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I am not, not being optimistic. I don't believe that most of the wealth that modernity has created is particularly meaningful. I think we can all be happy, indeed happier, with a lot, lot less. If we don't, then we're simply, selfishly, kicking the can down the road so that you're (and my) children will be in the position you are now wondering why their now deid da didn't recognise the coming disaster. I'm more concerned that my children will wonder why I believed the blatant fantasy of electric cars, less flights and vegan processed food. Edit: I hope it's obvious that I'm referring to myself too when I talk of selfishness and so on

And Billy Corgan had me believing it is a vampire

I’m fifty, with a one year old. I have to be more optimistic than that & theres plenty of reasons to be cheerful. The know how is there, there just has to be the will to do it. The biggest cunts on the planet just now are all old, weirdos or both. It’s not sustainable for them

A year ago today, Oday Dabbagh scored a last minute winner, in extra time, that saw us beat the diet huns 2-1 at Hampden in the semi final. I still like to reading about how Hearts were the supposed better team that day. A fucking great bounce when that one went in.

I'm amazed you haven't suggested St Mirren's Alan Campbell yet!

Was about to post exactly this! Any others? Feel gogic may be a little older than I’d like to see, maybe a 27 yr old gogic….

Wonder what the odds are on us having Mandron playing in red next season.

How times change eh…

it could be worse. You could be contesting a final, when your goalie has to go off injured, after an assault and you don't even have a sub goalie to replace him with.

I do hope you are right. I still think the damage has been done and no turning back now, but I like your optimism.

So what we're saying is, that you have a significantly higher strike rate than our scouting team. I think it's you we should be after.

I enjoyed it but I’ve read a lot of Margaret Atwood’s stuff and enjoy her style. It’s different from a conventional book so if you’re open to that she writes beautifully. Her style is quite economical so can feel quite sparse in language and imagery and she is usually quite non-linear so events get a little garbled. If you’ve read Handmaids Tale, that almost diary format with short ‘events’ is quite similar. The Oryx & Crake series is a brilliant read but then as someone who has read pretty much every post-apocalyptic novel there is, I’m bias.

Not sure it’s fair to say Blair was a Tory. He was certainly a different animal to old school Labour but Thatcher destroyed the notion of old school Labour when she shifted the UK from collectivism to individualism. Blair (and Brown) recognised the need to work closer with big business and a deregulated financial sector to create wealth which felt like traditional Tory playbook but the crucial difference was that they wanted to created an enhanced state intervention model, using the generated wealth via traditional free market economics to support the lower ends of society and lift poverty levels etc. Thatcher could not have given a shit about that, in fact actively dismissed it and encouraged a culture of ‘I’m alright Jack’. The majority of the population in the UK are instinctively conservative minded. Particularly in England and rural Scotland. Political lines are generally drawn on culture and education rather than Labour v Tory. Labour has a massive problem as it’s lost a lot of its traditional vote to BJ’s Tories and now Farage’s reform as the lack of education and economic vulnerability leans towards ‘strongman’ politics to bring change. The Greens are now attacking their urban intellectuals and youth voters so there is little left for them. Coupled with Starmar’s inability to appeal to any particular audience is killing the party.

At last Euros in Germany the transport from the city centre to stadiums was free. We also got discounted travel between cities on trains. ETA - Actually the transport on match day at the Euros was free in the region. For example for first game in Munich I stayed in Augsburg and travelled in from their to Munich for free on match day.

I watched the BBC coverage this afternoon so missed the news that Michael Stewart was banned from Hampden for his co-commentary duties on Premier Sports. Premier decided to sneak him into the car park to broadcast from one of their trucks but he has since been banned from the car park too! https://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/scottish-premiership/latest-premiership-news/banned-scottish-football-pundit-gets-creative-with-car-park-stunt-as-farcical-situation-slammed-6724960 Got to love Scottish Fitba!

sorted.

Have to say our experience with A league players makes me run a mile from going anywhere near anymore of them tbh…

Zdrilic, Fallon, McGarry, Milanovic, Yengi. I'd settle for an average one.

The accusations of antisemitism

Records are blurry on the post-meeting repast, with conflicting opinion on the chipper from which the gaffers took greasy, vinegar-saturated sustenance. Some claim Davy’s in Boxy, others Sweaty Betty’s in The Spital. Only The Great Mystery of 1931 has seen more serious debate among Toonsers and Mealers in the annals (note - just the one ‘n’) of Aberdeen FC’s 123-year history.

Watergate, MPs expenses, Post Office scandal, and now from the courier.... A new spin off civil war between the 'chippy' and 'chippie' factions to begin shortly

We were all Dante Polvara in this moment

Wishing you all the best for the rest of your career son. You will forever be welcome at Pittodrie and fondly remembered for May 24th 2025 Once A Don, Always A Don Stand Free

A year ago today: Oday Dabbagh.