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  2. Coronavirus

    in General Nonsense

    Posted · Edited by smcc

    1 hour ago, waldorf34 said:

    My wife and I got the Pfizer  jab a week ago ,never been so I in our lives since ,can t sleep,cant  eat ,terrible aches and pains a high temperature and cough.

    And we have to through this maybe twice more!

    And it might not work.

    Better off just locking ourselves up as were doing !

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    I suggest that you might actually have developed Covid and should phone for advice.

  5. Coronavirus

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    Posted · Edited by smcc

    3 hours ago, Bud the Baker said:

    I see the mood music is again taking a turn for the worse with more "experts" expressing the opinion that Covid vaccinations may be needed annually.

    The operative word is "may".

  8. Coronavirus

    in General Nonsense

    Posted

    7 minutes ago, faraway saint said:

    Eh?

    Just because I don't join in the pack mentality by blaming him for EVERYTHING when wee Nicky has more control than you, and others, care to remember.

    Lighten up, we're ALL entitled to an opinion. 

    Who said Boris was responsible for everything? It seems that, in your eyes, some people are not entitled to express an opinion.

  10. Coronavirus

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    Posted

    Here's a look at Boris from a Herald columnist. Sums him up beautifully.

    Fidelma Cook: I do not accept Boris Johnson's mealy mouthed apology but I will accept his resignation

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    Fidelma Cook: I do not accept Boris Johnson's mealy mouthed apology but I will accept his resignation

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    Fidelma Cook: I do not accept Boris Johnson's mealy mouthed apology but I will accept his resignation

     

    CONTEMPT. Disgust. Controlled anger. That’s what I felt watching Boris Johnson’s performance at his briefing on the milestone 100,000-dead coronovirus figures.

    For a performance it was, as crafted as he and his advisers are capable of. The drooping head, dropping to the chest for the key shot of unbelievable sorrow.

    The hair more wildly disarranged than normal to show all personal care suspended; the Basset Hound hang-over eyes pleading for understanding and pity as he looked up and into the camera.

    AD

    ‘I’m sorry,’ he said, as if that made everything alright. Can we move on now, public penance done?

    As PM, he says he takes responsibility, which must be a first in his feckless selfish life.

    So he plans to resign or signal a Government of national unity? Er, no…he’s said he’s sorry, what more do we want?

    Where to begin. A competent PM and Cabinet for a start, not a cabal of hucksters greasing up the palms of their cronies.

    Men and women, starting with Johnson, who are capable of compassion and empathy; for God knows I’m finding it hard to identify one from their utterances.

    Has the country ever been so badly served? A smirking, self-loving overgrown schoolboy, who finds himself so loveable we must too.

    Too lazy, too emotionally detached to give a damn for anybody else, leading at a time of the perfect storm of crisis after crisis.

    He’s surrounded himself with fellow Brexiteers – some of whom actually believed in what they were saying – so his wisdom cannot be questioned.

    He made a vice out of loyalty, protecting the likes of Dominic Cummings and Priti Patel, and barely bothered to defend his own frequent outrageous lies because so far the country and the alleged official Opposition have hardly protested at all he’s thrown at them.

    But now people are dead or dying in numbers that can’t be shrugged away – his people who followed every decision he took or didn’t take; who believed his boastful promises which could never be fulfilled even as they watched the mocking grin never far from his lips.

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    But then it’s always been just a game to this egoist.

    Hell, he only had one job – to get Brexit through and then he could bask in the glory of still-boyship leadership until time for the big pension and the title.

    And then the inconsiderate bastards picked up a virus and started dying. Well, he’s done his best – ignored his own scientists’ advice when it felt right; Dillied and dallied until he’d taken soundings from the country. Gave them Christmas, didn’t he?

    Let them out when others said they should be locked down.

    And now he’d apologised, although carefully pointing out that hindsight is a wonderful thing. I mean, he’s not a seer is he…only a PM with all the information at his fingertips; well if he could be bothered to study it.

    But there’s a collective blame here too – a watered down version of all we saw with Donald Trump.

    God knows enough people stepped forward at the start to question both his morals and his probity – most provided evidence.

    The public, the majority it seemed, thought him a good laugh, a cheeky chappie who would get things done. Particularly Brexit. Made a fine fist of that, eh?

    And the right-wing press, the rapacious owners and on-the-make columnists aided and abetted their ‘Boris’ , treating him as an amusing, if a little wild, wonderkind.

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    One cannot blame certain sections of the public if they were seduced by this carefully crafted image promising sovereignty, fun and good times. To hell with gravitas and dignity, give me my Union Jack boxers.

    But we can blame the rest of us – omitting, of course, most Scots who are well versed in English phonies and carpetbaggers.

    Now don’t tell me it’s none of my business as I live in France. When my fellow human beings are dead and dying because of arrogant self-interest it is all our business.

    When a weak, self-justifying apology is offered instead of the shameful truth and we see page after page of people now gone forever – it is worse than no answer.

    So, no, Boris Johnson. I do not accept your mealy mouthed ‘oops, sorry.'

    I accept nothing less than your resignation….and take the rest of the contemptible shower with you.

    Our columns are a platform for writers to express their opinions. They do not necessarily represent the views of The Herald.

     

  12. Paisley - My Pics Of Old Or Unusual Buildings Or Places Of Interest.

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    3 hours ago, antrin said:

    The building being demolished is certainly a different one from the other.

    And the shape of the grassed area with a  flower bed is different.

    The benches in the demolition pic are backed onto a straight wall whereas...

    ...the two auld Buddies are standing beside a curved wall enclosing a flower bed. 

     

    eta: I don't recall "Glasgow's" at all....

    The angle at which the two photos are taken are different. I suspect that the Sally Ann had moved to their new premise in Broomlands in the intervening years.

  16. Coronavirus

    in General Nonsense

    Posted

    4 hours ago, shull said:

    Brazilian Summer

    End of March to End of October

    Brazil sits astride the Equator. For most of the country there is little difference between summer and winter. June temperature in Rio is as high as our normal summer temperature.

  19. St.mirren v Sevco 30th December

    in Matchday & Travel Club

    Posted

    11 minutes ago, faraway saint said:

    This wasn't "talking us up" it's drawing attention to a theory St Mirren don't get penalties against Rangers when the truth is, last game apart, we're hardly over the half way line never mind their penalty box. :lol:

    I hink JG was simply pointing out that Rangers often get away with fouls in the box that teams like Saints don't.

  20. St.mirren v Sevco 30th December

    in Matchday & Travel Club

    Posted

    8 hours ago, oaksoft said:

    FFS the music and games industries have totally changed. Both looked at what their USP was to defeat piracy.

    Honestly, discussing anything with you is like trying to pass a hedgehog through my colon.

     

    7 hours ago, Yflab said:

    Now that’s something I’d pay to watch you do.

    Only if it were passed through backwards!

  23. Brexit Negotiations

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    Posted

    On 12/26/2020 at 2:52 PM, antrin said:

    Far be it from me to become involved in a sterile, useless debate about the accuracy or correct deployment of words, of their spelling etc...

     

    but... :)

     

    ... I believe that a quality such as “perspicacity” simply cannot be measured using Imperial units such as an ounce.

    (additionally, in the case of oaksoft/perspicacity you might, more accurately, be better using micro grams)

    I was giving him the benefit of the doubt!

  25. Brexit Negotiations

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    Posted

    12 hours ago, Sue Denim said:

    Nic Sturge-un is clearly raging that a trade deal has been done

    Seeded potatoes 😂

    As a remainer, I take offence to the tinpot fascist dictator using my vote to claim that Scotland is being taken out of the EU against my will.

    I’d rather stay in the U.K. than stay in the EU

    And the reality is, less than 40% of the Scottish electorate voted to remain.

     

    Yes, and less than 39% of the English electorate voted to leave! And it's seed potatoes; you are obviously not a gardened.

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