rocket_scientist

Here's a radical idea. Say sorry. Cameron, on behalf of NATO apologises for the crimes against humanity committed in numerous countries that has fuelled IS. His apology should be directed to the whole region, to the displaced, to the citizens, to the governments. He can say that we will not tolerate terrorist acts like Brussels and will promise that we won't commit terrorist acts of our own, the particularly insidious and cowardly drone operations being utterly appalling. Call a truce call-me-Dave. Lead the way. The Europeans you say you love so much are dying at your hand, these dead being as innocent as the Arabs that your operatives call "collateral damage". What a fucking mess.

Any time he plays Shinnie out of LB, he might as well stick an orange post it note on his forehead, alerting others to the fact he's a fucking dickhead stupo incompetent prick. I despaired before kick off at his team formation.

On the Neville situation, I find it totally unacceptable that my daughter sends me some wee video from Valencia tonight and I retort with Gary Neville = penis and she doesn't know what I'm on about. I don't give a fuck about the Saint Joseph Las Fallas festival or fitever the fuck. But I thought I brought her up better than this, to be football-aware. Fucking cow.

Thai Khun in Union Square our current favourite. I'm itching to go back. It's been three weeks and the cravings are growing stronger.

You get what you pay for. It's excellent but not mental expensive. Very reasonable in fact. The wife had sole and loved it. The Crayfish salad was awesome and included watermelon and mango of all things. £11/£12 a dish I think. http://www.chester-hotel.com/dining/number-ix-restaurant

Superb response by Corbyn today to Osbourne's budget. The smarmy Tory thought he had nailed it with his pretence at helping the "northern powerhouse" and introducing a long overdue sugar tax. The leader of the opposition - who still makes too many fuck ups in his oratory, tripping over his own words - absolutely wiped the smile off the face of the little runt cunt. Great work.

Chester Hotel for lunch yesterday. Had never heard of it before. Absolutely superb.

He's human and therefore he will sign for whoever pays him the most.

Something a little bit more "modern". Full of enthusiasm, aesthetics and spiritually uplifting, on a basic, human level. And... again

Sonita Alizadeh. A wonderfully beautiful human being. Exposing the wrongness of Islam. We have priests and ministers and celebs fucking kids in the west. The whole of Islam subjugates women and defiles them. Arab paedo cunts. Ugly to look at, and they know it. Their lack of self esteem bred a whole sick culture.

I'm in denial. I can't believe AFC can win the league come May. Some of it is psychology, not wanting to declare that we can, in case I jinx it, to guard against being disappointed and let down again but most of it is evidence-based. The only facts working in our favour is that Celtic and their manager are deeply unimpressive. I still think those declaring that we will or can win title are overly optimistic dreamers who have blindly disregarded recent history and who have no concept of karma.

Don't say I'm not good to you...

Give the cunt his due though. I entered his shop in bow tie and dinner suit, aye, at half past four! Aye aye, quirky coo mannie says I. You didn't have to bother, he says. Then when I'm paying he says anywhere nice? I'd rather sit in the bath and stab my feet with a breadknife says I. A bit of a conversation killer and perhaps a tad miserable, I immediately reflected so followed it up with something like, aye, not a serious stabbing and he comes back with, oh right, just a gentle jab. The guy's fucking brilliant, as you can imagine from his trading name. Thanks to a poster on here for recommending it.

I bought this card in the Quirky Coo in Dundee this afternoon, one of a batch I got, killing time cos I was going to be too early in Embra and a daughter in France needing fed with regular handwritten nonsense from her dad: - We got Strachan from Dundee. I know he's from some slum part of Edinburgh but I quite liked the card anyway. My favourite from that shop thus far is a cartoon bunny reading Watership Down and he says "Fucking Hell".

Well well. At tonight's Scottish Golf Awards in Edinburgh, my ears pricked up that Strachan was in attendance. I decided that I would go past his table and say loudly/ shout Graeme Shinnie at him. After dinner when he got called up to present a trophy to Russell Knox - who wasn't there but sent an excellent video message in lieu, a wonderful human - he ended up presenting the trophy to his sister who was a co-presenter. I was all eyes to see which direction he was heading to the stage from, so I could go past his table later, although I could have easily deduced this from the multiple table planner charts on the walls of the bar outside, going to S and getting the table number this way. I didn't need to. Dougie Vipond did it bonny. His first words to Strachan when the wee ginger nut job came up was "I've just had a text from Derek McInnes. Two words. Graeme Shinnie". Strachan responded with two words of his own "Kieran Tierney". I actually thought I heard him say "Luke Tierney" but surely he's not so far gone he can't remember his own squad? If there was any doubt of his utter madness, he buried those doubts tonight. He said - of the Inspiration award winner, a soldier who lost his leg in Helmand and who was an amazing guy who told us his artificial one cost 60 grand - that we should borrow that leg for the world cup. Then he said that he's got players not even worth 60 grand. He then tried, and succeeded, in ingratiating himself to the crowd (remember the 95% principle, I wisna buying any of it) by saying how wonderful golf is (and how much he hates it, referring to the infuriatingly frustrating nature of it, particularly if played like a non-expert which he undoubtedly will be) and that if it was a choice between Motherwell v. Patrick Thistle and a golf tournament, he would watch the golf every time. He then quipped that if it was Motherwell v. Patrick Thistle then he would rather watch Jeremy Kyle. As if that doesn't beggar belief from a "football professional", he completed his insanity and reinforced his contrariness for the sake of it by his choice of dress sense. It's a black tie event, as he well knows as he's been to this before. He's in this horrible tweed-like 3 piece suit (that probably cost a lot) and pale blue tie but worst of all, a waistcoat with disgusting wide lapels. Who the fuck does this midget think he is and how can a total fruitpiece like him ever hope to garner respect from ambitious footballers, which the best in the country would be by default. The boy's a total joke.

rocket to you, with a lower case r.

I heard his interview too and McInnes was excellent. Loved him saying best LB in Scotland. Which is why you should keep him there and not move him to midfield ever!

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/terrifyingly-according-to-the-world-health-organisation-definition-the-uk-no-longer-has-a-nhs-a6923126.html

Heard Strachan on the radio this morning, his interview (presumably from yesterday) when he said we've not got any superstars but it's up to the clubs to turn them into superstars. "Can we help them along the way, yes". We've always known he has a screw loose. But he was good value because of his entertainment factor. Now that his whole ship is breaking apart, all screws having popped and the steel structure falling apart, the slight comedy he gave has been replaced by major pathos and serious tragedy. That guy's a fucking maddo.

Well you should argue with that and as the person who put it up, you should know. That wasn't Excel. Minitab possibly but that's not any version of Excel that I know. Disclaimer: Microsoft's Excel is such a wonderfully beautiful and powerful product, I have a theory that none of us can know it's full functionality and capacity. But that graph looked nothing like anything I've seen within it. EDIT: It could have been done on Excel, specifically using it as a drawing tool. The fact that the dots don't line up properly suggests/proves human intervention.

We were at the Marcliffe for dinner tonight. To be met by a piper at the door. Fits the scoop, I asked. The AFC Community Trust had a function on apparently. Seen Simmie come in and after our meal, the wife saw McInnes in reception. But what I also saw was a load of hingers on and dodgy local fuckheads. Nice that someone is fundraising (presumably), even though it's a group I've never heard of. Pity they're feeding and wining a bunch of fucking pricks with the raised funds. Bet when we ruled Europe we weren't entertaining these arseholes.

The NHS is an excellent example. My wife has worked in it for longer than I've known her and we've been together 30 years in 3 months time. Waste has been deliberately engineered, creating an unbelievable amount of non-productive posts (remind anyone of AFC when Milne took charge?) and spending an extraordinary amount of money on quangos and projects and surveys and consultants (remind anyone of Milne's £600,000 feasibility study?) to guarantee financial non-performance and ultimately failure, spending more than they get. Even a lock on an NHS office door costs seven times more than you and I would pay for, let alone the millions that have been siphoned off for IT and data systems. The biggest waste is putting money into the pockets of the pharmas. Treatment for Hepatitis C and the appropriate drugs in Australia costs $100. Here it costs £35,000. There is a distinction between NHS Scotland and England however. The consultants at ARI refuse to attend the "conferences" the drug companies offer which are basically a one-hour promotional meeting in a five or six day free paid holiday in exotic locations all over the world. Not only are the ministers benefiting from pharma "donations", they've been buying the silence of the medical practitioners themselves. Scotland, and particularly NHS Grampian are the last bastion of integrity and upholding the Hippocratic oath. The actions by Jeremy Hunt, an unfortunate and expendable public schoolboy wank to create war with the junior doctors will backfire spectacularly, despite the Prime Minister's lies and twisting data to say that we're dying at weekends because of doctor negligence. The ultimate agenda is privatisation of course, and the ease with which public money can be misappropriated more covertly. Cameron "loves the NHS" like he "loves Britain". So he wants to continue spending £50,000,000 per day funding the EU political system and meanwhile his father-in-law became the biggest beneficiary of wind farm technology in Europe, mostly financed by EU subsidies. And yet we're supposed to believe the news and the papers and the government and don't rock the boat and never speak out?

Assange, and thon Ed Snowden were whistleblowers. In this day and age, whistleblowing is discouraged and yet the very act is designed to expose wrongdoing by those in authority, wrongdoings that actively harms the vast majority whilst maintaining an unjust disparity in favour of the very few. And yet, there are people who advocate that "going against the grain" is a bad thing? Surely the examination of "the grain" precedes the decision of whether to comply with it or not? The subjugated are subjugated because of their fear, stupidity and laziness. They watch more TV than read books, they go to McDonalds and eat more processed foods than prepare their own, the Sun and the Daily Record outsells other "newspapers" and they do whatever their governments tell them, never questioning nor thinking for themselves. And we should all join the subjugated in their subjugation and care nothing for those with the bravery and selflessness to expose injustice? It's gone full circle. Aldous Huxley and George Orwell saw it coming.

I didn't accuse YOU of prejudging. I merely pointed out the relationship between your words and the danger of doing so. I agree that those who are contrary for the sake of contrariness are arseholes. However, I think you miss the point. We should always "go against the grain" if the grain is wrong, if it is immoral, unethical, in humane or just plain stupid, otherwise we end up with a society of obese retards being run by a greedy tiny minority who kill innocent people and children in far away places and invent the premises for doing so, assisted by a compliant presstitute media. And kids getting buggered by priests, ministers and celebs.

Fuck you you fucking knob. Boring cunt of a man.