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Goodness, Darwen and Darwin? That's pub-emptying pedantry, laddie.

But yes, if you insist, I'm having a terribly bad day. I'll live the rest of my life, which won't be very long, in a deep slough of utter shame and all my joys will be ashes, all my pleasures pains, and there will be no future, no aspiration, no relief. I am in a bad place.

You, by contrast, are an Aberdeen supporter.

 

Hang on...

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On 24/01/2023 at 23:14, KirkieRR said:

Re 'Darwen' above. The BBC site has opened a forum - 'Have Your Say' - on Darvel and one thing noticeable about the ha-ha-bleedin-Jock-football-is-a-pub-league-innit  Premier League armchair fanboys who are HYS's core market is that they can't handle the word 'Darvel' even when it's written on the screen they're looking at. 'Derval' and 'Darwel' are the most common variants.

See also Livvie, Livy or Livvy

On 25/01/2023 at 08:34, Leith Green said:

Aye, but if you are an English journalist, it probably scans as "Daavil" because the useless twonks dont care about pronunciation of towns further north than St Albans and throw the "R" away (per The Proclaimers).

The Poclaimers?

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4 hours ago, GroundHoppingBear said:

Mark Reynolds wanting a St Johnstone penalty for Jacks tackle on Montgomery. Wild. No wonder people are using other means than Sky subscriptions.

Just seen that there, fucking hell 😂

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On 25/01/2023 at 15:32, KirkieRR said:

Goodness, Darwen and Darwin? That's pub-emptying pedantry, laddie.

But yes, if you insist, I'm having a terribly bad day. I'll live the rest of my life, which won't be very long, in a deep slough of utter shame and all my joys will be ashes, all my pleasures pains, and there will be no future, no aspiration, no relief. I am in a bad place.

You, by contrast, are an Aberdeen supporter.

 

Hang on...

Late to the party here, but this is a classic of the heads gone genre. 

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2 hours ago, AJF said:

Honestly, how fucking hard is it to put together an accurate graphic for a match

 

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It is almost impressive how often this happens across multiple outlets.

Not as if it is a knockoff of the last round and theyve just forgotten to update the St Mirren picture. But theyve actually went to the effort of going through their stock photos and selecting one that is wildly wrong. I would fucking love to give so little a shit on how I perform at my job.

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On 25/01/2023 at 15:32, KirkieRR said:

Goodness, Darwen and Darwin? That's pub-emptying pedantry, laddie.

But yes, if you insist, I'm having a terribly bad day. I'll live the rest of my life, which won't be very long, in a deep slough of utter shame and all my joys will be ashes, all my pleasures pains, and there will be no future, no aspiration, no relief. I am in a bad place.

You, by contrast, are an Aberdeen supporter.

 

Hang on...

Laddie? Laddie?

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58 minutes ago, Jacky1990 said:

It is almost impressive how often this happens across multiple outlets.

Not as if it is a knockoff of the last round and theyve just forgotten to update the St Mirren picture. But theyve actually went to the effort of going through their stock photos and selecting one that is wildly wrong. I would fucking love to give so little a shit on how I perform at my job.

I honestly don't know how they do it. Even if the stock photo has been tagged with the wrong team name or something, it isn't hard to quickly google what colours Thistle play in or check if the badge on that shirt matches the badge on the graphic they are using!

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1 hour ago, AJF said:

I honestly don't know how they do it. Even if the stock photo has been tagged with the wrong team name or something, it isn't hard to quickly google what colours Thistle play in or check if the badge on that shirt matches the badge on the graphic they are using!

I reckon that's exactly what they've done, seen it's a circle and just went for it.

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29 minutes ago, LiviLion said:

I reckon that's exactly what they've done, seen it's a circle and just went for it.

here's someone else who saw it was a circle (in the Dundee sense of the word) and went for it: 

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