The DA

No. You're right there. Some birds don't deserve the pie treatment.

I am a man of many layers. Some of those layers might well kick a bird in the pie.

Wuss. Why didn't he kick it in the pie?

On a related note, last time I holidayed on Mull, there used to be a White-tailed eagle that sat on a pole between Tobermory and Salen (A84). Every time we drove south, it would be sitting there, surveying its domain. Does anyone know if it's still there? Apparently, they live up to 25 years so mebbees...

That's a bird with attitude. Obviously, Scotland's national bird - it's lifting a fucking caber for god's sake I was walking back along the Doune trail with the dog and there were three red kites and two buzzards circling above me. One of the kites whooshed past me no more than 20 metres away. What a country we live in.

First I kill all the women and male offspring of the opposing players. Then I hold the officials' families hostage until 15 minutes after full-time. Something's gone wrong the past couple of seasons though. Maybe I need to start raping and pillaging too. Even if we lose, it could still be a good afternoon.

Well, it's Friday, Bears. What have you got lined up for our entertainment tonight?

Maybe they mean he is...

The franchise is already underway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morag_(loch_monster)

Don't the males have green heads?

I saw a golden eagle just as we were leaving the Trossachs to head back via Callendar after walking the dog. There's a wee car park at the foot of the logging track at Bochastle (just past the Lade Inn - Google Street View) and were just about to pull out when I spotted a bird quartering backwards and forwards across the slope in front of us (the north end of the Glen Finglas trail). It was only about six feet off the ground so at at first I thought it was a female hen harrier but I got the trusty monocular out and the thing was huge. Then the sun caught it and there was no doubt - my first, up-close eagle.

I'm told by my Rangers mates that it's actually 145 (or 144) years. Definitely doesn't feel that long.

That was him BEFORE he retired from the bench in 2009. Obviously. This was him in 2013 when his opinion carried as much legal weight as yours or mine, i.e. hee-haw. 'In the commission's opinion, no sporting advantage was gained.' That's not a legal finding, just an opinion.

I greenied that as a wee hair-ruffle for bennett. I feel better now.

We'll take your word for it, bennett. Most of us don't support Rangers, so we haven't seen it.

Dave King statement Need to find a gif of the boardroom tiptoeing away when they realise that means there's still twelve million expected from them.

Totally agree. I'm not getting my message over - my fault. It appears that Brexit is, understandably, being used as an opportunity to re-allocate the budget. Have the government been honest enough to come out and say 'we could keep the old subsidies and allocations going and still have however many millions per week left over to allocate where we want, but we've decided to put everything back in the pot and start again - so tough shit fermers.'?

I'm not saying we SHOULD do it, just that the money seems to be there to continue doing what they're currently doing. No one, not even the farmers, seems to be questioning where the current subsidy money would go instead. Or maybe they are and I'm just not listening to the right programmes.

They'll get the first tranche of the ST money in and use it to pay off Warburton and bring in someone new. That will encourage the anti-Warburton doubters to buy their STs. They'll sell as many tickets as they did this season but they'll be broke again that wee bit sooner.

Talk about Dante's 9 Circles of Hell?????

I've asked before but, if we really are net contributors of god knows how many millions, why on leaving the EU would we not be able to keep exactly the same subsidies, including those to farmers, and still have that net contribution available to spend where we want? BTW I like the term 'fartcical behaviour' - two insults in one.

Use your other hand for pissing then.

Won't click on a BBC link? The Saintee's Big Club found.

There's one small part of your plan that I quite like.

Lee McCulloch might buy you some elbow room but Barry Smith seems to have got his act together since joining East Fife, although it's maybe a wee bit early to be sure.