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  1. 20 minutes ago, thisal said:

    That poll asks for one answer to 2 questions. Thinking the rUK should be allowed to make their own choice is a different question from should England be independent.

    that's why I said 'maybe'

  2. On 01/08/2020 at 04:06, Longbottom Leaf said:

    This referendum stuff in Scotland.

    I've a good decade and more before I retire and I've already seen a handful of referenda in my time.

    I mean what does once in a generation actually mean?

    Will nationalists continue to insist on one every decade or so until they win one?

     

    maybe they won't have to...

    https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/english-independence-polling-by-panelbase-1-6745542

     

  3. 1 hour ago, Carnoustie Young Guvnor said:

    Actually very similar thing happened at the Somme. They had dug ten tunnels under the German lines to set off huge mines under each. That was to happen at 7.28 am, and the attack would begin at 7.30. What was described as the most famous footage of WWI though the first time I'd seen it was a huge explosion. 

    Well that one was detonated early, at the arbitrary decision of the area commander, at 7.20, maybe for the camera who knows. That gave the Germans a good bit of warning, and at the same time the shelling moved to their reserve trenches so they knew it was coming and were ready by the time it started.

    I remember watching a programme about tunnel warfare during WW1, the massive explosion which left the Lochnager crater was the largest ever explosion until the first atomic tests if I remember correctly.

     

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  4. 37 minutes ago, Day of the Lords said:
    1 hour ago, Futureboy said:
    Getting out in the hills this weekend was a big boost for me, even though it was the local hills that I've been up and down many a time, I have really missed it. 
    Tent due back from Scottish Mountain Gear this week after a little repair. Overnighter on the 15th for sure!_20200706_152108.thumb.JPG.53edf3cdf1da4bc0d366a4804f41c97a.JPG

    That wee bump beside Davie's Bourach? A fine spot.

    It is indeed a fine spot.I took this picture about twelve years ago, it was a very hot day and I stupidly got quite badly burnt.

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  5. 1 hour ago, Savage Henry said:

    Give me one example of a “black person” who has been “placed in front of the camera regardless of ability or talent”?  

    Then look at the “panellists” on, oh, Sportsound, or whatever crap passes for PLZ Soccer.  Give me one example of somebody who is there on account of their articulate, well delivered analysis.

    Edit: Sky Sports just cut back to the studio and Jamie Redknapp was literally spinning in his chair.

     

  6. 43 minutes ago, Boo Khaki said:

    Drove to the supermarket with the girlfriend on Saturday. We don't live together, but she has a carer's card and I'm technically a vulnerable adult, so neither of us have been bound by every stricture of lockdown right from the very beginning. Anyway, we park the car, queue together observing the 2m requirement from other people, get to the head of the queue only to be told 'one adult per household only'. I explain that we're from different households, upon which the employee insists we enter the store separately, and stay distanced 2m from each other until we leave the shop, which we jokingly did, before we jumped back in the car and headed back to mine.

    I accept the employee is only following the company guidelines, but I'm baffled as to how I can be hanging out the back of the missus on Saturday morning, drive to the shop with her, but then have to avoid going within 2m of her at any point while inside the shop. Funnily enough, they clearly weren't bothered by the screeds of other pairs of adults standing right next to each other, blocking the aisles, while arguing over which brand of energy drink wee Jaxxon preferred.

    Did you remember to put your clothes back on?

  7. 3 hours ago, The_Kincardine said:

    How honest will the SNP be about spending priorities?  I'm not sure what the independence deficit will be but it has to be more than £3,000 per taxpayer.  What are the plans on recovering this from taxpayers or which services will be cut in your more just society?

    We both live in an independent, self-determining sovereign state.  The idiocy is creating a new one.

     

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  8. 30 minutes ago, Walter said:

    Thanks, that's really helpful. I've cleared out their hiding places put down slug pellets (they've been lying in the hut for the best part of a decade so we'll see if they still have any potency) and I have plenty of bird feeders in the garden. I didn't think birds ate snails btw.
    There's one more thing I'm hoping someone might be able to educate me on. There's a tree in the corner of my garden that I really love as it's a favourite for sparrows, starlings etc and as it was there when we moved in I've no idea what kind of tree it is. Can anyone enlighten me?20200607_134303.jpeg20200607_134316.jpeg

    I'm no expert but it looks like a willow to me.

  9. 46 minutes ago, virginton said:

    The SG gave the green light for a fucking Old Firm match to go ahead on March 15 only for the SPFL to say 'nah you're alright, this has gone too far and we're postponing it instead'. The SG refused to close schools until March 19 despite having all the powers to do so weeks beforehand, on the specious basis that if they did then poor nurses and key workers wouldn't be able to look after their sprogs and do their jobs at the same time: somehow they've managed just fine over the past ten weeks though, with the hub spaces for children of key workers being massively under-filled throughout. The SG has still refused to enforce the wearing of face masks despite the obvious benefits of doing so, which is why people in SE Asia adopted the practice before the outbreak even began while smart countries in Europe made them mandatory among their citizens within days of a national outbreak beginning. There's no actual evidence then that the SG was straining at the reins to try and respond to the crisis in March: they were quite clearly drinking the same Kool-Aid as Johnson.

    It is both incorrect and frankly pathetic for people to try and bat off the bulk of criticism of how the SG has handled the outbreak on the grounds that England made us do it.

    DH is the lead government department in England during the health response to an influenza pandemic. It will also perform a number of lead functions for the devolved administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and take overarching responsibility for the UK response.

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