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Due to a mass power outage in Birmingham, I missed the start of Impact. Apparently Magnus is British and evil.

Um Daniels and Kaz, are you sure you want to call out the more senior Guerrero present? It will only end in the more junior doing terrible things to you.

I'm not sure how I feel about Christian York being the Gutcheck guy. Nothing against him, but he's a known quantity. Zeema Ion is making him look like an absolute star though. It's a fun match, the opening especially.

Ah, they've thrown Bischoff-junior into the Aces and Eights thing. Bubba Ray is making it work (because he is incredible).

I also love that ODB calling out Jesse (Tara's boy-toy) is not, 'she's going to get pulverised', but 'he's going to be anhilated'. Bam! If nothing else, new boy is at least capable of basic moves.

Is there a reason why TNA are having a relay of commentators?

Dear lord, I think they just tried to get AJ to burn WWE's version of the angle of great sucktitude. Apparently, being photographed entering lifts with people of the opposite gender is the in-thing for people called AJ.

That's a terrible stipulation. Because I know someone I like is going to get fucked over. (For values of like that involve me occasionally suggesting people hit Roode.)

I doubt that is the same cloak. Because Morgan is ~ 1/2 a foot taller than Hogan. And yet it fits him perfectly. Oh god, they're giving team sleazy whingy mic time. And

angstbunny is right about Joey Ryan's wrestling.

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Adverts

I really like this Ikea advert - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8gtdBqRe2s

I also wish Tesco would stop using the Thunderbirds theme for their adverts, it gets my hopes up every time.

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I have to join in with the rest of the world going "how does the US screw up it's elections so badly*", I'm thinking, in particular, 2 hour long queues. I mean, I'm bemused when there's anyone else voting at the same time as me.

Then again, most UK polls tend to have much lower turnouts. While it's not where I voted, I used to live close enough to Garswood where the election turn out was 35% one time.

While I understand, in this particular situation, why it's occuring, I'm also deeply disappointed by the number of people yelling at independent and undecided voters. As someone who is both of the above, we're allowed to vote for/with our consciences too.

Actually, I'm pretty much hell on Earth for party politicians, because I have what I believe and then I compare that to what the parties stand for at each level, so I'm Greens at local level, Labour at national and Lib Dem for the Euros. I also plan on spoiling my ballot at the next set of elections, but that's because that's for the moronic political police commissioner thing. I plan on turning up, writing on my ballot paper that it's a terrible idea, putting it in the box and leaving. And, and this is the thing, all of these are perfectly legitimate options.

Also, attitudes like that make it very hard for smaller parties to get started, and I think if there were more plausible parties it would remove some of the venom from the US system, or at least shift it slightly. What the US could do with, would be something like a small government socially liberal party (basically a more reasonable Libertarian party), because, while I disagree with that politically, it would mean that there is someone for people who think that that's the way forward economically to vote for, without them having to vote for a Republican party that is also socially ... backwards. (See rape, rape, rape and rape, esquire, the gays are coming hide your children, and various horrible things about various ethnic minorities**.)

Non-directly related, but the US Ambassador to the UK is lovely.

I have nothing against Jeremy Vine, but where is Peter Snow?

I love how utterly disapproving David Dimbleby is of the way the election adverts are in the US. And him running English to English translations between US and UK reporters (what on Earth does middle class mean in US English?).

We've reached the stage of the night where the reports have found bars, "restaurants" and other drinking holes, and are desperately trying to claim journalistic reasoning.

One of the English poll-crunchers was talking about how the Republicans were hoping for "white-flight" of the working class/blue collar workers to the Republicans. Which okay, I get as a strategy, but why, if that is your strategy, do you vote against things that are good for that segment of the population (car-maker bailouts)? Blue collar workers (plain old working class in the UK) are not as stupid as any political party thinks they are.

If any of the Floridans are at Barry University, one of your Professors was just one of the talking heads.

Talking of the talking heads, the Republican talking heads seem to be on the attack still, while the Democrat talking heads are more future achievement orientated.

Brief gap for question - Can anyone explain why Nebraska and Maine's various Districts get separate mentions?

As an example of how embarrassing the Republican rape problem is - The American poll-cruncher said that Richard Mourdock was the Republican who made the comment about "legitimate rape". He was corrected by the English poll-cruncher saying that Mourdock was the one that said rape was an act of God, the "women can shut things down" guy was a different Republican, Todd Akin. Cue American poll-cruncher saying "yes, there are many morons."

* I realise the US has problems due to it's size and huge population.

**apologies if that's not the right term in US English.