Gaz

Considering how experienced McCracken was, the fact he didn't take one for the team and pull the ICT player back and take the booking was the biggest mistake.

If we were to get through I genuinely don't think I can face watching us get beat in *another* final, as would be most likely the case. However I couldn't get over if I decided not to go and we somehow won.

Can also see us taking about 87,000 and Hampden needing to get redeveloped to fit us all in

Hopefully the 300 or so fans Inverness end up taking aren't the same 300 who celebrated the winning goal in 2015 like they'd watched a mildly entertaining game of tiddlywinks.

I mean, they're winning

Ach I always forget about the cups

Was browsing some old YouTube videos the other night and came across ones for Frontier: Elite 2. I used to love this back in the day. Are there any games like the modern equivalent? I've heard brilliant things about No Man's Sky these days but haven't really touched it since the debacle of the launch.

Loads of them are. There's a shortage of teachers in many subjects and universities are reporting less people applying to be on teacher training programmes. There's an upcoming staffing crisis because it's not particularly seen as an attractive career any more.

It's perfectly possible to believe that teachers are both a) relatively well-paid compared to the population in general and b) relatively poorly-paid compared to the level of education / professional qualifications required and the number of hours actually worked versus what they are salaried for. The two positions can coexist.

Surely it’s got to be

The folk who say "keep politics out of football" really mean "keep *my* politics out of football". If Lineker had been posting complementary tweets about Bravemann they'd be calling for a fucking statue to be built of him.

No-one is a Gaz-hater.

Presumably these right-wing permaseething gammony boomers are also calling for Alan Sugar to get sacked from the BBC whenever he posts one of his permaseething gammony boomer hot takes?

Apologies for the delay. Monday 5/10 Tuesday 5/10 Wednesday 8/10 Thursday 5/10 Friday 6/10 A poor showing this week.

Haven't you been on strike for 27 years? You're like the guy out of Seinfeld (the racist one)

This is spot on. A few folk saying it's all about give and take. I've got about three or four hours' worth of marking to do over the next couple of nights. Presumably I'll be able to finish at 12 on Wednesday. Not sure what my pupils will do right enough when they arrive for their scheduled classes and I'm at home on the PS5

We've literally been on strike to fight to get compensated for it

Genuinely didn't realise there were so many folk on P&B employed in the boot-licking industry. Folk happy to do unpaid overtime and not fight to be compensated for it? Absolutely wild stuff. If you died your work would replace you within a week.

You are given more planning time as a new teacher to offset that.

I see this argument, but 'better working conditions' doesn't pay for bills which, for some of my colleagues, have risen by £300/£400 a month over the past year.

Then perhaps those jobs should get their unions fighting for them. It's not a race to the bottom. Some jobs have people working 18 hours a day in sweatshops. It's not an excuse to settle for poor pay / conditions in other jobs.

I think that, for a 35 hour week, the current salary, and the proposed new one. Is a good one. As I say though - for a 35 hour week. I’ve been doing it for ten years now and the amount of ‘extra’ stuff that has been lumped on, particularly in the last three years since Covid, means that it is physically impossible to do the job in those 35 hours. Particularly if I want my lessons to be any different from “there’s a textbook, sit there and do 30 questions”. I’m not a teacher who martyrs himself and does three hours a night and five hours at the weekend, but I’m probably doing about 45 hours a week while getting paid for 35. That wouldn’t be acceptable in any organisation with decent labour laws, teaching shouldn’t be any different.

This is absolutely true, apart from the bit about setting out for an 11% increase and turning down a 12% offer.

8 for Friday I also got 8 for Thursday, posted yesterday but think it might have been missed.

5 for Wednesday, 8 for Thursday