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First, they came for the safe barbell squats, and I did not speak up, for I did not give a shit about barbell squats.

Naw: last season, Hearts kept having to play teams above them in the league. It was incredibly unfair.

Expectations: Reality:

See this is why your 'analysis' is so clearly slanted and flawed. Looking at the number of ICU cases and deaths and deducing from that that the virus is not as dangerous as it once was is an incredibly simplistic way of viewing things. It would be great if that was the case, that the potency of Covid-19 was simply evaporating and becoming less and less of a danger. Perhaps there is even an element of truth in that. Is a more nuanced, more balanced analysis of those figures though not that the virus isn't less dangerous but that we are being successful in protecting those most vulnerable to it, you know the people most likely to end up in ICU, the people more liking to die, from it? To use a pretty torturous analogy, we all know that standing in the middle of a busy road is pretty dangerous and the longer we do that the greater the chances are of us being hit by a bus are. If we suddenly stop standing in the middle of a busy road the fact that as a consequence we haven't been hit by a bus isn't evidence that standing in a middle of a road isn't as dangerous as it previously was. You stubbornly refuse to entertain any other narrative aside from the one that you have clung to and run with for so long. Try and see beyond the narrow confines of that approach.

I think a lot of folk already have enough on their plate...

There are few more loathesome subsets in our society than gym-goers, so I for one am delighted that the preening arseholes are denied the opportunity to get back to #fitspo and #gymselfies for the time being.

The authorities can't win - hundreds dying every day - why don't they do something? Authorities do something - nobody dies - why have we still got restrictions?

The BBC?! The guys who had English, McCann, Biscuits, Levein and more crawling all over Sportsound talking about how "reconstruction has to happen".... "the big clubs have to be in the top tier", regular interviews with Hearts, Partick, Brora and Kelty, plus Richard Gordon posing questions like "can anyone tell me any disadvantages to a 14 team top league?", to no reply? That BBC, aye?

Apparently there's been some kind of virus going around?

I said "since I was 12" not "on the 12th".

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Music studios have been closed throughout this too, quite rightly because most of them are small, sweaty and don't have good ventilation (especially the one we frequent). I've played drums since I was 12 and I haven't played them in 7 months now. It's a huge part of my mental health and to say I'm missing it would be an understatement. All I've been able to do is rudiments on a wee pad I've got at home. I've got some computer software that essentially lets me play "air drums" but it's not the same as playing a real kit and involves being blinded by a light at the same time. To be honest, I don't look at pubs and think "it's fucking shite they can get pished and I can't play my drums", I fully understand that if they opened up pubs, gyms, nightclubs and music studios at once then we'd likely see some problems. I'm quite willing to accept that getting people back in pubs is better for the economy than opening music studios or gyms. It's pish for those of us who use these things and I get the frustration, but I think a bit of understanding and patience is required. The end is in sight now.

Nothing has been confirmed yet but it could be mid-October, when the jobber leagues are up and running. I haven't seen Craig Fowler or Joel Sked since mid-March but I understand they're both alive and well. They're alive, anyway.

You take the number of non compliant people, divide it by the total number of people and multiply by 100. Hth

It's the Loch Ness Monster she said she saw, not the Loch Mess Noncer.

Good to see the planning application has been approved on the new offices, shop and social club.

Robbie Neilson is now confused.

Your ITK credentials are on hold until the announcement, we can't just dish these titles out.

Never thought I'd be able to discuss this on P&B, but I did my PhD on stuff specifically related to this (not obesity specifically, but modelling disease inequalities), and this stuff exists across the city. The Drumchapel/Bearsden example you outlined being the most egregious case of two neighbouring areas with vast inequalities, but there are many others in the city - Maryhill and the West End, Govan/Ibrox and other parts of the Southside. The figures can get even starker if you delve into smaller sub-regions of the city based on the Health Scotland reports of the time (the figures have since been updated a bit), the average male life expectancy across the Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health board region ranged from 59 in Parkhead to 80 in Jordanhill & Kelvinside. Glasgow has probably the biggest health inequalities in the UK, to the extent that there is an epidemiological phenomenon called the "Glasgow effect". There are a lot of factors at play, but nobody can really get to the bottom of it. My PhD thesis is here just in case anyone is interested. It's mainly a lot of boring statistical models but there are some interesting maps of risk. It's all in black and white due to printing costs, but I have colour versions of some maps. For example, here's a map of respiratory disease risk across Glasgow in 2011, with "clusters" of similar disease risk coloured in blue. The blue lines therefore sort of represent "jumps" in disease risk. The darker the red, the higher the risk of respiratory disease. A value of 1 means the risk level matches the Scottish average, anything above that represents an above average risk (eg 1.1 say that the area has a 10% higher risk of respiratory disease than the Scottish average).

Well Thistle fans claimed they’d rather get relegated than play like us, and they’ve done it twice now to really ram the point home.

Seems unlikely.

^^^ roid rage taking its toll

They must absolutely hate themselves.

Mother in law has been quite creative with husband's birthday cake. Terry Pratchett fans will get the refernece.

Danny Swanson has signed for East Fife, goodwillie obviously not good enough pals...

700,000 global death count, but it’s not dangerous. Cool. Have you considered that the current low numbers of ICU admissions and deaths may be in anyway linked to the measures that the Scottish Government have taken? The very measures that you’ve seemingly been criticising this entire thread?

Yes you should as your team were utter shite. If your club had to rely on a managing director from another club's word to save your club from going down when there's 3 part-time teams in the league, then it says more about the running of your club than it does about Nelms. Finally, I'm sure Nelms doesn't give a f**k about Jacqui Low, Gerry Britton or your fans holding a grudge against him tbh.

Ching by the sounds of it.

Well well well.. Suspect a few high scores in Thursdays. Knew 7, guessed Viral infection, Song and Battle for a super duper ultra sexy

Who cares. Gammon loser will be replaced by another gammon loser. Tick tock the Yoonyan is nearly over.

Yes but they could have communicated something before now. It's not about what you or I think, they were getting asked by plenty of folk and could just have put out a short bit saying there were delays and they were working hard to resolve things in trying times. Folk thinking this is about the actual t-shirts are missing the point. Clubs are very fortunate to have the sort of loyalty from their customers that no other businesses really enjoy but that doesn't mean you can just take it for granted IMO.

That’s all fine and well but how piss poor were Partick to be anywhere near the bottom of the league last season. Maybe look inwards and have a pop at the board and managers of Thistle last season instead of chucking stones elsewhere. Your club was 10 points behind a part time team with 9 games to go and they had a game in hand over yours!

It is absolute nonsense. A huge number of the vulnerable people who were at risk to this type of virus have sadly passed so we wouldn't get anything like the same numbers of deaths in the near future. Plus there is far more focus on protecting the vulnerable than there was 5 month ago anyway. Case numbers really aren't that important anymore - countries are testing more which gives the impression of an increase, and there are question marks over the accuracy anyway, it is ICU admissions and deaths that are crucial and all across Europe they have reduced back down to their normal level for this time of year. It is noteworthy that as deaths and ICU admissions have dropped the media seem to be focusing more on case numbers to continue to the fear. A quick glance at the death figures for Spain in recent weeks makes a complete mockery of all the scaremongering of their 'second wave'. On the day that we imposed a quarantine on Spanish arrivals Spain had 3 deaths. Although I'm sure the wave is '2 weeks away' though, as it has been for the last 2 months. I'm sure there will be small regional flare ups, probably more in winter, but that isn't going to result in anything approaching a second wave. The virus will not be eradicated, therefore there needs to be a grown up discussion about how best to manage and live with it and people need to know that every small flare up is not a sign of a second wave. Unfortunately the hysterical and irresponsible coverage of this has made this really difficult for people to understand.

You'll be fine, it's us that have to worry.

After 3 days of mental winds and the Clyde like a pavlova it's all calm tonight

The chat about boycotting clubs and not giving them the 'navy blue pound' is utter cringeworthy. No different from SevcoSpeak from 8 years ago.

You realise just how bad the keeper situation has been over the years when people start wanting bain back between the sticks.

I used the lockdown to my advantage and decided to lose weight. I was absolutely enormous. Frankly, I was never going to get a better opportunity than them closing the pubs/restaurants and working from home meant I wasn’t tempted by fast food for lunch. Also started walking daily which helped too. Think I’ve shifted about 3 and a half stone. Like yourself, once I got into it I found it to be a piece of piss.

On holiday from work, so went for a low-ish level walk in the 'gorms from near Braemar with the kids - with a cracking wild camp spot thrown in last night. The camera doesn't pick up the midge apocalypse when the breeze dropped later on (which is a risk with a sheltered site near water obviously) - I always thought the Cairngorms had the *nice* midges.. And the "leave no trace" pic to prove that you don't need to leave a heap of shite behind after a camp:

If anyone let's themselves become a "waddling couch potato" just because gyms are closed they have no one to blame but themselves. The fitness or otherwise of a nation does not depend on gym equipment !

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Gyms reopened in England and Northern Ireland two weeks ago, they are open all over Europe. A representative of PureGym said that they've had more than two million people attend reopened gyms without a single transmission incident. Pubs are now open and have been for several weeks. I've had people viewing my house, I've had tradesmen in fixing things prior to putting my house on the market. You can go and stay overnight with elderly relatives, you can have thirty people in your garden. Most major commercial gyms can easily segregate people, control numbers and run booking systems. The gym I go to already has cleaners doing circuits of the gym floor all the time. My gym has an electronic entry system that can easily monitor everyone in the place at any one time - it records every time you go into a gym. When I went for a haircut the guy was writing down my details in a pad of paper and checking his watch. Feel like pure shit, just want squats back.

On the matter of the strips... As much as I wouldn’t particularly mind if we started the season in last season’s strips, it does come across as tinpot. There’s no doubt about that. If the strips aren’t available to purchase, at least unveil the design or keep the fans informed at the very least. The lack of communication isn’t acceptable in the age of social media. Amateur behaviour shouldn’t just be accepted or enabled by saying ‘This is St Johnstone. What were you expecting?’.

Imagine sitting in a pub with these two before the fitba, Dick looking glum as f**k moaning about how he never slept well, missed his bus, expects it to rain, price to get in is a bit steep etc etc then jamama with his half glass of warm wine agreeing then putting shite ideas on how to fix it all, all the while moaning about how shite it is to support Saints and he cant understand why we aren't more like his beloved Everton*. * you can swap Everton with one of his other 5 boyhood heroes.

If the Derryboys and girls aren’t allowed into Tynecastle 1st game of the season we’ll crowdfund a big f**k off DOON flag to be flown over the pitch during the game to get under these jambo c***s skin even more. I’m sure some Hibees would pitch in. f**k Hearts