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Superb, failing a whiteout should be absolutely fine then. cheers pal

A wee bit advice needed if anyone can help. Managed to get a nice deal on a hotel in Aberfoyle and a hire car for tonight. Plan is to go up Ben A'an tomorrow, not very high but should get lovely views if the cloud isn't too low. Just looking at the weather forecast for tomorrow and seems we're likely to get some light rain or snow in the morning. We'll have decent gear for a hike (good boots, wind/waterproofs etc) and according to the walk highlands website it's a relatively easy hike. I'm pretty confident it shouldn't be a problem so I suppose I'm just asking if anyone has any experience of that hill and would recommend leaving it in slightly inclement weather. Thanks in advance.

Quick question for anyone who thinks inviting a sexual act called Flowjob in to speak to primary school children what?

Exactly as you say man. Brown whole chicken legs. Throw 4 garlic cloves, two onions, 2 large mild chillis, 2 birdseye chillis, knob of ginger in a food processor and blitz. Remove the chicken and fry all the veg until it's dried out, then add tumeric, garam masala, coriander seeds and another spice that I forget and toast. Add a wee bit of water if you need to to stop it sticking. Stir in 2 tablespoons of tomato paste, cook out and add 1 box of passata. Mix it all together, chicken back in and braise on as low heat as possible for 90 mins. Add 200 mls of cream, a few chunks of butter off the heat, mix and add chopped coriander. Done That made enough sauce for 3/4 but we only used two chicken legs.

Which butchers if you don't mind me asking?? I've had stuff from anderson's before, fairly decent. Anderson's it was yeah, only heard good things tbf

1 portion of butter chicken, which unfortunately looks disappointing considering it's easily too 5 things I've cooked.

Went to my local butcher this morning and got myself steak mince, a half pound of bacon, some chorizo style sausages and a whole chicken. Chicken getting broken up - legs for butter chicken tonight, breasts for something start of the week and carcass and wings for stock. Mince and potentially sausages for Bolognese tomorrow, breaking out a pasta machine I got this week to make our own pasta. All that for £15. Keep this up and I'll be stoating about with a #BuyLocal tote bag in no time. No excuses really, living in Leith I could get almost everything I need without having to set foot in a supermarket. Opening times and having to go from one place to the other the only downsides. Anyway photos as they come

I think that's probably right. For a lot of folk there's still a real reverence for him to this day over there. A fair few kids in the school I taught in mentioned him as someone they wanted to emulate, not in terms of drug trafficking usually but more the sort of Robin Hood, man of the people type thing. I think his brazenness was such a big part of it - his corruption was getting himself elected, offering to pay the national debt etc. In the other series it's more your bog standard paying everyone off or shooting them

Any particular standouts for Scotland? Especially in positions where we could use some reinforcements in the next couple of years

That was the downside to my argument definitely. Looking back at games from that era the difference in intensity is really marked.

I haven't heard that, would be interested to though! My favourite moment from that lot though is when, I think around Venezuela, Tommy Veitor acted on twitter as if he was the first person to ever realise that economic sanctions might not be a great humanitarian policy.

Since first thinking about this, it keeps popping up in my head. I'm now very much of the opinion that if you took 3 of the centres we've had over the last few years and a better coach, and parachuted them into that squad, we could have done a similar thing to Gatland's Wales in terms of stodgy success. Taking the 2008 6 Nations Squad Kerr - Ford - Murray Scott Murray - Hines White - Taylor - Barclay (take your pick from Brown, Beattie, Hogg and Rennie on the bench!) Any of our scrum halves - Parks (limited but great at what he did) Dunbar? - Bennett? Evans - Paterson - R.Lamont (Sean was injured) I know there were deeper lying problems and injuries knackered a lot of these guys' careers, but to a large extent that's a not bad group of players. Would definitely say our pack was individually more impactful at least, and would take any of the three scrum halves over what we have now. Anyway, I know it's a pointless exercise but I found it quite interesting

Wasn't sure whether this was the right thread for it but it's sort of American politics. Anyone listen to any of the Crooked Media podcasts? I've slowly shedded them and unsubscribed from the last one after listening to pod save the world from this week. Ben Rhodes claiming that Democratic candidates being expected to know the President of Mexico is unreasonable, and talking about how much he likes (widely reported bully) Amy Klobuchar. I think I gave that lot a lot of leeway just because they were involved in the Obama White House and got ahead of most on alternate media after the election. But by God they don't have much of a clue.

Going to see king creosote in a couple of weeks do the "from Scotland with love" soundtrack with a band and the film projected. Not the type of gig is usually go to but really looking forward to it

I'm pretty tired of this sort of stuff as well. Like Margaret Atwood getting wheeled out at every new book/season of the handmaid's tale to tell us that it's actually already happening. We get it

Aye well there's certainly something in that. I dunno, I lived in Colombia for a bit so maybe I'm just more pre disposed to liking the original. I didn't enjoy Mexico nearly as much but hard to put a finger on why

Quite enjoyed Narcos Mexico, although not nearly as much as the original series. I thought it was spread a wee bit thin. Performances of Luna and Pena, then McNairy, were excellent, as was the dude who played Pablo Acosta. But there were too many characters that it was difficult to give a damn about, and it just didn't flow as well as the original series in my view.

You really need to learn the difference between someone thinking something is right or wrong - I'm a bit ambivalent and you've certainly not done anything to convince me that the EU is petulant - and someone finding it really hard to be upset when we've put ourselves in this situation. I've already told you I don't see the one real and the other hypothetical situation as being analogous, and again you've done nothing to convince me they are. I've also never said that the UK should "suck it up", but if our negotiating position is as weak as it seems to be based on our only tactic being to bleat about how unfair it all is then, maybe, we've only ourselves to blame. I just don't think we're going to agree here, I don't think your arguments have any merit. I don't think I'll be replying to you on this topic going forward

I was going to reply to his utter nonsense but I think I'll just quote this as it saves me a lot of bother. Honestly, trying to flip the collective shoulder-shrugging and "well, what do you expect?" from most on here to seem as if folk are backing an evil empire against our plucky wee rebel alliance is getting a bit tedious.

If I did not want to go through acrimonious and disadvantageous negotiations with a larger power, I would simply not vote for that. I certainly wouldn't spend so much time telling people how dreadfully unfair it all is.

By coincidence just got my new credit there. Brief history bought, will let you know how I get on!

Big fan of audible, usually listen to spy or historical fiction, I try something heavier or non fiction every once in a while but I prefer to read that normally. A few favourites The Aubrey Maturin series The John Le Carré collection The war of the roses series by Conn Iggulden Lonesome dove

Had this podcast downloaded for a few weeks, will give it a go today

Nearly pissed myself laughing at this

V v thirsty, 3 weeks off the drink before today