jagfox Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 Chapecoense have won the cup, with no players, got pledges of at least €40million, no relegation for three years and their pick of players to loan from the top teams in Brasil. I'm a believer... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irvine_buddie Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 The whole reaction to the Chapecoense thing on social media has annoyed me. Yes it's very sad but no-one had heard of them a few days ago and no-one seems to care about the other passengers who weren't associated with the football team. It's all just one-uppery about who can be more devastated. It's even used for 'likes' on facebook with pictures of the surviving players mourning and fans crying etc.. crazy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smpar Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 Do you still feel a bit upset about not getting to sit on santa's knee? I was devastated. There's always the Easter Bunny, I suppose. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 1 hour ago, smpar said: I was devastated. There's always the Easter Bunny, I suppose. Next Pars home game (after Ayr - I have better things to do this Saturday) you can sit on my knee and tell me what you want for Christmas. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 ^^^^ This, It's as if there's some magic number of prayers that if we get past it God will do something (like what?) but if not, forget it. Do you still feel a bit upset about not getting to sit on santa's knee? I was devastated. There's always the Easter Bunny, I suppose. This is my killjoy gripe, religion pulling in and indoctrinating kids through presents / sparkly stuff at Christmas and lots of chocolate sweeties at Easter, with all the schools helping them do it, and any other boring festival being swept under the carpet. Then you've got the constant Xmas adverts everywhere from November also keeping it alive, driven solely by commercialism, not religion. If you didn't have this then Christianity would be near dead in the water in this country. I'd quite happily abolish it, although if you deny kids the fun things you had yourself then you're a bit of a c***. It's a shite state of affairs to be in and all the bah humbug in the world won't make any f*****g difference. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smpar Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 This is my killjoy gripe, religion pulling in and indoctrinating kids through presents / sparkly stuff at Christmas and lots of chocolate sweeties at Easter, with all the schools helping them do it, and any other boring festival being swept under the carpet. Then you've got the constant Xmas adverts everywhere from November also keeping it alive, driven solely by commercialism, not religion. If you didn't have this then Christianity would be near dead in the water in this country. I'd quite happily abolish it, although if you deny kids the fun things you had yourself then you're a bit of a c***. It's a shite state of affairs to be in and all the bah humbug in the world won't make any f*****g difference. I was going to say "it's shite being religious! They're the lowest of the low, the scum of the fucking earth" but I thought that would look terrible out of context. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 19 hours ago, Shandon Par said: I was just speaking to my sister in law and she said she put her Christmas decorations up yesterday. I do despair about the family I'm married in to. I'm going to go on Dragon's Den with my new invention - an Advent calendar with 54 windows that you start opening on 1st November. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nelsjfc Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 Woken from my nightshift slumber by my neighbour using his leaf vacuum for hours. Looked outside to see him vacuuming the road.How mental do you have to be to hoover the actual street? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 12 minutes ago, GordonD said: I'm going to go on Dragon's Den with my new invention - an Advent calendar with 54 windows that you start opening on 1st November. My daughter would approve. My wife just discovered she'd managed to slit open the back of her advent calendar and had already tanned all of the chocolates. Not bad considering it's not even December yet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernJambo Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 Is this in Aberdeen? First Aberdeen do have a Bawbag driver who spends the whole month driving dresssed as Santa because he likes Christmas, Just an overly cheerful Cockwomble Due to recent events I shall not disclose any locational information, but aye that'll be fud. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjc Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 (edited) Scumbags that hack your amazon account and buy 3 bottles of champagne at your expense. Edited November 30, 2016 by sjc 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tree house tam Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 12 minutes ago, sjc said: Scumbags that hack your amazon account and buy 3 bottles of champagne at your expense. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjc Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 8 minutes ago, tree house tam said: I fucking know it! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 1 hour ago, sjc said: Scumbags that hack your amazon account and buy 3 bottles of champagne at your expense. I was going to suggest it was Rangers but they won't need them - they'll have all those bottles left over from Cup Final day... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 3 hours ago, sjc said: Scumbags that hack your amazon account and buy 3 bottles of champagne at your expense. I accidentally drank someone's internet booze order. I'd got an email from a lady I knew who said she was sending me a bottle of something for helping her out with some job. Later in the day a bottle arrived from a supplier in her part of Glasgow. I cracked it open and a couple of us at work got fired into the lovely gin. A wee while later a neighbour came in and asked if we had his bottle of gin. He took it very well and the delivery company sent him another bottle. Stupid delivery person never told me the parcel was for a neighbour. Finders keepers and all that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smpar Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 I accidentally drank someone's internet booze order. I'd got an email from a lady I knew who said she was sending me a bottle of something for helping her out with some job. Later in the day a bottle arrived from a supplier in her part of Glasgow. I cracked it open and a couple of us at work got fired into the lovely gin. A wee while later a neighbour came in and asked if we had his bottle of gin. He took it very well and the delivery company sent him another bottle. Stupid delivery person never told me the parcel was for a neighbour. Finders keepers and all that. We got someone else's tickets for the 2007 Scottish Cup Final delivered to our door, someone round the corner has the same surname and I'm sure the same first initial too. I can't remember what made us realise they weren't ours as we were waiting on tickets as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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GordonD Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 Or they could donate some of the £28 million... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmothecat Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 Being contacted from work when I've left, or on my days off. If it's an emergency or something I need to know then fair enough, but increasingly I'm getting phoned or texted about things that are either not very important or could wait until I'm next in.Becoming very tempted to ignore any contact from work altogether, but then if I ignore a call or a text I find myself thinking about it until I finally give in and reply. I like and care about my job, but when I leave the place I want to forget about it and focus on my family or friends or football or anything I fancy. Maybe I should get a separate work phone and just turn it off when I'm not actually in the place. Leave them my landline for absolute emergencies but nothing else. I think texting is the problem, far too easy to just send a text. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 1 hour ago, jmothecat said: Being contacted from work when I've left, or on my days off. If it's an emergency or something I need to know then fair enough, but increasingly I'm getting phoned or texted about things that are either not very important or could wait until I'm next in. Becoming very tempted to ignore any contact from work altogether, but then if I ignore a call or a text I find myself thinking about it until I finally give in and reply. I like and care about my job, but when I leave the place I want to forget about it and focus on my family or friends or football or anything I fancy. Maybe I should get a separate work phone and just turn it off when I'm not actually in the place. Leave them my landline for absolute emergencies but nothing else. I think texting is the problem, far too easy to just send a text. Employers thinking they're entitled to your services 24/7 seems to be a creeping threat these days - new phone technology has made people more available which isn't necessarily always a good thing - different if you're being paid to be on call, but most of us aren't. My current boss is brand new and wouldn't dream of bugging me on a day off or after I've left. but with a previous one I had to end up making it clear I didn't welcome intrusion into my own time - fair enough as you say if it's an emergency, but 99 times out of 100 it'd be some pish that I could do myself in ten seconds the following day. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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