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What a ridiculously fallacious argument "at least we've got mains water and nobody running amok with guns". Out of curiosity, are you going there to stay in an oil-industry compound, or in a tin shack like the natives?

Oh yeah I forgot to add "insulting anyone who dares criticise the city" to that list.

The benchmark? I've spent lots of time in cities from Tangier to Perth WA and I can safely say Aberdeen is at the bottom of the list of places I would choose to live in. The responses of people to criticism of the city in this thread say it all really... "if you don't like it fuck off" "if you're not aberdonian fuck off" "where are you gonna go instead eh, timbuktu?" "what are you doing to change it eh?" sounds almost like these people are in denial of their situation to me.

"aberdonian" is not a race, and it's not racist to be disgusted to the point of leaving by the inhabitants of aberdeen. And no, I'm not aberdonian atall.

"come to aberdeen, it least its not as shit as dundee" what an appealing tagline for the city.

the worst thing about aberdeen is the aberdonians themselves. No amount of nice restaurants, art centers, shift in the quality of the nightlife etc is going to change the fact that aberdonians are largely ignorant racist smallminded uneducated materialistic shallow barely human scumbags, most of whom have practicaly given up language and reverted to communicating with each other through animalistic grunts and violence, and none of whom can actually think for themselves to any extent that might differentiate them from any of the other mindless plebs that live here. The funny thing is a lot of these worthless homunculi actually believe they are middle class, because they live in a semi detached house and drive a modestly expensive car. I'm moving away in the near future, and it will be the best thing I've ever done.

it's the killer filesystem

There is an anti-education culture up here.

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Yeah just what aberdeen needs, more shops. Even though half of the ones on union street itself are empty. I have no faith in the council to do anything sensible or good for the area, just look at how little they care about the art gallery for example...it's not even open till 2pm on sundays.

yeh for me it kind of makes up for portisheads dissapointing comeback

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On the whole though, the average high street bakery is full of disgusting "local" food, and the sad thing is a lot of people are actually proud of that filth. (I'm including fish and chips in that)

Complaining is good and people ought to do it more often. For example, another thing I hate about aberdeen is the state of most of the bakeries and sandwhich shops (fuck it, local cuisine on the whole). Most of that shit isn't fit to feed to animals, letalone appetising. Scotch pies? Sausage rolls made of stinking beef and the stodgiest pastry imaginable? Orange cheese? It's sickening, you can't even buy a decent loaf of bread in this dump. edit> but the locals just accept it and keep their heads down and think its a treat to eat that swill.

if you're literate, speak clear english, and don't like football, you're fucked.

Complaining about things is as least a start, keeping your head down trying to behave like everyone else is the truly cowardly thing.

most do, that's why the city is such a desperate shithole.

Aberdeens problem in a nutshell.

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Acen - Trip 2 the Moon is one of my all time favourite tunes, I loved all that mad breakbeat techno back then. I was quite into the scottish scene aswell due to reading a lot of M8 magazine, infact I found an M8 cover tape from 1994 recently when clearing out an attic with stuff like Q-Tex, QFX, Praga Khan & Jade 4 U etc on it. Forth FM used to do a really good weekly techno show playing all that stuff which I used to tape.

lol, people who were moaning about how there will be loads of neds at Jayz@aecc, all happily getting ready for T in the Park...

If you weren't happy with the preamp you could just buy a seperate preamp unit. With the guitar/mic plugged in it's as simple as choosing the input in the software (like cubase), checking the input level and hitting record...

of course, do you want a list? Good design is pretty high up on it.

i'd go with a usb or firewire interface, you'll be able to get one with a half decent mic preamp built into it and it's portable... you quite often get bundled software free with them aswell