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Any excuse to tell one of my favourite fun facts: when Samuel Beckett lived in rural France he took his turn driving the local kids to school. He bonded with one of them, Andre Roussimoff, over their shared love of cricket. Roussimoff went on to become famous as Andre the Giant.

I used to know his sister-in-law. She was somewhat attractive.

What's a leni snout?

Shazam gives back Unite Villae De Dieu by Atis Mafia, which is just the video on the tweet.

I'm with @The Moonster on this one. Choosing one example of a dysfunctional fan-owned club and saying that's how Stranraer would turn out while ignoring other fan-owned clubs isn't sound logic. Motherwell, Hearts, St Mirren have all been fine. Dundee and Dunfermline were good enough while fan-owned to sell out to foreign investors. The future of Thistle looks much brighter under fan ownership than it did in the Low years beforehand. Stirling were a shambles for a while, but have sorted that out and seem to be ticking along nicely. Contrast that with non-fan-owned clubs and you've a similar mix of basket cases (Edinburgh, Livingston) and reasonably well run ones (Raith, Arbroath, Kilmarnock, et cetera). There's a good chance Clyde would have been a bin-fire even if it wasn't fan owned.

Kingsley for rector.

He was excellent in 30 Rock.

ChatGPT suggested this chap: ChatFTP suggested Brian Laudrup.

40ft high wall?

Absolutely this. Clarke's refusal to select Championship players has really cost us. Thought Lewis Strapp's long throw ins would have really troubled Northern Ireland tonight. Obviously not tying down Wotherspoon when we had the chance was another blunder.

Jocky Wilson is clearly more iconic. Andy Murray would never have this sort of thing:

I don't think anyone's saying he's not right up there, but there are other valid shouts. It's apples and oranges though. The nonsense part was McLeod mentioning it on TV as if it was some indisputable fact.

Nearly every Scotland flag hanging has a different shade of blue and it's really annoying me.

Saw the thread title and assumed it was about some West Brom youth player with a Scottish granny.

Back to eggs, if you should put them in the fridge when you get home, why are they ambient temperature in the supermarket?

Covering up criminal activity on a boat by instigating an investigation into the boat is an interesting tack.

I've been exposed to him largely through interviews he's done with people I listen to. A lot of it makes sense, for example everyone bleating on about how bad blue light is for you when you're about to sleep, but not clocking that it's therefore a very good way to wake up in the morning (and blue light from the actual sky is far more powerful than that from a screen). I've not done any more research into that specific claim, but it makes general sense and even if it is a pile of pish I really don't think I'll experience significant negative effects from having my morning cup of tea stood out in the garden rather than sat in my lounge. With claims about more serious biomodification, or recommending people use things like HGH, then surely anyone would look into things a bit more deeply before taking supplements and talk with their GP. I don't have a huge amount of sympathy for anyone who messes up their body who hasn't consulted their doctor first. What is beneficial for one person can be harmful for another. I don't see anything wrong with the tweet where he's taken to task for the cold shower thing. He's just tweeting about a study with no further comment. He's not recommending people act on it and he's included a link to the actual study, so people (like the guy trying to take him down a peg) can look at it and decide for themselves how important it is. I don't think a media ban on early-stage research would make the world a better place. Perhaps there are better examples of misleading tweets from him though. For the arsehole behaviour stuff, that's sort of a separate the art from the artist thing. Alexander Fleming could have been Jack the Ripper and I'd still take penicillin. His behaviour doesn't make anything Huberman's said about medicine more or less factual.

There's a chap called Anton Howes, who's based in Edinburgh, who posts these reasonably long articles on his blog about things like that. His main focus is discovering what spurs innovation by looking at the industrial revolution. Some very niche and nerdy articles in there (though well written) but for some reason I really enjoy stories about how increases in the Dutch tax on grain imports in 1634 lead to a huge increase in English coal productivity, or the like.

Not when Montrose beat ICT in the playoffs [/wishful thinking].

My parents.

The Caucasian republic and a glass of chacha.

Bonner does far too much 'Tic Talk as it is.

It's IS-Khorasan who claimed responsibility. Traditionally Khorosan includes Tajikistan, something ridiculous like a third of Tajik men work in Russia, mainly Moscow (a lot of them have a family in Moscow and another back home). It was Tajik men who were captured. That's not to say it wasn't some false flag. Just that a lot of Central Asian men are radicalised, and Moscow would be a pretty obvious target for them. Radicalised Muslims have conducted bombings in Moscow multiple times already this century.

In Georgia, many people take a shot when they pass one of those shrines on a serpentine road, which seems very apt seeing that's probably what caused the person's death in the first place.

Citation needed.