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Arbroath Steak and Black Pudding Pies >>>>> Forfar Bridies.
Get intae this shower o shite today Jags!!
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17 hours ago, BingMcCrosby said:
Think you need a new account barry. I've not seen you get a bite in a while.
9 hours ago, Carnoustie Young Guvnor said:Absolute shite. They have a population smaller than Dunfermline, we could put out six teams that would horse them. You need to be treating shite like shite, go there, be aggressive, high tempo, attacking, press high, and wipe the floor with them have it done by half time. You can't be going to the fuckin Faroes thinking a point would be a good result. Queens Park could get a point there.
Nice work BFH.
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Leon Constantine played for us for about two games at the start of the century. Utter baller. Ran the show in a 4-0 (?) demolition of Falkirk at Brockville in one of the last games at the old place (I miss that ground) and then went back to his parent club earlier than expected.
Still remembered very fondly despite only playing two or three games in what was a seminal season (and great team!!) for us (2001-2002).
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Like my Arab chum a few posts up I only ever make my own soup from scratch. A huge pot of lentil soup with spices (and loads of carrots and the occasional tattie) does me for days. I can't recommend that enough tbh, just freeze the rest and microwave when required.
It takes very little time too. Just chopping the veg, frying it up a bit, adding lentils and stock and boil for about 30mins. Nae bother.
A wee blended soupie with parsnip and ginger is an utter treat too (although I have a decent harvest of celeriac that I could sub for that
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For a hearty b*****d you cannae beat Cullen Skink though. Ooft.
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6 hours ago, Rugster said:
Catherine does the biggest shites I’ve seen. She now proudly shouts that she’s done a big Innes. I just hope she shouts the same at nursery.
This is just fuckin beautiful sir. Just beautiful.
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5 minutes ago, jaggyness said:2 hours ago, velo army said:I fuckin love Forfar and one of my favourite ever games was when we won the Second Division up there. McGrillen's opener, Barry Elliot's clincher and me in a circle with the team on the field with my arm around a shirtless Archie (
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Genuinely upset that I can't go to this as a fan. Cracking ground and lovely wee town.
Thistle to dominate, get 45 shots on goal (3 on target) and to be pinned in our own box for the final 5 minutes with Forfar scoring in 90 + 6mins.
1-0 Loons, and not even a bridie to take my mind off it. Sad.I have equally fond memories of that day, jumping about on the pitch and there being a tannoy announcement that there were no bridies left in Forfar owing to the large crowd that day
After half an hour of the match!
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I fuckin love Forfar and one of my favourite ever games was when we won the Second Division up there. McGrillen's opener, Barry Elliot's clincher and me in a circle with the team on the field with my arm around a shirtless Archie (
).
Genuinely upset that I can't go to this as a fan. Cracking ground and lovely wee town.
Thistle to dominate, get 45 shots on goal (3 on target) and to be pinned in our own box for the final 5 minutes with Forfar scoring in 90 + 6mins.
1-0 Loons, and not even a bridie to take my mind off it. Sad.
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Unashamedly festive at the moment so I was daunering up Union St whistling "wherever you find love, it feels like Christmas" from a Muppet's Christmas Carol.
After that I was whistling awa to "Bist to bei Mir" by Gottfried Heinrich Stolzel (from the film "Joyeux Noel").
It'll mainly be Christmas songs for the next few weeks I imagine.
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I don't like this being framed as a "disease" but it is a real thing. In fact, it's wholly natural.
We're supposed to take it easy in Winter, it's what we're evolved to do; get enough food in and stay warm and do not a lot until Spring. It's only in the last 150 years that we've been required (demanded?) to keep up the same productivity levels throughout the year that we now hit a wall.
As soon as it gets to 3.30pm and the lights go off outside I can feel my body being flooded with melatonin. My whole being just wants to do f**k all after that time. I force myself to do uni work, but it feels like my whole being, physically and mentally, is wading through tar.
I can see this hitting particularly hard this winter. The loneliness caused by the imposed isolation is going to exacerbate the feeling of melancholy most feel at this time of year, and the anxiety levels which would normally be soothed by being in physical proximity to friends and lovers are heightened.
Be really gentle with yourselves this year a'body. Do what you need to do to take care of yourselves. This might mean taking a day off here and there. For those on zero hour this might seem like financial madness, but taking yourself out to walk up a hill or play football with your pals might be the radical self love you need (and I was, until a few weeks ago, on a zero hour contract too).
This isn't an individual disorder by the way. There is nothing "wrong" with you if you experience this. Like almost all depressive "disorders" it's mostly caused by us living a life contrary to our nature. Capitalism demands the same effort all year with no regard to the seasonal rhythms of our bodies, and when our bodies and souls rebel our social conditioning tells us that there is something about us that needs to be fixed and adjusted.
So in short, aye, I do experience this, and at times pretty badly. I used to see it as a problem I had. I now see it as a reminder to nourish myself with food, rest, outdoor activity and oxytocin (ask your friends for a hug....shitebag if ye dinnae!!). To be clear this is a reminder that I don't always listen to and I find myself numbing with alcohol and takeaway food, so I'm not putting myself on a pedestal here.
Take good care of yourselves chaps/chapettes/chapneutrals
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Do they say who their big team are?
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16 minutes ago, MixuFruit said:
Was thinking more Crazy Frog through the tannoy and every time there is a boo it gets reset to the beginning and the volume dial incremented by 1
Stanley Milgram found ^^^
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Fuckin hell lads, can you just not?
Just use the ignore function and save the pages and pages of utter roastery.
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Too lazy to read the thread but just popped on to give the Frangipane Mince Pies from Sainsbury's the massive thumbs up.
I'm a traditionalist normally, so I favour shortcrust and mincemeat, no salted caramel for me thank you, but the above pies are the business.
Thank you.
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2 hours ago, HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows said:
Boot it in its whispy pie.
Laughed my baws aff at this.
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It makes Celtic Park look like a Soviet monument of some sort.
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11 hours ago, YassinMoutaouakil said:
If John Kennedy was such a good player how come he only got one Scotland cap?
Ioan Ganea found ^^
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I obviously haven't watched the doc (cheers for the heads up a'bdy!) but if that's what's been put out as a tribute to Maradona then that's a disgrace. Just a sop to the gammon demographic and an excuse to stoke English nationalist sentiment by the sounds of it.
Still, it's delightful that Maradona inspired such seethe even if, as has been said before, he rarely talked or gave a thought to that game afterwards.
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15 hours ago, BillyAnchor said:
Late Montrose goal to win or equalise. Time will tell. Probably windy too.
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16 hours ago, Carnoustie Young Guvnor said:
Still quite cut up about this. Would say its the celebrity death that has affected me the most. Watching the live footage of people walking past his coffin earlier, would love to have gone and left a Scotland top. We owe him that.
I'm in exactly the same boat. I tend not to be overly arsed about "celebrity" deaths, but his feels important. I actually bridled at the use of the word celebrity in your post as it feels like it's more than that (although I know you didn't mean it trivially).
I wonder if he truly understood the impact he had here, not just being utterly spellbindingly brilliant, but the impact his goals against England had on our esteem of him. I know some folk wince at the mere suggestion of anti-englishness, but there's no denying the audacity of that goal and the indignant fury it unleashed has been instrumental in our affection towards him. I know that sounds a touch purple, but the TA don't have a song about Pele, but we do have one about Maradona.
The presser where he is asked about the handball and he responds by pointing out Hurst's goal that didn't cross the line is absolute shithousery gold.
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6 hours ago, RandomGuy. said:
Too young to have ever remembered watching him, but there's a compilation going about of him doing keepie ups, then crossing the ball via an overhead kick, about 10+ times in different matches.
I doubt I'll ever see a player with his ability combined with that sort of ballseyness to pull shit like that off consistently.
I mean, I can never imagine Messi/Ronaldo even attempting that regularly, never mind actually setting up goals through it.
Watch the highlights of him v Belgium. Argentina are defending a corner. The ball breaks to DM in his own box. He just nonchalantly lifts the ball over a Belgian player's head, takes it again and then skins another. in his own box. In a world cup semi-final. With very little room for manoeuvre. Powerful stuff.
Someone mentioned his training regimen. He was actually remarkably fit because he hired a personal coach. He was ahead of his time in that regard and I reckon this was part of his genius. He knew that he was different and needed different training. He recognised what he needed in Italy that he didn't need in Spain (faster reactions and just quicker pace) and hired a coach whose remit was to give him that.
If you guys haven't seen the documentary "diego" it's wonderfully eye-opening and puts a lot of stuff in context. It shows how alone he was at Napoli, and conversely how he couldn't get any peace. I recommended, although I'll be a sobbing mess if I watch it at the moment.
Here, how utterly delicious are the amount of English tears being brought forth by his death? I think it's what he would have wanted.
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15 minutes ago, pub car king said:
An absolute fucking mentalist and an even better player. The game is so safe and money driven now I don't think he would be given a chance these days.
On the contrary I think he would have shown himself truly to be the greatest ever if he played now. The absolute brutality of the challenges he had to endure on the field would be gone now and he'd be unbeatable. He had a bigger personality and greater leadership than Messi and he would have won umpteen world cups with Argentina now given the players they have.
The way the game is now he would have been looked after much better now. The way he was treated at Napoli was awful and allowed the worst of his demons to surface.
This is really sad news.
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15 minutes ago, G51 said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXUVpPHcjdY
An hour of Tommy Sheridan going full wastecoatwilly. Glorious
I thought there were rules about outing posters.....
I'm pissed off at myself for clicking on this as my youtube will now be choc full of charlie and the bhoys or somesuch.
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On 22/11/2020 at 22:05, Trackdaybob said:
I'm in the same boat. I've enjoyed my trips to America but generally, it is a horrific place. Why the UK population seems hell bent on mimicking all their shit confuses me somewhat.
I think it's because most of them have only ever seen it on tv or perhaps a two week holiday and actually think that's what it's like. Stay there for any length of time however, and it soon becomes apparent just how fucked up a country it is.
Similar boat here. I cycled across it 6 years ago and it was eye opening how fucked up it was. The aforementioned poverty, the ubiquitous flags, the worship of the military, churches everywhere, people being friendly but with a huge chip on their shoulders about the world "hating America". There is more I could list which would be obvious, but man, I was alarmed at how poor it was.
I also quite enjoyed parts of it. Kansas is underrated (when cycling across anyway) and Montana was stunning (weird redneck population though; the most blatantly and frequently racist people). Colorado had the most attractive women by far (visiting Boulder and Denver was like walking through a sports illustrated issue) and the nature there was nice too. It all felt incongruent, like the people and buildings didn't belong (which, of course, they don't).
It all made me pretty grateful to be Scottish tbhqfhwy (to be quite fucking honest with you).
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I want a former Norwegian fighter pilot as our next performance director please.
Thank you.
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On This Day...
in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
Posted · Edited by velo army
On this day in 2001, during what was a seminal season for us and the greatest in my lifetime of Jags support (including the top 6 season), we beat St Mirren with a single goal from super sub Martin Hardie. It was a game which saw John Lambie take his place in the dugout in full highland dress as the club launched its new tartan.
We'd won the second division the season previous and made it back to back promotions by winning Division 1 that season also. It was fairy tale stuff given we'd been on the brink of liquidation in 1997 and of relegation to the bottom league in 99/00.
St Mirren had been relegated from the SPL (or whatever it was in 2001) and still had the quality throughout with the likes of Quitongo, Roy and Yardley and they were unbeaten against us at that point in the season. I recall a great game where Paul Walker missed a one on one, Kenny Arthur saved a penalty and BMMMH came on to score a late winner, creating scenes in a packed Jackie Husband stand. Hardie's reward for winning the game was a seat on the bench in our next match against Ayr, where again he came on in the last quarter and scored the winner.
We even had a cup run that season, and we were always utter shite in the cups (even as a premier division team), so it was a class season all in. We seemed to win so many games at the death too. What a team.