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Yep. I think he played once off the bench for us. I thought he went to DUndee Utd but reading his wiki he didn't.

Apparently he wants to abolish all personal taxes and replace them with taxes on land.

Just seeing some of Susan Hall’s campaign literature for the first time. It’s not that long since the Tory party were a renowned election winning machine. Now they go into a winnable election with this

Fantastic achievement for Falkirk to go a full season without losing in the league. The first non Old Firm team to do it in the leagues on the modern era.

Khan thumping Hall in the first few declarations big swing from 2021. Oh well

A few of my sons friends are getting bought iPads and given access to computer games. He is six and we think he’s a bit young for them so it’s going to be a bit of a battle. Quite a few of his friends have older brothers and sisters so get exposed to this stuff earlier than he does. However, it seems to drive a lot of poor behaviour from the older siblings (tantrums when they lose a game or their times runs out) that is being transferred to the younger kids. We let him watch YouTube on the TV, mainly Lego build clips, but I’d prefer he played with Lego than have his own iPad etc. Am I out of touch or is it the children who are wrong?

Russell on a normal one https://www.reddit.com/r/DecodingTheGurus/s/xWsaGOYD2C

The Sky News prediction is also a little unlikely. Voting patterns in a General Election would be different to a local election and drawing conclusions on overall vote share doesn’t take into account weighting towards winnable seats etc.

The turnout seems to be significantly higher in outer London boroughs which favours Hall. My team in work is 50% based in London and several of them are vehemently anti-Khan. One guy said if Khan wins he’s going to sell his car because the ULEZ makes it too expensive to keep, he was praying for a Hall win

Sadiq Khan in danger in London?

I wonder if we will see some line up changes. Pepple came on and scored a great goal but I'm not sure he'll be in from the start.

Airdrie will beat Queens Park and we will conspire to lose this game. It's written in the stars.

None of them. P&B is bigger than any single poster, especially a deranged banned loon ball.

Yeah, decent salaries, high profile and repeated blows to the head are not a good combo. The guy who put his phone in the microwave to charge it is the best for me.

I understand that this song was written in this manner and it's a banger.

Starting to think this Galloway guy is a real jerk.

Interesting use of 'return'. When did the SNP stop governing from the mainstream?

It seems like there's a big push for Forbes to join with Swinney and prevent a contest, possibily by returing as finance secretary and/or deputy First Minister. it must be atractive to do that as it would give her a significant brief, allow her to have influence in government etc. However, if she does agree to it, i don't think she will ever be First Minister. Essentially she will now be tied to the successes or failures of the Swinney government and, however people want to spin it, Swinney is the continuinty-continuity candidate. Say she falls in with Swinney and things continue getting wore for the SNP - they lose seats in the UK General Election, there are more scandals, poll figures stay low. She's tarred with that failure so if it happens and the Swinney goes she won't be the clean break she is now (you can debate whether she is a clean break now of course). If she falls in with Swinney and he turns things around and there is electoral success, well why would he leave? Also, what is likely to happen is others in the SNP will become the new shining stars of the future, leaving Forbes as yesterday's woman. If Forbes wants to be First Minister she has to run now, against Swinney. This is looking at things purely from the perspective of how to win. Forbes may have significant policy differences to Swinney, she might want to approach constitutional questions in a different way, she might think she has a better chance of winning SNP majorities and even independence than John Swinney. I just think from a purely tactical sense she can't stand aside now if she wants to be leader. ETA - Sounds like she will be stepping aside.

What?

Was going to post this on the rugby league thread, but deserves a bigger audience NRL players are a different breed.

I assume that it's David Sutherland who is paying Ferguson's wages, Ferguson is living in a house owned by Sutherland. Sutherland or entities controlled by him own the largest part of the club as well. Savage, Sutherland and McGillvary are all in their 70s now and I'm not sure how much they want to be involved in the club. I've posted it on here before but the ongoing issues we have are due to the fact that while we were in the Premiership the club was generally stable. We might make a loss one year but it was relatively sustainable and coverable. The truth is that the guys who were running the club didn't develop any alternative revenue streams, didn't try and make the club more robust, didn't invest in the infrastructure of the club and didn't plan for what would happen if/when we got relegated. Most clubs like us will get relegated at some point. The generalised chaos that we've had since 2017 is due to this. We are a strange kind of club - in some ways we spend money hand over fist, in others we are utterly skinflint to the point of harming ourselves. We don't have a long term plan for where we want to be, we don't have a plan off the field other than get this land deal over the line and cash the cheque. In a lot of ways I don't really blame Gardiner and Morrison for the situation, they inherited it. Both are incompetent and have probably made it worse due to their incompentence but they didn't create it.

Maybe I'm just getting older but I really can't stand all this stuff in boxing. Every fight seems to be built up to some stupid grudge match and there's all the shit before in the build up. It seems to be a lot worse than it used to be, although maybe that's just me. Possibly social media makes it worse? I haven't followed it all too closely but Garcia is clearly not healthy mentally and that can be something that PEDs contribute to.

I can't stand the "unelected First/Prime Minister" meme that seems to be trotted out more now. We have a Parliamentary system. Every party who has been in government in any part of the UK has changed leader at some point and not had an immediate general election - SNP when moving from Salmond to Sturgeon to Yousaf and now to Swinney or Forbes; Tories from Thatcher to Major and then Cameron to May to Johnson to Truss to Sunak; Labour going from Blair to Brown and even from Harold Wilson to Jim Callaghan if you want to go old school.

Yes, owning a samuri sword is up there with being a mobile DJ as being a sure fire sign of being OFTW.