Spotify has deemed it acceptable to pop a Celtic song on my Spotify Playlist this week. Shit in itself, but not the end of the world...
However, considering it's chorus is solely "Oh Ah, Up The 'Ra!" I'm actually pretty pissed off to be entirely honest. Especially considering the football version (The song is from a Celtic football album ffs.) is apparently supposed to be "Oh Ah, Up The Celts!".
May not seem a big deal, but it's pissed me right off.
People moaning that this years Brit Awards are dominated by black artists after moaning last year that they were dominated by 'White Boys', while all along you've got the MOBO Awards which IMO is divisive in itself (How do you define the origin of modern music?).
Got an idea, why don't the luvies who promote these awards and seem to go out their way to please the 'minority', just do it on an 'open to all' basis and then break it down in to genres, eg. Country - Folk - Hip Hop - Metal?
Been travelling from Bromley South to Hammersmith for 2 hours now. Shitshow.
Victoria trains were buggered - so waited for about 20 minutes, got a Thameslink jobbie to Elephant and Castle which was constantly stopping.. then it stopped because someone fainted due to the heat. (More likely overcrowding and heat.)
Then I've had the joys of the Bakerloo and Piccadilly Lines. Left the house at 0750, its 0946 and I'm approaching Baron's Court. Awful.
I don't know his full name, but they refer to him as Mike on BBC breakfast. Basically because the BBC have f*** all sport in their repertoire anymore, this Mike character gets sent to try all these ridiculous speciliast interest sports every week that only a fraction of the population care about, similar to the levels of interest in the Scottish football League
Mike gets dressed up and put through his paces trying to talk about how popular these specialists sports when they're really not, and he does it in a manner that winds me up
I saw a brief clip today of him on a motocross bike in full gear, with some poor guy running along next to him holding him up. Like a 3 year old child on their first bike. What is the point???
He said a while ago that he does these strange sports to encourage others to take up sport in general and basically you don't have to be good to enjoy taking part in sports. Its just a bit of Saturday morning nonsense that fills in time before the omelette challenge on Saturday Kitchen.
Ugh. Going through some photos someone has asked me to make into a nice collage for them.
There's a set of otherwise perfect photos, except clearly there are two people taking photos at the same time and standing quite far apart from each other, which means half of the people are looking at one camera and half are looking at another and the photos look totally shit as a result.
Just...let one person take the photo and then share it with each other. Especially since I know when the photo was taken and the only two people who could have possibly been holding the cameras live in the same fucking house. Daft cunts.
It's the same thing at weddings. There's someone who is being paid to take photos you fucking idiots. Stop getting in their way, these people have paid specifically so Aunt Doris isn't waddling around balancing a Buck's Fizz in one hand and whatever shitty knock-off Samsung with a crap lens in the other screaming to her son how does she zoom or turn the flash on.
Canada Water southbound overground - people just cannot move down the platform to the left or right. They insist on demonstrating the highest levels of stupidity and ignorance. Just move down as opposed to bottle necking the centre
Bremoaners on the brexit forum.... I suspect some are under suicide watch.... Theres about 5 who should be if they don't lighten up.
Suicide really isn't a thing to joke about. If you don't like a thread don't read it, simples, don't make tasteless jokes.
But these people who have the temerity to take photographs of friends, family and loved ones; photographs that are cherished in times of separation, loneliness or nostalgia; photographs that are all Aunt Doris has left to remind her of her niece's wedding which was the last time she saw her son before he dumped her in this piss-stinking exile of a care home... these people are 'fucking idiots' and 'daft cunts'. Send me the photos and I'll make the collage, you beast.
Jesus is that Brexit thread still going? Get a life.
Yes it's still going strong. Apparently if you post on there 100 times and flag anyone who offers a varying opinion to that of your own then the country will dismiss the electorate and remain within the EU.
People bumping the 'Is a Takeover imminent?' thread for any reason other than to actually share new information about a potential takeover. It's depressing opening it with expectation just to see someone talking about nothing. Just let the thread die ffs. It can be resurrected when something actually happens.
The BBC London interviewing the estranged best friend of George Michael who thinks his death is probably linked to hard drugs and alcohol. Then using it as their opening story.
BBC: The oldest gorilla in captivity dies aged 60. I'm feeling sad about this poor creature. Born in captivity in December 1956. The people who looked after her meant well. But... Have another bunch of grapes! Smile for the camera!. Is this good? Is this Just? #untileverycageisempty bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38659471
Excitingly logging onto the Weird Stories thread for further sexploits from Leroy Ambrose only to see a load of boring stories about flickering street lights
People using the escalators at tube stations... but standing on the left and giving you a dirty look when you have the audacity to ask them to move there fat face and suitcase
Left school at 15, did not take any exams. Served a 6-year apprenticeship, then spent the rest of my life in well paid interesting jobs, and have now retired, not rich by any means, but do not need to worry about bills etc, paid my mortgage up in my 50s, I have had regular overseas holidays for the few years, and a decent car. Isn't this what most people want? If you want to go to Uni, fine, but not necessary to have a good life.
Very different now though mate, you grew up in more sensible times - a small percentage of school leavers went to university (5-10%?), their degrees were worthwhile and helped them get a decent job and they didn't start adult life with a crippling debt. The fact that there weren't huge numbers of graduates floating around meant that those without degrees weren't prevented from getting good careers - get your foot in the door, prove you can do a good job and the rest will look after itself.
Thanks to the wonderful theory that everyone should be allowed to go to university, we now have thousands of graduates every year, many obtaining degrees in ridiculously futile subjects, and (apart from the ones who's parents can pay them through) they start their adult life with a huge debt (£20k to £30k?!) when they should be trying to start saving the astronomical amount they need to buy a house. University has become an extension of sixth form college, but youngsters feel they need to go to just to give themselves a chance of getting a decent job. For those that haven't got degrees, there are lots of doors that are completely closed to you, especially when you're starting out.
I'm 36 now, and it becomes less and less relevant as you get older but I still see jobs advertised, that I really fancy and know I could do well, where the job description states that "you should have a degree at 2.2 or higher".
That's not to say that if you're bright enough and determined enough you can't still have a great career without a degree, but it's a lot more difficult now than it used to be.
I would have to disagree with the debt issue, in that although fees for university are much higher than they should be the money owed is not taken into account when applying for things like mortgages etc. You have to earn above a certain amount to start paying it off and even then it is effectively the same as paying for something like Sky once a month. It is an inconvenience yes, but I wouldn't say that it's crippling, and shouldn't put people off of going to university if they wish to.
Sorry mate have to disagree with you about the debt thing. The new system js better in some ways but is terrible for anyone with ambition but from a family without money.
Let's use a hypothetical student Charlton fan let's call him Hantersaddick he's from an average family not a huge amount of money but own their home and live comfortably. No way could they pay his uni fees upfront so he's gone for the loan option. Now Hantersaddick is ambitious and works hard and wants to do well. He has completed a years work before returning to finish uni and will be going into a good job after graduation (assuming he doesn't cock it up by spending too much time on some football website called Parlton life).
Now the 'you don't have to pay it off until you earn above a certain point' argument let's look at that. The point is 21000 (fixed, not rising with inflation so basically a real terms fall every year). Show me a graduate job that doesn't pay more than 21000. Any student with ambition should be expecting to earn that fairly quickly and with reasonable progression will earn and fair chuck more. And that's where they kill you. Because it suddenly stops becoming and loan and starts becoming a tax. So if you have a reasonable job with good career progression but can't pay it off early you can easily pay back 10 times what you borrowed. Read money saving expert Martin Lewis on this.
Let's talk about the interest rate, 3% above RPI (notice how they use RPI when you have to pay it and CPI when they have to pay it). That's a big chunk of money. And interest is charged from the second you take the loan out, the old system it was from graduation. So when you finally enter the job market with 35grand debt (if you're lucky) you have to earn 42grand a year just to pay the interest. If you earn less than that your total debt rises every year.
So you are in the terrible situation of, do I pay it off early and delay getting a deposit for a house for 10 years. Do I murder my parents so I can get a house and pay it off. Or do I accept that I am paying an ever increasing chunk of my pay cheque every month as an extra tax.
Our friend Hantersaddick is favouring the murder your family option.
The thing is canters if they don't borrow the money they won't be going to uni. I have a mate though his daughter is 14 his been saving for ages though for when she goes to uni He is telling me that although the money will be there he will still get her to get what money she can
Of course. No way could I have gone room uni (and still be studying now) without the loan system. But that's why I think it's so criminal. For the majority of people it's the only way they can afford to go. Only the 'born rich' can afford not to and they are the ones who arguably should be paying the most 'grad tax'. Yet the rich effectively pay far less for their education because their parents can pay it up front. Those of us who are not born to stupidly rich families have no option to take the loan and are lumbered with 30 years of 9% grad tax.
Me too, piss poor mum trying to make do as a single mother.. without the loans I'd have never left my shit hole of an estate... got a degree and now live as a Artist that gets to travel the world and pay back said 30grand debt.
Funny enough a art degree is one of those that's considered pointless, without it though I'd probably be in a box or prison cell like a lot of my mates
Left school at 15, did not take any exams. Served a 6-year apprenticeship, then spent the rest of my life in well paid interesting jobs, and have now retired, not rich by any means, but do not need to worry about bills etc, paid my mortgage up in my 50s, I have had regular overseas holidays for the few years, and a decent car. Isn't this what most people want? If you want to go to Uni, fine, but not necessary to have a good life.
Very different now though mate, you grew up in more sensible times - a small percentage of school leavers went to university (5-10%?), their degrees were worthwhile and helped them get a decent job and they didn't start adult life with a crippling debt. The fact that there weren't huge numbers of graduates floating around meant that those without degrees weren't prevented from getting good careers - get your foot in the door, prove you can do a good job and the rest will look after itself.
Thanks to the wonderful theory that everyone should be allowed to go to university, we now have thousands of graduates every year, many obtaining degrees in ridiculously futile subjects, and (apart from the ones who's parents can pay them through) they start their adult life with a huge debt (£20k to £30k?!) when they should be trying to start saving the astronomical amount they need to buy a house. University has become an extension of sixth form college, but youngsters feel they need to go to just to give themselves a chance of getting a decent job. For those that haven't got degrees, there are lots of doors that are completely closed to you, especially when you're starting out.
I'm 36 now, and it becomes less and less relevant as you get older but I still see jobs advertised, that I really fancy and know I could do well, where the job description states that "you should have a degree at 2.2 or higher".
That's not to say that if you're bright enough and determined enough you can't still have a great career without a degree, but it's a lot more difficult now than it used to be.
I would have to disagree with the debt issue, in that although fees for university are much higher than they should be the money owed is not taken into account when applying for things like mortgages etc. You have to earn above a certain amount to start paying it off and even then it is effectively the same as paying for something like Sky once a month. It is an inconvenience yes, but I wouldn't say that it's crippling, and shouldn't put people off of going to university if they wish to.
Sorry mate have to disagree with you about the debt thing. The new system js better in some ways but is terrible for anyone with ambition but from a family without money.
Let's use a hypothetical student Charlton fan let's call him Hantersaddick he's from an average family not a huge amount of money but own their home and live comfortably. No way could they pay his uni fees upfront so he's gone for the loan option. Now Hantersaddick is ambitious and works hard and wants to do well. He has completed a years work before returning to finish uni and will be going into a good job after graduation (assuming he doesn't cock it up by spending too much time on some football website called Parlton life).
Now the 'you don't have to pay it off until you earn above a certain point' argument let's look at that. The point is 21000 (fixed, not rising with inflation so basically a real terms fall every year). Show me a graduate job that doesn't pay more than 21000. Any student with ambition should be expecting to earn that fairly quickly and with reasonable progression will earn and fair chuck more. And that's where they kill you. Because it suddenly stops becoming and loan and starts becoming a tax. So if you have a reasonable job with good career progression but can't pay it off early you can easily pay back 10 times what you borrowed. Read money saving expert Martin Lewis on this.
Let's talk about the interest rate, 3% above RPI (notice how they use RPI when you have to pay it and CPI when they have to pay it). That's a big chunk of money. And interest is charged from the second you take the loan out, the old system it was from graduation. So when you finally enter the job market with 35grand debt (if you're lucky) you have to earn 42grand a year just to pay the interest. If you earn less than that your total debt rises every year.
So you are in the terrible situation of, do I pay it off early and delay getting a deposit for a house for 10 years. Do I murder my parents so I can get a house and pay it off. Or do I accept that I am paying an ever increasing chunk of my pay cheque every month as an extra tax.
Our friend Hantersaddick is favouring the murder your family option.
The thing is canters if they don't borrow the money they won't be going to uni. I have a mate though his daughter is 14 his been saving for ages though for when she goes to uni He is telling me that although the money will be there he will still get her to get what money she can
Of course. No way could I have gone room uni (and still be studying now) without the loan system. But that's why I think it's so criminal. For the majority of people it's the only way they can afford to go. Only the 'born rich' can afford not to and they are the ones who arguably should be paying the most 'grad tax'. Yet the rich effectively pay far less for their education because their parents can pay it up front. Those of us who are not born to stupidly rich families have no option to take the loan and are lumbered with 30 years of 9% grad tax.
Me too, piss poor mum trying to make do as a single mother.. without the loans I'd have never left my shit hole of an estate... got a degree and now live as a Artist that gets to travel the world and pay back said 30grand debt.
Funny enough a art degree is one of those that's considered pointless, without it though I'd probably be in a box or prison cell like a lot of my mates
Idris Elba. I know he's very popular and at times can be a decent actor but I just think he's a dick. Can't put my finger on why.
He's on that fine line of being deemed 'cool' to both men and women. That's the problem. I liked Luther and the Wire and he comes from modest background and has made it good. When you have reached that sort of perfect balance (in the media's eyes), they will then push him out there and he had to try not to be overexposed and in our faces too much.
That's why I think he could start to get on people's nerves anyway.
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However, considering it's chorus is solely "Oh Ah, Up The 'Ra!" I'm actually pretty pissed off to be entirely honest. Especially considering the football version (The song is from a Celtic football album ffs.) is apparently supposed to be "Oh Ah, Up The Celts!".
May not seem a big deal, but it's pissed me right off.
Got an idea, why don't the luvies who promote these awards and seem to go out their way to please the 'minority', just do it on an 'open to all' basis and then break it down in to genres, eg. Country - Folk - Hip Hop - Metal?
Victoria trains were buggered - so waited for about 20 minutes, got a Thameslink jobbie to Elephant and Castle which was constantly stopping.. then it stopped because someone fainted due to the heat. (More likely overcrowding and heat.)
Then I've had the joys of the Bakerloo and Piccadilly Lines. Left the house at 0750, its 0946 and I'm approaching Baron's Court. Awful.
Its just a bit of Saturday morning nonsense that fills in time before the omelette challenge on Saturday Kitchen.
There's a set of otherwise perfect photos, except clearly there are two people taking photos at the same time and standing quite far apart from each other, which means half of the people are looking at one camera and half are looking at another and the photos look totally shit as a result.
Just...let one person take the photo and then share it with each other. Especially since I know when the photo was taken and the only two people who could have possibly been holding the cameras live in the same fucking house. Daft cunts.
It's the same thing at weddings. There's someone who is being paid to take photos you fucking idiots. Stop getting in their way, these people have paid specifically so Aunt Doris isn't waddling around balancing a Buck's Fizz in one hand and whatever shitty knock-off Samsung with a crap lens in the other screaming to her son how does she zoom or turn the flash on.
Send me the photos and I'll make the collage, you beast.
It's depressing opening it with expectation just to see someone talking about nothing.
Just let the thread die ffs. It can be resurrected when something actually happens.
You might never see it again
Leave this bullshit to the tabloids eh Auntie ffs
I'm feeling sad about this poor creature. Born in captivity in December 1956.
The people who looked after her meant well. But...
Have another bunch of grapes! Smile for the camera!.
Is this good? Is this Just?
#untileverycageisempty
bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38659471
A triangle of feckin' frustration!
Me too, piss poor mum trying to make do as a single mother.. without the loans I'd have never left my shit hole of an estate... got a degree and now live as a Artist that gets to travel the world and pay back said 30grand debt.
Funny enough a art degree is one of those that's considered pointless, without it though I'd probably be in a box or prison cell like a lot of my mates
That's why I think he could start to get on people's nerves anyway.