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The North Star in Lerwick. More of a 'club' (I use the term loosely) than a pub tbh. Circa 1997; I would've been around 15. It's now a car park.

The UK has a massive obesity crisis and the most popular programme on TV is about some folk in a tent baking cakes loaded with sugar. Well done.

Porridge with sliced banana, raspberries and/or blueberries and a sprinkle of cinnamon is >>>>

https://medium.com/satiria/the-most-completely-insane-thing-ive-ever-seen-in-a-cinema-7c44ce68f50f#.c3ol7v75q "So I arrive at Pacific Quay where I am told that they want to pitch my sitcom to BBC 2 network down in London. “Cool!” I said, although being under fewer illusions now as having the script commissioned by BBC 2 was an even longer shot than getting picked up by BBC Scotland. “But I thought you said my script was too intellectual for television?” “Oh, that was only in regards to BBC Scotland and Ewan Angus. This time we want to pitch it to BBC 2 in London because English people are more, shall we say… “comfortable” with intelligent comedy. They feel less threatened by it.” “Hang on!” I immediately interjected, “Are you saying that, according to BBC Scotland, English people are more intelligent than Scottish?” The exec I was talking to sighed, leaned forward, and explained to me that according BBC Scotland that “Scottish people” are more working class and less educated than English people and, therefore, would feel intimidated and patronised if they watched a sitcom that mentioned philosophers, whereas English people can cope with more “cerebral” comedy without feeling as though they’re being made to feel stupid. So if I was going to pitch a script to BBC Scotland then I would have to make sure it was Glasgow, preferably male, centric and with no references to anything that could be construed as “intellectual” or cultured otherwise it would get immediately discarded....."

True, though it could be argued this has always been the case even since Labour's early days. Left historians always point to Labour's unique situation/history compared to other European socialist / social democratic parties....

This was dealt with nicely here:

#Scenes.

Some interesting imagery in the second paragraph there, but yeah, I generally agree with this. Dreadful state of affairs.

Spotted this mock-up away shirt on another forum - class: Edit FFS why can't I upload pictures here??

Both home and away kits are awful. Home shirt is easily the worst ever, surpassing even the chalk-stripe Bertie Vogts-era Fila one. Far too much white going on with those daft sleeves; full thing may have worked better if the shorts were navy. The less said about the pink away shirt, the better. Thankfully both'll be long gone by the time we actually qualify for a major finals again....

Ha ha ha.

Christopher Lambert in Highlander Ewan McGregor in Trainspotting

And never in a million years is 'To Pimp A Butterfly' better than 'Illmatic'.

It's a stunning album, and every bit as great as 'Section.80' and 'Good Kid Maad City'. But it's not the best hip-hop album of 2015. That honour goes to Dr Yen Lo's 'Days With Dr Yen Lo'.

Sounds pretty healthy. Needs more carbs though I reckon.

David Buffy, maybe?

On pronunciation of his surname, can't believe no-ones posted this yet: It's pronounced "Boo-ee" (rhymes with 'gooey'). "Missing Persons, Duran Duran....."

'Flat Earth News' by Nick Davies is a great book about the shortcomings of the media. It came out almost a decade ago, but a lot of it is even more relevant today than when it first came out; deals a lot with how the Internet has changed the news gathering/reporting process, how huge cuts in newsrooms have meant newspapers increasingly rely on picking up stories from news agencies (eg Press Association, AFP, Reuters etc.) and/or regurgitating press releases, rather than doing their own original reporting or investigations; how the rush to get stories up online first is leading to errors and a lack of secondary reporting ; crap pay means seasoned veteran reporters are going to work in PR for better wages, leaving newspapers understaffed mainly by young graduates who are on much lower pay. At the end of the day, it was never the cover price that kept newspapers afloat - it was advertising revenue. Once the bottom fell out of that market, the business model became unsustainable. The whole industry is now about 'doing more with less': newspapers are trying to boost their presence online, and constantly churning out 'content' - with increasingly sensational/dumbed down SEO-type headlines - in the hope of getting more clicks which helps online ad revenue (Even the stuffy Telegraph's site is relying more on Buzzfeed/clickbait listicle-type articles online now). The result of which is articles stuffed with errors and mistakes. And of course still no one has managed to properly monetise news online, with newspapers challenged by the likes of Twitter, Reddit, online upstarts such as Vox, Quartz, Huff Post etc. Pressgazette.co.uk is a good site to keep up with the newspaper industry, as is the 'The Street Of Shame' section in Private Eye.

Lived in London 10-and-a-half years now. Amazing place - never, ever get bored. The place is constantly changing; when I first came here we'd tend to go out eating/drinking in the West End/Covent Garden, then a few years later it became East London/Shoreditch/Bethnal Green. Now it's all over the place - even places like Deptford and New Cross are great now for new places/bars/parks/restaurants to go to. The 11pm closing time for pubs in certain central boroughs can be annoying, but when the tube (or certain lines) go 24-hour later this year then that'll probably change (as pubs already have 24-hour licences). Greatest city in the world though? Depends on your criteria and what you're after really (NY possibly edges it for me). There are lots of nice parts in London, lots of terrible parts - like anywhere else. Just randomly listing stuff off the top of the head like the South Bank, Borough Market, Carnival, Brick Lane, Edgware Road, Greenwich, Brixton - I don't really get the hate for the place.

Is that a Glasgow Yoko Ono tweet?

There are some nice Acer laptops in that Currys sale: I'd say go for around 8gb of memory and 1tb of storage - though high storage is less of an issue these days with more options such as online storage and huge 2tb portable USB storage drives that are smaller than a pack of cigarettes...

Acer is a really good brand and their laptops are well built and really last. I would def recommend them - had my current one since mid-2010, and its still going strong - though looking to get a new one this year. Before that, my previous one lasted early 2005 to mid 2010 with no problems.

Absolute state of this, though. #Seething.