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Congrats, missus had a boy in March last year, been pee'd on so many times man, just catches you out and boom pished on, some range on it. Didn't really happen so much with our wee girl.

The second pic just looks like a bunch of frozen boaby's man.

Read this as something you did while you were a professor and I can't stop laughing at the thought of it.

In an update to creepy things that happen on baby monitor, the missus advised me that the monitor moved and moved back again. I didn't witness this and she was very tired and tripping balls. Though she did not appreciate me sharing my vivid dream / nightmare of a few nights previous, in fact this is recurring. I've always had pretty wild dreams, but in this dream I see a creepy old hand (like a witches hand maybe) appear slowly towards the monitor and the monitor goes dark, then the child is gone. It's remarkably vivid, the thing that amazes me usually is the fine details that appear in the dream, it's exactly the way things should look.

Sorry to hear about this mate, shite all round but you'll probably come out of it better in the long run, I hope/think anyway. Went through separation and divorce about 10 years ago, (no kids in the equation) had been together a long time, but only married about a year and it just felt the old classic of ships passing in the night. When it all ended I was strangely relieved, but then I felt a lot of regret like I'd wasted the best years of my life and subsequently went a bit wild for a while trying to make up for it and during this time got involved in a long distance "whirlwind romance" absolutely head over heels for a younger, mysterious, highland lass and 8 years later we've got two kids and still going strong. Wrote this to give you a bit of positive for the long term, when the dust settles and you've figured out the other stuff. Tough times but it will get better.

This sort of stuff really confuses me, imagine how annoying it would be as the driver doing that, constantly braking, I wonder what they thinking at the time. The thing is, most modern BMWs will have cruise control that can detect a car in front and just keep them at A) a safe distance and B) the speed limit. Also if you are driving behind this, it can be quite easy to get drawn into reactionary braking if the vehicle in front is a van you can't see ahead of and instead end up having to leave a bigger than normal gap, then c***s decide it's fair play to undertake you. Classic Edinburgh to Glasgow and vice versa shenanigans.

Interesting! I've barely been looking at Vanguard pension stuff as it's the same 3 funds I use and used HL as it had more choices. I'm off to investigate!

I have a post somewhere on this thread about somewhat mistakenly joining the work social committee, then somehow being in the thick of the action for organising a massive corporate style Christmas party with a recently dumped control freak. It was exactly as much fun as it sounds. In all honesty I love a Christmas night out, always have, probably always will. For the main reasons being, you get to see people you don't like making a total c**t of themselves due to their inability to drink. I also love an awkward social situation, I'll stand there in the silence and watch people cringe with how awful the conversation is no problem. I usually try to get a group of good c***s to go for a few pints with, then turn up later on just as people are starting to make an arse of it. Wonderful.

Hopefully over a million at least.

Twitter / X is a mess right now man. I get the above on threads as well, one of the most annoying things these days is you see a post and think, ah lets see more or try and find some context and it's just random gifs or unrelated crap. Also seeing a lot of these CCTV idiots and 1000 ways to die vids, both quite grim at times, but I have followers who follow them so see them on the "For you" section.

I've delayed mine, I've been waiting to hear @mathematics review on the Tesco mince pies before I dive into them, might want to plump for something else. I also want to get some cream for them to go for the full mince pie experience.

Aw ok, looks nice man, hope you're having a belter.

Best / cheapest approach probably just to get booking all your long distance trains on the 17th January then, I think the long distance ones won't be too busy with a lot of fans opting to base themselves in the general vicinity of the stadium on that day. I have no other basis for this prediction though. This might have been covered already, but see as long as you have tickets for games during the euros, can you use any local trains if you're in the region that has a game on that day, but you don't have a ticket for that specific game?

Where do you live, the Gaza strip? *I strongly condemn any acts of violence towards civilians in Gaza, or any other place in the world for that matter and I do not support Hamas or Israel military engagements. Felt a disclaimer was necessary the way this thread is going*

Probably is the time of year mate, Christmas wind down man, try not to overthink it and embrace the more relaxed approach. I've just written a very passive aggressive to do list in the run up to Christmas for me and the missus, because between her and the two kids they are the messiest people in the world, truly world leading experts in accumulating clutter and leaving it lying around the house and it infuriates me. I've not let this go, but I'm letting lots of other things go, just gotta pick some battles and let others go. If you've only got c***s bad driving and petty things to worry about, you're doing a lot of other things right, take solace in that, don't be too hard on yourself for feeling fed up or can't be arsed.

Christmas wind down begins today pretty much, would everyone agree? Although going by the amount some you post I'm not sure when you actually do any work. Might even have a mince pie soon, f**k it man.

I agree with ICTChris it's a major lift and you're missing out, big time, you either love flat bench or hate it usually, hitting the chest it's like you need to f**k about with form and you probably won't properly feel it unless you have some sort of arch in your back and pin your shoulders to the bench. Instead just do dumbbell press on an like a 30 degree incline, pec fly machine and then some high to low cable chest fly's then you're done. Don't want to sound like a know it all bastert, but I'd ditch barbell curls for dumbbell curls, probably would do them seated on an incline with your arms hanging straight. Concentration curls I'd replace with single arm curls over a bench as the range of motion is better and you just cannot cheat here. Both quite humbling exercises, but bloody good ones. Or just fucking stand and curl dumbbells but would probably avoid a barbell in the beginning. Would also say, look at proper warmups especially prior to shoulders or you'll be in for a world of pain and frustration. Just google rotator cuff warmups, gyms will have bands or buy your own. Upright rows done wrong or with too much weight will f**k your shoulders right up as will overhead press if the form is wrong so be careful there.

12+ pointers this morning.

I would be 100% buying a ticket if you can. Then trying to work out after how to get a ticket for your son. I've got a mate coming with us to Germany, doesn't go to Scotland games, barely goes to his club team, but somehow always manages to get tickets for games he wants, even European finals, pays a bit more, but gets them.

What a day in Deadpool history. Thoughts and prayers with @Miguel Sanchez plans this weekend.

Be a right shitter if we make it out of the group and can't get tickets as the SSC only get 6k tbh.

The sad idictment of our rural coastal towns tbh

Not really worried about Graham being missing for this tbh, considering how well Fitzpatrick is playing and how often Adeloye scores from the bench, think he deserves the start. Having said that, don't want to get carried away with the last few results as that's when it all falls apart again.

I think I might be the only Thistle fan looking forward to this and almost kind of fancied getting County in the cup. Must be a vengeful person as I really want to beat them as soon as possible, in a one off game I think we definitely can if we keep improving. Getting a win up there will feel very good, for the players and the fans. A loss, ah well it's a cup game and we move on.

I got an email from the UEFA ticketing saying There was a "Get tickets" link I followed in the email, not sure if the tickets show or not just by logging into your account, would defo check your emails and log in anyway to check.