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Got quite excited seeing a photo of him holding up a Villareal shirt, however it's the B team he's signed for, he's there on loan until the end of the season. Quite a weird career he seems to be carving out for himself over there.

The Quickly Kevin podcast's interview with James Richardson is a great insight into how the whole thing came about and has a few fascinating stories from behind the scenes as they were making it etc. Gazza was originally meant to be presenting it, with James Richardson just being a producer behind the camera, they quickly realised they couldn't really rely on Gazza, so Richardson, who had never been on TV before and who knew next to f**k all about football ended up presenting it. Richardson also had no idea of his popularity and that he had a bit of a cult following over here, due to him being out in Italy the whole time where he was anonymous. https://play.acast.com/s/quicklykevin/jamesrichardson-s03e01

The one with McCartney was brilliant. Generally found him to be quite dull in interviews just due to him constantly being asked surface level 'what it was like being in The Beatles' type stuff but i think that was probably the best interview i've heard him do. Something weirdly fascinating and humanising about hearing one of the most famous and iconic musicians ever talk about watching Storage Hunters and Mock the Week. Aside from the Connolly interview, his ones with Bob Mortimer are very good too.

'I am a woman of the land' patter the woman in that video was hitting out with is straight from covid thicko Facebook, and was being spouted by the same folk who thought putting a copy of the Magna Carta (or magna carter as some of them thought it was called) in your shop window bypassed any restrictions. For this reason i think she was half wanting a bit of a confrontation with the police so she could show off her wee trick she had read online to catch them out. At the same time i think the Policeman really doesn't help himself by being a bit of a w**k, and there was really no need for the situation to escalate the way it did.

Him getting permanently punted from Twitter weirdly feels like quite a landmark moment. Sure we'll see a DT2456331134 account pop up any minute now. Don't think you'll be the only big name making a Parler account this weekend Matt.

Good thread that. Similar applies to the way TV and radio shows over here always have a devils advocate type in the name of balance, on even the most extreme topics.

Just realised this women has what appears to be an onion in her towel there. Maced right enough. Incredible patter.

The current line from the nutters on Twitter seems to be that Antifa are sending folk disguised as Trump supporters to cause trouble, even saying that anyone with their cap on backwards is from Antifa, as it's something they 'use to identify themselves'.

The video of the lassie getting shot is bad enough but the photos and video of them trying to treat/resuscitate her outside are brutal.

Seems some of the rioters are starting to go home. Dissapointing.

F**k sake i've had enough. Major London 2012 vibes from that.

I quite enjoyed that, the old clips were a reminder that it was actually quite funny at one point, but also how much it has dropped off. Probably should've chucked it years ago, as others have said Scottish football can be a bit of a patter goldmine, which OAE has somehow completely missed the mark on for years.

I prefer to aye. In my head it was just left the way it was. I actually think Life on the Road might be an interesting insight into how much of The Office came from Stephen Merchant, or at least an insight into what The Office would've been like without him reigning Gervais in.

Got a few different bottles delivered yesterday, mostly German and Belgian stuff. Kicking off with this tonight. The good gear. Few of those will no doubt lead to the Aldi Baileys getting cracked open (the real good gear).

Fairly similar situation with my friends and family. Not me personally but in the last 4 days my brother and his wife, my uncle and about 5 different pals are all either having to isolate due to contact or have actually tested positive, after only about a handful of folk i know getting it all year. It feels a bit like it's ramped up out of nowhere.

The Common Ridings in the Borders are great piss ups, although it is amusing how seriously parts of the community take them, particularly the auld timers. The women riders debate in Hawick that's been mentioned above is a good example of this, there are folk in that town whose entire personalities revolve around the Common Riding. The tradition side of it is nice but when you move away from the Borders and get a sense of perspective it all becomes very funny.

I find the whole thing quite fascinating, they put the whole thing down to some sort of scientific/sociological theory when in reality, if you're a bit unhygienic, not in the best nick, lacking in confidence, awkward and spend most of your days on 4chan - you probably won't have the opposite sex swarming all over you, who knew? I put them in a similar category with the pick up artist wrong uns who seem to think you have to hack into a lassies brain to get her to be attracted to you as opposed to, y'know, talking to them and not being a total weirdo. I do browse Reddit a fair bit, but find the amount of weirdo/incel type pity-me chat you see infiltrating even completely unrelated subreddits to be a bit off putting, and probably one of the reasons i spend less and less time on it.

Max Rushden who does the Guardian Football Weekly podcast told this exact story a while back about being at the game when he was wee as an England fan, secretly wishing he was in the Scotland end. It's often brought up in reference to how ourselves and Ireland always seem to have a bit more of a laugh, compared to the patio furniture - flinging England away support.

Honestly how good is that? i can't stop watching these. I've had a permanent grin on my face all day. Also 'Get the GBX on' from Tierney, some boi

What a time we're living in

I think it's more that it's quite a well known reaction gif of him that they decided to use to fit the situation for a bit of a cheap laugh just, if the nutter element of either support pounce on it you can't really help that as those types of folk are permanently looking to cement their 'everyones against us!!' view. Anyway, the videos of the players dancing about steaming last night are tremendous, they're the most likeable bunch of boys we've had in ages. 17 of us booked up for London this morning, and i'd guess about 10 of those have been pretty indifferent towards the national team for years, Last night was a game changer in terms of how folk feel about the national side.

See that's the thing, about 10 seconds after he said 'bye bye Rangers' he also said 'Bye Bye Celtic' - the narrative that he was having a dig at Rangers fans came purely from Rangers fans taking a 10 second clip out of context.

Exactly the same. Still a bit speechless, just can't believe it.

Outstanding

Our fresh legs also look the most fucked out anyone here. We don't have a press