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Received the call, vaccine on Saturday afternoon

Jason’s comments just 6 days ago about forfeiting travel for ‘domestic normality’ I would be willing to accept that if it genuinely meant normality here. I’m not going to accept no travel in return for still not being able to hug my Gran, have a socially distanced pint with no more than 2 mates at a time in a 2 hour window, not be able to go to the football, put my career on hold for another year, and not even be able to see my mates at work. I’m near enough reaching full on ‘yer da’ mode here and starting to question if there’s some form of permanent state control being planned. We were told all along that these restrictions were to protect the NHS - fine. Once that is no longer anywhere near under pressure and deaths are minimal, there is literally no reason for any form of restriction here. Scunnered.

Just remembered that the Killie fans paid a fine out of their own pockets for the game to go ahead

Some people are seem to be absolutely seething about things that haven't happened. Folk wanting to write to their MSP based on a half quote from Jason Leitch, others refusing to vote for particular parties because they're going to have us locked down until 2022, despite there being no evidence of that. Those who appear most mentally impacted seem to spend an awful lot of time looking at various social media and news sites for any covid story going. A Scottish route map will be published in the not too distant future. If the one published last May or whenever it was is anything to go by, it will be fairly detailed. You may or may not like the time line. Wet your knickers then if you're not happy but the nick people are getting themselves into at speculation is a bit embarrassing.

Fucking love P&B Sundays, especially the Wednesday ones.

Good of us to let up on the Ayrshiremen, but let that be a lesson to you all; the house always wins.

This thread is Todd's religion

Folk who'd rather sit in the house for 51 weeks and spend 1 week in Lanzarote, rather than 52 weeks being able to do more or less what you liked here should, frankly, have their right to vote stripped.

I had to share some very sad news with my 9 yr old tonight involving a person who Is special to her. Her maturity and insight is beyond her years. The letter she wants to write to the person is also something an adult would Find difficult. One those moments your realise you’re doing a good job raising them.

Why the fcuk do churches need to open (in priority over any other venue that is) to cater for those that want to pray to their God of choice? You can pray in your living room, pray in the bathroom, join like minded religious pals and pray collectively by Zoom. I cannot watch St Mirren until they open St Mirren Park. I cannot go to see a band until they open the venue...... A church is a venue. No different from a football stadium, a concert hall, a restaurant, a barber shop, a cinema, a gym. Opening places of worship IS important, don’t get me wrong, but so is opening the gyms and other places again - as people gain pleasure not just from the praying / exercising / watching men kick a ball, but the social aspect of it being a place you go to with other people. There is no justification for prioritising a church over anywhere else people gather. St Mirren Park and the Barrowlands are far more fcuking important to me than the church down the road.

Too dangerous to get a haircut, but perfectly fine to gather to worship a sky fairy... Am I not right in saying that, just 2 months ago, 100 per 100k was safe enough to go for a pint in the pub until 10.30pm, yet now we actually have a vaccine a wee trim is apocalyptic? Get these clowns as far to f**k as possible.

The first of those - I agree with (I appreciate you may not, Marshy, but I'm just speaking as teacher who is sick of his laptop). The second can take a big long f**k off to itself, and then when it's all the way fucked off, it can f**k off some more. I have absolutely no problem with religion in the slightest, live and live let live and all that. But there is absolutely no way we should be cherry picking what kind of gatherings are and aren't allowed. Why should someone be able to go to the church before the football, for example? Who is to say that one is more important than the other, rationally and objectively speaking. If the government start making arbitrary decisions about what is and isn't an acceptable then a lot of the rationale of these decisions fall down.

I'll stop getting angry when I'm actually able to do something more exciting than "go for a walk" when I'm not sat at my home desk for tweleve hours a day, but thanks for your concern. We were told this was all necessary to protect the NHS. We were also told that vaccination was the exit strategy. We were told that once the vulnerable groups were vaccinated we could start returning to normal. We have the exit strategy and are being fed a constant stream of doom about ongoing restrictions despite the exit being in plain sight, on the basis "we just don't know!", virus variants and today's classic "everyone needs to he vaccinated first! before you can go on holiday".

We need to stop using reconstruction as some sort bargaining tool IMO. Reconstruction should be a carefully planned thing for the good of the game, not railroaded through in a few months because clubs don't fancy being relegated. It should also include better financial distribution across the board. I'll be very disappointed if Championship clubs do what's being suggested. I know every club looks out for themselves but I don't really see the justification for refusing promotion and is opportunistic in the extreme.

But religion is, to be quite blunt, not real. We shouldn't be bending over backwards to prioritise and appease people who live their lives based on what a fictional character says.

If there is no travel for the entirety of 2021 there will be people who haven't seen their kids or parents for 2 years. There was a guy on here saying his old man might not be able to get back for his grandad's funeral. It's not my number 1 priority but it's not "mind boggling" that other people can have different priorities and "priority for everybody" might be different.

"haha rent free seethe into my veins" from old lads on here because people are frustrated at their lives being impacted by restrictions is one of the worst bits yet on This Thread.

I'd wager it's more to do with the richest club in the country being an incompetent shambles run by clowns taking the absolute piss out of their fanbase

Our new dog doesn't hate the snow but doesn't love it. It is snowy days that I miss my boy a lot as he adored the snow and would run himself into the ground playing in and with it. He is still my phone background after many years now.

Jesus f**k you are an absolute child. One of my favourite quotes from Joseph the carpenter.

You’re right, better to just sit quietly and accept that going to church is more important than seeing family.

amazing news, hopefully see rapid decreases right across the board in the coming weeks.

Couldn't give a f**k if it was the cup final on Saturday I'd have dragged her out the house myself! To be fair I don't think she'd miss this vaccine for anything. Delighted to get that call. Big relief

Can I get my barber to meet me in a place of worship for a trim?

It's not that difficult to see why people would quite like to leave Fascist Island for a temporary break every now and then.

G51 is making some reasonable points but Leitch effectively putting religion a par with education for prioritisation is mental. Religion hasn't stopped during the pandemic, it's just adapted, like many other things. Forget non-essential businesses for a second. Social interaction with friends/loved ones should come well before religion.

Distinct lack of deeply concerned 'well, they're going to have to do x no. vaccinations a day to hit the mid Feb target now!' posts in the last week or so.

I will be starting Boozeism if anyone would like to join me in the worship of the public house.

I think (and hope) that's what it is too. If the SG are ultra doom-mongers, then folk will take it more seriously and stay indoors than say if they start going on about how well the vaccines are doing and all the cases, hospilisations and deaths are dropping and acting all positive, then folk will start to take the piss. The bottom line is, they don't trust us to behave, and with some merit unfortunately.

The outside centre back roles are far more important to the Scotland team than the two midfield roles that Jack or McGregor fulfill. The outside CB's contribute significantly in build-up play and are key to giving the wing-backs freedom to get forward, which given that's one of our best players, is pretty important. They're how we get the ball from front to back, and they need to be able to pick Dykes out with the long ball We also have the option to send them forward as well if the game state / opposition dictates that we can. That's in addition to their role in defence where they have to be able to deal with whatever comes their way - whether that's a traditional target man No. 9, a "hybrid forward" like Salah/Mane or whatever. Jack and McGregor are largely there to plug gaps, track midfield runners and progress the ball as a secondary option when the outside CB's can't get it done. Their primary role is defensive, ensuring that Declan Gallagher doesn't have to deal with a ball that's below his waist. Most of their work is done off-the-ball. If they turn the ball over occasionally too then great. The outside CB roles are hard to fill because they require a much broader skillset. There's a reason Clarke has put two of our best players there. The centre midfield positions are significantly less difficult to fill, especially given the number of midfielders we have. The other midfielder, McGinn, plays further forward and we have a myriad of options for that role. All of them better than McTominay going forward.

This is exactly what our Paisley is like. Hates the snow, hates a cold wet paw. Sits and looks out the catflap yammering. Maybe goes as far as sticking his napper and front paws out before thinking ‘fcuk this for a game of soldiers’ and reverses his arse backwards. I went out today and before digging out the car, or clearing the path at the front for our own comfort, I first shoveled a path from the back door, down through the garden, and cleared a large area in the bark chipped part of the garden he uses as a lavvy. Then it fcuking snowed again and he looked at me as if saying exactly what you’ve said... ‘thought you’d sorted that shit out, cunto’. To be fair to the wee soul, he hasn’t as yet reverted to using his emergency litter tray in the utility room. When he needs to go, he makes it out, swift pish, back in faster than a fast thing that’s fast. Shaking the snow off his paws at 100mph and giving me the ‘cunto’ stare once more.

Hopefully it was worth the 4 month wait and tribunal for Killie to get a -3 goal difference negotiated down to a -1.

I'm going out and a limb here, but I think if posters are getting a bit angry and frustrated, then others calling them out isn't a very big and clever thing to do. People's mental health is clearly being affected by what's going on in the world, looking down your noses at them isn't helping one fucking bit.

Just a quick footnote. Although I prefer to deal in 100% accurate numbers. Up above i indicated a real slowing down of reduction in infection rates. However having gathered the information I can. I believe tomorrows update will show around a 3% drop to around 110 cases per 100K, followed by a near 4% drop to around 106 cases per 100K. With a following wind, (3 more days) to when I get to publish weekly stats on Monday, the day before the Lockdown Potential relaxation statement. I believe we could be at the Sub 100 cases per 100K nationally.

If we go back to what has been touted as the underlying reason for all restrictions it becomes a fairly simple question for me. Can the NHS offer a full range of all pre-pandemic services and cope with any Coronavirus cases? If no then some level of restrictions will be required but I would doubt as excessive as we have today. If the vaccination programme is proven to be having an impact then it isn't justifiable to have all current restrictions in place. If yes then there's no justification for any restrictions. Case numbers themselves should not (and never should have been) a determining factor. They're an indicator, nothing more.

Please just f**k off you inbred illiterate c**t, thanks.

Todd_Isn't_Prod

Are you not a climate change denier? And openly laughed at talk of a 2nd wave last year?

It seems to me like people are interpreting pretty vague statements however they like really. For example, it wouldn’t surprise me one but if there were still “restrictions” this time next year. But I don’t take that to mean no football, no pub, no holidays. I take it to mean that there might still be travel restrictions to/from places with high prevalence/new variants or whatever. Or maybe a limit on the size of indoor crowds while we see if the vaccines have been as effective as advertised and are as long lasting as required through the winter months. But not a full on lockdown. In three weeks time the million most vulnerable Scots will be experiencing a good level of protection from their first dose, and anything up to another million may have had their first dose and are just waiting on it to kick in. By that stage we should see hospitalisation and death rates plummet. Hopefully. But nobody in a position of power having seen what has gone before is going to want to over promise in any way, shape or form.

I genuinely don't get why refs aren't tougher on it. 6 players around me screaming in my face? Book them all. Tough if 3 of them already had yellows. They won't do it next week. Surely, surely, they must see players are at it, constantly at it when falling over either from the slightest contact, or in anticipation of it? Defenders these days are worse than forwards. I just don't understand why refs award those ludicrous non fouls when their own senses have told them from birth that it requires a certain amount of force to throw a 13 stone be-muscled athlete to the floor.

The transcript of Salmond’s written submission ( the 5 SNP//Green on the 9-man committee blocked its publication yesterday) is published in full in The Spectator who are also challenging that committee decision in Court. I have been both astonished and dismayed by the faithful’s ‘nothing to see here, move along’ stance. And the fact that it has taken a London based fringe weekly to do the job of the Scottish MSM is damning. Does no one hold Saint Nic to any degree of scrutiny or standard? Or, given her stellar performance and being the most likely leadership to deliver independence, is she forgiven everything? The truth will out, eventually. It needs to, or we (yoons, nats and all of us) are instead diminished. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/full-text-alex-salmond-s-submission-to-the-hamilton-inquiry

'Restrictions into next year' Dangling last summer in front of people as if it's some sort of Holy Grail. These people were almost universally bullied at school.

He knows Harry Maguire? Impressive.

A little bit normality in return for no overseas travel. Get fucked Jason.

I honestly don't recommend the Quavers diet for more than a 6 week spell. Get shredded then back on the steak Lorne. I'll give you two examples: Example 1: You have a sexy Asian bride arriving in 10 weeks time. She's 40 years your junior, you want to make a good impression, and you've been overdoing the Mr Kipling since Halloween - Strictly Quavers till you lose the overhang. Example 2: You've overslept for a 11:07 tee off time on the Kings Course. You need some slow release protein and you know you'll shred 900 cals because the buggies have sold out. Stop for a Lorne roll and an Oasis for healthier sugar. It's all about sensible balance, macros and curly maize snacks.

Made a 'Snow-Hamilton' here he is, away to save a penalty.