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We were in Paisley from Thursday until Saturday morning. Great atmosphere and friendly competition. The massed choirs on the Saturday morning in front of the Town Hall was excellent too.

With any luck, we'll hold it at 2-1, they'll take Mbappe off with 15 minutes to go and we'll score twice to steal it 3-2. (Well, it worked in Norway with Haaland...)

Ah well, when I said park the bus, I assumed they'd know I meant a double decker!

Now we've done it... Park the bus, fixed bayonets.

Oh, it is so delightful that so many of my fellow countrymen are prepared to vote for politicians whe are so keen to give these absolute chancers an opportunity to govern our country once every 5 years. Open yer fekkin eyes you fekkin eejits! Even if Starmer wins in 2024 there's a 50-50 chance the Truss/Bojo/Bone brigade will be back in charge 5 years later. Spare your kids from these fekkin mutants FFS.

Hi chums. Tasted Hearach at a few drams at an excellent Edinburgh hostelry this evening. Quite nice. It'll do! Still got my unopened No 6 release. The 7 was braw!

Is tonight going to be one of those rare, rare nights when a result in our group ACTUALLY goes in our favour? Strike that, fekkin VAR.

When I describe my school religious experience in the 60s and 70s, many seem shocked or at least surprised. From P1, morning assembly featured the Lord's Prayer and at least one hymn, led not by ministers but by people with authority in the school - the teachers. Authority figures whom kids were expected to be believe and trust in every other aspect of their daily school experience. As we got older, into secondary school, it increased to prayers, two hymns and a Bible reading by senior pupils, presided over by the headmaster himself every day. Daily, relentless, mandatory religious indoctrination backed up by punishment for non-attendance or disruption. (One brave lad did a Bible reading in an "Ian Paisley" accent). Anyone claiming that generations of kids were not raised in an atmosphere of religious indoctrination backed up by force hasn't been paying attention. Authoritative adults telling impressionable children things as "truths" when they are describing things no "mortal" can possibly know should have no part of an education system.

I think the local government act/s specify that the four main cities Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee have Lord Provosts. Also, local government is devolved, so Starmer at Westminster can GTF.

I have a six, but haven't opened it yet. We're going to a pub that's having a special Hearach night on Monday so hopefully I'll taste a few of the varieties there. (Interesting fact...when I was typing this, "Hearach" autocorrected to "headache"... autocorrect may now be both sentient and psychic.)

Well, I'm not claiming to be an expert but the territorial disputes are alleged to have stemmed from (at least) two religious groups being awarded/claiming land rights under the authority of the supposed creator of the cosmos. I'm not really making any claims about when these awards/claims "happened", because I'm not convinced any such involvement of a deity "happened". As I understand the story, various areas of land in the allegedly Holy Land were promised to the Jews in what is regarded as the Christian Bible. Genesis, IIRC. Thereafter areas became Muslim in the 5th or 6th centuries. As the alleged site of the Prophet's ascension to Heaven, I think Jerusalem is claimed by Islam. There then followed various crusades, wars etc. As I mentioned in another post somewhere, I find the lack of references to the middle east in school history surprising given its political and social consequences. Mind you, as part of the Muslim story appears to state that the Prophet's horse had face of a woman, the body of a horse and the tail of Peacock, let's just say I find the whole tale a bit... how should I say... unconvincing. In much the same way as I find the Bible unconvincing. (Just heard a caller on LBC claiming that "God has had enough". Regrettably that's the kind of gibberish that gets in the way of any progress.) Seems to me that the only possibility of peace in the area (a possibility that I acknowledge is so remote as to be almost nonexistent) would be to take the contradictory religious claims out, chuck them in a bucket, and treat the whole thing as an international land dispute. Seems to me that with political parties and armed groups claiming that a deity is on their competing sides, believers in Gods have a veto on peace. Not a tenable situation and IMO ludicrous in the 21st century.

Oh aye, a discussion on a football forum about a football match in a pretty poor league in a relatively small country in northern Europe that doesn't even run its own affairs is the very place to discuss millennia old land disputes in the middle east.

I think Putin is playing for extra time so that he can get to a penalty shootout.

Better wrap either of them in about 4 layers of tinfoil so the Feds don't poison them. Best to be absolutely safe.

I really hope you are right!

If RFK's candidacy lets Trump win the Presidency by splitting the anti-Trump vote, RFK should be exiled to Pluto.

I could be wrong but isn't a roof knock a relatively lightweight munition to act as a warning that the building will shortly be destroyed and giving the occupants time to evacuate?

I nearly posted that but thought that I'd get into bother with the Feds! I congratulate you on your attitude!

Well, ta, but a) I'm not at all confident that the game will be won, and b) I detest these King Billy/sash/union jak waving/GSTK weirdo nutters. Time they grew up.

Aye, you'd almost imagine that the rules were intended to discourage the denial of goal scoring opportunities by means of foul play.

Couldn't disagree with that TBH. Worrying lack of guile in the squad.

Another great save... could be 3-0 up.

Wasted? Disgraceful bevvying on duty!

Aye, a cracker. Thought it was in.

Had to go. Certain goal denied.