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Would you throw in some Velvet Underground/Lou Reed to sweeten the deal? Out of interest are you keeping Master of Puppets, Ride the Lightning and Kill em All or do you not have those?

They're either in on the prank or getting paid well.

Do people at your work actually call you Moose? Pet hate: When I accidentally yank my earphones out of my lugs. I don't know why this annoys me so much but it makes me go totally mental and do things like scream "CUNT" in the street. I'm strange.

Apostrophe's are often used for no reason.

This morning I made a firm decision that I'll never move to Oldmeldrum when I have young kids. The Dazzler's reading champion entry isn't even that bad compared to others. Katarina Szokeova says 'I think I’m a Reading Champion because I can read.' I'm a head shaking champion.

Les Ferdinand cries racism still exists in football...whilst attending the Black List Awards, an event recognising the contribution to British football made exclusively by black people. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15474501.stm

1-0 the Dons. Big Kari to score. The Iceman Cometh.

What's the crack with the John W as Superhero gags? RockAustin, today at 12:17 walking down Rosemount grinning into a mobile phone screen. This was after a stop n talk, not a proper stalk with Graham Knight who was off for lunch at Pasta Plus.

90% sure retrospective corporate stalk - exchanged business cards with Stuart Maxwell of Prosource IT at the National Procurement Conference at the SECC today. I assume him to be the same one on here as he mentioned living near Montrose and I recognised his name on the card later and put two and two together. A presentable and affable fellow. Punk rock.

Jack's second booking was a daft challenge considering he was on a yellow. Cracking goal though. Thought the Dons did quite well, bring on the huns.

It's a good un. I love Ellroy's style. When in doubt I pick up a Brookmyre so just read A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil. It follows the main characters through their entire school life in Paisley in the 70s/80s, linking into a murder mystery in present time. Quite different than a lot of his others in that the ridiculous action plots and gadgets were missing which meant I enjoyed it more. Very funny, quite charming and sooo true. I'm now reading Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God by Greg Graffin (of favourite band Bad Religion). It's an autobiographical tale focussing on his work in punk rock and science. A couple of chapters in and quite enjoying it. Perhaps a touch smarmy but then he is a lead singer, an American and a college professor.

Hilarious own goal in the Celtic game (Cha Du Ri)

The inane and occasionally insane shit that I find myself saying to my neighbours when I meet them in some communal area. I don't want to seem aloof always stop and speak but because I don't really know them and have been put on the spot I just get a dose of verbal skitters. I always ask them the same questions even though I know the answers. They probably think I’ve got Alzheimer’s or something. After we’ve spoken about the weather and things we’ll never do to the hall and garden I find myself saying jokey disparaging things about my girlfriend in a “her indoors” kind of way which in all other walks of life I hate. “oh, I’ll need to check with her, haha”. Relief at the conversation being over is then destroyed by embarrassing flashbacks of things the stranger inside me said.

It's real: http://www.ticketmaster.com.au/event/1300473BC7ADB597

I see everyone's doing "The Goodwillie" when they take a pen now.

Keep them crossed for the rest of the season because it seemed to work! I'd like 3-0 the Dons next week at Celtic. YAAAAAAAAASSSS! Enjoyed the game today. We've got a good first 11. Osbourne is the boy for bullying the midfield - The new Bisconti! Dons fans are a funny bunch. All the talk I lugged in on walking away from the game was how we took our foot off the gas in the last ten minutes! I understand it was a bit worrying but a very small bit compared to 80 minutes of dominance and three goals. Fucking enjoy the win folks!

Disappointed my fantasy gay lover may move to the Old Firm Is there not a Championship club where he can be a sexy legend without offending my sense of decency? I didn't even realise Maloney had moved to Wigan. Hasn't been good for a few years. So, who's going to Pittodrie on Saturday? I missed the Dunfermline game so am hoping we carry on this rich vein of form

I spent a fair while ploughing through The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins. This was his recent book providing the evidence for evolution which I found pretty interesting and educational being that I'm not a scientist. He writes very well for the layman like myself but I did struggle to enjoy the the scientific detail in some chapters to the point where I skimmed the tail end of a few. Still, I think he makes science very accessible and feel more prepared for future intellectual sparring with creationists. American Pastoral by Philip Roth which I ditched half way through. I don't doubt he's a good writer but I found it a bit pretentious, didn't really feel engaged by the story and some of the sentences were just too damn long and, to my feeble mind, awkwardly constructed. Our Kind of Traitor by John Le Carre. The man can write and tells a neatly constructed tale. Not his best effort in terms of the story but I enjoyed it a lot. The Best a Man Can Get by John O'Farrell. In the same vein as Nick Hornby, Tony Parson, Ben Elton. An easy read about an English family man who struggles to be an adult and lives a double life which is inevitably exposed three quarters through the book leaving him about 70 pages to redeem himself (I won't spoil it by telling you if he does or not). Pretty funny, particulary a chapter where he and a group of friends are trying to come up with a name for their band. Ohhhhh, it's soooo true! Worth a read, particularly if you are on holiday and looking for a light read as I was.

The evolution of our language now being in the hands of young idiots. I was flicking through Grazia and 'Cosmo' recently - you know, just to scorn women - and came across the below two words: I am totes in love with the new such and such... So and so only eats apples for breakfast, apaz.!

Jonathan Wilson on the 4-4-2 system: http://www.worldsoccer.com/features/tactics-two’s-a-crowd Edit: in reference to people wanting Scotland to deploy this formation against 'lesser' teams

Turned out quite short really. In a way I was glad it was all over early to save the pain.The commentary was awful given it was poor to start with and then they had nothing much to say after 20 minutes or so except to point out that Spain are pretty good. Still, we can take some further feeling of injustice by Lithuania's poor side that they put out (allegedly, it may have been their best, I wouldn't really know). They threw in the towel in the cheating cunts derby.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/scotland/15248157.stm Lithuania are poised to experiment :-(

See Liechtenstein, Faroe Islands, San Marino etc. (sometimes not far off our level!)

It's a shame we have so many naughty, injury prone, petulant, rapey or druggie strikers.