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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Mar 31, 2016 14:53:01 GMT -5
As much as I hate seeing characters killed off.... I hope Thanos takes out several. Killing Loki would set the mood rather quickly. Especially if Loki thinks they are in cahoots, but Thanos becomes tired of Loki's failures. Loki being killed brutally, almost nonchalantly 2 minutes into Infinity War would be a wonderful tone-setter. Anyone not sure why this guy is so much worse than previous villains would instantly understand. In terms of heroes dying... I think one of the core 6 from A1 is enough; anything more and the deaths could devalue one another, whilst anything less and the sacrifice won't be big enough. None of the Guardians because they all feed off each other. They already faked out on Iron Man and Hawkeye & Black Widow aren't big enough. That leaves Hulk, Cap and Thor. I don't know if we might get any Hulk movies in the near future, but his lack of blockbusters in this universe (not counting the one with a different actor) suggests they should keep him alive for a future solo film. So now we are down to Cap and Thor. Mortal (but enhanced) man and God. And I know a lot of people (including me) are seriously rooting for Thanos' defeat to come at the hands of Cap picking up Thor's hammer, something they have already laid groundwork for. Wouldn't that be even more perfect if he was avenging the death of his friend who owned the hammer? Perhaps IW: Part 2 could show them planning and establish that the best way to beat Thanos is using the hammer. Maybe the plan could involve Cap's willing sacrifice to increase his 'worthiness'. It all goes perfectly until Thor is shockingly killed before Cap's part, and the Avengers all know they are f*cked because only he could use the hammer. Thanos knows this and gloats, the Avengers and humanity despair... until Cap picks it up.
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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Mar 31, 2016 14:42:22 GMT -5
Now you know why if Bernie isn't the nominee I'd consider voting Republican On an honestly, completely unrelated note, could you add a dislike button? I can't be bothered to go back & find the post but I saw you said that the Tories are closer to Republicans than Democrats a while back. Care to elaborate? Whilst the Conservatives are the right wing party here and the Republicans are the right wing party in the US, I would definitely say that our political centre ground is far enough to the left of the USA's that our right wing party is actually for the most part closer to their left wing party. The Republicans post-08 are something like the BNP whereas Obama for example is certainly closer to Cameron than Corbyn or even Miliband, or than Cameron is to Bush or Trump. Same goes for almost every major Democrat in the past 25 years. Of course there are a few backbench Tories that are mental and would align with the Republicans, but there are a small minority of mental Labour MPs too. I wouldn't put the will of the Tory party/its members as a whole anywhere near that of the Republican party/its members.
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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Mar 31, 2016 14:36:45 GMT -5
I'm in despair at what's happening to the world.
*opens whiskey bottle*
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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Mar 31, 2016 13:40:12 GMT -5
Never understood the tuning in/out thing. Who is constantly switching shows every 30 seconds? And if they aren't then how do they know when to tune in again?
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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Mar 31, 2016 10:08:07 GMT -5
I enjoyed it but I'm not sure I would describe it as a good film. All the actors were fine/good in their roles as far as I'm concerned, no complaints there.
But the writing was just appalling IMO. I'm not a big comic fan by any means, but I enjoy the films. But so much here didn't make sense - not in a 'oh that's weird but there will be a cool explanation for it like Flash talking to Batman in his dream but straight up doesn't work like Batman can use a smoke grenade to disappear without Superman hearing his footsteps yet Superman can hear Lois banging on the rock in another city? And one minute Superman coming into any contact with kryptonite removes his powers, but the next he can fly between cities holding a spear that Batman says is pure kryptonite? I thought that the ending was dragged out a bit - it felt like Return of the King with 5 or 6 'final shot' scenes. Also, 1 dream sequence is fine, but 3 in 1 movie is way too much. Oh, and whilst I appreciate they acknowledged the destruction in MOS (which I'm guessing in an ideal world they wanted to ignore), the lengths they went to in order to hammer home that no civilians were around during the climactic battle were hilarious.
I'm rooting for them to do better, but I don't believe Snyder will be able to get the DC movies up to the required standard.
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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Mar 31, 2016 8:56:16 GMT -5
Longevity is probably why. Austin was on top from March 98 - March 2002 Rock was on top from November 98 - August 2002 Then you look at John Cena, he has been on top since April 2005 - August 2015. And even after that with his US Title reign, he lost the US Title to the WWE Champion, and then lost it again to a former WWE Champion. He didn't lose it to a mid-card guy who could definitely use the rub to be built up. I think that's where the initial problem sits at. I understand this argument to a point, but Cena was being booed by June 2005, after only two months. That doesn't suggest he is hated because of his longevity. That said, I suppose people could have booed him for the way he won rather than just the fact that he rarely lost. But I'm not sure everyone booing had as nuanced a viewpoint as that.
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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Mar 31, 2016 8:44:13 GMT -5
15 or 16; they aren't the worst WMs, but they are the ones with the most wasted potential. 2 disappointing WMs in the hottest period ever for the company.
That said, between WM 14 and WM 19 more or less every PPV was treated as big as WM. After 19 the difference between first and second tier PPVs really began to show. So whilst we got meh WMs like 16 we got great PPVs more or less all year (RR, Backlash, Fully Loaded, Summerslam, Armageddon etc. all in 2000).
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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Mar 21, 2016 7:56:19 GMT -5
Love beating City. Classic Louis to lose to West Brom and scrape a draw at home to West Ham, only to go and do City. It would be glorious if that wanker Pep were forced to play his first season in the Europa. His comments against Juve were ridiculous and nearly came back to bite him in the arse.
Hope Spurs win the PL. Most goals scored and least conceded; think they deserve it. Don't really like Leicester but I do like Ranieri. Mahrez also deserves POTY; would be a disgrace if anyone else got it, though Vardy probably will 'cos he's English.
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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Mar 11, 2016 7:12:20 GMT -5
Cruz scares me way more than Trump.
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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Mar 11, 2016 7:08:30 GMT -5
When watching the trailer by the end I was just like: ![](http://oyster.ignimgs.com/wordpress/stg.ign.com/2014/04/tumblr_n3nc2ugNyH1qcluu2o1_250.gif) F*k it. Civil War will be the best superhero film OF ALL TIME.
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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Mar 11, 2016 6:41:50 GMT -5
Don't think it was a penalty but it doesn't matter, we deserved to lose. Carrick was a great servant but he should never pull the shirt on again, he's been terrible this season.
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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Mar 1, 2016 6:51:52 GMT -5
The debate was legally mandated. The UK has a rule whereby if a petition gets 100,000 signatures it has to be debated in Parliament. Trump being banned got well over that number so our lawmakers were required to debate it. I'm not saying that being concerned about immigration is xenophobia. I'm saying wanting to ban all Muslims (but not people of other religions) from entering the country is xenophobia. Mandate aside, it's just laughable that people in another country rallied to make a political statement to impact the election (of a country that embodies freedom of speech) by attempting to ban a person because they don't agree with them. Things like that causes many people here to not value the opinions of foreigners regarding who they want to run our country. Especially considering I would guarantee that at least 95% of the people who signed the petition know nothing regarding our domestic issues and policies. There was never a serious attempt to ban him; like Batfleck said, the debate was more tongue in cheek than anything. We're well within our rights to make a statement on your internal politics. No one complained when Obama and other US politicians made comments on our upcoming EU Referendum. Its part of the discourse of an important vote in a major Western economy.
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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Feb 29, 2016 17:05:26 GMT -5
From a British perspective, this statement is basically true. Bush was a joke, Obama is popular, and Trump is an even worse version of Bush. Hillary is eh and no one really knows who Bernie is yet. Our politicians had a debate over whether Trump should be banned from the UK for his xenophobic comments. Its a shame he's mental, because from what I can tell he has decent ideas on campaign finance and has been in favour of nationalised healthcare in the past, two things that in my opinion could massively help America. Then he starts talking about the wall... On the contrary, most people in the US would find it hilarious that the UK uses resources towards deciding if they want to ban people, let alone a serious U.S. presidential candidate, based on their opinions/words, or their proposed immigration policies that are supported by many people in the country he's campaigning to be president of. Immigration policies and border security directly tie into national security issues, so I get confused when people don't understand why securing our southern border gets talked about so frequently. (Donald is far from the first person to propose a border wall, by the way.) I'm not worried about a border wall personally, and it's a low ranking issue for me, but I'm not hearing too many legitimate arguments against it. Most people just tell me that it's a 'bad symbol for freedom' or talk about how we couldn't possibly afford to build it. If we can afford $1bil towards the failed launch of the Healthcare.gov website, then we can easily afford $10bil for a gigantic physical structure that's built in the name of national security. Outside of the obvious security concerns, Mexican drug cartels absolutely thrive with our border being unsecured along with human traffickers who prey on the women and children that are constantly en route towards the border. In terms of the whole immigration system and even relating to legal immigration policies, we have a lot of problems. I live in an area where we still have a decent amount of manufacturing plants that are still active, so I know quite a few people who have worked at many different manufacturing plants over the years. Every single one of these people that I know will tell you all of the manufacturing companies have increased the percentage of immigrant workers they have hired over the years. These aren't just under the table, illegal jobs either. These are people that are legally working but are not citizens of our country. It's unsettling for many Americans to watch many manufacturing jobs get exported to other countries, while the remaining companies continually seem to increase their percentages in hiring immigrants from other countries. So the support than many American have in slowing down or halting immigration really doesn't just boil down to racism and xenophobia like a lot of people naively attempt to portray it. There are many, many underlying issues that cause people to support an immigration overhaul. Most people don't hold a negative view of these people who just come here for a better life, but many believe that Americans are taking a hit in exchange for helping people from other countries when they see these types of hiring processes. This is why Donald Trump earns thousands of votes every time he publicly shames a company by name, like Nabisco, for closing down a US plant and moving to another country. Comments like that are what actually sparks most of his support, not comments like the questionable "rapist" remarks. The debate was legally mandated. The UK has a rule whereby if a petition gets 100,000 signatures it has to be debated in Parliament. Trump being banned got well over that number so our lawmakers were required to debate it. I'm not saying that being concerned about immigration is xenophobia. I'm saying wanting to ban all Muslims (but not people of other religions) from entering the country is xenophobia.
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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Feb 29, 2016 15:13:20 GMT -5
Austin's character had been saved from fan boredom because of his year injury layoff. Give it another year and do it at WM-X8 and it would have probably been more necessary, but X-Seven was too soon; just a few months after he came back. If he hadn't been injured fans would have been bored of him, but he was and they weren't.
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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Feb 29, 2016 14:29:31 GMT -5
If they genuinely treated the brands as equal it could work well, but that would require SmackDown! going live and being in an equal slot (both time and network) to Raw, albeit on a different day. In 2002-04 the brand split was at its best because it was the closest it came to ever being equal. In 2005 they clearly began to prioritise Raw and that was the beginning of the end.
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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Feb 29, 2016 13:57:28 GMT -5
Probably in the same light that they've always viewed us. I promise you that is not true. Trump is undoing a lot of the goodwill Obama had finally built for us. From a British perspective, this statement is basically true. Bush was a joke, Obama is popular, and Trump is an even worse version of Bush. Hillary is eh and no one really knows who Bernie is yet. Our politicians had a debate over whether Trump should be banned from the UK for his xenophobic comments. Its a shame he's mental, because from what I can tell he has decent ideas on campaign finance and has been in favour of nationalised healthcare in the past, two things that in my opinion could massively help America. Then he starts talking about the wall...
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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Feb 29, 2016 13:46:21 GMT -5
I feel like Civil War really should be the best Marvel film yet. Considering I think the rough consensus is that Winter Soldier is the best to date, if anyone can beat it its Cap and the Russo Brothers.
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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Feb 29, 2016 13:44:27 GMT -5
God I love beating Arsenal. Especially when we have a youthful team out with the worst United centre back pairing in my lifetime (narrowly edging Berbatov and Carrick because Berbatov was so chill in our own box it actually made me rather happy). They should have wiped the floor with us but we deserved the win.
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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Feb 23, 2016 5:50:43 GMT -5
Bit unfair considering that basically anyone else would be fired for that. 'Do as I say not as I do' is a horrible way to lead.
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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Feb 22, 2016 7:06:26 GMT -5
![](http://www.wrestlingfigs.com/images/wfcensored.gif) me the commentary is so bad on these games. FIFA commentary isn't perfect but its 100x better, why can't they get it like that?
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