Charles Bannerman

Well don't blame me Oddquine. I voted NO - NO in 1997!

And surely a man of yours recognises a touch of irony?

And your point is, caller?

I would add to my earlier post that there is also no point in voting for people who don't actually do anything because they are more concerned about using the electorate as a source of grievance so instead blame other poeple for problems which they should themselves be addressing - some of these with the powers they screamed about getting but now seem reluctant to use.

I would have thought that fundamental and longstanding incompetence allied with a status not so much as a real political party but more as an irritating and noisy single issue pressure group, hellbent on conning the electorate into making a single decision on one completely broken and discredited policy, should do for starters.

Aye... the sweetie is still pretty nippy, despite its attempted rebranding as a marshmallow.

For many years I believe that this was MacDougall's "Temperance" (ie no drink) Hotel.

What does it say on the back? "Wish you were here"?

Scarlet, on your first quote, cynics "up the hill" doubtless used to say the same thing. On your second one - is this a habit you should really be admitting to on a public forum?

So it has to be a case of playing Merry Hell in Maryhill this afternoon?

Hang on Laurence. You're saying you were at a game involving Liverpool... you haven't got a clue when, except you reckon it was before 1963 on the strength of having sold a motor bike... but you still seem to remember Liverpool fans discussing how to get in through a gate without tickets. It's maybe at this stage that we need the question.....”and your point is?”, because you don't actually say what your point is. However it would be reasonable to infer that, because you think you heard Liverpool fans discussing a ruse to get a gate open on some date before 1963 which you can't even remember, you appear to be suggesting that this is evidence that Liverpool fans in 1989 attempted a similar ruse. The inquest jury listened to two years of evidence before coming to 14 considered verdicts.... but you seem to think you know better because you went to a football match that you can only remember because you sold a bloody motorbike in1963!!! It's like Corporal Jones ranting on about the fuzzywuzzies in the bloody Sudan! Or have you just started a new job as a PR man for the Sun?

Yes I know. Terrible, isn't it? People painting with such a negative brush a fine, upstanding bunch of people like the SNP who would never think of vilifying anyone or stooping to..... well for instance something awful like "#Tories Bad".

As much as that???? Well, mustn't grumble I suppose.... it could have been predicated on $113 a barrel (albeit not from DD.)

Looks like the best response the Nats can come up with to your penetrating burst of objective realism is a red dot, DD. The sums didn't add up in 2014 and the gulf has since widened considerably.

Ok, so in relation to this thread..... .... what would you prefer, for instance, in a situation like this? Information created by a club, or information gleaned and processed by professional journalists seeking the facts?

This of course is a 1995 "achievement" by Jags to which they were beaten in 1988 by Clach and by a larger margin by Caley whose stand and club records with it went up in smoke away back in 1950.

Kingsmills.... if you have NOT actually been a bloke from birth as I thought, then I will accept that you are actually taking offence on your own behalf. On which subject, maybe I have in addition misunderstood your exact grounds for offence since I also have no knowledge of your trouser size But my goodness. People are becoming SO precious these days!

And did you ask them if it was OK to become offended on their behalf?

The cult of celebrity becomes more and more baffling as time goes by, doesn't it, especially the strange news priority given to the recent deaths of entertainers? In particular there has been the baffling “lead story” status in the British media of the deaths of American singers like the case referred to. I realise that there have been a few recent deaths in the entertainment world but, on the grander scheme of things, does the demise of many of these people really merit so much and such prominent attention? More and more people, such as participants in tacky reality shows, seem to be becoming famous on the basis of less and less merit – to the extent that many of them are now famous simply for being famous. Apparently there was a recent “Twitterstorm” when the West Highland Free Press (good on them!) relegated to page 16 a small story about the visit to Skye of an American entertainer. However the reality is that this individual is principally famous for being married to a woman who in turn is principally famous for having a huge ar$e!!! Equally strangely, this woman's stepfather (stepmother?) is now far more famous for “not being a bloke any more” than he/she (??) is for having previously won the Olympic decathlon. (I hope the carefully un-spadelike and euphemistic term “not being a bloke any more” doesn't provoke a knock on the door from the Serially Offended PC Thought Police! There are other, simpler terms I would much rather use, but have possibly already offended the movement with the ever lengthening acronym which begins "LG.....".) (Not you Laura) You really do have to wonder how much media attention is actually afforded these days to individuals with no conceivable merit whatsoever. I mean, what is the intrinsic merit of being the President of the Jumbo Jacksy club?

The other thought that come to mind is that what she is holding up has the words "RE-ELECT" in large captials and a photo of Nicola Sturgeon. So, to the SNP, who or what is this election about re-electing? The SNP as the party of government or the person of Nicola Sturgeon? History has shown that it's not a great idea when Nationalist parties begin to conflate the state, the party and the leader.

Brilliant! Trouble is, I thought they had most of these votes already so the "31 pictures of Nicola Sturgeon" approach may only have a limited future. After May 5th though, examine the back of everybody's hand for the indelible ink stain which will tell you whether or not they have voted!

I'm rather more with wynthank on this one. Every year since about 2000 (in some respects since 1993) I've looked around me and wondered how on earth ICT has done what it has with the resources it has had. That applies particularly to Premiership survival. I also sometimes worry about expectations which fail to be tempered by financial realism.

You mean like "It's Scotland's Oil"?

Well they've finally produced something. 30,000 words, 31 photos of Nicola Sturgeon - and all launched under the banner of a wish list containing the only statement that means anything to them at all. Despite having been told in 2014 to do one on this issue, they still want another separation vote within the next 5 years. What a wonderful set of priorities for the group likely still to be in charge of our ailing economy, struggling schools and moribund NHS. Burns..... Rome.......Fiddling.....

If I said that was a Hillman Minx in the older photo, IBM would probably tell me it's a Singer or a Sunbeam!