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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.
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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.
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1 minute ago, invergowrie arab said:
Are you punching up or punching down would be my first port of call.
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.
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1 hour ago, BFTD said:
Pre-loved.
Sounds nice, doesn't it? Someone else has loved this in advance to get it ready for you. Aww.
In the real world, those Armani jeans have come straight off a knickerless walk of shame after six months of chronic flatulence. Not quite so romantic.
Then wash them and stop sniffing them ya wrong 'un.
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50 minutes ago, carpetmonster said:
Can’t be that Catholic or socially conservative if he’s alright with extra marital offers of sleepy cuddling.
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.
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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.
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1 hour ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:
Perhaps come across wrong with a quick reply so apologies for that, but what I mean is from my experience of sex offenders you dont seem to be anywhere near the typical behaviour or demographic. Its hard to express in a post on p&b but ive got a relatively decent insight.
So come on, who are the posters who fit the profile?
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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.
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51 minutes ago, Balmoor Boy said:
He's kept himself in good nick and a goal scorer never loses that instinct - you better hope he doesn't come back to haunt you today!
Does he still have the world's whitest teeth?
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17 minutes ago, Stormzy said:
Your post is mostly spot on but the emboldened part is nonsense.
The reason people won't argue against it here is quite simply because they want it to be true and know very little of the history of the club. You can perhaps argue Rangers did not sign as many Catholics as you would expect per demographics but you can not argue that we have ever had policy which aims at this. It's just untrue and there are numerous Catholics that have played for the club before Mo Johnston.
Fair enough. I don't fancy getting into exactly what the policy was, whether it was a "don't ask, don't tell" kind of thing or whether it was an urban myth that the club never overtly challenged. We can agree that your club had an anti-catholic problem for decades and just leave it at that.
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Not a position I. a Lanarkshire catholic (the papiest of papes imo), might be expected to be occupying, but here we are.
Rangers are taking a laudable stance in support of their player. It's actually a great bit of leadership which will make it easier for other clubs to emulate should their players be on the receiving end of abuse (and if it isn't happening already, it will). There will be those at the club who bridle at the association Rangers and its support have with sectarianism and anti-catholic bigotry, and who want to move wholesale away from that atavistic shite. Their hand will be strengthened by this.
Attacking Rangers for having a history of sectarianism in response to this action is weird. Of course they had a policy of not signing catholics and of course that was wrong. I don't think you'll find too many people defending that record on here. But using that as a stick to beat them with while they're showing strong leadership and great support for a player daily abused because of his race isn't constructive.
When your first response to an act of social good is shaming then it's generally because the person or people doing the good have stepped out of the role you had assigned for them. It means that you depend on them being the big bad wolf of the story, on whom you can heap blame and opprobrium. It's what we do when we want them to return to the role we had for them. People will live up or down to our expectations. If we want Rangers to reform (and for their fans to become less interested in the integrity of Derry's walls etc) then the best thing to do here is to praise this unconditionally. People move towards praise, but if they don't get it then they'll move towards criticism and become what we criticise them for (a hug is better than a punch, but a punch is better than nothing).
So aye, if you care as much as you claim to about bigotry then you're duty bound to give the sticky buns a hearty slap on the back for this. If you're not doing that then you need to own your part in its continuation.
E.T.A. 1000th post!!! Expecting a telegram from the Queen if she's not too busy right now.
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53 minutes ago, Salvo Montalbano said:8 hours ago, velo army said:What did you think?
Thought it was excellent, albeit a bit daft in places. Good mix of goodies who might be baddies and vice versa. But then I'm a sucker for a Heist film/show. Loved Oceans 11 and 13 (not 12, obviously), Hustle, Inside Man, The Sting etc. Thought there was maybe a thread on this somewhere but couldn't see it so it might just have been mentioned a lot on here when it made the breakthrough internationally. Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao Ciao Ciao!
Goran Bregovic does a cracking version of this song. It's my party piece these days. Wonderful stuff.
Aye I enjoyed it too, but I kinda wish they'd stopped after the first heist. The reason for going back a second time is pretty weak and is clearly just to satisfy fan demand. Now it's just violent, and gratuitously so, I think. It's good to see the characters again, and Alicia Sierra is insanely attractive, but I think they could have let it lie.
In saying that, I'm still keen to see how they finish it all off.
E.T.A: Inside Man is one of my favourite films. Denzel is great as is Clive Owen, but Jodie Foster steals the movie.
Also, if you love heists, I can't recommend "The Sacred Art of Stealing" by Christopher Brookmyre enough. A clever and subversive heist, witty writing and wonderfully engaging characters (also some decent fitba references).
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16 hours ago, Salvo Montalbano said:
Finally finished the first 4 series of Money Heist. Now can't believe I have to wait til September to see the 5th and final series.
What did you think?
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Just now, Bairnardo said:
Second this. Its a good story, not forced, well paced and always interesting. Doesn't seem to be showing too many signs of shark jumping which this type of show often does. Sean Bean is a tremendous b*****d in it too. Absolute fanny of a man!!!
He does so well as a psychopath in it, and the script does a great job of showing the strengths of being a psychopath in crisis leadership; he takes decisions that ultimately are beneficial, but wouldn't be thought of by one capable of empathy. He's a powerful and formidable adversary whose genius is clear to see; he's often a step ahead. I like that as it gives the protagonists something to overcome and has us invested in their journey.
And aye, the lack of shark jumping is great. There's no sci-fi nonsense that insults the intelligence. Everything is explained succinctly which helps us trust in the world being built.
I'm looking forward to the next series tbh. They're filming it at the moment, so it could be a year away.
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Just finished watching the 2nd series of Snowpiercer and I absolutely loved it. Epic telly.
I've tended to avoid dystopian stuff lately due to the negative impact (not major, but noticeable) on my mood, but this show is driven ostensibly by hope.
I noticed too how it manages to have women in positions of power and authority without ever needing to reduce the power and agency of the male characters. The characters of Bess and Melanie are engaging and real. Melanie as the antagonist in the first series is one of the most complex, conflicting and interesting antagonists I've ever seen. I genuinely found myself partially rooting for her. The characters are just so damned well written and the whole story is just well done. There was a real opportunity to make this a commentary on class divisions and how demagogues flourish amid desperation. They managed to do that without hitting you over the head with it and just getting on with telling a story, allowing the audience to make up their minds.
It's a diverse group of characters whose diversity doesn't feel forced (unlike, for example, The Witcher) and whose diversity is never really mentioned. It's a society where a black man can become a leader by dint of his charisma and competence (and compassion, to complete the alliteration) and that a woman can become the head engineer by being obviously brilliant. The casting is absolutely spot on (the lassie playing LJ is utterly mesmerising and genuinely unsettling) and the pacing of the storytelling is also.
Get it watched.
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3 minutes ago, KnightswoodBear said:
Kamara will get a ban if they rule that he's leathered the racist in the tunnel. As he should.
I'm still delighted that he did it, though.
Exactly this.
I had similar reservations to @alta-pete but I'm wondering if UEFA require the same burden of proof that a law court would.
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46 minutes ago, The Firhill Frozen Pie said:
The problem is Lowe and her board. She is as useless as a fart in a spacesuit! The longer people seem to support that idiot and her anointed idiots the worse we will get. Some are just happy we exist be it South Division 5 in amateur leagues and have no ambition to be other than existent. |Others are sleepwalking into disaster. No direction and balls from the top leads to a streak of cum down to the players on the pitch,
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Aye, 1994 was the first world cup where they gave 3 points for a win iirc. Utterly ridiculous that we went out in 1974 and 1978 having a win and a draw. That's enough to qualify from any group these days.
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17 minutes ago, Lurkst said:
I'd forgotten the squads for Euro 92 were only 20 players with 2 goalies.
Bonus point for first to get who was Andy Goram's backup?...
Leighton being the obvious answer, but I imagine the answer isn't obvious.
Ally Maxwell?
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I would hope that the proceedings against Kamara would be a quick wrap of the knuckles for putting one on Kudela in the tunnel (if that is in fact what he did, I hae ma doots).
A good 6-8 game ban for Kudela would send a signal that UEFA was in fact serious about racism. Again, I hae ma doots, but I'm hopeful.
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TWAW was on telly the other night and it really is quite superb.
BBC Storyville docs are the tatties as well. The one one the Black Panther party a while ago was incredible.
Mark Thomas' documentary on Coca Cola meant that I haven't bought a coke product since. Excellently done.
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11 hours ago, Stormzy said:
I am the type of guy that doesn't want to watch stuff when everyone is going on about it. It may make me a p***k but that's just me and I'm okay with it. Generally if I see loads of people going crazy for something I bookmark it and go for it when the buzz dies down.
I have just started watching Making A Murderer for the first time ever, I was aware how widely this was discussed and how imo it kinda paved the way for the now generic Netflix crime documentary but I must say so far it is compelling, i didnt know anything about the case and I'm only a few episodes in so please no spoilers but by God it has me seriously hooked.
^^^^ only started following the gers in 2012?
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3 hours ago, throbber said:
It’s normally something like clubland if it’s on public transport or somewhere else mpossible to avoid though, if you are that much of an inconsiderate arsehole to subject others to your music taste then you more than likely listen to shite.
My neighbours each side had parties yesterday and I can’t say I heard any Lewis Capaldi.
I hope you have them a nice bottle of wine as a thank you.
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2 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:
Too well fired and crispy like a Grimbo goldfish: as welcome as a customer in a timber yard at 4.45.
Just the right side of caramelised and chewy: like finding a load of widden pallets by the roadside that would make a nice garden bench.
As one who recently bought a pallet splitter (most important tool since Guttenberg's printing press imo) this is a sumptuously relatable analogy.
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Modern shite patter thread for this pish.