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By popular demand (and excellent, and luckily, plentiful supply) the Tennents Lager Appreciation society is born. As had been touched upon various times across various threads, it’s somewhat ‘in’ or ‘cool’ to dislike Tennents. Well good, those fuckwits can f**k off and good people like us will swally the swally of true heroes. In most pubs, usually cheaper than other lagers on the tap and almost always the best selling, the choice of the thinking man is tennents. Feel free to add your homages, negativity is neither wanted nor welcome.

Anyone who doesn’t like tennants is an enemy of this nation and an outright terrorist.

Okay, f**k it. I was hoping that over the course of the international break this thread would return to normal and this discussion would return to the dedicated thread for it in General Nonsense of the Morton forum, but as it's evidently not returning back there any time soon I may as well just have at it. So, LinwoodTon/Dr Watson. You say that if people abuse you online you find out who they are. What constitutes abuse in your eyes to push you to that level? Does everything about their life become fair game the second you feel they've crossed the line, or is there some kind of sliding scale where the level of abuse you perceive will see the level of stalking increasing proportionately? Is it something along the lines of: giving you a red dot - find out their real name; calling you a dickhead - start dropping their real name into your posts; have regular back and forth arguments with you - post their picture on the blog; right up to the really heinous crimes like being a member of the Trust, which will see proportionate responses from your mate such as photoshopping pictures with their heads in a noose, posting pictures of recently deceased relatives or fabricating accusations of criminality? I look forward to your explanation. Cornbeef, I entirely agree with you that so many threads on the Morton forum going off-topic is tedious, but what do you think is a more likely reason for the mass exodus of posters? Is it: 1. the number of off-topic posts saying "red dot, dickhead" with threads often descending into a spat between 'the Clique' and LinwoodTon & friends, which all get removed from the match threads and merged with the one in General Nonsense anyway? OR 2. the risk of being stalked if you post something that LinwoodTon & Mortonjag decide they don't like? Like I said, threads going off-topic is annoying but I genuinely can't understand you thinking the behaviour described in point 1 is either more deserving of criticism or more to blame for the exodus of posters than point 2, particularly when the number of posters had been steadily declining for years anyway.

“Try German lagers” “try belgian lagers” “try Czech lagers”... Try getting to f**k. Pint of grolsch (which is pish btw) will be a quid more than tennents. My fourth pint is effectively free on the captain T then. And a superior drink as well. As was accurately alluded to. I’ve never recommended a pub or avoided a pub because it does excellent or sub standard European imports. I actively avoid the closest pub to my house as much as possible because the pints are pish and there’s a pub that does an excellent pint of T just a 5 minute (further) walk.

I was forced to change from lager after being ill. I just couldn't face it. I took advice in a microbrewery and got started on beer from there. I like American style IPA now, but will try virtually anything. Once you actually get your taste buds back, bog standard lager is very bland. Since then Hop House, Heverlee, Schiehalion have come out and are actually nice to drink. Standard pub ones aren't much cop.

Tyskie is my lager of choice. Tennents is decent and miles better than Carling or Fosters.

Tennents is ace. Anyone who goes to a pub wanting a lager with notes, hints, body etc frankly deserves to be taken down an alley and taught a severe lesson by big Terry the bouncer. It's fine to dislike it but it shouldn't be mocked or sneered at. People get so swayed by marketing and end up drinking utter pish with a fancy label as they think it reflect well on them.

One of the highlights of any trip home for me is my first pint of T in my local.

Drive home from work yesterday .. was really pissed off for various reasons. Stopped at a pedestrian crossing where a middle-aged man with Down's Syndrome and his carer were crossing. The chap with Down's Syndrome had a massive grin on his face and he was waving at all the other pedestrians and folk in the cars. And everyone to a man smiled and waved back at him. Put me in a good mood for the rest of the day - kudos to him.

Here's simple fact that the Brexiteers either don't understand or are determined to ignore. The other EU countries are heavily committed to the concept; they want to strengthen it including an EU defence force. Regardless of what they say it is absolutely essential that Brexit is a disaster for the UK, a successful Brexit could be the death knell of the EU and would be a huge encouragement to anti-EU opposition leaders in all the other countries. The existing pro-EU governments will not let that happen. Though they may wish to mitigate the worst effects for their own respective economies, the political leaders of these countries will accept a reasonably high level of pain as they will view the longer term goals as more important.

Blondie - Call Me

Mike Heron - Call Me Diamond

Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond

The intransigence of the Spanish state is literally the only reason Catalonia hasn't followed the Scottish example of the referendum. They are completely unable to hold a legal and democratic referendum because the Spanish Government and Courts will not allow them to do so in any circumstances. With that in mind, how do you propose pro-independence Catalans proceed? Do they just hold their hands up, accept that Spanish law won't allow it because their constitution is fundamentally undemocratic and give up, or do they try every political route possible to get the Spanish Government to come to the negotiating table in order to find a legal and internationally accepted route? The latter is clearly the only reasonable option, and it's exactly what Puigdemont is doing. Even in face of a government crackdown which invoked memories of the Guardia Civil acting as the private militia of the Falange, they're still persisting with asking for negotiations. The Catalans are the only side making any attempt at dialogue or compromise here.

Not really sure what Cerys Matthews has to do with any of this.

It's always the correct way when the state knows the smaller nation probably won't vote for independence. When you have a situation where people probably will, you may find the other team doesn't want to play. That can't just be the end of the matter. Of course it's the best way but it can't be the only one. And historically rarely has been. Pretty much everyone in catalonia, even a plurality of catalan PP voters wanted a "Scottish way". They talk about practically nothing else. It's what they have been asking for for years. It's not their fault Spain refuses.

The Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith

Ran the Chicago marathon on Sunday - they know how to put on a show! Despite the massive field of 40k+, I was into my stride almost straight away. In typical American style, the roads are really wide pretty much the whole way round. It was unseasonably warm though, getting to around 23-24 degrees in the later stages, which inevitably left me burnt! Happy enough with my 3:27, which includes a pitstop to address some backed up issues around mile 11. A first during a race for that, and hopefully a last... and the legs don't feel too bad, thankfully.

U2 - Sweetest Thing

I love Tennents more than my daughter.

Lynryd Skynyrd : Sweet Home Alabama

Hendry is a must imo. Not a bad team I must admit but still think Bain needs to be in there - although he does switch off at times he can pull us out of the shite when needed. Would also have Haber in there when fit to play alongside AJLS, and McGowan instead of the youngster you would have in midfield. Think with a fully fit squad our best 11 would be this. Bain Meekings Hendry Waddell Kerr Holt Kamara McGowan Allan Deacon Haber.

its no the greatest but by god i will not stop drinking it

Rolling Stones : Walking The Dog

Katrina And The Waves : Walking On Sunshine

This is a great thing to be moaning at.

Donovan - Sunshine Superman

Cream : Sunshine Of Your Love

Spooky Tooth - Sunshine Help Me

Honestly though, how pish has yer country gotta be that you have to get patriotism by brainwashing it into citizens as kids, use fucking intimidation and peer pressure on those that aren't indoctrinated, guilt them by saying its about the troops or now trying to force your boss and/or your chosen line of work to make it mandatory?

does trying to get games to work on my ps2 after the disc drive died count?

I've read all of those and I feel quite ill, Falkirk deserves all the misery it gets if she's representative of its citizens

Tennent's hits the spot and I don't get a hoor of a heed in the morning, a beautiful lager

It is without doubt the best non premium lager there is by an absolute country mile. It pisses all over fosters, carling, Carlsberg, Heineken, Bud, Amstel. If im going out for just a few pints it'll always be Tennents I would choose over anything on tap.

He’ll just comeback as the jagfox...

Morton fans - needing St. Mirren fans to keep them in check since day dot.

That’ll be Cleo from Aldershot. Always mentions that she went to the England - Peru friendly a couple of years ago for no reason whatsoever. Mick from Greenwich is another Arsenal fan who just asks Tim about South American players that Arsenal are linked with no matter how tenuous the link is. I normally skip the podcast forward 5 minutes whenever they call in.

Ask your pals on the moderating team. They'll be more than happy to fill you in

Genuinely curious here.. what would your preferred starting 11 be? From the bits i've seen it wouldn't include Bain, Kerr, McGowan or any of our first team strikers, and would include two under 20's with no first team experience so genuinely interested in what you think it should be.

It'll be a tough one for McPake. He might feel obligated to follow the man that essentially kept him on when many wouldn't have but equally, the club stood by him and still views him as having a big future. Be interesting to see what he does.

If it's the one I'm thinking of, she phoned in twice in the last 2 weeks the first time she was talking about how her team was Aldershot and how pleased she was that Man Utd had come to play them in a League Cup tie etc whilst in the same breath began talking about her team being Arsenal and some bollocks about the League Cup. I don't remember why she phoned in the second time. Some boy from Texas has started phoning in every week, with fairly boring questions but nothing too offensive. Adebayo forgets he's phoned in the previous week and keeps asking him if his family safe from the hurricane. Bizzare.

A valiant but ultimately doomed attempt to bring this shitshow back to something more relevant. It must be dreadful being a Morton fan, especially if the thread is like this regularly.

How else are they to pay for the nice new trains on my line?

Twin Atlantic - Make A Beast Of Myself

Genetics imo

The Divinyls : I Touch Myself

Yeah, didn't want to post in here until it was out in the public domain for obvious reasons. Fucking brutal stuff. Hope he makes a full recovery.

If I went into a toilet and saw that, I'd shite in the sink.

Clunk Klink every trip, or I'll f**k you in the morgue. I think would have been a far more effective and accurate saying.

Not sure if this is the right place to post this but given I've used this thread to keep you informed of my daughters treatment..... I was going through the paperwork from Sakura's treatment and noticed that there was monthly costings within the information. I totted them up from her 1st treatment in December last year to her discharge from hospital in September. £131,000+! Now obviously we didn't have to pay any of that as children under 5 (15 in some Prefectures including this one) receive free health care but it makes you think about how the NHS manages. On a more important note, Sakura is doing well. fortnightly bloods continuing to go in the right direction plus shes growing and developing like any other 16 month old.