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Jokes on you. Two glasses of wine in one hand is a piece of piss. Unless you're precious about the glass not being held at the stem, in which case aye, that would f**k things up

Can't edit out my handsome coupon, but here's me with 5 glasses of water in the one hand.

I splay my left hand (palm turned upwards) and then place the first glass between thumb and forefinger, gripping it with those. The next glass rests on my ring finger while being stabilised with the middle finger. The third rests in the space between while being stabilised by my pinky. The right hand has palm downwards and I grip one glass with thumb and forefinger and the other with middle finger pressing the glass against the ring finger. If it's pints I pick up the 6th glass between the two hands. The 6th glass is only held by pressure from either side, so that goes down first. The next glasses down are the ones in my right hand which are set down simultaneously. The ones on the left are set down in reverse order to their placement. Quite the party piece.

Rounds used to stress me out as I hate having the pace of my drinking dictated by others. It's also an extra stress and the politics are a pain. I did love buying rounds for the simple reason that I have a hitherto hidden talent for carrying drinks (3 pint glasses in my left hand, 2 in the right and one between them all) which i enjoyed showing off with . How do the teetotalers find this? I went booze free on a stag do and was treated as a pariah.

Fixed.

Big fat sexy 10 for Wednesday.

I've been watching The Dropout on iplayer. It's been pretty decent with a very good cast and a good performance from Amanda Seyfried (off topic, but I didn't realise how tiny she is, which is why I thought she was one of the Fanning lassies until I checked), and I thought it was a Macbeth type story as a young CEO who wants to be a billionaire more than anything and whose ambition causes her to act increasingly dreadfully. I'm realising with trepidation that the series wants me to sympathise and even root for this entitled psychopath. They keep playing the identitarian card and telling me that the reason the men in this world won't take her seriously is because she is a woman. It's set in the early 2000's so I would accept this is absolutely true, but I know at this stage she is lying about her product (doing so will risk thousands and potentially millions of lives) and she has invented absolutely nothing, and dropped out of college after freshman year, so there are genuine material reasons for the scepticism. The series mentions often her hero worship of Steve Jobs, but Jobs (also one for taking credit for a'body's work) didn't just drop out and become a CEO (like our protagonist) he actually worked, built and gambled to get to where he got. I'll keep it up, but at the moment this looks like a villain's journey masquerading as a hero's one.

It's holding yourself responsible for the feelings of others and the negative consequences which you perceive may arise for you. It's how a lot of us were raised tbf, so I'm not judging. Also, actual danger and perception of danger are often distant relatives rather than bedfellows. If someone feels threatened because of someone's inherently harmless and unconnected behaviour (man driving behind you on the motorway or someone walking behind you on the way home) then it's because they're attaching a meaning to that behaviour which gives rise to those feelings of anxiety. This is a very live topic among black people in America where black men have to make so many adjustments to their behaviour due to them being perceived as a threat. It's nonsense, but the same mechanisms are at play here. Projection, mainly.

I don't think someone's perception of you as a threat should dictate how you behave.

I didn't last quite so long. I didn't get past the rubbish script and very poorly drawn characters. Having Laura Fraser as the star carrying your show is a loser of an idea given how poor an actress she is, and she is still the best actor in that.

^^^Hasn't had one deep fried and covered in sugar type post.

9 for Tuesday. Drowning my sorrows in the bars of Orion.

9 for today. KB'd by the pact.

Aye I remember being a bit seething that he went to Queens and not us. He seems like a Jags player in many ways. I did utterly love it when he left them though. I hope you guys stay up for two reasons. The first one being my brother was good pals at school with Roy McGregor's son and would stay at their house a few times. Roy seems a good egg tbh. The second is that I don't want to play you lads again for fucking ages. Enjoy your weekend.

Dessers is terrible, so obviously I hope Rangers keep faith with him. Simon Murray is fantastic. A proper cult hero of a player. 18 goals so far for a team second bottom is highly impressive.

Saw Reporting Scotland yesterday and they covered the story of the Rectum of Glasgow Uni's inaugural address, describing it frequently as "controversial" and that there had been complaints about "hate speech" as he had accused Israel of genocide and then quoted Bobby Sands. It was really poor reporting and needlessly sensationalist. Most people now see it as a genocide and the lad in question has worked all across the middle east in war ravaged places, including Gaza. It's also Glasgow fucking Uni, so his election is entirely on trend for that student body. Quoting Bobby Sands was ill advised, especially without referencing his apparent need of deep fried poultry, but the rest was fine. The BBC trying to shape opinion on the massacre (called a "conflict") is disappointing but not surprising. Seeing the Scottish lot do it too felt very odd. Ann McAlpine and her delicious Lewis accent are entirely welcome to return to my screen though.

Saying nothing.

What do you do with all the ones you take?

I don't know what the context for all this is, but the fear that governments would exploit a pandemic to erode liberties is an entirely sensible one. It was my main fear (aside from, obviously, death) at the start of all that.

We do not ask Dave about what he keeps in his pants.

I rarely watch this league, but going by this game Man Utd are a rabble.

It's a sign of the times that the highlighted bit could be both a Black Mirror-esque satire and also something that the EPL excitedly announce next season.

I think if I were to move to the States it would have to be somewhere they didn't have life threatening weather. Tennessee absolutely loves a tornado, and they'll get worse with climate change. Boulder, Colorado for me Clive.