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    New Doctor Who

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    Smiths Doctor has already said, to Amy, that he gets thousands of regenerations and that he used to think it was less, but they miscalculated.

     

    They covered themselves on that.

     

    Though, people always seem to forget.

     

    Moffatt said the show isn't ending any time soon, so it was better to just get that monkey off their backs.

     

    Tennant's Doctor also said something along these lines in an episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures too.

    The Fortean/paranormal/conspiracy thread

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    What aspects don't add up? Apart from this naked guy stuff, what are people picking on as holes in the story?

     

    In the immediate going on and aftermath it seemed like a fairly coherent timeline of events given the confusion, but I admit I haven't really reviewed it since, nor have I read what questions are being asked.

    I've not had the time to really follow it myself, but I've seen a few interviews with what look like normal US citizens, just bystanders in the street, who seem to think that something isn't quite right with it all.

     

    Also, I've heard this CISPA act mentioned frequently. Anyone got any idea why there are shitloads of people upset about this?

     

     

    It's because the bill got passed by one section of the house while this was all going on so the conspiracists are claiming that this was all one big smoke screen to cover up the fact that they were going to sneak this bill through while no-one was looking. More fuel to the false flag fire.

    The fact that the group Anonymous mentioned it while it was going on during the night and that on Monday they are campaigning for another Internet blackout would suggest it hasn't got by that quietly.

    New Doctor Who

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    2/3 for really good episodes this series. I liked that they didn't have him just stumble across the Tardis at the end, too. Gives us something different to start next week. That's all that's needed to keep things fresh now and then, just little tweaks on the usual tropes.

     

    Something interesting's been pointed out (I forget where) - Clara's Victorian birthdate is the same date as the airdate for the first episode (and thus possibly the 50th). No idea if that'll lead to anything.

     

    Via various interviews it seems that it is indeed important and that she is directly linked to the Tardis someway. The quotes floating around are along the lines that Clara & the Tardis don't get on. Whatever that all means.

    Other MMA Shows

    in MMA Forum

    Posted · Edited by Snake Plissken

    Micheal Page has come under fire that his opponent took a dive last night. His response?

    @Michaelpage247: I no it looks like I grazed him and no it didn’t land clean BUT his nose didn’t bleed on its own

    As far as the Marcus Davis fight goes, it's best o quote Bobby Heenan "Your only as tough as your eyeballs or your balls"

    Minor news items that don't deserve a thread

    in UK Fan Forum

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    Uh oh is the WWE about to get watered down even further?

     

    From the BBC:

    Meanwhile Sky has been rapped for broadcasting a scene during World Wrestling Entertainment, which was found to be unsuitable for children.

     

    Ofcom found the one-and-a-half-minute scene, shown on 10 November at 09:20 GMT was unsuitable for a Saturday morning audience as it contained "several close-up punches and kicks to the head and on one occasion, "a bloody bruise on the chest of a competitor".

     

    Sky apologised for any distress caused to viewers, saying it would review its guidelines.

     

    It added that fighting outside the ring would be minimised and similar dramatised sequences would not be broadcast in future.

    Minor news items that don't deserve a thread

    in UK Fan Forum

    Posted · Edited by Snake Plissken

    From Bob Magee's "As I See It" Column

     

    A little bit of wrestling history died this past week.

     

    Inside Wrestling and The Wrestler will cease publication after this month's issue.

     

    For most of us, they were the first place we ever got "news" about wrestling. Mind you, this was "news" handed to them by the promotions they were writing about. Most of the time, the news was fictionalized accounts loosely based on wrestling storylines ala soap opera magazines. But generations of parents saw their children begging them for one of these wrestling magazines every time they went to the supermarket, the drug store, or the newstand. Children would stare at the pictures for hours and hours, while reading the "stories".

     

    These magazines, along with Pro Wrestling Illustrated, were what is known by most people as the “Apter-mags,” even though actually founded by Stanley Weston in 1966. Their symbolic namesake, Bill Apter, now with 1wrestling.com, has been a universally identifiable face around wrestling arenas for nearly 40 years as writer and photographer. When a new magazine that at least suggested a rivalry to the Weston magazines, WOW Magazine, was founded; Apter jumped, and was told he "could never come back". Amusingly enough, the website for Pro Wrestling Illustrated magazine has totally sanitized their history of any mention of Apter...and continues to do so this day.

     

    Ownership has changed over the years, from Stanley Weston to Oscar De La Hoya to the current owners, Kappa Publishing.

     

    With the era of newsletters such as the Wrestling Observer and the Pro Wrestling Torch that reported legitimate news in real time...then the explosion of the Internet, wrestling magazines whose press dates meant their "news" was months old didn't exactly have much appeal.

     

    Even outside the US, wrestling magazines have been on the decline, with Weekly Pro Wrestling the only remaining major wrestling magazine in Japan, after years with many reporting legitimately on their wrestling scene. In Mexico, Box Y Lucha is still going strong. In the UK, the Fighting Spitor magazine exists.

     

    Technology may have rendered these magazines largely obsolete, but it's still sad to see them go. It's a part of our history as fans.

     

    I remember reading these 'back in the day' but then as I have previously said, with the advent of the internet newz sites, I'm surprised that any wrestling mag survives these days. I used to read inside wrestling normally when I already had that months PWI. But then I haven't read either of them for years. I might browse it in smiths for the PWI 500, but then usually someone on here posts the list so I don't even have to bother with that.

    General Movie (Film for snobs) News Thread

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    The Guardian's got a full list of nominations ongoing - looks like they're still in the middle of announcing the technical categories.

     

    EDIT: Perhaps not - Empire looks to have a completed full list

     

    Might do a UKFF Oscars sweepstake/pool thing for this year, if anyone would be interested in that. Basically you make your predictions and I'll keep track of them all, then come Oscar night I can produce a 'favourites' list, we'll also see who gets the most right and they win an Oscar. Or a picture of an Oscar in their sig or something. Might spark some discussion on the nominees, too!

     

    Depends on how many categories you were going to cover but yes Id be interested.

    MMA-Related Awards 2012

    in UKFF Awards 2023

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    Best MMA Fighter

     

    Anderson Silva

    Jon Jones

    Max Nunes

     

    Best MMA Fight

     

    Jung vs. Poirer (Fuel 3)

    Barboza Vs. Etim (UFC 142)

    Lauzon Vs. Varner (Fox 4)

     

    Best MMA Event

     

    BAMMA 9 (Watson vs. Marshman)

    UFC 146 (Dos Santos vs. Mir)

    UFC 142 (Aldo vs. Mendes)

     

    MMA Poster

    Wandshogun09

     

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