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I see we've switched gear smoothly from claiming there will be no records broken today and the Met Office have embarrassed themselves by predicting it straight to the fact that there has been a record broken today is irrelevent and the Met Office have embarrassed themselves by pointing it out.

They've quite clearly said that there's a 50% chance according to their models. That means there's also a 50% chance that temperatures won't reach 40. There's a reason they call it a forecast and not a prediction. There's a standard pattern. Boffin gives dry factual information about output of model heavily caveated. Journalist picks up extreme scenario for good copy. Sub editor picks extremes out of extreme scenario for sensationalist headline. Public reads headline. When extreme scenario fails to materialise, public blames boffin. People have enough of experts.

Suddenly demanding pinpoint accuracy from the fucking weather forecast is one of the stranger forum squabbles I can think of.

Our first little boy was born on Friday evening, and he’s a chunky wee smasher - 8 pounds 11. All the staff at the RAH in Paisley were great and mum and baby got allowed home 24 hours after he was born, now for the real fun stuff… Those first nappies are some weird shit, literally [emoji28] Think I’ve read right though this thread from page one onwards in the last nine months. It’s like an epic novel at points, with a few pages between nervous pregnancy announcement and first days at school, and a few terribly sad stories I had no idea of. Some great tips in there too, definitely the best of PNB, I’ve decided it’s the only parenting resource I need [emoji1316]

For you Tommy, ze war is over.

Who could have guessed that the people who know more about epidemics than epidemiologists also know more about the weather than the Met Office? I for one am stunned.

Have I opened the Covid thread by mistake?

Great signing for Columbus Crew

Met office - There's a 50% chance of 40degrees, watch out for vulnerable people as it'll be a really hot day. Red tops - it's going to be 40degrees wheey. It's 38 degrees. Yer da - well that's the met office made yet another mistake, 2 degrees off what they said would 100% happen. And in my day we just said go out enjoy the heat. Skin cancer hadn't been invented yet by the libtards yet.

I think you're mistaking the Daily Express for the Met Office.

Good of those snake b*****ds Oxford to do us a turn.

You can write it down for them, you can't understand it for them.

Cam Smith won the open with a back 9 of the ages at the home of golf……and this thread is getting spammed by this nonsense. It’s all rather disappointing really

Unless I'm mistaken, this has been by the media, not by the Met Office themselves. The fact the media have sensationalised the story is hardly the fault of the Met Office, whose only outputs have made it very clear that some of their models forecast a 50% chance of exceeding 40 degrees. https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weather-and-climate/2022/red-extreme-heat-warning I'm also not sure that temperatures "only" reaching 38 or 39 degrees would really be any less of an extreme weather event anyway.

Laughable that fans of The Rangers are preaching that anyone finding Jocks, Paddies or Taffs offensive are "snowflakes" when the mere whispers of the H word sends into a tailspin.

It was an Open for the ages though. Don't think many will forget that one. The weather, the course, the occasion, the winner's performance just all came together perfectly.

Billy Gilmour came on at half time against Ireland.

Again, they didn't "confidently predict" it, they said it had a 50% chance of happening, which is literally the least confident any prediction of 40 degree heat could be.

Never had heatwaves like this before they COVID vaccines. It truly makes you wonder.

Footage of tamthebam found:

10 for Monday including a cycling question.

10 to start the week. 2 guesses.

Á la Mr Chips?

Wait till they see the crypto-mining room!

I think the transplanted hair falls out and then regrows. Can take 6 months or something. I’ll also be watching the progress of growth alongside or campaign. thank you.

Everyone on this thread -

Todd still playing a beige Lawrence Fox is equally unsurprising.

Peter Mannion MP is one of the greatest TV characters of all time IMO.

10 for Monday , knew 8. inspired guesses for the cyclist and phobia

If you are happy to dish out criticism then dish out a bit of praise when it is due. It wasn’t an earth shattering victory, nobody thinks Farrell is the 2nd coming of Sir Alex Ferguson and nobody is gettin remotely carried away given the circumstances. “let faz guardiola get u hard” is hilarious patter from someone who bounces on here with an absolute raging stauner anytime we get beat. Wind your neck in you absolute turd.

I think it would be a good idea for MPs (including ministers) annual pay rises to be restricted to the lowest percentage (or cash sum if applicable) awarded in the public sector generally. Oh, and for about the next decade (or maybe longer) these rises needs to be met from annual efficiency savings in the running costs of Parliament (not the public sector budget as a whole, the actual costs of Parliament attributed to the day to day activities of the HoC/HoL). Now, that might mean reducing allowances, reducing subsidies of food and drinks, fewer holidays, faster voting procedures, etc. Anyone watching a vote in Westminster must wonder what they are watching. These folk fighting like rats in a sack over who gets the big chair demand efficiency savings from everyone else, yet seem content to have working practices of their own that probably haven't changed much since a bloke used to have to carry a flag in front of a moving car.

Right. Get a contract under his nose ASAP. Stick a healthy release clause on it and give him substantial first team minutes this season.

Shitebag. PM me, I'll do it. Boys an absolute shitebouse that I would happily pagger outside the Trades House.

Where do you work, Tussaud's?

The press release from 3 days ago when the warning was released included the 50%. You guys are just making shit up

Just a few posts away from oaksoft claiming to owning a weather prediction service

Orkney mate. Spent 9 nights going between Orkney mainland, Westrey and Sanday. Weather was crud but stunning islands. Mull is brilliant for wildlife. You'll see loads. If you get a chance book a slot on the Sealife Mull boat trip (used to be sealife surveys). You'll only need a 100mm lens as the common dolphins (thousands of them) swim right up to the boat. I took a 500mm which was a mistake!

Its always "top flight clubs are evil, self interested, monsters" you hear from perennial lower league fans. Never any mention of how hard the lower league clubs fought, and continue to fight, to prevent those below League Two getting promoted. It wont be a true pyramid structure until they have automatic spots at that level.

Not gonna be easy, they are currently top of the Dutch league

Away from the LIV circus and back to "why golf is amazing", I'm playing my first competitive golf in 20 years next weekend, in a 2 day Stableford event at Goswick. Currently, the excitement and anticipation is currently edging out the absolute fear of shanking the opening tee shot, but I fully expect that to have reversed by the time I get there!

The two debates thus far have been woeful, so a cancellation of a third is no great loss. There's been no debate of a resolution of the NI Protocol, clamping down on tax avoidance, the inhumane policy on Rwanda, the utter lie of levelling up, the implosion of the NHS, etc., Instead we've had questions tailored to 75-year old white Englishmen watching in golf club snugs across southern England.

If Davidson is given time at the start of the season,(of course he will, Bulletproof knows best). It's vital that he's jettisoned before January so a new management team get a window and some time to turn round the absolute shit show we're about to endure.

A long but good day out on Saturday- nice town, nice ground and locals all really friendly. Buckie definitely gave us far more of a game than the result suggests. After Alloa equalised I didnt sense the outcome would be in much doubt though. Wasnt vintage stuff from Alloa, but we had plenty of regular starters out. Hogarth made some really good saves which was encouraging- nothing spectacular but just stood strong when Buckie were putting pressure on our goal. Obviously Sammon hitting the goal trail was great to see, and he was too good for them overall. Similarly Roddens goal was a really well placed header at a key moment of the game to put Alloa ahead for the first time. Miller also looked decent in the middle of the park, particularly in Scougalls absence which was a real plus point. I thought O'Donnell had a decent game and was always an outball- but we still look far more dangerous going forward on the right- with Taggarts deliveries- than we do on the left. Still in with a chance of qualification from the group, although tomorrow nights game will be tough and the rest day has fallen pretty favourably for Dunfermline looking ahead to the last game on Saturday. Not that it really matters all that much anyway.

As much as I think Davidson should go - and I absolutely do - my main anger on Saturday was with the players. Whatever we think of the tactics/system, it doesn't matter when professional players adopt the attitude that most of our shower of shite did on Saturday. They should be fucking ashamed of themselves. I can absolutely take losing a game (I'm a Saints fan FFS), but I fucking hate when players clearly don't give a f**k. And to many of this lot don't give a f**k. As always, I will have recovered by Saturday and will be at the Ayr game (can't make Elgin on Tuesday), but by f**k this lot are testing my patience more than any team since Stark's. Too many fucking shysters. There's no Mackay, Weir, Jody or Frazer in this lot. No real leaders and not enough personal pride. Back to Davidson - thanks Callum, but it's time to go.

Rose have tweeted that they're both fine and one has commented himself to say it was dehydration. Glad they are both alright, but football terraces can be hot boxes in warm weather. Take some precautions, folks!

Counting Crows (ft. Vanessa Carlton) - Big Yellow Taxi

Crichton really isn't that bad at all. It's the auld duffers like Bonner and Grant that need punted from the show.