Graeme

I played Don't Cry with him back in 2015, he's got a lot of fresh projects going on and I think he's pretty firmly focussed on writing and playing new music, but he's not averse to jamming Guns songs at shows, especially since he knows some people are fans of his from his days in the band.

2 minutes ago, Dazey said:

You getting tickets Graeme?  

Probably not, just trying to be helpful  .

3 hours ago, Gavin82 said:

So how easy is this place too get too from the center ?? Prefer too ask rather than search always get better info 

Buses (the 38, the 9, the 9A, the 10, possibly more) go from Union Street just next to Glasgow Central Station (East side) to Bellahouston Drive, just next to the park. They take about 25 minutes. Alternatively, you can take the subway from Buchanan Street or St. Enoch to Ibrox (about 12 minutes), walk south down Copland Road and then walk west along Paisley Road West, which would take you another 15-20 minutes at a brisk pace.

Remember that time people were dancing in school hallways to Better?

On 12/22/2020 at 7:59 PM, action said:

have a good one!

I love this <3 . Nollaig Chridheil dhuibh uile!

Singer-Songwriter, Florrie:

She writes absolute bops as well as being this good-looking. Some people get all the talent.

Trying to sugarcoat this absolute shitshow  .

One of my best friends messaged me this morning to tell me his mum had passed away from coronavirus. The first person I know personally to have been taken by the pandemic. She was a lovely lady, and still young, his little brother's only 14 too, devastating news.

3 hours ago, rocknroll41 said:

Here’s everything new officially announced today for starwars:

SHOWS ON D+

Mando Season 3

Rangers of the New Republic (Mando spin-off)

Ahsoka (Mando spin-off)

Andor (Rogue One prequel show)

Kenobi (with Hayden back as Vader)

Lando (Solo sequel show)

The Acolytes (High Republic show)

The Bad Batch (animated Clone Wars spin-off show)

Visions (anime anthology show)

MOVIES ON D+

Mando/ Ahsoka/ Rangers “crossover film”

A Droid Story (animated R2 and 3PO film)

THEATRICAL MOVIES

Rogue Squadrons (directed by Patty Jenkins) - 2023

Taika Waititi’s “pulp” movie - 2025
 

@soon you may wanna look above!

Good lord - the ship had already sailed on letting it die gracefully, but this is bordering on dressing up and fucking the corpse for years after the fact.

On 11/13/2020 at 1:16 AM, YouCouldBeMine_2029 said:

Who Is Your Favorite Badass Bond Villain?

For me it has to be Max Zorin. That is a Charachter that would Still very much Resonate today.

The Very Last 10 Seconds of Max Zorin is Classic Christopher Walken Hahaha

Franz Sánchez from Licence to Kill was a really interesting character. A vicious, horrible bastard, but also someone with a weird moral code who could be urbane and charismatic. Robert Davi did a great job playing him.

2 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:

The love and sex thread? 

I mean, I guess you could describe Scotland's qualification for a major tournament after 22 years as orgasmic!  

Colin Hendry, what a player!

18 hours ago, SoulMonster said:

I am happy for you. But #wrongthread.

What would be the right thread? 

In other good news, it appears we might be rid of Dominic Cummings in a few weeks! It'll be interesting to see how Johnson copes without him, since he was frequently touted as the 'brains' of this government (relatively speaking, of course).

What a night!    

Shouldn't these threads be in the music section? 

Also, this album. I've posted about it before in the past, but always happy to highlight its brilliance again. Allmusic's review puts it in the top 10 live albums of all time, but I doubt many people outside of Scotland will have listened to it.

23 minutes ago, Dazey said:

I’ll buy you a few on Canal Street.  

This thread:

6 hours ago, Len Cnut said:

Really?  So where's the real jocks?

Scotland as we know it today was formed from four kingdoms: Pictland in the Northeast, Lothian in the Southeast, Strathclyde in the Southwest and Dal Riada in the Northwest.

The residents of Dal Riada were Gaelic-speakers who sailed across from Ireland and were called the Scotti by the Romans. Their kingdom was the one that the rest of Scotland unified under... but that was the best part of a millennium ago, so I don't think you could say that most present-day Scots were Irish migrants unless you're pursuing some insanely extremist ethno-nationalist ideal. 

Centuries later, while Ireland was under British rule, many Protestant Scots sailed over and settled in the North of the island as part of a social campaign to Protestant-ify it, and during the 19th Century, lots of Irish Catholics came over to Scotland looking for work, especially after the potato famine. This basically meant that there were strong links between the Protestant communities in Scotland and Ireland, and likewise the Catholic communities in both places. Celtic was founded by Irish Catholic clergy in Glasgow and became emblematic of the Irish migrant community, Protestant Scots gradually adopted Rangers as their equivalent club and the two institutions became bound up in a broader ethno-political dichotomy at the turn of the 20th Century. Because of the aforementioned links, Protestants/Unionists in Northern Ireland came to support Rangers and Catholics/Republicans adopted Celtic.

This meant that the footballing rivalry in Scotland became a proxy for the political conflict in Northern Ireland throughout the 20th Century - but Scotland is not Northern Ireland, Our society is far less binary, there is a 'hardcore support' of both clubs that would conform to the 'Rangers/Protestant/Unionist/Loyalist' and 'Celtic/Catholic/Nationalist/Republican' caricatures, but there are many thousands who don't and it hasn't been the dominating divide in Scottish politics. For most of the last 40 years, most Scottish people comfortably voted Labour irrespective of if they were Protestant or Catholic, Rangers or Celtic, because most of Scottish society was comfortably centre-left.

Likewise, the Scottish National Party was predominantly a Protestant (although not necessarily tied to Rangers-supporting Protestants) institution when it was founded, that was treated with suspicion by Labour-voting Irish Catholics, irrespective of their views about whether Northern Ireland should reunify with the Republic. The movement for Scottish independence remained mostly separate from the whole Rangers/Celtic thing, and indeed marginal from mainstream Scottish politics until the late 2000s when Labour's lack of ambition, cronyism, and drift to the right under Blair allowed the SNP to start outflanking them on the left and capture the mainstream of Scottish politics. This was compounded by the election of the Tory/LibDem coalition in 2010.

Since Independence has become a prominent issue, the hardcore supports I outlined above have mostly aligned themselves to one side or the other (Rangers to Unionism and Celtic to Nationalism) but it's not black and white, John Reid, who sits on Celtic's board was a big part of the 'no' campaign in 2014, and I know of loads of Rangers fans who voted 'yes', high-profile examples including singers Amy Macdonald and Simon Neil, or writer Alan Bissett. Despite the rhetoric, most people in Scotland don't let their football team decide their politics.

Also, why the fuck are we talking about this shit? Look at that goal! Why aren't we talking about actual football!

How about that for a finish?

Connor Goldson, goal machine!

On 10/6/2020 at 8:58 PM, action said:

there is not a single thing you can do to avoid being infected. you can not escape fate.

There literally are things that you can do to avoid being infected though.

I downloaded the Super Nintendo feature for the Switch a week or so ago and I've been playing through (and subsequently replaying) Super Metroid. What a game. It looks so good on a big, modern flatscreen TV, the colours pop and the world is just bursting with personality. I've found it totally immersive, and the thing that's really surprised me is how instantly replayable it is - normally on finishing a game I'd want to move on to something new, but I immediately started another save file and wanted to see how much faster I could beat it if I played it again. Did most of it in a 3-and-a-half-hour session last night and I might be on track for a sub-4-hour finishing time depending on how I do in the endgame!

It would be weird for Nintendo to be a non-hardware company, I'm aware I've just spent a paragraph gushing about playing an old Nintendo game on non-original hardware but to be honest I've bought every generation of Nintendo console since the N64 (apart from the Wii U) and I've never bought a Sony or Microsoft console, and really have no interest in either. Nintendo's stuff just always seems to have more soul and creativity, whereas Sony and Microsoft are like "we have made a slightly more powerful version of the same box we made last time".

22 hours ago, Dazey said:

They're not even ported from what I've heard. They're all just original titles running on emulation. They couldn't even be bothered to port them to the Switch hardware.

I'd imagine you'd have to do at least a bit of porting to get Galaxy to work on a console that's not the Wii, given the control scheme. I also saw a video that juxtaposed the games on Switch with their counterparts on original hardware and they definitely looked better, sharper and clearer.