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Oooft. That's one of the most hypocritical piece of shit clips I've seen in a while which is some going.

Does Aitken just think 'no publicity is bad publicity' and by constantly reading and hearing his name, folk will think he's a great manager?

It was all going so well until you mentioned the colts.

I'm going to try and make an effort to get to a few more 'pyramid' games in and around Edinburgh and the Lothians next season if it doesn't clash with East Fife games. Newtown Park looks like a cracking ground and it'll be interesting to see how good the teams moving over from the juniors are so hopefully I'll get along to one or two Bo'ness games next season.

Pressing on ahead with the LL and pyramid structure before waiting for the Junior administrations to get on board has probably been one of the success stories of Scottish football over recent years. The mad structure of Scottish football was a legacy issue from before anyone involved today was born. It's a bit fucking miserly to use that to have a typical da 'only in Scotland' moan. The juniors have moved across and things will sort themselves out over time. Really, who cares if teams like Edusport and a few of the weaker teams that probably can't sustain being at tier 5 in the long run manage to cling on until things equilibrate?

I miss big JIm. By far the most entertaining leader SLAB has ever had.

Oh yeah, nowhere near the worst. I think I just still expect better from him than most of the other unionists on here. This site does skew so far towards pro-independence that it does seem to affect some of the unionist posters.

Maybe it's because I was a teenager when I joined P&B but I remember HB being a pretty solid poster back in the day. Someone you'd often disagree with but tended to make persuasive, logical arguments. It's kind of sad to see what he's become.

Sounds good. I'd take him.

Trying something new isn't a virtue. I could try brushing my teeth with a blender. That'd be new but also fucking stupid.

People's failure to understand distributions and apply them to real life examples has to be one of the biggest failings of education in the UK recently. The fact that a teacher might put in somewhere approaching 6 hours 'overtime' a night for a limited period of time or the fact that some teachers might do this regularly in no way means that 30-40 hours of extra work per week is anywhere approaching commonplace for the profession. In the same way that a few teachers doing absolutely f**k all extra work doesn't mean that's common or average either. Given that teaching unions (which are very unlikely to be an unbiased source) are reporting around 10 which presumably comes from self reporting (which, again, if anything you'd expect to tend a little bit towards exaggeration) and would suggest that around 10 is a reasonable estimate for the average.

Oh yeah, that is painfully clear. The only saving grace for him is he's too stupid to realise he's the one that's made a arse of himself in a cabinet of morons.

Douglas Ross doing his best HB impression by desperately trying to denigrate the Scottish response to coronavirus compared to England despite all the evidence. Some bois. Does he not have the self-awareness to realise his argument is essentially that the SG have been as gallingly incompetent as Westminster?

Birthday caird pish. The folk who fawn over teachers, nurses, etc as if they're all saints are just as bad as the folk that relentlessly have a go at them all.

I haven't seen the word "meta" used this much since any episode of Community.

Haw, haw, haw... that boy Slaney. Whit's he like eh?

Isn't everyone pretty much on the same path though? It's really just the timings that differ. We're hardly going to do something completely wacky like say everyone in high risk groups must wear blue hats.

Any news on how promotion and relegation will work now that the WoS league is in at tier 6? It could be relatively simple while there's still a chance the SoS champions won't be licensed / eligible but with a decent chance the likes of Dalbeattie and Gretna will be relegated in the coming seasons, a three-way play-off for one spot is surely going to get a bit messy. I'd have thought 2 automatic promotion places should be on the cards now. Could do 2nd place in EoS vs 2nd place in WoS as a two-legged semi finals with the winner of that going on to face the opposite EoS/WoS champion and the champion from the league of the semi-final winner playing the SoS champion. With both finals leading to automatic promotion?

To be fair, I feel like Lincoln sending General Lee that gif of the naked black guy pumping KFC into Ainsley Harriet's grinning mouth would have been appropriate, proportional and hilarious at the conclusion of the American Civil War.

Even though Anton's away. It's encouraging to see such a low squad turnover this summer.

It's a shame because he can come across fairly well in podcast discussions and the like but the never ending stream of shite that seems to come out from him in the media really tarnishes him. He's like Willie Rennie if Willie Rennie ever came across well in interviews.

It's a fair point. But then again, I'm one of the idiots.

100 idiots can all have differing levels of idiocy.

You're a disgraceful bigot IMO. And I'm sure that my saying so has just saved lives.

We'd be pretty jammy to get him right enough.