‘it’s only a game……’

…but this is getting f***ing silly…’

Aberdeen 0 Falkirk 1
Kilmarnock 1 Celtic 0
Hearts 0 St Mirren 1 – League Cup semi

I am imagining the scene today in The Gaffers Arms as Tony Mowbray, Mark McGhee and Jim Jeffries sit round a table nursing their pints and not saying much.

The Dons looked ‘The Business’ defeating Hearts 3-0 at Tynecastle last week, but have followed it up with home defeats to Motherwell and Falkirk! (The first victory for the Bairns at Pittodrie since I was a bairn in 1958)

Place in Europe? Struggling for a place in the top 6 at the moment.

With Lee Miller having left Pittodrie for CelticLite FC at Middlesborough, we are a bit short of strikers.. what do we do? We loan out Chris ‘Bebo’ Maguire to Kilmarnock for the rest of the season. I rate Maguire and think he should have been given an extended run in the team, but for 3 seasons now he has drifted in and out of the side under Calderwood and now McGhee.

So who stuns Scottish Fitba by scoring the winning goal for struggling Killie against a Celtic side in the grip of Robbie Keane fever? Oor Bebo, that’s who.

I once had an animated gif of someone banging their head off their desk – I would have inserted it here…..

a google search for ‘football fans despair’ brought this up..

Of course being a Dons fan, I am kind of used to these absurdities and have been trying to laugh it off (almost but not quite managing).

I have been upbraiding Celtic supporters on the platform this morning by advising them that they are not wearing their full correct PPE ( Personal Protective Equipment)
When they ask what I’m on about I reply that it was decided by management that all Celtic fans had to wear life-jackets today, just in case they succumb to the urge to chuck themselves over the side.

Proper Planning…..

…Prevents Piss Poor Performance.

These workmen are installing bollards to stop nurses from parking on the pavement outside the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and are oblivious to the 6P rule.

They are cleaning up at the end of the day.

How long do you think it will be before they realise that they can’t go home?

This is a real photograph..!
…

‘Steal Everything’

ha ha!

and hey guess what? Kid Rock doesn’t just talk the talk… here’s All Summer Long

now where did that catchy hook come from…?

Kid Rock better watch out for werewolves….

See also The View’s ‘Same Jeans’ and Cornershop’s ‘Brimful of Aysha’

Obviously TWAT 1 had already been taken….

spotted Kirkhill Industrial Estate, Dyce 18-01-10

Am I the only person who gets irritated by this sort of nonsense?

No.

Apart from the naffness aspect this sort of tampering actually makes the plates hard to read. After being the victim of a hit and run the police will ask ‘did you get his number?’ ‘No, it was all jumbled together in an odd fashion and when I tried to look again he was away’

As ever Ken Fitlike will contradict himself by admitting that he did go ‘nice one’ when overtaken once on the Bridge of Don dual carriageway by EAT 5HIT…. and had a chuckle at a butcher’s van near the Roman Bar in Falkirk…

a new supporter asks…..

Hey Granda - do the Dons ALWAYS follow a decent result with a whimpering defeat?

an Oldie, but a goodie…..

First of all to anyone dropping by this humble blog (with much to be humble about) and to whom I have not already done so, may I wish you and yours a Happy New Year.

That’s the Festive Frolics all over for another year – I have spent the entire fortnight in the middle of the North Sea and I dare say a fair few bedraggled people may now wish they had swopped places with me.

I’m looking forward to getting home on Thursday – weather permitting that is. Today’s first helicopter was delayed for a couple of hours due to snow closing Aberdeen Airport and just 10 minutes ago it was announced that all further flights have been abandoned for the day.

‘well that’s just the icing on the cake’ mutters one thwarted crew-changer.
‘actually it’s the icing on the rotor blades that is the problem’ says the Rig’s Sarky Pedant (who, moi?)

Any roads (which will probably be impassable for the guys who did get off on the first flight and are now struggling to journey south of Aberdeen) I am eagerly awaiting my turn to eventually get off of here and home to open my christmas presents 2 weeks after everybody else. I hope I got good stuff.

Mrs Fitlike was quite angry about the present I got her. An indoor trampoline. She hit the roof. ( fetches coat)

Recently I have got into the habit of reading The Oldie magazine – and make sure that nobody who knows me catches me reading it! It is just the impish self-deprecating title prodding my self-image issues. I still consider myself a youthful outlook baby boomer – I even paid long-haired homage to Mott the Hoople in London a few months ago – and despite a ‘don’t give a toss’ general view I don’t want any of that ‘tee-hee, where’s your zimmer frame,you old bastard’ type piss-taking.

The Oldie is a fine read. A wee bit London-Media-centric ( but then what isn’t?) it is a pleasant blend of Alan Coren era Punch magazine and Richard Ingram’s own halcyon days of Private Eye. The cartoons are the best bit of course

‘did Brian tell you that he has split from the Church of England?’

’sustainable pleasure’

*ahem*

 is  this  a wind-up?

yes – it is a wind up! Saves on environmentally impactive batteries, so it must be a positive thing.

‘that’s a happy smile on your face, love. Have you been saving the planet again?’

‘a picture of elf….’

‘3 days old and they are already taking the piss. I need my Granda home to sort these people out’

Rhiannon says ‘Hi Folks’ to all HER Granda’s internet pals……

(edited from ‘his’. KF Alzeimhers progressing nicely)

welcome to the world…..

….to Rhiannon Mary – the latest Ken Fitlike grand-daughter.  ( puts tiny Aberdeen FC kit back into the cupboard for the third time)

She actually arrived as I was battling semi-siberian conditions travelling to my pre-crew change hotel on tuesday afternoon and I won’t see her until I get back on land on the seventh of January.

As she was 10 days past her ‘due date’ in deciding to finally pop out, it looks as if this is one more awkward female for me to contend with.

I’m not going to reveal to the rest of the family that she shares a birthday with Noel Edmonds…

the best Google Street View….?