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I take it you're going to post that pish on any open thread buddygreat ? Nice one.

Snow Patrol "Final Straw" is great. Also, the only CD I have ever bought with a recommendation from the Sunday Post on it

The Fist and the Furious

Cannae believe that neither John Butler or Gary McVie have rated much of a mention here. McVie was outstandingly bad

I am slightly worried by just how keen some folks are to see the end of what has become something of a North Bank institution. I'll be a nonentity again if it goes, as opposed to "the bearded guy hanging around the baldy loony who shouts at empty seats". On the other hand the £40 here and £10 pledged in work amount to a handsome dividend for a few minutes work. What to do ?

Could be all change in the Bajan house after my forthcoming midseason break ? Think I could definitely raise 40 or maybe even 50p for SMISA/blackandwhitearmy.com if it was to go.

Just for the record SID, Dan Petic and I are not the same chap (although he does have a point to a certain extent). Dan, whatever you might think of Bill Lees' personal opinions he is a pretty fair mod (along with the other chaps) when it comes to that. The one with the "ma baw" attitude is your baldy webmaster.

Aye Sid, you'll not hear that in Paisley but when I go somewhere hip and trendy, like Erskine or Pollok I hear it all the time. You know it makes sense.

Nope, but 'Panic' by the Smiths is a decent tune.

Glad to see some acceptance of Withnail & I finally permeating your posts. Better late than never. AND I AM NOT UFCKING AGGRESSIVE YOU PIRCK

Elegaic nebulous innate Whoops, sorry. Thought it was the best words used by Bill Lees in a patronising manner. My apologies.

Be flattered if you wish Mr Lees. I will point out that the last subject of my signature was Collin Samuel. If being compared to him is flattering you need to have a long hard think about the direction your life is taking

If we're mentioning poor footie sayings, then the worst of all at the moment is "he'll be disappointed with that". Not appropriate when Greg Shields has just scored the own goal of a lifetime Sandy!!

Christ. I didn't realise you were actually making a point for anyone to miss behind all the ridiculous bluster and typical pedantry "The elegiac tone of the picture overall is superb". What planet are you actually on ? You missed your vocation writing for the TLS I think. Or perhaps not.

In true Bill Lees style pedantry, who was talking about missing the point ?

I would argue that saying something is "vastly overrated" is not a criticism of the film itself. Rather, it is a criticism of a generation of students and would-be fops who find the idea of Richard E Grant getting pissed in the country extremely funny. Simply using the word "c**t" in a film is neither big nor clever and frankly, it is about the level ofa 14 year old. THAT, Bill is a criticism.

Hmmm. Piece of genius right enough. Typically crap line from the most overrated film of all time. Could've been written by a wee guy called Ricky from the Barras.

Ian Brown was an absolute shambles supporting the Manics at the SECC. His cover of Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal/Billy Jean (which was it ?) was one of the worst covers I have ever heard. Best for me: Blur - Mile End stadium, 1995 Hothouse Flowers - Barrowland, 1991 U2 - Parkhead, Christ knows what year Kevin McDermott Orchestra - 1990 Manics - SECC, last year Other than the Manics, I reckon the years are a bit hazy.

1. Of course I was thinking about you darling

Sid, I am never sure what point that bigoted knob is trying to make - he seems also to have some kind of hang up against homosexual or camp artistes. That is simply unacceptable - where would we be without some of those guys ? That bloke is just a bigoted homophobe.

TL, no US connections at all - just think the average American punter is not as stereotypically thick and vapid as we cynical Brits like to think. And, like SN1F, I just thin the anthem is uplifting - but the Superbowl one was pish - in keeping with the game itself... TL - thanks for the ice cool shout - might consider changing my name...

What a f**king surprise. Someone with typically anti-American bias hates the Star Spangled Banner. Land of the free - what do you expect - "Land of the extra large sweatshirt and double cheeseburger". Of course not - every national anthem has something included to lift the populace up. If this means that the native Americans don't like it, then tough shit. Sung by 50,000 New Yorkers, it is a hair raising spiritual experience - I have been involved in nothing like this and that includes Scotland at 2 World Cups and countless other sportinge events. I don't know if there is an easier target than the American national anthem, but there probably is not. Still a suggestion that the American people do not get irony is pretty original. Well done. Never heard that before. Might be tough to sing but it will lift its people up like nothing else. Trust me, I know.

1. Is it not about time they brought Fernandez on for Larsson ? 2. That new contract has fair calmed Martin O'Neill down. 3. I've nothing but absolute respect for Maurice Johnston. 4. Great outfit Div. 5. Can I buy a trenchcoat just like yours TL ?

I honestly think the Star Spangled Banner is a cracking anthem - interms of rousing your own punters it is magnificent. When sung by a group (choir or something it is superb). Only problem is that we generally get to see Mariah/Whitney/some other screamer murdering it. No doubt that will happen at the Superbowl this weekend. Apparently the version sung by Meadow Soprano in New York last month was excellent. She's no screamer...except when she is with me

SID, the Manics were quite rightly mentioned earlier. Why no mention of the Kevin McDermott Orchestra ? ;) ;)