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  1. AxB
    WWE house style has always been that the company ace can no-sell whenever he feels like it. Hogan had his Hulk Up, Bret had his playing possum, Shawn had his nip up, Austin would kick wham stunner out of nowhere, Rock also had Shawn's nip-up, and the less said about Cena's selling late in matches the better.
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    So, Agent Coulson coming to Spider-Man then, yeah?
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    I don't know who that is, Lucha Underground doesn't have TV in the UK. I was hoping TNA would go under so Challenge would pick up LU as a fill-in, but they didn't. We do get a bit of AAA on Fighting Spirit Wrestling, but you have to watch it with the volume off.
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    Def Jam: Fight for New York was really good. Def Jam: Icon... I've never played it, but apparently it's rubbish.
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    Your Highness is going to go down in history as the movie people watch to spot Game of Thrones locations (and cast members). Which is better than going down in history as the movie where Natalie Portman wore a thong, I suppose.
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    So I'm watching Wild Things (1998) with Matt Dillon, Kevin Bacon, Denise Richards, Neve Campbell, and... holy fuck, I'd totally forgotten Bill Murray is in this movie! This is awesome! Terrible soundtrack though.
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    I was thinking an England vs Ireland TUF finale would be a good spectacle. But now Saul is out due to a visa/legal issue (can't enter the USA) and Ryan Hall is in... and that's a very different fight. Seems easier for Lobov, because Hall's a fantastic submission guy with little stand-up and not very good takedowns. Not a great style match-up against a KO striker.
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    FTFY Does it seem odd to anyone else that they had Robbie Brookside running raw recruits through conditioning drills, whilst Billy Gunn was helping the advanced class with their execution of difficult moves? Not exactly playing to their respective strengths, is it? Robbie Brookside, great wrestler, versatile ring general, never really a physique guy. Billy Gunn, always in great shape... yeah. The lad who got fired for having a shoulder injury, was he just a performance centre trainee, or was he a fully trained NXT wrestler? Because if he hits the indy scene doing a gimmick of a guy who intentionally injures people, to take their dreams away (the way his dream was taken) that's a decent gimmick. Nail people with a shoulderbreaker to set up a Wakigatame finish, don't break on the ropes. Lovely bit of stuff.
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    All the papers are saying they want the Brodge back at Swans. And here I was hoping he'd concentrate on his music:
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    Watch this and you'll feel a lot happier about Conor's chances. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr41GmFtAFA
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    That is a good article. But Bloody Elbow still sounds like a guy with a lot of aches and pains trying to get out of bed. Ooh, my fucking neck. Aah, my bastard knees. Eugh, my sodding back. Fuck, my bloody elbow.
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    I think showing the coaches as being supportive, positive people is to try and rehabilitate their image after the Bill DeMott scandal. Billy Gunn is edited out of the show to the point that he's just a guy who sat in staff meetings and didn't talk, and then taught a bunch of guys how to do his old One and Only finisher.
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    So, what are the odds Conor's doing Dancing With the Stars pretty soon? Because it looks like he'd walk it. And, y'know, mainstream exposure. Weidman is training at a gym called Weidman/ Longo. What happened to Matt Serra?
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    In Offline mode, you can kill the driver of an Atlas with a Sniper Rifle, and then jump in and pilot the thing yourself. Wish that worked in online too.
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    Train were the only suitable band available. Say Your Prayers are touring in Japan right now, Eat Your Vitamins are on hiatus while the singer's in rehab, and I think Believe in the Power of Hulkamania had a big inter-band fight and broke up. They couldhave booked one or other of the rival acts suing each other over the rights to the Be A Real American name, but I don't think either one has any of the original line-up left in them.
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    Never mind that. Here is the greatest football song ever, courtesy of some West Brom fans: It's the remix to Ignition, Tony Pulis edition Sign ten centre backs Play them out of position, Watching us is no fun, Say who cares man, we won, It's the freakin' weekend sonny, Time for parking the bus
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    I'm picking McGregor, for sure.
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    I don't see why anyone would make something that lasts 17 hours (and is repetitive) and not expect people to have their minds wander during it. Having said that, I am a 'What did they mean by that?' guy almost all of the time.
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    It's strange how they move the focus around - like a few weeks ago it was the Josh and ZZ show, and now it's the Jason Jordan, Baron Corbin and Bayley show (and Josh, ZZ, Tino, Nhooph weren't even there at all). With an added Ghost hunter segment for no reason whatsoever*. And next week it'll be the Tino Sabatelli show again. One week it'll be all Rhyno and Joe talking about being veterans and taking a player-coach approach to their career, and Eva Marie telling everyone how she was born a star and is so much a natural in the business and doesn't have to try as hard as most people. I have no idea if she actually thinks that, but considering how she's viewed, try to tun the shoot hate into worked hate, right? * American Ghost Hunters shows look stupid to British eyes, because the buildings aren't old enough.
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    The thing about the Wyatts is, they're all big guys. You see them in thering, they're big guys. You see them at the gym, they're big guys. You see them at the airport... Sorry, got a bit sidetracked. The problem with having too many big people in one space is there's no normal sized person to provide a size comparison, so the big guys end up looking normal sized compared to one another. So if they're adding a female Wyatt, they need a really short Woman for the lads to look huge next to. So... Rosita? Have her turn up on TV as Thea Trinidad from ABC's Children of 9/11 and have her be a flag-waving underdog babyface with a USA chant. Then she can get kidnapped and brainwashed by the Wyatts and start doing promos where she tells people how they don't know the real Bray and he's the kindest and most loving man she's ever met.
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    It's strange how Paul E managed to convince people ECW had a legitimacy that the big two lacked, right when the Myers vs JT Smith feud was at it's height. They'd go out there and have a five to seven minute match featuring something like a grand total of three wrestling moves, and the Arena fans would lap it up. Also, it's hard to google someone who's first name is Hack. Was he named after Sandman? And did WCW ever do Hack Myers vs Hardcore Hak? Actually no, they'd have teamed them up as the Hackers or Hack Brothers or something.
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    Ultimately, this is a good thing though. Cena's position as the baby-kissing superface at the top of the card is untouchable because he sells so much merch. They keep coming out with shitloads of new New Day merch, so it must be selling like hot cakes, right? So therefore, New Day are going to be the new top Babyface act in WWE! Main even of 'Mania 33: New Day vs the reunited Shield! For every belt in the company~!
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    See the Just Cause games, are they supposed to be a parody of Bush-era American Foreign Policy? Or do the writers really think the best way to install a new, USA-friendly regime in a hostile foreign country is to send in a CIA man to blow up every bit of infrastructure he can find, cut off the power and water supply to the citizenry, blow up every oil pipeline and petrol station he comes across, work with local criminal gangs to extend their influence and allow them to flourish and take territory away from the legitimate government... Because if it's intended as a satire, it's not a very broad one. I can see people missing the point and legitimately thinking that the game is saying demolishing large sections of the third world is a great way to earn the respect and admiration of it's inhabitants.
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    RIP Scott Weiland

    AxB replied to goodhelmet's topic in MUSIC

    See, I really hated that that happened. Because at the time, there was a bit of a subtle movement where metal and indie (or alternative if you prefer) were moving closer together and lots of really interesting bands were getting signed (or pushed), instead of the "You're from LA? Do you know Axl? Do you know Nikki Sixx? Sign this!" production line that had been a few years earlier. So you had Pixies getting bigger, Jane's Addiction getting bigger, Faith No More, Chillis, Fishbone, King's X peaking their popularity, Last Crack, Celebrity Skin, Mother Love Bone and they were all different, all colourful and imaginative. Then Nevermind gets bigger than big from out of nowhere, and suddenly it's go grunge or go home, and bands that had nothing to do with Seattle or Sub Pop or any of that were suddenly decreed to be part of that scene, like the Pumpkins and STP. And everything that didn't fit with idea that got vanished pretty quick.
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    For everyone talking about Threads, that movie was actually on the national curriculum in the 80s. For some reason the education secretary back then thought it was important to teach British children about how to survive in the post apocalypse, so we all had to watch Threads and read When the Wind Blows. We all had writing assignments where you had to partner up and plan how the two of you would work together to survive a nuclear holocaust. I only remember that because I somehow got paired with the prettiest girl in the class and she legitimately suggested that our plan should be to "Go to bed and die happy". We were 13 years old at the time.
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