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This thread is an excellent one and I had no idea so many people were/are in a similar situation to me with regards to depression/a low mood. My Mum and Dad split up when I was pretty young but even before that my Dad made no secret of the fact that my sister was his favourite, I had a lot of health issues when I was younger and he couldn't be bothered with it and it showed. (He actually gave my Pars season ticket to one of his mates). After he left my Mum and sister had constant arguments about him leaving for whatever reason, my Dad thinking the best day to come and pick up his belongings would be on my sister's birthday. He used to phone us twice a week after he moved down to England but this soon changed to once a week and then not at all. I was bullied pretty regularly at school as the part of Dunfermline where the primary school is that I attended there is/was a massive social stigma attached to single parent families and that seriously knocked my confidence, high school I was just really known as the weird loner. My confidence with girls is virtually non-existent and due to high school my natural reaction to any woman that shows any sort of interest is that they're taking the piss. I got really friendly with a girl I worked with in 2006 and while I was off in the sick with knee problems she was in constant contact asking how I was etc. and when she found out I wanted something more she decided to string me along and I really thought I had a chance there. She told me that she was bringing her new boyfriend to her birthday night out and admittedly this is a huge overreaction but after several years of rejection going back to when I was a kid I decided I had had enough and decided to take every pill I could find in the house. Luckily my youngest sister was eavesdropping on a phone conversation and quickly told my Mum who made sure I was taken to hospital where I was made to induce vomiting otherwise my stomach was getting pumped. I saw this girl in the pub the other week and she spoke to me, strangely enough I could not be bothered with her. Something of a turnaround there. August 2007, The Pars had just been relegated and we think winning the first division is a mere formality. We get a reality check losing 2-1 in the first game at New Douglas Park. My mate and I check out the queue on the platform for the train back to Glasgow and decide to wait it out in the pub for a while. Huge mistake, we are approached by a female 'Hamilton' fan who engages in some banter with us, we have a few drinks, give her our numbers and then we go home. On the following Monday I get a text asking to meet again, and say ok. She comes over to Dunfermline on the Friday and we start going out. Nearly a month later we have a massive argument, she dumps me and is in bed with my mate that night (this, after her lying about carrying my child and then losing it). I walk into the doctor, tell them I don't trust myself and spend the weekend in ward 2 in the Queen Margaret. Amazingly I decided to take her back mostly because I didn't think I could do any better, we then had a very stormy on/off relationship before she decided to start sleeping with her cousin. Weirdly enough, one of the best things that happened to me was tearing my MCL as it allowed me to reflect on my life path and where I was going with it so I went back to college and studied hospitality and it has led me to where I am now in my honours year of Event Management at the 'Bovine University' UWS. However there was serious doubt over whether or not I would be able to even start at uws, some people may remember my gall bladder polyps thread a couple of years ago. I was in excruciating pain and was supposed to get my gall bladder out but after a few days in hospital a CAT scan found nothing and I was sent home. It is managed by infrequent use of pills now and is a hell of a lot better but at the time I was really down and spent a lot of time in my bed. My general mood and confidence is a bit better these days although there are some times where I just feel so lethargic and can't be bothered with anyone. My Dad comes up at least once a year and I can't be bothered with him unless I am absolutely wrecked which is not healthy at all. I also seem to turn to drink when I am struggling with my uni work as I still get the feeling of not being good enough and as we all know drink gives us an inflated sense of self-confidence. Again, not healthy. Like a lot of people I try and hide behind wit and din't tend to show how I'm really feeling. Sorry for the big long massive ramble but I felt I needed to vent.

kind of back to front here with the Norman stuff, Bennett didn't Norman Bates keep his dead mother in the house and refuse to admit she was dead - a bit similar to the way you and your fellow Ibroxians regard your dead club? Of course he was an unhinged psychopathic loony........... mmmmmm!

I would also like to see Turnbull get Murray signed up to a longer deal. His success is almost bound to illicit an offer from somewhere else the way things are going. I like how he goes about his business on and off the park and think, given the resources, he could do extremely well.

Berrz = "wee collective". Fottball fans who despise bigotry, corruption, lies and criminality = slllliiigghhttlllyy bigger group. HTH.

P&B needs a strong Vicky.

Nah - it says "highly placed", not "with their snouts in the trough"...

^^^^^^^^ just opened second bottle of tonic wine.

I never said I was a dabber shipmate. I was a Writer who was too busy shining my arse to be cleaning for rounds.

Van Morrison - Someone Like You

David Crosby- Love The One You're With

Murrays signings by and large have been outstanding. He thoroughly deserves a new contract

when my step-daughter left home, I suggested to the wife that we take her picture down and replace with one of Walter White. I swear she thought about it for a full minute before saying no.

Totally agree. Murray has earned an extension and we should be looking at giving him another 2 years. This should be the catalyst for starting the negotiations with the rest of the squad. We have a number of players who could play at a higher level and it's important we secure them so at least if they do go, it's not for nothing. Our cup performances over the past few years (inc this one) should mean we are as able to offer financial deals in this league comparable with anyone. As has been rightly pointed out, there should be decent money available next season too even if we fail to get promoted. I'm sure the board are aware of this though! Not panicking yet

Perfectly executed. Well done.

Yep, give the manager another contract 'first and foremost', no doubt he deserves it. Thus far an excellent job. There's nobody in the current squad I'd be looking to get rid of at this stage but if we do look at extending contracts I'd get Elliot and Moon done as soon as is possible, probably Cardle and Watson too. They're the most likely (Dundee anyone?) to be poached I imagine. I'd certainly also be looking to get Callum Booth on a pre-contract in January, although understandably he'll probably want to wait to see what Hibs do about his contract situation, particularly with a new manager.

You need to articulate how stupid that stand point is in a manner that doesn't make the person feel stupid.

done!!!

My biggest ever win came last week. Xmas shopping sorted thank feck.

Well, it happened sooner than I thought it would but my uncle has been turned from the No side . He posted a fairly large amount of Better Together stuff and I thought he'd be set in his ways but me and a couple of others kept chipping away at the nonsense he was spouting. It was all about Salmond for him, he didn't want to give him the satisfaction of winning independence I think. He hates him, which is fair enough, but I'm glad I now seem to have hammered the point home that if you don't like Salmond then don't vote for him after independence. I think he's finally fed up with what Better Together are campaigning as well and I'm sure others will be the same. I'm delighted as I've always looked up to him and I often agreed with him on social/political issues so to see him turn to the Yes side when I know how stubborn he can be is fantastic.

Bill Withers - Lean On Me

Don McLean - Castles In The Air

There are definitely a few players we would need to give an extended contract to keep for the next few seasons, and with us pretty much guaranteed to be playing rangers, hearts, Dunfermline every second week, I think nows the time to do it, for example Elliot, Watson, Moon, Cardle, players who other teams will definitely try and swoop in and take from us in the summer, with the exception of cardle, if pars get promoted, he's going to end up there anyway, as he's always been and will always be a pars fan!

Rory Gallagher - Messin' With The Kid

Too many of you on multiple threads to multi quote but for everyone who wanted the Seahawks to lose ...

Given that there was only 3 posts in this thread yesterday I take it we are going easy ...

Certainly when i think 'well educated' what first comes to mind is Pie and Bovril. Closely followed by your wife s Facebook page.

Hearing aid maybe or those ear protectors.

That was for the bodies from the helicopter being removed, they had remained strapped in until today.

To think that Tam Cowan was suspended over something which was a fraction of the offence this stupid bint has caused.

Shut the f**k up, you moron. Ryan Gauld is more expensive and valuable than your entire diddy, hatchet-man club.

Brewster must have smashed one in like that every 3 or 4 games that season. Best Rovers team I've seen or will ever see. Happy days.

I've said this before I think, but the longer this goes on, the more and more I'm leaning towards a yes vote. I'm not quite 100% yet, but it's going to take one hell of an argument from Better Together to convince me otherwise now. My biggest issue with voting yes was endorsing Salmond and it took me a while to get out of that mindset - this isn't about him or the SNP, it's about what's best for Scotland and the Scottish people. Yes Scotland are going for hope, Better together seem to be going for Fear/smear. Taking my political leanings out of this completely, I'd much rather be positive and fail (which I'm sure Scotland wont) than negative and stay in the doldrums. I'm fairly certain I'll be voting yes on the big day, like the rest of my fairly massive family. My girlfriend might still need a bit of talking round, but she's softened her no views in recent times too. Of the people I know, it seems to me the yeses are only getting stronger and the nos are now undecided. The respective campaigns, a bit of research and even just letting what is going on sink in seems to be changing a lot of people's views.

When I was in high school I was really happy and really enjoyed it. When it got to 5th year everyone started talking about going to uni. The only thing I knew I ever wanted to do when I was younger was to join the Fire service. However they told me that due to being short sighted, I couldn't join, and bang went that. Since then I've had no idea. In 5th year everyone started talking about going to uni, so I thought I would go too. I had no desire to do so really but did so as I didn't know what else to do. I went to Abertay in 2002 and it was a massive disaster. I had never really been away from home like that before and had never had so much money given to me at once (this was when the student loans were given in 3 installments). When I got my award from SAAS I saw it wouldn't cover my rent for halls. My parent's great advice was, 'get a job'. I'd never had a 'proper' job as such at that point so was clueless over that as well. I ended up getting 2 overdrafts to pay for shit (this was when you could just walk in to a bank and get one). I had to leave after first year due to not having a fucking clue what I was doing. What then followed was four years of shit. I got a job at Sky where I worked 5-10pm Mon-Fri. This is where I started to lose touch with people and became withdrawn as well as feeling depressive thoughts for the first time. I also started to fire on weight. I then got a job at Bank Of Scotland, which was truly awful. I despised it. I really put on weight then as it became my coping mechanism. I lost more friends as found I was just staying in. I lost all my confidence as I put on weight. I came to pretty much hate myself. About the only positive is that I paid off my overdrafts. I became really depressed during this time. Still not having a clue what I wanted to do in life, only that I cannot stand the 9-5 bullshit, I decided to go back to uni. At first it was brilliant, but I was like a 'dry drunk' and once I had a few issues the depression came back hard. I spent 5 years and only got to 3rd year. I reinstated my two overdrafts and got another one. In my last couple of months I was all fucked up as I knew I would have to leave uni but knew I would have to get a job doing something I had no interest in. I managed to get four payday loans and a credit card all in one week. I'm now working in a job that's alright, but again it's a 9-5 effort 5 days a week. I have zero interest in it. I have zero interest in wasting my life sitting bored and disinterested all day doing something I couldn't give a shit about. Life is so precious and to waste it like that is obscene. I've wasted the last 10 years of my life and at times it catches me and I can't breathe for a second, and I feel like I've done something utterly unforgivabley awful by doing so. I've seen good friends live good happy lives and some are married and having kids and I feel so uttely alone. I still don't know what I want to do; I only know what I don't want to do. It's why I've had about 30 jobs so far. So I think I can trace my problems with depression to feeling trapped living a lifestyle that I can't stand but not having a way out that I can see and feeling that I'm slowly dying. I can relate to this as it's happened (happening) to me. It's tough. Same with the whole trying to get a job thing. It's a killer when you're scrambling about trying to get a shitty job but can't even get that, even though you know you could do it well and are probably overqualified in terms of experience for it.

Probably been drinking again. Alias red dots incoming.

I'm just glad it wasn't Roy Walker

SUPER " I CANNAE MANAGE SO I NEED MORE MONEY TO BUY MORE PLAYERS IN JANUARY COS I'VE A COUPLE OF INJURIES TAE MY SQUAD " SALARY

Ken. Helping people out of a collapsing building - what a b*****d, eh?

Even if he did have an agenda (he didn't), at least he fucking helped. He didn't sit on Facebook or Twitter selling interviews to the highest bidder, he didn't stand around taking photos and videos and he hasn't made it all about him. He did a good thing and he's a top man for doing it.

Idiot. Both The Clutha and The Scotia just up the road have been well known music pubs for years and years. Not everywhere in Glasgow is tainted with sectarian sh*te

It's like Roy has said, they come in the front door and they leave through the front door. We try to help the and they try to help us. It doesn't always work but I don't remember many saying that they've been treated bad.

It makes very little sense to you. No surprises there. I'll think of it as the deflective tactics of a moron who, when criticised for focussing on celtic's shortcomings on the BRALT, declared himself up for serious debate about rangers' travails, before proceeding to make a complete cúnt of himself in minutes. Not for the first time, either. Any examination of "director's fees" yet? Maybe a concern that there's a few loopholes in that statement that you could drive a drug-dealer's bus through? No? Carry on swallow swallowing then, fool.

Felt it was appropriate to post this in here...

It is indeed a girl. She was in my class at school. She had sex with my pal, he couldn't get her wet so threw a cup of water on her. Now she's a lesbian. Wonder why?

New blasterjaxx tune is pretty dece

I don't need to, but I can and will continue regardless. Unlucky.

'Socially significant events' is a catch-all, meaningless term champ. Historical materialism ≠ history On the evidence of the two above, basic failures you'll fit right in with the sociology program offered at your nearest clown college.

Is that Nicolas Cage third from the right?

Another pair of absolute creatures from Whispers

The expanded universe is basically just fan fiction is it not. The films are what matters and geeking out over how something that happened in the third chapter of some book about Luke's third cousin twice removed isn't mentioned in the new film is just that - geeking out. The wider movie audience has no interest in it and they need to be included as well - a new film needs to be familiar and maybe a little bit nostalgic for the original trilogy. John Williams is a good start. Missed him in the Man of Steel film. As for Carrie Fisher, I see sexism is alive and well. Woman in not looking like she did 30 years ago shocker. Carrie Fisher is awesome and I am delighted if she has a role to play in the new Star Wars film.