Polish Dad

I'm a pretty big defender of Fludder, in how he's done things. I'm not a fan of PCW, I like storyline-heavy stuff (PROGRESS/Futureshock) much more than one-night/exhibition/import stuff nowadays. I also think Fludder comes across as a right tit online; but I've attended two PCW events, one as a fan (Celebrating Axl Rage's birthday, if anyone remembers him), and one as a last-minute commentary replacement for Greg Lambert as I lived down the road (apologies to anyone who heard that commentary, as it was possibly the worst work I've ever done).

On both occasions I was there during the set-up, and it's one of the most well-prepared shows I've ever been to, with all the talent (UK & otherwise) having a really comfortable time in a great locker room atmosphere. It's also the most I've ever been paid for any contract gig, entirely unprompted as I'd offered to step in for free as a favour. Don't know what happens to him once he gets online, but in person he's always been an incredible gent.

First one in the bath today. Took four people and a lot of swearing to kill the bastard.

While we were gone my housemates mum put another spider in the bath with it, one of the spindly legged pricks, because she heard they would eat the body. It didn't, so got evicted from the house.

The apocalypse is here:

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It's my favourite current series. Been reading Ryan North since he started Dinosaur Comics.

The numbering is unfortunate, but the series itself is still essentially continuous. Makes it an awkward read, but worth it since it's hilarious.

This is some of the best stuff I've ever seen in wrestling. I'm absolutely hooked.

I became friends with Fallon Fox a while back, who competes in MMA as pot-op MtF. She's pretty talkative online, and happy to giev advice a lot of the time, so it might be worth tweeting her or adding her FB page and asking for advice.

I can't see it being too much of an issue in British wrestling, at least. There are fewer gender divisions in the scene than elsewhere, and a scene (at least in what I've experienced with FutureShock, GPW, and PROGRESS) that is exceptionally welcoming to LGBT people.

I'd say go for it.

Okay, you can't receive new messages.

Hellocomic (.to) is the place to be, although their search is abominable.

More Warren Ellis, tbh. Doktor Sleepless was great (although it never ended, just stopped being written).

It's easier than that, just open a tweet, hit F12 and you can put whatever you want in there, as evidenced here: https://i.imgur.com/WjwxdPe.png

Doesn't show up for anyone else, obviously, you're just edited the page display on your own Chrome, but easy enough to screenshot and send something viral.

I think mostly I hate the headpiece, with it looking like something an amateur cosplayer would make, over Warburton's swanky one-piece.

That's shocking. Way worse than Warburton's cracking run on the show.

Fuck. At £4 a month I guess I'm getting back into FutureShock then.

The EU Referendum may have just killed my new relationship. She moved here to work at Nuffield Theatre a short while ago, and now their biggest contributor has imposed a moratorium on funding. If the Theatre have to make cuts, as the most junior member of staff, she'll be the first one to go.

Trying to convince her to come out and have an angry drink with me, instead of becoming a hermit.

For those following along, tonight's date went incredibly well (At least, I think so). Good food, non-stop conversation, and hopefully another date next week.

 

On the bright side, Tinder seems to be working out for me. Got a date with a lovely girl who's into musicals, video games and assorted general nerd wankery.

 

Date? Talking about your interests? Have I got the wrong end of the stick, I thought the idea of Tinder was people swipe the appropriate direction based on whether the photo makes you think "Would shag" then when you get a match, you meet, you shag?

 

Or is that just how the people I know that have Tinder use it?

 

That's what I use Happn for. I find Tinder is easier to talk people into dates on than OkCupid, where it seems to just be talking forever that goes nowhere.

Happn is for when I'm out and just want someone to go home with for the night, and the people on it seem to all be using it for that.

Same situation here, she moves out on Monday thankfully. On the bright side, Tinder seems to be working out for me. Got a date with a lovely girl who's into musicals, video games and assorted general nerd wankery. Haven't gauged her opinion on Arn Anderson yet, taking it slow.

Yeah, there's still not much comes out of Rock being anything but genuine as fuck. Seems like a great guy, and someone I find quite motivational in media, I'm well into the Rock clock.

Is Matt Hardy trying to be Johnny Depp there? Or has the ghost pushed him down one stair too many?

He's turned up for the main event. Actually excited for this.

I was the victim of bad luck in a name change thread. It's Jesse, and we've worked on such wonderful productions as 'Hearthstone', and 'Even More Hearthstone'.

I'm finally caught up to the point of 'Hit The North!'

I'm finding Callum Leslie a breath of fresh air on commentary (which surprises me, as I've worked with him on other commentayr projects, and wasn't confident that his voice & style would lend itself to something more high impact like wrestling). He very much avoids the standard "Be very loud and react to everything you see like it's the first time you've seen it" (which I was incredibly guilty of during my year or so of commentary), chiming in with relevant knowledge of each wrestler's history, giving a more 'sports analyst' feel to the product.

I'm still not sold on RJ as his partner, he still has that issue that because he reacts so much to the stuff from the very beginning it's hard to set apart when an amazing sequence or emotional high point has happened. I also feel like there's not much interaction between the two, commentary seems to go:

*RJ reacts to the action in the ring*
*Comment from Callum*
"Absolutely" -RJ Singh.

I'm liking it much more than the RJ/Glenn Roberts pairing though, and am looking forward to seeing it develop.

If they take Snyder off Batman then I'm done. That run is one of the few things keeping me with DC right now.

I'm sold, Bayley's a star. 

Having just resubbed specifically for that reason, I can agree that it's worth it.

Never been to one live, but it's such a fun show to watch. If you struggle at first, stick with it, because it's worth doing.