duncan II
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1 hour ago, kwhitelaw said:
Fraser did himself no favors with what he said in his interview but that reaction is well OTT imo. No one bats an eyelid when clubs dump injured players at the end of their contracts on the scrap heap every close season but we're meant to be outraged when a player does the same to a club?! F***. Right. Off!
BTW Fraser isn't exactly my favorite player right now as he essentially downed tools for the national team last season too but the fact is the guy was out of contract and had every right to do right by himself first.
Absolutely Fraser had the right to down tools or do whatever the hell he likes. Absolutely. But anyone else also has the right to call him a khunt.
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25 minutes ago, kumnio said:
Thats a fake account, someone just taking the pish.
The fact they cant spell the club in question is a bit of a give away.
While it no doubt is a fake account, I wouldn't necessarily say the poor spelling was an indicator. It's the fuckin Daily Record.
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6 minutes ago, King Of Paisley said:
All this feels surreal. Sat top of a group with the exact points I wanted from our first two games. Yet felt depressed walking home from the pub? What does that tell me?
Don’t drink gin?
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29 minutes ago, Taylor1996 said:
I view the Nations league as a friendly competition.
People bitch and moan about friendlies by being, this, that and ths other, but it least it gave teams and managers a chance to experiment. Therefore, we should experiment during the Nations league.
Maybe this isn't the best place to talk about change and experimentation. If it was up to a certain mob in this place, we'd still be hunting animals with rocks and sticks and living the best neanderthal life we could.
Neanderthals were not our direct ancestors. Different species. So regardless of the rest of your argument, we certainly wouldn’t “still” be living a Neanderthal life.
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2 minutes ago, Taylor1996 said:
I'm guessing it'll be 4-4-1-1
Marshall;
Jack, McKenna, Tierney, Robertson;
Forrest, McTominay, McGregor, Christie;
McGinn;
Dykes.
Possibly. Or could McTominay be CB and Jack midfield, Tierney RB?
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1 minute ago, Caledonian Craig said:
😂 Should have read best not nest. Too late to edit now.
Haha, sorry. Couldn’t resist. Although you could, of course, have been talking about Barry “the hawk” Hawkins.
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12 minutes ago, Caledonian Craig said:
O'Sullivan more got lucky as he could win through against players not at their nest.
I thought Parrot had retired?
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1 minute ago, dandydunn said:
A well constructed post saying your opinion which you’re perfectly entitled to.
As I am mine, I’ve seen plenty on here and from comments on people’s threads on Facebook to know different, so I’ll stick with what I know.
You are indeed. But maybe lay off him a bit. You have more in common with each other than that which divides you.
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16 hours ago, dandydunn said:
I have no issue in calling you out as a bigot, none at all, I’ve seen you post it in black & white.
I stand by everything I’ve said on the issue, just a pity you can’t do the same.
What the fuck does Aberdeen have to do with anything, that’s a very strange thing to say.
This is a bit of an onslaught, and I think completely uncalled for. Not sure if it's some elaborate wind-up and I'm getting whooshed but it seems like bullying. Ramy can be excitable, Ramy can be annoying, he can be single-minded and ignorant of anything not Celtic. But a bigot? Not from evidence on here, I'd say.
If asked my politics I would offer that I am a republican too. A Scottish republican and a supporter of Irish republicanism. The phrase used can be used as a signal of terrorist support, but it's also a general support of the cause of republicanism on the island of Ireland. i'm not going into a debate on the intricacies of the Irish language and how phrases in that language are generally construed/misconstrued and what they etymologically mean and how they came about (partly because I don't know). But to call him a terrorist and bigot is wrong. And to relentlessly attack him, when he continually tells you he's not, seems out of order. Certainly to this republican.
No Pasaran.
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30 minutes ago, dandydunn said:
Aberdeen & Motherwell proudly flying the flag for Scottish football. Just a pity it couldnt be a clean sweep this week 🏴🏴
Aberdeen still in Europa League, Motherwell still in Europa League, Celtic still in Europa League. That’s a clean sweep.
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10 minutes ago, vanderark14 said:
Have Aberdeen and Celtic been relegated yet?
No, they’ve been liquidated and admitted into bottom tier.
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5 minutes ago, phart said:
I think we're pretty much in agreement.
The problems in education go back way further than this or the previous SNP administration (or even before that), I was angry that the outcome was getting rubberstamped by the current administration though, it just didn't sit right.
Least the SNP listened and changed their mind, whatever was the driver behind that, it's a good outcome.
Now of course the other parties will try and make political hay out of it and it does stick in your craw considering how Boris just allowed Cummings to stay on (as an example) when he flaunted guidelines etc.
Flouted! He f****** flouted them, he didn’t flaunt them. Can nobody get this right? Aaaaargh! Even the guy who has logically argued a point I strongly believe in too. Let yourself down, chief. I know you’ll say it was a deliberate misspelling. But that would be a lie. 🙃
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4 minutes ago, phart said:
You been refreshing this page constantly or something?
You wrote "do you think that an unexpected large increase in the pass rate does not have consequences for the intake into tertiary education? "
It's a nothing statement, vaccous without any actual content, asking me to comment on an undefined consequence, it;s not an argument. You spent an hour asking dumbfuck questions about medical students with zero points being made. When i tire of your nonsense you then come out all Aaid hominem
Away back to defending Rangers you ultracrepidarian.
Apart from awful spelling of vacuous (deliberate?) this is the best TAMB post in a long time!
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22 minutes ago, McTeeko said:
Why no put their full names against it? Apart from Hayes and Cosgrove I have no idea who the rest are. Shitebags 😏
It should be flout government guidelines, surely? Not “flaunt”.
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38 minutes ago, aaid said:
I'm aware that it wasn't just one teacher's assessment and that they were QA'ed for want of a better description, before they were submitted. I'm also aware that they maintain the rankings within a particular centre, which is understandable on the basis that within that centre a proper process was used to give those relative rankings. Which means that if you are going to somehow moderate the national picture, then the only possible alternative is that you base it on the schools in some respect - or not to moderate at all and to deal with a set of results that don't stack up when compared to other years.
All I'm seeing on this thread is largely what is reflected elsewhere in the press and on social media which is lots of people saying they are unhappy with the outcome - either how it affects them personally or at a national basis - but no-one actually being prepared to say what they would differently and how they would address the fall out from that alternative approach.
It doesn’t affect me at all in the slightest. But I recognise this is wrong. They have asked the teachers to make decisions. How about they respect these decisions? If not, how about they just do away with exams for this year? It is an unprecedented time. We’re in a position to have exams now. I understand this is no use for those seeking to enter university this year, but could these universities not hold entrance exams for those on the cusp of having correct grades, or who would be expected to attain the grade should there have been proper school exams? Thinking as I type and not explaining it well (!) but there are ways around this. Universities etc have to show leeway. Just bin the whole thing. Face it that due to unprecedented times, there are no school results. But gtf with results based on affluence. Especially ones arrived at by patronisingly telling teachers of less-affluent kids that their assessments of these commoners is wrong. It’s patently wrong.
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1 hour ago, aaid said:
So would you have left the teacher assessments unmoderated or if you would've moderated them, what model would you have used for that?
They were moderated. It wasn’t just the teachers. The teachers, together with the head of department who had all the class work data, and with input from other departmental colleagues (where appropriate). It wasn’t just one teacher.
whatever way you look at it, it’s terrible to downgrade these decisions due to the school attended. I’m an SNP supporter, former member, but it would be wrong to blindly follow and support this. It’s discrimination against less affluent schools. It’s awful.
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Incidentally, I’d have failed mine by saying “completely “ twice in a sentence there.
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13 minutes ago, Squirrelhumper said:
133,000 grades changed.
No explanation, nor any evidence viewed to based that change on.
Just purely changes based on how a school has performed in the past.
Utter lunacy.
And to say there were no prelims to base grades on is utter made up shite.
Was a kid in Motherwell who got 5 A's in her prelims, been a straight A student her full life but was awarded 3 A's and 2 B's in the revised SQA results despite her teachers (correctly predicting she'd get 5's.) She's now not able to apply for medicine.
Nobody is telling me her grades weren't altered for anything other than where she lived. If this was the Tory's doing this then we'd be righty up in arms.
I think it’s horrific. As you say, it’s discrimination based on where you happen to attend school.Either trust all teachers equally or do away completely with exam results completely this year and have unis hold entrance exams where necessary. But not this.
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41 minutes ago, Orraloon said:
I would have thought Roofe would be played up top?
Neither of the huns who replied got that. A bit subtle for them?!
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1 hour ago, Parklife said:
Agree totally. I was working from home for about 6 weeks but was really glad to get back in to the office. It's still really quiet in here but getting interaction with the few people that are in makes things feel a bit more normal.
Working from home all day and only ever speaking to people on the phone was grim.
We’re all different. Personally I thrive working from home - will be more productive when schools are back though! Respect the opposite viewpoint. For me, though, home working works.
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3 minutes ago, aaid said:
Which is literally the dictionary definition of prejudicial behaviour.
Trusting my judgment based on 48 years experience is the very definition of prejudicial? Aye, okay. I think I’ll leave it there. I’d better not devote any more thought to the matter lest my prejudice levels go off the scale.
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58 minutes ago, aaid said:
Majority of fans? Care to back that up with any firm evidence.
My 48 years on earth. Not entirely scientific, but I trust my judgment.
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3 hours ago, aaid said:
Fair enough, that's your opinion, at least you are being honest about your own prejudices.
Prejudice! 🤔
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1 hour ago, aaid said:
Rangers really can't do right for doing wrong with some people can they?
Horrible, horrible club. Horrible.
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