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Aye. The viewers' past. Still, maybe it is all going to be a dream & the Doctor will wake up to find Jenna Coleman in the shower... P.S. for the benefit of Marr1 & anyone else that didn't get the reference to TV's most famous "jumped the shark" moment (& which killed what was at that time the world's biggest TV show ratings wise stone dead, television's equivalent of the Ratner speech). http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllJustADream

Right. So having already dumped the whole original story about the Cybermen's origins at the reboot to have them coming from a parallel universe instead, they're now bringing back the original cybermen (& storyline) they junked, & ones that had evolved from the way they looked when they were just starting off into looking more like the ones they've just junked? I expect this to work as well as everything else there's been since that cack handed shortbread tin incarnation of the Doc blundered into the part.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-foyle-west-39190986 Lucky it was a girl, or he would have been doomed to have grown up known as "Wee Shughie".

You can see from the way Muffy's whiskers are all brushed forward that it's all play rather than real aggression (although not sure Renton feels the same way). Love the way the poor wee mutt's trying to copy the cat's swatting.

FFS, it's a CAT! Of course it blinked. They do it all the time (usually when trying to kid you that you're their best pal & haven't just furballed your freshly changed duvet). But what chance has any Weeping Angel got against one? Ask any vet about the number of times Granny Pisskegs' "sweet natured little Poppet" has returned the favour of that thermometer up their arse with being ninjaed in the coupon with one clawed paw so fast they don't even realise it until they feel the blood starting to run & the "FUCKING CAT c**t b*****d!" welling up in their throat with the late arriving pain. Bet you anything you like there's a statue in BSA's garden with one hand over its eyes & the other arm looking like it was trying to keep balance with the rest of its body suggesting staggering around in blind agony - below it, tell tale black & white cat hairs.

"Memetic entities" - now that is Box Office. (Awaiting the inevitable poor "tities"-centric puns to follow in 3... 2... 1... - or probably a Ted Rogers one after that)

As did you. Feeling stupid yet?

I'm amused by your worry about me "obsessing" about Jews & Muslims. Why shouldn't I take an interest in those who are my neighbours, work colleagues, family members, etc? If anyone talking about them makes you uncomfortable (as it clearly does), you need to have a wee word with yourself. Perhaps if you tried talking with some Muslims - let alone older - you might know more about them. Guess what, they don't bite, but they've as many pet prejudices as big bad Whitey. Learning to accept them as they are rather than some buckled leftie trope where they're all Guardianista approved plaster saints (which is equally as offensive as the demonisation by the knuckle trailing right) is all part of the process of growing up. Try it.

The view is they'd rather have their kids in a Catholic school than one filled with Hindus or even worse, Jews. A lot of older Muslims are so stupid, they still believe that the Catholic Mass has as part of its liturgy a call to God regarding those "perfidious Jews...remove the veil from their hearts." - up there with "fish on Friday" in the total bollocks stakes. Some of the younger aren't much better as a result, & the Ahmadiyyas called it right saying some in this country are well overdue a wee word with themselves first before pointing fingers at anyone else. On a more cheerful note, British politics very own Gift That Keeps On Giving is at it again:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39175570 Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has published his tax return as part of a call for transparency from politicians. But the return appears to omit around £37,000 he was entitled to as leader of the opposition. Oh Jeremy, Jeremy - you really are the best recruiting sergeant every other party has ever had!

Wait, what? You are saying that the Muslim kids went to Mass that day & got ashes?

Oh, PLEASE do! This is going to be good.

I am in awe of your enormous hairy pussy.

Despite the old joke about what you call five Hutchie Grammar pupils in a tent is a kibbutz, the Jewish population in Scotland, never mind Glasgow, is in deep trouble - & it's mainly the younger generation. They won't admit it (& the self-deception in newspaper articles on the subject borders on the bizarre), but quite simply they don't want to know about a religion which in the internet age where you can find out about anything you want looks utterly bonkers. The social justice stuff, fine, but the rest of it just seems lots of empty rituals & blah blah about events a thousand years ago with precious little relevence today. Circumcision is also a boner of contention amongst some new Jewish couples (to cut a long story short, the last ritual circumciser buggered off to Israel several years back, some of the younger generation saw this as an opportunity to not bother making an appointment with the next nearest one in Manchester, synagogue elders insisted their kid got snipped or they wouldn't be allowed to bring him in, so they stopped going...), but the main one is mixed marriages & choosing to let the kids decide for themselves when they get older - almost inevitably they choose agnosticism. Finally, like Christianity, their own factional splitting into Orthodox, Reform, Libertarian, Karaites, etc. has been as fatal as the fracture into 57 varieties has been to the quasi-religion of the Buckled Lefties. Some might celebrate one less bunch of "sky fairy worshippers", but as one that's had more than a passing involvement with the history of Scotland, I can't but find it all a little sad. The Jews paid back Longshanks bloodshed upon them by helping Bruce's Scotland achieve recognition in Europe, & a Jew free Scotland somehow feels like a Scotland incomplete.

Is that Len Mccluskey? He looks like the old dwarf in The Hobbit without the glued on beard.

Hmmmm is it not the case the SNP are not allowed to take seats in the Lords? Remember Donald Stewart was offered one & he told Maggie to ram it.

Bullshit. We all cheered when Thatcher died, will cheer when Blair is handed back to his master & all his little imps, what makes this expenses fiddling little Uriah Heap any more worthy of respect? He epitomised everything that went wrong in British politics these last 3 decades, career politicians only interested in themselves.

Context is everything, which was left out by the Twitter account in question for this: Here's the context of his vitriol: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/02/gerald-kaufman-labour-hero-jewish-villain/ ‘Just as Lord Ashcroft owns most of the Conservative Party,’ Kaufman alleged at a pro-Palestinian event in 2010; ‘right-wing Jewish millionaires own the rest’. In a 2011 debate, he greeted an intervention from Labour MP Louise Elmann with the exclamation: ‘Here we are, the Jews again!’ In a 2014 contribution in Westminster Hall, he explained: ‘You cannot appeal to the Israelis’ better nature, because they do not have one.’ Reflecting on the growth of pro-Israel feeling within the Tory Party, he told pro-Palestinian activists in 2015: ‘It’s Jewish money, Jewish donations to the Conservative Party – as in the general election in May – support from the Jewish Chronicle, all of those things, bias the Conservatives.’ At the same meeting, he claimed Israel manufactured hoax terrorist attacks to provide a pretext for killing Palestinians. The language was Stormfront and the paranoia straight from the Guardian’s comment threads. And yet these prejudices, with all their grisly precedents, were voiced by a Labour MP, one whose grandmother died at the hands of the Nazis... I don't like Daisley but he's spot on in calling out Kaufman for coming out with the sort of crap you'd have expected from Colin Jordan, John Tyndall, etc. than any British MP. Even Galloway never came out with this sort of vicious rubbish in public when he was pandering to British Muslims' worst instincts to get himself back in the Westminster gravy train.

British genuine gypsy culture has all but been destroyed, most of the real gypsy families have given up after having their livelihoods taken away by successive governmental legislation. What passes for "Roma" now are largely mostly Irish or Romanian scamster families backed with crooked lawyers, bleedheart CofE vicars trying to appear to have a clue about reality, & loudmouthed buckled lefties looking for a punch up - little more than portable scheme goblins. What Hitler failed to do with the Holocaust we managed to do with the stroke of a bureaucrat's pen to the most homogeneous gypsy population in the world. Years ago our business used to deal with one of the last of the genuine gypsy families in Glasgow (amongst other things they were the only ones left selling domestic paraffin), & they were really pissed about getting tarred with the same brush as tinkers, showfolk, so-called "Roma", crusties, etc, but were powerless as the media on both sides have vested interests in creating caricatures to suit their own prejudices. The Gypsy Council and the Romani Guild both happily played footsie with the early National Front back in the 1970s because it suited them until Tyndall & Webster took over, who as outright nazis of course had even worse plans for the gypsies than they did for the blacks & Asians. When it comes to racism for one's own ends, no one has clean hands.

I'd say the only actual challengers are the Greens. They finished second & appear to be picking & choosing their targets with more care. Moreover, the eyebrow raising tactics revealed last week where they were bussing in supporters to fight target council seats in by elections suggests they're starting to up their game somewhat. If they choose to use Gorton as a test run of their more professional approach in order to hang on & improve on than second place, could be interesting, although it would take a Paul Nuttall scale omnishambles for Labour to lose this one.

Yeah, but only after they lost & the traditional Labour scapegoating & retributions began - which saw able people like Ken Livingstone sidelined as well as the trash. Kaufmann was a slimy little creep whose only concern was staying at the top of the greasy pole - a buckled leftie for Foot but a New Labourite for Blair. It was his sort that brought Labour to where they are today, where getting into power for power's sake was all that mattered. When people without principles become your MPs, eventually you get a principle free party whose word even the most stupid learn to distrust for good.

And for the entire Scottish Labour Party bar the one in Foundation of Hearts to get spread like a squelchy turd under the wheels of the SNP juggernaut a few months later in the General Election after seventy years of uninterrupted domination. Extra Strong Minter.

Excellent match, Blue White Dynamite - in all fairness ought to have been a draw, but Peniculk took their chances where Mussey didn't.

What were they thinking with this one?

You couldn't make this guy up - it's like Homer Simpson with a lobotomy.

Just when we thought it was safe with Tedi banned. "What is BEAST may never die."