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Probably not the strangest one. I'm convinced governments and large corporations use our phone mics and cameras to record our audio and eye movements to know exactly what makes us tick, guage our opinions, interests and on the more sinister level work out how tame a population is about a matter and if they need placating. 

Plenty of times I've had a conversation about something and get adds for it which goes beyond coincidence. But it's the government using monitoring equipment and AI to guage a countries opinion. To me it's why governments feel free to fuck over the population so happily these days as they can monitor and placate people. If they genuinely saw a red flag such as massive riots or civil war they would pivot. To me that's not going to happen when the tech says "just up the tik tok" , "let the UK get a bit further in the world cup" or "have Sami win the belt". 

It's that last line that winds me up making sure everyone knows they use actual records. Also probable wouldn't hurt them to have a few soft drinks available if they want people to sit and enjoy their beers.

I don't think changing his music would help. It might make us feel better and I can't stand what he uses right now but he's been proper Bret Hart WCW'd. How much of that is on him as well I don't know. 

Perhaps if Punk hand crinkled his panties we might have got a feud/match between the two which might have helped. 

That said I'm always confident if he does want to/need to step up to top tier again and has a say in it, he'll give us something to care about. 

4,15,18,22,29

Usually I'm on early to get the crowd pumped but looks like I'm going to be main eventing after a never ending mania this year. I have a feeling I might be a surprise return the next night in the end. 

20 minutes ago, air_raid said:

Despite the clamour for Zayn, Cody will be the one to relieve Roman of the belts.

I'm going to add to that by stating we then get a long dull feud between Cody and a returning Randy Orton over the summer that outstays it's welcome. 

Bron Breakker will debut on Raw and float into mid-card mediocrity feduing with the Miz. 

1 hour ago, RalphyV2 said:

so, good chippy tea then?! 

I've only had a chance to have my wife's leftovers so far (which basically makes me a cuckold I think?). I was off out for a pub meal. Will rectify that after Christmas. 

If you want to know it was a mix of Greggs sausage rolls, gastro pub food and real ale. 

Wonderful story Kaz. I like to use intermittent flushing to prevent this when possible although sometimes I don't want people to think I'm finished either in a busy place or extended family at home. 

My first shit on UK soil in years was an extended, high volume affair which I thought might clog the house up without intermittent flushing but luckily it all went down. My parents are too elderly for that issue nowm 

Would the Vince case and Saudi have anything to do with this. Both seem like things that might be even more problematic if you have female talent producing sexualised content?

I've never met a butcher that would have the want to be a "craft" butcher. Most are just happy carving up meat and getting fat. I'm going to blame it on that snobby restaurant for thinking Dez and his cleaver aren't fancy enough without an extra title. Either that or some tit in London got given a nice set of knives for their birthday and have built a life around them.

14 hours ago, WyattSheepMask said:

Perhaps someone who’s more into the whole “extended universe” of Star Wars could will correct me (I’m fairly fair weather compared to some fans) and I get that The Mandalorian is a huge show, but people talk about her as if she’s some integral character when she really wasn’t, her character was one of at least two sidekicks to someone else. From what I remember they didn’t even seem to trust her with many lines in the first of the two episodes she was in. She probably had about 10 lines in the whole of her run on the show. 
Besides, every man and his Dog gets to be in Star Wars these days. Even Forum favourite Trevor Morgan from Eastenders turned up in Andor this year

I'd be more excited for Trevor in character in AEW to be honest. I have a feeling she is coming in long term to tussle with Jade.

If I had to chuck her somewhere it would be NJPW. I think who she is has more value to the Japanese audience than to the AEW who would give her the usual welcome but she would end up another Toni, Ruby or Saraya just part of the mediocre midcard that is the woman's division. 

At least New Japan could give her a big fancy entrance in the Tokyo Dome and just use her on and off. 

My guy feeling is that without the WWE machine behind her she'll be exposed as a bit bobbins . 

4 hours ago, The King of Old School said:

I'd like to see Sami win the Rumble and then Roman convinces him to use his title shot at the EC saying how he deserves his moment in front of his home town etc, how they will have some fun but says at the end that Sami will do the "right thing". Cue them all beating the shit out of him after the match with KO making the save.

Or we could just have The Rock win the Rumble for no reason at all.

Only way the Rock thing makes sense and in my opinion works is if they could get the Rock making a few public head of the table digs etc and have Reigns come to him. Give him a slap at a press conference of even stage it in a Hollywood restaurant. Rock gets into the rumble and wins with Sami Vs Roman at the chamber. 

Based on the reaction there you could have Rock Roman on night 1 and either the tag match or the 3 brother Usos Vs Sami, Kevin and ....... (Austin?) With Sami getting the shot on night 2 if they win. As an alternate to Austin I'd use Drew or a returning Cody who can turn heel on araw to set up a decent first challenger if Sami did win.

Failing that have Roman beat Rock on night 2 after throwing powder in his face and then Sami comes out to make the save while Rock shouts "go get him Sami". The eventual Sami Rock match never happens but Rock moans about it forever.

Just watched the Jade Cargil segment from this week. I'll come off like an obsessed fan boy bringing this up but that promo and use of Bow Wow seemed like the start of brining in Sasha Banks. Not sure she is of course allowed contractually now but the references to "star aura" etc seem ripe for those two to face of. 

Will probably lead to everyone's least favourite anti hero Ruby Riot instead though.

On 11/29/2022 at 3:00 AM, Merzbow said:

 

Now I want him to win the TNT belt so he can have a matching purple strap.

12 hours ago, HarmonicGenerator said:

Apart from his match with Ricky Starks in a couple of weeks.

And the Dynamite Diamond final if I understood correctly.

So not really.

I hope he just throws the ring at the opponent and walks off. No point wrestling for that ring when he has the big boy prize

Sad news to hear only met him once when I was inside York hall during one of the early RQW shows while being set up. Very nice man. Too nice for the wrestling business. 

For anyone who doesn't know I've been living in Vietnam since 2013. I've been back for a total of 1 Christmas (2016) before we got married. 

We had planned to go in 2020 as I was planning on changing jobs and having a bit of time off (both of which I did). As you probably guessed start of that year things changed quite drastically worldwide and I became locked inside Vietnam. For a while there was no way to legally leave and then until march this year it was a 1 way ticket out for non-Viets. Luckily In 2020 we had mild lockdowns and relative harmony. Infact it was great for cheap domestic holidays as resorts were crying out for guests. We got a business class flight and 4 star hotel in Hue for about 300 quid. 

In 2021 things got a lot worse with cases rising and we were put under militaristic lockdowns. If I hadn't changed jobs and moved location as well as buying a flat it would've been fine but the stress of all that, a pregnant wife and not knowing if the food would last or we would get dragged off physically for testing or cheap Chinese vaccines caused some mental health damage. 

Since then things are better, my new job is great andbwerensuper supportive during the lockdowns and finally we have tickets booked for the three of us to come back for my first Christmas at home in 4 years which includes introducing my son to his grandparents. This return home was wishful, then hopeful for a long time as we had so much paperwork to sort out but now it's 2 weeks away and I can't wait to dive straight in to all that Christmas bollocks again. Well first stop is always a chippy tea on the night we arrive but then yay Christmas 

1 hour ago, Chris B said:

If Regal actually is leaving, I wonder if there's something around him leaving a performer role to go into an employment role.

If that's the case (with resultant medical coverage), it may be that he's just handed in his notice. If he avoids a performer role, and is just doing backstage, that may not be subject to the same kind of contractual consequences.

Either way, it says a lot about how he's regarded that it's being mostly treated as a shame, not overly negatively. These things don't have to be acrimonious. 

If he has got out of the AEW performer contract perhaps he feels like he can't keep up with the traveling these days. This was a man who had trouble with all sorts of drugs over the years and perhaps with being older and broken down he doesnt feel he can keep jetting off weekly to do TV and not end up picking up old habits or it's simply too much/not what he wants.

In WWE he was basically in and around Florida for the most part so a return to the PC .

29 minutes ago, Fatty Facesitter said:

Pleasantly surprised to see them have MJF turn on Regal. Not so much MJF turning - think that was always going to happen down the line - but after the first week was an interesting, yet good call. It's very much in keeping with MJF's general dickhead mentality, and as brilliant as Regal could've been as the villainous sidekick, he's not going to be mobile enough to be an insurance policy for MJF. It's also rare to see a union come to an end so quickly after it's been formed - but in 2022 I don't think that's too much of a negative and more just a sign of the times and the immediacy of how things can change, not just in wrestling but entertainment at large. 

As much as villan heel manager Regal interested me. I liked the quick end to the partnership. MJF used him and in doing so got what he felt was his long time coming revenge on a man who let him down. The MJF character needs some backup but maybe not an old man. I'd be happy if Will Morrissey moved over to be his new heavy 

3 hours ago, IronSheik said:

Punk v Austin would give that whiny little prick Punk his main event at Mania and he's still good enough to bump around for Austin.

It would be money with Austin V a broom stick, but Punk would definitely add value, and he's a great natural heel. 

They should bring him back working an entitled miserable never-happy always everyone else's fault gimmick.

He wouldn't go for it now though I reckon. He probably feels like the victim completely and would want the grand, Cody style baby-face return. 

On 11/28/2022 at 5:45 PM, Doog said:

I appreciate sometimes when it's really really busy they can't, but I find you can always tell a good barman/barmaid by them knowing who is next. A good bar person doesn't need to ask who's next. My local are shocking for this, 3 people at the bar the other day, she serves one, its clear the guy next to me is next as he was there before me as she ws serving the other person, and she looks at us both and ask who's next. Piss poor.

There's a limit to this though. I've worked in bars in awful sports pubs during world cups and it's pretty difficult to differentiate between every twat in an England shirt (they were twats in this pub not due to the shirt) but you give it a go. That said at the same time most decent customers help the bar staff figure it out.

On 11/28/2022 at 5:24 PM, BomberPat said:

People with no fucking bar etiquette.

I was at a wedding on Saturday, and took half an hour to get served because it was just a succession of dickheads being served in front of me. One bloke borrowed his mate's crutch so he could push to the front of the bar by trading on sympathy, openly told me that's what he'd just done when he got there (where I was already waiting to be served), and then still shouted over me and made sure he got served before me. The golden rule of the pub should always be that when you're asked who's next, you gesture to the person who was there before you, and that means you get served next.

Meanwhile, one person was ordering a ton of cocktails (only two bar staff, so basically cutting response time by at least half), and the woman in front of me acted as if she'd never been at a bar before. Ordered "a bitter", which somehow turned into a five minute conversation over whether each individual beer was a bitter or not. Got three or four drinks served, then said, "could I also get three gin and tonics?", because apparently ordering everything at once is too difficult. The bloke started pouring them, and she decided that actually she wants flavoured gins, and asks what they've got. She makes him go through every individual bottle of flavoured gin, reading the flavour aloud and showing them to her. Once he's shown all of them, she asks, "have you got an orange one?". Were any of the flavours he just gave you orange? No? Then probably fucking not, right? She eventually settles on whatever flavour, and there's only enough for one - barman apologises, and asks if she'd want another flavour for the other two. "Have you definitely not got any more anywhere else?". Yeah, he's just fucking choosing not to serve it to you, right? To his credit, he very bluntly said, "even if I did, I'd have to leave the bar and there's no one else here, so no". Just the fucking worst.

 

Also, there seems to be a trend towards actively queuing at pub bars now. Like, an actual line starting at the bar and working backwards, rather than using the whole length of the bar. I see it in the pubs near my work a lot, so I don't know if it's chiefly due to students who didn't learn how to behave in a pub because of the pandemic, or something else I'm missing, but it's really, really annoying. 

Those type of people at bars do my head in too. Luckily not had to deal with it for years as rarely go to a place without table service these days (culture here not because I'm fancy). But dreading it over Christmas. 

I personally try to avoid bars where there's a queue or a large crowed at the bar anyway l. Give me a pub with less that 10 people in it anyday. 

You are right about those youn 18 year olds too, they have no idea about some of those things we used to pick up pretty quick in the outside world I've noticed a few things with my students. Interesting to hear pubs Is another one. 

Primark gets the win for me. Not that I particularly hate the shop with all its shit licensed merch and a lack of larger sizes.the simple fact my wife loves it and when we visit the uk she stocks up on about 30kg of clothes in one shop. This requires about 3 hours of her time visiting all departments to ensure she gets something for everyone she seemingly knows in Vietnam. Probably clothing the whole 94 million of them. 

The one in Bournemouth has a Costa coffee but even popping there for a bit doesn't use up enough time. All the while if I sit there in bombarded by musty clothes and Sally yelling across the store at Cathy about something because she can't be bothered to walk. 

Absolute torture I'm hoping to find away round in our December visit. 

No real memory from 91 to 92ish but my view is it was very much peer driven by the kids. There was at least one mate who had sky and might have found it either being shown or adverts while dad was watching sport etc. This led to showing mates at the weekend and boom more fans than sky box owners. The same as any craze back then. One or two like it, their mates follow and before you know it everyone is pogging up, morphing into rangers or trying to body slam the weedy kid. 

18 hours ago, The King of Old School said:

That's exactly how i imagine an arena full of UKFF'ers would react to a match. That and taking the piss out of people's hair.

We're mostly all way to old for that type of behaviour these days. I imagine we would all likely be stood either around the bar complaining about young people not using headphones, in the queue for a shit or leaving early to grab a chippy tea. A decade ago you would probably be right though. 

I'm an absolute sucker for good ol' Britwres comedy spots from inring stuff like that curl up, hands waving leading to an arm drag thing or even sillier stuff like pants down, getting kids to hit the heel with foam hands or overreacting to public warnings. 

As said R Truth is just gold and to me has a place as one of the best comedians in wrestling of all time. 

I feel like some of Golddusts sillyness gets forgotten from 2002 as well l. Those segments with the nWo were fantastic.

Actual I ring wise or not so in ring, give me Crash Holly hardcore title shenanigans any day. Instead of technical classic tournaments they should've done a crash Holly classic where the two opponents have to try and pin each other anywhere anytime in a 24hr window