Booker-T

are you sure sure you liked a whole Nickelback song?

that is easily the worst post in P&B history.

i doubt it will ever happen without some serious financial kickback to lower league clubs.

What happened to you? You keep writing stuff I agree with these days.

Hi Bennett

True this, but i think there was always going to be a German reaction at some point, maybe not directly by the state itself, but at least by those living outside it's borders.

the ending of WW1 guaranteed another war

The press had worked those of the working classes who could read into a frenzy in the lead up to the declaration of war.

For me the wrong lessons are being pushed from the first world war.... f**k patriotism, the focus of remembrance should be the sheer folly and pointless loss of life in that war (on all sides) and it's ongoing impact on those who did manage to make it home.

I think a lot of that is due to the percentage of population in relative poverty (in both living standards, narrow views of the world and education) at the time - so when reliant on vounteers, our towns and cities were just emptied of young working class males looking to escape or even adventure.

100,000 - 148,000 https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/learning/first-world-war/scotlands-people-and-the-first-world-war

Normally my default position on such controversial matters is 1. Meh, I don't give a f**k 2. To each his own 3. What you eat doesn't make me shit ... Anyway, I regularly pop a few coins into any tins when I see an old soldier collecting. In my head it's a collection for the really really old guys who were conned/bullied into fighting for nothing more than an imperial territory in world war 1 under the guise of good vs evil, or the really old guys who fought against the nazis, no illusions about the cause here either but we were certainly on the far lesser evil side. The niggling thing that annoys me about the poppy appeal that gets under my skin is that it's not those old guys that are actually benefiting from donations - it's the people who should be looked after by the government who are the real beneficiaries of (or are completely reliant) of the appeal. Again, no getting into the ethics of war or these people knowing what they were signing up for but the fact is, they got hurt while working for their employer, their employer owes them a duty of care. It shouldn't be reliant on charity.

Car bumper poppies are probably the biggest example of trying to outdo each other

it's like the 1930s all over again

I understand what you are saying, but the "separatist" parties aren't exactly like our SNP and Greens. No unionist would go near voting for them. Turnout was 74.9%

i like what you have to say

yes, is one of those two. and that's all i'm gonna say

not that one

Scottish female singer i was in love with in my teens, had to deal neutrally with her complaint about something she and her expert associate were wrong about. Still grudgingly listen to her songs but i don't love her anymore. she's a c**t.

over 46% of the Catalans that voted at the last election for the Catalan Parliament in 2015 voted for absolute independence parties. Those votes cannot be construed as anything but opting to leave Spain. The rest on the other hand couldn't possibly be taken as support for "Spanish Unity" as those other parties have a lot of traditional working class support who still want independence. There is of course a lot of I'm alright Jacks, Spanish immigrants and EU/South American workers who will support a united spain for obvious reasons but Catalan independence will happen, it's the circumstances, human cost and timeline that are unclear.

woo hoo

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41783289 For me, Rajoy is walking straight into a general strike and an economic catastrophe.

kinda.... with the exception of the time at the olympic stadium, their home grounds have always been in staunch pro spain neighborhoods - but lot of their fans are just football fans.

deep fried pizza or ?

is your point that having too many kids = needing violence to keep kids in line ?