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Fabregas is awesome, you are wrong. Song is a top player, you are right. Diaby, Nasri, Rosicky and Denilson are also awesome. Arsenal's midfield is good.

Didn't say he isn't awesome, just that I don't like him, which I don't . Its always healthy to have irrational hatred of players and he's been one of my pet hates since he burst onto the scene.

I do feel he is over-rated though, wouldn't make a World XI team, or squad, as some people would have you believe.

Song though,

I'd agree that Alex Song is the most improved player. He has been sensational this season. Fuck Fabregas, I've never liked him, but Song is so key to Arsenal. When he's on form Arsenal look like they could be champions.

montrose finally won. even on the back foot for 90 mins. we fucking won. first in 20 attempts. amazing. NEXT >

AND you seemed to get a personal shout-out on Your Call.

I mind the Amadeus underage Foam Parties. Got a couple of quality traps at them. Used to alternate between them and the ice-skating disco at the Leisure Centre.

This 'Fines' thing on Facebook. Not so much it itself, but the fact that 90% of people are blatantly lying. For what purpose other than wanting to look like massive slags and/or attention seeking cretins I don't know. Some girls posting fines into the 800s - Now if they've had sex in a church then I'm the Queen.

It's beginning to have an effect on my life too ?(

Sky Sports | Video | Latest Videos | Adebayor looks back on gun attack

Bemusing stuff from Adebayor.

I was gutted bolton arsenal was called off... I still had 2 arsenal players to play including Arshavin who was my captain! I would have had a tremendous week

Tevez as captain for me 8-) And stuck Jerome in the first xi on a whim which paid off handsomely.

Top of the KO league but everytime I look to be getting even marginally close to Dan he goes and has an incredible week.

Still, I'd have settled for 2nd before hand and I'm top of the Kittybrewster Bar league

All of the OP's original choices. I don't think I'd seen any of them before but they're gash.

Also, all stereotypical metal artwork ever.

Pedro Mendes was at Porto if I remember correctly. Can't be any more than that surely!?

Another 5 minutes killed at work...result! At this rate I need roughly around 32 more questions to see me until 5pm.

Who is the only player currently playing in the Premiership with a World Cup Winners medal?

Poor man's Yes, Minister though isn't it?

www.tauthal.com ~ Ryan Adams ~ The Loft Sessions

You'll like this O'Leary. Lot's of Cold Roses stuff. And an excellent version of I See Monsters.

Also worth searching the internet for: an unreleased bunch of demos called Darkbreaker (or the Elizabethtown sessions) intended as a soundtrack for said film, but canned. Includes a few of the better tracks that ended up on Easy Tiger, but less polished and somehow a hundred times better.

Cheers Ry. Saved that page.

I've came across Darkbreaker before on the Ryan Adams' FTP site. Easy Tiger was killed by the production. I know that was the sound he was going for but it really was ghastly, the songs did have something about them though.

Regarding Ryan Adams..

1. Cold Roses (where is the love for this??)

2. Love is Hell

3. Heartbreaker

4. 29

5. Gold

6. Cardinology

7. Suicide Handbook

8. Jacksonville City Nights

9. Demolition

10. Rock n Roll

11. Easy Tiger

Sorry man just seen your PM. I'll give Fallout3 a miss, it was for my flatmate.

1. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
   
2. Jamie T - Kings And Queens
   
3. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
   
4. Eminem - Relapse
   
5. Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
   
6. Jeffrey Lewis and The Scrapyard - Em Are I
   
7. Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For the Young
   
8. The Horros - Primary Colours
   
9. Paulo Nutini - Sunny Side Up
   
10. Gomez - A New Tide
    

7 for Fallout 3?

Did you know that on the new-style pedestrian crossings there's a secret knob on the bottom that spins when the green man is on? Seriously. On the new ones where the green man is on the panel next to you instead of across the road, next time you're near one, press the button then put your hand underneath the box and you'll find a little knob which starts spinning when the green man is on. Presumably its for folk that are both blind and deaf. It's a secret though so don't tell anybody.

There used to be a 'secret knob' (was more like a slider thing) on the bottom of the real old ones as well. Our school all believed it was to 'speed-up' the green man cycle, so we'd slide it all the way along believing it would quicken the process, which I very much doubt it did.

No I haven't. I was saying it's not a big deal that you don't like people thinking you're a moron. (I wasn't saying that people pressing the button is no big deal).

Fucksake, try to stick up for you...

It's alright, I get what you mean now. The whole exhibit thing confused me as to which side you were really on

Pet hate number 2,341:

People ripping apart other people's pet hates.

Exhibit A:

"I'm a shortarse and hate it when a tall person stands in front of me at concerts meaning I can't see."

Cue, all the tall people to start talking about the "right" to stand where they want etc etc.

I reckon this is a legitimate pet hate - it's annoying, and one more plight of being a short arse. I'm not short - but not tall either, somewhere in the middle, and it is annoying when someone taller than you stands in front of you at a gig, whether I've been there for 2 hours or not. It's just annoying. Nobody's getting killed here - just a few short people having a moan.

Exhibit B:

A guy doesn't like being treated like he's too stupid to press the pedestrian crossing button. Big deal.

But you've just ripped apart my pet hate ?( *edit* unless I've misunderstood what you mean by ripping apart.

But likewise my pet hate has two groups with light-hearted debate. Group A, the sensible, polite and thoughtful people who are able to access the situation quickly using common sense and logic (me) Versus the trigger-happy, condescending, smug and inneficient crossing users (everyone else)

Maybe it's because some of us have lived in this city for 20 odd years and know that the light doesn't always work on the little box thing.

As far as pet hates go, this one is more that a tiny bit lame.

But if the light is ON, then surely you could engage your brain and realise it's been pressed?? If it's not working then I'll admit its a grey area.

Yeah, cos this thread isn't 99% chockablock with tiny inconsequential things that just happen to get your goat.

The glowing red circle ones are rubbish though and if you step away from them they often switch off again. Total pain.

Also why did they design a crossing that forces you to look away from the traffic to see if the green man is lit? The old ones which showed you it on the other side of the road were far more sensible.

Never encountered the red circle switching off, bizarre.

Those new ones are rubbish though. Often completely silent as well, so if you're looking at the road (as is only natural) it can take a stupid amount of time before you realise the box is showing green.

I also agree with the crossings straight after a roundabout being a bitch, both as a pedestrian and as a driver. Particularly nasty one coming off the St.Machar roundabout onto a blind turn into Leslie Road only to be immediately confronted by a crossing. I've had to hit the brakes fast a few times, but also narrowly escaped being runover as a pedestrian more times than I care to remember.

The sad thing is, you are probably vastly outnumbered by the forgetful ones who don't press the button, so the assumption that you are a moron, regardless of its accuracy, is quite valuable in those situations. Besides, pressing a button again doesn't really affect anyone, does it? You'd have more of a point if re-pressing the button unleashed a head-shattering foghorn that obliterated everything within a mile radius. But it's effectively silent, and ignorable.

Well luckily for the good citizens of Aberdeen I do choose to ignore it, venting my fury silently here

Also, you dissenters are all ignoring the fact that the button-box clearly changes after it's been pressed, either by glowing red round the outside of the button, or the lights behind the Please Wait sign lighting up. All you double-pressers should just cast a glance at the box before barging in.

Yes, usually with good reason.

Far too many times I've stood at a crossing after arriving to find someone already waiting, assume they've pushed the button only to see the traffic light cycle go straight back round to the start again without showing us a green man.

It seems some people think pedestrian crossings are magic and will just somehow sense that you're waiting to cross.

Well I guess I just don't like people assuming that I am one of the morons who will stand at a crossing patiently without pressing the button.

When you're standing at a green-man crossing and you've pressed the button and you're waiting for the lights to change then some new arse comes along and presses the button again... what the fuck are they thinking? That you're incapable of pressing a button.

It's even worse when the green-man pops up just moments after they've pressed the button and you can just tell they are claiming all the credit for it - smug cunts!!