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Hmmm, I don't enjoy the inference here, but the folk I saw actually had more issue in the end with how her character wasn't well developed and was the waste of a good actress. I'm not a nerdy SW fan at all. I saw ROTJ and the prequels, but haven't seen the first one (and nothing marks me out as a muggle than referring to "a new hope" as "the first one"). Given the love that old school nerdy Star Wars fans have for Ashoka, your implication of racism would appear wide of the mark. John Boyega as Finn was a character that the fandom, as far as I could see, thought should have been the central character and had the more interesting arc, but was wasted too. There's a vogue nowadays for big studios to deflect attention away from shite writing by calling attention to "toxic fans" with their online abuse. It's generally gaslighting pish. I know it happens, of course. It's awful, but we know that twitter is an absolute cesspit and facilitates some of the worst of behaviour. I appreciate the alternative opinion on her prominence.

Not normally into the skinnier ladies, but Lucy Verasamy is absolutely glorious. Anyway, didn't come on to post about tidy weatherwifies. Living in Torry (lower Deeside in estate agent speak) has its downsides, and having a ground floor flat means always having folk outside my living room. People congregate and it's seldom interesting or, in the case of the Torry Guild of Heroin Users who convene their monthly meeting at my window ledge, intelligible. Today I just had a couple of aul' wifies stage a storytelling session. It was class. They were both utterly absorbed in dispensing dispatches from their respective camps that it felt like I was watching a play, and like a play the two actors here were bringing physicality and intensity of focus to hold my attention. It was nice as they won't have known that they were being listened to, so there was no self consciousness about it. I've not been around old folk for ages and it was lovely to see them in a context defined by themselves, in their native habitat as it were.

I will drink to that, mon frere. It would be nice to say to my bairns and grandbairns how shite we were "in my day" when they're gutted that we've only gotten to the quarter finals again. To the second bold part, I don't know where you get that from as Celtic just won their 10th title in 11 years and have a European Cup .

Nailed it. They're just a content factory these days. I didn't watch it as I'm just jaded with Disney content these days and after reading and hearing about Boba Fett (and seeing some videos about it) I had no faith this would be any good. A few of the guys whose videos I watch had predicted, from the trailer, that this series would be about Reva rather than Kenobi and they would just be using the name recognition of OWK to lure fans in to a show that was ostensibly a set-up for their new character. This appears to be exactly what happened.

This reads like you haven't seen "Blue is the Warmest Colour". My word.

Bloody hell I forgot they were at 2012, so make that 5 tournaments then, making it out the group stage of 4 of them. Compare that to our 3 in the same period (I've not included them qualifying for Euro 88 either as it's 50-50 whether 5 year old me would have watched) and aye, I would bite your hand off for that. I don't envisage you changing my mind on that point as I'll always maintain that having my team being semi-regular qualifiers for championships is preferable to being non-qualifiers, but hearing from my da about how we regularly, but toothlessly, qualified for things before. So we'll agree to disagree.

In my football supporting lifetime Ireland have made it to 4 tournaments and made it out the group stage in all 4. I'd take that over all of our less than glorious failures.

(My phone won't let me delete the quote, so apologies for getting you all excited with the "velo army quoted you" notification "). Just popped on to say that the anti-Bristol shouts couldn't be wider of the mark. It's a superb and very bonnie city. I've been a few times now as I have pals down there. Wild.

The question is relevant to "would you rather have Wales' record or ours"? The first tournament I saw was 1990. I've seen us in 4 tournaments and that was nice, but it was mainly the disappointment of turning up and finding different ways to go home early. I can take little comfort from history I didn't witness. Wales went to a semi final. I watched the QF in a pub in Cardiff and Ithat game will rightly live on in the hearts and minds of Welsh people. This year they'll have made their 3rd tournament in my lifetime. Would I swap recent qualifying for getting to see Scotland at tournaments as a youngster? I'm honestly not sure. I'd bite your hand off for Ireland's though.

I can only imagine.

Mandela affect means I still reckon I'm right .

Ask the wife?

Are you the foreman at Scottsdad's house?

I wasn't talking about his Scotland goals, but I remember at the time there were cries to have him included when he was scoring goals (in a front two) that around half, possibly more, were pelanties. Either way, I'm still not sure about him. On the one hand, he looked sharp when he came on for us against (I think) Macedonia and nearly scored, on the other hand he wasn't particularly useful as a hold-up man/channel runner which is what Levein preferred at the time. He did seem to acquire a "king ower the watter" status the more he didn't play.

Probably, but my pal (a weegie) always found it amusing that the given reason for it was that it was Glasgow nonsense.

I think we might be talking about the same things. I thought you were meaning that the genetic thing was about mental illness being hereditary. What evolutionary basis or impacts are you talking about? E.T.A (rather than creating a new post). I think we're talking at cross purposes here. What I mean by environmental factors basically amounts to childhood trauma through abandonment, rejection, abuse or even just inconsistent attachment. It is through our evolved brains (namely our amygdala) that we recognise threats to our safety and develop strategies that keep us safe. Often we see in people with mental illness (big or small) is that this adaptation isn't serving the higher purposes of the individual, but is only serving the base survival purpose. It's not that controversial and is very much the way psychotherapy is headed. Anyway, you brought up the subject of mental illness and trans folk. What conclusions do you draw from young trans people being mentally ill?

Not having the revisionist stuff about Boyd. It's been said before that he was just a flat track bully for Rangers and wasn't trusted against decent teams. Also during that Norway game we were just pumping balls up to Faddy to compete with their massive CH (the 2m tall chap at Fulham whose name I forget) so we needed a physical striker (certainly not KB) or one with touch and mobility (defo not KB). Iwelumo and Fletcher were absolutely the right picks. Iwelumo scores that 99 times out if 100. It can happen to anyone. We often played one up top, which is why Rhodes (most of whose goals were penalties iirc) wasn't picked. Boyd's attitude was a disgrace and is, so far, the only Scotland player I've ever booed.

I read the same book a couple of years ago. Aye it's powerful stuff. I never went through the "terrible twos" phase and never thought a lot about it til that book when I realised that I had learned early on that my sense of safety was conditional on being pleasing (she called it "premature ego development"). I didn't have the words for it but we develop survival strategies before we develop language. The "false self" strategy also hit very hard. What we describe as "mental illness" are really a confluence of such survival strategies and are best, in my view, treated as such. Trans children will receive messages early on that who they really are isn't welcome, or is outright bad. Children process that as "if I am who I really am I'll die" because we depend on our parents for our survival. There isn't a lot if evidence to support a genetic link to mental illness. There are exponents of the theory of epigenetics which says that the impact of trauma is passed down through DNA ("ancestral trauma") and it makes sense, but iirc it was hard for the studies to control for things like parenting strategies. It will always remain a theory imo. Even if it was true it just seems too reductive given what we know about the impact of trauma on brain function, thought patterns and now stuff like immune responses (psychosomatic responses as autoimmune diseases, for instance) it's more constructive to view mental illness as a survival strategy which is counterproductive rather than the way you just are.

Well aye, you say you're calling with important information, but that's relative and highly subjective. Also, do you need someone's phone to be off to know that they're engaged? Surely a phone ringing out tells you that they're too occupied and engaged to answer the call.

I'm a texter so when I phone someone it's for a good reason. Same the other way. I rarely receive calls so if I do I answer as it's unusual and expect it's something important. This is a pretty entitled attitude mate. If I'm spending time with someone, or doing something I want to concentrate on, then I'll probably switch my phone off or put it to silent. If it's important you can send a message to say that something is important and you'd like to talk about it, but expecting folk to just drop what they're doing (which by the sounds of it you haven't considered at all) to respond to your immediate need is a bit off.

The extent of Aberdonians' hatred of Glasgow and Glaswegian culture is something to behold, so it is, by the way. My pal was a cooncilor up here for a bit and recalls an application from an Orange Lodge to host a parade in the grey toon. Cue one veteran cooncilor (Muriel Jaffrey, who remembers when Robert the Bruce had some dealings with the local authority) to object strongly, not on the grounds of bigotry, but that "we dinna want to hae any o that Glasgow nonsense up here". Saying "the wee man" is no less impersonal than saying "maloon" which is the common equivalent in these pairts.

Yaaaaass!! Up tae wur knees in Ngāruahinerangi blood, surrender or yull dieeee!!!

Before this conversation ends up being conducted in Sanskrit, I'll recap. You came out with the idea that you get abuse just for existing. I labelled this as narcissistic claptrap. I'm not dismissing that it's hurtful as a catholic to be abused by a parade of people whose raison d'etre appears to be to cause such offence and discomfort. It is. I just felt the framing of it to be melodramatic and, frankly, childish. What I was having a go at was your having a heid's gone when a poster humorously jibed that you might be conflicted about supporting Scotland or Ireland. I can't speak for them but it didn't read as it they were actually questioning that, just having a go based on a familiar trope (and abetted by your fans' flag and song choices). You then took that very personally and used it (as you did here, when I brought it up) to again go off on one about orange walks. It speaks to a mentality of one who is just aching to play the victim. If you are a (prayer) card carrying member of the holy catholic and apostolic church, then mea culpa. I was just going by my experience of my classmates being all about ra hoops, the rebs and personal effrontery at perceived (and often sought) anti-catholicism despite never actually engaging in Catholicism beyond the superficiality of social identity.

What? Too soon? Seriously though, the plastic thing was about catholicism. I don't give a flying crap about Irishness. You're just an angry guy mate. If you weren't a Celtic supporter with a sense of self righteous victimhood you'd attach yourself to some other group who wallow in such things. I despise the Orange walk too (sitting in mass as a boy while having one march past was scary) , but Albus' jibe about your being conflicted by Ireland beating Scotland was a dig at the irish fetishisation that you chaps indulge in and I dare say most fans of your club on here would have taken said joke and brushed it off/had a laugh. You've gone on a massive rant about Orange walks on the back of a jibe that had nothing to do with it. You're a grievance junky, plain and simple.

Because you don't like to interrupt? Sincerely, L. Dawson. P.S. Did you marry said Cameron Theron? Or the Geoff Capes woman for that matter.