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Desperately Seeking Susans

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    Desperately Seeking Susans got a reaction from Percy Veer in St Mirren Photos & Videos   
    I think that's one of the greatest football photos ever taken.  It tells a whole story.
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    Desperately Seeking Susans got a reaction from Doakes in Paisley - My Pics Of Old Or Unusual Buildings Or Places Of Interest.   
    I wonder if Bovril would  have any impact on Corvid 19?
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    Desperately Seeking Susans got a reaction from Scanlon's Left Peg in Paisley - My Pics Of Old Or Unusual Buildings Or Places Of Interest.   
    Went for a walk in Paisley today and took some photos.  The first one I'll let you guess where it is and another example of the deterioration of Paisley's heritage.  If anyone knows of its history (if it has one) please reveal it.



     
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    Desperately Seeking Susans got a reaction from Scanlon's Left Peg in Paisley - My Pics Of Old Or Unusual Buildings Or Places Of Interest.   
    Hey!  I might have been one of those other 'few kids crying'!
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    Desperately Seeking Susans got a reaction from Scanlon's Left Peg in Paisley - My Pics Of Old Or Unusual Buildings Or Places Of Interest.   
    In the third photo that looks like my old West School on the right but what building is that on the left?
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    Desperately Seeking Susans got a reaction from Scanlon's Left Peg in Paisley - My Pics Of Old Or Unusual Buildings Or Places Of Interest.   
    The Sheriff Court was built 1885 and extended in 1891 towards Love St.  I'm surprised you don't see it in the old photo as I would have thought the date of it would be around the same time or... early 20th C.
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    Desperately Seeking Susans got a reaction from Scanlon's Left Peg in Paisley - My Pics Of Old Or Unusual Buildings Or Places Of Interest.   
    Those beautiful lamp posts 
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    Desperately Seeking Susans got a reaction from Scanlon's Left Peg in Paisley - My Pics Of Old Or Unusual Buildings Or Places Of Interest.   
    Great picture brings back memories.  You mean Canal Street station on Causeyside street.
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    Desperately Seeking Susans got a reaction from Scanlon's Left Peg in Paisley - My Pics Of Old Or Unusual Buildings Or Places Of Interest.   
    I took this picture today of part of the old RAI hospital displaying yet again, another example of how our architectural heritage is being left to ruin and possible arson.  Hopefully, if any of our Buddie supporting councillors/architectural/planning officials are reading this perhaps they could investigate before its too late.
     

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    Desperately Seeking Susans got a reaction from Scanlon's Left Peg in Paisley - My Pics Of Old Or Unusual Buildings Or Places Of Interest.   
    When was the last time you saw so many people on the High St?
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    Desperately Seeking Susans got a reaction from Scanlon's Left Peg in Paisley - My Pics Of Old Or Unusual Buildings Or Places Of Interest.   
    Behind the van lies a licensed grocer owned by a rather snobbish lower middle class man and I remember as a kid standing in the shop behind a woman with her leather bag (no plastic in those days) and headsquare on.  She was examining large boxed cakes on the counter and she then asked the owner,
    'How much is this wan?' 
    '2/6d' he replied. 
    'Whit?  that's awfa light for 2/6d!'
    'Because it's a sponge cake, dear!'
    I once wrote a poem about it.
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    Desperately Seeking Susans got a reaction from Scanlon's Left Peg in Paisley - My Pics Of Old Or Unusual Buildings Or Places Of Interest.   
    Thanks EAB and others for submitting these so important photos of Paisley's heritage now sadly gone.  Although, having lived in this area as a child, these houses were slums riddled with dampness and when we moved into the new development at Sir Michael Pl with an inside toilet and a bath my mother thought of heaven here on earth!
    In the photo above,  first right is Wardrop St and on the corner, where the rubble lies, stood an old boarded up shop and since we were homeless, my father made a deal with the owner to let the 5 of us live there - 'aye, we're poorer than youse!'.  Anyway, if anyone could come up with a photo of that shop I'd really appreciate it!
    Sometime later we managed to find a flat in the same street with gas light - no electricity!  Ah, those were the days!
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    Desperately Seeking Susans got a reaction from TPAFKA Jersey 2 in Rangers v St Mirren 6/3/21   
    This season will, hopefully, be a historic one where we reach the top 6 and against all odds, defeated Sevco in their expected deliverance of a treble.  That result has proved to be the most glorifying against them in many a year.
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    Desperately Seeking Susans reacted to antrin in Rangers v St Mirren 6/3/21   
    Honest?
    Let’s be.  
    He’s done an ok job as he was around when the other cheek got little money to refresh its team when it imploded under a manager who had run out of steam.
    He’s done as ok a job as McCoist did when he also exploited the lack of any Financial Fair Play and bought his stolid way through the lower leagues, triumphing with the proud raising of the Petrofac Cup.
    Gerrard has been a young guy learning on a job, comfortably cushioned with much more dodgy funding than any other club.
    His best attributes have been his charm and humility.
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    Desperately Seeking Susans reacted to truesaint in How High Can We Finish This Season ?   
    Welcome, but it won't belong before you wish you hadn't bothered.
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    Desperately Seeking Susans reacted to JPB1957 in How High Can We Finish This Season ?   
    Hi just joined. Living abroad and retired from the army.
    We will finish top 6 but it could be a nervous last game, The old goal difference could come into it but we will win at Hamilton and the farmers can't catch us. Then a battle with Livi for 5th
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    Desperately Seeking Susans reacted to antrin in The Politics Thread   
    I asked a question earlier, to which no one responded - I explained why other comparisons might be considered less invidious.
    I have tried to do the opposite of whataboutery.  I explained why that might be.
     
    Read my f**kin posts, ya clown!
     
    (I may be a bit terse as the editing function was earlier not allowing me to do what should have been a simple edit.   Sigh...)
     

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    Desperately Seeking Susans reacted to salmonbuddie in The Politics Thread   
    Here's a summary of the current state of play by Another Angry Voice

    [emoji838] Priti Patel sacked for breaching the ministerial code by holding treasonous secret meetings with foreign state officials, aimed at siphoning off the UK aid budget into their illegally occupied territories.

    Tories: Let's bring her back into government, and put her in charge of the Home Office, that'll be good for a laugh.

    [emoji838] Tory Housing Minister Robert Jenrick breaches the ministerial code (and the law) by colluding with a property developer diddle £40 million off one of Britain's most deprived local councils.

    Tories: This is all a fuss over nothing. £40 million is mere pocket change to people like us. He can stay in his job.

    [emoji838] Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson unlawfully suspends parliament to evade democratic scrutiny of his shambolic Brexit bodge job, then bare-faced lies to the entire nation that he's not creating a regulatory border between Northern Ireland and mainland Britain, when that's precisely what he did do.

    Tories: This is all above board, and Boris is doing a fantastic job

    [emoji838] Priti Patel is found to have breached the ministerial code again, this time by savagely bullying her subordinates to such an extent that one of them was reduced to contemplating suicide, and another highly respected civil servant quit his job claiming constructive dismissal.

    Tories: We must "form a square" around Priti. She will not be held to account over this.

    [emoji838] Tory government ministers repeatedly and egregiously breach the ministerial code by briefing major policy announcements to their chums in the corporate media, instead of announcing them in parliament, as stipulated in section 9.1 ("the most important
    announcements of Government policy should be made in
    the first instance, in Parliament").

    Tories: Why on earth would we announce things in parliament, where opposition politicians could potentially hold us to account, when we're guaranteed the easiest possible ride whenever we leak the plans to friendly hacks in the right-wing propaganda rags?

    [emoji838] Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock uses the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to launch an absolute orgy of corruption, handing out £billions in untendered contracts to his spivvy mates, tax-dodgers, scammers, empty shell companies with no employees and no experience of medical procurement, and even his former pub landlord. Furthermore he's found to have acted unlawfully by keeping the details of these ridiculously dodgy untendered contracts secret.

    Tories: This is so unfair, all the corruption and lawlessness we engaged in was necessary because our policy of deliberately allowing the virus to spread in the crucial early stages created absolute pandemonium!

    🟠 SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon is accused of breaching the ministerial code over her handling of the false accusations against former SNP leader Alex Salmond.

    Tories: This is an absolute disgrace, Sturgeon must resign!

    I've seen reports that the SNP picked up another 7,000 new members yesterday on the back of this farce, so, to answer your question, there's not a chance she'll lose her job.
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    Desperately Seeking Susans reacted to antrin in The Politics Thread   
    Naw.  Disnae surprise me.
    @Desperately Seeking Susans was chair of Paisley YS for years (till he grew too auld, I guess...  )
    Tragically he nowadays flirts with scottish nationalism. 
    In his case, I suspect dementia...   
     
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    Desperately Seeking Susans reacted to Scott-Leeds in St Mirren Photos & Videos   
    That’s my uncle on the left and cousin on the right.
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    Desperately Seeking Susans got a reaction from Scott-Leeds in St Mirren Photos & Videos   
    When visiting Hawkhead cemetery yesterday, I came across these two headstones of dedicated Saints fans.
     

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    Desperately Seeking Susans got a reaction from Scanlon's Left Peg in St Mirren Photos & Videos   
    When visiting Hawkhead cemetery yesterday, I came across these two headstones of dedicated Saints fans.
     

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    Desperately Seeking Susans reacted to BuddieinEK in Paisley - My Pics Of Old Or Unusual Buildings Or Places Of Interest.   
    The old fire station is looking good.
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    Desperately Seeking Susans got a reaction from BuddieinEK in St Mirren V Ross County 27/2/2021   
    Erwin's playing no bad.
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    Desperately Seeking Susans got a reaction from ironsaints87 in St Mirren V Ross County 27/2/2021   
    Erwin's playing no bad.
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