rocket_scientist

Meeow. I hardly think their sycophantic news makes up 99% of their output. The BBC are genius at arts and documentaries, world-beating in fact.

I was NME and Melody Maker until Sounds came out. That was the one I got every week. Print media is dying and in many cases, most of the newspapers mainly, good riddance. It's a shame that it's impacting on such a wide scale however. Even the niche publications are serving better online.

BBC iPlayer has all five episodes. I've just watched them all. It's the most powerful television I've ever seen. It's such an incredible documentary that I swear it will be syndicated in most countries in the globe. Without wanting to give any spoilers, the worst aspect for me, the biggest blood-boiling is reserved for Bush and Blair. The best aspect however is that the Iraqi people are beautiful human beings too and the women interviewees, who have suffered more than we can imagine, are stunningly beautiful inside and out.

Once Upon a Time in Iraq. Caught the third episode (of five) tonight. Now going to watch the others. Staggering production. A must-see for all human beings.

nice one Al ???

I couldn't be arsed writing out a whole set of resolutions. Again. I already made my suggestions at the time. If England could complete, so could Scotland. I think we had less games to do as well. We called a halt before there was any need to make a decision. And I stand by my position that our football administrators are total clowns and unfit for purpose.

The mistake was cancelling the SPFL. They could have and should have been completed, like England, Germany, Spain, Italy etc. Yet another mismanagement error by the clowns in charge.

Good luck AFC. I just learned in the pub yesterday that it's a 12.30 kick off now so delighted to be attending a BBQ and getting a few beers down my neck whilst watching the game. Will probably take some decent whisky along to mark the occasion and will be praying for a home win. I have no idea how the game will go but hey, every dog has its day and having beaten them 3 times in Glasgow recently - including the best bounce AFC fans have had since the Scottish Cup Final 1990 - this home win record is SO overdue to change.

After this wonderfully disarming, highly witty response, let me teach you something. You know you come across people who immediately and instinctively repulse you? I'm not even talking about the likes of Hancock, Raab, Gove, Jenrick, Shapps, Williamson and the rest of the sycophants employed by BlowJob. They're repulsive for sure but their corruption, crimes, lies and agenda are so patent and see-through that there's no work to be done for hate to start to register. The frauds who are invisible in the real world and who peddle their agendas on social media are the more interesting cases, and more satisfying too. It's not a slow burn as such to watch them act and then form concrete impressions. From the off they're instantly repellant and only in time does the consistency of their posting reveal the insincerity of their positions. Never forget that just because you (and the majority) don't have the skills to even imagine that the words we use - the sentence construction and the flow of them, not just vocabulary - reveals everything about character, there are many of us who can. The most revealing common trait that the social media phoneys have is to peddle agendas only, forgetting that in order to gain traction and credibility, they need to pretend that they're human too. The remarkable exclusivity of their purpose forgets to comment on their favourite restaurants, personal preferences in other fitba, that they might have a personal life or a job, in fact nothing that might reveal who they are. It's like a default position a bot might be programmed for and the singular narrowness of their posting defines their purpose.

As for the first sentence, more evidence of your unreality. If my "entire post was wrong", you would have proved it by presenting facts. You do know the difference between facts and opinions don't you? And not for the first time you say I'm "batshit mental" but again you never offer any argument in support of this view? I would very much hope that the world I inhabit is so polar opposite than the one you inhabit that I may well be proud to be "batshit mental". Even the term isn't real, like from a comic read by public schoolboy types.

I didn't say that you are a fraud just for backing McInnes. I say that you're a fraud because of everything you post. You're not real. People like you don't exist in the NE. They don't go to pubs. You are a waste of oxygen.

I didn't say that you said he was going to have a great season. You're not arguing for the sake of it. You only post stuff that supports the management of AFC. This could be because of having a glass fully full approach to life, the perennial optimist. Or it could be that you are not real (as I have long suspected) and act like a AFC club stooge on these forums. It does appear strange that your ONLY posts are to decry any posts that criticise the club and to post total shite in blind support, without ever posting anything but. Your ONLY and consistent contribution is that everything at AFC is great and that anyone dissenting from your view is wrong. I don't like frauds.

"Only" 9? Surely one human being losing their life because of cops is one too many? When those charged with serve and protect decide that it's ok to kill people, we all have a major problem. If that's how many unarmed blacks they're killing, how many armed blacks did they kill? And how many were permanently disabled by police brutality? And how many were hospitalised by their severe violence? The numbers assaulted, harassed and wrongfully detained will be immeasurable, let alone the inconvenience they inflict on innocent people just because of the colour of their skin. There is a systemic and institutional racist problem in many white-majority countries, for which white trash humans are directly responsible. The levels of discrimination vary widely of course, from EDL and Nazis and KKK and white supremacist organisations to unconscious bias from people crossing the road to avoid blacks and everything in between including employers (with either a conscious or unconscious bias). Focusing on the manifestation and the symptoms of the problem fails to see the root cause of the problem itself. This is a white man-created problem that only white man can address. The subjugation of racial minorities will inevitably result in explosions of crime rates. Deprivation, discrimination and hopelessness is bound to generate consequences. That white man systematically perpetuates the unjust conditions from which the crime arises is the greater injustice.

The huns are saying that BLM is a vicious "lefty" organisation who are hate-filled racists. They're saying that Rangers are a "British" club who should not support the movement. We all know that the truth is that they themselves are intolerant racist bigots but I'm wondering what Defoe thinks about this? I wouldn't be the only one not taking the knee if I'm in a team situation but I don't do gestures. I didn't clap on Thursday nights despite my wife being NHS and even when we had a piper on the green outside our house religiously every week at 8 pm. Much as I totally support the movement against police brutality and have tweeted often against systemic and institutional racism, I personally would feel uncomfortable "taking the knee". I support those who do.

Not read any coherent reason yet. FIVE managers this season it will be apparently. That's madness in the boardroom.

A premature writing off of Jose I feel. He's a difficult motherfucker to predict. I want to love him. I want to hate him. He doesn't just polarise opinion. He polarises me! Can't understand the sacking of Nigel Pearson. Hope they get relegated now and if Howe can eke out a win at Goodison, I think they will be.

I don't understand. I wouldn't want to kneel down myself but I suspect my reasons are completely different to those that the hun fans are spouting. What are your views on this?

I saw the pic of Ryan Jack taking the knee before they beat Nice 2-0. The huns were up in arms that their players made the gesture.

^ Not true. My criticisms of the management are relevant and fair. You are being disingenuous again. ^^ It's false optimism to consider Bryson's weight improvement as making any fucking difference. Try looking at the record and seek to understand the reasons for consistently underperforming. I forgot. You are in denial that there's a problem. Which makes you not real.

1. You missed out the first bit. You selectively ignored the charge that you are arguing for the sake of it. Which isn't entirely true as you respond to any criticism of McInnes as you did to any criticism of Milne. This is exactly the type of denial rhetoric which supports my long-held view that you got the club you deserved, a very broken one. 2. This type of revisionist fantasy is as disingenuous as your "arguments". Not only do you twist the fact that Shinnie started at LB and was subsequently moved into midfield - where we violently disagree on his worth and effectiveness in that role - you selectively took one line from my post to twist the debate away from my central point thereby totally ignoring it, the fact that the manager shoehorned Considine into a position he didn't want to be in. I've never met Aberdeen fans like you in the real world who are consistent supporters of the management of the club. I'm not saying that they don't exist, but I suspect they're in their twenties or younger and whilst this doesn't include my son and his mates who are in this age bracket, I can't even imagine why anyone would want to be an apologist or be in denial at the history of decline happening over a sustained period. Calderwood was the first disaster. McInnes will also go nowhere in management once the yanks eventually work out how inept and unfit for purpose he is and sack him. It's the "fans" not seeing how bad these managers are that I cant understand, nor do i want to.

Delighted with Huddersfield's win tonight to save their season. A wee bonus was kicking Slavering Bilic in the nuts and giving Brentford a free run but I've a wee sweet spot for Huddersfield after watching them get thrashed at Chelsea on 1st Feb last year. "This place is like a fucking library" they sang when 3-0 down. Fell in love with them right there. They delivered promotion to Leeds tonight. Hope they do well next year. Mon the Yorkshire. Fine people.

I agree that creativity wasn't in their "job descriptions" but this is a problem of itself. Simmie and Brian Grant never earned reputations as "creative" midfielders either but they were superb footballers who made tons of chances for others, and took a fair few themselves, including some very important ones. Jack had the right technical skill set but was never developed to his obvious potential whilst with us. Shinnie had no potential. He was just a great heart with very limited skills.

I know you're not arguing for the sake of it and I need to be respectful of your vast experience and great knowledge. I wasn't a fan of Jack at AFC but I also never booed the cunt. He was a consistent performer, he rarely lost possession and has an excellent football brain. What frustrated me about him was that despite his obvious technical ability, he had limited creative skills and we could count on one hand the genius passes he stuck through defences to hand goals on a plate. He played in a very poor team where creativity and making things happen were alien to the manager's history of course but I found Jack a frustration mostly, a much better footballer than we were getting out of him. Shinnie also played in a very poor team but he never frustrated me. We knew what we were getting with him, 100% energy but like Jack, not the creative midfielder who could supply a great service to the shit strikers AFC have had the whole time under McInnes, journeyman Rooney excepted. Hayes and McGinn had the ability to make things happen, unfortunately only when he could be arsed in the latter, Niall's inconsistency of performance being a perennial problem (other than one purple patch many years ago, which was two months only), a problem that was never addressed. The fact Shinnie got booked so often was down to his slow football brain. His one-speed full on passion coupled with his one-speed low on intelligence found him fractionally late to situations in every game he played. He was never a dirty player, just a thick one. Jack's exceptional performance for Malky at RB v. Holland at Pittodrie was a masterclass of football intelligence, executing everything with simplicity and great effectiveness and not having seen him in that position for years, another potential debate that he also - like Shinnie - may have been a much better full back than midfielder even despite the fact he has since gone on to prove at Sevco that he is one of the better/best at SPFL level. I look forward to your case to hear how Shinnie was "well above" Jack.

Zidane is truly a magician, both as a player AND a manager. Incredible records of achievements.

And when I said Shinnie could've been a great left back, at SPFL level only of course. He can't lace the boots of Robertson and Tierney, both of whom provide tremendously creative threats when attacking down the left.