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Aye I had a look for the CoD. That's hellish. He crashed it himself too.

Many Happy Returns chief!!!

I do think there isn't enough political assassination nowadays. If you're a parliamentarian who calls for the bombing of a civilian population instead of aid then you get a bullet to the head for your troubles. That'll make these chumps think twice before doing so. I know over here there's the reframing of accountability as harassment and there would be a collective Lovejoying at this measure, and I imagine that there would be a doubling down from those who "don't negotiate with terrorists". I just feel that parliamentarians get away Scot free advocating for measures that would make the lives of so many utterly miserable (or unbearable in the case of disabled people being reassessed while depriving them of money).

Thank you. I probably won't have said anything or even gone into the thread, but the title of the thread had that boy's name in it and that was what got my goat. People's grief when they lose a child is incalculable and for a cold childless oaf like me, unimaginable. I imagine that you just want the world to stop and acknowledge this massive loss you've just experienced, instead of continuing on its merry way. The OP wasn't one of the parents and wasn't clear on what connection he had with the family. Maybe they were close with them, but I simply assumed that they were one of those busybody type folk who try to get a'body else to clap for NHS workers or to shame others for not participating in the thing for charity. It felt like they were having an emotional response to something and didn't take the step back to consider that this was just their emotional response. It's ironically a little bit what I did. I had an emotional reaction to it and went with that without too much consideration. I shot from the hip a bit. It wasn't an unpopular position I took, judging from the follow up posts and amount of greenies I got (which was surprising, but revealing), but I could have been more circumspect about it. I don't like when people try to use grief or any other feeling to manipulate others. "A young man has tragically lost his life" is something it is hard to stand against, but it's not right to impose your grief on an occasion shared by thousands of others. There is a counter to this which came to me today. In tribal societies how they often process grief is as a community. In some rituals they'll simply come into the centre of the village and everyone who has lost someone is invited to cry together. The grief for the one becomes the grief of and for the many. It's a beautiful idea and a powerful experience (I've done this also). The western model of therapist and patient can't heal this, we need embodied empathy and a connection to something outside of ourselves (in this case the collective grief of which ours is a part) and the belonging that comes with seeing others with the same experience as ourselves. I see that desire expressed through these minute's applauses, but as they're done without intention it feels hollow, insincere and manipulative.

@Duszek, @ArmadaleKillie, @Eednud & @scottsdad. The Golden Hind was Francis Drake's ship on which he supposedly circumnavigated the globe between 1577 and 1580. What was the total area, in square metres, of sail on that ship? Answers by midnight tonight.

8/10. Genuinely thought I knew all and was getting 10. River and pope. Don't tell my da I got the pope wrong.

Bloody hell. Fit looking young boy too.

That's one of the worst attempts at a kiss I've ever seen.

It's better than that. Bora Milutinovic knew Roxburgh was watching so told the keeper to drop a few.

Donald Trump likes this.

This is fucking dreadful. I honestly hate shit like this. Not for the bigotry, necessarily (that's just a bit further down my list) but the absolute laziness of it. f**k off. Lesbianzema is decent tbf and Gaymar had me giggling with the sheer immaturity of it, but it really is hateful tripe. Bellinghomosexual? f**k me.

Aye the Emperor's New Clothes energy is very strong in the coverage of that league. Manchester City are an outrageously boring team to watch. It's tika taka without Messi. Not so much anti-football as anti-fun. Both teams play in characterless stadia and their respective (Spanish!!) managers are as dull as ditchwater (aside from their try-hard touchline aerobics whenever a decision goes against them or when they've scored goal number 6 against Jobbers Anonymous) so it's obviously necessary to create a narrative of false glamour and excitement. Bernardo Silva is a gorgeous player, but De Bruyne is the least interesting great player I've ever seen. No flair or apparent artistry. Just a machine footballer.

I watch it with a client now and again and the fun part is seeing what "content" they can create from the most banal sources.

"Former Scotland International" Michael Stewart as he's often described.

And frankly far too many utter jobbers (Michael Stewart, I'm specifically talking to you) who are.

He was a regular customer when I worked in Greaves in 2002, so maybe 20 years. Thinking more about this Gough never seemed like he was comfortable talking to cameras and certainly never seemed hugely personable. Great player and a great leader on the pitch, but he always seemed introverted when I saw him either on telly or in real life.

Second this. My cousin parks outside my old flat at Kingsacre Road and says it's always plain sailing after the game. Mibbe a bit fiddly getting on to the 77 after that (up through carmunnock maybe?) but pre-match you should have little difficulty.

Who are you talking about here?

Essentially that the chants accusing Gough of loving, as immortalised in the song My Sharona, "the touch of a younger kind" hold a degree of veracity. Allegedly. According to rumour. Probably pish.

Michael McIntyre did a bit about spelling names incorrectly essentially being a waste of everyone's time as you need to take people through the spelling of your name that they might have intuitively got. "It's Cameron, with a Y......no, not between the m and r....I'll just spell it out for you" Just do one.

25/10. Only one I'm annoyed I didn't get was the pres.

Nobody told me.

@SlipperyP is toast.

Cheers for all the sterling work Eednud. Excellent effort.

I'm on board with the first two paragraphs, sadly. The last paragraph doesn't belong on this thread. We went one up in the first leg and even that felt a bit against the run of play. We got utterly bullied in that first leg and Livi should have been out of sight. One I'd forgotten about was drawing with the buns at Ibrox with a last minuter from fatty Boyd. 1-0 up and looking good for it before a shitey equaliser set up a replay. Being a first division side knocking them out at home would have been class.