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2 hours ago, thetime said:
Like the premier league. 😃
Its a meaningless competition, there was no need for another international tournament but less internationals. Its like competitions like the community shield and super cups just a waste of time.
Pretty much the same with the europa confrence league, just a waste of time. Personally speaking they should shrink the champions league to the top 2, top 3rd/4th in the europa league and the return of the cup winners cup.
I don’t disagree about us not needing another international tournament but…..while we have dates held for international games, I think it works better than pointless friendly games.
Plus gives a qualifying lifeline to the likes of Scotland so there’s also that 🙂Most of the big players seemed to be involved so maybe less call offs when playing for a pot, however meaningless.
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2 hours ago, kaosmark2 said:
If you're suggesting that everyone who offers tangential support to NUFC is complicit in the Saudi's crimes, or at least tacitly endorsing them, then there's no difference.
In a capitalist society, you support anyone you give money to. It's how it works. If you give money to Disney, you are supporting everyone that owns a stake in Disney, including the Saudis, and including everyone crowing about how the racist history of the institution is only history (it's not).
I'm happy to talk about PIF, the danger of their international investments, and I'm happy to endorse and advocate for mass boycotts of everything they're involved in, including NUFC. The sportswashing is a huge issue, and I've already said I won't be putting any financial support into the club because of the new owners' crimes and links.
What is bothering me, is the virtue-signalling of those who are only now giving a shit so they can have a go at Newcastle fans. Those parading Saudi flags are sickening, but I can appreciate that the emotional release of Ashley going is meaningful. I'm not going to judge other fans for being able to find joy in football again.
Good luck to Newcastle and their fans. Been down at a couple of their games. Great place to watch football.
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3 hours ago, pink_triangle said:
Almost certain Scotland and Wales will be in play offs, almost certain we will both mess them up!
Scotland game was bonkers. On the way home and will need to watch it back. Had everything. Billy Gilmour is a joy to watch.
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12 hours ago, found home in 2009 said:
Was worried about the wristband payment system as people had said it was a disaster at that food & drink festival. Got to say the payment system worked really well, but the queues for drinks were still pretty long. Think a combination of not enough staff & too many staff that just didn't care.
They'd given people that didn't ask for a refund last year VIP tickets which supposedly included quick entrance.queue for it looked massive. We weren't VIP & took about 10 mins to get in. Spoke to someone who was VIP & arrived at same time. They said they queued for 45 min! Didn't check our Covid tests which was poor. They were doing bare minimum search wise so if I was going back today i'd definitely be sneaking drink in.
Sound was good & everything else was decent. Could do with a bit more sign posting, took me a while to discover the urinals.
For me James were fantastic & made it worth the money. Organisation good definitely improve though
Noticed that with the long vip “quick” queue 😂
First time I’ve been and it’s a cracking set up. Great toilets, you normally pay extra for those types at festivals.
Bar queues were a disaster. Needed way more staff. Crazy that you could hand over cash at the bar that they then added to your wristband then took it back off again. Think that was adding to the wait time. Pity as the beer choice was better than usual.
Thought James were great. Was fearing their set list but loved it.
Will go again next year if I like the line up.
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Capaldi, Billie Eilish, Calvin Harris.
Anyone know why chemical brothers not shown on bbc tonight 🤷♂️
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On 9/8/2021 at 11:14 AM, Comfy Bean said:
See she’s getting an hour headlining the Tuts stage at trnsmt on Friday 🕺
Assuming it’s the same set up as previous years on the green, that stage is tiny. Nowt like the old tuts at T.
Should be a belter 👍
Didn’t disappoint, excellent scenes.
For the record, the 2nd stage has moved and been scaled up. Sounded brilliant.
Good crowd in for it up against Sam fender who the yooth seem to like.
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3 hours ago, eFestivals said:
Vaccine passports are popular eh?
Looking like they will become the norm across these islands.
Ive just done our LF tests for trnsmt tomorrow, received my NHS email and will show it with everyone else tomorrow alongside my electronic ticket on my phone . It was a mild inconvenience but preferable to not getting to concerts, football etc.
In a few weeks I’ll be at a sold out Hampden for the football and everyone will be showing proof of vaccine as required alongside the qr code ticket on their phone.
Indy won’t be destroyed off the back of this. Some folk in the 18-30 bracket may be encouraged to take up government advice and get vaccinated.
People from other age brackets may also be nudged along but I think they have a target audience in mind. Perhaps the people they have in mind also frequent nightclubs with or without Michael Gove 😎
Hope your on the mend by the way 👍
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See she’s getting an hour headlining the Tuts stage at trnsmt on Friday 🕺
Assuming it’s the same set up as previous years on the green, that stage is tiny. Nowt like the old tuts at T.
Should be a belter 👍
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5 hours ago, lemons said:
Got tickets for the Sunday. Happy to just go see Chem Bros but could make a day of it. Check out Declan McKenna and a couple of others. We're late 20s, is Trnsmt a mixed crowd or full of kids?
Mixed ish but mostly kids. I’d guess Sunday will have the highest average age with the chems. Think it was the only day that originally sold out as was meant to be Capaldi.
Full weekend tickets going really cheap on twickets.
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Hampden today with a bigger crowd than in a while.
Hopefully we won’t try Robertson at right back again 🙈
Interested to see how Gilmour plays. I’m expecting he’ll see a lot of the ball.
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3 minutes ago, fraybentos1 said:
Nothing good about the greens entering government imo.
another 5 years of ‘we will deliver an Indy ref’ while never actually doing so and then suddenly it’s 2026 and the campaign is run on the same grounds as 2016 and 2021
Time will tell but I’m imagining the Greens have other priorities although they also think they’d be better out with our political union with the Tories.
If they didn’t, they could have just joined the SNP.
Surely you see some good in having Green Party folks in Government ? They have already won concessions in the past from the SNP for supporting their budget.
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Excellent scenes in Scotland with the Greens entering Government 👏
Tories now the only party in Holyrood who have never been in power.
Belated and baby steps but I’m liking the direction of travel.
Patrick Harvie also has tenants rights as part of his ministerial responsibility.
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13 hours ago, mcshed said:
I just think he's going through a messy divorce and this sort of mid-life crisis behaviour seems entirely understandable even if it is terribly embarrassing.
Seems about right. Apparently he was in the boozer downstairs and was talked in to going up for a dance and another drink.
We’ve all been there 😂🥳
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Excellent scenes in Scotland with the Greens entering Government 👏
Tories now the only party in Holyrood who have never been in power.
Belated and baby steps but I’m liking the direction of travel.
Patrick Harvie also has tenants rights as part of his ministerial responsibility.
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8 hours ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:
Once I saw that information I had to look it up to verify if it were true or not. It is!
Hi Yog, yeah I had a read of the full story after I saw your post. Excellent stuff, I like how he blamed “the lousy drink”.
An old fella in my local always likes to advise everyone that “ the drink is a long apprenticeship “ especially if they are hungover.
Very wise words I always think.
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1 hour ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:
😂👏
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53 minutes ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:
I'll be brief. One of my brothers was living in Madrid. me and my mates went over to see him. He had got in a shit load of military grade coke. We went on the piss. I ended up in a museum looking more at the people in front of the painting Guernica by Picasso. Some of them had even brought their own seating to sit in front of it and stare / study it. Then one bloke sitting down framed his two hands so that it would resemble what he would see (presumably anyway) if he were to film it / or get another type of perspective. Oh, I don't know about all that. What I do know is that there was me, my mate, and about 15 people in front of us, and I started laughing like a hyena. It was just too funny - in my opinion - which, admittedly, may or may not have resembled majority consensus opinion.
And then I went to an art exhibition in the middle of a park. It was a photographic and written homage to the life of a lady of the slums. That was their definition. They may even have said Princess of the slums. can't quite recall. Anyway, she must have been some character as her friends had put the exhibition on for her. I think a fair few of them were actually there too at the time. it was the impression i got anyway.
Well, I didn't laugh at that exhibition. It is, without doubt, the strongest and most harsh 'art / homage' that I have ever witnessed. this was a million years ago, but travels with me still to this day.
PS - I once went to a Dali exhibition in Venice (how pretentious does that sound!?) and witnessed a bloke with a rucksack turn around to talk to somebody, and hit one of the original Dali exhibits and sent it rocking backwards and forwards. Both myself and one of the staff lunged at the rocking Dali piece to stop it from quivering around. The lady staff member got there first. Then people started berating the bloke with the rucksack and he just shrugged his shoulders. Quite a funny response, on reflection. I can not recall seeing the funny side at the time though.
I’ve been thinking for a while now that this might be my favourite “ topic “ round here so glad to see it still going strong and top of the page 👍
For the near decade I’ve been on here I’ve always enjoyed your posts sir. Your memoirs would be well worth a read 😀
Anywayz, I’ve just realised that your posts might have a hint of Catcher in the Rye about them. Please take that as a compliment as it is an old favourite of mine.
Take care and keep up the good work.
Edit: I’ve yet to meet Jarvis Cocker of Pulp.
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4 hours ago, mcshed said:
I completely agree that The National is a rag and an SNP mouthpiece but you do get that the cover is a joke. It's a silly image laughing at the Scots' Anyone But England attitude as much as anything else. It is was sporting rivalry should be, poking a bit of fun at each other. I know that for followers of the two big Glasgow teams that's a hard concept to get your head around but for normal people sporting rivalry isn't about life and death.
Credit to this England side they've deserved to get where they are and they are a much more likeable group of players than many in the past, I still hope they lose tomorrow. If they do I'll text my English mates and try and wind them up a bit, if England win those mates will do the same to me. All perfectly normal friendly behaviour and not that petty at all.
Nicely put 👍
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On 7/2/2021 at 9:15 AM, Brave Sir Robin said:
Soulwax (gently) remixing Sylvester is every bit as joyous as you'd hope, all 11 minutes of it:
👏🕺🏿💥
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45 minutes ago, found home in 2009 said:
With Kilmarnock, is that not just because they had a shitty plastic pitch which was a leveller until the other teams got used to it? The same thing happened to Hamilton. Could beat teams at home due to more experience playing on a low quality plastic pitch, then the opposition got used to it and they get relegated.
Worth pointing out that McLeish did most of the work qualifying us for this Euros and Clarke's making a pigs ear of world cup qualification. Plus my main objection is the style of football. We genuinely have good footballers in Robertson(Liverpool CL winner), Tierney(Arsenal), McTominay(Man Utd), Gilmour(Chelsea CL winner), Gauld (how does the guy that won the most man of the match awards in the Portuguese league not even make the squad?), Cooper(Leeds), McGinn(Aston Villa) etc but we just resort to long ball football. Doesn't even make us difficult to beat, surely getting someone to man mark Modric is a no brainer. Or at the very least tell the players to be aware of stopping him shooting from the edge of the box. And playing O'Donnel at right back just because they were mates at Killie when he's so obviously out of his depth. Waits till the game is almost over to make changes in a must win game.
Stuff this just happy to be at the tournament attitude. They increased the number of teams that qualified by 33% so it's no great achievement. Used to be 16 teams qualified, now 16 teams reach the 2nd round!It’s very much against my nature to defend Kilmarnock but thought it was worth pointing out earlier the job he did getting them to 3rd.
I’m pretty certain the players were advised to get close to Modric, especially round about the box as you say but sometimes you’ve just got to hold your hand up. The guy was different class last night.
Lots of good players coming through and the majority of the team at a good age. A keeper and a striker coming through would be nice.
If not Clarke, who do you fancy to take us forward ?
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21 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:
JUST BAGGED TICKETS FOR TUESDAY!!!!
So fucking pumped!
Excellent news. Did you not previously have tickets and then lose out with the Covid or am I getting mixed up.
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Been at a few outdoor shows but just bought tickets for first indoor gig.
Elvana in Edinburgh Thursday night as we’re in the area. Not one for the purists but stumbled across them at a festival a couple of summers back and was great fun.
Seems like a decent enough gig for a return 🕺🥳