Chris B

Short notice request - we're recording about Kick Ass tonight. Any opinions on it?

John Leslie was never convicted nor found guilty in a court of law. Which does indeed make it very different.

It's almost like I was joking with the John Leslie remark...

I don't really get why Gatso has been banned/suspended yet Boydy is allowed to continue posting on here. The odder thing about that is that there's a chance that Gatso's story isn't even true whereas we know Boydy's is!

In fairness, Boydy was found guilty for committing a crime, served his punishment and is getting on with his life. That's the way it works.

 

But he was then using the forum to try and get back to his old ways, wasn't he? Is that also the way it works?

Only if trying to send a message on a dating site is definitely evidence of a crime. Or, indeed, being banned from a dating site.

It's not exactly John Leslie.

It's been unapproved, not surprisingly.

It may appear to some that this forum is developing a bit of a habit of sweeping such shit under the carpet by deleting threads such as this.

A habit?

Does anyone know where the thread that a forum member basically admitted to being a rapist went to? It was locked by Woyzeck earlier, but has disappeared.

Not before it was screencapped and sent to the police

Was this the one night stand thread?

Can someone explain what happened via PM (assuming on here would be awkward)?

Henry Rollins

Lance Storm

Jay Mohr:

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That one was tough, since Taker's chin is mostly obscured.

I predicted that tiger_rick would be a Nazi mod and it's pretty much been proved to be the case.

 

Wah, wah, wah.

Just ignore Duane. He's always on about these conspiracy theories.

Oh, and the latest Panel Talk is up.

Next one could be interesting - anyone got any thoughts on Infinite Crisis?

Seeing as there's love for alternatives here, read this online comic:

 

A Heart Made Of Glass

 

Chris B knows the author/artist, a guy who goes by the name of "Hard" (real name Jon Heeren) - he created the hideously funny/disgusting Sexy Losers. This work is a bit older, autobiographical, and is about the dark period he went through in the wake of a break-up. It's really very good; very moving, quite melancholy and dark, and you get a sense of how delicate and fragile he is emotionally, even when he's on his uppers. I honestly doubt you'll regret reading it.

I didn't really like it. I don't like the sort of quasi-manga style of the drawings. Also the story is a bit like something I might have tried to write when I got dumped by my first girlfriend at 19, so I can identify with him but it doesn't really appeal to me these days. Cheers for the link though. I don't have any links to online comics, only paper ones.

 

Fair enough, at least you had a look. He draws in the manga style because he lives in Japan (or, at least, did so for quite a while).

 

Tell you what, though - you should have a look at this:

 

Sexy Losers

 

Same guy, but doing really, really, REALLY disgusting (and therefore funny) sexual misadventures. Trust me - even if you didn't like AHMOG, I'd swear blind you'd love this.

I thought it was decent, but rather adolescent. I've been through enough shitty breakups to recognise the stuff he's talking about, but also to know that it's not the kind of stuff that's worth sharing.

Sexy Losers, however, is fantastic. Absolutely filthy but very funny. I particularly loved the adventures of bukkake girl.

I like some alternative comics. I particularly like Adrian Tomine's work, and (of course), Maus. LogiComix was fun as well. I've liked some Sacco and Clowes as well, but I tend to find them a little skimmable for some reason.

Oh, I loved Jimmy Corrigan: Boy Genius. That was superb.

Watched Once Upon A Time In America yesterday, as I've been catching up on a bunch of classic movies recently that I keep meaning to get around to.

Hated it for a couple of reasons, and that annoyed me, because I mostly enjoyed the first three hours of the 220 minutes running time, even if the relentless nostalgia grated. Plentiful spoilers below.

1 - This was the most cavalierly I've ever seen rape handled in a movie. David rapes Deborah because he's angry that she's leaving. This is someone who hasn't given him any real reason to believe that she'd do anything. She's not his girlfriend. He's just fantasised for years that she would be. Then, thirty years later, they meet up again.

For some reason, the movie expects us to sympathise with David. They don't acknowledge the rape (or if they do, they really gloss over it), and the scene is basically played that he forgives her for leaving. I'm not saying these things can't be complicated in movies, and I'm not saying it needs some huge apology scene. But it was a rape that had no real consequences, and it was a story about him - not her. She was utterly dehumanised by the end of the movie, turned into nothing but a tool that Max uses.

2 - Max's plan was utter bat-arse. Seriously. If he intended to leave David alive in the first place, then why did he leave people there to kill him? If he intended to kill him, why did he knock him out? Why did he replace the money with paper? Why did he think that a plan that involved sending a letter to David informing him of the reburial of his friends (which should alert David and make him scared) would lead to him finding the mausoleum, finding the key on the plaque behind a door, making the association with the lockers, and then deciding to go to a place where he might get killed? It's hardly a foolproof plan, and that's before you get to the idea of someone faking their death and then becoming a very public figure. And evidently assuming David would never read a newspaper or look at a television.

3 - Crap storytelling and contrivances. Max's ex happens to work in a hospital which Max funded, but has no idea what the funder looks like, but happens to have a giant picture of the opening night, which the funder didn't attend. Luckily, David looks at the picture. Deborah goes totally against her character (unless her motivation was criminal ambition...), in order to achieve Max's bat-arse plan. Joe Pesci turns up again at one point for zero reason. We never find out who the hoodlums at the start of the movie are, or why they took the time to draw a corpse in bullet holes. We never see David get the invitation to the party, or see the reason behind the connection between the money and the Secretary (and it isn't the trade union leader, because that means David has assumed a connection based on the fact that he saw someone he knew).

I'd been mostly enjoying it up until then, and it's been a long time since a movie made me so angry. If anyone can tell me what I either missed, or why it deserves the reputation it has, I'm all ears.

Tonight was 'O Brother, Where Art Thou' as a palate cleanser.

Time was, I didn't find Neil funny, but these days, I find him hilarious. Not sure why.

That said, this award is justifiably going to Woyzeck.

Went for Big Benny HG because that's just stunning.

Tiger Rick - nice work on doing this. Good man.

Okay, after some opinions for the next podcast. Has anyone read 'Midnight Nation' by JM Straczynski?

Alternatively, any thoughts on Straczynski's comic book work?

The day Rupert Murdoch pays millions to broadcast Mike Castle's thrilling victories over Snake Plissken, I may concede the game worthy of a few threads on here. Until then, I'll continue to view it as Dungeons and Dragons without the saving grace of face to face socialising.

 

That's the standard for threads? Does this include film clubs?

 

 

Not having a dig at mike or his mafia game threads but the film club thread that loki and gladstone have done is pretty fucking useful to have around and helps you to see films ya might not have heard of or dismissed for whatever reason, imo it serves a far better purpose on the board than the mafia threads.

I'm not saying it's a bad thread. I'm just pointing out the hyperbole and double standard of the Rupert Murdoch point being the standard for threads being deemed worthy.

The day Rupert Murdoch pays millions to broadcast Mike Castle's thrilling victories over Snake Plissken, I may concede the game worthy of a few threads on here. Until then, I'll continue to view it as Dungeons and Dragons without the saving grace of face to face socialising.

That's the standard for threads? Does this include film clubs?

Has anyone won Funniest Poster and not been nominated for 'Think you're funny' the following year?

There was a guy I knew once with brain damage who ended up doing some acting. There was an element of it being an enormous achievement, but he was sadly shit. However, on the first night on one of his shows, his delivery of one of the punchlines in his dialogue was magnificent. It got an enormous laugh, and it was mainly because he didn't know the line was funny, so he said it with just the right level of unknowing humour.

The following night, and for the rest of the run, he knew it was funny. So he delivered it as a punchline. And it died. And he couldn't understand it - the line was funny, and he was trying really hard. It got utterly painful to watch, and the worst thing was that just didn't get it.

I think it's the same with the 'funny' winners. They think they've got this comedy thing cracked, and it goes from Phoenix Nights to Max and Paddy.

And the only thing worse than that? Someone who's watched that happen and attempts to try, really really hard, to do the same kind of comedy.

See, I don't like football.

Poofter, eh?

"losers division" stung a bit, then?

It's like someone doing a big smelly poo the pavement outside your house. Sure, it's not directly effecting you, but the smell is there as you come and go, and its presence makes you suspect some of your neighbours are right bastards.

See, I don't like football. It's not like there's not already forums and inappropriately large sections of newspapers dedicated to it, but for some reason, we have to have two separate threads dedicated to it in the pinned section alone. And that's ignoring tournaments and the loser divisions threads.

But I just ignore it. I don't whine about it, I don't sneer at those that are into it. Those that are into it enjoy it, and they enjoy their discussion and more power to them.

So why doesn't that go both ways?

Didnt Ric have a injury as well that kept him out of Summerslam?

He might have had an injury, but i don't think it would've kept him out of Summerslam, as the match in question was only a couple of nights after it. I have no idea why he wasn't working a match, that whole event was booked extremely strangely with 3 of the feature matches being heel v heel or face v face. I'd have probably said the most logical thing to go with would be Flair/Savage and Warrior/Papa Shango, but for whatever reason, they chose to book the 2nd biggest show of the year with Kamala essentially working as the 'top' heel. It was a bit of mess, but somehow they managed to make it work and put on a great show.

 

From what i remember of that angle, after Warrior was announced as being the #1 contender for Summerslam, Flair and Perfect started shit-stirring, saying they were going to be in the other ones corner and getting them both suspicious of each other. It turned out to just be 'Part 1 of a plan to soften Savage up, so his subsequent title shot (plan B) would be against a weakened opponent. The ending was pretty cool where Savage wouldn't submit, and instead got pinned with the figure 4 as he fell unconscious. The duo of Flair and Perfect were tonnes of fun around that period.

If Flair wasn't already injured, he was certainly injured very shortly afterwards - he had ear issues which were causing problems with his balance. It's part of the reason his match with Bret Hart was on the road as well (and led to Bret Hart bitching about Flair not giving him a good match in his autobiography).

I'm not sure whether he was injured pre-Summerslam or not.

What are you going to do, brother?

I love the fact that people on here are more concerned with who bullied who then the fact that a convicted sex offender was on here looking for advice on how to hide his IP so he can "track down" some girl/woman.

And it was someone who he said had given permission to be contacted. The fact that he was banned from a website doesn't mean he was committing a crime or looking to commit a crime. The idea that he has to have been up to something illegal seemed a jump for me.