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Much like Locke, Billy Davies is a thick loser. Hopefully they'll get him. Much as I'd find it funny if Utd went down, I think they'd stand a better chance in a play-off against der hun if it came down to it. McCulloch in charge temporarily too, cunts. A sign of how shite a manager Locke was - the purchase of that cretin.

What a run fae Vernon. Was more pleased to see him doing well than Grimmer.

Finished him off nicely. Hopefully the wife will give me peace to watch the final on Sunday.

Yep. Murray's a machine, this boy just isn't quite there yet. Double break in the last, should be over shortly. Another final for Murray, fuckin impressive. He's one hell of an athlete.

Canadian goes off court for a Barry Robson, and returns a little bit worse. Murray breaks. Looking good for going the whole way. Pain in the airse as I haven't had time for a shower yet because it's been on all morning.

Aye, the Canadian looking very good. Not a case of bottling it from Murray, just the boy playing very well. Hopefully Murray can turn it round. Watching it on Eurosport like, and they're following on the BBC tradition of ruining the experience by fucking about with the viewing angle on the deuce serve. Showing the first few shots of the rally at net height from the back of the court behind the returner. Impossible to see anything. F'n irritating.

Never read Vonnegut, Rocket, but I have Galapagos on my kindle which I've not read yet (someone recommended it a while back). Have you read it? Is it worth moving to the top of the pile?

Did Leighton not go in a huff when we ditched Bain as he thought he was a good keeper? Could be wrong, I'm sure someone mentioned it. Brown did well, although I thought he could have been slightly quicker of his line at times. The one that sticks out was when the ball went under Considine's foot (it took an horrendous bounce to be fair to him), Consi got a touch toward him, and Brown seemed to hesitate before diving on it, nearly injuring himself in the process. Seemed to be a lot sharper after that though, so probably woke him up a bit too. Agree with the Goodwillie comments, again the ten minutes to make a sub is f'n frustrating too, and will definitely lose us a goal at some point in the future. Hopefully Goodwillie will be replaced in this window rather than next. Thought McGinn worked really hard tonight despite not having a great game. Tracked back well and pressured their defenders, showing that there's a lot more to his game than just his attacking skills - something he rarely gets credit for. Mclean MOM for me - for us. Bain for them.

Josh Walker min? Josh Parker was this season's dud.

Yep, good to see them trying it though, the perfect antidote to the ridiculous non-pay-at-the-gate queues at the ticket office. They should have had this available from the start of the season. 2-0 the dons, Rooney and Considine.

It'll make fuck all difference to Goldman, just like their six figure donation. They'll short the out outcome too. Being seen to be doing something is what it's all about for them. What their game is, I've no idea.

Agreed, went to see it on Tuesday night, enjoyed it. Think it helped that I was with a group of folk - perhaps a better vibe or some shite. I liked the violence, I think it's taken to such an extreme level that it becomes a parody of itself. Good one for the cinema I think, like most Tarantino films, he just provides something a little bit different that is worth leaving the house for.

Watched it last night. It suits both parties to remain where they are. How are the government supposed to curtail people's freedoms without dicks like these guys to justify it? The main pretenders in the programme looked like little fuds who'd get their heeds to play with in minutes if they moved to Iraq.

Aye, Hitler had some pretty sound economic views, despite his penchant for jew-killing. It's a shame that the former can't be discussed sensibly without accusation of condoning the latter. One of the articles on that site takes a quote from Mein Kampf, which nails it: "The absolute separation of stock exchange capital from the economic life of the nation would make it possible to oppose the process of internationalization in German business without at the same time attacking capital at such, for to do this would be to jeopardize the foundations of our national independence. I clearly saw what was developing in Germany, and I realized then that the stiffest fight we would have to wage would not be against the enemy nations but against international capital." (my bold) A bit like how we can't discuss the merits of Sharia compliant finance without hysterical accusations of terrorism. Both Hitler and Sharia law deplore/d usury/riba (in Sharia compliant finance, actively prohibiting it). In the West, it is the key to power and how the banks retain that power in a relatively simple fashion. Corbyn's suggestion of "people's QE" is in many ways a challenge to that power. He's effectively suggestion a route to the economy - for new money - where the seigniorage doesn't flow directly to the bank. Imagine that had been done with the £375Bn of QE to date? It wasn't, obviously, it was thrown into mortgages and instruments at no risk to the banking industry, with the interest returned as clear profit. Anyway... good films.

Yeh, I mentioned it a page back, thought it was a dive. Not to blame the referee like, I didn't think it was something he should have spotted in real time. Weirdly, I expect if we challenged it on those grounds, it'd still get a red card for touching the player. Fitba is a contact sport, and I think there has to be more focus on whether a player tried to stay up or not. I think there should be a change to put the onus on players to stay on their feet, with the benefit of doubt going to the defender. The contact should have to merit the player going down. Difficult to judge I know.

It was meant to be tongue in cheek. But never mind. I was going to put a wink smiley at the end, but I've got a weird hatred for emoticons. Edit: tongue in cheek not the correct phrase, more in compliment rather than in insult.

You're quite correct. The "we" I refer to is: on one side, the government of the day. On the other side, some form of uprising/fundamental change that isn't already being proposed - i.e. a "we" that doesn't currently exist, politically. Not Dave or Jeremy. PS. it's a fitba forum, I'm not scribing the constitution. I'll write how I choose to write, to suit the environment I'm writing in. Just as you choose to be offended, but at least consistently offended by stylistic immaturity - you weird cunt.

So, 2016 going to be the year of the collapse to end all collapses then? I predicted a few years back mid-2017 at the latest, but things seems to be bubbling (pun) up nicely ready for a big one. I think we're one big natural disaster (or Fukashima) away from a tipping point that sets the ball rolling. A random event that no-one's compensated for that collapses one area bringing the rest down. I'm going to go for June 2016 as the start. Consumer debt, house prices both at staggering levels far worse than 2007/08. The question is: will we bail out again? Who'll capitalise on the disaster - a swing left or will the press win and proper right wing nastiness get the vote? I think we'll go righter. Any thoughts?

What an exciting half of football. Poor from Reynolds, but the players turning (i.e. the defenders) seem to be really struggling with the pitch. Hopefully that'll help us in the second half. Felt a bit sorry for Goodwillie, as he seemed to be doing okay, but thankfully we didn't take Rooney off. Hayes looking good, although perhaps should have scored (looked worse in real time). Thought it was a bit of a dive from their player for Reynolds, I think he moved into Reynolds rather than the other way round, and looks like Logan played him onside, so perhaps a bit unfortunate. No complaints about the ref so far though, he got the big shouts correct I think. Irvine on for them. Should be an interesting half, hopefully we can keep up the intensity and running. Fantastic game.

I didn't say "just" a distraction, I said it was an unhelpful distraction. I was getting at the fact that it was unplanned and is removing focus from the areas that Deek would have been trying to acquire players for in a short transfer window. Not trying to trivialise in anyway, perhaps distraction wasn't the best term.

I'm on episode 5 and quite enjoying it. Makes you angry, unsurprised etc. Decent enough format, clearly drawn out as these things seem to have to be, but good building of the characters and with no commentary (any commentary in the form of subtitle and generally just factual) it leaves you to draw your own conclusions, which is great. The people interviewed aren't introduced as good or bad, on the side of right or wrong, you just have to take them as they come and draw your own conclusion as it moves forward - the lawyer for the nephew of Avery a good example. I'd recommend giving it a go.

Jack Andraka's paper test. Here's the link: https://www.ted.com/talks/jack_andraka_a_promising_test_for_pancreatic_cancer_from_a_teenager?language=en Not quite a cure, but as good as. The key to curing has to be detection, and I think we'll see massive strides in this direction in the next 5 years - either through paper tests like this one, or based on breath readings, there are a lot of ideas there that must be 2-3 years in development already. One thing that doesn't seem to have been created yet - and I can see it being the next massive thing - is a tool for detection, like a "detection kit". It'll take the form of a home-laboratory and be installed in your bathroom or somewhere and people will breath into a tube or prick their finger for a blood sample and it'll be tested there and then for a variety of diseases on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. It'll be the next iPhone, and will be produced by an apple-like company and cost a fortune for a start, decreasing over 5 years and everyone will have one. They'll design it in such a way as to become obsolete every couple of years and you need extra add-ons for AIDS and herpes and such like. In short, it'll be designed in the most crude and manipulative fashion possible and patented to death to ensure that it can't be copied and that people are locked in to one software or provider with only one or two suppliers to ensure the oligopoly continues. Probably.... I think that patent and profit in the field of medicine is abhorrent and should be outlawed. To think that cures and treatment are not provided equally based on need rather than ability to pay is disgusting. That a company can control the price of a medicine and deprive people of a cure because they paid someone to think of an idea first (backed massively by public funds through universities and charities) is shameful. Capitalism, free-marketism, does not work where the end user has no choice. All medicine should be open source.

Logan, McGinn, Rooney, Hayes, Taylor, Reynolds. Not a bad return. I would agree that our goalkeeper signings from there have been atrocious though, but then several teams have picked up a few awful goalies from elsewhere too. It's a specialist position that is very hit or miss. I think this guy is just a case of getting someone in before the weekend so that we at least have a sub 'keeper. I'm not convinced he'll even start. We had to do something I suppose, and quickly, so it's worth the gamble until summer. We need to focus on the other positions, the goalkeeper situation was an unhelpful distraction. Interesting move for Quinn, I have to admit I've never been totally convinced. His serious lack of pace (and slowness on the turn) should have been noticed well before we signed him and should have been a complete non-starter. Nevertheless, had a couple of good games when there's been a back three and seems to be a good professional. He's a squad player, and for that I'd like to see a slightly more versatile player. It was suggested he could play right back when he came, but I think that was disproved almost immediately and was a bit of a ridiculous suggestion. Hopefully we'll get one of their players in return as part of the deal.

Great post. Totally agree. Especially the chat show host bit, Ross is a man who stopped learning in his twenties. Shame, because he doesn't appear to be stupid. To add, how do we know Cameron's feelings on the subject, and why are we supposed to give a shite? Listening to radio Scotland yesterday and in the morning they were announcing the death before announcing the Tweets in the same breath. It was almost as if Cameron and Sturgeon's thoughts on it were as important as the death itself. On the way home from work they'd moved to Kanye West and some ither cunt. None of whom you'd immediately think "I wonder how XXX feels about this", just a not-even-tenuous bunch of no-marks. It raises a serious and sinister question of how these required opinions are decided and on what merit. Who in the BBC chose Cameron's comments as pertinent to the death of Bowie and why (Sturgeon obviously a Tim/Hun style inclusion in that you can't give one coverage without the other)? It gives them both a free airing beyond their own merit and relevance - like free PR, or to give the illusion that either should be held in higher regard than the society below them. A bit like when changes are mentioned in Scottish fitba. We're immediately given the opinion of Delia (previously Lennon, who was consistently given a platform for his opinions) and some hun on the proposals as if their opinion should hold more weight. Anyway, Bowie, loved a lot of his music and liked listening to him talk. Seemed a decent sort.

Cammy Bell isn't completely shite, but he's no better than Brown. He obviously has no inclination to play Rogers. I'd hate to see him take Rogers back to sit on the bench though, so if he doesn't feel Rogers is ready then I understand the attempted loan move. Obviously that means we ditch Rogers in the summer I'd hope, as if he's not good enough now then he won't be next season. like tlg, I'd like to see him be given an opportunity. It's difficult to tell if the predicament of McInnes' ridiculously cautious approach to games, or if he really doesn't rate Rogers.