rocket_scientist

The thread title is not geographically specific and does not preclude recommendations anywhere. For example, if any of you find yourselves in Rotterdam, I suggest Brasserie Kaat Mossel. In St Annes, Zen is an excellent choice. Unfortunately I can't recommend anywhere in Delhi as I've not been there.

Met a guy last night who said "West Ham" when I asked what team he supports. He's got a ST there and goes about five times p.a. He used to go to Pittodrie all the time but hasn't been for over a decade. Like him, born and bred in Aberdeen there are very many "missing thousands" as I call them, a collective that I myself have just joined. You can call us plastic all you like but it doesn't change the fact that our money won't be going to Milne's AFC. Instead of insulting us, it might be productive to understand why the club has been alienating its customers over the last 20 years.

Are the Aryan race and people with blond hair to be marginalised now, like the heterosexual white man has been? Is that what "moving with the times" means?

That's the end of hatchet face now. The horrible cunt said she would stand aside if they supported her deal, which was never going to happen for a very simple reason - it's a shit deal - and indeed has just failed again but she can't stay on now. She couldn't negotiate jack shit and even in her final address to the house where she should have been in persuading mode and trying to sell her position, she reverted to type, turned on her detractors and once again left everyone wondering the reasons why her husband ever married her. Some observers make the correlation between his status and wealth before and after his union with hatchet face and conclude that his reasons for marriage were less about love.

On topic, I still have no really-excellent restaurants to recommend in Aberdeen. There are two great well-established Italians in Alexandra Parade, Glasgow that I came across recently, the first of the two being a good pick-up tonic after the Celtic final and at least getting our bodies feeling decent for the drive home, where our minds were sick.

You just hate ALL Aberdonians, period, but I agree that the biggest bell-end proportion in the NE are O & G. They are not to be confused with the Dutch football hooligans though, being a totally different socio-economic group with completely different agendas and therefore a completely different type of "bell-endness". The ugliness of the O & G pricks is their sense of superiority, totally falsely earned of course but we can understand that shit earning bigger incomes than their limited abilities could ever have dreamed of are going to think they're Erchie. The ugliness of people seeking violence for the sake of it - which included the ASC of course - are young testosterone-fuelled idiots who grow out of it.

I saw that Sutcliffe film and it was very good. The pigs were horrific, as were the media when they brought out the chequebooks, blindly unaware that justice could well have been compromised. The biggest suggestion for me coming out of the botched investigation was that the head pig, now dead head pig, took the letters and the tapes personally. His military background and low intellect brought out his combativeness but the fat porker bastard forgot that the discipline he once needed had long since gone, his belly being a permanent reminder of his greed and overindulgence.

May's utter ineptitude was highlighted twice yesterday in tragically comic ways; Sturgeon said May was the first in history to fall on her sword and missed. Yanis Farouvakis likened the "deal" offered by May as one only the losing country in a war would accept.

Canna mind. It might have been a draw but it (the performance) felt like a win despite the meaninglessness of the fixture. Edit: oops, we got beat! Still, it was a very good performance.

I don't know that much about Malky really and he wouldn't have even been in the frame for me but for two reasons. Working within the SFA (in whatever the fuck he's been doing) at least means the personality is known and I suspect he's a stable, diligent type. The bigger reason for me was how well organised we were when he was caretaker and we beat Holland at Pittodrie. Plus he had the balls to try something different. Playing Ryan Jack at RB was inspired, something beyond my imagination and it worked superbly. That's been the only time in many times of watching Jack that I ever considered him capable of being an excellent footballer, instead of the mostly competent, sometimes good and rarely very good as he was.

McLeish was finished before he started. I don't know if it's the bevvy or the degenerative mental condition which may or may not have been brought about by years of heiders (probably both) but he's fucked. Malky Mackay the only candidate for me.

It's FIFA's jurisdiction and it was in Montenegro but yes, you're 100% correct. It's amazing to me that there are still humans who think it's "funny" or ok to make monkey noises etc.

Although I've missed the aftermath, it doesn't surprise me if they're sticking the boot in. There's always been a resentment towards Aberdeen and the examples I gave recently were Boyd, McCoist and particularly Tam Cowan. There was nothing to mitigate however. It was a surreally shit performance on Thursday, by the whole team and if you remember that home defeat v. Rangers when the speculation was that McInnes was going there, the abjectness of the performance was on that scale. It's weird how the world works. I have my own theory that McLeish has lost it, it being something he barely had in the first place and that the first game of the campaign will be a foreteller of the doomed to come. At least San Marino will be a guaranteed 3 points today but the cracks have been shown and they are too deep to paper over. This is all SFA karma building up over many decades.

After Life is exactly the same formula and why I've never liked his "art".

No not seen it. Never liked Gervais for the obvious reasons but I do acknowledge his tremendous talent. As I've not seen anything he's done for over a decade, I guess he could be worth a new look. He surely still can't be peddling the same pathos individual joke, although it's a model others have used successfully throughout their careers, appreciated only by simple morons of course

What's yer hing (not thing) was brilliant, an acknowledgement of the secret sicknesses all around. Falconhoof wasn't always my fav but the Kill Jester one had me falling over in laughter. The way he married Scottish nihilism, a total lack of respect for the rules and authority with a sense of entitlement was incredibly funny and clever.

That's your opinion and you're entitled to it. I don't agree that he's ever a "miss". More than half his stuff doesn't make me laugh but nor should it. Just like his piece in the homemade show about what is comedy, he's not actually a "comedian", certainly not in any genre that's ever been seen before. Some of his stuff makes me howl with laughter but his social observation stuff is fucking awesome, the cancer awareness bands and the double dildo old couple being radical and unique ways at looking at stuff, fashion and followers in the former, the need to communicate in the latter. He's a hugely intelligent and original genius who's walked the walk and lived his life. The hopelessness of the party talk guy and of Deedee from Yoker has never been done before, anywhere on the planet. She's turned the weans against us is another phenomenal and idiosyncratically Scottish look at the underside of our country, as indeed the plasterer was.

Now now. Develop some tolerance. Just because it's way over your head doesn't mean that we can't enjoy it. The BBC aren't there to serve you you you. I never liked Only Fools and Horses or Allo Allo or Dad's Army or The Office or Partridge or 95+% of sitcoms but I understand that many of you lap up that shit. We are all different. The secret is to identify and understand precisely why we don't like some things and like others.

Ach you should've said. I could've saved you some life. Limmy isn't understood nor appreciated by the vast majority of you. He only appeals to minorities like us. I went to the Fringe to see him last year. His one two buckle my shoe in the homemade show is probably my fav scream out loud belly laff I've ever had on TV. You just keep away fae Limmy. You wouldn't get it.

For me the most refreshing thing about him is his ability to see the simplest option before most of us have even thought about it. For all his exciting ability to run at and past people with his supreme speed, his vision to make a simple quick pass is as good as I've ever seen. He may become more selfish as his reputation grows but I hope not. He's very special.

They're really not. I only watched the first half tonight but they were in total control. 18 year old Jadon Sancho was tremendous and from the report, Hudson Odoi was excellent when he came on and made the fifth. Southgate invested in 2 x 18 year olds. Very few managers have the vision to do this.

Ramble On was from Led Zep II. That first track you put up was from Led Zep I, released in 1969 if I recall right. I recommend you go through them chronologically. Physical Graffiti was the first album I bought on the day it came out. I was already hooked by then. Very difficult to describe a fav album as I love them all equally. Even though Led Zep IV (Zofo) had the "smash hit" Stairway to Heaven (which was too omnipresent), there are some awesome tracks on that album too.

At school in Aberdeen in the mid 70's, there was a Led Zeppelin v. Deep Purple division. I was the head of the Led Zep faction. Still the greatest band of all time for me. Explore their whole catalogue young man. It's stunning. Might take a few listens to catch the vibe for some of their albums but for me, there's been nothing close in terms of a whole library's worth of work.

That's one interpretation Jute and whilst there is zero doubt that the whole team created as good as nothing, there is no doubt that Shinnie and McKenna were guilty of amaterish, schoolboy errors. Most worryingly, for anyone remaining who gives a shit, was how lacking in energy Scotland were. McLeish couldn't inspire a whatever in a whatever, colour and realism being banned these days. The Celtic "quality" was remarkably shit tonight

Now ye're talking. Airport was ace