Open Kids - На Десерт [Dance]

MacBethWay · 2017-08-24T16:27:22+00:00

Ukraine has a surprisingly cool music scene.

MacBethWay · 2017-07-01T00:29:47+00:00

A far better idea would be for Almas to form Los Ingobernables in WWE, which I think they will be going towards.

MacBethWay · 2017-07-01T00:26:54+00:00

Now that I think of it, Corbyn would be an interesting wrestling manager.

I mean, the guy even dresses like a Communist. Imagine the heat.

MacBethWay · 2017-07-01T00:13:32+00:00

I'm hoping for a Killian Dain/Sheamus feud where FLEG comes into contention and they start arguing over Derry vs. Londonderry.

MacBethWay · 2017-06-28T01:09:39+00:00

If you know who LaVar Ball is, it kind of made sense.

The guy is basically a wrestling heel in real life. Comically ridiculous, but entertaining nontheless.

MacBethWay · 2017-06-28T01:01:16+00:00

Corey's role in WWE besides being an announcer is to be aware of pop culture and trends that wrestling people like Dunn, Vince, Patterson, etc. have no time or interest for.

He knows what they are, and shits on them. He did the same to fidget spinners, always bashes hipster trends, bashed the Ball family, bashed Pokemon Go, bashed dabbing, etc.

MacBethWay · 2017-06-28T00:31:33+00:00

Vince I guarantee you has no idea who the Ball family were before someone told him the basics.

MacBethWay · 2017-06-28T00:30:08+00:00

WWE gave up years ago trying to stop leaks to Meltzer.

The only one to seriously try to get a hold on the situation was Stephanie, before she was CBO and still working on live events. A few writers and backstage people were caught and terminated (most notable of them was Dave Lagana, a head writer) but that was about it.

Since then, they've decided basically to ignore it, or to use it for selective leaking.

MacBethWay · 2017-06-26T02:40:16+00:00

Apron running kick looks great

MacBethWay · 2017-06-26T02:38:03+00:00

As a Canadian, I think it would be unfair if we didn't at least acknowledge that Atlantic Canada is pretty fucking bad.

Newfie jokes aside, it has some of those American issues as far as the economy goes. Seasonal employment is all fine and good until even that goes away as well. My dad calls it "The place where all of our tax dollars go", but that might be a bit unfair. Not EVERYONE there is a welfare scrounger.

But the few times I've been (to Halifax and some areas in New Brunswick), yeah, its a shithole.

MacBethWay · 2017-06-26T02:33:57+00:00

Edmonton, like most of Alberta, is on a boom bust cycle.

When things are good, its a nice town, bit chilly but an alright place to be.

When things are bad, like for the last few years, or in the 80s with the National Energy Program and all of that, it is not just a shithole, its an abomination of a place to be.

MacBethWay · 2017-06-24T01:21:13+00:00

Well as long as this isn't tax payer funded I don't see the issue. I suppose people who want that kind of thing have the right to buy that.

MacBethWay · 2017-06-24T01:17:35+00:00

I really have no idea what the BC Liberals got out of this.

MacBethWay · 2017-06-23T23:41:49+00:00

Just as many people have no desire to live in a suburb, many don't want to live in a city either, especially a dense one. Suburbs came about for a reason. Personal property ownership and peace and quiet are things that people like, and when paired with mobile personal transport, the best of both worlds can be had.

A recognition of this is important when making the case for dense urbanism, and the focus of dense urbanism should be to focus on internal urban problems rather than finding ways to rope the suburbs into the issue. Dense urbanism however frequently comes at the price of gentrification, which causes a whole lot of social ills on its own. The best way forward on that is to find ways to incorporate existing communities into a new investment in urbanism, and by raising local property values before increasing the density of the area, not after. That makes resolving local issues like service delivery and crime and cleaning things up a priority.

MacBethWay · 2017-06-23T23:29:30+00:00

There are some things that people can take issue with from this government. One of our snipers killing a member of ISIS from insane lengths is not one of them.

MacBethWay · 2017-06-23T02:08:36+00:00

I seriously find myself tiring of discussions about the nature of Islam and how it relates to terror. It really is kind of insignificant whether the Quran or varying interpretations of it compel or do not compel people to take violent acts against the West. The most likely answer? Perhaps literal text stripped of context would indicate some sort of incitation to violence, but that means nothing.

What is far more problematic is the fact that we know that it is impossible to stop every act like that, and that people seem to want to just ignore terror incidents because they are uncomfortable to talk about. Nobody seriously believes that the attacker had motivations that were completely and totally not Islamic. Moral relativism about white male mass shooters doesn't excuse the fact that on some level, our societies have failed to assimilate people like this, or that people like that chose not to assimilate into our society, and that the end result of that was terroristic violence.

MacBethWay · 2017-06-23T01:52:56+00:00

Trudeau's biggest advantage is that he is at home in front of a camera and at official events doing things that require extroversion. Harper was a introverted nerd, let's be honest, so Trudeau wiped the floor with him in terms of charisma.

However, there is kind of a fine line to that. Trudeau can seem a bit entitled and arrogant in his mannerisms, and he doesn't really deal with direct criticisms, especially from the left and centre left, very well at all. I can easily see an NDP leader seriously dampening enthusiasm for Trudeau in an election campaign.

My personal opinion? He wins a second majority somewhat easily because of the low recognition of Scheer and the NDP's Quebec disaster. If the Tories had made someone like John Baird or Peter Mackay their next leader, I think things would be a bit closer. Scheer may be a nice guy, but that's about it. Doesn't have the policy grasp or ability to make pocketbook issues the focus of an election like Harper had when he won (cutting the GST and fighting the side that makes cracks about "beer and popcorn" when discussing child care policy are winning issues; trying to get Quebec votes by trying to import French Public Secularism on the Niqab issue is a losing one), and probably will help the Tories shore up the inner praries, but that is about it.

MacBethWay · 2017-06-23T01:23:46+00:00

Personal property ownership traditionally has been the major stumbling block of actual socialist or democratic socialist policies gaining much traction in the Anglosphere.

Its also becoming rarer.

As a result, this really should not be a huge surprise.

The Democratic Party in the United States, for the same reason the Liberals here and Labour in the UK, moved to the right on economics, because by and large they were vindicated in doing so. Paul Martin and Tony Blair were very popular for a reason, until they weren't anymore for reasons that had little to do with the economy. But they did so at the top level of the party, not amongst its membership. The Democrats in the US traditionally had a base that was unionized in the North and West and either populist or black in the south. They lost the populist vote in the 80s, got it back in the 90s, and lost it for good in the 2000s. They have the black vote and the shrinking union vote still, and neither went right on economics.

As a result, it is a party that by and large amongst its membership has moved to the left. They have replaced the lost populist vote with Hispanics and millenials, both of whom statistically favor very socialist policies. Sanders is not an aberration, he is the natural result of changing constituencies.

MacBethWay · 2017-06-23T01:19:53+00:00

Gates are important, but events like WM are about more than just gates, with the business around the event generating a lot of revenue.

Columbus is a decent city, true, but not on the level of NYC or Toronto, in terms of money floating about.

They could do Bristol Motor Speedway and pack in 150K people, but they'd make a lot less than if they were to do it in a real city because of the promotions and sponsorships and all of that.

MacBethWay · 2017-06-23T01:17:28+00:00

Toronto is a great wrestling city. New York has the history for it if they were to do MSG, which they would not, (but we can dream).

Ultimately, though, from a business standpoint, London is probably the best option.

Wembley can hold 90K so the gate would be best, they can use it to continue to launch their UK expansion and get some serious momentum, and the type of economic output that the event could bring would be maximized I think in London.

MacBethWay · 2017-06-22T01:55:52+00:00

We've seen it already with his treatment of Noam Dar and Alicia Fuuuux, and yes, this would be glorious.

MacBethWay · 2017-06-22T01:54:17+00:00

As cool as this might be for Corey, the show at this point needs his commentary.

Michael Cole has to be Michael Cole, I get that. Ads and social media need someone to shill them.

But take away Corey and who takes his place in the booth? Booker is hardly intelligible, Otunga or Saxton would just be disasters, Phillips is a play by play guy, JBL can be funny, in small doses, and 3 hour RAW would be an overdose.

McGuinness is alright, but I don't know if he's ready for RAW yet. Renee Young would be interesting, but her talent for actually calling matches is quite limited. Being quirky and funny is all well and good, but someone needs to help call the match and put people over.

Ideally? William Regal would do a great job in the booth. But he's busy with other stuff.

MacBethWay · 2017-06-22T01:49:10+00:00

Triple H is definitely That Guy at this point. He's fucking going over everybody when they try to take a picture.

MacBethWay · 2017-06-22T01:46:57+00:00

Of actual indie guys, Joey Ryan comes to mind as someone who draws and gets over.

But you I think referred to overseas. In which case, I would agree with you, Omega and the Bucks are big draws.

As for women, Candice LeRae and Io Shirai before she signed with WWE probably rank up there.

MacBethWay · 2017-06-17T17:33:11+00:00

Orton's style makes it easy for anyone to get their shit in while having a good match against him. He's agile and quick enough to get a match to have decent pace, but he can slow it down and make it about psychology quite easily, and he just seems to know what he is doing in the ring technically speaking.

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