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"This weather"
At the moment.
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9 hours ago, Shandon Par said:
It’s mainly dogs rather than people that have my name.
9 hours ago, HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows said:Spot?
8 hours ago, Jambomo said:Lassie?
8 hours ago, The Skelpit Lug said:Dougal?
8 hours ago, tamthebam said:Get down Shep!
Rin Tin Tin? Old Yeller? Scooby Doo?
C'mon, help us out here.
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53 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:
I never knew you were Thai.
ทุกวันคือวันเรียน
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2 hours ago, BTFD said:
there was someone in Birmingham who had the surname "Shite".
Their first name looked Arabic
If you don't tell us their first name was "Mustapha", I'll be very disappointed.
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5 minutes ago, die hard doonhamer said:
From memory from my brief stint in the P&B chess league, @Shotgun has the same full name as me, though I could have made that up!
Zatrite? I don't suppose you're astonishingly handsome. That would probably be too much of a coincidence.
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@DrewDon and @die hard doonhamer have saved me the bother of looking up mine.
I was born 2 1/2 years after His Nonceness and even before we learned his true character, I was always pissed off when someone assumed my folks had named me after him, rather than my Grandad.
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I'm 60 years old, had my bedroom festooned in Scotland posters in 1974, was psychological damaged in 1978 and have lived through decades of disappointment. Costa Rica, Faroe Islands, Kazakhstan, I've endured the lot.
I truly never thought I would feel this way about a Scotland team again.
Fück
King
Hell
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Can a team progress to the knockout stage of the World Cup after losing each game in their group?
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I was in the Post Office yesterday, here in rural Colorado. Two customers in the queue were discussing the Nashville shooting.
They were both in agreement that these tragedies weren’t going to stop as long as the damned libs keep taking away our 2nd Amendment rights. If there had been a good guy with a gun the shooter wouldn’t have stood a chance but liberals would rather see kids dead than allow teachers to be armed.
Those are sentiments I’ve heard many times and it just makes me despair. .2 -
Totally off-topic...
Weegee was also the adopted nickname of one Usher (Arthur) Fellig, a Ukrainian émigré to the USA who became a New York City reporter in the 1930s. Weegee was well known for his crime photography, which bordered on fine art. He was able to scoop many of his rivals by adopting the then novel idea of installing a police radio in his car. No information on whether he had a connection to Glasgow but I suspect the second city of the empire in the 1930's wasn't dissimilar to parts of Ukraine today.
His stuff is worth a look if you're into that sort of thing.
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For me, it was less about "fitting in" and more just being understood. I have a tendancy to speak quickly anyway and it got wearisome having to constantly repeat myself or explain the expression I'd just used. In time, I just got used to using the American pronunciation or expression.
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Is there a term for people from New Zealand? I'm not talking about Maoris specifically, or "kiwis" but just the general term. I'm Thai, you are Chinese, he is South African, they are...from New Zealand?
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Although I was born in Scotland, we moved to Cumbria when I was 2.
Dad was from Falkirk, Mum was a Weegie. (Double whammy) Without being conscious of it, my sisters and I spoke with a Scots accent at home, and a north of England one everywhere else. I've now lived in the USA for longer than I lived in Britain, but still receive regular compliments about my accent. I've been asked if I'm Scottish, English, Irish, Australian, New Zealand and South African (and on one bizarre occasion, Russian). In contrast, most of the British people I meet just think I'm American.
My sisters, 2 nephews and 3 nieces are now scattered around the British Isles and no two of us sound alike.
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3 hours ago, microdave said:
I once worked with someone who thought opinions can't be wrong.
A couple of years ago I foolishly allowed myself to be drawn into an argument on here with a now thankfully departed poster who insisted that “fact” and “opinion” were synonymous.
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You'll notice the people who spout the "a few bad apples" pish never finish the saying.
A phrase I heard after the George Floyd murder summed it all up. "If you have 1,000 good cops and 10 bad cops, and the 1,000 good cops do nothing about the 10 bad cops, then you have 1,010 bad cops.
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"Ah wuz jus' countin' ma willies."
(After being caught having some solitary fun)
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Ah, so you’re talking about music from MY youth Yes, you’re right, music was better then.
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6 hours ago, Bonksy+HisChristianParade said:
Nah I genuinely think music was better back in the day. Look at any festival lineup this summer for example and compare it to historical versions. It was just better.
You realise though, that when you were young, people the age you are now were saying the exact same thing about the music you enjoyed?
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Whether it's every animal on earth living within walking distance of Noah's house, Jonah being swallowed by and living inside a fish, people living for hundreds of years, bushes and animals that talk or 2 1/2 million people wandering around a desert for more than a generation, it's always amusing to watch theists tie themselves into mental knots trying to explain how the whole thing really happened and isn't just a bunch of fairytales made up by nomadic people who didn't know where the sun went at night.
And that's before we even start on the sociopathic behaviour of their loving God.
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Coconut is the devil's dandruff.
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3 minutes ago, Florentine_Pogen said:
I'll see that and raise you Bruce Springsteen, The River tour at Edinburgh Playhouse, March 1981. Pretty sure it was £5.50 for stall seats.
I was going to ask if they went doon the watter but then realised you said Edinburgh not Glasgow, so it doesn't work. FML.
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15 hours ago, GAD said:
Yeah, I always feel when I was younger that stuff was expensive but doing things was much cheaper and I always think of music as a classic example. Bands used to go on tour to help sell records, now they pretty much give the music away to sell very expensive gig tickets. I found a couple of old tickets recently, Sonic Youth 2004 was £14, Bloc Party 2005 at King Tuts £6. A CD of their latest album would have been £10-15 then at least.
Bruce Springsteen, Born in the USA tour at St. James Park, Newcastle, 1985. £7.50.
Christ, I was 22.
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Today's ease of access to music is something I would've loved when I was younger.
Radio 1, (pop) was on Medium Wave, as were Radios Luxembourg and Caroline. The MW signal where I lived was almost non-existant, so they were out. That left the FM stations of Radio 2 (easy listening - my Dad's station of choice) or classical music on Radio 3 and talk on Radio 4. TV gave us Top of the Pops on Thursday, and on the very rare occasions when I was up after my parents, The Old Grey Whistle Test. New Musical Express, which we bought when we were being all pretentious and wanky, was filled with news about bands we'd never heard of. The 1 (one) record shop in my town was staffed by a bored munter barely out of school who knew nothing about music and didn't like teenage boys asking questions about it.
And that was it.
Buying an LP was incredibly stressful. Most of the time, I only knew the name of a band because older boys had scratched the name onto school desks*. An LP cost 2 weeks wages from the milk round. What if I didn't like it? Oh, to be able to pull up something like YouTube or Spotify to check out an artist or band first. And then to look at Wikipedia to learn the history behind the song, or to go on a forum to discuss it with other fans. Heaven.
* The first album I bought using this review method was Pink Floyd's "Wish you Were Here", when I was 13. It's still one of my favourites.
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The high heid yin at Nestlé has already gone on record to say that access to clean, safe drinking water is not a human right and should’nt be free.
Given the power corporations already have over world politics, I see a massive rise in the commodification of resources we currently take for granted.1
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Please tell me it's "Twatt".
Pleeeeeeeze