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Can't stand this sort of attitude. Arrange more friendlies and treat the League Cup fixtures as competitive games, given that they are in fact competitive games with prize money available.

We were set free and semi-feral from a young (pre-school) age. Would hang out with the “big kids” on bmx all day from about age 4/5. From about 7 we’d go off on day trips, cycling miles away, making fires to cook on, playing with knives, catapults etc. Then onto girls, booze, drugs and casual violence by early teens. Can never decide if my parents were great or terrible. I try and get my daughter to go out and do drugs, get smashed etc but she just sits at home doing art and supporting good causes.

He didn't get ANY chance. Hartley signed him as a left back, a position he already had two players ahead of him for. (Robson & Brough) So he didn't play. When McKinnon arrived he was playing every week in the reserves, usually as a midfielder, and doing really well. There were a few games I watched where I'd have had him as MOTM. Yet he never got a chance with the first team. I'd need to go back and doublecheck, but I'm sure at the time he was the ONLY member of Hartleys side whom McKinnon released without giving him a single minute in the first team. That was the point where I began to question McKinnons team selections because he was ignoring a player who was better than the ones that were losing every week. A trait he continued by ignoring Todorov and Lavery in favour of McShane and Jarvis, and which ultimately helped relegate us.

It’s important to do proper analysis about what happens in elections. Impartial, empirical analysis that focuses on facts. That way we can understand why candidates get the support they do. On that note I found this great Twitter thread that goes into all the detail on why Galloway lost. Really covers all the bases!

Since when did everyone become responsible for everyone else? It's not my duty to keep Helen Lovejoy safe on the train or in the supermarket by wearing a bit of cloth over my face. When restrictions are lifted then those who want to get on with life will and those who don't "feel safe" won't. Burnham is a clown.

Big Tomi dropped this going into his car yesterday….

I received this for my birthday the other day, it's my main man Monty doing his best Elvis impression.

There’s zero sense in Scotland dragging our heels (due in likelihood to pure stubbornness by the Scottish Government) if England open in a fortnight. At the risk of repeating previous posts, there’s going to be full stadiums and events in coming few weeks and already we’re preparing up here for a few hundred fans at our games in July and limited attendance until 10th August. No doubt there’s going to be a pantomime about getting food and a bovril or tea; maybe a pasting table with a plastic cup of lukewarm water is “the new normal” after all? Let the fans back, treat us like adults and have confidence in the vaccines that will allow folk to made personal choices.

I've written similar before, I accept it's not the US system........I reported a crime. A violent violating one....... I had my original statement taken by local DC/DS and then handed over to the specialist team. They visited on at least half dozen times and they went through that statement with a fine tooth comb. There were things I couldn't remember. Each time retraumatising. So I find the idea of 60 woman being able to maintain a made up story unlikely. They can very quickly spot flaws in your story or if your narrative is too perfect. What is clear whether it's the US or the UK the rate of successful prosecutions are miniscule.

You could scan the home one like a bar code... Bitter Tangerine. 12p.

My laddie is 9 and diagnosed with ASD however he is high functioning and copes fine in mainstream school. As an only child we see how happy he is when he can have friends or his cousins over and since moving to our new house there's been few kids of similar age chap the door asking him to go out and play. He's never met these kids before but he's keen to get out and about and I think this would do him the world of good from a social aspect and build up his confidence and street smartness. He's also hypermobile so physically struggles with some things however he seems to push himself when he sees what other kids can do eg if he went to climb up something and was struggling we'd give him encouragement but he'd just say he couldn't do it however if he sees another kid doing it, and if he thinks we're not watching, he'll go for it and manage it (hard to explain). Unfortunately because he struggles at times to read social cues (he's getting better) he's easily led and we don't really know these kids so we're a bit iffy about him going out and about on his own with folk we don't know- we'll need to bite the bullet soon as he's chomping at the bit to be let off the leash. He's been at his cousins house who are of similar age. They roam the streets and surrounding areas and he's went out with them but the wife was a nervous wreck and he was only away for about an hour. It didn't seem to phase him being out and about without his us with him which was encouraging.

Just looked at Google Maps. The huge walk I had to Primary School when I was 8 which involved rolling plains, forests and motorways was actually only 0.7 miles across a field, through some trees and over a road. All the places we used to play are within a 1 mile circle but it seemed like big adventures when I was a bairn.

Delighted if this Scott Burns Van Veen confirmation comes good. Not least because it means I can quit creeping on the guy's Instagram followers/following lists.

Put the phone away and give us all the treats.

The main problem now appears to be the high chances of us double vaxxed getting caught up in track and trace. As case numbers surge they have to put something into place soon to stop this charade of so many potentially healthy people being locked up for 10 days at a time. It needs binned, or at least allow you to just take a LFT, maybe every 2nd day, and continue as normal.

Violence towards women doesn’t seem to be taken seriously. Just look at the incidence of domestic abuse reported by the partners of policemen and the lack of prosecutions and it’s probably no wonder crimes such as the one you suffered are not dealt with properly. We see guys like Colin Hendry interviewed about the Euros like he’s some great guy when he’s a persistent wife beater and violent stalker. At Dunfermline, Martin Hardie is treated as a hero yet he’s another inadequate who harasses women. A male-dominated culture just doesn’t seem to grasp the trauma their behaviour can cause women.

Right, where’s the contents? Not a fan of the paparazzi.

What about going for a pakora hut as our next mission?

Burnham is a total cuck and is turning into a Sturgeon reply guy on Twitter.

I’m looking for support from the P&B community. When the next bye election is called can we collectively organise and fund a candidate under the name “The Real George Galloway Party”? I reckon it could cause an aneurism.

I've never been happier to see a semi formed jobby in my life Today is a good day.

They've been saying that from near enough the very start.

I would guess that you have much more medical knowledge than I do, but from a statistical point of view it is surely the case that as the risk of people dying from covid decreases (as a result of vaccination and improved treatment), the proportion of people who have covid but die from other causes increases?

Not having this "Loy was done" patter. Thats ultimate hindsight. If you could go back and make that decision again based on his spell at St Mirren 10/10 of us sign him again.

I just can't believe a team in vertical black and white stripes has a similar strip to another team in vertical black and white stripes. I just can't get me nut raaand it.

Just a point of order here, the whole ‘are they in hospital with Covid or just an incidental finding’ patter is doing my nut in. Similar to the whole ‘did they die with Covid or of Covid’ argument, which is also a load of shite. See also ‘bUt tHeY gOt HiT bY a CaR’ type things. Similar to the following point, People testing positive from Covid who go on to die are amost certainly dead directly as a result of it, or it is a significant contributing factor in their death. i.e. someone who has Covid dies of Bacteria Pneumonia, which they got as a result of ventilation required to support their breathing will still technically be classed as a Covid death due to Covid being a significant factor. The Virus itself isn’t what actually kills people most of the time, its the ARDS, the blood clots on the lungs, ruptured lungs etc that do them in. the vast majority of people in hospital (>95%) who have a positive PCR test are symptomatic to some degree with Covid, be that mildly sick or on things like breathing support. /medicine

Tbf that looks like hell.

Come August 9th these rules should hopefully be fired straight into the sea.

So what if they do? Playing next to shiter players won't be the worst thing imaginable given he'll have to do that when playing for Scotland.

If people are genuinely worried about the absence of a piece of cloth on other people's faces, they are more than welcome to go and buy one of those FFP3 masks, which will protect them based on this https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57636360 It is not the responsibility of others to keep wearing cloth/surgical face masks to protect others from a virus they've been vaccinated against.

Built a wee raised bed beside my greenhouse, handballed a ton of soil round my back, levelled, raked etc. Looks the business...... Within 2 mins it was dug up and the wee white dug, wasn't white anymore.

Maybe she just hasn’t seen a decent wood in a wee while.

I think as the risk of folk dying comes down then the proportion of people dying while positive for covid will come down. I haven’t seen much in the way of positive asymptomstic cases in Hospitals, most folk are symptomatic or are asymptomatic at the time of testing and then develop symptoms. Thankfully as a result of treatment we are better at stopping punters getting sicker and also the ones coming in are generally not as sick. Some folk, similar to the previous waves are coming in too sick and at that point its anyones guess. All that being said, and believe me after 18 months of watching folk suffocate to death I want things back to how they used to be, if every hospital is having to have 1 or 2 wards set aside for Covid as well as a number of ITU beds then things will never be back to the way they were before. Another couple of misconceptions are: - Its just the like flu; it isn’t its considerably more dangerous, more infectious and with a much more complex pattern of complications - its just “fatties” or folk with a multitude of underlying conditions that get real sick with it. It isn’t. Sure these folk will get ill but the overwhelming majority of people I’ve seen in ITU have had very mild things like well controlled diabetes or mild asthma.

Basically, there’s a variant that’s more transmissible and has more opportunities to transmit compared to the previous waves (hospitality staying open etc.), but is being absolutely smashed by the vaccines. Pleasing.

Jim Clark was shite at tennis btw.

Exponential growth can only last so long within a constrained space, so it's bound to level off soon enough when it runs out of people to infect.

That couldnt be any further from the truth, ive dedicated a large part of my career to the investigation of domestic abuse etc and to say that its not taken seriously is utterly dismissive to people who do absolutely everything they can to help victims. There are entire departments solely dedicated to such investigations, specialist courts, specialist prosecutors who deal with only domestic abuse cases. Even outside this, domestic abuse calls make up a massive part of the day to day work of uniformed police officers too. With a large proportion of calls around domestic abuse. Every single police officer and domestic abuse prosecutor gets specialist training from Domestic Abuse Matters which is co-delivered by agencies like women's aid and rape crisis. Its a stated priority for Policing and COPFS in that its recognised as a massively important area. Its an incredibly complex field, if someone comes forward to report say a historical incident where the person was assaulted with no other persons present etc then its significantly difficult to prove that abuse, forensic opportunities gone, door to door opportunities significantly diminished, you rely on a strong statement from a victim which stands up to scrutiny and some other corroborative factor, which could be a confession, incriminating texts or a first disclosure from the victim. Even then the chances of finding that corroborative factor can be really difficult. That said they will still explore as many avenues as possible to do this, interviewing ex partners who may have suffered similar abuse which can provide corroboration via the moorov doctrine, but getting them to engage can be so difficult because many just want to move on or have blocked out these traumatic memories. Domestic abuse and sexual violence etc is for me one of the most horrific types of crime, because it so often occurs in an environment which where we should all feel the safest and the impact of it can be significantly harder to overcome than most other crimes. I get the frustration that crimes like these dont always result in a prosecution, but to allude to it being because the criminal justice system is somehow uninterested, complicit or ‘not done properly’ on some kind of massive scale is unfair and inaccurate. Are there things that can improve, absolutely, could the PF and Police etc do with more resources to investigate and prosecute, absolutely, but is it somehow because they dont care? No chance.

I feel like that needs rectified

I think the world just appears a more scary place because we know more with 24hr news reporting and social media. Also much more cars on the road now as well so limits how far we let the kids go as not to have to worry about idiot drivers.

I'd sell him for 4mil, for sure. We could just buy * looks up St Mirren team on Wikipedia * Eamon Brophy to replace him.

They've not really had a proper rivalry before until now. There's always been 1 or 2 leagues between them and Ayr. I think they're just letting it all out.

10/10 for Fri, a rare occasion of knowing them all

Ten, knew nine fluked the sun one.

Complete guess on ethene for a rare super sexy TEN for Friday.

Second 10/10 in a row for Friday. Bit of a guess on the astronomical unit but the rest were fairly straight forward today.

10 for Friday, too little too late to avoid the drop though.

Signing his three year deal with Clyde: