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Post by DiBiase is Good on May 1, 2024 15:17:24 GMT -5
Yesterday was thirty years since Roland Ratzenberger died. Today is thirty years since Ayrton Senna died. A sad time for Formula 1 but it did at least make the sport increase its safety massively, to the point i(I think) no one died in a race for a couple of decades.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on May 1, 2024 15:07:52 GMT -5
“We’re pink. Like vaginas” Employee of the Month
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 29, 2024 4:49:16 GMT -5
Papaya in WCW. I’ve seen several places claim it was the same person who played the Paramedic, B.B in early 2000 WWF but if doesn’t look like her to me.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 29, 2024 4:30:41 GMT -5
The first few seasons of Veep I don't the think the President Stuart Hughes was ever seen. It’s the same in The Thick of It. You never see any of The Prime Ministers. Which considering of course Veep is by the same people who previously created The Thick of It, there’s many similar tropes. I often think if The Thick of It had had as many episodes as Veep, we might have seen one of the characters actually become PM like we did with Selina getting the big job.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 28, 2024 18:52:37 GMT -5
The Neighbour from Home Improvement. She who Must be Obeyed from Rumpole of the Bailey. She who must be obeyed is in several episodes.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 28, 2024 16:22:34 GMT -5
Nick Swainey’s mother in One Foot in the Grave. Arthur Daley’s wife in Minder (‘er indoors) Monkey Harris in Only Fools and Horses (along with most of Del’s fellow tradesmen) Captain Mainwaring’s wife in Dad’s Army
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 26, 2024 17:21:12 GMT -5
Going to be an interesting next couple of weeks in the Championship. Leicester now guaranteed promotion and although Southampton do have a very long shot, it’s pretty much going to be either Leeds or Ipswich. Although they’re a point worse off than Leeds, Ipswich have three more games to play and if they get five points from them, they’re going up. But they’ve only taken two points from their last three games and they have got to go to Hull and Coventry and then play Huddersfield in their final game, who could be playing to stay up.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 25, 2024 22:49:27 GMT -5
Heel has been used as a term for an unpleasant person before wrestling adopted it. It’s not heard that much now but it was common enough to be used more frequently in the past. IIRC the mother in Home Alone uses it. She says something like “don’t you feel like a heel being in first class when the kids are all in economy”.
Can’t recall any examples of it being followed by “turn” anywhere else though.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 21, 2024 17:50:53 GMT -5
Kudos to him for doing it. Still need a lot more of these though Hulkster to get yourself off the “naughty” list.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 21, 2024 17:36:11 GMT -5
No doubt that in the US the ad space in the superbowl would be more valuable. But every country that shows the World Cup final will also be commanding a high price for ad time during their broadcast of one match. One match, that bears repeating. The World Cup has sixty four (or thereabouts) matches. Some of those group matches probably have a higher global audience than the Super Bowl. Admittedly for the following, I just did a quick Google search but apparently the Super Bowl makes on average $750m. The last World Cup made $6b. I just don’t see how globally, the Super Bowl is a more valuable brand than the World Cup or the Olympic Games. I don't think either of us are saying that the Superbowl is bigger. Just that the airtime for an advert is. No companies are spending millions hiring celebrities just for an ad that will be shown during the World Cup, after all. I doubt any channels are charging $7 million for a 30-second ad during half time either. Who even watches the ads during half time in a football (soccer) match? It's only 15 minutes - just enough for a bathroom break and to get a drink. I actually never even mentioned advertising in my original post. I just said that the World Cup was a bigger brand globally based on the combined factors. Back to the topic at hand, I’m surprised to see AEW valued that highly. Not saying they’re not a big name but I never thought they were quite that valuable. But I’m not exactly a source on the subject.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 21, 2024 16:35:47 GMT -5
Hogan/Warrior at the 1990 Royal Rumble.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 21, 2024 16:08:13 GMT -5
The Superbowl will have tons more money in ads then the World Cup. Americans love adverts and the whole Superbowl ads is a massive thing. The World Cup final might have a bigger global audience but its spread out across every country and each countries specific channel so not like all eyes are on one channel. And in the UK at least as an example, most people watch it on BBC which don't have adverts No doubt that in the US the ad space in the superbowl would be more valuable. But every country that shows the World Cup final will also be commanding a high price for ad time during their broadcast of one match. One match, that bears repeating. The World Cup has sixty four (or thereabouts) matches. Some of those group matches probably have a higher global audience than the Super Bowl. Admittedly for the following, I just did a quick Google search but apparently the Super Bowl makes on average $750m. The last World Cup made $6b. I just don’t see how globally, the Super Bowl is a more valuable brand than the World Cup or the Olympic Games.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 21, 2024 15:23:09 GMT -5
The Superbowl is probably more valuable in advertising money. I'm sure the cost of advertising during the Superbowl is way higher than getting ad space during halftime of the World Cup final. I think virtually every country in the world that isn't the US would probably laugh at you if you said the Superbowl was a bigger brand though. Around 1.5 billion people supposedly watched the last World Cup final. I’d say overall the advertising in the World Cup final would be more. Twenty times more people watched the World Cup final than the Super Bowl and each country it was shown in would have different adverts for the final. And that’s just the final, there’s the dozens of matches in the tournament before it. And if you want to go with only yearly events, the Champions League final gets half a billion viewers. And then there’s the Tour de France, damn near half the population of the world apparently watches that bastard at some point!
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 20, 2024 18:01:44 GMT -5
Forbes hasn't been the Forbes of old so I take this with a grain of salt. Obviously, Tony will keep funding the company until he doesn't want to Forbes claimed the SuperBowl is a more valuable brand than the World Cup and the Olympics. Ever since then I stopped listening to anything to they say.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 17, 2024 1:49:24 GMT -5
Scott Steiner saying “he’s fat”.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 16, 2024 15:59:23 GMT -5
Well, that was a pretty dull night in the Champions League! And another. Come on guys, pull your fingers out!
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 16, 2024 5:16:06 GMT -5
The threads that were locked earlier were threads where the previous last post was well over a year ago, sometimes two years. If you’re posting in a thread that’s been inactive for a couple of months, then as long as it’s adding to to the topic, rather than an obvious bump or something similar, then I don’t see an issue with it.
There is no official rule about this (for the moment) but I’d say six months is about the limit from the previous final post. This is not binding in any way, just my own immediate answer when I thought about it.
There are exceptions. Say a thread is started about a film that is about to go into production. A year or so later, we get the first trailer released. In this example it would be acceptable to “revive” the thread with a new post containing the trailer. But I wouldn’t have an issue with there being a new thread started either.
Again, please don’t take this as gospel though. If we do need to make it an official rule, then it will be more clearly defined.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 15, 2024 9:13:09 GMT -5
35 years ago today, thousands went to a football match. 97 of those were unlawfully killed. Justice for the 97.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 15, 2024 0:06:05 GMT -5
It’ll be interesting to see if Alonso goes for the unbeaten record with seven games still to go in the Bundesliga. Obviously the feat of going undefeated in the league is a tremendous achievement but will Alonso rest players for the remaining league matches so his first choice team will be fresher for the cup competitions?
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 14, 2024 20:25:52 GMT -5
I hardly watch any more (mainly as I’ve cancelled the channel that shows games here) so I’m not that up to speed with recent stuff but can anyone stop the Celtics winning it all? I know that having the regular season record is no guarantee of victory in the play-offs but who is the most likely to stop them?
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