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That's NOT a stand-up comedian. He is the best currently working stand up in the world. Legend.

My mate was a manager at a high street retailer and if they had slow moving stock they put it in a basket and wrote the (same, unreduced) price on a dayglo star. Because it looked like it was on sale old biddies snapped it up.

I think zero tarrifs will be enormously damaging for some producers. Zero tarrifs on cane sugar will almost certainly finish sugar beet producers. For meat products it's a lot less clear. Obviously overseas competitors will become cheaper but fodder fed production should get cheaper if we can import feed at a lower cost. If nothing else comes of this fiasco it will be an excellent experiment for trade theorists.

I am very much looking forward to one of our boats accidentally sinking itself while trying to prevent a 12 footer out of boulogne from landing 20 kilos of flounders.

He's right though. WTO doesn't set tarrifs. It sets rules about Tarrifs which say that all countries need to be treated equally. The uk could set tarrifs at whatever level it chooses and could choose zero on half of all products and 10% on everything else so long as we charge the same to everyone. Except where there's a trade agreement in place. Probably best to make sure you're right before condescending?

I'm impressed with the County boys on this thread. I thought the dons support was getting apathetic but their levels of just not being bothered are off the charts.

Wto doesn't set tarrifs. Countries do. WTO makes rules about administering tarrifs with the main one being the most favoured nation principle, except where there's a proper trade deal. I still have a hope of playing football for Scotland, despite being in my forties, hugely overweight and shite at football. I feel like my hope is still about 100x more plausible than yours. Us among others, of course they did. The EU 's tarrifs on agricultural products are horrifically harmful to some of the lower cost producers across the med. Having zero tarrifs on things like lychees is hardly going to hurt domestic production.

Completely agree. I think that a significant difference is that the SNP set out exactly what they were proposing (fiscal autonomy, monetary union etc) for Scotland. There was no equivalent proposal for Brexit so people were sold many things at the same time. I know some people who voted to leave on the assumption that the Norway model was inevitable and met a few that voted because immigrants.

I suspect that "financial support" will be token and inadequate. Most of the talk has been about us losing export markets in the EU. Very little has been said about the effects of potentially removing the protectionist EU tarrifs. The government has floated the idea of the UK going tarrif free. First year economics says this increases trade and net welfare. But there would be winners and losers. For the aforementioned lamb, removing 12.8%+£2.50/kg from the cost of NZ lamb would make UK production uncompetitive at home. We could protect the Uk production by putting higher tarrifs on all imports than we currently have, so that domestic consumers support domestic producers. But that would be incompatible with trade deals with the exporting countries. There is a very delicate balancing act that requires a neutral assessment of the costs and benefits of every decision. What we'll get in knee jerk protection for totemic industries. Anything high profile and nationalistic will be looked after. Economically significant but unglamorous industries (intermediate chemicals, car parts) will be fucked

I never knew that about Russian prossies. But are they value for money?

Do EPs count as albums? Assuming they do, Dusty Bugs by Opiou is my pick of the year. I'm not up to speed with your modern genre definitions but it's some kind of electro funk and track 4 "why not" is the bounciest thing i've heard in years.

Something about associating Mumford and sons with both napalm and death is really quite appealing.

I can't believe i never knew this before. Although in his sand dancing days he was commonly referred to, round our way, as "suuuuuu-moh-oh"

Are you sure they were all top tier at the time? Dons and Well excluded there's a lot of yo yo there. I just looked up Mixu (player not poster) on wiki because i thought he might be a conteder. Only four sadly, St Mirren in 1st division. Apparently his name's not even Mixu, it's mika-matti. Is wiki full of shit or is this right?

I think Doddsy is on five for the three tayside minnows, the Dons and Rangers (RIP). I'm not sure that St Johnstone were in the top league when he was there, but i think they were because i saw him play; might have been a cup though. Also Partick but chances are they were less than top flight. Law of averages.

Another thread has seen John Stewart being mentioned as a player for several clubs. This got me wondering who has played for the most top division clubs, while they were in the top division. I expect it will be mostly modern mercenaries, and I think Billy Dodds has to be in the running here. So who is it?

If Tony Mowbray is a typical Championship quality manager then any of those guys should be ok.

It's this guy

I can't see that Dave is in the wrong here unless his approach is counterproductive. He has a legal responsibilty to try to get the best outcome for the club's employees, creditors and investors, as well as maybe even their paying customers. If he comes across as an arse doing that, well, he will just have to come across as an arse.

I'm not "some people" though. I think that the concept of "Nation" and therefore the Nation-State should have no place in the future of the world*. Sovereignty for Scotland is equally as nebulous and shite as sovereignty for the UK. I think that Scottish independence would on balance benefit Scotland at this exact moment and probably for the near future. Mainly because the EU is a better Union to be in. But I don't support Scottish Independence mainly through self interest because I live in Wales and it would condemn rUK to Tories more often. *except when it comes to sport where tribalism is required to make it fun.

Yes, but only a handful support Brexit. Largely because they understand the damage it will do.

He's been struggling to get a game when fit so it doesn’t seem like he'll get a new deal. Shame, because he looked promising at first.

Next stop glue factory

I remember this debate sprang up briefly during that stabbing incident in Glasgow recently. Cant recall which thread. There was a debate about how the Police described the stabber. That narrows it down