Frankie Crisp

Been way behind so I’ve just binged a load of YouTube highlights from the last few months.

I’ll put it out there that R-Truth is the most consistently entertaining performer over the last 20-odd years. 

Let R-Truth finish the story.

That first episode must have baffled them when Ross said Carol left him because she was a Lisboan.

Pip’s is the one for me.

Because the UKFF is mental, I was sent a pack of them by a wonderful girl who @Philo_Vance met on holiday in Greece years ago.

I love hot sauce. After mint sauce, it’s the thing I put on everything most at any given opportunity. My problem is that hot sauce hates me. As much as I adore what it adds to my food, my body reacts like I’m Prince Andrew trapped in Toys ’R’ Us. My forehead sweats, my beard sweats and I hate going to the loo if we’re out in case I’ve got an arse torpedo on show. Anyone I’m with thinks I’m eating it through sufferance, but I genuinely love it. 

But, yeah. Pip’s. Give them a go. I’ve tried all of them (I think) since I was gifted that first pack but the absolute best which I’ve since ordered a few times is La Boca del Diablo. It’s incredible. It has that insane kick you want, but somehow also doesn’t sting for too long. There’s also a sweet chilli version of this that’s great to chuck into a stir-fry.

My Nan passed away in late 2001, when Booker T was still relatively new to me. The funeral was beautifully put together and I was privileged to be one of the ones to carry her; as big an honour as it was, it messed me up big time. I got way drunker than planned and ended up trying to do a Spineroonie in the car park at the end of the night. It was more like an upturned tortoise having a seizure outside Preston Guild Hall, with a bit of gravel thrown in. Wrecked my second suit in the space of six weeks.

I also shit my kecks on the walk home from my Grandad's funeral after trying to keep up with my old man's drinking speed. That was six weeks earlier.

4 minutes ago, FelatioLips said:

We were giggling at some of the facts they had for the Gladiators. The one that could "lift the weight of a garden shed" or "run as fast as a car travelling 24mph" were so specific and weird. Why specifically a car? Surely it's anything that can go 24mph?
Wouldn't it depend what's in the shed?

Was just about to post a similar comment. It was very Matt Hardy v1 and I’m sure it’s an inside joke with the production team.

Enjoyed it, mainly because it didn’t try to reinvent the original but still got some new stuff in. Those Walsh cretins are a terrible choice, but I get why they’ve used them.

Mark Clattenburg, though. He can get to fuck.

Welcome to the board, Chris! If you have any queries or issues, just tag @SuperBacon as he’s our 24-hour help desk.

2 hours ago, TibBo said:

I wonder if the producers have laid-down some new rules about people throwing others under the bus when they are eliminated like that guy did with Wolf in the first series?

Now there’s a crossover I’d love to see. Gladitraitors.

I’ve just met Andy Johnson, lads!

Fully aware that nobody is even mildly arsed, but as a Palace fan who has been emotionally and financially drained by them for decades, meeting a club legend who’s actually brought me some kind of happiness over the years - even if it includes a season we got relegated - was quite the joy.

Awful sentence structure. Anyway, here’s me and AJ!

6 minutes ago, Loki said:

I pretty much avoid anything German as I visited a couple of times and it's boring and the food is shit.

Been watching loads of true crime documentaries lately. ITVx, as crap as it is, has delivered some good ones.

The problem for me is that it’s highly sponsored by trustthetrader.com. Every episode break has it. Trust the trader? Sound. I will. I will trust you as a trader. But when I hear it…

… all I hear is ‘Chest the Traitor… dot com’ and now I’m paranoid about my username being changed to frankie_loves_tories by a rogue Mod.

I’ll need some time, bear with me.

Last orders for nominations, if you’re arsed. Threads getting locked in a few hours.

Parklife.

No, Pete, this isn’t a Bat-Signal.

If someone was to snuff it from the well-known world, whose would affect you the most?

Clearly, we don’t know these lot and when you think about it, their passing shouldn’t bother us. But some will. They’ll have had some kind of impact on us over the years and for whatever reason, they’ve got under our skin in the right way and mean something to us.

I still remember getting sent home from work when George Harrison died. Emotionally, it broke me. I got a week off when Thatcher died. Financially, it broke me. But that’s a different thread.

Anyway. They’ll have brought something positive to our lives and it’ll be hard when they leg it. Whose death will do you in?

Bruce Springsteen

I think this goes without saying. His music, philosophy, lyrics and outlook on life have kept me alive. That’s not hyperbole. I genuinely don’t think I’d be here today without him. He’s incredible and gives so much; rock, folk, pop, poetry, humility, anger. Politics, love. Humour, sincerity. He’s a once in a lifetime talent and when he goes, I think the world will lose one of the greatest people we’ve ever, ever seen.

Damon Albarn

An intrinsic part of my teenage and subsequent adult life, this beautiful sod has given me so many important songs, lyrics and moments. I’ll be destroyed when his brain explodes and kills everyone in the vicinity of his allotment.

Robert Smith

King of the madmen. The Cure are the best. His music has completely infected me and changed me for the better. 

Dennis Skinner 

Tony Benn was and is my political hero, and his leanings and philosophy helped me form my views as they are now. Dennis is there, right behind him. A beautiful, wonderful bloke, who - whilst mocked and laughed at by the media - has more about him than almost every politician kicking about today. He’s an incredible human being.

Darren Ambrose and James McArthur.

I can’t go into this one.

EDIT: Posted in the wrong thread. Jimmy me. Kinell.

Just for anyone who’s already posted their nominations and may not see subsequent replies, there’s now a Worst Non-wrestler award if you want to edit your posts.

Will include it in the awards if there are four or more different nominations.

On 12/29/2023 at 5:24 PM, Keith Houchen said:

Ooh good shout, that would’ve been a good topic. 
 

EDIT - @Frankie Crisp Too late?

Sorry, I dropped* a bollock by forgetting to reply to this.

More than happy to add this as a new award and for people to edit their original posts with nominations. No need to @ me as I'll be logging everything from scratch early next week.

* Don't.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, @CuckedByMenry is one of the best to walk away from this place.

When Harry Met Sally

Yeah, yeah. I know. I’ve banged on about it on here over the years. I ping pong between this and North By Northwest as my favourite film of all time and no doubt, when I watch the latter again I’ll turn towards it, but at the moment Harry and Sally wins it by a nose.

It’s perfect. Billy Crystal steals the show as a miserable, nihilistic, sarcastic loser and Meg Ryan delivers the performance of her career with her facial expressions and reactions. Carrie Fisher and Bruno Kirby are the best supporting actors any film has ever had. I don’t think there’s ever been a film so perfectly shot, placed or written.

The fact that we watched it on New Year’s Eve in the local Town Hall, on the beanbags which somehow absorbed my farts, made it all the better. 

You made a woman meow?

I think our favourite train nonce, @Fatty Facesitter, just pushed his wedding back and started a GoFundMe.