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  1. 6 hours ago, Wacky said:

    Why do folks sit at traffic lights with their foot on the brake, the high level brake lights blind the folks at the back of you ya feckin arsehole. Use the feckin handbrake and be a bit more considerate, have you never sat behind a ringpiece like yourself and thought “that’s feckin annoying?
     HANDBRAKE! 
     

    My wife does this, sad to say. Her car has "Eco Stop/Start", so when she brakes and stops at the lights the engine turns off. If she lifts her foot off the brake, the engine starts again which she doesn't like, so she keeps her foot on the brake.

    On the rare occasions I drive it, I turn off the Eco feature before setting off. If I forget, I flick on the park brake and just let the engine start again. As Humza Yousaf would say, f**k the Greens!

  2. 16 minutes ago, O'Kelly Isley III said:

    Indeed, but alarmingly most of the media seems to be treating Mr Falter as some sort of brave folk hero standing up to The Lawless Mob and their protectors The Law Itself when the reality is that he was acting like a reckless shit-stirrer, or if you prefer agent provocateur.

    A Google image search might not be the most valid approach, but he doesn't seem to wear that blue kippah (or any kippah) much, except when he's launching himself headfirst into a crowd of pro-Palestinian demonstrators.

    I wonder how outraged he'd have been with the Met if the copper had just let him go, and he'd subsequently had his head kicked in.

  3. 3 minutes ago, DrewDon said:

    I'm a Villa man (been to two games this season), but all proper football men surely respect Chelsea. They aren't really a club you can dislike. 

    Hmm. Living in London in the 80s I went to Stamford Bridge a couple of times. Was stood in the Shed wen they beat Kevin Keegan's Newcastle 4-0, which was funny. However, I also stood in the Shed to watch them play Rangers in a friendly, and they were a bit too friendly, if you catch my drift. Pringle-wearing currants.

  4. 3 minutes ago, kingjoey said:

    I like the bit from Rangers that  "following strong representations from Rangers, supporters who have tickets for Dens Park will be able to attend the game at McDiarmid Park, should it move." As if that wouldn't have happened if Rangers hadn't made "strong representations". Are they possibly quite full of their own self-importance? 

    I have never hoped so much for a Dundee victory, and I suspect I never will again. 

  5. 37 minutes ago, Red Kite said:

    I just caught the highlights and this match sums up the lure of the Scottish game.  One minute, Motherwell are nearly gifting the opposition with a clearance that looks like it is being attempted by someone who has never been on a pitch before (which I assume was down to the conditions).  The next, take a bow Shane Blaney.  Fantastic strike.

    The clearance was also Shane Blaney.

    By "clearance" I mean "inch perfect defence-splitting pass". Luckily for us, the chance fell to Snake Cadden, who fucked it up with his usual aplomb.

  6. Just now, Wellin said:

    None. Given the Dundee result 

    Still 5 games to go of course, but if Shaw scores that we'd be sitting 7th instead of 8th right now. It's hardly Top Six money, but how much is an extra place worth at the end of the season?

    Mind you, by that logic pretty much every last one of our players has cost us a point or three somewhere along the line this season.

  7. 4 hours ago, velo army said:

    Labour politicians buying council houses isn't cool. As Harold Wilson said "Labour is a moral movement or it is nothing". 

    "Right to Buy" has been a contentious subject for the Labour party in England for some time. (It was ended in Scotland in 2016.) The sum involved here is relatively trivial, and it will probably turn out that no rules/laws have actually been broken. However, one aim is to try to paint Rayner as a hypocrite for taking advantage of the scheme to make money, while supporting policies which would prevent anyone else being able to do the same. The longer this dominates the news, the less attention there is on nonsense like Rwanda etc.

    It's desperate deflection tactics from a doomed party, but that's obviously all they've got.

  8. 5 minutes ago, capt_oats said:

    I didn't actually realise there was uproar about the article then I looked at Steelmen.

    Fucking hell.

    I don't normally mind Steelmen, but I've been avoiding it lately because it's going through one of its periodic phases of being dominated by a small number of people who seem to think they have to post every single thought that flits briefly across their minds, usually followed by "It's all about opinions" when anyone sensible points out that they're talking bollocks.

  9. 9 minutes ago, YassinMoutaouakil said:

    POTY votes out now. I mean, it's Spittal obviously, but I'm not having a Hearts w**k as our player of the year, so it's Theo.

    Aye, only one likely winner, but I suspect the votes will be well distributed given the number of worthy contenders. Wouldn't be surprised to see Casey and Miller pick some up, and couldn't grudge Gent getting a few as well.

    If Liam Kelly gets anything >0 this season then the fix is in.

  10. 43 minutes ago, Raidernation said:

    Years of alcohol abuse catching up with me.

    Ah, sorry mate. I don't often stray far from the actual football threads, but should have read back a bit before asking stupid questions.

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