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    Young people “unable to work” at higher rates than older people

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    2 hours ago, Jives Miguel said:

    No doubt this thread will devolve into incoherent boomer ramblings about Netflix, love island, social media, avocado toast and so on

    You forgot oestrogen in the water supply. And if you think "social media" isn't a significant factor you can stick your red dots up your arse.

    2 hours ago, Richey Edwards said:

    Social media has taken a wrecking ball to the mental health of young people.

    Indeed.

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

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    2 minutes ago, Cedrics Mighty Well Army said:

    But if we'd beaten them you wouldn't have been able to live with yourself.

    Oh, I'd have been delighted, believe me, and I'll still have been smiling at kick off on Wednesday. However, the slow motion capitulation from 3-0 up against Aberdeen was genuinely bad for my mental wellbeing, and I couldn't face a  potential repeat so soon.

    Like many on here I would never bet against my own team, but simply not watching them sometimes has its merits!

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

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    I trialled a new approach today, with some success, whereby I didn't watch the game and completely avoided all score updates and social media. Unlike the LIkely Lads, there was no intention to watch it at any later point.

    On checking the result at 2pm it was of course still a disappointment, and a boot in the baws to find out we'd been ahead, and were still level going in to added time, but like ripping off a plaster it was all over quickly and didn't ruin my whole afternoon/day/weekend.

    I realise this isn't the point of being a supporter, but I'm seriously thinking of extending the experiment to cover the whole season next year. It would have been nice to find out this May that we'd finished tenth on goal difference without having to sit through the whole "record-breaking winless streak" and "re-signing Oli fucking Shaw" sagas.

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    Quick Question Thread

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    10 minutes ago, coprolite said:

    After a close call involving a lack of concentration, absent-mindedness and slightly similar packaging, i wondered if any P&Bers know what the consequence of applying Colgate Whitening to piles may be? 

    "You'll be shocked by this cheap alternative to anal bleaching that big Pharma doesn't want you to know about"

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

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    1 hour ago, joewarkfanclub said:

    Seems to me the beautiful game is well past saving for the ordinary punter.

    53 minutes ago, Handsome_Devil said:

    But this one of the reasons the non-football part of our business - be it community, brand, media, whatever - is so crucial. We're going to have to find something to rally round and keep people attached because as you say, the quality - with the odd exception obviously - is only likely going in one direction.

    I’ve been thinking about this for a while now. For me (and for most fans of most clubs, especially the more, shall we say, mature contingent) supporting your team is rooted in your childhood, and on the long-gone terraces, where year after year you watched legends like Joe Wark. There was continuity, and tradition, and you could identify more readily with the team.

    That love of the club based on mutual history doesn’t change, but almost everything else has, and I wonder at what point more and more people start just saying, “Ah, f**k it, I’m done with this”.

    At least with fan ownership and the regular emails from the Well Society, there’s still a good sense of “belonging” with Motherwell. Could they do more/better? Aye, most probably, but we’re lucky compared to some clubs and I suppose if we can endure fifteen without a win, most of us should be good for few more seasons yet.

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

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    1 hour ago, crazylegsjoe_mfc said:

    In the seasons where we finished 3rd, 2nd and 2nd, really only Steven Saunders and Simon Ramsden had any injuries of note. These days, any time we've a small squad we seem to get injuries by the load. What's changed between then and now? Is it worse physios? Plastic pitches? Is our smaller budget making us go for players with chequered fitness history?

    25 minutes ago, camer0n_mcd said:

    Few folk on twitter saying Montgomery is out for 3 months

    For f**k's actual f**king sake. 

    In all seriousness, can we try just not training for the rest of the season? As an added bonus, it couldn't make our passing (or throw ins, or corners) any worse.

     

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

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    3 minutes ago, MurrayWell said:

    Wonder if it's a Casey style situation, 'We reckon you could do a job here but he's a short-term to start' given he's not played here previously. Protects us and the player. 

    Looks like a potentially good signing. 

    Aye, that would be my guess, especially given he's moving halfway across the world.

    I mean, imagine we gave him a 2 year deal and he turned out to be complete Danzaki-style bobbins. Nuclear level heads gone would ensue.

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