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no, i just set questions that i knew would be answerable, but it was very unlikely the folk in my team would know. I did once set a quiz which was a drinking game for a pal's stag do. it was incredibly rigged (one question was 'name a four-piece band from Liverpool', he says the Beatles, but the answer i had written down was Carcass) and he ended up having to tan the entire 2l bottle of Strongbow himself. Might have contributed to why he tapped out at 11PM, in hindsight.

'crushing' Germany was what lead to the second world war. German were blamed for starting the Great War despite Austro-Hungary starting it. France and Britain wanted a square go against Germany in 1914 for territorial and economic reasons respectively, and disproportionally crippling them afterwards was to ensure they stayed down, but like a dog that's been kicked a few too many times they got behind Hitler and rejuvenated their economy despite the Versailles treaty rules. Or a minority did, as the Nazis only had about 33% of the popular vote, but the Reichstag was in such a chaotic mess, to try and inject some stability von Hindenburg agreed to make Hitler Reichskanzler. Hitler likely wouldn't have been able to amass even that much support if it hadn't been for the economic turmoil imposed on them by the allies, and Hitler's ability to harness the ill-feeling towards it. Also, the allies occupied Germany until 1949, retained military bases in Germany until the 90s as a bulwark against Sovyet aggression, and f**k knows what reason the US trots out for retaining the ones they still have. Japan was occupied until 1952.

He had a habit of joining whatever party was most likely to get him elected at the time, rather than face being out of parliament. He spent five months in Belgium during the Great War, largely behind the lines, then applied to get back to London and the safety of the Houses of Parliament. He made an arse of Gallipoli, but was on the Dardanelles Committee which looked into why it was a disaster and was therefore not blamed. He made an arse of the Norway campaign in 1940 and yet used the failure of the campaign to engineer his way into power by distancing himself from the government and shifting the blame onto them. He had an opportunity to end the war earlier by supporting the German generals' coup against Hitler and didn't take it, favouring a complete destruction of Germany instead (because completely destroying the German economy and military-industrial complex had worked so well in 1919 to prevent any future aggression from that state). He was comprehensively voted out at the first opportunity after the war, and immediately wrote a history book painting himself in a great light, then set off on a lecture tour of the USA where he stoked up anti-Sovyet feeling and aided the onset of the Cold War. But apart from that and a dozen other examples, there isn't much evidence that he was a total wido and chancer.

Queen Bitch, V2 Schneider, Life on Mars, Heroes, Yassassin, Ashes To Ashes... could go on and on

he was strongly motivated by a desire to be in power, to be the big man, and to cripple Germany again.

can you prove with any certainty that any of your antecedents were enslaved by the Romans? Because any Afro-Caribbean folk can prove that they were enslaved by British plantation quite easily. Therefore, arguing that the Italians should destroy 2,000-year-old statues because some of your ancestors might have been slaves somewhere between 1,600 and 1,900 years ago is a bit of a stretch, i'd say, and not really comparable.

i was tasked to set the questions on this week's team WFH quiz. out of a possible 11 points, one person got 4, a couple got 2, some 1 point and a couple of them scored 0. I don't expect i'll be asked to set the questions again, therefore i'm the real winner.

adidas Country Ripple for me

There's a mini-beach in abronhill. that doesn't count, it's mostly comprised of broken glass and mud. and so's the beach.

Our nearest beach is in Twechar.

I sincerely doubt that

if Low returns then my boycott will resume

terrible patter. implies women can't be condescending.

YAAASSSS

Caldwell Out

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/gallery/2019/sep/06/for-forest-an-art-intervention-transforming-austrian-stadium should be done to Broadwood, IMO. permanently.

genuinely made my day

My work decided that they needed to know how many desk drawers my team is using, and they've to be calculated in 'linear meters'. They also decided that each drawer should be counted as one linear meter, regardless of its actual physical dimension. therefore they just wanted the drawers counted, then multiplied by 1.

https://www.cumbernauld-news.co.uk/lifestyle/cumbernauld-cosplayers-get-engaged-at-sci-fi-convention-1-4876067

A mate knocked me down outside the snooker club and was trying to drive over me. it was a very tidy mk4 Fiesta in radiant red, tastefully modified except for the front grill he'd had custom made where the cut-out part was a large RDS badge, like you get on FM radios. quite worried by the frequency of dreams lately where my pals try and kill me.

last night I dreamt I had two piercings on my neck, and no clue how I got them. Then a mate came after me with jump leads, wanting to give me shock treatment. But I ran off. Oddly, I was wearing one of those Umbro stadium jackets that were popular in the mid 90s which you thought made you look like a football manager. Or at least I did when I had mine in 3rd year.

I was down in some wee English seaside town with my pal and we were looking for some scran. We spotted what we thought was a bowling club and went in to see if they did food. We told them we were bowlers and they invited us to join them as they were just sitting down to a five-course meal for fifteen quid. that seemed very reasonable so we sat at the tables. my starter came out reasonably quickly, but then the next course was taking an age, and my pal hadn't had his starter yet. we inquired what was taking so long and we were told he wouldn't get his starter until the other team was batting. turned out it was a cricket club, they'd thought we were spin bowlers. I decided we should leave as we had to get home to on a stag do the day after next and we had to catch a minibus and drive to Poland. My pal refused as he'd paid his fifteen quid and wanted his coronation chicken. I shot the craw and then realised I hadn't done any washing but i'd have to pack clean clothes for the stag do. I then acquired two massive lettuce leaves and a leek, and cut the panels for a short-sleeved shirt out of the lettuce, used strips of the leek to tape the seams, and sewed it together. Then I went and caught a bus. It was a 1970s double-decker, red. We were travelling along at a fair rate through the English countryside when the driver of the bus suddenly got up and started waving a gun at the passengers. It was Mel Gibson as Mad Max, I realised, and became worried that he'd find my lettuce shirt and eat it, so I jooked down behind the seat back so he wouldn't see me. He got a ham sandwich from a chunky lad in the back seat and I decided to take control of the bus while he was distracted. I jumped into the empty drivers seat but Mad Max had cut the brakes and glued the accelerator down. I dodged a Morris Minors and crashing through a hedge and onto a go-kart track, which just made things worse as a Leyland bus with the accelerator glued down doesn't handle too well. Destroyed their tyre walls, but managed to get back on the road, when Max appeared and pointed the gun at my head. Then the alarm went off.

I still want rid of Low and Caldwell. Beating a team near the bottom of the division below us (for now) who're suffering from a number of injured players, and only have 17 on the books in the first place isn't a huge achievement. Clearly a number of changes were made after intel from Thistle spies (possibly Komitet Georgij Brittonovich) lurked about on here/twitter/WAT/facebook/hipster coffee shops/vegan pubs and revealed that the number of dissidents was growing daily. Especially after tuesday. Normal service will be resumed Saturday, IMO.

He'll probably leave on a free transfer then.

so we can get rid of her and not have to pay compensation? ideal.