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Fuck! I thought that post was going to be a like-fest.

Now you're a bereaver?

Tell you what was ace-ic at least for me yesterday..... Completly by accident, while searching for the RAF squadron my Dad served in during the war, I found a picture of him & some mates from 1944, when he was 23, never had any pics of him from this time ...... I'm SO chuffed ... (I might make up some sort of memorial picture and mount his medals as a keepsake)

Have you been exposed to any kind of seafood that you're not used to? Are you well hydrated?

I prefer your definition of dog fostering, Dubya.

yup. I hope we get an Eddie from Frazier.

If only Rangers had collected and kept all of the coins their supporters threw at Mark Walters. They may have never needed to enter administration.

That looks wonderful. I love the look of the Gibson Jr stuff. It makes me pine for something like this, though it's a Melody Maker rather than a Jr. Still, it's SHWING as fuck.

We'll never know.

For sure. Hit me up. I'll show you all the low spots.

Arthur's Bar, Thomas Street, Dublin 8. Yards from the Guinness storehouse. Best pint of Guinness evurrrrrrrrrrr. And it is different in Ireland. And he wouldn't lie to you John. I find Guinness in Ireland much thinner and more watery than in the UK, but with much more flavour. It has a sort of coffeeish aftertaste, like a burnt flavour. Nice. The whole of Dublin 8, where the brewery is, has this awesome brewing smell over it 24/7. It smells like Shreddies. Everything on Thomas Street is Guinness related. There's even a Guinness hospital, and a Guinness fire brigade.

I'm afraid you're going to have to put some gin in that if you want to drink it in here.

Mexico Fallz look like the kids that hang out on the benches at the train station

End of March!!?? I hope you told them where to stick their laptop and got your money back?

Islet's album is lovely. (Oh man, that Kirsten be trippin', that album is so two months ago.)

If you're going to spend £98 on an album then you might as well do it properly and get the £142 version.

Hold up. That means they could end up with a strikeforce of Kevin Phillips and Robbie Fowler. Teams in 1999 would kill for that.

It's a travesty they knocked down the price for you. They probably should have thrown their weight around, hiked up the price and kicked you out of the shop. Oxfam pretty much rescued it for you. A priceless, irreplacable family garment. They got ripped off. This should be in Pet Hates really. I hate it when Charities get ripped off

My girldfriend told me Davy Jones from The monkees had died. I didn't believe her, but then I saw her face.

Oh well, half the job's done then.

Huntelaar deserves a crack at a good EPL side. Like Spurs when they don't get to keep Adebayor. He's absolutely devastating inside the box he's a total Van Nistelrooy type. Having a great season this year and he's only not got another chance at a big club after he 'failed' at Real. 8 goals in 20 games is hardly a massive failure in one season, injury played a part. 30 goals in 50 games for Holland as well not all against diddy teams.

I've got this fucking awesome green and yellow hand-knitted scarf, made of big chunky wool, so warm, I love it and wear it every day. 2 weeks ago I was out in the pub and as I was leaving at 3am I realised I didn't have it. I asked the bouncers if I could go back in and look for it, two different bouncers went into where I was sitting and couldn't find it. I was sad. This Monday I went into that bar, and all the other bars I was in that night asking they had found it, no luck, nowhere had it, I had resigned myself to the fact that it was gone. Yesterday while wandering through the city centre I decided to have a nosie round Oxfam, just on a whim. In the mens clothes section was my scarf. £1.75 later, it's back round my neck. STORY. BRO. COOL.

Monkee's gone to heaven

What do Neutrinos and I have in common? We're both constantly penetrating your Mum.

Here's the story of my World Cup. Preparation: I took a bit of a risk when selecting my squad for the tourney. I'd used a tried and tested 4-4-2 diamond throughout qualifying, which served me very well, I only lost one match, and smashed Poland in the playoff. Only problem was, Scotland do not have an abundance of natural DM and AMC players, and as such I'd been forced to call up average players to play in those positions (Mark Kerr ffs!), while good MC players like Darren Fletcher and Kevin Thomson weren't getting a game. So despite the boys having never played flat 4-4-2 under me, I decided to go with that for the tournament, the concern being that they'd take a few games to get used to the new system. As you only get 23 players in the World Cup as well, there was no scope for contingency, so I just went with it. This did mean that I couldn't call up my captain, Gary Caldwell, so I handed the armband to Darren Fletcher. Starting XI for World Cup 2014 (keep in mind I'm playing FM2010). GK - Craig Gordon DR - Alan Hutton DC - Alex Pearce DC - Chrstophe Berra DL - Brian Easton MR - Scott Brown MC - Darren Fletcher MC - Graham Dorrans ML - James McFadden ST - John Fleck ST - Steven Fletcher First Round Game 1 - Scotland v Saudi Arabia With Brazil having already put three points on the board earlier in the day, I wanted a victory here to keep in touch with them. The media were expecting a close-faught affair that could go either way with a draw the most likely result, but come on, it's Saudi Arabia. I was hoping for a win. After a very cagey first half in which both teams carved out several chances we went in at 0-0 at half time. I was close to pressing the panic button and changing back to the 4-4-2 diamond at half time with Dorrans at DMC and Brown and AMC but I decided to stick it out until 60 minutes. Finally on 54 minutes, Fleck picked up the ball on the half way line, played it wide to S Fletcher and ran straight throught the defence. Fletcher played him in with a lovely through ball and wham. Top corner from the edge of the box and we're ahead. Take that world! Kris Boyd came off the bench to tap home a through ball from Dorrans in 76 minutes and that's the first 3 points on the board. Full time Scotland 2 - 0 Saudia Arabia Game 2 - Scotland v New Zealand I knew 3 points in this would send me through to the second round without having to worry about getting anything against Brazil so I was determined to win this one. Set the stall out to attack from the outset and let them do their thing. Also drop McFadden to the bench and put 19 year old Stewart Holt on the wing. He's only 19 but he's scored 19 goals for Aberdeen from the wing this season. I think he's ready. What a start we make. Fleck and S Fletcher kick off. Fleck runs through the defence, takes a shot which the keeper parries and S Fletcher taps in the rebound. 14 seconds in and I'm winning. I mean we. We're winning. Fleck scores a screamer of a banana shot from the edge of the box to make it 2-0 on 18 minutes. Holt repays my faith with a goal on the 40th minute, slotting home a rebounded S Fletcher shot. And S Fletcher completes the rout on 80 minutes when Brown plays him in. Full time Scotland 4 - 0 New Zealand Game 3 - Scotland v Brazil I was already through by this point so the pressure was off, but I still fancied a cheeky result. The Brazilian media were noising me up before the game, caliming they would rack up a cricket score. In truth, it was a very tight match, I went defensive as all fuck hoping to nick a 1-0, we played well but in the end we were beaten by the better team. Full time Scotland 0 - 1 Brazil Second Round Scotland v France We all know France can't play at big tournaments so I wasn't that concerned about facing them. I still set out to defend, and this was a very tight match also, especially in the second half when they were peppering shots at me from all angles. In the 59th minute I got a throw in in there half, which was no danger at all and for some reason the garlic munching defenders just stood and watched as Darren Fletcher picked it up, danced into their box straight through the middle of a hige gap in their defence and coolly slotted it past the keeper. In your face France! Full time Scotland 1 - 0 France Quarter Final Scotland v England Again I set out to defend, but roused the squad before the match with a patriotic team talk while dressed as William Wallace. They came roaring out of the traps, S Fletcher put me ahead after only 3 minutes when Brown played him in. Fleck and S Fletcher linked up for a second in 20 minutes, Fletch ran it down the wing, cut inside and cut it back for Fleck to tap in from 6 yards. Then in first half injury time, Fleck was at the byline about to cut the ball back when Micah Richards clattered him, the fucking thug. Penalty. Fleck, after counting all his arms and legs were still there, recovered sufficiently to score the pen. Second half was backs to the wall stuff. Agbonglahor scored a flukey goal in the 70th minute after Craig Gordon fucked up a backpass, but we held on for a famous victory and send proud Pearce's army homeward tae think again. Full time Scotland 3 - 1 England Semi Final Scotland v Slovakia Slovakia? In the WC semi final? This should be a piece of piss I thought. Or not. Despite utterly dominating the first half, and hitting the woodwork three times it just wouldn't go in. I wasn't panicked though at half time, as we were playing them off the park, so I told them to just keep plugging away, the goal would come. A good idea in theory, but then fucking Graham Dorrans went and got himself sent off in the 46th minute, the tosser and I was left to play an entire half with 10 men. I took off S Fletcher and put James McCarthur in his place and played with one up front, and moved my ML and MR into attacking roles to support him. I got utterly battered. Craig Gordon kept me in this match and I thought I was going to live to regret not putting one of those chances away in the first half. 90 minutes came and went with no goals. As we got into extra time I was just sitting back, soaking it up, holding out for penalties, but Slovakia got greedy and decided to try and win it and went all attacking on my ass. BAD MOVE SLOVAKIA. I had a sucker punch for them. In a beautiful display of counter attacking football, it went from Pearce in defence, to Fletcher in mid, to McArthur in mid, to McFadden at AML in about 4 seconds. McFadden, fresh from the bench battered it home to take me into the promised land in 112 minutes. Full time Scotland 1 - 0 Slovakia (aet) Final Scotland v Netherlands I was shitting myself before this one. Expected a hiding. Stuck steadfastly with the defensive tactics that had been in place since the Brazil match, and made changes to the starting XI for only the second time. McArthur in at MC for the suspended Dorrans. After a ding-dong start, we take the lead in 18 minutes, another defence-splitting pass from Scott Brown serving it up on a plate for John Fleck to slide it home. In the 42nd minute, from out of nowhere McArthur played in S Fletcher and a hopeful long shot somehow snuck in at the near post to put us up 2-0 at halftime. Normally I would go with "Well done guys, you're playing well" at HT, but this time I went with "DON'T LET YOUR FUCKING PERFORMANCE DROP!" It worked too. S Fletcher was fouled by two of the cunts at once in the penalty area in the 53rd minute, and Fleck stuck the pen in the roof of the net to make it 3 fucking 0 to Scotland in the World Cup final. At this point I went into defensive mode. Huntelaar stuck one past Craig Gordon in the 62 minute to make the last half hour more interesting. They basically fucked my ass for 30 minutes, despite having Nigel De Jong sent off in the 76th minute. Alan Hutton joined him in the 88th for clattering RVP when he was through on goal. Good lad Hutton. I would have done the same. They got a penalty shout turned down in the 90th which almost led to a ruckus as both sets of players surrounded the referee. But we held on to take the famous trophy back to Hampden. I expect a knighthood when I get back. Brazil is a fucking shit hole and I had food poisoning for most of the tournament, and someone nicked my camera. Full time Scotland 3 - 1 Netherlands

I was gonna post a video of me drunkenly doing a 30 jagerbomb train thing at The Moorings on Saturday. But facebook wont let me link to videos. So it can suck off. Oh wait, this might work... 332875123415483

I've just found out the start of my new job has been put back two weeks. That's two weeks with nothing to do except play football manager and occasionally venture out in to real-life to get some supplies. Back of the net!

Pimms is terrible. Apart from when you’re at Rockness, the sun is shining and the Pimms bus is there and you seemingly can’t stay away. Tastes even better when you’re wearing a straw hat and some sandals with a flowery shirt/shorts combo. As soon as is rains though, Pimms reverts to tasting like ass.

I'm totally GASing for an SG Jr for some reason.

It's a blend, but I can't be doing with cocks like that. I'm a big whisky fan, have about 25 bottles, have visited several distilleries, am a member of a whisky club for tastings, etc but as far as I'm concerned, if you want to drink Grouse on the rocks, fill your boots. Whisky snobbery boils my piss. Black and White has quite an interesting history too, with a few famous drinkers and film/book appearances. My favourite blend is BNJ (like a previous poster, I also love products with a really basic looking label) but when I'm on it like Wallace and Gromit, I'll normally just decant a half of (Craig)Whyte & Mackay into three 500ml coke bottles after sooking the top out of each and then blast the lot. I like to party.