Thane of Cawdor
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29 minutes ago, Slenderman said:
Fried eggs are effective? I'll make my own.
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14 minutes ago, charon said:
Siege mentality requires guns I'd have thought.
Anyone done the Corona-tion Street one yet?
Shouldn't you be getting your wee boat in prime condition for the work that lies ahead rather than dossing on Pie & Bovril? Early indications of cabin fever developing within the P & B community (WhiteRoseKillie can go stir-crazy). We'll end up like Chaplin and his room-mate in The Gold Rush; except you will hallucinate your nearest and dearest as multi-packs of de-luxe toilet rolls.
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25 minutes ago, G_Man1985 said:
Lot of them come out of habit.
Sit in the cafe n have a blether n gets a few things n off they pop.
They keep the counters / bakery openPossibly true, but a bit insensitive.
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/13/cash-for-ash-inquiry-delivers-damning-indictment-of-stormont-incompetence
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Goodnight Arlene, Goodnight Arlene...
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12 minutes ago, Hedgecutter said:
I'll probably just pull the two-ply apart. Lasts twice as long that way.
Time to get more creative, lads. Take a tip from Rabelais.
'I have', answered Gargantua, 'by a long and curious experience found out a means to wipe my bum. The most lordly, the most excellent, the most convenient that was ever seen. I have wiped my tail with a hen, with a cock, with a pullet, with a calf's skin, with a hare, with a pigeon, with a cormorant, with an attorney's bag, with a Montero, with a falconer's lure. But to conclude, I say and maintain that of all the torcheculs, arsewisps, bumfodders, tail-napkins, bunghole cleansers, and wipe-breeches, there is none in the world comparable to the neck of a goose, that is well downed, if you hold her head betwixt your legs. And believe me therein upon mine honour, for you will thereby feel in your nockhole a most wonderful pleasure, both in regard of the softness of the said down and of the temporate heat of the goose, which is easily communicated to the bum-gut and the rest of the inwards, in so far as to come even to the regions of the heart and brains.'"
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12 hours ago, Thane of Cawdor said:
Sorry. I don't think I can help you. I'm not a remedial English teacher.
12 hours ago, The_Kincardine said:You made, 'to Protestant' a verb. That's about as remedial as it gets.
Creative use of the English language old chap (fossil). Fairly common practice. Did you fail to comprehend the use of 'Hibs' as a verb?
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24 minutes ago, The_Kincardine said:
Nope. Even after a third reading that makes not one jot of sense. Not that I'm surprised...
Sorry. I don't think I can help you. I'm not a remedial English teacher.
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On 07/03/2020 at 07:52, Antlion said:
So much Little Britonism in one post. No one has denied that you’re Scottish, so the rush to screech about and defend your Scottishness is pretty telling. The fact that you don’t even see Scotland as a country (absolutely no one is talking about partitioning Scotland, so presumably your country is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which has already been partitioned) is, sadly, endemic amongst Scots. And that touchy and unprovoked need to display your credentials by claiming that Scotland both is and isn’t a country, but by jingo thanks to mother England it’s the MOST INFLUENTIAL one on the planet, is likewise revealing of your own incoherent nationalism. To claim that British Nationalists are outward looking having just smashed up the EU is a bit laughable. The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
I was thinking along the lines of: The laddie doth protestant too much, methinks.
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1 hour ago, Donathan said:
Why exactly do you suggest that Andy Slaughter is a psychopath?Obviously because I am an unquestioning believer in nominative determinism, or because I looked at the names of MPs endorsing the various candidates and thought I would attempt a lame joke on the subject. I would have thought readers of the post would have concluded that the latter was the case. Seemingly not.
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5 hours ago, sureiknow said:0
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1 hour ago, craigkillie said:
Definitely think he's ahead of McLean on this evidence. Probably wouldn't start him still.
The plump, laboured, one-footed guy from Norwich? I would hope Scotland have many better options than him. Talk about damning with faint praise, he might be better than McLean. Anyway, didn't see the Chelsea game since I was watching the Edinburgh derby. I know it's daft to acclaim a young player as the new Barry Ferguson, or Billy Bremner or Graeme Souness, but who would you liken him too? As a physical specimen (short and sylph-like) I can't think of a comparable player.
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My wife did a Norwegian fjords cruise with Fred Olsen a year or so back. Since her return she has been bombarded with brochures advertising all of their different cruises. As tenacious as Readers' Digest in bothering and stalking folk. We sailed out of North Shields on a cruise to St Petersburg taking in short stops in Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland then with three days in St Petersburg. The main attraction of the cruise was the opportunity to spend some time in St Petersburg which was spent seeing the Winter Palace, the Hermitage museum, the Aurora and attending a performance of Swan Lake.
Our cruising experience seems to have been a bit different from the opulence enjoyed by many of you (albeit the food, drink and entertainment were excellent). We sailed on a converted Russian ice-breaker which was comparatively tiny but still managed to accommodate a very strange demographic, some of whom were appalling. Astonishing the number of people who possess formal clothing for the evening meals. Fortunately there are multiple alternatives to dining at the table originally allocated. This was the ship used by an elderly couple to smuggle a substantial amount of drugs (featured in the media a year or so ago). They were apprehended so, if the purpose of your cruise is really drug smuggling, be extremely vigilant.
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36 minutes ago, welshbairn said:
Did you get a 2nd preference vote, or 1,2,3, or just the one vote?
2nd preference. Am I a second-class citizen? No need to answer that.
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Just voted online in the Labour leadership election. I have a vote as a member of an affiliated union. Much more inclusive than when I applied to actually join the party years ago in a north-east of England constituency only to be told: "We're full up". Anyway, dutifully read through the candidates' statements. Long-Bailey - more of the same and calling for endorsement whether we live in Blyth or Brixton. Despite her shamefully excluding the people of Bangor (both places} and Brigadoon she was nominated by both Dundee CLPs and also Angus and the Mearns (readers of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, no doubt}.
Nandy's statement was eloquent and heartfelt and she does come over as a thoroughly decent person. I think she was endorsed by the NUM whilst Lavery nominated Long-Bailey, and this after the union buying him a house - ungrateful b*****d.
Starmer's statement implied keeping most of the good stuff from the last manifesto but having it championed by an electable leader. Starmer's MP nominations included those of Doughty and Hardy (going for the staunch vote); Timms (going for the less staunch vote); and Slaughter (going for the psychopath vote).
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1 minute ago, The_Kincardine said:
I have no interest in Monarchy as a system of government.
I salute your free-thinking spirit. Fellow bears might see you as a renegade. Fair play to you.
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Not classically educated, but think you may be misusing the gerund. What did you think of the future king attending a non-Russell group university? Anyway, I'm new to this stuff, but you, presumably, have been mis-spelling words your entire "educated" life.
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New to the thread, so apologies if it's been mentioned before, but Springsteen and Pete Seeger (and the kids) at Obama's inauguration was a great sight and sound. And now we have the complete opposite of hope!
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5 minutes ago, The_Kincardine said:
Since you're unable to use the quote function I will help you.
I said: The Natters have deliberately downgraded the importance of education in Scotland to the extent that they have withdrawn participation in international valuations. The cynic in me says that this is deliberate. Produce stupid weans so you get stupid voters.
You said: I think you are being willfully provocative on this point and don't see much evidence to support it. The moronic tranche in the independence debate is entirely in the unionist camp.
On this bit of the thread my substantive claim was prosaically simple: "Had Scotland genuinely achieved societal change in its 20+ years of devolution then the case for independence would be compelling."
I don't see anyone disagreeing with this.
Now I know that education in Scotland has always been within our own remit but you'd have expected a newly-confident devolved government to address the shortcomings in Scottish education and deal with the two aspect that we both agree on: Apartheid education and the one-size fits all post-code lottery which gives no opportunity for upward mobility.
What nearly a generation of devolution has produced instead? A shower of ill-educated, hate-fueled grievance junkies.
That's not how Fuelled is spelt smart-arse!
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17 minutes ago, The_Kincardine said:
There are three (at least) aspects to education in Scotland that are worrying:
1. The Natters have deliberately downgraded the importance of education in Scotland to the extent that they have withdrawn participation in international valuations. The cynic in me says that this is deliberate. Produce stupid weans so you get stupid voters.
I think you are being willfully provocative on this point and don't see much evidence to support it. The moronic tranche in the independence debate is entirely in the unionist camp.
2. There is absolutely no way out of the post-code lottery when it comes to Scottish schools. If you're lucky enough to have a hoose in Jordahill or Bearsden then your weans are on the money. Given Scot Gov's 'one size fits all' policy then you are fucked as there is no option for brighter weans in less prosperous areas.
Why don't you just say, bring back the grammar schools? I have a certain degree of sympathy with this argument.
3. Scot Gov's 'Jim Crow' law on education really should be an international joke. Imagine a progressive, civic-minded, independent country which encourages folk of one ethno-religious background in to a parallel education system. What a blight on civic Scotland.
Why don't you just say, make all education integrated. I have a certain degree of sympathy with this argument.
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Do none of you people possess a teapot? How do you make individual cups of tea using loose-leaf tea? I have been a union rep on several occasions but this was in the voluntary sector where management were, on the whole, better people than we minions so tensions and confrontations were rarely an isssue. I also was an enthusiastic smoker and I and my fellow reprobates would retreat to the fire escape to indulge. On one occasion, on re-entering the workplace trailing clouds of Benson & Hedges glory, one colleague complained about the stench of tobacco smoke. My brilliantly witty reply that I thought any smell would be masked by the odour of sanctity was met with blank incomprehension, so no brownie points for badinage.
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8 hours ago, Detournement said:
The early results were the justification for the coup. MIT have said the early results have no irregularities. It's not complicated unless you are a sad case looking for a pointless argument.
Which you, demonstrably, are.
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10 minutes ago, bennett said:
Wrong account Bernie?
OK. We differ on the highlight of the night. You think it is someone revealing his given name and everyone else thinks it's your team being humiliated (again).
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2 hours ago, bennett said:
On the plus side, Bohemian letting slip that his name is Bernard is tonight's highlight.
It really, really isn't Gordon.
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The US also has a southern border with Canada, has no-one told him?
On a purely selfish note, that's me sorted for the next fortnight.