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Aye, watching football and talking about it will completely shatter his pre-match preparations this evening.

1. Ajax. 2. Internationale (when I was younger, with Baggio, big Ron and Youri fucking Djorkaeff). 3. Dortmund. 4. Bilbao. 5. Man Utd, especially in the 90's.

Only by tornado, hot air balloon and sparkly shoes as far as I'm aware. It's more restrictive than North Korea (with a less democratic system of government iirc).

What do you think the extra sock was for?

Presumably you also don't yell at the screen or offer anything resembling encouragement. You, sir, are the moron.

And they tend to all hatch and come out in their swarms at Christmas time. They're generally easy to spot as they're the only ones queuing.

How much for three?

Aye I used to scratch my head at that too. Strachan's intransigence would have been a factor as well as Deek's unprofessionalism.

Riordan and O'Connor were ruined by their dedication to being cokehead/drunken bams rather than any manager or club.

Tremendous effort lads. Congratulations.

Aye I tend to support the "Scottish" sides, although I also reserve the right to have a giggle if it goes embarrassingly poor. See Niederkorn and pretty much every Celtic campaign for the last decade or so.

A bit concerned that Rangers defensive shape gets disrupted by having Jack go off. Hopefully a third goal and then merely clinging on for dear life if Leipzig score.

Is it possible to put a thread on ignore? I don't even want to think about this fucking game until after the ecstatic glory/gut-wrenching heartache of the playoffs.

As the good book says, if your eye doth offend you, pluck it out. You've been advised frequently to stick him on your ignore list. The fact you haven't tells me that there's a part of you that loves this back and forth. He only does this shit for bites. If you don't bite, he won't do it. So stop biting and put him on ignore.

If you break with the black spinning it has a greater chance of staying in place. While holing the black straight from the break is technically a win, when you're a semi-skint student you tend to want to get your money's worth.

Carnoustie Young Guvnor.

I thought they were different posters. CYG and HCN were around at the same time and I never figured them for the same poster.

What's his name these days?

I might just start to refer to him as Uncle Melanius henceforth. Deep fried mushrooms are ace, so their may be something in that . Thanks man.

Scoop of leaves, then milk, then hot water. Perfect.

Plenty milk and three sugars in mine please.

I'm super grateful for the support and encouragement you all gave me yesterday. It was surprising how much of an impact that had on me. One poster reached out via pm and shared something of their similar experience. I hadn't realised how much I needed that until it was received. Being an adoptee means often feeling like the perpetual outsider and completely unique (which is sometimes great, but other times has me feeling like that whale whose song can't be heard by other whales) so having someone saying "I've been there too mate, and it's ok to be terrified" was wonderfully validating. There wasn't much to the report. I was wanting the social background report compiled by the social worker, but I was told that will be in Elgin in their SW archives. It was fucking daunting sitting with a sealed envelope that had "on her majesty's service" stamped on it and my birth name written on it. I was in a wee room in the archive wing and it felt like I was in a spy movie. The staff are absolute pros and the lad that was with me (legally he has to be there) felt more like a counsellor than a librarian. The report itself told me little that was new, but it was a lovely look into the past. There was an assessment of my parents as suitable adopters, and it was moving to think of them as young, scared people who were desperate to be parents but were unable to conceive naturally. It humanised them, and I don't do that enough. The stuff about my biological mum was scant, but it seemed she was a woman massively out of her depth and I left just feeling a lot of compassion for her, rather than the anger I'd felt towards her before. Mostly what I got were next steps. I know names and dates I can use for genealogical research, so I'll be haunting libraries and church records in Elgin and Huntly for the next few months. I'm excited about that. So aye, it was a great day yesterday, and I'm grateful to you all for the support. Greenies aren't just coloured circles either. They all add up and do have an impact. Have a fucking beautiful day a'body.

Aye could be a good nominee for the "wrong era" thread. When he was at West Ham he was a flair player doing tricks all over the shop. Wonderful player with a good career, but aye, in another era he'd have been magical.

What's this?

All the "playoffs are unfair to whomever" chat it still tickles me enormously that we were utter shite in the 2nd div, finished 4th and still managed to get promoted due to the 2nd bottom team in Div 1 being Stranraer. I don't remember who Hibs' goalie was at the time, but I dare say Stranraer could have done with him. Anyway, it was jammy, flukey, undeserved and absolutely delicious. We're for a pumping here, so I'm only slightly sorry that I made plans for this evening before I even knew the playoffs were tonight.