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Saw this photo of my Auld Da (now gone) for the first time today. Taken in the late 60s in Croatia. That’s him wearing his SNP t-shirt. How far the SNP has come since then, and how far he thought it had from its core objective in the years since Sturgeon’s New SNP took over.
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Jeff Daniels met Clint Eastwood at Pebble Beach, and Clint’s one comment was about the Dumb and Dumber toilet scene.
“Here Comes Clint Eastwood”
“I just saw Dumb and Dumber”
“you had to see that one”
“I laughed you know the toilet scene”
“I was in it”
“that happened to me”
paid ten grand to be famous and got a review from dirty harry himself
He doesn’t mean the neutral teaching of the contribution of black folk to Scottish history (eg Andrew Watson) or the legacy of Empire (omitting the part class played). I suspect what he / she REALLY means is teaching WC scheme weans about their and their forefathers original sin.
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Reminds me of a joke from Norm Macdonald:
A man boarded an airplane and took his seat. As he settled in, he glanced up and saw the most beautiful woman boarding the plane. He soon realized she was heading straight toward his seat. As fate would have it, she took the seat right beside his.
Eager to strike up a conversation, he blurted out, “Business trip or pleasure?”
She turned, smiled, and said, “Business. I’m going to the Annual Nymphomaniacs of America Convention in Boston.”
He swallowed hard. Here was this most gorgeous woman he had ever seen sitting next to him, and she was going to a meeting of nymphomaniacs!
Struggling to maintain his composure, he calmly asked, “What’s your business at this convention?”
“Lecturer. I use the information I’ve learned from my personal experiences to debunk some of the popular myths about sexuality.”
“Really?” he said. “What kind of myths are there?”
“Well, one popular myth says that African American men are the most well endowed of all men, when in fact it’s the Native American Indian who is most likely to possess that trait. Another popular myth is that Frenchmen are the best lovers, when actually it is men of Jewish descent who are the best. I have also discovered that the lover with absolutely the best stamina is the Southern Redneck.”
Suddenly, the woman became a little uncomfortable and blushed. “I’m sorry,” she said. “I shouldn’t really be discussing this with you. I don’t even know your name.”
“It’s Tonto,” the man said, “Tonto Goldstein, but my friends call me Bubba!”
Shame that Connery never got round to making the Sawney Bean film he wanted to make.
Ugandan cannibal killed and ate 38 people over 15-year reign of terror, general claims trib.al/9X3J5wx
A few years ago I was talking to an SNP adjacent guy from Civic Scotland about a guy we both knew at Uni. A guy that ‘men’s men’ and most others loved. He said ‘he’s dead. Drink killed him’. I admire JW’s annual ‘birthday’ message. It will literally save people (from themselves)
The transparently performative middle aged guy who’s here to tell you you must ‘do better’ because his job and social status amongst the social milieu he operates in rewards it. Will stand behind any placard offered to him by a favoured Scottish Third Sector org. Low wattage.
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Tomorrow we're releasing a full UATX course for free: all 19 lectures of Professor Isabella Reinhardt's Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome, filmed in class with our students.
It runs from Rome's mythical founding to the Third Century Crisis. It ends on a question the class spent a whole session arguing about: did Rome ever really fall?
Rentable, public space, wheelchairs, based on the model for bikes would be, as they say, a ‘game changer’ for facilitating trips / interactions with the elderly and infirm.
Perhaps ironic that in listening to this and Branagh’s versions of this very ‘English’ speech, I am often reminded of Salmond, the Indy Ref years and the pre Sturgeon SNP. The appeal to something greater than the individual.
‘Campaign in poetry’. It’s been lost. I miss it.
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This is the Ireland we all know and love, before all that Palestine stuff took over
Occasionally asked the Psychiatrist ex what condition I had. ‘I must have somethin?!’. ‘No, unless you count being a bit of a dick sometimes as a medical condition’.
Jamie Oliver's wife Jools reveals she's been diagnosed with autism and ADHD as she opens up about her decision to 'come out' after it 'ruined 45 years of her life' trib.al/3WTMdqz
It should be culturally understood that being a public space Speaker Phone Wanker is low IQ / Utter Trash behaviour.
(In a supposed ‘Quiet’ train carriage).
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If anybody needed confirmation that Leith is beyond saving, saw a grown adult and a clear incomer last night wearing a half and half Hibs and Ghent scarf. A high scorer on the gentrification bingo card.
The Kelvingrove Mummy is small beer compared to the Sedlec Ossuary.
I would like to give my informed consent to be putting back on display at Kelvingrove, I dont like it in this cupboard with the mops and buckets
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I usually always ask London black cab drivers their best and worst celebrity hires.
Best
Paul Weller
Samuel J Jackson
Tom Cruise
Worst
Ruby Wax
Towns Atkinson
James Corden
Frank Lampard





























