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#yaldy. Was on the email to Fuerteventura today exploring my cancellation options for December. As an aside I checked flight prices just to see if they were still flying. They were. At £81 return. Doubt they’ll be that now.

I think when you said ‘UK’ you actually meant most of the western world.

I think the problem is more - in the unfortunate event that you house does catch fire - that if you’ve not complied with ‘the law’ then ScotGov have gifted you’re insurance company an immediate get out clause.

Maybe not their original use but reckon I’ve seen these hammered into stone walls on older houses and then wires run through the eyes to form a frame for climbing plants.

I actually did this! (Sort of). There’s a picture somewhere way back in this thread of the big chap that I was fair impressed with. So impressed in fact that I got it blown up and it proudly adorns my office wall at work:

There’s a parable in there somewhere about the wiry witty ginger haired natural inhabitants of Scotland and the pasty faced over-breeding mauraders invading from the south. But I’m not the one going to be making it...

Tittered at the magnanamous concession by the FM that marrying couples now need not wear facemasks during their ceremony. It was probably a fairly futile nod towards infection prevention anyway if they were going to be baws deep for the next 48hrs. (And, yes, for the po-faced here I do also know the masks are also to protect the others in attendance at the ceremony but I'd be expecting them to maintain the 2m distancing so you can put your pitchforks down)

WTaF??!? A grown up on The Rangers thread? Strange times indeed!

Na looking to be fed and watered. Had considered Crieff hydro but it's a bit close tbh. Fone for 1 night but not for 2 IMO Crieff will be ful of COVID riddled weans. Defeats the purpose of a wean free trip Gleneagles or Fairmont St Andrews. Or if you can stomach giving da man your money, Turnberry has some great inresort cash back deals last time I looked.

No-one. It was an ethnic slur. Up to those slurred how much noise they want to make of it but I very much think there are a couple of inhabitants of this thread that are just itching to jump in and claim solidarity as a faux offendee. I have failed in this instance but I do try my best to deny them the oxygen of attention. It is all that they crave.

PnB isn’t as funny as it used to be. Only an opinion rather than being able to back it up with #facts but think that down to posters with more ‘unconventional’ views being quietly euthanised from the forum for posting their closely held beliefs while under the influence of something strong. The only evidence I can muster is the PnB Gold section. Not one new thread has been lodged there in more than two years. 2017 had two, 2016 four and 2015 two. And with odd tickle in between, you’ve then got to go back to 2009 to find 15 (fifteen!) threads considered worthy of Gold status. I think it is now less of a place for society’s outliers and is instead a largely homogenous mass of right on socially responsible do-gooders. Not saying that makes anyone of those a bad person but it lacks, erm, variety. And I do still read regularly. Always in the hope the next L4L, Deeboy, Supras or other will briefly burn brightly before crashing to earth.

Agreed. Stay. f**k knows where PnB’d end up if it starts censoring those that annoy the majority. Probably a big empty echo chamber.

You’re lucky. I’m married to Cathy. (Not really. But near as if no difference).

You get what you pay for. You can make up your own mind from here.

Clackmannanshire the lowest rate of infection in the Central Belt, lower even than Tayside, Aberdeenshire and others; yet we get lumped in with, as we are within, Forth Valley Heath Board. Dressing room lost.

Finally! October and I’ve managed to jump back into the Top 10.

1. Scaramanga was US based and all international criminals are well known to use USD as their currency of choice. I’d say USD. 2. I’d say no VAT. Likely a cash job to avoid the use of bank accounts potentially nosey forensic accountants. 3. I reckon it’s £1m a go because he just doesn’t miss. If he somehow did, I reckon you’d get the second bullet as a BOGOF.

Pretty much this. The original ‘zero Covid’ aim, whether it was official SG policy or just Devi or not, has been proven futile. Now that they’ve dug the economic hole they can’t now just turn round and say ‘back fill it chaps!’ A vaccine has always been a long shot or maybe even an impossibility but is regularly peddled to keep the public’s danders up. What they are doing is trying to mitigate the spread at a manageable rate through the winter and - their guess is as good as mine - hoping the virus will do what every virus does, mutate to expand its reach but weakens as it does so and it’ll dilute into disappearing without any great fanfare.

^^^ great fun at dinner parties.

I see the Bhoys are up early this morning....

The sweetie-wifery in here this evening is off the scale. A poster got banned? Oooohhh!! Never change PnB.

It really is the day for thick, tedious ***s. Congrats on deflecting from the point (maybe clumsily) being made and instead offering nowt but a hollow insult. Your time has not been wasted.

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