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JP Liz V1 · 11-09-2012 02:05PM

Andy Murray has finally won a Grand Slam (US Open) well done to him

rovert · 11-09-2012 09:34PM

Rampage and Aldo pulled out of the same UFC card. So I voiced my displeasure with Dana:

https://twitter.com/danawhite/status/245632670892167168

:P

CMpunked · 11-09-2012 09:39PM

rovert wrote: »

Rampage and Aldo pulled out of the same UFC card. So I voiced my displeasure with Dana:

https://twitter.com/danawhite/status/245632670892167168

:P

What a gent.

Digitalism · 11-09-2012 09:42PM

rovert wrote: »

Rampage and Aldo pulled out of the same UFC card. So I voiced my displeasure with Dana:

https://twitter.com/danawhite/status/245632670892167168

:P

:eek:
wait, thats your twitter account?!

oh wow...

CMpunked · 11-09-2012 09:44PM

Digitalism wrote: »

:eek:
wait, thats your twitter account?!

oh wow...

haha.... awkward!

Stereomaniac · 11-09-2012 09:59PM

My finest moment on Twitter had to be when I got Tatanka to post a congrats to Katy Taylor.

gnfnrhead · 11-09-2012 10:05PM

Rovert vs Dana at Wrestlemania, Book it! :pac:

Hashtag_HEEL · 11-09-2012 10:07PM

My Finest twitter moments were when Mick Foley DM'd me and when Dolph Ziggler thought my #HEEL hat was "pretty sick!"

That wasn't very nice now Dana was it?

Angron · 11-09-2012 10:16PM

I see Dana likes to talk things through nice and calmly. :pac:

My twitter highlight is a DM from Dying Fetus about their tour in Europe

montyrebel · 11-09-2012 10:16PM

I have had a DM from Foley and Christopher Daniels and also a reply from Ziggler

GTR63 · 11-09-2012 10:20PM

gnfnrhead wrote: »

Rovert vs Dana at Wrestlemania, Book it! :pac:

F**k that the UFC 153 card is now so sparce it'll need it. Get Shogun or Machida up off the couch and up against Teixeira. UFC wouldn't but I would like if they gave Edgar another Shot at Henderson.

CMpunked · 11-09-2012 10:27PM

Hashtag_HEEL wrote: »

My Finest twitter moments were when Mick Foley DM'd me and when Dolph Ziggler thought my #HEEL hat was "pretty sick!"

What he say?

Hashtag_HEEL · 11-09-2012 10:36PM

CMpunked wrote: »

What he say?

I asked him if he'd have dates for his 2011 comedy tour and he said

hoping to announce 2 dates in Ireland in next few days.

:cool:

gnfnrhead · 12-09-2012 01:31AM

Watching the Soprano's now. Everyone said it was amazing but after seasons one and two I thought it had been overrated. Really good but not as amazing as I had been expecting. Halfway through season three and it's fcuking brilliant now. That Ralphie is pure scum, hope he ends up dead somehow.

montyrebel · 12-09-2012 08:55AM

IMO the best TV show ever made, better than the wire et all, enjoy it mate

Penn · 12-09-2012 09:33AM

I hated The Sopranos. Stopped watching after season 3. I wanted to like it, and I could tell it was well acted and written, but at the same time, I just hated pretty much every single character. The Wire, I liked almost every character regardless of whether they were good or bad. The Sopranos though, I can't say I actually 'liked' any of the characters. Wouldn't have cared if any of them died in any episode.

The Pine Barrens episode was great, other than that, I just couldn't get into the show at all.

D.Q · 12-09-2012 10:13AM

Penn wrote: »

I hated The Sopranos. Stopped watching after season 3. I wanted to like it, and I could tell it was well acted and written, but at the same time, I just hated pretty much every single character. The Wire, I liked almost every character regardless of whether they were good or bad. The Sopranos though, I can't say I actually 'liked' any of the characters. Wouldn't have cared if any of them died in any episode.

The Pine Barrens episode was great, other than that, I just couldn't get into the show at all.

I can't even begin to understand how someone can think like this. There are so many great characters in the show. Tony is obviously one of the most iconic tv characters of all time, but his supporting cast is incredible. I mean, Chris has a really interesting story arc, Paulie and Sil are great. Then over the course of the series you have guys like Ralphie, Johnny Sac, Phil Leotardo etc adding even more.

I always thought that the characters were the best thing about the show! Each to their own though!

Just finished the Wire myself. Kind of an anticlimax imo.

I was hoping Marlo would get got by the end. Also Bodie and Omar dying left me with a bad taste in my mouth. I will say however, I dont think I've ever been happier at the end of a show as I was when I saw Bubbs sitting for dinner with his family. What an incredible character.

12-09-2012 10:16AM

D.Q wrote: »

I can't even begin to understand how someone can think like this. There are so many great characters in the show. Tony is obviously one of the most iconic tv characters of all time, but his supporting cast is incredible. I mean, Chris has a really interesting story arc, Paulie and Sil are great. Then over the course of the series you have guys like Ralphie, Johnny Sac, Phil Leotardo etc adding even more.

I always thought that the characters were the best thing about the show! Each to their own though!

Just finished the Wire myself. Kind of an anticlimax imo.
I was hoping Marlo would get got by the end. Also Bodie and Omar dying left me with a bad taste in my mouth. I will say however, I dont think I've ever been happier at the end of a show as I was when I saw Bubbs sitting for dinner with his family. What an incredible character.

In relation to Marlo:

I believe it is to show how he got handed everything Stringer wanted but he wasn't happy and he can't go back to the street.

Roger Sterling · 12-09-2012 10:43AM

Penn wrote: »

I hated The Sopranos. Stopped watching after season 3. I wanted to like it, and I could tell it was well acted and written, but at the same time, I just hated pretty much every single character. The Wire, I liked almost every character regardless of whether they were good or bad. The Sopranos though, I can't say I actually 'liked' any of the characters. Wouldn't have cared if any of them died in any episode.

The Pine Barrens episode was great, other than that, I just couldn't get into the show at all.

Anyone who couldnt like a character like Paulie is missing their soul!!!

Penn · 12-09-2012 01:30PM

Roger Sterling wrote: »

Anyone who couldnt like a character like Paulie is missing their soul!!!

Maybe "hated" is too strong a word to have used. Paulie was alright, I suppose, and maybe Pussy. But again, I just didn't care if anyone died on the show. It would have had no effect on me. I just didn't really care about any of the characters. The Wire: Loved pretty much all the characters and some of the deaths are still hard to watch. Breaking Bad: Love most of the characters (even Skyler). Sons of Anarchy: The same. Love most of the characters. The Sopranos: ... Just didn't care.

Bounty Hunter · 12-09-2012 02:17PM

Fup!

hate when you accidentally hit backup or something similar and then lose a massive post you had just written. twas something like: I studied Media Production in college and was all into Scriptwriting blahdi blah blah and the Soprano's was my first love in terms of TV in as much as it was the first show that for me epitomized the best that TV could be. It made me really want to work for HBO and an imediate fan of almost all HBO shows. Hell I even appreciated Sex in the City was a well conceived and made show (Even if I thought it was painful to watch) but that I wasn't it's target audience. I was even willing to give True Blood a chance just cos it was HBO and tbh otherwise the thought of a Vampire tv show would not have appealed to me at all and I'd have assumed it was garbage.

The fact that It was the Soprano's that kickstarted my interest in all these shows kinda puts it up on a pedestal and tbh im not sure if its really the best but for me it is. However shows i'd be happy to place on a similar level to it do exist in the form of The Wire and to a lesser extent Breaking Bad, then a little further off i'd have shows like Oz.

o and how can you not like Silvio "Just when I thought I was out, They Pull me back in" Dante?

GTR63 · 12-09-2012 04:08PM

Ireland vs England next may in Wembley pity we're absolutely sh!te now would have been excited about it a decade ago.

Charisteas · 12-09-2012 05:08PM

GTR63 wrote: »

Ireland vs England next may in Wembley pity we're absolutely sh!te now would have been excited about it a decade ago.

I can already predict that James McClean and Seamus Coleman will be on the bench.

GTR63 · 12-09-2012 05:18PM

Charisteas wrote: »

I can already predict that James McClean and Seamus Coleman will be on the bench.

Or will have fallen out with Trap by then.

Lord TSC · 12-09-2012 05:36PM

No internet for 24 hours (except on my phone, and thats expensive :P). God, the horrors.

Not seen The Sopranos or The Wire, but Bounty's post rings true for me, albeit with The West Wing.

Currently on my 4th watch of TWW. I can't think of another show which can come even close to the quality of it. The writing, direction, acting, production....just all top class. Easily one of my favorite shows, and one which encourages my writing every time I sit down and open Word.

Bounty Hunter · 13-09-2012 06:57AM

Teamshadowclan wrote: »

No internet for 24 hours (except on my phone, and thats expensive :P). God, the horrors.

Not seen The Sopranos or The Wire, but Bounty's post rings true for me, albeit with The West Wing.

Currently on my 4th watch of TWW. I can't think of another show which can come even close to the quality of it. The writing, direction, acting, production....just all top class. Easily one of my favorite shows, and one which encourages my writing every time I sit down and open Word.

ha im actually currently re watching the west wing atm, nearly at the 2nd season finale which is truely epic. My 2 favourite US presidents ever Bartlett & Palmer (24).

Lord TSC · 13-09-2012 07:09AM

Adore the season two finale. Just after finishing the third myself. All four of Sorkin's finales in the show are epic level though....

Bounty Hunter · 13-09-2012 07:23AM

Teamshadowclan wrote: »

Adore the season two finale. Just after finishing the third myself. All four of Sorkin's finales in the show are epic level though....

Assume youve been watching the Newsroom recently? (if not do) great show, I missed the credits on the first episode but knew it was Sorking within minutes. Both shows are sheer quality and the only valid criticism ive ever hear of them is that they are a bit pompus but considering the theme, maybe they should be and yes it (WW) would be on the same level as the shows I mentioned above imo like Oz, Breaking bad & The Wire

Lord TSC · 13-09-2012 07:30AM

Finished Newsroom yesterday (was watching it at Sky pace).

Really enjoyed it. Maggie a a character annoyed me no end, but she was the only "weak" character. I also thought it was anti climatic that the

death threat

strand wasn't finished, and was waiting for a season one West Wing style ending for the last twenty minutes :P But it means that

Terry Crews

gets to stay in the show longer which is perfectly ok with me

And I think I love Sloan.....

Studio 60 was brilliant as well in my opinion and I'm still annoyed it got canned after one season.

Need to get round to Sports Night and The Social Network now. Finish off Sorkin's library...

Bounty Hunter · 13-09-2012 07:42AM

Teamshadowclan wrote: »

Finished Newsroom yesterday (was watching it at Sky pace).

Really enjoyed it. Maggie a a character annoyed me no end, but she was the only "weak" character. I also thought it was anti climatic that the
death threat
strand wasn't finished, and was waiting for a season one West Wing style ending for the last twenty minutes :P But it means that
Terry Crews
gets to stay in the show longer which is perfectly ok with me

And I think I love Sloan.....

Studio 60 was brilliant as well in my opinion and I'm still annoyed it got canned after one season.

Need to get round to Sports Night and The Social Network now. Finish off Sorkin's library...

Almost ashamed to say I never watched Sports Night despites considering myself a sports guy and having seen the west wing unknown times. Can't blame you on Sloan or Maggie tbh and yeah I wouldnt put it on WW standard yet and the Season finale was a little anti-climatic for the reason you said but ive high hopes for it because it was a hit from day 1 and wont get canned and my faith in Sorkin makes me think he will deliver as well. Was annoyed myself that studio 60 didnt get the same opportunity but perhaps im more enthused about a Sorkin show since there will be less of them as tbh im a little wary of him repeating himself after recently re-watching a WW ep with "Gather ye rose buds" references which was obviously reused a good bit in the Newsroom.

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