Scary Bear

Mine arrived today too. Initial thoughts are the sticker album looks okay but the stickers themselves look a bit cheap and cheery. From memory the Panini World Cup 2022 stickers looked similarly naff. I don’t like having the play-off teams as part of the annual. That just seems a rip off.

Was he really shite? I saw he got on for the last half hour. Did nothing?

Well, it clearly offended someone. That boy up the page - who must have changed his username cause I don’t recall him - wasn’t happy.

That one says it’ll arrive in 7 days.

The last time I felt good about the direction the independence movement was going was back before the referendum. All the talk then was about independence and how good this new independent Scotland could be. Salmond seemed a decent front man. Then Sturgeon came in and the electoral success was amazing but there didn’t seem to be a decent plan for how to advance the cause for independence. Everyone was all cheery and optimistic and thought the Tory government would observe democracy and allow another referendum (as seen by the wildly optimistic polling choices in this topic poll). That hasn’t happened. Now the SNP are fannying about with legislation that isn’t high on the majority’s priority list while botching major infrastructure like hospitals and ferries, and while the local councils, police, NHS, and most public sector organisations offer poorer service, and people (voters) start to notice this. Now we’re in no-man’s land for Indy and I can’t see what’s going to change that. It might help if someone made the current case for independence and started advertising that to people. The last time this was done on a regular basis was back when Salmond was in charge. Since then it’s been stuff about levers of power by the very dull John Swinney. That’s never getting the electorate onside. The SNP are the best vehicle for independence and they are in the doldrums.

Possibly a hate crime?

I’ll get the first post in for this calendar year. Sadly, I can’t see another Indy Ref any time soon. The SNP are awful and need punted and restructured but that’s 2 years away. Then it remains to be seen whether they’ll do a Labour or sort themselves out a bit quicker than that. They need to get back to the centre ground.

f**k Ayr. I honestly don’t like games with Ayr. No offence or anything, but I do. Always have. Too many draws and defeats. I can see a birthday coming on. I’ll be there for those middle-aged, baldy Airdrie scumbags on the Tuesday. Hopefully we get 3 points from both. Win or lose, if we finish second then it’s our best finish since 2010-11, so that’s something.

People seem to forget this is the Politics sub-forum of the General Nonsense forum, of a website for football forums. The Politics sub-forum is nutty as f**k. Only out-nuttied by the Juniors forum and I’m not sure that even exists anymore. I stand corrected the Juniors forum is still alive.

I’m seeing a few comments on Facebook just now about weather modifiction and ‘geoengineered weather’. I suspect it’s cause it’s been raining so often in Scotland. What’s that all about? Part of me wishes it was true. Then there would be a solution; kill the c***s.

On the bit about him and Anas Sarwar being male and from privileged backgrounds, isn’t that just UK politics in a nutshell? on the lack of non-white msps in Scotland for the Tories, Lib Dems and Greens. How many MSPs from these parties get elected? The big parties in Scotland are Labour and SNP. To get more non-white / people of colour MSPs for Tories, Lib Dem’s or Greens, or indeed For the SNP or Labour, you would need some of the 5% of the non-white / people of colour demographic to be interested in joining these parties, rise through the ranks of the parties, and then get elected. It’ll surely just come down to who is interested enough in politics to get involved and stay involved. Edit: I’m not involved with any political party, so I’m not sure how easy it is to rise through the ranks for a person of colour, but I would have thought they would be more PC than the rest of society.

On that Humza speech, I just watched it. Had forgotten all about it, but I recall this was during lockdown, in the aftermath of the George Floyd death and BLM protests. At the time it didn’t really register as particularly dodgy, but 4 years later, it doesn’t sit well to have the FM (a man of Pakistani heritage) saying “white” repeatedly and in a hostile manner. Scotland is a 96% white country by demographics, so you’re looking at a 1 in 20 chance of seeing someone non-white in a top job. Despite demographics, the leaders of the two parties with any chances of getting into power in Scotland are both non-white. I would have thought if you got to the 1 in 20 stage for these top jobs Humza mentions that would be about right.

Humza has been reported for a speech he made in 2020.

He looks like the sort of c**t I have in my mind when I think ‘who buys an XL Bully’.

Do they have someone who is a good striker?

It’s a good rule for us, but it does give nations who are pretty deficient in bringing through their own youth players an easy way out. I’m not sure that’s a good thing in the long run.

Anyone fallen foul of this new law yet?

Stranger things have happened.

I’ve not been following this story. I see this thread is from 2021. How come the legislation only came into force today? I assume it needed a bit of further tinkering to make it semi-usable? Does this mean I can’t say outrageous stuff on the internet anymore? I am not a bot. Honestly. However, have you ever thought of buying Cryptocurrencies?

If he had just waited until today, he’d likely have got away with it. Joey is clearly a man with too much time on his hands and a strong whiff of going off the rails.

In the past I have actively avoided turning up early for some games if I know in advance there is a minutes silence. If I’m feeling low I don’t need that sort of stuff in my life. I go to the football to see my friends and to watch football, hopefully football that is decent to watch, rather than some of the awful kick and rush football that Scotland is famed for. The clapping at a certain minute thing just leaves me confused. If you’re not in the know and people just start clapping, then you have that dilemma of whether to clap away, not even knowing what you’re clapping for, or whether to do nothing. I can understand if it’s a prominent club official, player or some young fan who has died. It’s just that if a few of them die in a short space of time it can feel like you are attending funerals every other week. It’s a tricky subject.

I’m watching MOTD2 now and I noticed McBurnie was heavily involved in the goals. Has he got his mojo back? Could he be called up for the June friendlies? Possible late addition to the Euros squad?

Call him up. Portland Timbers are no slouches.

It’s just a shame that Hamilton couldn’t get near your goalkeeper again. At least we’d have a wee video clip to cheer us up. I wish we had spent some more of our boundless heaps of cash on some central defenders.