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Anthony's Stupid Daily Blog (535): Sun 3rd Sep 2023

I'm a few days in to this "Don't Break the Chain" challenge where I'm attempting to write at least one joke a day for a full year and I've already come up with a few decent ones. The trouble is because I have this God damn job I can't work on jokes in bed at home like I want to so what I've started doing is loading some news stories onto my phone before I go to work and then when I'm walking around at work I'll go over the stories in my head trying to think of jokes. Today I came up with a joke I was really proud of (i know I said I wouldn't post any of them on here but I'm so proud of myself for this one that I have to share it. Also I have to prove that I actually am sticking to this challenge and being productive). As you may have seen there are numerous schools which have been told to close because it's transpired that they were built with concrete that has a limited shelf life and could collapse at any moment. I thought about this for a while and eventually I wrote down "As if things can't get any worse for the Tories now they've found out that kids are going to schools built with weaker material than you'd find in one of Ricky Gervais' Netflix specials". In addition to this decent joke I also came up with a shit one when I saw on the Sunderland Global Network that a bunch of chickens had escaped from a farm in Ryhope and I posted "probably off to the town for a hen party". Now as I said that one is shit but at least it is a joke and hopefully now that my brain is getting used to thinking in terms of jokes it will churn out more actually funny ones than it will shitty Tim Vine-esque puns. Before bed I checked my phone and saw that CM Punk has been fired by AEW. I had hoped that after the last controversy with Punk stemming from Brawl Out and the fact that Khan literally gave him his own show in order to keep him happy and segregated from members of the roster he doesn't like that the issues with Punk would fizzle out. I went to bat for Punk so many times after the last incident but I really can't defend his behaviour this time, you can't threaten the boss and expect to get away with it. I like Punk as a wrestler and as a wrestling mind but the more I learn about the man behind the character the less I like him. I think that Punk's UFC run damaged him as a person more than he realized. This is a guy who grew up believing that if you work hard and believe in yourself then you can achieve anything you want. Then a few years ago he learned that no matter how much a jiu jitsu white belt works and believes in themselves they won't be able to beat a jiu jitsu brown belt in a cage fight. I think after Punk got his arse handed to him in that cage he developed a kind of Napoleon complex to the point where he has to constantly make out that he's the toughest guy in every room. It's like that expression "the weakest dogs bark the loudest". As happy as I was when I found out there would be a second AEW show I was less enthusiastic when I found out that Khan was basically going to let Punk run the show and do whatever the fuck he wanted. In recent weeks there have been reports that Punk had Christopher Daniels, Matt Hardy, Ryan Nemeth etc sent home because he sees them as the enemy which is bullshit and a wrestler shouldn't have that kind of influence over the product. Hopefully Punk's release will give him a chance to work on his ego and his little man complex and maybe if he can prove to Tony that he's a changed man then eventually we might see him back in an AEW ring one day.