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There is an incredible documentary shown tonight on BBC2; Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods. It’s on iPlayer too.
It follows a squad of soldiers defending the front line and they eventually get rotated and relieved back home, but not before 66/99 suffer bad injuries and 10 are killed.
So many young men and woman living and dying to protect a railway line, they’ll be mentally scarred for life, if not physically destroyed.
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Marching Season seems to be starting early this year and in Stonehaven of all places! That’ll be a good fun day for all the family on March 16th.
Apparently it’s to commemorate the memory of 167 people imprisoned in 1685!
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Staying in Dundee tonight and having a lovely T in Tickety Boo. Nice service and traditional bar, so that’s my kind of place.
I was disgusted in the Wetherspoons when they served a pint of T in a regular glass; not a T pint glass. Never seen that before tbh ruined the pint. Wasn’t the best spoons either tbh; a bit grim compared to Tickety Boo bar.
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No point trying to be pious about it; for a lot of folk of all ages, it’s a bit fun to have a breakfast drink in an airport as they head off to somewhere more exciting than where they live for a few days. I travel a lot (nowhere far) by plane and happy for a coffee as it’s on work time, but have no qualms getting on the beer at 7am for a holiday trip.
it’s not the drink, it’s the tolerance of bam behaviour. There should be more stringent rules as you board as well as massive fines for any on board misconduct.
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I’ve been doing this Dry January, as I know I drank far too frequently last year (away most weeks for a couple of nights due to work) and we were in Tenerife start of December right up till Xmas, and I felt I was a fat mess by late December.
I have done this Dry Jan twice before and like now, it’s been a dawdle. I actually only really enjoy beers and I was getting fussy about even that by end of last year. Test for me is this week as I’m off to Belfast on Wednesday for 2 nights and Dublin next week for 2 nights; both with work and I’ll get bored in the hotel. I’ll maybe go for a Chinese or something for dinner, as that’ll avoid sitting in a bar with grub and Guinness for company all night.
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12 hours ago, The Moonster said:
It's funny Barton mentions nonces because when I saw this photo the other day that's exactly what I thought.
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Much like Rylan, another reality contestant, Alison Hammond (the fat black lass) who is now a lead presenter on This Morning seems to have been “famous for 5 minutes” on the first Big Brother twenty years ago.
She totally vanished from sight until somehow popping back up from nowhere a year or two back as a much loved national treasure!
I don’t watch Love Island or the Essex type shows but I’m always amazed at how talentless folk can suddenly become household names overnight. Usually being a cheeky chappy or having your tits and teeth on show seems to be all that is required tbh.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/health-67772390
….this is the next Omnicrom variant that will maybe keep the scientists and usual suspects in business for anothe RB fee eeekd at least.
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I don’t know if Derek Draper should qualify as he’s not “famous” aside from his wife and for feeling a bit unwell these past few years, but he’s a stick on to croak it before Santa comes down the lum, from the looks of things.
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49 minutes ago, Wee Bully said:
Apples and pears. Parking t prestwick is the equivalent of short stay. No bus needed.
It is indeed equivalent of short stay, as long as you are happy to pay extra compared to other airports and drive 45 mins longer, assuming you don’t live in Ayrshire.
I am not getting my knickers in a twist over blooming airport car parks but the fact is you were wrong to say Glasgow is twice the price for parking.
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45 minutes ago, Wee Bully said:
Equally you could compare it to Glasgow or Edinburgh airports and realise it is half the price.
Except it is not at all cheaper at Prestwick. I have booked 10 nights from a week on Monday at Glasgow airport and cost is £64 in the long stay car park.
At least in Glasgow and Edinburgh there are options for drivers and the actual airport facilities are night and day comparing between Prestwick and the other airports in the central belt.
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What a day to be alive when we have had a fair cull across politics, music, acting (if you call performing on Brookside acting) and now a cultural icon such as Sticky Vicky!
There must be a waiting room in heaven where there’s a fairly interesting conversation going on now and Vicky is shooting out bananas from her fanny to the amazement of Henry Kissinger and a few Saints who are on gatekeeper duties.
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I think I’ll go for 6 pints of T later this evening to celebrate in a mock Scottish theme bar.
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This thread made me go back and look at the early pages of the Covid thread. When do we start a league table and moan about how shite Scotland is ranking when we are kicking around the bottom end of the league, until our natural state of obesity, alcoholism, chronic bad health and abundance of Type 2 diabetes roars us up to the Champions League spot!
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A black walloper is a great option when you want to munch on something substantial. It’ll be a deserving finalist if it can overcome the challenge of a greasy slimy pork member.
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I think the UK Government saw how veterans in USA were getting lauded and applauded during/ after the Iraq/ Gulf Wars post 9/11 (probably the Americans had some “guilt hangover” from the contrasting poor way veterans were treated after Vietnam) and decided to shift UK public attention onto our service folks, rather than the harsh scrutiny of why the eff we were involved in regime change at all.
For whatever reason, football seems to be the perceived moral compass of working class folk in the UK and Rangers and the majority too of English football teams, particularly those in Brexit towns like Stoke etc, were all over this poppy fetish and show of loyalty like a rash.
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Whilst I don’t really understand why senior government business would be conducted on WhatsApp, it does seem to be the case that once there was talk of an inquiry, all communications would by law need to be preserved.
That’s what was discussed on the Sunday Show this morning with the lawyer Aamar Anwar, If true, Sturgeon and the Dentist could be criminally culpable.0 -
It has started for this year’s Poppy “Season”. I noticed the presenters on GMB on STV this morning all had poppies, including the reporter lad who was live from America.
Interestingly the folks on BBC Breakfast didn’t but no doubt that now the starting pistol is triggered, everyone on TV will be shamed into wearing the poppy by the weekend.
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From “sapphire and steel” to “ashes to ashes, dust to dust”.
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I wonder how/ why fatso Eamonn Holmes has self appointed himself as the Moral Compass of this grubby story.
It reeks of the actual story being overtaken and used as an opportunity for precious media types to get revenge or to get on their high horse, with Phil, Holly, anyone upstairs in ITV, and it’ll not be long before Piers Morgan connects himself into the story and wants blood for his Good Morning Britain sacking.
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10 hours ago, HK Hibee said:
how the hell did it take him 17.5 hours to drive from Birmingham to Gourock, buy a barbecue and drive back. Can only presume this is an elaborate ruse to give him a bit of time to pump his bit on the side without his wife getting suspicious.
That was my initial thought too. Say it’s 4.5hrs drive but add 30-40 mins for a decent stop each way. Why was he in the shop for 7 hours and who told the newspaper? I bought shirts in a shop the last twice I was across in Ireland with work this spring. Can’t say that I felt like calling the Irish Times, nor did my chat with the lady at the till go beyond friendly pleasantries.
I’m going over to Dobbies later; I’ll ask folk at the door where they live, in case I can get a scoop for the Stirling Observer.
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https://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/news/23512617.man-makes-700-mile-journey
For whatever reason, this story came into my newsfeed. I don’t live in Greenock, so maybe someone more local can confirm this headline- grabbing event is the main thing to happen in the town recently?
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45 minutes ago, 101 said:
She is of fame for making speeches in the house of commons to win a bet so take from that what you will.
10 years ago, she made this speech to parliament.
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19 hours ago, Jacksgranda said:
That'll do me for Coronation ceremonies - lasted longer than the Queen's Park v Dundee game and wasn't half as entertaining. They could have put the whole thing over in half an hour.
And as for the music - typical High Church, absolute shite. I don't know how anyone could listen to that every week.
I watched it all yesterday as I am quite interested in history and find these pageants fascinating. It’s incredible to think a lot of the formalities and ceremonies date back many hundreds of years.
Having said that, I think I preferred the funeral last Autumn. Better music and not as drawn out.
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