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Got it in one. What possessed him to walk around with a receding mullet is beyond me!

Just think how much was deleted too, especially when The Wasteland was binned. I remember plenty of misogynistic incidents that went on too, especially with certain 'musicians' taking advantage of Moshulu's rather...shall we say 'hands-off' approach to ID'ing people.

Some quality contenders right there, especially Terry Taylor's beautiful mane! Sid did do the business with that mullet-perm combination that few dared to emulate. Yeah, just no.

That's boring. I'd prefer Top 5 professional wrestler haircuts. 1. Barry Hardy. Top of the list, and for good reason. This badboy never went out of style. 2. The Rockers. Just splendid. Nothing but splendid. 3. Bob "Sparky Plugg" Holly. Look at it, what is more manly than racing cars and that incredible hair? . 4. Rick Rude. Hard as nails and with the hair to prove it. 5. Crush's mullet. Just a two tone work of art. (sorry, bored at work :D)

And the use of the comment system attached to them to abuse other members. Mind My Weapon! I actually quite liked Starfall though.

Hahaha yeah, the same! Although I've just had flashbacks to licking the board outside Dr. Drakes because apparently it tasted of lemons. Sigh. More memories - - Ben Weapon getting involved in some ridiculous flamewars over incredibly petty things, yet being a nice guy in the flesh - Plenty of veiled references on here to who was sleeping with who, including one of the most brutal references ever - Everyone being known by their name here rather than their real name Funny thing is, despite everything that went on here, there's only one person that I could genuinely say was an absolute prick in real life because of what happened on here, and it wasn't anyone connected to Ben or Ben himself.

Oh man, where to start. It's hard to imagine that it's been over 15 years since I started posting on here :/ This thread for a start: Still never got hit by anyone for that, despite several threats. Hahaha, no way! I mean, I'm not surprised It's amazing to think how this forum was the centre of everything at one point. Something would happen on the forum, and then everyone on Friday night in Moshulu or Exodus would be talking about it. You'd then get vague references on here to things that happened in real life, such as Bob Knight's adventures. I can't believe no-one here mentioned Camie's party, and THE HORSE. Christ. The Balmedie Beach Party, featuring a shocking amount of booze, people throwing up and more. I remember sitting on the back of the bus drinking with Emma and listening to Sugarcoma while clearly failing to be in any way cool. @Alkaline, were you there? What else... Hmm. Starfall and the "headlining" controversy. Milner winding up everyone in sight without actually anyone realising it Taking the absolute piss out of Ewan Cameron constantly, even to the point where people were recording songs about him and 'leaking' them through MSN There's more, I just need to think about it.

Honestly, despite all the flaming that went on here, I only ever encountered one person who was genuinely a dick about things in real life after what was posted on here - and no, it wasn't Ben. It's true though, there was so much pettiness, but perhaps that was because the music scene was big and diverse enough for such grudges to be held? I remember helping a friend empty Drummonds one night after his band decided to take the piss and play 30 minutes of noise on a Friday night, and it didn't matter because there were plenty of other gigs to play, even if Drummonds were pissed off with him. Come to think of it, it seems like the Aberdeen music scene was popular for a long time, but was it really any more than 3-4 years maximum?

I didn't Google him this time! I wondered the same! I mean, letting Roger Kimmett into your house is bad enough, let alone actually getting him to do any work for you :/

Where to start? He was absolutely notorious in Aberdeen, including being banned from every club in town and being known to the vast majority of bouncers. He was dealing weed to kids at one point, and he had a habit of taking underage girls to hotels too. He would drink, get aggressive and get a hiding in the process. You'd be at a party, and Kimmett would just turn up out of the blue proclaiming to be mates with everyone there. He'd end up getting a hiding and thrown out of the party, then he'd just turn up again at a different party like nothing happened. Looks like he's ripping people off in Fife now: https://www.yell.com/biz/roofing-joinery-and-renovations-7635150/ . My favourite story involved some engagement party where the bride-to-be was an ex-stripper and her fiance's parents were also there. Kimmett gets wasted, and asks the girl if she's still stripping, right in front of the parents. Obviously they had no idea, and...that was another beating for Kimmett.

Not an actual stalk, but a virtual one. https://www.facebook.com/rothgarion.kimmett Roger Kimmett is still alive. Unbelievable.

Thought I'd chip in here: The first ceasefire in 1994 was because the British Army had considerable assets tied up in Northern Ireland, and the nationalists in Northern Ireland were uniting around a political solution as the IRA had shown no capability of achieving their goals by force. People were tired in the IRA, and Gerry Adams (who advocated a political solution) was able to convince the IRA that a peace deal was in sight. Unionists were also getting tired of the constant violence, especially the UUP who were starting to show that they could agree to power-sharing in Northern Ireland. The IRA were also getting a lot of bad publicity, especially after the Warrington attacks that killed two kids. The first ceasefire fell apart because Sinn Fein were getting nowhere, and the ones in the IRA that advocated military solutions were able to point to the failure of the peace process between 1994-1996. The British leadership wanted the IRA to decommission their arms before taking part in peace talks, while Sinn Fein told them to get lost, so they were in deadlock. So - the IRA were back to violence in 1996-1997, but the reality was that the security forces had used the ceasefire to their advantage. They were able to do a lot of in-depth analysis into previous incidents, which is how they were able to catch the infamous sniper in South Armagh - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Armagh_Sniper_(1990–97) - while they had also used the ceasefire to collect intelligence. It's too long to write here, but the security forces were closing in on the IRA as a whole, so it was better for them to go for a second ceasefire. The new Labour government was also very keen on a deal, so everyone was able to work together towards something realistic. So - why has it held? It's essentially because people were tired of all the fighting. Sinn Fein has no real interest in violence (especially as they've enjoyed a lot of electoral success since 1997) now, and public opinion went massively against violence since the Omagh bomb went off. A lot of the Provisionals were also more interested in making money, while loyalists have also been mostly happy to support the DUP rather than restart war. It's also because the hated RUC was replaced by the PSNI, and the police are behaving themselves these days rather than being seen as an occupying force. I'd say, most of all, the reason for peace holding is simply because people had had enough of violence. But I think it will explode again in our lifetimes.

It's just his smug face and personality that pisses me off. I'm allowed to hate someone irrationally, right? But surely he'll retire, going out on top now makes sense - there's no point returning next year and knowing that defensive coordinators will know that one good hit on him will take him out of the game/season. That Denver defence though.

Fuck Manning. Seriously, he can fuck off. I don't even support the Pats, but I just fucking hate Payton Manning with a passion.

I'd like to point out that Starfall did in fact headline that gig.

I also admit to convincing him to let me smash his entire set of bathroom tiles after telling him that I had a mate that could sort him out with top quality tiles for free. I gave him a black eye with a toilet roll, smacked him a few times with a pool cue, gave him a hiding at a party (for being a drunken arse towards some girls), spent all his money on booze (and then went into a club that he was banned from), got him fired from Cafe Bardot's after convincing him to give us bottles of vodka and a lot of other stuff. I used to also egg people from my friend's car, including a golden shot one night when I managed to egg some guy and the shell went flying all over his girlfriend. Karma got me though, as I tried to egg some chipper on Great Northern Road from the car and ended up covering myself instead. What a total knob in hindsight.

Only a bit? Does it make it better if I also admit to egging, flouring, golden syruping and whatever else-ing Roger Kimmett's windows for about 2 years? Every time he cleaned them (which wasn't often), they'd be subject to yet more abuse. I'm trying to remember what I was actually doing at that gig, and all I can remember is Camie. Then there was the time that we put frozen rats through people's letterboxes as they were too big for my friend's snake to eat.

Aye, well, the host of the party was a twat, so it justifed everything, including demolishing his parents wine collection (literally, we were taking sips and then chucking the bottles over the wall) and using their expensive marble fireplace to open beer bottles. I also got threatened with a kicking by a bunch of 13 year olds in Kef. I would've gave them a right kicking, but I was 20 at the time and they were midgets, even by my standard. Apparently they didn't like me heckling their mate on stage so much that he burst into tears after telling me "fuck off, just fuck off you twat!" in front of his mum. Wasn't even particularly clever heckling from what I remember.

I once encouraged a mate to piss in someone's brother's bed at a party. Some girl was puking in the toilet, so where else was he supposed to go?

Jon, because my job depends on knowing how it really works in UK schools, can you answer a couple of questions for me please? - Does the old system of having to pass a lower level qualification to get into a higher level one still exist, or is it merely up to the school to decide if someone can or not? I mean - do they have to go N3->N4->N5->Higher->Advanced Higher, or can they just enter at the stage that they can manage? My school was pretty open minded about people jumping straight into Higher whatever if the teacher agreed, but I had friends in other schools who were forced to do Int 2 first if they didn't have a relevant Standard Grade first. - How many (assessed) subjects do they now take in S4? 7/8 like before, or what?

You could say that this was an obvious case of bad korma.

Well, to give some background - I work in a school, but the problem is that the next step (assistant headteacher) doesn't actually exist within our school as it's still a relatively new school. So it's not a matter of not being considered, but rather that they haven't considered such a person. I'm already the head of department, but... In terms of other options - yep. I'm quite well qualified compared to most foreigners here, and the clincher is that they would struggle to replace me with someone similarly qualified. They know how difficult it is to find someone - and because I have responsibility for quite a few things, they would need to invest quite a lot of time and effort into training a new person. On the flip side, it would be difficult to find a job at the assistant headteacher level due to the utter ageism in society here. My relationship is fine with my boss - so no problems there. Would it be worth actually proposing a new job description, do you think?

Any advice for contract negotiations? My contract runs out next summer, and the law here is that my next contract must be a so-called "without time limits" contract, which basically entitles me to a ridiculous amount of labour protection where they essentially can't fire me for anything less than gross misconduct. Anyway, I'm in a very strong position - and I want a promotion. Anyone got any ideas on how to play this?

I worked one summer in Burger King in Altens. A bloody horrible place run by people who had no concept of treating people as humans. One assistant manager was fine though - his contempt for the place was so huge that nightshift with him usually turned into a game of how much we could piss off the customers. Our usual game was to get the order spectacularly wrong, then he would give me a "bollocking" right in front of the customer. They'd often end up apologising to me because I got such a bollocking I remember that he once ordered me to "go to the office and wait there". Of course, once he fixed the problem, he came into the office - and we were in fits laughing at his choice in language. It was however fantastic for overtime - I was racking up ridiculous hours a week without any problems. I walked out with nearly 3000 pounds for not even 9 weeks work. But when the time came, I wrote "I QUIT" with my name on an old newspaper and stuck it up in the office. I got a phone call the next day from the Dundonian tosser of an assistant manager demanding that I come in. I told him to piss off, and he replied with "you'll be disciplined!!!" in a hysterical voice. I told him (again) to piss off, and he gave me the incredibly patronising speech about how I'll receive a disciplinary letter in the post and how I'll have to come for a meeting about my conduct and so on. To this day, I don't think he quite understood that unlike him, Burger King wasn't my life.

A few things I picked up on from my own wedding... - Sod the organised stag night, just go out and go wherever the fuck you want. I had a brilliant night by not planning a thing - we even had shots of vodka in the 24 hour post office at one point. Much less hassle and everyone will enjoy themselves anyway. - If you have a DJ, pay careful attention to the sound level. It might be your wedding, but most people want to talk shite, not dance constantly to cheesy 90's pop songs. - Just make sure the food comes for everyone at the same time. I was at a wedding when it took nearly 30 minutes for 70 guests to be served dinner - way too long! The food itself - don't worry about it, no-one will remember what it was like anyway. - Don't leave until the last guest does. It's unbelievably rude, in my opinion. - Don't allow kids at the wedding. They're a pain in the arse and will take over the show. I know several women who were rather pissed off after their weddings because of how everyone fussed over the oh-so-cute little brat that kept howling. - And relax. If it's not perfect, it's no big deal - no-one will care or remember anyway.