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My dad had a sister who died from this in the 1950's, I take it nowadays it's much more treatable?

I’m not old enough to remember its predecessor, but in the late 90s - mid 2000s it seemed to have half decent occupancy levels although only tk maxx and BHS were major chains. It was always very clearly the poor relation. the howgate done far far better and had a solid 20 years until the 2008 crash where it & everything else pretty much died its easy with hindsight to say it was madness, but for about 10 years all of the places you mentioned did boom on their own, you couldn’t have predicted online taking over was back in the 80s but perhaps as you say in the 2000s someone could have said wait a minute here, all this growth will slow because we have new players in the market

f**k up with the name calling ya dick, no one else was doing that. lots of people say they want to see that format, but they won’t be interested if it ever came about

From a source claiming to be ITK ( my maw who used to work at the cooncil) this was talked about and decided upon long way back in the mid 2000, even when most of the businesses were still viable. The writing was on the wall that the days of high street as a busy shopping hub were behind it and it would revert to majority residential in future Falkirk council spunked a fortune on a shopping mall in the 90s that mostly failed to live up to expectations. they were also desperate to get rid of Brockville and have Falkirk FC away from the town centre

4. alot of people say this, but the reality is quite different, it is quite often said by the likes of celtic supporters who hope that they will have a chance at it again, in the real world the number of people who actually want to watch a competition with the champions of finland vs the champions of albania, outwith supporters of those two teams instead of inter milan vs athletico madrid , is absololutely tiny. 5. alot of teams who win their cuo also win their league, making it a bit pointless

CCOM thread for this maybe, outwith getting into pointless arguments on comments sections & organising five asides and fishing, there is f**k all point in social media. posting things to make your life seem great is the most pointless thing ever, the only people who care about what you post are those who dislike you and/or are jealous. for those that you like or are indifferent towards, when you see their wonderful life and beautiful family pictures are you even the least bit interested or do you scroll on, get bored and check livescore instead? thought so

gee it a rest, your as bad as him There would be some brass neck testing foreign arrivals when we don't generally test for the virus at home There would be an even bigger brass neck making arrivals self isolate/ denial of entry even if they don't have covid when people already in the country don't have to isolate if they DO have it so with that in mind i recon paddy powers will soon pay out on this getting implemented

1. handball on the line is just a goal, no penalty 2. your whole body must be offside to the point there is a gap between you and the last man, none of this pish where your clearly being man marked and stick a leg out for the cross coming in - hardly gaining an advantage 3. maximum time limits for taking throw ins, free kicks, corners and by kicks. subs etc 4. Stricter enforcement of the unbroken run whilst taking a penalty, one chance then it's a by kick & none of this pretend jogging on the spot 5. Falkirk to be treated as a special case due to the navy blue pound

Barely any Chinese would have left in the last 3 years Shirley? The 3 weeks hard quarantine would make it such a pain in the arse I doubt many will have traveled? I can’t see how this ( if it’s even true) would make any difference they wouldn’t exactly be bringing covid with them, covid is here all around us and we stopped giving a f**k months ago, It can’t be anything other than back to the old “ dirty foreigners” trope again

Fucking hell, I've been seing this a few times lately, it really has gone completely full circle. exactly 3 years ago

Christmas is pure w**k! I do not say this as a shock form of look at me i'm such a bah humbug in today's fashionable misery. I mean it seriously, puting the huge commercialism to one side, It is a vocal minority that make a silent majority feel obliged to take part in something that if they could be truly honest, they're not particularly arsed about. there will have been a huge number of people who have had to go through the motions becuase there is family and societal pressure for them to do so when they'd rather just treat it like any other day. I visted two sets of aunts and uncles who I havent seen since the exact same time last year, neither of us have made any effort to speak through the year, so why now other than because it's christmas? If i had young children, I would obviously give them presents and would not want them feeling left out of it all, but when theyre grown up and i'm a proper auld c**t by then, then i certainly wouldn't be expecting anything from them, if they want to go thailand for a fortnight then crack on, there will be no guilt about leavin so & so by themselves at christmas!

FUCKIN....SHITE!

maybe the realised that the games a bogey and followed the rest of us

I'm well aware of that. pumped around the clock

Universal default Saturday 3pm kick off's are a wee bit antiquated

As I've said before, it's going to take a bosman on steroids piece of legislation to make any difference. You'd have to have tightly regulated transfers, spending and maximum number of contracted players per club to make any difference. otherwise no matter what you do you are always going to get in the situation where them with the most money usually win. no business is ever going to agree to a cut in revenue. they may agree to strict player regulations if they can still make big profits Clubs regulated to 25 contracted players in total including any youth players on professional contracts. if they want to bring someone in then they have to let someone go no more talent hoarding. big clubs have shit tonnes of young players (who are no close to the first team than you or I) tied up on contracts with decent wages. most of them would already be playing first team football elsewhere if they weren't. for big clubs buying these lads is just investment for future transfers. but from a entertainment point of view we've got to get to a situation where the best players are all playing not sitting in the stands

Every league has it's big clubs, the number differs from country to country Every big club draws support from all across their country and beyond ,not just their own local hinterland plenty other countries have misfit clubs that are disproportionately bigger than the rest other nations have teams that win the league year in year out without much meaningful competition In other countries, players of smaller clubs often aspire to getting signed by the big teams We don't generally consume foreign media here, only english. Back when levandowski was at Dortmund, he was openly quoted in the media that he "couldn't wait to sign the pre contract with bayern in January" whilst he was still a Dortmund player and would be for the res of that season

Tell me there has to be something more to this nah? is there earlier conversation with he man stating he used to work in the city and lost everything or something to that effect that has been edited out~? surely he can't be that bad..

The correct answer is ignore. there is absolutely no point in trying to engage in a debate with an ignorant people, they are not interested in facts or other side. they are right, of story. if this takes place face to face then they will most likely just turn up the volume and increase the amount of swearing they use. you could tie then up in knots but they won't concede. weather deliberate or not they succeed in their aim by wearing down the willingness of their opponent to continue & also put others off having a go at the same time I once witnessed someone put across a very reasonable argument as to why leaving the EU would be possible but very difficult and costly at least in the short - medium term. the brexiteer simply responded with... FUCKIN SHITE! ABSOLUTE FUCKIN SHITE YA SLAVERIN c**t

Aye, folk forget that woolies had become a by word for naff. HMV and others had most likely just became casualties of the decline in physical media. We had a local bakery chain in Falkirk called Mathiesons, Although they were once pretty good they had went majorly downhill in their final 5-10 years, to the point where you would go in at 1.15 pm and they would have nothing except a solitary cold scotch pie for sale. yet when they finally went to the wall social media was a wash with tears.

This is pretty much the answer. Nobody likes to see run down town centers but at the end of the day they are like that for a reason. Most places have seen their population increase since the 1990's yet the footfall for in person retail has plummeted. I think a large majority will continue to buy groceries in person, A smaller majority will keep buying clothes in person A significant minority will go to showrooms for furniture etc The rest of in person retail will be purely service oriented with a few niche shops and holders out from the old world. Even the bookies are starting to disappear from the high street now they can't cream in from the roulette machines

most people couldnt give a shite, but those who do are very loud and visible leading to the false impression of them being everywhere

Isnt it nice for all these auld white blokes to be caring about women's rights for a change

We have literally gone full circle and it’s back to late 2019, the rest of the world back to normal and china and asia getting ridden with this

Know what miss, it’s your sausage & you can do whatever you like with it!