General News Chat

[donsdaft]

Don’t make rules you can’t enforce.
Particularly now when folk are sick fed up of rules.


I have absolutely no intention of ever visiting Manchester again.
A s’hitehole

[Mason89]

Whether folk are sick of the rules is irrelevant.

Can’t say I’m in any hurry to return to Manchester either

[57vintage]

You don’t need to go to Manchester to dig John Cooper Clarke’s biog I Wanna Be Yours though. Audiobook, with the boy himself reading it, is very highly regarded.

“I didn’t want the 15+ hours of this to end, and had I the time, I’d listen to it again right away. The bits of the book I’d previously dipped into were superbly written, but hearing the Bargain Basement Baudelaire read his own life story lifts it to another level altogether. Toppermost of the poppermost.

All human life is here, an authentically-informed whistle-stop tour of western culture and Clarke’s engagement with it for 60-odd years. In the section where he describes his 1965 life, taking in the YCL, a near-addiction to Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Jimmy Reed, Buddy Guy, Elmore James and Sugar Pie de Santo, I thought he was quoting from my imaginary diaries of a decade later.

It’s an unimpeachable talent who can honestly describe his narcotics habit, come out of it alive and triumphant, whilst finding humour in its squalid pathos.

Thanks to the local Library, still sentient despite the unremitting attacks by Gradgrindian opponents of literacy, (JCC is a stout defender of this basic educational right) ✊🏼 for lending me this.

Luxury. Pure, unashamed luxury…”

[Mason89]

I saw JCC at T in the Park once. He was on the main stage doing Chicken Town before Kylie came on. I’ll give the audiobook a go

[donsdaft]

Whether folk are sick of the rules is irrelevant.

Can’t say I’m in any hurry to return to Manchester either

It’s not irrelevant if folk tell you to stick them up your arse.

She really needs to be told to stick her rules up her arse.

[57vintage]

She really needs to be told to stick her rules up her arse.

Has anyone else, apart from me and a couple of my non-Abmad trusties, observed that Peter Murrell is rapidly becoming an Eric Pickles doppelganger?

Just appearance-wise thus far, but he’s showing promise with developing competencies in control-freakery, it-wisna-me-ism, and female human shield deployment.

Wrong ‘un.

[Donanddusted]

No really. Anyone feeling oppressed in any way at all?

What you’ve got is a relentless attack from uk media, trying to undermine Scottish health policy. It’s some shameful sh1t

Indeed.
#projectsmearshyte

[Mason89]

Indeed.
#projectsmearshyte

Radio Scotland in the morning is abysmal. It’s just a succession of angry fuds moaning about nightclubs being shut, their wedding not going to plan etc

[donsdaft]

Are you typing this with your mask on Mason min?

[Donanddusted]

Radio Scotland in the morning is abysmal. It’s just a succession of angry fuds moaning about nightclubs being shut, their wedding not going to plan etc

And then they lead you into Kaye Adams.

Boorish Bullshyting Corporation.