Keith Houchen

OK Boomer Sooner. 
 

I mean, there’s protecting kayfabe and all that but that’s some proper Simpsons “Local Man Thinks Wrestling Is Real” shit. 

27 minutes ago, Donald J Trump said:

I'm a Yankees fan

Posted this in the baseball thread but ain’t no fucker going to read that! Harold Ramirez of Tampa Bay Rays does a Paul Mullin (not a fuck the tories set of cleats) 

The more sportsmen doing this, the better!

Happy White Sox Elimination Day to all who celebrate. Fuck me this is the worst baseball side I’ve ever seen. How’s your team started the season? A fucking damn sight better than mine, I can assure you!!

Heres some wholesome stuff from Harold Ramirez and the Rays. 

14 minutes ago, Tamura said:

I assume that's a law and order thing, and not a resurrection of the 90s/00s street parties?

 

Haha!! If it was they’d have my vote!!

17 minutes ago, Just Some Guy said:

Had a couple of election leaflets from the some of the more "interesting" candidates standing in the Blackpool South by-election.

Both of them taking aim squarely at that insidious wokeness that has supposedly infected society.

Speaking of being infected, both anti-vaxxers as well.

It's a strange old world where people seeking political office are telling the electorate that they will offer more racism, homophobia and general bigotry.

The two biggest arseholes in the Manchester Mayoral Election (Reform and the independent, utter bellsniff Nick Buckley) both have Reclaim The Streets as part of their pledges. 

(Taylor’s Version)

Pretty sure they did the Throbbing Gristle one Merzbow mentioned and possibly the Def Leppard one. This is the trailer for the doc. CW contains Noel Gallagher. 

17 minutes ago, Carbomb said:

Storm Thorgerson was brilliant and uncompromising

Have you seen the Hipgnosis documentary?

A few of his have been featured in this thread already. The Peter Gabriel covers always stand out for me. So do the ones for Scorpions but for very very different reasons. Definitely the Kleberson and Djemba Djembas of their output. 

If Vince set up a new promotion, I don’t think there would be many wrestlers turning down working for it if the money was right. It’s wrestling after all. 

1 hour ago, Carbomb said:

before Bruce Lee emerged as a self-realised, potent model of an Asian identity

I might be wrong but I think Lee even lost out on Asian roles to white actors because the studios weren’t prepared to have an unknown Asian on screen, they preferred an unknown white guy in case the audience didn’t like it!

Wasn’t there a scene that was in the first episode of new Matt that the credits played over, or was post credits where they’re watching Roseanne (I think) and they started mocking a different actor playing a character. The other two said they hate it when shows do that and they should just write out the character then shoot death stares at Matt? Or have I Mandela’d that?

Anyway, was watching Mr Mercedes, had three or four episodes left and Disney took it off so they left me hanging. Worse than their historical racism and antisemitism. So moved on to Monk. It’s marvellous. 

6 minutes ago, Mr_Danger said:

Every now and then they scan that 8pack of Pepsi 2L(Max) as one bottle and it feels great although my Father Dougal facial expressions when it happens has given it away a couple of times.

Yeah that’s ace when they do that! I have on occasion not mention the Pepsi in the trolley and assume they’ve noticed it. Got away with that a few times. If challenged I can always say that I must have forgotten to mention it, your mind isn’t so attentive when you get to my age. 

Went to Food Warehouse and thought the shopping was a bit cheaper than usual. Wondered if they forgot to ring up an item or two so I checked the receipt. 
 

I’m getting on a bit and use a walking stick but COME ON!!  Had conflicting feelings of happy and incredulity. 

4 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said:

My understanding of 'Holocaust' and 'Holocaust denial' has always been that those terms refer specifically to the systematic genocide of Jews in Nazi Germany

I think the holocaust refers to any and all groups murdered by the Nazis, Shoah is the term specific for the mass murder and slaughter of Jews. 
 

42 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said:

Well yeah I was trying to find out about the Holocaust thing specifically as that sounded pretty extreme.

And then what I found was a journalist publicly apologising for calling her a Holocaust denier and some sites saying it was all a load of bollocks and others saying she was the new Hitler but I couldn't really get a clear picture.

I'm not going to lie and say I put loads of work in, nor am I asking you guys to spoonfeed me..  But it was more the point that if it's that unclear, people with be unlikely to be motivated to change their behaviours and I can't really blame them.

It revolves around two specific tweets. The first was in reply to someone who said “The Nazis burned books on trans healthcare and research. Why are you so desperate to uphold their ideology around gender”. Rowling replied “I just…how? How did you type this out and press send without thinking I might have to check my source for this as it might be a fever dream”. 
 

So this could be taken as Rowling saying that the Hirschfeld and Gohrbrandt studies and research weren’t destroyed by Nazis (they were, and they photographed themselves doing so) and it’s a fever dream to say they were, or that it’s a fever dream to say Rowling is desperate to uphold the Nazis ideology on gender, which means she wants to exterminate all people not conforming to the Nazis view on gender. 
 

The second tweet was in regards to a reply to the above. Someone said that trans people were the first people targeted by the Nazis (they weren’t, the disabled were) and telling her about it wasn’t a fever dream. She replied with something about the bible had a bit about puberty blockers but Leviticus made them take it out”

The holocaust denial bit is because a German court ruled that denying any book burning is an act of holocaust denial. I’m sure that Rowlings many lawyers would argue the case that she meant the fever dream referred to her wanting to exterminate gay and trans people, hence the retraction. The court also ruled there isn’t the evidence to say trans people were targeted because they were trans. The trans people executed in the holocaust were  executed because they were homosexual, Jewish, disabled, and/or prostitutes. 

1 hour ago, The Reverend said:

Sounds like something may be coming.

Hopefully prison or a terminal illness. Preferably a terminal illness whilst in prison. 

40 minutes ago, Nexus said:

Fantastic fun, and it goes for quite a long time. However, I did then drop it when I finished the questline. 

I hope you didn’t damage it. 

Watched Top Gun - Maverick for the first time last night. I was grinning from ear to ear from start to finish. Absolutely marvellous fayre!

1 minute ago, FLips said:

It’s fine for the Road to The Show, and March-October modes I think, but the story modes and Dynasty both auto-set the difficulty. The one on Jeter’s where you have to make base 4 times drove me up the wall.

In Dynasty, I get the option of playing easy when having a solo game in conquest and against the cpu, I’ve noticed there aren’t any rookie challenges this year though! I’ve found on veteran that drawing a walk is far more frequent than last year, and I’ve been hit by a pitch loads! 
 

That Jeter challenge sounds like a right bastard though!

2 hours ago, FLips said:

I play on the easy difficulties and that's how I enjoy the game, but unfortunately the main modes all lock you out of doing that

I play on easy and haven’t had this issue. I did have an issue with different settings for different modes but in the menu you can set your preferences as default. It’s a bit hidden away though!

The challenges have always been of varying difficulty but I ain’t touching those Xtreme things or whatever they’re called!

1 minute ago, Cousin Jim Bob said:

He is South Korean and so must eat dogs then

Sir, can I interest you in our UKFF off topic gold section? I recommend the Phishing scams thread. 

54 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said:

That's a pretty lazy racist joke isn't it?

Ji-Sung Park walked so I could stroll. 

Started watching the vid neil posted and think I’ll try the big three, but I was worried about the schnauzer, had he eaten something hot as he was just licking air the whole time. Or maybe he knew he was going to be an accompaniment to the rice and sauces. 

22 minutes ago, King Coconut said:

I love it! I look forward to seeing it a further 6,000 times until all remnants of humour have long since been thrashed out of it.

I’ll do it in 10.