velo army

Usual story of my da and uncle both being Jags fans and my granny living a 10min walk from Firhill. My dad's origin story is a bit better. Moved back from Canada aged 6, he and his older brother wanted to go to Celtic park one day with their pals. His Granny had a hairy canary at the idea of my dad and uncle being caught up in the trouble(s) that invariably attached itself to the pope's 11 and demanded that if they wanted to watch fitba they would damn well do it closer to home. The rest, as they say, is misery.

Aye I found this at best, hopeful and at worst, mendacious. When I heard them gushing I thought that Harry and Wull were tearfully embracing. What we actually had was Harry catching up, saying f**k knows what to Wull, and then Harry falling behind after about 2mins of chat. "The scene that everyone wants to see". Painfully out of touch.

The service was gorgeous actually. I loved the music and the solemnity of it. I'm no flagshagging royalist but seeing wee Queenie sitting on her own was heartbreaking. The commentary was awful afterwards. Genuine foot through the telly stuff.

@Gordopolis, given Gilmour's a cut above the likes of Gauld, would it be fair to suggest a career in a more upmarket fast food place, such as Nando's or TGI Friday's?

Cheers chaps.

Given we've now lost Jack is there a case for Gilmour being called up? I haven't seen enough of him (I guess few have) but is he a DCM or more of a box to box type?

Get it right BFH.

That first paragraph. I admire your support and belief, but he hasn't shown quality on the ball, and his "cameos" (by which I think you mean sub appearances) have been marked by his looking unfit and pretty clueless. He was an empty shirt against Serbia (pelanty aside) and for a man playing at a supposed high level he has looked alarmingly less mobile than Shankland. I'm gutted for him to be missing out, but I'm happy that we've freed up a squad place.

Fucking goals!!

It's the mark of a good troll who can derail a thread to the extent that I'd forgotten that this was, in fact, the George Galloway thread. Well played Terry.

Nope. Still nope.

Aye I remembered that wrongly. I thought he'd stood down as an MP before that. However, he wasn't in power at the time and looked in no danger of returning to power. For all the bluster of my quoted post I actually don't imagine too many yes votes were converted to no votes by said "Vow".

Believing a vow made by, amongst others, a man who wasn't in parliament never mind government (G. Broon) really belongs on the calling cards of morons thread.

Just watch it in black and white.

Aye, funny enough after replying to that thread I thought about John Lambie, and how his death (entirely expected, seeing as he'd been smoking senior service since he was about 5) was deeply impactful due to the part he'd played in my young life and late teen/young adult years. And you're right, of course. This does feel forced, and the insincerity gives me the feeling of having my pocket picked. I get that an old royal dying will have deep and profound impacts on people. We often grieve at the death of public figures (Bowie, Maradona etc) and the rationality of it is beyond us in that moment. It could be because their work spoke to us (I felt McIlvanney had written his novels for me personally) or because they represented the Grandfather we always wanted but never had. What we are seeing now is prescriptive, cookie cutter mourning which leaves no room for personal connection. This death has been hijacked by those who want us to feel a particular way about the Britain in general and the royal family in particular. However I see no difference between the fella with his Union Jack hat and me crying clutching my copy of "Docherty". This mawkish Korea-esque display actually acts as a barrier to the empathy that one might otherwise extend to those people.

Modern shite patter thread for this pish.

I will say in G's defence, that if you are a Catholic (and "lapsed" counts too) then using "bead-rattler" is fine. He may have used it for provocation, he's certainly a bellicose poster, but I for one am not at all bothered. I never heard of it until I was about 16 but my mate got called it at work and thought it the funniest thing he'd ever heard. I was in bits too. My da has rosary beads in the picket of all his jackets (every.single.one) and whenever I hear the term I remember my old school pal and think about my eccentric as f**k auld man. It was an attention seeking post. Best ignored rather than engaged with.

William McIlvanney for me. Genuinely thought I'd get to meet him as his books impacted me in a way I never thought possible. I don't think you need to have met someone to feel the impact. People who were part of the magic of your childhood (Maradona, for instance) or whose work impacted you. A lot of the outpouring for the Duke will be genuine. There are those for whom he represents (rightly or wrongly) the passing of a particular England/Britain.

This for me. Also, what is actually being made fun of? The poster who used the Lassie's "who is she" phrase was using her catchphrase to make fun of the fuss being made. Punching up by pointing out hypocrisy and also paying a sort of affectionate tribute. It skilfully manages to poke fun without punching down. Jokes about eating disorders that are clearly just cruel jibes shouldnt be off limits per se, but be prepared to be held firmly to account. It's just using someone else's misery to elevate yourself. Cuntish behaviour. Making fun of the chooky's death has many facets. None of the jokes are pointing and laughing at an old man for dying, they're pointing and poking at the deification in death of a man who many see as part of a parasitic institution that benefited nobody but its members. There was also his use of position to point and laugh at those beneath him. Id also say that if you are offended by jokes about the Duke, let it be known. We could be stepping into unknown sensitive territory.

Then wash them and stop sniffing them ya wrong 'un.

As I said though, he only cares about indy. He also loves Salmond and has absolutely given the Nelson eye to all of that. And, as Granny alluded to above, a lot of Catholics practise performative morality and were virtue signalling millennia before social media was invented. So aye, my old fella is a flawed man whose rigid adherence to ideas causes him to trust in the wrong folk sometimes. He's a contrarian weirdo too. What kind of loony grows up Catholic, in Glasgow, in the fuckin 1960's and chooses Partick Thistle as his team? Mental.

My da recently changed his profile pic on Facebook to reflect his support for the Alba party, prompting an entire heids gone thread in the comments. Absolutely brilliant scenes tbf. I'm not sure what else people expected of a lifelong nationalist and socially conservative Catholic. Some Olympic standard intellectual gymnastics going on too. I have one cousin who is terrified of the danger posed by the GRA but seems to be fine stanning for Salmond. And my da, genuinely, is only caring about indy and is naively baffled by it all the outrage.

So come on, who are the posters who fit the profile?

Quite the hill to die on this. All its doing is bringing the focus back to the historical discrimination and away from the good work being done by your club. It happened, it isn't in place now, they're doing good work now and it should be applauded.