A Grand Day Out

If you'd asked me if I'd like to wake up at 07:00 on a saturday so I could spend 3 hours on trains and go see my team most likely get soundly beaten then I would probably say no. But that's almost what I did today.

I woke up at 7, spent 3 hours and 27 minutes on trains, but as for the game... :)

But before all that, something REALLY interesting happened today. I saw a duck tell a joke. Oh yes. There was a duck, standing in front of a load of other ducks, quacking away. Then it stops quacking and the other ducks just go mental! They all suddenly started flapping their wings and quacking madly! It was like duck stand up comedy.

And then there was the game. I was there, at the glorious Riverside Stadium along with 33,723 other, people, expecting, like 33,722 other people, to see Boro get thumped (my senile granddad thought boro were going to win 2-0. But he also thinks that John Major is still the Prime Minister so nobody really listened to him.) Anyway, Boro won, there was a great atmosphere at the ground and it were grey-ate (say in teeside accent). Full match report to follow on Monday.

The picture is dedicated to Dave, for obvious reasons. He might get annoyed eventually, but he won't get round to it for a while.

3rd Person...

Dave has decided to blog in the 3rd person today.
Dave is bored.
Dave is also tired.
Dave has decided to start a new line for each sentence.
Dave has also decided to start each line with his own name.
Dave doesn't agree that it is for vanity purposes.


Dave observes that today is Friday.
Dave also observes that Thomas used two pictures for the picture challenge yesterday.
Dave is, it would fair to say, displeased.
Dave requests that Thomas refrains from posting more than the conventional ONE picture.
Dave shakes his head at Thomas.
Dave also observes that Thomas' pictures yesterday were of a decidedly inferior quality in comparison to his own.
Dave also observes that the 'sharp sign' picture is probably older than the internet.


Dave heard Mr. T on Radio 1 today.
Dave pities the fool that doesn't like Mr. T.
Dave laments the face that he couldn't think of a better joke than that.
Dave also remarks that he is becoming increasingly drawn to Facebook, despite its extremely stupid privacy rules.
Dave also doesn't like the new style of bebo.
Dave also can't believe that he was beaten at Connect 4 today.... by a girl.


Dave wishes Tesco was nearer to his house.
Dave is tired.
Dave mentioned that before didn't he?
Dave wishes to reiterate the fact that he is tired.
Dave also dislikes patronising staff at his school.
Dave has work tomorrow.
Dave sighs.

Dave will only be doing this style of blog once.
Dave sighs again.

Dave wonders if Thomas posts on Yahoo Answers under the name of Razz?

A Great Many Things

As far as football is concerned, I never really get that much joy out of it. I support Hearts and Middlesbrough, so you can imagine why. Middlesbrough haven't won in 15 premier league games and are very close to being relegated this season. So yesterday was brilliant!

Firstly, Boro won 2-0, Downing scoring an absolutely superb, eat-your-heart-out-ronaldo free kick after 5 minutes of play. Dream start. Then Tuncay, who I used to nickname Goal-shy, hits a stunning volley to make it 2-0 on 20 minutes and the victory is assured from then on. You've just got to love the cup.

I, of course, watched all this on TV (though not on Sky). But I do have Virgin Media. Which has all the Sky channels. And I can watch all the Lost I want and all the football and all the movies I want. And Dave can't. Which makes it all the better.

As for predictions, the table stands at this:

Points
Thomas 6
Dave 5

So I'm in the lead. As I predicted. Do I get a point for that?

As for today, I had a 3 hour long maths prelim which I definitely failed. Hurray for unconditionals. Tomorrow, I'm off to teach a 6 year old genius who frequently beats me in arguments about quantum physics but doesn't know who James Bond is (he thought a James Bond was a type of bond between atoms. He said "I know what a single bond is and I know what a double bond is and even a triple bond, but what's a James Bond?"

Hilarious.

Where Is MY LAPTOP CHARGER!!!!????

So this will be rather a quick post, before my macbook decides to die, unless I can find the power cord in the next 5 minutes (by staring aimlessly around the room from my bed... I'm tired....and lazy).

As I type, matchday 2 of the Champions League knockout stage is underway, and things are going well prediction wise. Last night myself and Thomas both finished on 2 points each (3 points for a correct scoreline, 1 point for correct result (win/lose/draw) and 0 points for an incorrect result).

4% :O

Today, I realised once again that I have something missing in my life. There is a hole there, that cannot be filled, a vast chasm in my being:

SKY!!!

:(

I don't have Sky. Nevermind Sky+ or SkyHD.

This means, No Lost (except from online/itunes). Hardly any live football, and no movie channels. And yet they give me Sky Sports News, where I watch people watching Sky, I hear the noise of the crowd at the game, and the roars of excitement from Chris 'I-don't-believe-it-Jeff!' Kamara. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5T-ItZc8TA
It is a tease, a cinematic trailer, an advert for the beauty of bskyb... and I have fallen under its spell. I don't care that they only ever report on sport that is featured on Sky, that is practically every sporting event that matters anyway!
Sigh.

Freeview sucks tbh.

Any kind person willing to donate me Sky, please leave a comment!

1%

AAAHHHHHH

*UPDATE 1* I found my laptop charger

*UPDATE 2* you have to be kidding me Sky:
http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/344962/pizza-hut-bogof-for-sky-customers

School, what is it good for?

*Update* I almost forgot the picture! Shocking!

So today was MY first day back at school, after having an EIGHT day long holiday (that's one more day than Dave). And what did I do in the holidays? Well, I should have been revising for the prelim I found out I have to do on thursday. It really isn't fair, I was legitimately ill, I shouldn't have to do it. Like Dave said, I should be paraded about the school as a fine example to the younger kids, a paragon of academic excellence. Not forced to do exams! It's ridiculous! I have a legally binding contract with the fine establishment that is the University of Glasgow for me to study there, beginning on 14 September 2009 and I have no need for such things as "prelims". It can't even be used for appeal now anyway.

Added to this misery, today I had a totally stereotypical maths lesson. It solely involved the teacher writing lots of symbols on the board, talking about these symbols and then changing these symbols and then saying that these changed symbols proved that some other symbols were in fact the same as some other other symbols. Of course, I understood it, but i'll be damned if it didn't bore me to death.

Dave: Did you use a small tube like implement to pour a liquid onto a paper in small meaningful patterns?

Thomas: No. I used a pencil. Like the Russians did in that joke about Nasa.

Dave: Oh, ok.

Thomas: Unfortunately, I don't have as much opportunity for rebellion as Dave, as my school doesn't have a uniform and the PS2 in the common room has been smashed to pieces and is now nailled to the wall in the shape of the letters RIP. But they don't allow me to play kitten cannon in the library, which is a shame (http://www.addictinggames.com/kittencannon.html)


Time for predictions now methinks.

Tuesday
Arsenal 2-0 Roma
Atletico Madrid 0-1 FC Porto
Inter Milan 1-1 Man Utd
Lyon 0-2 Barcelona

Wednesday

Chelsea 1-0 Juventus
Real Madrid 1-1 Liverpool
Sporting Lisbon 0-3 Bayern Munich
Villarreal 2-0 Panathinaikos

Dave, if you would like to give yours.

Dave: Gladly Thomas, gladly...

Tuesday 24/2/09
Arsenal 3-0 Roma
Atletico Madrid 0-2 FC Porto
Inter Milan 1-1 Man United
Lyon 1-2 Barcelona

Wednesday 25/2/09
Chelsea 1-0 Juventus
Real Madrid 2-1 Liverpool
Sporting 1-1 Bayern Munich
Villarreal 3-1 Panathinaikos

Thomas: *Update* I also sent an email to my good friend Mark Zuckerberg suggesting that as Facebook is meant to be a site designed for the user, why not let the users of the site decide on the privacy policy? Seems like a good idea to me right?

The Trials of a Lazy Sixth Year

A better picture eh? You want to play Thomas? Then lets Play... >>>>>

So today was my first day back at school, after having a week long holiday. How much did I learn over the holiday? I learned that I don't do schoolwork in the holidays. At all. And even at the weekends it's pretty infrequent.

Unless it's set homework that will be graded, I inevitably just put it off and put it off, until I hurriedly knock something together in my free period on the first Monday back. What my school doesn't seem to understand is that, I have already achieved the academic awards that I needed from my 6 years at this establishment. They should be thankful! I am another positive number in their statistics, and surely that is worth something?

My being at the school, should be a bonus and privilege for them, by boosting their 6th year attendance figures and providing a *snigger* positive influence and example for my younger peers.

Sure they might disapprove of my disregard for normal uniform protocol, and of my flouting of the unwritten 'Thou shalt not play the Nintendo 64 loudly in the social area whilst your peers are learning' rule, but it is important to remember that I am merely preparing for student life!

One of the main purposes of 6th year is to prepare you for life in Higher Education is it not? They acknowledge this, but offer so called 'Life Skills' such as cookery and sewing, instead of beneficial training in things such as 'how long can you stay in bed before getting up for a nine am lecture?' or 'how to get extensions on essays due in last week', those classes, I would have taken.

Unfortunately I don't think I could live with myself if I took a course entitled "Sew Far Sew Good"...sigh, and so I have taken the opportunity of the free period (or the so called 'non-contact study period').

And yet, they still complain! Should I be punished for not submitting myself to the tyrannical regime that exists in the Home Economics department? If I did take up cookery as a life skill, I fear that I would be one ill-advised-washing-up-liquid-cake-prank, from possible detention or even exclusion!

Almost daily, I am lambasted by 'Principal Teachers', lamenting my 'poor time management skills' or my apparent indifference to the Prefect's authority. Well excuse Me! Sometimes the drive through in McDonald's is busy, and a shiny badge and blazer does not make you better than me at this school.

Still, just a few months and I can vent my frustrations on muck-up day before leaving this 'hallowed place of learning' to pastures new.

University, you are calling me, and very soon I will answer that call... But not quite yet. Sigh.

/Dave out

P.S. Prediction league starts tomorrow, with the Champions League knockout stages.

CHALLENGE!

Dave said yesterday that his picture was better than mine. I see this as a challenge. So here's an even better picture than his.




I can imagine this going on for a while.

Anyway, I'm not sure I have too much to say today to be honest. Except to say that I've not got much to say, which is saying something, but not much.

I did have this conversation with my brother James earlier though:

James: Hey, you know what sucks?

Thomas: Vacuum cleaners?

James: Hey, you know what suck in a metaphorical sense?

Thomas: Black holes?

James: Hey, you know what just isn't cool?

Thomas: Lava?

That's when he gave up. Win.

It's Another Work Rant From DAVE

Here's a funnier picture that Thomas' yesterday.

Top 5 things I hate About Work:

1. Customers talking on their mobiles while I'm serving them, while mouthing instructions and trying to use sign language with one hand.
2. Customers who talk down to me, especially this one guy who claimed that I shortchanged him for the Telegraph. (1. I didn't ((the price had been changed on it)) and 2. He was driving an Aston Martin Vanquish!)
3. Customers who mumble incoherently then SHOUT LIKE I'M DEAF
4. Customers in General
5. Going to work an 8 hour shift having had a total of 3 hours sleep

Still, it's good money.

I'm going to fix the horror show that Thomas has turned this background into, soon.

Prediction league coming soon...
Starting on Tuesday with the Champions League knock-out stage.

Also, how AMAZING WAS LOST?!!!!
Definitely back to its best with "316", the episode was simply superb.
I'm very interested as to where the Ajira Airways flight went... the flashback/forward from a while ago showing the camp with Ajira Airways water bottles etc on the beach is rather intriguing but I'll leave the debating to this site: http://darkufo.blogspot.com/

Go there, visit it, NOW!

Also Thomas, start watching Lost again, come on!

So yeah, work was fun. I'm still tired. I want sleep. Want Sleep. Wa' Sleh. W' S'. ---. zzzzzzz

/Dave

The Titleless Post

Ha! Irony!

Here's a funny picture. Just cos.

Has anyone else noticed how gay that picture is on Dave's tuesday post?

I've got an update about facebook!

Someone voted me more reliable than somebody else! YAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSS!!!

Although...it's a lot less fulfilling than you'd think it would be. I need more victories...

Dave mentioned he was in Glasgow yesterday. This made me think, what is so good about Glasgow? So I made a list, as anybody with too much spare time would.

1. It's got Primark
2. It's got another Primark
3. It's got Glasgow Uni in it.
4. It's near Edinburgh
5. Hampden Park

Then there's the negatives

1. Primark uses sweat shop workers
2. Neds in shell suits.
3. Not Edinburgh
4. Rangers
5. Celtic
6. Not got the Edinburgh festival
7. Weegies. They're everywhere.

Of course, Edinburgh is better. And here's why.

1. I live there
2. Edinburgh festival
3. Hearts FC
4. We're getting trams
Dave edit: O RLY? http://tinyurl.com/dkmx2j
5. The history
6.The culture
7. I live there

And for the negatives

1. Hibs

A comprehensive victory if I ever saw one.

Thanks to Moz for the idea

Also, at the risk of annoying Dave, here's an interesting link for you all
***LINK REMOVED, WWR DOES NOT TOLERATE THE DISCUSSION OF THE FORBIDDEN TOPIC***

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2009/feb/20/joy-of-six-classic-assists

Shush, don't tell Dave about it.

*UPDATE* If you look on the right of the blog, you will now see pacman, free for you all to play! How cool is that?

Thursday...Yeah

So, today was Thursday. Yep. I went to Glasgow. Uh-huh. T'was fun. mhmm.

I discovered that I cannot play pool whilst wearing glasses (although some would argue that I cannot play at all), it's just impossible to see both the cue ball and the ball I'm trying to hit at the same time as my glasses slip down... so I got mauled 13-6.

I also don't like it when people with a cold sit next to you on the train. And sneeze. ALOT. I hope that person didn't have Bird Flu, or smallpox, or the Black Death. Or this blog may be one person less pretty shortly.

Also I'm tired. Very Tired.

Dave

This post contains 0% f**tball.

Lies, Slander and Victory!

Thomas: After Dave's slanderous tirade against me yesterday, I had a thought. That thought turned into an idea, an idea which became a...a...what's that word for you have a really good idea again?

A brainwave, that's it!

I was studying Dave's blog and I realised something. We have no format, no pattern. Now you may think that it's a good thing because you never know what to expect when you read the blog. But it also means we never know what we're going to write. SO we've come up with a cunning plan to solve all this. We're gonna write some stuff at the start, which will then lead into some other stuff in the middle and it'll finish with some stuff at the end.

ALSO

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7896309.stm

Take that Dave! That's victory for me!

Dave: Well no Thomas, it sounds more like the founders of Facebook took my grievances on board and are endeavouring to improve their website. Please elaborate on the nature of your 'victory'.

Thomas: See, what happened was, I sent an e-mail to Mark Zuckerberg and then he saw the error of his ways and changed the terms of service back. Yeah, me and Mark go way back, he knows pretty much everything about me, especially as he OWNS ALL OF MY PRIVATE INFORMATION!

Anyway, expect a collab blog soon!

Ooh and I'd also like to mention that I've started doing some abstract painting recently. Extremely abstract actually. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.

Facistbook and the Dons Go Marching On

Recession fun fact of the day:

The total debt of the United States now exceeds the GNP of the entire world.
So slightly worrying...

After Thomas' praises yesterday of Facebook, I did a little research into that 'gem of a site' and uncovered some disturbing things in it's Terms of Service.
http://consumerist.com/5150175/facebooks-new-terms-of-service-we-can-do-anything-we-want-with-your-content-forever


Thomas: I didn't praise facebook. I said that app annoyed me a lot. Not quite praise in my book but...

Dave: You told me to get Facebook, which you already have, thereby recommending it to me, ergo PRAISE

There's some fun reading in there, such as

"Now, anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter what you do later.* Want to close your account? Good for you, but Facebook still has the right to do whatever it wants with your old content. They can even sublicense it if they want."

Great news Facebook, do you want my soul while you're at it? So any original content that you upload to Facebook...becomes their property and you relinquish all rights to it??!! Think I'll stick with Bebo if it's all the same to you Mr. Facebook.

UPDATE: Click this for more Facebook 1984ness
http://tinyurl.com/38u2rf

UPDATE 2: And some more to feed your paranoia:
http://tinyurl.com/dducv9

On the Aberdeen front, I think it's fair to say that we romped to victory over East Fife with an easy 5-0 win. Five-star Aberdeen the headline could be, and it is amazing to me that we amassed such a winning margin without the injured Mackie! Goals from Wright, Aluko, Vidal and a late double from Chris 'bebo'* Maguire secured a vital victory for the Dons on the road to Hampden.

Thomas: I can't believe East Fife lost. What a cupset.

Dave: So my prediction of a cup final for Aberdeen is still on course, watch this space...

Until next time,
Dave

*see this for the reason behind his nickname: http://tinyurl.com/2nfnux

Just why?

Well it's a new day, I'm up bright and early, or still up I should say. But I have something to say. A few things actually.

Firstly, what went wrong with the blog? For me, it came up with a blank page, apart from the stuff at the side, including adverts. Then when I posted, the posts re-appeared but other things decided to disappear. Frustrations boiled and caused me to make 2 updates to the post! THEN Dave deleted it and gave me a link to a solution that would only excarbate the problem (Ironically the page he linked to crashed my browser and made me have to restart my browser)

Secondly, Dave cheated in some of his predictions. He predicts he will go to glasgow uni. He has already accepted an unconditional for it! That's not a prediction! That's an informed statement based on prior knowledge of what will definitely happen. It's not a prediction. He is deducted 10 points for cheating.

Thirdly, I like that acronym. WWR. Makes it sound like a war. Or a wrestling federation.

Fourthly, Facebook. I recently discovered the "compare people" app on it due to loads of people having installed it. So I'm coaxed into installing it. It turns out that apparantly 5 people said they would date me. Yay I think. But then I look at how many people said they wouldn't. Are you ready for this?

I don't think you are. Just to warn you, I will be using capital letters.

FOUR HUNDRED!!! (and exclamation marks)

Four hundred people! I'm forced to ask, how!? I don't even have that many facebook friends and it's meant to be an app to compare your friends! At least 5 said they would.

This app also compares you to other people, mind you. It does so by making you vote between two people on a question like who is cooler or who is smarter and then making you do this for lots of people and lots of questions. Then you can look at your rank in these things.

Sadly I'm not first for anything. Best is 4th among my friends for "Who would you rather hang out with for a day" with 6 votes and 4 wins from those. Shockingly I'm 5th for "who studies harder" with 4 votes and 3 wins despite the fact that I have literally not studied one tiny bit this year. Obviously this is a flawed app.

Although I did get 2 wins from 2 votes for "who is hotter". Which obviously makes it more reputable.

If you have facebook and you know me, get that app and vote for me!

Dave, get facebook and vote for me...please?

Fifthly, how boring was that Old Firm game? And how amazingly accurate was my prediction? Oh yeah.

I Predict A Riot

:O

Thomas: "So it's half 11 and Dave hasn't posted anything..."

Dave: I was merely preparing myself mentally and physically for the serious task of pouring my thoughts and feelings out into the internets! How dare you Thomas :@. Oh and I blame your blog problems on your crappy PC. Visit this http://tinyurl.com/kv2f6 to fix it.

So predictions and such like:

1. 'Boro will have another uninteresting season where they will escape relegation with about two games to go, guranteeing another team in the top flight with no fans and boring football.

2. George Burley will mastermind plucky Scotland to a shock victory in the Amsterdam Arena... before losing in a friendly to Iran the following month and being sacked.Jimmy Calderwood will manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory once again, by getting us to a cup final but still losing to a first division team.
(We will of course regain 3rd place, that's more of a given).

3. Romanov won't pay the Hearts' players wages again, claiming an error of some sort, probably by the SFA/SPL who of course are on a 'witch-hunt against his club'.

4. Celtic will romp to another title.

5. Ally McCoist will be installed as Rangers manager.

6. Man United will win the league/Champions League.

7. I will go to Glasgow Uni.

8. Summer won't be sunny.

9. Mackie will score 20 goals+ this season. (check his goal here from Saturday ooft http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/scotland/7891657.stm ((I would stop watching after a minute though))

10. LOST WILL BE AMAZING. /END (I'll go into detail about why it's awesome on Thursday)

11. Obama will change....something? The channel on his tv maybe?

12. WeWhoRamble - or WWR - will still be going into 2010

So that's my predictions, hope they come true aside from the Dons cup final and summer not being sunny.

Also, next week will be the start of the WWR prediction league, me and Thomas will predict scores for all the Premiership/SPL games. Usual format: 3 points for correct scoreline, 1 point for correct outcome, 0 for getting everything wrong. Loser at the end of the season will have to do some kind of forfeit undecided as yet...

Until next time:

/Dave Out

Another 8 minutes to spare :)

Inspiration

Unlike Dave, who was moaning to me yesterday about being devoid of inspiration, I am un-devoid of inspiration! Un-bereft of the stuff! It fills my coat pockets and my shoes, my desk is covered by jars of the stuff, waiting to be spread upon a blog post like the jam I had this afternoon on my golden brown toast, waiting to be sprayed upon the blog like the perfume I used this morning...I mean deodorant of course...

Ok, enough exaggeration and over-description and superb hyperbole. See what I did there?

Anyway, my idea is this:

PREDICTIONS!

Oh yes. Predictions.

Not just football or sport or anything, just general predictions about life, the world, martians etc.

So I'll start with the essential first, the base predictions.

Martians won't invade in the next 3-6 months. I guarantee that.

The world won't explode either.

Now that's the important predictions out of the way, onto the funnier ones.

Middlesbrough WILL avoid relegation! Bold statement I know but we'll pull through. We'll be out of the relegation zone with 1 win. If we ever win that is...

Man Utd will win the title, can't see Ruffled Rafa or Crazy Chelsea winning it now.

Celtic will win the title that matters but will draw 0-0 with Rangers tommorow.

Hearts for 3rd place, Dundee Utd have no hope.

Speaking of no-hopers, I believe Dave's beloved Dons were given a lesson in football today by the mighty Jambos. Not even the "brilliant" Mackie could do anything to stop the crushing defeat. I would feel sorry for the Dons but I don't like them :)

I will also win my league on Xpert Eleven. For the 4th season in a row :D (http://www.xperteleven.com/ if you don't know what it is)

On to politics, I don't like the Tories and I never will. That's because they are wrong about most things. I, on the other hand, am right about everything. Gordon Brown ain't perfect either but the thought of David Cameron running the country should cause children across the land to have horrible nightmares. I know I have them.

So there you have some basic predictions. I expect Dave to have some tomorrow as well, although I predict he won't. But if he does, it better not be about Lost. Let's face it, the writers have no plan for that show whatsoever, it's a prime example of what happens when you "just run" with an idea. Good at first but loses it's direction very quickly.

Unfortunately, the prediction of most of the people I know came true. I didn't get any Valentine's day cards :(

But I predict next year will be different! Even if I have to make it myself!

It's FRIDAY!!!!

That's right, I know my days of the week! Maybe one day I'll manage the magic of the shoelaces!!

In other news, it's near on a year from the day that Aberdeen shocked the world of football by (nearly) BEATING Bayern Munich.

It was a great day, freezing mind, but a really fantastic day. I was behind the goal to see goals from Josh Walker and Sone Aluko fly into the back of the net. Absolutely Fantastic, one of the finest hours in my support of Aberdeen.

Enjoy the video below. (and the pic up above is mine :) )




So that's what was interesting for me this Friday the 13th (ooo) of February.


Yes I know that I'm basically just recounting history of a year ago, and that it has nothing to do with current events... Well watch the latest episode of Hustle on the iplayer (It's great :-D)

The Day Today

Big news today. I was a hit by a car.

Yeah.

Well, not really, that's just what I told my physics teacher when she asked me why I wasn't in the lesson today. I was on my way to the common room to see if there was anyone there before I went to the music department for my first rehearsal as jazz band leader (which I was elected to against my will) and I bumped into her in the corridor. I think she bought it anyway, so it's all good.

As for the jazz band rehearsal, 3 people turned up, including me. I believe that it what is known in intellectual circles as an epic fail.

After jazz band, I was asked if I wanted to go down to my old primary school to do some investigation with solar cells with the P7s there as one of the people who was meant to go was ill.

I did not.

Fortunately I had a driving lesson booked for the same time as I was meant to go so I couldn't go. What a shame.

Unfortunately, that was the time my driving instructor called to say the lesson was cancelled because of the snow. And the other person overheard this. Just my luck.

Disturbingly, I found that a picture of me holding a football trophy and grinning like a dog that's just marked its territory on some poor, unsuspecting fool, is still hanging up in the school. In two places. It wasn't hanging up when I was there. Extremely odd.

I did get a panini on the way back from the school though, so it wasn't all bad.

In other news, England lost. Ha.

Writer's Block...Oh wait, thanks Chelsea

Dave: Sooooooo...

Something to say...

Anything...

Anything at all...

*tumbleweed*

Right here's something. Guus Hiddink. New manager of Russia, oh wait Chelsea, nope actually Russia... wait both? What??? Okay, so this guy is going to be the manager of Chelsea, in London AND the manager of a country 2000 miles away???

How is he supposed to keep an eye on his players AND keep an eye on the Russian hitmen that will be stalking his every step after one draw against a mid-table side???

I do not envy him.

...Although he is getting a double salary, for pretty much doing the same job. Working for a rich Russian guy, and trying to make a team of fairly average players (with a couple exceptional ones) into world beaters!

Good luck to him.



*UPDATE: Yeah it's a pretty poor post, so what, I'm tired :-(*

Breaking news

Thomas: I hereby announce the annulment of this blog partnership with Dave due to unreasonable behaviour on his part.

I didn't want this but I'm afraid the blog has become unworkable due to Dave's insidious comments against the real sport.

Kidding.

But seriously, rugby is good. And if you don't like it then... *sticks tongue out at non-believers*


Hiddink to Chelski? Didn't see that one coming from a hundred miles away, since before Scolari was even hired...

*sigh*

Chelsea have fallen into the all-too inevitable trap of dictatorial chairmen.


It goes like this.

Moneybags comes in, buys club. Fans go "Yay!"

Mr S. Daddy then acts as a spreader-of-the-wealth funding a spending spree equivalent to the GDP of a small country. Like Belgium.

Team immediately starts doing well, challenging for honours etc. Fans still saying "Yay!"

Team reaches final of several competitions. "Yay!" scream the fans. "Yay!" screams the chairman even. £4bn well spent he thinks.

Team loses in one or more finals. Some fans continue saying "Yay!" cos it's fun to say. Others bay for blood. Chairman goes on rampage, hires mercenaries to kill manager, calls them off at last moment and sacks him instead. Even though the team may have won many other competitions.

Richard Richardson then gets hires new mananger, who he immediately doesn't like and sacks after he comes within a post's width of great success.

By now A-billionbillioninthebank-ovich has lost loads of money cos he's a crook and he's now lost interest in the club. He starts sacking people on a whim. Some think he enjoys paying millions of pounds in compensation. Other fans say "Yay! Our chairman is insane". Most of these fans are sarcastic. Some are stupid.

Theres a term for this sort of thing I believe.

MADNESS

I'd rather have Steve Gibson as chairman any day.

HA!


As for poor Mr Adams...

He's a rubbish manager, worse than Southgate even tbh. Pompey were right to sack him.

Scolari Sacked!..and a True Don

Dave: "Luiz Felipe Scolari's Chelsea reign ended today after Chelsea sacked 'Big Phil' with immediate effect. The Brazilian had only been in charge since June but has been dismissed after an indifferent run of results left the Blues fourth in the Premier League table."

Hmm, I'm a little indifferent to this news myself, despite the fact that one of the biggest clubs in the world has sacked their manager.. while still having the possibility of winning the treble.

I'm much more enthused by the 'News from the North' that Aberdeen striker Darren Mackie has signed a 3 year extension to his current contract! Darren 'the Dazzler' Mackie is (to some) a legend at Pittodrie, being the club's all time leading scorer in the SPL, and having scored a number of key goals, such as his 50th for Aberdeen in the Uefa Cup tie against Dnipro last season. This netted Aberdeen a financial windfall and kick started an amazing Euro campaign that saw the Dons take on European giants Bayern Munich in the last 32. Just last season Mackie broke Rangers' hearts on the last day of the season, striking the second of two Aberdeen goals in a crushing victory against...them. He also scored the winner at Celtic Park, in the Scottish Cup quarter-final replay which sent holders Celtic crashing out.... before Aberdeen took on *deleted* in the-game-that-will-not-be-mentioned... EVER.

Moving swiftly on, in addition to these important goals, Mackie scored one of the most bizarre goals in world football. It is something that has to be seen to be believed. Luckily, it's on youtube! (See video below).




However, despite all these positives...
the forward has been plagued by injuries and inconsistencies, and some fans have expressed their displeasure at Willie Miller for offering Mackie this contract. They see it as a sign of the lack of ambition at AFC and as an unjustified reward for an 'average' player.

I on the other hand, welcome this move to repay Mackie's 10 years of service to the club, and reckon that his partnership upfront with Lee Miller will bear fruit this season ...or the next.

Chances are you, the reader, will have absolutely no idea who or what I'm talking about and will care even less than I do about rugby..but I care. :-) Well done Darren, here's to you *tips cap*.

Mackie versus Rangers - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAXh0vVxekU

Mackie versus Dnipro - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY45KyYMg8o

Mackie versus Celtic - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWgfWPI-iSs


And I make it to the deadline by 6 minutes! Woop

Sunday

Thomas: Today was the kick off for Scotland's 6 Nations campaign and we got all the luck with having to play the reigning champions first. We were expected to possibly put up a good fight but ultimately lose.

What actually happened was this.

We were rubbish. Dire. Crap. Terrible. Awful. Totally and utterly shambolic. The only semblance of hope we can take from that game was that maybe in one game in the future the other team will think we've got no hope of winning and then they'll stop playing after a while and we can sneak a win.

We can't even cheat properly! Two of our players tried illegal tackles and both were knocked unconcious as a result! One was stretchered off and the other was physically sick! What a shambles!

We almost made up for it at the end but Paterson couldn't keep his hands on the ball at the crucial moment. If that had been a try I could have seen us putting another one past the welsh but it wasn't to be and it certainly wouldn't have been deserved.

At least we've got an easy game next. Against France. Away.

*sigh*

Maybe one day one of the teams I support in a sport will actually win something. Until then, I'll be the sad and cynical one in the corner berating people and weeping periodically.



Dave: lol at rugby

Eugh

Dave: A Thought Time Line of My Saturday 8 Hour Shift


6.30am:
Alarm Goes - eugh

7.30am:
Work starts - eugh

7.32am:
I glance at the clock for the first time - eugh

7.34am:
Second glance at the clock - eugh

7.34am:
Am convinced the clock is broken - eugh

7.35am:
Nope - eugh

9.00am:
Promise myself that the minute I get off work, I'm going to bed - eugh

10.00am:
Wonder why I was up 'till 1am - eugh

11.00am:
Break time - :)

11.01am:
Every customer in Scotland simultaneously walks into the petrol station

11.02am:
End of break - eugh

11.30am
Half way through - :)
4 hours to go - eugh

12.00pm
Realise I haven't actually done any work - eugh

1.30pm
Congratulate myself at not looking at the clock for 90 minutes - :)

12.30pm
Realise I read the clock wrong - eugh

1.30pm
Lunch - :)

1.45pm
Finished lunch... still hungry - eugh

2.30pm
My boss finds more jobs for me to do - eugh

3.00pm
30 mins to go - :)

3.01pm
29 mins to go - :)

3.02pm
...oh come on - eugh

3.27pm
:O 3 minutes!

3.30pm
Boss finds me "just one more thing before you go"

3.50pm
:|

3.52pm
End of work

4.00pm
Sleep

:)

Dave


...
4.03pm
Insomnia

4.04pm
/facepalm

Today

Thomas: Today in my life. What happened today? Well, I was on prelim leave so I didn't have to go to school.

So I went to school.

Had a physics lesson, was a bit boring.

Had a guitar lesson, was a bit boring.

Played football, was a bit boring.

Played fifa at mates house, won 7-1 but was a bit boring.

So today was a bit boring. But this is the first time I've blogged from my phone so it's not all bad :D Life's been a bit boring now tbh, not much to do, most other ppl are working hard at school and I'm just bored all the time there. I need a game to play in school, that's what I need. Any suggestions?

I-ntensely T-errible V-iewing

Dave: Not to be outdone by the Comcast coverage of the Superbowl, ITV decided to have a laugh with almost the whole of England.

Everton were hosting Liverpool Wednesday for their 4th Round FA Cup replay. After almost 3 and a half hours of football (including the draw at Anfield about 10 days ago) the two teams were still even, and seemingly headed for penalty kicks. But two minutes from time youngster Dan Gosling scored the winner to send the Toffees on and the Reds out of the cup. Too bad nobody in England saw it.

It really is amazing timing. Almost two hours of football on Wednesday and ITV manages to pick the only moments to muck things up. Again, this is about 12-and-a-half minutes into the second period of extra time (so maths: after 117:30 of 120 minutes).

There I am, wandering what is going on after 30 seconds of adverts before the commentator's voice explodes into my earphones and the picture returns: "A Masterstroke. Finish of a seasoned veteran! A special goal for Dan Gosling!".... :O

So that is what bothered me this 5th of February 2009... although really it happened last night so...
ach never mind.
Here's the video:




Thomas: I watched it on Setanta :)

Something mildly amusing

Thomas: So, this blog has been going for a few days now and I still always get the urge to say "so,"and then (attempt to) say something mildly amusing before moving on to a proper point. Problem is I rarely have a proper point.

But to move onto my proper point, I'm in a bad mood. It's not even been a week and I'm already talking about nothing. I'm just rambling!

Dave: That's the point. If you look at the name, the clues are there...

Thomas: Oh.

Never mind then.

I do have something to say though. Apparantly my physics teacher expects me to continue going to my A-level class during prelim leave. This is a disgrace! An outrage! But I don't mind really, there's not much to do right now anyway cos everyone else has exams.

But on principles I'm annoyed. And that's what should count.

Law and Orshavin

Dave: And so it came to pass that on the third day of the second month of the year two-thousand-and-nine, that Dave submitted unto to the mighty Blogosphere; an offering of some words, arranged into sentences, to please the Blogosphere and to render unto it the glory that it deserved.

So, t'internet, sup?

Today, was a remarkable day in many ways.
Firstly, Iran launched their first satellite built domestically, highlighting their capabilities to launch a nuclear strike and presumably kill us all.
Secondly, the snow storms continued to blast Britain (actually mostly London, that's why its big news), causing 'Travel Chaos' and 'Wide Disruption' to apparently everywhere there were news cameras.
But the most important story of the day, was the conclusion of the Andrei Arshavin to Arsenal Saga.

It has dragged on for so long! But finally two days after the window had shut (to presumably stop the snow getting in), Andrei Arshavin became the new No.23 for Arsenal. Final confirmation of the move was held up while the Premier League assessed whether all the necessary paperwork had been completed before the deadline. So now fame and fortune beckons for Mr. Arshavin, perhaps he'll get a spot on a popular tv show.. like Law and Order?:




this is real :)

Dave

Deadline day? Dead boring day more like/ Snow Day Lament

Thomas: Transfer Deadline Day. A day that begins in vain hope and inevitably ends in a flurry of tears and broken dreams. Nothing ever seems to happen. All the good signings get announced the next morning usually so there's no point in following the latest updates. And yet I do. Like a hawk. Like a hawk waiting for that tasty tasty field mouse to pop out of its house for the weekly grocery shop. But, inevitably, it's never worth it because any mouse that only leaves its house once a week won't be a very tasty meat. And that's what deadline day is. A stringy and disappointingly chewy anti-climax.

Dave: At least it's snowing.

Thomas: At least it's snowing? At least it's snowing!?!? I had to walk in that blizzard today, not fun. Imagine being attacked by a maniac with a giant fan and lots of freezing cold papier-mache. That's what it was like.

Dave: *tear* :-| It's snow, did you not expect it to be cold??!! It's the bitter sweet beauty of this amazing geographical phenomenon, that's so rarely seen, in Scotland at least, during these times of Global Warming. I had lots of fun today, although I didn't make a snowman... go sledging... or have a proper snowball fight... :-S. Still it was nice to look at, and there's always that little voice in your head that says:

"The school might have to shut early! You might get sent home!! There might be no school tomorrow!!"

We even got a tannoy just before the end of the afternoon (just to raise our hopes a little more), that informed us that "The School is going to close..." You could almost hear the collective intake of breath around the school before "...at 6pm this evening due to adverse weather, so there will be no extra-curricular activities tonight and the A.G.M. has been cancelled".

The air of disbelief hung over us for a few seconds... "An A.G.M! Oh no!" commented some witty pupil, before we banished that small, hopeful voice from our minds and sank once again back to the drudgery of education.

And as the bell pulsed its 6 lifeless tones that would normally lift my spirits as an evening of freedom approached, I felt hollow, almost cheated as I packed away my things and stared out at the blizzard that would not close our 'beloved halls of learning'. Sigh.

Pausing only to throw an anonymous snowball in the direction of our Headteacher, I pulled my scarf tighter and walked away into the white..

'S no joke.

Thomas: Whilst he had great fun at school, frolicking around in the snow in his free periods, as you do as a "young adult", I have been bed-ridden for most of the day, ill with the flu, rousing only to follow Dead-in-the-Water Deadline day and to make a painful trip to the orthodontist. I can scarcely believe it. Flu and snow. On the same day. Just not fair. And I have an exam tomorrow! The world is against me. Either that or it's just bad luck. But "the world is against me" has more of a ring to it, you know?

I should mention that me and Dave don't go to the same school, he lives up in the wilderness somewhere up north or whatever, I live in a civilised place called my house (which is in Edinburgh).

And don't worry, my exam doesn't matter because I have an unconditional offer for uni, which means I don't have to work this year. At all. But I try not to rub it in. That I have an unconditional. To the uni of my choice. An unconditional. An uncon-
You get the picture.

Dave: On the subject of unconditionals... I have 4 :)
This has been the first of our collaborative posts which I hope you'll enjoy... well my bits anyway!

Thomas and Dave

An Introduction to Thomas

Thomas: So, for my first post I did an intro for the blog as a whole, for the team, while Dave did an intro for himself. How selfish of him eh? Always looking out for number 1 that one. Tut tut.

Right, so me. What I'm gonna blog for is to just get what I think put on the internet. Cos it makes me feel big. Somebody out there somewhere might value my opinion. I could matter!
Of course, that's not really why. I've always thought about doing a blog but was always too lazy. It should be fun anyway.

For my part in this blog, this veritable feast of ironic self-deprication, I'll be taking the mick out of Dave's film reviews, his opinion on current affairs and his hilariously ridiculous support of Aberdeen FC. And I might even tell you something serious every now and again.

Now be good, children.