Dons_1988

Get out

Everyone is entitled to their opinion. The problem is some people misconstrue this as 'I am entitled to my opinion and you have no right to offend me by disproving, challenging or telling me I'm talking pish'. If everyone was happy to have their opinions challenged and accept mistakes when it's pointed out to them then we'd have a much more harmonious time of it.

A wind up, surely?

They've actually managed to achieve an even bigger farce in parliament today. Impressive.

Pretty sure he said stupid people. In any case, I couldn't care less if he said stupid woman. He's an absolute boob for giving them some cheap ammunition if he did but jesus a little perspective. Who actually gives a f**k?

It's a her but yes, yes I could

Someone at work is in wearing a Christmas jumper with bells on it.

Can relate a lot to this. You’re on the right track with booze and exercise etc. I’ve always found first 2/3 weeks are hard as f**k but if you push through it the head starts to clear, the weight (for me needed) starts coming down and momentum builds and builds. What gets me through first few weeks is just taking one day at a time, knowing at the end of each day I’ve done the right things and nothing stupid like a beer by myself or something, and that it’s just another step towards the right result. Takes time but it will feel great.

I wonder if David Cameron realises quite what a monumental mess he has caused here.

Totally agree. Couldn't recommend exercise enough as a pick me up or bit of escapism, even if it's just half an hour.

I've considered it definitely. My mental health has definitely improved significantly if I've cut out or significantly reduced the intake, which definitely has made me think if I should just bin it. Prior to the weekend I mentioned I'd had a run of about 10 weeks with only drinking once a week, and so long as I got to the gym or for a run on the Sunday I didn't feel any ill effects on my mental health. In an ideal world I'd like to get to that on a permanent basis. The bad weekend was 3 days in a row and was just horrible to be honest. I still love a beer unfortunately but it wouldn't surprise me if one day I binned it completely. ETA - I signed up to a marathon so that I'm basically committed to not hitting it too hard between now and May, the focus on fitness has been a massive boost to me.

I know you don’t want to engage on it anymore but you deserve called out on this. You’re wrong. You’re very wrong. I realise you’ve had personal experience which I’m sure was very bitter but it doesn’t make your views right. Don’t let your past experience make you so ignorant. Of course there’s an element of personal responsibility and ultimately addicts need to help themselves to get out of it but do not underestimate the power of a mental illness to make people make bad choices. Your view I would guess is held exclusively by people who haven’t experienced it themselves. Anyway others have said everything there is to say but your views are frankly pretty abhorrent.

I don’t agree with your thoughts on addiction/mental health but fair enough for being honest. You aren’t being hypocritical so consider this an apology.

Gascoigne is a different example. He’s assaulted his wife and is currently up on sexual assault charges, along with a long list of other issues. you can’t just blame mental health on that. He does not have my sympathy. Pena has clearly made some bad decisions but are you trying to tell me griffiths hasn’t? According to Rodgers griffiths has had issues for years and only now is getting professional help. Maybe Pena just hasn’t reached that stage yet. I’m going to take a leap of faith and say you don’t know either guy intimately enough to make a judgement on who deserves your sympathy and who deserves mocked.

I can’t say I’m really interested in the who deserves more sympathy argument. I just see two guys with issues who I hope get the help they need. The fact you’ve created a perception of Pena based on a few news stories doesn’t really interest me. If leaving rehab is the worst he’s done then I’m inclined to just offer the guy my sympathies. I’m sure if I wanted to I could reel off some examples of why griffiths is a c**t and doesn’t deserve sympathy. As it happens I just wish him all the best too. Drew is denying double standards and if he can honestly say that his differing approach has nothing to do with one being a Celtic player and one being a rangers player I’ll apologise.

Can’t believe I’m going to say this but....Bennett is right here

Despair at some of the neanderthal views on this kind of thing still held even by my own mates. "How can someone on that much money....blah blah...."

Must be in a bad way if it's forcing him to take time away from football. All the best Leigh.

Indeed. It is very boring that periodically some journalist in Glasgow decides to fart out an article saying "Why don't the diddies at least try and catch up?", particularly after outlining some (but not all) the reasons why that is virtually impossible.

That's such a lazy and pointless article there's no real point dissecting it. But it doesn't even touch on the £30m Celtic receive just for qualifying for the Champions League. What he actually does say is just a boring regurgitation of an age old discussion.

Yeah but he kind of looks like Rory Mcilroy, therefore...

The onus needs to be on the car in the slip road to give way. It's not always possible to move into the right lane if someone is overtaking you at the same time. Saying that, it's shit behaviour not to move over if you can and can actually be pretty dangerous not to.

Maybe I should have been clearer. I don't mean changing our mind alone would be embarrassing, and if it's the right thing to do we should obviously do it. I more meant the entire thing from the moment a referendum was called, 2 years of people running around with their hair on fire to eventually deciding that maybe this is all a bit stupid would be hilarious.