There’s this whole article up above these comments that you should maybe read

This is a tricky one.... I can remember two Polish colleagues getting into a heated argument (this was in London), entirely in Polish that left the female colleague weeping and claiming that the male colleague had said some pretty fucking awful things to her. Stuff that would have lead to his instant dismissal. The…

God Dammit. I’ve been in a similar boat in another industry undergoing seismic change (retail) and I can remember waiting for the axe to fall among people who did good work, cared about the company and had their livelihoods suddenly under threat because incredibly rich people were worried they might only break-even.

Albert, I really hope you never become a serious hockey fan: I’d end up nodding my head clean off my shoulders dealing with your analyses.

I’d like to know what ‘classical’ music he’s playing. Are we talking ‘The Four Seasons’ or George Crumb’s ‘Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death’?

It’s an interesting point: presumably due to TV/movies, American English is becoming hegemonic in the Anglophone world. Even here in Ireland its creeping in: ‘store’ for ‘shop’, ‘garbage’ for ‘rubbish’, ‘show’ for ‘programme’ etc. Not necessarily a bad thing, per she but certainly of interest.

It is a long-held belief of mine that Bohemian Rhapsody is the worst song in the history of the planet and, in fact, may well make me view genocidal fascists in a more sympathetic light: “Oh, Hitler... he was terrible, but at least he wasn’t as bad as Bohemian Rhapsody”

Ha! No worries, mate. Although “knowing fuck-all about hockey “has not been a handicap to at least 80% of NHL beat writers

Hi Chris. Yer one of my favourite writers on this horrible site but is there any chance that you’ll find some blog-space to mention the NHL playoffs that are also happening?

It’s a stunt. Scottish law (and law in the rest of the UK & Ireland) has plenty of precedent that would make such a waiver worthless. If you started an “Arsenic Cafe” and got all your patrons to sign waivers, you’d still end up in prison for the rest of your life.

If the Knights do win it all, an added bonus will be the amount of shit a certain pompous twerp who writes for Yahoo has to eat.

What the fuck is wrong with people? Cassettes were shit. Sure, there’s the whole ‘making mixtapes for that girl you fancy’ nostalgia (I blame High Fidelity) but they sounded awful, were easily damaged and degraded rapidly. Let it go.

It’s “Savage breast”, you Philistine. Poor bloody Congreve is on a spin-cycle in his sepulchre.

Exactly. Ghostkeeper FTW

Nothing says Murdochship bollocks like the cretins shitting on Wenger. I was an Arsenal fan in the 80s, where not only were they winning fuck-all but also playing unwatchable football. George Graham built winners, Arsene built winners who played some of the most scintillating footy I’ve ever seen. Legend.

Fun fact! Oldham had an AstroTurf pitch back in the 90s, as did QPR and Luton. Other fun fact: Oldham is a shithole, so I get the “running on the pitch with pills in yer pocket” thing, if only to break the monotony.

You need a (sic) on that “per say”. Just per saying.

The Golden Horde, one of Ireland’s greatest ever bands (and may have done the ‘In Bloom’ video ahead of Nirvana)

I’m not sure that the weight of expectation/godawful shitty media in Chicago didn’t break something in him (psychologically, rather than the 800 parts of his body turned into Osso Buco). This is a quality fisking of an incredibly dumb Rose Takeparade from 2013 (some of the formatting has gone a bit weird in the…

I recall an interview with Carlos Zambrano where he pointed out the exact spot to hit the bat in order to break it and grinning while saying something like “miss and you’re on the DL”