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Fucking hell, lads. Scotland is a grey area because it's a historical European nation with its own legal system and it increasingly has some of the apparatus of a state. It is not recognised as a sovereign nation but the idea of sovereignty is contestable, especially because Scotland has a tradition preceding 1707 of popular sovereignty (which is generally the norm) and England has a tradition of parliamentary sovereignty, which it insists applies to the whole UK. This then brings us to competing interpretations of the Treaty of Union of 1707. Scots generally regard it as the establishment of a new state between Scotland and England based at Westminster. However, there is a tendency in England to regard the union as effectively an expansionist continuation of the already existing English state.
Malcolm Malcolm's opinion is that the UK is a historical anomaly more like a diminished Austro-Hungarian Empire than any comparable modern nation state. The easiest way to remedy that would theoretically be to establish a modern federal United Kingdom with a profoundly reformed constitution but in reality that is practically impossible, and that is why we remain at a constitutional impasse.
Anyway, when it comes to Britishness Moyes is for some reason a forelock tugging twat.
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46 minutes ago, resk said:
Simon Jordan is a fkin cock.
He is but he was articulating the mainstream opinion about football in Scotland. England as a nation has a massive superiority complex, hence why they didn't seem to see much wrong with having six teams in the failed Super League.
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5 minutes ago, thekorean said:
So I presume this answers how Moysie would vote if there was another referendum.
He wouldn't be permitted to vote because he lives in Preston and in supposedly backward Scotland we don't judge your right to vote on these things based on your ethnicity.
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1 hour ago, Mark Connolly said:
How come these great proposals for integrated leagues always involve keeping the English leagues and slotting everyone else in at random places?
If you want to start a British League, the top division should be the top 5 teams each from the Scottish Premiership, Premier League, Cymru Premier and NIFL Premiership, with that being replicated down the divisions until you want to go regional.
Everyone would find their proper place within a few seasons.
The reason is cultural imperialism or hegemony or anti-Scottish prejudice or whatever you want to call it.
Simon Jordan was rambling on the other day about how the SPFL Premiership is a 'poor league' a couple of sentences after saying he didn't know enough about Rangers to comment on Steven Gerrard. He wasn't challenged on his self-professed ignorance. This is the default opinion of most things here south of the border and the reason stuff like the subject of this thread is so annoying is because this pish gets absorbed and regurgitated by a lot of Scots.
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5 hours ago, Ric said:
And once more, this fucking stupid idea does the rounds..
Not sure if Moyes is a raging unionist, but that quoted text is sycophantic, staunch, forelock-tugging subservience to the Empire.
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56865597
He goes way off script of a cup based competition into rolling all teams into "a greater English league system". What a fucking idiot. Is he entirely unaware that we are not the same country in the same way France isn't Spain, nor Netherlands Germany. He should be proud to be Scottish, yet for some reason that pride is directed at a foreign country.
Moyes is a good lad who does an awful lot of decent work behind the scenes and lives with a lot of humility, but he is also weirdly obsessed with filtering his ideas about football through a nationalistic idea of Britishness.
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3 hours ago, Empty It said:7 hours ago, Malcolm Malcolm said:A teacher in my old school was struck off for shagging a fifth year pupil.
However, three of his colleagues (that I know of) were also predatory shaggers and never met any consequences for their actions, except for one who got divorced.There was a physics teacher at my school who would be a creepy c**t chatting up all the underagers then every year at the 6th year leaving night he'd go home with one of the lassies he'd been perving for years.
The lad from my school who was struck off spent years appealing it, and when that didn't work he spent another couple of years trying to set up a private school in the same area.
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2 hours ago, oaksoft said:
FFS banned for just 3 years?
It's almost impossible to be struck off as a teacher.
A teacher in my old school was struck off for shagging a fifth year pupil.
However, three of his colleagues (that I know of) were also predatory shaggers and never met any consequences for their actions, except for one who got divorced.
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11 hours ago, TheScarf said:
To be fair they're a 5 minute drive to a decent sized retail park with a cinema, restaurants, a gym etc.
That sounds utterly grim. We really need to move away from this pish.
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13 hours ago, GordonS said:
That's a recipe for building a shit city. It seems to me that Highland Council are trying to build East Kilbride on the Moray Firth.
The problem has been going on for years - building sprawling reservations of cul-de-sacs that are a long way form the town centre and with little or no local services, and allowing shops to congregate in only a couple of areas. Those cul-de-sacs are impossible to effectively serve with fast public transport, there's no cycling infrastructure, paths are circuitous and journey times on foot and bike are too long.
Building for cars is luddite stuff now. Those days are gone, and Highland Council have stupidly burdened themselves with a town that will be very hard to fix. What they need to be doing is creating 15 minute neighbourhoods, but they've fkd themselves in so many ways.
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20201214-how-15-minute-cities-will-change-the-way-we-socialise
The housebuilders are a significant part of the problem here. They want cul de sacs with new access roads and new schools all funded by the taxpayer while they walk with taxpayer money through Help To Buy.
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9 hours ago, Tony Ferrino said:
My own mother is as twee as f**k and when talking to young kids she can't say the word "Super" without following it up with duper. She did it throughout my childhood, and that of my kids, to the point where I now can't hear anything else. The last couple of days have been tough.
I have a theory that anything prefixed with the word 'super' is generally anything but.
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1 minute ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said:
Who can forget Inter Miami earning their MLS place on merit?
Beckham is the personification of the problems that have led us to this shitty situation.
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30 minutes ago, Shotgun said:
Did they even take it off road?
If not, why not?
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I'm a bit disappointed the auld duffer's custom made Land Rover hearse didn't lead to a very public and embarrassing mishap TBH.
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Arran Blonde. It can be hit and miss but a good batch is a fantastic brew.
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9 minutes ago, G51 said:
Alan Rough on PLZ tonight said that he didn’t think Glen Kamara’s ban was long enough, and that he thought the leniency of it sent out the wrong message.
The wrong message about what, Alan? How to respond to being racially abused?
Total c**t.
Imagine that was your Da.
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2 hours ago, RandomGuy. said:
At least we know what demographic you fit into, m8.
Meow. Swing and a miss, though.
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8 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
Tbf if you're over 50, and you spend your nights sitting alone at a bar, something has gone wrong somewhere.
It's not the healthiest approach to life to spend it in bars, but there's nothing wrong with a quiet pint or with older men who are single or widowed. Life can throw anything at you. Scottish people are too gossipy and judgemental about this stuff. It reeks a bit of the kirk and social conservatism.
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17 hours ago, The Real Saints said:
I've seen young people do it, yes. Men approaching their 50s? Not so much, with the obvious exception of alcoholics and lost causes who sit alone by the bar. If you don't know your limitations by then, it is clearly an issue. And filming it for people's entertainment is a massive issue.
Lennon has my sympathy and I hope it's not a sign he's in a bad situation, but describing solo pint drinkers as 'lost causes' is surely a bit much.
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4 hours ago, ThatBoyRonaldo said:
Any P&Bers into woodworking? I have taken it up in a very small way over the pandemic, and have built a spice rack and a bench for the garden. Keen to do a bit more although it does look like among other things I'll need to get some kind of power saw which would be a bit of a step up in seriousness(/danger) for me. Also I've no idea how to source small quantities of nice woods beyond the type of thing you'd get in a B&Q or something. Timber yards etc seem like they're just set up for large amounts and aside from anything else it just wouldn't fit in my car. Advice welcome if anyone has any on either topic!
I do a fair bit of amateur joinery without any particularly fancy equipment. My grandfather was a joiner to trade and passed some of it on. Anyway, as Pete has said, if you find the right timber yard it won't be a problem. I use timber yards to get specific wood types cut to size for projects pretty regularly.
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I learned during the pandemic that I hate wallpaper. Removing it should be enough to put anyone off the shite for life. It's hard work and it almost always ages terribly.
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4 hours ago, Otis Blue said:
Yeah, I've always loved a drive west through Greenock to Gourock, cracking scenery especially with the setting sun on a summer's evening. Been up to Lyle Hill (I think) a couple of times too - isn't that the park where there is a "Cross of Lorraine" erected to the Free French during the war or something like that? Great views from up there. Never thought of "fjord like" but its not a bad description.
Yeah, the story of the French warship is pretty sad. There's a decent novel about it by Neal Ascherson called The Death of the Fronsac. I don't think I've ever seen the front of Gourock (and Dunoon) in my lifetime quite like it was last summer. We could do with being better custodians of a lot of places in Scotland.
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16 minutes ago, G51 said:
Any time you can hire the guy who's revolutionized Scottish Rugby and led them to *checks notes* the quarter finals of the Rugby World Cup and fourth place in the Six Nations, you gotta do it
He also wasn't exactly on the ball when the majority of the Hooray Henries decided to dispute the idea that Black Lives Matter.
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Howe is no doubt a capable manager but you'd think Celtic were trying to land Arrigo Sacchi from AC Milan. Celtic would do well to remind themselves of what happened when Owen Coyle snubbed them for Bolton.
I'm also unsure why the media seem to think I should care so much about the purported abilities of Dominic McKay.
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3 hours ago, virginton said:
The west end of Greenock is full of luxurious villas, sprawling boulevards and magnificent fjord-like scenery.
I was just discussing this with a friend at the weekend who was enjoying the sunshine and said scenes while his daughter played with her pals at Battery Park.
A greenie for 'magnificent fjord like scenery' - I'll be stealing that one
. The long summer evenings last year were quite something.
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The Celtic All Seasons thread
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Shane Duffy picked up an awful lot of bad habits very quickly during his time in Scotland.