Bud the Baker
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Lucky page 11 - and 11th place still a possibility!
Oh no, first post on page 12 - ain't life a bitch!
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10 minutes ago, ICC said:
Celtic fans celebrated the death of Philip by setting off fireworks outside Celtic Park, during the minute's silence.
Some on here adore Celtic and Sevco .
I think both Clubs should be booted out of Scottish Football.
Who?
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It was reported that we had made an offer on Dec 22 (just checked) and that we were hoping for a reply within a week or so...
He's not staying, but then come the end of the season there's always one or two players in this category (at every club), I'd still play him and wish him all the best when he leaves.
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32 minutes ago, faraway saint said:
FFS, how many times, they use a different method of measurement, how many times or are you having a memory fart?
Yawn, aye so you fail, which is a common trait of yours, to notice the government acted on advice available at the time.
Again, you always overlook the part that the good old British public played in this fiasco from day one.
As for answers, all you do is regurgitate unanswerable gripes so their is no "answer", certainly none that would suffice for the never ending political point scoring game you love to play.
How many times to I have to remind you that there is no benefit for the ONS in providing inaccurate figures while there is clearly a benefit to the government in providing artificially low figures? Why do you think the government's figure is more accurate and once again why would the ONS provide inaccurate figures and numerous respected scientist back them as being correct?
Even the Daily Mail knows which figure is correct...
QuoteUK's real Covid death toll hits 150,000
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Yeah, sure the public at large haven't been blameless during the pandemic, I don't think I've ever said otherwise, but given the clusterfuck of gammon prevarication the government chose to follow during the first 9 months of the pandemic I still say the bulk of the blame like at the top.
Are the following unanswerable gripes, saying we should have followed the majority advice of the government's scientific advisors all along and that now we have a roadmap out of lockdown we should stick to it? I'd say No & No.
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1 minute ago, faraway saint said:
Who said they lied?
Blunders, aye, probably the same as 90% of every government in the world.
Yes, they CAN be seen as blunders in HINDSIGHT as they were done using whatever data was available at the time.
You do remember the amount of "scientists" that were coming out of the woodwork with various theories?
Old ground, thanks for playing...............................onwards an upwards.
Flawed/Lied - OK I'll concede the semantics - now why would they produce incorrect figures?
All the examples I gave in the previous post were predictable & were predicted, up until Lockdown3 the government consistently chose the gammon options - which cost people's lives. Different politicians in different countries making different mistakes doesn't change this..
Old ground indeed but then you've never had any convincing answers.
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39 minutes ago, faraway saint said:
Who use a method of measuring that's flawed, IMO, but you CHOOSE to believe the worst figure as it's always suited your agenda.
We both agree hindsight has been used by many, in government and the general public, who, fortunately haven't been in the position to HAVE to make decisions at a time when it was almost a "lose/lose" situation.
Anyway, here's to the day I can burn my fecking masks as, when it's deemed the right time, I, for one, won't be continuing with this stupid fashion accessory.
Everyone's got an agenda, even you I daresay. My opinion is that the government's preferred count is wrong and I've cited organizations and Scientists who have provided a more accurate one, I trust them above a proven liar with a reason to minimize the death toll and his gammon acolytes. Once again I'll ask the question you've never answered
- why would the ONS & the scientists who've backed them lie?
None of these blunders below can be put down to hindsight
- The "non policy" of herd immunity that meant we went into Lockdown1 too late
- Not making mask wearing compulsory in enclosed spaces compulsory coming out of Lockdown1.
- Going into Lockdown2 too late (go back to Oct4/p323 of this thread)
- England coming out of their second lockdown too soon and putting London into Tier2 when the new variant was exploding down there - how many lives did that cost BJ?
- The Christmas fiasco (again go back to Oct4/p323 of this thread)
Any suggestions that the Covid getting worse over the winter was not foreseeable/inevitable and that the peak would be in the "flu season" Jan/Feb are apologies and not very convincing ones at that!
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33 minutes ago, faraway saint said:
A few alterations, wouldn't want your one sided view to be seen as "Facts".
As for your last sentence, well, while some of the utter drivel aimed at Johnson has been, frankly, embarrassing, it's also ridiculous to suggest everything that has happened previously should make him out some sort of hero.
The last year, or so, has been a f**k up in proportions I hope we never see again, some avoidable, some, unfortunately, not.
This GREAT thread is a classic, lots of views, lots of drivel, everything that makes a thread great, but it's also a reflection of people's views/feeling in a terrible time.
Can't wait for it, this thread, to drop down and into the archives of the forum.
The 150,000 deaths is not my "one sided view" it's the ONS figure and shared by many leading scientists who have no axe to grind, unlike the government who after a number of changes conveniently settled on the lowest figure - in reality as I said the total currently stands at 150,000 UK Covid deaths.
As for spinning BJ as "some sorta hero" it's already happening, there were no mistakes. just unfortunate decisions that can only be criticized with the benefit of hindsight (Keir Starmer = Captain Hindsight) and a vaccination success which could not have happened without Brexit, conveniently forgetting that the program started before we "left" @antrin and implemented under EU emergency protocols
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I only have a limited number of changes of underwear
- is there much likelihood pf this happening?
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18 hours ago, faraway saint said:
Just seen that, better than nothing, a 2:00pm KO, no chance anyone outside the travel club will get a ticket.
Never mind, that'll be a half day for me then.
I presume it'll be home fans only.
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The government's gammonesque policies wrt the pandemic from March-December 2020 were a disaster and the reason for many of the 150,000 Covid deaths the UK has suffered - that's all been pointed out before.
Since then a combination of a successful vaccination program and a third lockdown has brought the situation back under control. We currently have a route out of Lockdown "dates based on data" which I see no need to change.
It would've seemed incredible 3/4 month's ago but our leader and self-styled "King of the World" is likely to come out of this smelling of roses!
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Hampden to be open in June for last year's Euro Championships - prob'ly.
Euro 2020: Hampden gets approval for 12,000 fans at each game - BBC Sport
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50 minutes ago, Eric Arthur Blair said:
Zardoz
Yup - A truly Boormanesque fillum which initially received scathing reviews altho it's reputation has since improved among the SYFY community.
It's now a bit of a cult fillum...
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Probably his masterpiece, featuring Helen St. Mirren in a fetching metal corset!
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6 minutes ago, antrin said:
... on his scrotum.
Few were ever able to pull off that look.
Phnarr, Phnarr!
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The Saint - yup Covid has reduced me to watching one of Roger Moore's pre-Bond career highlight's - as usual it's "the bird of the week" whom Simon has to rescue that's the most interesting part of the show.
Shirley Eaton & her cleavage! 
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9 minutes ago, faraway saint said:
When I clicked onto the link it took me to a porn site? 🙄
...and a man in a red leather nappy isn't porn?
PS - Despite being well into the bald stage of his career Shir Shean was sporting a pony-tail wig and the Scotland's second best porntash from the 70s!
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I opened the link and saw Sean Connery in a red leather nappy...
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3 hours ago, Bud the Baker said:
Great result for us today, looking at the tournament as a whole Ross County are the only other top flight side to be put out so far so it looks like we'll have to do it the hard way - bring it on!
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Great result for us today, looking at the tournament as a whole Ross County are the only top flight side to be put out so far so it looks like we'll have to do it the hard way - bring it on!
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40 minutes ago, faraway saint said:
Nobody, as far as I'm aware, said they were anything but straightforward "sums", and nobody said arithmetic was a waste of time.
Working them out wasn't exactly brain bursting, sitting typing them out would have takes enough time to bee seen as exactly that, a WASTE of TIME.
I was just saying they were pointless as football isn't as simple as simple adding/subtraction, but that's too complicated for some.
PS I just tried to get odds for Hamilton winning the next 5 league games, Bet 365 pished themselves.
Well that's a slightly different argument and one that after a blissful shower where I washed my opulent hair with Raspberry Shampoo followed by Lemongrass & Mandarin Conditioner not one that I care to challenge.
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9 minutes ago, faraway saint said:
Aye, like I said, pointless as it doesn't take into account the form of any of the teams.
Anyone want a bet Hamilton don't win the next 5 games?
(If you know they've signed Harry Kane and not told me, I'll be fizzing)
Th e bottom 6 will cut each other's throats, playing the usual poor quality football with very little changing, the bottom 3 will fight it out till the last day and us and the other two will swap places till the last day, exciting eh?
I was just saying the calculations were relatively straightforward and unlikely to waste much time, although how anyone could consider time spent on mental arithmetic a waste is beyond me!
As an aside. and like my comedic hero Ronnie Corbett. I do like to drift off-topic - is it not a pure fanny of a scandal that our public health stattos in Scotland are taking 4 days off and won't be updating us on the pandemic until Tuesday when they will no doubt return hungover and with chocolate smeared on their nipples.
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Will be burning bread tomorrow so I'll get this in early -COYS1
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39 minutes ago, faraway saint said:
Aye, all these time wasting calculations, I said some time ago the bottom 3 were unlikely to get near us, so we'll be 9th at worst but I still think we have enough, due to us not losing many goals, to get 8th.
The calculations were relatively simple - give bottom place Hamilton 5 wins, next bottom Killie 4 qnd so on...leaving us with a Eurovisionesque Nul Points to add to our total!
I'm impressed with @Slartis plan to best Well in our next league game - that would leave us 8 pts ahead of them with only 4 games to play.
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General question - do we want the final game against Utd. to be a 7th/8th place decider or would we prefer it wrapped up (either way) before?
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Torturous Pun Alert - I prefer Burlesque to Eurovisionesque!
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29 minutes ago, faraway saint said:
Away and don't talk shite.............................offering "free stuff" is clearly a bribe.
Bet you wish that hadn't been one of the SNP's opening gambits, massive embarrassment.
Is it the bribe aspect you object to or the worry that you'll be asked to pay for it 6/12 months down the line?
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12 hours ago, jaybee said:
I have nothing against a party such as the SNP utilising peoples pride of being Scottish; although I don't (personally) think separating from a union you are physically part of to become an even smaller part of a larger union such as the EEC makes any sense. I think I might also prefer the Greens in charge.
It's not really an equal comparison though England comprises 83% (last time I checked) of the UKs population and policy is skewed to the SE of England, even Ruth Davidson admitted this while the EU comprises a number of successful countries whose populations are in the 5-10M range - the EU is much more mindful of it's smaller members than the UK.
Prince Philip has gone
in General Nonsense
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I note the attempt to rehabilitate alleged ephebophile Andrew in the wake of his father's death.