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  1. 9 hours ago, LoonsYouthTeam said:

    Just finished Baby Reindeer too and would echo what others have said. It's both fantastic yet horrific, I thought a story like that would have been more well known.

    I can't work out if he is presented his stand-up routine as truly unfunny/awful as that was the reality ie where he was in life and what he considered to be funny at that time. Or whether he is presenting the stand-up parts as "good comedy".

    I read that he had played the fringe a number of times before the stalking began and had won awards. Obviously the timelines for Baby Reindeer are likely to have been altered to make it all more cohesive but there is nothing remotely funny about the main guy. Not even his stage stuff, but the one liners that he made to his trans partner were awful also. 

    I cannot believe he is considered a successful comedian. 

  2. 56 minutes ago, AndyM said:

    And a more nuanced study of Boyle would show he has had a number of assists to other scoring players this season. 

    However there is no doubt he has lost a half yard of pace owing to the number of injuries he has sustained in the last few seasons mainly from the treatment he gets from Scottish defenders. If he was "shite" as you suggest he wouldn't still be getting international call ups.

    😂. More likely contributed to by his incessant theatrical pratfalls. If he just stayed on his feet with every imagined or innocuous of touches, he would be sparing his joints from further unnecessary impact. 

  3. 9 hours ago, KirkieRR said:

    I never stay up for election night programmes (they're boring) but from what I've seen, Portillo responded to his defeat with grace and humour - and I didn't like him then and I don't like him now.

    Now, that nasty toff piece of work Ian Lang in 1992: seething, seething, his scowl betraying how humiliating it was to have to be voted in - or out- by the lower orders.

    Of course, he didn't have to be. He was quickly ennobled and is a pernicious Tory influence in the Lords still.

    Douglas Alexander, Labour grandee's reaction to his "shock" loss:

     

  4. 2 hours ago, RawB93 said:

    Love folk who offer to buy rounds.

    Unfortunately for you, you don't realise I'm not playing "rounds" and this is actually just a free drink from someone I probably wasn't even going to say hello to. 

    Enjoy your night, mate.

    "playing rounds" or as normal people term it - simply buying someone back a drink who bought you one. 🤣

    Some folks devote real time and energy to avoid having to buy anyone a drink or making a tenner stretch (and not through lack of funds) - whether it is opportune disappearances or avoiding eye contact,, making sure never up at the bar first in entering the pub, nursing drinks, boring or stalking partial strangers to see if can illicit drinks etc etc. Must be exhausting and pretty miserable. 

  5. On a work course and we were each given a £30 voucher to use in the adjacent restaurant to cover dinner. I wasn't too keen on the food and only ordered some sides and a drink. A colleague at our round table (though not sat within direct talking distance), was clearly seeking maximum return on his voucher. We went up to pay/hand in our voucher at the till at the end and he had slightly miscalculated and his came to £30.72. After clarifying some final individual costs with the woman on the till, he turned to me behind him and (oddly) aware of what I had ordered, asked if I could extend some of my remaining voucher balance towards his additional costs ie 72p. I laughed and said why don't you just pay the pound and he said "it hopefully will not have to come to that" - suggesting that he had a few more options to apply if I refused or the woman said that what he was proposing was not possible. 

  6. On 30/03/2024 at 21:58, Jacky1990 said:

    If Drogba was always considerd the ultimate big game, clutch player, Harry Kane isnthe complete opposite.

    Proper spaced jammed in anything resembling a big match.

    This is the type of comment that a stranger beside me in a busy pub makes in my direction, where I invariably nod in agreement and say "aye" but have no idea what they mean or what they are saying. 

  7. 1 hour ago, GHF-23 said:

    I think we can broadly agree that Twitter has been a net bad for politics but I'd particularly like to meet the media strategist who seems to have told every politician in recent years that their reaction to pretty minor things they don't like should be to pretend they are pissing and shitting themselves with fear or rage. They've all become the equivalent of people who phone call centres and describe not getting exactly what they want as disgusting or a scam. 

    ....or a trivial or minor alteration to something as a "disaster waiting to happen". 

  8. 16 hours ago, Ewanandmoreagain said:

    Was it not something like Roxburgh , allegedly , saying he knew something that would , allegedly , put Gough on the front pages rather than the back ?

    yeh that was it exactly - though think it was Brown who actually said that, pretty much verbatim. And when Brown said that about Gough, who was with Rangers at the time, a few red-tops were coincidentally looking into stories about unsavoury and potentially inappropriate behaviour of a Scottish Prem player. This leaked - though the stories didn't get published until a few years later - and everyone assumed the player in question was Gough on account of what Brown said. However the player in question was actually Justin Fashanu who was with Hearts or Hamilton I think at the time.....

    Brown didn't divulge what his Gough front page story was though.....

  9. 33 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said:

    Even the theme music was  dreadful. The aural equivalent of a twee hippie skipping through a meadow while throwing daisies in the air.

    ETA...it's spelled MacAulay.

    He always emphasised that his name has "all the As".

    Probably regarded that as one of his best punchlines. A Krusty equivalent of pulling out the big guns if losing/lost the crowd.....

  10. On 27/03/2024 at 20:20, Mark Connolly said:

    TBF, I quite like MacAuley, and I reckon he'll be suited to the sit down conversational style.

    The mid-morning magazine style show that MacAuley hosted on Radio Scotland for years was unbelievably turgid and painfully bland. I used to have it on when working from home and I don't think Macauley ever said something that could be considered mildly amusing never mind outright funny. I still listened to Radio Scotland every morning, mind you - contributing to his listener numbers and perhaps maintaining his slot. When I was told a few years later that he was a comedian "by trade" and did stand-up I genuinely thought I was getting the pish ripped out me. Still don't believe it.  

  11. I believe I recall exactly how the Richard Gough rumour started. It was actually Craig Brown who offered clarification and refuted it. Still don't know why Brown never picked up for Scotland though I think that harbours back to Gough's dressing room attitude and behaviour when Roxburgh was the manager and Brown was no2. 

  12. 2 hours ago, welldaft said:

    Like I said before if you want something to happen you have to make it happen. If people want to ridicule that point then fine. But it is essentially true. Red dots or not. 

    I am a 42 year old project manager with a degree in history/politics. I have always dreamt of being an astronaut (or cosmonaut/taikonaut/spationaut) and spending a year on the ISS. How do you suggest I make this happen?  

  13. 9 hours ago, Fifespud said:

    Haven’t read the thread so apologies if this has been said but given the predicament we are in I think McTominay is worth a punt up top. Started his career there, works his arse off, has a physical presence and has a real eye for a goal, instinctive even. Ordinarily I wouldn’t suggest it but we have a surplus of midfielders and Dykes and Adams are bang average (at best). 

    this has been debunked. 

  14. 1 hour ago, ekok said:

    OK so enlighten me , what was that set up about ? Will gladly learn something that I am missing 

    I was highlighting your assessment that MacPhee was an "imposter" - in what way?

    To add, that at the end of last year, and including Euro 2024 qualifiers, Scotland had scored 12 goals (from something like 18 games) from set pieces. This was directly attributed to MacPhee and what he brought to the team. He was also kept on at Villa for his set piece work and his wider work with the first team. 

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