KingRocketman II

Greer - who can kindly be described as a nyaff - has repeatedly spoken out against Assad and his regime. Assad is considered to be directly responsible for the death of over 230,000 of his own people in the last 10 years, including over 15,000 estimated to be tortured and over 150,000 forcible disappearances. Assad and said regime remain in power but Greer is no longer in Government. Is this the meme story/comparator here? If I have understood correctly - and perhaps not - this is not just peak Facebook Da here, this is a whole new level.....

Don't have very strong views on this but notable that the Scottish Greens do seem to effortlessly trigger certain folks. Amusing to see....

I can't work out if he is presented his stand-up routine as truly unfunny/awful as that was the reality ie where he was in life and what he considered to be funny at that time. Or whether he is presenting the stand-up parts as "good comedy". I read that he had played the fringe a number of times before the stalking began and had won awards. Obviously the timelines for Baby Reindeer are likely to have been altered to make it all more cohesive but there is nothing remotely funny about the main guy. Not even his stage stuff, but the one liners that he made to his trans partner were awful also. I cannot believe he is considered a successful comedian.

best strip though....

. More likely contributed to by his incessant theatrical pratfalls. If he just stayed on his feet with every imagined or innocuous of touches, he would be sparing his joints from further unnecessary impact.

Douglas Alexander, Labour grandee's reaction to his "shock" loss:

oooft. He is gonna be reeling from that.

"playing rounds" or as normal people term it - simply buying someone back a drink who bought you one. Some folks devote real time and energy to avoid having to buy anyone a drink or making a tenner stretch (and not through lack of funds) - whether it is opportune disappearances or avoiding eye contact,, making sure never up at the bar first in entering the pub, nursing drinks, boring or stalking partial strangers to see if can illicit drinks etc etc. Must be exhausting and pretty miserable.

On a work course and we were each given a £30 voucher to use in the adjacent restaurant to cover dinner. I wasn't too keen on the food and only ordered some sides and a drink. A colleague at our round table (though not sat within direct talking distance), was clearly seeking maximum return on his voucher. We went up to pay/hand in our voucher at the till at the end and he had slightly miscalculated and his came to £30.72. After clarifying some final individual costs with the woman on the till, he turned to me behind him and (oddly) aware of what I had ordered, asked if I could extend some of my remaining voucher balance towards his additional costs ie 72p. I laughed and said why don't you just pay the pound and he said "it hopefully will not have to come to that" - suggesting that he had a few more options to apply if I refused or the woman said that what he was proposing was not possible.

howdy.

you know you have come in at the sharp end of the thread when "mate" is getting thrown about so freely......

This is the type of comment that a stranger beside me in a busy pub makes in my direction, where I invariably nod in agreement and say "aye" but have no idea what they mean or what they are saying.

....or a trivial or minor alteration to something as a "disaster waiting to happen".

yeh that was it exactly - though think it was Brown who actually said that, pretty much verbatim. And when Brown said that about Gough, who was with Rangers at the time, a few red-tops were coincidentally looking into stories about unsavoury and potentially inappropriate behaviour of a Scottish Prem player. This leaked - though the stories didn't get published until a few years later - and everyone assumed the player in question was Gough on account of what Brown said. However the player in question was actually Justin Fashanu who was with Hearts or Hamilton I think at the time..... Brown didn't divulge what his Gough front page story was though.....