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14 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:
It been moved to Dens?
Makes sense with the Dundee Union fleg brigade and Lochee on the doorstep.
Saw this and it brought to mind the rolling delights of Lochee Utd's pitch before the improvements. The cliffs around it is a bonus, puts me in mind of how the armies of orcs in LOTR met their doom. Would it be an advantage to play down the slope in the first half? I think this is based on Alpine extreme football which actually a thing, obviously the pic isn't real, the nets look stupid. Still better than the pitch at Livingston.
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35 minutes ago, FairWeatherFan said:
The Scottish pyramid is now 10 years old.
The English pyramid had plenty of teething problems in the first 10 years and beyond. It didn't just magically come together the way it is now.
Since the English pyramid came about its had good number of casualties, clubs going bust, promoted clubs unable to go up due ground issues, clubs being kicked down a league, clubs going into administration and getting belted with huge points deductions. Bit of a graveyard, some big non league names gone.
Scottish clubs so far since the pyramid started up here have been rather well behaved in comparison.
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Clyde 2-2 East Fife
Dumbarton 2-1 Elgin City
Forfar Athletic 2-1 Stranraer
Stenhousemuir 1-1 Bonnyrigg Rose
Spartans 1-2 Peterhead
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Airdrie 2-0 Dundee Utd
Arbroath 1-1 Queen's Park
Dunfermline Ath 0-1 Inverness CT
Morton 1-3 Raith Rovers
Partick Thistle 3-2 Ayr Utd
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Surely Arbroath fans aren't stupid enough to fall for that?
If Arbroath beat Queen's Park certainly not one of them would on the match thread or on this one ever tell Big Dunc to GIRFUY.
Surely not.
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38 minutes ago, GordonS said:
I knew someone would pretend they thought that wasn't a joke, not to be taken literally even though it's obvious to absolutely everyone and yep, there it is.
For future reference, when someone actually wants you to die they tend not to communicate it by means of a cartoon meme.
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On 20/04/2024 at 19:21, SandyCromarty said:
Statement pretentious when it states that Ferguson’s remarks are "damaging to the Scottish game as a whole".
What fuckin nonsense and ironic in that while complaining over Ferguson’s remarks they in turn attempt to discredit him to Scottish football, petty and childish.
No doubt Ferguson was wrong in what he said but the Arbroath board should have acted above it and not copied it with a tit for tat.
Big Dunc likes fishing.
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I hope it gets called off with a waterlogged pitch.
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40 minutes ago, CarrbridgeSaintee said:
Good clip that, thanks for posting.
Decent turnout there for Inverness Campsie.
The haters really need to calm down a bit.
Quite a fair article here in the P&J - Apprentice Boys of Derry Inverness march goes smoothly (pressandjournal.co.uk)
What turnout? Just looks like some folks having their shopping interupted by some old guys pretending to be soldiers and making a lot of noise. There were about 10 - 15 civilians walking in step with them. Everyone else had to move out of the way and stop and others walking just ignored it, getting on with their Saturdays. But.....If that is what you think is a good turn out.
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13 hours ago, ExiledLichtie said:
Shame to see Lochee end their season with such a whimper. 148 goals, 28 wins, only 3 defeats, and they might still somehow only finish third. A real shame to see the one licensed team losing out like that.
Maybe licenced clubs should get 4 points for a win then.
It really isn't a shame, they didn't deserve it.
Tayport are licenced, maybe a couple more during the summer, dunno??
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7 hours ago, Beckford said:
Based on that photo, the fact that such few mutants turned out, maybe the locals didn't even know it had happened.
Outdated dinosaurs who hopefully will be extinct in the near future and we can be have of a proper grown up country
Its been all over the local papers, social media and news over the last week here, most people would have known about it, you couldn't miss it up here. I wouldn't read much into photo either for crowds, since both the pedestrianised Eastgate / High Street are behind the photographer. The bridge walkway above the march is an access way to the back of the Eastgate Center from the Crown district. That route is mainly used by vehicles and is the longer, less direct way up into Crown if you walk it.
It might be the last one in given the growing pressure to stop them. Its not a good look for the Inverness authorities especially in these socially inclusive times.
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Cricket march tomorrow around Inverness town center. Apprentice Boys of Derry doing the circuit once again this time in the face of much objection. First time any objection has been raised, took long enough, Inverness is not a cricket city, we don't welcome the sport here.
Gravedancers will be out in force wearing their Rangers tops making them feel superior to everyone who isn't 'wan aff us'. Unless you want to stand in front of the mark to get them throwing punches and spitting at you, probably best to avoid the place this weekend. I've said this all ready I have lived in Inverness all my life and everytime I see photos of the march I have still to recognise anyone, absolutely anyone in that march. Where do they come from?
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8 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said:
"grunge" as a genre doesn't exist, it was created by a media unable to categorise the music as anything else.
Yeah to be pedantic about it, it would be said that rock is a genre and grunge is a style.
It does exist because you thought it.
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2 hours ago, Bert Raccoon said:
Some incredible musical snobbery going on in a thread about the drainage system in Dubai, Bravo P&B, Bravo
There's a complete lack of drainage snobbery on here.
You would think that on such a thread some people could not go 5 minutes without talking about drainage.
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1 hour ago, Jives Miguel said:
I just said black metal and grindcore were European? Not saying they are European inventions.
Black Sabbath were of course the inspiration for doom metal and all the doom metal offshoots, but you cant go back 20 years and apply a label to them that didn't exist at the time, in my opinion. Saint Vitus, Trouble (Americans) and Candlemass (Swedish) are the progenitor doom metal bands.
2nd half of My War by Black Flag is the first sludge metal music recorded. Its an American genre, mainly centred around Louisiana and the Southern states. Melvins, Acid Bath, Eyehategod and Crowbar being "The Big Four" of that particular genre. Some grunge bands have lashings of sludge metal to their sound, mainly Nirvana and Alice in Chains (the two best grunge bands, no coincidence).
Stoner Metal is another Black Sabbath inspired doom metal offshoot with an emphasis on a bit of a more upbeat, psychedelic, blues based sound, its not a revival of anything from the 60s imo. Orange Goblin are a complete non-entity with regards to this genre, and didn't even release anything until the late 90s anyway. Electric Wizard as you mention are the only non-American band of relevance here. Electric Wizard, Kyuss, Sleep, Boris (Japan), Weedeater, High on Fire are the big dogs here. I can't even think of any other European stoner metal bands apart from Cathedral, Lowrider and Acrimony, who are all dogshit anyway. I'm just going with the wikipedia definition of "extreme metal", which to them is pretty much everything post NWOBHM. Anyway, there's plenty of stoner metal with harsh vocals (.ie Bongzilla and Weedeater), so its extreme metal in my book even if some of it like Kyuss is actually on the boundary of rock music.
Can understand why old-school 80s metalheads might hate it considering the corrupting influence of groove metal, leading into nu metal, but there was still some fantastic stuff being put out in the non-thrash related genres in the 90s. Doom, stoner and sludge are my favourite metal genres, and When The Kite String Pops by Acid Bath is probably my favourite album ever, so for me the 90s is also my favourite genre for metal.
Just checked my rating catalogue to be sure, and Sleep, Kyuss, Dystopia, Acid Bath, Electric Wizard, Dystopia, Primus all putting out tremendous stuff in the 90s. W decade.
I only really use labels for references when communicating with other people, I don't really like them as many bands go beyond like you mentioned Boris one of my favourite bands who can switch easily between really heavy doom and then noise rock. Its meaningless to me personally. High on Fire are another of my bands you mention. But yes these bands were leaders in their field but up to around late 1996 there was a complete lack of new ground breaking artists. Usually you'd find the music magazine's writers finding artists some not signed, but to me this period was very poor. Much of the metal genre had gone stale, my fovourites around the time were usually industral in style. Pitchshifter and Godflesh were two that were important. I actually missed DM band At the Gates who I only found about once I started buying Terrorizer magazine around 1999, they became one of my all time favourite artists. Faith No More were a mainstay of that era, I still listen to Mike Patton and his soundscapes and vocal contortions. I still like Devin Townsend as well. There is so many others, I should go through my collection. btw when I talk about so few that means around 30 or 40 artists on the go not 5 or 6, when it should have been in the hundreds. Love the internet, but I miss the magazines. Terrorizor and Rock Sound are sadly missed.
Alice in Chains were good for a while around 1990 but I'm more punk in taste than metal so I lost interest in that as it became more polished, commercial and losing its personality and energy. To me by 1993 only Nirvana were left, even Mudhoney didn't sound that great anymore. I was never into Screaming Trees, and Soundgarden were bunch of w*****s. I always found Dinosaur Jr and Sonic Youth more interesting and the new wave of punk and alternative bands in the USA were far more interesting plus they were around my age as well, not older. The UK music scene became more interesting as well with established genres getting blended and mixed. I really like left field electronic music and that took a huge leap forward around the early mid 90's as well. Good times.
I liked Compulsion a British band that had a post grunge feel, there weren't that many like that in the UK, the market is completely different here than over in the USA. The music especially in the underground/alternative scenes here moves fast. There was a band called Todd in the 2000's who come across as very influenced by the early heavier sound of Seattle. There is a band called Luminous Bodies around over the last few years who seemed to have captured that late 80's Sub Pop sound and feel.
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Just now, Jives Miguel said:
Pretty much yes. Black metal and grindcore were European, other than that death metal was American, trash offshoots like groove and crossover thrash were American, the doom metal offshoots of sludge metal and stoner metal were American.
I'll give you Death metal because Scream Bloody Gore and Florida, but not Black metal or grindcore. There was a lot proto-if-that'-the-right-word-bands of early metal genres around during the mid and late 80's like for example Justin Broadrick after leaving the original line up of Napalm Death formed Fall of Because and then Godflesh who were very pioneering for their time, there's industral. Another one that springs to mind. It can be claimed Black Sabbath were the first doom metal band and there were similar bands around during the 70's. Cathedral formed in the late 80's followed this path. I can probably give you sludge because of the fantastic Melvins, I can't think of anyone further back. Stoner metal not really that extreme nor began in the 90's had already been around since the late 60's but had a revival through bands like Electric Wizard and Orange Goblin, Sleep were another notable one. Both EW and OG are British. Google says Blue Cheer formed in 1966 were the 1st stoner metal band, I'm familiar with them, good band, if you haven't listened to them give Vincebus Eruptum a listen, check out their version of 'Summertime Blues'. Noted they were a favourite of the Hell's Angels.
The 90's especially the mid nineties I believe were very poor for metal, indeed there were some great bands around, but they had been around for a while, there wasn't much in the way of numbers especially new artists and it didn't change much until around the end of 1996. The late 90's was amazing, its when metal completely reinvented itself. So many new artists and so many interpretations and visionarys within the genres. Many of these artists I still buy music of, they never get old and the influence continues with new next generation artists every year. There is so many crossovers now as well.
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2 hours ago, Jives Miguel said:
The late 80s and 90s was a horrendous time period for rock music in Britain. It still hasn't recovered, probably never will at this point. Always made me laugh that people were dumfounded that yer Oasis etc never caught on the USA. The reason Britpop never caught on in America was because Britpop was, and remains, utter toilet. They were pumping out golden era hip-hop, grunge, post hardcore, starting all the extreme metal genres and all we could offer was a bunch of thick neds in parkas and their 3 chords on a guitar.
Are you sure about that?
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Real grunge had a punk element to it, born out of the Washington and Oregon schools. Amazing bands , the genre peaked at around 1989, Sub Pop label had a great roster of bands to pick through like Tad and Mudhoney. Nirvana absolutely had their roots in punk rather than rock music and KC never held back talking about his influences which included many British bands. It was unfortunate that more rock orientated bands from the west coast got lumped in with that form of music. Grunge was always sludgy and or bass heavy punk completely unlike Screaming Trees and Pearl Jam.
There's an album called 'No Seattle : Forgotten Sounds of the North West Era 1986-97' which covers mainly unknown bands from that genre plus some others whom were of a similar mind based in the small towns in Washington State outside the main focus point of Seattle. This is the shit -
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12 minutes ago, hk blues said:
Before this takes on a life of it's own bud, my one and only point was that I wouldn't criticise anyone for not preparing for something that has never happened before on the basis of adding 'yet' to that statement.
That's all I've got.
Yeah that's fine. I have the habit of over explaining because I'm used to people trying to read into my and other peoples comments things that are not there, so my idea of covering all bases tends to look like more than one point. I've go to stop doing that and I should just tell anyone who tries to second guess me to just suck it up and deal with it.
btw I tried to link to the OP, looks like they have been emptied.
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It feels like the Dubai and their idoicy is going of topic so I will focus on the more interesting one, music.
The so called grunge genre was going out of fashion before Britpop appeared. It was pretty much done by 1993. Many of the bands were gone by then so was many of the labels that supported them. A new wave of punk grew out of the west coast universities and collages as grunge faded, much of the impact of this is still felt in music today and in culture even in the UK. In my time listening to music over 50 years I have found that the British are very good inventors of different types of music but the Americans copy and take it to a new level and own it. No issues with this as if you know the influences then you know were they are coming from. What influenced the Butthole Surfers though back in the early 80's, that is a good question?
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7 minutes ago, hk blues said:
Two points surely - one preparing for an event that has never happened before (hurricanes) and one that has (storms). Asking them to prepare for an event that has never happened before would be like asking the UK to do similar.
A hurricane or cyclone as they are called there is a storm. A storm creates a storm surge which is a rise in sea level due to the low air pressure. As the storm moves into land so does the storm surge and this surge along with a normal tide, unlucky if the tide is in can send seawater flooding on the land. Deserts are extreme environments and its not uncommon for rain events to be extreme. We see this all around the world where there are deserts, the coast of the UAE should not be an exception just because some people claim 'it has never happened'. Not having any storm defences including storm drains is just f***ing stupid and the authorities should take responsibility for this.
Not having a go at you, I'm just asking how do you know that a storm the size of a hurricane has never hit there, historical, before anything was built, before Dubai? I'm looking at historical weather maps and I have say Dubai has been very lucky so far. It does occasionaly happen but usually if a cyclone or tropical storm reaches that far and that far north usually the Arabian peninsula protects the UEA but all it take is one to track further north of Oman and reach the gulf and there you go and we have seen so much unusual weather in recent years. Unusual in the sense that it has not been recorded before.
Similar I've heard the storms never reach this side of the island (Puerto Rico)claim a few years ago, reasurance that the sister factory to the one I work in was perfectly safe. Absolute BS as Hurricane Maria proved in 2017. It would be no surprise that geologists and climatologist are aware of the risk but also aware of the rarety of such an event. It never ever says that will never happen because the odds are that it will happen eventually. Just like County beating Rangers.
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Scottish Cup final, Celtic v Rangers 2012, Hampden Park. 25th May
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Does this mean the FA Cup makes way to avoid a clash?