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[The_Kincardine]

2 hours ago, Granny Danger said:

The ‘arguments’ on here are not worth deconstructing.  They are the mewlings of a tiny, tiny minority of the people of Scotland.  They are also inconsistent.

Even my most unhinged and toilet-duck-fueled rantings on the politics thread pale in to insignificance compared to your blether, mate.

Keep posting!

[Jacksgranda]

3 hours ago, PedroMoutinho said:

Leitch’s mewlings that the peak won’t be until February looking more and more wrong by the day 

 

According to our Michelle, it's 10 days for ours - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-59894880

[Jacksgranda]

3 hours ago, Snafu said:

Yeah Johnson maybe be seen as a bit of a bumbling idiot but he's politically street wise enough and capable of playing dirty when he has to and has a team of very smart and resourceful people behind him who know exactly what they are doing and I don't mean his team/cabinet when I say this. They have a strategy not unlike moving pieces on a chess board. Sturgeon has limited powers and has less resources to back her up including finances and a strategy which has to take into account what Westminster decides, Westminster doesn't have to wait on what Hollyrood decides. The UKG is always going to be one/two moves ahead. Sturgeon is easily out gunned when it comes down to it, same goes for the Welsh.

Unfortunately, we got rid of our guns...

[WhiteRoseKillie]

4 hours ago, virginton said:

Sit down and shut up, you condescending bore. 

The fact that a poster runs around a football forum looking for threads to complain about and clocking up the number of red circles they receive is not mitigated by 'struggles with mental health'. In fact, it is likely insulting for others with mental health struggles to be conflated with the behaviour of a professional victim. 

The solution to any such struggles is perfectly straightforward and involves the 'sign out' button at the top of the screen. Although I believe that a politely written request to delete an account and IP ban has been accepted in the past as well. 

Really, it's not difficult. You don't have an argument, simply a continuous slew of invective which contributes the square root of fúck all to anyone's life. Including, funnily enough, your own. 

When a poster with  a known history of serious MH problems is posting in a manner which suggests he may be going through a further crisis, what kind of arsehole carries on with the ad hominem  attacks while trying to project some kind of superiority? A grade "A" cúnt, imho. 

 

[WhiteRoseKillie]

3 hours ago, Monkey Tennis said:

That's not really much of an argument.

If people don't like the direction of something on here, especially regarding a topic that concerns us all, why on Earth shouldn't they say so? The thread doesn't and shouldn't only belong to the Main Players.  

Telling people to either go along with it, or not come near it, is not sensible or mature.

It's almost as if dissent is only a good thing when practised by others..

Edited January 9, 2022 by WhiteRoseKillie

[Dawson Park Boy]

27 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:

A lot of what you have said isn't hindsight, though. It was talked about on here as early as May 2020 but was dismissed by many as an unacceptable strategy because it was discriminatory and unfair.

Interestingly, a Venn Diagram of those who held those views then and those who support vaccine passports and a split society now would be a circle.

I, for one, was being abused mercilessly on the football and politics forums until I found this place which has become an oasis of sanity amidst all the crap.

[WhiteRoseKillie]

2 hours ago, anotherchance said:

Have a go at deconstructing the arguments on here, instead of crying because you’ve read something you don’t like that others agree with.

You mean like, eh, dissent?

[vikingTON]

2 hours ago, Todd_is_God said:

That Tsunami was a bit shite

Presumably the SG was thinking of a magnitude 8 earthquake in Alaska producing a 30cm 'tidal wave' in New Zealand. 

[vikingTON]

11 minutes ago, WhiteRoseKillie said:

Really, it's not difficult. You don't have an argument, simply a continuous slew of invective which contributes the square root of fúck all to anyone's life. Including, funnily enough, your own. 

When a poster with  a known history of serious MH problems is posting in a manner which suggests he may be going through a further crisis, what kind of arsehole carries on with the ad hominem  attacks while trying to project some kind of superiority? A grade "A" cúnt, imho. 

There is no evidence of a 'further crisis', only evidence of someone braying for something to be done about posts that he doesn't like. The onus is not on everyone posting on a football forum to placate the utter shite mewlings of an individual, in case of mental health issues. Never has been and never will be.

And If you are so concerned about it, then you should have taken it up personally with the poster, instead of trying to lay out their private health record on a public forum as part of your own latest and utterly pathetic virtue-signalling exercise. 

Your lectures will therefore be automatically filed in the bin where they belong. Thanks for playing anyway.

Edited January 9, 2022 by vikingTON

[WhiteRoseKillie]

5 minutes ago, Dawson Park Boy said:

I, for one, was being abused mercilessly on the football and politics forums until I found this place which has become an oasis of sanity amidst all the crap.

..and if that post does not make the posse/main players/whatever they call themselves take a long hard look at themselves..

"The Covid Thread - endorsed by P&B's most obvious troll". Some achievement, that.

[Benjamin_Nevis]

11 minutes ago, Dawson Park Boy said:

I, for one, was being abused mercilessly on the football and politics forums until I found this place which has become an oasis of sanity amidst all the crap.

That's because you kept trying to excuse the views of disgusting losers like Tommy Robinson and pretty much confessed that both you and your wife "hated seeing women on TV". All you've done on here is make up a few stories about going maskless in shops 

[WhiteRoseKillie]

1 minute ago, virginton said:

There is no evidence of a 'further crisis', only evidence of someone braying for something to be done about posts that he doesn't like. (1)

The onus is not on everyone posting on a football forum to placate the utter shite mewlings of an individual, in case of mental health. Never has been and never will be.(2)

And If you are so concerned about it, then you should have taken it up personally with the poster(3), instead of trying to lay out their private health record as part of your latest and utterly pathetic virtue-signalling exercise. (4)

Your lectures will therefore be automatically filed in the bin where they belong. Thanks for playing anyway.

1. Anyone reading their posts would see that something was going on. You've simply reinforced my opinion of how you view others' input. 

2. Acting in a respectful manner isn't compulsory. If you behave like a cúnt, don't go crying when you get called out for it. 

3. I have done, and am continuing to do so. Not that it's any of your fucking business. 

4. I didn't. He did, some months ago. But don't let that stop you fabricating your own wee story where you're the superior one. I'm sure the rest of the gang will be along to rub your ego soon.

[vikingTON]

I'm going to cease commenting on this issue after this post because it's neither my nor your business to go into detail, but here are the facts:

1) Someone going into this of all threads and making a set of wildly passive-agressive complaints about it is not a sign of anything at all. Otherwise you'd be white knighting for ten different folk each day. 

2) The presence of previous mental health issues does not count as a free pass to make objectively terrible posts and not to get called on it, in any poster. 

3) The actual and very straightforward solution to the issue raised has already been clearly set out. If you don't like reading a topic and don't want to contribute, then don't fucking click on it. In the exact same way that I've never had the slightest desire to read 90% of the threads on this or any other forum. I don't wade into them and demand that they talk about something else instead.

b) And if that doesn't work, then there's always the big 'sign out' function to get back to the 'real life' that you're convinced only exists for certain posters. 

That you and many others believe that there is a 'gang' operating against you on a Scottish football forum suggests that you should follow that advice yourself immediately. 

Edited January 9, 2022 by vikingTON

[Elixir]

5 hours ago, Am Featha *****h Nan Clach said:

I want all restrictions lifted. However, I, like many others who share this view are able to do so without wasting hours and hours a week reading about Covid, trawling through Twitter for people to laugh at, posting Jose Mourinho meme faces like a small child etc.

This all began because the xenophobic, immigrant hating SNP made it hard for girlfriend to fly to Poland to see her family so you could get 2 weeks of Tennent's Lager and wanking.

Yet here you are showing everyone how clearly not bothered you are by it all. Terrific stuff, bud! Thankfully, though, other Twitter users do the 'hard work' of finding people to laugh at!

 

5 hours ago, eez-eh said:

I don’t think you know how life works.

Very good, mate. Tell me more.

 

5 hours ago, DeeTillEhDeh said:

5 hours ago, Am Featha *****h Nan Clach said:

I want all restrictions lifted. However, I, like many others who share this view are able to do so without wasting hours and hours a week reading about Covid, trawling through Twitter for people to laugh at, posting Jose Mourinho meme faces like a small child etc.
This all began because the xenophobic, immigrant hating SNP made it hard for girlfriend to fly to Poland to see her family so you could get 2 weeks of Tennent's Lager and wanking.

And we thought it was because Covid relegated Hearts.

Actually, I've been quite clear that Hertz could get pumped till the end of time for all I care if it stopped this madness. As it is, we're sitting pretty in third above the dross with group stage European football likely on the horizon. Just a nice wee bonus, I suppose.

 

4 hours ago, Monkey Tennis said:

Mate, I actually have a fair bit of sympathy for your line here.  I think it contains a sizeable element of truth.

You must, however, recognise the comedy in you - with your posting history on this thread - pointing to others disparagingly, on account of their perceived Covid obsession.

Err, no. I am not obsessed with the belief that covid, the virus, will rule our lives forevermore so we need to work from home every day and keep wearing masks 'for the greater good'. What I do find rather difficult not to be obsessed by is the ongoing response, which thankfully should be over for good very soon. There is no contradiction here whatsoever, but it's not surprising to see certain rather challenged posters are unable to see this.

 

2 hours ago, Todd_is_God said:

 

It normally takes these people a bit longer to trip themselves up, but here we are.

Replies turned off now, of course - the true mark of a "moonhowler"

These types of people are absolute legends in the eyes of 'progressives'. It's the reason why they always lose elections. Even Labour are realising they have to pivot now to keep up with public opinion.

[anotherchance]

35 minutes ago, WhiteRoseKillie said:

You mean like, eh, dissent?

In terms of “improving” the quality of discourse on thread, it feels as though it’d be far more constructive to challenge the ins and outs of the arguments being made, rather than just complain that you don’t like the posts or the posters, no?

I asked another poster to do this earlier and they effectively said they don’t want to. Nobody has to do anything of course, but it seems counterproductive to moan about the direction of the thread, then refuse to take the chance to change it.

 

[Dawson Park Boy]

31 minutes ago, Day of the Lords said:

That's because you kept trying to excuse the views of disgusting losers like Tommy Robinson and pretty much confessed that both you and your wife "hated seeing women on TV". All you've done on here is make up a few stories about going maskless in shops 

Firstly, I don’t think I even mentioned Tommy Robinson who I dislike intensely.Secondly, I stated that we hated women commentating on ‘men’s football’, a game they don’t participate in. The word hate was not against women but against ‘commentating’. You may not agree but that’s your prerogative. 
Tell me what stories I’ve made up?

 

[The_Kincardine]

2 minutes ago, Dawson Park Boy said:

Firstly, I don’t think I even mentioned Tommy Robinson who I dislike intensely.Secondly, I stated that we hated women commentating on ‘men’s football’, a game they don’t participate in. The word hate was not against women but against ‘commentating’. You may not agree but that’s your prerogative. 
Tell me what stories I’ve made up?

Any excuse to shoehorn this in:

 

[MP_MFC]

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/08/cyprus-reportedly-discovers-a-covid-variant-that-combines-omicron-and-delta.html


Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding.

[Monkey Tennis]

18 minutes ago, Elixir said:

 

Err, no. I am not obsessed with the belief that covid, the virus, will rule our lives forevermore so we need to work from home every day and keep wearing masks 'for the greater good'. What I do find rather difficult not to be obsessed by is the ongoing response, which thankfully should be over for good very soon. There is no contradiction here whatsoever, but it's not surprising to see certain rather challenged posters are unable to see this.

For God's sake, don't make a further fool of yourself by doubling down and failing to see a funny side.

You simply said with disapproval that Covid was an obsession for certain people. That made some of us laugh because it's quite clearly a huge obsession of your own.

If you can't concede that, then you're being a bit ridiculous and just look foolish I'm afraid.

[ulysses]

Does anyone know when we’ll get an update on events? Tuesday or Wednesday I’d assume?