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NEW EPISODE!
After a hiatus that has been described as "extended even for us", the PPP is back with the first of a new multi-part series looking at the impact on Japanese wrestling of possibly the greatest grappling dynasty of all time: the Funks!
Eddie Howe on North East beauty spot, Sycamore Gap🌳
"I never got the chance to visit, but I'm really saddened by it. When I heard the news I was so disappointed an act can ruin something for the pleasure of everybody. It was a beautiful thing.”
#NUFC
#sycamoregaptree
He's back... with a vengeance.
Feathers McGraw returns in Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, a brand new film premiering on
@BBC
in the UK and
@netflix
globally this winter.
Once again, the political editor of a fairly prominent news source fails to predict something that a bunch of 600-follower Twitter communists who can name every single Wrestlemania main event called months ago. It just keeps happening!
"It's extraordinary... I don't think I would have expected a Labour government to adhere to the same economic thinking they've spent the last 14 years bemoaning"
PoliticsJOE Editor, Oli Dugmore, gives his take on the Prime Minister's speech today
#Newsnight
A million professional comedians could spend their entire lives writing scripts endlessly, but they will never write a line as funny or as well timed as “2-1 Hibs”.
BREAKING: For the first time in 30 years, WWE will bring a major stadium event to the United Kingdom at
@principalitysta
in Cardiff, Wales this September!
Details 🔎
Exclusive pre-sale registration 🎟
I'm a Guardian sports journalist and I think the IOC's decision to allow women with a higher-than-average testosterone level to compete in boxing and the presence of a child rapist in the Olympics are equally bad, I've got a lump of shit where my brain should be
RIP Meat Loaf, you will live on in the hubris of drunken idiots who pick one of your songs to do at karaoke, forgetting that they're all really long, difficult to sing and have four-minute instrumental sections where you're forced to just stand there looking like a lemon.
Guardians of the Galaxy implies the existence of the Observers of the Galaxy, who are exactly the same but only work on Sundays and are approximately 66% more transphobic
Remember when Will Ospreay debuted a new finisher, later tweeted "some people on Twitter are calling this the Hidden Blade", then someone did a search and it turned out literally the only person to have called it that was Ospreay himself?
I remember a good number of people being absolutely outraged when this match was announced, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that there's a large subset of Western puro fans that take Minoru Suzuki far more seriously than he takes himself.
Until more people in wrestling begin to see Hana Kimura as a human being rather than a rhetorical device to be wielded in the service of whatever ill-thought-out comparison they are trying to make, we will not make one iota of progress in making the business safe for women.
The ROH/NJPW MSG show was like if you got partnered up with someone to deliver a presentation at school, and that person was dumb as shit and did no work, so you deliberately wrote the script to keep their time speaking to a minimum and they still fucked it up.
@brfootball
When you’re so crippled by terminal football LADitis that you can’t recognise the goalie kit worn by Peter Schmeichel at Euro 92 because you’re busy screaming at gays online instead of learning basic football history that can’t be digested into Carling-flavoured LADLADLAD banter.
@littleade75
@Nick_Pettigrew
Sometimes you have to go for the low hanging fruit, fruit that hangs much as gay people do when the Saudi state finds them guilty of homosexuality
Freddie Blassie, Harley Race
Vader, Fishman, Leatherface,
Masa Saito, Tenryu
Terry Funk and Dory too
Danny Hodge and Brian Blair
Mutoh when he still had hair
Martin Karadagian
Roland Bock (Olympian)
WE DIDN'T START THE MELTZER
For comparison, 305,000 people attended NJPW/WCW Collision in Korea. One was an obscene waste of public money to shore up support for the state at a time of severely declining living standards, the other was main evented by Shinya Hashimoto vs. Scott Norton.
@helenpidd
I think folks are mainly wondering why the owner of an artisanal pizza joint counts as a "working class voter" when he literally controls the means of production, and why you sourced a quote from the same person you interviewed for an article on Dominic Cummings 6 weeks ago.
Chad Gable, who the WWE seems determined to make into a walking short man joke, is 4 inches taller than Tomohiro Ishii, who NJPW portrays as the toughest bastard on the roster. It should hardly be surprising that Vince struggles to create new stars nowadays.
@helenpidd
Oh, and whether it's possible for Labour to win back a man who's decided that a 97% white population is much too diverse, and why his assertion that most COVID cases in his town have come from non-white communities was printed unchallenged. Those sort of areas.
@HadleyFreeman
You're absolutely right Hadley. To give one example, I certainly never hear people bring up the time Queen played Sun City in apartheid South Africa, 36 years after the fact. You simply never see it mentioned!
🚨 NEW: Labour believe they have LOST the West Midlands Mayoral election because of Gaza
A senior party source said: "It's the Middle East, not West Midlands that will have won Street the Mayoralty. Once again Hamas are the real villains."
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Being glad a sexual predator has finally been exposed - yes, absolutely.
Celebrating their being exposed because you already didn't like them for reasons unrelated to their being a sexual predator - sounds like you care more about your own vindication than the survivors, lads.
“Hey Kenny, Harold asked me to give you a hand in getting those paintings to the airport? You know, the ones he gave you as a token of his gratitude for everything you’ve done for NJPW?”
Britain will allow for a mix-and-match vaccine regimen: If a second dose of the vaccine a patient originally received isn’t available, another vaccine may be substituted, British health officials said. The new guidance contradicts guidelines in the U.S.
I know TJPW gets flak for not having many truly heated feuds, but it makes more sense if you think of the long-term story the promotion's been telling as that of a group of friends pushing each other to new levels. The King's Road, but if the Four Pillars were also an idol group.
New Japan are moving Dontaku to a single show but they're upgrading it to the PayPay Dome, a 38,000 seater baseball stadium in Fukuoka.
That's probably about 9 times the peak 2010's attendance for Wrestling Dontaku shows.
The IWGP Women's Championship is a Stardom title sanctioned by NJPW but the two companies remain legally separate entities, therefore there is no NJPW women's division. This may seem like splitting hairs, but it's very important that Allan Cheapshot cannot be seen to be correct.
Conspiracy theories are everywhere and people don't understand how harmful they are.
I made the original Conspiracy Chart over a year ago. An update was long overdue. This is the 2021 version.
Why are they still calling them Blackpool Combat Club even after Regal's left, it's like calling yourselves the Labour Party long after you ceased to represent the interests of the labour movement *touches finger to earpiece* I'm being told
Never hear anyone call CM Punk a cookie puss any more, do you. I'm starting to think The Rock's promise that that name would follow him for the rest of his career was false.