HummerOfIntenseEvil

BBC's devoting the entire day to it I believe. Dunno about the Scottish one, since it's not the same day as all the others... it'll probably get a highlights slot on BBC2 Scotland at 11:45pm a week later.

That's possibly the best thing ever.

Can the scene points be replaced by some anonymous PMing thing? It made me feel rather special getting comments like "you're a fucking tosser, I fucking hate you" and "just cos he's an unfunny short arse". It proved you were doing something right.

Nah, I'd say Zach was clearly a very pissed off young man and therefore presumably meant every word.

Yeah if I were handicapped and in that situation, I'd want spaces at the back so I could go zoomng across the car park to the shops going "WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!" Talking of handicapped spaces, does anyone else think it's disgraceful that ridiculously obese people can qualify as disabled? Is it not a bit of a slap in the face to people who have a disability through no fault of their own, and certainly not from having no will power and stuffing their fucking faces till they can hardly fucking walk? There was a woman my sister used to work with, and her work had to have a disabled space for her because she was so obese. She could walk, but she just got out of breath quickly, so needed a special space near the entrance. I believe she couldn't "just lose weight" for some reason. Funny that - I managed to lose an inch on my belly from just stopping drinking at weekends. (This is not a jibe at people who are just fat incidently - after all, I'm rather a fan of women with "a bit extra" to them.)

I meant the actual Final, cos I was thinking of this completely wrongly momentarily. Hmmm...... Beckenbauer? Carlos Alberto? Di Stefani? Franck Puskas? WHO?????????

That sounds like a good shout... I was trying to think of Germans.

African player: George Weah, Chelsea and Manchester City Most World Cup tournaments: Cafu? I was thinking Roger Milla for a second but he only did two tournaments. Or no actually it's maybe someone from years ago.... Pele?

I'm working for Schlumberger for three months. It was originally meant to be a work placement as part of my MEng course, but uni fuckup no.2 means I'm now doing a BEng, and so it's just a placement for the hell of it now. Which, it turns out, is actually better. So I'm going to be spending three months programming while listening to AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, Metallica, The Cult, or whatever else my boss puts on. Bonus!

Midgets midgets MIDGETS.

Well as far as schools are concerned, there's no such thing as "other" political ideologies, so somebody's got to inform young folk about these things. Perhaps it was just the Harlaw modern studies department (which I always thought to be rather good to be honest) which was lacking, but I only found out about communism, socialism, fascism, anarchism etc through listening to Manic Street Preachers and The Clash. Sure, there are those who just jump onto political bandwagons to enhance sales, but I'm a firm believer in lyrics about things that affect you, rather than song after song of "oooh baby I want you" or "why don't you love me?" or whatever. And politics affect all of us, so it's the perfect thing to write about. That's what I think anyway. Compare the excellence of Public Enemy's politically fuelled lyrics to the cliched "sex, guns, drugs and money" dross that most hip hop/rap artists come out with. I'd like to see someone tell Chuck D that his lyrics are just empty sloganeering.

Let's hope they actually remember how good a reception they got. I think most bands who play here are pleased with the reception they get, but that doesn't stop them only playing Glasgow, or maybe Edinburgh, when they get a bit of success and decide they're too big to play Aberdeen. I was pleasantly surprised Idlewild still consider Aberdeen for touring. I suppose the really big bands are always going to snub Aberdeen in favour of the central belt (can Glaswegian's not travel to see a band or something?), but it would be nice if they could be convinced to play Aberdeen as a second date on tours. It's like bands forget that the SECC and Barrowlands aren't Scotland's only venues. What we need is for a couple of our bands to really hit the big time to attract national attention. Dedalus and The Videos perhaps? Or maybe AKA The Fox and Hooker's Green #1?