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SMG sold a big part of the business (manufacturing A frames) but kept the development business.

I'll believe any old shite if you say it confidently enough.

Good question. Obviously at one end of the spectrum you've got sponsored athletes or uniformed teams who can obviously claim an exemption. At the other end you've got orange duck faces going to the gym long enough to film a tik tok on the treadmill. Sounds like a referral to the status monitoring board.

I almost got a clean sweep. Not a hard worker, dirty or a thief. Well balanced individual imo. they missed: High status- Getting your round in/ getting good cakes for colleagues. Low status- fully coordinated matching Nike outfit.

I’m sure I’ll be happy if I get to 75 or whatever but that’s a long way off. Having t shirts that fully enclose the front of my torso is a far more immediate motivator.

“There’s f**k all I can do, but if I can get some free publicity that would be lovely” said the Minister

That’s one of my two hitherto escapees. One more to go before P&B hates everyone I like. I feel like a Mediterranean Island “don’t be Sicily”

I don’t really remember the film very well but was incensed by the illogical numbering. Should have been Alien III or Aliens II. see also Rambo III. I mean don’t actually see it, that would be horrible, I meant just as another example of the same thing.

If she's paying you rent to cover/ mitigate the mortgage you'll have property income for income tax. You should be able to get relief for the interest part of your payment but only at basic rates. If you are a higher rate payer that will cost you. Might be able to move things between you and your wife? If she's not paying any rent then no problem for income tax.

I like octopus done well but done badly it's horrific. I don't recommend Lidl's tins of octopus in spicy sauce.

I used to work at a chain pub that had staff dress as a character for Kids' parties, in a really hot, uncomfortable big costume with a hard plastic head. One Sunday one of the KPs came in about 2 hours late for his shift. He confided in me that him and his pals had been up all night, he'd had about ten eccies and was having a really rough come down. At about the time he 'd finished telling me this the manager came through asking for someone to go in the suit, so i volunteered him. It was a right wee shite's party that day and he spent about twenty minutes being jumped on, punched and kicked by primary school kids while cold sweating, shaking and generally despairing at the futility of his own existence. Lol.

I don't think the exact terms of the deal were ever made public but what's in the public domain is that the Donalds bought ~£9.5m of debt from BoS for an undisclosed sum, released £6.5m and got £3.5m in shares (presumably worth far less). That's consistent with the Donalds paying £3.5m for the debt, and effectively getting shares for what they put in. At the same time SMG capitalised loans of £4.4m. It's not exactly Milne putting his hand in his pocket but it's a transfer of value out of a company he owns. There's a lot to like about this post but the bolded bit is not accurate. As above, we didn't pay any of our debt "properly". We "paid" our bank debt of £9.5 m with £3.5m of worthless shares and got let off the rest. We "paid" SMG in full, but also with worthless shares. We've probably paid our staff, incuding players, and suppliers though. I've no sympathy for BoS being out of pocket. The main difference between a negotiated settlement and admin is that we stayed in control of the situation.

2014 apparently, after we'd weathered Setanta collapsing, the credit crunch and the worst recession since the depression, started making an operating profit and significantly increased turnover. Dark times.

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We didn’t need our debt paid off to survive. It’s brilliant that it was paid off as it lets us use money for more productive things. But it’s disingenuous to call it a bailout. I wasn’t suggesting that Milne deserves praise for his running of the club , just less hate. Who paid our debts in the early 00s?

Well, i got the name right at least.

We already had a winter break courtesy of the Dens Park Marshes and a little bit of rain. Might give the team a chance to learn how to defend i suppose.

Underrated- braised steak. Slowcooked under onions and wine in the oven for hours, bit of mash or new potato. Xx Cabbage (all kinds) Salad. Stir fry. Roast, steamed, sauteed with bacon. Healthy. Cheap. Delicious. Overrated - Cadbury chocolate. The midway point between decent European recipe chocolates and US waxy sugary commodity. Come at me.

Can't defend the vote structure or the rimming, but "racking up millions in debt" needs context. Rangers debt fuelled stranglehold on the game had just been broken by an increasingly debt fuelled Celtic. Other clubs were ramping up spending beyond their income. Milne didn't go balls out for borrowing in the Setanta years and recognised the need for the debt to be manageable. We didn't go into admin like many smaller clubs (Motherwell, Dundee, Hearts) or die like larger competitors. We weren't relegated like the Embra and Dundee clubs. Structurally, Milne recognised the need to modernise the club and tried things, hiring professional Chief Execs and Directors of Football and gave an AIM listing a shot. I'm not trying to argue that he was a success, just that it could have been much, much worse.

Yes Both were filmed in more than one place, including, in common, the lake at Universal Studios in LA.

Not directly. It's probably a significant hit to the local economy but not all jobs affected are in the North East. They're not a sponsor or a loan creditor. Maybe they take hospitality? We do have loans from directors (accounts definitely say directors and not their companies) but I'd assume they're mostly from Cormack and Milne shouldn't be directly personally affected in any case. It's not good news in any way though.

Andrew Tate. God knows how he got famous but was known for being sexist on Love Island (i was told by youngsters at work, honest). Maybe he got famous through that but that’s a celeb thing isn’t it?

Devil’s advocate: if there’s higher capacity and Lower cost in a centralised (probably city) location then why shouldn’t that be exploited to increase the overall capacity and efficiency of the system. In theory?

Bring back the olden days when you had to be friends with minor aristocracy and get in the tabloid “society“ diaries to get a “celebrity” gig. Or at least get them out for the sun “readers”.

I’m going to have to accept that I’m shit at this game