Thane of Cawdor
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1 hour ago, RiG said:
Must admit I didn't have The Daily Express down as the first publication asking whether the Brexit trade deal should be renegotiated
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1395302/brexit-news-northern-ireland-protocol-brexit-rules-EU-michael-gove-article-16-boris-johnso
Even more staggering is that, at this time, the majority of voters in their poll say the deal should be renegotiated!"If people put a particular type of integrationist theology ahead of the interests of the people of Northern Ireland they are not serving the cause of peace and progress in Northern Ireland, and that is my principal and overriding concern."
No, you snivelling incompetent; your principal and only concern is how to get the keys to No. 10.
"Pandora's Box has been opened and that is concerning. Who knows what Trojan horses will come out."
Let's hope one of your former teachers emerges and thrashes you mercilessly for this abomination.
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26 minutes ago, bendan said:
Over 18 might be a bit excessive, but you hope they wouldn't just anally stick to the national schedule. Jab any
fattyunhealthy looking person around when you're in the area and this will be over.I hope I get the conventional needle. This anal stick seems a bit experimental.
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This is the kind of depiction of the Irish that featured in publications such as Punch in the 19th Century. Personally, I consider the Irish to be a good-looking people (I'm married to one) and find caricatures such as this both puerile and offensive. However, there's no getting away ffrom the fact that it does bear a passsing resemblance to Wayne Rooney.
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2 hours ago, Perkin Flump said:
Was his alias Bob Williamson? Seem to recall a spectacular meltdown from that poster.
Why would a Rangers supporter post as Bob Williamson? The original Bob wasn't very staunch.
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25 minutes ago, coprolite said:
That was the joke, yes.
I do note that none of the other cheek have made an appearance so we can assume that they're comfortable with their glory hunter status.
Sorry. Underrated your waggishness, and your typing skills.
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17 hours ago, coprolite said:
Some genuinely insightful and intelligent posts on this thread that I'm afraid i'm going to have to ignore on a purely ad huninem basis because they don't confirm my biases and are clearly excuses for glory hunting.
My Grandad was a Rangers man from Fife, in a family of Rangers men in a community of Rangers men with the lodge playing a big part in their lives.
He "had enough of all that nonsense" and pretty much recanted. He always told me he was an East Fife fan. My Dad never really had a team. I think he prefers rugby.
But he took me to Pittodrie when we moved to a commuter dormitory town on the A90 in the early 80s and kept taking me.
But Aberdeen weren't my local team. We had to drive past cove and banks o dee to get there. It seems a bit arbitrary to say that it's only senior/pro/ full time clubs that you can ignore. So i guess i'm a glory hunter. Or at least was, unless you count 3rd and the league cup.
your only going to ignore The Rangers posts?
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1 hour ago, Rob1885 said:1 hour ago, NotThePars said:Aye they hate "weegie b*****ds" over in the Kingdom but most of them also love supporting one half of the Old Firm. Baffling.
Just Rangers mainly, far outweigh the celtic supporters.
Outweigh the vast majority of humanity in my experience.
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4 hours ago, GiGi said:
Aye, Dacre is a proper horrible b*****d. More jobs for the worst of the right wing boys.
Apparently Dacre used to pepper his inspirational team talks to staff with regular use of the word c**t. Said staff referred to them as The Vagina Monologues.
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1 hour ago, O'Kelly Isley III said:3 hours ago, Thane of Cawdor said:Simon Schama programme Tribes on BBC2 last night. Sizeable portion devoted to sympathetic view of romantic Scottish nationalism. Episode signed off with footage of the ugly faces of nationalism including Viktor Orban, Marine Le Pen, Nigel Farage and ...Nicola Sturgeon. Thank you Simon and the BBC for opening our eyes. to the true nature of Sturgeon and the SNP. Looks like "The beast that bore him is in heat again"...in Bute House.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mv1h
The irony of this post appearing in a thread called 'BBC Bias'. Priceless.
I think we may have suffered a breakdown in communication. I have just, for the first time, submitted a complaint to the BBC on this subject. Still, I see irony is indeed dead.
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Simon Schama programme Tribes on BBC2 last night. Sizeable portion devoted to sympathetic view of romantic Scottish nationalism. Episode signed off with footage of the ugly faces of nationalism including Viktor Orban, Marine Le Pen, Nigel Farage and ...Nicola Sturgeon. Thank you Simon and the BBC for opening our eyes. to the true nature of Sturgeon and the SNP. Looks like "The beast that bore him is in heat again"...in Bute House.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mv1h
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9 minutes ago, Detournement said:
They want Cummings gone because they are feart of him/after revenge for him removing the whip last year.
You don't give concessions to people acting out of fear. This is a power play and it'll work because Cummings isn't bothered about conventional behaviour and Boris is stupid/lazy enough to ignore everything going on.
He's flaunting his flouting.
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George Orwell spent a lengthy period in a sanatorium in East Kilbride, prior to hospitalisation in London. This is Old Etonian Orwell's comment on being exposed to upper-class English accents again after a couple of years of the mellifluous tones of the West of Scotland:
"It is as though I were hearing these voices for the first time. And what voices! A sort of over-fedness, a fatuous self-confidence, a constant bah-bahing of laughter abt nothing, above all a sort of heaviness & richness combined with a fundamental ill-will -- people who, one instinctively feels, without even being able to see them, are the enemies of anything intelligent or sensitive or beautiful. No wonder everyone hates us so."
Orwell having his personal Two Minute Hate there.
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Beards can come in many shapes and forms. Take your pick.
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1 hour ago, oaksoft said:
That sort of ostentatious display of wealth is always covering some hole in the person's life. Always. They are trying to buy their way to happiness but it just doesn't work like that.
You can't buy your way out of a damaged soul.
The great value of having money is that it buys you freedom from being a wage slave and that freedom can certainly buy you happiness if you know how to control it. The easiest way to do that is to clear out as much materialistic shite from your expenses as possible whilst still being able to do things which give your life meaning. You need much, much less money than you think to have a decent life. It would be great if the lockdown has shown some people that. Maybe some of the depression people feel when they are trapped into a life they hate can be reduced this way.
Top tip from the Oakster there.
We paupers can count our blessings. You, on the other hand, may be more precarious. I imagine the description below is an accurate desscription of you and your lifestyle.
Richard Cory
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,We people on the pavement looked at him:He was a gentleman from sole to crown,Clean favored, and imperially slim.And he was always quietly arrayed,And he was always human when he talked;But still he fluttered pulses when he said,"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.And he was rich—yes, richer than a king—And admirably schooled in every grace:In fine, we thought that he was everythingTo make us wish that we were in his place.So on we worked, and waited for the light,And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,Went home and put a bullet through his head.0 -
Steve Bell cartoon in The Guardian. Personally I haven't found Bell funny or perceptive since he furiously lampooned Tony Blair, but I simply don't understand this cartoon. Is he celebrating the strength and determination of Jock firing the virus into the sea loch? Or is it a lazy stereotype and piss-take showing his disdain for the pitiful and inadequate measures introduced by the Scottish Government?
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1 hour ago, Speroni*1 said:
Panorama tonight would be enough to take down a government in most democratic countries. Britain will barely bat an eyelid and just be glad, 'Boris our hero back to save us'.
I wonder is there any chance we have reached a tipping point in BBC coverage of the Coronavirus. I had a feeling, watching some of the other news programmes, that attitudes to Government action (or inaction) were beginning to harden. One of the interviewees in the Panorama programme resisted the depiction of NHS staff as heroes because self sacrifice is what is expected of heroes. That, in itself, was a break with the narrative we are being offered and, generally, accepting. It looks as though the two clearest indicators of Government failure will be how we compare with comparable nations in overall death rates in the general population, and in the NHS workforce. The test of any new-found honesty and boldness in BBC reportage will be the Corporation's morphing from house journal of Government to responsible, independent scrutiny of Government policy, and willingness to speak candidly on what is found.
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1 hour ago, Marshmallo said:
Mrs Malaprop didn't care, but she was a fictional comic character.
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3 minutes ago, Jacksgranda said:
"Patrol Sergeant Cameron Klump"
Klump by name, clump by nature.
Transatlantic equivalent of PC Plod.
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1 hour ago, Lofarl said:
All of us in 2021.
Seems unlikely that the Onanists will get to that stage. This is an example of a fatberg that sewer workers must confront as a result of our passion for grease:
Think of the horrors they will encounter at the end of a never ending, national wankathon. They will undoubtedly refer to it as a sperm whale:
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Tomorrow is the anniversary of the birth of Shakespeare, St George's Day and the start of Ramadan. Good time for Johnson to emerge from
isolation, seclusion, purdah, hiding to: declaim some inspirational words from the Bard, celebrate the unique character and spirit of the English people and say something gratuitously offensive about Muslims.1 -
A missing piece in the coronavirus response jigsaw.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/21/nurse-shortage-causes-nightingale-hospital-to-turn-away-patients
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1 hour ago, Snafu said:
Westminster Bridge fury as "idiots" ignore 2m rule during NHS Clap For Carers outside hospital
Solicitor Aamer Anwar wrote on Twitter: "We’ve seen officers wrongly applying #COVID19 laws, shouting in faces ‘you’re killing people’, use drones, no yoga or park benches, yet here @metpoliceuk don’t apply laws on #SocialDistancing at WM Bridge as people clap NHS who say #StayHomeStayLives.
"Public gatherings of only 2, some of us haven’t seen our parents in weeks, our children not at schools, nearly 14,000 dead as @metpoliceuk allow this madness on Westminster Bridge."
Another person added: "I actually can’t get over these videos from Westminster Bridge tonight.
"The fact that the POLICE are the ones doing it.
"So, if I was to invite family round for a BBQ, the police could come and break it up, but if I go to Westminster Bridge on a Thursday at 8pm to clap, all good."
The public who gathered on the bridge have been dubbed "idiots"
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/westminster-bridge-fury-idiots-ignore-21881637
Hardly seems fair that they should be recognised before old Tom. Still I suppose Sir Idiot has a certain ring to it. Incidentally, old Tom should be promote to Major Tom.
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1 hour ago, jagfox99 said:
Dundee United Manager and Chief Executive flaunting lockdown rules as well as various drinking laws. #StayClassy
This is flaunting:
This is flouting:
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Clearly this is the principle on which Nicola Sturgeon bases major political decisions; the urge to piss off a large part of the P&B demographic. Certainly, some on here seem to be taking things personally. Or maybe she is simply a pragmatic and cautious politician who is striving for the best outcome for her people. I am strongly in favour of Scottish independence and would see her as the most likely achiever of that aim.
Sturgeon comes over as both competent and empathetic in her response to Covid, moreso than any other major UK political figure. So I am surprised and disappointed that SNP voters are flagging up intentions to abstain or vote otherwise in the May election. I live in England and obviously have no say in the Scottish parliamentary election, but I would dearly love to be able to vote for a candidate of Sturgeon's calibre. I doubt many on here envy my own options of Johnson, Starmer or Davey.