Thomas Banacek
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Cafe Drummonds 1st Sunday every month 8pm -12pm usually hosted by Gus Tawse with loads of great comedians aff the TV and it's only five quid - a gift.
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From Yesterday's P&J
CINEMA-GOERS LEFT DISAPPOINTED AFTER COMEDY LINK-UP FAILS TO GET OFF GROUND08:50 - 22 October 2007
About 200 cinema-goers in Aberdeen were left disappointed last night after technical problems prevented a live comedy show being brought to them.
A packed auditorium at Vue Cinema at Shiprow had been expecting to see acclaimed comedian Ross Noble performing from Newcastle.
However, they were faced with a blank screen as a result of problems with the satellite link up.
The show was due to be broadcast to Vue cinemas across the UK, although last night it was unclear if only Aberdeen suffered technical problems.
The cinema provided refunds to all those who attended, as well as a free ticket for a film of their choice.
Among the audience was Mark McDonald, councillor for Dyce, Bucksburn and Danestone, who left at 9.15pm, an hour and 15 minutes after the show had started in Newcastle.
He said: "I stayed in the hope of seeing the second half of the show, but it became more and more clear that it was not going to happen.
"It was quite surreal. The cinema was packed but there was just nothing happening.
"There were a lot of disappointed people at the venue."
No one could be contacted at Vue last night.
Aside from the fact the show was in Liverpool, that must have been a real bummer for the folks who went to see the gig.
OK, so they got their money back and a complimentary ticket to a movie, but it's not really much of a substitute for a good night's comedy.
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Anyway, back to Fandangos. Are they still taking the piss with this buffet deal? Someone should go to the papers and expose them.
Probably wouldn't discourage the minkers who eat there, but still!
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Ah well, at least we will get a better seeding for 2010 qualification, whatever happens...
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Typical bloody council thinking, sledghammer/nut and in this case they even aim at the wrong nut.
If they really want to address the litter problem they should be looking at the detritus from fast food first, I see far more of that than I do discarded flyers. Unfortunately the only way I can see to do that is to get the fast food outlets in the city centre to pay a licence fee and use the money to get some street cleaners. Cost to us taxpayers-nil, cost to the people who buy fast food-minimal, cleaner streets, everybody's happy.
If they really want to address the flyer problem they should ban advertising of cheap booze out with the premises and the "cheap/free entry with this flyer" flyers, most of your flyers will disappear overnight because it will leave most places with nothing to advertise unless they are providing some sort of entertainment other than cheap booze in a crowded cattle market with nobody DJ's playing generic pop shit . That would be a double whammy for the council as well, they address some of the litter problem and are seen to be trying to tackle the "binge-drinking culture".
Oh well, I don't know why I'm surprised, it's not as if I expect the council to actually sit down and think about a problem rather than grasping at the first solution that presents itself.
Umm, fast food outlets are required to have a licence, and so pay a licence fee already.
I fail to see the problem here. It seems like some folk are using it as a convenient excuse to have a whinge about the council. Change the record folks, the council is there to look after the wider interests of Aberdeen, not the narrow interests of certain individuals or establishments.
If someone is seriously suggesting that flyers are the only way to ensure a crowd at gigs or punters in a club, then perhaps the people running those establishments need to take a long hard look at themselves.
Viable establishments which can offer decent quality entertainment should have nothing to fear.
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I'll stick with the fresh baked goodness from Chalmers if it is all the same.
Mmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmm
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OK, perhaps it isn't quite as beyond the realms of disbelief as I first made out, but you would think they might have thought to themselves at one point that it would make them look particularly bad when the media got hold of it...
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I saw this in the Sunday papers the other day.
Scotsman.com News - Politics - MPs tell staff: Move over, we are important
The mind boggles!
I can't believe my local MP has been involved in this.
Should he be allowed to skip the queue at Tesco on the basis he is more important than Joe Public?
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I Find Ross noble to be completely unbearable...most people i know think he's the best thing since sliced bread. His set consists of...(Insert geordie accent)"i was walking down the street,and saw this woman like, and i said...(Insert something retarded)...so i did this...(Insert ross jumping around like a fanny)...and she was like..." etc, etc. Complete crap...rant over.
Utter toss. Having seen him live on more than one occasion I can categorically confirm that this description is bollocks.
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Apparently one of the stated aims of the Madeleine McCann fund is "to provide financial assistance to the family".
Hmmmm
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Hmmm
Maybe you should start a couple of new threads with titles like:
Pope - Catholic?
Bears - woodland defecators?
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what kind of morbid person sits around thinking these theories up? o_O
I would guess that Police Officers, who are supposed to consider all possibilities, are working on such theories.
Some people seem to think that it is beyond the realms of possibility that you could kill someone close to you, and then portray yourself in the media as being wholly innocent.
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Frosty puts forward an interesting theory.
I have always thought that it was more than plausible that Madeleine died while her parents were out, they returned to find her and immediately panicked and concocted an elaborate cover story.
More recently, and especially given today's developments, I have started to think that there is the potential for Kate McCann to have either harmed or killed her daughter through Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy, hence why she has been so willing and ready to parade herself infront of the media throughout this entire ordeal.
Either way, a lot of people are going to start questioning the media's unquestioning support for the McCann's.
Even if they are innocent of her abduction/murder, they are guilty of being criminally negligent parents. Seems nobody gives a shit about that aspect.
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Merrells are very good, and very durable as well.
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It's a pity cos I quite liked their early tunes...
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Right now I am finding the possibility of Stripey being killed in a freak bookshop accident, when a stand full of Harry Potter books collapses, rather amusing...
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Er... why not? I know plenty of folk who have fantastic taste in books, movies and music but also enjoy a bit of the shite as well (myself included). It's perfectly possible to have a wide range of tastes that includes the great works and also enjoy mental chewing gum like potter.
Notice how, whenever someone indicates an example which contradicts Stripey's tenuous logic, like having read supposedly "weighty" literature while still finding time to enjoy a "ripping yarn", he just ignores their post, because he obviously cannot find the counter-argument.
I'm struggling to see what's so "counter-culture" about reading Martin Amis, though, the man's an effete, self-important wanker who...
Ah, wait, suddenly it all makes sense...
In all seriousness, if Stripey is all about "teh quality" then what's his mitigation for Martin Amis being involved in this aberration?
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MWOOOOOHA HA HA HA HA HA....I'LL BECOME A TROLL.....HA HA HA HA HA"
Troll did you say?!?
See, stripey's not that far off the Harry Potter theme after all...
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Are you people joking? Of course it's contrived, it's a fucking kids book, what do you expect? Go and read dostoevsky or fuckin martin amis or something if you want sophisticated plot and themes.
Those of you who are giving it all this "oh you just read adults books because you want to look clever and you don't even enjoy it" can fuck right off, along with the "you havent even read it how can you slag it off" and the "whats wrong with reading kids books despite the fact I'm 20-30-40 etc it's fun" crowd.
These attitudes are offensive, anti-intellectual, backward and part and parcel of the xbox-playing transformers-the-movie plasma-screen watching consumerist degeneration currently affecting our society.
If you want to read childrens books, watch kids films and play games consoles all day that's fine by me, but don't fucking have a go at the rest of us normally developed adults who appreciate good, diverse literature for being offended by your slavish devotion to rowlings trash.
Oh, look at Stripey name drop lots of "intellectual" books.
Get to fuck.
If you want a decent Russian author, stick Dostoyevsky up your arse and try reading Zamyatin's "We", an amazing book.
In the meantime, I will read Harry Potter if I want. I will read STuart MacBride crime novels if I want. I will watch "trashy movies and TV shows" if I want.
I have read plenty of the "classics" and plenty philosophy books too. Most of them are bollocks. Some are amazing. Animal Farm never gets boring, and Slaughterhouse 5 is always good for a read.
Do I feel any better than anyone else for reading these books? No.
Do I feel any less intellectual than you for reading stuff you consider trash? Certainly not.
I'd feel sorry for you if you weren't such a cock.
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Bring back Haraldur Ingolfsson and Baldur Bett I say...
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So which other kids books do you people read? Or is it just this one series which happens to have a massive marketing campaign behind it?
*yawn*
I read books from a variety of genres, just because you feel it worthwhile to demean and belittle books because of their main target audience doesn't make my choices any less valid.
I enjoy the works of Roald Dahl, Philip Pullman, and my friend and I still enjoy having a laugh with the old "Choose Your Own Adventure" books we used to play when we were younger.
Also, having been blessed with a wonderful little nephew, I am enjoying greatly books designed for babies. Some of them are awesome.
However, I also just finished reading a biography of Silvio Berlusconi, and have a number of "heavy literature" novels and serious non-fiction books in my collection.
I read what I like and I like what I read, and no pseudo-intellectual, holier than thou literary snob is going to make me feel any less intelligent for doing so.
Why don't you piss off and join the self opinionated wanks who talk psycho-babble in the guise of informed opinion on Newsnight Review?
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It was weird reading it because every plot line I had guessed after the end of the last book was there in this one. I didn't know whether to be smug or slightly freaked.
I enjoyed it, I initially thought the ending seemed like a cop out, a "best of both worlds" scenario, but I soon got over that and saluted it for the fine finale to a fine series of books.
One thing which angered me intensely however.
The queue outside Waterstones was full of young kids, many of them dressed up in cute fancy dress.
For them to have to endure the abuse thrown at the crowds by drunken idiots (I won't say neds cos there were plenty folk who would not have looked out of place on the Moshulu dancefloor also engaged) was disgusting and made me feel on several occasions like committing a violent offence.
I am more than a little certain that some kids were probably very upset by it, and I hope whoever those people were feel big and proud of themselves.
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Last week, around London, a 20-something year old was kidnapped, missing for six days and found dead 2 days ago, she made it to the 5th / 6th page of most newspapers.
20something is hardly a missing child, but interesting you say they turned up dead.
Perhaps I should rephrase.
When was the last time a black/asian child was featured prominently in the media because they had gone missing, not because they had been murdered?
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Maybe I have a bad memory, but when was the last time a black/asian child went missing and attracted significant media attention?
Peter Dow v. Harlaw Academy on youtube
in General Discussion
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"Trying for children: I'd like to try for my first baby right away. So I'd advise my woman to be as sure as she can be that I'm right for her before she moves in. When my lady moves in, I'll be expecting to have sex with her with no contraception. At my age, I have no time to waste before getting my family started."
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