Graeme

7 minutes ago, Dazey said:

I've been waiting 27 years since buying Super Metroid on the day of release in 1994.  

Did you not play Fusion? It's a very worthy successor to Super Metroid!

Yaaaaaaaaaasssssssssss! Been waiting for this for 19 years!

@spunko12345 I had the fear just watching this...  ,

8 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:

I miss football.

I know it's hard,  a whole week until the Euros, but stay strong!  

CONCACAF Nations League final between the USA and México had a bit of everything; goals, disallowed goals, controversial penalties, tasty tackles, fights, crowd discontent... was a fantastic game for a neutral.

I, however am far from neutral  , gutted that México didn't win, I thought they were by far the better team in open play and the US didn't offer much apart from set pieces. I also thought that Salcedo got the ball before taking out the man in the incident that gave the US their penalty.

10 hours ago, Ace Spade said:

It took me 5 hours just to get 100 coins in Tick Tock Clock

It's an absolute doozy! I got to the top of the clock where there's a yellow block with firespitters and I was trying desperately to collect the coins while not getting hit and "hawhawhawhawhawhawhaaaw-ing" myself off into oblivion. I got most of them, but a few skittered off the edge and I was left with 98 and a sinking feeling that I was going to have to repeat the whole task for the sake of two coins. Fortunately, after a desperate hunt through the clock (all the while singing "just two more coins" to the level's music) right back down at the beginning, I found two coins floating in the air above one of those yellow revolving blocks and the day was saved!

4 hours ago, Bansidhe said:

Disappointed there's not been an outburst from yer man Sawers yet...

Circus of a boy.

 

Fair play to your boys @Bansidhe, a cup double's a hell of an achievement and you're guaranteed European fitba' til Christmas at least. 

It's just a bit of a nothing song, isn't it? It's not bad, it's just lyrically weird (and not in a way that makes you think it's got any sort of hidden depth) and musically, it doesn't have a standout melodic hook, either vocally or instrumentally.

On 5/16/2021 at 9:38 PM, Dean said:

Ha, it may have been better if he did announce his departure instead of going out the back door! But aye, bad form that - he jokingly said at one of his early conferences with Leicester that he'd need to win more, so at least he's got one under his belt now. Rat bastard, but one of the best at what he does.

Some commotion in Glasgow yesterday. For those that haven't seen:

It's the Ali shuffle from the cunt in the foreground 

 

You could at least have posted this one  .

Decided to see how quickly I could 100% Super Mario 64 last weekend (120 stars and beat Bowser in the Sky) - did it in 5 hours, 35 minutes, not exactly pushing the top speedrunners but I was reasonably pleased with myself as an average gamer  .

Speaking of Tory cunts... The UK home office conducted a raid on homes in the south side of Glasgow, aiming to take some immigrants to a detention centre with a view to deporting them. Hundreds of local people blockaded the street and would not allow the van containing the detainees to move.

They were eventually forced to release them. Power to the people!

On 5/8/2021 at 5:20 AM, willl said:

I voted SNP

I was born in England so obviously have nothing against anyone English. I'd just like to live in a country that isn't ruled by a Conservative government.

You shouldn't have to qualify that just because you don't want Scotland to be governed from London or by a party that hasn't won an election here in nearly 70 years doesn't mean that you have any prejudice against people from England, just a recognition that collective political culture in both countries is becoming increasingly incompatible  . I think there's plenty of electoral evidence to back that up!

I voted SNP on the local ballot and Green on the regional list, and pretty much got the Parliament I hoped for. A pluralistic, left-of-centre, pro-independence majority. 

I agree about 80% with the SNP's politics, but in some ways they're a bit too cautious and centrist for me. The Greens are more radical, particularly when it comes to climate change and challenging neoliberal policies like market deregulation, the dismantling of the welfare state by the Conservatives in Westminster, the privatisation of public services etc. . I'd say they're a 90-95% match with my own politics. Hopefully the fact that the SNP will have to rely on them to pass laws (and support for independence) will allow the Greens to get more of their lefty politics implemented and also keep the SNP on their toes, as four terms in office can start to breed complacency (or worse, cronyism/corruption) in a party.

I know all the media focus was on whether or not the SNP would receive an overall majority (which they missed out on by one seat) but because of the way the system works in Scotland, this is really a false narrative, or at best a narrative with caveats that none of the news outlets were making particularly clear. If you do 'too well' in the Constituencies, then the List vote is formulated to cut back your representation so that Parliament is more 'proportional'.

Basically, the SNP got more votes this year when they won 64 seats than they did in 2011 when they won 69 seats, but then, they were in a 'Goldilocks zone' where the number of constituencies they won didn't cause their regional seats to be cut down.

The election was a comprehensive victory for the independence movement and the mental gymnastics being put forward by unionists to try and deny that have been pretty funny to watch.

17 hours ago, BrayWyatt said:

The SNP are a bunch of nationalist cunts, an embarrassment to the country.

Give me Nationalist cunts over Tory cunts any day of the week.

Tonight I uploaded a cover of Trains by Porcupine Tree to YouTube, it's been a constant favourite of mine for many years and I had originally uploaded a version of it back in 2009.

I definitely feel way older , but I think I might be better at some of the subtleties of the song now, and it's really weird to hear how I instinctively removed my accent from my singing when I was younger. A friend of mine pointed out how absurd it is that most Scottish people try to sound like Americans or English people when we sing, and ever since then I've tried to embrace my own accent in my singing, so my old singing sounds really fake or put on to me now. Anyway, I hope y'all enjoy at least one of the renditions...

Some more volcnadoes for Soulie and Spunko...

14 hours ago, -W.A.R- said:

Speaking of Radiohead, i listened to Creep one time yesterday and it was stuck in my head all day....and its really an unbecoming song to have stuck. Walking around mumbling "im a creep, im a weirdo"

I had a friend who, for a couple of days, had HWC by Liz Phair stuck in his head...

I'm sure there are lots of other pointless injustices in the world like this - but holy shit, poor guy. He's not a criminal and is arguably living a worse reality than some convicts.

It's so confusing watching the two of you debate because you have practically the same avatar.

On 3/26/2021 at 11:38 AM, Gracii Guns said:

One of my clients is a popular long-running online forum, comparable to mygnr in many ways. It's part of a lifestyle brand which has a magazine. After twenty years, the magazine is publishing an article on the most dedicated forum members.

All we get is mockery on the other forums! 

We get mocked? 

This is the most beautiful volcano footage I've ever seen:

55 times Champions of Scotland!

9 minutes ago, ToonGuns said:

Don't disagree at all with the logic. But it sets an appallingly dangerous precedent.

There is a fundamental difference between an election, which intentionally happen regularly and take place between political parties and cover topics that can be corrected at future elections if needed to keep the ebb and flow correct (e.g. Donald Trump), and a referendum which is a one-off fundamental long term decision and a cross-party issue. Manifesto pledges are very frequently not met.

Just because the flavour of the month happens to disagree with the result of the last referendum shouldn't mean a political party can redo a referendum willy nilly. It makes the whole concept of a "once in a generation" referendum completely moot. Which is very dangerous, even if there is, currently, a wish for it (which I am sure there is). I personally wish there could be a second Brexit referendum, and tomorrow!!!, but I understand that that concept is constitutionally and politically very very challenging (unfortunately!).

Another issue is that in my view the dissolution of the UK (which ultimately is the discussion point here, as this is not a Scotland-only conversation as allowing a second referendum in Scotland would also create huge knock-on consequences for Ireland / Northern Ireland) should not be a Scotland only vote. It affects us all.

And the world needs far fewer borders in my view, not more. We should all be trying to work together, not create more boundaries. Blindly forcing a second Scottish referendum based on heat of the moment views to score political points has almost infinite knock-on consequences that are far bigger than the specific issue at hand. It is an absolute mess and a second referendum would keep that path heading in the wrong direction. 

Don't get me wrong, if I was a passionate Scot I'd be pushing hard for it I am sure!... but there is a bigger picture which is often difficult to see when in the mix.

The better option might be to let things settle for a few years, see now Brexit plays out, and if goes the way I think it could, push for a referendum to rejoin the EU as "the UK", as I think, as an outsider to Scotland but from speaking to friends and family there, the reason for Scotland wanting a second referendum is frustration at being pulled out of Europe - and I completely sympathise. But sticking together is surely the better strategy rather than a knee jerk reaction to score political points, the consequences of which could, literally, be horrific (I'm thinking of the NI link here).

The fundamental issue / root cause in all of this is that referendums, given their consequences, need to be controlled and legislated much much better. It was and is completely appalling that the Brexit campaign could use lies and emotional blackmail in their campaign. Fair enough in elections political parties "embellish" their manifestos with bravado, much of which disappears when they are in power and manifestos become quietly forgotten about, but with referendums to lie to the public and use lies to convince voters on a "once in a generation" topic should be a major crime and the results void. Never again should there be a referendum where lies win.

So, are you saying that if the Scottish electorate do vote for a majority of MSPs standing on the policy platform of holding an independence referendum, that should not count for anything and be completely ignored? With the greatest of respect, if you're looking to keep people's faith in democracy, that sounds like a much more appallingly dangerous precedent to set than holding referenda more frequently than "once in a generation". Especially when between the last vote and now, we have seen the biggest material change of circumstances in the last half-century, and one which directly contravenes the promises made by those who convinced us to stay in the UK in 2014, as well as riding roughshod over our landslide "remain" vote in 2016. This has not been a 'normal' generation.

As for Scotland only being able to leave after a UK-wide vote, that's not really how self-determination works. To use an analogy, no-one would ever be able to get out of an abusive marriage if both people had to consent to the separation. If the electorate of the UK as a whole voted in a party with a commitment to holding a referendum on multilaterally breaking up the UK, then the UK-wide referendum you describe should absolutely take place, but if the people of one constituent nation decide that it's in their best interest to become an independent country, then they should be able to leave unilaterally without the threat of the other countries effectively locking the door and swallowing the key. The precedent was set in 2014 and I'd imagine those rules will continue to apply in any democratic process going forward.