Morrisandmoo

Let's remember that not that long ago* it was so hot in the arctic that crocodiles lived there. Everything is going to be ok. Or maybe we'll all get eaten by crocodiles soon I don't know. *Ok it was 50million years ago, but still - its currently very cold for earth's standards.

Yes that was excellent @phart Practical points: as well as accelerating the boosters, we could improve sickpay (and make it easier generally for people to isolate - self-employed included) and help older people in poverty (e.g. extra payments over the winter) - given the facts set out re UK having far worse sick pay than the rest of Western Europe as well as more elderly people in poverty (16% vs 4% in France is shocking). Not sure those measures will be necessarily cheap, but neither is shutting down the economy or dealing with overflowing hospitals.

Come on the right backs! A much better problem to have compared with not so long ago where it was either SOD or I can't remember the name of the boy who was a right back but turned into a striker. Just need some young strikers to pop up and we will definitely win the world cup.

I think we need to modernise our thinking, and laws, in this respect. It was fine in the past when the Goverment were the main ones regulating people's speech and activities - on the streets, from the pulpit or in the printed press. Now digital platforms are taking on broad regulatory powers governing people's interactions (replacing the role of national governments in some domains). I think it's ok to require those digital platforms to have regard to fundamental societal principles when formulating their regulations/terms of conditions/policies. One of those principles for me would be free speech. I wouldn't be looking to competition laws to protect us. I don't really want Amazon broken up - it provides an excellent service to me. But I am cool with them having to pay regard to fair or free trade, or whatever is important to society at the time, when framing their rules governing seller and buyer interactions.

Yes! There are other policies which are less discriminatory and costly than a vaccine passport, but achieve the same result. Sub-club entry and Zombie cocktail is one of them 😂

"Scotland's excess deaths at highest level since January" and it's not Covid that's the main cause - at least not directly. The excess deaths include: 44 cancer deaths; 40 more deaths linked to circulatory conditions; 27 dementia or Alzheimers. Of those that died from covid around 98% were over the age of 45. A population which has vaccination rates approaching 100%. I will just keep saying the same thing (1) it's not mathematically possible for vaccine passports to make a meaningful difference (2) we are paying a very high cost by pursuing it (in more ways than one) at the expense of more effective policies. Instead of focusing on avoiding those cancer and heart disease deaths, the Scottish Government are spending their time implementing a discriminatory system that will do no good and calling it a health policy. Utterly horrifying and total pish. Scotland's excess deaths at highest level since January - BBC News Deaths involving COVID-19 Week 40: 4 - 10 October, 2021 | National Records of Scotland (nrscotland.gov.uk)

Is Ralston good enough to compete in the future? I haven't seen that much of him but thought we was excellent in the old firm not long ago. It was enough to get me excited about him being a good option for us.

He's unlucky not to be on 2 or 3 goals as well - some near misses. His strength is attacking! So very weird narrative around him being a more solid defensive option. I hate to think how bad Paterson is defensively if that wee actually true! As you say Paterson either is already (at least on some days) or might become just a better player full stop.

As others have said it's up for grabs. But with Paterson being younger - with gametime you'd fancy him to nail the spot sooner or later. It's a funny old game. I always valued O'Donnell for his attacking capabilities at Killie, compensating his defensive weaknesses at times. His attacking (and all around) abilities being highlighted beautifully at Wembley - not sure we'll see a better attacking right (wing)back performance for some time and Paterson has a way to go to get to those levels. Whereas the consensus on here seems to value SOD's defensive capabilities and minimises his attacking threat. It's a fashionable narrative, but don't think it represents reality. But each to their own.

I saw this, what a load of shite. I was asked very softly by a steward, while I queued anyway, if i had a passport. I showed him my soaking wet paper copy. He didn't look. We moved on with our lives. Two things caused delays: (1) unnecessary concentration of people in certain turnstile queues, when other turnstiles were much quieter (2) the false economy of replacing human beings with QR ticket readers. I did though reflect at the time on the nature of the crowd and the stewards. What would I have done (sober) and what would this (less sober) crowd do if refused access? Certainly, if it came down to it (e.g. if my passport had actually dissolved in scottish rain), the stewards/police would have to have been prepared to use violence to forcible restrain me from getting to the football. Bearing in mind there is only ever going to be a few hundred folk amoungst the 50,000 that are unvacinated and only a handful will be "caught". However, there is potential for flashpoints if stewards take this seriously...which they probably won't...in which case it's merely a waste of time.

Nothing much to say that hasn't already been said. One of my favourite games ever.

Brilliant to see the spirit coming from this team - not just the fight and dominance they showed coming back out at half time (which was classic of Steve Clarke's Killie as well), but they all clearly love being there. Which sounds like a given, but not so long ago we had persistent call-offs ...players moaning about being played out of position etc etc. We have a very good manager here and a team that feels on the up.

"Among other issues, it contained patients who turned out to have died before the trial started." The fact Ivermectin has managed not only to cure people from Covid, but actually bring them back from the dead is surely a positive thing? Vaccine had probaly killed the poor cunts as well.

Nah i don't think it's that controversial either to be honest. Just not a red for me.

If he had slid into my living room and made contact with my face I would also be seriously injured. As it happens, he kept well away from my living room and targeted the ball instead. It was confusing that Aribo was rolling about in an uncontrolled fashion right enough.

To take control of the space and win the ball? You see it all the time - usually at the sideline when a player slides in and fires the ball out the park. If another players is not in genuine danger from the tackle, then you cannae be sending folk off for sliding in quickly and winning the ball cleanly imo.

That's what I'm saying. He's not lunged at or endangered an opponent. Who do you think has been lunged at or put in danger. Not Aribo surely? He nowhere near him.

Yeah not a red for me. I don't see how a tackle that doesn't make contact with the opposing player (or even come close) and is executed well at high speed = a red card. Aribo should have been booked for playacting regardless of what you think about Porteous' tackle.

Alongside reporting of the shambles that is vaccine passports, sat two other reports: Covid: How close is Scotland to full vaccination? - BBC News 'Running could cause sudden death for people like me' - BBC News The first one underlying to me how unnecessary a covid passport is, in the context of one of the most successful vaccination programmes in the history of mankind. "Prof Andrew Watterson, a public health researcher at the University of Stirling, says the Covid vaccination programme really stands apart when compared with similar efforts." The passport vaccination bounce in the charts presented in the article is also truly uninspiring. No measurable benefits can, or will, be achieved through all this shambling. The second report illustrates the many alternative opportunities where we could be putting our effort. Every week 12 young people (aged 14-35), 600 per year, die in the UK from undiagnosed heart conditions. 89% of those deaths could be prevented if we chose to implement a screening programme. Eighty nine fucking percent. How many years is that we could give back to people? Now that's a benefits case. But instead of spending our time and money here on things that can make a real difference and save lives, we are passionately working to find effective ways of further excluding poor people from society. For little benefit to the rest of us. Mhairi Black in her maiden speech said that we should aspire to be sign-posts, pointing the way to a better society. Health, education, social inclusion. Scotland is pointing in the wrong direction right now.

That's definitely shite. However, some of the folk getting fuel would have been nurses and doctors. Tradesmen will have needed to fuel up for their work. In fact, every cunt will have a story as to why it's important they consume the scarce resource. Some of those stories are more compelling than others (naturally). But individually they all believe they are acting rationally, while collectively it looks like madness. Only very few will actually be behaving vindictively and deserve scorn (albeit such scorn will be promoted online, in the media and by some politicians) I think getting angry about "panic buying" and anxious about your own personal circumstances just adds to the panic. I'd rather have a bit of a laugh at the collective madness and try to keep the heid (and choose not to queue up for shit myself - but that's mostly because I can't be fucked rather than any ethical sacrifice). But that doesn't mean I'm laughing at some of the shitey consequences or circumstances (like your wife's) if you know what I mean.

Yeah, most people care very little about these things in real life. Even if they do enjoy being angry about it online.

Enjoyed trip though to Arbroath. Cracking wee stadium, good for a beer just across the road and Killie lucky to limp away with a draw. Reminds me of the fact that you really don't need TV money (although it was on the TV!) or even good football to make Scottish football brilliant (for the fans)! Variety is definitely an important ingredient though. Folk were just excited to be going somewhere different.

I say online left, the fact the headlines from the Labour conference focus on what Rayner has to say about what offensive think Boris has said in the past says it all. What a waste of time.

I don't know if it's the "extreme left" per se. But no doubt poverty and real life seems of much less interest let's say (to avoid semantics) the "online left" than hunting down, and being offended by, something somebody said or did 30 years ago. It's very distracting, and a great waste of time, to say the least.

I find panic buying quite funny to be honest. A little frustrating if I think about it long enough, but mostly funny. What I don't get is - if there are going to be genuine shortages then what does an extra few days of fuel or a few weeks of toilet paper really get you anyway? You are still going to be washing your arse in the shower in the end. What does it matter if it's tomorrow or next week?