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Have to confess I celebrated this victory over an average lower league side with a distinct lack of humility.

Agreed. This is how you should react after limping over the line against a Championship side.

Hearts are a Premiership quality team though, pity it's still the same shit one that got relegated last season.

Can the camera just stay on Naismith face please I’m nearly there..

Let's all remember that Andy Halliday has now lost two cup finals in absolutely hilarious fashion

That’s an even worse individual hearts performance than Ginnelly

Lets not forget this fucking rat should have been off in the first half for that stamp. Shame

This picture aged well.

The thought that NewBornBairn may potentially have to reuse some socks for a week or two really brings home the horror of the situation.

I am exceptionally lucky that I've never suffered from any mental health issues and that the new announcement doesn't put me up nor down. I've been genuinely touched by the reaction of some and am deeply sorry for any additional anguish new restrictions will cause. I hope this anecdote cheers people up somewhat. A friend of a friend once was in a relationship with Neil Oliver. He has a micropenis

That really hurt, don't mind admitting I'm gutted. What an opportunity missed, and after nearly 40 years of following Hearts I should have known. It's the hope that kills you. Anyway well done Celtic on their achievement. Im away for more beer, over and out.

Now everyone can go back to hating both teams

I genuinely feel sorry for those in more rural areas with a low number of cases. They're going from Tier 1 to Tier 4 faster than Partick Thistle are.

I'm going to be brutally honest here, I'd much prefer to guillotine them and take it all.

Are people now being shamed because of their employment status? Thats no really the best form eh?

I had a wee girl in September and she's an absolute delight. My mental health is pretty good most of the time, aside from the odd wee moment, but if it wasn't for her I think I'd be in the same boat as a lot of folk on here. I've been working from home for nine months, but I'm not able to do the bits of my job I actually really like, which is teaching students and generally just chatting to my colleagues. That has meant I've basically been sat in a wee room keeping on top of all the shite stuff and have generally been unmotivated. Away from work, the three main things that bring me joy are going on hoilday, going to the football and meeting my pals for a pint or whatever, and I've not been able to do any of them since March (I could have done the latter to some extent in the summer but wasn't drinking in case I had to drive to the hospital). As it is, I'm able to watch my daughter grow up, which is giving me something to keep going for every day, because both she and my wife need me, and there's always something new and exciting happening (even if it's her doing a bigger shite in her nappy than she's done before). Even then it's rubbish to not have grandparents and folk around - I think in the 3 months since she was born there have probably been about 2 weeks where they have been allowed to visit under the rules, and at no point have they been able to come in the house. We drove to see my gran today, and she was in tears at being able to see her for literally 5 minutes, which is properly heartbreaking stuff. There is an absolute limit for how long this can go on for, because it's really not a life at this stage - we're very likely going to be talking about a full year of not being able to do almost any of the things that give people a bit of release from what was a fairly shite world even before this all kicked off. At the moment like most folk I guess I'm just clinging on for a vaccine bringing things back to normal, and I really do hope that the people making the decisions are not overly risk averse at the point where the most vulnerable people are vaccinated and the risk of massive numbers of deaths and serious illnesses is reduced to almost zero. As much as I think the Scottish Government have made a lot of mistakes in the way they've handled this, I do think they probably will get that part right, even with the likes of Sridhar in their ear trying to get us locked down until 2045 just in case.

With Duffy, Hazard and Berra playing, it's an impressive achievement for Ginnelly to contrive to be the worst player on the park.

Wow. Haven't been on here since Friday so just catching up. In a nutshell, this thread has showed there's some genuinely decent people out there who are willing to look out for eachother and there's also a lot of selfish c***s which pretty much is this country in a microcosm. This new news will have hit folk hard, I know some of my friends and my girlfriend are really struggling with the new restrictions. All we can do is be there for eachother, especially at this time of year. If anyone is struggling I'm always happy to have a chat or whatever and you can drop me a message. Despite the arseholes, I genuinely think most folk on here are decent and would look out for eachother. Just all need to do our best to keep out heads above water at the moment.

I know a few folk working in the NHS, and what one of them told me is one of the reasons for this new lockdown is that they're terrified that this new, more easily-transmittable strain, is going to result in more people contracting the disease and therefore more people ending up in hospital. Obviously this is bad anyway, but they're really desperate to avoid an influx of hospital patients over the next few months because the people taking care of sick COVID patients are generally the same people who are administering vaccines. So the more of them treating COVID patients, the less of the vaccine will be administered to the public. Administering the (Pfizer) vaccine isn't as simple as just sticking a needle in someone, the whole thing takes about half an hour because you have to monitor people for allergic reactions. Very few people take an allergic reaction, but if you take one you need adrenaline pretty much immediately. And all it would take is one or two people to die from this and public confidence in the vaccine would crumble. The limiting factor on vaccinating people probably won't be the supply of the vaccine itself - it'll be the supply of people able to administer the vaccine. It was an interesting perspective on things that I hadn't really considered.

Hearts EJECTED from the Scottish cup final

Hearts have Hibsed it.

The delicious thing is that in their heart of hearts every Celtic fans knows that the quadruple treble has been won in an era when they have had a far bigger budget than anyone else and faced zero genuine competition, so it’s utterly meaningless. The fact that even Lennon (a manager they hate and want rid of) can win trophies during that run sums up how meaningless it is. The only thing that truly matters is 10 in a row. They’ve been singing about it for 5 or 6 years now. That’s why they are outside Celtic Park protesting, because Lennon is fucking that up in spectacular fashion. And when they fail on that front, the meltdown will be spectacular.

And then we have the man on the hour himself, the chief clownshoe himself: Interesting stuff Jason! 1) We now have a clear contradiction between the SG's numbers and the much higher numbers given out at a UK level to show just how scary the new mutation emergency really is. A increase from 0.9 to 1.3 does not make it '70% more infectious'. But as Leitch states that the difference is 0.4 "if you just let it run wild", then the true benchmark that he should be using for this comparison is the R rate for Covid-19 back in March. If we take that to be 3 for neatness' sake, then the difference between 3 and 3.4 is nowhere fucking near the 70% increase!!! from 24 hours ago. 2) A 0.4 increase in the R rate is enlightening. For those playing along at home, can you recall the single sector of activity that SAGE accounts for 0.4 of the existing R rate in the UK as well? Some clues: - it involves packing hundreds of people inside a building five days a week - this concentration of multi-family mixing takes place at sites all over the country - the main infection mitigation strategy for it involves crossing your fingers to hope that the gate outside acts as a force field to repel the virus It seems that all we need to do then to overcome the scary mutation emergency emergency then is to punt all scholing where community transmission is taking place into distance learning, which is yeah, what we should have been doing already. Crisis averted!

I've emailed Mrs Paterson my cv.

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So are we to assume that the same green jacketed morons who were pushing down fences and throwing things at the team bus the other week are heading to Hampden to set off flares and celebrate the quadruple treble? No one does hypocrisy like Celtic

Gutted for you.

Utter nonsense. If we don’t lock down now, and this runs out of control, you are the very person who would be blaming the SG for not doing it. The only clown car is the one you’re driving.

Sorry to read of everyone who is struggling tonight. Particularly to you[mention=1175]RH33[/mention] but to all of you, take care of yourself and find a way to talk to loved ones, friends or trusted professionals. As RH33 said, the mental health crisis both currently and coming down the line should be the biggest concern for public health moving forward. Services are hugely underfunded and while laudable work currently goes on to help people, it needs expanded massively. From my own personal perspective I've gone back on to anti-depressants this year after being off them for a couple of years and generally feeling miserable just now with the time of year. It is a strange contrast for me as it has been a good year in our personal lives - we moved to Inverness and both got good NHS jobs while selling our house in Aberdeen and buying here. There has been a lot of stress involved and that is perhaps where things stem from for me. However today has drained my better half more than me as it will be well over a year since she last saw her family by time we hope to see them again in March. We had hoped to go over to Ireland to see them just after the New Year. So that has totally floored her. I hope everyone takes care of themselves.[mention=43879]pandarilla[/mention] I hope you do what is right for you, the circumstances sound awful.@bob mahelp hopefully your son can come home to live for a while to be with his loved ones.[mention=38578]mizfit[/mention] I hope David Marshall provided as much solace for you tonight as possible. Happy to speak with anyone who just needs someone to chat to. Love to you all tonight. Fraser (BucksburnDandy)

Like many tonight, I'm completely flattened. I struggled with my mental health for my early to mid twenties and tonight has a very a similar feel to some of those times. One good thing about the pubs being all shut is I can't ruin 5 years of sobriety and go missing for 2 days... I've been angry today, unbelievably pissed off and I know I've been a b*****d to be around and I don't see that changing any time soon. Having to try really hard not to snap at my missus (who has given up hope on seeing her family at all anytime soon). Any of that "make your own sunshine" or "we are all in this together" chat can get in the bin. I think what has probably broken both myself and many others is that we felt like things were improving, case numbers started to level off, vaccinations have statyed with other vaccines probably only a matter of weeks away, Christmas etc. Then suddenly wham! A new strain that's more contagious and a new lockdown which we know won't just end in a few weeks. Every time we think we are getting somewhere, we end up back at the start and it feels never ending. Theres no exit strategy, no other semblance of a plan other than just hard lockdowns and it's just an unrelenting pile of shite we cant seem to escape from. The hope that things would get better had fucked it for me. I get the feeling that Sturgeon will have lost a lot of that new found support. Purely anecdotally but I havent seen or heard anyone say they agree with these measures (I know there will be some, those weirdos who take pride in labelling themselves as introverts yet who constantly bombard social media, for example). I think everyone is pretty pissed off, and if this ends up as a rolling lockdown then I can see a lot more people saying enough is enough. Sorry for the rant lads, I'm just a miserable b*****d tonight. Merry Christmas.

Post for months about the unfairness of it all on a Scottish football forum whilst everyone laughs at your desperate tear-stained drivel?

Nicola aborting the 2020-21 Scottish football season would almost be worth the ensuing scenes from the Ibrox mob...

Never has a player caused such anger, tears and seething as quadruple treble winning Sir Scott Brown.

Why on earth should they, they've just won the cup lol doesn't matter who against or how they did it.

Is there a typo in here somewhere, because this seems like an entirely logical and consistent viewpoint to hold.

What an absolutely dreadful shame

If this goes to penalties, I hope the deciding kick is another panenka, just to blow Neil McCann's mind.

Your own team are drawing in stoppage time of a Scottish Cup final and you're busy having a heads gone about a poster you don't like on P&B. Sensational.

it there even a grain of evidence of the bit in bold? it reads like the paranoid ramblings of an absolute heidcase to be honest. As far as I can see people have perfectly legitimate concerns around the financial sense of playing with no income and the obvious health aspect of the virus.

I fucking feel for you guys, I really do. Against the tide of people who have understandably been saying 'what must be done, must be done', many others on here who were fully supportive of the first lockdown in spring, have been massively and justifiably concerned about the negative, serious and long-lasting effects of continually pulling the rug from under people's feet and removing their ability to live, function and move. A concern that people will become fatigued, disheartened, depressed is now very much a reality. They CANNOT continue to impose these restrictions indefinitely. The cost to human life will be far greater and long term than Covid and won't be fixed by an injection. The long term issues on people's psyche caused by this are already out there and will be felt for many, many years to come. All I can say just now to both of you guys is to please try and endure and know that whatever you're feeling, it's shared by millions of others. My messages are open if either of you, or anyone else who is feeling it just wants someone to talk to or vent to.

Absolutely this. My abiding memory of the early days of the virus was when they were filling mass graves on Hart Island in New York and it was pretty much the global centre of the pandemic at that point. I quickly looked at the flight schedules one morning and 4 flights had landed at Heathrow by 11am from New York. That was just Heathrow, f**k knows how many landed at any other UK airports. Hardly coincidental that New Zealand have been one of the best countries at dealing with this. Maybe if we'd, you know, treated our status as an island as some sort of benefit, we might have done a wee bit better. Quite ironic really that we are in the middle of something to make us isolationist in one sense, yet a percentage of the population couldn't wait to f**k off to Greece/Spain/Portugal at the first opportunity in the bloody summer.

I don't think it's the shrinking of the 5 day window to only Christmas day that is the most concerning thing for people, it's the three week total lockdown coming from Boxing Day that has utterly blindsided most folk. Imagine you are a business in Moray or Highland, you're kind of chugging along OK, knowing that January might be a quiet month but you'll do not too bad, might get a bit of business from folk enjoying the festive period at home and then suddenly that's you closed until the middle of January again. Yet another three weeks for everyone of essentially seeing no-one else, three weeks for a lot of people who were in work, back on furlough, or working from home in a month that is renowned for its impact on peoples mental health. It's utterly utterly soul destroying, people's plans for Christmas totally goosed in many ways. Travel booked perhaps, accommodation maybe, food bought, just a few of the minor things that will be an issue for people. Yes, independently these things can be put down as 'first world problems' but add them all together and put it together with everything that's already happened this year and it's a total clusterfuck. Mental health assistance was already pretty much overwhelmed in this country, I dread to think what it'll be like come January.

I shall be sprinkling those tears on my Sunday roast. Delicious.

Switched the telly off, put my shoes on and went for a walk after the second. Currently listening to Neil McCann twisting himself into a knot talking about the "disrespect" shown by "selfish" Edouard. He cited examples of the dinked penalty going wrong, including Zidane in the World Cup final (which he scored!). He just called Edouard "son". "Listen son, you could have cost your team...". Marvellous seethe. Nice view here anyway.

Well done BBC for devoting so much time to Tiny Changes.

It was fine for about the first fortnight, however it's long since worn thin. Trying to represent a client group who largely struggle to engage is a massive pain in the arse when you can't actually go see them face to face, video and telephone appeal tribunals have generally been a farce and i do miss the social aspect of working with colleagues considerably. I think losing that also de-skills you a bit. I also think you need the separation of working somewhere other than home. One of my colleagues had to deal with a total arsehole on the phone the other day, I think she put up with his abusive shite for about 10 mins before eventually having to end the call when he started threatening her. That's shite at the best of times, but you shouldn't have to deal with that sort of negativity in your own house.