I heard the Killie pie is extortionate
― Vote in the ILM 70s poll please! (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 21 February 2013 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
(brown sauce or ketchup on your pie?)
― Vote in the ILM 70s poll please! (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 21 February 2013 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
didn't used to have either at a match but i'll have brown at home, i'd rather have nothing than ketchup on a pie
― tochter tochter, please (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 21 February 2013 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
scotch people say this and English people say this amirite /votes furiously
― stet, Thursday, 21 February 2013 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/nicola-sturgeon-condemns-brutal-bedroom-1714231
fuck willie rennie
― Vote in the ILM 70s poll please! (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 21 February 2013 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
better thegither
― conrad, Thursday, 21 February 2013 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
the possibility of people being forced to move into private accommodation and then receiving more housing benefit is brain boggling but i'm sure the whole thing will aggregate out as a spending cut so who cares where the money goes eh?
― tochter tochter, please (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 21 February 2013 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
oops wrong thread
― tochter tochter, please (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 21 February 2013 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/07/ian-smart-poles-and-pakis-twitter-scotland-_n_3229038.html?1367933169
http://i.imgur.com/KbFYkOp.png
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
Can imagine what he was trying to do there, but... I mean even if he'd put big 32pt quote marks around it, even then.. Jeez!
― sktsh, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
Suspect this dude wd be pretty chill with 100 years of tories in any case, as long as Scottish labour could maintain its little fiefdoms.
― I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
"Better 100 years of the Tories than... my shoelaces coming undone when its raining"
"Better 100 years of the Tories than... my internet connection being a bit slow for half an hour"
― I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
http://ianssmart.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/three-tweets.html
Now, you can agree or disagree with that sentiment and, with the benefit of hindsight, I should have put the words "Poles and Pakis" in quotation marks for it is clearly a sentiment I was ascribing to others.
― you say potatooles (onimo), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
ah, apologies that apologize for nothing, my favourite kind
― Rowdy Rathore (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
"As an imperialist, class-based state, the UK is poorly equipped to meet the divergent needs of its constituent nations in this rapidly transmuting world. Scotland and England both deserve better, as do Wales and Northern Ireland. Whether the change to facilitate this comes from the 2014 Scottish referendum or not might be important to Scots, but is almost irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. The point is that it will happen. The Union Jack is the increasingly shrinking fig leaf that strives to cover the growth of an English nationalism and consciousness, which is visible in almost every aspect of life in these islands over the last thirty years. And that, in a post-imperial world, is how it should be, and probably how it has to be. The problem that the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish have to face, is that they have no place at this party, and neither should they: it just isn’t a great deal to do with them."
http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2013/01/10/irvine-welsh-on-scottish-independence-and-british-unity/
― neilasimpson, Friday, 7 June 2013 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
the growth of an English nationalism and consciousness, which is visible in almost every aspect of life in these islands over the last thirty years
Uh, really?
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Friday, 7 June 2013 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
you querying the 30 years bit?
― sleepish resistance (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 June 2013 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
anyway "that, in a post-imperial world, is how it should be, and probably how it has to be" = lay off the smack, son
― sleepish resistance (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 June 2013 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
lol he wrote a book about heroin addicts
― I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 7 June 2013 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
More the "visible in almost every aspect of life in these islands", does he mean those plastic St George's flags?
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Friday, 7 June 2013 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
you don't notice a hint of assertive little Englanderness anywhere in public life of late?
― sleepish resistance (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 June 2013 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
maybe just a suggestion that there are a few English people who regarded themselves as a separate and, dare i whisper it, a favoured nation?
― sleepish resistance (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 June 2013 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
"visible in almost every aspect of life in these islands" is a bit much
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Friday, 7 June 2013 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
well so's the implication that nationalism is great even when it's as pigheaded and ugly as the English variety but i'd stopped taking him serious by then
― sleepish resistance (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 June 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
I never took him seriously in the first place!
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Friday, 7 June 2013 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/15/scottish-independence-amazing-referendum
― Lama Bloody SwagYurt (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 15 September 2013 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
People of the north, it's time to choose. English? Or Scottish?
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/01/scotland-vote-yes-scottish-independence?CMP=twt_gu
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Sunday, 1 December 2013 23:42 (ten years ago) link
The guy writes with that breezily chummy style that bugs me so much on comment is free... but he's actually really good at it, and it makes all the difference.
The idea seriously makes sense as well.
― Eyeball Kicks, Sunday, 1 December 2013 23:55 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/shortcuts/poll/2014/feb/26/poll-british-flag-scotland-independent
Clearly 7 is the best.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 14:22 (ten years ago) link
5 would make a good techno album cover, but not national flag.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 14:24 (ten years ago) link
8, 9 and 10 are hilariously bad. 5 is awesome.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 14:31 (ten years ago) link
I like the scandinavian simplicity of 2
― he had tons of money in the bank and left the toilet seat up (NotEnough), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 14:42 (ten years ago) link
1 looks like a tea tray you might find at your gran's house.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 14:54 (ten years ago) link
Anyway my support for 7 comes from the fact that if we're going to live in an anachronistic monarchy we may as well have some hardcore medieval looking shit on our flag.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 14:56 (ten years ago) link
I'm embarrassed not to know this, but where does the yellow come from on those flags?
― eardrum buzz aldrin (NickB), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 14:59 (ten years ago) link
Don't say dog piss
The Carling vomit littering the streets of our fair coastal towns.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 15:02 (ten years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Saint_David (also explains the black.)
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 15:49 (ten years ago) link
it would be pleasing if there actually was some black in the union jack
― ogmor, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 15:52 (ten years ago) link
oh thanks merdeyeux! seems like 12 would be the most sensible option then, but with black instead of blue
― eardrum buzz aldrin (NickB), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 16:00 (ten years ago) link
On a similar note here are some early designs for the Union flag from I guess the 17th Century.
http://www.sovereignty.org.uk/features/articles/jacks.jpg
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 16:03 (ten years ago) link
Anyway my support for 7 comes from the fact that if we're going to live in an anachronistic monarchy
Don't forget Scotland's going to be part of the same anachronistic monarchy after independence
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 16:06 (ten years ago) link
And I fully expect their flag to be an image of the Queen enjoying a can of Irn Bru.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
you can check out any time you want
― The Buzzing of Summer Tweets (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
That won't leave Rangers' fans with very much to sing about to keep their spirits up
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 16:11 (ten years ago) link
12 but black instead of blue
― conrad, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 16:11 (ten years ago) link
Oh no, just what we dont need in the referendum debate http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/referendum-news/orange-order-may-stage-pro-union-march-on-eve-of-scottish-referendum.24188536
Apparently they also have a campaign called British Together
― ۩, Sunday, 11 May 2014 22:17 (ten years ago) link
Darling losing his cool here
― paolo, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link
i would be watching but stv player is knackered. what am i missing?
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 19:52 (ten years ago) link
Not much. Salmond's voice is a bit more nasal than I remember but I'm not holding it against him
― paolo, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 20:00 (ten years ago) link