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  1. When I was a kid a mate of mine, who actually had a German surname but a mother who was of Irish descent, was a Celtic fan. In town the day the walk was on (we were about 14, and oblivious that it was on) and my mate who was wearing a Celtic top was punched and kicked by two grown men who’d been following the walk. Made a bit of a mess of him. That was really my first experience of what these walks were, and I’ve heard a few similar stories since. I hear all the shite about culture and heritage, and protecting Britishness. That’s not my lived experience in Scotland. These marches frequently ma
  2. There are no areas in Scotland that are anti protestant…, none. The orange order and the knuckle draggers that follow the marches are anti catholic/Irish and cause nothing but trouble. There are many people in Scotland, including many protestants, who dislike them on that basis, including a majority in Stonehaven it appears. The majority living here of all and no denomination (like myself) see these dinosaurs as nothing but a national embarrassment and a laughing stock now.
  3. I flew out to work in Holland a couple of weeks before it happened and bought an FHM at the airport. It had a feature on the FBI’s most wanted. No.1 was one Usama Bin Laden. I’d never heard of him up until that point.
  4. 9/11 - In a portacabin on a chemical plant shutdown in Holland. Only me and a Dutch guy called Henk, who had no English (one of the very few cloggies). Radio was on and he started freaking out and trying to tell me what was happening. Site shut shortly after and was back in digs in time to watch the 2nd tower fall. Like yesterday. Diana - had one of those radio alarms which woke me up the back of six for a Sunday shift to the news she’d been killed. Still went to work, well you would, it’s double bubble.
  5. 52 this year and a load of people I’ve worked with over the years have retired recently. Not sure they’re all happier or more content for it though. Working gives you a sense of purpose, problems to solve which leave you with some sense of achievement, a lot of friendships or at least acquaintances who you have a bit of banter with or find stuff in common to complain about and vent the spleen.., and it gets you out from under her feet for a few hours most days. In short it’s a huge chunk of life and how most of is live for most of our lives. Not sure I ever want to actually retire. My aim is
  6. I was slightly disappointed in Joshua taking this fight, but at this stage of his career, and with the options open to him, maybe I don’t blame him. His purse for what turned out to be only a few minutes work was apparently $50m! When the best in the sport are jumping on this sort of gravy train, how are we ever going to get the integrity back.
  7. Watching replay now and it must be the easiest nights work Joshua’s had since he turned pro. Mind boggling how this guy dropped Fury and only lost narrowly on the scorecards.., or is it? The knockout was brutal and it makes me wonder how these promoters will all cry crocodile tears when someone gets killed or left a vegetable in one of these ‘crossover’ or novelty fights. Just my opinion but, regardless of his MMA pedigree, Ngannou shouldn’t be anywhere near a ring with 2 out of the top 3 heavyweights in the world in his first two bouts.
  8. Agree.., but at least he doesn’t start singing!
  9. Move to Oz or NZ in your 20’s
  10. Galloway is a narcissist, and like most politicians now, blows with the wind. However, I’d vote for anyone who’d use their voice to at least protest about the current slaughter of women and children in Palestine. I think most people with any sort of conscience would think our government doing anything other than working for peace and an immediate cessation to the bombing of innocent civilians, is a dereliction of their duty to the electorate. And as for Galloway and his ilk wanting to flood the country with more immigrants, we’ll likely be getting them anyway. Country is already full of Afgha
  11. Don’t they call them gaffes Colemanballs after David Coleman? Think anyone doing a commentators job would make the odd boob. My issue with sport now is the quality of presenter and pundit has dropped off a cliff in the last decade or so with the demise of anything resembling meritocracy and the rise in ‘equal representation’. No longer can you listen to a couple of retired ex-elite level sportsmen enlightening you about the intricacies of what you’re watching.., you’ve to be subjected to the banal ramblings of the female/gay/black/etc. diversity target/quota who’ve now replaced the subject mat
  12. Seen him on TV a few weeks back, looked frail and not long for this earth. Can’t say I was a big fan but liked the series they did around the med a few years ago. 66 is young to die now but he seemed to have led a pretty full life, not withstanding his marrying a Romanian mother of two, which apparently hasn’t pleased everyone. He certainly had a passion for his scran and probably made a decent living out of what he could knock together. RIP Dave Myers.
  13. Sorry for your loss.
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    Like probably most on here I collected eggs as a lad. Taking a couple of eggs from a nest, but leaving some behind, seemed pretty harmless. Of course if there were a gang of you out hunting, the nest might get emptied.., we’d call that ‘herrying’.., a term I’d never heard of before or since. The mission, as I remember, was to get an egg from as many species of bird as possible, the rarer the better…, a bit like filling a Panini football sticker album, where you’d want to fill in the ‘blanks’, and players like Dalglish, Francis etc. were the treasure. Don’t get keeping clutch after clutch
  15. One shot by police after it attacked another dog and those that tried to intervene. Apparently a dog brought over the border to escape the ban. SSPCA in Scotland desperately trying to re-home a load of these before the ban kicks in here this week. They’d be better off shooting the lot of them. Teenager reported after 'XL bully' attack in East Kilbride WWW.BBC.CO.UK An 18-year-old woman is reported to the procurator fiscal after a dog attack in...
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