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Given that Thelin isn't starting until June this year, that makes it even more baffling that we gave Barry the job when we did last year. Unless he was going to go elsewhere while his stock was high.

As far as I know, there was a consultancy reviewing the structure and running of football operations. Burrows was also involved, which he wasn't before. https://www.afc.co.uk/2024/03/11/club-statement-football-review-update/ It looks like the consultancy might have been directly involved in the recruitment, and some mysterious "partners" too. I'm probably mentally embellishing what's actually been said a bit and making assumptions about how shite the process was before. But appointing a family friend doesn't scream top end business practice.

He was effective. But, yeah, I noticed one ball that came into the crowded box where he let it drop across his body onto his right foot when he could/should have headed/chested/shouldered it far more aggressively but the Celtic player a foot or two away just watched him. Likes of Curtis Main would have run through him and come out with the ball.

Depends what you count as the ruling classes i guess. land owners were the law makers and main beneficiaries. But plenty merchants, professionals, tradespeople, soldiers and administrative workers had hands on involvement. I'm sure that plenty of the individuals that were violently suppressing Mau Mau in the 50s would have been ordinary kids from industrial terraces who happened to get Kenya for national service. Plenty others, including the working classes were complicit through consumption of the artificially cheap sugar and cotton etc, not that they'd have much choice, and they were also being exploited for the benefit of capital at the same time. Today we're (on the whole) still content to not ask awkward questions about power dynamics, or about liberty of workers, when we want a mobile phone, chocolate, or ching.

For transatlantic slavery, Scotland was officially part of it from 1707 to 1833 but individual Scots were involved before and after. Colonialism is more vague, i'd say from prehistory to the present day although the "pink bits of the map" colonial direct rule is more from whenever they nationalised the East India Company (1820s maybe) through to Ww2.

No it doesn't. It really doesn't. West Africa was a long standing source of bonded labour for the old world, including African kingdoms. Western powers scaled it up and industrialised it, but they weren't limited to being English. Scots also owned and helped run plantations. Look at the surnames in Jamaica. The Act of Union was a long time before British Rule in India or Malaya. There were charter companies with presence there before the 18th century but it wasn't full blown colonialism. Scotland and Scots should be aware of our role in a shameful episode in history. I get that it's uncomfortable but crying about the English baddy doing all the bad stuff is denial.

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Looks like he smacked some sort of security official there, possibly police. In that sort of condition i wouldn't be surprised if had a nasty accident on the stairs or trying to open a door.

I thought Jim Goodwin would be good so am not allowed to make predictions. I will say that the club seems to have gone about this in a much more professional way than previous appointments. (not counting the interim gobshite appointment- limited to the actual recruitment process). We've sought out someone with a track record of executing the sort of strategy that we're looking to have in place. We've identified someone that we think has the attributes that we are looking for in a manager. I think that's probably what we did with Glass in theory but that came across as much more unstructured and Dave just doing it on the fly. It sounds like a proper, considered appointment this time. A better prawcess does not necessarily mean a better manager for us, but it should improve the chances.

Interesting article. The author's hypothesis that the budget wasn't to blame seems predicated on an assumption that bond markets had no information about what was coming until it was announced in public. That's not a tenable assumption at all and there's a well established understanding that financial markets operate on expectations. The government's philosophy wasn't a secret and it would be highly unusual for secrets to be kept by the sort of people involved. The fact that there was a further, smaller, adjustment after the formal announcement suggests that the markets hadn't fully priced in the utter idiocy.

I didn't even realise that the English default is for children to be allowed in Pubs. I don't think it's devolved for us (in Wales). I'd always assumed it was the same as in Scotland where there's no kids by default and you had to jumo through hoops to get a children's licence. I've been telling my kids they're not allowed in pubs. Apparently i' ve been lying inadvertently. I will now continue to lie deliberately.

To beat Celtic we have to be absolutely on it throughout. We weren't. First two goals should have been preventable then we spent half an hour of the second half being unable to put passes together. A good Celtic team would have cruised that. Great fighting spirit from the Dons though and some really good bits of attacking play. Hopefully they can turn that on another five times and stop the season being a total disaster. Not having a go at wee Shayden but when Miokvski went off to be replaced by him the writing was on the wall.

I've got an idea on how we can sort this all out. I'm going to email whoever chooses popes to see if they'll let Charlie have a shot. That way, all the weirdos will be on the same side. Next up, Israel.

I think the point isn’t that Syria were in the right but that Israel wasn’t being as defensive as they pretended to be. A tractor isn’t some neutral harmless thing if your opponent has a history of just taking land for farming. It’s not exactly a tank but it’s a pretty clear statement.

Are you not already supposed to get notes saying what you can do? We’ve had people signed off to come back part time only or limited hours before. Maybe that’s because they wanted to come back ?

No way in hell I’m subjecting myself voluntarily to this entire thread again. I was meaning specifically since he got charged yesterday though. maybe there was and I missed it. I’m aware that the dissonance has been too much for some before. i’m torn between thinking that it would be bad for trust in politics if he’s actually done it and thinking that it would be hilariously tinpot to skim donations for a campervan. (Not that I’m suggesting anything about the probability that anything untoward has occurred or not, you understand)

It’s not just because it’s Glasgow. Rangers and Celtic having ends kind of suggests that it’s more theirs than other teams’. Not relevant to the neutrality really, but it’s also not just in Glasgow but on the far side of Glasgow for 90% of the population. At least Wembley is on the right side of London for the majority of travelling fans. All kind of adds to a perception that fans from outside Glasgow are a bit of an afterthought and not who it’s for.

The Kinks Beatles if I had to choose but Sympathy for the Devil is the best work by either.

Would be a strong also ran for me, or a contributor to the first placed combo. Supergrass or Soundgarden? Pulp or Pearl Jam?

If you’re suggesting that I would eat my chips with tomato sauce then I’m afraid I will have to take offence. In miss world order: 3- just salt and vinegar 2- brown sauce 1- Chilli sauce (encona or Maggi), barbecue and a bit of mayo (maybe garlic or Chipotle variations). If I had easy access to chip sauce this would be reconsidered.

Lord of the Rings. Was quite excited, as a massive fan of Bad Taste and Brain Dead (less so The Frighteners but still) , to see what Peter Jackson would do with a budget. Was up the front which gave the numerous scenes of those troll things running about an unpleasant stroby quality. Three fucking hours of slow, episodic rambling about elves and dwarves and wizards. Not in a fun way like labyrinth or krull. Finally got out and my mates were all like “wow that was brilliant!”. Then the public was all like “ wow that was brilliant.” I think it was then I decided I hated everyone.

To be fair, Metallica were only intermittently decent to start off with. My point was that Britpop isn’t and wasn’t actually a thing, so whether any of it is good or not is the moot point. But you’ve probably liquidised your brains with all that head banging so are struggling with basic concepts. Never mind.

Oasis weren’t very popular there but they were influential. I remember seeing an interview with Metallica where they said that definitely maybe changed how they approached music. There was a lot of variety in the acts that got collectively called “britpop” by some lazy journalists desperate to be part of a scene. While “toilet” might be a pretty good description of Menswear or Shed Seven, they’d little in common with the Boo Radleys or The Divine Comedy. Even if you also think they’re shite you can surely hear that they’re not the same thing. If we’re lumping stuff in together and judging it by its low points, then “Golden Era Hip Hop” is shite because it’s all Puff Daddy covering Sting and Vanilla Ice and the 2live Crew. we might be talking at cross purposes though because I thought most of grunge was pap and I don’t like metal, never mind the extreme stuff. What postcrete has to do with anything I don’t know.

I haven’t seen anyone on here defend him. There’s not even been much whataboutery.

If only I was a brave super fan.