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stlucifer

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  1. I'm pretty sure a vast number of those who go to the game go for more than the fair on the park. It's a social thing. Watching on TV, for free or otherwise. can be construed as torture on many an occasion.
  2. I don't thing those forks have handles. Unlike these.
  3. Unusually quick off the mark with this one. . Was he in demand so it was a case of, "It's now or never"? ETA. Hope we don't end up saying, "Return to sender"! What? "Too much"?
  4. I assumed you were talking about forks as in forklift type forks. So clampy/grippy thingies are also called forks? The clampy/grippy thingamabobs are forks that have been moved close together To clampy/grip the beam/column.
  5. After a shaky start we came onto our game. Still a lot of lumping up the park from \hemming but we had quite a few really good passages of play and, once we got the goal, we looked fairly comfortable. Hemming's save near the end was crucial as, if that had gone in, we might have had a torrid, nervous few minutes. Well deserved victory and Nahmani must have done his chances no harm. In the end, if the score had been 5-0, it certainly wouldn't have flattered us.
  6. Why? Was there a right place to die?
  7. We are in a real slump. I've already said we haven't played well since Celtic. Even though our performances have been a little better in the last two we just don't look like scoring. That's a real problem. We weren't free scoring prior to this but you could almost guarantee someone would chip in during a game. I just don't see that now. We are likely to drop like the proverbial stone in the next few weeks and that's a real worry. I hope the team lifts it's game and we get a result but, once again. I go, more in hope than expectation.
  8. Apparently, if this snowman melts and you build another one, it's the same snowman.
  9. Small is a gem of a player and should have started v the rangers. As an aside, Ayunga should have been nowhere near the starting line up. Half a game under his belt, and not even a good half game and he goes ahead of fully match fit players? Ridiculous decision.
  10. The police advise accomplished cyclists to use the road. The pedestrian/cycle pavements are supposedly for inexperienced cyclists. In fact the road cyclists are advised to ride side by side. It's simply madness.
  11. The Saintees will be smarting from the, probably undeserved, pumping from us in Paisley and, as has been said already, we seem to struggle in Perth no matter the form of the teams so I go in hope of a win rather than expectation. We really need to get back to playing to our strengths rather than aimlessly humping the ball up the park in the hope of winning the second ball.
  12. I hope we, as a nation, don't join this race to the bottom of friendship and decency.
  13. Well it's a home tie v QoS. Only one ALL Premiership tie.
  14. 2 things. Firstly. Fartaway can prattle on as much as he likes as I have him on ignore. He knows this but still tries to bait. Saddo is a word he should use to the mirror. Secondly. I agree with you that we have a very good squad but that doesn't change my opinion that we have been very poor recently. Even in the 4-0 win v Saintees. Granted we had a wee spell but, for most of that game, we were piss poor. I don't expect them to play great every week but I reserve the right to call it out when they don't. Results don't necessarily reflect the performance. I am delighted as to where we are but we have definitely got away with playing poorly and I will not let some simpleton who sits on his erse at home while I'm sitting at the game watching what transpires preach to me about how the team perform.
  15. It's Not a conspiracy theory after all' It's a fact. . . .. . . . Hugh Dallas ups his game v Aberdeen! 🤣
  16. Gogic made quite a few uncharacteristic mistakes today and struggled in the air. My MOTM would definitely be Taylor. As for the game. A really dreadful spectacle. No real surprise as we have been pish poor since before the Celtic game. Still. Another three valuable points. That is the only positive I take from today .
  17. We can only hope that the normal working many weigh up the pros and cons and realises that only the much better off will benefit from these changes. That and the "silver" voters realise they're being screwed over too. I don't think this mini budget will fool too many into changing their minds come the next election.
  18. I'm not sure talking pish constitutes finding water.
  19. More likely incapable of counter argument
  20. I was not professing. I was merely relaying what I believe is an accurate reflection of those who are in control of our countries. I don't see any issue with the statement. Both Blair and Brown were most definitely right of centre. They believed in "trickle down economics" which, by its very nature, will NEVER work to the benefit of the actual workers. Those who actually produce the wealth.
  21. No matter what you profess it doesn't alter the veracity of the piece.
  22. Last week, at the height of the bitter debate over Saturday’s huge London march for a ceasefire in Gaza, the Royal British Legion – the organisation that supports and speaks for all the UK’s military veterans, (maybe not ALL) – issued a statement that should perhaps have attracted more attention than it did. In a few short paragraphs, the statement simply defended the right to protest as one of the freedoms for which British troops have fought and asked that the weekend’s marches and demonstrations should pass off peacefully, without disruption to Armistice Day or Remembrance Sunday events. In a weekend replete with symbolism, it was, of course, a few demonstrators from the political far right, claiming to “defend the Cenotaph”, who came closest, on Saturday, to desecrating the UK’s plain and beautiful national war memorial; but amid all the sound and fury, the Legion’s words came as a salutary reminder of how the voice of reason and decency might sound, and of a time when the idea of British patriotism had not yet been quite so thoroughly hijacked by the political right. It stated, "For the great irony of the Trump and Brexit years, in British and US politics, is that the people who now present themselves as the great patriots of the West – those who want to make America or Britain “great again”, who prattle about Empire 2.0, and who despise international law and institutions – are precisely those whose actions are now weakening Western countries internally from day to day, and all but guaranteeing the decline of Western influence and credibility on the global stage. That process has now reached a visible crisis, in the Western response to the catastrophic conflict in southern Israel and Gaza; where largely right-wing pressure to offer uncritical support to the Netanyahu government has begun to blow back in the faces of Western leaders who seem to have underestimated both the diversity of opinion in their own societies, and the extent to which the Global South has now lost patience with Western powers which so frequently – when it suits them – ignore the principles of international and humanitarian law that they preach to others. The UK Government, for example, is in the hands of a party whose chairman thinks it clever to talk about simply ignoring the UK Supreme Court’s ruling on the Rwanda asylum scheme; while the Prime Minister shamelessly refers to that venerable international institution, the European Court of Human Rights, as a “foreign court”. And the situation in the United States is worse, in that 2024 presidential election risks the return to the White House of a politician who claims to defend American values, while taking a sledgehammer to every constitutional principle that ever made the idea of America worth defending. The levels of pseudo-religious irrationality and extremism now prevalent in Trump’s Republican party are terrifying, and increasingly incapacitating to any kind of practical or effective domestic politics; while, on the world stage, the same people promote a delusional isolationism in which it somehow makes sense for the United States to withdraw from Nato, and to remove support from Ukraine in its vital struggle against Russian aggression. Both at home and abroad, in other words, it is difficult to imagine a more effective recipe for national decline. And meanwhile, in the UK, it becomes ever more clear that 40 almost uninterrupted years of right-wing economics has likewise ushered in an age of decline. The real-terms pay of ordinary British workers has been flatlining since 2009; while the cult of austerity in public spending has hollowed out our communities and cultural life, and impoverished and degraded our public services. And of course, the resentment produced by such hard times also led to the disastrous act of economic and human self-harm that was Brexit. Yet all of this has come to you courtesy of those most likely to wrap themselves in the flag, and to claim love of their country as their motivation; whereas the truth about their ideology is that it is deeply destructive, fundamentally misconceived, and based on a shameful failure to learn or respect the lessons of recent history. It is, sadly, more than a quarter of a century since the late, great Robin Cook, as Tony Blair’s Foreign Secretary, first announced his proposed “ethical foreign policy”, informed by the basic principles of international law. He was much mocked at the time, notably by crusty old reactionaries who opined that international affairs is all about brute force and “realpolitik”, narrowly defined. Yet today, as South Africa takes a case against Israel’s actions in Gaza to the International Criminal Court, Ukraine desperately appeals for Western help in upholding the ideas of freedom and democracy against Putin’s bloody dictatorship, and many Israeli citizens and the Palestinian people themselves appeal to those principles for the justice, peace and security they seek, we can surely see that it is not the principles themselves that are at fault, but our own short-sighted failure to defend them with the seriousness they deserve, and which the people of the Global South now increasingly demand. What the West needs now, in other words, is government that will stand up for the best that our civilisation has produced, rather than the worst; for civility, welfare and social justice at home, and for the principles and institutions enshrined in the UN Charter abroad. At this time of crisis for humankind and the planet, nothing less will do. Donald Trump will not do. Rishi Sunak will not do. And increasingly, centre-left leaders like Keir Starmer and Joe Biden will not do either, unless they can begin to shift their positions away from old, discredited loyalties, towards a new commitment to those values of peace, justice and humanity which we all claim for our own, but which are universal, or they are nothing".
  23. Quite fortunate that Hamas left them for IDF to find. And.... no timestamp on the picture or background to prove where they are. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
  24. I see Fartaway has his finger on the pulse. 🤣 Someone tell him the Titanic hit an iceberg.
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