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I think TC is right in combining staunch and catholic in the case of Royalist Rosary Rattlers.

It's not about the actual people or necessarily the offices (although the expectorate vitriol reserved for those two at the end of the song speaks to perhaps a loathing of institutions and the reverance in which the heads are held) than it is about distancing ourselves from the old firm through daring to choose no sides but rather flicking the V to both. If it's offensive to both the pope and the queen then that's an added bonus. Up them both.

We used to sing it too, and I was pissed off (still am a bit) that it got banned. To the tune of "o Tannenbaum". Hello hello how do you do? We hate the boys in royal blue, we hate the boys in emerald green, so f**k the pope and f**k the queen. Its clearly not sectarian as saying "both sides of this binary argument can both do one" is more a commentary on the existence of the argument in the first place. Anyone claiming it is sectarian is clearly at it.

Aye fair enough. Last time I went through was about 15 years ago tbf. It was alarmingly staunch and like some outpost town from a western. I should have said West Kilbride tbf, but I know nothing of their youth theatre companies.

If that's the case then it's a flaw in the world building. It's a great series and a fine story, but to invest in the world the viewer needs to be informed of the rules of that world. Just a few lines of exposition would have done it.

Aye if it's Kilmarnock with it's nice houses and theatre scene (seriously, Centre Stage do some great stuff) then it'll be wall to wall showings of "I'm no a billy he's a tim" and why we all just need to get along. If it's Kilwinning it'll be lessons on the correct way to hold a piccolo and how to button up.a tunic when you've no neck.

9 today. What a gas.

Ah ok. I may have missed that at the very beginning. That makes sense. Another thing that I don't think was explained was how Moldaver is still alive after a couple of hundred years given she seemed to be a surface dweller. I perhaps need to watch some bits again as I got distracted, but I do think there were bits they just didn't explain to those of us who never played the game.

I don't play video games but I've heard great things about Fallout. This felt like a great way to get access to the world created. I enjoyed the protagonist and her journey. It's a classic hero's journey quest where our heroine is naïve and idealistic at the start but learns to adapt and grow up a bit. I enjoyed Walton Goggins too, obviously. The performances are excellent and the soundtrack brings a gentle absurdity to proceedings without being tonally jarring. It felt like a mature series instead of one written by children who hate the source material (looking at The Witcher writers here). If I had one tiny wee wrinkle it would be the depiction of racial diversity in the pre-apocalyptic world. I don't know if the game did this, so perhaps it remains faithful to that, but seeing so many people of colour in prominent roles (and a black and asian woman as the scientist couple) took me out of it a little as I know how racist America was back then, even California. It was the 1960's after all. It's perhaps a nod to the world building too, which could have had a little bit more exposition to it. The writing of Lucy's character is a great example of how to write a female character. She was smart, resourceful and ultimately kind and noble, but she wasn't invincible. She messed up, got into scrapes and occasionally needed rescuing. It meant that there were genuine stakes and I was rooting for her the entire time. The black male character is well written too. He's ultimately good too, but makes some very morally questionable decisions. His journey is also different in that he hasn't chosen it. I'm looking forward to seeing them both in the next season. It's always great seeing Kyle McLachlan in anything. A superb actor.

I mean, that is corporate superficial pandering and is the sort of parody I would expect from something like The Boys, but I was howling at "degeneracy and mutilation". Holy f**k.

Not initially knowing that this was a fake school wedding really made its mark on how I read the rest .

8 Celts and Oxide.

Jokes on you. Two glasses of wine in one hand is a piece of piss. Unless you're precious about the glass not being held at the stem, in which case aye, that would f**k things up

Can't edit out my handsome coupon, but here's me with 5 glasses of water in the one hand.

I splay my left hand (palm turned upwards) and then place the first glass between thumb and forefinger, gripping it with those. The next glass rests on my ring finger while being stabilised with the middle finger. The third rests in the space between while being stabilised by my pinky. The right hand has palm downwards and I grip one glass with thumb and forefinger and the other with middle finger pressing the glass against the ring finger. If it's pints I pick up the 6th glass between the two hands. The 6th glass is only held by pressure from either side, so that goes down first. The next glasses down are the ones in my right hand which are set down simultaneously. The ones on the left are set down in reverse order to their placement. Quite the party piece.

Rounds used to stress me out as I hate having the pace of my drinking dictated by others. It's also an extra stress and the politics are a pain. I did love buying rounds for the simple reason that I have a hitherto hidden talent for carrying drinks (3 pint glasses in my left hand, 2 in the right and one between them all) which i enjoyed showing off with . How do the teetotalers find this? I went booze free on a stag do and was treated as a pariah.

Fixed.

Big fat sexy 10 for Wednesday.

I've been watching The Dropout on iplayer. It's been pretty decent with a very good cast and a good performance from Amanda Seyfried (off topic, but I didn't realise how tiny she is, which is why I thought she was one of the Fanning lassies until I checked), and I thought it was a Macbeth type story as a young CEO who wants to be a billionaire more than anything and whose ambition causes her to act increasingly dreadfully. I'm realising with trepidation that the series wants me to sympathise and even root for this entitled psychopath. They keep playing the identitarian card and telling me that the reason the men in this world won't take her seriously is because she is a woman. It's set in the early 2000's so I would accept this is absolutely true, but I know at this stage she is lying about her product (doing so will risk thousands and potentially millions of lives) and she has invented absolutely nothing, and dropped out of college after freshman year, so there are genuine material reasons for the scepticism. The series mentions often her hero worship of Steve Jobs, but Jobs (also one for taking credit for a'body's work) didn't just drop out and become a CEO (like our protagonist) he actually worked, built and gambled to get to where he got. I'll keep it up, but at the moment this looks like a villain's journey masquerading as a hero's one.

It's holding yourself responsible for the feelings of others and the negative consequences which you perceive may arise for you. It's how a lot of us were raised tbf, so I'm not judging. Also, actual danger and perception of danger are often distant relatives rather than bedfellows. If someone feels threatened because of someone's inherently harmless and unconnected behaviour (man driving behind you on the motorway or someone walking behind you on the way home) then it's because they're attaching a meaning to that behaviour which gives rise to those feelings of anxiety. This is a very live topic among black people in America where black men have to make so many adjustments to their behaviour due to them being perceived as a threat. It's nonsense, but the same mechanisms are at play here. Projection, mainly.

I don't think someone's perception of you as a threat should dictate how you behave.

I didn't last quite so long. I didn't get past the rubbish script and very poorly drawn characters. Having Laura Fraser as the star carrying your show is a loser of an idea given how poor an actress she is, and she is still the best actor in that.

^^^Hasn't had one deep fried and covered in sugar type post.