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There are probably more people about just now that know things that Confucius said than know things that Jesus (reportedly) said. What exactly does it prove?
The only thing I was ever told Confucius said was the apocryphal 'man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day'. Oh how we laughed! I suppose I should ask him personally but does Oaky believe only Christians have caused death and human misery? Who first picked up a club and lamped some poor bugger? I bet it wasn't a Christian. Who invented bows and arrows? And gunpowder? Collectively, how many did the following guys annihilate. Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great.(no, not Fergie.) Attila the ***. Julius Caesar. Stalin. Mao Zedong. Hitler. Saddam Hussein. I could go on. How many of them were Christians?
As I've said previously, this has been a really interesting thread and largely conducted with little bombast. If only the same could be said about our St.Mirren content.
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Has it ever occurred to either of you two numpties to ignore what you dont like and just get on with your points?
If I had a pound for every time you two posted something which was polluted by a whiny sentence in it about other posters I would be a rich dude.
I confess to having in the past posted things that I regret when I see them the following morning when I've sobered up. What's your excuse bearing in mind you have admitted that you resent spending the time of day and you don't drink? When Div came up with General Nonsense I don't imagine he intended it to be a thread for abuse. I don't care what anybody wants to talk about but I'm far from the only one who gets weary about continual abuse and name-calling. And as Div has said, quite a number have walked away which is a pity. I would add that in my humble opinion there are a few posters who thoroughly deserve the abuse that they receive.
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Gie Div a cuddle
Is it compulsory? I'm getting a bit nervous.
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I've really enjoyed reading this thread. There has been interesting debate and it's no surprise the old chestnut about science v religion appeared. A good thread partly spoiled by a couple of the usual suspects spouting off at one another. If we could cut that out we wouldn't be having a debate in another place about the future or otherwise of our great forum. A scientist I mentioned before somewhere always maintained that scientists in general always have a right guid conceit o' themselves. The bloke I refer to was a committed Christian who didn't see that as a paradox. What is paradoxical is that all religions see themselves as a power for good yet almost all religions, possibly every one, has caused massive human suffering at one time or another.
An interesting thread. Keep it up, as the actress used to say to a cleric. And maybe invective shouldn't be used, so get a f**king grip,guys!
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To be perfectly honest I'm wondering about keeping the forum going at all never mind bringing back red dots.
It's not what it once was, and frankly I'm quite tired of it.
I can't say I enjoy it much, every thread seems to descend into the same old shit. Many people have told me in the last year that they have stopped visiting the forum for that very reason and I can't really blame them.
I understand your feelings, Div. I've been getting more than a little disillusioned for some time but can't tear myself away. I go in the huff like a big wean now and again but the forum is addictive. Please don't shut it down. We definitely had a good few more laughs in the past but we get more vitriol and spleen venting now. There is a handful of guys who contribute most of the tedious boredom. You know the main culprits. Give them a kick in the nuts and tell them to sort it out or butt out.
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Let's see. The heart ruling the head made the wee Scottish thingy closer than was envisaged. A week is supposed to be a long time in politics and so is four months. It could be interesting. How accurate were the bookies with the Scottish vote? It's not rhetorical. I genuinely don't know.
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My heart says f**k the EU but my brain thinks we're too deeply entrenched to withdraw. I had hoped the Greek crisis would cause the whole croc of shit to implode (it still might) because then we could escape without any incrimination. I think if we withdraw unilaterally Germany and France would look for revenge. Cameron must wish by now that he had kept his trap shut. Looks to me like there will be a Brexit and I don't think he thought at the outset it would come to that. And I would add that the SNP are in cloud cuckoo land if they think they are a shoo-in for EU membership if they ever get their yes. Quite a few countries are ahead of Scotland on the waiting list and they are daring the EU to let Scotland in before them. It's far from cut and dried. I would genuinely prefer a EU implosion, shambolic as that would be. Ted Heath would have several serious crime charges to face if he was still alive but getting us into the EU with deceit and false promises is one of the worst.
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Sevco v Sellik Cup Final at Hampden
52000 religious fanatics in attendance.
And not a Christian among them.
When we were at Ibrox I nearly always saw Pastor Jack Glass (? Right name?) selling his magazines. I nearly said War Cry but I think that's somebody else. Was the wee pastor a Christian?
When I first left school I worked in an office on St.Mirren Brae. A Plymouth Brethern guy used to call in and he'd have given you the creeps. Uriah Heep but without the charisma. But a hornier shit I've never met. Couldn't leave women alone. He used to goose women all the time but somehow he got away with it. He seemed to sense the type that might complain and gave them a body swerve. And I was told that he had a bit of a harem of his church ladies that he was doing the business with. Made Charlie Sheen look like a monk.
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59er. He was indeed worth a Scottish cap and I have a recollection that he was actually selected for one around 1959 or 1960, but had to withdraw because of injury. I also have a feeling that his replacement was Denis Law. I'll be interested to know if anyone else remembers this as I stand to be corrected, but I've always believed this to have been the case.
I'm fairly certain Tommy was capped by the Scottish Schools Football Association. Maybe not quite so grand but credit worthy. He was regarded as a bit of a Teddy boy when he was in his late teens and you know what Park Gardens stuffed shirts were like back then. And now.
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There's no substitute for skill. You can't make a silk purse out of a pig's ear. I think these two aphorisms apply to football players as they do to many things and people. If you are lucky enough to have a team full of international players then you will win a hell of a lot more games than you lose. Unfortunately in Scottish football nowadays we have few players of real international class, if any at all. St.Mirren have at best journeyman players and players at that level need more in the way of coaching and they need some tactical nous. We've read quite a lot recently about Tommy Bryceland. When he was in the mood, and he usually was. you just gave him plenty of the ball and let him win the game for you. Where, oh where are his like nowadays?
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If we had a couple of players with half of TB's ability, we would be in the top half of the Premiership.
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Love the poem but still don't agree with the last line.
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Nice Thread
I heard you would like it, Shull, because you usually go about with your head in the clouds. It's in general nonsense, possibly where it belongs.
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There was an absolute beauty over Monkton in Ayrshire as the storm passed away yesterday morning. Nacreous clouds have been pictured all over the UK this week. Unfortunately I was travelling when it appeared and never got a picture but with low light at that time in the morning (7.50am) it really was stunning.
Reckon we were looking at the same one at more or less the same time and our rain hadn't long cleared too. It was really sensational. My wife took a picture with her phone and it turned out fairly well.
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I huvnae looked up for years.
What am I missing ?
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Traffic lights and speed limits?
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We've been having the most amazing cloud formations and colouring over the last few days. Have you got it in Scotland? Yesterday morning especially was quite magnificent. The nacre bit relates to mother of pearl and it's obvious why when you see it. And last Friday night my son phoned me and told me to look outside because the sky was green. I looked out expecting to be underwhelmed but I wasn't. The sky was a kind of deep bluey green. I assume this was more a Northern Lights thing but still unusual here. The BBC News NI pages have a series of good shots.
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Only Smokie and Oaky talking sense on this Thread.
The rest are just bitter, twisted and envious.
Or pished.
The two venerable posters you mention aren't necessarily the worst on earth but I don't think I'm bitter,twisted or envious. From memory I'm fairly sure I wasn't pished (nice to see the 'h'- it's missed out regularly) at the time. So, what's my category? Do words like erudite and debonair help you?
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You think Goodwin was a wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie?
Hell no! Has he ever shirked a tackle? Like a few of us on here, I always has worries about Jim when he went over the top and got ordered off or banned for too many bookings. But he's good for us. Haste ye back, Jim. For all his transgressions, 'The Man's the gowd for a' that,'
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Are you using the same solicitor as Mr Dickson? You know, the imaginary one.
"Auld" might be ageist and illegal but, in this case, it is also accurate.
I was quite aware that the "Home Home" never lived in America, thank you.
They sometimes use antelope to refer to the pronghorn but, then again, they call a bison a buffalo, an elk a moose (just so they can call something else an elk). They're not very bright sometimes. (Awaits the usual suspects to give it the "Look who's talking" patter.)
My solicitor is a local bloke and if I went to him about an ageist comment that had greatly distressed me, he'd tell me , quite rightly, to f**k away off and grow up. Can you imagine ringing StuDick's solicitor and saying you were a friend of Stu?
Talking about solicitors, are MacLay,Murray and Spens still known as Delay, Worry and Expense?
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Of course I'm not suggesting that. I've never had a f**king argument in my life. I just have conversations where I try to show the other person why they are wrong. Right!?!
I was actually suggesting that, by being a Buddie, there does have to be something wrong with you - mentally and at a base level, so to speak. If you disagree with that then you are obviously wrong and I will try to show you why. Ya auld *#@&%.
ETA: f**k the deer and the antelope ... not literally, of course.
:Right you! I don't mind getting called a *#@&%, but 'auld' is ageist and illegal. I have instructed my solicitor accordingly. But before I don't talk to you again, only stupid yanks could make up a song with the name of a species in it that never lived in America. And they try to make out a discouraging word was never heard? A hell of a lot of cowboys were African, Irish or Scottish and I bet they swore like troopers. American troopers. Mind you, they were mainly African, Irish or Scottish too, with a few English to boot,which is what they probably did to them.
PS Do us a favour and send your full name and address so my solicitor can pass it to the police to get you arrested.
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Thanks for noticing me, eventually.
He was a great striker who nearly got Starks Park burnt down and was a vicious wee runt on the pitch.
I've virtually never heard a bad word about him as a man if you can sepatate him from the footballer or even yon crowd he played for and managed. And he was a good striker. I remember when Jim Goodwin was a first rate chunt and he managed to metamorphasise into a saint. Rabbie Burns wrote a poem about it.
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Well, they're St Mirren supporters, so ...
Are you insinuating St,Mirren supporters are argumentative? You've got a f**kin nerve you cheeky bar steward! Supporting St.Mirren is like being home, home on the range.
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Another f**king Bitchfest! What's wrong with you people?
That made I laugh!
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I was a big fan and was really shocked at the news. He is one of the very few celebs over the last thirty years or so who never had a whiff of scandal near him..When the 'scandal' of his being paid for Children in Need broke, it turned out Terry didn't know he was being paid. The Beeb knew the rate Terry was being paid and simply without asking added it to his salary. Why wouldn't they? Terry Wogan was very wealthy and I'm willing to bet he made a lot of donations to charity during his career. It will probably come out now that he's dead.
RIP, Terry. I believe that you were a good, good man.
Being A Christian
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I didn't say ***. I said NUH backwards. What's wrong with ***?