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4 minutes ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:
That's scary territory. You need to get yourself a tin of this;
nah, it's not scary at all. If they had any balls and weren't a weak and scared pathetic wimp, they wouldn't feel the need to hide in the way that they are.
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Just now, Yoghurt on a Stick said:
Have you got one of these (see below), or can't you say?
Sort of, yeah.
I feel very special that they want to spend so much of their life on me - they've been at it for years. Literally years!
I must be very important to them. I feel loved.
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30 minutes ago, FuzzyDunlop said:
Pretty sure it has been noted, but Emily says the announcement is "sometime in march", maybe sonething little before
so defo something from Ed at the Brits, then.
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I was wondering if the OP was at Bluedot last year?
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6 hours ago, Joshuwarr said:
Haha, cheeky! I can't speak for the guys in the band but Louise seems to be doing well enough with her writing.
It was a pisstake comment, but there's definitely a theme of it being around 20 years when bands reform - and I doubt money isn't in the mix of that.
What's really REALLY fucking sad, tho, is no one is protesting about that - that these people are being paid to sit on their arse for 20 years doing nothing useful towards society, because they once did 5 minutes work on a popular song.
Society will be fucked up for at least as long as the copyright rules stay at about what they are.
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11 hours ago, Will-2609 said:
Surely he's always been likely to appear since this interview he gave straight after last year's festival?
He says in the same interview that Diana Ross is already booked for the legend's slot, so he must be talking about playing a different slot here. I've been predicting him for ~4th down Pyramid ever since. If you've got info for him Sunday Pyramid then I think he'd probably go before Diana Ross.
In what you quoted it's all said in a very uncertain way. It struck me as platitudes &/or talk around him being at the 2016 fest rather than anything of certainty for 2017, which is why I'd chosen to ignore what was said back then and hadn't included him as a rumour until now.
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that I'm so important to someone that they spend their own free time doing things for me.
I've no idea who you are, but you're making it almost a full-time job. I must be really REALLY important to you, or you must have the saddest life in the world. Or even both.
Anyway, thank you very much. I've not felt this special until now.
And you must be special too. I bet you even went to a special school, and everything.
And I'm glad you've found such a lovely website, I bet you spend all your time there. I'm sure it suits you perfectly.
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9 hours ago, LJS said:
Here's a bit of fun from the Bishop of Baff.
Me & Comfy are firmly in the "another club" camp.
Comfy will no doubt appreciate that Rangers is in inverted commas.
Did you see the McKenna article at the weekend, that Catholics are now (again) the most discriminated group?
I'm aware there's a Catholic thing going on around indy, so that article outted them as Scotland's kippers.
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7 hours ago, Half Man Half Mattress said:
that they're playing was spotted months ago - they were about the first ones.
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7 hours ago, phimill said:
Barry Gibb - SR on the rumours page - any news?
well, I've had someone tell that name to me today, which is why it's appeared. In theory the source should be good, but it has no history with me, and we'll have to wait and see.
There's been a Gibb rumour gig round, tho, since last Glasto, which i've ignored cos it seemed too much of the same thing being repeated - and it's not impossible that what's been said to me today is the same thing yet again.
So ... in theory it should be good - certain - but for various reasons I'm a little wary of it.
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If you want much more detail on the stage splits than is on that poster above, you can find it all on the line-ups page
http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/boomtown/2017/lineup.shtml
I've no idea if it's all published elsewhere, but it's at the bottom of the press release. so it's published here - 17 stages worth.
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9 minutes ago, LJS said:
You could point to all of those things but since you have pointed to them all before & we have discussed them all before & we have disagreed and since by your rules "anyone who disagrees with Neil is wrong, a liar and a moron( or a twat)" I don't really feel inclined to waste my time. Thanks though.
PMSL
The facts don't agree with you, so you refuse to address the facts.
And this is what you and every other snipper think will cause people to change their minds and support indy. It ain't gonna work.
At least the racist brexiters had a reason for voting stupid, you're not even that smart.
9 minutes ago, LJS said:That kind of depends on who we elect to govern us doesn't it? I'm cautiously optimistic we will have better governments than our friends behind the Tartan Curtain.
Whoever you elect to govern you cannot magic money from thin air.
And for someone who normally bangs on about how politicians are liars and frauds, you're suddenly very trusting of the coming of these mythical future perfect politicians, even tho not one of the current lot can give you hint of how they might deliver perfection in the future.
Might they be perfection personified just because they're Scottish? And that would explain why they don't yet exist, because there's not yet a sovereign Scotland? Will they rise out of Scotland's hallowed ground on indy day, or something?
9 minutes ago, LJS said:Of course Neil, of course.
Why did Ireland make massive cuts in 2009(ish), LJS?
Is it because they're secret tories?
Or might it be for other reasons, reasons that would apply to an iScotland no less than they did Ireland?
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14 minutes ago, LJS said:
yeah that's how you deal with deficits. You take the size of the deficit and just lop it off public spending don't you? Even George Osborne at his most demented didn't try making that claim.
Neil, you are Dale Winton & your economic theory is based on Supermarket Sweep.
I could point out that that's the exact method of the world's only big lender with 100% repayment rate - the IMF.
Likewise, i could point out that spending a quid and getting only 40p back takes things further away from deficit resolution, and not closer to it.
I could also mention, again, the words of the left-winger's favourite economist about the economists 'dirty little secret' of no one knowing how to sustainably over-inflate an economy.
I could ask just here, too, why you think an already mature economy that's already one of the most successful in the world has, within just a few years, the capacity to grow by 20% more than the economy just next door - that's extra growth, beyond what rUK does - that has many 'natural' economic efficiencies that Scotland does not and cannot have (geography, population density, nearness to markets, etc).
I could also point at Greece as a real-world demonstration that trying to over-inflate the 'natural' level of an economy doesn't work to what you wrongly and ignorantly claim as economic theory.
And I could also ask who you might think would be the lender to a state with no credit history and which is committed to NOT reducing its deficit as swiftly as is possible (think Ireland, or Portugal, etc - neither of which could find commercial lenders so had to beg, and then had to cut hard and deep, far worse than any tory).
And I could ask you to point me at the list of things which will be done differently - something which no fucker has a clue about, including the SNP, and you.
So all in all, you're talking twaddle. The only choice is cuts, fucking massive cuts.
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11 minutes ago, comfortablynumb1910 said:
I may have mentioned it before but I believe that with independence Scotland can chose a different path and work to different priorities
It can. It means exactly that.
But those "different priorities" are different choices - spending money on one thing and not another.
And when you stop spending money (or as much money) on something, doing that has a phrase to describe it. It's called "spending cuts".
Do remember to bear in mind that there's currently 20% more spent than is raised - which means a 20% cut to everything, or much bigger cuts to particular things (to allow other things to remain uncut).
For example, you could choose to close all Scottish schools, colleges and universities, and that would cut most of the excess spending - tho not all of it. Other things would still need to be cut too.
and that's because the scale of cuts needed are bigger than Greece has needed. And how is Greece doing?
So can you tell me what would be cut?
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10 minutes ago, LJS said:
I've spent countless hours supplying you with a case based entirely your favourite facts. You deny it. I have absolutely no intention of repeating that futile process. As the general news thread is currently demonstrating, you will not countenance views other than your own even when you have personally made them up.
You've gone from hating tory cuts to saying how they're they're Scotland's salvation.
Yep, I know.
While I've pointed out the pain they cause that you used to complain about.
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so all the same acts announced again.
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5 minutes ago, LJS said:
I already have - without cuts
no, you've extrapolated one thing to make it something else.
No logic and no intelligence applied, just wacky fact-free hopes.
QuoteI've already covered this. Do I need to wheel your mate's graphs out yet again?
Those graphs that show a reduction due to tory cuts? Those graphs?
And where your prediction only comes true if the SNP cut like tories on steroids, by much more than the tories plan to cut by?
Or are you still pretending that the deficit reduction that's happening isn't driven by tory cuts? Cos if so, that means the tories are managing the scottish economy to your satisfaction.
QuoteI disagree with you. That's allowed.
You disagree with facts. It's allowed.
But only makes you stupid.
QuoteHe's commissioned pollsters to do polling in Scotland.
Please note that I am only linking because you asked me to.
I asked you only because you said it could tell me something interesting towards your hopes of indie .... which it appears you're now running away from. :lol:
QuoteYou know very very well that I don't link to this site.
http://wingsoverscotland.com/kicking-down-the-doors/
http://wingsoverscotland.com/all-the-damn-vampires/
He usually dribbles these things out over a few days so there may be more to come. I did hear tell of some unusual questions being asked about how much we love or hate the English or similar - I can imagine the Rev asking that sort of stuff. Of course if you are right and we all detest you guys, he is unlikely to publish the results so we may never know.
... and which says nothing useful at all towards indy.
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3 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:
They're the ones that I'm hoping for.
Diana Ross, The Jacksons and Barry Gibb on the same day?
Mama Mia!
I can assure you that won't happen.
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7 minutes ago, LJS said:
The last time we had the chat, you were unable to point out any arithmetical or mathematical error with my figures
Oh good.
So please do tell me what cuts are being made to get the deficit down to 3%.
That'll require cuts that are bigger than all Scottish education. Will it be savage cuts to pensions, the NHS, or education? Or 20% cuts to all of them? Do tell, i've been asking you this for 4 years now.
7 minutes ago, LJS said:I believe we have covered these in some depth in the past.
No, you've refused in-depth, because you refuse the relevant facts.
7 minutes ago, LJS said:By the wasy You Neighbour in Bath has commissioned some polling which he has published over the past couple of day, nothing wildly startling I'd suggest but you may want to take a look (if you haven't already)
He's been doing polling in Bath about Scotland?
Nope, can't find it, perhaps you can link?
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36 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:
a huge number of them are still party staples.
you go to some shit parties.
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7 minutes ago, LJS said:
I didn't say "good." I said valid.
valid as in a noise from his gob.
It doesn't validate anything that comes from his gob. Validation is done against the facts.
7 minutes ago, LJS said:I didn't say all opinions have the same outcome. I said that one man's opinion is as valid as your or mine.
An opinion is an opinion, and for the noise of expressing that opinion they're all equal.
That's where the similarity of opinions ends. Some opinions - those most-based on the facts - are the better ones.
7 minutes ago, LJS said:Your opinion is valid of course but so is mine and the gentleman in the video.
Equally valid as a noise.
Not equally valid in consequences.
7 minutes ago, LJS said:And I know someone who persistently tells lies about this
and i know someone who claims addition and subtraction work differently in a independent country.
I'd offer you bet that they don't, but given your lack of factual maths you'd claim you'd paid up when you hadn't.
7 minutes ago, LJS said:I note your opinion which you are of course entitled to.
I note you have no worthwhile opinion at all on currency, deficit and borders.
Is that because you embrace the facts or because they scare you?
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16 minutes ago, comfortablynumb1910 said:
Why else would he want to break away from the direction the Tories are taking us down.
The tories might be taking Scotland to a shit place, but that doesn't get to mean that it couldn't be shitter than the tories might cause it to be.
The main reason why people like you say the tories are doing dreadful things is because they're cutting spending.
When Scotland - indy or as part of the UK - is spending £15Bn more than it's raising in revenues (and which is currently being covered by UK), what does that say about what needs to happen if indy?
Are you able to tell me?
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not as weak as Barca were this week, tho.