Blastronaut

Rangers game aside, the Jota to Saudi Arabia transfer has been a strange spectacle. £25 million paid, a reported £100k+PW contract agreed and after two games the Saudi club have released him as a free agent. Maybe they just don't fancy him.

That's sounds like me when I was about 8 years old.

Fuck, somehow I'd missed the free insurance element, but was aware of the rest. Might reconsider. Honestly though, the Renault has been an absolute tank and never really let us down. Last winter it didn't seem to like cold mornings very much, OBD said one bad glow plug. Closer inspection

Oh I don't doubt that for a second. The whole scheme looks fantastic and it's sometimes a.challenge to fight the "why are we driving a 13yo when we could get a new one on motability" thoughts. We've been keeping a close eye on the 7 seater options since they change quite a bit, but when we already have a car that's been really reliable (albeit a bit old and not very environmentally friendly) that fits a family of six + the lads wheelchair and still has room for a supermarket shop, it seems mental to stump up the deposit and the lose the chunk of benefits to replace it for a "new". When the Renault finally dies it undoubtedly the route we'll go down, but the deposit for most of the suitable 7 seaters is usually in the the £1500 to £2000 range, which is basically what we paid to buy the Renault.

For some reason I thought you were in rural Ireland. With that purchase I'm gonna guess I was wrong. Fuck driving about Donegal and Mayo looking for somewhere to charge the car. Ours is diesel. Actually it's worse than that, it's also French. It's been pretty reliable for its age and decent seven seaters are few and far between on the second hand market. Glasgow's new ULEZ zone has proved a bit of a ball-ache but that's entirely our fault for being disorganised as fuck and not applying for the exemption (lads blue badge). Plan is to just run the car into the ground. Might look properly at the motability options when it finally dies. I'd be confident it hasnat least another year or two if wasn't for Mrs Blastronaut recent mad moments when she speeds up for speed bumps. She's easily a better driver than me tbh but she's clearly pushing to get the current motor replaced with a motability option.

I don't have a fucking clue what my point was there, looks like I was trying to make a joke of some kind that I'm assuming made sense to me in why whisky addled brain last night. That said, their transfer policy being stupid and self-destructive would be a good thing for the rest of the league. I don't personally think it is though, given their new German DoF I don't buy the whole "Endo was a panic buy" narrative especially after Endo's own comments but it is interesting that the two cunts that stumped up the money for Caicedo have previous beef from their baseball rivalry. I don't think it's that much of a reach to speculate there might have been a bit of a cock swinging contest going on.

Liked by Eddie Hitler. Fucking hell, I hope my natural-born worrier brain remembers this and never wastes another minute worrying about the long-term implications of the of handles I've spontaneously chosen for various forums over the years.

Didn't watch it. One of my daughter's asked last night when I was three sheets to the wind if I thought England would win and said "I hope not". She went on to quiz me "why wouldn't you want them to win?" and now I'm concerned that answering "because that would make me sexist" might not have been my finest moment as a parent. For context, we're Scottish.

That guy Endo that they signed said something the other day that had me scratching my head a bit. Words to the effect of "I thought they had signed Caicedo, when I heard he signed for Chelsea I thought "there might still be a chance"". Liverpool fans are all shitting the bed and screaming about Endo being a panic buy, but it looks like he was always in talks. If their current transfer policy is "neither of these guys sound like they want to sign for us, but we can still make Chelsea overpay on both when they probably only wanted one, so let's do that" then that's fine by me.

Everton do look a shambles as usual though. That John McGinn goal was class but how none of those defenders have picked up his short run to the front post is beyond me.

I'm just saying I wouldn't be massively surprised to see Spurs sign Kyogo. Reckon he could be had for £15mil at most and he's the archetypal Ange type center forward. I'm not saying it's nailed on, or that he'd walk it in the PL but I can see a world where they get one bigger name CF + Kyogo and look to move Richarlison on.

He's no Kyogo Furuhashi, that's for sure.

Aye. Couldn't score from open play even with something like 9 minutes of Fergie time added on. And it's no like Spurs were parking the bus, they were wide open. Cunt can go and sook eggs.

Mate I know a fair some seriously staunch Rangers fans who would begrudgingly confess to liking him. Usually by saying shit like "hate the cunt. Why does he have to be so likable?"

He was a breath of fresh air for Scottish football. I was watching so many Celtic games the last few years that Mrs Blastronaut bought me a Celtic mug at Xmas. Loved watching his press conferences when he was up here, he can be a right prickly fucker but he's was razor sharp, especially when dealing with dickhead reporters fishing for a headline. I think one of my favourites was a reporter asking him after a defeat if he might dial back the heavily offensive style hes always favoured. "If you're a vegetarian you don't just pop into McD's for a burger whenever you're hungry, mate".

I'm not one to make judgements on pubs based solely on their names, but Bar Loco is a seriously shite name for a pub. Actually the first part of that is a bit of lie. I jumped in a taxi recently and said "the Empire Bar please" and few minutes later the driver casually tried to strike up conversation with "is that a Rangers or a Celtic pub?". Cunt then doubled down when I said "I've never been in but the gambler in me would bet the regulars aren't Irish Republicans" with "what makes you say that?".

My hearing is already fucked mate. About an hour ago I could swear I heardl my other half talking about booking a slot for some kinda republican event. "Republicans. I'm booking a slot to pick republicans at the republican farm". Panic over. It was pumpkins. We're picking pumpkins at the pumpkin farm, fucking ages away for Halloween.

Ah fucksticks. Just seen SWANS in Glasgow is sold out for tomorrow. In other news, Byker Grave is a pretty good name for a metal "festival". If any one local has a penchant for really old-school thrash metal I'd highly recommend seeing Hellripper live in early November. I caught them by accident last year in an absolute toilet of a venue, for my money they put the current crop of big mainstream thrash bands to absolute shame.

I've watched that gif loop for a good five minutes and I'm not ashamed to admire that I suddenly feel a lot better about several decades worth of fever dreams. Is this Cyriaks work?

Same. I'm a miserly bastard and I hadn't planned on buying whisky tonight but when I noticed it on offer at the local co-op my inner atheist quite clearly screamed "it's cool man ignore me, this is clearly a sign from a higher power."

You're not wrong btw, good shout. Sweeter than I remember the Sherry Cask version being but I'm no connoisseur by any stretch and my taste buds are all fucked up since kicking the snouts. If it passes the hangover test I'll probably pick this up more often.

Well this is shite. My incredibly lucky several year run of getting completely free full sky and BT Sport's has finally come to an end. I'd forgot how tedious and frustrating streaming platforms could be sometimes. You can probably expect to see me stinking out the IPTV thread over the next few weeks.

Wide eyed and bushy tailed to boot.

That's awful. Poor bloke. Hope you've called the Samaritans.

Dunno who that is bit you've got my attention. Does she drink at The Grill?