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Not taking anything away from Wednesday - thought that was an unreal performance from them - but Newcastle had more than enough chances to come back there and on another day you do. Good game for us neutrals though. Feel thoroughly vindicated in my long held unpopular opinion that Palmer should have a fuckton more Scotland caps after watching that.

That game was before my time man, know it well but won't claim to "remember" it. Send him up here if he's ever down on his luck, like Snoddy he's an bonafide local hero.

Hate them and their shite haired cunt manager, but I'll concede tynecastle is a good testing ground for an 18yo loanee that already has full international experience and genuinely look forward to seeing the lad up here in some of the more hostile fixtures. My love for Snoddy is routed in him single-handedly getting us (Stirling Albion) promoted during his short loan back in his youth. It's rare we see a player like that pass though these parts and go on to have such great careers.

He looks a fair bit like that god-loving Tory cunt with the same surname. Hope you didn't mean this as a slight on Snoddy though. Not fucking having that, was entirely serious when singing his praises a few comments ago.

Could be a good move for him if he gets game time in the big matches. And the absolute fucking legend that is Robert Snodgrass is there to keep him on the right path.

First few bags of old kids clothes brought down from the loft she wanted to look through to see what might fit our youngest. A problem that was quickly solved by presenting her with a further 20 or so bags of the same shite. Thanks man. Dunno if luck will solve anything here though, what I need is a bigger skip, more whisky and a total frontal lobotomy.

Aye man, thats mostly what's filling the skip, swear I could chuck in a match and have a mostly empty skip again come morning. The good drawings she's taken pictures off and posted on social media anyway. We'll be sound. Didnae mean to hijack this thread, just absolutely fucking plastered and seemed relevant to the whole "new year = fresh start" bollocks.

Wishing we'd done the same (still an option to be fair, good shout!) just a bastard of a time of year to be moving, extra bank holiday up here on Tuesday really complicates it more. Need to be ready to move on Wednesday, could all get delayed. I've been trying to get bits and pieces cleared out most of December but my missus took the "let's just get Christmas out the way first" approach and she's the boss. Three of our four kids were born here and it feels like we've thrown absolutely nothing out since we moved in. Tuesday and Wednesday are going to be absolute pandemonium. Looking forward to it right now but that's probably down to the two full days of living off Dutch Courage.

Swear it's one of the few times I've woke up and thought "fuck it, more whisky" since my student days. I've fair enjoyed this first day of 2023 so far though, maybe a bit too much. Skip is full, garden is starting to resemble 742 Evergreen Terrace in that episode where Homer fell out with the bin men.

If that floats yer boat Spyres might be another band from this neck of the woods worth keeping tabs on. Some of their stuff is quite similar to Dead Pony. Im stretching "new music" a bit, but in my defence I only discovered this stuff this year.

Woke up still drunk and just kept going. Moving house in a few days, clearing the loft completely shitfaced wasn't how I intended to start to the year. I've probably accidentally thrown a lot of stuff with real sentimental value in the skip, but fuck it. Out with the old, in with the, eh.....Johnnie Walker? Happy New Year.

Dead Pony would probably be the big standout. Their recent "War Boys" EP is possibly the most perfect pop I've heard in years, and it's just dark and twisted enough enough to walk that tightrope between being interesting and still accessible. Not my usual cup of tea, last record I got such a hard-on for was the Carcass comeback in 2013.

That's pretty impressive. I've always had the opposite problem. Honestly don't mean that as a humble brag, I'm slim but in no way am I fit and healthy. I've long given up trying to gain weight, it just doesn't happen, maintaining this is hard enough. Ruled everything out from tapeworms to eating disorders, gp concluded "you must just burn it all off in nervous energy or you're more physically active that you're telling me. Get your cholesterol under control though or you'll be a young heart attack"

Im pushing forty and miraculously still maintaining the same 11 stone (~70kg) weight from my late teens. I put this down to a steady diet of roll-up ups, coffee, Guinness and Whisky (largely supplemented by the stress of having four kids and rarely getting a chance to actually finish and enjoy a meal).

Just stumbled on a pretty major issue with our mains wiring, the main earth wire for the whole house (and apparently next doors as it turns out) has been severed for god knows how long. Shout out to the old-timer retired sparky a few doors down who went from a casual "why is this dipshit interrupting Bargain Hunt?" to practically jumping out his chair yelping "OH JESUS THATS YER EARTH!". I've moaned about my neighbours a few times here but I'll actually miss a few of them when we move. Between that good cunt with his collection of shotguns (he has them for hunting, I'm more worried about the zombies) and the bloke a few doors on the other side with his snow-plow that attaches to the front of his old land rover (again, for the zombies).

My oldest is nearly 12 and much fucking smarter than me when it comes to passwords. Ive been recycling variations the same four passwords for about 20 years, she uses a password generator for each new account and keeps fucking notepads full of what looks like total jibberish but is actually some kind of cypher. She tried to explain one of her older methods for her coded notes recently and my brain just shut down the same way it did at Uni when I was first introduced to hexadecimal and calculus.

Usually at least one of the big supermarkets has it on sale at that price. It's basically how I choose which one I go to for the food shopping any given week.

Quite like a Lagavulin now and again but peaty western isles peaty stuff is far from sessionable. I don't have much time for the single malt debate but only because Johnnie Walker Black is the answer to every whisky question as far as I'm concerned, and if it's not available then Chivas Regal is the next best alternative.

My team thankfully aren't playing on boxing day, which is almost as good as a win to be fair (can't be asking part-timers to perform on a public holiday). Downside is that it's a day I'd have undoubtedly be drunk enough to have found the cold bearable and pies edible, and likely forgot the result by the 27th. All that aside, hope youse have a good Christmas and get to watch your team win on boxing day.

Ha. Always found it hard to dislike Josh despite all the weird and wonderful allegations levelled at him. Like him even more for this. Top tier (and mostly victimless) shithousery.

"Leg"

Not quite Musk/Twitter level hysteria but a bit of a hoo-ha up here over a local music festival went under this year, bands and crew all still unpaid. It's been taken over by the previous organisers dad, whos company has started a gofundme to try and raise £60k to get the artist paid. The dad in this story has turned out to be former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray. (Aye, the same Craig Murray that got jail time over his coverage of the recent Alex Salmond sexual misconduct trial).

Nice one! Point him to the diystompboxes forum it goes awry, they'll get him back on track. I've got a few old RPi's lying around, remember briefly looking into it for effects years ago but all the good projects were for Arduino. Apparently Arduino had significantly better AD/DA converters than the RPi but I'd imagine the newer Pi's have caught up by now.

Totally agree. The attitude that this is all Soutgate's fault and a new manager could do better is baffling to me, this looks like the most united England team of seen in my life and that's surely down the management. On your day you could and should beat anyone with that pool of players, but this is football. The complete lack of humility shown by a majority of the more vocal England fans is mostly the reason rUK revels so much in watching them lose, the assumption that beating France would've been a free pass to the final is amusing too, as if Morocco already eliminating Spain and Germany counts for nothing.