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"The problem with you is that you have a wildly inflated ego and sense of your own worth. You've believed the hype that surrounds you, despite the fact that you've actually achieved very little in the game." "That's enough" said Warburton.

Folk who call accumulators 'accas'.

It's clearly been toned down quite a bit, probably because of being shown across the UK. Fergie was awful, and all things combined made the whole episode feel more like Burnistoun or Gary Tank Commander The more they stick to the main characters, the better it will get.

Finally, some progress. The tracking info updated overnight and is now at the Hong Kong depot,which is good. It now has an estimated delivery of Nov 2nd, which is bad. It's nice to know the phone is coming but that date is 11 working days after it was shipped. Delivery is supposed to be 2-6. I won't rest until my shipping charge is refunded!

Elliott is a better RB than Gordon. Ginger p***k.

Jesus f**k. I'm not even going to start. No, I will. Your high class degree taught you the grand total of f**k all if you think a deal with a North American country that has never been in the EU sets a 'valuable precedent' for anything, never mind Brexit negotiations. Reading your pish makes me feel like Apu explaining to Principal Skinner about his idea for a book about a futuristic theme park.

If there are no other entries, that caption still won't win.

Why can't Stevie Wonder see his mates? Because he's married.

A quick search of #stillgame and it seems everyone's loving it. Surely can't be watching the same programme as me? Absolutely dreadful stuff.

Banjoed two people there

There's a great story of Sean Fitzpatrick being invited to an IRB refs conference around 2000 to discuss scrummaging where he showed them 10 videos of scrums collapsing and asked them to say who they would penalise and why. He then explained to them why they were all wrong, and highlighted what should have been given. It's amazing to think that the refereeing of the scrum has got worse since.

David Wilkinson used to referee here in the Premiership/National Leagues/Whatever they are/were called, and was an excellent referee. Understood the game, and how to manage it. He went back to Ireland to climb the ladder, and as has become a complete and utter fud.

McGhee executed on the pitch as half time entertainment and Dom Thomas installed as Player/Manager/Chairman for life IMO.

magee magee magee magee magee magee magee

Perfect time to announce that IMO. 6 pointer against fellow struggles tomorrow having been scudded 3-0 by ICT and dropped to 2nd bottom of the league. What could possibly go wrong? The fanbase are so warm and fuzzy towards the Well Society too. Tbh, as far as I'm concerned it doesn't really matter what the Society does/doesn't do as a body but rather how the club itself is run and that's specific to Alan Burrows who I've a fair degree of faith in and the current board of directors who I don't really know that much about though Jim McMahon seems to have his head reasonably screwed on. There's that weird idea that seems to float around re: fan ownership that they're just going to lift randoms from the East stand and get them to run the club (acknowledging that Flow is a fan from the East stand but you know what I mean). From what we've been told the budgets were restructured last summer and from Les Hutchison's interview in the Mail ages ago a cash neutral position was achievable. If that's the case then the sole function of the WS should essentially be to act as a bank. Ach, we'll see how it goes I suppose. The only period in my lifetime that he club has been owned by someone with "deep pockets" (not including Hutchison which was always a temporary thing) we ended up in administration so that's something I suppose.

Zen Archer pccabe 8MileBU throbber welshbairn Lisa Cuddy Pride of the Clyde

Dortmund is ok, folk go on about it like it's the outer hebrides but there's plenty of decent pubs . Düsseldorf does have far more nightlife tho , Dortmund is about 50 minutes on the train from there .

Copyright : Jack Steedman

Herman's Hermits : I'm into something Good

Don't forget that the labour administration handed back £1.5 billion to Westminster that Scotland had no use for.

Bob Marley And The Wailers - High Tide Or Low Tide

Ike And Tina Turner : River Deep Mountain High

What you telling me for? I would do this storyline for the rest of my entire life if it meant a complete dick like you never watched or attended icw ever again. As for everyone else in here. enjoy the hydro weekend. we all deserve it. who would ever have imagined this.

If I had known you were here we could have got a pint. I'd have provided straws and everything.

Rangers have not banned Barton. They've just told him to stay away from the stadium and the training ground.

Wholeheartedly agree with 1320, doing a great job with the footage & managing to put up some interviews. As one who can't make Gayfield very often, it's brill to get chance to see highlights. Keep up the good work.

Quality 2nd hand banter. Poor effort.. why not be more creative. Try phoning wagner.....oh wait [emoji57]

Joe Bonamassa - High Water Everywhere

7/10 - knew 6 fairly sure of the 7th (star). First 6 right.

Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water

Sorry for doubting you Dayman, and shame on you Edmund, for not getting the quiz up earlier when Bully Wee Villa might have been sober! Anyway... Live from Hampden, here is the FINAL of the Charles Ingram Memorial Diddly Dee Jam Jar Trophy... The_Kincardine (Eng) vs WhiteRoseKillie (Eng) 25 questions in total... a traditional 10 question quiz PLUS five rounds of three questions on a particular theme... Anyone who wants to take part (for fun) PM me your answers or stick them in spoilers. Answers and winners on Monday lunchtime, so you've got all weekend to tackle it! ------------------ Landlocked Countries: a) Which country is the most populous landlocked country in the world, having lost its access to the sea in 1993? b) Which country became landlocked in 1884 after losing the War of the Pacific? c) Its capital is Bishkek; which former Soviet republic can be regarded as the world’s most landlocked country, in that it is the furthest from the sea? Brands: a) Wenger and Victorinox are the only companies to have manufactured which iconic item? b) Which brand of individually wrapped confectionary is named after a play by J. M. Barrie? c) Which brand of rum uses the advertising slogan ‘To Life, Love, and Loot’? One Spelling: 2 Meanings: Identify three pairs of words with identical spellings but different pronunciations a) One suffering from a chronic illness; and having no force, efficacy or cogency. b) The act of producing over again; and a pastime c) Having an organised labour force; and atoms or molecules bearing no electrical charge Ex-teachers: a) Which Nobel laureate and Booker Prize-winning author’s best-known work was allegedly inspired by his failure as a teacher to control a class of unruly children? b) Which former deputy headmaster turned quiz-show host would offer losing contestants nothing but their “BFH: bus fare home”? c) Which former maths teacher had two UK number-ones hits during the 1970s that both featured the word ‘Eyes’ in their titles? Identify the bands from their first and (possibly) last UK top 40 singles: a) New Life (1981) – Wrong (2009) b) The Prince (1979) - NW5 (2008) c) It Ain’t What You Do It’s The Way That You Do It (1982) - Look on the Floor (2005) Trivia round: 1. Which 40-year-old British sportsman swapped two wheels for four to drive in the 2016 Le Mans 24 Hour race? 2. In what sporting context was ‘L’ replaced by ‘50’ in January 2016? 3. In 2016, which double Oscar winner returned to the stage for the first time since 1992, playing King Lear at the Old Vic? 4. Who took the post of Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead on the 12th of September, 2016? 5. Which city was renamed ‘Puerto Argentina’ for ten weeks in 1982? 6. What increased from 39 to 107 in 2007? 7. What name is shared by a market town in Lincolnshire and a county in the border region of the Republic of Ireland? 8. Which state of the USA has the longest coastline? 9. What colour is liquid oxygen? 10. Aibohphobia is a coined term for the fear of what? -------------------------------------------------- p.s. I didn't write this quiz but I'll give credit to it once the results are revealed...Good luck!

He's not been heard from for 4 hours. I'll post something on Facebook, that'll save him.

Can someone pop round his house and make sure he's not choked on his own vomit?

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I'd be interested to find out what the chances are of planning consent for housing being granted at the Dalmoak site. I'd be very interested to know if Brabco have a contingency plan in place should consent not be granted and what that plan is.

Just the 45 mins talking about Rangers tonight? Standards are slipping, Kenny.

6 out of 10!

Little River Band - Cool Change

The South Stand is sponsored by Street Lighting Supplies and I think all the stairwells already have their branding attached. Whether the club would open the South Stand up to individual fans remains to be seen. I imagine businesses pay far more than we would, but I think they only get a deal for a year whereas if a fan sponsors a step in the main stand they get it for life. You may get an official answer on Friday. The lady in the Commercial Official who deals with steps is snowed under at the moment and is going to try and spend some time working on step sponsorship tomorrow. I imagine it's going to be quite popular in the runup to Christmas.

Currently watching Anthropoid. Why do film makers insist in making people speak English with phony accents? I know the main characters are all Czechs, I don't need them to speak like extras from a Compare the Meerkat advert to remind me of the fact.

Nah, f**k it.

Dusty Springfield - Little By Little

Commitment

Wasn't really a comment on his ability as such, he's obviously a good player. I just don't like watching him. Always lots of monotonous rallies and when played on a court like that it's soul destroying to watch.

So, the Sevco Show, once again.

The show currently on Sky Channel 153, 'Balls Deep' about an 'understaffed tugboat in New York Harbour' is not quite as exciting as expected.

Well you do like to oppress folk

Correct, and the same for the other 9 decent clubs in the league. Something the snow aff a dyke OF 'support' will never understand.

I've greenied it too. Out of pity more than anything else.

The Darien scheme was evidently a disaster for the Scotland, but it needs to be placed in context. I realise you're no doubt just trolling but I think it important to point a few things out. From the Union of the Crowns in 1603 although Scotland was still an independent country her interests were increasingly ignored by the monarchs who sat on the throne in London, who became ever more preoccupied with the affairs of their much larger and more powerful southern kingdom. As a consequence domestic Scottish policy was neglected or completely ignored whilst Scotland was dragged into foreign affairs on the side of England by default. For example throughout the 1620s Scotland found itself at war with France (our traditional ally) and Spain as a consequence of essentially English foreign policy concerns, wars which were not by any means in Scotland's interests. Partially as a result Scottish attempts to establish a colony in Nova Scotia were frustrated due to the Anglo-French war of the 1620s; during the peace negotiations Charles I found it convenient to cede Scottish holdings in the Americas to the French as part of the final settlement. The series of wars against the Dutch in the latter half of the 17th century were also entirely detrimental to Scottish interests as they involved a breach with a nation that had been one of our major continental trading partners. They also inspired the Navigation Acts which forbade the import of goods into England (or her colonies) unless carried by English ships. Self-evidently this was detrimental to Scottish trade, but despite the English monarch being the Scottish monarch (or in the case of Cromwell Lord Protector) these measures were taken without consideration of the Scottish interest. By the period of the Darien scheme Scotland had been thoroughly ignored by its supposed monarch for the best part of a hundred years and had consequently endured a period of economic and political stagnation whilst at the same time being forced to supply resources for colonial and military ventures that benefited only the English. It had also been drawn into a series of European conflicts in which it had little clear interest and which had negatively impacted on Scottish trade with the continent. It was also shut out, essentially, from trade with English colonies and the wealth to be had from them, especially as the likes of the East India Company had no interest in allowing Scots a share in their lucrative commerce. All the while we were being ruled by the same monarch and hence had little avenue to complain about such neglect, let alone seek redress. Now at this point it is necessary to say that there were a number of reasons why the Darien scheme failed, and it was indeed perhaps an ill-advised venture from the very beginning that had little chance of success. In that sense it is most certainly a Scottish failure. It is important to understand however that the intransigence, disregard and hostility of the English government and merchant class towards Scottish interests was the key stimulus that provoked their Scottish counterparts into launching such an ambitious scheme to begin with. The implosion of the scheme need not have been anything like as ruinous for the Scottish economy either had it not been for English interference; originally the Scots managed to secure investment not only from amongst themselves but also a number of Dutch and English backers. It was pressure from the English East India Company that forced these investors to withdraw and therefore compelled the Scots to raise the necessary capital entirely within Scotland. Indeed the East India Company had thought that by getting the English and Dutch backers to jump ship the scheme would collapse entirely. The isthmus of Panama was also in what we would nowadays call the Spanish 'sphere of influence', and William II (i.e. King Billy) was more concerned with maintaining good relations with Spain (for English interests) than backing the ambitions of his Scottish subjects and was also instrumental in sabotaging this attempt to get foreign capital. Consequently as a direct result of English hostility Scotland had to furnish the necessary investment alone. The colony created at Darien suffered from poor leadership, difficult climactic conditions and an poorly thought out choice of trade goods in which the natives were not overly interested. As I've said it was not a well planned or executed venture and much of the blame for that lies in Scotland. It should be pointed out however the colony's prospects would have been much less bleak had nearby English colonies not been specifically barred from rendering any assistance to or even trading with the Scots by the English authorities. William even ordered the Dutch not to conduct any trade with the Scots at Darien. That is to say it was the explicit policy of the Scottish monarch, who incidentally ruled England as well, to do everything in his power short of attacking the place to see the colony at Darien fail. Even settlers attempting to return to Scotland from Darien were refused assistance in Jamaica by the English authorities on their way back. When the Spanish did eventually attack the failing Scottish colony the English did nothing whatsoever to aid them. Even after the Darien debacle the Company of Scotland (our equivalent of the East India Company) limped on. Unfortunately for us the actual East India Company and the English in general were still totally unprepared to give up their monopoly (in British terms) on colonial trade, and as late as 1704 they were actually seizing the ships of their Scottish equivalent for daring to try and trade overseas. In this context antipathy towards the English was actually incredibly high in Scotland in 1707 and the proposed Act of Union massively unpopular. In this context you can see how Scotland was not 'bailed out' by the English for the Darien scheme; indeed the English were instrumental both in creating the conditions under which the Scots felt it necessary to try such a gamble and also in ensuring the scheme then failed. The Acts of Union did not specifically 'bail out' or compensate Scotland for the scheme (Scotland was not in that sense bankrupt anyway as the Darien scheme was a private venture financed by subscription) but provided capital to offset our liability for the English national debt. Fascinating fact: at the time of the Union England had a national debt whereas Scotland was actually debt free. In actual fact it was the monies directly doled to Scots nobles who had lost money in the scheme which might be described as a 'bail out', or in more accurate terms a bribe. To further place these events in context in 1705 the English passed the Alien Act because Scotland hinted it may pick a different monarch than the English once the childless Queen Anne died (and indeed we only did that after the English had already essentially chosen the Hanoverians with the Act of Settlement in 1701). The Alien Act was an intensely hostile attempt to bully Scotland into either explicitly choosing the Hanoverians or beginning talks about an Act of Union, as indeed we later did. Under the Alien Act Scots were to be treated in England as foreigners (disregarding any privileges we'd enjoyed since the Union of the Crowns) and most importantly it placed an embargo on Scotland trading with England or her colonies, thus threatening to cripple Scottish trade. Under such circumstances Scotland was essentially cajoled into beginning discussions on a union with England by overt English hostility. The unionist narrative therefore that Scotland was 'bankrupt' through her own incompetence and in 1707 the English benevolently 'bailed out' the benighted Scots is an absolute misunderstanding or distortion of actual history. Yes Darien was a disaster and Scots were responsible for most of the decisions which led to that disaster, but they were not primarily responsible for the context in which this disaster unfolded. Scotland was economically disadvantaged by a government that placed English interests first and deliberately sabotaged Scottish attempts to secure a colony of her own. Scotland was then essentially placed under economic sanctions for daring to consider appointing a different ruler than that in England. Scotland was not bailed out as she had no national debt, but certain Scottish nobles did somehow manage to ameliorate their own financial hardships during the negotiations that secured the Act of Union. Scotland in the late 17th and early 18th century was ruled by an elite in London that cared nothing for her economic or political problems and disrupted her trading relations with her continental partners without concern for Scottish interests. Scottish interests were deliberately sacrificed by the government in London at the altar of that which they considered more important, i.e. English concerns. When Scotland complained and suggested she might consider going her own way in the future she was threatened with economic devastation on the one hand whilst on the other certain Scots were promised rich rewards. Plus ca change eh?