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3 hours ago, Ludo*1 said:
Phil will die off just before it's realised that he was the one making racist comments. Fulfilling his character arc.
Laughed my socks off at this. Nicely done.
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Just now, AJF said:
This.
We can surely compromise and refer it as the 55th and 1st. It was good enough for King James after the union of crowns. I'll take my Nobel peace prize now thank you.
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Congratulations on the title lads. Enjoy the hell out of it. Especially Bennett, kinc and kB who took a lot of flak over the last few years and never hid.
Next season obviously hostilities will commence, but for now, slainte!!
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4 minutes ago, gannonball said:
Its basically things that have words with no real meaning as to why they are called that but then somebody comes up with an acronym retrospectively for it. Engineering is littered with it but I suppose ‘Neds’ would be a prime example in Scottish society.
That's fuckin brilliant. Thanks for that. Neds is one that has me utterly gibbering whenever people try and claim it stands for "non educated delinquent" as somecunt with no education is uneducated, and delinquency presupposes a lack of education anyway. I tend to imagine myself as some sort of Galilean hero in these exchanges, bravely standing for truth against erroneous doctrine....
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6 minutes ago, gannonball said:
Ah ffs
. Annoyed at myself as strangely I was talking to somebody at work about ‘backronyms’ last year which I didn’t realise were a thing.
Pray tell.
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Alarmed that Baracus hasn't waded in yet as he has a mini aneurism anytime folk call it the SPL.
17 minutes ago, gannonball said:I get that but it could easily have had the same acronym and the change of the lower league names seemed a bit pointless. And yes, I know Im being petty I just didn't like the carbon copy name change.
Had my own wee mini aneurism at that. It's an initialism ffs (acronyms are words whose constituent letters represent other words) I'm completely with you though, semantic pedantry aside. The rebrand which essentially undermined the whole point of a brand, to stand out, remains the most tinpot thing about Scottish football.
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24 minutes ago, Gaz said:
Lisa Cuddy could reduce me to immobility in seconds.
FTFM (fixed that for myself).
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1 hour ago, HibsFan said:
I don't know nearly enough about food science to dispute any of this, but for the record, Cortisol sounds like something that the Herbalife punters would add on as an extra product to sweeten the deal to an unsuspecting customer.
Aye I know next to f**k all about food science too. Cortisol is the hormone our bodies release when under stress. It serves to increase blood sugar and also to suppress the immune system (according to Wikipedia). Something we should all be trying to reduce tbh.
Genuinely can't believe that Herbalife is a thing. That and Huel. Mental.
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3 hours ago, GordonS said:
Thanks, I appreciate the intention. I don't drink much caffeine and I've cut right back on it lately - I don't drink coffee, I'll only have 2 cups of normal tea a day and I drink about 500ml of caffeine-free diet coke a day. But I'm still not sleeping, partly due to stress, partly lockdown boredom and cabin fever.
I don't drink water but I drink gallons of sugar-free diluting blackcurrant juice. I get dehydrated easily so I've always done that.
I eat plenty of fruit and veg, and if I'm in a dangerously snacky mood I'll eat even more fruit as an alternative to something bad - turn out there are a surprising number of calories in 3 tangerines, 2 bananas and half a punnet of blueberries, which I'll put away in a couple of hours. I probably average a small bag of crisps and a "fun" sized chocolate bar a day, and a takeway once a fortnight or so. I'd rather die than eat low fat cheese tbh.
My problem is that I love food, it makes me happy, and when I'm stressed or anxious or down it makes me feel better so over the course of several months almost every day I'll be a few hundred calories over.
Only once have I lost weight in a planned way. For 3 months I ate well, counted calories and jogged every other night. My weight came down well, I was physically in much better shape and I was getting round a 5 a side pitch in a way I never had before.. Everyone says you'll feel better but I was seriously miserable, I got absolutely no pleasure or satisfaction from being fitter.
The only thing that has worked was when my wife would give me a lunchbox for work and that had to do me the day. So spending the last year working in the kitchen has been a bit of a nightmare.
This is the bit about obesity that often gets overlooked in the search for solutions to it. When we're stressed or anxious our body sends out cortisol. This in turn makes you crave sugary and salty foods, why? Because our body thinks it needs urgent extra fuel to fight the threat. It's also the key to why shaming doesn't work, nor even educating people on calorie intake and cardio exercise. Our instinctive biology (i.e. our limbic system) can't be willed away, and shame only acts as a further stimulus to our fight and flight apparatus, thus perpetuating rather than alleviating the eating of refined, quick release sugars.
It's also the reason that we should exercise. Exercise reduces cortisol levels and increases our levels of endorphins. Find something fun to do and be creative. You don't have to follow a program. Do keepy ups, or put some lively music on and just jump and dance around, or stick on "eye of the tiger" and shadow box for a bit. Make it an act of self care, not punishment. If you don't enjoy the exercise, change it up and do something else. Turn it into play, because (and I'll assume your gender from your name) as men we tend to turn everything we do into work, which is exhausting.
Returning to the original highlighted point, knowing that you're snacking when you're stressed and depressed is a huge step, because you can then focus on things that calm down your limbic system. This might be seriously hard as you may have a deep seated trauma that has told you to be on high alert, and the feelings arising from trying to relax can be unbearable (speaking from experience here), so be gentle and patient with yourself.
I recommend the Wim Hof method and any bodyscan meditation. Gentle breath based yoga is cracking as well. Gratitude journaling is unexpectedly helpful too. Simple way of gradually changing your brain chemistry.
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3 hours ago, BFTD said:
Rediscovering the joy of kippers for breakfast.
With a poached egg on top as well.
And yes, I too am a food combiner.
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2 minutes ago, HibsFan said:
For what it's worth, I think the exercise side of things is massively overlooked whenever this debate pops up.
The Thatcherisation of sport, as it moved from being something belonged to the people and was played on every patch of grass/empty street to now being viewed by many young children as a television programme, has had a massive impact on how much we exercise. I love cycling, I quite like running, I like playing fives with my mates. Down in London these are all abundantly possible, but I don't think that's the case in many smaller cities and/or towns where the playing fields were sold off and there's no meaningful cycling infrastructure unless you enjoy close passes on A roads.
ETA: also, as @G51 says, cut down the amount of working hours (especially during the winter when people are seriously expected to go to and leave work in the dark) and watch as people make better choices for having more free time.
I think this speaks to the question I had in my head as I began to write. I grew up in the 80's and 90's and the diet wasn't especially healthy. Dinner was some meat thing, some tattie thing and some overcooked veg. My mum was, and still is, the worst cook in East Kilbride, so there was nothing from scratch. I don't remember my pals ever having much cooked from scratch either (I'm sure everyone else had a post dinner de-brief with their pals to find out what they all had) but there was maybe 2 "fat" children in our year at school. So it couldn't just be diet.
Going back to visit now any time I go out for a kickabout with my brother (no weans, just two men in their late 30's and early 40's perfecting Cruyff turns) we have to walk for a good 25mins to get to a pitch. Growing up we just went round the corner, to the park next to the houses or to the Ballerup pitches (right next to our estate) for bigger games/golf/rounders etc. I grew up in a street of feral children who were all launched out of their houses between mealtimes to play and be active.
In EK, what was initially a planned town with plenty of green spaces and places to play, there are only housing estates and shops, with absolutely nowhere for children to play. While this is obviously only one end of the elephant, it's surely a vital one.
I'm also wondering about the changing family structure these days too. To wit, both parents working and communities being atomised to the extent that people don't know who their neighbours are. But I don't want to write a huge essay.*
*I do, I really do.
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3 hours ago, BingMcCrosby said:
Yeah, obviously just a joke. I do think he is/was ridiculously overrated by scotland fans tho.
On a serious note I'd go for mcburnie, a ghost. An empty shirt floating about the pitch.
I think he is retrospectively highly rated by Scotland fans due to his being underappreciated during his international career. He was a striker who wasn't a regular scorer but whose workrate and selflessness brought others into play etc etc. His first touch was often hilariously bad (I recall him receiving a pass 30yds from the opposition goal and finally got it under control in his own half) and if he was one on one with the keeper he was rarely favourite. He was far from a fans' favourite at the time.
McBurnie is a bafflingly shite player though. I genuinely don't understand how he can look so slow and clueless. Burke is rubbish, but at least his incompetence is leavened by his dynamism. McBurnie was blowing out his arse after coming on against Serbia.
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Just binged Ragnarok which I thought was excellent.
I'm utter garbage at describing TV shows and films that I like, so I won't bother here. I found the characters engaging and the hero's journey storyline was excellently done.
It's all in Norwegian too. Genuinely excited for the next series.
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7 minutes ago, BingMcCrosby said:
Kenny Miller
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13 hours ago, Scumjob said:
The brothers Caldwell.
I know Gary had a decent career but both just gave me the fear.
Gary Caldwell should be nowhere near this thread. His goal against France alone should be enough, but there was a period of time where he was absolutely solid at CB. I mind a a game against Denmark (friendly win at Hampden) and he was a clear motm.
He did, however, also give me the fear as he loved running 40yds to kick put in a late tackle on the halfway line and get himself booked. Bonkers.
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1 minute ago, tongue_tied_danny said:
Matt Elliott was pretty hopeless. I'm pretty sure Vogts even played him up front for a couple of games.
I thought it was Craig Broon that did that. I remember at the time Levein was playing Kevin McKenna up front which was working a treat for them.
This whole thread is bringing me out in a cold sweat.
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Football journalists are mostly mendacious hacks whose intention and purpose is to get a headline from the manager rather than to inform the public. It's why players at the top level are trained in how to say bugger all. If journalists actually asked proper and informed questions there would be more trust and cordiality between them and players/managers. GA just got a great result there and it would have been great if the journalist had concentrated on finding out about tactics, motivation and goals for the season rather than trying to generate a "Alexander furious with red card" headline or something.
So aye, good on him.
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24 minutes ago, Gordopolis said:
I remember the Iceland game vividly.
There was a lot of expectation surrounding McCormack (was it his debut?) as he was on fire at Cardiff that season. He played well and scored a cracker. I hoped he was going to go on and become a star for us - another creative option in an era when we only really had McFadden - but he did feck all after that.It was Kenny Miller and Lee Wilkie who scored the goals at Hampden that day......so you can't remember it that vividly
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I don't remember McCormack playing for us at all. My psyche has obviously just built a wall around some of the more harrowing memories of that period. It's not the sunny reconstruction of the truly unwell. I don't, for instance, yearn for the inclusion of Stevies Crawford or Caldwell in the squad, and I still utterly loathe Ioan Ganea (disgusting thug of a man). Maybe I'll go on an ayahuasca retreat and I'll be visited by the hitherto hidden demonic presences of McCormack and the aforementioned Stockdale etc.
It's a useful touchstone though and helps me get a sense of perspective and gratitude when names like Mackail-Smith and Jamie Mackie crop up.
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This should really only feature players from the Vogts era. I feel a bit "remember the 90's" Sellick da' about this but frankly, if you're nominating anyone capped after 2005 then you're either too young or too traumatised and have repressed the memory of the jobber parade that was Berti's "Reign of Error".
I consider myself to be in the too traumatised bracket because, despite having gone to most of our games under him (including all but one of the friendlies....what the f**k is wrong with me!!!) I genuinely can't remember the finer details beyond it being a field of utter dross and James McFadden.
Wilkie at least scored a goal, and Devlin had a decent game against Iceland, so I can't give it to him. Stephen Crainey looked like the archetypal competition winner though. Looked utterly lost at that level. I genuinely can't remember any of the English haddies who were "unearthed" (exhumed may have been a better word) by BV aside from their names. I'll probably need hypnotherapy to recall the contributions of Robbie Stockdale, Scott Dobie et al.
Anyone nominating Gordon Greer obviously can't remember his tackle on Lewandowski over in Warsaw that broke RL's shinpad and had him hobbling off in the first half. Tremendous thuggery.
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Appreciate I might get perma-banned for this, but I reckon mayo on a pepperoni pizza would be pretty decent.
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2 hours ago, Salt n Vinegar said:
There has to be a joke about tits in there somewhere..
Morelos has had his knockers this season but he did well tonight.......
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2 minutes ago, Stormzy said:
I'm playing Simply The Best...
Not going too deep but my dad passed away when we had Pedro fucking Caxhina and he had faith it wouldn't be too long til we were back. I'm feeling a certain way just imagining what he would say if he could see us now. My maw said it reminded her of the 70s...
I'm 28 but can't remember enjoying European football so much. This team is something else, I think we'd scud the 2008 team tbh.
Delighted for you amigo. Enjoy the hell out of it.
Marvellous effort from you lads tonight. I'm looking forward to the highlights.
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Not that I want Clarke to leave the Scotland job, but I think it's possible that he isn't wedded to a particular type of football, rather that he had his teams playing the football that got the most out of the teams he managed.
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Still incredible that Willy gets so many bites. Clever trolling tbf in managing to turn a rambunctious schadenfreude fest into a retrospective on the unpopularity of the bunnet. Nicely played friend.
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. Annoyed at myself as strangely I was talking to somebody at work about ‘backronyms’ last year which I didn’t realise were a thing.
Rangers - 55 or 1
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Young scottish player lured south in big move and it doesn't quite work out for him. Plus ca change.