KingRocketman II
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17 hours ago, LuboMoravcik said:
Block an ignore. He'll only feed off any engagement he gets.
oooft. He is gonna be reeling from that.
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2 hours ago, RawB93 said:
Love folk who offer to buy rounds.
Unfortunately for you, you don't realise I'm not playing "rounds" and this is actually just a free drink from someone I probably wasn't even going to say hello to.
Enjoy your night, mate.
"playing rounds" or as normal people term it - simply buying someone back a drink who bought you one.
Some folks devote real time and energy to avoid having to buy anyone a drink or making a tenner stretch (and not through lack of funds) - whether it is opportune disappearances or avoiding eye contact,, making sure never up at the bar first in entering the pub, nursing drinks, boring or stalking partial strangers to see if can illicit drinks etc etc. Must be exhausting and pretty miserable.
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On a work course and we were each given a £30 voucher to use in the adjacent restaurant to cover dinner. I wasn't too keen on the food and only ordered some sides and a drink. A colleague at our round table (though not sat within direct talking distance), was clearly seeking maximum return on his voucher. We went up to pay/hand in our voucher at the till at the end and he had slightly miscalculated and his came to £30.72. After clarifying some final individual costs with the woman on the till, he turned to me behind him and (oddly) aware of what I had ordered, asked if I could extend some of my remaining voucher balance towards his additional costs ie 72p. I laughed and said why don't you just pay the pound and he said "it hopefully will not have to come to that" - suggesting that he had a few more options to apply if I refused or the woman said that what he was proposing was not possible.
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8 minutes ago, Ooooft. said:
Hello, mate.
howdy.
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you know you have come in at the sharp end of the thread when "mate" is getting thrown about so freely......
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On 30/03/2024 at 21:58, Jacky1990 said:
If Drogba was always considerd the ultimate big game, clutch player, Harry Kane isnthe complete opposite.
Proper spaced jammed in anything resembling a big match.
This is the type of comment that a stranger beside me in a busy pub makes in my direction, where I invariably nod in agreement and say "aye" but have no idea what they mean or what they are saying.
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1 hour ago, GHF-23 said:
I think we can broadly agree that Twitter has been a net bad for politics but I'd particularly like to meet the media strategist who seems to have told every politician in recent years that their reaction to pretty minor things they don't like should be to pretend they are pissing and shitting themselves with fear or rage. They've all become the equivalent of people who phone call centres and describe not getting exactly what they want as disgusting or a scam.
....or a trivial or minor alteration to something as a "disaster waiting to happen".
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16 hours ago, Ewanandmoreagain said:
Was it not something like Roxburgh , allegedly , saying he knew something that would , allegedly , put Gough on the front pages rather than the back ?
yeh that was it exactly - though think it was Brown who actually said that, pretty much verbatim. And when Brown said that about Gough, who was with Rangers at the time, a few red-tops were coincidentally looking into stories about unsavoury and potentially inappropriate behaviour of a Scottish Prem player. This leaked - though the stories didn't get published until a few years later - and everyone assumed the player in question was Gough on account of what Brown said. However the player in question was actually Justin Fashanu who was with Hearts or Hamilton I think at the time.....
Brown didn't divulge what his Gough front page story was though.....
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33 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said:
Even the theme music was dreadful. The aural equivalent of a twee hippie skipping through a meadow while throwing daisies in the air.
ETA...it's spelled MacAulay.
He always emphasised that his name has "all the As".
Probably regarded that as one of his best punchlines. A Krusty equivalent of pulling out the big guns if losing/lost the crowd.....
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On 27/03/2024 at 20:20, Mark Connolly said:
TBF, I quite like MacAuley, and I reckon he'll be suited to the sit down conversational style.
The mid-morning magazine style show that MacAuley hosted on Radio Scotland for years was unbelievably turgid and painfully bland. I used to have it on when working from home and I don't think Macauley ever said something that could be considered mildly amusing never mind outright funny. I still listened to Radio Scotland every morning, mind you - contributing to his listener numbers and perhaps maintaining his slot. When I was told a few years later that he was a comedian "by trade" and did stand-up I genuinely thought I was getting the pish ripped out me. Still don't believe it.
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I believe I recall exactly how the Richard Gough rumour started. It was actually Craig Brown who offered clarification and refuted it. Still don't know why Brown never picked up for Scotland though I think that harbours back to Gough's dressing room attitude and behaviour when Roxburgh was the manager and Brown was no2.
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On 29/03/2024 at 22:21, scottsdad said:
The Next Generation and Picard.
referenced in Voyager Season 3.
And incidentally what a wasted opportunity not to have Moriarty as the main enemy throughout Picard Season 3!
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2 hours ago, welldaft said:
Like I said before if you want something to happen you have to make it happen. If people want to ridicule that point then fine. But it is essentially true. Red dots or not.
I am a 42 year old project manager with a degree in history/politics. I have always dreamt of being an astronaut (or cosmonaut/taikonaut/spationaut) and spending a year on the ISS. How do you suggest I make this happen?
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4 hours ago, welldaft said:
BOLLOX. In life if u want something you cannot sit around waiting.
Nothing I have ever done positively came from me waiting.
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2 hours ago, Bing.McCrosby said:
Hardly worth mentioning imo
as it doesn't fit your narrative, sure.
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9 hours ago, Fifespud said:
Haven’t read the thread so apologies if this has been said but given the predicament we are in I think McTominay is worth a punt up top. Started his career there, works his arse off, has a physical presence and has a real eye for a goal, instinctive even. Ordinarily I wouldn’t suggest it but we have a surplus of midfielders and Dykes and Adams are bang average (at best).
this has been debunked.
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5 hours ago, ekok said:
No chance you are getting off the hook,
So you don't like/understand, set pieces, tactics or the use of bold
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1 hour ago, ekok said:
OK so enlighten me , what was that set up about ? Will gladly learn something that I am missing
I was highlighting your assessment that MacPhee was an "imposter" - in what way?
To add, that at the end of last year, and including Euro 2024 qualifiers, Scotland had scored 12 goals (from something like 18 games) from set pieces. This was directly attributed to MacPhee and what he brought to the team. He was also kept on at Villa for his set piece work and his wider work with the first team.
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6 hours ago, ekok said:
Last point wtf was that imposter MacPhee doing warming up starting back 4 before game with running with ball in hand towards players for them to touch with hand , he retreats and repeats with next player. Utterly bizarre and like a pre school nursery game gone wrong .
you don't like to bother yerself too much with boring stuff like tactics or set-pieces, I guess.
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24 minutes ago, Bing.McCrosby said:
Well I did say I must be missing them, I dont go thru every page!
1 hour ago, KingRocketman II said:this took a 2 min skim and just a flavour I Imagine.
So you now agree there were some pretty wild takes. Got there in the end.
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4 hours ago, Bing.McCrosby said:
I must be missing all these wild takes? Im not sure there's been much of a reaction tbh. Its kind of expected a bit of criticism losing at home to N Ireland no?
21 hours ago, Quentin Taranbino said:Only a friendly but very worrying and one of my lowest points as a Scotland fan in recent years
22 hours ago, Elixir said:That dour fraud getting his just deserts for his Southgate loyalty syndrome. Losing at home to the failed statelet, worst run of form for 20 years, out of ideas, and the feel good factor long gone. Yeah, see ya.
22 hours ago, Highlandmagar said:Clueless Clarke.
22 hours ago, SirJimmyofNic said:Clarke get tae feck
22 hours ago, Steve_Wilkos said:Get sacked you bald c**t.
this took a 2 min skim and just a flavour I Imagine.
If you think these are all reasonable reactions after a disappointing friendly performance/result that follows one of our best qualifying campaigns in decades, then fair do's.
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It is not nice to lose, particularly to pretty poor teams like Northern Ireland who just set out to defend. I guess that is the point of friendlies to test ourselves against such opponents and it is clear we still struggle against doggedly defensive teams and to a certain extent teams who initiate a high press. However the difference now compared to 2 years or so ago when we would more regularly turn in a performance like last night, is that we have the evidence in terms of numerous performances/results that can be achieved when team selection and tactics click.
We didn't have that evidence before - therefore am pretty relaxed about Clarke and remain optimistic about our Euro performances and chances. Plenty of lessons to be taken from and built on from last night. As most know, the path to improvement and making gains is rarely a straight line (:).
As for reactions to these friendly results, there have been some wildly spectacular takes on here. Too numerous to post or reference. I guess that is social media permeating its way to behaviours and attitudes - its is either fantastic or shite; black or white; massive win or a massive fail etc. Context and nuance as well as wider/mitigating factors are inconveniences as they take a view into an area that requires more thinking beyond immediate reactions.....
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11 hours ago, Skyline Drifter said:
I'll disagree with it. Kenny Miller disagrees with it.
case closed.
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