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Grim Jim

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  1. My jaw dropped when I watched that. OK, it didn't. No surprise really at all... Like that film where Terry Thomas has to tell the young chap (confronted with a stray bra under the pillow) just to front up with a lie, deny, lie, deny, lie... Except Terry Thomas could perheps carry it owf. Now. Loveable rogue or murdering, lying cunt? Should we start a vote?
  2. If I can be pedantic... His father, born Kirkwall 1805 was certainly a 'sugar planter' around 1850, but the slave trade ended in British Guiana 22 years before Andrew Watson was born in 1856. Andrew's mother was probably the daughter of former slaves.
  3. Might have been a wee bit different with a cup final, play-offs plus either fallout from international play-offs or build up to Euro 2020.
  4. If I recall, Watson moved to London (later Liverpool where he became a marine engineer), and Scottish selectors only picked players playing in Scotland at that time. I don't know if that was the same for Suter. Edit to say, it would have been the case during his time in Blackburn. Dunno about earlier.
  5. My light bulb argument is that the "wasted" energy in good-old-fashioned bulbs is not wasted. We live in Scotland and any excess energy pumped out by your lightbulbs will mean that your central heating has to do less work, so the nett effect is zero. And I'm including this heatwave. Everybody's pished by the time it gets dark so bulbs are aff. Speaking personally anyway 👣
  6. I've signed it, but please be aware that if I'd read your headline first I might not have.
  7. So that's what you call 'em. I remember seeing a 'melodica' or something similar as a kid at my grandparents. Dunno who played it. My youngest uncles still stayed there looked like teddy boys and liked rock'n'roll. Can't see how that fits though 🤔
  8. Fixed it. I'd put the big keys with the stabiliser wires back in wrong... if anyone needs a tutorial. We can all sleep easy now 🙂
  9. No joke. I'm gonna have to lube this spacebar before I wear out my left-arrow key for all those corrections. Shouldhave putitin the dishwasher after all.
  10. You've jogged my memory with that bit. There were selection problems too. 1931-33 the FA allowed their clubs not to release non-English players for internationals. (Speculation, but) wouldn't surprise me if there were problems with home clubs too. Certainly read about that in later years.
  11. Gave my disgusting keyboard adeepclean today. Made a keycappuller from apapercliptogetittobits. Scrubbed,washed and driedthen putitbacktogether again. Job done 🙂
  12. Stop it you 😆 I'm still feelin' far too smug with myself at my sax finale. Did anyone make it through to the end? It might grow on you? Grin Jim
  13. I can speculate, but is there any evidence as to why that was?
  14. Might just have moved on though. Am sure we had some crack shots with rifles in the 20th century olympics. Jackie Stewart was deadly vs clay pigeons too.
  15. https://www.thenational.scot/news/18486299.global-stars-rally-back-salmond-supporters-contempt-case/ Open letter to James Wolffe QC...
  16. The Foot-ball Club 1824-1841. http://www.scottishsporthistory.com/worlds-first-foot-ball-club.html There's a link to a podcast at the bottom about the research.
  17. Hudd's got me on pedant stuff now. The original 1863 rules allowed a 'fair catch' from which a free kick was taken (by the catcher!)... the 'mark' in Rugby Union even today. Rule 8 and definitions below... https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Game_(1863)
  18. QP seemed to get a lot of byes. Then when they didn't they often did not travel, giving the other side a walkover. Cost or distance may have been to much, and there was soon plenty competition for QP here (particularly from the Dumbarton* area for some reason). Never read anything about it being nationalistic or not, but it didn't take long for internationals to start up did it? * (Dumbarton themselves drew the first Scottish League with upstarts Rangers, which the latter include in their "54" titles ...without an asterisk )
  19. I think, by the time the FA started, it was all by foot, but tended to be a 1-0-9 formation with 8 players shielding(?) one dribbler. I have in my mind a rugby maul, but with the ball at feet. I enjoyed 'The English Game' too. From what I've read It was not too far off the mark.
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