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My Mum still says;

"He's gay, but he's very nice"

And my Grandad, upon seeing a white girl walking down Kelso high street holding hands with a black guy;

"Bloody hell, she's dating a nig-nog"

We quickly bundled him into a shop doorway (my Grandad, not the black bloke) and put it down to the fact my Nan had just died.

Good work.

 

Why are "Hurray" and "Boo" on the same side?

Because kids and grown-ups love it so.

Agreed.

Ah - the good old days! The very first WWF magazine I owned!

Ditto!

Just if anyone was interested, I've put up a bunch of photos from the St Andrews Sporting Clubs 40th Anniversary Burns Night, with Doyle vs Limond and Cornish vs Bajzath; http://dropcanvas.com/lmr06

Sorry to bump this, but I don't suppose anyone would know if last nights boxing show will be shown again, whether Loaded TV have catch-up or whether it would be available for download? I can't access their website as I'm in work...cheers!

I'm photographing the Eddie Doyle vs Willie Limond fight at the Radisson Blu in Glasgow tonight. Black tie do, piggy backing off the St Andrews Sporting Club Burns Night. TV and press there plus 600 + crowd. Papping it.

EDIT: Bloody hell, that was brutal, good fun though. Johnny Nelson is the nicest man in the world and tells a cracking story about meeting Mike Tyson. The fights are on Loaded TV tonight (channel 200 on Sky, possibly?)

I don't think any of them realise how harmless the masons are. They're essentially just an old boys club.

 

Exactly. My uncle is a free mason and he says all they do is meet occassionally for dinners and piss ups, because they make friends there they will often do business with eachother and they raise money for charity.

 

More than anything it's a good place for businessmen to get a chance to socialise with a similar social group that they may not have had the chance to otherwise.

My wife's step-dad is a Mason and when he occasionally leaves his wee "wizarding books" (as she calls them) lying around, it seems quite religious. Is that the case?

 

Just a few I have

They're great.

I've always had a soft spot for this;

Yeah, it's on Youtube under "James Hunt swears during live BBC broadcast of 1989 Monaco Grand Prix " but my link wasn't working on here. Video does though, had a listen myself. Murray Walker was great; "...so, anyway."

Very nice! Where did you get it, if you don't mind me asking?

The evening of September 11th 2001, I went to the Cathouse in Glasgow to see the Bouncing Souls. The lead singer opened the set saying "So yeah, our fucking city just blew up"

They were on tour promoting their album, How I Spent My Summer Vacation, which the back cover looks like this;

Which was weird.

I know a couple of people who stay in those flats. Shit, apparently.

Some lunatic "expert", Giorgio A. Tsoukalos from the Ancient Aliens programme. Google image search "ancient aliens guy" - look like more than a bit of a weirdo.

Yes there is.

That's always the line with ghost photos though: "The story goes...". The story goes that it's not my mate in a sheet dancing around in the background.

This thing with ghosts though is what would be considered hard evidence? Obviously you get the photos and videos that can be easily discredited as double exposure, and other logical explanations, but when you get the ones that can't. For example that photo with the man in the backseat of the car, surely all you can really have is the photo along with the witness statement that no one else was in the car?

 

I'm quite a fan of photos where someone can actually be identified such as a dead relative.

 

 

I find this one interesting from WWI. The story is that face belongs to an air machanic who had been killed days before the photos was taken. I would argue that there is enough of his face showing for those that knew him to be able to make a good identification.

 

EDIT: Forgot to actually post the photo

Where on the photo is the enlarged section taken from?

Thought I might pop this up, the first image on my blog (more just to try out webs.com than anything else)

I found that too, especially with that series.

I am a big believer in a character list at the front of a book. The first fantasy book I ever read (Raymond E Feist's, Shadow of a Dark Queen) had one and I maintain it made the introduction into that genre so much easier.

I've given up on It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. It's really, really shit and I think I genuinely hate it.

How far into it have you given up? I'll be honest we've not long started it and think it's fucking shit. Does it get better, then worse?

I will give the crazy homophobe props for this lovely little Back to the Future related dig at a fellow X-Factor winner though

 

steve brookstein ‏ @stevebrookstein

 

"Hey Alexandra, it's your cousin Marvin....Marvin Burke. You know that mediocre generic sound you've been looking for, well listen to this!

That would be funny, but....you know..... it's Steve Brookstein.

 

I'd take Brookstein over Leon fucking Jackson.

Threeway~

Was the pic in your sig taken in Queens Park?

Also, aliens.

Another quite specific recommendation post I'm afraid.

Can anybody suggest some easy to watch shows with short episodes, suitable for the whole family (Age 4, 13, 30, 31)? We already watch or have finished watching; Community, Friends, The Big Bang Theory, Everybody Loves Raymond, Rules of Engagement, Joey and don't find Two and a Half Men funny and we're not that keen on Just Shoot Me or Seinfeld for example. Doesn't need to be comedy, we have also been watching Once Upon a Time, which the wee one has been loving.

Cheers!

Here's one for you - hockey! No, seriously, and not that shitty ice crap either, the proper one.

 

India v Ukraine, women's Olympic qualification match. You can get India at a -4 goals handicap at 9/2. Get on that shit. I've got