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21 hours ago, Camie said:

I never realised Aberdeen Music still had 132 users tbh.

I feel like Andy Burnham in the Labour leadership contest. 

Think Roswell have won this, tbh

These things all sound great but sadly, there is no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism. Workers, rise! Put down your coffee cups and paint Aberdeen with the blood of the bourgeoisie!

makro redevelopment sound good though tbf 

That Liverpool v Norwich game has to be one of the best of all time in the Premier League era. 

No, it has to be.

There is no subjectivity here.

Be Like Bill/Get In The Sea. Crazy Frog for the jilted and beardy.

40 minutes ago, Stroopy121 said:

INB4 "but I think that by putting the focus on people's race, we'd be creating more race problems that we'd solve" or some dogshit along those lines.

 

xx

Oh god, so embarrassing when people say stuff like that. "This discussion is difficult for me!!!!!"

10 hours ago, Jaaakkkeee said:

Only memorable person or colour I can remember from trailers last year was thon black stormtrooper. And that's only cause of fannies complaining about him being black. From what I've heard (from whites, but liberal whites) white folks just gave better performances. At the end of the day it doesn't matter cause even if a black guy was nominated Leo d'caprio isn't black so not likely you'd have black winners this year anyway.

 

It does matter. The lack of nominations is the crucial point. Whether POC win or not, it's ridiculous to suggest that no POC actors were up to the academy standard. 

Food for thought: Sylvester Stallone gets a nod for his role in Creed, a critically-acclaimed film led by a black actor. The white screenwriter of Straight Outta Compton, a film in which most of the cast are POC, gets a nod. It's not about casting races against each other, it's just that the lack of inclusion for ethnic minority actors at awards season is absolutely shocking. 

Your 'liberal' white mates who've said "well maybe the white actors are just better" can't have seen the number of films considered for individual nominations by the Academy. And if they're saying stuff like that, they just aren't that liberal.

Not voting for Depeche Choad seems bizarre to me 

5 hours ago, Doctor Acula said:

Does anyone think that Liverpool will play him?

I genuinely think they should do. Mignolet has proved enough times (for me) that he's not a top-class goalkeeper, and while Ward isn't there yet, I do think he has potential to be excellent. He's a pure shot-stopper, which is such an incongruous trait nowadays, strangely.

1 hour ago, Soda van Jerk said:

Garth Crooks is merely misunderstood. A visionary ahead of his time. Possibly sent from the future, back through time to help shape football to come.

His BBC Team of the Week is quite something, on a regular basis.

Your first thought will be WTF?! understandably. But just look at it. It is an arrow, and it is pointing towards the goal. Genius.

 

Then there's this.

Kevin De Bruyne, £50m of attacking talent as the defensive midfielder? Wot u on, Garth? In the year 2185, there are no defensive midfielders. You play your best attacking players infront of the defence, because your defence are also attackers. The future is now.

 

More subtly:

He recently dialed it back 100 years, when defensive midfielders still had a place. A mere glimpse of the future, with that 4 man wall of attacking midfielders. 2085 Total football.

Alexis Sanchez as a LWB is uh... Bold 

On 10/7/2015 at 1:19 PM, waltz said:

Here,

Remember when David Cameron fucked a pig

Who remembers?

1 hour ago, Doctor Acula said:

Check out this fud - http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-35244341

What a total prick. 

Yeah where have they all gone

are our Brownsteins and Malkmus's going into oil instead of rock action?

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On 24 December 2015 at 5:21 PM, colb said:

My favourite so far was the (now deleted) Facebook post by a band playing there next week calling them arseholes.

People in bands love biting that hand that feeds.....

Who was that?!

CHEERS CAMIE! I wasn't sure whether or not to do a thread, you are a good person.

Gotta say it's been great fun seeing that Brewdog (whose marketing style I am profoundly not a fan of) have provided the mid-size venue Aberdeen has needed for ages, and people have still moaned about it, for whatever reason.

 

9 hours ago, Scubby said:

*ex-costa employee alert* asking for extra hot is pointless, as staff are only allowed to heat it to a certain temperature.  They'll say "yeah, no problem" to appease you, but it's the same temperature as all the other drinks (unless someone asks for it to be not as hot).

Oh god, I used to work at a costa as well. So many of the customers are just full of shit.

I'm boycotting lemonade

Adult colouring books. I refuse to be friends with anyone who owns one.

I dunno man, that's a bit harsh. They're primarily used as a mindfulness technique to treat anxiety disorder AFAIK

I don't care what THE MAN says, I don't hyphenate my hardons.

Large Hardon Collider

I quite like the music in Tim and Eric, but is that comedy with music in it or musical comedy?

Songs that aren't meant to be funny but are > songs that are meant to be funny

Wanting to be played on Radio 2 is like saying "yes! My music is boring as fuck!".

People regularly die listening to Radio 2. From natural causes. Old age. Being so dull you can't continue to live.

Apart from when Terry Wogan was on, but fuck me he played some absolute shite.

Anyway, all the best Sandi, GBOL

Your paragraphs need to be longer and the extended metaphor about fireworks was kinda laboured but otherwise I got a decent feel for what the gig was like. The advice I've been given about live reviews is to make them less static - don't say things like "this band came on" "this band came on", review it like you would a play or film in three parts. 

Good, though

Who was getting het up about it? Haven't seen much hate on facebook etc, mostly agreement in places.

 

Twitter maybe? I can't remember.

Excellent post, Euan.