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  1. 1 minute ago, Nature Boy said:

    Alienating your own supporters through utter embarrassment for a sake of a video that's not remotely good enough to have the desired impact abroad.

    Excerpt from Jim McMahon's email:

    We have worked with Scotland’s leading advertising agency to produce this 90-second video, featuring players and fans, which we hope strikes the right balance of authenticity, quirkiness and humour. It’s most definitely tongue in cheek. To give us the best chance of success, we need to get this viewed as widely as possible.

    We will use a number of different channels to do this but can I also ask that you share this with as many of your friends and contacts as you can

    Got no friends left now, Jim, sorry.

  2. 58 minutes ago, rowsdower said:

    What surprises me the most is that he licks his lips like a lizard alien in a human suit.

    Spookily, I was re-reading one of the early "Bosch" books last night, which explained that frequent licking of the lips is a sign that customs teams use to pick out possible mules who are smuggling drugs packed into condoms which they've swallowed and/or inserted.  It's a side effect of the large quantity of anti-diarrhetic drugs they take to ensure they don't make an early exit.

    I'm sure this is just a coincidence. 

  3. 17 minutes ago, Molotov said:

    Are they deliberately making a point here regarding spelling of “learning” and “equality”? 

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    They can't even fall back on that traditional refuge of the thick, graphic design. Even Father Dougal could knock up a better looking sign.

  4. I saw Ardal O'Hanlan do stand up a few years ago and it was pretty dismal, not least because he'd reached the age where a large part of his routine was a woefully unoriginal and contrived take on becoming a parent. (See also Michael McIntyre, John Bishop etc. etc. etc.)

    On the subject of people who should have stuck to Father Ted / sitcoms, I'm surprised there's been no mention of Graham Linehan. Controversy aside, that man is never a stand up comedian.

  5. 36 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

    Heroes are the only tub of chocolate where everything in it is good. Eclairs and "Dinky Deckers" are comfortably at the bottom but still passable.

    A year or two back (they were still foil wrapped in those halcyon days) one of my kids gave me a "customised" tin of Quality Street containing just my favourite strawberry creams and orange creams, which seemed like a great idea until I got about a third of the way through. Who knew too much of a good thing could make you feel sick?

  6. 40 minutes ago, 19QOS19 said:

    Haven't seen Sadowitz yet but he's definitely one I'd like to go and see. Particularly as you can't find anything on him in clips! 

    "Mother Teresa - what a c**t!" As opening lines go, that's hard to top. 

    The last time I saw him was in Glasgow in 2017. (I remember that trip very fondly, because I also took in Motherwell battering Rangers in the semi-final  at Hampden the next day.) It was not long after the Grenfell Tower fire, and even though you expect (nay, hope)to be a bit shocked by Sadowitz, I sat in actual open mouthed  disbelief at that bit. As best as I could tell, though, nobody walked out.

     

  7. 1 hour ago, 2426255 said:

    The Ross County fans who ventured into this thread, who presumably know him best, were in general agreement with me. I trust their judgement more than opposition fans like yourself.

    I wonder how many logical fallacies these two brief sentences contain. 

    Ironically, you were camped out in the Motherwell thread recently insisting that your thoughts on the Kettlewell situation had more weight than theirs.

  8. 1 minute ago, 54_and_counting said:

    I think for me it's actually reacher

    That's true to the books too. He's an award-winning sniper and an expert with small arms as well. Maybe the fact that they jumped so many books isn't helping.

    Spoiler

    I'm also not convinced that Dixon should be quite so adept at kicking the shit out of armed assassins either. She's an accountant, for f**k's sake 😉

     

  9. 13 minutes ago, 54_and_counting said:

    Season 1 was good fun, season 2 has started well and im enjoying it but something feels "off" i cant put my finger on it, just feels like something isn't right 

    I know what you mean. Season 1 was as good an adaptation of the book as it was possible to get, and it's hard to see how it could have been improved. I'm enjoying season 2 as well so far, don't get me wrong, but some of the characters just don't seem quite right, in particular the New York cop.

  10. 5 minutes ago, Busta Nut said:

    Sounds like you dragged yer balls across the Fir Park turf in May 1991.

    Wife was 6 months pregnant, and not best impressed at being told to get her arse over the wall and on to the pitch.

    She was even less impressed when I came back several months later with a birth certificate I'd faked up at work with the names "Alistair Luc Christopher Craig Thomas Ian James Phillip David Ian Douglas Colin Stephen" 🤣

  11. 1 hour ago, Handsome_Devil said:

    It'll be matches two and three for my kids, a perverse part of me hopes it's an absolute fucking misery which ends in a hail of boos and protests.

    You know, separate the men (and women) from the (six-year-old) boys and (four-year-old) girls. Show them what it's all about early kind of thing.

    Never did me any harm. Oh.

    The first game my son remembers was against Celtic at Fir Park. Lee McCulloch scored the equaliser with a header up the other end in a 1-1 draw. but the bit he remembers most vividly was that Celtic clearly had the ball over the line right in front of us shortly afterwards but it wasn't given. He still laughs about it to this day.

    PS Technically he was on the hallowed turf when the cup came back to Fir Park after the '91 final, but as he would not actually be born for another few months he has no recollection of it. It was, however, the first thing I told him about within moments of the birth.

    These are the memories that keep me warm in these troubled times. My poor wife, less so.

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