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Bud the Baker

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  1. The BBCs coverage of PPs funeral on Saturday is going to be very much pared back compared to the hagiographies of last Friday...
  2. I'll be waiting for you - be afraid, be very afraid...
  3. It seems Ridley Scott's biopic of Gucci (see above) has attracted the ire of the Gucci family who have accused the auteur of hiring an actor to play Gucci who is horrible, horrible, short, fat & ugly... I'm sure Al Pacino will know how deal with unwelcome critics...
  4. So it seems BJs claim of Capitalism/Greed riding onto the scene like the 7th Cavalry to save the world from Covid were untrue and that 97% of the funding for the Astro/Zeneca vaccine was publicly sourced - ah the benefits of accounting, or ahem, hindsight. Perhaps Boris was correct to say "Fuck Business" after all. Throw in that the government's agreement to underwrite any claims against vaccine suppliers and you see how little the capitalist model offers in times of adversity. Oh well onwards & downwards as we cheer the end of Lockdown & prepare for the return to Austerity followed by the inevitable economic crash. With any luck I'll be dead before the one after that.
  5. When the figures change my opinion will change, until then it's not a rabbit hole I intend to go down again.
  6. It's not really news as NS has already admitted as much unlike BJ who still insists no mistakes were made and any criticism is based solely on hindsight...
  7. Well that's a convenient distinction but it doesn't change anything - anyone reading the rest of the Mail/Telegraph articles in full will see it's clearly a gammon ploy...
  8. That's a bit sad but the science of building a squad over a period of a few years is a thing of the past. Ideally we'll get a few replacements in at the start of the window and hold a bit back till near the end of August when the bigger clubs are cutting their squads - as ever I look forward to @Flareybobs tips!
  9. When the UK passed the 150,000 Covid deaths milestone it was not the headline but Para9 with a disclaimer... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56709870 .
  10. In a weird case of double standards the BBC is highlighting the NRS figures that Scotland has recorded 10,000 Covid deaths while still using the 28 day total for the UK as a whole - bizarre!
  11. On days like today when I'm not working I prefer to get my news online rather than watch the Breakfast shows which are now very "lightweight" - Dan Walker interviewing BJ after the last election reminded me of "wur ain" Chick Young's fawning attitude to Walter Smith, even BJ recognized this by asking Dan to make the last question a "hard one". Back on topic some online forms now have the Mobile Phone slot mandatory and I've had to enter my partner's number for simple things like getting my gonorrhoea treated...🤮 I will prob'ly be forced to relent and get one soon but I'm gonna hold out for as long as possible. ********************** Staying off-topic I can understand the desire to cut costs for milk delivery (below) and the extra expense & inconvenience of leaving people on old systems of payment but somewhere inside me there's a caveman just waiting to shout Yabba-Dabba-Don't! A sour taste: Milk delivery giant turns its back on loyal customers - because they don't have the internet (msn.com)
  12. As one of the last "hold-outs" without a mobile phone I read this with dismay until I realized I very rarely visit pubs these days, or even back in them halcyon just before Lockdown daze...😵 Older drinkers risk discrimination says charity, after pub refuses to serve man without smartphone (msn.com)
  13. Little shocks me about grift in politics these days but the emerging news that a senior civil servant (Bill Crothers) joined financial services company Greensill while still employed by the taxpayers comes close. Mr Crothers is no relation to 60s US comedy duo The Smothers Brothers but his insistence that there was no conflict of interest is a comedy classic...
  14. Since the heyday of this thread - winning the Championship in 2018 and our return to the Top Flight I'd say only 3 candidates - 2 keepers (and they are in both senses Hladky & Alnwick) and the mighty, mighty Jeff King. McGrath prob'ly deserves a mention in the Cult Heroes category for his spot-kick brilliance even if he did blot his copybook against Well last Saturday...
  15. Does anyone feel up to making an argument for anyone from the class of 20/21?
  16. The Brexit Bonus Pt. 247 - JD Sports owned by Brexit & ex-UKIP supporter Mick Ashley is opening a new warehouse in Dublin. Obviously it's a complicated issue but is their any doubt that the long term goal of big business, the Tory party & the gammon press was to push back workers rights by scaremongering and encouraging people to see the differences between us & Europe - roll on Hartlepool and the next triumph of the gammons... apparently...
  17. There are two aspects to PPs death, the personal and the institutional, and Patrick Harvie has got it right by acknowledging this.
  18. The Grapes of Wrath for a new millennium - makes me want to cry...
  19. The forum's most middle class poster still pedalling this nonsense - high spot of my morning reading this.
  20. In the run up to the last election many of Labour's policies were well regarded but they lost the "Battle of the Leaders" and their Brexit message was, erm, ambiguous, they're obviously hoping the lustre will have worn of BJ/the Tories by 2024 or whenever - don't see it being successful but they're locked into this strategy as long as KS is their leader.
  21. ....and the term is accurate, as is the the attempt to rehabilitate Andrew, meanwhile your need to express devotion to "your betters" turns rabid - yet again!
  22. There's only one person spilling their bile in this conversation and it ain't me...
  23. I will be happy to oblige. As ever you ignore the point - if it's business as usual for "The Firm" & their hangers on (especially the hangers on) then that should include criticism. ******************** Sure I'm well aware that I've indulged in "benefit of clergy" with respect to rock stars at times but my view of groupie scene is that there was a lot less procurement & coercion involved than with Epstein and his cabal, but if yer past catches up with you then you should really face the consequences.
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