Andrew

I see sharapova failed a drugs test at the Aussie open. Seems a bit harsh since it sounds like its aiding her irregular heart beat and was onky banned back in January. Guess there must be more to it though.

On Channel 4 news there was an expert on saying the drug is used as a performance enhancer. It originates from Latvia, is not available in the US and is used by a variety of other(mainly) Russian athletes.

Hopefully they can make it to 10 and we can get rid of one of the embarrassing records from the McGhee era.

I also couldn't give a fuck about the titles being stripped. It was a different company that won them and we all know they cheated with the EBT's so these are great put-downs, factually-based as they are to be used whenever a hun cunt gets uppity.

I want Robbie Winters to get a Scottish cup medal for playing in goals!

In 2016 we don't have a Saturday 3pm k.o again until 27th February! Not great for those wanting to go to games and those who have to travel whether that be to home or away games. Great for armchair fans though.

As things stand we have a meagre 5 games in the New Year which are due to kick off at 3pm on a Saturday before the split. Even then I think Heartys away will be moved for TV coverage too.

Woo! Arm chair fans in France!

Not going untill March. Got tickets for the south of France.

Caravan Palace at O2 ABC last night, best gig I have ever attended. And I mean ever.

 

Never have I seen a band get a WHOLE crowd moving and bouncing like that. Utterly brilliant.

 

It was their first gig in Scotland. I won't miss their second, wherever and whenever it is.

 

If I didn't have stuff to do today, I would have got on a train to Manchester to see them tonight.

Just bought tickets off the back of this! They look amazing on video - can't pass up the opportunity to see them!

Contact the rob roys on Facebook Andrew, the rob Roy is a Scottish pub (used to be a dons) but no more. I'll be watching it in my flat as you always struggle with English games

Thanks. Was out too late on the friday night so ended up not not going to watch the match! Good night though.

Anyone know of any Aberdeen affiliated London pubs showing the game tomorrow?

No more embarrassing than not being on any of the lists for 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014.

 

I'm sure Strachan might make it ten in a row.

It's much more embarrassing as the number of teams have increased. I always thought, after previous failures, that this would be the year we qualified.

The thing I "don't get" is why you attacked me with insulting rhetoric, totally unprovoked?

 

Not that I give a fuck.

 

But don't turn it round and seek to close the door to the ugly room that you furnished.

 

Don't run away like a little girl.

 

If anyone doesn't "get where you're coming from" then either we're all stupid or you're incapable of expressing yourself.

 

Don't give up. Try again. Use simple words. What the fuck are you gibbering about?

Its probably because you come across as a total cunt. This is a small friendly and very tolerable forum and you come in with your incoherent rants that no one cares to read. Your like that strange guy who tags along in the pub who no one has the guts to tell to fuck off. Unwanted and annoying who disrupts easy flowing conversation.

I think i see where you are coming from but regulating something and then putting it into the hands of governments and/or private companies may reduce/ remove the drug being contaminated with detergents, weedkiller and all manner of toxic substances but at the same time may turn it into a 'profit driven business' where use is encouraged.

 

The destructive properties of tobacco and alcohol are well documented but the breweries, distilleries, tobacco companies etc all still advertise and encourage the use of their products all with clear consciences.

I went to an event where the speaker was the head of one of scotland's biggest brewers and whilst he seemed to support the minimum pricing he was totally against lowering the drink drive limit, his reasoning seemed to be that it would criminalise regular people who just wanted a wee drink during the week only to get pulled over on the commute to work the next day. When asked if this view was in any way influenced by his profits being hit he turned on the politician mode.

Seems these companies (along with the casinos and bookies) are perfectly happy to profit from misery and its all ok as long as they put 'please drink responsibly' or 'when the fun stops, stop! on their adverts.

How long would it take for 'please inject/ snort responsibly to appear on posters?

The above system might not be perfect but is it better that criminals gain the profits? You have to look for the least bad option and creating a profit driven regulated market is that.

One of the problems with getting to the stage of legalisation is media coverage of drug use is completely out of step with reality. The vast vast majority of drug users are normal functional people who use drugs they same way as many people would take alcohol. Legalisation is not going to create a country full of junkies.

Strange comment this one.

Is this to say that the only people who die from smoking are those who bought the badly made fags?

Or those who die from alcohol are only those who got a bad pint?

 

Pretty much every drug will kill you if taken in enough quantities or in the right conditions. Sometimes its pretty much instant, other times it knocks you down at 50 when you should have lived on till at least 70.

 

I think it will come down to whether or not governments decide the general public can be trusted to have enough self control to not turn into characters from a Hunter S Thompson/ irvine welsh fantasy.

If they use the public's attitude to alcohol as the yardstick I reckon the idea is dead in the water.

 

Personally I'm for legalising them but then again I dont drink, have never smoked and have pretty much zero experience of illegal drugs so what do I know.

Not sure if you fully understand where I am coming from but I think a good comparison, as it is with the war on drugs in general, is the deaths from alcohol poisoning in probation USA. The American government poisoned alcohol and let there people die because there wasn't't a safe regulated legal market and there was demand for the product. The demand for drugs is never going to go away so why not regulate and make it as safe as it can be? The dark web has shown that a regulated user based system works most of the time and has helped prevent deaths - no reason this can't be brought into a legal regulated market.

 

How can you not? Just do it. That way the poor pricks are buy it because they're hooked on it aren't taking up the time of law enforcement thus allowing that time to be spent on the arseholes that cash in by selling it.

But then you are decriminalising drugs but still keeping the profits in the hands of the criminals and cartels. It's much better to totally legalise and regulate drugs for tax purposes but also to make sure the product is not cut with other harmful substances. The only people who die from ecstasy are those who take badly made pills. If it was legal these would still be alive.

For the Andrews of this world, blinded by the lies, unable to think and see for themselves, incapable of even posting anything coherent let alone interesting.

I only normally ever post on here when pissed. It's not suprising it isn't coherent.

I'm amazed that you're surprised. Andrew is in the majority. History was always thus.

 

We used to have factories and mines for people like him. It's not that they lack education. It's that they are uneducatable, lacking any critical thinking capacity whatsoever.

 

The particular stupidity of the the merikuns is enhanced by their insularity, not even having the curiosity to travel. Parochialism is a disease particularly prevalent in the North East of course but whereas one generation back, our parents trusted anyone who was a banker, lawyer or teacher (rather than the fishermen or farmers or other unskilled manual labourers that we were), the Americans trust the flag, their president and the rhetoric of the system.

 

It's brainwashing, like religion. Systems were created to control people. Only enlightened people revolt so governing classes have a vested interest in creating Andrews.

Haha wtf is this? You really are such a strange strange person. It would probably be for the best if you stop coming on here for a while!

Great news! Aberdeen is crying out for more shopping centres, hotels and cinemas. Hopefully more shops move to union square so there can be more charity shop, bookies and shit clubs on union street.

It won't include the tickets for the away end. Why would boast about Celtic selling tickets?

I knew you were a cunt but fuck me. Why don't you live in Russia? You could become a prisoner like Oleg Sentsov. You can preach with your comrades about the awfulness of anything but the "natural family", you can chat about how bad the liberal west is, etc. Only fucking idiots think life is anywhere better than western europe or northern America. Stop speaking shite and get a grip.

Edit: I am sure your next post will be a strawman argument about how the west is not good but it is by a far stretch the best we have atm and people need to start realising that.

Seemingly only 152 tickets left

 

South Stand looking to be completly packed with Dons fans for the first time since the Man United friendly

I wish it was the Man United friendly tonight. I much prefer seeing my big team play.

Atmosphere sounded pretty decent at the game. Hopefully the team (minus the gulls) have encouraged a few more to go along again.

The atmosphere in the South Stand was horrendous. It's embarrassing - I don't really know what's happened in the last few years when you compare the atmosphere on Thursday to the past European games against Copenhagen and Bayern Munich when the whole ground was bouncing.

No being funny, but who was the keeper when we went on the run of unbeaten games?

Correlation and causation are two different things.

An evil horrible vindictive country...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-32941060

Totally agree like. But I reckon they should look more at what that basic income is for (food, shelter etc). Try to provide those for free, and effectively reduce the basic income as and when the service is provided instead.

 

For example, you pay everyone £30K per year to over food, shelter, travel etc. Once you provide free travel, take the value down to £25K. That way we're reducing the size of the state at the same time.

 

At some stage soon we're going to face a quandary where a company is charging for providing a resource that they don't actually put any physical labour into as it's all done by machine - so it's just a case of who owns the machine.

Fair enough but I don't see free transport as a priority at all. In my ideal society local communities would set up the free transport and would fund it via the community acting as equity holders with a dividend of free travel. You miss out the state entirely and it can be continuously funded through charging non equity holders. Basic income would still provide enough money for food, shelter and hospital care and all the state would have to do is the police and the courts.

Basic income is the answer.

The current system of banking has occurred during unprecedented growth in GDP and living standards. This isnt a coincidence. Fractional reserve banking is needed so companies and individuals alike can tap into future wealth in the present.