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    doing a bit of non-trainspotting on the Borders Railway I was caught in a thunderstorm in Gorebridge today- not particularly extreme weather although I enjoyed the torrent of rainwater rushing down the street- it was moving wee stones which was impressive.
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    I pinched this one off Lost Edinburgh's Facebook page (worth looking at if you're into the history of the Capital). It's Bathgate Park, which was build on top of the Old Town gasworks and used by the Edinburgh Junior FA until the mid 1920s when the New Street bus garage was built. It's strange to think there was once a football ground at the back of the High Street.
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    I would agree with Consolidate- The Sons were solid enough although I'd be worried about the number of fouls conceded.. Annoyed at the Spartans Catering for running out of pies at half time- almost as if our noisy neighbours aren't used to a big crowd... I enjoyed pointing out Sons' goalkeeping coach Baldie Gallagher to a youngster "see him? he played with a defunct team called Clydebank.. in the Premier Division and all...!!!". It was like pointing out an actual living T-rex..
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    did anyone else think of the opening scenes in Flash Gordon watching that? Only Dr Hans Zarkoff, lately of NASA, has provided any explanation for these phenonema...
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    As much as I like trying to get a spectacular photo I'm not particularly sure I'd be standing on Portobello Beach in the middle of a thunderstorm waiting for a good shot.. ... it might be dangerous considering the tinfoil hat I'm always wearing to stop them reading my thoughts...
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    I live on the other side of Arthur's Seat from that photo- I thought the hill was getting zapped quite a bit watching the flashes of lightning from the kitchen window. There were some good flashes to the south of the house- might have been the towerblocks at Craigmillar were getting it, I wasn't sure. The storm had the peacocks at Prestonfield House upset- they were mewing away. It was good to watch- free entertainment. My one thought was "I hope this isn't an omen for an England football team getting to a World Cup Final" but fortunately Japan won..
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    accordion to you anyway...
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    why? did he squeeze your box?
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    I googled "Whitehills" and got this picture... .............. wid!
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    My dad used to drive DAFs. Fortunately he never bought a second hand jizz stained 44 off a fat Manc... My mate bought a Nissan Micra off a bloke he knew. The passenger side wing mirror had a stick on mirror over the original and the story went that the owner had been shagging his bird when her stilleto heel broke the original mirror. There were cigarette burns on the back seat so perhaps that was caused by post-coital smoking. My ex had a D reg Vauxhall Cavalier- it was a roomy enough car but I never found there was enough space for it to be a proper shaggin' wagon.
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    didn't see Question Time but a baldy guy who says he supports one side when it's quite obvious he supports another- it wasn't Chick Young was it?
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    In the 1970s Morgan Freeman was approached by Jeremy Hardy and Wincey Willis to go into partnership with a view to setting up a chain of shoe shops. He turned down the offer and Martin Freeman's dad took up the chance instead, the profits created by the stores allowing him to put his son through acting school.
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    Does anybody want to enter the 2015 World Cup? 50 nicker per entrant signed Tam President of IMTA- International Monkey Tennis Association
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    Having recently heard Half Man Half Biscuit's song "I hate Nerys Hughes" I suddenly realised that I've always hated Nerys Hughes.
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    Aberdeen keeper Jamie Langfield got the nickname "Clangers" when he played for Dundee after emitting strange whistling noises and thinking he lived on the moon after hallucinating during a particularly rigorous training session at Dens Park overseen by Jocky Scott. Langfield was reportedly disappointed when he found out that Scott was not in actual fact the Soupdragon as he was looking forward to a post session meal of blue string pudding.
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    Next time we play Germany away charter a bus to take Scotland fans over to the match. Hog the Autobahn lanes and put a sticker on the back with the number of a premium rate line for angry Audi and BMW drivers that reads "How's my Fahrting?"
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    Go to a playoff match. Stand next to some kid. Some footballer will chuck his shirt at the kid because footballers are sentimental, but here is the genius part- you're bigger and nastier than the kid so nick the shirt off the wee scrote, wait til the heat dies down and flog it on e-bay 6 months later...
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    Rope off a bit of waste ground. Add some rusty barbed wire, half bricks. wandering rapid dugs, evil Aberdeen seagulls, broken buckie bottles and junkies needles for that local touch. Call it "Scotland's toughest obstacle course event" and charge steroid abusing fitness twats 50 quid to enter. If they survive the obstacle course the winner gets to eat a burger from one of those burger vans you see at Hampden for Scotland matches...
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    Raise a small claim against a council for tripping over a loose paving stone and twisting your ankle. If you make it a small amount- say £100-200 apparently they hardly bother to contest the claim as it's not worth the bother. If you try it with say, 5 biggish councils in Scotland- Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen, Inverness say, you could end up with a grand. Alternatively get elected as a West of Scotland Labour MP and do f**k all for years... errmmm... hang on a minute...
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    said Dougal. And the rest of the Magic Roundabout gang agreed.
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    The chorus to "The Sidewinder sleeps tonight" was written in tribute to Lochee baker Colin Jim Aitken who supplies Michael Stipe with plehnies and inyin ins whenever he plays the Caird Hall in disguise as Shug McTumshie and his Monifieth Stompers.
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    It's not generally known that Steven Gerrard was an Arbroath fan when young. He used to enjoy reading about Jimmy Fotheringham and Alan McKenna while delivering the Courier to an exiled Dundonian on his paper round. His prize possession is an Arbroath strip signed by Derek Steel that he bought off e-bay for a then record price of £3.25
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    Obscure Roman General Decius was the first to suggest building a wall between Bo'ness and Dumbarton. This is why the Antonine Wall should really be called the AntandDecanine Wall.
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    this is because he is part cat due to a short sighted sheepshagger somewhere in his family tree..
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    Diet Irn-Bru is made using Jackie Bird's pubes.
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