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What she'll learn if you give in is that her moods and expression of feelings can get her what she wants. It also teaches her that other people are responsible for her feelings. I've known many adult women who are like this (and some fellas) and most of this learning can be traced back to their early years teaching. What I've seen done by my parenting geek pals (who are, unlike me, parents) is to ignore the tantrum, but do the minimum to make sure she is safe, while maintaining a neutral tone. What they also do is when she's being "good" is to reward that with positive attention. One more thing, and I think this is really fucking important. The key to bringing up children to be secure and self loving adults is to be a good enough parent. Not a great one (Winnacott, 1953). I've seen a few of your posts and I glean that you care a lot and you're intimidated by the enormity of the task at hand (and perhaps exaggerating the perceived consequences of fucking up?). You'll mess it up mate, but that will teach your bairn that people f**k up and that the world doesn't revolve around them and their feelings. I imagine bringing her up as a Dons fan will help this also . She sounds ace.

Dr Seuss movie reviews for this pish.

McGregor should only be dropped if both his legs are hanging off. The lad is, for me, the first outfield name on the team sheet. I can see the team having a hard look at themselves and coming out swinging for this. Patterson has to start as we need pace. Gilmour needs to start to play the penetrating shroo balls and to move the ball forward. McGinn would be lucky to keep his place as he's been rotten of late (Armenia game aside, but that's a low bar). I'd stick Turnbull in for McGinn, with Armstrong playing off Adams. Che just needs one to go in off his arse and he'll be right as rain. I'm also missing this due to work, but I'll try to leave early and catch the 2nd half. Hopefully we have it wrapped up by then and I can just relax and enjoy it.

Exactly as above. I've met dozens of touring cyclists in my life and every single one of them had a Brooks B17. I had the same one and it's perfect. It moulds to your bahook. You just have to get the nose angle right, so have the nose of the saddle slightly raised which makes the saddle level. That may not make much sense, but the rear bit is on a slope. Gel saddles/covers offer no support. People think they need padding on a saddle. They don't, they need support and a bit of flex. Brooks B17s (as with all Brooks leather saddles) will take about 200miles or so to break in, but once they do it's heaven. Brooks brought out a rubber saddle called the Cambium. I have no idea about this one, but I haven't seen any tourers with one and I don't personally fancy that it'll be as comfy as the B17. They're expensive these days due to cycling taking off in the last 10 years or so. I bought my first one in 2007 for £30, they're now £100. You need to take care of it by tightening it every so often, covering it when it's rainy (£15 for a brooks cover or a poly bag) and giving it a wee polish with proofide now and again. They'll last fine without doing that but you'll have it for life if you do. In terms of saddle sores, they happen even when you're wearing Rapha shorts and riding a B17 as touring means long days in the saddle (I wore those shorts on my 3 month USA trip). What you need is Haemorrhoid cream. When you feel the saddle sore beginning stick a wee bit of pile cream on it when you go to bed, it'll be gone by morning. I had to do this once on my Spain/France trip and twice in the USA. No problem.

Unpopular opinions for this pish, but folk in full time work shouldn't have dogs for this very reason. Although that bothers me less than what's going on in your post. I'd take the fucking dog round to her office and tell her it's her turn, or shut the f**k up.

Aye you get all sorts of front bags. Bar bags are still quite wee. Ach I managed a month long tour in Spain and France on an old Raleigh Randonneur with all my stuff on the back. A hard tail MTB will handle it just fine A butcher's bike? Why stop there? Stick a few bags on a Penny Farthing and you're off!

I actually think that sounds perfect. When people are thinking of getting into touring I always recommend that they buy a hard-tail MTB. 26in wheels are perfect for stability, and also, in an emergency, even the most backwater bike shop will have 26in tyres. For long distance touring comfort is the most important thing, more than fitness. Stick a Brooks saddle on that thing and you're away. I'd recommend spreading the weight by putting some bags on the front. You can get low-riders for forks without braze-ons, or you can speak to your nearest framebuilder/local bike shop about welding braze-ons to your front fork. You've alluded to bike packing stuff so that's obviously an option too. Aye if you're wanting off road doing something that hardcore MTB-ers would do sounds no fun at all. I guess if you go off road you may have to accept getting off and wheeling it when things get hairy, but riding through, for instance, Glen Affric on those tracks would be heaven. E.T.A I da ken far you are, but regarding the braze ons for the front fork I recommend speaking to Alistair at Wheelcraft in Clachan o Campsite (central belt). He's mostly a wheelbuilder but is a general know-all when it comes to bikes. He's a massive blether though so allow for some raconteuring time .

How many bass guitar players does it take to change a lightbulb? None, us piano players can do it with our left hand. . There are bass players who are fantastic, like the boy from Primus. He's ace.

Some drum solos are very good. Heavy metal is by far and away the best for this. I watched a bit if The Shadows last tour the other night and the drummer did a solo that honestly was rubbish. It could have been that he was older now, but i often look at drummers in a lot of bands who lucked out hugely as they don't need to be that good at all. See also bass guitars.

Nah I hadn't read that. I did now and I found some of his complaints odd. Not being able to find a chain to fit I thought was unlikely, and it's absolutely fine for transmission to wear down after 6k. You're carrying loads in the heat. Wtf kind of riding is he doing that his brake blocks wear out so fast? I managed three months in the states on two sets of blocks. Anyway. What do you mean by off road? I wouldn't mind going on the occasional LR track if necessary. Is it a hard-tail you've got?

I wonder what he's actually like in the dressing room. He does seem like a charismatic guy, not in the Strachan mould, but certainly strikes me as having a quiet gravitas about him. He's also known as a good man manager, but I wonder if his team talks need to perhaps have a bit more fear about them. I remember when we won the 1st division under Lambie so many of our goals were scored just before half time or before the final whistle, as players were fucking terrified of going in to the dressing room to get a dressing down. I'm not advocating hairdryer treatment, but I want him to put a rocket under them so that we at least start games with some kind of intensity.

Given that Gilmour was given his first start as a 19 year old against England in a major finals, Patterson was played in spite of having only a handful of first team appearances for his club and Hickey has a couple of caps at the age of 19 then I don't think that being unwilling to blood youth is something you can level at Clarke. Wales have a superstar. Anyone saying that doesn't make a difference fails to understand the effect that this has on morale and, crucially, the effect it has on motivation. Knowing you have a player who can turn on a bit of magic gives players extra belief that their efforts will result in something. I know people will say "but professionals shouldn't need extra motivation" but they're human and subject to the same psychology as the rest of us. They're going to have more confidence when their talisman is playing well. I know Clarke said yesterday that the Ireland result was down to "something else" and I'm fairly sure he was protecting his players when he said that. I'm fairly sure he knows what he thinks happened, but wants to keep that between him and the players. He's not daft and folk need to stop taking what managers say post match at face value. People have spoken about an attitude of believing their own hype, and Robbo spoke to a psychological frailty in the team. If it's the latter Clarke will know. He's a massively experienced coach and assistant, so he'll be aware of that. If it's the former he'll know that too, but it would be unwise of him to speak to either of those factors as it would transfer extra pressure on the team. I have reasonable confidence that he'll address the problem with the players.

Thanks for that. I'm just going to go ahead and buy the same bike I got stolen which was a Thorn Sherpa. I'm feeling the desire to go some proper long touring again.

That's a splendid name tbf. I never saw those movies.

I was washing the dishes today and for some reason suddenly remembered that Elden Henson, the actor who plays Foggy Nelson in Daredevil, was also the fella who played the best friend of Laney Boggs (Rachel Lee Cook) in She's All That. A film I'll need to revisit again, mainly for the fact that I fancied the very pants off RLC, but it's a smashing film tbf with a great cast.

I was one who said we had the best group in 30 years. It's maybe a stretch as Colin Hendry and Davie Weir would walk into this team. I'm certainly revising this opinion now given the utterly gutless performances recently. The mention of Joachim Low earlier had me salivating. I don't care if we had to go for a third party to pay his salary like Eire did with Trapp. I'd bite your hand off for him. I have no doubt he would have many things to say about Scot fucking Gemmil and the 21s, given he was Germany's U21 boss before he took over the reins at Die Manschaft. Make it so Maxi.

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The response after the Denmark game was hyperbolic. We played very well and Denmark had four key players missing. We get pumped in that game if Braithwaite, Damsgaard and the big blonde boy up top (whose name I can't recall right now) play. I enjoyed that result hugely, but it wasn't as if we beat the European Semi Finalists, we beat that team minus a few very important players. The Serbia game was actually Clarke's best moment, until he almost blew it. We were massively on top and comfortable until he made an absolutely disastrous substitution which put us on the back foot for the rest of the game and almost did for us in extra time. As has been noted his tactical inflexibility is an issue, but it seems there is also a motivational issue. It sounds like Eire were hungrier than us, which is unforgivable. I want him to go but I'm absolutely terrified we get Mark McGhee or whomever is pals with the board right now. Tin pot governance.

Aye this is probably worse than Kazakhstan. We were inured to shite by that point and it was just more of the same. This team have given us promise of something better and this feels like a false dawn. I've not been a fan of 3-5-2 when we haven't had Tierney as every time we've looked lost. I don't want to sack the manager mainly because I have no faith that the SFA will make the right appointment next. I hope he learns from this and develops a decent plan B. This bunch couldn't even score 3 against Gibraltar. We look like a massive soft touch.

What the f**k is going on?

Then in that case people shouldn't be parking there. You should have cycled over the cars tbh. I often want to do that when they're parked on a bike lane tbf.

I agree that it should be down to the person opening the door, and it isn't always practical to drive that far away from a car. I was meaning bicycles. I think I remember that liability in this case is down to the cyclist. Certainly it's the safer option to ride a bit out. I've rarely found it too materially difficult to do this, often I just have to get over the psychological hurdle of having a driver up my arse.

Sadly you're kind of at fault here. Granted motorists should be opening their doors with their left hand so that they're forced to look behind them and can react quickly to oncoming traffic, but you need to be riding in the middle of the lane (or at least a third of the way in) when passing parked cars. Sorry it didn't end the way you wanted it to amigo.

3-0 Scotland with McGinn and Adams finding their shooting boots again. A centre half scoring with his napper seems a decent bet given we are now the undisputed kings of the set piece.

A lovely meeting of minds here. Anyway, like @welldaft I also spouted some drunken pish in the aftermath. Watching the highlights we had several chances in the second half. I just didn't see them very well I suppose due to where my seat was. THe offside was daft. If you have to look that long at it and it's a matter of inches then just leave the ref alone. I thought Adams did fine too. He should have had a couple, but as other posters have suggested he only needs one or two and I think he'll go on a wee run of scoring.