RicoS321

Good shout, think you could be right. Twardzik and Vujadinovic both came from Italian clubs. Don't remember any others. They clearly haven't done their research!

St Mirren v Broxburn Athletic surely? Fairytale.

When was the last time we signed a player from Eastern Europe (Cerny disnae count)? I'm not convinced by this like. Kingsford obviously being the main issue for me. On the plus side, we'll be able to get some more of their players to sit on our bench.

It is basic forum ettiquette to provide links ye ken. I'm not saying it's worse than what Salmond is accused of, but it's up there. I don't believe it is a setup, but I could imagine a situation where 10 of the complaints wouldn't have made it anywhere near a court but 1 of the complaints was evidenced enough to bring the others forward. If all else fails, then they'll at least get him on breach of the peace, which I assume is why it's in there (a certain charge, to bring the whole case forward)? I've nae idea how these things work like. Is Moorov the one they tried to get rid of a few years back Rocket? Corroboration of witnesses who didn't witness or some such?

If McInnes hadn't given him that unnecessary 5 minutes the other week, he'd have been celebrating his 500th game at Pittodrie with a hat-trick against St Mirren.

Does that mean we get their place?

Yep, plywood can look really good if showing in places. I'd probably use loose tenon joinery like dominos or even biscuits with ply. Given it's not really subject to movement yer things like wedged tenons aren't really that great. The material is so solid it's difficult to wedge. You can laminate (not veneer) ply in such a fashion that you can make mortice and tenons really quite simply just by leaving a hole in the lamination of 3 pieces (or more) of ply or leaving a piece longer than the rest to form a tenon. Save a bit of dosh by getting cheaper ply for bits you can't see and only get one side hardwood where possible. Good luck. Show us yer pictures when finished.

I can't see Bowie being overturned in his constituency. The rich Tory element will not move to Lib Dems with the danger of the SNP looming. Everyone else will do as they're told or not vote.

Pittodrie is getting re-built as a 22K covered arena, including 10K safe standing capacity, a supporters bar and widened pitch. To be used to house a new Aberdeen city rugby team.

Do you do it on behalf of anyone, or were you just asking for your own info? Not a surprise about deeside, they love a tory.

Don't get me wrong, I'm very much a hobbyist and one that struggles to get much time for that hobby, so I wouldn't be in the same league as your mate. I've probably done just enough over the years to be able to avoid a lot of the basic mistakes, which is probably half the battle. I probably spend as much time watching videos or buying tools than I do in the garage these days. Life getting in the way and all that

Plywood is expensive for decent stuff, but can be very nice if done well. If you're veneering anyway then MDF is cheaper. Both are good if you're using biscuits or dominoes for joining or if you want knock down furniture that you can take apart and put together again. I built a fitted chest of drawers recently with MDF as it needed to fit an exact space and I didn't want to deal with inevitable wood movement had I used actual timber. There are good reasons for using MDF and plywood, but unless you absolutely need to, or finances dictate, or you want the look of plywood layering for example then I'd use hard or softwood. In terms of screwless joinery, then hard or softwoods are yer best bet. I find hardwoods easier to work, but softwoods better and cheaper to practice on. The old classics such as dovetails are still the best for drawers and definitely best to learn to handcut. For table legs and stiles the mortice and tenon or wedged tenon are fantastic and will last 100 years. For more complicated joinery, her Jap and Chinese joints are sublime. Somebody like Dorian bracht on YouTube is worth checking out to visualise the joints themselves. Ishitani furniture also gives a lot of good ideas for entire furniture projects with a good blend of hand and power tool. My advice would be less tools more work (a mistake I made) and hand tooling is often far superior to power tools if you're just doing the odd piece.

Me. Apart from the CNC bit, but I've done CNCable designs (shite ones) on fusion 360 (you'd need another piece of software like v-carve or something to generate the files I think dependent on type of machine etc). Can I ask why CNC? I would only consider that if I was doing a massive run of pieces. If you're just doing a handful of dining chairs or whatever then there are much better ways to go about it. Even if you're looking for precision for a particular design then hand or power tools will do anything a CNC could. If you're looking to get into it as a hobby, I'd still recommend going down the hand and power tool route first. You'd get far more enjoyment and understanding doing it that way. For plywood, a jigsaw, router, hand plane(s), tracksaw, lots of clamps and very good dust collection and mask (if you can stretch to it, then a bandsaw and drill press) will do everything you need. Unless you just always fancied the CNC computing side of things and have no interest in the wood side of course.

Great post DL. Covers it for me. The £11M loss they announced before the league cup semi? Or the £10M they need to keep them afloat until the end of the season? Or the ~£70M losses they've notched on the way up the leagues? They're certainly setting the ground works for making HMRC the fall-guy next time they go tits up. Or at least using a complicit media to pressurise HMRC into not investigating their current business anytime soon. That hun cunt fae the times was on the BBC this morning. When talking about it you could tell there was zero impartiality. He even said "and the club survived by the way" whilst making his point. Which is at best contentious, at worst a complete fabrication. He said it with the absolute fact-stating certainty that only a partisan hun could. This story isn't free from bias and isn't credible.

They can offer a new system, but it must be described in the terms of the existing system. I'm criticising the boundaries of the debate. Even the environmentalists have adopted the terms of the system to discuss their policies. Corbyn's policies are all capitalist offerings, but not neo-liberal or free market and with some socialist trappings such as state run rail system.

But we know all that. Yet there will be very clear manifesto differences this time around and two demonstrably different parties alongside the SNP offering an independence referendum (as much as they possibly can anyway). All under the Brexit sideshow of course. That said, there's nothing remotely interesting about it all. It always amazes me how a system's (democracy) representatives can be so removed, and so unwilling to discuss, the needs of humans (constituents) and how best to provide those in the most efficient and permanent fashion. The whole affair is being allowed to be discussed in the sudo-religion of economics and a capitalist faith based system. That's a very narrow interpretation of democracy.

My argument doesn't fall down anywhere, it is correct. Unless you live in an alternate universe. If capital punishment worked then there would be no need for capital punishment. That's basic logic. Yet you're suggesting that it "100% stops repeat offenders"? Go slowly back through my statement and yours and work out why yours isn't true and mine - by definition - must be true.

If capital punishment worked then there'd be no need for capital punishment.

Much as I enjoyed the tone of your response, I don't believe deterrent's have ever worked nor ever will. Even down to the level of Tyrant's "they weren't smacked enough when they misbehaved" nonsense. Let's beat the paedo out of the paedo? That's about as stupid as curing gay. I'd prefer if the state was not involved in that. If individuals see no other option than to deal with it/them then so be it. So Chilcott did (as far as it could) its job. If the media did its job then we'd be a step closer. For some reason the man is not a pariah. He's still trusted. He's still allowed his opinion. Without apologising. I think most of our problems in this instance would be solved by transparency. That's a system change that would prevent Tony Blairs. Sending Tony Blair to jail will not prevent future Tony Blairs.

You've mistaken my "not being arsed enough to hate" with apathy. I don't need to hate individuals to understand the problems of society. I don't need to individualise them. It's a distraction. Hating Tony Blair? Why? Wanting him to go to prison? Why? To satiate my hate? I don't get it. He's part of a system. He acted as part of that system. I'm more interested in finding out if there is a better system. One day, the truth can come out about his actions and he can live with that. He can persecute himself, he doesn't need me to do it for him. Similarly lauding Greta Thunberg. Stop pedestalling the girl FFS. Take what she says and analyse it and understand it just as you would any other. We're being tricked into deifying this girl so that when she makes a mistake - like all humans - they can rip up everything she's ever advocated and tell us it can't be true or trusted. I appreciate her message, but she could be anybody. We need to stop thinking we need individuals to lead us rather than ideas. Individuals are fallable and can be hated and blamed. Is it self-centred or ignorant? Or time-constrained? Or not knowing where to begin? Or not seeing an alternative to grasp onto? It's difficult to exctricate yourself from a system that is all-consuming. Most of the time it takes money and freedom from work. Hence yer Extinction Rebellion folks being middle class and often retired (neither is a criticism; listen to their message). Again, it concentrates on the individual and hides any clear message of an alternative. Exactly. You need hate to divide and conquer. You need hate of individuals.

Hate takes a lot of fucking effort from the hater. I don't know how folk can be arsed.

Considine is ace. A proper Dandy. He's also good at fitba. I mean, he can actually control and pass a ball and not panic and hoof it out unlike the majority of other defenders we've had in his time here (I'm including Devlin in that, and definitely Reynolds). He'd get into any of the teams below us in the league and he's shown that he's good enough for our first team over a sustained period. Every year he's been here, there have always been far more pressing issues than replacing Considine, and he's been in the top 5 or 6 performers every season since Brown turned up. He started getting better as soon as he learned he needed to be aggressive and play to his strengths and that in turn helped his confidence in the tackle and on the ball after an early career of getting knocked about by much smaller players. He had a couple of great seasons at left back, which allowed Shinnie to fill a massive hole in our midfield. It was becoming obvious by the season before Lowe arrived that we could improve the team by getting Considine back to central defence, but I'd argue that was really only for games against the Huns and Tims, as Considine was more than good enough against the rest. The problems against the scum usually occurred because of a change in tactic (justified or otherwise), where Considine would be added to the left of a back three rather than a fullback, thus increasing the distance between him and the wide player or leaving a huge gap behind. Anyone that's ever played football knows that doing that to a player who's weakness is pace will end in disaster. Games that we challenged the scum or beat them were when Considine played as part of a normal back four unsurprisingly. The problem that we have now is that McKenna is a better player and Leigh is a better left back. Considine is okay as cover for left back, but we're not nearly the team we were a few seasons back where we can comfortably support that from the rest of the pitch so Leigh needs to be there every week barring injury. I think Considine has been better than Devlin this season (and I'd say our most consistent performer this season), but I don't think Considine on his wrong foot is better than Devlin so I don't think he should start there barring injury either. I think we have him on the bench when everyone is fit knowing that we're covered for every position across the back apart from right back.

I was about to question the nonsense idea that you could possibly jinx a match, but you spectacularly managed to jinx 3 out of 4 results there. Top jinxing.

According to "dons together" Cormack's vision seems to be some sort of second tier European type thing. I think we'll see significant changes in the world of fitba over the next 5-10 years to create some sort of European class system for fitba. I think he's expecting (based on nothing, just my reading having never spoken to him or heard him speak in person) a european league that we'd play more games in, with a reduced Scottish league. It's a guess like, based on reading between the lines on the club's strategy document. It would avoid having to address the situation of the scum, plus do exactly the same to the teams below us that the scum have done to us by creating an ever-expanding wealth gap.

But this was always going to happen. We had one change things, and we didn't. The hun now have 2 AFCs to pick from, and it was completely predictable. We're witnessing 1995 - 2014 over again. We're living through the worst ever period in Scottish football, and AFC have sat on and watched and supported it. The hun are now two seasons in to a massive spending spree. This isn't just one season in the making, they've spent £10M+ for a few years now, with the tims more than matching. We're basically playing in an alternative league once again. Everyone is playing exactly the same way against the scum, and most are taking a shoeing. They've both handed pretty much every team a tanking with only the occasional disruption, which always happens in a 38 game season. As for AFC specifically, we've depleted the quality of our squad for 3 seasons now and we simply cannot afford to go into a game against either team with a single player first team missing in order to be in with a chance because we're way behind in terms of ability (before getting into motivation, tactics etc). I actually don't care that much, it is what it is. I don't really give a fuck about our games v the Tims, and the Huns games are heading that way too. I don't want us propping up their bought and paid for helicopter Sunday wankfest, giving it legitmacy that it doesn't deserve by turning out in spades for the opportunity to one day beat them. Fuck them.