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9 minutes ago, GordonD said:
Clara Bow and Fatty Arbuckle were in your gran's house in Perthshire?
Neither would've made it over the threshold, by God!
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On 26/04/2024 at 12:20, O'Kelly Isley III said:
Expect to see a lot of coverage of Kate Forbes in the coming days, and especially from those who wish to consign the SNP to the pages of history.
A good indicator of someone's value to independence is how many staunch Unionists proclaim "I don't agree with their politics, but I have a lot of time for <x>".
It seems to be the equivalent of P&B being delighted by the idea of Liz Truss becoming Prime Minister.
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2 hours ago, DiegoDiego said:
Is it not just as likely that people didn't give a shit about it back then because the media didn't waste time covering inane stuff like that back then?
I think it's more likely a reflection on the utter degradation of the BBC and it's ilk than it is gender attitudes.
Well, it's not like this is traditional media stuff anyway - it's all social media internet shite. I suppose it depends on whether 1960s Twitter would have been full of people moaning about male actors trying to sound detached and cool; I've never seen any boomers including it in their big bundle of annoyances, but maybe it's just because everything in the past was great. There are plenty of men who still do it too, but it only seems to annoy people when women do it.
I've no doubt that social media from the past would've been just as horrific as now, and just as popular. My gran knew all about the supposed Hollywood goings-on of Clara Bow and Fatty Arbuckle from her crofter's house in Perthshire, for example, and she wasn't even a gossipy woman.
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24 minutes ago, CityDave94 said:
Another annoying speach habit is the over use of adding the word 'like' in a conversation at every opportunity. In Scotland where as the word 'f**kin' ' used to be popular and and often used in a sentence every two or three words has now almost been completely replaced by the word 'like' ' which is equally as annoying. Again I've heard Californians do this adding even more irritation to the way they speak.
I accidentally picked that up after spending some time in the Southwest and, like, I've been secretly hoping someone would kill me for it ever since.
I, like, like how the American stereotype of Californians seemed to be more about how they're mentally handicapped and obsessed with traffic.
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Labour and the Conservatives would absolutely enter some kind of Holyrood coalition in the name of ending the evil Nationalist threat. I'm surprised anyone thinks otherwise. As little as twenty years ago there may still have been ideological differences, but what would be the big disagreement be that they couldn't resolve? I'm sure Labour would even allow wee DRoss a few measures to discriminate against those pesky travellers.
Scottish Labour are still so fizzing about the SNP taking over "their"
countryregion that common sense isn't much of a factor. We'll come back to them on their terms, or not at all. It'll almost certainly never happen because there'll always be the Lib Dems or similar to make up the required numbers, but nowadays if it was necessary to stop an SNP administration, they'd absolutely feel justified in going into government with the Conservatives.0 -
I think I'd put Kylie above Madonna now in terms of career. Twenty-odd years ago it wouldn't even have been a comparison. I was in the States when the tiny Antipodean had her breakthrough there with Can't Get You Out Of My Head, and I was shocked to see/hear her; frankly, I thought she was probably done as a big star in the UK too, as I hadn't heard anything from her since Confide in Me. Madonna was obviously more of a trendsetter, but those days are long gone.
They've both got incredible greatest hits catalogues now though, so there's probably not much in it. My Madonna Best Of album would even include popular songs that people seem to have turned against like Hanky Panky, Dear Jessie, and Human Nature, so she's got some amount of songs to choose from. Obviously they both put on a hell of a show.
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24 minutes ago, CityDave94 said:
Have you ever heard of vocal frying? I couldn't put a name to it before, now I know what its called.
Its very annoying when you hear it and I'm sure you have heard it at some point from American female celebrities or influencers. Now common everywhere for English speaking girls or woman that can do it. It's when they focus on creating a sound when they speak that sounds like a cupboard door creaking loudly, very raspy. Britney Spears as an example would impersonate a creaky door while singing. Another culprit was Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy the Vampire Slayer who's voice creaked louder than a coffin lid opened by one of her foes. Seems to be mostly a California thing. It's hugely irritating.
Someone mentioned that Sean Connery did this as James Bond, though he was neither Californian nor a girl.
Yeah, it was a big non-news news story a few years back - the Kardashians were getting the blame at the time but, as you say, it's been around for a while. I think it's the Californian Valley Girl thing.
I saw a video a while back about how it used to be the thing men did who were trying to be effortlessly masculine (Connery, as you say, who picked it up from Ian Fleming himself, and it was almost ubiquitous with men who wanted to give the impression of being in charge without having to give a damn). Nobody appears to have given a shit about it then, but it's only when women started doing the same thing that it made people really annoyed by their perceived couldn't-care-less attitude. There's definitely a double standard at play.
Frankly, if I was as wealthy as the Kardashians without having to do any kind of actual work, I'd go beyond lazy vocal affectations and just pay someone else to speak on my behalf.
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1 minute ago, May Rckinnon said:
My money is on the SFA, proven track record etc.
I'm going with an incorrect reply address on the SFA emails, nobody checking the default SFA email address they ended up at, Buckie not wondering why they got no confirmation, and someone at the SFA seething about having been dingyed and pulling the trigger early in a fit of pique.
There may also have been a mix-up centring around a picture of the Fallen Madonna with ze Big Boobies.
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We need a poll on whether it's the SFA or Buckie who are more likely to have fucked up here.
Buckie claiming they've been responding to the SFA and were told the licencing decision wouldn't be taken 'til the 15th, while the SFA say they've heard nothing from them. Nobody would be surprised if somehow both proved to be true. Scottish football, eh?
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Buckie daring to beat a weak side heavily on purpose, by God, the very thought! Clearly Brechin had no way of knowing that goal difference might be an issue this season, considering the pair only lost four games between them last term.
Next season will be #4 in the Highland League - the parachute payments have finished and, if the Lowland League is anything to go by, this is where the gentle slide down the table begins. Presumably that's what's fuelled this heads gone.
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To liven things up, how about we say that the winners get to beat Falkirk in the last game of the season?
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5 hours ago, GordonD said:
Anyone remember the 1970s game show 'The Golden Shot'? (They had a crossbow mounted on a camera, and viewers would phone in and direct the blindfolded cameraman to aim at the target by saying "Up a bit... left a bit... up a bit more... FIRE!")
Apparently one guy called in but couldn't seem to hear what they were telling him. They asked if he could hear his TV all right and he told them he couldn't, because he was in a phone box watching the programme on a set in the window of the television shop across the road!
Children's TV in the Eighties had the strange idea of getting viewers to phone in to control characters in computer games with their voices. Off the top of my head, I remember them using Xenon, Weird Dreams, and Magic Pockets, but there were probably more. Kids would supposedly say up, down, fire, or whatever and the character would somehow respond (this wasn't technology that existed back then).
We were more naive then; I don't think you could do that now without viewers realising that the delay would've been so huge that you'd have died long before you saw the game even appear on your TV at home.
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I don't care what you all say, we're still winning this.
We're all going to spend the rest of our lives waking up with the mental image of an ecstatic John McGinn hugging the Henri Delaunay Trophy.
SpoilerSimilar to this, but apparently this is the best impression of John McGinn that DALL-E could muster. Oh well.
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The Scottish authorities do seem to like trying to block virtually everyone from promotion to a higher league.
You could easily take it personally.
Edit: if the Bronze licence requirement was only agreed upon in December, that'll be another Scottish football favourite - changing the rules mid-season out of panic.
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22 minutes ago, scottsdad said:
Bo Rap
TBF, most of that list is to do with Brian May being an excellent promoter and milking Freddie Mercury's tragic death.
I like both groups and think they wrote a shitload of quality material between them, but Queen would probably win out as performers entirely due to Freddie. The Beatles were from a simpler time where acts could still let their songs do the talking onstage without needing that level of showmanship. Let's be honest, Queen don't achieve half as much success without Freddie's persona.
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If a reserve team finishes top of the Lowland League, the play-off spot goes to the runner-up, right?
Other than "we never agreed on it", I dunno why the same wouldn't be true when the Highland League champions aren't eligible for promotion.
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49 minutes ago, DeeTillEhDeh said:
I read that as AG Barr endorsing Trump . . .
They're missing out on a massive opportunity for expansion into the US; the orange drink for the orange man.
He'd insist they'd licence his name though. Trump Brew. Gassy with a peculiar smell.
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I'm sure the younger posters will be absolutely shocked by the number of leather jackets being mentioned by their elders
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1 hour ago, ICTChris said:
Surely there is no way Regan would've got that motion passed. I was just typing out that there's no way Yousaf would've ended the Bute House Agreement over that but everyone seems to have gone tonto so maybe that was it.
Anyway, Ash Regan's list of demands should be a hoot.
If there's one thing Scotland's been missing, it's our very own Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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Buckie's emails presumably going into the SFA's Junk folder; good prep for life in the big leagues.
You really wouldn't like to be Brechin's dug tonight.
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I know f**k all about cars, and had never heard of a "Vauxhall Crossland" before yesterday, when I noticed a random discussion had broken out about how shite they are on an unrelated Reddit thread about something totally innocent and not perverted.
It's not looking good, is it?
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3 hours ago, D Angelo Barksdale said:
It would be reeeeeally interesting to see how that breaks down with different socioeconomic groups. Who thinks they're going to be a winner or loser, and who's believing Sir Keef when he says he's going to do f**k all?
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3 hours ago, Florentine_Pogen said:
I hope that the company that make this flamethrowing dog have the smarts to call the product 'The Prodigy'.
There's a one-liner about Keith Flint here somewhere....Flint, lighter, flamethrower...bollocks, I'll have it in a minute.
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Conspiracy Theories
in The General Nonsense Forum
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Cobain would've required the rest of the band to go along with it, like the Beatles, and Courtney Love is hardly a reliable accomplice. Winehouse was such an infamous mess that the press probably knew she'd died before the medics arrived.
Lavigne was probably murdered because she was about to tell everyone what she knew about the Moon Landings.