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The Wonder Stuff - The Animals and Me

The Wonder Stuff - Welcome to the Cheap Seats

Staying in to watch paint dry. I'll get as much insight.

Anyone else attending tonight's online Q&A with Robinson

I got fines each way in the Tyne Tunnel last July - that is very well signposted but me & my daughter so busy talking didn't notice

Good idea. It's my wife's car, so it's her that they'll go after. I'm contemplating going full gaslight and asking her how she doesn't remember the day out she had in Dunfermline only a week ago. Maybe hide some of her things and remind her about the great time we had at various events we never attended.

Fuck em, don’t pay it.

Parking fine arrived for parking at Halbeath retail park. Time restriction, apparently very well sign posted. I didn't see anything. Fuckers. Anyway, info for when we get them in the playoff. I hope the owner of the car park dies in horrible circumstances. Absolutely parasitic form of rentierism.

Full U21 squad

I understand your reservations but I doubt we could get better than Clarke and he seems to really enjoy being the international manager life style which is not to be sniffed at.

Aye, you're probably not wrong. However, it's difficult to understate the precarious nature of the world's resources now, and in the near future. China spent the last two decades positioning itself perfectly to be the new dominant power, and Trump's term has coincided with that becoming existential. The relatively seamless intervention in Venezuela swung the balance back to the US. Iran is a different kettle of fish, but China is a significant beneficiary of the particular type of oil that comes out of that country. It will hurt them, but they've got the capacity and economic structure to outlast the angry US public when prices rocket. Prices don't convey physical reality though, and the Chinese will be hurting if this continues as expected, even if it isn't obvious on the surface in the way it is elsewhere. Europe, obviously, faces serious collateral damage, the UK particularly, but Europe has always been an afterthought for the yanks, which makes its continental policy of the last fifty years even more inexplicable. Australia is an interesting one too, as they look to be seriously screwed if things don't sort themselves soon. I think you're right, that the democrats wouldn't have gone all in quite as quickly, but this type of conflict was only a matter of time and they'd have done what needed to be done (with complete disregard for everyone else) when the time came. They'd have "diplomatically" have couched it in professionalism and done more to build up the propaganda beforehand, but the end result would have been similar. Because there is no choice. It's a complete rewrite of the global economy, or war, and both parties choose war every time.

Lobban and Frame in the u21 squad.

What's the story here?

Until someone obviously better wants the job, Clarke can have it for life as far as I'm concerned. The Dons binned Calderwood and McInnes in the search for "better" and, while they might not have been completely the wrong decisions in isolation, I have even less faith in the SFA picking a successor to Clarke than I did in the Dons getting right. Getting to finals and being shite is a thousand times better than never getting there at all.

Surprised Lee Griffiths and Paul McGowan are involved

I’d disagree with that. They’ve over egged the pudding, or rolled out the chaos too fast. The custard coming out of Trumps ears and the unpopularity of Vance/every other weirdo in the GOP is bad news for them. As gutless as the Democratic Party are, they would never have started anything in Iran. I know they’re quite happy with genocide inside Isreal but they wouldn’t have stood for them crossing borders. The war in Ukraine would be playing out differently too. Billionaires get paid regardless but there wouldn’t be such obvious looting under the Democrats.

The people behind him will be perfectly happy for him to do whatever he likes, the more divisively the better, as long as their objectives are being met. The Iran war has already seen another large transfer of wealth, however it might have been a miscalculation that - without hyperbole - has the potential to take down the entire global economy. Those behind Trump will be well insulated because of the focus on Trump, so it might be worth the risk to them. If they can add Cuba to the list shortly then that'll be another transfer. That the US public is collateral, and even Trump, is of little concern. Nor is it of significant concern if they get another four years of a compliant democrat party.

Yeah his starting point was never great but if you watch videos of him campaigning the first time round to what he’s like just now, you can see the decline very clearly. His brain is mush. They’ll be shiting themselves every time he’s in front of a camera. The big mistake his backers made was choosing the couch fucker as the replacement. If anyone in the country liked him at all, he’d be president already

ACDC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirty Cheap

I don't see a significant amount of decline from ten, twenty or thirty years ago. He has always had the mind of a child.

Unfortunately(?) that post appears to be fake. Not that I don't believe he isn't that unhinged, he just can't be held to that one.

We’re at the end stage now, I think they’ll remove him before the midterms. You can only deny the reality of the situation for so long. He has acute brain rot

The Pogues - Dirty Old Town

Article in the P&J where Robinson speaks about Cormack. Wasn't behind their paywall at time of posting. https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/sport/football/aberdeen-fc/6977487/aberdeen-stephen-robinson-dave-cormack/

Jeez, this seems a rum doo.