rocket_scientist

It’s going to be a sell out the morn. Lots of optimism in the NE.

Christ min don't take it literally and don't take me seriously. I don't. I loved playing rugby at school too and was a stand off too. Did it in first and second year (as well as football) but when we had a choice when I was 13, I chose football instead of it. What I didn't love was the manner in which we were given no choice about it though when we were about 14/15. Some dickhead teacher who had been a sub at Murrayfield or something - maybe he played for Scotland once, Iain/Ian Spence - came to our school and banned fitba, the first thing he did! Neale Cooper was at my school and the year below me but unlike the rest of us (who played football together outside school), I don't think he played rugby every Saturday morning whilst the rest of us did. Got some stories from the old rugby matches No, not libellous because it wasn't directed at anyone. You can't libel a "sport". I thought you might have seen and understood the nuance. It was a rant against the public school system (that gave us egg-chasing) and spawned the old perverts who run the country, Ted Heath and Nigel Lawson and Cyril Smith all having been outed recently. It's also a rant against the beardy weirdo cunts who are enthused by the game, their fucking antics at uni, the way they conducted themselves in the Kirkgate Bar, their preposterously pretentious sing-alongs, sticking their dicks into each others pints and finding that hilarious and the "atmosphere" they generate, all thinking that they're Erchie. It's tribalism for the posh and the farmers and something that cunts who were shit at football can do so as the boy says, it doesn't affect my life and they can crack on. But they're mostly wankers, as indeed he said about golf clubs and tennis being snooty, another generalism that hits the spot actually. Yes it has become more physical and as a consequence we're seeing more stuff on the news about paralysed people etc. There was probably always unfortunate neck breaks and all that and yes, it could be the elf and safety culture thats putting more of the wheelchair rugby victims in the spotlight. This is an interesting debate. Malcom Gladwell highlighted the head injuries and dementia etc. arising from American Football and even here, in fitba, there was some recent stuff about headers being damaging for your health. For me, you know what you're signing up for when playing any sport. A squash ball could make you go blind in one eye. You can die going for a jog - although most joggers dying might make the world a less boring place may be an argument there - so there will always be risks in anything. I'm all for letting people know the risks and sharing the data. I just don't like rugby and the people who celebrate it. Sir Clive Woodward? Billy Beaumont? Every other guffy rugger bugger? The Hastings brothers? Just wankers, the lot of them.

Hopefully rugby will die. A “sport” invented by a posh kid who couldn’t play fitba, a “sport” which developed into the maximum for physical contact, designed to satiate the confusions arising in pubescent boys stuck in an all male environment, “looked after” by “masters” and paedophiles. The formation of the scrum was the giveaway. Who other than a disturbed individual could come up with that?

Until the BBC4 Vietnam series which concluded last night, I was unaware that Nixon had deliberately targeted the “silent majority” and was even prepared to kill four students at Kansas to test their loyalty. He obviously understood his electorate and human nature. Edmund Burke famously quoted “the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”. Edit: Hitler said that “the biggest lies shall be hidden by public incredulity”. I blame the parents who bring up their kids to show respect to the elders and to authority figures. Just cos they’re older than us doesn’t mean that they are right and that they’re not capable of evil. Look at history, open your eyes to the present and try to anticipate the future you fucking nothings with your nothing kids. In other words, try critical thinking. London and Edinburgh. Capital locations for status quo seeking ignorant sheep who’s dreams didn’t die because they never started, killed from infancy by the most servile trash that ever walked the fucking earth. Big Irvine Welsh knew.

The John Kerry speech was incredible. When you look at him then, just back from the Mekong Delta and now, serving the establishment, it’s difficult not to conclude he’s been broken by the deep state. I wonder if they threatened his family in “converting” him?

All 10 episodes of Vietnam now available. Stunning testimony from the vets on both sides. This affair exposed the evil of both LBJ and Dickhead Nixon. Spiro Agnew was another reptile who’s exterior also reflected the ugliness in his soul. Fast forward 50 years, the US elected Trump, a man who doesn’t even have the ability to pretend. The Kennedy files are getting released imminently... supposedly. JFK was assassinated by the deep state. Vietnam was the reason.

Most club captains are nothings in real life. Aspiring to the position validates them as people. It was the same everywhere.

If you don’t know, and you clearly didn’t, why is your default position ALWAYS to trust Milne and AFC? Let me guess, you tend to trust and believe in authority in most of its forms? Don’t you think it’s quite extraordinary the lengths you went to in order to find right on the side on the club on this particular instance? You even suggested your fellow Aberdeen fans were individually starting malicious rumours and fabricating matters. That’s bending truth and ignorance to fit an establishment-support default. Jess has done you a massive favour here, one that might change your life. Unless he photoshopped the whole thing eh?

Allow me to apologise in advance of some of you taking grave offence. There may be nothing more important than AFC in your life so you don’t want to hear me insulting the manager. I just don’t trust the cunt and whilst there’s always a bit of the express-the-negative,-the-worst-case-scenario-should-it-come-to-pass, I’m sick fed up of us bottling big games and I fear a howler coming up.

What's wrong with "bashing" McInnes, with or without specific evidence on any one single issue? He's a fucking arse of a human being and an incompetent manager who like Calderwood, will never get a bigger job than AFC. Actually, that may not be strictly true. Some idiot employer like the Huns or the SFA might think he's good enough to get a bigger job but he will fail big time at any bigger job because he's already been found out here. His specific crime is that he's not a winner. He will go cautious on Wednesday and we will get fucked because of it. He will also do something tombola-like to kid himself that he's some sort of tactical genius.

Good post dd. Whilst there are always going to be naysayers and others who are resistant to change, it’s the silent majority who will make or break the situation. If the team is entertaining and successful and the new stadium is something to be proud of, folk will want to watch. My worry is that it will have been built - and the existing facility neglected - on an engineered agenda by a man who has never had “the football side of the business” as a priority and the resultant karma surrounding it may prove disastrous.

There are also these buildings called libraries. I discovered many great writers by random selection. The teenage rocket had never heard of Emile Zola, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Roth, John Updike, Albert Camus, Gore Vidal and many many more, before devouring most of their whole bibliographies.

I'm sure you will understand it. The whole point was making it comprehensible to us lay people. The articles are all on that website now. “When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all” That’s actually a quote from the TV show Futurama but it’s also a clear way of explaining why people are not always good at taking their medications. Imagine: you‘re taking a drug to prevent yourself from having a heart attack. But if you don’t feel any different after taking the drug, how can you know it’s even worked? Maybe you weren’t going to have a heart attack anyway? Maybe the drug you’re taking is giving you side-effects and besides, it isn’t worth it because you felt fine before. You don’t want to bother your doctor getting a new prescription and your blood pressure wasn’t that high anyway...So you stop taking your drugs and you hope for the best. But heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. And it’s preventable. This is particularly bad news if you happen to live in Scotland, where we lead the way in the number of heart attacks, strokes, and more-or-less everything that can go wrong with your heart. But why? We have access to lots of different types of drugs for your heart, and in each of these groups there are a range of specific drugs to choose from, so there should be something that works for everyone. Shouldn’t there? Unfortunately the problem isn’t that simple. Once your doctor has identified high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or anything else that might increase your risk of a heart attack, a few steps have to happen to reduce that risk: o Step 1 is prescribing a drug. o Step 2 is taking the drug. o Step 3 is the hard one. Step 3 is taking the drug at the right time and continuing to take it for as long as you need to. And that’s hard. It’s hard because for the drugs we‘re talking about, ‘as long as you need to’ can mean ‘for the rest of your life’. And the rest of your life can be a long time. So my research project will look at: how well people in Scotland manage to stick to Step 3, who is and who isn’t sticking to Step 3, and whether sticking to Step 3 does actually improve your chance of avoiding a heart attack or stroke. To do this, I’m going to be using patient data from across Scotland to look back over the years and see whether or not people are picking up their medications from the pharmacy on time. This might sound straightforward before you remember that there are over 5 million people in Scotland. And, as I said before, we are not the healthiest bunch. So that’s a lot of people, with a lot of unhealthy hearts, and a lot of drugs prescribed by their doctors. To do this I’m going to have to enter a world that has always seemed distant, complicated, and honestly a little bit intimidating: the world of Big Data. Firstly: what is Big Data? Is it Facebook working out your personality based on the number of cat pictures you like? Or apps predicting the next flu pandemic based on the number of people tweeting about a runny nose? Or targeted adverts based on your google history? The answer is, in a way, yes. Big Data is all those things and more. Big Data is what it says on the tin: data, but a lot of it. For me, Big Data is looking at everyone in Scotland who has ever been prescribed a cardiovascular drug – or more simply, drugs for their heart – and looking to see if they picked up their next lot of drugs around about the time their first prescription should have run out. If they don’t, it means they are more likely to be skipping days, having gaps, or they might have stopped taking them altogether. By linking this to medical records I can see if people who aren’t taking their medications are statistically more likely to have a heart attack, stroke, or even die. And by looking across the whole country I can also see if people are more likely to take their drugs if they fall into different groups: if they are older or younger, male or female, or if they are living in wealthier areas or not. By doing so, I will be able to see if certain groups of people are more likely to miss their medications, and with that information, I might be able to work out who needs help at sticking to Step 3. If we know who is at risk, we know who we can help. And if we know who we can help, maybe we can mend a heart before it breaks. MRC Max Perutz Science Writing Competition 2017 Shortlisted essays Edit: And she's a Dons fan, she was at the Parkred final.

rocket’s daughter just won... https://www.mrc.ac.uk/news/browse/2017-max-perutz-science-writing-award-shortlist-announced/ Not quite the best day of my life - I was there on 11.5.1983 - but so proud.

I saw an advert for an Alfa 4x4 yesterday for the first time and I must say I was pretty shocked. My memory of Alfa Romeo was that they were buckets of shit in terms of reliability, like Ford always was and always will be, although Vauxhall has won the worst brand ever built award from the now defunct Rover when we talk about being able to do what it says on the tin. Porsche’s Cayenne is an abomination. 4 x 4’s are good for 2 or 3 days a year. Otherwise they’re a fashion statement. For cunts who think they’re better than the rest of us.

Conte told an Italian journalist that it was a matter of time before he returned to management in Italy. This was about a month ago. That was a huge mistake in my opinion. His focus may be at his current employer but his karma isn’t in the right place and I think that may have been a fatal mistake. To the other, Italy is one of two fav places in the world and I love women. I do have a problem with ONE Russian Jew however and the way in which he accumulated his wealth in particular.

One man’s floater is another man’s cocktail. Kirkcaldy. Lochgelly. Cowdenbeath. Now these places float and not with nice imbibements. Closer to home, Brechin appears to have zero redeeming aspects. But London, I love the place.

Luton is a shithole, I'll grant you that. I stayed there for 3 nights last month, my first time there for years. But the pub around the corner from the Premier Inn city centre was awesome, down-to-earth folk, working folk, non-working folk, father and son getting a good drink in, ethnics of all sorts, a good pool table - the pub team captain took me ages (5 frames over two nights) to eventually beat, a barmaid I would've shagged, tattooed criminal-looking types, tattooed non-criminal-looking types, folk having a joint in the beer garden and a fucking great atmosphere and vibe. They all knew each other but they were friendly to a stranger who didn't walk in expecting it to be a shithole and who was free from preconceptions. Attitude, it's everything. You will find shite in every place if that's what your looking for/expecting.

The reason why customer service is better in London is the amount of competition. You’ve got to be good to survive. Increased choice also provides wider price ranges. Camden Lock and Brixton market offer a massive diversity for every taste and the quality is as good as food can be and not expensive. Arts and entertainment. London has it all. Probably the biggest choices on the planet. Even football spectating has more choices. Shopping isn’t just for girls. Men wear stuff too. Pretentious people as a genre died out years ago. There are the inherited wealth arseholes you come across very occasionally in the expensive places but the biggest “class” for disgust are the moneyed Arabs who treat the service staff like shit and stare at our women’s tits. Minkers are everywhere but the majority of people in every city are neither minkers nor pretentious. You don’t know the place.

The Vietnam war. 8 episodes. BBC 4. Essential viewing for anyone seeking to understand truth, and how horrible the USA actually is.

Not an eclipse in the traditional sense but by fuck it was weird at 2.30 pm today. We couldn’t even see the North Sea from our window as it was eerily dark. Good job the wife was off work and as she’s a Twitter monster (follower rather than a poster), she tells me what’s happening in the world. I knew there was some Sahara dust clouds or whatever happening this morning but as it was the south of England, I wasn’t paying attention. Wonder if North Tonight come up with a credible explanation?

Best customer service in UK, as experienced in best hotels and restaurants. Best for arts and entertainment. Best for shopping. All served by an incredibly efficient transport system. It’s got everything. Aberdeen doesn’t even have one excellent restaurant!

Weegies who say sangwiches. Guffs who pronounce issues iss-ee-yews. Nobody did that like Ed Milliband.

I doubt you’re being serious but I’m certain that there will be a “London’s a shitehole” attitude within many in the NE. This is worthy of examination. As someone who was born in Foresterhill of NE stock going back as far as memory allows, with not one ancestor coming from south of the Dee and probably every one of us being within a 40 or 50 mile boundary and therefore a 20 or 25 mile radius (but no record of cousins or worse marrying so confidently NOT interbred) with not even a solitary Fifer or weegie in sight, feel I’m qualified to observe be the differences between characteristics of the NE and elsewhere. Living 15 years overseas and a further 10 years away from Abz in other Scottish places made these differences an area of interest for me. Aberdeen’s a shitehole and the inept coonsil who ran down our declining city centre isn’t saved by the unique nature of our people. The NE is so sick and so thick, it returned Conservative in a number of constituencies. Not even Kirkcaldy or Dundee or even weegieland were that stupid.

If you're tired of London, you're tired of life. Some old dude said that.