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I don't think they once got any of our other players mixed up with each other, just Dunne and Erhahon. Repeatedly. Anyway, great three points, maybe we don't need to do that much business this window, Kiltie and young Jay totally revitalised this team tonight.

They really don't look similar.

No idea how that wasn't a penalty, Fuchs manhandled Kiltie in the box. "Great challenge" claim dumb and dumber.

Listening to the United commentators thinking we are getting all the decisions, calling out Jay for "thinking" about diving and constant casual racism by continually getting Dunne and Erhahon mixed up. Quite embarrassing really.

Aye, maybe, but elvis knows they are all fecking amateurs and this boy will be shite, based on never having seen him play.

He's too busy rolling about in some mud to tell you.

When is the SMISA AGM being held, anyone know? For members of SMISA maybe we need to start the process of change there.

I'm hearing exciting news... Flareybob has just been appointed as our new Head of Recruitment.

It sounds like you already have it sorted, what a marvellous idea! So kind of you to share this website with us, I'm sure we'll all end up rich!!! PS what is a maths ged?

Hope you're better soon. Couple of points though - you make two assumptions which are part of the mainstream narrative. The "it would have been a lot worse if I hadn't been vaccinated" line has been used a lot - how do you know? It is perhaps more likely that some people are more susceptible to reacting badly to the virus - you were one or the unlucky ones. Also, this idea that the guidance stops the spread - I like you have followed the guidance mostly (apart from when it doesn't make any sense like wearing masks in open air places like school playgrounds). However, we recently had over 20,000 cases in Scotland, 1 in 20 have it, many people are asymptomatic so don't even know - the idea of people being made to feel guilty in case anyone else catches it should be put in the bin. Next, we'll be parading "covid spreaders" through the streets like in China.

Of course, there should be a system where anyone needing to isolate gets paid in full. The fact there isn't means some people have to make choices between paying the bills or not potentially spreading the virus. I do think there is a tendency to use exaggerated language in reaction to all things covid, which stems from the media. "Putting others lives in danger" - he didn't walk in with a gun and start shooting.

Of course NS will claim this so she can be seen to have made the right choices - look at how successful the booster programme and restrictions have been. The flaw in this argument, though, is it is total bollocks. The vaccine doesn't stop transmission though certainly against previous more sinister variants did reduce the risk of serious illness greatly. There is absolutely zero evidence that either measure has reduced serious illness against omicron, as opposed to the more likely explanation, that omicron is benign and no more dangerous than a normal winter bug that we all pick up from time to time. The scale of over reaction on this is mental.

Latest figures show the omicron variant has led to one person in Scotland requiring intensive care, and no deaths. With figures like that, it's easy to see why the government have felt further restrictions were necessary 🤣

Not sure we need a player like him as we have Power, Flynn and Erahon for the defensive midfield slots - though he is younger than the first two and can also cover at centre half. Can't see him signing though unless someone leaves.

Or journalists routinely calling people nutters, covidiots and conspiracy theorists. Figures I have say that 90% of journalists are doing this.

Hope you are better soon bud. Exactly my point, this should be an individual decision - my wife decided to get the booster and I was supportive of this, while I have decided not to. Should be an individual choice and not something where you are made to feel guilty if you make the "wrong" choice. The debate at the moment over this is toxic.

I wouldn't describe it in any of those terms as we haven't been flooded with a mass of water.

You should always question everything. Only then can things change for the better. If you just prefer to accept whatever you are told, that's up to you but personally I think that's quite sad if you don't believe critical thinking is necessary. Honestly, on this thread I've felt like a medieval serf questioning the church.

My first game was a reserve match with Campbell Money in goals, I think my mum and dad wanted to avoid big crowds. I was then meant to go to a first team game on a cold December morning but it was called off, I was gutted. When I did eventually go I think it was maybe Dundee we played and won either 2-0 or 2-1. First hero was Alan Logan after he came off the bench and scored a hat trick as we came back from 2-0 down to beat Thistle 3-2. I went with my mum (my dad didn't like football) and years later she still asked how Alan Logan was getting on, even though he'd have been retired by then 😄

These are good, reassuring stats. It does make you wonder though, if there are good stats like this which support their approach, why the government and MSM feel the need to make shit up.

I didn't argue that getting the booster made you more likely to get Omicron- but statistically it looks like that may be the case - however my argument was there was no evidence that getting the booster would stop you getting it, yet that is what is being spun - if they said look, we don't know if this will work but it's worth a punt, then fair enough but they are claiming it will work when they have no evidence to support this. So many false claims, like the figure of 90% unvaccinated in hospital when the real figure is around 36% - MSM allowed to lie with impunity. Re health workers, presumably the reason for making vaccination a condition of employment is to protect patients - yet we know that being vaccinated doesn't stop you spreading it.

If I was prescribed antibiotics and they didn't work, I'd want a different antibiotic. My point is the absolutism in all of this - people being described as nutters, or conspiracy theorists, just because they don't want to accept the chosen approach, or at the very least question it. Classic divide and rule - we now have people on the left supportive of moves to sack unvaccinated health workers. Scary times.

I could turn that question on its head - at what point would you stop getting boosters, if they say, as seems likely, that booster protection wanes and you will need another booster every 3 months? When do you stop? There are several reasons I didn't get my booster - my own research on what experts were saying - I've already quoted Dr Gilbert, there were others like Allyson Pollock who made very reasoned arguments against generalised booster programmes, there was my own experience of having a bad reaction to the second vaccination, there was the moral argument about us getting boosted while poorer countries were struggling to get initial vaccination. However, probably the biggest one was the idea of being told something hadn't worked that well so you needed to take more of it and it'll work better. That, for me, didn't make sense, and I also don't know when that approach will stop.

This table appears to show that those vaccinated are more likely to get infected but several times less likely to die - this is what we know and I have never denied that the vaccine has positive outcomes with regard to that - that's why I'm double vaccinated and personally I think you're nuts not to be vaccinated - while there have been examples of bad reactions to it, generally it's the safer option (however I would defend the rights of anyone not to take it). However, that is not the debate. The issue I raised was whether boosters would be effective against the new variant - all the evidence at best is the jury is out on this, yet the government present it as an absolute fact that it will work. The government messaging has seriously twisted facts and evidence and turned people against each other. I was listening to people being interviewed earlier who had just had the booster - one of the reasons they all gave for getting it was so they would protect others by not passing it on - however, as we know that is bollocks as the vaccine doesn't stop transmission. The only person the vaccine could protect is yourself - it is a choice people should make without feeling guilty about a false narrative that they are endangering others.

I think life saving is usually reserved for describing things like heart operations, not a booster jab that may or may not work. On the basis of the evidence so far, would you describe the booster as "life saving" as NHS England did? You're last point is just daft. If you are on twitter, I would follow a guy called Jamie Jenkins - he fact checks all claims about the virus or the booster. Recently, he fact checked Hilary Jones, Lorraine Kelly and others in GMB who claimed that 90% of those in hospital with covid were unvaccinated - the true figure was 36%. Yet I'm sure the public still believe Dr Jones et al even though they were talking bollocks. We are in a strange world right enough, when people just need to repeat something for it to become fact, even if it's untrue.