Joining a Conservative Club today

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  1. StatisTYKE

    StatisTYKE Well-Known Member

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    They seem like my kind of people...

    "Police in Durham said they were working with the local council to investigate complaints about a show at the Conservative Club in Seaham. A “death match” wrestling contest in which a bloodied performer attacked his rival with a garden strimmer in front of children is being investigated by health and safety officers."
     
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  2. Loko the Tyke

    Loko the Tyke Administrator Staff Member Admin

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    We never had these kind of family fun days when I was running the Con Club at Belle Vue, Wakefield.

    Missed a trick.
     
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    North Yorks Red Well-Known Member

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    saw that , looked appalling, says as much about the folk that watch this kind of **** as the club, and I don't believe for a minute they would ALL be Conservatives either
     
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    CCW. (Colliery Championship Wrestling not to be confused with CCW Coastal Championship Wrestling) Any ex colliers fancy it.
    Just read the news item. Barbed wire rings etc. Surely fake props. But those involved don't appear to say it.
     
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    Hooky feller Well-Known Member

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    No problem with Conservatives trying to kill each other lol. They do a fine job in the commons.
     
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    North Yorks Red Well-Known Member

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    trouble is they wouldn't be the actual Conservatives!
     
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    Sounds just like the sort of thing they'd enjoy, they love hunting after all!
     
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    "Deathmatch" wrestling is basically an extreme wrestling subgenre. This garden strimmer incident is nothing compared to what they usually get up to. where they use light tubes, stapleers, stanley knifes, barbed and razor wire and other choice weapons. There was an incident where someone chopped their "opponents" finger off with garden shears(with full permission and cooperation of the amputee), and many a time arteries get severed.

    The thing is, most of them do it for very little money, especially in this country. I'd hazard a guess that the participants in the garden strimmer incident would be getting paid between £25 and £50 each(and they pay for their own travel/sustenance to get to the venue and back). It's crazy...

    I've just thought of another match I heard of where to win you had to stab your opponent with an "AIDS Infected Needle". Obviously the actual needle was a gimmicked one(and obviously no AIDS involved), but thats the level of attendee they are targeting...
     
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    Is this real? I must lead a sheltered life.
     
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    Thankfully, so do I.
     
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    One of my more disingenuous episodes was swearing my allegiance to the Tory party in an interview for membership of the Conservative Club in Barnsley circa 1980.
    I was lying through my teeth of course but it was one of the only places at the time where you could buy a drink outside of the strictly enforced 11-3 & 7-11 licensing hours. It had a couple of well maintained snooker tables to boot!
     

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