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Match Thread Aberdeen v Ross County
Clydeside_Sheep replied to Schapenneuker's topic in AFC and Scottish Football
Im encouraged by the motherwell win, but I fear an organised and determined Ross County side may well run over the top of our gutless ballet dancers. -
Match Thread Motherwell 0 - 1 Aberdeen
Clydeside_Sheep replied to Johnnyred1's topic in AFC and Scottish Football
A miracle! The VAR scandal making up for the penalty v Dundee! -
I see Humza has weighed in on the Dianne Abbot affair. He says it shows the UK is "institutionally racist". Currently, the Prime Minister of the UK, the First Minister of Scotland, the First Minister of Wales and the Mayor of London are all from a minority ethnic background. As is the Labour Leader in Scotland, who will likely be the next First Minister. But, Humza thinks the UK is "institutionally racist". A good indicator of how cheap talk of "racism" has become in todays world.
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That's Masters of the Air finished, 9 episodes. Its worth watching. For me it started well but then became a bit dull. The early episodes captured the tension of the missions and the air scenes were thrilling. After events switch away from that perspective (for the main characters at least) it became a bit dull and tried to fit in too much. Would have been better to reduce the number of episodes and use the saving to extend / add more mission scenes.
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The guy isn't a politician, he is alleged to have made the remarks at a meeting at his own firm. It seems like a private joke which some clipe has seized on. The comments occurred 5 years ago (according to BBC) which does show the rather contrived nature of the story. Abbot owes her entire political career to being black - certainly its not down to political talent - and being embroiled in regular racism scandals is the oxygen which keeps her career going. Ironically, Abbot herself is currently suspended from the Labour party after trivialising racism faced by Irish, Jews and gypsys. She was clearly threatened by others enroaching onto her turf of being a victim of racism. This again (for me) shows how hollow the fuss is, as well as how stupid Abbot is - pontificating about racism while being suspended due to racism.
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You don't think the guy was serious who joked that Dianne Abbott should be shot, do you? (I mean, a beating would be more than adequate.)
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Absolutely agree with that. The corrupt & talentless establishment which controls the modern SNP is where all its problems spring from. Rather than see someone like Forbes as an asset with broad appeal, they fear and despise her lest she take their place at the trough. Forbes is representative of the old Salmond SNP, Humza of the modern Sturgeon party. Humza is charismatic, smooth and affable, but has no political vision, nor any skills or experience worth mentioning. He is a divisive figure, often irresponsible in speech and has thoroughly cheapened concepts of racism and islamophobia. I think its possible the SNP could split along the lines mentioned.
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He is supposed to be a pro-indy politician in Westminster, but spends his time scoring cheap points on irrelevances like Gaza or whether or not Tory party donors are racist etc. Its just a waste of parliamentary time designed to impress simple folk. He is a marginally more acceptable version of windbag manky mhairi black. I hear its not too outlandish to think that his seat may be under threat at the election. There are / were plenty of SNP politicians whom I do not have animus for, eg Joanna Cherry, Fergus Ewing, Kate Forbes, John Mason etc and the old guard of Sillars / MacAskill etc. Would never agree with them on independence, but recognise that they are principled and/or accomplished people. Edit - the Sturgeon era seemed to herald a transition away from a party of principled / accomplished people to a party of corrupt grifters and nonces.
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It seems designed to persecute critics of Islam and LGBT policies. The law will generate huge amount of spurious claims and take up huge amounts of Police time. Notice how its introduction dove tails nicely with the recent announcement that the Police will stop investigating 'minor' crime (in order to free up time for fretting that some transvestite has been misgendered).
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Humza is just a talking head, a professional politician. People like him are the main problem with politics. Flynn is shit imo, classic SNP, great at attention-seeking barnstorming on everything except his supposed political aim. Always easy to seem reasonable / principled when you are not actually the one with responsibility and never will be.
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Match Thread Aberdeen 3 - 1 Kilmarnock
Clydeside_Sheep replied to davierobb's topic in AFC and Scottish Football
Amazed / delighted we won that. But we played well and deserved it. Could have scored more. Impressed with Hoilett. -
Kula Shaker. Its somewhat troubling their debut album was nearly 30 yrs ago!
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Yes, that is excellent start to finish.
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The former is a public protestant fraternity and the second a shadowy fraternity for people who believe in a supreme being and the immortality of the soul. The former is concerned with protestant supremacy, the second allegedly a network of personal favours and unseen advantages. (Re the OO - as there are 10s of 1000s of different protestant groups, all with their own beliefs, imo a protestant fraternity is more honestly called a not-Catholic fraternity.) I think in large part both are chiefly drinking clubs. My grandfather and uncle (both deceased) on my father side were both masons, yet neither was remotely religious.
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Although the masons would technically accept them, the Church forbids Catholics from joining the masons and regards it is a sin. The masons technically accept anyone of any faith who believes in a higher power, essentially meaning they are indifferent to the nature specific religions and regard them all as being much of a muchness. This conflicts with Catholic doctrine, which teaches that the Catholic faith alone is true and all others false. Which is, of course, correct. Additionally, like any right thinking people, the Church dislikes and is suspicious of secret clubs. The Church is at a low point in its history, to the extent that its often suggested that its philosophical hostility to freemasonry or false religions has ended (it often does erroneous things which justify such suggestions). But, regarding the masons, it has come out swinging in recent months, reminding us that Catholics are forbidden from joining. Caveats: - while the masons technically accept anyone of faith, lodges in Scotland will be chock full of huns who would be suspicious of Catholic joiners. - there will be plenty of nominal Catholics in the masons, but they are not kidding anyone but themselves.