Stop trying to do the nasty in the pasty.
I'm not sure where the treasury slush fund accusation comes from?
Morning star being a rag, it's borderline embarrassing at this point.
As you say, the idea that pension funds can somehow become treasury slush is nonsense. What they could very much become though is a very quick way to incease assets under management for the sovereign wealth fund.
Since when are people who facilitate fascism my allies?
I really don't want to know why, or how this even came up, but....what? Why? How? Wat.
I'm not sure what country you're in - in the UK there is a charity called "Citizens Advice" which, as the name suggests, can help you with legal, financial, and housing issues. They aren't a type of benefit, but they know the law and your rights and will give correct advice and provide advocacy and support if required, is there anything equivalent to this where you live?
I will absolutely lose my shit if/when Nixon turns up in North for a few shows.
Excellent, so you are in the market for premium oil jacks, where should we start the bidding?
Oh fuck off.
Does it feel dirty as fuck? Of course it does, but if you genuinely think there is no difference at all in climate outlook between the two then I have a billion oil jacks to sell you.
It might be the lesser of two evils, but every tonne less we emit is one less we need to remove.
Is it everything I wanted? No.
Is it a relief to have a budget that is at least economically literate? Fuck yes.
Do I want more next year? Absolutely.
Wait, do they actually think getting it to summarise the wiki page on the trolley problem is actually going to stop their people mowers mowing down people?
Looks like HHH did indeed learn a lesson from nearly killing BritWres, and that lesson was it being widely successful for him and he should do it again!
This pre-PC positioning is absolutely insane.
It absolutely fucks!
I'm pretty sure it's the first match of Mike D's I've seen and he absolutely blew me away. Myles is also doing a great job as English Randy Orton From Wish, his upside is crazy, amazes me that he's had no US bookings.
People who claim both parties are the shame are just showing their privilege.
It's the same in the UK, do Labour come anywhere close to having the policies I want? No. Are they closer to them than the Tories? Yes.
Vote on one day, organise on the other 1200+ days.
NORTH // NCL.48 // The World At Large 2024
Do yourself a favour and watch Mike D Vecchio vs Myles Kayman, it's incredible.
- Kegstacker vs. Kemper
- Natalie Sykes vs. Hard Man Dan
- Gene Munny vs. Yoshiki Inamura (NOAH)
- Ace Matthews (c) vs. Emersyn Jayne - NORTH Ultraviolent Title
- Landed Gentry (Benji & Zeo Knox) (c) vs. Act Two (Benjamin Harland & Jack Knudsen) vs. England's Hardest Men (Big Lou Nixon & Shreddy) vs. Jet Martial & Joe Wade - NORTH Tag Team Title Gauntlet
- Mike D Vecchio (wXw) vs. Myles Kayman
- Rhio vs. Debbie Keitel
- Rampage Brown & Will Kroos vs. Post Modern Sick Boys (Liam Slater & Rory Coyle) - Tag Team Street Fight
CVV - Full Interview - Scott D'Amore On His TNA Departure, WWE & AEW Partnership, Kazuchika Okada, Maple Leaf Pro (2h15m)
I found this to be a really interesting listen, and I'm a lot more interested in what D'Amore does with MLP now than I was 3 hours ago.
NORTH // NCL.46 // Thunderstruck 2 (full show)
- Team Faust (Henry Faust, Kegstacker, Lou Nixon & Trent Seven) vs. Team Kayman (Kemper, Myles Kayman, Reece & Rogan)
- Mark Haskins (w/Vicky Haskins) vs. Michael Oku (w/Amira)
- Allie Katch vs. Debbie Keitel vs. Natalie Sykes vs. Eve Bateman
- Elijah vs. Joe Hendry
- Emersyn Jayne & Rhio (c) vs. Rampage Brown & Will Kroos vs. Landed Gentry (Benji & Zeo Knox) vs. Post Modern Sick Boys (Liam Slater & Rory Coyle) - TLC for the NORTH Tag Team Title
- Gene Munny & Grado vs. Lykos Gym (Kid Lykos & Kid Lykos II)
- Miyu Yamashita vs. Lizzy Evo
- Clint Margera (c) vs. Ace Matthews - NORTH Ultraviolent Title
- Leon Slater (c) vs. Man Like DeReiss - NORTH Title
Forbidden Door 2024 predictions
Zero Hour
- Kyle O'Reilly & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Gabe Kidd & Roderick Strong vs. Private Party vs. Kings of the Black Throne
- Tam Nakano & Willow Nightingale vs. Kris Statlander & Momo Watanabe
- The Lucha Brothers & Mistico vs. Los Ingobernables de Japon (Hiromu Takahashi, Titan & Yota Tsuji)
- Saraya (w/ Harley Cameron) vs. Mariah May (w/ Luther & Toni Storm) - Owen Hart Foundation 2024 Women's Tournament Quarter Final
Main Card
- Hook, Katsuyori Shibata & Samoa Joe vs. The Learning Tree (Big Bill & Chris Jericho) & Jeff Cobb
- Hiroshi Tanahashi & The Acclaimed (w/ Billy Gunn ) vs. The Elite (Kazuchika Okada, Matthew Jackson & Nicholas Jackson)
- Hechicero vs. MJF
- Bryan Danielson vs. Shingo Takagi - Owen Hart Foundation 2024 Men's Tournament Quarter Final
- Orange Cassidy vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
- Toni Storm (c) (w/ Luther & Mariah May) vs. Mina Shirakawa (w/ Mariah May) - AEW Women's World Title
- Mark Briscoe vs. El Phantasmo vs. Konosuke Takeshita vs. Lio Rush vs. Jack Perry vs. Dante Martin - AEW TNT Title Ladder Match
- Mercedes Mone (c) vs. Stephanie Vaquer (c) - AEW TBS & NJPW STRONG Women's Titles
- Jon Moxley (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito - IWGP World Heavyweight Title
- Swerve Strickland (w/ Prince Nana) (c) vs. Will Ospreay - AEW World Title
NORTH // NCL.45 Let The Cannons Fly 5 (18th May 2024)
Card as follows:
- Medusa Complex vs Lykos Gym
- Debbie Keitel vs Emersyn Jayne
- Postmodern Sick Boys vs Rampage Brown & Will Kroos
- Gabe Kid (NJPW) vs Jet Martial
- Natalie Sykes vs Eve Bateman
- Sunshine Machine vs The Landed Gentry
- #1 Contender scramble match - to face Leon Slater at Thunderstruck 2 (13th July 2024)
Newcastle council could be complicit in sportswashing, campaigners claim
Emails highlighted a close relationship between Newcastle United and council officials, who lobbied officials at the Saudi Arabian-controlled club for funding
Surely not?!
NORTH Vault // CLINT MARGERA vs. JOEY JANELA (GCW) - Free Title Match
This match is for NORTH's Ultraviolent Championship, and is from last year's Thunderstruck event, which is the biggest crowd so far with ~700 attendees.
If the venue looks familiar, it's because it's in the Walker Dome, where Impact/TNA held Turning Point last year.
Hulk Hogan may have stopped wrestlers unionising...
...but today, on International Workers' / Labour Day, what is your excuse to not join up?
Graphic by Equity, the UK Actors' Union.
NORTH // Kegstacker vs Caleb Valhalla, or a Barhand and a Viking have a meat slapping drinking contest
Self-aware silly wrestling is my favourite type of wrestling, and this was the pre-show match before All Roads Lead North a few months ago.
To paraphrase a poet, you can keep your 5* classics, I just want big meaty men slapping meat, and draining cans.
NTV Uganda's coverage of MxM's visit to Ugandan soft-ground
This may be the most wholesome wrestling thing I've ever seen.
AEW Dynasty 2024 predictions (potential spoilers for all shows)
Get your picks in, and show how off the mark you are!
Zero Hour
- Matt Sydal vs. Trent Beretta
- Katsuyori Shibata & Orange Cassidy vs. Shane Taylor Promotions
- Billy Gunn & The Acclaimed (c) vs. Bullet Club Gold (c) - Unification of AEW World Trios / ROH World Six Man Tag Team titles
Main Card
- Hook (c) vs. Chris Jericho - FTW Title
- Roderick Strong (c) vs. Kyle O'Reily - AEW International Title
- Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Pac - AEW Continental Title
- Toni Storm (w/Luther & Mariah May) (c) vs. Thunder Rosa - AEW Women's World Title
- Adam Copeland, Eddie Kingston & Mark Briscoe vs. House Of Black
- The Young Bucks vs. FTR - AEW World Tag Team Title Tournament Final Ladder Match
- Julia Hart (c) vs. Willow Nightingale (w/Stokely Hathaway) - AEW TBS Title (House Rules)
- Bryan Danielson vs. Will Ospreay
- Samoa Joe (c) vs. Swerve Strickland (w/Prince Nana) - AEW World Title
NORTH Vault // LIAM SLATER vs. GABRIEL KIDD (NJPW) // Feb 11th 2023
A match from the North Vault for the title, Liam Slater defends against surprise opponent Gabriel Kidd in Kidd's second apparence in North since 2019.
MJF with some words for Rocky
"First you steal my glorious idea to lash Cody.
Now you try to cop art from my ex.
I’m a fan.
But please Leave me be, Dewey."
NORTH Vault // Eddie Kingston vs Rory Coyle // Feb 1st 2020
Before the world ended, the future King of the Bums decided to pop over to a small mining town north of London to fight the resident Sick Boy, and beat the absolute shit out of each other.
Players' Tribune - Sting, by Darby Allin
After the match, I’m going to tell him the only thing there’s left to say: Thank you.
AEW Revolution 2024 Predictions thread (spoilers for all shows)
Zero Hour
- Tag Team Match - Kris Statlander & Willow Nightingale vs. Julia Hart & Skye Blue
- 12 Man Tag Team Match - Jay Lethal, Jeff Jarrett, Satnam Singh, Private Party & Willie Mack vs. Bang Bang Scissor Gang
Main Card
- All-Star 8-Man Scramble - Chris Jericho vs. Lance Archer vs. Brian Cage vs. Magnus vs. Powerhouse Hobbs vs. Wardlow vs. Dante Martin vs. Hook
- FTR vs. Blackpool Combat Club
- AEW TNT Title - Christian Cage (c) vs. Daniel Garcia
- Konosuke Takeshita vs. Will Ospreay
- AEW Continental Title / NJPW STRONG Openweight Title / ROH World Title - Eddie Kingston (c) vs. Bryan Danielson
- AEW Women's World Title - Toni Storm (c) vs. Deonna Purrazzo
- AEW International Title - Orange Cassidy (c) vs. Roderick Strong
- AEW World Title - Samoa Joe (c) vs. Adam Page vs. Swerve Strickland
- AEW World Tag Team Title Tornado - Darby Allin & Sting (c) vs. The Young Bucks