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FTFY Oh aye. I'm sure we can guess what you do with yours

The idea of paying the disabled at lower rates has also been floated by various Conservative figures in the past fifteen years, along with their desire to have low-paid work performed by the unemployed in exchange for broo money. The public's temperature was taken and found to be cold on the former, and they were blocked by those pesky Brussels bureaucrats for the latter. They have their groups of humans considered garbage that should be encouraged to stop living, by making their lives as difficult and miserable as possible. Public morals and the ECHR dictate how far they're able to go to pursue that. Who knows how much longer either of those will be a barrier.

What's REFUK's stance on independence anyway? They're big on self-determination and getting it right up the oppressive foreign dictators. I hear they're totally not fascists too, so they sound great. Might look up their policies.

You know you're going to get pushback on morally reprehensible opinions like this though. This is right down there with Hirohito's declaration that the Chinese weren't to be thought of as human beings. Just appalling.

Not necessarily; let's be positive. There's bound to be a sidelined MSP somewhere who'll switch after the election. It keeps coming up that (IIRC) about 4% of Ruth Davidson's Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party are believers in independence, so there's that. Must be like when chapters of the KKK get the occasional African-American trying to join because they like big crosses and fire, and are willing to overlook everyone else hating them.

Apologies for the source, but this popped up on my phone today; I'd forgotten that Buckie got pumped by Celt or gers in the cup this season, but knowing the bloody SFA they won't have taken that into account like they should https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/12566264/buckie-thistle-celtic-cup-play-off-football-bill-leckie/

You're on fire the day.

We could probably do with getting the inevitable Forbes out of the way now, rather than another "safe pair of hands". We all know it's coming eventually, whether it's her or one of the Abla crew, and it'll go about as well as you'd imagine. Folk have mentioned Humza Youseless being our Liz Truss, but he's more of an Iain Duncan-Smith or Theresa May figure - the proper lunacy is still to come.

Being a leftie ain't what it used to be. I think it automatically includes anyone who doesn't spit on the homeless and set fire to drowning asylum seekers (quite the challenge). In America, the primary sign of being a Marxist appears to be thinking that racism exists, as a general concept. Christ knows what they've decided Fascism is.

Is it though? I thought about making a thread on this topic a while ago, as I can remember a few tournaments where the winners were on dogshit form right up to the knockout stage. It's obviously preferable to be doing well, but it would be interesting to see. Also, they were on poor form until last month, and have only won two games; still a bit early to be thinking they're back to their traditional best, surely. It gets pointed out a lot on here that tournament odds have less to do with who bookies think will win, and more about what they think will get them the most revenue, as evidenced by the fact that England generally get different odds elsewhere in Europe to the ones we see. The gamblers will know more than me, but Germany being third favourites might be more to do with them being a popular bet here and the bookies wanting to limit their risk on a traditional superpower. Technically we can win the tournament without scoring a single goal. I don't see John McGinn allowing that to happen though.

Always a mistake.

Thankfully I think I've missed the "I can still pull off the young team's look" phase of decrepitude Edit: mainly because I couldn't pull off the young team's look when I was one of them.

I'm assuming that's another pissweak troll attempt from a serial offender, considering the Lib Dems are very much part of the "anything but independence" camp.

The name's not familiar, but I've probably heard a few of their songs.

One of my many "I'm officially out of touch" moments in recent years has been the rise of laddies with wee skinny legs wearing skintight troosers to accentuate it. Seems very popular. Maybe a throwback to the Seventies glam rock look?

Ooft, just seen his other posts. Talk about self-reporting. Edit: is this PerthshireBell again? He's the lad who gets wound up about traffic stuff, isn't he?

Are we thinking that most folk just aren't aware of Forbes' views/abilities and think she looks like a nice lassie, but they'll be in for a shock if she takes over? Ash Regan permanently looks like someone took a shit on her porch and she's not impressed by how the polis are handling it, so that's probably what scuppered her.

Alright, let's not panic too much about Ze Germans yet. They've had two good friendly results, but let's look at the broader picture here. Maybe they'll be contenders by June, or maybe they're going to make a c**t of this tournament too - the latter still seems more likely. Claiming they're going to batter everyone in the group is a huge overreaction.

It's undeniably interesting to watch them slowly try to push at the boundaries of acceptable behaviour. Many moons ago, I remember someone on here postulating that the war on the unemployed was just about lazy scroungers and benefit cheats, and their beloved Tories would use the money saved to increase allowances for people like the disabled, who were still mostly considered a class that people felt sympathy towards. Fast forward ten years and the disabled and even pensioners are now the enemy. Once they're emptied, I wonder how long it'll be before yet another generation forgets the lesson that, with the Tories, there's no such thing as "just the tip". We're all getting fucked eventually.

Had never occurred to me until now, but they must get slipped fake notes for lapdances all the time. Never been to a strip club, but I presume the lassies don't whip out a UV light from their arsecrack when handed cash?

Used to work at a Post Office. Can confirm. We would get folk coming in all the time for services we didn't do, and it would always turn out that their website said we did. According to the boss, no amount of asking them to change it would make a difference.

^^^ from the soundtrack to that godawful Nineties Godzilla film with half of The Simpsons cast. I get Christmas songs stuck in my head and find myself humming them months into the new year. Strangers must think I'm one of those folk who cooks a Christmas dinner every day. I think it's finished for this year, so hopefully this doesn't revive it

Most banks will let you pay them into your account, at least up to a few years ago. As a charity shop worker, we'd regularly find the odd ancient paper note in donations, some of which had ceased being legal tender even before the plastic notes came in. Never had a problem banking them. I thought they were just being nice to a charity, but staff at HBOS and RBOS both told me they did it for anyone with an account, so long as they didn't come in with a wad of them or anything. Presumably the issuers all have an agreement to cover each other's losses.

Can confirm Alien was great in the cinema; saw it as a double-bill with Aliens in the cinema a year or two back. Oddly, I don't think Aliens loses anything from being seen at home. Much the same experience. I'd no idea they 3D-ified the original Jaws - I always hear that those efforts to add 3D to films don't turn out well. I did, however, see Jaws 3D in the cinema when I was a wee boy, and if anything it was even worse than seeing it at home. Don't know how Jaws: The Revenge gets so much flack for being shite when the third one was so criminally boring. The effects are godawful too, and they fucked up the 3D so they've never been able to produce a 2D version that isn't blurred round the edges.

Interview from thirty-odd years ago; I guess he's still in denial about why his missus divorced him and he wasn't allowed to see the kids.