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On 14/06/2023 at 22:52, Ranaldo Bairn said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65911091

More quality stuff here from your friendly local gonks. No, not the ones throwing the toys out the pram in a hilarious yet threatening statement, but the "writer" of this "article" who thinks that if a team leaves a 19-team league, in order to make it an 18-team league, another team must be added. 🤡

I actually made the effort to let them know about the mistake, explaining what they'd got wrong as clearly as I could without being bolshie about it. It was a bit of a pain, full address required even when I said no reply needed. So they changed it from this:

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The Lowland League say they are still planning to have 18 teams in the division next season, which means another club will be added.

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The Lowland League say they are still planning to have 18 teams in the division next season.

Don't know why I bother, I'll just hurl abuse at them on twitter next time.

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On 13/06/2023 at 19:19, Raidernation said:

BTW, where are sevco getting these millions to spend on players?

 

On 13/06/2023 at 23:22, AJF said:

In fairness, we have brought in 3 free transfers this window thus far while 5 high earners departed at the end of their contract.

We’re linked with Lammers for around £3m and Dessiers for around the same which would only be about half of what we spent last summer.

I take my hat off to you @AJF Fantastic to see a Sevco fan acknowledging that they are now called Sevco.

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8 minutes ago, Bairn in Exile said:

 

I take my hat off to you @AJF Fantastic to see a Sevco fan acknowledging that they are now called Sevco.

It’s more like when folk from Aberdeen call a chippy a “chipper”. I know that it’s abhorrently wrong but I know what they mean so I don’t correct them.

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1 minute ago, AJF said:

It’s more like when folk from Aberdeen call a chippy a “chipper”. I know that it’s abhorrently wrong but I know what they mean so I don’t correct them.

Did all the chippies in Aberdeen go tits up, got demoted and had to start all over again in the 4th tier as brand new chippies called chippers? 🤔 And forfeited all their chippy of the year awards? 😋

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1 hour ago, AJF said:

It’s more like when folk from Aberdeen call a chippy a “chipper”. I know that it’s abhorrently wrong but I know what they mean so I don’t correct them.

The Aberdonian mangling of the Scots tongue is why I felt like a prophet in a strange land during my University days up there.

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1 hour ago, Bairn in Exile said:

Did all the chippies in Aberdeen go tits up, got demoted and had to start all over again in the 4th tier as brand new chippies called chippers? 🤔 And forfeited all their chippy of the year awards? 😋

Haha, well if there is one industry where phoenixism is rife then it's hot food and takeaway establishments!

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On 13/06/2023 at 17:10, The Master said:

His wee stories are as bad as his put-downs. I’d have liked to have seen him scrabbling about the floor of a Glasgow nightclub lavvie trying to put together bits of a £20 note. Presumably, with sellotape he keeps in his pocket for these sort of events?

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On 16/06/2023 at 09:38, Bairn in Exile said:

Did all the chippies in Aberdeen go tits up, got demoted and had to start all over again in the 4th tier as brand new chippies called chippers? 🤔 And forfeited all their chippy of the year awards? 😋

Only the Willie Miller managed ones. 

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On 16/06/2023 at 07:38, Bairn in Exile said:

Did all the chippies in Aberdeen go tits up, got demoted and had to start all over again in the 4th tier as brand new chippies called chippers? 🤔 And forfeited all their chippy of the year awards? 😋

Demoted, no. Disgracefully fast-tracked, yes. 

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This has been up all day, do they just not care about anywhere north of the M8. At least spell the place correctly. Weegie/cuntral belt arrogance

Form BBC Scotland news  in Milnfua, Alness, after officers were alerted at 00:30 on Saturday.

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On 20/06/2023 at 13:59, Raidernation said:

Utter bullshit as ever

"New Rangers goalkeeper Jack Butland "won't have experienced anything like" running out at a full Ibrox, says former club captain Barry Ferguson. (Record)"

10s of thousands of bigots espousing hatred for Catholics? Of course he wouldn't have.

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I am a simple man.
I see a story and I click it.
I see the story is attributed to English.
I close the tab without reading any further.
As I say, I am a simple man.

 

English's style of prose, and his subtle combination of ignorance and arrogance, is a fucking nightmare to read. You feel his Facebook feeds, if not for public consumption, would be filled with cantankerous boomer "humour" and complaints about how woke everything is.

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On 20/06/2023 at 13:59, Raidernation said:

Utter bullshit as ever

"New Rangers goalkeeper Jack Butland "won't have experienced anything like" running out at a full Ibrox, says former club captain Barry Ferguson. (Record)"

That's just a template they use for every signing. 

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