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I’m still in a group chat with folk I used to work with, some of them are support workers, working with vulnerable people - most of them old and/or ill. Two of them are talking about how they’ve had a bit of a temperature, developed a wee cough and haven’t been feeling too great. They’re still going to work. I’m fucking furious. These people are a massive part of the problem.

Just walked past a beauty salon opening its shutters.

I don’t get the “how will the police know if it’s my first, second or third jog of the day?” comments. Why is it that many people’s instant reaction to authoritative measure to be ‘how can I get around this one?’ It’s staggering to think of the number of people who will genuinely go out for a second walk, for no other reason than to ‘outwit’ the polis.

Lockdown.

I saw a screenshot from SkyBet’s prices on Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway. Unfortunately I’m not joking.

The wee old dear who does the cleaning at my work fucking loves a bit of weather-related small talk. If there’s been a silver lining to this pandemic, it’s given her something different to talk about, in what I imagine to be around 47 years.

Walkie Talkies to get a chant started? Copy fellow Par let’s get this going.

Think they’ve just picked 44 grounds at random.

Pars Twitter asking us to name 44 grounds that we have visited over the last 18 years or so. There was 4 I didn’t get.

I disagree. Would have been pretty daft to sell him so late on in the window, without a replacement signing lined up and without suitable backup in the squad.

Tbh I don’t blame OFW for not staying down. Imagine the pelters he’d have got if he did and the goal stood anyway? The referee bottled, nobody else’s fault.

I didn’t notice the deflection off Bannigan’s arm for Murray’s goal. Obviously doesn’t matter now, but shouldn’t he have been booked for a deliberate handball, even though the ball went in? Probably wrong but I thought that was the law when a player deliberately handles it even when a goal is scored. EDIT: aye, should have been booked. “handles the ball in an attempt to score a goal (whether or not the attempt is successful) or in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent a goal”

Two guys brushed shoulders as they walked past each other. Thistle fan started with the “what the f**k are you doing?” patter and the Pars fan reciprocated. Seemed like an incredible battle of wits to see who’d shite it and walk away first.

Absolute shite-the-bed job from the ref there to give a free kick to Thistle when Afolabi was fouled but stayed on his feet. We were horrendous in that first half and Thistle really should have scored at some point. Gordon was in a great position to put in a decent ball about 20 times but rarely did so. We offered f**k all, with long, aimless punts to Afolabi and McGill who offered little. Dom Thomas was our only little bit of quality in the first half. Got to give credit to Crawford for making changes in the second half, and we were much more structured and playing to the players’ strengths. I still don’t understand the reasoning for playing Murray at left back and Martin at centre half, though.