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  1. Salvo Montalbano
    It's quite a weird list. I wouldn't say I'm knowledgeable about Mr Beast, but any videos of his I have seen are reasonably entertaining, he seems quite philanthropic, and he doesn't come out with incel pish, right wing nonsense or conspiracy theories. About the only thing he has in common is a high number of followers on social media (in his case, mostly YouTube).
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    Don't mind the different patterns on the front but the yellow is horrid. I get that the template demands the wee flashes on the hip, but did they have to be so bright, so noticeable, so different from the rest of the kit? And the added "bonus" of the yellow on the shorts? Ghastly. At least the white shorts don't look quite so bad. The away? Very Meh for me. Don't like it, don't hate it.
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    You can buy paper tickets from the wee portacabin in the corner or buy online via our hideously clunky website. Won't be a big crowd in the home end I wouldn't have thought.
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    Helped by having at least two of those questions only a week or so ago... ten.
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    Too young for punk and no idea about SE Asia so an 8 for me in the league. Somehow got a 7 in the Comedy.
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    Can I interest you in an experienced Turkish goalkeeper who, while under contract, I'm sure we'd allow to leave for a minimal fee...?
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    Strange New Worlds is indeed good, and of you don't want to pay for Paramount Plus, Sky and Amazon Prime do a free month trial so you can easily binge watch both series within a month, even if its just one episode a night.
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    Indeed. Ignore me, I must have (and really should have) given up after the first post.
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    He's been champing at the bit to get back apparently. My old man was speaking to Andy Tod, Son of God in Asda the other week. Sadly he was also saying that he doesn't get to many games these days due to his police commitments.
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    If we did have to revamp the Scottish Cup, I'd do only two things: 1. If teams are 2 or more leagues/tiers apart, home advantage automatically goes to the lower ranked team. 2. Replays are in the competition as the default result of a drawn tie, but if both clubs agree then the game can go straight to extra time and kicks from the penalty mark. Would allow for a bit of lattitude around player fatigue and fixture congestion but still allow for replays where at least one club wants it.
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    8, year and poem.
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    I mean, it's entirely possible I suppose. Only being down for a season it's hard to gauge things like that, but when you've been jobbing about the seaside league for FIVE SEASONS I suppose you'll be in a much better position to compare yourselves with the likes of former winners Cove Rangers.
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    Well, this game has captured the imagination so much there isn't even a thread about it. Tells a story I guess. If Kane is fit, we might do something, as all three games so far between the teams have been close - two draws at Tannadice and a narrow United win at EEP courtesy of a late Chris Mochrie winner - but without him we look toothless and a hard fought 0-0 is probably the best we can hope for.
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    I like some Star Trek (3 of the old films, Next Generation, DS9, Enterprise, Picard and Strange New Worlds) and don't like some Star Trek (Original Series, Voyager, Discovery, 3 of the original films and most of the Next Generation and JJ Abrhams films). I like the original Star Wars trilogy, some of the newer films and have never seen any of the "expanded Universe" stuff like Mandalorian or the animated stuff. Think it's more common than you think. Similar can probably be said of Harry Potter, Terry Pratchet, and a few others.
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    League One is poor but this season's division is a lot worse than the one we won IMO. No Dunfermline or Airdrie who were two of the better teams, Edinburgh who had some cracking results last season are a shambles, Queen of the South are somehow taking the crown of worst ever senior team off of our own John Potter inspired jobbers who came 7th, and the only team who are anywhere close to challenging - Hamilton - are so bad that their fans want the manager gone despite being second. Hopefully it lulls Falkirk into a false sense of superiority and they crash and burn next season!
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    Aye we don't score many so have to score first to have any chance really. But we have several good hold up strikers and no finisher, Todd is our of form and Allan seems to be the only player who can take a set piece and he's not playing.
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    Too many games too quickly on his return. He was awful on Tuesday night, the worst I've seen him play since he came into the team.
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    Aye the push, but then... According to the commentary on radio, Vaughan "got a punch away"
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    True.
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    Vaughan lifting his hands and not getting a card? Only going by the radio commentary mind you.
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    I think he also won the popular vote in the one he lost but lost the electoral college? Teddy Roosevelt ran for a third term too - originally he declined to run for a third time and supported Fatty Taft but then they had a falling out and he tried to get nominated, failed, then set up a third party for a run which ultimately failed and let Woodrow Wilson in, IIRC. Of course Teddy's distant cousin Franklin ran four times and won all four, then the amendment was brought in to limit it to two terms. Can't see it being repealed or changed but no doubt the orange one will try if he wins and the Republicans control both houses.
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    Rumours elsewhere that Kane is out for the foreseeable. 2-0 Rovers. Glad I'm not going.
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    I'd say if Airdrie were still the same club (titter) and hadn't been jobbing about for the last decade then there would be a lot more animosity between the two. When we had old First division games against Raith, Falkirk and Airdrie, the games against the Diamonds were properly nasty. Both in terms of the match (heavy tackles, late challenges, mouthing off to theqaq ref/fans) and the carry on in the terraces and round the ground (particularly at Broomfield where you'd often get cars broken into or wing mirrors snapped off since you parked in residential areas that weren't always the nicest and police presence was virtually nil). There was arguably more vitriol at Airdrie games, then Falkirk, then Raith (although Raith always had their sights on us, like with their famous "won't be playing in the UEFA Cup next season" programme notes). I don't mind Airdrie now but I guess if your formative years watching the Pars was during that era, you might still not be a fan.
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    We used to have one of the best grass pitches in the country but a combination of using the undersoil heating, the undersoil heating then breaking and flooding a section of the pitch, playing games in a short space of time to catch up with the games postponed when our USH broke and cut backs to the maintenance budget have meant that at the moment it looks like a tattie field in the Somme during the Great War. Although we'll probably lose, I can almost guarantee that our game today at Stark's Park will be a better spectacle than our recent home games v Arbroath, Ayr and Airdrie. The best game I've seen on TV this season was probably Raith Rovers v Partick Thistle. Good grass pitches will almost always beat an artificial pitch but a good artificial pitch like those in Kirkcaldy and Airdrie will almost always beat a bad grass pitch.
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    First time I ever heard "the wee team" as an insult, or the "you're just a wee team" song was well into the 2000s (I'm pretty sure it was Jason Barber who used the phrase "the wee team along the A92" at an open night around those times) - certainly don't remember anything like that when I stood in the cage in the 90s - so I'm surprised to hear people say it's been "we fucking hate you" since the early 90s. It's always been "we don't even hate you" as far as I've heard it, from the mid 2000s up til about 4 or 5 years ago when the young guys started a singing section in the North Stand when a few started the other version. Maybe I'm wrong and it started earlier than that, but "we don't even hate you" makes so much more sense. Mind you, football fans are idiots. When I lived in Southampton they used to sing "Que Sera, Sera (wash your mouth out son)" and the final line I'd always heard ("Pars are number one") which rhymed with son and gun in the previous lines was supplanted by "and support the Saints" which doesn't rhyme with any other line in the song. Really annoyed me, that did!
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