amidst-tundra

Kinda glad I didn't travel down for this, it's my closest away day but the wheels seem to have fallen comprehensively off early this week.

How has Cammy Graham done this season? I've been abroad with work with ropey internet, so haven't been able to catch the highlights. He doesn't seem to be getting many minutes and I guess he's still recovering - but he looked like he had some potential.

As evidenced in the cup. That said, I think QP are going about building themselves sensibly. Bring in talent that is good for your current level and build a foundation on that. Teams that come into money and flood their squad don't always do that well or build sustainably...

I mean it's worked. No editor in their right mind would look at that photo and think they're aping Irish caricatures. No editor would do it intentionally unless they were determined to lose their job either. So this is either some astounding projection or some wild extrapolation. He gave a pi**ed off press conference and in lieu of usable images from said press conference, images from another press conference where he was reaching boiling point have been used.

Right? Basically threatened to f*** the investigation and get more people killed. Me and the missus have started watching The Confession Killer, really freaking weird, but I do love these big budget true crime documentaries. I never binge watch anything, but I watched four episodes of The Confession Killer before I was too knackered.

I wish they'd provide a playlist function, I just tend to download stuff to FLAC, stick it on a SD card and play through PowerAmp. But I use Bandcamp for stuff like underground metal and weird ambient music. Doesn't seem to be much pick up in more popular genres. There was a third party app that allowed Bandcamp streaming, but it was ropey and became abandonware after a while.

Is this all still because a picture of Neil Lennon was a picture of Neil Lennon? I'm confused that following a blurry Zoom video of an angry Neil Lennon, how this is now a conversation not about how Neil Lennon, as depicted in a clearer stock image of Neil Lennon looking angry and Neil Lennon'y going supernova - but rather one about bigotry? What wouldn't have been deemed bigoted? No picture? A still from the low res video that wasn't attended by press in person?

These ones. Too many of the episodes tend to be soulless, minimalist glass boxes. I tend to prefer the George Clark shows as the houses don't tend to look like huge white cubes. I used to live down in Bath, and the one that was built on the hillside never got finished. It seems many tend to run into dreadful debt and end up selling. My missus has come across one or two on Right Move.

Not really a music streaming platform, but I tend to use Bandcamp. Artists get decent pay, most streaming sites require millions of listens to generate about £100, but Bandcamp tends to be pretty niche, I suppose if the artist is big enough they probably make a decent amount of cash from other streaming platforms. I don't mind YouTube music, some of the compilations people put up can be pretty good, too bad they don't integrate the playlist which most people put up on the main YouTube app.

Colour me shocked, shocked. No, I mean the other thing... Unsurprised. Don't forget that Celtic have been the hardest done by in all this.

Seems like operation deflect. Seeing as the press conference was conducted on Zoom or something like that and the video quality was pish and would have provided rubbish stills. It would have been bizarre to use a stock image from the dugout, so it would have been hard to find a particularly photogenic stock image from previous press conferences.

It's worth noting I don't want it suspended or banned, but there seems to be a (mostly) media created moral panic about adherence to COVID protocol in football. What I find interesting is that nobody is talking about rugby, where you can be conceivably in close contact with several players for more time than in football. I like to get out of the house and watch sport in the summer and I don't much care for tennis or golf or crown green bowls. Plus you can have a pint at the speedway.

I meant ritual sacrifice in a facetious sense. Although perhaps in the literal sense as you suggested.

Is an impeachment against Trump really a good idea for the Democrats? Aside from stoking the KKKultists, there is a tiny chance he could run in four years that would just total any hopes for the Republican candidate. Surely just let him ride noisily into the sunset instead of barring him from running again.

Zero foreign travel is however impossible. I work in the merchant navy, I was stuck on a ship for five months in the first lockdown, some guys on other ships were on for almost 18 months in some cases. These are the guys keeping commerce and trade going and they can't be expected to stay on the ship forever, especially when there is no shore leave. With the way modern schedules work, when you're working or on standby seven days a week burnout becomes extremely dangerous. 90% of all world trade is carried on ships. I don't believe people should be going abroad for holiday but then this also creates the problem that no punters, no flights. No flights, I'm not sure how sailors and other such workers can be repatriated. I know airlines are not going to be doing the maritime sector any favours, it was like pulling teeth trying to see controlled repatriation recommence in summer.