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Sorry reference to UDI was about the other parties splitting completely from their London bosses and adopting a difference stance re europe. I suspect the EU might accelerate a Scottish bid to rejoin but that purely a guess based on noises that have come out of Brussels , Catalonia issue notwithsta...

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Quite a worrying piece in the Times today about the economic impact of all this. Things like RBS saying that all but 400 of their 50,000 staff will be working from home until at least September, so wiping out other business in the business districts. A fair bit of evidence that companies are going t...

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Mr Mike wrote:

I wish.

With the current good weather we are having I'm more David Dickinson

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Scottish attitudes to immigration are similar to the rest of the UK. Immigration doesn't have the same political salience in Scotland as it does in England as there are fewer immigrants and there is more space. Simple as. Fewer immigrants definitely but let's hold off people in England complain abo...

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On the immigration thing and the possible demographic need for younger people: do the SG or scottish regions/cities advertise in rUK or IRE to get immigrants from there, whether they're UK/IRE nationals or other? I think well over half of migrants to Scotland come from England (about 1/2 million), ...

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On the immigration stuff - the SNP does get some credit for being the only major party that is positive about it. However I think its a but of conceit to imagine Scotland is as a whole more open to it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-46457341 Researchers from ScotCen analysed data from their...

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VBall wrote:OK so 5 miles it is. There is a little Spar up Glen Affric that sells nice pies. I will go there for my pies and then can drive miles and walk in Glen Affric.
Bring on the good weather at the weekend !!

House debate on going slightly further than 5 miles to go to a beach....

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Just saw the press conference with the mayor saying the cop should be arrested. He said he wouldn't go into which degree of murder the charge should be but he was spitting feathers. Yes he was grandstanding but he was right in that it wasn't a split second decision where the cop got it wrong. IAlso...

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Alandas in North Berwick isn't bad, I like the Raspberry Ripple That is not a part of the world I visit often, and I have not heard of them. I'll make a point of trying them if I am in the town anytime. That, and the wee fish and chip shop van in the harbour are the only reasons we go. The steampun...

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Is that Cummings lads actually still employed yeah? Oh Pigdogs We suspect Cummings is the employer! How long the Blond Bumblecunt lasts is another matter .... Indeed. All jokes aside spoofer Johnson’s position should be untenable at this stage. Put him on the after dinner circuit where he’d prosper...

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For me it is like Stalin's Great Purge. If you speak up you will be on that list and before even the "coming of the day", it is the end for you. This of course only makes it more enjoyable to have a little dig as the fury and steam letting is something I enjoy watching. Like any fanatic, a gasket w...

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I’m honestly shocked that Scotland only gets 3.5m overseas tourists a year :shock: https://www.visitscotland.org/binaries/content/assets/dot-org/pdf/research-papers-2/key-facts-on-tourism-in-scotland-2018-v2.pdf I'm a bit surpirsed at that also considering that Edinburgh Festival claims over 3 mill...

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Edinburgh01 wrote:
slick wrote:Alandas in North Berwick isn't bad, I like the Raspberry Ripple
That is not a part of the world I visit often, and I have not heard of them. I'll make a point of trying them if I am in the town anytime.

That, and the wee fish and chip shop van in the harbour are the only reasons we go.

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Lucas in Musselburgh The business is currently for sale. The kids have gone off to do other things. Musselburgh and Morningside shops and the ice cream factory is included in the sale, but not the sister's shop along the road. It is sad, I know of so many businesses which were built up from nothing...

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Guys - this is an interesting thread. Lets keep it that way. How about we all adopt a policy of non engagement with the likes of Bimboman, 204 etc? They just clog up the thread and are a waste of keystrokes. Like irritating spoilt kids they will eventually get bored and scuttle back to other thread...

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Boyle, Tyndall, Rowan-Hamilton amd Walton....take your pick. Fleming is the only contender... The only contender? Seriously? In addition to those already mentioned (Alexander Fleming, Alexander Graham Bell, John Logie Baird, James Watt, Charles Macintosh, James Dewar, John Boyd Dunlop, James Clerk ...

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Same Slick. Our anecdotal evidence of health care here compared to down South is that it is very much better.. waiting times are better, the standard of doctors is better, free prescriptions (my wife was amazed at this), free eye tests. We had an ambulance called out for my dad last year and it was...

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Are you saying we market ourselves better Clive? It's possible when you're able to run your own affairs and not get caught under the British umbrella when something is good. To be serious, yes, much better. Scotland "the brand" should be well ahead of Ireland internationally in my opinion, but we a...

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Are you saying we market ourselves better Clive? It's possible when you're able to run your own affairs and not get caught under the British umbrella when something is good. To be serious, yes, much better. Scotland "the brand" should be well ahead of Ireland internationally in my opinion, but we a...

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dargotronV.1 wrote:
Ulsters Red Hand wrote:https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictio ... lish/craic

enjoyable time spent with other people, especially when the conversation is entertaining and funny:

The boys went driving round the town just for the craic.
Wow, that's a doozy.

You've got us there.

Poor Mary

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Mary Ward on the way to being a true great until she became the first person in the world to be run over by a car.

That's just about the most Irish thing I've seen.

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The thing I found most amusing about moving back was the complaints about things like waiting times for GP appointments and how terrible Scotrail are etc. Having grown up in the SE of England and lived in London for years it’s f**king amazing here. Naturally you can only complain about what you hav...

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Nailing my colours to the mast here: I'm pro-independence, VERY pro-EU membership given my personal Dutch-Scottish hybrid state and would normally vote SNP, who I think have been fairly competent in most areas of government for the past decade , and easily outshine the shower of shyte down south (a...

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3 pages on politics and immigration without a proper shitfight - you see, that’s the difference

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Diversity breeds liberalism and genuinely tests it in the words and perception vs reality part. e.g. how can we see the truth. It's especially relevant given how many people like to resort to saying 'Little Englander' to a country that is by some of the latest EU survey's among the most tolerant an...

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As a start could I suggest that this thread will only work if no Scots engage with Bimbo. Since we are coming clean about which way we dress, I lean towards No at the moment. Like LN, the big issue for me is the economy. I can't believe there are that many people in Scotland who are ideologically op...

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"Your excursion north" It's a statement to make him guilty before anything else is added. Wankers. What wording would you prefer? "Your driving the length of the country with a covid-19 infected family while telling everyone else to stay put ... " Political elite being hypocritical ... whatever nex...

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Glaston wrote:
bimboman wrote:
Mick Mannock wrote:Beth Rigby is a vile person

Our Beff is special all right.

Becky High School!

Say no more.

Indeed

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Meh, that’s fine for me, move on

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Forget it

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Lent > Ramadan. Yeah, I went there. Gee, it's so much easier not to have a deity on your back. Friday - Freya's day Wednesday - Wotan's day Thursday - Thor's day. Easter - Ishtar Christmas - Yule Etc.ect. Christianity have much more idolatry than Islam. Paganism is mostly fraud, atheism the falsest...

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Isn’t rugby the 4th or 5th biggest sport in Ireland? I’m just not in to pro club rugby and am completely unconvinced there is serious growth anywhere. Obviously CVC think there is, so who knows. In saying that I’d much rather go to a mini Murrayfield on a Friday night to watch Wasps, Bath, Glouceste...

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Polling by Yougov doesn't look great for Dom. Even Leave voters (45/37) think he should resign Is there a case for Boris to say, he’s done wrong, he will be disciplined at a later stage, but in this crisis we need him so he’s not getting sacked. I don’t care, but it might be a grown up way to move on

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bimboman wrote:
Just being in the same house doesn’t count

You know nothing. But hey keep signalling how wonderful you are.

Well, I know that you’re on here all day every day with 60,000 + posts.

So there is that

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Says Slick who went out and “lived the dream” during lockdown. Yup, spending a day with my kids is part of the dream :thumbup: “Daddy, why have you been staring at your phone for 11 hours?” never came up His primary school age kids f**king love Sean Bean donchano? Wow, you’re both such good people....

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Says Slick who went out and “lived the dream” during lockdown. Yup, spending a day with my kids is part of the dream :thumbup: “Daddy, why have you been staring at your phone for 11 hours?” never came up His primary school age kids f**king love Sean Bean donchano? Just another great day inside in t...

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Wilson's Toffee wrote:I am sitting here with four different Indian cooking books around me, some of which includes the more Islamic tastes. And a well mannered neighbourly lady is Islamic religion and Indian extraction. I plan to exploit this situation fully ....

“Well mannered”? You’ve got a good one there.

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bimboman wrote:Says Slick who went out and “lived the dream” during lockdown.

Yup, spending a day with my kids is part of the dream

“Daddy, why have you been staring at your phone for 11 hours?” never came up

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SNP now given 15 minutes on BBC to talk f**king shit, and lie. :lol: f**king hell :lol: Mate, it’s a Saturday and you’ve been on here non stop since 7am posting the same things over and over. Take a break, it’s not right Go out like Slick has all day. Eh? Of course I didn’t need to point out you ha...

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SNP now given 15 minutes on BBC to talk f**king shit, and lie. :lol: f**king hell :lol: Mate, it’s a Saturday and you’ve been on here non stop since 7am posting the same things over and over. Take a break, it’s not right Go out like Slick has all day. Eh? Of course I didn’t need to point out you ha...

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