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I get regularly slated by @V.Aye.R because he gave me a blind dram of Haig Club and I was raving about it. I quite enjoyed it to be honest.
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5 minutes ago, Thorongil said:
Without wishing to seem a total w**k, what would people choose here between an F-Pace and a Velar?
F-Pace for me but choosing between those is definitely a first world problem!
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16 hours ago, Bert Raccoon said:
Not a huge watch connoisseur like most but are Tissot any good? I asked my maw for a Rolex for my Birthday but she's a pensioner and I might be ripping the pish. This one's around £300, not fussed about the inner workings etc.. But just would like a decent looking watch
I have a Tissot, they are excellent. They are an actual watchmaker, not a fashion brand with cheap rubbish inflated by the badge.
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8 minutes ago, jimbaxters said:
Good work. Should tide you over. Plus if you push them all close together on the floor you can save on buying a TV unit.
I've told her I'll sell some to fund furniture purchases (I won't).
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25 minutes ago, jimbaxters said:
That'll be your whisky hit on the head.
Why do you think I've been slamming it so hard pre-move? The collection is at 80 bottles.
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4 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:
I wouldn't like to confirm or deny......
In all honesty, my wine buying process goes like this.......
IF colour = red AND %abv > 13 THEN gies it
Great strategy.
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16 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:
Just went through and put 6 botles together then realised that all the wine was getting patched becasue of minimum pricing. Crossed it off in a rage. Might revisit later
Oh I didn't have that problem. I was on like the 6/7 quid wine, you must have been after the properly cheap stuff
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I see the Lidl and Aldi seemingly annual now Christmas time releases are out. Both 18yo and both 39.99. Incredible value. The Aldi is a speyside and it's out now. The Lidl is the Ben Bracken again, is an Islay and think is out next week.
They tend to disappear fast so keep an eye out. The Aldi one you can get on their website but you need to buy 6 bottles to get delivery. Thankfully that includes mix and matching with their cheap and also fantastic wine so wasn't a bother for me.
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Buying a new build. Doing the supposedly sensible but daunting thing of stretching ourselves financially, especially since rates are still low.
Gf is already moaning that we won't be able to afford any furniture etc. Can't quite get her head around the concept that we will hopefully live in this house for decades and we really don't need to do absolutely everything day one. "I'm no wanting to live in an empty house!", well f**k off to your mums then and I'll happy live on me own.
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8 hours ago, pozbaird said:
I have nothing against the LA Rams, but now I just want anyone bar the Rams to win the Super Bowl in SoFi Stadium. Problem is, I can only see a winner coming from the NFC - Bucs, Rams, or Cardinals. No-one in the AFC stands a chance IMHO. Titans maybe the best of a bad(ish) bunch.
Would rather see Brady lift the Lombardi again than the ‘all in’ Rams.
Apart from OBJ though the Rams have a REALLY likeable team. Donald, Stafford, Kupp, Woods, Miller - these guys are all business all the time. Ramsey has an ego but he is a phenomenal player and can back it up. Maybe my specs are rose tinted but I would want long time class acts who have never won a superbowl like Donald and Stafford to get one ahead of Tom Bradys 15th one.
The narrative that the Rams are doing something wrong baffles me. They're prioritising proven talent ahead of crapshoot draft picks and being slaughtered for it. People keep saying it's unsustainable. Well they've been doing it successfully since 2016 so maybe it's just another way to do things and an equally legitimate roster building strategy. How have the Lions, Jets, Dolphins etc got on having stockpiled loads of picks?
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29 minutes ago, lichtie23 said:
OBJ To the Rams
Not sure how I feel about this.
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Speaking of Bunna love, they're releasing a 12yo cask strength but the RRP is £75. Assuming it's still a must buy? @V.Aye.R was mumping about the price.
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3 hours ago, jimbaxters said:
Read an article yesterday about making a bottle of infinity whisky. Writer spoke about adding a dram to an empty bottle each time he opened a new one. Seems like quite an interesting idea. Have any of to big lads tried it?
I have one. Think a few of the regular whisky thread posters do too, it's come up before. Mine is probably 4 years old or so by now. Changes all the time as you drink a little then re-fill with something else.
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Can't see them disrupting the good juju with a headcase. Tight knit group of lads by all accounts. One of the reasons they let MeSean go.
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Talisker 18 for me tonight. Bask in my glory.
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How much better do Arsenal look when Xhaka isn't playing? Talk about addition by subtraction.
Smith Rowe looks class.
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I have a bet on the chargers for the SB. 40/1. Made it the second they hired Staley. He is the balls.
Does anyone know if they were doing propf of vaccine spot checks before the london game last week? Had an email from them saying they would be but I hadn't bothered with getting the vaccine pass thing because I thought England weren't bothering with all that?
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On 13/10/2021 at 11:08, Al B said:
Never lived in or near Motherwell, and have no family there.
Im assuming by the thread that some people are interested in the stories behind these things, so here's mine:
***tl;dr - im one of those c*nts that don't support their local team***
My Dad loved football, but more playing as opposed to watching, and he was a chef to trade so was never able to go to (or take me to) games as he'd be working on Saturdays. As a result he never really had a "team" so to speak and would probably have just classed himself as a Scotland fan.
From that I was never really influenced to have a team as a kid, I'd just jump at the chance to go to a football match wherever I could. Spent my childhood going to games with various friends and their dads, according to who they supported; Brockville with Falkirk supporting pals and their dads, Ibrox/Parkhead with Rangers/Celtic supporting pals and their dads. My Uncle is Jimmy Bone so went to St Mirren a few times whilst he was there, used to go on a Hearts bus leaving from Stirling sometimes whilst he was assistant there...basically any match I could tag along to, I'd go.
Also when me and my pals were kids and you wanted a football top, no-one's family really had any money so your mum would take you to the football stall at Falkirk market and you'd get whatever top was the cheapest, or if you wanted football bedding etc, the same would apply...regardless of what club they were.
There's actually a photo of me from when I was 8 or 9, sitting on my bed which had an Aberdeen duvet cover on it, I'm wearing a St. Johnstone top, and over that I'm wearing a tracksuit top that's in Dundee United colours, but bizarrely just says "Dundee" on the front. That's Falkirk Market and mums who don't know the first thing about football for you.
I absolutely loved tagging along to all those different grounds, seeing different teams and the different atmospheres at each one, but beyond that I never really felt any sort of feeling or emotional connection with any of them. I didn't know that existed, I just loved going to watch the football.
Until one day my best mate said they were going to Fir Park to watch his Uncle John (Philliben) play, and asked if I wanted to go. Jumped at the chance as always, but for some reason it just felt different. As soon as we parked and started the walk to the ground...arriving at the stadium...going through the turnstiles...it just felt really really different, and there was something about it that wasn't like the other clubs/grounds/matches that I'd been to that my primary school brain couldn't explain. Not sure my adult brain could even now! But it was the first time I actually felt connected with a club in any way, and although I had no way of going to more games, theirs were the results I started to look for every week.
Fast forward a year or so to '91, Motherwell won the Scottish Cup and for the first time at school I heard people talking about them rather than Rangers, Celtic, Falkirk, Aberdeen...and I just remember feeling this sense of pride that everyone was talking about them.
Fast forward another few years and sadly my mum and dad split up, my dad moving abroad to work, and my mum trying to find ways to fill the role of both parents to 17 year old me and my sister. She'd never had the slightest interest in football at all...hated it, and generally just thought it was ridiculous, but when my birthday rolled around and I said that all I wanted was to be able to go to a Motherwell game, she agreed to take me, mostly as a way of trying to find ways to connect and fill a dad-shaped gap.
We went, I absolutely loved it, and I don't know if it was just exposure to all the things you get about matchday that you don't realise from TV, but she said it "wasnt as bad as she'd expected", which was great!
Over the next year or so I pestered her to take me back and every so often she agreed...and those times started to get closer and closer together.
Until the present day where this boy who had no team and his football-hating mum, are now in their 28th season of going week in-week out travelling all over the place together following our club, and have a mum who could sit and debate the ins-and-outs of a False 9 or a flexible back 5 with the best of them. Even if I can't go for whatever reason she'll head off around the country by herself and text me her commentary from the stands. We've seen everything from scraping an undeserved draw away at Dumbarton when they were bottom of the bottom division, to hearing the Champions League music play over the Fir Park tannoy as the teams ran out.
I genuinely hate to think how different my life and specifially the relationship with my mum would be had it not been for Motherwell. Genuinely responsible for making it what it is.
This genuinely brought a tear to my eye. Thank you for sharing it.
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Seems there are some who genuinely prefer the glorious failure, moral victory type performances and results. Baffling.
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17 minutes ago, Bob Mahelp said:
Too many.....fans, players and management it seems....got carried away with Saturday night.
Out of 180 minutes of football, we've been utter shite for 135 of them. Fortunately, we got away with it against two less than average sides.
If we want to get to the world cup, we're going to have to win away in Moldova and then beat two decent sides in the play-offs.
At the moment we've got f**k all chance of getting to Qatar.
And you couldnt be happier about it, miserable b*****d.
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2 hours ago, cal234ey said:
The tickets worked fine for us and all the queues were small. We came out of White Hart Lane Overground just before and made it through the checks, had time to queue for some beers and make it to our seats with time to spare.
Did you clock if they sold guinness? The only way I can ever get my old man out the pub early to get some of the atmosphere is if they have Guinness. He wont leave early for a lager in a plastic cup.
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8 hours ago, Bully Wee Villa said:
Anyone who attended on Sunday, was the new downloadable ticket working okay? Do I need to allow extra time for queueing? And, more importantly, any pub recommendations within walking distance, preferably not too full and with the NFL on the telly?
Also interested in these answers.
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He would have got away with it if it was an isolated email but, Malky McKay style, he seemed to be hitting every fucking marginalised group going. Scumbag.
Now all we need is for P&B to discover he leases a BMW.
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9 minutes ago, Mr. Brightside said:
Also, my voice is still posted missing.
Mine too and I was only in the fucking house.
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Talisker 10yo is £27 quid on amazon for black Friday and why are you still reading this post instead of buying some?