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I quite like the fact that MSPs mingle with us on public transport. Yesterday I spotted Mrs Doubtfire (Annabel Goldie) at Queen Street Station and Mike 'grumpy' Russell at Waverley Station.

How many points do I get for these spots?

At least I recognised this pair. There should be a points system in place on here for spotting some of the more obscure ones.

Ideas for a points system?

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Saw Iain Gray coming out a portaloo in Kelvingrove Park during the Mela one year. Looked sheepish enough to indicate he'd dropped off the best part of a Labour Party manifesto in there.

Also saw Eric Pickles coming off the plane I was about to get on to fly back up the road and worried the fat ride had fucked the suspension on the undercarriage.

Have seen Nicola Sturgeon and Angus Robertson out and about, and was with my maw when she got stopped by former Defence Secretary Des Browne in Kilmarnock town centre when he was canvassing in the run-up to the 1997 General Election. My mum told him to sort out the amount of dug shite in Kay Park, but I think he decided to bomb Iraq instead.

The sexiest by far was wee Paddy Harvie at a Green stall on Buchanan Street. I swear his baldy wee heid had a halo round it.

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I quite like the fact that MSPs mingle with us on public transport. Yesterday I spotted Mrs Doubtfire (Annabel Goldie) at Queen Street Station and Mike 'grumpy' Russell at Waverley Station.

How many points do I get for these spots?

At least I recognised this pair. There should be a points system in place on here for spotting some of the more obscure ones.

Ideas for a points system?

Mike Russell is one of the few politicians to impress me. I met him once at a flooding conference in Perth back in, I think, 2006. We spoke for all of about 2 minutes before he shuffled on. Met him again at a different event about 5 years later, and by this time he was in government. What got me was that he remembered my name, my job and what we spoke about for those brief minutes years earlier.

I couldn't do that.

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Saw Iain Gray coming out a portaloo in Kelvingrove Park during the Mela one year. Looked sheepish enough to indicate he'd dropped off the best part of a Labour Party manifesto in there.

Also saw Eric Pickles coming off the plane I was about to get on to fly back up the road and worried the fat ride had fucked the suspension on the undercarriage.

Have seen Nicola Sturgeon and Angus Robertson out and about, and was with my maw when she got stopped by former Defence Secretary Des Browne in Kilmarnock town centre when he was canvassing in the run-up to the 1997 General Election. My mum told him to sort out the amount of dug shite in Kay Park, but I think he decided to bomb Iraq instead.

The sexiest by far was wee Paddy Harvie at a Green stall on Buchanan Street. I swear his baldy wee heid had a halo round it.

phmessiah-300x168.jpg

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Saw Iain Gray coming out a portaloo in Kelvingrove Park during the Mela one year. Looked sheepish enough to indicate he'd dropped off the best part of a Labour Party manifesto in there.

Also saw Eric Pickles coming off the plane I was about to get on to fly back up the road and worried the fat ride had fucked the suspension on the undercarriage.

Have seen Nicola Sturgeon and Angus Robertson out and about, and was with my maw when she got stopped by former Defence Secretary Des Browne in Kilmarnock town centre when he was canvassing in the run-up to the 1997 General Election. My mum told him to sort out the amount of dug shite in Kay Park, but I think he decided to bomb Iraq instead.

The sexiest by far was wee Paddy Harvie at a Green stall on Buchanan Street. I swear his baldy wee heid had a halo round it.

phmessiah-300x168.jpg

That 'halo' looks more like an OOr Wullie wig.

I won't see any politicians until near the general election. Even then they might not bother. I'm not in a seat labour are likely to lose.

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I've saw Gordon Banks a few times as my mate works for him. Keith Brown is a member of our Legion branch and he's been at a few things we've had on. Also ex SNP Man George Reid has done a couple of things with us in the early day of the branch.

On deployment to the gulf in 2010 the newly elected defence secretary Liam Fox was due to visit us when we got alongside Abu Dhabi cue loads of cleaning up for the p***k not too show up. Also I was in the guard on parade for the new Falkland Islands Governor getting sworn in. That was a good day. I think there's more people but that's all I can think of just now.

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Have met Cameron several times in Mauchline..

What's he like? Nearly had an encounter set up with him during the referendum and I had a plan to ask him really angry non sensical questions to see how he would handle it "Mr Cameron, why not devolve the income tax to 100% and then increase green to 130% of capacity of nuclear?" or something like that. Quite like when politicians get approached by members of the public who make over simplified analogies relating to their own household budgets to ask their question.

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What's he like? Nearly had an encounter set up with him during the referendum and I had a plan to ask him really angry non sensical questions to see how he would handle it "Mr Cameron, why not devolve the income tax to 100% and then increase green to 130% of capacity of nuclear?" or something like that. Quite like when politicians get approached by members of the public who make over simplified analogies relating to their own household budgets to ask their question.

It's always the ones that refer to local issues which are are utterly specific to this one individual, and expect the PM to know what they are talking about, and to tell them it will be sorted.

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Just passed Ruth Davidson literally about an hour and a half ago in St Vincent St Glasgow.

Thought it was a wee guy at first as she had on a black Crombie coat. She nearly bumped into me she was that close yappin on her mobile.

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What's he like? Nearly had an encounter set up with him during the referendum and I had a plan to ask him really angry non sensical questions to see how he would handle it "Mr Cameron, why not devolve the income tax to 100% and then increase green to 130% of capacity of nuclear?" or something like that. Quite like when politicians get approached by members of the public who make over simplified analogies relating to their own household budgets to ask their question.

Polite. Feigned interest in what I was doing then went back to his wine and cigarettes.

Cameron stays there quite a lot. He is in Scotland as PM more often than the one eyed socialist f**k from Fife was.

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Just passed Ruth Davidson literally about an hour and a half ago in St Vincent St Glasgow.

Thought it was a wee guy at first as she had on a black Crombie coat. She nearly bumped into me she was that close yappin on her mobile.

She swears like a trooper. My best mate was part writing some of her speeches during the referendum campaign and was also part of her prep team for the televised debates. They were all absolutely shitting a brick that she would let fly with an expletive on live TV :lol:

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