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coprolite

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  1. That's a big chicken. That's a variant on answering the wrong question. Me "do you need anything from the shop?" Her "I went to the shop on Tuesday"
  2. I don't particularly want Scotland to go independent, but that's a clear mandate for a referendum.
  3. Ignoramuses or ignorami please. I prefer ignorami but both are acceptable.
  4. Was watching Our Man in Havana the other day and John Le Mesurier makes an uncredited appearance as a waiter.
  5. Ben and Holly and Peppa Pig both have John Sparkes in them and are therefore godlike genius. Operation Ouch is quality. Horseshit is generous for paw patrol but Bing truly is the pits, the whiney wee shite. Enjoy it while you can. They'll be watching spoilt Californians on YouTube before you know it.
  6. Phil collins for fucking fucks fucking sake! The correct answer is:
  7. The Scotsman sacked all their sub editors about ten years ago to be replaced by a software template for articles, so no, not really.
  8. "they say a woman's work is never done, maybe that's why they get paid less"
  9. I do my shoplifting in alphabetical order.
  10. I avoided the risk of my wife becoming employed at the same place as me by marrying a workshy shirker.
  11. They got huge loans from the ecb because they don't have their own central bank. Borrowing from your own central bank isn't really borrowing at all. Borrowing from one largely underwritten by a larger neighbour leaves you in thrall to a larger neighbour. Those loans didn't "cause" Greece's problems. But they were a manifestation of the obvious truth that Greece didn't have at its disposal one of the most crucial economic policy levers, control over its money. If Scotland doesn't have an economic crisis then it might not need control over monetary policy as urgently as Greece did. But crises are an inherent feature of capitalism. Something dramatic like going independent could easily trigger one. One of the best arguments for independence is that Scotland's (well, northern Britain's really) economy is out of step with the South's and UK's monetary policy is detrimental. I think it was Eddie George who said that unemployment in the north was a price worth paying for low inflation in the south. With a joint currency, that potential gain from independence is lost. I say again, fiscal autonomy without monetary autonomy is not independence in any meaningful sense. I'd go as far as saying it's lunacy.
  12. Not negatively affected in any way, right....
  13. You remember the Euro area debt crisis where Greece couldn't inflate away its debt or repay it (and fund spending) by issuing drachmas like a country with its own currency could? Then Germany basically told Greece its budget and now has a bankrupt balkan bitch? That. Fiscal autonomy isn't independence in a meaningful sense wthout monetary autonomy.
  14. Must be the gunboats that have been sent to Jersey. Its laughable Engaged by them as in wants to stop them. Stable door etc.
  15. I have an alliterative name. A colleague once told me it sounded like a superhero's name. She quickly corrected herself to clarify that she meant when they're normal and not a superhero.
  16. Mrs Fossil-Shite has said she's voting today, for the first time in her near 5 decades. Brexit and Boris have finally engaged her in politics.
  17. Our GP does appointments for same day callers only. My record number of calls to get through is over 120, to be met with "sorry all appointments are gone now". This can usually be over-ridden by, ahem, "emphasising" the potential seriousness of any symptoms, especially for a small child. They keep 2 hours free for emergency appointments.
  18. I don't think he's that good a poster though. He's very prolific so will inevitably have some hits but most of it's just whining and bitching about other bouffant wearing US political types. If he stays down it will be quite funny through schadenfreude, but if he gets significant influence back it will be less so.
  19. I'm getting a bit fed up of players refusing to rule things out.
  20. Say we were to win our next two games and finish third... I know, i know, just bear with me... And St Mirren win the big cup... And they're still barred for whatever reason... Is the group stage route still on?
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