ErsatzThistle

Which clubs have the best & worst badges of the forty two teams in the SPFL ? You can include historical badges no longer used by the clubs too. Best - Falkirk, Dumbarton and Livingston Worst - Stenhousemuir and Montrose

All of it was reprehensible. As for the "public shaming", my heart bleeds for him Would you be happy if a teacher or police officer expressed such sentiments ? Let's refresh our memory of them again, courtesy of kumnio on the previous page: Completely unacceptable. We shouldn't be employing this detestable cünt at all.

I'd prefer the manager to keep an eye on players aged 18-21 from the SPFL who are starting their careers and showing potential. Players like Liam Smith, Chris Cadden, Liam Lindsay, Dom Thomas and *Ross MacLean. Of course though I fully realise that in some positions there we have no choice but to pick an SPFL player such as Griffiths or Paterson. *I know he's only played about a dozen games for Motherwell but surely worth keeping an eye on ?

Still here. If you want to know, it was me yes.

Well my posts clearly give you a such powerful throbber that no-one else can give, so I'll take that as my act of kindness for the day And your provocation attempts still ain't working, I'm going nowhere

Some people don't like their folk heroes being questioned. Cooper wasn't a very nice human being. Could tell you a few stories from my personal experience about that human filth John Brown too.

Can you provide evidence he didn't ?

Oh come on it's obvious what he means. What else could he possibly mean other than financial and propaganda aid ? Why don't you go for a wee lie down or something ? Your obsession with me is starting to get very creepy and unsettling now.

That would obviously mean financial and propaganda help. Aaid, look your not going to chase me off the board so give it a rest.

Surely Welsh has grounds for legal action there ? Michael Kelly (aye, that Michael Kelly) was alleging Putin was funding the SNP just the other day on twitter.

Aww, good old aaid, still trying to provoke me into lashing out at you and getting myself banned in the process. You saucy wee teaze "Stop the bile. Oh won't somebody please stop the bile !!! Whit wid Davie Cooper do ?"

Or the excuse "but it was acceptable back then - so that makes it alright". Some people just can't face it that their hero, good ole' Davie was actually a nasty piece of work. Oh, and now Fermer is gonna track me down and give me a proper battering no doubt

Restoring a vintage tractor ?

Well, can you write a post uncannily similar in content and tone to those of resident attention seeking, aggressive, threatening, mopish, alcoholic, anti-Catholic bigot that is "Fermer" and his bizarre, meandering, paranoid and contradictory posts ? I think I can. Here goes...... Would anyone else like to have a go ?

When was the last time Glasgow hosted an international trade fair anyway ?

Again you have completely twisted what I said. However, I've noticed that's what you always do when you debate with anyone on this board, patronise and twist the content, your an expert at it. So what's the point ? I've posted facts. All of them admitted by the British government and in their own archives declassified. It's all out there to read by anyone, even an apologist for colonial atrocities like you. Yeah sweep it under the carpet, that's a good idea. I actually used some old articles from the Guardian and event the Daily Mail but knock yourself out as an apologist for it all. And yes I do believe the government of an independent Scotland should formally apologise to the former colonies because Scottish soldiers, colonial police, missionaries, merchants and colonial civil servants were at the rotten core of the empire and the oppression and exploitation of others. I repeat, it takes a big nation to admit it was wrong and say sorry. I care not a jot for all these silly ridiculous regiments and corps of the army, or the meaningless little medals and ribbons. The whole notion of "Scotland's proud military heritage" leaves me cold and ashamed, not proud at all. All of it is just elaborate window dressing to distract people, to romanticise the whole vile, bloody business. My sympathies lie with those throughout history who had the guts to say "no" to war and imperialism. The men and women who spoke out against the threatening other countries, recruitment for the forces or helping to manufacture munitions, against starving civilians by blockade or blasting their towns and cities to hell and bravely called for negotiated peace - are the real heroes. And what did they suffer for it ? Imprisonment or fines, many were shunned by former friends and even by family. Many too lost their jobs and were expelled from clubs and societies they were members of. Daily venomous hatred inspired by the press and politicians, lapped up by the gullible and narrow minded resulted in those who spoke against war being physically assaulted and their properties attacked - all because they simply wouldn't follow the crowd. A few posters on this thread would of course consider such people to be "treacherous scum" no doubt because they loved, respected and cared for humanity rather than killing. I won't post on this thread again, I think everyone's getting bored with it all and will leave the billy brits to their worship of their precious military and making excuses for their brave boys in khaki acting like savages in foreign lands - but before I do I'll end with this hopeful reflection. Thankfully an increasing number of people are beginning to reject this celebration of war and either ignore it altogether or campaign for peace and reconciliation instead.

A number of locations once had senior teams (though not always professional teams I concede) playing in Scottish football such as Armadale, Bathgate, Bo'ness, Port Glasgow and Johnstone to name just a few.

Wow, a serious defence of colonial rule Where did I claim they were always on the wrong side ? Nice try, I said most of the time they were, didn't say always. Well done in also conflating many of my points. The amount of atrocities committed in Ireland between 1916 and 1921 are too many to list here. The legions poster boy, Montgomery of Alamein even admitted to his own involvement in the destruction of houses and terrorising civilians. The UK government just a few years ago payed out £19,900,000 to 5,228 Kenyan's who proved that they were tortured, imprisoned, castrated or raped by the "heroes" of Britain's armed forces. During the early 1950s the British attorney general in Kenya during the insurgency wrote that the army's "detention" camps established out there were "distressingly reminiscent of conditions in Nazi Germany or Communist Russia". In 1952 a confidential report by colonial authorities regarding British troops killing prisoners, torturing others and mutilating corpses in Malaya said the following "there is no doubt that under international law a similar case in wartime would be a war crime". The RAF's dropping of powerful defoliants over huge stretches of bush and farmland resulted in hundreds of thousands of civilians starving and the land being rendered useless for years to come. The MNLA and the Mau-Mau were certainly not perfect, I don't claim that at all. However they were anti-colonial movements and it's no surprise that so many people joined them or where at least sympathetic to them. In fact many repudiated them after independence, they had used them as a means to an end, freedom from British colonial tyranny. The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders behaved appallingly during their time in Aden. Yet their veterans to this day regard their time out there and their daily routine of battering civilians unconscious, smashing up their houses, looting their possessions as something to have a good laugh about. These bullying thugs were an utter disgrace to Scotland. Too many people have a really disturbing bond with the British military. Time to let go I think. What was so good about colonial rule and these lads from another country kicking them about, exploiting their labour and natural resources and believing they were superior because of the skin colour and faith ? I can understand why they wanted fought back. The heroic myths about the army are too commonly accepted. Kids at school should learn about the many war crimes the British Army committed. I would like to think that the government of an independent Scotland would offer a full, unconditional apology to all these former nations where us Scots once caused so much pain, fear and misery. It takes a big nation to admit it was wrong and say sorry.

Aye, think you are. Here's a full breakdown of Scotland's town and cities by population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_and_cities_in_Scotland_by_population

You yourself may not be celebrating the British Army. But many others are. Have you not seen the state of many of these jingoistic events across the UK ? They are outright celebrations of militarism, death and destruction. There was even an army recruitment stall at one event in Glasgow a couple of years back. Kids are being brainwashed into believing that the Brits were always on the side of right. The legion have been keen to stress that the poppy is for Britain's military in all conflicts. Such conflicts include the ones I've listed previously - Oman, Malaya, Kenya - conflicts where the brave lads in khaki enforced internment without trial, destruction of property, shot unarmed civilians, gang rapes, torture etc. You do understand that many people throughout Africa and Asia would in fact tell you that the British Army done everything they could to suppress their way of life and forced them to live in the most unimaginable conditions ? Brutally crushing pro-independence and pro-civil rights movements in dozens of other countries across the globe should not be remembered with pride, it should be remembered with shame. I prefer to be one of "the scum" (as we are frequently described) who wears the Peace Pledge Union's white poppy for peace, reconciliation and to remember all the victims of all wars. The poppy should be kept out of sport at least.

Moyes as Scotland manager would be a disaster. Keep clear of him. Think we can safely say that this guy has been shown up now for the piss poor manager he is. And before someone says "but Sir Alex rated him" - well, "Sir Alex" also rated Carlos Queiroz and René Meulensteen.

Just click the "ignore" option for my posts aaid. There's a good chap. I'm not rising to it. Your not going to provoke a massive lash out from me that would get me banned. As I said click the "ignore" option and have a nice day

Appeared on Peston on Sunday today. She was wearing the white poppy of the Peace Pledge Union. Tabloid press and BritNats have went fecking mental.

I am the only one who thinks that bonny78 and bigfathagiz are the same guy ?