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Das McManus rehearsals are 95% loud, pick scrapes and pinch harmonics. So, if you like the sound of that, come along to One Up on Saturday!

I'm not really into "loud" music per se but you guys can do it in a sort of poppy dancey way that's lovely jubbly.

4 bar staff working in Drummonds on Saturday night at about 9pm, place was deid, bar staff all standing chatting. Maybe a good idea to go flyering as Belmont Street was heaving outside. Biggest problem with the place, limited or no promotion.

That's not really Drummonds' problem, but instead the promoters' problem... I think that's what you meant.

Drummonds are pretty decent for promoting but most of the non-promoter stuff is only marketed through Facebook - decent if you're friends with Drummonds Aberdeen or whatever, not so much if you aren't.

That wasn't what I expected, but it's really, really fucking good.

They are mental-good live. So much energy that's impossible to capture on recording.

Gangam style. What's funny about it? Nothing.

It's probably the worst song I've heard in years.

The term 'dirty synths'. Just no.

Hey, what else can you say for sawtooth-y synth noise?

No probs fox, just let me know if you still want it

Sorry, I completely forgot about this. My email is foxfoxfoxfox- a t -hotmail.co.uk if you want to email me about it tomorrow 'cos I have Uni and stuff.

"90s kids" nostalgia pish on facebook. For example:

Fucking hell.

OH MY GOD I REMEMBER THAT SQUEEEEEEEEEEE

But yeah, surely everyone knows what those are, unless you're like 12 or younger.

DPD have redeemed themselves entirely! The driver swung past an hour ago and delivered my Miniak.

He seemed confused though...

Me: Thanks! I thought I was going to the depot tomorrow to get this

Driver: I automatically try again the next day

Me: Yeah but it was this morning that you failed to deliver

Driver: But I automatically come back the next day

Me: Yes, it was today that you tried the first delivery.

Was he foreign or a robot or something?

£50???

Interested! I'll have to get back to you tonight though 'cos I have football.

The exact change thing is actually done to prevent theft. The drivers don't have access to the money box at all, so if their takings are short it's because they're genuinely short and not because the driver needed an extra fiver to buy a packet of fags.

But yeah, it is a ballache.

Answer to that is "get more trustworthy staff"!

Also I'm also shit, but this is a kickabout isn't it?

Also I have no shinpads so don't kick my shins.

FOOTBAALLLLLLLAALALALALALALLLLLLLLLL

Will Strikers not give you change, I've only played their once.

I think it's pitch hire we're paying for so the ten of us are putting into a pot of £63. Might be wrong.

Got change now so we're SORTED.

FOOTBAWL.

Third Titus Andronicus album due out on the 22nd October. Called 'Local Business'. Looks like this:

If it sounds anything like the cover looks, move the fuck out of the way, the XX.

No one knows you're a dog either apart from me.

Right, who's going to have change for a tenner tonight??

Actually, fuck it, I'll just man up and break one at Spar.

I'm not a he.

I've been in my Polish neighbours flat before to get details of their landlord due to a leak, and they had Polish satellite TV and were able to watch Saturday 3pm Premier League kickoffs.

My quick question is HOW?!

Don't you remember that pub lady vs Sky? You can get cheap-as-fuck European footy streams.

Is it just an Aberdeen thing, this whole exact change on the bus business? I'd never seen it anywhere else until I moved here. They've essentially removed what is probably the most challenging part of the job. I hope they took an axe in their pay as a result, since they don't handle cash nor really have to excert any sort of people skills.

Most of them don't even fucking bother speaking. I need change anyway to pay for FOOTBAWL tonight.

more like a HIGH! U GET ME?

My local corner shop go apeshit if you withdraw a tenner from their cash machine and buy a paper with it to get change for the bus that demands exact change. How do I get exact change then, if everyone is going to be arsehole about it? Why not put your dickhead drivers through primary school again so they can learn how to count coins.

EXACTLY. I used to be pretty pissed off when someone used a £20, but a £10 is fair game methinks.

(For clarity, I worked in a Co-Op on Sunday mornings so got all the folk buying their Sunday papers.)

I know what my main present. It isn't a punch in the face.

[insert hilarious method of torture here]

Original Penguin are to open their first shop in Scotland in Union Square, occupying the unit next to O2 - http://local.stv.tv/aberdeen/news/business/191669-aberdeen-shoppers-will-soon-be-picking-up-some-penguin-original-threads/

They already have one, it's just branded "TK Maxx".

It's going to be fun when Scotland becomes Poland. Proxies ahoy!

Pet hate for today is First not giving you change. Means I need to go out to the shop and get £5 cashback in coins or £10 out to split with something else! Grr.

Get into Cool Thinker's thread, he'll tell you.

Actually it's okay, I'm going to be mega-awesome and get a lift from my gran.

FOOTBALL

Stupid question of the day:

Can you use an all-day ticket on the #40 to Dubford? Planning on getting it to and from the FOOTBAWL tonight.