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Game day. Three points would make a nice early Xmas present. COYR

Traffic - Hole In My Shoe

Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole

The Chris Hoy documentary about his cancer. He’s some guy!

You can take the boy out of AbMad, but you can’t take a “Swans can’t fly” theory out of the boy…

U.N.K.L.E - Rabbit in your headlights

I think hometowns are obligated to attack a bit more so come out/push up which may suit us and jimmy with counter attacking football. Celtic will certainly do so, and I’d be inclined to start bilalovic and karlsson with lazetic, a good combo of pace and skill.

Idles - Rabbit Run

Iron Maiden - Run to the hills

You’ll notice it’s not airborne

One thing to cling onto is that our home form has been a little more shaky than our away form recently. We’ve looked much more stable in away games.

Too close for comfort Just as well you had big dog against those massive wings!! Remembered I took this photo in October in East Lothian, not very dragonesque haha

Pallas - Cut and Run

Interesting stuff!

Can we call it next six games? One added game makes a difference, especially since it’s the Huns twice, away then home 5 days later. We’ve done well to climb into the top 6, but to stay there I’d say we need at least 10 points from this run. As much as we don’t know what to expect from us, same could be said for rangers and Celtic. Not sure if they raise their game vs us as compared to us being poor, but I go back to the first half vs rangers at home last November where we played them off the park. Would love to see that type of performance/approach.

The West didn't really exist as a concept outside of agriculture though (it came to being well after agriculture had bestowed the mindset of man's dominion over everything). Most who were offered the alternative of what we'd now call the West's way of life refused for very obvious reasons. Force, expropriation and slavery saw to it that no choice was eventually given. There are plenty of historic examples. Jefferson, I think it was, who wrote to his mate about how kidnapped indigenous people always returned, whereas those kidnapped by indigenous often disappeared back to them even after their release. The same story with those shipped to England to view our amazing achievements, only for them to swiftly return home confused by the stupidity of it. It makes sense, really. There was no real impediment to subsistence, so why would anyone want to trade that for toiling in the fields to harvest a monocrop that could be wiped out with one bad season? It takes a massive leap to suggest that was a better system than what previously existed, on any level. Agriculture was better once you'd chopped down the trees though. Parasitic, or human supremacist would be my preferred descriptions. The latter because it pisses off those that are anti racist (correctly) but are comfortable with the parasitic economic system (because they're middle class and it benefits them). In other words, they're perfectly happy with oppression and the perverted viewpoint that one being is more special than another, but not when it comes to an arbitrary sub-group of one particular species.

For those that like a bit of 90s shoe gazing, this is a powerhouse. To be played loud! Trivia fact is that Toni Halliday is the vocalist on Leftfield’s Not Forgotten. Oh, and the video is Dandy compliant, featuring as it does a sheep. What more could you want.

Domestically, we’ve become more difficult to beat. Less stupid goals being given away, but you still know the next ones just round the corner. We are playing some good stuff in patches (2nd half Killie etc) which we just weren’t doing at all early on this season, but we still cannot string a full 90 mins together. That’s a tough run, it will be interesting to see how we perform. The trouble is, I don’t think any of us can say with any certainty what we will get served up by this lot…

This is the bit I’m not sure about. We did, but surely because we’d not discovered an alternative. Once we did, we left all that in the rear view mirror pretty quickly. I know that’s not true if all cultures in the world - there are certainly examples in the americas to support your point. But in the “west” it seems incontrovertible. Parasitic is a good term for it. But even parasites are a product of evolution and pretty successful ones at that. Till they kill their host… Meanwhile, COYR!!

Like most pop stars, she can't actually sing.

I used to feel that way, but not any more. Other than Aberdeen and Scotland, couldn’t tell you the last time I watch a game that didn’t involve my club or country. Money has killed my enthusiasm. It’s a bunching over paid mercenaries now, no culture or heart in a club any more. I’ve expressed my worry’s about the dons in recent months and the lack of Scottish players for that reason. Milne and lobban are a godsend, hoping Marshall comes through and we sign Watson and another couple of Scots in the near future. Clinging on to shinnie, a diehard don, and a lesser extent devlin, love that type of Scot in our team. Means something to me. I’d even take Gunn in goal, although I’m 50/50 on mitov right now. what was sad this week was I had no interest in our European game. It was even less interesting than a preseason friendly. Didn’t watch and simply checked the score after work. I’ve never done that before where I had so little interest. The format for European football doesn’t inspire me at all, and really I had little interest in our European campaign. Worrying for me! I’ve also said this before. Living here in the states for 30 years, I appreciate the banter here as it keeps me connected with my roots and I really enjoy talking Aberdeen and Scotland. But that’s it, most other football is pretty dull now. Saying all of this, I’m intrigued by the world cup in a way, as we have some more unknown teams, playing Haiti will be different, plus playing Brazil and Morocco will be different and fun. But will I watch other World Cup games, unlikely. Bit off topic for crazy American politics!

Now that we've got all of this season's losses out the way early, should be a certainty.

I would be genuinely lost without football in my life. It's a daily escape from the world that enhances my life in terms of both usually having a game to look forward to and maintaining friendships.

Except for the majority of human existence, we did live in symbiosis with the planet. There is a far greater body of evidence that we're hardwired to do just that (as every other species on the planet does), rather than the post agricultural world based on parasitic systems. Parasitic systems that always consume themselves over time. Mainly because they ignore time in their myths and stories (our myths being progress and growth). Good lad. There's no contradiction there. It's not for anarcho-primitives to be dictating systems to people. It's completely possible to understand that the only workable human existence is that of anarcho-primitivism, whilst recognising that the only way to reach that point is through civilisation's collapse. With anarcho-primitivism, there's nothing to be designed or systematised, it just simply is. Humans living as nature intended - universally connected - as every other species does. It's not something you can cajole people into, or have a dictator, or a democracy, set the rules. That doesn't absolve anyone of individual responsibility, but there is no feasible way to enact anarcho-primitivism within the existing system, so you basically have to choose your own level of adherence to it. I choose to watch fitba, which is obviously just a circus, but I can suspend disbelief to offer some relief. You'd go fairly mental quite quickly otherwise. He's probably got a job and lives in a hoose too, the heathen. If he doesn't already, you can point him to the writings of Darren Allen and Tom Murphy for some light entertainment.