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  1. 4 hours ago, RiG said:

    The audience was selected from Republicans and Republican leaning independents based on various news pieces this morning. Seems very odd for CNN to do this. Guess they're just chasing ratings. 

    CNN is under new ownership and rumours are that it’s headed Foxwards. This would of course be great for democracy in the US…

  2. 1 hour ago, ICTJohnboy said:

     

    Staying in place until end of June.

    Making a statement now saying he had nothing to do with helping BoJo getting his loan.

    Aye right...

    “It wasn’t the £800k bung to BoJo that got me the gig, it was the £400k bung to the Tory party!”

  3. 2 hours ago, Ranaldo Bairn said:

    Wrong.

    Stainrod scored the third in a 3-2 win where SJ goals were scored by Wright (pen) and a late Alan Moore header IIRC.

    Treanor's was a heartbreaking late winner for SJ in a 3-2 defeat the following season.

    Wow, was convinced we lost the game where Treanor hammered that one in! Mainly remember regular beatings at the hands of the Bairns around that time…

  4. 35 minutes ago, BFTD said:

    Surely we'd all miss Oaksoft's worldview of "there are losers in life, but I did alright, so f**k 'em." Blair almost eradicating poverty should also be taken very seriously, considering how long he contended that poverty just flat-out doesn't exist in the UK.

    Anyway, Thatcher was likely the last one to have actual beliefs beyond cold self-interest, which is a terrifying thought considering what they were.

    In fairness Thatcher’s core belief was that everyone should have little more than cold self-interest.

  5. 57 minutes ago, Highland Capital said:

    I wonder if Truss expects to be put out next and then Sunak will chuck it - thus making the Sky News debate a waste of time for them.

    No, they think they're the leading two, but more exposure would just show how hopeless they both are. With Tugendhat attacking from the sane end, and Badenoch from the crazy they're in a lose lose situation in the debates.

  6. 13 minutes ago, Valentino Bolognese said:

    To me, the stuff in the press seems to be Callum saying he thinks he's lazy or not committed, but if he's being compared on those traits to Liam Craig who I assume he was the intended replacement for that's a pretty high bar. 

    A young lad who's spent the last few years being rejected and dropping down levels is probably going to have lost a lot of love for the game, surely part of the coaching should be to encourage that back. I know it'd be tough going though.

  7. 2 minutes ago, charger29 said:

     


    I've never understood why Crimea voted to join Ukraine in the first place.
    Early 1991 Crimea votes to become an autonomous SSR with a 94% yes vote and 81% turnout. Late 1991 the Crimean ASSR votes to become a part of Ukraine in the independence referendum with 54% yes vote and 60% turnout.

    Why did so many people not vote? Was there a general boycott or something? Seems a bit crazy considering the importance of the occasion.
    Other regions like Donetsk, Kharkov, Luhansk and Odessa had relatively low turnout as well.

    NATO mumble Soros mumble deep state, rather than the more realistic apathy and ignorance no doubt. If you live in the gutter regardless what does it matter who's in the big hoose.

  8. 9 hours ago, KingRocketman II said:

    Tories circling the wagon/riding to the defence of the big dug after his fine/criminal charge. I wonder what gems we will see when the next one happens. In fact I hope he gets numerous fines and the Met drip release them so we can hear more  justifications and excuses applied through the prism of Tory world:

    - It’s not as if [Johnson] walked into a rave in Ibiza.

    - The prime minister was there for a very short time. He was eating a salad lunch in the Cabinet room with people he worked with all day. People kept popping in.

    - The ways it’s been characterised, you would think there were pole dancers.

    - There was always an exemption around work but the prime minister accepted mistakes were made. If you’re going from meeting to meeting and it’s something at 2pm in the afternoon, people wouldn’t particularly call that a party. You don’t tend to call that a party.

    - He was, in a sense, ambushed with a cake.

    - He’s not robbed a bank. This is getting out of control.

    - My take as someone who has worked in Downing Street is that the prime minister doesn’t really own his own diary.

    - Well, I just don’t recognise that as a party. And if that’s the sort of parties you go to they’re not much fun, are they?

    - The pole dancers were only present briefly at a couple of the events. It’s not like the Prime minister was snorting coke off their tits.

     

     

    - He was, in a sense, ambushed by the tits, and he inhaled the coke while gasping for breath.

  9. 6 hours ago, Widge said:

    It’s almost like he doesn’t want to upset anyone in the game, whether that be other managers, players, referees, etc. For all Tommy Wright moaned too much, Davidson is far too passive at all times and it’s pretty annoying that he’s not even willing to stand up for the team when it matters. Like he should of been condemning Penrice’s tackle, it was an absolute shocker and could of broken Cleary’s leg quite easily. 

    I felt he was surprisingly fiery last season, at least compared to my expectation. I think this season has knocked his confidence to bits.

  10. 1 hour ago, scottsdad said:

    There was a general or an admiral or some such being interviewed on Radio Scotland who claimed that the invasion would not have happened under Trump, because Trump was so unpredictable. Putin had no clue how he might respond. 

    Biden, on the other hand - Putin knew before launching what the likely sanctions would be. 

    He would have mocked Zelesnkyy on twitter stating that it would never have happened if he'd provided the Biden Kompromat, then he'd have golfed. So pretty predictable.

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