rocket_scientist

Modernising Pittodrie was always a possible plan. Indeed it WAS the plan in the early 90's, thus the building of the RDS. As soon as it was built however, the builder wormed himself on to the board, facilitated by the hapless fool, Ian Donald. The builder had an agenda. Indeed he had the front to propose relocation that same decade. In the two decades since, the stadium has been neglected. All of these are facts yet some can't believe that there are "bad men in authority", mostly because of poor environmental conditioning i.e. brainwashing by ridiculously stupid and cowardly nothings of parents.

Trump bombs Syria air base. Heavily. On the pretext that Assad gassed little babies. Not only does Trump have amazing intelligence to prove that the Russians were lying, he also has great belief that Amerikuh should stand up for human rights. Israel very quick to praise him, they themselves being champions of peace and fairness for all mankind. His crime isn't that he's not strong, Trump's weakness is that he's so stupid. He is being manipulated by the machine. He pledged to "bomb the shit out of Isis" and yet he bombs their enemies? Netanyahu must think Israel will be safer with al-Assad's opponents, unless he celebrates any aggression against Arabic people, irrespective of how sympathetic they may be towards them. No confusion here. Will Boris introduce common sense? Even his boss said "if". Now they all know who did what. We can all sleep safer now. Thank god for our protectors and their courage to fight the good fight.

He's joint leader right now. I offer double the bookies odds. I say no chance. In context, bet365 have him as 11/1. I'll offer 22/1. I wouldn't offer 33's but he's not good value at 22's, let alone half that, which is all you'll get right now. For reasons that will become so abundantly clear if he ever does get in contention to win this Sunday. Edit: Lol, reasons that they just showed on the 12th! Edit: Fitzpatrick @ 60/1 best value bet of the field for me.

I can neither agree or disagree with your opinion, as I have zero evidence. I agree that it's possible but so are many other possible perpetrators. On the balance of possibilities, I would tend not to agree with you.

Yesterday they reported that Assad had gassed his own people. Even the PM was up in arms and they reported that the UN were to meet to discuss what to do about it. Did not one journalist ask why? Do they not think anymore? This was as clear a piece of fake news as we've ever had. Their lies are so brazen that the discerning thinker can see and smell them a mile off. A great man warned us last century: - Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence. George Orwell A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices George Orwell The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth. George Orwell In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. Defenseless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification. Millions of peasants are robbed of their farms and sent trudging along the roads with no more than they can carry: this is called transfer of population or rectification of frontiers. People are imprisoned for years without trial, or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements. George Orwell Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. Political language...is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidarity to pure wind. War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. (On the manipulation of language for political ends.) We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. George Orwell The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies "something not desirable"...In the case of a word like democracy, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from all sides. It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it: consequently the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. George Orwell I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written. George Orwell When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder - one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy, the appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved George Orwell

Nobody can argue with that. Good post. Was it not earlier than 99 when Milne proposed another site at Kingswells? The paint was barely dry on the RDS so it was insane to consider relocating in my view.

Born ARI, brought up Hazleheid, spent 15 years overseas and lived elsewhere in Scotland. Back to the NE 12 years ago. Just outside the city now but within a 5 minute drive. No streetlights, no light pollution and a view of the North Sea oot ma windie. No pub the only downside but few people about the big upside.

I'm not "siding" with him. I've only been skimming the thread but I think you missed the point of my rant. This whole subject regarding a stadium move has been engineered by one man. Pittodrie has been deliberately neglected for a very long time in furtherance of his agenda. I'm not saying that it's right or wrong to move from Pittodrie. I just don't like the fact that it's one man's vision and that we, the fans, the customers, the ones who pay for it were never consulted. So when a naysayer starts naysaying, whether he's right, wrong, informed or misinformed, it offends those who "side" with authority every time and always trust those in charge and never question anything. The wolf may be bad but the sheep are why he can get off with wolfishness. That quote (by Orwell I think) about the deeds of evil men and how the evilness is standing by and letting it happen.

I've not been reading the volumes in detail on here but I'll tell you something for fuck all. At least the boy's got some decency about him, some passion of conviction. Unlike you ye nitpicking guffy establishment areselicking fud who says fuck all, ever.

For the second time this year, AFC score 7 and I wasn't at either. Spewing. But a happy spewing. Two things I take from it; 1. There is a ton of shite in the SPFL. 2. If we can perform like that, how are we so poor a lot of the times? As a critic of McInnes - who I blame for the final debacle (and the next week at Ibrox for insane team selections) - I've got to hand it to him. It's not surprising that a man working professionally with the players day in, day out knows more than us fans. Maybe Shinnie is best in midfield? I think he would be in the Scotland team if he'd been playing LB all season but as last night proved again, we need him there. Our midfield isn't good enough/strong enough/deep enough not to have him there. Considine is finally showing the quality that we all knew was in him but that previous managers couldn't find. By playing him every week - most appearances this season? - he's been injected with the faith of his manager that allows belief and confidence to take root. I love that footballer. Maybe sticking with Rooney who has clearly been off form these last two months is another management strength? His loyalty to McGinn when he was struggling a couple of years ago has also borne fruit, them playing their way out of it (eventually) knowing that the gaffer believed in them. Where previous managers thought Clangfool was good enough - and even St Mirren know he's shite - McInnes has sourced Ward and Lewis, the two best keepers we have had this century. This is just another symptom of the managers recruitment skills. He's introduced some excellent footballers to AFC over the years. McInnes has made mistakes - all the best do - but he's learned from them and what I thought were mistakes, he's proved me wrong. Calderwood and McGhee were "professional" managers but they were shite. Brown was well past his sell by date and equally ineffective but McInnes, he's turning into the real deal. I salute him for rising above the pack of mediocrity in Scottish football and destroying shite that was begging to be destroyed, through consistent management and sticking to his guns, guns that are far more qualified than anybody else has.

Excellent article Tom. Thank you.

Cutting edge fashion? But the price you paid for being cheap was the quality of the lassies.

Chuck Berry's ding-a-ling just got dunked and donged. The man was pure genius, in attitude as well as art.

Spangles. An inspired memory. Forgot they existed for at least a third of a century.

Agree normally dd. Blokes don't normally comment on what others wear but come on, there's exceptions to most rules and he broke theee of them... at the same fucking time! I've trapped in the most absurd circumstances too. Needs must

Elgin min, those "clubs" were all "working class" dens that survived by serving cheap drink to cheap people. Don't get me wrong, some fine folk frequented these places but there was a reason they preferred the "safety" of these clubs than the pubs that 90%+ of us went to instead. Put it this way, what were the chances of getting a trap in there? Then again, with you breaking all the rules, you were always starting behind the 8 ball. Tucking jeans into boots, tucking jumpers into jeans and wearing hairspray was NEVER acceptable.

I don't think we're disagreeing about anything. Yes we all knew he showed great promise in his first six months. Yes he had gone off the boil. But you and I weren't calling to get rid of him. That would have been a catastrophic mistake, as Kenny has since proved. In fact, I think bb deserves praise. KM must have seen his comment and that may be why the worm has since turned ??

I'm sure he has. How could he have not? I always knew that was a dumb comment though, one that has totally bitten him on the arse. Not that I've never made dumb comments online. Much. The archivists could be employed for months illustrating the shite I speak!

Not everyone would agree with you!

Thanks stranger. I'll buy you a pint when we eventually meet. Or a bottle of champagne. Lovely gesture to openly offer like this. Just not me this weekend. Have a great day.

Thanks dude but it would be great if somebody who's never been to a box before could put their hand up. Love the fact you offered openly online. That's so North East. Pwoud. My wife and I are on holiday next week so a couple of hours tomorrow suits me fine instead of the all day sesh. Will stick to the South Stand and an unusually sober Pittodrie outing this time round.

It depends on who owns the box. A bank or financial institution or similar establishment fuckheap, no fucking takers. A genuine local honest company, that's cool.

East Neuk being closed was a shock. Only seen that between Xmas and NY en route to Kings Bar after 2-0 v. Ross County. Back in the day, it was junkie haven but we used the pool tables. The private parties upstairs were fantastic.

I played for Walker Road. The record books will show how good we were in the 80's but the reality was, we were the best. The Torry Bar sponsored us in the mid 80's. Absolutely wonderful place.

Holy fucking long necked cow! Never heard of 7 giraffes until 3 or 4 hours ago. Our local is celebrating 10 years and we are paying 2007 prices this Friday, Sat and Sun. Some lassie came in and ordered a 7 giraffes. I'd never heard of it.