rocket_scientist

Mr Global Moderator. I assume the title means you have some sort of power about the place. There's nothing wrong with personal attacks and insults. In context, they are necessary in fact. The better advice you could give would be after evaluating the situation. Where someone lacks the courage or the debating intelligence to confront specific points but rather, throws out generalist, unprovoked ad hominem attacks - such as he did there and such as the other did resulting in this thread - it says a lot about them. Let them be. It's good sport as well as highly revealing, both of the attacker and the attacked. I'm impressed with his deduction of my total cuntishness but less impressed with his purporting to speak on behalf of everyone like he does, an aspect born from resentment and self-loathing.

The cat from Fife moaned like fuck and caused strife. The cat from Glesga was a wido bastard who thought he was gallus and funny but in reality was a fucking prick.

The cat from Spain flew an aeroplane. The cat from Brazil caught a very bad chill. The cat from France liked to sing and dance.

Your "personally" means fuck all because you "personally" are so divorced from creative it's not true. In fact, it's impossible to conceive anyone less creative. Until you think outside your thimble, let alone your box, you can't understand other boxes. If, and you never will, get outside your own box, you might see other boxes but you'll never appreciate the limitation of boxes. The wise and the robustly functioning imaginations don't live in boxes. The cat from Norway got stuck in the doorway. The cat from Greece called the police. The cat from Japan had a very big fan.

Bought a Left Field CD back in the day. Probably still kicking about. Liked it a lot but got bored of it after a while.

I think there's good reason why that "gem" (flint, maybe?) was lost. It should stay lost. Boy trying to sound like The View before The View. Utter horse.

Caravan Palace next month with the two oldest scientettes. This time last year we saw Lady Gaga (9.7/10) and Glasvegas (a disappointing 5 or 6/10, probably 5.37 come to think of it).

I don't think the dressing room has gone. I would like to think Jack is speaking the truth. But something has gone wrong and someone has, or some persons have, fucked up somewhere. Or we're just not very good. Given the magic at Tynecastle and the fact we beat Celtic in that run - although I didn't see that game - I would say that our squad IS good enough not to serve up fucking pish for many weeks on end, as they have been doing. As we've said all along, we don't know why it went pear-shaped. The fact that it has done is indisputable. Like you bb, I'm watching half arsed when it was passion-fuelled before. The win at Motherwell was immense, going behind and then fighting like fuck all day, the whole game. Seen none of that since the Easter Road debacle. SOMETHING HAS CHANGED. I've been watching for almost 50 years. This slump is inexplicable and therefore it's no surprise cunts are speculating and coming up with the "ridiculous" in exploring all possibilities. The one thing it isn't is bad luck and stats. These players are performing differently. Maybe it's as simple as they don't have the requisite belief and expectation that they're good enough and shat it, being of fragile confidence, being a team of "losers", having never won anything their whole lives but I don't think it is that. Fuck knows.

Well it's good job that individuals are unique with different tastes etc. Otherwise how boring would it be? Living in a world of sobriety would kill creativity for a start. Some of the best art has come out of altered states.

We're going to win tomorrow and it will be mainly because of the shiteness of the opposition. We're going to play well and put in a good shift because we believe and expect that we will beat them. A winner relishes being an underdog and is not scared of the success they bring upon themselves. Any cunt can batter the weak. It takes strength of character to overachieve and compete with the strong. It's so predictable that I might not even go. But I will and I will wonder why they fought so well tomorrow where they haven't been doing since mid September.

Stats like possession are irrelevant in football, just an indicator of the pattern of play. The only thing that matters is goals, scoring more than the opposition do specifically. When a team goes from a performance like v. Hearts to complete a 24/24 to then fall in a hole, there will be reasons for it. It was the manner of the 3-0 v. Hearts that was so fantastic, one of the best performances I've seen by an AFC team this century, if not the best. How can a team with that much desire, passion, skill and speed serve up abject shite like they have since? It's a problem I tell thee and the answers are not to be found in stats and apologetic hard luck sentiments. Life is ruthless. Winning is about being ruthless. Losers can't even spell roothless let alone understand the need for it.

It's not that strange a comment. Unless the subject matter is beyond your ken. Adam once said "don't drink, don't smoke, what do you do?" He turned out weird. Probably always was. But it was a memorable line. "Never trust a man who doesn't drink" is a line from a Scotsman I know. His rationale is that the teetotaller doesn't trust himself. Personally I think it's an attempt at justifying his own predilection for alcohol. My own experience is that people who have never known intoxicants are boring bastards. I can understand choosing not to imbibe or partake after abuse. Can't understand never trying.

Well that's good. It rules out one of the possibilities. With 24/24 points v. 1/18, that's a slump that has gone from 100% for 8 games to 5.6% for the last 6. Must be other reasons for it then, if it's not personnel disharmony and disunity. Still wouldn't mind knowing what the reasons are for this slump. Or more properly, I would like to know that the manager knows. Good that Jack spoke publicly though. Appreciated.

Jon Snow doesn't wear a poppy, a rare if not the only TV person who doesn't.

Welcome. Unlike you, I'm NOT enjoying the season so far. I've hated the last six weeks in particular. Hopefully your arrival coincides with the rot-halting and that Saturday brings 3 points.

If we can't beat the bottom team at home, having beaten them away the first game of the season, serious questions need to be asked. My serious question to the manager, in maximum decibels and complete with hair drier and rocket spittle peppering his beardy face would be "what the fuck is going on you fucking prick?" We might form a solid friendship after that.

I've never bought the government lines about allocating new revenue streams to specific causes. The Exchequer takes in so much, spends it all, borrows zillions, spends that too and pretends that austerity is required for the sake of our great great grandchildren. Like these noble politicians who have siphoned off billions of public funds into their private pockets care about what happens to any other cunt when they're alive let alone when they're gone.

The scale is another huge difference. Millions died in the great wars. Hundreds and a few thousand in the ungreat conflicts. It's like Cameron by lauding the war dead makes no distinction and therefore seeks to validate the unjust and illegal wars by including the relatively tiny number of recent war dead with the gargantuan numbers of private citizens conscripted to die fighting Nazi Germany. I'm no war historian but surely those UK citizens who died in the Far East were only there to support "the special relationship" after the Japs hit the septics at Pearl Harbour? A special relationship that we've been paying for ever since, not just in cold hard billions of cash but with our integrity and our souls.

There's a number of issues here. Isn't there always? WWI and II included many citizens, conscripts to the cause. The "wars" since have been trained squaddies, citizens who chose to take the state pay for that role. The survivors were scarred for life, the suffering they endured all over the world - notable examples being the Burma Railway and the Jap PoW camps - including watching their own dying right next to them, often in the most brutal manners. Remembering the conscripts is valid and noble. Remembering the war dead from Iraq and Afghanastan equally so. They were "fighting" in our name after all. But there are fundamental differences between then and now. Not just the composition of the armed forces and therefore the war dead but the justness of the fight. The Falklands may have been the last British cause, however justified that may have been, a nothing island off South America but the conflicts since where UK people have died are all actions in support of the U.S. global hegemony project, one that is doomed to fail because of its core unjustness. What fucks me off is the rhetoric when Cameron the Cunt bangs on about them being noble and brave etc., the same shite insincere sentiments when he talks of the hard working families etc.

Tough one. Watched a thing by John Cooper Clark last night about The Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey, a hopeless addict. JCC was a smackhead once upon a time of course. I know they're not talking about heroin and diamorphine but cannabis wrecks lives too. In the 70's and 80's, all the rig pigs would be 2 weeks on and 2 weeks on... the bevvy and the joints. Amsterdam is great to visit and has a laid back population. Our people are fucking animals when we get our hands of any kind of intoxicant and the strains of grass they sell these days just tastes shit and chemically. I always had an ambition to be an opium imbiber one day. I would have to be tired of life first and there's no sign of that happening. I'm looking forward to being a grandparent in the years ahead, probably next decade or maybe at the end of this, depending so it would have to be a terminal illness that would tempt me towards the opiates.

I grew out of Bond films when I was 13. Never been to the cinema to see one since. Haven't seen any of the last however many going back decades. Of course it was crap. How can it not be? Fantasy incredible bullshit for retard people. Waltz is an amazing actor and having been undiscovered his whole life until Quentin put him on the map, rightly wheeled out the wheelbarrow to furnish his pension to do this shit. QT does that a lot, discover great talents that have been kicking around a while or re-launch a career or two, the space cadet scientologist Travolta getting a nice payday with Pulp Fiction.

I agree that there was a lot of shite leading to him being in position to deliver a free cross but it was an excellent delivery. The back marker could have positioned himself better and been quicker to get in the air to challenge so I would concede to Willie Miller's comments, not that I heard them. He is uniquely qualified being the best AFC player I ever saw. It was just a stunning goal and one that didn't hit me on first impression as being anything we could have done.

If there's "no doubt we should have done better for their first", what exactly could we have done? It was a fantastic goal. A millimetre-perfect brilliant cross and a wonderful header. No chance for Ward. No chance for our defence. It was one of those beautiful goals you just have to admire. Not every goal is somebody's fault. Sometimes it's unpreventably excellent attacking.

Rarely do we hear a good manager ever single out and criticise a player like McInnes did Taylor there. Think that's the end of Ash's 100% start record this season.

I see McLean as a more attacking option just behind the front line, someone who can feed off any cut backs from Hayes and McGinn as he runs into the box.