WhiteRoseKillie

I always assumed the footage of "smart" weapons was for use in promo videos at the next arms fair, or by neocon hawks like Bolton to "help them along" when Viagra no longer cuts the mustard.

I never had you down as a detournement alias, tbf. If only NATO, the EU, UK, USA et al knew that the answers lay in joining a Zoom meeting hosted from a basement in Inverclyde, we could have all this wrapped up by the weekend.

There's no argument in my post - simply pointing out that you are trying your usual "I know better than everyone else" pish on a subject you have no qualification to speak on, or real understanding of. You are the one who is trying to frame this subject as some kind of binary argument where your opinion is the one which matters because of your superior intellect, and anyone who disagrees must be your inferior. Exactly the same MO as you've used ad nauseum in the Covid thread. Still, as long as you rack up the greenies, eh, champ?

The answer, however, is not to penalise pensioners who, obviously have been of working age and contributing through Income Tax and NI throughout that time, because that's how pensions should work. The answer is to start investing, not in vanity shite like HS2 or nukes, but in the people of this country, through training, subsidising new industries, and education. This will not happen principally because the last thing these cúnts want is an educated electorate. Just look at the outcry when a wee bit spotlight has been shone on what the Empire actually meant to the countries we invaded, or when some had the temerity to question how so many "philanthropists" managed to garner the cash to build huge country houses. Much better that the proles keep waving the flag, hating brown people, and performing their menial jobs for survival money at best.

In fairness, that the main thing I connect to your username is a post regarding using alcohol to make an easy target for your attention even easier says quite a lot about the impression you've made. Most posters on here, I could have a good stab at remembering their football and political allegiance, musical taste, type of movies watched, etc. You? I just think of you as a seriously dangerous individual where women are concerned. Were I not retiring in a couple of months, I'd be unsurprised to be meeting you in a professional capacity.

..although memories of Love Street*, Cappielow**, Ibrokes*** and Porkheid**** would suggest there are exceptions to this rule. Dundee coppers back in the seventies seemed to do their best to dampen our enthusiasm as well, although both grounds were ok once you got in. * Seemed on the verge of collapse whenever the wind got above "gentle breeze". Also seem to remember it being fucking freezing. ** Who would have believed it was possible to build a football ground from Lego and Meccano? Only the evolutionary throwbacks of Greenock, apparently. *** Obvious reasons. ****Same obvious reasons, just wrapped in a different flag.

* Plenty of evidence including footage and information as to what kind of weapons are being used against what kind of targets. ** It's a fucking invasion of a sovereign country, not some equal footing conflict on neutral ground. Civilian casualties, by the very nature of an invasion, will tend to be from the local population - you know, the awkward bastárds defending their homes, families and livelihoods. *** "We"? I'd be interested to know who you think you're speaking on behalf of here, because it certainly isn't me or anyone I know. War, by its very nature, cannot be pursued according to a set of rules. Aggressors will use whatever tactics, weapons and methods will achieve their aims. Defenders will resort to desperation when in extremis. It is never pretty, and cannot be parcelled up neatly in discussions divorced from the reality. **** It would, however, be a start. Once you get Putin and the like convicted, we can maybe, just maybe, start asking those bastions of decency like Blair, Bush, Brown, Trump and Obama how their implementation of Foreign Policy were acceptable.

Big Beautiful ten for Thursday. Press was a guess, and wasn't sure on Potter.

Six for the SCQ. Only knew a couple for sure.

Is he a song, show or film? If we don't get to separate the art from the artist then my album collection is going to hit (low) three figures for the first time since the mid-eighties. Fun fact - 1000th LP was "As it Happens" - Dr Feelgood's live opus including FREE! Bonus Encores EP. Bought second-hand from a wee record shop I can't remember the name of in the Davygate Arcade, York - just down from the Wimpy.

#Worldle #61 3/6 (100%) https://worldle.teuteuf.fr

Nine for Tuesday, Ten for Wednesday.

You're asking for evidence? You?[emoji12] Really?[emoji23]

"Fact"? You have attributed a statement to me that I never made. Wee hint: don't lie so blatantly if you want to be taken seriously.

With insightful and relevant responses like the above, I simply cannot understand how P&B's general opinion is that you're a paranoid simpleton. I simply cannot. Oh, wait..

Take the tinfoil off for a bit, lad. There's no "Oligarchs" or yanks fighting in Ukraine. The people are saying, in the clearest and most emphatic way possible that they're not having this.

This. It's a decision which I can't imagine having to make, especially for the families who have sought refuge elsewhere having left their husbands, fathers and brothers to fight. Absolutely fucking heartbreaking.

Absolutely. Our chance to do something about this was back in the nineties, when these gangsters - not fucking "oligarchs" - were establishing their wee fiefdoms, aided and abetted by greedy bastárds all across the world wanting their slice of the pie. As with so much of our Foreign Policy in recent decades, we should hang our heads in shame for allowing our leaders to put profit before people.

A bit more nuanced than the Sage of Inverclyde's "I think you'll find" nonsense. Putin's expectation appears to have been that Russia would just roll in to be welcomed by a populace gagging for "liberation" (at least in some areas). That the Ukrainians, for some reason, are prepared to fight for their country came as a surprise. Long-term attrition may well be on the horizon, but Russia's ability to support this level of engagement will be hampered by international sanctions - assuming these are consistently applied, and maintained. Having to maintain a drawn-out "special operation" while pacifying a domestic population forced into poverty may be a balancing act too far for Putin. TL;DR: No idea where we're going, but there's more to this than you'll garner from a thread on a Scots football forum. Not that you'd guess this from the input of our former Covid specialists. To quote Yeats, "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."

Cracking post, and sums up the lived experience of those of us (the majority) who measure success in glorious one-offs rather than the tedium of "treble trebles", or however-many-in-a-row in a rigged system. I was still in my pram when we won the League, and after what appears to have been a decent '60s, started attending in the 70-71 season. Cue thirty plus years of fúck-all until '97, which was all the sweeter for the wait. I wish you and Arbroath many of these Golden Days in the future. You can start by winning the Playoff Final, mind..

Ten for Monday. Treaty question was a guess.

#Worldle #56 2/6 (100%) https://worldle.teuteuf.fr Is it just me, or is this the setter's favourite region of the world to pick a country? As with the other day, a sighter was followed by a cracking guess.

Eight for Friday - Emperor and eyebrow-raiser.

I'm hoping he meant to spell that with a "c", for the godfather vibe.

Ten for Thursday. Could have written that set myself - but I'd have given a correct answer for the Faroes.