LongTimeLurker
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"Scotland Has Too Many Clubs" - Ann Budge
LongTimeLurker replied to HibeeJibee's topic in Scottish League 1 General Chatter
Malta is only slightly bigger than Clackmannanshire with less than a tenth of Scotland's population, so that isn't a sensible parallel. Not sure why people see having twenty fewer clubs in the national divisions as meaning clubs would no longer exist. Most of Scotland's 950 or so Saturday afternoon teams already play outside the SPFL. Bo'ness United vs Alloa makes more sense than Stranraer vs Alloa from a logistical standpoint when part-time players are involved and you would still get a decent sized crowd along to watch it. Regional divisions at the top part-time level would not be the end of the world for the clubs involved. -
"Scotland Has Too Many Clubs" - Ann Budge
LongTimeLurker replied to HibeeJibee's topic in Scottish League 1 General Chatter
Think she's right that the two mainly part-time divisions really don't need to be under the SPFL banner and would be better placed in a regional format like the east-west-north juniors setup, but there's nothing new in any of this. There are 42 SPFL clubs because a super-majority of SFL clubs was needed to get the merger through, not because the top full-time clubs value the presence of the bottom two tiers in any way. If SPL2 had been doable without any need for an ongoing breakaway payment and League Cup entry to the 20 or so remaining SFL clubs, odds on they would have pursued that option instead. -
5 and knew 5
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3/10 and knew 2
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The Pentland Firth is the mother lode on that globally. Tidal power is cyclical, so unless you have something like pump-storage hydro you can't match it to peak demand. The problem is that even on renewables you can get all kinds of beardie wierdies kicking up a fuss because some rare flower might go extinct or something like that and even building a set of pylons through the Highlands gets all kinds of landscape fetishists very upset. NIMBYism isn't just an issue with nuclear.
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There already is to a limited extent, but there needs to be a lot more to make the renewables thing work without needing to have natural gas fired power plants as the backup. There are plans for more: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-17061075 but the big problem is that this sort of thing runs into a lot of opposition from people who see it as destroying the Highland landscape etc etc http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/fury-scottish-councillors-back-controversial-1409320#ojSOGk3JYu8uCmWV.97
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With more pump storage hydro along the Great Glen renewables to help balance out supply with demand and renewables would be the way to go in a Scottish context. In England there is a better case for nuclear.
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4/10 and knew 3. Knew the ungulate, the Liberian flag and official name of Bangalore.
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2/10 and knew 1.
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Very happy with 6, only sure on 2.
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Looks like the guy immediately behind the Dear Leader in this photograph is the uncle of Kim Jong-un that got executed. If that's a photo that was never online before, maybe the Korean hacking earlier on was no coincidence? If so, I hope they have fun translating this in Pyongyang and figuring out what it means. 8마일의 버퍼는 김 왕조에서 똥 놀아나.
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5/10 and knew 3
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7/10 and knew 5.
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Happy with 5 and knew 2. Heavy on obscure Aussie stuff today.
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7/10 and knew 4.
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5/10 and knew 2.
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7/10 and disappointed, because I knew those 7. Jebem ti music i F1.
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After a couple of weeks of not being able to access P&B due to internet censorship in the country I was in I wind up with a 3/10. Could have been worse as i was clueless after the first one.
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Predictions - what will end up happening
LongTimeLurker replied to effeffsee_the2nd's topic in The Politics Forum
Merkel and co saying no informal talks until you invoke Article 50: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36637232 means either you do a complete U-turn and stay as is or you leave. -
Predictions - what will end up happening
LongTimeLurker replied to effeffsee_the2nd's topic in The Politics Forum
UK leaves but not in the EEA more some kind of free trade pact like Ukraine or Turkey, Scotland says f*** this fur a gemme of sodjers and departs stage left with the decline of the pound and flexible treatment of the RoI-NI land border post-Brexit undermining the strongest rational pro-Union arguments along with the general distate for Boris and Nigel, NI stays for a couple of decades minimum but Nationalist opinion becomes more strongly pro-UI again leading to a fixation over birth rates and census numbers and paranoia over which way "Jordanstown garden centre Prods" would jump in a Border Poll, Wales slowly starts to be viewed as an English region once it can no longer be equated with Scotland. Eventually after 20 years rUK sees sense and everybody has a big group hug and decide to adpot Esparanto as the shared European language with the remaining Brexiters banished to the Falkland Islands. -
If the Tories remain intact there is no need. Not a single Remainer amongst the Tories has said anything about doing a U-turn as far as I am aware. The Guardian is pushing this scenario, but it doesn't exactly have its finger on the pulse when it comes to what the Tories will do.
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That's what people don't seem to grasp. Brexit was inherently part of the Tory manifesto if the people (have spoken, the b*****ds! - Dick Tuck) voted to leave, so they are committed to invoking Article 50 at this point. The Tories would be annihilated by UKIP in England & Wales if they attempted a U-turn on that, because most of their voters backed Leave and turkeys with otherwise safe Tory seats don't vote for an early Christmas in career terms.
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The 40% rule was inserted into the devolution legislation before the referendum based on an amendment from a backbencher called George Cunningham, so there is no parrallel with the current sitaution. Was once told that if Gordon Wilson of the SNP had kept speaking for 90 more seconds during the debate it would not have been added, but no idea if it's true or not.
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Keen observers of the last general election in Scotland will realise why a three way split amongst the traditional mainstream parties against a single upstart opponent fueled by a recent referendum is a recipe for almost complete wipeout and will notice that UKIP's starting position in a Westminster context is not that far off where the SNP were in the 2010 Westminster election with Euro elections being their version of Holyrood polls where significantly greater success had been achieved. A lot of politically aware people across the UK are now at the bargaining stage of the five stages of separation basically. Once they realise it is futile and the result is going to have to be implimented whether they like it or not, we will be into depression and then acceptance.
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6/10 and knew 4.