Blastronaut

Aye not quite. When he was born my missus said "he looks like he needs a wee old man name" so the Oscar Peterson slant (my grandad played in and managed Jazz bands in the 50s and 60s) and my late father's name as a middle name was a winner and resulted in the poor fucker having to live with the initials OAP.

No word of a lie, named our son after this madman and tried to tie in Edgar Allan Poe with the name. Ironically the lad is completely nonverbal but still capable of outsmarting everyone he knows. I blame Jazz.

Speaking of bands containing women, Dead Pony's recent cover of Maneater has probably eclipsed that South Shields boy's take on Dan Deacon's Wham City in the best covers stakes.

I was a bit doubtful, just seemed a good way to shoehorn this shitpost into being relevant. Weirdly their previous stuff has a lot more merit, fuck knows what this change in direction is about. Im trying to help my better half find some positives and all I have is "hopefully it's parody and we're missing the point".

My other half has been tasked with reviewing this for a local scene website. It's eh, certainly something. I had to endure this about three times today and once yesterday and I'm at the stage of thinking it's deliberately terrible and the blueprint was "something that sounds like Poly Styrene had a massive stroke in the 90's and went on to replace Watty in the Exploited. Weirdly when I mistyped their band name into google I landed on a review of their live set by none other than The Ginger Quiff. No idea if it's the same bloke or just coincidence but seemed relevant enough to mention here.

Brings back memories of my days struggling to maneuver a skip lorry around a worksite before I even had a provisional. Minus the hookers and body disposal obviously, the qualified drivers had dibs on those jobs.

I've just been made aware that Henderson's middle name is Brian.

"What part of Africa are you from?" "Hackney" Aye that's a bit racist. Fine for me to mention generations old Irish and German heritage, no cunt ever asks me which part of Ireland or Germany I'm from.

One of them is heavily linked with both Rangers and Celtic for this upcoming window but even I cant remember his name. The last Sunderland player bar McGeady I could name would be Max Power and I only remember him as a real life 90's Simpsons meme.

Suarez protesting the decision was fairly amusing tbf. Its fucking weird thought hat weird still debating hands being in an unnatural position when were clearly at a stage where "ball touches hand=handball" in most almost all cases. Just be done with it and change the rule, remove all subjectivity from the debate.

That's a matter of perspective man. I was fascinated by how spectacularly poor were England were and thought they were lucky to even scrape a point. Im always intrigued to see underdogs manage to make "favourites" look completely toothless.

Im obviously biased but genuinely thought it was an intriguing tactical battle. Tactically England were delightfully shite, the USA were the better team and completely deserved their 0-0 win.

Probably the most entertaining 0-0 I've seen since we beat you by the same score in the last Euros.

That thing in his hands is doing some really weird things to his face.

Aye thought it would be something like that. Works out at betting £20 at less than 15/1 and not even getting to know what you've bet on until after the result is in. That's no a sweepstake, it's roulette that pays half the price.

Weird Tuesday in November where you can't even be surprised at Jason Cummings making the bench for Australia in a WC game against France given that Matty Cash started for Poland and Saudi Arabia beat Argentina earlier in the day.

That fair, but if there's £300 in it for the winner and a "decent amount of cash" for three runners up you'd need be paying £15-£20 a ticket which works out really shite odds for a game of Schroedinger's Envelope.

Hate to be pedantic (actually that's a lie) but f it's a blind sweepstake surely that's 1 in 32, unless only 8 folk participated and all got 4 envelopes each. Doesnae really sound like a great plan to draw in punters for the final if they could only get 8 folk to participate in the sweepstake.

I couldn't tell if he was erect but he at least looked upright for most of the game.

Speaking of Adebisi Shank, Lar was an absolute wizard when it came to guitar pedal insanity. Pretty sure he was mad for the line6 stuff and Id be amazed if he's not on the Helix bandwagon, whatever he's doing now.

Just looked that up out of curiosity. Sounds exactly like Adebisi Shank. 👍

Ah fuck aye that's a good point. Dunno where my head was at. So close to the answer. You're right, actually it makes perfect sense.

Aye I don't get it. Why the fuck are cross-bred dogs frowned upon in a country where inbred Royals are celebrated?

This might explain why they've been testing the old air raid sirens more regularly than usual up my neck of the woods. Used to just dismiss it as just someone going "fucking hell a hundred year old air raid siren? Does it still work?" but I'm getting increasingly more concerned about the the implications of living halfway between Faslane and Grangemouth. You lads and lassies in the NE will be the new Scotland. Hardrian's Wall will be replaced with a moat that runs northwest from Edinburgh. Edinburgh will somehow remain intact but become flooded with even more insufferable cunts.