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2 hours ago, Parttimesupporter said:
I've always found Catholic royalists a bit odd. In fairness those you have mentioned are/were odd (to put it mildly) for a variety of reasons.
You would think that The Honourable Member for the 18th century would be familiar with the terms of the Act of Settlement, and find them just a wee bit problematic? I suppose part of the problem is the ludicrous role of the monarch as head of the Church of England.
People complaining about the act of settlement strike me as a bit odd. It always sounds as if they’re fine with the whole hereditary head of state arrangement apart from that one detail that makes it seem a little bit inequitable.
It’s like when Claire Short complained about Page 3 of the Sun as if the other fifty-fifty pages were perfectly fine
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53 minutes ago, velo army said:
I think TC is right in combining staunch and catholic in the case of Royalist Rosary Rattlers.
Fine alliteration sir
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8 minutes ago, TPAFKA Jersey 2 said:
I actually agree with you, but I suppose the argument would be that it’s offensive to the pope and the queen.
I daresay neither of them asked knuckledragging old firm fans to sing their praises, so why should they be “fucked”?
And of course there are cringing royalists who are also staunch Roman Catholics. Jacob Rees Mogg, Ann Widdecombe and the ghost of Jimmy Saville
ETA: that's "staunch" in it's normal outside world sense as opposed to the P&B vernacular obviously0 -
1 minute ago, Galajambo said:
It's one of those really annoying little football anomalies that we really need to end, just like Hibs are desperate to get their first win over Hearts at Hampden too.
I'm more concerned about winning the cup two more times so we can catch up with Queens Park
The spiders have had gloating rights for too long
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4 minutes ago, craigkillie said:
Dalry would do the job I reckon.
I was confused for a moment because Dalry, Edinburgh is pretty cultured and cosmopolitan these days
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Don't that sort of people engage enough whataboutery and faux "victimhood" as it is without actively incentivising them to be "offended"
As with the offensive behaviour at football grounds act any measures by the SPFL would probably trigger the law of unintended consequnces
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18 minutes ago, Wee Jock Poopong McPlop said:
There used to be a song at Saints park in which the initial reference was to the colours of the two teams they hate and the final line was an offensive reference to the pope and the queen (an updated “king” version wouldn’t be so good for rhyming reasons)
How about
"We hate ***s too, that's why we sing...0 -
We're possibly into double figures left now
Irritatingly , after I've booked decent seats in the North stand a block of really good ones seats have appeared in the top tier of the South Stand
I should have waited longer
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46 minutes ago, Derry Alli said:
It's Ayrshire, tbf.
He wasn't clear whether the four weeks of "Teaching him about sectarianism." was trying to teach him how to be sectarian or how not to be sectarian
I'm hoping it's the latter but given that it's Ayrshire we can't assume anything1 -
15 hours ago, Mr Waldo said:
I think you've mixed up two companies.
It’s Glens isn’t it
thank you for your proof reading services
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7 minutes ago, Connor7 said:
How much do Hearts still have to sell? Do you think they can get them shifted by Sunday?
There’s a few behind the goals
but a few random available seats keep appearing in other previously sold out sections which must be returns or something
I wasn’t going to go because I thought I’d left it too late to get decent tickets
but then I saw a couple of good seats in the north stand appear out of nowhere so I’m onboard
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40 minutes ago, BB_Bino said:
......or are they just objecting everything to try and make the SNP look bad in the year of a General Election that they're party looks set to lose?
It's a plausible hypothesis that can't be discarded out of hand but I'd also suggest another couple of possibilities...
The idea of interfering in the market was always ideologically problematic for Tories and they were always liable to to ditch it when politically convenient
The people that make Grant's Vodka have donated lots of money to the Tories in return for them defending their interests
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2 hours ago, bennett said:
Ross County outplayed us, Dundee defended well and counter attacked in numbers without resorting to hammer throwing.
Hearts will be too physical for us, 3 - 1 to Hearts. The last two games have seen a team basically going through the motions.
Unfortunately Hearts haven't exactly been firing on all cylinders of late either. We've taken 7 points from 4 but we made pretty heavy going of it
I've put £20 on Hearts at 5/1 to go through as insurance, because Cup Finals are expensive days out1 -
On 04/04/2024 at 15:17, VincentGuerin said:
What's not sustainable about it?
I'm really not sure you're grasping that the aim here is to stop clubs spending beyond their means. Anderson's money is gifted to Hearts. It is literally within our means.
If he'd been loaning it to us and wanted it paid back, I'd be extremely concerned. But he isn't. The money has helped us put infrastructure in place that will see the club in a good position for years to come.
More to the point you I and thousands like us are also benefactors I've apparently given them £2,604 so far through a shadowy foundation
In fact we're worse than Anderson because after all we are the owners of the club propping it up by subsidising it's losses from our own pocket, we're as bad as Farad Moshiri.
The Well Society are clearly at it as well and the SMISA for that matter and Morton Club Together should be ashamed of themselves
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Here we only have penalties for clubs going into administration which is like waiting till you crash your car before giving you a fine for drunk driving and if you make it home safely then you're fine
That's not to say that adopting the English Premiership's rules wholesale is necessarily a good thing but some kind of oversight might be a good idea.
I'd suggest that if your wage bill is over 80% of revenue then the league should take measures. But In the first instance these should be preventative as opposed to punitive, you should be need league approval for any new signings and have to demonstrate that they're fiscally responsible
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21 hours ago, Insert Amusing Pseudonym said:
Sky want it on a specific date and they're waiting to see if it them becomes a potential title decider.
Tbh they shoukd just schedule it last day and leave the issues to the police, it's hardly unpolicable, the do cup finals which are logistically much worse regularly
Although why Sky would want it to kick off simultaneously with Fulham vs Man City is another question
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9 hours ago, Ranaldo Bairn said:
@10menwent2mowis gonna nuke the thread if this continues.
But it would probably have to continue for more than a week before he does that
So you're hypothesising about things that can happen for a while and aren't mathematically certain anywayHe's not going to like that, not one bit
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1 minute ago, The Master said:
Not just going the wrong way, but basically falling over and making zero attempt.
Reminded me of a lot of when Scott Bain faced penalties in a Dundee shirt.
If ever there was a time to take a risk on showboating with a Panenka Penalty then 4-0 up with your hat trick already secure was the time to do it.
Or at least that's might be what Pickford was thinking
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2 hours ago, eez-eh said:
Everything is either the best it’s ever been or the worst it’s ever been. No in between is allowed.
Worst post ever
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2 hours ago, eez-eh said:
Everything is either the best it’s ever been or the worst it’s ever been. No in between is allowed.
Great Post!
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Both recency bias and it's counterpart misty eyed nostalgia can both distort ones view but there's another problem to contend with
There's an underlying assumption that because it's reasonable to say some players are better than some other players every player must be better or worse than any given other player and therefore there must be a single player that's better than all the others.
Which makes more sense in individual sports but is a weaker assertion in team sports where the very appeal is that the whole performance can be more than the sum of the individual parts. Sometimes if two players swapped clubs it would leave both clubs weaker
And in an era where players at top clubs are under more and more detailed direction from their managers the "quality" of a player is even more subject to how well they fit that club.
Lists of top X players in position Y since arbitrary cut off date Z should probably be treated with the same seriousness as the 100 hottest celebrities
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1 hour ago, kingjoey said:
A bit like Clement saying there were no excuses for yesterday's result and then blaming the Dundee debacle as a telling factor.
But ignore this post as well.
What post?
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10 minutes ago, 10menwent2mow said:
I do get precious about it at this time of year
I thought I told you to ignore my post
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Following this on the radio and I could see that was a penalty
Referee’s a joke
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OFFICIAL HEARTS JUGGERNAUT THREAD 2020-
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For £40 you can watch the game for £30 you can say you were there but that’s about it