's back for six weeks then back on the injured list or just refusing to work with anyone.

It's entirely possible that there's an element of working in all this, and they're just not jumping into the program when they have ongoing stories to work around at the moment. After all, if they can sell a decent amount of tickets at Wembley without Omega vs Punk, then why rush it?

However, if that is the case, they're gambling a bit - Punk has spent a lot of time on the shelf, and you might not want to hold off on his big feuds before the rest of his limbs just drop off like a clown car.

6 hours ago, neil said:

I think @Devon Malcolm could just tell you what account Mab is on here now as.

Ah shit, I'd been hoping to keep that quiet for a while longer.

4 minutes ago, CavemanLynn said:

If Sting's retiring, I think he'd want it to be in Atlanta, not an English soccer stadium thousands of miles from where he made his name.

And yeah, I can certainly see that being the case. But I think there's the possibility there might be some attraction about the idea of finishing up at one of the biggest non-WWE shows in decades as well.

What do we think will be the biggest thing happening here? Kenny vs Punk? The Golden Lovers vs FTR? Pac vs MJF?

Since Sting has already talked about retiring this year, I genuinely think it could be hyped as his final match, which could be a nice thing to have happen there. He's certainly not going to get that much of a bigger stage.

On 4/5/2023 at 11:21 AM, BomberPat said:

There's a pub near London Bridge with an arcade cabinet with Superstars on it, which is quite fun to play with mates, especially when you're not having to keep putting coins into it every time you get eliminated.

Where's this pub, please?

Fair enough - I'd moved away from the UK to Ireland in 91, but I honestly didn't know many other kids particularly into it at that point (and not *that* many who had Sky, which may have been a factor).

If it wasn't a gamble for them to run Wembley in 92, fair play. I'd assumed it was (although wasn't saying it was to the level it is with AEW).