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As from 1st July. Thailand will be "open". We have not had a local case in 30 days, all new cases have been returnees that have been in quarantine on arrival. Many people saying that it's still here, as we are not testing anyone. I don't know if this is true. However, no reports of people being ill, extra funerals etc... It's not over, but it's been a very weird experience all round. My province, Singburi has never had a single case (pop 250,000). We still closed everything. Wife still went to work everyday, leaving me with 3 kids (1,7,17) & and work to do. I lost my job and had a small mental breakdown, as I could see no future prospects if the situation stayed the same. Good news, I start a new job tomorrow (intro day). Schools go back on Wednesday which will be great for my son, as he is missing his friends (not seen in 5 month). It's been tough, fun & sad during this, but I'm sure we will all pull through. Nobody said life was going to be easy. Chin up everyone and stay strong!

Why do you feel the need to characterise people as such? This is a global health crisis. It's not something where there is a need to pick a side and stick to it. You provide the daily statistics, you know the number of people that have died, almost like the football results. It's perfectly fine to look at the figures and say that restrictions should be relaxed. I'm pleased, if still somewhat anxious, that we are moving back towards normality. Equally it is fine to look at the same figures and express concern about the possibility of a so call 'second wave' or local spikes in infections. Having come this far I really don't want to see us go back to the way things were in late March and early April. It's fine to change your view on above from day to day. Everything is very uncertain. We simply don't have the available evidence to be able to say with any kind of certainty as to what the best approach is. It's not a game. It's not something where you need to pick a side. It's not something where you decry someone simply for holding a contrary position to your own.

I was in a job that was making me utterly miserable, affecting my mental health and home life, and driving me mad. I found another job, on 25% less money and gave up a company car. My health and family were more important to me than money. Seven years later and I'm still working for the same company but now earning about 50% more than I was at the company I left. The step back for a few years in salary was more than worth it and I'm now earning more than I've ever earned in any job before, and the job is piss easy. Yes the years I had to cope with the lower salary and finance my own car for the first time in 15 years were difficult, and yes I've been very lucky the way the chips eventually fell, but the moral of this story is I FUCKING DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT RATHER THAN CONTINUALLY MOAN AND FIND WAYS TO SHITE OUT OF DOING SOMETHING. Fucking do something about it for f**k's sale.

@Bairnardo perilously close to the edge there.

He might be able to put in a good word for Campbell and we can finally punt him there on loan.

First league title in 30 years and you're such a huge fan that your first thought is to get on a Scottish football forum for the "seethe". Tragic.

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I suppose if folk keep predicting a second wave is incoming after every single major perceived mass gathering they might eventually get it right. A bit like a stopped clock.

Can we not punt all the boring essays about fucking Colts teams into another thread?

Your last prediction was around Christmas time, and claimed Hearts would be 10+pts clear of St Johnstone by May, so I'd guess theres a high chance this ends with Hearts being the only club fucked financially by the end.

You do realise that adopting a contrarian position to the entire respected scientific community makes your opinions on anything science-related hard to swallow?

Be fuckin hilarious if it was James Anderson - visions of him sitting in his underground lair guffawing away at Scottish Football

Steak pie in Trinidad £3 Steak pie in Barbados £4.50 Steak pie in Tobago £3.20 That's the pie rates of the Caribbean.

I believe it's more in the line of blackmail. Lawwell is suspected of holding certain incriminating negatives that might cast unwelcome light on John Nelm's previous business dealings. It's just idle speculation and rumour, though.

^^2nd waver in tears type post

You sir are a callous b*****d and I am heart sick of reading your bile.

That seems to be a suspiciously specific example.

Or, more likely, you can expect to be cherry picking stats without looking at them in detail. For instance we know that black people are more likely to commit crimes (and, also, be victims but that part's often left out) and, therefore, are more likely to have interactions with police officers and, therefore, more likely to be killed. However this ignores the fact that the number of black people incarcerated or killed/injured by the police is STILL disproportionate to the crime figures. It also ignores the figures when adjusted for the fiscal disparity between black people and others in the US. When the figures are shown by financial level of criminals the disparity drops. It also ignores the evidence that black people are more likely to be caught than white people who commit the same crimes and more likely to face tougher sentencing than white people which limits their financial abilities (and becomes a generational burden) and creates an ever increasing spiral of poverty along race based lines. And even if we did ignore all that other very important stuff it still leads to the question: "why are black people more likely to commit crime?" if your answer is anything other than societal racism writ large across and entire nation (if not world) then, yes, you are really just a racist apologist because surely if the answer is not down to social factors that affect black people more (societal racism) the only other answer would be something inbuilt to black people themselves? And that IS racist and people who point out the statistics you have, without the other statistics that provide context, are enabling racist stereotypes to continue. Racist apologist doesn't seem that big a stretch under those circumstances.

This is true regardless of any pandemic

Nice wee bit of luck yesterday morning. Went back to where I saw the Cuckoo and got this pair

I do happen to believe that IF any other team were to be dragged into it towards the end it would have been County. Imagine though if Hamilton hadn't picked up those most unlikely of points in the days leading up to lockdown - ten men against Killie and a win at Ibrox. I doubt this would even be a thread.

He's letting me take his post walk photo today. Nae grumpin', nae walking away. He must feel bonnie.

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Gary Deans came across very well on the Q&A

The scenes from the beach at Bournemouth look like my idea of hell Why would you endure that? At any time?

Agreed that protests were not necessarily wise in the pandemic. Folk need to stop being children about everything though. The 'he did it!' whataboutery response (and I am not saying you are saying this, but it's been a common refrain for weeks 'oh, but they did it for their protest!') is the level of argument I would expect out of an immature wean. Ditto with Cummings; he's a walloper and Boris is a p***k for keeping him in post but we don't all have to be 'monkey see, monkey do' about everything if we don't think something is a good idea but just want to use someone else's behaviour as an excuse to do our own thing.

Celtic and Rangers fans will be desperately trying to figure out 'Whauz Lord Clark's big team tho?'

Off work for 9 days Needed it tbh. Has been something else last 14 weeks at work or so.

Just so I’m all caught up, the Yes campaign have to provide clear projections on exactly what will happen in the event of independence, such as the costs of embassies and policy with regards to international aid, but the No campaign can make whatever claims they like about the future of Scotland within the UK because “they can’t guarantee anything, and everyone knows that”?

It wouldn't surprise if that is true. Scottish football has been torn apart by this and it will not recover. There will be rancour and hatred for years to come. Most of those clubs are pissed off at us, because for once we have stood up to them instead of getting a wee pat on the head and told to go away and know our place. f**k the lot of them.

Rangers - "We are at the forefront of developing young Scottish players! Give us a Colt side!" Also Rangers -

Exactly. Also - doesn't do our recruitment pitch to sceptical English lower league players any harm at all - playing for Walsall one minute and then a bit of ML1 fairy dust later and you're off to The Prem....

He also has the ability to make grown men cry.

Everything has to be polarised now, partisan. Either snp bad /rabid snp fanboys, or how you voted in an EU referendum a few years ago. You'd hope that a fucking deadly virus that kills everyone equally or actual murder of people for the colour of their skin would allow c***s to find some kind of common ground, but no, obviously not. Both those referendums, if they themselves have not completely fucked the country(ies) politically, they've gone a long way to opening up wounds that I really can't see ever being fully healed. I imagine social media hasn't really helped either. Even on here there is a need to be on the winning side of the argument with everything you say, and people can basically write as much as they like. Unsurprising on twitter with such a small character limit, positions are reduced to the simplest, most partisan level they can be.

Turnbull

Retweeted this article. It is an established fact that the Minneapolis police department receives training by Israeli forces. While Peake may be factually incorrect about them training that technique, the notion that this constitutes 'an antisemitic conspiracy theory' which can somehow be construed as evoking blood libel or blaming Israel for racism in the US is insane nonsense which no one approaching this in good faith will agree with.

Clubs are rebuilding their squads for next season, working out their formations and the tactics that will work best for them. Do you think any team will use the approach of hugging the bottom of the league until the last 8 games, throw off their cloaks of inadequacy and rocket up the league in the final few weeks.

Hope they paid you up front.

I wonder if Goody could use Magennis in the Andreu/Dorman role. I think he is capable of making they sort of runs beyond Obika and scoring a few goals.

Wanting chips wi that salt?

Aw come on! Us and Saddam were pals for years before Nelms

Phone nhs if you feel sick. That's it. We have the Test and Protect system here in Scotland. Like all TTI type systems it relies on one person reporting symptoms and then tracking their contacts. It's a fairly standard practice that doesn't rely on an app, and has been in place since the start of June. The numbers of infections caught, and contacts traced is updated on a Thursday.

It's a surname.

No they are pissed off at us because we're throwing a tantrum at not getting our way, exacerbating uncertainty about next season and trying to undermine a decision overwhelmingly backed by a super-majority of member clubs.

I bow to your superior knowledge of epidemiology (of which I am quite happy to confess I know bugger all about). Should we expect to see you on the news shortly offering your expert views?

Me after watching another piss poor Steven Whittaker performance.

Oh shut the f**k up.

While many posters have political opinions, only one person has made an anti-precautions post. And I doubt the name of the poster will surprise anyone. I'm sure he'll wear the red dots and negative responses as a badge of pride. Going back to football, todays news is encouraging. Hopefully the announcements will increase the chances of L1 & L2 voting for a restart in October. If that happens, then teams usually start preseason about a month and a half before kick off. So if the vote on Friday is positive then the players could be reporting back to TFS in mid August. If the club staff return a month before that to begin player recruitment and marketing (such as selling season tickets), then we might only be a couple of weeks away from having football news to discuss again. Fingers crossed.