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Nightmarish behaviour. Even when I'm getting a train or bus from Aberdeen I'm in the city centre a good 45 mins before departure. Planes it's at least a couple of hours. Time to relax, read and stare into space. Perfect. My own pttgomn is simply when people call initialisms acronyms. It's truly petty.

Ftfy amigo. @Miguel Sanchez how many points would I get if I put red23 in the Deadpool?

I'm treating this as largely a free hit. Looking forward to seeing the boy Damsgaard again. Smashing prospect. Their whole team give me the fear actually. Braithwaite is superb too. Back to us. I hope we treat this like the England game and get right into them

+1 for the OFF slagging. I used to love him, in fact I remember being in absolute stitches at an article he wrote after a general election. He has since focussed more on his sanctimonious arseholery. His articles can be described as "obviously wrong thing is obviously wrong. Here's my piece showing in detail why the people on twitter/youtube comments who don't think that the obviously wrong thing is wrong are deserving of public shaming". It's self-aggrandising, finger-wagging shite. The podcast stasrted off brilliantly with McQueer and Torrance on it. Superb chat. I actually like the fact that he has women on regularly too. It quickly descended into some highly moralistic circle-wanking. Shame, as it had potential to be a bit different instead of pretty divisive. Obviously sexism is bad, but it would be nice (and ironically pro-feminist) to just have women on to chat about football. For decent football banter I quite enjoy the fitbatweets cartoons.

When I was there last week I had similar thoughts, that it seemed to be a small place. However I googled the population and it has almost half a million residents. I get that this is still smaller than Glasgow, but it is still quite sizeable. Getting the bus down and back really gave me a feel for it being bigger than it first appeared. My bluenose pal who lives there took some delight in telling me that in Queen Square there's a statue of King Billy and a pub bearing his name that has an orange sign (as a tribute to the Dutch, no doubt ).

Out Of My League Supposed charming Italian romcom about a lassie with a supposedly terminal illness who is hell-bent on finding love before she croaks. It's the familiar trope of "ugly dates beautiful" while she obviously isn't ugly, although the script tells us that she is, creating a disconnect. What she is however is manipulative and narcissistic. The way that she gets the guy (a beautiful and ultimately good hearted guy who is unhappy in his supposedly perfect life. The only interesting character in the whole thing) is dreadful. Basically stalks him, stealing the phone of a man who fancies her (a "loser" who is painted with broad strokes and about whom we find out nothing) and using it to look at photos of her quarry, before dropping the phone in the toilet and flushing it away. So aye, it's hard to support her after that. The man she stalks confronts her and agrees to go out with her. There is chemistry between the two characters, but it's platonic. I could go on but ultimately my problem with this movie was the main character and the fact that she's ill supposedly excuses all her shitty behaviour. We even get the guy apologising to her after the first date, despite her reaction to it (being invited to a family dinner) being wildly over the top and egocentric. The cinematography and music try and get you to think you're watching Amelie, but imagine Amelie as a selfish, entitled nasty arsehole who performs no acts of friendship or kindness for others. Aye, I got irked at this film.

I'm a big Merchant City fan, so Maggie May's for a burger is cracking. El Sabor if you want something fancier (tapas). If you're a herbivore, the 78 on kelvinhaugh street (west end) is one of my favourite places to eat. I'm not vegan, but the food there is great.

Aye this is a tremendous museum. The Clifton suspension bridge is really something to behold too. The gorge the bridge straddles is home to, I think, 7 pairs of peregrine falcons too. There's some cool sights to see around Bristol too, if you have time. Cheddar Gorge is lovely and Wells has a spectacular cathedral. Bath is only 14miles away and is an absolutely stunning city. Enjoy your holiday amigo

Delighted for you lads. I think tickets should be released for season ticket holders but there should be some for general sale so that daytrippers like myself can go.

Aye that explains why I've frequently missed the boat. Ive pegged them as an autumn thing. I'll have a forage when I get back up the road.

Whereabouts are you? I think the season begins a bit later the more north you go. Just trying to gauge it.

Check out your local mycology society. They tend to be very experienced and knowledgeable. The one in Aberdeen has academics in the field (pun unintended) and I would imagine the same woukd be true of any in the central belt. Going out with folk itk is a great anxiety free intro to mushies.

This is some really shite trolling. Repetitive and pretty bland. No effort in either username or avatar. Awful. Can we have Pepp back please?

Cheers to @John MacLean for the recollection of 1986 and all that. Attended my first game aged 4 in October 1987, but I didn't know a y of that (my da and uncle obviously erased that from memory). For me it was selling Liam Lindsay for near enough f**k all. A decision that still rankles tbh. It was tinpot, small time nonsense. He'd been arguably our most important player that season, was the only CB to make the Premier team of the season and scored about 8 goals too. Best defender we'd had since Paterson and we sold him for absolute buttons. He was still under contract as well. Ragin.

Aye you could be right (or maybe they got tore into the famous Ibrox coffee supply ). Either way, I more than appreciate the sentiment. I used to love it when the likes of Galatasaray fans would do it, with car horns and fireworks for the entire night. Marvellous stuff.

Given that it disturbs their sleep and therefore affects how hard they can train and play the next day I fully support this level of shithousery.

Fuckin hell, you make me want to pay a license fee now, that sounds class. Except for the quiz shows. Things annoying me right now are the sheer amount of utter shite quiz shows. Gardening, nature and cooking shows are great. Countryfile is utterly marvellous telly.

Aye that sounds annoying, especially as you've invested yourself in the journey of the characters. To the bit in bold, very few TV shows are written completely (I think True Detective was one, and it's why series one is one of the best things I've ever seen on TV) and almost all are written series to series. I guess it's just part of the gamble of watching a TV show.

Jags to win the moral victory in a swashbuckling 2-2 draw. Me to eat so many steak and black pudding pies that I have to change my user name to Belly Army.

They're fuckin beautiful. It does look like Mrs M has taken a pic of your corpse...... Just realised she's been posting as you the entire time........

"Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes, Silvery white winters that melt into springs......" Put it to a tune that can be played on bagpipes and we have a winner.

And trying to bring a ball under control doesn't require so much mental energy that it overrides his unconscious capacity for remaining upright. Our player made a meal of it. Awa with this obtuse pedantry.

I don't think the pens were that blatant. There's a hand on Tiffoney but he goes down far too easily. I'd be livid if that was given the other way. The one where the keeper looks to trip him, it very much looks like he gets the ball on first viewing (and that's all that matters). I don't mind a sense of injustice at blatant pelanties, but these weren't blatant imo.

I reckon it's tough now to come up with a national anthem that isn't hackneyed birthday caird pish (see "Ireland's call") so I dare say we're stuck with FoS for the foreseeable. Just a wee bit of pedantry Ric. I think you mean "chord changes" when you said "key changes". But you are right. The chord changes in both anthems are hugely impactful. Both anthems have melodies that soar, giving a sense of exaltation and elevation. The Welsh anthem is from that great tradition of choral singing and it shows. The melody, while quite simple, leaps and invites variety in the accompaniment. It also ends on a high note, which is a huge plus for me. I think "Scotland Will Flourish" by the Corries might have had potential once, and melodically it's either "Scotland the Brave" or "Scots Wha Hae" for me, but I shudder to think what a modernly written anthem would sound like.

I actually like him and quite enjoy his dramatic tones. He conveys passion without being unprofessional (unlike screeching numpty Peter Martin) or Crocker-esque. Granted I only really listen to him commentate on Scotland games, but a highlight for me was how utterly raging he was when commentating (for the radio) on us getting humped by Russia. It was controlled and, aye, dramatic, but utterly believable.