Moose

Oh shit, this is tomorrow gaiz!!

The Mission is easily the best. 

How fucking handsome is Kit Harrington btw.  My first man crush in a good while. 

Not a result anyone was expecting!  I was very confused when Ramos scored his second.  Madrid were magnificent and it shouldn't be that surprising with the players they have.  Didn't know Modric was so good, obviously he was great at Spurs, but he seems genuinely world class now.  Up there with Iniesta. 

Joffrey is actually older (16) than Jon Snow/Robb Stark (14) in the books.

This is this Friday!!

Algernon Doll have just been announced for GoNorth 2014.  Come see how great they are!!

That's a video of one of their songs.  

Cool.

Is that Bale gif real?  Da fuck?!?

Bearded football virtuoso, Andreas Pirlo, has an autobiography on its way, and it sounds like it's going to be a humdinger. Here is a exert where he has a dig at Ji-Sung Park, the "guard dog" and Fergie, the "purple nosed manager".

 

 

The bold bit is my favourite. Mostly because Park scored a daisy of a goal in the 2nd leg.

 

Pirlo completed a meager 21 passes in the 2nd leg at Old Trafford. Mission accomplished.

 

Strange quotes from someone who played alongside Gattuso for so many years. Gatusso did the same to Ronaldo in 2007, and many other players.

 

Defending from the front. Not a new thing, Pirlo.

Aye, but Pirlo. 

Got Civ 5 last night and had a bash at it.  Was randomly assigned India; does the country make a big difference?  It's a heck of a lot to get your head around.  I think I'll have to pick up some kind of walkthrough while I get the hang of what I'm supposed to be doing! 

Axe Cop sounds like the best thing ever!  Why had I not heard of it until i looked it up just now?!?

Out of those, Civ.  It's the easiest to pick up the basics and will just suck you in. Though I haven't played Civ V...

Cheers, I think I'll give it a bash then as it was probably top of my list. 

Looking at a few strategy games, a genre I've never really tried.  What would people recommend over Age of Empires, Civilisation V, Command and Conquer or SimCity (not really strategy game, I suppose)? 

I've scarcely had such an overwhelming hunch that we weren't going to win a game after 5 minutes into the second half.  I can't really eplain it, as they weren't exactly all over us.  I think we had 4 absolutely clear cut chances to finish the game off (Rooney's miss, Pawlett's miss and two free headers from Robson and McGinn) so it's a real shame those chances weren't taken better.  Such a strange game.  I was sitting with a smile, fairly certain we were going to the final for all of the 1st half, but that changed almost as soon as the whistle blew for half time  I think we really needed to put the game to bed in the 1st half, which turned out to be true.

Good on St Johnstone though.  I'm genuinely pleased for them to be in their first cup final.  Hopefully they can kick on and attract more of a following.

When i started doing freelance photography, i was mostly reliant on nightclub work which meant my job in a Golf Club Bar was suffering. I'll openly admit it became a second priority as it paid half as much for 3x the hours and 10x the stress. It resulted in the bar manager and the club committee bullying me to shit, trying to get me to quit. One day i slept in, honest mistake and the only time it ever happened. Queue a thousand abusive phone calls from the manager giving me all kinds of grief, everything from 'This isn't on' to 'You're a worthless piece of shit anyway, can kiss you job good bye'. Kind of stupid to say to someone you want someone from? However, i was determined to leave with my head held high, so i persisted. When i made it in that day, the boss ended up continuing the abuse, accompanied with 'This is incredibly selfish of you, how can you act like this, do you not care *ANONYMOUS CO-WORKER*'s sister just killed herself?!' 

 

This was the watershed moment. Not only was i not to know, with no way of knowing, that a co-worker's sister had killed herself the night before, but somehow, my sleeping in was related to such an event and i was not being guilt tripped with it. Pretty poor taste from the bar manager. So this lead to me sticking around until she was fit to come back to work, taking daily abuse from the bar manager, she said on multiple occasions that i wouldn't have had any work had she not needed me. I always kept my lips shut, but she was clearly such an idiot that she didn't realise the only reason i was there was to look out for *ANONYMOUS CO-WORKER*. 

 

When i finally had the chance to hand in my notice, even though they knew i was desperate to leave, they claimed i was required to give a month's notice. For a job with zero hours contracted. I knew this was bollocks, but i couldn't hand in any notice until i got the contract, so when day when opening up, i dug out a copy of the contract, found that it said just one week, scribbled on a piece of paper my notice and handed it to her when she took over later on. She went ballistic, telling me i was completely out of order, an idiot, speaking shite, etc, etc. When she finally finished, i said i had a copy of my contract that stated just one week. She said i was lying. I produced the contract. Not only at this point had i won, and made her look like the fool, but she still didn't believe me. She said it was forged and challenged me on it, contacted the office for them to produce an identical document. She then questioned that one! Said it was incorrect, found a table on it that stated how much notice had to be given in the case of a dismissal (wait for it) that stated a months notice. The joy i experienced on pointing out that that was how much notice she had to give me and in pain english beneath it stated that in termination of my contract i was only required to give one week's notice. 

 

I kept calm and collected the whole way through this entire hell, even when getting her fucking told looking over the contract. But the second i left that building for the last time, i have never felt so happy in my life. Such a shit situation and i got to throw it in her face so hard. Would have been much better had i been able to just walk out and never look back, but i know i did the right thing keeping as professional as possible and looking out for the co-worker who needed the time off. The bar manager would never have done that. 

Actually there's another story, while one full time member of staff was off work grieving and i was only part time, understaffed as it is, the bar manager went away for an entire weekend, leaving me in charge. Y'know, the person she said she wouldn't have keep on if she had anyone else. Leaving me to run the bar Thurs-Sun, looking after temporary staff. The stories i have from that place are endless. 

Was that the Banchory Gold Club and did her name start with J?

EDIT: because I worked with her before she was manager and spent most of my time trolling her.  She was painfully stupid.  I'm assuming alice was before your time?  She was something else also.  Ask Shaki about her!

I just remembered when my Gran legitimately had a heart attack and I had to head to ARI I -upset - told the manager at The Bobbin and he said "Right.  What do you want me to do?"  Not "oh God, I'm so sorry.  Are you OK?  If you need to go, just go" as one would expect.  It wasn't a boy who cried wolf situation, I think this was the turning point that lead to all my elaborate excuses for not attending work. 

Aye.  The hot girls were why I got the job in the first place.  That benefit was offset by the volume of Rugby Dicks, however.  The captain of the AU rugby team once tried to headbutt me and the "team leader" that day didn't throw him out and actually persistently pretended not to notice me the 3-4 times I told him "that guy just tried to headbutt me."  The barflies that stood by the glass collection area frequently tormented me because I didn't enjoy talking to them.  There was one guy, Kenny was his name, who once threatened me with violence. 

Yeah, I've not been at any teams with good youth coaching or recruitment in this game and have never managed to get it upgraded.  It's shit when the very best of your youth players coming through has a maximum potential of 3 stars.  You're never going to go with them as they'll probably never even reach that.  You do get the odd player who performs really well, regarldess of their rating, usually when they are really specialised to one position, but in general the stars don't lie!

I remember persisitng with a 37 year old Chris Iwelumo who my coaches told my was of a 5 silver star rating against the rest of my squad.  Stll had brilliant heading, finishing and strength and completely tore it up as a target man. 

So anyone coming to this one? 

Just realised I recommended the same Jack Stephens who Ken Fitlike presumably got sent off...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXz-Trkctg

Here's a video y'all.