Aim Here

It's highly plausible that it was a monetary motive, but that doesn't mean that his money troubles came from fiddling the petty cash at work. Maybe this was him getting a bit too deep into cocaine, or blackjack, or Candy Crush Saga.

I dunno. I don't think that's what this is about. Here, an apparently wealthy 40-odd year old man went over to his parents house, had lunch with them, and then took the opportunity to blow his brains out in their garden shed for them to find and clean up afterwards. An 'oh shit I'm about to be caught' financial suicide would either be a kill-your-wife-and-kids-first affair if he had a suitably demented patriarchical value system or a more subdued solitary suicide. Or a John Stonehouse/Reggie Perrin vanishing act. This looks more like he had some sort of familial grudge with his own parents.

There's a pretty fair chance that there's one on the Tynecastle pitch after an Edinburgh derby.

The way it works when you leave your northerly barbarian wilderness is that in civilization we usually exchange something called 'money' for goods and services. However, if you're used to the matchday fare from Dingwall, it may come as an unpleasant culture shock when you first bite into what is sometimes alleged to be a 'pie' in Easter Road. I'd recommend avoiding it and sampling wares from one of the many fine establishments elsewhere in the city instead.

Of course. As with the airpod-hurling, we can just chalk it up to the gentrification of Leith.

Cup result AH13STU got himself on the front foot for most of the game, but I manage to swap off all the pieces and he makes a one-move mistake in the King pawn endgame. AimHere beats AH13STU by resignation.

I think it's clear that it's not sectarianism but just the age-old SFA conspiracy against <whatever team I happen to support> that's in operation here.

Based purely on personal experience, the one time I was in the home end at Central Park (as a neutral watching them play Queen's Park), the Cowdenbeath fans were permanently raging throughout a game when they were *winning*, right up until the last two or three minutes, when the rage subsided a little. The players and manager were seething too (manager was carded and one of the players was hooked for violent conduct). It's an angry wee corner of Fife, for sure.

Division A Final Results With the final result played, we now have the table for Division A Division A P W D L Pts ancientnoise 22 19 3 0 60 DearyMe 22 19 2 1 59 The_Curmudgeon 22 16 2 4 50 AimHere 22 16 0 6 48 stewartmathers 22 11 1 10 34 Arabjoe 22 8 3 11 27 AH13STU 22 6 3 13 21 KenDeans 22 6 3 13 21 invergowrie 22 5 4 13 19 AlbinoRov 22 5 2 15 17 beef2711 22 4 2 16 14 The_kid1433 22 3 3 16 12 It went right down to the wire this season, with @ancientnoise claiming a draw against DearyMe / @Trogdor in the second-last game to finish, and put himself top. Congratulations to @ancientnoise, the winner of Pie and Bovril Chess League Season 9 in an unbeaten season. At the other end, @D Angelo Barksdale/beef2711 and @the tungston weasel/the_kid1433 are pencilled in for relegation, notwithstanding league restructuring; @Albino Rover escapes the drop thanks to his playoff win against @mathematics. They'll be replaced by @pleslie99 and @Caro-Kann , the latter of whom looks like they might be a contender for this season. Congratulations to Ancientnoise, a worthy winner, and thanks to all the players for an easy-to-administer season, and I hope to see you all next time round. -- Talking of which, I have a reasonable amount of signups for next season, there's still room for more. Anyone new to the league, or returning from previous seasons is more than welcome to join in. In particular, I've not had any response from the following as to whether they're in or out this season: @Trogdor @the tungston weasel @SweeperDee @Frank Grimes @Leicesterlichtie @HulltoonDee @free beer

I thought he was a bit carp meself.

What's the adjudication on 'Sudden Death Syndrome'? Is that a natural cause or not?

Can do. What's your chess.com username?

Division A Table and Outstanding Results Division A P W D L Pts ancientnoise 21 19 2 0 59 DearyMe 21 19 1 1 58 The_Curmudgeon 22 16 2 4 50 AimHere 22 16 0 6 48 stewartmathers 21 11 0 10 33 Arabjoe 22 8 3 11 27 KenDeans 22 6 3 13 21 AH13STU 21 6 2 13 20 invergowrie 22 5 4 13 19 AlbinoRov 22 5 2 15 17 beef2711 22 4 2 16 14 The_kid1433 22 3 3 16 12 Just two results left to come in: 21 DearyMe vs ancientnoise 22 AH13STU vs stewartmathers The title is going right down to the wire this season, with the result of DearyMe vs ancientnoise deciding the winner. At the other end of the table, we now know the playoff contenders, @Albino Rover / @mathematics The rules for the playoff are that the lower league contender plays white and must win to get promotion; a draw isn't enough, so the match is PnBmathematics vs AlbinoRov. As well as the playoff, I'm taking signups for next season. Anyone wanting to play more league chess please indicate as much in the comments. @HulltoonDee already indicated an interest in joining so I'm penciling them in already, unless otherwise advised.

Why would ancient Hibernians (or Caledonians for that matter) be speaking Latin?

That was the league result? Maybe it's about time you got your cup game started.

Rangers-Aberdeen thread for this well-reasoned and entirely justified sentiment.

Speaking of mistakes, Lolls and pub car king have the same two hits, and should be on the same score, which by my reckoning is 238.

Division A Table and Outstanding Fixtures Division A P W D L Pts DearyMe 21 19 1 1 58 ancientnoise 20 18 2 0 56 AimHere 22 16 0 6 48 The_Curmudgeon 22 15 2 5 47 stewartmathers 21 11 0 10 33 Arabjoe 22 8 3 11 27 KenDeans 20 7 2 11 23 AH13STU 19 6 1 12 19 invergowrie 22 5 4 13 19 AlbinoRov 21 4 2 15 14 beef2711 22 4 2 16 14 The_kid1433 22 3 3 16 12 I did have to fish another result out of the chess.com gamelist, a draw between the_kid1433 and AH13STU, so if that wasn't a league match, please correct me There are five matches still to complete, all in progress, as far as I can tell, with stuff to play for at both ends of the table (if AlbinoRov doesn't get a result against AH13STU, the head-to-head results suggest that beef2711 gets the playoff spot) 14 AlbinoRov vs AH13STU 21 DearyMe vs ancientnoise 21 KenDeans vs AH13STU 22 ancientnoise vs KenDeans 22 AH13STU vs stewartmathers Results and calculations are on the spreadsheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YwODlp2A0TBMf2VuyjJox4ZaiyNKmLk37TH0_HrC-jk/

As far as positives go, I'm just grateful Hibs didn't join the ranks of the tiny select few teams that James Scott has ever managed to score against. Kudos to St Mirren for hooking him before that happened.

Looking at chess.com, it seems that the reason is that the engine thinks that otherwise, black has a small advantage. So a draw is in your favour. So after Qxh7 Nxh7 Bxh7 Kh8 then you can force a repetition draw by moving that bishop to and from h7. So this is really just machines being machines. Most people wouldn't be at the level where they could reliably evaluate this position as being very slightly black-favoured, so don't feel too bad!

Is it not the case that we replaced McKirdy, who didn't do much of anything, with the 18-year old? We replaced Doidge with that guy who scored the second goal against Killie a few days back.

That's McKirdy dropped off the same place we picked him up from, same as Doidge.

Absolutely. The traditional Leith hospitality to visitors is famed the world over.

Did he score a hat trick?