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Agreed - it was a massive error. Also, after Thursday they were about to play a 2 game series starting 3 days later where one win would almost certainly get them a World Cup Finals playoff - they really shouldn’t have been getting pished till 5 in the morning...

4 and a half hours of football played v Israel this autumn and (ignoring the penalty shootout) we’ve only scored once - from a penalty...

Need to get another member onto 3 points quickly... 😉

We need to reintroduce the traditional Scottish male greeting of an almost imperceptible nod accompanied by about a second’s worth of eye contact. A sharp intake of breath can be thrown in if the individual is feeling particularly gregarious...

Here it is - seems to be a fairly standard one. I think next time I’ll put a wee bit more flour in and a bit more cheese but it worked well enough on the quantities given here. We doubled up the quantities and it fed five with plenty of seconds - would be a bit of a scrimp to feed four on the quantities given though. https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/macaronicheese_83521

Have been upping the amount of home cooked meals over the last few weeks as my kids are getting picky about a lot of the ready made stuff from supermarkets. Have made about a dozen pots of lentil and bacon soup since lockdown started and chicken balti quite a few times. All going down well with my kids. Made my first ever macaroni cheese tonight - I’m not a huge fan but my family love it. Was pretty good even if I say so myself. All fairly standard stuff but happy to share a recipe if anyone is looking for one.

He’s now using his Twitter feed to advertise a book. Absolutely cringeworthy but par for the course

Update - Apparently there were two official designs for 1974; the Telstar Durlast and the Chile Durlast https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adidas_Telstar

Aye, I noticed that - they did something similar in World Cup 1970, which I always associate with the classic Adidas Telstar black and white panel ball, and yet the ball for the England v West Germany match was a brown thing that looked like it was from the 1950s. Another thing you wouldn’t see now is Cruyff in ‘74 with his 2 stripe variation on Adidas’s 3 stripes on the sleeve. Whoever was in charge of protecting the Adidas brand and getting full value for their sponsorship was asleep on the job...

Nae bad min. Trying to weigh up what’s more of a godsend these days - Netflix/Amazon Prime or Disney +, which just landed today. Given the length of time the schools are going to be shut it has to be Disney + 🤣

Hunters on Amazon Prime is excellent - Al Pacino leading a group of Nazi hunters in 1970s New York. Tarantino-esque at times. Hope all is good with you ASC 👍

We’re a phucking colony - anyone deluded enough to believe otherwise must surely have realised that this week. A party that hasn’t won an election in Scotland since the ‘50s, chooses a PM on the votes of its disproportionately English membership and that PM stacks his cabinet with Kool Aid drinkers to implement a policy (Brexit) resoundingly rejected by the Scottish electorate. We’re not equal partners - we’re a tiresome inconvenience. The fecking Isle of Man has got more autonomy than us. #shameful

Mark Reckless - more parties than a fecking children’s face painter...

I thought if the player was running away from goal he could turn and run onto the ball like De Bruyne did - like I said though, the rule is beyond me now.

What I just said on a WhatsApp group 😐 That was a gift...

Have had another look - he was offside by about a foot when Hazard turned and tapped the ball with the inside of his heel but onside when Hazard played the pass. Not sure what the rule is anymore...

Didn’t see anyone offside there at all😶Who was it?

Barry Gardiner’s voice gives me the creeps - ‘I am now about to remove your spleen so you may feel a sharp pain. I then intend to sauté it in olive oil with shallots and garlic and consume it with a bottle of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild 1981...’ <Shudder>

Richard Leonard is fecking pitiful - he’s so dismal I almost feel sorry for him.

Embarrassing - Theresa May's got more credibility than McLeish. Time for his jotters...

Agreed we’re not taking about birds but it illustrates Francois’ ineptitude when it comes to articulating his position. Misrepresenting what your opponent said 10 seconds previously rather than engaging on the issue isn’t the mark of a expert debater. As I said the obvious answer is that the Leave campaign didn’t use latent racism as a proposition to vote for Leave. The problem is that it did.

I'd be astonished if the Leave campaign ever thought they were in danger of losing the votes of the racist and anti-Semitic demographic - it's such an obvious core constituency that the idea would scarcely need to be articulated. The only thing that would astonish me more is if Remain spent any time looking at a strategy to court that section of the electorate. They were Leavers whether Leave wanted them or not. If Francois was a cleverer politician he'd accept that Leave cornered the vast majority of that market, like it or not, and then try to make a case to the effect that that wasn't who they were courting. His problem is that he'd struggle to make a coherent case so he walked into a trap e.g.: `All penguins are birds` `How dare you say that all birds are penguins` It`s like the Seed of the Gael fannies and the Independence Referendum - they were obviously going to vote Yes but it doesn't mean that the campaign ever courted them. Francois ` difficulty is that racism was a dog whistle element of the Leave campaign.

To be fair to Will Self he doesn’t advocate heroin addiction as a lifestyle choice and he’s done a lot with his life since those days . Also John Crace, who does the politics sketch in the Guardian, has a similar back story and has likewise achieved a lot. Play the ball, not the man... https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2000/jun/11/fiction.willself

He and Andrew Bridgen are locked together at the top of the ‘Useless Fat Pea-brained Tory Bigot’ league table like Man City and Liverpool tussling it out for the Premier League. It’s an awesome sight - just when you think that one of them has it in the bag the other one comes storming back. To think that tens of thousands of voters thought that either of them was a more viable proposition as an MP than a helium balloon with a face scrawled on it in biro is remarkable in its own right.