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Going to the Armidillo tonight to watch my eldest son perform.

You coming to Wishaw.....it could do with sorting out....

A 12 hour nightshift is no harder than a 12 hour dayshift though - in either environment - and Id rather be on my four on four off pattern than work 5x8s.

....they are getting paid more than you and you are upset about it huh?

Aye me. I love it. It's a great contrast to my home life, but it also compliments it beautifully. iPlayer and Kenco are my friends.

I'm looking forward to this afternoon. At 9.30 we are taking my youngest son's football team down to Eastlands to watch Manchester City v WBA. If the bus arrives on time and we are there for 1.15pm we've been invited to go through the players entrance, and through onto the pitch for a wander around before being introduced to one of those old favourites of mine - Mike Summerbee - Man City's club ambassador who was one of the players in Escape To Victory. He's got a signed Man City strip which he is going to present to one of our players who had a bone marrow transplant a couple of years ago. Hopefully it'll be a fantastic day that the kids will remember for the rest of their lives.

You can change it in print properties.

It doesn't work. You get all the way to the download then it tells you you can only get it if you live in one of 48 states in the US. And what's it got to do with Scotland or the UK? Well our music buyers are so busy buying the shite Simon Cowell produces that decent bands with decent original songs don't even bother to try the UK market these days. I should have bought the track when I was in the States where the decent music is.

That sounded good Ayrgirl but when I signed in it said I could only buy from the UK. I tried setting up a new account but my billing address is in the UK which again means I can only buy in the UK. I have a US bank account but that's registered to my UK address too.

Grrr!!! This fucking backward country does it again!!! The first decent tune I've heard this year - played wall to wall in the US for the last three weeks was . I come home planning to order it on Amazon or on iTunes only to discover that once again it's not available and you don't appear to be able to download it legally. I've done the search on the internet for news of when it might be getting released here and I can't find a thing on it. Anyone know where I can purchase it?

So there I was, visiting my Gran in Glasgow's Southern General Hospital - where all the nurses would break the scales if they simply rested their massive bingo wing arms on them. Around the bed we're all having a bit of a laugh and a joke about how nurses training these days appears to be limited to a course on how to stretch their stomachs to the stage where they can cope with the copious amount of Cadbury's Heroes that they eat, when the woman in the next bed sets off her alarm. Through the glass partition we can see three nurses stood - I would say looking like Michelin Men but that's too kind. They all had really bad skin that made them look more like Mr Blobby. As part of the fun I started my stopwatch. Do you know it took so long for the nurses to respond I had forgotten I was timing them. Indeed after what must have been fully 10 minutes my Sister attended to the lady in the next bed and then went out to tell the nurses what the old lady needed. However the story doesn't end there. A few days ago I took my gran in some of her favourite biscuits - Borders Chocolate Gingers. They had gone so I asked my Gran if she enjoyed them and if she had been eating them with her tea. No she said. What actually happened was she asked a nurse to open the packet for her. As the nurse did my Gran said she should take one as a thank you, which the nurse duly did. She then asked if she could give one to each of her colleagues on the ward. My Gran looked and saw four, she said ok.....she never saw the biscuits again. Isn't it a sad day when lazy overweight, overpaid public sector nurses have to resort to stealing chocolate biscuits from their 92 year old patients. I guess this must be how their feed their lard addiction in an era where patients families are refusing to reward their shite standards of service with big tins of Roses.

What's unpopular about that? 1. I agree 2. I agree although would add so should everyone else. 3. Disagree, just to be difficult. 4. I can't think of one either. 5. I agree. Not only that I don't understand them. Credits, Intermediates - what a load of bollocks. Sit the fucking test and either pass or fail. Simple.

Well at least you are on topic - certainly more than I could ever be in a topic such as this.

Clearly I don't have any unpopular opinions as everyone seems to think the opposite view is the unpopular one. I don't think anyone could argue with any of the following which are already on record as being my heartfelt opinion. For example I think Margaret Thatcher is the UK's best post war leader bar none, like everyone else does. I think the NHS is a monumental waste of money, it's grossly inefficient and ineffective and that a private sector healthcare system would be much better value for money I think our education system should be radically reformed, and taken out of taxpayer funded status. The public sector should only offer scholarships to those who have shown the right work ethic, enterprise, endeavour and ability and who will dedicate themselves to a lifetime of public service. I think all people from Greenock are deformed inbreds, mentally retarded and socially inept I think all people from Paisley are unwashed drug abusers with a paranoia level that goes off the scale. - edited to add a note that Ralston is NOT in Paisley.

Same here. I tried it to see what all the fuss was about. I made two posts, realised I was talking to myself, and gave up leaving the account dormant. I went back three months later only to find I now had over 100 followers who were reading me not say anything at all. At that point I cancelled my account. It just seems like a ridiculous waste of time. I can't remember who the comedian was who claimed he posted from a train that he was hungry and a load of his followers turned up at a train station on his route to give him pizza. He was obviously a w**k, but it said it all for me about the kid of people that use Twitter.

Simple meals are the best. Last night I mashed some potatoes and mixed in some brie and some spring onions. Served that with pea's and a pork chop done on a hot griddle for a couple minutes on each side. A little dollup of apple sauce and we were done. Tonight it'll be a prawn stir fry made with sweet chilli sauce.

Yeah just seen that on telly. I guess it was only a matter of time. Victoria Beckham gets blamed for everything else.

Ant Music - Adam and the Ants

Shut Up by Madness

The same is true in some of the companies I've worked at, and it's one of the reasons I've come to the conclusion that many graduates are hopelessly ill prepared for the working environment - alongside the fact that they are often very poorly educated by people who failed in industry, taught out of date practices and methods, and unable to use more modern technology because their university didn't have the appropriate funds to equip themselves. Often, when a company takes on a graduate, they need to start re-training the individual - something that is becoming less and less attractive as the years go on - as we see in the current figures that prove that there are now more unemployed graduates out there than ever before. Arab Joes debunking his debate quite seriously too when he claims that university makes him a more open minded, rounded person than someone who went straight into employment. Perhaps he doesn't quite get the irony of his prejudices. I've got to love Max's take on the class system too. Especially the bit about how money doesn't come into it. I'm sure he'll change his opinion the minute Mummy and Daddy stop funding his lifestyle...

Totally agree with you. He even said that he was "too tired" after working to socialise. I hope he gets the odd shag in University cause clearly his sex life will be fucked when he finally has to start working for a living...

Exactly. What Max doesn't realise is that many of his "middle class people" are earning less than the national average wage, topping up their income with child tax credits, and their kids are only going to school because they get EMA. He also conveniently ignores the fact that many of his "middle class people" are maxed out on their credit cards, mortgaged to the hilt and remortgaging yearly to try and stay afloat living the Labour dream. Can't blame Max for his lack of knowledge though - he's a student...

Salty, he's just looking for £100,000 government funding for his research...