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  1. No doubt there are accounts on social media spouting uninformed pish to undermine the government and every other political party, but that's hardly a parallel with this. The government department which has responsibility for the NHS is alleged to have created fake social media profiles using the images of NHS staff without the knowledge or permission of those staff, in order to spread arguments for less severe restrictions than lockdown in favour of building herd immunity (something the government has vehemently denied was ever their strategy) and after that was no longer feasible these accounts all shifted to advocating the lifting of lockdown as soon as possible. Then when the DHSC were rumbled, the accounts were deleted en masse, coincidentally more than 100 of them disappearing at the same time, which would certainly seem to give credence to the allegations. The DHSC then publicly accused the journalist who uncovered this of being the party spreading misinformation and undermining the fight against Covid-19, having refused to make any comment when they were previously contacted. This is despite, if the allegations are true, the actual misinformation which encouraged the use of an alternative strategy against Covid-19 and undermining the current one by seeming to have the stamp of credibility of healthcare professionals on the frontline, actually emanating directly from The Department of Health and Social Care itself. The actual government using the identities of NHS staff to lend credibility to their 'completely abandon the policy we're publicly advocating' test balloon without the knowledge of those staff, with that policy they're trying to float being the opposite of the one they're making an absolute clusterfuck of managing on a daily basis, is not ethically comparable to some individual on the internet making shit up. This is not a thing that works both ways, it's a scandal.
    30 points
  2. It's definitely down to Falkirk being pish, if you had a team that was top of the championship would you give as much of a f**k? Not a chance.
    29 points
  3. Mate I do get your sentiment. The way this season has ended (fair play to raith rovers we would all take the trophy if was us) scotish football has been the same for many years. The over all product has been going down hill for many years. I can only speak from an airdrie supporter point of view. Having grown up watching a team battle their way to the top league and cup finals then ultimately go bust as business men tried to squeeze every last penny out of people who were willing to try save a small town team. How would u feel if your team weren't there at all?. For a few months their was no Airdrie fc in any shape or form. Even after an application to SFA and being told no our club was gone. Most airdrie fans will admit to having sympathy for clydebank as it took for them to lose their club for us to gain our club back. Hearts have obviously seen an opportunity to stay in the top league when they were looking likely to go down. As would we all if we were bottom with games to play. The spfl have a lot to answer for allowing chairman from hearts and hamilton to lead reconstruction talks as they stand to benefit most from not being relegated. However when Falkirk went down last season and all this had happened then most Falkirk fans would feel the opposite of today as a team chasing promotion will have a different feeling from a team trying to avoid relegation. This season my point of view has changed also . Now I take my son home and away. For the last 2 years me and my boy have missed 3 games in total. Now he goes to bed at night dreaming of playing for Airdrie. A few years ago that wasnt possible as their was no Airdrie fc. The 2-1 away game with the last minute winner at Falkirk got my boy hooked. He now believes (ok I haven't told him were not that good) Airdrie are going to win every week. Our game is our game. Good and bad. Some weeks we win some we dont. Season in season out Atleast we have our clubs to support and moan about. It's why we have this web site. We all complain about how our clubs or how our leagues are treated/viewed by others but what else would we do on a Saturday? Stay at home and watch the English perm get bigger? Watch and listen to to ugly sisters win every year and complain about missing out on what they feel they should get? I'm happy to support my local team. Good or bad. I'm just grateful to have my team to moan about and now it continues with the next generations ups and downs. The self preservation will continue and we would all probably vote the same if we were there. . Now we can only hope the reconstruction talks lead to our game being as even as possible for us small clubs.. but it's all we can hope for.
    15 points
  4. No but his father was il.
    13 points
  5. 12 points
  6. I agree with Throbsy. Circa 2002-2010 was fucking brilliant being a teenager/20 something in pubs and clubs. As someone who is 35 this year, I still enjoy being a steaming fucking mess 99% of the times I go out.
    11 points
  7. Have you ever actually sat down and read this thing? Technically we're not allowed to go to the bathroom.
    9 points
  8. Fogle is a pathetic tryhard c**t. He is so desperate to start something during all of this that he can take credit for . Outwith Mastermind, I'd like to think that absolutely nobody sang Happy Birthday to Der Majesty at 9am today.
    8 points
  9. My go to story whenever the subject of mental teachers pops up.
    8 points
  10. I won’t give up on Scottish football and my team because of the pandemic. If anything it makes me look forward to the first match even more, whenever that will be. Perhaps the game isn't quite do all-consuming as it was when younger but still at a match 3 Saturdays in 4 normally. This season I went to over 30 games at quite a few dfferent venues before the halt. Oddly the only thing that would really make me think twice is if the bigoted arsecheeks forced their colt teams into L2. If that happened the game really would be up I fear, and for many of us.
    8 points
  11. Celtic beat Lazio, who're 1 point off the top of Serie A, home and away this season.
    8 points
  12. I can forgive our government making mistakes in a completely unprecedented crisis. I can accept that they might make quite big errors with the best of intentions. It's the fact that they lie and lie and lie that makes me hate them so much. They're incapable of being honest about anything. Once upon a time people (for example Gove, who lied about this repeatedly on TV) would have had the decency to resign.
    7 points
  13. "Mummy, why is daddy talking funny and dribbling out of his mouth?" "Daddy's very tired..." "I'm not getting a clown at my party now am I?" "No dear. Next year" *throbber stumbles into kitchen* "urrgghhh bluegh ugh" *daugher cries; wife looks wistfully out of window; throbber curls up to sleep in the dog basket*
    7 points
  14. 7 points
  15. Drive thru football, brilliant.. will there be an away section? St Johnstone away end..
    7 points
  16. Their dogs must be thick as f**k then. Mines can spell properly.
    7 points
  17. Paid just under 103 per litre at the weekend, cost me 7 or 8 quid less than usual to fill up. I think they’ve also improved the petrol to give your car better fuel economy. I’m now getting 3 weeks to the gallon.
    7 points
  18. Folk complaining about the Louisa Jordan are batshit mental
    7 points
  19. First thing this morning? ‘Where we going today?!?!!’
    6 points
  20. So how is this going to work then? Newcastle v Man U behind closed doors. Game is completed. On the Monday one Man U player goes down sick. Probably CV19 but we don’t know for sure. All players and officials from both clubs now go into self isolation for 7-14 days as things stand. Someone explain to me what happens next? ...the following Saturday games involving these sides is postponed and maybe the midweek and Saturday game the week after. Take this and multiply it by how many occurrences of players getting ill as you think will happen over the period and tell me how you can complete a set of fixtures in a defined timeline.....
    6 points
  21. And so the Junior thread died with pictures of Icelandic trees and talk of farts. Who'd have thunk it?!
    6 points
  22. Ah, SNPBAD is your angle. Should have seen that from your first post on the issue.
    6 points
  23. Better to have the extra hospital and not need it. Than not to have the extra hospital and need it. The lack of preparation with testing and ppe has been disgraceful though.
    6 points
  24. I’m undecided about reconstruction. If we have a temporary reconstruction, then this is being done simply for two clubs, Hearts and Partick Thistle as Stranraer we’re going down anyway, and with the play offs not happening Brechin are safe anyway. If the reconstruction is deemed to be permanent, until the next reconstruction, it has to be asked if this would have happened had this crisis not been with us. The answer is obviously “no”, so really the same reasoning applies. Should we be turning our leagues upside down for the sake of two clubs out of 42?
    6 points
  25. Derek was sugary, melodramatic pish and one look at Ricky Gervais pulling that stupid face is severe cringe. Not the good, satirical, amusing cringe which is usually his trademark, more like "Jesus Christ, this is like the intellectually disabled version of blackface". As far as I remember it's filled with paper-thin villains and cloying musical montages, with very few laughs. The Office was a brilliantly observed piece of comedy and I was in high school when it came out so, no, I don't think you need to work in an office to get it. It was a brilliantly written and acted piece about people being trapped in mundane lives but (some of them, at least) having the potential to do more. Via the Brent character, it was criticising people thinking that fame, rather than success, is something to aspire to. There are so many memorable lines and the situations (whilst absurd at times) all felt real. It also has one of the best love stories put to film. The American version strikes me as a more traditional sitcom with wacky characters, lots of gags and zany capering with no soul (which is fine if you like that sort of thing). The Brent Movie was rubbish and should have never been made. Extras is funny and perceptive and has a great central friendship. It focuses more on the pursuit of fame vs success, but through a more relatable character than Brent. The celebrity cameos are generally excellent, as is Stephen Merchant's useless agent. It also satirised shows like Mrs Brown's Boys frighteningly well and concluded with a satisfying epiphany for the main character. After Life was a bit more patchy, now that I think on it, but it managed to feel a lot more real than something like Derek and I'll be watching season two. The tone is a bit more over the place and the themes are more on the nose but it has stronger characters, is less sickly sweet than Derek and is genuinely touching at times. I definitely don't think it's a question of things being 'of their time' as the awards and acclaim each has received seems about right. It is the unpopular opinions thread tbf, but saying Derek is better than Extras and The Office seems too far, hence the essay. Opinions but.
    6 points
  26. People who want fewer games are fucking weirdos in my mind. 16 teams, once home and away means 15 home league games a season. Cutting the amount of football by almost a quarter? f**k that, I want as many games as possible. Weekends without football are garbage.
    5 points
  27. Agreed. Completely acceptable and accurate to call her a useless fucker, but there's no need to make it about her gender.
    5 points
  28. 5 points
  29. Yeah very good. Have you seen how we compare to Germany in dealing with this whole shit storm? They acted, we took weeks to act.
    5 points
  30. I used to love getting totally incapacitated and despite being older and wiser in theory, and no longer having that intention, quite often end up that way. I am not ready to say I am too old to go out and get arseholed.
    5 points
  31. They could broadcast the game to fans to view online and pay a fee to watch, thus generating money for the club. A substantial minority of football fans attend games with someone from the same household. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that a family of four is not about to pay sticker price of about £50 to watch Ayr United v Thistle. Indeed, the vast majority of people are not going to pay even half the match-day sticker price, and most season ticket-holders are going to ask why they're not being given free access. The money that a pay-per-view service would generate, especially given that people are in financially uncertain times, wouldn't even come close to covering the Clubs' costs.
    5 points
  32. I think ensuring the safety of the people of Scotland rather than the survival of football clubs was prevalent in her mind tbh. Imagine thinking people’s lives are more important than football ffs......
    5 points
  33. I prefer not to speak - if I speak I am in big trouble!
    5 points
  34. The going's got tough for Falkirk and you've had enough. There are tears dripping from your post.
    5 points
  35. I think Colts would seal the deal for many, hopefully the SFA, SPFL and the clubs understand the feeling amongst the fans about this.
    5 points
  36. What threat? She said mass gathering are not going to happen for some time? Surely nobody expected crowds watching football in the next couple months. On closed door games she said ''need to be carefully considered''. What gives you the idea that England will be more relaxed on that viewpoint?
    5 points
  37. Can't we come up with a solution where no team is disadvantaged or misses out on promotion except Hearts who get relegated?
    5 points
  38. Completely disagree with your sentiments regarding the standard of Scottish football. I think our game has improved a lot from where we were perhaps ten years ago when clubs were bringing in teams full of second rate players from abroad. I’m sick of hearing how poor our game is compared to our English neighbours. They might have plenty money and top players down there but, in my opinion, the games in the EPL are boring and pretty predictable. One thing you can’t accuse Scottish football of is being boring!
    5 points
  39. Found after becoming single that living on my own was incredibly bloody lonely. So picked up a couple of new pals before the 'lockdown'. Bat shit mental, but good to have them about the place.
    5 points
  40. Guys watch this from about 7mins 50 seconds to 8mins 50 seconds to watch the Cardinal have the greatest melt down ever.
    4 points
  41. 4 points
  42. What about drills? can't get mine to charge.
    4 points
  43. It's been pointed out to you numerous times that just because one country does something doesn't mean the UK should as well. Demographics etc are different from country to country, so what might work well in one country could be absolutely catastrophic in another. Timescales are different for them all too. Yet you keep posting things that other countries are doing. Germany might be making a horrendous error. They might also be absolutely fine. I'm all for taking our time over this and rolling back things slowly and very carefully.
    4 points
  44. Agreed re: Chairman statement. All clubs voted in their own interests. Re: Alan Morgan, partly true in that Forfar did us a big favour at the time of Save the Jags (1998) by not demanding payment at a time they could have demanded it. Following a share issue we settled our footballing debts afaik including the balance for Alan's transfer. FWIW I'll be backing the Jags at home and away where possible. I find the boycott talk distasteful but understandable in the context of a knee jerk reaction to the SPFL reso!ution. Anyway, I've good memories of visiting Station Park and I'll gladly attend should/ when the opportunity arise/s.
    4 points
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