I'm not sure what country you're in - in the UK there is a charity called "Citizens Advice" which, as the name suggests, can help you with legal, financial, and housing issues. They aren't a type of benefit, but they know the law and your rights and will give correct advice and provide advocacy and support if required, is there anything equivalent to this where you live?
I will absolutely lose my shit if/when Nixon turns up in North for a few shows.
Excellent, so you are in the market for premium oil jacks, where should we start the bidding?
Oh fuck off.
Does it feel dirty as fuck? Of course it does, but if you genuinely think there is no difference at all in climate outlook between the two then I have a billion oil jacks to sell you.
It might be the lesser of two evils, but every tonne less we emit is one less we need to remove.
Is it everything I wanted? No.
Is it a relief to have a budget that is at least economically literate? Fuck yes.
Do I want more next year? Absolutely.
Looks like HHH did indeed learn a lesson from nearly killing BritWres, and that lesson was it being widely successful for him and he should do it again!
This pre-PC positioning is absolutely insane.
It absolutely fucks!
I'm pretty sure it's the first match of Mike D's I've seen and he absolutely blew me away. Myles is also doing a great job as English Randy Orton From Wish, his upside is crazy, amazes me that he's had no US bookings.
People who claim both parties are the shame are just showing their privilege.
It's the same in the UK, do Labour come anywhere close to having the policies I want? No. Are they closer to them than the Tories? Yes.
Vote on one day, organise on the other 1200+ days.
Do yourself a favour and watch Mike D Vecchio vs Myles Kayman, it's incredible.
- Kegstacker vs. Kemper
- Natalie Sykes vs. Hard Man Dan
- Gene Munny vs. Yoshiki Inamura (NOAH)
- Ace Matthews (c) vs. Emersyn Jayne - NORTH Ultraviolent Title
- Landed Gentry (Benji & Zeo Knox) (c) vs. Act Two (Benjamin Harland & Jack Knudsen) vs. England's Hardest Men (Big Lou Nixon & Shreddy) vs. Jet Martial & Joe Wade - NORTH Tag Team Title Gauntlet
- Mike D Vecchio (wXw) vs. Myles Kayman
- Rhio vs. Debbie Keitel
- Rampage Brown & Will Kroos vs. Post Modern Sick Boys (Liam Slater & Rory Coyle) - Tag Team Street Fight
Babe, wake up....
I mean, I absolutely love dumb as fuck wrestling.
But it's no Yoshihiko.
Oh Trevor, yous trollin
They both deserve so much more.
Thank you for the correct link, much appreciated.
Completely agree the 2030 target is electricity, not the entire economy.
For me the key paragraph is in the middle of this section, emphasis mine:
I know some like Extinction Rebellion will lecture me on carbon capture investment. They’ll say it isn’t the right choice.
But it’s working people who come first. Without this tech, heavy industries such as cement, glass-making and chemicals will risk having to down tools.
The Budget in a few weeks’ time will be about fixing the foundations and continuing to show a decisive break from the past
The jobs of brickies, sparkies and engineers — the backbone of Britain — will be risked.
That means fewer new homes, fewer new roads and a slow decline to the dark ages.
These are not impossible industries to decarbonise, but they are very difficult especially with stuff like cement.
Back to your original reply, I don't think it's a fair reading of the manifesto to say they promised more than 2030 for electricity and ~2050 for the economy.
Yes I want this to be faster, I'm still pissed off that the £34bn/year for retrofitting, etc, has been watered down multiple times, but - so far - nothing from the manifesto has been scraped.
Come the budget at the end of the month, I may very well be wrong, and very angry.
Edit on budget day: I wasn't.
I'm sorry, but your additions are simply not a correct summary of the situation.
I live in the UK, and first and foremost, The Sun is an absolute shit rag and should never be considered trustworthy. That also isn't an opinion piece - check the byline - and Starmer's quote (in bold) is...
But in a direct rebuke, Sir Keir writes on this page: “I know some like Extinction Rebellion will lecture me on carbon capture . . . they’ll say it isn’t the right choice.”
And warning that industries employing tradesmen including sparkies and brickies would go to the wall without action, he insisted: “It’s working people who come first.”
And that's it.
Now, this is the relevant press release from the Dept of Energy: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-reignites-industrial-heartlands-10-days-out-from-the-international-investment-summit
And two days before, there was this statement about the approval of 2GW additional solar, and a restatement of the manifesto pledge of clean power (ie electricity) by 2030: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/solar-taskforce-meets-in-drive-for-clean-power
It's very clear that they are looking in all areas at once, and given the 2030 deadline it's not accurate to suggest that CCS is a central part of the plan, because it very much isn't. The plan is 2x solar generation, and 3x wind generation.
Again, I'm not a fan of CCS, but research is a good thing, especially for such a comparatively small price. And we ultimately need to get to carbon negative, and I would expect CCS to be part of that, because scrubbing already released CO2 is going to be a bitch of a challenge, but would logically include things like sequestration in nature (trees, soil, sea grasses, etc).
The comment I originally replied to was asking about removal of appetite. The point I was making was that appetite isn't the only reason people consume calories.
The jabs do not cause you to exercise, and losing weight without some level of exercise to build fitness is also not healthy.
The point Streeting is making is that you can't just eat to excess and expect, 20 years later, that the NHS can fix all your problems with an injection.
It's the same way that alcoholics are not given liver or kidney transplants, or smokers new lungs, because even if you did the transplants all the other problems (cancers, etc) would still exist.
Primary healthcare is really complicated because you're dealing with people who are generally speaking not at the worse bit, yet, and so patient's motivation to consider, let alone make, changes can be non-existent.
This in turn is what makes a preventative healthcare model so much harder to achieve. The best way to treat T2 diabetes is to not get there in the first place, but friends of mine routinely have conversations with patients where their likelihood of having T2D, or stroke, heart attack, etc, is very high within the next 5 years, and are met with blunt refusals to even consider something as trivial as a lower calorie butter/spread, and instead just demand a jab.
This is not everyone, but it is a significant proportion, and it's right the Health Secretary to remind people that while the NHS does exist, and will support you if you get there, that it's better for yourself to not end up there in the first place.
I found this to be a really interesting listen, and I'm a lot more interested in what D'Amore does with MLP now than I was 3 hours ago.
- Team Faust (Henry Faust, Kegstacker, Lou Nixon & Trent Seven) vs. Team Kayman (Kemper, Myles Kayman, Reece & Rogan)
- Mark Haskins (w/Vicky Haskins) vs. Michael Oku (w/Amira)
- Allie Katch vs. Debbie Keitel vs. Natalie Sykes vs. Eve Bateman
- Elijah vs. Joe Hendry
- Emersyn Jayne & Rhio (c) vs. Rampage Brown & Will Kroos vs. Landed Gentry (Benji & Zeo Knox) vs. Post Modern Sick Boys (Liam Slater & Rory Coyle) - TLC for the NORTH Tag Team Title
- Gene Munny & Grado vs. Lykos Gym (Kid Lykos & Kid Lykos II)
- Miyu Yamashita vs. Lizzy Evo
- Clint Margera (c) vs. Ace Matthews - NORTH Ultraviolent Title
- Leon Slater (c) vs. Man Like DeReiss - NORTH Title
Zero Hour
- Kyle O'Reilly & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Gabe Kidd & Roderick Strong vs. Private Party vs. Kings of the Black Throne
- Tam Nakano & Willow Nightingale vs. Kris Statlander & Momo Watanabe
- The Lucha Brothers & Mistico vs. Los Ingobernables de Japon (Hiromu Takahashi, Titan & Yota Tsuji)
- Saraya (w/ Harley Cameron) vs. Mariah May (w/ Luther & Toni Storm) - Owen Hart Foundation 2024 Women's Tournament Quarter Final
Main Card
- Hook, Katsuyori Shibata & Samoa Joe vs. The Learning Tree (Big Bill & Chris Jericho) & Jeff Cobb
- Hiroshi Tanahashi & The Acclaimed (w/ Billy Gunn ) vs. The Elite (Kazuchika Okada, Matthew Jackson & Nicholas Jackson)
- Hechicero vs. MJF
- Bryan Danielson vs. Shingo Takagi - Owen Hart Foundation 2024 Men's Tournament Quarter Final
- Orange Cassidy vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
- Toni Storm (c) (w/ Luther & Mariah May) vs. Mina Shirakawa (w/ Mariah May) - AEW Women's World Title
- Mark Briscoe vs. El Phantasmo vs. Konosuke Takeshita vs. Lio Rush vs. Jack Perry vs. Dante Martin - AEW TNT Title Ladder Match
- Mercedes Mone (c) vs. Stephanie Vaquer (c) - AEW TBS & NJPW STRONG Women's Titles
- Jon Moxley (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito - IWGP World Heavyweight Title
- Swerve Strickland (w/ Prince Nana) (c) vs. Will Ospreay - AEW World Title
Card as follows:
- Medusa Complex vs Lykos Gym
- Debbie Keitel vs Emersyn Jayne
- Postmodern Sick Boys vs Rampage Brown & Will Kroos
- Gabe Kid (NJPW) vs Jet Martial
- Natalie Sykes vs Eve Bateman
- Sunshine Machine vs The Landed Gentry
- #1 Contender scramble match - to face Leon Slater at Thunderstruck 2 (13th July 2024)
This match is for NORTH's Ultraviolent Championship, and is from last year's Thunderstruck event, which is the biggest crowd so far with ~700 attendees.
If the venue looks familiar, it's because it's in the Walker Dome, where Impact/TNA held Turning Point last year.
...but today, on International Workers' / Labour Day, what is your excuse to not join up?
Graphic by Equity, the UK Actors' Union.
Self-aware silly wrestling is my favourite type of wrestling, and this was the pre-show match before All Roads Lead North a few months ago.
To paraphrase a poet, you can keep your 5* classics, I just want big meaty men slapping meat, and draining cans.
This may be the most wholesome wrestling thing I've ever seen.
Get your picks in, and show how off the mark you are!
Zero Hour
- Matt Sydal vs. Trent Beretta
- Katsuyori Shibata & Orange Cassidy vs. Shane Taylor Promotions
- Billy Gunn & The Acclaimed (c) vs. Bullet Club Gold (c) - Unification of AEW World Trios / ROH World Six Man Tag Team titles
Main Card
- Hook (c) vs. Chris Jericho - FTW Title
- Roderick Strong (c) vs. Kyle O'Reily - AEW International Title
- Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Pac - AEW Continental Title
- Toni Storm (w/Luther & Mariah May) (c) vs. Thunder Rosa - AEW Women's World Title
- Adam Copeland, Eddie Kingston & Mark Briscoe vs. House Of Black
- The Young Bucks vs. FTR - AEW World Tag Team Title Tournament Final Ladder Match
- Julia Hart (c) vs. Willow Nightingale (w/Stokely Hathaway) - AEW TBS Title (House Rules)
- Bryan Danielson vs. Will Ospreay
- Samoa Joe (c) vs. Swerve Strickland (w/Prince Nana) - AEW World Title
A match from the North Vault for the title, Liam Slater defends against surprise opponent Gabriel Kidd in Kidd's second apparence in North since 2019.
"First you steal my glorious idea to lash Cody.
Now you try to cop art from my ex.
I’m a fan.
But please Leave me be, Dewey."
Before the world ended, the future King of the Bums decided to pop over to a small mining town north of London to fight the resident Sick Boy, and beat the absolute shit out of each other.
After the match, I’m going to tell him the only thing there’s left to say: Thank you.
Zero Hour
- Tag Team Match - Kris Statlander & Willow Nightingale vs. Julia Hart & Skye Blue
- 12 Man Tag Team Match - Jay Lethal, Jeff Jarrett, Satnam Singh, Private Party & Willie Mack vs. Bang Bang Scissor Gang
Main Card
- All-Star 8-Man Scramble - Chris Jericho vs. Lance Archer vs. Brian Cage vs. Magnus vs. Powerhouse Hobbs vs. Wardlow vs. Dante Martin vs. Hook
- FTR vs. Blackpool Combat Club
- AEW TNT Title - Christian Cage (c) vs. Daniel Garcia
- Konosuke Takeshita vs. Will Ospreay
- AEW Continental Title / NJPW STRONG Openweight Title / ROH World Title - Eddie Kingston (c) vs. Bryan Danielson
- AEW Women's World Title - Toni Storm (c) vs. Deonna Purrazzo
- AEW International Title - Orange Cassidy (c) vs. Roderick Strong
- AEW World Title - Samoa Joe (c) vs. Adam Page vs. Swerve Strickland
- AEW World Tag Team Title Tornado - Darby Allin & Sting (c) vs. The Young Bucks
Zero Hour
- Tag Team Match - Kris Statlander & Willow Nightingale vs. Julia Hart & Skye Blue
- 12 Man Tag Team Match - Jay Lethal, Jeff Jarrett, Satnam Singh, Private Party & Willie Mack vs. Bang Bang Scissor Gang
Main Card
- All-Star 8-Man Scramble - Chris Jericho vs. Lance Archer vs. Brian Cage vs. Magnus vs. Powerhouse Hobbs vs. Wardlow vs. Dante Martin vs. Hook
- FTR vs. Blackpool Combat Club
- AEW TNT Title - Christian Cage (c) vs. Daniel Garcia
- Konosuke Takeshita vs. Will Ospreay
- AEW Continental Title / NJPW STRONG Openweight Title / ROH World Title - Eddie Kingston (c) vs. Bryan Danielson
- AEW Women's World Title - Toni Storm (c) vs. Deonna Purrazzo
- AEW International Title - Orange Cassidy (c) vs. Roderick Strong
- AEW World Title - Samoa Joe (c) vs. Adam Page vs. Swerve Strickland
- AEW World Tag Team Title Tornado - Darby Allin & Sting (c) vs. The Young Bucks