Patrick W. Reed

Ashton under Lyne (knees up). Images (c) Martin Parr and courtesy of John Rylands Library, University of Manchester

Manchester Middle Oldham Street

Martin Parr’s Yates’s Wine Lodges, England, 1983 is seminal.

‘Shot mainly in Northern towns and cities, this early photo-story examines the culture of one of Britain’s oldest pub chains’

Source: grants.fnl.org.uk/martin-parrs...

1. I hate to see good people wasting their time and energy. And there’s perhaps no greater waste of time and energy than seeking to change the trajectory of the human population. It’s not just futile, but also a massive distraction from things we CAN change. This thread seeks to explain why. 🧵1/12

mecha-alan moore destroyed the chrysler building again... why did they even build that man?

I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit

We just accept it because it’s always been this way but ‘Ringo Starr’ is a bonkers thing to call yourself when the other guys are John, Paul, and George. It’s like having a band where everyone else uses their real name and then the drummer goes yes please call me Crackers Creamsworth

The expanded Casablanca universe, by which I mean Overdrawn At The Memory Bank.

The concept of Casablanca as a "franchise" just made me sick in my mouth.

Road sign for 'Skirmish Paintball'

How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.

penguin classics cover for the magician's nephew by CS Lewis, but the cover image is george michael bluth

Sharpie graffiti in a toilet that says ‘j k Rowling is a wasteman’

North London knows what’s what.

"everyone is banned from ringside", but Marina's there. Fair enough, Bryce is telling her to leave, but she's *there*. What does "banned" mean if the match can start with her there, with no penalty for her being there, and she just has to be asked nicely to leave?

Give me CONSEQUENCES, please.

that is good logic!

Renee doing the in-crowd live coverage stuff is a bit out of nowhere, but it feels like legit sports broadcasting, and I'm always behind wrestling shows trying something different and not just copying the industry leader in every format point.

"what happened out there was Takeshita's fault" - amazing.

obviously cant get through two hours of TV without security getting beaten up. I'd love to know the kayfabe rules for when security are supposed to get involved - they had no problem with the extended Don Callis Family beatdown/brawl segment earlier, but can't let the World Champ hit his finish.

yeah, that was great. Eddie's strength has always been that he's believable, and that he behaves like the last person alive to think wrestling is real, but since he's been back, it too often feels like he's being flippant because he knows it's all an act.

similar to my earlier Death Riders point, I don't really think Marina should be taking losses, but also the most makeshift team in the tournament shouldn't be in the final. And I'm always happy to see Luther back on my TV.

I've struggled to take Mother's Milk seriously ever since someone pointed out that it's the same smother hold that Giant Haystacks used to use to get his breath back when he was blown up.

I will never understand wrestling audience's fixation on tables, but at this point, you *know* that they're going to chant "We Want Tables", so in a No DQ situation it should always be the babyface that introduces a table into the match - that way, the crowd feels like they have influenced the match

I was assuming this was just one of those weeks that Kenny Omega wasn't there. Some friend, waiting until your mates have been battered by about seven blokes and after letting someone else try and save them before you think it's worth getting involved.

holy shit, El Clon's actually doing something. Maybe he'll even get to wrestle one day!

the Don Callis Family have a hundred mooks to throw in the babyface firing line, why is Kyle Fletcher taking the Bucks' finish in this segment? Was Rocky Romero busy?

Kevin Knight is fantastic, but I hope he doesn't make the coast-to-coast dropkick a regular part of his moveset - it's impressive as a one-off, and you don't want to risk it just being a routine spot. Particularly using it as a set-up for his finish doesn't sit well with me.

three backstage promos in a row, two of them with Mark Briscoe. Why not either space Mark's promos out across the show more, or just combine the segments into a single interview? Or just not have Mark Briscoe in the Conglomeration segment? It makes the show feel very oddly paced.

...where I think it's going, then PAC shouldn't really be losing matches, but when the wrestling is this good, and every result actually has consequences, then you'll get no complaints from me.

Okada vs. PAC was a good match that never got so far into top gear that it made either man look like they had given their all. Instinctively, I would say I don't like the Death Riders being in the Continental Classic because it slows down the momentum of their story, and if that story is going...

...an article on her, and I could find basically no information on *any* of the other women that article mentions. So much of women's wrestling is lost to time - especially when even when reporting *on* women's wrestling newspapers don't bother naming any of the wrestlers!

it *might* be too early for Jean, but she was generally his star wrestler (and, I suspect, partner). It's wrestling, so she was Welsh, Scottish and English before becoming a Hackenschmidt, but I would hazard a guess at her being King's "Miss Scotland".

I bought a 1970 issue of Wrestling Revue for..

A photo from a 1930s newspaper of Jean Hackenschmidt, a white female wrestler with short dark hair, in a black dress, high heels, and a three-quarter length fur coat. She is carrying a fox under one arm and walking a small monkey on a lead.

A queen.

Adam King's wrestling show starring her was once on the bill for a summer fair in Hastings, between a psychic and "miniature railway (longer and improved)".