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Watched that new(ish?) Lonley Island film, Popstar. It's as silly as you'd expect it to be. Pretty shallow plot which is predictable from the off, but it makes up for it with all the silliness. Worth a watch if you are familiar with and like Andy Samberg.

Game Night, starring Jason Bateman and whatshername from Mean Girls. Pretty good. Not many belly laughs for a comedy, but it's a pretty cool plot.

Yep, that Conan LP is pretty wild. Perhaps I need to revisit the earlier stuff.

Been spinning loads of 'IDM' Spotify playlists at work. I have no idea what IDM even is, but I dig a fair bit of it. This guy popped up on one. Checked out the rest of his stuff and it's ace. Turns out he's from Bristol n'all.

https://iglooghost.bandcamp.com/music

Check it if you dig glitchy electronica. Above LP is solid. He's put out a couple of EPs this year too.

9 hours ago, James Broonbreed said:

Cheers pal.

 

Aye, I think Joe is still working there. I've been in touch with him a fair bit about the previous issue we were having.

It's Stronach's who 'deal' with the property. The landlord has since been in touch with her usual bullshit attitude - so slowly getting somewhere now.

Who the fuck ignores emails when their flat is leaking water?!

It's crazy isn't it. My experience of dealing with Aberdeen landlords is that a lot of them are so bewilderingly rich, they just don't give a shit, even if their property is getting damaged in the process.

When I lived at King Street, we had frequent leaks from above because the knobhead tenant kept letting his bath overflow, or would point the shower directly at the tiles, and it would seep through the half arsed seal around the bath. I'd ring the landlord, who also lived in Dubai, and she'd just hang up mid conversation once she got the jist of what it was about, but her tone prior to hanging up was just like she didn't care one bit.

I think it would be fair to say that there's no such thing as a good overseas landlord. They're all a bunch of pirates.

I've never been crazy about Conan, but that track is pretty great.

7 hours ago, James Broonbreed said:

The flat above my Aberdeen flat has a leak somewhere that has been coming through the ceiling in my kitchen. My tenant has spoke to the tenants above and they are unable to spot any leak as the pipework is all enclosed.

I've emailed the landlord of the flat but she's a fucking cow who never responds to emails when there's a problem and money will be involved. She also lives in Dubai. I've emailed her letting agent who say the flat is not managed by them so all they can do is email her...

Presumably the tenants above can call out an emergency plumber and claim the costs back from the landlord or the agent, but what happens with getting the ceiling fixed in my flat? Do I have to claim from home insurance, or is this something that the other landlord would be responsible for paying for?

 

Not such a quick question, but hey ho.

Cheers

The landlord of the above property should be liable, but some will try to fob you off and tell you that it is you that needs to make a claim. That is bollocks IIRC.

It's a tricky situation for the tenants above though, if the landlord is not playing ball. They might not be in a position to pay for an emergency plumber, and if they were, they'd need an agreement with the landlord to do that, otherwise they could be a few hundred quid in the hole with the landlord refusing to reimburse. They'd have to go down a small claims court route and jeopardise their tenancy etc. If the landlord keeps avoiding the issue, the tenants could claim for it via the Housing and Property Chamber, but that would be their prerogative, and if the leak isn't directly affecting them, they probably won't.

Letting Agents claiming they don't manage a particular property when work/money is concerned tended to be a tactic that some of the shadier agents would use (like AM-PM, who should be avoided as a tenant or a landlord, proper shysters. APL are a load of bastards n'all). It was incredible how many times we'd contact agents when I worked at the council, they'd confirm that they managed a property, and when I'd mention leaks or repairs the tone immediately changed to "oh, actually, we no longer manager that one", like clockwork. Who is the letting agent in this instance?

I believe you've spoken to my old colleague Joe Lamb before. He should be able to give you some advice (if he still works there, if not, someone else in Private Sector Housing will be able to help. Ally Thain is the manager and he's a super good chap, super helpful.). The council can step in and force works to go ahead and then bill the landlord in instances where the landlord isn't cooperating to essential works, and this should certainly qualify as such. They've changed the number on the ACC site to a single number which greets you with loads of confusing menus but 522299 is a direct line to PSHU.

18 hours ago, colb said:

He rejoined them earlier this year, he's very upset with Shaggy2Dope...

Now in a string of Instagram comments, Limp Bizkit’s DJ Lethal has stated that he was a “fan until now”, before telling Shaggy: “Bro step up!! Man to man. No suckerstage rushing ‘I’m gonna get on TMZ’.”

He also called him a “bitchmade G,” a “wack bro” who “just got wack,” and a “bitch ass clout chaser.” He repeatedly asked Shaggy “Where you at?”

Ok, I'm interested again, and from those snippets, DJ Lethal sounds like a GBOL. Solid vocab.

Love a good band feud. I hope they wrestle, and it is broadcast internet-wide.

I just learned that DJ Lethal isn't even in that band anymore, so who even cares?

21 hours ago, AVB said:

everything about this is rediculous and hilarious https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/10/icp-fred-durst-dropkick/

Wow. I had no idea Limp Bizkit were still going.

I mean, look at all those people who paid money, real cash money, to watch Limp Bizkit in 2018.

The ICP guys used to have their own wrestling fed, which probably explains the air kick. He's so used to not actually kicking someone in the face.

Many United fans are gutted they pulled it back too. They wanted it to be the death of Mourinho. I think it would have been.

It buys him a bit of time, but they're going into a brutal run of games now starting with Chelsea away, back to back CL games against Juventus, City away shortly after. They pulled it back against a team who haven't won since last season, but they're likely going to lose all 4 of those.

And again. Bailly brought off as a sub after 15 minutes, replaced in the back four by McTominay.

Last weekend Lindelof went off and McT stayed on and played in the back four. Actual centre backs, replaced by an inexperienced bang-average nothing midfielder.

Jose needs to rage quit this FM save.

5 hours ago, MattJimF said:

Quick search and this site has been reconmended - https://3ds.hacks.guide/

Thanks for that.

Interesting reading. aka, waaaay more difficult than I anticipated. I thought it was going to be putting some software on an SD card and loading up some ROMs

https://3ds.hacks.guide/installing-boot9strap-(seedminer)

I just wanna play Turtles In Time on the bus.

Can anyone point me in the direction of a guide on how to put emulators (say for SNES, Mega Drive, Gameboy Advance etc) on to a Nintendo 3DS? Is such a thing even possible?

17 hours ago, Lemonade said:

 

 

 

Didn't realise and/or forgot you were an admin again.

Don't ban me.

Though if you do, I'll start a new account and I'll post about nothing but ringtones.

I read that today too, enticed by the ridiculous title.

Turned out to be a very good article. I do like his "I was just gathering intelligence to take it to the authorities" cop out though.

I bet the money was just resting in his account as well.

Didn't there used to be an approval system for new members on this thing?

And some sort of staff?

And also a purpose?

Zidane would probably prefer the empty seat in the dressing room over keeping McTominay. He isn't even a footballer. He is just a pawn being used to make a point. Mourinho played him when he made an example of Pogba last season and dropped him for a Champions League knockout. He also created the "Jose Mourinho Player of the Year Award" for United's end of season awards ceremony, and gave it to McTominay.

I don't believe for a second that Mourinho rates McTominay as a footballer, but he's one of those guys who will go to war for him, so it doesn't matter if he's good or not. He wasn't even the best player in the U23s, and if he went back to that level now, he still wouldn't be. He is basically a bigger Tom Cleverley.

Zidane would be better off playing himself.

new Revocation album is nuts, if you dig cheeseball tech-death. Going to see them in December. PUMPED.

new Anaal Nathrakh is less good. They seem to get more melodic with each new record. More singing. Less filling every frequency with piles of digitally processed guitars. 

Rumours circulating that Zidane will oust Mourinho. I don't see anything happening this side of Christmas, but there's some reputable sources picking it up.

Seems weird to have doubts over a manger who won the Champions League three years in a row, but even though he inherited a team that had been shat on by Rafa Benitez, they were - and are - still some of the best players in the world. He didn't really touch the transfer market in 3 years there, he didn't really need to, but he'd have to at United, and probably in January if he wants to salvage the season.

If he joins United, the only player he would inherit of that calibre is David De Gea. 

And Jesse Lingard obvs.

Everyone who plays a position that Ward-Prowse can play is generally better at everything than Ward-Prowse is, except kicking a football. He's like a slimmer, non-dickhead version of Charlie Adam. He can whip it, but he's pretty crap at everything else. No pace, a slight breeze could knock him off balance, seems to hate putting his foot in to a challenge.

If they had the luxury of having a strong team around him, they could play him in a Pirlo-like role, where can just stroll around and ping the ball about and take all their free kicks all without getting his knees dirty. But they don't have that luxury. They are shite.

Morten Gamst Pedersen. That's a name I've not heard for ages. My only lasting memory of him, besides his despicable dives, was that time he whipped in a free kick with his right foot, despite being known for being left footed, and the commentary team just lost it. It was like he delivered the ball using witchcraft. 

Mark Hughes' Southampton also. I'd watch Burnley over Southampton a thousand times over.

It's amazing how many times any team managed by Hughes will play an absolutely horrendous game of football, and he'll stand infront of a camera at full time saying that they were the better team and deserved something from the game, usually with a moan about the referee.

Sparky could spill his own glass of milk in an empty room, and it'd be the referees fault.

Vicious.

12 minutes ago, ca_gere said:

He had a purple patch where he looked great pretty good last season but effort has always been his main attribute - which for a top flight footballer, isn't ever going to be enough. Still, that's more than can be said for most of the Man Utd team at the moment.

I've never been a fan but it used to be a treat to watch a Man Utd game, even for a large majority of the post-Fergie era. You'd at least get something out of it even when the team wasn't at its peak  - a piece of individual brilliance or a good team goal or whatever - but now there are probably 15 or so teams in the PL I'd rather watch right now.

Pretty harsh on the 4 teams that aren't United.

Though I imagine one of them is Newcastle, obviously. They are muck.

I don't think Phil Jones would have developed very well anywhere. His injury record is unbelievable. And it's not like he's got one disaster of a knee like Owen Hargreaves had. Phil Jones injures everything, usually from being over-zealous or just being stupid. He's brave and loves to throw himself around, but he's dumb, has zero football IQ. The penalty he gave away in the FA Cup final is the epitome of him. As is this:

It's mad that he went to the World Cup and Smalling didn't, because he can pass a ball marginally better.

It was hilarious.

Is there a more toxic football club on earth right now? Pogba is an arse, but Mourinho is a bigger arse. I wish PP would take one for the team and just chin the cunt. I know he wants to.

Phil Jones is a pointless human. Just a complete waste of carbon. The highlight of his career is the infinite memes of his stupid face.

I am often spectacularly wrong about football, so point taken.

When Leicester won the league, everyone else who should have challenged was terrible. Spurs were so bad they finished 3rd in a two horse race. Chelsea finished 10th, Liverpool 8th. There'll never be a season as spectacularly poor as that one.

Arsenal won't win it, but I predict they'll be comfortably back in the top 4, as will Chelsea, at the expense of United and Spurs.