Owning the libs by making a terrible website slightly less useful than normal.

THANOS: You think you're my doom?
IRON MAN: Not yet, motherfucker.

You can actually see the moment Ed Miliband thinks, what's the point burning through whatever political credibility I've got left energetically defending a man who's going to be gone in a matter of weeks.

"Somehow Palpatine returned" was a late addition.

Meaning they never wrote even a bad explanation for it at first, and never considered that people might expect one, until the eleventh hour when they scribbled in the margin...

"SOMEHOW."

Jesus wept...

I like this catty Miliband.

Matalas broke up a queer couple offscreen, brought adversarial women back just to kill them for incel cheers, pandered to frothing bigots on their podcasts, killed two Enterprises and a Titan because he preferred the TMP aesthetic, undid 2 Data deaths for a meme &... wrote like shit.

Superb summary.

Just to sum up the post political careers of the three most powerful women in Scottish politics ~2015.

Nicola Sturgeon demonized and hounded out the country.
Ruth Davidson elevated to the aristocracy and money for nothing at the SRU.
Kezia Dugdale put in charge of the biggest LGBT group in the UK.

They made Kezia Dugdale - yes, that one - Stonewall boss and her first acts on the job were to praise JK Rowling and... the troops? "Our priorities now are very much focused on things like securing justice for military veterans."

Organisation will be dead inside two years.

So I got the impression everyone hated this one and.... it's fine. It's not especially good (the kid is excellent) but it's... fine. 2/5

England is a phishing scam to get and sell your data to Palantir.

No wait, that one's just true.

Seasons have been moving later in the year and everyone pretends not to notice. Summer hits in August. Winter doesn't start till January.

The SRU would sell the national team to England if the price was right.

Funny

In case anyone was worried, the Scottish Greens have said you're allowed to vote for who you want on your purple ballot so long as they're not on it. 👍

Extraordinarily strange main event. There is a bad guy who cheating, and people are booing him. There is a good guy, and they're cheering him. Truly this era was gonzo nonsense that should never be revisited.

I have no idea how much they rehearsed back then but there's no sense of it. Guys turn around, accidentally bump into someone else and then do the first move that comes to mind, which is rolled with because they work enough house shows that they know each other inside out.

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"Waassuuup" into "D'von! Get the tables!" is just pure unadulterated joy. You can't manufacture that kind of audience participation—it has to come from the guys. And since almost everything is scripted nowadays... it's just plain gone for the most part.

Look, I knew 2001 was remembered as a good year, but I didn't remember this PPV at all and it is better in every single way than this year's WrestleMania. A smaller crowd that probably paid $40 to get in all came armed with signs and enthusiasm, & there's no wasted time in matches or between.

--fight with Stephanie McMahon reacting at the height of her emotive powers before another twenty years of casual cruelty fused her face into permanent disdain.

Triple H v Kane is surprisingly good. Kane was never the best mover and HHH has *that* reputation, but he begins with targeted speedy viciousness and Kane's attack is still fast enough that his big hits have actual impact rather than the idea of it from a slow moving fist. An imaginative chain--

Match was only about 7 mins, but it was better than most you see today. Chyna was ten times the strongwoman Nia Jax is. And Lita might not have flown like a lot of them today, but her flips never looked like they were for show. They were just how she fought. A lost art.

Women's wrestling is one of the areas where the show's just plain better now than it was, but watching Chyna v Lita you're reminded that it wasn't due to a lack of talent from women back then. Both these two look like they're in a fight, not a showcase. Every move lands with impact.

Can't say I miss those aluminium trash cans too much. Fun for visuals but they so clearly were thinner than paper, even on a 12" CRT.

Big Show picked Rhyno up and pinned him *against the wall* for a 2 count. Those backstage hardcore segments were something else.

The direction is terrible. Kevin Dunn that distracted by a bumblebee he forgets to show Rhyno's entrance in the next match. Cuts away from Big Show being slammed into the barrier. God, he was useless.

God, they're excellent. Vicious, rapid, high impact, technically perfect, mean-spirited, slow when it needs to breath, submissions framed as absolutely deadly as they batter into and run from each one.

Yes, these are two of the best to ever do it but this *style* of match doesn't exist anymore.

So after the total meh of wwe wrestlemania, decided to try a random PPV from ye olde days. Judgment Day 2001

First match a 5-min nothing between Regal v Rikishi. It's quietly excellent. Good pace, Regal taunts the crowd naturally during the fight, Rikishi sharp.

Then Kurt Angle v... Chris Benoit