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I see Howard from the Halifax adverts has released an anti-woke song for some reason.
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Silly little club. Silly little fans. Silly little players. Silly little stadium. Get out.
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22 minutes ago, Alert Mongoose said:
Has there ever been a game where both teams fielded an ineligible player?
There was a game in England a few years back where both teams fielded ineligible players and so both lost the same game 3-0!
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55 minutes ago, 101 said:
James English going for it now.
Infant anyone paying to be verified on twitter is almost certainly on the journey to melting their brain.
Was his brain ever not porridge?
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It's funny you should mention this. I too have listened to the Terrace regularly for quite a long time but I'm really starting to find it a slog now. I still really enjoy the lower league ones as they both seem to bounce off each other quite well but there's been times with the regular podcast that I'm asking myself why I'm listening to it. There's one person on the podcast who I just cannot take to whatsoever.
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1 hour ago, welshbairn said:
I'm sure Hunter S Thompson wrote a piece not long before he died about a girl who accepted a lift from somebody who ended up stopping at a store and robbing it, and shooting somebody. She was done for murder. Can't find any trace of it though.
Was it not Dog the Bounty Hunter? He was sitting in a car outside somewhere when someone got out and went into a building and ended up shooting someone or something.
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8 hours ago, Genuine Hibs Fan said:
I was thinking about this when the thread first started and can't now remember the example I had but for me it's if the abuse or more wild views etc are prevalent/wrapped in the creation of the art that decides the separate the art from the artist question. And less so on views, I doubt Clint Eastwood and I have many similar opinions but some of his films, like Richard Jewell, have something really interesting to say about the US that a non conservative would struggle to make.
It’s not so much that people have politics you disagree with but enjoy what they do. It’s more that when you became a fan (or earlier in their careers) they’d at least come across as relatively sane and then had a change later on or at least changed in our own eyes. Maybe Graham Linehan always hated trans people and it only became clear later. The difference with Clint Eastwood is that it’s been well known that he’s been conservative for probably his whole career - he was even a Republican mayor at one point.
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Another I’d forgotten about - Iain MacWhirter. He’d be a prominent journalist and pundit for years and I remember really enjoying his stuff during the independence referendum. He’s another one though who seems to have slowly gone a bit bonkers.
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I know some people talk about not separating the art from the artist but I actually find watching Father Ted quite sad now given how repulsive Linehan has become, especially given Dermot Morgan is no longer with us.
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Technically McAlear is more than good enough for this level - he's capable of some great stuff from range and his general touch and link-up play is pretty good. He has a very bad habit of going missing for long periods though.
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Was it Naomi Wolf who said that walking around Belfast was nice and peaceful like in the 70s because it didn’t have 5G?
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It was on P&B that I first got wind that Neil Oliver wasn’t very pleasant and this was long before he was on GB News. I remember being quite surprised he was a unionist and saying he was “proud of Britain” during the referendum but didn’t think much more about it, then someone on here posted that they’d witnessed him being really rude to some old women once which I thought seemed quite poor.
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1 hour ago, Central Belt Caley said:
I would expect him to be at our games to identify what players aren’t up to the required standard. Him and Gardiner can both beat it as far as I’m concerned
I remember Derek Rae once saying that in Spain it’s not unusual for the Director of Football to be in the dugout. I don’t necessarily see a problem with him not attending every one of our games, especially if he’s scouting new players or our league opposition but it doesn’t seem like that’s what he’s doing.
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Matt Le Tissier’s Wikipedia page makes for particularly grim reading. In the last three years he has amongst others refused to wear a Black Lives Matter badge and criticised taking the knee, fallen down a complete Covid-conspiracy rabbit hole and compared wearing a mask to the Holocaust, claimed that the media was lying about the Bucha Massacre and questioned whether Christian Eriksen collapsed as a result of the Covid vaccine. It later turned out that Eriksen was not vaccinated.
He was a well liked figure for years, was a pundit on Sky Sports until 2020 and an ambassador for Southampton but seems to have thrown it all away after completely going off the edge during the pandemic.
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Whenever these videos come out I always wonder about the incidents we never heard of and were never caught on film.
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I haven't been to Kaunas but I have been to Vilnius. I've heard Kaunas is more industrial so can't really comment but Vilnius is very nice - lots of nice architecture and old buildings along wee cobbled streets. I went to Uzupis when I was there and had a look - they declared independence in the 90s and no-one is still sure whether or not they're serious! It's a bit like Christiania in Copenhagen but without the drugs and the weird atmosphere.
I also walked from the city centre to the TV Tower which was quite interesting. Went to the revolving restaurant at the top and the food was lovely with great views (could see Belarus in the distance I think). Walking there through a Lithuanian forest on the way there and back to the bus station via a Soviet Bloc housing estate as the sun was setting wasn't quite how I'd expected to spend my evening but it was quite an experience.
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1 hour ago, jagfox said:
Jim Spence? Seemed alright on the radio/ telly but when he got binned/ left the BBC he went quite strange.
31 minutes ago, invergowrie arab said:Jim Spence deserves his own thread. A deeply unlikeable man who everyone in Dundee hates.
It was fine when it was just all "eh mind o thon shoe shop in the Overgate" shite but he really has taken badly to irrelevance.
He genuinely seems to hate people who don't want to listen to him eg young people, the BBC and the SNP leadership.
A real life Partridge character.
The university couldn't get rid of him quick enough once they realised their mistake.
Also posts once a day he was a law lecturer but doesn't mention it was specific college modules.
Jim Spence is like Dundee's answer to Matt Taibbi or Glenn Greenwald. Previously a respected journalist who slowly but surely seemed to get sucked in by conspiracies and a weird underworld of paranoia while still claiming to be left wing but are actually much closer to the far right.
57 minutes ago, HTG said:Ian Botham. Brilliant cricketer of his generation, loved a quaff and a smoke ... ardent brexiteer and Boris Johnson's trade envoy to Australia (because he's obviously well qualified for that role). According to Wiki, he also came out with the line:
"Personally, I think that England is an island. I think that England should be England. And I think that we should keep that."
There are some challenges attached to that line about England but I'll assume he sees Scotland as a chattel. He can get fucked.
The correlation between being a Brexiteer and an ill-informed moron is very high.
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Philip Roberts seem to have the same trajectory with every club he went to. He started really well with us and then after three or four games, just gave up. Same thing happened with Falkirk and Dundee. Every now and then he'd have a wee flash of brilliance but they'd he'd go back to generally being a passenger.
I see he's recently left Farnham Town in the Combined Counties League Premier Division South - the ninth tier of English football. They were his eighth club since leaving Dartford in 2009!
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Had we kept Ebbe on for the following season he might’ve come good - he did have a bit of drive about him - but he was never going to get a proper chance and it certainly wasn’t the time to be throwing him in.
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11 minutes ago, RiG said:
Nah I don't think he did. He was just a ridiculous signing all round though. And yes Kink was a letdown. He got a mention too if I mind right.
Yeah he did. One who didn't get a mention was Alex MacDonald in 2011 - he was signed on loan from Burnley, only scored once and was generally not very good. He does seem to have forged out a good career down south though.
I don't think Dean Ebbe got a mention either. He wasn't a bad player but when you're staring relegation in the face I'm not sure a young inexperienced striker from the Irish third tier is really the player we should've been looking at.
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Remember when JK Rowling was a humble children's author with some reasonably middle-of-the road pro-Labour Party views before coming a diehard TERF? Remember when Matt Le Tissier was a cult hero penalty taker and pundit before becoming an anti-vax podcaster? Remember when Jim Spence wasn't far right?
Sure you do! So what happened? Time moving on? Spending too much time online during Covid and getting stuck down some Qanon rabbit holes? Or were they always lunatics and we didn't realise? Perhaps we could discuss some here and how it impacts you're enjoyment of whatever they used to do.
Have any PnBers gotten a Covid vaccine and now believe the Earth is flat? Have PnBers had any friends that were previously normal before turning bonkers in the last couple of years? Were any PnBers fans of someone but can no longer enjoy their music or writing due to their pro-Putin, moon landing truther opinions?
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3 hours ago, RiG said:
Cheers mate. It was myself who went for Gnapka. We must have missed a load of others as well TBH but ones like Byrne and Gnapka stood out for me.
I don't think Byrne ever actually played for us - he was signed because he was friends with Brewster and then turned up on the bench a couple of times. Tarmo Kink was perhaps the most disappointing. He came with a pretty decent pedigree and just wasn't interested.
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The Darvel manager's interview -
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Their Brains Have Turned To Porridge!
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Sometime told me ages ago that they’d served him in a hotel in Edinburgh once and he was deeply unpleasant.