rocket_scientist

Well that was a depressing start to the day. Just back from toon and the city is dying before our eyes. The few who were out all wearing masks to guard against a virus that has Aberdeen in lockdown, a virus that has hospitalised nobody for weeks, far less killed anyone, a virus that has been given as the reason for death in so many cases where it was not and where the excess death rate is not significantly worse than every other year and may even be less, even counting the oldies who were going to be dying anyway but had to do it alone, even their immediate families being excluded. Long-established retailers have gone from our high streets and other majors are on the brink. Given the lack of footfall right now, it won't be long before they're tipped over. Where is everyone? Is the campaign of fear keeping them from shopping or is it the local lockdown? Are they all indoors because they're skint and living on the breadline already? It's fucking depressing and it can't continue like this, much serious damage having already been incurred. This is an act of national self-sabotage and something isn't sitting right.

DJ -11 thru 11 but appears to have stalled a bit now. Amazing day of golf. Ross Fisher 1 under today through 15 dropped 4 in the last 3 to allow the +4's to play the weekend. Hoping for a W this week and would be surprised if it didn't land ??

Fit wye? As you may not understand, as in my recollection from many years ago, you may be England-based (Middlesbrough?), why do you consider Ronald to be a less-than-savoury chap? Love the cunt masel.

I liked the original course but the new(ish) layout - and the club and the members - does nothing for me.

She's 125th in a field of 144 so she's still got a chance of being dead last. Given your remarkable prediction rates and losing so many ponies, you should tell us immediately about your selections so that the rest of us can lay your picks on betfair and make a fortune.

We were playing foursomes on the Old - the Guy Campbell, the oldest foursomes tournament in the world - against a couple of old guys. We couldn't get over the burn in 2 at the 1st despite our combined handicap being 2! I said look at this - the mannie had a 5 Wood or something and yet was playing from 70 yards from the burn. He hit it bonny, it went skywards, it possibly made the distance but blew back and they were short of the burn in 3! That was the strongest wind I have ever played golf in and it would have been impossible to play an amateur medal round in, let alone the Open.

True, and at the Old Course in St Andrews, the difficulty of the course is totally dependent on the wind. Some say that the bunkers are its protection but that's garbage. They were waxing lyrical about how Tiger avoided bunkers for all 72 holes when he won the Open (in 2000 possibly) but for anyone who knows the course, it takes a really bad shot to go into any of them. More difficult to avoid when blowing a gale of course but even in a stiff breeze, we should never be in any of them, the drive at the 12th having the most danger.

It will be tough to score in today's conditions but it's more fun on links when it's this windy.

Prestwick Old one of my favourite courses. Just great fun. And the lunch there is probably the best in UK golf, ahead of Muirfield, the R & A and Lytham.

The Weegie awa fae Glesga syndrome. We have all seen them, on holiday and here in the NE. They love to hold court and the pub is their referred environment for doing it. They usually put on an even thicker accent and they have misguided notions that the Glesga banter and their "gallusness" means that everybody loves what comes out of their mouths and that we hang on every word. They also think that they are superior beings and more worldly-wise than everybody else and this is particularly true when they spout their stuff in Aberdeen and the shire. Billy Connolly got it terribly wrong at the Banff Springs once upon a time and this certainly coloured his view but the likes of McInnes and Calderwood and Willie Miller, they have particular contempt for the teuchters who they consider the people of Aberdeen to be. One thing that fuels them is they mistakenly think that we have unrealistic expectations and the evidence they point to will be the incessant moaning, even when AFC wins. What they fail to comprehend is the facts; that between those three, there isn't a shred of management ability within them, not being cut out for the jobs. Also, it is the performances rather than the results that draws the most ire from the fans because anybody who knows fitba and who was watching that garbage last night knows that this will be another long season with mostly frustration and very few, if any, highlights. McInnes must go and it's a disgrace that Milne bound him to the club with a ridiculous contract. He's a weegie awa fae hame who should have fucked off back to Ibrox when he had the chance, thereby fucking them and giving AFC the chance to reboot and restart.

Sorry, World class Holing Out, not Putting.

Oh dear, 21 holes down, she will only have 15 more this week, assuming she doesn't walk off and go to the catering van.

The best coaching model I've ever come across includes controlling the flight as one of the key focus areas. In links conditions such as these at Troon, this becomes an even more valuable core skill and so many of them simply can't do it. World class Short Game and Putting are two of the other focus areas and whilst the data proves that the women are considerably worse than the men on and around the greens, I'm not sure that anybody knows why this is the case. I certainly don't and I've yet to hear a credible suggestion let alone an explanation.

Third time lucky? The obese one will be lucky to make the cut at this rate.

I like the look of Hedges. A laughable deflection of course and the type of pathos a game like this deserved.

You're a funny guy, admin king. Follow the trend. Make something up - I've got a "squeaky" voice - and keep on saying it. The Fabricate and Repeat has been proven. Do you actually believe this to be the case now? Or are you just being a hilarious womble?

I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned before. One of the biggest indicators of McInnes being unfit for purpose is that he does up his top button, not only on this shit black number he's wearing tonight but even on polo shirts. No good was ever done by men who's sense of fashion is this perverted.

St Johnstone are shit as well though. An unpredictable pathetic game.

I just backed the home win. AFC just a fucking shocking football team.

Not one wifie under par just now in the Women's Open at Troon. A stiff breeze on this classic links, in phenomenal condition right now is sorting them out. Just perfect conditions to separate the wheat from the chaff. Golf doesn't get better than strong winds on links. Pure.

I had to look up the definition of phobia. I don't have any "fear" of anything, irrational, extreme or otherwise but sometimes the definition includes "aversion" and I'm definitely averse to "situations" rather than things, people-induced situations. When bullshit is being spouted, mostly on the telly by politicians or by commentators on Sky, I want them exterminated from the planet and wish I was in possession of the same magic wand that Brian Clough talked about. On reflection I think it's intolerance rather than aversion but people are my only gripe. I don't like humans. And I love humans. I'm a mixed up type of cunt really.

This is playing just now on the OWGT retrospective on BBC4: - It was voted as the clip from the past the viewers wanted to see. Personally I preferred this but I guess it wasn't an option: - Surprisingly, this was very good: - First aired a couple of years ago, I liked it then but I loved it the second time I heard it, which was tonight. That's his daughter with him. The OWGT and John Peel were phenomenal. The BBC have done much pioneering in the arts over many decades.

Agreed. Like Man C, bought their way towards the top of their countries but never tasted the ultimate success.

^ I found this quite humorous actually. The paranoid insecurities was worth contemplation too. Tonight on BBC4, three hour long programmes on Japan. The Art of Japanese Life by Dr James Fox on just now is stunning. A country I've never been to, it's been on the radar and after these programmes, it's a must. Shinto is the respect of nature, a "religion" without gods, prophets or idolatry. Some Zen teachings I've been borrowing from for many years. Fascinating country on many levels, both the physical and the spirit.