Lemonade

I'm not a big fan of Kanye but I do like the lyric :

"You see there's leaders and there's followers, 

But I'd rather be a dick than a swallower." 

They played in my Poland last week supporting The Killers. So they still exist. 

The Gramps up the back of Kincorth is a lovely part of the city, a great walk with amazing views. Hard to believe you're still in a city up there. All dat nature n shit. Loads of wild berries. 

Duthie Park and Riverside Drive down to Bridge Of Dee on a sunny day is a brilliant walk too. 

1 hour ago, ca_gere said:

Cloudy Lemonade are both dicks for wrecking a golf course.

Fucking Broonbreed started it, why is he not a dick?! 

Bought Minecraft on Xbox One so I'm back on that. Also playing Tomb Raider Definitive Edition. 

I just started playing again too (FM16). I've mostly played in the SPL or the English lower leagues but decided to try a top team so I'm the new Chelsea manager. About 6 games in to the season. Good start. I only have one strikers though and all my scouts and coaches are useless. I fired almost the whole fucking lot of them. 

1 hour ago, Dan G said:

Ah - I can help you out here, I think. I'm pretty sure Jailbreak is a quasi-concept album where the town in question is a dystopian future society where there are either lots of jails, or the whole town is a jail.

So it sort of makes sense with that in mind.

I didn't know this. Fair enough. It's not really my observation anyway, I nicked it off a comedian. 

37 minutes ago, Teabags said:

Phil Lynott, as much as I love Thin Lizzy, was a fucking terrible lyricist...

Living and dying
In chinatown
Yes they're living and dying down in old chinatown
In chinatown
You better look around
Man, you don't stand a chance if you go down in chinatown
Man, you don't stand a chance if you go down in chinatown

Laughing and crying you know it's a fact
They're not laughing they are crying
'Cause they won't be back
Oh no you don't come back
Not from chinatown
Man, you don't stand a chance if you go down in chinatown
Man, you don't stand a chance if you go down in chinatown

Chinatown, it's a different scene
There are people there, they are so obscene
If you see what I mean
Then they've sold you the dream
Down in chinatown
What goes up it must come down

Living and dying
There is no release
Living and dying
There is no relief
There is no beliefs
Not in chinatown
Man, you don't stand a chance if you go down in chinatown
Man, you don't stand a chance if you go down in chinatown

My father in law went to school with Phil Lynott, allegedly a smelly wee bastard. 

"Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak,

Somewhere in this town" 

I'd say at the jail most likely. 

5 minutes ago, Soda Jerk said:

Oh dang. Didn't spot that. Now I'm the dweeb.

7 minutes ago, Soda Jerk said:

That is some excellent Bot Conversation Sniffing.

They've got a 7 page thread over there, and no one seems to be talking about how it's definitely a bot.

Bunch of dweebs.

The OP on that thread has 157 posts, I think that may be genuine. Then our bot copy pasted it for some reason. 

https://www.musicbanter.com/general-music/86930-why-do-others-call-my-musical-taste-boring.html

Greetings fellow person! 

14 minutes ago, Lemonade said:

The pattern seems to be that they post a few really generic comments so we think they're one of us, then they start posting the spammy links later. Like that one last week that posted insightful things like "in politics, everything is difficult" in the Politics forum. 

See Exhibit A. That final post, where the spam is finally revealed, is a classic. 

"I decided to sniff their conversation" 

1 hour ago, Dan G said:

The biggest give away - apart from all of it - is the line:

'Someone here said that I listened to a lot of "mediocre bands"'

In a first post.

 

Can someone explain to me the point of spam-bots?

The pattern seems to be that they post a few really generic comments so we think they're one of us, then they start posting the spammy links later. Like that one last week that posted insightful things like "in politics, everything is difficult" in the Politics forum. 

13 hours ago, colb said:

On a par with this:

This is my favourite post in a while. I've read it three times. 

2 hours ago, scottyboy said:

A bot, no?

Yeah. Should probably delete this. I just loved the ridiculousness of it. 

23 hours ago, E.C said:

Since I had a pile of books that were half bought by me and half bought for me and not being read, at New Year I made myself a plan to read a book a week this year. Here is what I have read so far:

 

1. You Don't Know Me but You Don't Like Me - Nathan Rabin
2. The Perfect Fool - Stewart Lee
3. Me: Moir - Vic Reeves
4. With the Old Breed - Eugene Sledge
5. The Tom Hanks Enigma - David Gardner
6. POST - Eric Grubbs
7. Scale - Keith Buckley
8. A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
9. Set the Boy Free - Johnny Marr
10. Pigeon English - Stephen Kelman
11. World War Z - Max Brooks
12. Everything is Horrible and Wonderful - Stephanie Wittels-Wachs
13. 1 Dead in Attic - Chris Rose
14. Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
15. Fire and Fury - Michael Wolff
16. Beyond Band of Brothers - Dick Winters
17. Sorry to Disrupt the Peace - Patti Yumi Cottrell
18. And This is True - Emily Mackie
19. Gunning for Greatness - Mesut Ozil
20. Black Wave - Michelle Tea
21. My Autobiography - Sir Alex Ferguson
22. Flights - Olga Tolarczuk
23. Behind the Paint - Violent J
24. Uncommon Type - Tom Hanks
25. Orlando - Virginia Woolf
26. Little Me - Matt Lucas

Just 26 more to go!!!! Made me realise I clearly gravitate towards autobiography, so as a result I tried to buy some more fiction to counteract it. I won't go into details because this thread/forum is dead as fuck, but if anyone wants to talk about any of these, hit me up.

I really liked Pigeon English. There was talk of it being commissioned for TV but I don't know if it ever happened. 

2 hours ago, James Broonbreed said:

Shining Light by Ash is a pure fucking banger like.

On 1/6/2016 at 3:46 PM, ca_gere said:

How terribly invasive.

 

@Lemonade don't buy a cheap chinese phone

I should have listened to this. 

43 minutes ago, James Broonbreed said:

At what point would you give up on a book if you hate it? 

I decide at 10% if I'm going to read the rest of it. It's rare for me to bin a book off at 10% but it has happened (usually Kindle store 99p shite). If I decide to finish it I usually try and struggle through to the end, unless I really really hate it. Its usually old stuff that trips me up in that respect, I always have good intentions of reading the classics but I just can't get tuned in to old fashioned writing. Wuthering Heights is about the only exception, but I have a long list of unfinished classics. I'm an impatient reader, I like to race through and find out what happens so slow-paced stuff with loads and loads of dialogue or description sends me to sleep. 

I recently put away "Dreamcatcher" by Stephen King  which was absolute balls and took me 4 months to wade through because I hated it. After that "A Decent Ride" by Irvine Welsh, a fun and surprisingly breezy caper considering it features a scene in which a guy fucks a dead body. Currently reading "Quite Ugly One Morning" by Christopher Brookmyre which I think I might hate too. 

Fuck that, have all the bassists you want. 

Since moving to Dublin 7 years ago I've had exactly one band on the go, it was just me and one other guy, he played the guitar, but he only had one arm and one little stump and no-one had ever had the heart to tell him he was a terrible musician (not because of the arm, he just had no talent). That's what happens when you move to another city. I say stay in Aberdeen. 

My wife is a bit of an arsehole but I have an Atari 2600 and a burger blog. Have i made it? 

Edit - AND I'm a moderator on Aberdeen Music.

Another wrestling documentary recommendation. Andre The Giant. It's available on Sky Atlantic on demand at the moment. Brilliant, and Vince McMahon cries in it.