rocket_scientist

There is no sticking up to be had. There are words. They get interpreted. Some are so bad at expressing themselves, they get interpreted in opposite ways. Some are so bad at reading- due to critical thinking or attention-to-detail defects often but mostly a lack of empathy, not being able to see past their own stuck maps of reference - that the words get interpreted wrongly. And then there are sick fucks like me who use ISD's all the time. Idiot Sifting Devices always catch idiots.

I wonder what Reynolds has done to merit his place? He was rightly POTY 2 seasons ago but wasn't nearly as convincing last year. Just fit from a long injury, walks straight back into the team and has been even less effective than last year. I would stick with Quinn and the guys who got us to the top of the league, even Considine alongside Taylor for now and let Reynolds prove himself in training cos he ain't doing it on the pitch. Wouldn't argue with starting Flood, just because it's this game and even though I think he's a squad player at best these days. We can't afford to fly at them and need some breakers in the middle of the park to find the rhythm of the game. Given the unknown origin of unrest in the camp since Tynecastle, I fear the worst however.

Source?

For the Andrews of this world, blinded by the lies, unable to think and see for themselves, incapable of even posting anything coherent let alone interesting, sitting like an imbecile on the sidelines trying to make sense of it all, the truth is already out there. Putin's highly effective strikes on ISIS and his support for democracy, the democratically-elected Syrian government is causing defections on an ever-growing scale. The inevitable consequence of this will be to indict Obama, Cameron and all the NATO puppets for war crimes, including the use of chemical weapons against innocent citizens in an attempt to undermine a properly elected government. Assuming that "democracy" and "justice" exists in the west, the truth can not lead to anything other than the incarceration of Blair, Bush and the current U.S. president and UKPM. The real problem is identifying how far down the line it goes in legal culpability. That, and the fact that the executive and the judiciary have already been corrupted thus not having any prospect of enforcement.

Agree. We should never undervalue or overvalue any position or function on the field. Although I contradict this by my insistence on the importance of the goalkeeper. In an 11 man team sport, every single one including the subs and the squad is crucial. We don't have a deep enough squad to win the league but we should be strengthening other positions in order to get truly competitive, not weakening a team that has a rare brilliant fit with Shinnie at LB. If everyone was as good in their designated roles as Shinnie, we could be serious.

The killer was taking the piss out of the deceased's mum. The deceased had him in a headlock. The killer stabbed him. Source: School pupil just now. What a tragic waste.

Oh I completely disagree. The fact he's got charged is the only newsworthy development. If not unsurprising. It's such a shocking thing that it was quite numbing actually, having it so close to home. My kids are too old now to have known kids at the school who might have been able to say but what like was the killer, what like was the victim, was Nell upset, what was the history between them, was that honestly the best picture they could find, was this gingerly prejudice motivated, did he really have a lot of friends, did the diners get a refund, what the fuck happened? It's unimaginable what the parents of the deceased are going through, assuming they loved him but imagine being the parents of the killer? They are fucked. So many lives ruined by one senseless decision.

How could they not? A boy was stabbed. He died. Somebody did it. There were witnesses. It's like all the news channels last night "now over to {reporter} for the latest". There was no latest. There was no further news. What we want to know is why. A good journalist would have done his homework, identified who was the weakest personality who witnessed it, gatecrashed the counselling session she was having, blootered the "family liaison officer", kidnapped the kid, whipped it down to a McDonalds or whatever shite it prefers, buy it a donut and get some goss.

Good observations guys. Not that I give a fuck about Man U but I like to read comments that make me stop and think. Moyes team was "laboured" and had "little pace" was noted. Not that I gave a big enough fuck to study his team but very interesting. An idiot - and I should know because I almost did it too - might think that these two aspects of performance, particularly the lack of pace is totally down to the players and that we can't possibly blame the manager for this. Putting aside the obvious - that the manager recruits and selects the players - the manager is totally responsible for the overall performance. Moyes knew deep down that he had maximised his own capabilities at Everton. He didn't have the belief that he was one of the world's great managers, worthy of the gig at one of the world's big institutional clubs. It was like he got catapulted from division 3 of the manager league to the top of the premier division. He probably only got the job because of Ferguson, who's own weaknesses include blindness in loyalty with certain people (ruthlessly not with others being one of his greatest strengths) and a touch of stubborn narcissism in that he knows best in everything (his absolute conviction and self belief again being the yin to the yang, another key quality that made him the very best). Moyes' team performances, like every other team in the history of the game, couldn't do anything but reflect aspects of the managers personality. If they were laboured and not injected with pace, not having the free abandon, enthusiasm and confidence which comes with belief in the manager, their tactics, their team mates and themselves, of course it's going to look slow and deliberate. Moyes couldn't believe his luck and he didn't believe in himself. That's why he was more concerned with not losing and not making mistakes. He never believed he was the best and never gave his team the belief that they were. And yet some unobservant ignorants say that we are not qualified because we don't work in football, and bury their heads in the sand rather than discuss Derek McInnes? Moyes was at least closer to the premier division of managerial talent. McInnes will never get close to the third division. Calderwood would have been relegated from the Isthmian conference type league (or whatever it was called) and would eventually have found his level with amateurs, where his managerial "skills" would have brought him zero pay.

Reports breaking of a pupil at Cults having been stabbed to death. Wonder what the victim had done to incur that much wrath? Two lives sacrificed at the same time, one lost and the other broken.

No I am not. I'm pointing out that nobody really knows the reason for this slump and that it is useful to remember the distinction between facts and opinions in situations like these.

And the speculations continue and will continue to continue until the truth will out... Fact: We were playing fantastic football and went top of the league. Opinion: The win against Hearts was as good a performance as I've seen for many years. Fact: We've been playing shite since the debacle at Easter Road. Well, during and since actually. Opinion: Nobody seems to really knows why. Fact: It's the manager's job to fix it. Opinion: I don't know if even he knows why it's been so appalling.... Fact: ...which would make him incompetent at his job.

He scored in the 41st minute. When was kick off?

An even more relevant and pertinent line on page 46: - "She looks up at him and sees the vacuum where curiosity ought to lodge. The total absence of human recognition - the glazed separateness". Isn't karma, morphic resonance and the coincidences of will and observations wonderful?

On the train to Edinburgh just now, I've just read a fantastic line that reminds me of our fundamental difference. Page 35 of The Bluest Eye, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature by the way, which I didn't know before I got the book. "... , so a hated piece of furniture produces a fretful malaise that asserts itself throughout the house and limits the delight of things not related to it".

Whether or not his points were valid or not, manc, his tone and the construction of his words gravely offend my instinct. Most can't appreciate the simple truth that the words we use reveal aspects of personality. Pomposity kills me and coupled with self righteousness, disgusts my soul. At least he doesn't force signs of the zodiac down our throats as great pearls of wisdom like his father, there being some rich irony in him knowing best because he studied the "truths" to be found in the celestial. Their blindness, indifference and disinterest in humanity and how the mind works is highly disturbing.

Big call. Anyone else speculating on the reasons for repeatedly abject displays is a fishwife or an armchair psychologist whereas you know it all, despite you not seeing how pathetic it's been. It's cowardly to throw generalist insults at fellow fans which may or may not have included posters on this very forum without having the balls to confront specifics. It's arrogant to pretend that you know best and then say nothing. It's foolish to fail to consider all possibilities, including worst case. It's sloppy thinking to suggest that fans speculations are being presented as fact but perhaps it serves your holier-than-thou underlying narcissistic delusion of superiority.

Silva and Coelho's demonisation of Costa in the midst of a constitutional stalemate in Portugal is even more proof to me that Farage was right all along. The EU must die.

I knew it had been kicking about for a while. Didn't know the hat were discussing it and didn't know that the player had made a statement or otherwise dealt with it. I'm neither certain nor fairly certain on any of it because I don't know. All I do know is that's it's been a remarkable and hitherto inexplicable collapse, starting immediately after we beat Celtic and at Easter Road. The truth will out one day.

There are rumours flying around town that McInnes has been shagging the wife of a player, which I won't disclose the identity of because I personally don't know anything other than the rumour and most rumours have malicious origins and are fabricated. Even the taxi driver that got me home in the wee hours of Sunday was speaking about it. If, and that's a big if, there was any substance in it then it might explain a total collapse since we beat Celtic. Or it could be the wos media deliberately trying to derail the competition. Even if it is a pack of lies, a good manager would have dealt with it effectively and even turned it to our advantage. After all, how difficult is it to say to the whole dressing room - "by the way, have you seen that shite on xxxx that I'm meant to be shagging your wife, xxx? Like I would be so lucky! Guys, it's total nonsense, my wife would kill me and it's obvious that the wos media are shit scared of us. How low can they get to try and disrupt our campaign? Let's fucking show them"... or equivalent.

You mentioned Ward, the best thing to have happened to AFC for well over a decade although many will argue that the day Parkhead turned red to see the most abject classless game of football ranks better. That reminded me of Clangers and his woeful misjudgement to hand the new scum all three points yesterday. When a fucking idiot gets given the gig for so long, an essentially crucial role for any team aspiring to be good, supported by successive managers and ex-players who themselves played in properly motivated AFC teams, you know that they're just picking up their wages and not giving a fuck. And the culture they "work" in allows them to. Stewrat Milne's AFC = a fucking embarrassment for 20 years.

A sad indictment of a lack of professionalism if true. This is an interesting dichotomy. Even if as a professional footballer you don't respect your manager, what sort of loser mentality doesn't put in 100% anyway? It will all come out in the wash but McInnes is finished. Nobody can survive the loss of the dressing room. It's a pity they're such a weak dressing room in our situation though. They should have confronted the manager collectively and kept the dirty washing private instead of fucking the fans. And fucking themselves up the arse. Most of the journeymen pros we have will never know what it feels like to win the league. These shambolic sulky performances for well over a month now shows us why. Fucking disgrace. Find themselves in a perfect position after a freak start, their only chance ever in their whole careers for most of them and then they shoot themselves in the feet. Shite attitudes. AFC = a fucking embarrassment.

Maybe the honeymoon is over. Maybe the man hasn't the self discipline to keep on putting one foot in front of the other. Maybe he's unlucky. Maybe he got lucky but he's not actually any good. Maybe there are some truths in the rumours. The only thing that is known is that his team are performing like shit. I doubt that anyone genuinely knows why.

Saw it in a documentary a couple of nights ago. One metre cubes, one of them made with compressed tea. Looking forward to it, and the room with bike wheel chandeliers.

You must have been one of the first then. Only been going since 19th September! Booked tables at Bob Bon Ricard and La Famiglia for two of the nights. You know either?