England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
I first heard the term 'open a can of whoop ass' when I watched There's Something About Mary.
My friends thought I was going to die in the cinema, I kept on laughing so much.
Dodgeball, Intolerable Cruelty, Casino Royale, and The Avengers have only elicited such a strong reaction.
Casino Royale was the worst, the whole cinema looked at me after I couldn't stop laughing.
The Niven one is a joy.
The Herb Alpert score is perfect. The End.
I’ve always loved Herb Alpert.
My Mom used to have some of his LPs and I played them as a kid.
Never lost that love for them
Casino Royale is one of the greatest soundtracks ever. The film is one of the worst in the history of motion pictures. It doesn't make any sense on a number of levels, good writers and a stellar cast but the screenplay makes no sense.
Since I’ve retired I’ve come to hate Bank Holidays
Let the workers work.
You are not alone. Should 18-24 63% Should not 23% Should 25-49 63% Should not 26% Should 50-65 45% Should not 43% Should 65+ 28% Should not 57%
The old hate the young. Sums up British politics.
I still think it's hilarious that the Tories have spent their entire existence as a political party warning of the danger of poor people voting for the government to give them other people's money and then George Osborne implements the pension triple lock to do exactly that, but the pensioners that benefit are now mostly voting for a party that better expresses their visceral hatred for the young.
The young hate the old which is amusing because they forget that, if they are lucky, they will be old at some point themselves.
It comes sooner than expected. Where have the last forty years gone?
My feeling exactly. I am 61 on Sunday and still think I am 20. Sadly my body takes great pleasure in reminding me that is not the case.
I am 50 and can still do anything except I regularly do my back in putting my socks on.
Since I’ve retired I’ve come to hate Bank Holidays
Let the workers work.
For the retired, every day is a Bank Holiday.
You’re kidding
Today I’ve fixed the latch on my gate. Gone to the home of friends who are on holiday to water the plants then fitted new door handles and retainers jn rhe house as well as having to make my wife her lunch.
Since I’ve retired I’ve come to hate Bank Holidays
Let the workers work.
You are not alone. Should 18-24 63% Should not 23% Should 25-49 63% Should not 26% Should 50-65 45% Should not 43% Should 65+ 28% Should not 57%
The old hate the young. Sums up British politics.
I still think it's hilarious that the Tories have spent their entire existence as a political party warning of the danger of poor people voting for the government to give them other people's money and then George Osborne implements the pension triple lock to do exactly that, but the pensioners that benefit are now mostly voting for a party that better expresses their visceral hatred for the young.
The young hate the old which is amusing because they forget that, if they are lucky, they will be old at some point themselves.
It comes sooner than expected. Where have the last forty years gone?
My feeling exactly. I am 61 on Sunday and still think I am 20. Sadly my body takes great pleasure in reminding me that is not the case.
Many happy returns, Richard. The reminders become less subtle
Since I’ve retired I’ve come to hate Bank Holidays
Let the workers work.
You are not alone. Should 18-24 63% Should not 23% Should 25-49 63% Should not 26% Should 50-65 45% Should not 43% Should 65+ 28% Should not 57%
The old hate the young. Sums up British politics.
I still think it's hilarious that the Tories have spent their entire existence as a political party warning of the danger of poor people voting for the government to give them other people's money and then George Osborne implements the pension triple lock to do exactly that, but the pensioners that benefit are now mostly voting for a party that better expresses their visceral hatred for the young.
The young hate the old which is amusing because they forget that, if they are lucky, they will be old at some point themselves.
It comes sooner than expected. Where have the last forty years gone?
My feeling exactly. I am 61 on Sunday and still think I am 20. Sadly my body takes great pleasure in reminding me that is not the case.
I am 50 and can still do anything except I regularly do my back in putting my socks on.
50! You are barely out of short trousers.
But not far from the age when shorts are compulsory from April until October.
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
I first heard the term 'open a can of whoop ass' when I watched There's Something About Mary.
My friends thought I was going to die in the cinema, I kept on laughing so much.
Dodgeball, Intolerable Cruelty, Casino Royale, and The Avengers have only elicited such a strong reaction.
Casino Royale was the worst, the whole cinema looked at me after I couldn't stop laughing.
The Niven one is a joy.
The Herb Alpert score is perfect. The End.
I’ve always loved Herb Alpert.
My Mom used to have some of his LPs and I played them as a kid.
Never lost that love for them
Casino Royale is one of the greatest soundtracks ever. The film is one of the worst in the history of motion pictures. It doesn't make any sense on a number of levels, good writers and a stellar cast but the screenplay is all over the place..
I can forgive it all of that for the stellar cast and swing)ng sixties feel to it.
Since I’ve retired I’ve come to hate Bank Holidays
Let the workers work.
For the retired, every day is a Bank Holiday.
You’re kidding
Today I’ve fixed the latch on my gate. Gone to the home of friends who are on holiday to water the plants then fitted new door handles and retainers jn rhe house as well as having to make my wife her lunch.
It’s been hard work.
It could have been worse. You could have been babysitting grandchildren or taking them to and from school.
Since I’ve retired I’ve come to hate Bank Holidays
Let the workers work.
You are not alone. Should 18-24 63% Should not 23% Should 25-49 63% Should not 26% Should 50-65 45% Should not 43% Should 65+ 28% Should not 57%
The old hate the young. Sums up British politics.
I still think it's hilarious that the Tories have spent their entire existence as a political party warning of the danger of poor people voting for the government to give them other people's money and then George Osborne implements the pension triple lock to do exactly that, but the pensioners that benefit are now mostly voting for a party that better expresses their visceral hatred for the young.
The young hate the old which is amusing because they forget that, if they are lucky, they will be old at some point themselves.
It comes sooner than expected. Where have the last forty years gone?
My feeling exactly. I am 61 on Sunday and still think I am 20. Sadly my body takes great pleasure in reminding me that is not the case.
I am 50 and can still do anything except I regularly do my back in putting my socks on.
Yes, know the feeling. I have to sit on the stairs to put on my socks (and sandals, of course!)
I'm well ahead of the game in exclusively wearing loafers and lace free trainers, no struggles to get my shoes on in future for me. Socks admittedly will be more of a challenge.
France had its hottest night time temp ever recorded.
30 degrees at night.
It is 28 degrees still in my living with doors and windows wide open.
This climate change hoax thing sure is weird.
29.5 in my living room right now, with the fan on, kitchen window open, all bedroom windows open and the attic skylight open!
Supposedly 31 in my living room, but I doubt that as it feels pretty comfortable at the moment, until I go into the bedroom where things immediately heat up.
I mean, honestly, this is just plain daft. Just when the bien pensants start to think maybe she has something she goes back to being mad as a mad thing:
@Tomorrow'sMPs @tomorrowsmps · 8m Badenoch says she is ruling out as candidates anyone who supports ECHR or Net Zero. That could problems with some existing MPs.
I mean, honestly, this is just plain daft. Just when the bien pensants start to think maybe she has something she goes back to being mad as a mad thing:
@Tomorrow'sMPs @tomorrowsmps · 8m Badenoch says she is ruling out as candidates anyone who supports ECHR or Net Zero. That could problems with some existing MPs.
So what if a dozen or so of your own MPs are arguing about the precise details of Net Zero - maybe 2050, maybe 2040 etc etc?
Bonkers.
She needs ideas which will appeal to those who've left for Reform, but won't spook off those who have stuck around so far. Rolling the dice on another 'we need to leave x to solve all our problems' campaign apparently is where they've landed.
I am live at my Camden by-election count, postal votes being checked, mood tense.
Some early talk that the independent might do well. He was endorsed by the Green who was elected and disqualified in May, but who had then fallen out with the party. The indie had also had support from the Camden People's Alliance, a Your Party-adjacent grouping.
However, it's probably more likely to be a showdown between the Greens and Labour.
Turnout low, but what do you expect in this heat?
The greatest drama so far was actually when someone turned the lights off by mistake.
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
I first heard the term 'open a can of whoop ass' when I watched There's Something About Mary.
My friends thought I was going to die in the cinema, I kept on laughing so much.
Dodgeball, Intolerable Cruelty, Casino Royale, and The Avengers have only elicited such a strong reaction.
Casino Royale was the worst, the whole cinema looked at me after I couldn't stop laughing.
The Niven one is a joy.
The Herb Alpert score is perfect. The End.
I’ve always loved Herb Alpert.
My Mom used to have some of his LPs and I played them as a kid.
Never lost that love for them
Casino Royale is one of the greatest soundtracks ever. The film is one of the worst in the history of motion pictures. It doesn't make any sense on a number of levels, good writers and a stellar cast but the screenplay is all over the place..
I rarely understand what is going on in Bond films.
Since I’ve retired I’ve come to hate Bank Holidays
Let the workers work.
You are not alone. Should 18-24 63% Should not 23% Should 25-49 63% Should not 26% Should 50-65 45% Should not 43% Should 65+ 28% Should not 57%
The old hate the young. Sums up British politics.
I still think it's hilarious that the Tories have spent their entire existence as a political party warning of the danger of poor people voting for the government to give them other people's money and then George Osborne implements the pension triple lock to do exactly that, but the pensioners that benefit are now mostly voting for a party that better expresses their visceral hatred for the young.
The young hate the old which is amusing because they forget that, if they are lucky, they will be old at some point themselves.
It comes sooner than expected. Where have the last forty years gone?
My feeling exactly. I am 61 on Sunday and still think I am 20. Sadly my body takes great pleasure in reminding me that is not the case.
Happy birthday for Sunday.
Because I have kept the old Barnet Fair intact I look a great deal younger than my 64 years but the body feels an awful lot older.
Getting old is a real barsteward, although better than the alternative.
I mean, honestly, this is just plain daft. Just when the bien pensants start to think maybe she has something she goes back to being mad as a mad thing:
@Tomorrow'sMPs @tomorrowsmps · 8m Badenoch says she is ruling out as candidates anyone who supports ECHR or Net Zero. That could problems with some existing MPs.
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
My Mum taught both the Dynamite Kid and his cousin Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog). Geography not wrestling.
Fantastic. What a story to tell. Both ended up in Calgary Stampede with the Hart family.
Davey Boy’s son is a wrestler now. He will never be more than lower mid card.
I listened to the Bret Hart audiobook. It’s brilliant. Neither come out well although Dynamite comes off as a really unpleasant and at the end very bitter piece of work. Drink and drugs. As a wrestler he was superb and even got over in Japan.
Davey just comes over as a guy who cannot beat his addictions which eventually consumed him.
Yeah. The Dynamite Kid was simply a great athlete. Not a nice bloke I'm told.
I mean, honestly, this is just plain daft. Just when the bien pensants start to think maybe she has something she goes back to being mad as a mad thing:
@Tomorrow'sMPs @tomorrowsmps · 8m Badenoch says she is ruling out as candidates anyone who supports ECHR or Net Zero. That could problems with some existing MPs.
I mean, honestly, this is just plain daft. Just when the bien pensants start to think maybe she has something she goes back to being mad as a mad thing:
@Tomorrow'sMPs @tomorrowsmps · 8m Badenoch says she is ruling out as candidates anyone who supports ECHR or Net Zero. That could problems with some existing MPs.
So what if a dozen or so of your own MPs are arguing about the precise details of Net Zero - maybe 2050, maybe 2040 etc etc?
Bonkers.
During a record breaking heatwave, she decides to make Climate Change denial a central strategy.
I think a message that Net Zero policies are unrealistic, too costly, and do not have the global impact to make them a proportionate solution, could be reasonably popular without being pitched as absolute climate denialism. But purely on optics bringing it up on a normal or even cool day would probably be better.
I mean, honestly, this is just plain daft. Just when the bien pensants start to think maybe she has something she goes back to being mad as a mad thing:
@Tomorrow'sMPs @tomorrowsmps · 8m Badenoch says she is ruling out as candidates anyone who supports ECHR or Net Zero. That could problems with some existing MPs.
France had its hottest night time temp ever recorded.
30 degrees at night.
It is 28 degrees still in my living with doors and windows wide open.
This climate change hoax thing sure is weird.
29.5 in my living room right now, with the fan on, kitchen window open, all bedroom windows open and the attic skylight open!
Supposedly 31 in my living room, but I doubt that as it feels pretty comfortable at the moment, until I go into the bedroom where things immediately heat up.
Crikey! Who've you got in there?
For now, just me - I think a second or third person might cause a literal fire to break out.
Since I’ve retired I’ve come to hate Bank Holidays
Let the workers work.
For the retired, every day is a Bank Holiday.
You’re kidding
Today I’ve fixed the latch on my gate. Gone to the home of friends who are on holiday to water the plants then fitted new door handles and retainers jn rhe house as well as having to make my wife her lunch.
It’s been hard work.
It could have been worse. You could have been babysitting grandchildren or taking them to and from school.
I mean, honestly, this is just plain daft. Just when the bien pensants start to think maybe she has something she goes back to being mad as a mad thing:
@Tomorrow'sMPs @tomorrowsmps · 8m Badenoch says she is ruling out as candidates anyone who supports ECHR or Net Zero. That could problems with some existing MPs.
So what if a dozen or so of your own MPs are arguing about the precise details of Net Zero - maybe 2050, maybe 2040 etc etc?
Bonkers.
She needs ideas which will appeal to those who've left for Reform, but won't spook off those who have stuck around so far. Rolling the dice on another 'we need to leave x to solve all our problems' campaign apparently is where they've landed.
But right now... does she?
I'm not saying that Reform are about to collapse, but they are in a wobblier position than they have been for a while. It's at least possible that Kemi's right wing problem is about to solve itself, meaning that the way forward is to expand the tent centrewards. At the very least, it's worth waiting and seeing what happens.
(And yes, I accept that I am a long long way down the list of 'lapsed Conservatives that it's worth trying to attract back'.
That's before we get onto the dubious poltics of arguing against Net Zero in the year of monthly heatwaves.
Almost nowhere below 1000 mb. This universal high pressure is the result of hot tropical air spilling in our direction and it portends a destructive hurricane season before long. Hurricanes occasionally land on British shores, of course, but we cheer ourselves up by calling them storms.
Firstly, it's amazing how much of an outlier 1976 was. It still has the record for this metric, of 20 days of at least 30C at Heathrow. But it was followed by six consecutive years without a single day reaching 30C. It's now been 18 years since a year without the temperature reaching 30C at Heathrow, 2008.
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
My Mum taught both the Dynamite Kid and his cousin Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog). Geography not wrestling.
Fantastic. What a story to tell. Both ended up in Calgary Stampede with the Hart family.
Davey Boy’s son is a wrestler now. He will never be more than lower mid card.
I listened to the Bret Hart audiobook. It’s brilliant. Neither come out well although Dynamite comes off as a really unpleasant and at the end very bitter piece of work. Drink and drugs. As a wrestler he was superb and even got over in Japan.
Davey just comes over as a guy who cannot beat his addictions which eventually consumed him.
Yeah. The Dynamite Kid was simply a great athlete. Not a nice bloke I'm told.
I simply do not understand wrestling. Not in the way that I don't understand, say, ice dancing - which I don't consider a sport but is at least recognisablr as some sort of competition. But wrestling - it's closer in spirit to mime. It's performamce art. But whise characters are wildly celebrated. I don't get it, and - since the realisation it was not real, aged about 12 - have never got it. But surely everyone - even those who are wildly enthusiastic - understand this? Yet are still wildly enthusiastic, in a way people very much aren't for performance art. I don't get it. Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks were indeed better, though - here I do agree with Eagles.
Edit: All that said, still more entertaining than football, mind.
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
I first heard the term 'open a can of whoop ass' when I watched There's Something About Mary.
My friends thought I was going to die in the cinema, I kept on laughing so much.
Dodgeball, Intolerable Cruelty, Casino Royale, and The Avengers have only elicited such a strong reaction.
Casino Royale was the worst, the whole cinema looked at me after I couldn't stop laughing.
The Niven one is a joy.
The Herb Alpert score is perfect. The End.
I’ve always loved Herb Alpert.
My Mom used to have some of his LPs and I played them as a kid.
Never lost that love for them
Casino Royale is one of the greatest soundtracks ever. The film is one of the worst in the history of motion pictures. It doesn't make any sense on a number of levels, good writers and a stellar cast but the screenplay is all over the place..
I rarely understand what is going on in Bond films.
This one is a cut above, which is a shame, the sum of all the parts should make it the greatest film in history. Unfortunately it isn't.
I mean, honestly, this is just plain daft. Just when the bien pensants start to think maybe she has something she goes back to being mad as a mad thing:
@Tomorrow'sMPs @tomorrowsmps · 8m Badenoch says she is ruling out as candidates anyone who supports ECHR or Net Zero. That could problems with some existing MPs.
So what if a dozen or so of your own MPs are arguing about the precise details of Net Zero - maybe 2050, maybe 2040 etc etc?
Bonkers.
During a record breaking heatwave, she decides to make Climate Change denial a central strategy.
I think a message that Net Zero policies are unrealistic, too costly, and do not have the global impact to make them a proportionate solution, could be reasonably popular without being pitched as absolute climate denialism. But purely on optics bringing it up on a normal or even cool day would probably be better.
Accepting climate change, accepting that the UK can’t single handedly stop it, and that we need to mitigate its effects, by protecting from flooding, encouraging air conditioning and making homes and workplaces more resilient, may win more votes than hairshirt Green policies.
Almost nowhere below 1000 mb. This universal high pressure is the result of hot tropical air spilling in our direction and it portends a destructive hurricane season before long. Hurricanes occasionally land on British shores, of course, but we cheer ourselves up by calling them storms.
Well, one of the upsides of the El Nino is that it creates wind shear over the tropical Atlantic, so that should keep the Atlantic hurricane season quiet.
I mean, honestly, this is just plain daft. Just when the bien pensants start to think maybe she has something she goes back to being mad as a mad thing:
@Tomorrow'sMPs @tomorrowsmps · 8m Badenoch says she is ruling out as candidates anyone who supports ECHR or Net Zero. That could problems with some existing MPs.
So what if a dozen or so of your own MPs are arguing about the precise details of Net Zero - maybe 2050, maybe 2040 etc etc?
Bonkers.
During a record breaking heatwave, she decides to make Climate Change denial a central strategy.
I think a message that Net Zero policies are unrealistic, too costly, and do not have the global impact to make them a proportionate solution, could be reasonably popular without being pitched as absolute climate denialism. But purely on optics bringing it up on a normal or even cool day would probably be better.
Accepting climate change, accepting that the UK can’t single handedly stop it, and that we need to mitigate its effects, by protecting from flooding, encouraging air conditioning and making homes and workplaces more resilient, may win more votes than hairshirt Green policies.
We do need to make it easier to get air conditioning for sure.
I mean, honestly, this is just plain daft. Just when the bien pensants start to think maybe she has something she goes back to being mad as a mad thing:
@Tomorrow'sMPs @tomorrowsmps · 8m Badenoch says she is ruling out as candidates anyone who supports ECHR or Net Zero. That could problems with some existing MPs.
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
My Mum taught both the Dynamite Kid and his cousin Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog). Geography not wrestling.
Fantastic. What a story to tell. Both ended up in Calgary Stampede with the Hart family.
Davey Boy’s son is a wrestler now. He will never be more than lower mid card.
I listened to the Bret Hart audiobook. It’s brilliant. Neither come out well although Dynamite comes off as a really unpleasant and at the end very bitter piece of work. Drink and drugs. As a wrestler he was superb and even got over in Japan.
Davey just comes over as a guy who cannot beat his addictions which eventually consumed him.
Yeah. The Dynamite Kid was simply a great athlete. Not a nice bloke I'm told.
I simply do not understand wrestling. Not in the way that I don't understand, say, ice dancing - which I don't consider a sport but is at least recognisablr as some sort of competition. But wrestling - it's closer in spirit to mime. It's performamce art. But whise characters are wildly celebrated. I don't get it, and - since the realisation it was not real, aged about 12 - have never got it. But surely everyone - even those who are wildly enthusiastic - understand this? Yet are still wildly enthusiastic, in a way people very much aren't for performance art. I don't get it. Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks were indeed better, though - here I do agree with Eagles.
Edit: All that said, still more entertaining than football, mind.
It is theatre and spectacle.
Think of it like a pantomime. Everyone knows the plot and the ending, the costumes and characters are comical, and audience participation part of the fun. It's how they get there that makes it entertaining.
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
My Mum taught both the Dynamite Kid and his cousin Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog). Geography not wrestling.
Fantastic. What a story to tell. Both ended up in Calgary Stampede with the Hart family.
Davey Boy’s son is a wrestler now. He will never be more than lower mid card.
I listened to the Bret Hart audiobook. It’s brilliant. Neither come out well although Dynamite comes off as a really unpleasant and at the end very bitter piece of work. Drink and drugs. As a wrestler he was superb and even got over in Japan.
Davey just comes over as a guy who cannot beat his addictions which eventually consumed him.
Yeah. The Dynamite Kid was simply a great athlete. Not a nice bloke I'm told.
I simply do not understand wrestling. Not in the way that I don't understand, say, ice dancing - which I don't consider a sport but is at least recognisablr as some sort of competition. But wrestling - it's closer in spirit to mime. It's performamce art. But whise characters are wildly celebrated. I don't get it, and - since the realisation it was not real, aged about 12 - have never got it. But surely everyone - even those who are wildly enthusiastic - understand this? Yet are still wildly enthusiastic, in a way people very much aren't for performance art. I don't get it. Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks were indeed better, though - here I do agree with Eagles.
Edit: All that said, still more entertaining than football, mind.
Loud, exaggerated drama with physical performance - it's like a play only more interesting.
France had its hottest night time temp ever recorded.
30 degrees at night.
It is 28 degrees still in my living with doors and windows wide open.
This climate change hoax thing sure is weird.
29.5 in my living room right now, with the fan on, kitchen window open, all bedroom windows open and the attic skylight open!
Supposedly 31 in my living room, but I doubt that as it feels pretty comfortable at the moment, until I go into the bedroom where things immediately heat up.
Crikey! Who've you got in there?
For now, just me - I think a second or third person might cause a literal fire to break out.
Upstairs gaming/office room 29C earlier but 60% rh. Windows opened and same temp but dropped to 47%, much better
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
My Mum taught both the Dynamite Kid and his cousin Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog). Geography not wrestling.
Fantastic. What a story to tell. Both ended up in Calgary Stampede with the Hart family.
Davey Boy’s son is a wrestler now. He will never be more than lower mid card.
I listened to the Bret Hart audiobook. It’s brilliant. Neither come out well although Dynamite comes off as a really unpleasant and at the end very bitter piece of work. Drink and drugs. As a wrestler he was superb and even got over in Japan.
Davey just comes over as a guy who cannot beat his addictions which eventually consumed him.
Yeah. The Dynamite Kid was simply a great athlete. Not a nice bloke I'm told.
Everything you’ve heard will be true and there will be worse. A real piece of shit.
Awful human being and he was known to work stiff with wrestlers too. Deliberately cheapshotting and even hurting them. Even the likes of Bret Hart when Bret was young and he was married to Bret’s wife’s sister at the time !!
He once got battered by one of the Rougeau Brothers. Tough Canadians. You bully people eventually you bully the wrong person. The steroids won’t have helped
There’s a Dark Side of the Ring show about him I need to try and catch.
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
I first heard the term 'open a can of whoop ass' when I watched There's Something About Mary.
My friends thought I was going to die in the cinema, I kept on laughing so much.
Dodgeball, Intolerable Cruelty, Casino Royale, and The Avengers have only elicited such a strong reaction.
Casino Royale was the worst, the whole cinema looked at me after I couldn't stop laughing.
The Niven one is a joy.
The Herb Alpert score is perfect. The End.
I’ve always loved Herb Alpert.
My Mom used to have some of his LPs and I played them as a kid.
Never lost that love for them
Casino Royale is one of the greatest soundtracks ever. The film is one of the worst in the history of motion pictures. It doesn't make any sense on a number of levels, good writers and a stellar cast but the screenplay is all over the place..
I rarely understand what is going on in Bond films.
This one is a cut above, which is a shame, the sum of all the parts should make it the greatest film in history. Unfortunately it isn't.
While I'm, unusually, agreeing with Eagles, I also rather like Casino Royale - the soundtrack rescues it - and Dodgeball is possibly my favourite foreign film ever made. The first time I saw it I was still laughing an hour after it ended. There is no opportunity lost for humour - my favourite bit is the trailer for the obscure sports channel with the squirrel waterskiing.
Firstly, it's amazing how much of an outlier 1976 was. It still has the record for this metric, of 20 days of at least 30C at Heathrow. But it was followed by six consecutive years without a single day reaching 30C. It's now been 18 years since a year without the temperature reaching 30C at Heathrow, 2008.
That is presumably an old article, as I think we are up to 13 this year. We could easily break the 1976 total given the forecast but it won't look anything like as much of an outlier now.
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
I first heard the term 'open a can of whoop ass' when I watched There's Something About Mary.
My friends thought I was going to die in the cinema, I kept on laughing so much.
Dodgeball, Intolerable Cruelty, Casino Royale, and The Avengers have only elicited such a strong reaction.
Casino Royale was the worst, the whole cinema looked at me after I couldn't stop laughing.
The Niven one is a joy.
The Herb Alpert score is perfect. The End.
I’ve always loved Herb Alpert.
My Mom used to have some of his LPs and I played them as a kid.
Never lost that love for them
Casino Royale is one of the greatest soundtracks ever. The film is one of the worst in the history of motion pictures. It doesn't make any sense on a number of levels, good writers and a stellar cast but the screenplay is all over the place..
I rarely understand what is going on in Bond films.
I mean, honestly, this is just plain daft. Just when the bien pensants start to think maybe she has something she goes back to being mad as a mad thing:
@Tomorrow'sMPs @tomorrowsmps · 8m Badenoch says she is ruling out as candidates anyone who supports ECHR or Net Zero. That could problems with some existing MPs.
So what if a dozen or so of your own MPs are arguing about the precise details of Net Zero - maybe 2050, maybe 2040 etc etc?
Bonkers.
During a record breaking heatwave, she decides to make Climate Change denial a central strategy.
I think a message that Net Zero policies are unrealistic, too costly, and do not have the global impact to make them a proportionate solution, could be reasonably popular without being pitched as absolute climate denialism. But purely on optics bringing it up on a normal or even cool day would probably be better.
Accepting climate change, accepting that the UK can’t single handedly stop it, and that we need to mitigate its effects, by protecting from flooding, encouraging air conditioning and making homes and workplaces more resilient, may win more votes than hairshirt Green policies.
There is a pretty good case that "Net Zero" costs only 0.2% of GDP and as soon as 2040 is a net benefit to the economy.
Firstly, it's amazing how much of an outlier 1976 was. It still has the record for this metric, of 20 days of at least 30C at Heathrow. But it was followed by six consecutive years without a single day reaching 30C. It's now been 18 years since a year without the temperature reaching 30C at Heathrow, 2008.
That is presumably an old article, as I think we are up to 13 this year We could easily break the 1976 total given the forecast.
This summer is 0.4C cooler than 1976 was to this point. But this year to date is comfortably the warmest by 0.6C (Central England Temperature series)
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
My Mum taught both the Dynamite Kid and his cousin Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog). Geography not wrestling.
Fantastic. What a story to tell. Both ended up in Calgary Stampede with the Hart family.
Davey Boy’s son is a wrestler now. He will never be more than lower mid card.
I listened to the Bret Hart audiobook. It’s brilliant. Neither come out well although Dynamite comes off as a really unpleasant and at the end very bitter piece of work. Drink and drugs. As a wrestler he was superb and even got over in Japan.
Davey just comes over as a guy who cannot beat his addictions which eventually consumed him.
Yeah. The Dynamite Kid was simply a great athlete. Not a nice bloke I'm told.
I simply do not understand wrestling. Not in the way that I don't understand, say, ice dancing - which I don't consider a sport but is at least recognisablr as some sort of competition. But wrestling - it's closer in spirit to mime. It's performamce art. But whise characters are wildly celebrated. I don't get it, and - since the realisation it was not real, aged about 12 - have never got it. But surely everyone - even those who are wildly enthusiastic - understand this? Yet are still wildly enthusiastic, in a way people very much aren't for performance art. I don't get it. Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks were indeed better, though - here I do agree with Eagles.
Edit: All that said, still more entertaining than football, mind.
It is theatre and spectacle.
Think of it like a pantomime. Everyone knows the plot and the ending, the costumes and characters are comical, and audience participation part of the fun. It's how they get there that makes it entertaining.
As a one off a pantomime is OK. But I wouldn't like to watch one weekly.
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
My Mum taught both the Dynamite Kid and his cousin Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog). Geography not wrestling.
Fantastic. What a story to tell. Both ended up in Calgary Stampede with the Hart family.
Davey Boy’s son is a wrestler now. He will never be more than lower mid card.
I listened to the Bret Hart audiobook. It’s brilliant. Neither come out well although Dynamite comes off as a really unpleasant and at the end very bitter piece of work. Drink and drugs. As a wrestler he was superb and even got over in Japan.
Davey just comes over as a guy who cannot beat his addictions which eventually consumed him.
Yeah. The Dynamite Kid was simply a great athlete. Not a nice bloke I'm told.
I simply do not understand wrestling. Not in the way that I don't understand, say, ice dancing - which I don't consider a sport but is at least recognisablr as some sort of competition. But wrestling - it's closer in spirit to mime. It's performamce art. But whise characters are wildly celebrated. I don't get it, and - since the realisation it was not real, aged about 12 - have never got it. But surely everyone - even those who are wildly enthusiastic - understand this? Yet are still wildly enthusiastic, in a way people very much aren't for performance art. I don't get it. Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks were indeed better, though - here I do agree with Eagles.
Edit: All that said, still more entertaining than football, mind.
It's working class ballet. It's the same suspension of disbelief as soap operas. You have your favourite characters. And the villains you love to hate. And ludicrous, implausible story lines. A bit of comedy too. Nobody is pretending to be a swan, mind, unlike ballet.
I mean, honestly, this is just plain daft. Just when the bien pensants start to think maybe she has something she goes back to being mad as a mad thing:
@Tomorrow'sMPs @tomorrowsmps · 8m Badenoch says she is ruling out as candidates anyone who supports ECHR or Net Zero. That could problems with some existing MPs.
So what if a dozen or so of your own MPs are arguing about the precise details of Net Zero - maybe 2050, maybe 2040 etc etc?
Bonkers.
Bizarre timing.
It's also Net zero, not gross zero - you might be a DAC optimist, or want to bring back the Caledonian Rainforest. Or you might want to achieve it purely from a National Security perspective, or because of other negative effects like air pollution. You might want to get almost all done by 2040, but reach zero in 2060.
On ECHR - you might be like me and support the underlying principles, but think it and the Refugee Convention should be radically reformed to reflect the 21st Century.
I mean, honestly, this is just plain daft. Just when the bien pensants start to think maybe she has something she goes back to being mad as a mad thing:
@Tomorrow'sMPs @tomorrowsmps · 8m Badenoch says she is ruling out as candidates anyone who supports ECHR or Net Zero. That could problems with some existing MPs.
So what if a dozen or so of your own MPs are arguing about the precise details of Net Zero - maybe 2050, maybe 2040 etc etc?
Bonkers.
This isn't new. Badenoch has said that they've done the work, this is party policy, so why would they rule in candidates who disagree with it?
How on earth can you be a broad church party if you are blocking people from standing who disagree on some of your policies.
Rhodes Boyson would pop up on the radio or tv every few months demanding the stocks were brought back or the death penalty or the birch for litter louts but Thatch didn't block him from being a candidate.
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
My Mum taught both the Dynamite Kid and his cousin Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog). Geography not wrestling.
Fantastic. What a story to tell. Both ended up in Calgary Stampede with the Hart family.
Davey Boy’s son is a wrestler now. He will never be more than lower mid card.
I listened to the Bret Hart audiobook. It’s brilliant. Neither come out well although Dynamite comes off as a really unpleasant and at the end very bitter piece of work. Drink and drugs. As a wrestler he was superb and even got over in Japan.
Davey just comes over as a guy who cannot beat his addictions which eventually consumed him.
Yeah. The Dynamite Kid was simply a great athlete. Not a nice bloke I'm told.
I simply do not understand wrestling. Not in the way that I don't understand, say, ice dancing - which I don't consider a sport but is at least recognisablr as some sort of competition. But wrestling - it's closer in spirit to mime. It's performamce art. But whise characters are wildly celebrated. I don't get it, and - since the realisation it was not real, aged about 12 - have never got it. But surely everyone - even those who are wildly enthusiastic - understand this? Yet are still wildly enthusiastic, in a way people very much aren't for performance art. I don't get it. Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks were indeed better, though - here I do agree with Eagles.
Edit: All that said, still more entertaining than football, mind.
It is theatre and spectacle.
Think of it like a pantomime. Everyone knows the plot and the ending, the costumes and characters are comical, and audience participation part of the fun. It's how they get there that makes it entertaining.
The plot is a bit thin, though? But I've never liked pantomime. Or theatre. And indeed here we go back to a conversation you and I haf a few months ago about me rarely valuing fiction at all if it's not funny.
I mean, honestly, this is just plain daft. Just when the bien pensants start to think maybe she has something she goes back to being mad as a mad thing:
@Tomorrow'sMPs @tomorrowsmps · 8m Badenoch says she is ruling out as candidates anyone who supports ECHR or Net Zero. That could problems with some existing MPs.
So what if a dozen or so of your own MPs are arguing about the precise details of Net Zero - maybe 2050, maybe 2040 etc etc?
Bonkers.
Bizarre timing.
It's also Net zero, not gross zero - you might be a CCS optimist. Or you might want to achieve it purely from a National Security perspective, or because of other negative effects like air pollution. You might want to get almost all done by 2040, but reach zero in 2060.
On ECHR - you might be like me and support the underlying principles, but think it and the Refugee Convention should be radically reformed to reflect the 21st Century.
It is indeed bizarre timing. If she came out and said, yes, climate change is real, it is a serious problem, and we will need to do many things to deal with it, but we don't believe in arbitrary targets - then fine, that's arguable - but that's not what is coming across.
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
My Mum taught both the Dynamite Kid and his cousin Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog). Geography not wrestling.
Fantastic. What a story to tell. Both ended up in Calgary Stampede with the Hart family.
Davey Boy’s son is a wrestler now. He will never be more than lower mid card.
I listened to the Bret Hart audiobook. It’s brilliant. Neither come out well although Dynamite comes off as a really unpleasant and at the end very bitter piece of work. Drink and drugs. As a wrestler he was superb and even got over in Japan.
Davey just comes over as a guy who cannot beat his addictions which eventually consumed him.
Yeah. The Dynamite Kid was simply a great athlete. Not a nice bloke I'm told.
I simply do not understand wrestling. Not in the way that I don't understand, say, ice dancing - which I don't consider a sport but is at least recognisablr as some sort of competition. But wrestling - it's closer in spirit to mime. It's performamce art. But whise characters are wildly celebrated. I don't get it, and - since the realisation it was not real, aged about 12 - have never got it. But surely everyone - even those who are wildly enthusiastic - understand this? Yet are still wildly enthusiastic, in a way people very much aren't for performance art. I don't get it. Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks were indeed better, though - here I do agree with Eagles.
Edit: All that said, still more entertaining than football, mind.
It's working class ballet. It's the same suspension of disbelief as soap operas. You have your favourite characters. And the villains you love to hate. And ludicrous, implausible story lines. A bit of comedy too. Nobody is pretending to be a swan, mind, unlike ballet.
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
My Mum taught both the Dynamite Kid and his cousin Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog). Geography not wrestling.
Fantastic. What a story to tell. Both ended up in Calgary Stampede with the Hart family.
Davey Boy’s son is a wrestler now. He will never be more than lower mid card.
I listened to the Bret Hart audiobook. It’s brilliant. Neither come out well although Dynamite comes off as a really unpleasant and at the end very bitter piece of work. Drink and drugs. As a wrestler he was superb and even got over in Japan.
Davey just comes over as a guy who cannot beat his addictions which eventually consumed him.
Yeah. The Dynamite Kid was simply a great athlete. Not a nice bloke I'm told.
I simply do not understand wrestling. Not in the way that I don't understand, say, ice dancing - which I don't consider a sport but is at least recognisablr as some sort of competition. But wrestling - it's closer in spirit to mime. It's performamce art. But whise characters are wildly celebrated. I don't get it, and - since the realisation it was not real, aged about 12 - have never got it. But surely everyone - even those who are wildly enthusiastic - understand this? Yet are still wildly enthusiastic, in a way people very much aren't for performance art. I don't get it. Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks were indeed better, though - here I do agree with Eagles.
Edit: All that said, still more entertaining than football, mind.
Loud, exaggerated drama with physical performance - it's like a play only more interesting.
Being a good wrestler is not just about in ring ability. It’s about charisma and being able to get over and work a mic.
Most pro wrestlers wouldn’t last five minutes in a shoot fight. Only the likes of Brock Lesnar would.
It’s a slow build drama building up to a pay off via a match, usually at a pay per view.
Firstly, it's amazing how much of an outlier 1976 was. It still has the record for this metric, of 20 days of at least 30C at Heathrow. But it was followed by six consecutive years without a single day reaching 30C. It's now been 18 years since a year without the temperature reaching 30C at Heathrow, 2008.
That is presumably an old article, as I think we are up to 13 this year We could easily break the 1976 total given the forecast.
This summer is 0.4C cooler than 1976 was to this point. But this year to date is comfortably the warmest by 0.6C (Central England Temperature series)
And yet - we conplained ceaselessly in early Spring avout how bloody cold it persisted in being. Our perception of normal is quite different to reality.
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
My Mum taught both the Dynamite Kid and his cousin Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog). Geography not wrestling.
Fantastic. What a story to tell. Both ended up in Calgary Stampede with the Hart family.
Davey Boy’s son is a wrestler now. He will never be more than lower mid card.
I listened to the Bret Hart audiobook. It’s brilliant. Neither come out well although Dynamite comes off as a really unpleasant and at the end very bitter piece of work. Drink and drugs. As a wrestler he was superb and even got over in Japan.
Davey just comes over as a guy who cannot beat his addictions which eventually consumed him.
Yeah. The Dynamite Kid was simply a great athlete. Not a nice bloke I'm told.
Everything you’ve heard will be true and there will be worse. A real piece of shit.
Awful human being and he was known to work stiff with wrestlers too. Deliberately cheapshotting and even hurting them. Even the likes of Bret Hart when Bret was young and he was married to Bret’s wife’s sister at the time !!
He once got battered by one of the Rougeau Brothers. Tough Canadians. You bully people eventually you bully the wrong person. The steroids won’t have helped
There’s a Dark Side of the Ring show about him I need to try and catch.
He died back in the North West too
Not really mourned at all.
Yeah. He moved back to Golborne. I wonder if he knew or met Andy Burnham? A little more than 12 years between them. Odd couple neighbours? That could have been a Play for Today in another era.
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
My Mum taught both the Dynamite Kid and his cousin Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog). Geography not wrestling.
Fantastic. What a story to tell. Both ended up in Calgary Stampede with the Hart family.
Davey Boy’s son is a wrestler now. He will never be more than lower mid card.
I listened to the Bret Hart audiobook. It’s brilliant. Neither come out well although Dynamite comes off as a really unpleasant and at the end very bitter piece of work. Drink and drugs. As a wrestler he was superb and even got over in Japan.
Davey just comes over as a guy who cannot beat his addictions which eventually consumed him.
Yeah. The Dynamite Kid was simply a great athlete. Not a nice bloke I'm told.
I simply do not understand wrestling. Not in the way that I don't understand, say, ice dancing - which I don't consider a sport but is at least recognisablr as some sort of competition. But wrestling - it's closer in spirit to mime. It's performamce art. But whise characters are wildly celebrated. I don't get it, and - since the realisation it was not real, aged about 12 - have never got it. But surely everyone - even those who are wildly enthusiastic - understand this? Yet are still wildly enthusiastic, in a way people very much aren't for performance art. I don't get it. Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks were indeed better, though - here I do agree with Eagles.
Edit: All that said, still more entertaining than football, mind.
It's working class ballet. It's the same suspension of disbelief as soap operas. You have your favourite characters. And the villains you love to hate. And ludicrous, implausible story lines. A bit of comedy too. Nobody is pretending to be a swan, mind, unlike ballet.
I mean, honestly, this is just plain daft. Just when the bien pensants start to think maybe she has something she goes back to being mad as a mad thing:
@Tomorrow'sMPs @tomorrowsmps · 8m Badenoch says she is ruling out as candidates anyone who supports ECHR or Net Zero. That could problems with some existing MPs.
So what if a dozen or so of your own MPs are arguing about the precise details of Net Zero - maybe 2050, maybe 2040 etc etc?
Bonkers.
This isn't new. Badenoch has said that they've done the work, this is party policy, so why would they rule in candidates who disagree with it?
How on earth can you be a broad church party if you are blocking people from standing who disagree on some of your policies.
Rhodes Boyson would pop up on the radio or tv every few months demanding the stocks were brought back or the death penalty or the birch for litter louts but Thatch didn't block him from being a candidate.
Well you do have to draw the line somewhere in order to have a cohesive identity even if you are seeking to be broad church, the question is just where you draw that line.
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
My Mum taught both the Dynamite Kid and his cousin Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog). Geography not wrestling.
Fantastic. What a story to tell. Both ended up in Calgary Stampede with the Hart family.
Davey Boy’s son is a wrestler now. He will never be more than lower mid card.
I listened to the Bret Hart audiobook. It’s brilliant. Neither come out well although Dynamite comes off as a really unpleasant and at the end very bitter piece of work. Drink and drugs. As a wrestler he was superb and even got over in Japan.
Davey just comes over as a guy who cannot beat his addictions which eventually consumed him.
Yeah. The Dynamite Kid was simply a great athlete. Not a nice bloke I'm told.
I simply do not understand wrestling. Not in the way that I don't understand, say, ice dancing - which I don't consider a sport but is at least recognisablr as some sort of competition. But wrestling - it's closer in spirit to mime. It's performamce art. But whise characters are wildly celebrated. I don't get it, and - since the realisation it was not real, aged about 12 - have never got it. But surely everyone - even those who are wildly enthusiastic - understand this? Yet are still wildly enthusiastic, in a way people very much aren't for performance art. I don't get it. Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks were indeed better, though - here I do agree with Eagles.
Edit: All that said, still more entertaining than football, mind.
Nobody is pretending to be a swan, mind, unlike ballet.
Kayfabe would be hard to maintain with that gimmick.
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
My Mum taught both the Dynamite Kid and his cousin Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog). Geography not wrestling.
Fantastic. What a story to tell. Both ended up in Calgary Stampede with the Hart family.
Davey Boy’s son is a wrestler now. He will never be more than lower mid card.
I listened to the Bret Hart audiobook. It’s brilliant. Neither come out well although Dynamite comes off as a really unpleasant and at the end very bitter piece of work. Drink and drugs. As a wrestler he was superb and even got over in Japan.
Davey just comes over as a guy who cannot beat his addictions which eventually consumed him.
Yeah. The Dynamite Kid was simply a great athlete. Not a nice bloke I'm told.
I simply do not understand wrestling. Not in the way that I don't understand, say, ice dancing - which I don't consider a sport but is at least recognisablr as some sort of competition. But wrestling - it's closer in spirit to mime. It's performamce art. But whise characters are wildly celebrated. I don't get it, and - since the realisation it was not real, aged about 12 - have never got it. But surely everyone - even those who are wildly enthusiastic - understand this? Yet are still wildly enthusiastic, in a way people very much aren't for performance art. I don't get it. Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks were indeed better, though - here I do agree with Eagles.
Edit: All that said, still more entertaining than football, mind.
It is theatre and spectacle.
Think of it like a pantomime. Everyone knows the plot and the ending, the costumes and characters are comical, and audience participation part of the fun. It's how they get there that makes it entertaining.
The plot is a bit thin, though? But I've never liked pantomime. Or theatre. And indeed here we go back to a conversation you and I haf a few months ago about me rarely valuing fiction at all if it's not funny.
The plots are written by a team of story writers. Some will be thin, others will not. AEW has some great story telling at the moment and some excellent slow burn plots. The WWE creative is poor since the TKO take over although it’s sibling NXT is doing well.
It long since ceased to be a battle of good guys versus bad guys. The waters are very muddied on that now and people will root for the heels.
The only people who will know the ending will be the booking team, wrestlers and referee.
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
My Mum taught both the Dynamite Kid and his cousin Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog). Geography not wrestling.
Fantastic. What a story to tell. Both ended up in Calgary Stampede with the Hart family.
Davey Boy’s son is a wrestler now. He will never be more than lower mid card.
I listened to the Bret Hart audiobook. It’s brilliant. Neither come out well although Dynamite comes off as a really unpleasant and at the end very bitter piece of work. Drink and drugs. As a wrestler he was superb and even got over in Japan.
Davey just comes over as a guy who cannot beat his addictions which eventually consumed him.
Yeah. The Dynamite Kid was simply a great athlete. Not a nice bloke I'm told.
I simply do not understand wrestling. Not in the way that I don't understand, say, ice dancing - which I don't consider a sport but is at least recognisablr as some sort of competition. But wrestling - it's closer in spirit to mime. It's performamce art. But whise characters are wildly celebrated. I don't get it, and - since the realisation it was not real, aged about 12 - have never got it. But surely everyone - even those who are wildly enthusiastic - understand this? Yet are still wildly enthusiastic, in a way people very much aren't for performance art. I don't get it. Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks were indeed better, though - here I do agree with Eagles.
Edit: All that said, still more entertaining than football, mind.
Nobody is pretending to be a swan, mind, unlike ballet.
Kayfabe would be hard to maintain with that gimmick.
Terry Taylor wasn’t a swan but he was the god awful Red Rooster and then there was the gobbledygooker !,
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
My Mum taught both the Dynamite Kid and his cousin Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog). Geography not wrestling.
Fantastic. What a story to tell. Both ended up in Calgary Stampede with the Hart family.
Davey Boy’s son is a wrestler now. He will never be more than lower mid card.
I listened to the Bret Hart audiobook. It’s brilliant. Neither come out well although Dynamite comes off as a really unpleasant and at the end very bitter piece of work. Drink and drugs. As a wrestler he was superb and even got over in Japan.
Davey just comes over as a guy who cannot beat his addictions which eventually consumed him.
Yeah. The Dynamite Kid was simply a great athlete. Not a nice bloke I'm told.
Everything you’ve heard will be true and there will be worse. A real piece of shit.
Awful human being and he was known to work stiff with wrestlers too. Deliberately cheapshotting and even hurting them. Even the likes of Bret Hart when Bret was young and he was married to Bret’s wife’s sister at the time !!
He once got battered by one of the Rougeau Brothers. Tough Canadians. You bully people eventually you bully the wrong person. The steroids won’t have helped
There’s a Dark Side of the Ring show about him I need to try and catch.
He died back in the North West too
Not really mourned at all.
Yeah. He moved back to Golborne. I wonder if he knew or met Andy Burnham? A little more than 12 years between them. Odd couple neighbours? That could have been a Play for Today in another era.
One thing that was supposed to have really done his mental health no favours was the flying headbutt he executed. It was the same move Chris Benoit used as his finisher and he ended up,killing his wife and son, then himself. His brain was not in the rudest of health at the autopsy. Partly attributed to that. And the roids.
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
My Mum taught both the Dynamite Kid and his cousin Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog). Geography not wrestling.
Fantastic. What a story to tell. Both ended up in Calgary Stampede with the Hart family.
Davey Boy’s son is a wrestler now. He will never be more than lower mid card.
I listened to the Bret Hart audiobook. It’s brilliant. Neither come out well although Dynamite comes off as a really unpleasant and at the end very bitter piece of work. Drink and drugs. As a wrestler he was superb and even got over in Japan.
Davey just comes over as a guy who cannot beat his addictions which eventually consumed him.
Yeah. The Dynamite Kid was simply a great athlete. Not a nice bloke I'm told.
Everything you’ve heard will be true and there will be worse. A real piece of shit.
Awful human being and he was known to work stiff with wrestlers too. Deliberately cheapshotting and even hurting them. Even the likes of Bret Hart when Bret was young and he was married to Bret’s wife’s sister at the time !!
He once got battered by one of the Rougeau Brothers. Tough Canadians. You bully people eventually you bully the wrong person. The steroids won’t have helped
There’s a Dark Side of the Ring show about him I need to try and catch.
He died back in the North West too
Not really mourned at all.
Yeah. He moved back to Golborne. I wonder if he knew or met Andy Burnham? A little more than 12 years between them. Odd couple neighbours? That could have been a Play for Today in another era.
One thing that was supposed to have really done his mental health no favours was the flying headbutt he executed. It was the same move Chris Benoit used as his finisher and he ended up,killing his wife and son, then himself. His brain was not in the rudest of health at the autopsy. Partly attributed to that. And the roids.
Yeah. I give thanks daily my career as a professional rugby league player was cut short by injury a month before my nineteenth birthday. We did ridiculous things with roids and heads. Not many of my cohort are surviving till 60. Even fewer in good health.
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
My Mum taught both the Dynamite Kid and his cousin Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog). Geography not wrestling.
Fantastic. What a story to tell. Both ended up in Calgary Stampede with the Hart family.
Davey Boy’s son is a wrestler now. He will never be more than lower mid card.
I listened to the Bret Hart audiobook. It’s brilliant. Neither come out well although Dynamite comes off as a really unpleasant and at the end very bitter piece of work. Drink and drugs. As a wrestler he was superb and even got over in Japan.
Davey just comes over as a guy who cannot beat his addictions which eventually consumed him.
Yeah. The Dynamite Kid was simply a great athlete. Not a nice bloke I'm told.
I simply do not understand wrestling. Not in the way that I don't understand, say, ice dancing - which I don't consider a sport but is at least recognisablr as some sort of competition. But wrestling - it's closer in spirit to mime. It's performamce art. But whise characters are wildly celebrated. I don't get it, and - since the realisation it was not real, aged about 12 - have never got it. But surely everyone - even those who are wildly enthusiastic - understand this? Yet are still wildly enthusiastic, in a way people very much aren't for performance art. I don't get it. Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks were indeed better, though - here I do agree with Eagles.
Edit: All that said, still more entertaining than football, mind.
It is theatre and spectacle.
Think of it like a pantomime. Everyone knows the plot and the ending, the costumes and characters are comical, and audience participation part of the fun. It's how they get there that makes it entertaining.
The plot is a bit thin, though? But I've never liked pantomime. Or theatre. And indeed here we go back to a conversation you and I haf a few months ago about me rarely valuing fiction at all if it's not funny.
The plots are written by a team of story writers. Some will be thin, others will not. AEW has some great story telling at the moment and some excellent slow burn plots. The WWE creative is poor since the TKO take over although it’s sibling NXT is doing well.
It long since ceased to be a battle of good guys versus bad guys. The waters are very muddied on that now and people will root for the heels.
The only people who will know the ending will be the booking team, wrestlers and referee.
I'm intrigued. In my experience the plot hss been 'wrestlers wrestle, one wrestler wins.' It can be quite well choreographed but I'm surprised it needs writers. But clearly there is more to it.
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
My Mum taught both the Dynamite Kid and his cousin Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog). Geography not wrestling.
Fantastic. What a story to tell. Both ended up in Calgary Stampede with the Hart family.
Davey Boy’s son is a wrestler now. He will never be more than lower mid card.
I listened to the Bret Hart audiobook. It’s brilliant. Neither come out well although Dynamite comes off as a really unpleasant and at the end very bitter piece of work. Drink and drugs. As a wrestler he was superb and even got over in Japan.
Davey just comes over as a guy who cannot beat his addictions which eventually consumed him.
Yeah. The Dynamite Kid was simply a great athlete. Not a nice bloke I'm told.
Everything you’ve heard will be true and there will be worse. A real piece of shit.
Awful human being and he was known to work stiff with wrestlers too. Deliberately cheapshotting and even hurting them. Even the likes of Bret Hart when Bret was young and he was married to Bret’s wife’s sister at the time !!
He once got battered by one of the Rougeau Brothers. Tough Canadians. You bully people eventually you bully the wrong person. The steroids won’t have helped
There’s a Dark Side of the Ring show about him I need to try and catch.
He died back in the North West too
Not really mourned at all.
Yeah. He moved back to Golborne. I wonder if he knew or met Andy Burnham? A little more than 12 years between them. Odd couple neighbours? That could have been a Play for Today in another era.
One thing that was supposed to have really done his mental health no favours was the flying headbutt he executed. It was the same move Chris Benoit used as his finisher and he ended up,killing his wife and son, then himself. His brain was not in the rudest of health at the autopsy. Partly attributed to that. And the roids.
Yeah. I give thanks daily my career as a professional rugby league player was cut short by injury a month before my nineteenth birthday. We did ridiculous things with roids and heads. Not many of my cohort are surviving till 60. Even fewer in good health.
Doesn’t Rugby, both codes, have an issue with early onset dementia ?
I bet you were gutted at the time but now seems like you dodged a bullet perhaps ?
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
My Mum taught both the Dynamite Kid and his cousin Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog). Geography not wrestling.
Fantastic. What a story to tell. Both ended up in Calgary Stampede with the Hart family.
Davey Boy’s son is a wrestler now. He will never be more than lower mid card.
I listened to the Bret Hart audiobook. It’s brilliant. Neither come out well although Dynamite comes off as a really unpleasant and at the end very bitter piece of work. Drink and drugs. As a wrestler he was superb and even got over in Japan.
Davey just comes over as a guy who cannot beat his addictions which eventually consumed him.
Yeah. The Dynamite Kid was simply a great athlete. Not a nice bloke I'm told.
Everything you’ve heard will be true and there will be worse. A real piece of shit.
Awful human being and he was known to work stiff with wrestlers too. Deliberately cheapshotting and even hurting them. Even the likes of Bret Hart when Bret was young and he was married to Bret’s wife’s sister at the time !!
He once got battered by one of the Rougeau Brothers. Tough Canadians. You bully people eventually you bully the wrong person. The steroids won’t have helped
There’s a Dark Side of the Ring show about him I need to try and catch.
He died back in the North West too
Not really mourned at all.
Yeah. He moved back to Golborne. I wonder if he knew or met Andy Burnham? A little more than 12 years between them. Odd couple neighbours? That could have been a Play for Today in another era.
One thing that was supposed to have really done his mental health no favours was the flying headbutt he executed. It was the same move Chris Benoit used as his finisher and he ended up,killing his wife and son, then himself. His brain was not in the rudest of health at the autopsy. Partly attributed to that. And the roids.
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
My Mum taught both the Dynamite Kid and his cousin Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog). Geography not wrestling.
Fantastic. What a story to tell. Both ended up in Calgary Stampede with the Hart family.
Davey Boy’s son is a wrestler now. He will never be more than lower mid card.
I listened to the Bret Hart audiobook. It’s brilliant. Neither come out well although Dynamite comes off as a really unpleasant and at the end very bitter piece of work. Drink and drugs. As a wrestler he was superb and even got over in Japan.
Davey just comes over as a guy who cannot beat his addictions which eventually consumed him.
Yeah. The Dynamite Kid was simply a great athlete. Not a nice bloke I'm told.
I simply do not understand wrestling. Not in the way that I don't understand, say, ice dancing - which I don't consider a sport but is at least recognisablr as some sort of competition. But wrestling - it's closer in spirit to mime. It's performamce art. But whise characters are wildly celebrated. I don't get it, and - since the realisation it was not real, aged about 12 - have never got it. But surely everyone - even those who are wildly enthusiastic - understand this? Yet are still wildly enthusiastic, in a way people very much aren't for performance art. I don't get it. Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks were indeed better, though - here I do agree with Eagles.
Edit: All that said, still more entertaining than football, mind.
It is theatre and spectacle.
Think of it like a pantomime. Everyone knows the plot and the ending, the costumes and characters are comical, and audience participation part of the fun. It's how they get there that makes it entertaining.
The plot is a bit thin, though? But I've never liked pantomime. Or theatre. And indeed here we go back to a conversation you and I haf a few months ago about me rarely valuing fiction at all if it's not funny.
The plots are written by a team of story writers. Some will be thin, others will not. AEW has some great story telling at the moment and some excellent slow burn plots. The WWE creative is poor since the TKO take over although it’s sibling NXT is doing well.
It long since ceased to be a battle of good guys versus bad guys. The waters are very muddied on that now and people will root for the heels.
The only people who will know the ending will be the booking team, wrestlers and referee.
I'm intrigued. In my experience the plot hss been 'wrestlers wrestle, one wrestler wins.' It can be quite well choreographed but I'm surprised it needs writers. But clearly there is more to it.
In the old days that was it but that’s transformed to a motivation for why they wrestle. They feud.
It’s all about sustaining a build up until the match, the pay off, usually at a Pay Per View, especially one of the bigger ones. It generates viewing figures and buy rates.
They will also try to keep the feud appearing real so you won’t have feuding wrestlers travelling together on the road or dining/drinking together in public.
There is a Netflix documentary series which goes behind the scenes and you see the writers room and how they plot and plan. Some old timers hate it as it exposes what the business is about.
Talking of choreographed the booker normally says which wrestler wins, how long the match is and the finish, the wrestlers themselves call spots in the ring.
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
My Mum taught both the Dynamite Kid and his cousin Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog). Geography not wrestling.
Fantastic. What a story to tell. Both ended up in Calgary Stampede with the Hart family.
Davey Boy’s son is a wrestler now. He will never be more than lower mid card.
I listened to the Bret Hart audiobook. It’s brilliant. Neither come out well although Dynamite comes off as a really unpleasant and at the end very bitter piece of work. Drink and drugs. As a wrestler he was superb and even got over in Japan.
Davey just comes over as a guy who cannot beat his addictions which eventually consumed him.
Yeah. The Dynamite Kid was simply a great athlete. Not a nice bloke I'm told.
Everything you’ve heard will be true and there will be worse. A real piece of shit.
Awful human being and he was known to work stiff with wrestlers too. Deliberately cheapshotting and even hurting them. Even the likes of Bret Hart when Bret was young and he was married to Bret’s wife’s sister at the time !!
He once got battered by one of the Rougeau Brothers. Tough Canadians. You bully people eventually you bully the wrong person. The steroids won’t have helped
There’s a Dark Side of the Ring show about him I need to try and catch.
He died back in the North West too
Not really mourned at all.
Yeah. He moved back to Golborne. I wonder if he knew or met Andy Burnham? A little more than 12 years between them. Odd couple neighbours? That could have been a Play for Today in another era.
One thing that was supposed to have really done his mental health no favours was the flying headbutt he executed. It was the same move Chris Benoit used as his finisher and he ended up,killing his wife and son, then himself. His brain was not in the rudest of health at the autopsy. Partly attributed to that. And the roids.
Yeah. I give thanks daily my career as a professional rugby league player was cut short by injury a month before my nineteenth birthday. We did ridiculous things with roids and heads. Not many of my cohort are surviving till 60. Even fewer in good health.
Doesn’t Rugby, both codes, have an issue with early onset dementia ?
I bet you were gutted at the time but now seems like you dodged a bullet perhaps ?
Union always used to be a game to play, not to watch. Hence amateurism. Making it professional has done the profeasionals no favours. They are starting to take it seriously now and take measures which I support to reduce head injuries. Ideally we'd revert to amateurism and wouldn't be playing against gym-built monsters but that genue is out the bottle.
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
My Mum taught both the Dynamite Kid and his cousin Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog). Geography not wrestling.
Fantastic. What a story to tell. Both ended up in Calgary Stampede with the Hart family.
Davey Boy’s son is a wrestler now. He will never be more than lower mid card.
I listened to the Bret Hart audiobook. It’s brilliant. Neither come out well although Dynamite comes off as a really unpleasant and at the end very bitter piece of work. Drink and drugs. As a wrestler he was superb and even got over in Japan.
Davey just comes over as a guy who cannot beat his addictions which eventually consumed him.
Yeah. The Dynamite Kid was simply a great athlete. Not a nice bloke I'm told.
Everything you’ve heard will be true and there will be worse. A real piece of shit.
Awful human being and he was known to work stiff with wrestlers too. Deliberately cheapshotting and even hurting them. Even the likes of Bret Hart when Bret was young and he was married to Bret’s wife’s sister at the time !!
He once got battered by one of the Rougeau Brothers. Tough Canadians. You bully people eventually you bully the wrong person. The steroids won’t have helped
There’s a Dark Side of the Ring show about him I need to try and catch.
He died back in the North West too
Not really mourned at all.
Yeah. He moved back to Golborne. I wonder if he knew or met Andy Burnham? A little more than 12 years between them. Odd couple neighbours? That could have been a Play for Today in another era.
One thing that was supposed to have really done his mental health no favours was the flying headbutt he executed. It was the same move Chris Benoit used as his finisher and he ended up,killing his wife and son, then himself. His brain was not in the rudest of health at the autopsy. Partly attributed to that. And the roids.
A lot of his stuff is fresh in my mind as Bret Hart went into it in great detail in his audio autobiography.
I’ve been into it for decades. One of the reasons I stay on Twitter is the excellent wrestling content. One of the reasons I got satellite tv in the mid nineties was German channels used to show WCW and Sky WWF as was.
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
My Mum taught both the Dynamite Kid and his cousin Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog). Geography not wrestling.
Fantastic. What a story to tell. Both ended up in Calgary Stampede with the Hart family.
Davey Boy’s son is a wrestler now. He will never be more than lower mid card.
I listened to the Bret Hart audiobook. It’s brilliant. Neither come out well although Dynamite comes off as a really unpleasant and at the end very bitter piece of work. Drink and drugs. As a wrestler he was superb and even got over in Japan.
Davey just comes over as a guy who cannot beat his addictions which eventually consumed him.
Yeah. The Dynamite Kid was simply a great athlete. Not a nice bloke I'm told.
Everything you’ve heard will be true and there will be worse. A real piece of shit.
Awful human being and he was known to work stiff with wrestlers too. Deliberately cheapshotting and even hurting them. Even the likes of Bret Hart when Bret was young and he was married to Bret’s wife’s sister at the time !!
He once got battered by one of the Rougeau Brothers. Tough Canadians. You bully people eventually you bully the wrong person. The steroids won’t have helped
There’s a Dark Side of the Ring show about him I need to try and catch.
He died back in the North West too
Not really mourned at all.
Yeah. He moved back to Golborne. I wonder if he knew or met Andy Burnham? A little more than 12 years between them. Odd couple neighbours? That could have been a Play for Today in another era.
One thing that was supposed to have really done his mental health no favours was the flying headbutt he executed. It was the same move Chris Benoit used as his finisher and he ended up,killing his wife and son, then himself. His brain was not in the rudest of health at the autopsy. Partly attributed to that. And the roids.
A lot of his stuff is fresh in my mind as Bret Hart went into it in great detail in his audio autobiography.
I’ve been into it for decades. One of the reasons I stay on Twitter is the excellent wrestling content. One of the reasons I got satellite tv in the mid nineties was German channels used to show WCW and Sky WWF as was.
Right. I'm getting into this now. Wikipedia, with characteristic dryness, notes about Chris Benoit that:
Despite his accomplishments, he is more generally known for murdering his wife and youngest son before committing suicide in 2007.
But if it's all scripted - what accomplishments? Wikipedia notes that some consider him among the greatest wrestlers ever - but greatest how? It's not real!
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
My Mum taught both the Dynamite Kid and his cousin Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog). Geography not wrestling.
Fantastic. What a story to tell. Both ended up in Calgary Stampede with the Hart family.
Davey Boy’s son is a wrestler now. He will never be more than lower mid card.
I listened to the Bret Hart audiobook. It’s brilliant. Neither come out well although Dynamite comes off as a really unpleasant and at the end very bitter piece of work. Drink and drugs. As a wrestler he was superb and even got over in Japan.
Davey just comes over as a guy who cannot beat his addictions which eventually consumed him.
Yeah. The Dynamite Kid was simply a great athlete. Not a nice bloke I'm told.
Everything you’ve heard will be true and there will be worse. A real piece of shit.
Awful human being and he was known to work stiff with wrestlers too. Deliberately cheapshotting and even hurting them. Even the likes of Bret Hart when Bret was young and he was married to Bret’s wife’s sister at the time !!
He once got battered by one of the Rougeau Brothers. Tough Canadians. You bully people eventually you bully the wrong person. The steroids won’t have helped
There’s a Dark Side of the Ring show about him I need to try and catch.
He died back in the North West too
Not really mourned at all.
Yeah. He moved back to Golborne. I wonder if he knew or met Andy Burnham? A little more than 12 years between them. Odd couple neighbours? That could have been a Play for Today in another era.
One thing that was supposed to have really done his mental health no favours was the flying headbutt he executed. It was the same move Chris Benoit used as his finisher and he ended up,killing his wife and son, then himself. His brain was not in the rudest of health at the autopsy. Partly attributed to that. And the roids.
A lot of his stuff is fresh in my mind as Bret Hart went into it in great detail in his audio autobiography.
I’ve been into it for decades. One of the reasons I stay on Twitter is the excellent wrestling content. One of the reasons I got satellite tv in the mid nineties was German channels used to show WCW and Sky WWF as was.
Right. I'm getting into this now. Wikipedia, with characteristic dryness, notes about Chris Benoit that:
Despite his accomplishments, he is more generally known for murdering his wife and youngest son before committing suicide in 2007.
But if it's all scripted - what accomplishments? Wikipedia notes that some consider him among the greatest wrestlers ever - but greatest how? It's not real!
Athleticism, in ring ability, stamina, the amount of moves he can execute and being safe to work with. The results are pre determined. The finish pre determined. The action is real.
I think his killing his wife, who was a professional wrestling valet, and son makes his achievements irrelevant. His surviving son is a wrestler too.
My name here is Taz after a wrestler who was knows as the Human Suplex Machine. Named after a move he executes superbly.
Benoit was what they call a great in ring worker. He had trained at Stu Harts and knew plenty of moves and could carry a lesser opponent. It’s athletic ability as well as technical ability. You’re not just watching a match with half a dozen rest holds as the wrestlers are knackered.
The thing is the offence may see kicks and punches pulled but it’s still physically demanding and hard work.
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
My Mum taught both the Dynamite Kid and his cousin Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog). Geography not wrestling.
Fantastic. What a story to tell. Both ended up in Calgary Stampede with the Hart family.
Davey Boy’s son is a wrestler now. He will never be more than lower mid card.
I listened to the Bret Hart audiobook. It’s brilliant. Neither come out well although Dynamite comes off as a really unpleasant and at the end very bitter piece of work. Drink and drugs. As a wrestler he was superb and even got over in Japan.
Davey just comes over as a guy who cannot beat his addictions which eventually consumed him.
Yeah. The Dynamite Kid was simply a great athlete. Not a nice bloke I'm told.
I simply do not understand wrestling. Not in the way that I don't understand, say, ice dancing - which I don't consider a sport but is at least recognisablr as some sort of competition. But wrestling - it's closer in spirit to mime. It's performamce art. But whise characters are wildly celebrated. I don't get it, and - since the realisation it was not real, aged about 12 - have never got it. But surely everyone - even those who are wildly enthusiastic - understand this? Yet are still wildly enthusiastic, in a way people very much aren't for performance art. I don't get it. Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks were indeed better, though - here I do agree with Eagles.
Edit: All that said, still more entertaining than football, mind.
Loud, exaggerated drama with physical performance - it's like a play only more interesting.
I know it is scripted, but you have to admire the athleticism. I think of them as stunt performers. In fact I expect many moonlight in films doing stunts.
...though as a headbutt - it's very obviously not a headbutt.
Absolutely. It’s called the swan dive too. But all they cared about was bums on seats and viewing figures as well as PPV buys. It’s not doing his skull and brain any favours.
Owen Hart lost his life during one pay per view, he descended to the ring on a wire but there was a mishap and he fell to his death, but they carried on rather than stop the show. Wrestlers had to wrestle with bloodstains on the ring mat.
Hogan said he regretted having the leg drop of doom as his finisher as he reckons it fucked his back up and he ended up needing a walking stick.
England really have opened a can of whoop ass on the Indians in this series.
A wrestling reference !!
I was never into WWE.
I preferred Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.
Just shows how culturally influential it is that its catchphrases land with the public and stick.
Giant Haystacks wrestled for their one time rivals, WCW
A few of our wrestlers have been successes over there.
I’m more AEW than WWE these days. Tony Khan is a great guy.
My Mum taught both the Dynamite Kid and his cousin Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog). Geography not wrestling.
Fantastic. What a story to tell. Both ended up in Calgary Stampede with the Hart family.
Davey Boy’s son is a wrestler now. He will never be more than lower mid card.
I listened to the Bret Hart audiobook. It’s brilliant. Neither come out well although Dynamite comes off as a really unpleasant and at the end very bitter piece of work. Drink and drugs. As a wrestler he was superb and even got over in Japan.
Davey just comes over as a guy who cannot beat his addictions which eventually consumed him.
Yeah. The Dynamite Kid was simply a great athlete. Not a nice bloke I'm told.
I simply do not understand wrestling. Not in the way that I don't understand, say, ice dancing - which I don't consider a sport but is at least recognisablr as some sort of competition. But wrestling - it's closer in spirit to mime. It's performamce art. But whise characters are wildly celebrated. I don't get it, and - since the realisation it was not real, aged about 12 - have never got it. But surely everyone - even those who are wildly enthusiastic - understand this? Yet are still wildly enthusiastic, in a way people very much aren't for performance art. I don't get it. Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks were indeed better, though - here I do agree with Eagles.
Edit: All that said, still more entertaining than football, mind.
Loud, exaggerated drama with physical performance - it's like a play only more interesting.
I know it is scripted, but you have to admire the athleticism. I think of them as stunt performers. In fact I expect many moonlight in films doing stunts.
Some have but many act too.
MJF will be an acting superstar in the future. I have no doubt about that.
Athleticism is a big part of it. One of the best wrestlers jn the world at the moment is an English lad, and Palace fan, called Will Ospreay. He’s utterly brilliant in the ring. He did a 30 minute match with Swerve Strickland earlier this year which just kept going and going, high spot after high spot.
22% turnout, but who can blame the electorate in this heat for not coming out!
I got 51 votes and last place - woo!
And the winner was... Labour! In the end it was pretty close between Labour, Green 2nd and the independent 3rd. The indie cost the Greens the seat. I think most of those indie votes would've been Green if he hadn't stood and then they would've walked it.
Tories 4th, Reform 5th. The Tories were happy to reverse the order between them and Reform in the ward from May. The Tories at the count were very nice. I don't think Reform turned up!
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Today I’ve fixed the latch on my gate. Gone to the home of friends who are on holiday to water the plants then fitted new door handles and retainers jn rhe house as well as having to make my wife her lunch.
It’s been hard work.
The reminders become less subtle
The difference between far far north of UK and rest of us is very stark.
We can all remember nights like that. but it is a question of frequency.
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Badenoch says she is ruling out as candidates anyone who supports ECHR or Net Zero. That could problems with some existing MPs.
https://x.com/tomorrowsmps/status/2075333490099228742
So what if a dozen or so of your own MPs are arguing about the precise details of Net Zero - maybe 2050, maybe 2040 etc etc?
Bonkers.
Not only do I do that, but I often keep others from achieving a single goal as well...
However, it's probably more likely to be a showdown between the Greens and Labour.
Turnout low, but what do you expect in this heat?
The greatest drama so far was actually when someone turned the lights off by mistake.
Because I have kept the old Barnet Fair intact I look a great deal younger than my 64 years but the body feels an awful lot older.
Getting old is a real barsteward, although better than the alternative.
I should be grateful
I'm not saying that Reform are about to collapse, but they are in a wobblier position than they have been for a while. It's at least possible that Kemi's right wing problem is about to solve itself, meaning that the way forward is to expand the tent centrewards. At the very least, it's worth waiting and seeing what happens.
(And yes, I accept that I am a long long way down the list of 'lapsed Conservatives that it's worth trying to attract back'.
That's before we get onto the dubious poltics of arguing against Net Zero in the year of monthly heatwaves.
https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/maps-and-charts/surface-pressure
Almost nowhere below 1000 mb. This universal high pressure is the result of hot tropical air spilling in our direction and it portends a destructive hurricane season before long. Hurricanes occasionally land on British shores, of course, but we cheer ourselves up by calling them storms.
https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/london-heathrow/yearly-days-of-30-degrees-c
Firstly, it's amazing how much of an outlier 1976 was. It still has the record for this metric, of 20 days of at least 30C at Heathrow. But it was followed by six consecutive years without a single day reaching 30C. It's now been 18 years since a year without the temperature reaching 30C at Heathrow, 2008.
Not in the way that I don't understand, say, ice dancing - which I don't consider a sport but is at least recognisablr as some sort of competition. But wrestling - it's closer in spirit to mime. It's performamce art. But whise characters are wildly celebrated. I don't get it, and - since the realisation it was not real, aged about 12 - have never got it. But surely everyone - even those who are wildly enthusiastic - understand this? Yet are still wildly enthusiastic, in a way people very much aren't for performance art. I don't get it.
Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks were indeed better, though - here I do agree with Eagles.
Edit: All that said, still more entertaining than football, mind.
Think of it like a pantomime. Everyone knows the plot and the ending, the costumes and characters are comical, and audience participation part of the fun. It's how they get there that makes it entertaining.
Of which 6 are from western or northern Europe.
France won comfortably.
It's a bit ominous.
Awful human being and he was known to work stiff with wrestlers too. Deliberately cheapshotting and even hurting them. Even the likes of Bret Hart when Bret was young and he was married to Bret’s wife’s sister at the time !!
He once got battered by one of the Rougeau Brothers. Tough Canadians. You bully people eventually you bully the wrong person. The steroids won’t have helped
There’s a Dark Side of the Ring show about him I need to try and catch.
He died back in the North West too
Not really mourned at all.
35.5C at Wisley today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Royale_(1967_film)
https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/the-seventh-carbon-budget/
It's the same suspension of disbelief as soap operas. You have your favourite characters. And the villains you love to hate. And ludicrous, implausible story lines. A bit of comedy too.
Nobody is pretending to be a swan, mind, unlike ballet.
It's also Net zero, not gross zero - you might be a DAC optimist, or want to bring back the Caledonian Rainforest. Or you might want to achieve it purely from a National Security perspective, or because of other negative effects like air pollution. You might want to get almost all done by 2040, but reach zero in 2060.
On ECHR - you might be like me and support the underlying principles, but think it and the Refugee Convention should be radically reformed to reflect the 21st Century.
Badenoch is the most frustrating politician.
Rhodes Boyson would pop up on the radio or tv every few months demanding the stocks were brought back or the death penalty or the birch for litter louts but Thatch didn't block him from being a candidate.
But I've never liked pantomime. Or theatre. And indeed here we go back to a conversation you and I haf a few months ago about me rarely valuing fiction at all if it's not funny.
Most pro wrestlers wouldn’t last five minutes in a shoot fight. Only the likes of Brock Lesnar would.
It’s a slow build drama building up to a pay off via a match, usually at a pay per view.
I wonder if he knew or met Andy Burnham? A little more than 12 years between them.
Odd couple neighbours?
That could have been a Play for Today in another era.
It long since ceased to be a battle of good guys versus bad guys. The waters are very muddied on that now and people will root for the heels.
The only people who will know the ending will be the booking team, wrestlers and referee.
I give thanks daily my career as a professional rugby league player was cut short by injury a month before my nineteenth birthday.
We did ridiculous things with roids and heads.
Not many of my cohort are surviving till 60.
Even fewer in good health.
I bet you were gutted at the time but now seems like you dodged a bullet perhaps ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite_Kid
Truly I'm unearthing a new world tinight.
It’s all about sustaining a build up until the match, the pay off, usually at a Pay Per View, especially one of the bigger ones. It generates viewing figures and buy rates.
They will also try to keep the feud appearing real so you won’t have feuding wrestlers travelling together on the road or dining/drinking together in public.
There is a Netflix documentary series which goes behind the scenes and you see the writers room and how they plot and plan. Some old timers hate it as it exposes what the business is about.
Talking of choreographed the booker normally says which wrestler wins, how long the match is and the finish, the wrestlers themselves call spots in the ring.
I’ve been into it for decades. One of the reasons I stay on Twitter is the excellent wrestling content. One of the reasons I got satellite tv in the mid nineties was German channels used to show WCW and Sky WWF as was.
Despite his accomplishments, he is more generally known for murdering his wife and youngest son before committing suicide in 2007.
But if it's all scripted - what accomplishments? Wikipedia notes that some consider him among the greatest wrestlers ever - but greatest how? It's not real!
https://youtu.be/Zu7yoAu3oRE?si=gwOXDkLmU6TpFDRo
...though as a headbutt - it's very obviously not a headbutt.
I think his killing his wife, who was a professional wrestling valet, and son makes his achievements irrelevant. His surviving son is a wrestler too.
My name here is Taz after a wrestler who was knows as the Human Suplex Machine. Named after a move he executes superbly.
Benoit was what they call a great in ring worker. He had trained at Stu Harts and knew plenty of moves and could carry a lesser opponent. It’s athletic ability as well as technical ability. You’re not just watching a match with half a dozen rest holds as the wrestlers are knackered.
The thing is the offence may see kicks and punches pulled but it’s still physically demanding and hard work.
Owen Hart lost his life during one pay per view, he descended to the ring on a wire but there was a mishap and he fell to his death, but they carried on rather than stop the show. Wrestlers had to wrestle with bloodstains on the ring mat.
Hogan said he regretted having the leg drop of doom as his finisher as he reckons it fucked his back up and he ended up needing a walking stick.
MJF will be an acting superstar in the future. I have no doubt about that.
Athleticism is a big part of it. One of the best wrestlers jn the world at the moment is an English lad, and Palace fan, called Will Ospreay. He’s utterly brilliant in the ring. He did a 30 minute match with Swerve Strickland earlier this year which just kept going and going, high spot after high spot.
22% turnout, but who can blame the electorate in this heat for not coming out!
I got 51 votes and last place - woo!
And the winner was... Labour! In the end it was pretty close between Labour, Green 2nd and the independent 3rd. The indie cost the Greens the seat. I think most of those indie votes would've been Green if he hadn't stood and then they would've walked it.
Tories 4th, Reform 5th. The Tories were happy to reverse the order between them and Reform in the ward from May. The Tories at the count were very nice. I don't think Reform turned up!