Salt n Vinegar

I understand that BoJo had to have a sinus operation this morning. Apparently his nose became too long to support its own weight and it placed too much strain on the surrounding area.

When you have removed the concept of ethics from your personal and professional lives, the idea of not needing an ethics advisor seems perfectly logical!

Let he who has not tried to push his bit on the side into a £100k job at public expense cast the first stone. (There's a pile of bricks over in the corner. Form an orderly queue.)

I find myself wondering if those discussing any particular income tax rates in Scotland are comparing like with like. Mrs Salt and Vinegar and your humble servant are retied (early!). We both receive free prescriptions, have had free bus travel since we were 60 and our younger lad had a tuition-free BSc at a Scottish University. My wife also receives an enhanced carers' allowance for our younger lad. I'm certainly not saying that these aspects are tie-breakers, but they do, to me suggest a different Scottish viewpoint on important issues and there's little point in analysing costs without also taking account of what you are "buying".

Shocked and astounded that Fraser keeps using "we" when saying "we" would lose... Presumably the "we" he refers to for the most part would be rUK. It seems tobe a case of 'f Scotland, look at what "we" would lose - land, energy, territorial waters, fish".

If any backer of the Tories starts up a company with the words "Soylent Green" in it.. ... nobody would be the least bit surprised.

Not many "good guys" in that game of "good guy/w@nk", IMO.

RUk shouldn't worry if Scotland decides to leave. After all, soon enough all these other similarly sized European countries will see the error of their ways and clamour to join up with Westminster.

On the question of rejoining the EU, don't forget one really significant issue that will weigh heavily on the minds of European leaders... The opportunity to deliver a massive GIRFUY to Westminster.

I did think I might amend your final sentence to clarify the point, but it was too obvious even for me..... I'm sure we were all thinking it.

I think it would be difficult to wave it around while dancing with it and at the same time conceal it behind a pinny. Still, the big drum might stun it into compliance!

Ah, cheers. When I saw what some of the more weird protestants get up to, I nearly dropped my snake.

If that's correct, it presents the 'gammonrati' with a bit of a problem. Do they rail against the "immigrants coming here to take our jobs/women/state benefits/houses etc" ad nauseam, or the Rwandan refugees using "our" NHS?

Ahhh... but which variant?

When it comes to understanding ethics, I reckon that the Emperor has no clue.

After that performance by Patel, the Government has discovered a fantastic way to balance the books. If they fined her £20 every time she (completely unnecessarily) said "if I may" during her rants at the dispatch box, they'd make a Hell of a dent in the debt.

Someone commented last night about bookings leaving Ukrainian players suspended. I confess that I hadn't been watching for that. Any big names set to miss the game at Hampden on 21 September?

I don't suppose anyone thinks there's any chance of RoI taking anything from their match against Ukraine? (Asking for an increasingly desperate football-crazy country.)

For the kind of mindset that results in authors/translators/publishers having their lives threatened in exchange for cash for involvement in a work of fiction and cartoonists being murdered, forcing the withdrawal of a movie is relatively calm. IMO it's still utterly revolting that people who have no association with a supernatural belief system find themselves governed by elements of it under a permanent threat of violence.

Trying not to overreact, but that was fkkn awful. I wasn't expecting RoI to be swept aside but neither did I expect that I'd be listening for the Scottish fans singing the old favourite "We'll support you up to four". I didn't hear it but at least it would have given us a laugh. We can now look forward to some on P&B explaining how we are going to rout Armenia in a couple of days, then get us ready for 9 points out of 9 in September. Simples! Nobody ever said it was easy being a Scotland fan but surely it doesn't have to be such a miserable existence.

I think its just delayed a 4th tbh.

Christ almighty! I'm on Deuchars... WTF are YOU drinking?

There's an anti-human trafficking wall up the Irish Sea, I understand.

So, pretty positive initial view from the P&B cognoscenti about the team selection and we're playing a team we should beat. So 1-0 RoI then?

Keech. 2-0 Ukraine. Ah well.