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    Your Club's Manager, as a Player

    in Scottish Championship General Chatter

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    1 minute ago, KingBeastie said:

    Seems he's chosen not to remember the rest of that season for some reason.

    It was the year of the real leigh griffiths blog so I can guess how reality might have faded into the fiction. 

    Sacking manager when top of the league, getting in chisholm. Ending up a good number of points behind in the end. 

    Old manager flying about on a jet pack

    Star striker living in a teepee down the park

    A cat with a moustache and it's own jet pack. 

    I mean it's hard to spot which of those is real or not 

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    Your Club's Manager, as a Player

    in Scottish Championship General Chatter

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    On 26/06/2022 at 16:27, Ludo*1 said:

    Favourite Imrie moment was in a Challenge Cup final. 

    Inverness were leading by 2. We battled back in the second half and went 3-2 in front. Imrie was brought on as a last roll of the dice by Caley and was sent off after a mere minute on the field.

    Seemed to also go through a habit of regularly scoring against us as well.

    I remember this vividly, we were immense first half, then griffiths decided to play. Imrie came on and went straight down the tunnel about 2 mins later. 

    Still not the best come back that season mind you 😉

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    P&B Out of the Loop

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    On 19/06/2022 at 16:52, Bert Raccoon said:

    What's with all this tagging of @oaksoft??

    Work colleagues thread. Typical response to pic with something vaguely female in it by an older member of forum and wokesoft decided to try and call them out. So any hint of anything sexist has resulted in a tagging 

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    The garden wildlife thread

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    11 hours ago, Delicate Flower said:

    The kids are scared of mice?! So you thought then you were justified to kill the mice in a horrible way. Well done, tough guy. Jesus Christ.

    Evidently your name gives you away. 

    Mice are able to reproduce from age of 6 weeks, have a 3 week gestation period. Litters of around 5-6 on average and are ready to reproduce again after birth. 

    It had a chance with the humane traps, pest control would have poisoned them and they would be in the same position as snappy trap except poison might have been worse than the quick neck snap. 

    And yes, the kids being scared to be alone in rooms sped up the decision. 

    Plus the pied piper only specialised in rats. 

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    Children unprepared for school

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    5 hours ago, Satoshi said:

     

    I only know teachers socially but very much echo what has been said so far in that it's a tough job, very much lacking in resources or attention. I went on a date with a teacher once who said she had to buy pencils / basic suppliers in the classroom which I thought pretty shocking at the time (but have since learned is quite common).

     

    At my kids school here, they cannot start preschool without being potty trained or at least end stages. 

    Also, you have to buy your own school books. None of this sharing a relic from the 80s between two people. You buy own copy books, own stationery etc and you also pay for rentals of reading books at end of the year. 

    Parents who receive child tax benefit get additional amounts to cover this, but basically if the kids don't have it, it can be reported. 

    The savings from doing this allows classes to have teaching assistants etc to help with kids not grasping the lesson. 

    Still a b*****d getting the book list mind you

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    The garden wildlife thread

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    1 hour ago, alta-pete said:

    At the start of lockdown I witnessed a Sparrowhawk chase a pigeon into our living room window and execute the stunned bird with a scalpel like slash to its neck artery. Caught the gore on video, I’ll see if I can find it…

    We moved house to a more rural position a month or so ago. The milkman delivers eggs with our milk but someone had ripped open the egg box and helped themselves to three, two of which seemed to be shells and all. What’s that likely to be? An enterprising cat (I doubt it, it never happened at the old place) or a fox or badger? 

    Magpies are bad for ripping and tossing eggs but I'm not sure about them eating them. 

    I live in the country side so I often see a few rabbits come in to the garden. 

    Couple of foxes too but they are usually heading up the cow field behind us. 

    The odd feral cat as well, there are a few farms nearby and I thought at first farm cats but I'd seen one sat on the windowsill one night and it was a scrawny scraggy thing. 

    We also get invaded by cows Alot. One of the farmers either has a houdini cow or has lost the plot and leaves the gate open. We don't have a gate so it's usually the first opening the buggers can see. Gave me the fear one time seeing what looked to be a giant crack across my windscreen.. It was drool for want of a better term. 

    Also had field mice get into the house over winter there. Tried humane traps but they weren't falling for it, kids were scared to go to bed so got the ol wooden ones. Caught one in the kids room one day and only saw it as taking the 3 year old to bed. Tried best to hide the horror from him but he saw it and just said bye mouse. 

     

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    Infuriating Things Your Partner Does

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    12 hours ago, RH33 said:

    Think that's bad, wait until you have health visitors visiting!

    Last time they visited us they said my youngest head was too big and something about the cleft in his arse cheek meaning he will have difficulty walking. 

    He's 4 in July and if they want to check his walking they are going to have to persuade him to slow down. 

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