John Matrix

Cobra Kai Season 4 (2021)

Can’t embed this, but easily the most hard on inducing 3:30 you’ll listen to today.

https://promo.theorchard.com/nWGoioqxqgEK4kmJ3Jze

Huh?

He was hanging out with Mike Barnes just a couple of days ago at a comic con! 😞 

God bless him!

What might you drop a bid on out of this lot!

This was a sponsored post on Twitter, to which I initially thought 'ah, be a load of old shite' and which now has me Googling 'pulling off a bank heist'.

https://ukm.propstoreauction.com/m/view-auctions/catalog/id/299/

Since i'm widely recognised as the forum's authority on ill fitting formal wear, i've go first dibs on this! (although they've got the fucking BUZZSAW costume up for grabs too!)

1 hour ago, jazzygeofferz said:

At least they're using his real name and not calling him "Goldie Medals" or "Steve Gableson". Let him cut some promos, have him feud with somebody like Cesaro who can probably make him look like a million dollars, hell see whether they can coax Angle into dropping by to manage him or something. It's definitely something they can build on. 

I felt compelled to log in and say that Goldie Medals is a fucking masterstroke!  I’m pissing myself laughing at that, bravo mate!

FIFTY THREE THOUSAND LIKES.

Fuck you Forty.

They should bring back downvotes for posts like this, BUT...as a creative type, it drives me mad when I see any sort of sign “wet paint” / “interview in progress” / “reserved” whatever, any of those, just knocked up quickly in word for spontaneous use signs...and they’re in Calibri, the default Microsoft word font.

I know.  There’s literally no need to change it in these instances, but you’ve been given an opportunity to create something and thought ‘nah, fuck that’.  Just flirt with Impact, Papyrus if you’re feeling particularly inspired, but no...

This ire intensifies tenfold when the person in question refers to themselves as having ‘designed’ the signage.

Today is sponsored by this double whammy of glorious 90's Euro pop.

Heh..

Cunt.

I mean, I THINK it’s this.  I say think, because it could just as easily be the greatest thing I’ve ever seen or heard, I’m legitimately torn.

When the hardest member of your crew looks like Tyrone Dobbs before the weight loss, your backing dancers were poached from a school disco and well, the piece de resistance... two black fellas showing up to look ‘ard and quite literally nothing else.

What more can I say, you’re welcome UKFF.
 

...that you earn badges on here, and that...

Top 3%!?  I post about once a quarter, you lot must be SHIT at this.

I know this is cheap.  But the ‘Neil’ made me giggle...

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1746467842230980&id=119073581637089

sorry, couldn’t get it to embed.

If you don't want to listen to this, just imagine the stuff you reckon i'd probably be listening to, because you'll be spot on.

It’s fucking happening lads!

I realise how ridiculous this sounds, but it speaks volumes to my current state, that whilst I know full well how fortunate we are to have a diagnosis at such a young age, I can’t shake the feeling, especially in light of what @Hannibal Scorch says, that it must be because it’s some sort of off the charts, glaringly obvious case which, even if it was, counts for sod all in the grand scheme of things, I just can’t help right now but connect that to feelings of how severe that makes it etc etc.

But therein lies the inner confliction, because as the assessment team pointed out to us, there is so much he DOESNT do that they might expect to see, there’s no rigidity whatsoever, he’s not arsed about routines, or foods, new people or places (far from anxious, he wants to explore) he finds loud noises positively hilarious, he’s arguably physically more capable than either of his older brothers were at the same stage, has shown a slight increase recently in responsiveness and eye contact - yes, he wants to do what he wants, when he wants, but what 2yr old doesn’t?  But I wouldn’t ever describe him as having had a meltdown or any of those other rather horrible terms.

He doesn’t, however, have any language or vocabulary, he has had a few words, but they seem to have gone. He rarely responds to his name and when he does, it’s usually with little more than a cursory glance and Whilst a little better, we get very little eye contact. He’ll react to things like no, stop, sit-down, but inevitably do it again about four seconds later, but if it weren’t for his lack of speech, he’s actually quite a vocal boy, but it’s just sounds, I’d have no concerns whatsoever, his behaviour as at worst, inconvenient, wanting to change the DVD 30 times a day or constantly be taken to the fridge for something, he’s by no definition naughty (even unintentionally) and so it’s just a real struggle to understand.

You’re spot on that despite a lack of words he’s able to communicate effectively, he’ll lead us to the thing he wants, bring us an empty cup to fill, point to the DVD he wants to watch etc, and whilst I say struggling to be optimistic, by the same token the thing I’m most fascinated to see is how the professionals gain and keep his attention so that we can start to apply those techniques, fair to say communication is very much on his terms as it stands.

38 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said:

Like I said earlier, don't change anything. Just continue doing what you're doing. The fact that you spotted this so early says a hell of a lot about you as a parent and just how attentive you are around your son. By doing that, you have helped him take a huge step in his life. You have already been far, far more use to him than you realise.
 

Honestly mate, this...this means the world to me today of all days.  Thank you. 

I don’t have much to say right now, so not really sure why I’m posting, but this afternoon my youngest son (3 in July) was formally diagnosed as Autistic.

Its not a shock as such, suspected as much for about a year now - some things became quite apparent in the early months of the first lockdown, feel more numb than anything.  It feels like huge news and no news all at once because there’s no clear pathway from here, all very reactive, based on development etc which whilst obviously the right approach, doesn’t help us feel like we’re able to do anything in the meantime.

Speech and Language therapy awaits, but one of our biggest challenges is getting him to engage with us for long enough to cut through, so I’m less than optimistic.

Head is all over the place. It’s not worry, or panic or sadness necessarily, I just don’t know where to start in terms of being any use to him.

Just seen the gif @wandshogun09 posted of that Ferguson knee bar, and can’t help but wonder how the fuck he blew the Khabib fight by stepping off a kerb awkwardly!

14 hours ago, John Matrix said:

must be something in the name, a Wayne at my school (surname escapes me, few years below me) was notorious for entering a cubicle, and arching his urine up and over the wall into a different stall to the one he was occupying.

Sources inform me he once cleared two of them.

Just occurred to me, this gives a whole new meaning to the expression ‘fountain of youth’

3 minutes ago, King Coconut said:

In my school Wayne Davies could piss the highest but he'd pull his foreskin right back, which is obviously cheating.

must be something in the name, a Wayne at my school (surname escapes me, few years below me) was notorious for entering a cubicle, and arching his urine up and over the wall into a different stall to the one he was occupying.

Sources inform me he once cleared two of them.