Renton

Aye, I get one growing out the side of my nostril, like it's literally growing out through the skin rather than into the nose like all the other nasal hair. Every time I pluck the fucker out it bleeds for ages and then grows back.

Don't tell me, this is the first line in your new stand up routine? I've only developed a hairy chest in my 50s ffs, and only now it's spreading to my belly. MY FUCKING BELLY. FUCK YOU GOD. This is not to mention the hair that is sprouting out of (nearly*) every orifice. * If it starts growing on my bellend I am going postal.

Aye, that's true. For me personally, the pain gets worse with time and I never, ever expected that. But then you continue living, just live with the pain, get used to it. ALmost like a chronic nagging physical pain. Sibling death, especially at a relatively young age, is very hard I think. For most of us, your sibling should be the longest close relationship you have, so to lose that is tough. And obviously devestating for the parent(s), so the surviving sibling(s) need to cope with that too. There are no answers I'm afraid. Just have to be honest with yourself and get through it. Everybody is different and copes in their own way.

Don't understand why we'd let him play on loan though. Buy him or get tae fuck imo.

Ooof.

Nothing I can say, any of us can, that will really help. I guess except to say expect yourself to have upsetting mood swings, maybe have unwanted intrusive thoughts, and expect these at the moments you don't expect them. Possibly for a long time. Be kind to yourself and loved ones. As always, you can talk about it as much or as little as you want on this place, we're a community of fellow dick heads. Take care.

It is canny amusing amusing - and absolutely killing them - that one of our squad players Elliot Anderson is worth more than double their blue chip (pop) player.

But why would Clarke want to join a premier league club when he can have champagne football and wistfully watch the river where they built the boarts roll out of the city on the sea? Makes no sense at all.

If Trump loses I can guarantee he will be on this show in two years.

The latina chicks?

By coincidence there was a huge traffic jam on the causeway today, with some cars nearly getting lost in the tide. Caused by the level crossing being fooked by farmer Giles. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/huge-delays-holy-island-causeway-29785088

Personally, I'm the opposite. She's got a Gordon Brown vibe to me. Highly intelligent, balanced, pragmatic not idealist. Chess champion so her strategy will be spot on. It's the "grey" belt. Technically green belt land that is of no particularly outstanding beauty or worthy of preservation, whatever the nimbys say. I mean, if you bought a house on the fringe of a new estate that backs on to fields, I can feel some sympathy for you but you can't pull up the draw bridge behind you. We need more houses. With the caveat we need more infrastructure and services for them too. I'd like to see more densification within towns and cities too with better public transport links so people don't need cars. Also new builds to have eco-friendly energy systems built into them. But all of this takes time, money, and crucially, capacity. We're short on all three.

I've no problems with the terminology "tough decisions". Decisions in government are difficult, there are tradeoffs with everything. They've inherited an apalling situation: Huge debt (about 4x that the cons inherited, close to 100% GDP), a significant deficit at a time when interest rates are relatively high.* Highest taxation rates since WW2. Flatlined productivity. Worse standard of life than in 2010. Acute and long-term housing crisis. Fucked infrastructure, can't even build a simple railway any more. Cut off from our trading block, huge Brexit liabilities. Record immigration. Shambolic public services. Literally, none of them working properly. External threats from Russia and the US (if Trump wins). Deteriorating ME situation. Environmental crisis, polluted waterways, climate change. That's literally just off the top of my head. So far on the negatiVe they have cancelled the luxury of building a tunnel under Stone Henge and taken winter fuel payments away from relatively wealthy pensioners. That's it. * Why is this important? Because we are spending £89 billion quid on debt interest repayments alone. More than education and defence budgets combined. So when Reeve's talks about cutting the deficit and balancing the books, it is not because she wants to inflict an idealogical austerity on us. It's because the country is currently wasting billions of pounds paying interest that could be used for public services.

Which policy are we talking about here? I honestly do not know. 28 billion is just a number. The idea behind it is still intact and I am sure investment in green energy is still key to this parliamentary term. The number itself was dropped because, if it wasn't, Labour would not have won the majority they need to enact it. And, SIX WEEKS. Come on man, it's too early for this nonsense.

This is a complete strawman. Nobody ever said this. Not on here, not the party themselves. The narrative has always been the inheritance is a complete shambles, there is not enough money left to fix things instantly, change will be incremental, painful and certainly not immediately transformative. And now its happening as it was told, people are still twisting. After 6 weeks. Sheesh, I give up.

The way we run our parliament and deomcracy is fucked. Too adverserial, too dishonest, too short term. Social care constantly kicked into the long grass. We do need fundamental change which I don't think we will get under Starmer unfortunately. I've always thought deomocratic reform was the most important thing to fix. I don't see anyone from the left with any answers though, or any brain cells to spare unfortunately.

The right time is through exerting pressure in the usual way during parliament. If they don't want to toe the line at elections, do what Owen Jones did, fuck off and piss from outside the tent or better yet, form your own party. AT the moment Labour should concentrate on enacting what they promised in their manifesto, and I don't see any evidence they're not doing this. Isn't this a more fundamentally honest way to behave, sya compared with the tories who simply ignored 95% of their pledges? So again, what do the left want? The only thing I do find disappointing is not lifting the cap on child benefit. But again, they said they wouldn't. I am hopeful that will be lifted later in parliament however. I also hope we will see some well planned infrastructure projects. I don't expect this in 6 weeks though.

Like what? Seriously, I don't remember them doing anything they didn't say they would do. It's pretty much well regarded Labour were remarkably unambitious in their first term, after inheriting a much, much better economy.

Not only have Labour in record time managed to sort out most strikes happening or threatened on our transport or public sector, they have also successfully quelled a spate of ugly race riots. They've decommissioned the Bibby Stockholm and scrapped Rwanda. They've also stopped arms exports to Israel. In 6 weeks, in the summer holidays. But immediately we have the usual right wingers condemning them for being in the pocket of the unions whilst simultaneously we have the left of the party wailing on abouth how dare they stick to their manifesto. Increasing inheritance tax and putting VAT on private schools? The bastards! It's virtually impossible to govern this country without these two groups kicking off. Well tough shit, Labour won a land slide and there's nothing you can do about it for 5 years, and then the choice will be an extreme right wing tory party in all probability. Apparently who are exactly the same as Labour.

By trailed, do you mean put into the manifesto, which was a formal promise of what their policy would be? What more did you expect in the first weeks, I am genuinely curious here.

Did either of you bother reading that article past the headline? It doesn't say anything new at all or give any extra information. Pure click bait. The only tax rises planned are for inheritance tax, I thought we would all agree on that. Other than that the plan is for more public spending when we get growth, which we appear to be getting. I mean, we've just had record pay rises in the public sector and most strikes settled. But aye, let's all condemn Reeves as being Osborne before her first budget. Standard.

That took me a while.

Not sure if you're allowed to eat pizzas from Tuscany, bit of a grey area. Will need to check with the accountant @Gemmill. Be a while 'til we know though, it's past horlicks time.

Call yourself Scottish? Did you not read the Gruffalo in Scots to your kids when they were bairns? "A moose took a dauner through the deep, mirk widd. A tod saw the moose and the moose looked guid...." It's the best version of the book imo. Think it's probably more doric than gaelic influenced.