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Who you calling a malingerer? That guy (the iron lung guy, not King Charles) spent his life as an actual bona-fide practicing lawyer.

I was a little worried that he wouldn't get a QO since he's not well known this side of the Irish Sea, but he does. Thoughts and Prayers, Horrible way to go, points please, etc. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmmq5q29z3yo

Division B Table and Fixtures Division B P W D L Pts Basedgodsa1nt 0 0 0 0 0 beef2711 0 0 0 0 0 davi3j 0 0 0 0 0 Dustysghost 0 0 0 0 0 mackieboz 0 0 0 0 0 markf268 0 0 0 0 0 N5_Spur 0 0 0 0 0 PnBmathematics 0 0 0 0 0 RBWatson 0 0 0 0 0 weeyin13 0 0 0 0 0 Round 1 RBWatson vs davi3j PnBmathematics vs markf268 mackieboz vs beef2711 N5_Spur vs Basedgodsa1nt weeyin13 vs Dustysghost Round 2 markf268 vs RBWatson davi3j vs mackieboz Basedgodsa1nt vs PnBmathematics beef2711 vs weeyin13 Dustysghost vs N5_Spur Results and calculations will appear in the spreadsheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eR2-fUTwhfI39Teooz_cAk8ZnoObjlQJTO_lJfX3o1Q/

Pie and Bovril Chess League Season 10 Division A Okay everyone's had enough changes to sign up so it's time to start the ball rolling. Good luck all, and may the best man or woman win! Same rules as before. There's eleven players in Division A, so every now and then players will be playing one fixture rather than two. Division A P W D L Pts AH13STU 0 0 0 0 0 AimHere 0 0 0 0 0 albinorov 0 0 0 0 0 ancientnoise 0 0 0 0 0 arabjoe 0 0 0 0 0 DearyMe 0 0 0 0 0 invergowrie 0 0 0 0 0 KenDeans 0 0 0 0 0 pleslie999 0 0 0 0 0 redvtop 0 0 0 0 0 The_Curmudgeon 0 0 0 0 0 Round 1 ancientnoise vs redvtop pleslie999 vs arabjoe DearyMe vs AH13STU The_Curmudgeon vs invergowrie KenDeans vs albinorov Round 2 AimHere vs pleslie999 AH13STU vs ancientnoise arabjoe vs The_Curmudgeon albinorov vs DearyMe invergowrie vs KenDeans

Indale Winton's points seem to add up to 284 rather than 285.

I, for one, would be highly amused if Aberdeen could win the Scottish Cup the same year they get relegated.

Looking at the appointments, it's Steven Maclean for us. After his majestic performance at the Celtic/Hearts game, Cheatin' Beaton has had his TV remote yanked out of his hand, and they've given him his whistle back and told him to do his best with Aberdeen and Killie.

Two good reasons for not mentioning it. One is that you appear more magnamimous in victory when you sympathise with the unfair decisions that went against the opposition without whatabouting your own ones. The second is that it's funnier to feed the seethe and have the opponents blubbering, through tearstained faces, that "even the other teams start player thinks we wir robbed!"

Pie and Bovril Chess League Season 10 So we've got 21 signups so far, with 11 of them having earned their right to play in Division A in previous seasons, so that makes the split decisions easy. The current proposed league setup is this: Division A P W D L Pts AH13STU 0 0 0 0 0 AimHere 0 0 0 0 0 albinorov 0 0 0 0 0 ancientnoise 0 0 0 0 0 arabjoe 0 0 0 0 0 DearyMe 0 0 0 0 0 invergowrie 0 0 0 0 0 KenDeans 0 0 0 0 0 pleslie999 0 0 0 0 0 redvtop 0 0 0 0 0 The_Curmudgeon 0 0 0 0 0 Division B P W D L Pts Basedgodsa1nt 0 0 0 0 0 beef2711 0 0 0 0 0 davi3j 0 0 0 0 0 Dustysghost 0 0 0 0 0 mackieboz 0 0 0 0 0 markf268 0 0 0 0 0 N5_Spur 0 0 0 0 0 PnBmathematics 0 0 0 0 0 RBWatson 0 0 0 0 0 weeyin13 0 0 0 0 0 It's still possible to sign up for the league, but if there are no changes in the next day or two, then I'll generate the fixtures and set everything going.

The only problem with this game is the result so far. Either it should have been a 5-0 horsing followed by calls for board sackings and managerial assassinations, or it should be close enough that the nonsensical refereeing decisions make a material difference to the outcome of the game. A two-goal difference generates suboptimal levels of seethe.

There was a 'cut to miserable-looking Scottish manager watching the match' shot on the telly.

Whether that's a typo or your autocorrect kicking in, you're clearly spending too much time on P&B.

Six, so far. Two onstage. He's been yoyoing in and out of my Dead Pool team for a few years now.

I can't personally tell whether that's offside or not, but given John Beaton's form today, I'm pretty sure that it was a goal.

Do you really think having no arms would stop an SFA-calibre referee from awarding a penalty for handball?

Hotly disputed penalty shout, a terrible miss and now a straight red. This game looks like it's going to be a lovely seethefest.

Neither was the one in the derby. That's what makes it hilarious.

Karmic penalty after the derby! These things even out!

I think one of the guys behind the banner might be my downstairs neighbour, who does, to be fair, sport a west-coast accent.

Also how come the first few minutes are coloured black, when the red team scored in the first minute? What kind of 'momentum' is this?

It's highly plausible that it was a monetary motive, but that doesn't mean that his money troubles came from fiddling the petty cash at work. Maybe this was him getting a bit too deep into cocaine, or blackjack, or Candy Crush Saga.

I dunno. I don't think that's what this is about. Here, an apparently wealthy 40-odd year old man went over to his parents house, had lunch with them, and then took the opportunity to blow his brains out in their garden shed for them to find and clean up afterwards. An 'oh shit I'm about to be caught' financial suicide would either be a kill-your-wife-and-kids-first affair if he had a suitably demented patriarchical value system or a more subdued solitary suicide. Or a John Stonehouse/Reggie Perrin vanishing act. This looks more like he had some sort of familial grudge with his own parents.

There's a pretty fair chance that there's one on the Tynecastle pitch after an Edinburgh derby.

The way it works when you leave your northerly barbarian wilderness is that in civilization we usually exchange something called 'money' for goods and services. However, if you're used to the matchday fare from Dingwall, it may come as an unpleasant culture shock when you first bite into what is sometimes alleged to be a 'pie' in Easter Road. I'd recommend avoiding it and sampling wares from one of the many fine establishments elsewhere in the city instead.

Of course. As with the airpod-hurling, we can just chalk it up to the gentrification of Leith.