Blastronaut

Not meaning to detract from the seriousness of this or derail the discussion but the move with the shoe is giving me heavy flashbacks of witnessing a guy randomly getting smashed over the head a good few times with a high-hell by a very angry woman. Bizarrely he didn't even attempt to defend himself much, never mind fight back. Instead he focussed all his efforts on pleading with everyone in the surrounding area NOT to intervene and try to stop her or separate them. I have no idea what the backstory was but in the aftermath learned she was part of a notorious family in the area who have a known penchant for organised crime and extreme violence and several other family members were lurking nearby. Right I'll try not to lower the tone any further. Back on topic and in an attempt to raise the tone a bit, I'll just say the conversation before I opened my mouth and shared my totally irrelevant anecdote really put me mind of this, which is both a lot more recent and orders of magnitude more relevant than my anecdote of a strange scrap outside a boozer.

Harsh man. It's not PL's fault he fell for a Scouser. Let him enjoy his day.

Thats fair, and does make sense. What doesn't make sense is why the extra man advantage wasn't used having someone else help Gordon torment Trent long before Gordon was blowing out of his arse.

Taking gordon off baffled me. Should've had someone else on earlier to help him bully Trent AA into more mistakes and fouls. A lot of that second half felt like everyone had forgot he was booked early and walking a tightrope.

Not meaning to give you the fear mate but I'm just on the other side of 40 and the whole unexpected appointment for an checkup was where I was belatedly given my emhysema diagnosis. Doubt you've got emphysema like. Mines was a random Respiratory clinic outpatient appointment that I wasn't expecting, just assumed it was going to be a quick follow up to my last pneumothorax a few years prior. Instead got put through a barrage of breathing tests by some guy who had a confused look on his face at the end of each one when he said "okay, that's normal". After all the fucking tests I got to speak with a respiratory doctor who was also a bit confused and asked a whole fucking bunch of questions about my medical history to make sure they hadnt mixed me up with another Mr Blastronaut, before eventually pulling up a 15 year old CT scan of my lungs and saying "right well, your lung function based on those tests is still normal". Me: "ok great, that's a relief. I wasn't expecting all those tests. Hey, why are we looking at an old CT scan?" Hopefully yours is nothing and they've got the wrong Mr Fish.

MF: "Fuck what your book says, that fire door needs to open in to the room rather than out. How else am I meant to barricade it from the inside while im disposing of evidence?"

Moved in February, into a maisonette so we're above a few shops. Second week we had a bit of a plumbing disaster and wiped out three of the business below us. I honestly wanted to go into fucking hiding. Bumped into my neighbour in the pub a while later and asked him if he'd had any water damage, he was oblivious so I told him what had happened. Cunt found it hilarious. Think I cut the conversation short with "if you notice anything let me know, I surance are covering it" and he smirked and replied "it's all good. I learned pretty quickly that water goes down the way" and walked off. The last sentence struck me as a bit odd, but he was pretty drunk so I shrugged it off. Today it makes more sense. We've just got new neighbours on the other side, they haven't even moved in yet, just in decorating the last few days. They've just flooded the shops downstairs. Must be a fucking right of passage for moving in here.

I haven't even seen the film adaptation. I think I might have missed a trick by not taking my mates recommendation and reading it back when I had few responsibilities and was (legitimately) strung out on opiates. I'm still an anxious mess after the shitstorm that 2023 has been so far, so it'll have to wait but it's definitely back on the list.

You've just reminded me I stilI haven't got round to reading A Scanner Darkly. A good friend of mines dropped off a copy when I was just out of hospital after a major lung op and still out my face on (prescribed) opioids and insisted I read it. I noped out and opted to read The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern instead. Night Circus was a really good read tbf and weird memories of it still pop up in the occasional fever dream, but that's all likely skewed a bit by the opiates.

Aye. And on top of that his character naming conventions were straight from the old Asterix playbook.

I loved a lot of the Tolkien stuff back in early high school, think went down the Discworld rabbithile around the time I was struggling with The Silmarillion. Mort was a standout if memory serves but it's years since even thought about that series, let alone read them. Lost interest in fantasy novels until GoT got popular and thought I'd give the books a go. Managed the first two (I think) before getting a bit fucked off with all the padding. Quite often seeing six straight really long paragraphs describing a single piece of chainmail in intricate detail and eventually just thought "bollocks to this, these sections are worse when the Tolkien books would burst into song for a few pages".

Hatate? Sounds like the rumours have grown 8 legs and built some big fucking webs. Speculations over his sexuality aside, he was always too naturally talented a footballer for the SPFL (by orders of magnitude) and should be commended for having the balls of steel it would take to move to Saudi Arabia after a few years doing the rounds in the Glasgow goldfish bowl wearing double denim and giving big Freddie Mercury poses as goal celebrations while sporting a moustache and a mullet.

Aye. When they backed down I just assumed the whole charade of Wagner group marching on Putin was staged and Putin was in on it. I doubt any of those headcases were Mensa candidates but theyre surely dumb enough to show clear intent to overthrow Putin and not expect repercussions. Fuck knows like, I'm getting a bit tinfoil hat but maybe Wagner briefly turning on Putin was a desperate ruse and entirely Putin's idea, Prigozhin goes along with daddy Vlad's plan completely blinkered to the fact Vlad has to make an example of him regardless of the outcome to save face.

Rangers game aside, the Jota to Saudi Arabia transfer has been a strange spectacle. £25 million paid, a reported £100k+PW contract agreed and after two games the Saudi club have released him as a free agent. Maybe they just don't fancy him.

That's sounds like me when I was about 8 years old.

Fuck, somehow I'd missed the free insurance element, but was aware of the rest. Might reconsider. Honestly though, the Renault has been an absolute tank and never really let us down. Last winter it didn't seem to like cold mornings very much, OBD said one bad glow plug. Closer inspection

Oh I don't doubt that for a second. The whole scheme looks fantastic and it's sometimes a.challenge to fight the "why are we driving a 13yo when we could get a new one on motability" thoughts. We've been keeping a close eye on the 7 seater options since they change quite a bit, but when we already have a car that's been really reliable (albeit a bit old and not very environmentally friendly) that fits a family of six + the lads wheelchair and still has room for a supermarket shop, it seems mental to stump up the deposit and the lose the chunk of benefits to replace it for a "new". When the Renault finally dies it undoubtedly the route we'll go down, but the deposit for most of the suitable 7 seaters is usually in the the £1500 to £2000 range, which is basically what we paid to buy the Renault.

For some reason I thought you were in rural Ireland. With that purchase I'm gonna guess I was wrong. Fuck driving about Donegal and Mayo looking for somewhere to charge the car. Ours is diesel. Actually it's worse than that, it's also French. It's been pretty reliable for its age and decent seven seaters are few and far between on the second hand market. Glasgow's new ULEZ zone has proved a bit of a ball-ache but that's entirely our fault for being disorganised as fuck and not applying for the exemption (lads blue badge). Plan is to just run the car into the ground. Might look properly at the motability options when it finally dies. I'd be confident it hasnat least another year or two if wasn't for Mrs Blastronaut recent mad moments when she speeds up for speed bumps. She's easily a better driver than me tbh but she's clearly pushing to get the current motor replaced with a motability option.

I don't have a fucking clue what my point was there, looks like I was trying to make a joke of some kind that I'm assuming made sense to me in why whisky addled brain last night. That said, their transfer policy being stupid and self-destructive would be a good thing for the rest of the league. I don't personally think it is though, given their new German DoF I don't buy the whole "Endo was a panic buy" narrative especially after Endo's own comments but it is interesting that the two cunts that stumped up the money for Caicedo have previous beef from their baseball rivalry. I don't think it's that much of a reach to speculate there might have been a bit of a cock swinging contest going on.

Liked by Eddie Hitler. Fucking hell, I hope my natural-born worrier brain remembers this and never wastes another minute worrying about the long-term implications of the of handles I've spontaneously chosen for various forums over the years.

Didn't watch it. One of my daughter's asked last night when I was three sheets to the wind if I thought England would win and said "I hope not". She went on to quiz me "why wouldn't you want them to win?" and now I'm concerned that answering "because that would make me sexist" might not have been my finest moment as a parent. For context, we're Scottish.

That guy Endo that they signed said something the other day that had me scratching my head a bit. Words to the effect of "I thought they had signed Caicedo, when I heard he signed for Chelsea I thought "there might still be a chance"". Liverpool fans are all shitting the bed and screaming about Endo being a panic buy, but it looks like he was always in talks. If their current transfer policy is "neither of these guys sound like they want to sign for us, but we can still make Chelsea overpay on both when they probably only wanted one, so let's do that" then that's fine by me.

Everton do look a shambles as usual though. That John McGinn goal was class but how none of those defenders have picked up his short run to the front post is beyond me.

I'm just saying I wouldn't be massively surprised to see Spurs sign Kyogo. Reckon he could be had for £15mil at most and he's the archetypal Ange type center forward. I'm not saying it's nailed on, or that he'd walk it in the PL but I can see a world where they get one bigger name CF + Kyogo and look to move Richarlison on.

He's no Kyogo Furuhashi, that's for sure.