Archie McSquackle
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Not sure if it's been mentioned but the Motherwell v Dundee United classic cup final from 1991 is on the BBC Scotland channel tonight at 7.15pm. Watch out for John Clark's challenge on Ally Maxwell who plays on with two fractured ribs and a ruptured spleen as there were no goalie substitutes then. Different times.
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Watch out for Rangers renaming themselves as Aardvark Rangers.Just remember that we win the alphabet league every time.1 -
You do realise the 19 part of the name means it originated in 2019? It was very unlikely to be in Scotland that early if that's what you mean though.The wife is convinced me and her had it at the start of the year [emoji85]. I had really bad flu - sore as f**k all over, chest infection, sweating like f**k and severe headaches, as did she. Sorry, but unless it can be proven otherwise, in my eyes covid19 didn't exist in fucking January.0 -
26 minutes ago, Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo said:
It'll all be worth it, just to see Joe McLeod's winning smile.
ETA: Just the final. Disappointing but at least we get to see the ball boy flicking the middle finger. Always a favourite moment of mine.
The ball boy finger gesture (with accompanying broad smile) was after Darren Jackson's goal IIRC. I could never work out if was aimed at the Motherwell or United fans.
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I can't quite make my mind up if he's actually been quite impressive or if he's just Boris's stooge brought out to make the occasional statement on finances.Give it Rishi till the end of the season0 -
Cheers. I knew we were guaranteed top 6 and just assumed Aberdeen were too. Makes sense.
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Early payments are to be made by the SPFL which should hopefully go some way to prevent any club going into administration. Not sure about the logic of the top three clubs getting over double the rest of the premiership are getting (£395k + VAT compared to £157,500 + VAT), particularly in my own club's case (Motherwell) when they're only a point above Aberdeen and both of those have been on the slide recently.
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I see early payments are being made to clubs by the SPFL with the top three being paid £395k + VAT and the rest of the premiership getting £157,500 + VAT. Obviously the early payment is very welcome but it does seem odd the discrepancy between third and fourth when we're only a point above Aberdeen.
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That's them on Radio Scotland now (recorded interview).
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Were you trying to suppress a laugh as you gave her a row? My eldest has being doing my head in all day - you would think putting stuff in the recycling bin was some form of torture. How dare I get in the way of his X-box time!My youngest been a total dick all day but I did admire her put down
”no I’m not tidying up, you go and tidy your ugly face”
Hence large garden box purchased.......!0 -
Supposedly tests in the UK show the virus doesn't survive long on soft surfaces such as paper.I've had a twenty quid note in my wallet for about six weeks now, surely it'll be sound as it's not been out anywhere.0 -
I drove past Firhill on my way home from work yesterday and Kingsley was standing by the side of the road wearing a kilt. He gave a big thumbs-up (which I obviously returned) as I drove past him. Left me fairly bewildered for the rest of my journey home.
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Vaccines are way ahead of normal schedule. Hopefully the first bulk batch will be available in June or July but obviously distribution will be targeted until more supplies allow a general vaccination programme.The options are for the UK seem to be 1) we have waves of lock downs and lessening of restrictions to manage the pressure on hospitals till a vaccine is developed mid next year.
2) A cure is discovered that massively alleviates the risks in the next 6-12 months. And the lock downs are no longer needed.
3) We go on super lock down and trace every case and possible contacts and eliminate the disease in the UK inside about 3 months with very severe restrictions on international travel in and out till the vaccines arrive.
4) (not going to happen) We swallow the death rate.
Two weeks ago the suggestion of London on lockdown would have been laughed at. One clown who posted just above me mocked the idea that SARS CoV 2 was a pandemic 3 weeks ago. Other laughing about it being a bad flu.
This is our lives for the next 12-18 months. Millions will die from this disease. America may be very hard hit but some countries in Africa have perhaps 10% of the population with tuberculosis and others with maybe 20% with HIV.
This is going to get very fucking real for the people least able to get help.
Some c***s were laughing when the first UK case died, "pre-existing conditions" and other comments, hundreds of thousands to millions of our population fit that bill.
This is real. It is not a drill.
Good luck and best wishes to all in Scotland and all who read this. (Actually all P&Bers). Social distancing and good hygiene will help slow the spread and may save the life of someone you love.
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They put pictures of their dead cat on Facebook?My older brother got married a year ago, to a woman he had been with for 17 years.
They separated towards the end of the year and are living apart.
He jumped on Tinder and met some bird from Mexico. They have been talking via video every day for a couple of hours.
She flew in yesterday and is now with him in Dunfermline.
They're going to see my parents on Sunday. They turned 60 (same birthday; indeed born on the same ward just hours apart) at the end of December. My maw is, to be blunt, an alcoholic, and thus has high blood pressure for which she takes some mad tablets. The old man has type 2 diabetes and the resultant high blood pressure, and has been taking a bunch of tablets for years. He was rushed to hospital in December after nearly dying. Turns out he has chronic lymphocytic leukeamia. Daft old dick was feeling shit for days, and maw was telling him to get to the doctors, but he was being a stubborn old tit and it wasn't until he was near death and couldn't get out of bed that he thought he should get to the hospital. 4 blood transfusions later and he was doing pretty good. Saw him on his birthday and he was remarkably well. He had 4 sessions of targeted chemotherapy recently and it has done a lot of good, to the extent that he's pretty mucj back to normal (save for the eventually terminal cancer!). He and the maw were at the Scotland England and Scotland France games (aye, he's a rugby guy and was in the navy, so f**k knows what foul pints he's downed and how many balls he's gargled).
I have declined the invitation to join them on Sunday. Also a bit annoyed at them all for the obvious risk.
My younger brother and his husband likewise declined. They were stranded in Vegas earlier in the week and are being sensible and isolating for a week, even though they both feel fine (although their cat died recently and they were a LOT of pictures and a eulogy on Facebook).0 -
That's me got that bloody Obika / Tequila song stuck in my head again (quite like it to be honest but it takes some shifting).I wake up every morning wondering how Jon Obika's getting on.0 -
Boris specifically said people shouldn't head off to holiday homes from London. Doesn't mean that will stop them I suppose although I don't see the harm if they go there and don't mix with the locals.When Paris locked down people moved out to secondary homes or to be with family elsewhere. Some carried it to places previously untouched by the infection.
One of the troubling aspect is that you don’t know you have it until you feel the symptoms meaning you could be passing it in for up to seven days without even knowing.
The threat of a lockdown in London will result in a similar scenario with people getting out of the city and going to stay with friends and family.0 -
There are a number of companies already started or getting ready to start test vaccines, including here in Scotland. It's a race for the big pharmaceutical companies to develop it as only a few will make it into mass production and they'll make a fortune.
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I was really thrown by the ads on The Terrace podcast about not being loyal to paramilitaries who kneecap people. Bizarre stuff.I often listen to podcasts and think their advertisers are seriously misjudging how often I need to hire staff for things.
And someone mentioned the Gordon Smart interview with Simon Ferry. I'd never heard of him but it was really entertaining and well worth a listen- loads of bonkers stories.0 -
Or the Celtic seethe when the season is declared null and void?Is there someway to calculate the amount of *** seethe when we get handed the title?
Will it be worse than the Hibs, Hampden goading?
There is no easy answer to this but we need to avoid it going to the lawyers.2 -
With all the madness of the last few days that's the most common sense I've heard in a long time.
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Yip. Should have been going to the game tonight. Went to the pub instead with the guys I would have been going with and a few others. All very odd.Just to state the obvious for a sec...
this all feels really weird, eh?1 -
The Premiership clubs should all be safe, I reckon. I take no joy in saying some lower league clubs could struggle with short term cash flow issues. I'd seriously hope that the football or government authorities could come up with some short term loan options.
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I have to admit when the opening post was made I thought it was ridiculous over-reacting nonsense. Shows how quickly things can move in a couple of days and how little I know.
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Assuming the cup doesn't get completed, 3rd and 4th would surely qualify for any Europa League that did go ahead next season.
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Off The Ball - Is it good?
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I heard a bit of it yesterday and talking to Stephen Thompson about "Charlie Miller having a black boaby" must have been a new low.