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I was there then, Christine Corbett (faither noted above) Wilma Malcolm (whose dad was WH), Hugh Fairlie Jnr, and the infamous Fred Goodwin all in my class, also Laura Alexander whose dad owned the sports shop in Moss Street. I was taught by most of those, plus Drew Livingstone (Maths), Mr Dunbar (Modern Studies/History).....Miss Patterson, otherwise known as Tittsy, she was shit scared of wasps so we took in a few dozen in a WD&HO Will baccy tin and released them halfway through a double maths period. Wee Roddy Gardner, who was my Physics teacher went on to be Heidie at Glennifer High.

.....what? Let go of the croc to pull it out and it fecks off into deep water? Aye, that'll work.

That's the NRA argument. Say 200 in the nightclub, all with guns. Mad, gay Islamist starts spraying, all 200 join in, it would have been like a scene from From Dusk Till dawn.

That's the NRA argument. Say 200 in the nightclub, all with guns. Mad, gay Islamist starts spraying, all 200 join in, it would have been like a scene from From Dusk Till dawn.

It''ll probably be emigrating to the USofA or Australia next month anyway!!

It''ll probably be emigrating to the USofA or Australia next month anyway!!

"The Claret Jug that is presented each year to the winner of The Open has arrived in Glasgow ahead of this year's golf championship at Royal Troon."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-36478521
Naw, it hasn't. It has arrived in Paisley or Inchinnan, but it's still a few miles OUTSIDE Weegieville. I wish that page was open for comments.

I'm sure it's Patterson that has a team, and I mean a team, who work together 9-5 in an office, producing novels almost in the same way as Henry Ford made cars.

A wee lad got hit on the head by a jar of curry sauce in Morrison's, caused him a fractured skull and swelling on the brain.............doctors are keeping him in a medically-induced korma.

A wee lad got hit on the head by a jar of curry sauce in Morrison's, caused him a fractured skull and swelling on the brain.............doctors are keeping him in a medically-induced korma.

The thing about Labour is that they need the votes from the South East of England to win the UK election. To attract these voters their policies end up being in direct conflict with what the people of Scotland want.
The only party that has no conflict of interest in what the people of Scotland want is the SNP. Scottish Labour needs to detach itself from UK Labour to provide what the people of Scotland want without interference from Westminster.
Until they realise this then they're Donald Ducked,

'Outdated' Keir Hardie principles and whatever happened 41, 36 or even18 years ago still does not explain the sudden and complete collapse of the Labour party in Scotland in 2015, a collapse akin to the floor joists suddenly giving way on the 48th floor of a tower block.
Whilst the so called writing on the wall has indeed been there to be seen for quite some time, there were some other fast working fundamentals at play here too. As suggested in the programme by the auld fella, former trade unionist (the name escapes me) when he said "I never left Labour, Labour left me" in a criticism of it's abandonment of socialist principles in order to pursue it's new found red tory agenda.
Believe it or not, not everybody views 'socialism' as a dark left wing, communist plot, fostering red flag bearing trade union militants. Some people view it as a 'socially proactive' system of governance putting the social welfare of the people before capital and political gains. Witness the success of the SNP in this area, whilst their overall political realisation of independence remains out of reach.
If Scottish Labour is to become the majority party here again it MUST reinvent itself as a party of social-unionism, reaching out to the kind of communities it abandoned and once again writing policies that don't alienate themselves from the common man, proffer a real sense of community socialism and above all separate themselves from their blue tinted paymasters in Westminister, a bunch of wankers who have lost the plot and direction so much in recent years, I doubt they'll ever become a credible opposition force again. Personally I think Labour as a whole are done, same goes for the current state of Westminister administration too.

And the problem for Labour in Scotland is that there is already a very well established and deeply entrenched party holding that ground.
Rightly or wrongly, Labour are seen to be more interested in the Labour party than Scotland.
IMO they continue to back the losing side in the independence argument and in doing so continually talk our country down in order to persuade us to stay within the Union. That is a weak position and a losing position as they are finding out.
I think they should go for supporting full home rule for Scotland within the UK in order to talk a positive game about Scotland remaining within the Union. It would be a form of collaborative independence which is short of full independence but crucially keeps the Union together.
That IMO is the only thing which will kill independence and give Labour an edge. The polls suggest around 70% want this and NOBODY is offering it. It's an open goal. Are Labour smart enough to take it?

Awful stuff, tasted of plastic and made me wheeze, I must have been allergic to some of the nuclear toxins that were in it.

He should just be hunted.

Like a fat burd?

Murphy is a vegetarian, tee-totaller with a very firm line in invisible sky-daddies and the power based near the Italian capital. Must be a right barrel of laughs on a night oot. Also went to Uni for nine years but didnae get a degree. Is this the level down to which Labour have stooped? A guy whose life is based on superstition?

Aye, the bosses are doing them a favour by allowing them to work in their factories, and getting to use all that nice heat for notthing.

Wasn,t much chanting from the crowd , never is these days , the Guillit incident happened 30 odd years ago , but the worst racism I,ve ever seen n Scottish football was the hail of bananas thrown at Mark Walters when he visited Parkhead , and I wonder why no one ever refers to that

If it happened then I hope the culprit is caught and punished accordingly.
I do find it galling that Celtic have made an official complaint about a racist fan 1 game after backing one of their own players accused of racially abusing an opponent and there hardly seems to be a home game against Celtic where Celtic don't end up making an official complaint about something and get the and get the police to investigate. We've had sectarian ball boys, the DJ, free Palestine shouts investigated in the last few seasons meanwhile Celtic fans have invaded the pitch, sang sectarian songs, broken the all seating rule en masse, set off flares during a protest against the criminalisation of football fans, and their manager has sworn at opposition players and sworn and gestured at St Mirren fans with no public comment or complaint from us. Maybe Celtic stewards and security could focus on making sure their own away fans, manager and players obey the law instead of flouting it?

Don't often act like a pedant, but the correct phrase is "None so blind as those who will not see.", it's a matter of choice rather than ability.

Black and white tartan bunnet at the ready.

Are they going to put the water back on or is 15 inches (37.5cm for the weans) too dangerous? Water, I mean, water
(OOOer missus, see me see giant condom jokes)

They played at our work's recent event in edinburgh, did a craking version of Joan Jett's "I love rock and roll". Have a look on YouTube. (that's have a look on YouTube, no' have a look on, Ya Tube)

They played at our work's recent event in edinburgh, did a craking version of Joan Jett's "I love rock and roll". Have a look on YouTube. (that's have a look on YouTube, no' have a look on, Ya Tube)