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That seems to have an incredible cast too. I find it curious how actors can go in and out of fashion. Aaron Ekhart, Josh Hartnett and the aforementioned Swank don't seem to be in many movies now. Black Dahlia also makes me realise how Scarlett Johansson hasn't aged in about 20 years. Utterly brutal murder though. I fired it into youtube thinking it was just a film and was met with some fairly horrid images straight up. Yeesh.

Jesus. It's worse than I remembered. It was weirdly popular at the time though, so it paid off.

Not having that. The Aberdeen one is an absolute classic. If I could work my phone properly I'd show you our "sunburnt penguin" away shirt from, I think, 2009. Ooft.

Agree, but sadly I'm one of them now and I'm getting quite depressed reading this. The Champions League is absolutely killing football as a sport, creating huge divisions in wealth in all leagues (especially our own). I do think the Europa was great this year. It was like the European cup of old, with a much more egalitarian feel. The Euros were marvellous in 2004 (Greece winning was tremendous) and 2008. Expanding it has resulted in a bloated tournament.....but we wouldn't have qualified otherwise so I support it. It also results in greater funding for more Football Associations which can only be good for competition going forward. World Cups are still great, but I do miss the stars who would come out of a WC that were hitherto unknown outside their home nation. Agree with MT about the top flight here. The 80's was its absolute peak with various winners and down to the wire competition. Sadly the wealth gap has rendered much of it fairly meaningless, with 3rd spot being the highest reward for all but two clubs.

McConalogue played for us when we were riding high in mid table of the first division. Decent striker tbf. When he was out clubbing he'd introduce himself to lassies telling them he played for Dundee Utd .

Scintillating stuff lads.

the core Utterly enjoyable nonsense about a motley crew of scientists and astronauts who travel to the core of the earth to re-start it after it stops. The cast is superb (Aaron Eckhart, Stanley Tucci, Delroy Lindo, the boy from Das Boot and the wonderful Hilary Swank) which disguises (almost) the thin plot. Worth watching for the cast alone. And I pure fancy Hilary Swank, so there is that. 7/10.

Looking at the "new strips" thread in the premier forum has me a wee bit jealous/keen. Are we bringing out a new home strip this season or will it be next?

That is absolutely outstanding.

And I think that would be a very good point tbh. This man sent some I'll advised texts to someone who then made them public. We don't know the context (my pals and I send texts that if viewed out of context would look horrendous) and also it was a private conversation. There's a lot of pearl clutching about this. Should Malky never work again? He has apologised for this but does he need to every time he takes a new job?

That is true about her lack of hero's journey. What I was alluding too (poorly obviously) is that Star Wars is a hero's journey and that actually all fantasy fiction broadly follows the same path. There were myriad problems with the new movies, only one of which was the complete lack of meaningful journey for her to go on (and the weird adoption of the Skywalker name at the end). His astral projection (it's probably the best way to describe it) at the end just seemed a bit tacked on. His characterisation I felt was lazy and actually quite spiteful.

Luke's story in TLJ should have been easy to do. A jaded and bitter old man on his uppers is redeemed by a young person reaching out to him for wisdom and training. It's a story that is an essential part of the hero's journey narrative. Johnson's desire to "subvert expectations" was contrarian rather than artistic and he didn't have the chops to pull it off. Stories still need resolution and arcs need to make sense. It was really awful storytelling and an utterly needless assassination of a beloved character. I loved the Mandalorian. It felt a little bit Tarantino-esque in the way that it was an obvious love letter to westerns and other quest style genres. I loved the character and the journey he went on with the "child" (50 year old bairn). I have to say that the ending with Skywalker left me a bit cold. I felt the action was super slow. We'd learned previously that the dark droids are powerful and quick. They weren't quick at all in the final scene, it was like they were all played by Boris Karloff. I also felt the inclusion of Skywalker at this moment was cheap fan service. It's Mando's movie and he should have been the one who delivered the resolution of the story. It seemed that this scene was put in to make some sort of point and Mando was suddenly a side character in his own movie. It was a pretty clunky deus ex machina imo.

Welcome fellow diddies.

Ftfy. But aye, I'm not a fan of this either.

Absolutely chuffed to bits at the three ex jags in the squad. Also pretty delighted Gilmour is in there as well as Forest. We're winning this tournament. I can feel it.

Socrates was famously delighted when his punishment was merely drinking an all-natural hemlock smoothie. Superfoods mate.

Mmmmm, digitalis and most mushrooms.

Aye they should have just given him the Puskas award there and then. He rounded a couple of players and then melted it over the keeper. Tremendous effort.

Genuinely enjoying the BBC coverage. Rebecca and Glenn have great chemistry and the unapologetic geekiness of both Campbell and the psephology profs is a delight. Unintended consequence of the panel zoom calls is seeing some of the shocking decoration decisions of some politicians. Yon Tory fella with the red face had some lovely curtains and beautiful lighting. The Glancy woman (labour) and Bardell (SNP) both live in utter middens.

That's good, because it's a word that's often misused. If you mean the statistical mean (the sum divided by the number of measurements) then that's a fairly useless measure of central tendency to be using here. You'd be better controlling for race and looking at the mean number of abusive tweets black players get. The thing about using the statistical mean is that it's sensitive to extreme measurements. It's why we use the median for, say, income (wrongly described as the average) as those earning billions would skew that stat. So taking the average across all footballers (famous, black, outspoken, controversial to non-descript jobbers) is going to wildly misrepresent the reality of this issue you're trying to discuss. But to your point. I don't reckon that players need to man-up. Gaslighting folk isn't the solution. Social media (like this forum) makes unaccountable viciousness pretty easy. That's the issue here. Easy as pie to throw out a disgusting message that you wouldn't dare to say to their faces, or in front of your pals. The perpetrators need to man-up, not those on the receiving end.

Genuinely quite excited for gtf day. Back to where we belong, as a middling first division team who have an occasional dalliance with the bottom half of the premier Division before rejoining the fold. Can't wait. Genuinely.

Congratulations lads. I hope youse come up with us this season. How do your pies compare to Arbroath's Michelin star winning steak and black pudding number?

Lying down to the mo is the moral choice here. Make it so lads.

Gary Miller at Falkirk is always good for a 30yd screamer and random bampottery. (If it's the same Gary Miller who used to be with us). Sorry to hear you might be getting rid of Doolan ().

Congrats on staying up again this season a'body. Arguably the best ground (certainly the most coastal and windier than the top of Ben Nevis) and absolutely the best pie. St Johnstone fans have been getting wide about their steak and chorizo effort lately though, so your pieman might have to raise it a bit. Can't wait for the Bunnet Derbies. Enjoy your summer.