beyond our ken

The NHS' biggest problem is the attitude of british people, we just don't look after ourselves properly and expect the state to cover the bill.  The ageing population also presents with diseases that are difficult to treat and the outcomes are less good than the same people might have experienced in their younger years, however a decent enough proportion of conditions are preventable, or avoidable, or better mitigated by diet, exercise and moderation
The NHS is also  somewhat abused by people who turn up looking for hospital attention for trivial diseases.  

I was taken in for a heart problem in May,  A&E was full of skint knees, people who ran out of prescriptions, and people looking for sick notes for a bad back (it was an old firm weekend)
People who get triaged and turned away can  just go to A&E

The NHS' biggest problem is the attitude of british people, we just don't look after ourselves properly and expect the state to cover the bill.  The ageing population also presents with diseases that are difficult to treat and the outcomes are less good than the same people might have experienced in their younger years, however a decent enough proportion of conditions are preventable, or avoidable, or better mitigated by diet, exercise and moderation
The NHS is also  somewhat abused by people who turn up looking for hospital attention for trivial diseases.  

The NHS' biggest problem is the attitude of british people, we just don't look after ourselves properly and expect the state to cover the bill.  The ageing population also presents with diseases that are difficult to treat and the outcomes are less good than the same people might have experienced in their younger years, however a decent enough proportion of conditions are preventable, or avoidable, or better mitigated by diet, exercise and moderation
The NHS is also  somewhat abused by people who turn up looking for hospital attention for trivial diseases.  

No, it was all about Keith Joseph's and Thatcher's vision that if you make the rich richer then they would trickle their wealth down to the rest of us.
In the end, they trickled something else down on us.
She took on the unions directly, most of the black outs were caused by fuel shortages, oil in the early-mid 70s and coal in the late 70s, although some of those shortages were partly driven by labour disputes.

O hard is still the best player at the club 
something has affected him and while he needs to work through it himself he doesn’t need the shitroll of comments seen recently on these  pages

I don't think he was very well for quite  long time, I maybe recall that he had a drink & drug addiction to get over
"Perry became addicted to Vicodin after a jet-ski accident in 1997, and he completed a 28-day rehab program that year.[60] His weight fluctuated over the next few years, dropping to 145 pounds (66 kg) due to pancreatitis.[61] He entered rehab in February 2001 for an addiction to Vicodin, methadone, amphetamines, and alcohol.[62][63]"
Regardless ofhis success, that was a sad way tolive a life.

the two right-angled parts either side of the beam are forks, they are being used to support the beam
The man must have pissed off while you were zooming in on the photo, or more likely fell off.

Meanwhile, the club safety adviser has been involved in quite a few projects recently

Meanwhile, the club safety adviser has been involved in quite a few projects recently

Meanwhile, the club safety adviser has been involved in quite a few projects recently

The annoying thing is that it doesn't need to be this bad.  Thre majority of managers tend to pack their squads with experienced and very limited players with  a sprinkling of investment opportunities if they can get them and the only way to really grow the quality is through youth, which isn't happening on a big enough scale in Scotland.
The quality of our game should be on  par with similar sized countries and it's really not, all down to managerial culture and boardroom risk-aversion arising from the unfair split of external revenue as the millstone that is dragging our game down

When i had the temerity to suggest CBM wasn't contributing I was told on this forum that his play alongside Baccus was a thing of beauty and that O'Hara would not get back in ahead of him.
It's pretty clear that Baccus is the driving force in the middle and provides the spark (when it is there) and the other players don't know what to do without Gogic in midfield.  Jamieson was disappointing yet i still think he will do very well for us.
In all honesty, aside from home v the fakes we have been shit since that cup game at Easter road.
As for Mandron, he seems to lack the heart for a battle and all of a sudden Jon Obika looks like a goal machine again in comparison.  Instead of decorating lamposts maybe we should have a whip-round for Van Veen on loan in the new year
It's our perrenial problem, the opposition suss out both the tactics in the Robinson playbook and they know we can't score.  That means they only have to sit it out and hit us on the break in the way Dundee did so effectively against us.  
Very quickly, we need to go to 4 at the back or even 5 with 2 holding in midfield, but we don't have that many decent defenders in the squad.  If Robinson can figure out how to get the door closed at the back then fine, if not then he has the kind of trouble that very few managers can get themselves out of

Dare I say it , we're treading water , can't score in a barrel of fannies , this is relegation form , we're handing points to teams who were behind us in the distance !

Yup. Free fall & with long ball tactics, players who’ve been out of form but starting ahead of others, it’s no surprise. 
Would seem We got lucky at the start of the season and we are now being found out. 
 

Under a lot of-stress
Is he changing his name to groyan strain?

Under a lot of-stress
Is he changing his name to groyan strain?

Under a lot of-stress
Is he changing his name to groyan strain?

We need to win this one as the fakes will be looking to reverse that defeat in Paisley which marked their low-point, getting a point or better against us will be seen as proof they are going somewhere again.  We should be targetting Clarke for some harsh treatment as he is a thorn in our flesh, he annoys me so much I think we should sign him at the next window.
Winning on Wednesdsay would get the tails up again, Hearts are unlikely to get a win v rangers so we could be challenging for 3rd place again and beating Ross County & Motherwell after a win in Perth could see us in a match to consolidate 3rd place again at Tynecastle right before Crimbo, Happy holidays and it all starts in a soul-free trench on the outskirts of Perth this week

O worked at the tyres and can confirm that people born in the hospital in Paisley were branded interlopers when taken home by the parents

Apologies, i meant to quote Albion Saint who is currently suffering plantars fasciitis from an uncontrolled bout of pinhead dancing.

Apologies, i meant to quote Albion Saint who is currently suffering plantars fasciitis from an uncontrolled bout of pinhead dancing.

Apologies, i meant to quote Albion Saint who is currently suffering plantars fasciitis from an uncontrolled bout of pinhead dancing.

Despite claims to the contrary, the draw will be rigged with lower-league sides being paired up with league 2 teams and there will be a sprinkling of all premiership ties, maximum of 2.
Any "giant-killing" (what fekkin giants?) will take place on frosty or boggy pitches in the hell-holes of Ayrshire or similar and not on a Saturday afternoon.
Places I hope to avoid are
Anywhere beginning with a B or a K Any team whose name starts with The Inverness & Dingwall

You seem to be making the massive assumption that the "non-Irish" are refugees, you can't know that.  Ireland has a lot of immigation and repatriation from the so-called English-speaking world. 
You talk about mass stabbings in Europe, fair enough.  There are few mass stabbings in the US where mass-murder is almost a pastime and that is because access to guns is so easy and many mass-murderers there seem to be targetting ethnic minorities.  So maybe criminals in the refugee communities cant get access to guns so easily in Europe and maybe they'd do less stabbing  if the opposite was true?
And let's jut have that "controversial" point you have teased us with.  No-one is going to judge you for a view any more severely than they have already.  But if you think you can take the debate forward with this view then let's have it as you seem to be quite wedded to it.