Blastronaut

Mrs B and me are so uninterested in cars that after years of driving shitbox Renault's with hilarious electrical issues we recently decided "fuck it, enough is enough" and ordered a Dacia, Renault's budget "sister" brand. Looking forward to many more years of "when did the wipers stop working?" "Front wipers are fine but only work when the windshield fan is off and the child lock is on. Rear wiper is temperamental but usially springs to life after you indicate left a few times"

I couldnt really care less about the result but that felt like a weirdly abnormal ratio of left footed penalty takers at the end there. Strange like. Hope this isn't a new trend. Lefties taking pens always give me the fear for some unexplainable reason.

I dunno I'll give him solicitors. When I was trying to settle my late father's estate my solicitor merged with another company and moved offices without fucking bothering to tell me. I was posting fucking original documents, (mortgage paperwork, birth certificates the fucking lot) to an abandoned building for a few months. I'm also on board with my fellow Scot's hatred of pavement parkers. Aye it's not illegal but it's proper dickhead behaviour. Lowest of the low, scum of the earth. Hate them more than Tories. And cyclists.

Fuck sake. It not just MF, you've all went full Nathan Barley. If anything MF could be the Dan Ashcroft of these General Chat threads.

Is that something hospital porters do to pass the time on their break or just part of the job description?

MF has gone full Nathan Barley.

Conversation in our house just there when this was playing "Aye the new stuff sounds really nu-metal. I want to like it but it reminds me too much of that band Spineshank" "Aye I'll give you nu-metal, that's clearly what they're going for but I don't think this sounds anything like Spineshank....... ........wait what the fuck is this?" "Spineshank".

I see they're playing in Camperdown NSW next Saturday which looks like your neck of the woods. I caught them in Glasgow around this time last year and they in were great form. Bill is still rocking heavily downtuned LP speacials and somehow getting away with it. Got given a vinyl copy of Torn Arteries today and while its far from my faveourite Carcass record I gave it another blast and felt compelled to check if they were touring. Wrong side of the world for me, bought High on Fire tickets instead.

Thought this was just some hilarious AI generated nonsense but it turns out Mark has an album in the pipeline and these could be guest appearances. Still love the idea that Mark Knopflers top guitar hero's are 5 Mark Knopflers, 3 Eric Clapton's and Ringo Starr. Like he's sat there in his 70's saying "Did I say Mark Knopfler?" "Yes Mark you did, several times".

Hey fwiw I'm only shitting on it because I'm bitter about not having the free time to play and fully appreciate games like this these days. Looks good, like Kojima watched the Walking Dead and said "hold my beer!". UPS simulator shouldn't be taken a negative either. Our local UPS guy is one of my favourite people. I couldn't tell you his name but he brings me loads of my favourite things, cunt even found my keys once.

Aye but even most Welsh folk don't speak Welsh. The easiest solution to your problem is to be Polish and watch the game in Poland.

Be Polish?

Hope this is sarcasm man. Open World? The Hideo Kojima game that was heavily marketed with Norman Reedus as the protagonist? Guaranteed to be basically on rails with a load of wank "choices" tied in to give the illusion of free will and multiple outcomes. Haven't played it, but in the wise words of Paul Calf: Bag of Shite.

That's interesting, even the old line 6 Spider amp footswitches were momentary rather than latching. Bizarrely they connected to the amp with Cat5 cable. I hated those amps. They had some weird gimmicky sub octave setting called "Insane" mode that was even less usable than the other models.

Mad that the screenshot for their promo video has a pile of floppy discs. I love akai gear for the most part but that's just taking the absolute piss. We've come full circle with digital gear masquerading as old-school analogue. I'm not shitting on it fwiw. This is just jealousy. I want one. It looks like the compromise between Cubase and a 4-track that aging degenerates like us didn't know wanted.

Bielsa at Leeds is one of the greatest managerial anomalies of all time. If they get promoted again they should get him back in and write it off as a glitch in the matrix.

That result sank my coupon today. The silver lining is that I'd taken Rangers ht/ft so it was in the bin by before the second half started and I able to enjoy the full time result.

I like this guy. He reminds me of me before I had kids and got bored of weed. The arcade machine pedal has piqued my interest, I've been fucking around with the Data Corrupter circuit a bit this week. It's cool but it got me thinking how fucking weird it is that we've now got analog guitar gear trying to emulate 80's and 90's digital sounds, and digital gear doing the complete opposite. It's almost come full circle. As an aside I also know a guy called Andy Gill, but he was never in Gang of Four to my knowledge. Last I heard he was "fixing broken Dyson's" in the East-End of Glasgow which could mean fucking anything.

Guilty as charged. Aye the Bino's who unfortunately share the SAFC acronym. Memorable highlights of my lifetime supporting them are beating Ally McCoist's Rangers when they were in the fourth tier and that time we got a baby faced Robert Snodgrass on a 6 month loan. I'm just on the wind-up with tenuous links tbh. The Albion used to play at a stadium called Annfield and we're managed by Bill Shankly's brother, Bob. Bob is better known for his record with Dundee (cunts built a fucking statue for him) but was back at Stirling on the board when he passed away. Speaking of "Real Scotsmen", Jocky Scott is another former Stirling manager that's better known for his earlier exploits as Dundee manager (for all the wrong reasons). Cunt managed the riduculous feat of bossing the 2nd tier with Dundee sitting 10 point clear and still managing to get sacked. "The real Leigh Griffiths blog" by Dundee Barry gave us all some insight:

Thats Football in a nutshell. Poetry without the poets.

"I've working on a novel, you're the protagonist!"

I like you lot but it's really odd seeing Newcastle fans falling over themselves to defend Chelsea in the league cup. I get it with wykiki who is clearly in denial about being madly in love with a Scouser workmate. The rest of you I'm a bit worried about.

Aye. I didn't watch it either and I'm a Liverpool fan. It's the league cup, nobody cares. Too many folk take this game and their "allegiances" waaaay to seriously. 😉

It's basically open world with a heavy slant towards cartoon violence. So can cycle up a mountain on a BMX if that's your thing, hijack a plane and crash it into a high rise, or drive around and pick up prostitutes and then murder them to get your money back..Whatever floats yer boat. I haven't played it in years but if I remember correctly my favourite activities were just sitting around listening to the radio stations in-between killing-spree sessions and hijacking taxi cabs and driving unsuspecting customers into the sea. I'm too old for it now and the last one felt a bit formulaic and phoned in from what I played, but your 12yo would fucking love it.

Get a fucking room already. That's essentially the first chapter of a Mills and Boon novel.