There are people like Merawrestling on Xitter who post translations of post-match/in-ring promos

Well that’s not too bad, I guess. Better than nothing and that’s the really important stuff that needs translating anyway. Pity they’re on Twitter though. Subtitles are actually fine too, so the YouTube channel might be worth a look see.

I’ve been wanting to look into this promotion for a long while now but apart from NJPW itself, Japanese wrestling isn’t nearly as easy to find online and start anywhere as American wrestling. Same goes for Mexican wrestling actually. Lucha can be as confusing as fuck without someone telling you what’s going on in English, especially chaotic AAA.

Still in between wrestling promotions and just quickly checked out an illicit stream of this. Do these guys ever release shows with English commentary?

Just listened to a track. Pretty strange and cool. Think I’m gonna be investigating further.

While trying to figure out the discography of The Gathering, a band that has been on my radar for a long time but with a lot of albums and different sounds to go through, I’ve come across Agua de Annique / Anneke van Giersbergen, the solo career of the now ex Gathering vocalist, which is fairly easy listening (although still rock / alternative) and something to listen to slowly when I’m in the mood.

And then also the previous band of the current Gathering vocalist, Octavia Sperati, which is some sort of gothic flavoured metal I guess? I dunno, I don’t really care to know subgenres of subgenres. But I’m really enjoying this one. Which kinda sucks because it looks like they haven’t done anything since their vocalist joined the Gathering.

And then today I listened to some Chappell Roan and I liked it! Not music that I’m always in the mood for but I think it’ll go nicely in my rotation of '80s and '90s stuff when I’m feeling so inclined.

Edit: also I think I’m gonna finally look up whoever it is that does the intro songs for Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex.

When I was younger, I believed that it was an ideal worth striving for. Now I don’t have that much faith in people anymore and I think that the best you can ask for is to try to live life your way and stay true to your beliefs and morals as best you can, according to whatever circumstances that you’ve been given.

Just listened to “Good Luck, Babe!” and “Hot to Go!”. Definitely poppier than my usual tastes, which I was expecting. But old school, as you say, and it gives me feelings of nostalgia. Her voice is awesome too.

I’m definitely sometimes in the mood for this kind of jam, so this might actually become a little guilty pleasure of mine. I think it would fit well with all the '90s (and some '80s) shit on my playlist anyway.

While I agree with the gist of what you’re saying, rioting because your favourite sportsball team lost is also deranged shit that shouldn’t exist in a civilized society. It might not be nationalism to a country but it sure as shit comes from the same place, maybe just with a little more gang mentality thrown in.

Kid that wants to take everyone else’s toys, after being told no by a grown-up: “I hate you! You’re not my friend anymore!”

I honestly haven’t even listened to any of her music (and maybe I should give it a try at least) but so far I’ve liked almost everything I’ve seen and heard about her online. The mainstream music industry needs more punks and rebels to speak out and cause a ruckus. If anything, just to kill the manufactured, conformist slop it’s all become.

Yeah, Zulu is a different beast to European languages. I suppose as different to English as certain Asian languages would be. It also borrows from English and Afrikaans though, for certain Western words and concepts that weren’t in the vocabulary before. And there’s still nouns and verbs and tenses and shit, so it follows the same basic rules / concepts as any language.

As for Afrikaans, funnily enough I’m actually living in a part of the country now where some fluency would’ve been useful. Luckily you seem to be able to get by with just English just about anywhere though.

As another outsider, grocery prices seemed to be the main excuse from all of the supposed fence sitters and centrists that cast their votes for him after their supposed careful consideration. I remember a few clips doing the rounds on Reddit of people being interviewed about who they voted for and why. Which seems like a flimsy excuse to me from people that claim to be impartial.

But yeah, honestly to me it looks like culture war bullshit mainly won this for Trump. There were certain portions of the population that outright said they would never vote for a woman. And from what I gathered, large amounts of gen z, particularly men boys, are so lost to this culture war shit and treat the words of people like Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson and even Andrew Tate like gospel. That for the first time in history the younger generation swung further right than the next generation up.

These people can all act shocked and surprised at what they’re getting now but when he wasn’t blabbering about Hannibal Lecter and OJ Simpson, and shuffling around on stage to YMCA, the only coherent message he ever had was bigot nazi shit. So anyone claiming it was about grocery prices or who is acting shocked now, is a fucking liar.

Yeah but she was a “female”. Ew, cooties. And Joe Rogan the alpha instructed all of his alpha followers to vote Trump, so they did the alpha thing and obeyed him without making their own informed decisions. And did I mention she’s a feemale? I ain’t gonna vote for no woke DEI feminist illuminati agenda.

(/s just in case)

can’t function in society where random individuals can freely reject their statements, so they need the internet to hide away from life.

Show me where in real life are random individuals able to interrupt your conversations with friends and like-minded people without being told to fuck off or punched in the face? People like you keep peddling this idea that we’re all supposed to ‘meet in the middle’ at all times with bigots that think we don’t deserve human rights, or else we’re the bad ones. Fuck off, what does the ‘middle’ of respecting rights or not respecting rights even look like. And real life doesn’t fucking work like that anyway.

I would not hang out with inbred supremacist ‘alpha’ fucking idiots even if you paid me. And I would not welcome them into my home or my social circles. You’re free to speak but that doesn’t mean that I have to fucking listen.

Personally I’m not a relationship expert by any means, in fact I’m probably closer to ace than anything as far as sexuality goes. So I’m not here to offer advice, just some resources.

If open relationships and not being tied down or tying anyone else down (metaphorically, you’re welcome to use rope in other ways if you wish) is your thing, maybe Relationship Anarchy would be a useful school of thought for you to read up on. It’s something that I’ve been reading up on slowly that I think has some interesting ideas whether you’re polyamorous or monogamous. Just a little something to help work on your own headspace with this perhaps.

Imagine naming your ‘encyclopaedia’ after a political school of thought and making it crystal clear that it’s more about pushing ideology than information, then giving it the tagline “The Trustworthy Encyclopaedia”.

And the sad part is that the people this caters to will 100% believe that tagline while ignoring all other evidence to the contrary and clutching their Trump bibles and wearing their red hats.

I’m late here but whatever. I’m finding myself more and more on board with this, the more time passes. When I was younger, I would’ve been more willing to ‘debate’ every asshole but the older I’ve got, the more I’ve realised that they’ve all just got the same ‘points’ over and over again and if arguing those points hasn’t changed anything in the last 15 years, it probably won’t change anything now.

Same goes for “just asking questions”. It’s the same fucking questions that every JAQ-off asks, and all ‘questions’ that can be easily answered by shutting your fucking mouth and opening your ears for once. Maybe stepping out of your bubble and listening to what people who are different from you are saying for once.

Last night I blocked my first customer. Got a shitty, really over reacted and unnecessary comment to something. Checked their profile to see if it was just someone having a bad day and saw that literally every comment this person makes is to shit on someone, that’s their entire contribution to this platform. Even spotted a “typical white females” in there. So I just blocked, knowing that nothing of value has been lost to me.

And I think that’s how I’m gonna play it from now. If I get an aggressive response from someone that isn’t full of aggressive responses, I’ll indulge them a little. But if it’s someone that’s clearly just here to fight and make people miserable, the most attention I’ll pay them is hitting that block button.

Feeling a bit left out that I haven’t been messaged by the Fediverse Chick yet.

I should look into where I can get hold of CBD products. We don’t really have dispensaries and stuff around here. It’s legal to have but not to actually buy anywhere (or sell) lol. I think it is approved for medicinal use though.

Although you can get a grade of weed here that’s basically a step away from being a hemp plant. As far as I know, that can of stuff is heavier on the CBD ratio of things. Doesn’t taste great though.

I buy R50 bags, which is around the price of a pack of legal cigarettes with some change left over. Although I think it’s hard to compare prices of things across borders and currencies.

And this R50 bags are basically the lowest rung of the decent quality. And it’s outdoor, so sometimes the quality is pretty close to indoor, sometimes it’s not so great. And if the quality is good, it’ll be a strict 5 grams but if it’s standard stuff, the guy usually packs a little extra.

So it’s also a bit difficult to give it a per day cost. A R50 bag can last me 1 to 3 days depending on a few factors.

Just want to add, I’m also my weed guy’s movie and series guy. So I’m often getting free bags thrown in, in exchange for some movies and shit loaded onto USBs.

I can believe that having kids changes things. And yeah, I’d like to cut down as well. If for nothing else, then just my wallet lol.