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  1. 6 minutes ago, saintnextlifetime said:

    Indeed , met a few Saint Mirren stars over the years but Jackie Copland still my all time favourite , as much a fan as any of us too . .

    He used to pop into Ferguslie CC regularly where me and my pals played endless football kickabouts and was always great to us despite us pestering him.  Met him  few times as I got older and he was always happy to have a chat.  Is he a Hall of Famer?  Scandal if he isn't.

     

  2. On ‎21‎/‎03‎/‎2018 at 6:19 AM, faraway saint said:

    No Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway this Saturday......................................:(

    A dilemma for ITV and Dec, what to do? :unsure:

    Never seen it but at least I now know which one's which.  No, wait.  I've forgotten already.    I recall Bill Nighy's excellent line in some film, 'yes, thank you Ant or Dec' . 

  3. On ‎16‎/‎03‎/‎2018 at 9:52 AM, smcc said:

    I am not a fan of Still Game as I have never found it funny. This review in today's Herald  seems to back up your opinion.

     

    http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16090765.Still_Game_review__Comedy___s_character_dies_but_lousy_gags_will_be_the_death_of_this_show/

    Yes, I think that review pretty much hits the nail on the head.  It all felt very overdone, e.g.  sweary words need to be judiciously sprinkled to be funny/impactful, not repeated ad nauseum in every section of dialogue or it ends up tedious and self-defeating, like a Gerry Sadowitz gig.   Another example of the overdone-ness would be that a partial sighting of Meena was so rare, with a sharp, rude, but not vulgar, one-liner which made her 'appearances' often very funny.  This is lost when she's 'seen' three or four times a show,   using language that we've not heard from the character before.    I saw a bit of the latest episode and it wasn't any better.  Not enough of Victor and Jack and too many ensemble scenes.  No longer recording it.

  4. Exactly who's 'ethical line' has been crossed here?    Isn't the point about ethics that it refers to one's personal moral boundaries or principles so that  one person's so-called 'ethical line' is by definition not necessarily drawn in the same place as anyone else's?   And what business is that of anyone else? Law, on the other hand,offers absolute lines that (should) apply to us all. I'm no fan of Wiggo or indeed of a lot of professional sport in general, but if a rule or law was broken that's a different matter from whether an individual has followed a particular course of action in a given situation.  

     

     

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