rocket_scientist

Great post Rico. You're wasting your breath. The sheeple will always be.

McInnes doesn't have a say. Milne is in charge of the budget and his valuation of Hayes won't be as high as it should be, as time will tell I fear. Unless of course we are a great club being run by good people who really do have "the product" as the priority and who did not lie to us at the Capitol 20 years ago.

Excellent post. I would argue with you on one point though. "I don't understand..." you say? I think we do understand. It's very obvious but the truth isn't always pleasant and digestible. Some prefer to deny truth rather than face facts. Mirrors and the Great Pretenders hit this spot in relation to high performance sports persons. Don't you just hate that term - high performance. Wank terminology no doubt coined by a wank human.

Reason I asked is that you are probably right. We were talking about success attracting resentment in another thread last week, a phenomenom for which the British are proud. In close proximity to this is resentment for those who have the courage of conviction and who dare to express themselves. All interesting stuff for those who are interested, of which the majority are not.

On an aside, why did you say "I am probably wrong"?

It's very clear. McInnes is an employee. He's happy to receive a wage. Milne is his boss. Selling one of our best footballers should not be in the plan if the plan is to compete. It's not like Hayes is a young superstar destined for greatness at the top of the game so the rhetoric about what's best for his career is telling. Milne doesn't care about on-field success. He never has and he never will. His only objective is money and always has been. It's the sole reason he got involved with AFC.

Not at all. I started the thread looking for a recommendation in Glasgow. Having a long liquid lunch in Edinburgh next week. Cafe Royal does superb seafood.

Agreed. Horrible man... when he was alive.

I can see Trump lasting a week, kompromatted in a honey trap years ago. We can't have the possibility of the Russians having the president by the balls. The truth must out.

If you think Trainspotting the film is grim, Irvine Welsh's books are twenty times worse. Or twenty times better, depending on how you see it. His literature is harrowing but for me he is one of the best writers ever, and not just of the Scottish writers. A genius who broke the mould by dealing in a side of reality that nobody else had done.

Went to the oldest Italian restaurant in the UK today, established 1922. Name that tune? It has been years/decades since we were last in but the food was excellent, if not the service. The Eberdeen lassie was brilliant. The owner and presumably his son were lazy disinterested bastards, going through the motions. Functional rather than special. Might go back but probably won't. Didn't like his pink Polo (long-sleeve) shirt and tan belt.

Yes I know. That's why I said city and shire in my post. My main point is that all coonsillors in our area, both city and shire are self-serving arseholes.

That comment was mine. I think you may be confusing matters. Success breeds resentment in the UK. Fleet Street (as was, I mean the red tops) are built on this. It's sometimes known as the tall poppy syndrome, a sickness of many. David Beckham famously suffered it (for years) after he got sent off v. Argentina. What they charge for their products is business. They're premium pricing it because they can. Why should they not? It doesn't get my money because like many on here, I also think their beer is pish but I don't blame them for operating successfully in their market. On the contrary, I admire them for it.

Coincidence; Seen this in a gallery window today... An amazing photographic-quality oil painting of the Gallowgate. Not sure if the price tag will come out in the zoom in but 3.5 grand? It's good but nae three and a half grand good. There was a painting of Pittodrie taken from the top of the Broad Hill below it. Only if I was planning to emigrate again would I even think about getting one of her paintings. Brilliantly talented local artist.

Land is as negotiable as anything else is. It - property and acreage - is only worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and what someone is prepared to sell it for. I don't know the guys personally but I'm aware that a lot of people consider them arseholes. I would only make up my own mind in the highly unlikely situation that I would ever meet or do business with them but I'm also aware how success attracts resentment, which will no doubt be fuelling it for some, particularly in Scotland (as opposed to the US for example). What special treatment have they got and why shouldn't they be able to negotiate a special allowance? Every foreign company seeking to invest in the UK is given incentives and special deals. Why can't a locally-founded company get the same? How many jobseekers would there be if Brewdog weren't a major employer and how many associated companies are getting a living off the back of them? These are questions I'm sure the council aren't asking themselves. Christ they managed to turn down a £50m donation from Sir Ian Wood because of jealousy and resentment so I'm pretty sure the culture in city and shire will be consistently small-minded. Good on them for criticising the public sector publicly. Our counsillors are fucking inept and like the vast majority of civil servants, self-serving. Bung city. Mon the businesses.

Extremely successful NE company in being resented by some of the NE public shock. Brewdog are everywhere in London these days. They've got production plants opening globally.

I agree. Too many skeletons in his past and many more he will make in the months ahead. His lack of intelligence and zero statesmanship skills are going to blow up in his face. There's no hiding place now and his is a nature so disgusting, it needs hidden. And yet, paradoxically, he's the only one who might deliver the good. He's so right about the offshoring of jobs. He's so right about uncontrolled immigration. He's so right about building positive international relations. He's so right about the provision of healthcare. He's so right about the media. He's so right about the inner cities. Most of all, he's so right about corruption in Washington and the disaster that was Obama and what would have been Hilary. He's just not clever enough nor strong enough to "drain the swamp" because the swamp itself isn't disappearing any year soon.

Call yourself a moderator? No attempt to engage. Only pathetic attempts to belittle. On his very first post? How many others have you pissed off over the years? You ever wonder why this place is dead? Perhaps you couldn't see a number of truths expressed within it? Still no excuse for such a pathetic post from you.

Excellent words. The greed was so short term in its thinking, they failed to appreciate the bigger picture. Not that they give a fuck. It was ever thus. Go in, make money, piss off, leaving a massive mess behind. It happens every day in business. It's happened big time in football. Speaking of asset-stripping, my favourite band just now, the Sleaford Mods have a new album coming out in March. One of the songs on it is a tribute to Sir Philip Green. It's called BHS. Youtube it being played live. It's brilliant. Jerry Sadowitz recited a poem in his gig at the Music Hall 7 or 8 years ago. Just like he saw through Jimmy Saville in 1986, he saw through Green a long time ago. His poem had 6 words in it. "Fuck off ye big nose Kike" was all he said, in a manner that only genius Sadowitz can.

Balvenie is one of my favs Manc. If I have anything other than a pint in my local, it's that. Speyside my preference 95% of the time.

Very interesting angle. Maddison isn't "worth" 6m. That's what Norwich paid Coventry so it's the valuation that they put on him at the time. Coventry might have been rubbing their hands at that and negotiated a cracking deal. They might have been hoping for 2 or 3m but after selling the positives hard, Delia coughed up. The chairwoman might have been slightly inebriated during the negotiations, following some excellent hospitality laid on by the midlanders, a deliberate strategy possibly. Yeah yeah I know, highly unlikely that Delia was involved but for all we know, Coventry were expecting 10m and it was Norwich who negotiated hard. A product is only "worth" what someone is prepared to pay for it so let's take it that Maddison is 6 million's worth for the purpose of player comparisons. When Norwich paid that for a teenager, they were buying potential. In an inflated market of the rare gems being worth squllions, they saw something BIG in him. Personally, I don't think he will ever be bought again for half that amount. He's got great feet, is fast in the head, has a mean free kick on him, can jink his way around people but for the top level, where 8 figure valuations are almost a default, I don't think he's physically strong enough to hold off challenges, shield and protect his ball and stand up to the hard and fast rigours of the EPL. If Maddison at his age is worth 6m, Hayes at his age must be worth at least 3m as you say and I agree that Logan is the next most valuable asset and 2m looks like a reasonable sum... if Maddison is worth that much. So I agree 100% with your logic. However, if Maddison was ours and we were in a selling market, I would let him go for 2.5m, Hayes for 1.5m and Logan for 1.25m. The leagues where they can go might be paying more in today's climate but I don't really know much about the championship, what they pay their players and what they spend. I just don't see any of those three ever being top flight footballers. I don't think we should be selling anyone though. We're nowhere near the best club in the land and it should be our ambition to compete for the SPFL. Our current squad isn't good enough so selling our best players makes no sense at all.

Neither had I. First bottle. Half way gone. The independent shop I get my alcohol from recommended it and gave me a taste and I was sold. Sorry for not coming back to you earlier. I missed your post and I'm teetotal every January and not missing it at all. This review tells you all about it: - https://thewhiskeywash.com/scotch-whiskey/whisky-review-compass-box-oak-cross/

Every drug dealer I've ever known was an opportunist first and a criminal second. The demand is there. Someone's going to supply it. Putting aside the occasional occasions where the supplier seeks to expand the demand, I'm more interested in what's gone wrong in the lives of the supplied that they go beyond normal healthy experimentation to invest everything they have in drugs. What little they had in most cases. The artistic genius and drugs doesn't interest me, Amy Winehouse being the most recent 27 club member. We live in a society where large proportions of our people are so disenfranchised that any reasonable prospect of hope has gone. And you and me, we voted for these people.

I would walk from Buckie to Birmingham (aye, Alabama) to get away from that. Not that I can envisage a circumstance where one would be forced to fuck it and would have to. Must revisit my rules criteria. Female, with pulse and STD-free doesn't work. Need a discretionary exclusion exception. For bunny boiling bastards like her. Disgusting creature both inside and out.

I would have thought that a camera would endanger them? I've never shot nae cunt but if I had to, I'd prefer to have two free hands. Carrying a Nikon, let alone the tripod etc. would compromise matters.