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  1. Hype, talent, sex appeal and an expensive PR campaign. Not really. I think that people who posted on here went to it out of curiosity and maybe I'm naive, but it seemed that $HUTT€R$P€€D being immensely gullible/sarcasm going over their heads made them endearing and people thought it'd be a nice to give them a warm reception for their first show. I've always thought it had a touch of the Make A Wish foundation about it... I know a few people who are not members on here but ended up going along too because of the legend that thread achieved. $$ fever gripped the northeast that week.
  2. New Kendrick sounds intriguing http://m.pitchfork.com/news/63912-kendrick-lamar-releases-new-album-untitled-unmastered/
  3. It's astounding. The only thing I can think of is that the job they end up getting is from the billionth interview they've had, so they're genuinely well-versed in how to confront those situations. My AGFW had to do an interview, then sit in our office to do an admin task. She got on with that quietly, then once she was finished, she noted my colleague's South African accent and started rambling on about the three times she had been to South Africa. She didn't say this, but her tone suggested "I know more about your home country than you because I have been there three times." She yammered for ten minutes, then my boss tried to show her out and she cornered him for ten more minutes about something else. After all the other applicants had been and gone and we were asked our opinions, I said, "Anyone but her." meaning AGFW because I just knew instantly we wouldn't click and her voice, volume and chat immediately got on my nerves. My boss was a little deflated and said she'd given the best interview, so went with her. I think he is now regretting this decision. Typical fucking management. Let the proles make your decisions for you, our judgement is way better. I think she and my AGFW might genuinely be related. Fuck. I can't believe that email. Is she dyslexic? I hope that isn't an offensive thing to ask, but I just mean because some of the words are so close to being correct, but just fall short ("apologies", "insure", "producer") You will know her in some guise. I've described her to people and said that they will have definitely met one or several people with traces of her, but she is the ultimate. In my last post, I said she worked with kids but specifically, she works with Scouts. I think that outdoorsy, not-many-friends, overcompensating by thinking her chat is hilarious thing is rife and even just saying "a woman in her early 30s who dedicates her life to being a Scout leader" gives such a vivid image of what she might be like in real life. Absolutely spot on! I'm going to ask her about this next time I see her. She does this thing where, after AGES of us all silently getting on with our work and no words having been spoken for a very long time, she'll start talking about something that either a) she's never mentioned to us before but thinks she has, b) she has spoken to other people about but we're all just generic blobs to her that she thinks it was us c) she has spoken about, but we've stopped listening by that point and can't remember d) she has spoken about with us, but days previously and she will mention it as though she has just been talking about it. Eg: [COMPLETE SILENCE FOR HALF AN HOUR] AGFW: So yeah, I said at that meeting last night... --some tedious bullshit unworthy of conversation-- Anyway, out of the blue a few weeks ago, she said directly to me, "So, if you need outdoor clothing, give me a shout because I get discount in Mountain Warehouse for being a Scout Leader." APROPOS OF NOWT! It's the tone of "anyway, as we were saying..." that gets me, after nobody has been saying anything or after a conversation that she hasn't actually had with me. Argh!
  4. Unbelievably, they are two separate entities! I have to put up with this one's crap every day, though, so for the time being she is more fruitful.
  5. I have an AGFW like Teabags does! Also, amusingly, her initials are AG. To give you some context, she is in her early 30s but speaks as though she was raised by grandparents, y’know, like she has a really old way with words. She also volunteers with kids in her spare time, so has this mega-weird way of speaking to you like she’s trying to be your teacher, your mum, your friend and your boss all rolled into one irritating human being. She thinks she knows EVERYTHING but is totally misinformed about a lot of stuff, so I’ve stolen a Homer Simpson-ism for my description of her: a know-nothing know-it-all. I don’t mind stupid people, but stupid people who think they are smart are tragic. She doesn’t seem to have her own opinions, just phrases she’s clearly heard other people say before, but she hasn't listened to what they've followed them up with (eg: me and my boss were talking about the monarchy and how they should do away with it and just have a fictional royal family, because it’d save money but tourists would still come to look at the palaces and things. I said something about waiting for the day when we become a republic and she butted in, “But think about it, would you really want David Cameron as your President?” What does that even mean? I don’t want him as my Prime Minister, what difference would him being President make? She didn’t have an answer for me.) I’m usually really polite to people. Tediously polite. Generally, I have a lot of patience but not with her. I think I may even come across as, god forbid, rude at times. My relationship with her is now basically me just correcting things she comes out with. She is my opposite in every way. Other than gender (I assume), I have yet to find one thing we have in common. It got to the point that once in the break room, she asked what I had for lunch and when I told her it was something with chillies in it and she said, “Oh, I don’t really like spicy food.” I walked out the door sighing and said audibly, “Of course you don’t.” She has a story for everything and you can’t have a conversation with anybody else without her steamrolling all over it to talk about something she’s done or somebody she knows. And she always knows better than you do. Pretty quickly, she’ll go off on such a tangent that everybody has stopped listening. I imagine if I asked her what kind of music she likes, she’d probably say, “I don’t really like music.” She is very vocal in being “one of the lads”, to the point where I don’t think she likes other women much. You know when people sort of give off a Clarkson vibe? She’s like that mixed with Alan Partridge. She does this thing that I’ve noticed a lot of people, mainly older women, in the central belt do, which is when they’re introducing a woman in a story who we aren’t supposed to like, they’ll say, “Then this FEmale comes along” in a really scornful way, as if it’s a dirty word. It’s so weird. She uses the word ‘banter’ a lot and goes on about how great her ‘banter’ with various male family members is and then catches herself out by trying to give an example of some great back-and-forth that she’s had with a cousin or somebody, but can’t think of one quickly enough so it’ll be something along the lines of, “Oh, we REALLY wind each other up. He’s like ‘You’re an idiot.’ And I’m like ‘I know you are, but what am I?’” She’ll tell a story about people she knows and say things like, “So, I was with my cousins. Well, I say cousins but what I really mean is my God-mother’s son and daughter-in-law" so she has this never-ending family tree. Recently she told a story about one of her male cousins, who is the same age as her and isn’t actually her cousin and the great banter they have, constantly winding each other up. She told a story about how when they were both 19, he’d joined the army so she hadn’t seen him for a while but they were reunited at his parents’ place and ended up having a tickle fight. Then his girlfriend, who AGFW had never met before, walked in on them and got understandably weirded out by it. AGFW ended up getting on her high horse about that and was a dick to her, refusing to see the problem and making out that it was a totally normal thing for two grown-ups to be doing. It reminds me of that episode of Friends where Danny and his sister have a freakishly close relationship and wrestle. TL;DR: She's the worst and I think Ricky Gervais might have created her. Anyway, I’ve been keeping a draft in my email of dumb stuff she comes out with or just anything I find particularly annoying. Thinking of releasing it as a book. HER: “I made a massive faux-par (sic), did I tell you? Well, you know that meeting yesterday I thought was today?” ME: (No) “Yeah..?” HER: “It turns out it’s tomorrow. I just saw the suggested dates were the 2nd and 3rd but they’ve gone with the 3rd. I’m not having a good day!” (That isn’t a faux-pas. You’ve half-learned how to pronounce faux-pas but don’t know how to use it properly in a sentence.) “I think I might have just put the bat amongst the pigeons.” (I genuinely think she might have just had a slip of the tongue with this one when she tried to talk too fast, because later she also said “I’ve put the cat apung the pigeons.”) “It is rather quite funny. Let’s be honest.” Baba O’Riley had been on the radio for two minutes. Suddenly, she exclaimed, “BAYWATCH!” We blinked in her direction, confused. HER: “It’s the theme from Baywatch.” ME: “It’s The Who.” HER: “I’m pretty sure it is.” ME: “I think you’re thinking of something else...” “That’s definitely FUBAR-d” Another colleague offered me a can of that compressed air with one of those nozzles in case I wanted to clean out my keyboard. Having done this the day before, I declined. ME: “It’s alright.” AGFW: “Ha, you're like ‘Nah, it’s okay’!” (Yep. Yep, I am like that.) My colleague from South Africa told us about a drink from there called Mampoer and how she got to sample some homemade stuff last time she was back home. AGFW: “Is it like that Sunshine stuff?” COLLEAGUE: “I don’t know what that is.” AGFW: “Like, a really strong homemade drink that can make you go blind.” ME: “Moonshine?” AGFW: “Here’s a bit of useless trivia for you – New York City is not in the state of New York.” ME: “Yes it is.” (She had been on Google Maps and looked at it wrongly.) Once she had a Cream Egg at her desk and mentioned that she knew the barcode off by heart. I second-guessed her and hoped that she wouldn't tell a story if I said, "Oh, did you used to work in a shop and would have to look it up as the foil would fold over and the barcode couldn't be read by the machine?" It didn't work. She repeated back what I'd just said in different words, told me about how she goes into shops sometimes and will quote the number to staff members, if she's buying one, before they go to look it up (ugh). She then said, "It's a good bit of useless trivia for pub quizzes." When would that EVER come up in a pub quiz? I asked her this and she tried to back out of it and used the phrase "general knowledge". That isn't general knowledge. That is very specific knowledge. She referred to Bristo Square in Edinburgh, twice, as Bisto Square. BISTO. As in “Aaaah, Bisto” “Dreams are just your unconscious.”
  6. It's almost as bad as cake with fruit/hidden raisins in it.
  7. A place where idiot arseholes who love their food to smell like piss go and eat cake that smells remarkably like piss.
  8. Umberto Eco. I am really bad at this game. I always feel bad when I do actually score some points. Usually, being on my list means you get a year's reprieve.
  9. (I said 'ace' way too many times in that last post) I've upgraded Sunflower Bean's album to 'Total Belter' status. It is great, I've had it on repeat all week.
  10. I also hope this is good! Sunflower Bean's record came out last week and it is ace. They're playing one date in Scotland, Edinburgh next Monday (15th) if anybody is around. Bob Mould also just played in Edinburgh (what is this, Edinburgh-Music.com?! The fuck outta here!) and his new songs sound ace. It's not out til next month, though. One for @Soda van Jerk, new Steven Page record out on March 11th. He currently has no plans to play Edinburgh. The single 'Surprise Surprise' hasn't really grabbed me, but I'm looking forward to the rest of it anyway. Also, I'm really glad that Blackstar by David Bowie is actually ace and that there was at least a two day window to come to this conclusion because it's true, rather than out of obligation, before he died. It sounds heartbreaking now, though. Emotional times.
  11. I only saw the first series, which was tense as fuck and for a few weeks, it made me paranoid that someone would be waiting in my flat to kill me whenever I came home from anywhere. Good, though! Heard the second series was pish but I've not seen it.
  12. Must be the proximity to Canada. His mum, dad and Barb's accents were my favourite.
  13. Everything on this list is terrible. RECLAIM THE CITY.
  14. The length of the episodes means that plots are often resolved fairly quickly and sometimes a little predictably but the characters are great and there are some hilarious ridiculous moments. Also it's harder to lose your concentration than if it was made up of hour long episodes. Great television. Edie Falco for president.
  15. How did you get on with it? I just watched the final episode and now I don't feel like I can ever love again. The whole show is great, but I don't know anybody who watches it. Unjust madness. It's like the hospital version of Mad Men but in 20 minute chunks.
  16. This makes it sound like I think the council is just one person or department. I just mean that it seems mad that one area could be so poorly funded that inaction is inevitable, but another can uphold requests insanely quickly. Anyway, this whole thing is, again, sucky. There should definitely be a You Know What You're Getting Yourself In For clause on contracts for renting/buying property near venues. Did that ever happen or get close to it? I remember Edinburgh spoke about doing it but don't think it ever happened.
  17. I don't want this to become a "bloody cooncil!" post but it is baffling how long it can take councils (not just Aberdeen) to take any action over simple issues that need fixed, for example fixing a lamp post or something, yet seemingly a noise complaint can be made and almost immediately, the venue will be shut down. Or maybe it's just the same person complaining about noise every time. Someone high up in the council's asshole son or daughter who keeps purposely moving to flats above pubs/venues. Poorly constructed sentences? I got 'em!
  18. I didn't realise that my phone autocorrected to "it's" and now I can't sleep. Maybe Alan didn't get a contract with his hitman written up in enough time to come up with a list this year.
  19. Thank you, I feel truly #blessed* and am willing to take the Kiriakov hit. List on it's way in a sec. *#annoysodajerk
  20. Christ, even the story behind it is boring.
  21. Ah shit, I thought the deadline was today. Nevermind, I'm pish at this anyway. Will be raging if this is Sally Jesse Raphael's year, though.
  22. So, this is a thing that is happening... http://www.upsetmagazine.com/listen/listen-to-gardenia-the-first-track-from-iggy-pops-collab-with-josh-homme/
  23. What is Be Like Bill and where did he come from?
  24. I'm downplaying how good it is this year because I'm moving to Toronto in May so definitely won't be going. A better line-up than 2015 by miles, but they're still about 1-2 years behind Le Guess Who? I reckon. Everybody go to LGW. Top tips!: Selda and Islam Chipsy. Also, Downtown Boys, obvs. Yep. Definitely feeling okay about not going... *eye twitch*
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