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I'm looking forward to day when Buddist Monk stops drawing folk into tedious, tedious arguments.

It's comically bad I know.

I tend to come on to P&B while having my lunch. I remember the days when I got quite excited seeing there'd been 3 new pages since yesterday, and thinking something exciting was happening at the club. Now I know it's almost certainly going to be mainly convoluted nonsense from Buddist Monk.

Is anyone else a wee bit more optimistic about the rest of the season? I am after going to the reserve game on Monday and seeing Froxy, Dunne and Russell playing so well. Add Irving, Rudden, Robson, McKee and McGhee, it could be like watching a completely different team. Or am I just watching my life through navy blue tinted spectacles?

Fucking hell, will Jurgen Klopp keep his job after this lotto scandal?

No, you said we were funded by a suger daddy. Steve Brown doesn't own the facilities at McDiarmid Park, nor own McDiarmid Park. Genuinely struggling as to how St Johnstone FC using their own facilities, at their own ground, which they own, for functions, can be construed as Steve Brown giving money to the club.

These days, right, if you say you’re English, you get arrested and thrown in jail.

We love a Friday signing...

Only an absolute nonce would dislike pizza.

Anything from the game on Saturday will just paper over the gaping chasms that have become apparent to just about everyone now. The board should have binned him after the ‘well game and tried some actual recruitment rather than asking the boy on the telly if he fancies a job. Probably end up with Tyrone off STV next.

That's what Mrs @Bairnardo always tells me too.

You've gone too far this time

Dundee, a city on the cusp of a cultural revolution, the new Bilbao, the Guggenheim Effect, all hail the City of Discovery.

When will Kate and Gerry just own up FFS.

Next home game vs benburb. Foodbank collection. Lets support those less fortunate than others.

After being diagnosed with a detached retina at the start of June, and having had to have 2 eye operations over the summer at Great Ormond St, one of my mini ranters has just measured a 75 on the Snellen eyesight scale, having been at 120 last week (smaller is better in this case).

Nice graphic from Edniburgh United - just need an updated one after each round with the marker pen of doom through badges that have gone out!

Gary hasn’t aged well

Anyone who dislikes pizza has something very wrong with them. Sort your life out. Now.

He'll have rum and, coca cola.

Worth noting that its being reported that the SFA are seeking clarification of the rules on red cards, four games into the season and AFTER appeals/independent reviews. They then have the brass neck to charge a manager for calling them clueless [emoji1]

Jimmy Savile hated pizza.

It didn't, it was published in the Daily Record.

There's been a few pizza haters on here in the past. Vile, subhuman creatures they should be rounded up and sent to live on an island somewhere, where they can't infect anyone else with their disgusting sickness.

Now to me, that simply sounds like you saying, "I will play Devil's Advocate because I know it annoys people", and whether that annoyance is justified or not is irrelevant. The problem is that in doing so, you open yourself up to the accusation you are using the DA premise because it allows you to say 'questionable' things with a level of impunity. Allow me to be very blunt here, and I mean very blunt, racism through jest or challenge is still racism. Again I want to be very clear I am not accusing you personally of being a racist. It has been seen all down history that many racists, xenophobes, homophobes and misogynists also use this tactic in order to allow their hateful views to hold some intellectual weight. As if it's a bold and courageous thing. It's not though, it's intellectually bankrupt, and sadly all too transparent. Am I saying you are a racist, xenophobe, homophobe or misogynist? No, at least not based on what I've read of your comments so far. I'd say your stance is anachronous but that is for perhaps for another debate as you say. That is a classic trope used by racists. It says if you find offence in this you are impeding on my freedoms. The thing is you will have a line yourself of where offence is taken. For example if someone put up roadside billboards of child pornography you'd naturally be offended and wish for those things to be removed. It's an outlandish suggestion of course, but that is the point. Using your argument, anyone wishing to remove those things would go against the freedoms of the "artist" and that the offence generated is in your own words "absolutely imperative". So, in short, you claim it's not offensive because you don't find it offensive, and things you don't find offensive are entirely allowed because it's about freedom of expression. Those billboards would (I hope!) cross your line of what is offensive. The thing is, you are not the sole arbiter of what is offensive, and I would content that as you are not black, you are in a position where your experiences are limited in regard to this. Don't try and wrap it up in the metaphorical flag of freedoms, when those freedoms are not the ones laid out by you but by the social norms of the society you live within. I'm sorry but your statement was considerably absolute. However you rolling back on that, as you have done here (and I would contend you are doing so because you realise the inaccuracy of that premise), is obviously a good thing. The problem that it's pernicious is simply saying that "I don't see offence so you have no right to see it and I'm worried what other things may be effected in the future". It's not a justifiable position to claim that something that people find abhorrent shouldn't be considered abhorrent because of some unknown and ambiguous existential threat further down the line. This whole thing has been discredited by history. For example people said at the time that Love Thy Neighbour was acceptable television in the 70s. However the racism within it is seen pretty much universally as being unpalatable in modern society. The argument at the time as to why it shouldn't be considered as such? The same as the one you are using now. Your victimhood claim, btw, is not addressing the issue, it's addressing the person. Play the ball not the man. I would also counter that not being black puts you at a disadvantage in judging what a section of society finds offensive. That works both ways, though, and I should point out I am not creating a false dichotomy here, or giving a blank cheque to anyone to claim offence simply because they (or their culture/creed) are the subject of the work.

obviously never seen the pressley wilkie era

maybe we should get a banner made with something rude in Gaelic on it. That'll teach 'em... Cò an caora sin còmhla riut a chunnaic mi an-raoir? Who was that sheep I saw you with last night? Cha b'e sin caora, 'se sin mo chèile a bha innte! That was no sheep, that was my spouse!

OK on Clyde sport saying there's a good chance Ferdinand will be available to face Celtic tomorrow. Taking that as a sign that things are looking positive.

People making serious suggestions that Chelsea offered a boy, seemingly below Scottish Championship level standard, a contract extention so they could get a token sum for him Right enough they are struggling for wonga down there. Minters.

Anyone who doesn't understand that being St Johnstone chairman on a volunteer basis and basically only 3 days a week, while running your own shite and having family to deal with as well, isn't thinking right. It's a fucking hard job with little in the way of rewards and certainly one I wouldn't want to do. Broon has done things wrong, in fact probably a lot wrong but he's got a hell of a lot right. He's also not someone who thrives in the spotlight and doesn't have the gift of the gab but tbh i kind of prefer that to gobshites who try to spin you a line and always have underlying, ulterior motives. Tommy is in the same mould, straight talking, honest folk. I like them.

So, we in admin yet?

In fairness the Commercial team are doing a fine job. Very little (if any) free space left anywhere in the stadium for advertising and if someone is willing to pay for sock sponsorship then bring it on.

Think the problems started when the running time increased. I'm sure it used to be on either just before or just after Sportsound and then even when they went to both it wasn't on for as long as it is now. Now there's a lot of time to kill and when they have on uninteresting guests it really shows. It also doesn't help now that Sportsound no longer goes to the studio at 2 p.m. as it used to but goes over instead to commentary of the early kick off. So now we have a weak OtB followed by some commentary of a game that presumably we've not been interested in otherwise we'd be listening to it, which doesn't leave much time for team news and interviews from the other games (most of this time is devoted to whatever Brendan Rodgers is saying anyway, whether they've played in the early kick off or not). So from having a tight, funny hour or so followed by a decent bit of preview then another tight, funny hour or so after the games we've went to two rambling hours, 15 minutes or so of preview, then 90 minutes more of an OtB that has already used up a fair chunk of content. Sometimes less is more but the BBC have always went the other way (like taking 30 minute programmes and making them 45 minutes etc).

St Rochs next home league fixture vs Benburb. Food bank collection. Lets support people less fortunate than others. If you can donate please do.

You don’t like this song? Oh well, haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.....

What you need to understand is that when this guy gets stuff wrong (a daily occurence), it's you who has misunderstood rather than he who has made an arse of himself yet again. The fact that his whole point was based on a fallacy is irrelevant in his mind...

Your exact words were "even with Sugar Daddy money from Brown", so I've no idea why you're now just repeating the points I've made as if they were yours all along, just acknowledge you were caught slavering absolute shite and move on. I'm not sure why what we achieved is relevant anyway, we peaked when at least four bugger clubs had their biggest dips in decades. It won't be repeated in our lifetimes, so it's irrelevant to St Mirrens ambitions.

I'm jumping on the McGlynn train with @Wardy The man loves the Rovers, will have us hard to beat and we'll be well organised. Also, he's got no hair but we don't care.

I'm normally a hippy pacifist but the only way to deal with these pizza haters is to round them up into a large cage and flame-thrower them. Throbber's Londsale trackies should burn well.

I would have agreed with you in the past, but I think that's pretty unfair on Brown when you see the evidence in front of you. He's sanctioned contracts to pay multiple players £100k a year basic salary for at least 2 summers now and probably for longer than that and the weekly'football operation' runs at £65k a week, which is much higher than I would have imagined it would be. The chairman has sanctioned moves for Scougall, O'Halloran (albeit short-term - would've been for the full season if Rangers had agreed a loan extension though), McMillan, Watt, Kennedy, Wright, Swanson, Callachan and Nydam in the last year and a bit - all of whom will command pretty decent wages. That's before mentioning the loanees from Fulham and Manchester United and Tanser, who I'd imagine will be on better money now that he's proven himself capable at this level. He's also agreed to pay off Paton and Cummins probably got some cash too. There's talk that we pay good bonuses as well - I dread to think what some of the monthly take away salaries are when you add on the various bonuses the players will get. Wright's moans about budget have disappeared now and you can see why. Brown has put up with a lot of shit from Wright and the fans (myself included) over the last few years and he can be a bit of a miserable git at times in his interviews but behind closed doors he's clearly shown a lot of ambition. He's managed to retain most of our best players (Scobbie, Swanson the 2nd time round and arguably Maclean are the only ones I can think of that he maybe could've done better with) at the same time as trying to improve the quality of the squad. He also fixed our most successful ever manager up on a 4 year contract in 2015 and we're back to the negotiating table now to extend that again. The only thing missing is a transfer fee - I don't think we have ever paid a fee for a first team player with Steve as chairman. I think the biggest problem Steve needs to shift (and hopefully will if the accounts get a wider audience) is the notion that he's tight and doesn't back the manager. A bit of PR training for him (which he wouldn't agree to) and a person dedicated to PR and only that at the club would probably go a long way to addressing that. The social media output has improved a lot since Gary has come in (although could and I reckon will still improve) and the signings have brought back a feel good factor at the club for the first time in a while. It could obviously all go to shit but I don't think it's as easy to just blame the chairman as it used to be.

Time for the third and final round of the Dotting Invincibles Cup of Kings, the singles. Thanks to Lincoln Hearts and Christophe for sending over their running orders, they are as follows (apologies for the double-spacing, I don't know how to turn it off) ... 1 Lincoln Hearts vs Christophe 2 Helpma vs alang1993 3 Ross. vs Jacksgranda 4 Tynierose vs Scotfree 5 Salvo Montalbano vs BigBo10 6 Ziggy vs JamesP_81 7 The Captain vs Dyl 8 Adam104 vs pleslie99 9 MSU vs Cardinal Richelieu 10 Caspian Chris vs blackislekillie 11 The DA vs Peasy23 12 German Jag vs Audaces Fortuna Juvat 13 NJ2 vs LeedsSaint 14 wastecoatwilly vs Cowden0 15 SlipperyP vs Welshbairn 16 DublinMagyar vs gkneil 17 Eednud vs Goober Bud A reminder of the state of play... Lincoln's Lions lead 9.5-6.5. With seventeen left to play, first team to get to 17 points wins it. It could still be a tie, 16.5-16.5, in which case we will have a tie-breaker. In line with Christophe's suggestion that we do the results in order I've decided we should have staggered deadlines. You can still PM me your scores over before your deadline, and it would make life easier if you do, but I won't publicise your score till it is the correct order. If you are in match 1 or 2, please send over your scores by 2pm on Monday. If you're in match 3,4 or 5... 2pm on Tuesday. 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10... 2pm on Wednesday. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 or 17... 2pm on Thursday. If @Jacksgranda, or anyone else, can't open the quiz, let me know and I can PM over the questions. Questions below: Week Three.

I was on holiday in Praia da Luz a month after she went missing and saw Kate McCann a couple of times while I was there. Shame, if my parents had just held off from booking it for a couple of months they could have got it a fair bit cheaper.

It's good to see Fitzpatrick signed. He's a great option to have for reserve games and against Celtic in the cup.

'Get behind the team and do not ask about Coulibaly'

Not picking your comment out specifically, as it seems to reflect quite a few people's opinion on this, but I think if people don't see the racial overtones then perhaps you should speak to people who deal with racism on a daily basis, both overt and casual. You can maybe, maybe, make an argument about caricature, the problem is that that caricature is based on classic racist stereotypes. It's "Tin Tin in the Congo" trope territory. What I would say, before everyone starts piling in on this, is that Williams made a complete fucking tit of herself. She belittled Osaka's success and brought ridicule upon herself. She has come out of this very badly, but taking that cartoon out of the *autistic_screeching* from both sides virtue signalling and being apologists, it is most definitely racist. Am I saying that those who don't see it as racist are racist themselves? No, that is definitely not what I am saying, and I want to make that very clear. This is not a false dichotomy I am creating. What I would say is that Australia itself has a history of racially stereotyping it's own indigenous people and that populist pseudo-racism still exists within mainstream society.