Topcat
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2 hours ago, neil r said:
Never heard oh the blue coin however the phrase "the blue pound" is oft quoted.
The blue pound is only worth 5 pence - especially if you happen to be a creditor of oldco.
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I was a bit like the OP last year - added it up after seeing some baldy masterchef presenter doing a programme on monthly shopping spend - discovered that I was about £650 for 2 weeks and the wife was about £500 for her 2 weeks - a right fkin eye opener. In addition to shopping in the wrong places for the big shops, the main problem was almost daily drop-ins to get £10 here, £20 there extras throughout the month.
Out went M&S/Waitrose/Sainsburys for me and I now happily do my 2 shops at Lidl with a small trolley-full coming in about £70 and the rest gets topped up at Morrisons - have saved nearly £3k in past year if that's an incentive. Sadly the missus simply will not go to Lidl and her twice monthjly bill is the same.
Plan the meals - but what's needed and stay away from mid-week trips for extras. For the record I was buying for a family of 5.
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Lost best part of 3 stones in 3/4 months by having either fruit or a soup at lunch during weekdays at work - normal breakfast & dinner
More exercise - played fitba, went for the odd run but took the dug a 3/4/5 miler each day at brisk pace - weight just dropped off.
Less drink - that was the real bassa.
And stay away from Killie pies - those bastards have Type 2 Diabetes written all over them!
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rangers players broke the golden rule as the losing team with a pitch invasion - get the fk out of dodge at full speed - dawdling about on a pitch with that in full swing was naive - however aas I have mentioned before the players should not have been assaulted
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Normal service is resumed - moments before kick-off two rousing renditions of 'we hate celtic f***** b******* " - most probably from that famous minority and there was me thinking they were playing Hibs and so the songs went on throughout the match unchallenged by the thousand strong police & security team.
Speaking as a neutral (the jags) delighted to see the Hibs win the trophy after such a long time - thoroughly deserved and a decent match too.
As for the pitch invasion it was a joyous outpouring for the majority which did get out of hand - but there was absolutely no need for either the hibs fans to get involved with Rangers players or the fans of the losing teamto get themselves onto the pitch and involved in the general fracas (clearly unable to learn from multiple past indiscretions i.e. Barcelona, Hampden 1980, Manchester etc).
I would hope that high quality footage of each and every moron who engaged in anti-social behaviour (from the hibs fans involvement with the players to those rangers fans seen on video clips tonight involving themselves in group stampings) are identified and shoved in the clink.
Shame about the pitch getting partially wrecked ahead of tomorrow's amateur cup final - also surprised there was any grass left at all after the pitch was cleared - I'm sure though the lads of Colville Park & Leven Utd will have played on worse this season through the winter.
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In reply to the OP I'd like to nominate Ken McIntosh (the new speaker) as complete political non-entity who has wangled himself back into Holyrood on the list to collect a £60k MSP salary in addition to the £40k top up for sitting on his arse all day as presiding officer.
Cannot name one thing this teuchter has done this last 16 years in the constituency - only see the greaseball when he needs your vote.
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she's a total zoomer - must have an album ready for release
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OLAS wake me up I'm dreaming been on the Old No 7 since full time - the Arabs and quite possibly those Killie khunts going down in the same season ... it's a real pity that Airdrie finished mid-tabel as that would have been an unbelievable full house.Could only be bettered by the twa cheeks going out of business.
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no need for one - Scargill has already given the eventual verdict -
The 78-year-old told 5 live’s Rowan Bridge: “A full inquiry will reveal that they concocted stories, they told lies.”
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19 hours ago, Ally Bongo said:
Seriously ?
That all you have got to add ?
I thought that would be easier than quoting every dictionary definition
I asked you to explain - but you obviously don't have an opinion so have to lift quotes and video from wherever (Hitchins/wikipedia etc) - do you actually have any well formed opinion?
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19 hours ago, Eisegerwind said:
Just read that again ' so the term you apply to yourself ' wasn't aware I had applied a term to myself.
" I'm a bit of an anti-semite to be honest "
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my my are you quoting wikipedia as a reliable source of information
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10 minutes ago, Ally Bongo said:
*shakes head*
can you explain in simple terms (without posting tlengthy videos showing the utter sh*te espoused by Hitchins) what you disagree regarding my 2 previous posts
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11 minutes ago, Eisegerwind said:
Semantics,just wrote anti-semite as that seemed to be the popular term, anti-jewish if that makes it clearer, please take that in the context of my previous post. Don't want to get be a multi millionaire world wide celeb and have that quoted in isolation.
wasn't being pedantic bud or critical of you so apologies if you felt your toes stepped on - heard the phrase a couple of dozen times on TV today and it annoys me as it's equally applicable to a whole host of races/peoples who are not Jewish - but the phrase is trotted out for the single entity whose country/foreign policy/politicians/army/land grab policies which simply cannot be criticised for fear of being labelled a bigot.
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51 minutes ago, Eisegerwind said:
I'm a bit of an anti-semite to be honest, however I'm also a bit of an anti-proddy,anti-christian, anti-hindu,anti-Sikh,anti- bhuddist, anti-catholic, anti-shia, anti-sunni, anti-god fairy, anti-Mormon etc. Doesn't make me a bad person.
if my memory of school RE is correct - and we were taught a right crock of shit at school in the 80's - then the Semites were a nomadic bunch of different peoples from different countries and different religions - including Christians and Muslims so the term you apply to yourself covers most of the anti's above except fairies and mormons.
I fukkin cringe every single time I hear someone on TV spouting forth about anti-semitism - when was the terminology hijacked solely by Jewish folk who have got their collective tits in a fankle?
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Caught a brief snippet of a Lord Levy interview this morning (Tony Bliar's tennis chum).
The tenet of his piece to camera was that anyone who criticised/questioned the state of Israel or it's politics were essentially hiding behind these statements as they were 100% anti-Jew and anti-semitic.
Completely and utterly outrageous.
Wonder what Levy's comments on this would be :
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jackie bird is a slimy cow - tried to tear Harvie a new one last night with badgering questions on his and party's stance on independence - whilst pro union numb nut Rennie gets a cosy wee chat from BBC England pro-union representative
nothing has changed
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what's the worst that could happen eh?
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17 minutes ago, jailender said:
On the BBC website Wattie has been pontificating again about the mistreatment of Rangers. I thought he would have let it lie by now.
aye talking a right lot of bollo*ks as well the stupid old sod - bitter and classless to the end - slotting in with the other lot as the two cheeks of the same ar*e reunited.
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3ED Consortium were involved in full school rebuilds & extensions in Glasgow during "Project 2002" - with Miller named as the construction partners - http://www.gov.scot/Resource/Doc/1069/0005235.pdf
Page 27 in this fuller document ( http://www.gov.scot/Resource/Doc/923/0050881.pdf ) details in full the construction work undertaken by Miller on the 29 Glasgow secondary schools - namely 12 new builds and 7 extensions.
Interestingly not a single public pronouncement has emanated from Glasgow City Council to date about safety checks.
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1 hour ago, OLAS said:
Back on topic; that's a clean sweep for us in the league against United and without a goal conceded. Relegation material right there
I've been waiting 20 long years since the painful relegation play-offs when those those late scoring tangerine rats consigned us to many years in the wilderness - clean sweep and Doolans winner tonight have soothed that particular memory.
Cheerio Arabs ... enjoy your stint down below
Maybe if we end up bottom 6 we can stick the final nail in their hopes of survival
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7 minutes ago, stocky said:
However as we now all agree ,
no one in Scotland will pay any more.
We don't all now agree stocky ... I'm also a bit perplexed about the numbers ... headline figure was £1.2bn over 5 years raised from raiding the wages of those over 40% ... and I reckon we're all in agreement that it runs to £323pa or approx £1600 over 5 years.
Dividing £1.2 billion by £1600 gives a nominal 750,000 workers ... instead the number is half that - question is as Parky mentioned earlier some over the threshold are going to get taken to the cleaners at about £1k per annum or are the figures imprecise and we'll get shafted even more?
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11 minutes ago, stocky said:
ok Topcat lets take it your way
The top 15% (11000) of Scots will pay no more tax, but will pay 300- 400 pounds more than English based people.
How is 'these people not paying more tax' a boot in the baws.
11000 people are not getting a tax cut
that means the other 85% of the population will stay the same.
If it is not these 15% ,these 11.000 people then who should it be
If 11000 people constitute the top 15% of earners in the country then there must be less than 100k people in paid work - issue with figures?
You say no more tax (technically correct).
I say denial of a tax break freely available to rUK which therefore increase my tax burden (also technically correct) when compared to anyone south of border costing me £1600 minimum over 5 years - a not insignificant sum of money.
Who should it be? It should be everyone in employment at every level of taxation. It has been presumed that those like me just over the threshold would be willing to contribute - why not open it up and make it a bit more transparent. Wonder how that would go down.
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Toepoke, I think we can judge denial of a minimum (presuming the rate at which 40% kicks in will increase for rUK in future budgets) approaching £1600 over the next 5 years as a significant boot in the baws when compared to others over the border.
Seems that as the significant SNP cohort have failed to make their promised impression upon Westminster/Tories they have decided to use this new fiscal power rather unwisely to get it right up the Tories from Edinburgh by booting their own supporters in the goolies and shoplift from a sitting duck. Dare I say it's the Poll Tax all over again although this time it's self-inflicted.
And We Wonder Why Less Kids Are Playing Fitba...
in Football related - Discussion of non TA football
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That's appalling!
Is the grammar on display on this 'pupil contract' symptomatic of the standards within the classroom at this school? If I had a kid at this school I'd be quite concerned.
Sounds like a primary school populated solely be women teachers who simply can't be ersed with the bairns kicking a ball during breaks & are looking to swiftly get the whole cohort grounded for the session - what a bunch of zoomers!
How about a few more: