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Once we were lawyers. Scottish, European, Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award. Born @ 312.2 ppm. MD Ant. Largs Thistle F.C.
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,and always have been.
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Malign on every level
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and Scottish farmed salmon while you're at it.
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He was. Like he wanted to do it loud but chickened out. No doubt what it is though.
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âšī¸ if they knew you're history of it you'd have thought they'd give you the jab.
Fortunately or unfortunately, I can tick the box to say I'm 70.đ
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I like areshole as a word, Simon. Nice mittel European feel to it, so long as the 'e' the 's' and the 'h' are enunciated separately.
If not, it's just an impression of Sean Connery calling somebody an arsehole.
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Have you had the vaccination jag (jab) for it Stu?
I know I'm old but I've got one scheduled by the NHS next weekend. I asked if there was one when I got the last COVID boosters.
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The arm looks like The Mallard train engine and the record changer like a biblical pillar. Wonderful.
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Plus, what they regard as an analysis of a 'peace process'. Neo- fascist Americans sitting down with neo- fascist Russians in a country that executes a fair number of people every Friday, to try and force Ukraine into a surrender.
A real news organisation should be shouting, 'Look at this absurdity'
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He'd have sidestepped you no bother, Sheena.
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Fair enough. đ
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I see that but in relation to your final sentence, are you only talking about full backs, Sheila? If not, I politely raise you, one Barry John.
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It is a sore one Sheena. She's a classy part of Glasgow's sense of itself, a classy broadcaster.
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Kate works for the charity, managing and organising the Glasgow cinema, Geoff, She says, rightly, that all glories are due to the woman who founded it, Christine Hill.
Kate loved being at the BAFTAS mind you and loved the publicity the award has brought for the charity. Do check it out.
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Yeah, I agree with that completely ,Emma. It's really sad news.
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Thanks, Julie. I have to be clear the BATA was Medicinema's, not Kate's, but she loved being there as part of the crew and loves the fact the charity have it
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Thanks , Ewan, the award was to the charity of course and not daughter no.1 though. She was chuffed to go though and chuffed Medicinema won it.
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100% agree đ
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Well Macdonald did for himself about 10 years later in 2003 sadly but if you haven't read the book can I urge you to do so.
Not just the best Beatles book but the best book on rock ever written, with due respect to Charlie Gillet's Sound of the City.
I should say, that Paul McCartney didn't like it.
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Yes.
In truth, Steve there's not much I would change.
I like the development if you listen to the records chronologically though 'Don't Pass Me By' and the ungracious 'Piggies' could be taken from the whole without much loss, I'd keep all the rest tho for the reasons set out by Ian McDonald below.
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Il give you run for your life, Steve. Pretty banal & with an unedifying lyric- Lennon at his most misogynistic. Can't agree about 'You Like Me Too Much' . As someone who sat, aged 11, through continuous cinema screenings of Help! from about 2 in the afternoon until mid evening I love all those songs
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And John Gordon Sinclair's moped passing up and down the street there,nearly running the American oil man over each time. Pure, undistilled Jaques Tati. What a film.
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Seriously, I don't think it makes it if they're all around, Steve. They'd try for a few days to get it into shape and then abandon it, move on.
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Exactly so. What are we voting for if the parties issue manifestos and then some super rich guy can get access to the prime minister or a cabinet minister post election and get policy changed to suit him and not the millions who voted Labour on the basis of that manifesto?
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I mean it was six months ago now and I'm getting on but for the life of me I can't remember seeing Waheed Ali's name on my ballot paper. Where was he standing?Who voted for him?
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Beautiful word that. I hope to go around Glasgow saying it frequently. Saying it in English would be a different and more dangerous thing. đ
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You too.
'Do not go gentle into that good night
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;' đ
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With you all the way. My care home better have Dylan and Hendrix, the Beatles and Joni, Patti Smith and John Martyn playing in the day room when I get there or there's going to be trouble...
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Yes to the bracketed question, Grahame.
Your point about the German government having vacillated about the AfD, of course underscores the fact that this rise has to be taken on now, opposed everywhere, by everyone.
Extraordinary that you can ban a party of 100 fascists but not one of 10,000.
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That's a great L.P. Chris. I saw Family a number of times. Roger Chapman's language even within songs couldn't have gone on a live album at the time for sure. Freely adapted lyrics.đ
' Some Poor Soul' the standout track.
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Yes, I agree with all of that Grahame. We can't treat these people as ordinary politicians with a different point of view from us which is equally worthy of consideration. They're fascists.
To quote Bob Dylan as I'm occasionally wont to do
'Let us not talk falsely now,
The hour is getting late.'
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I see Joanie appears to have achieved the rank of Lieutenant Commander. Excellent.
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'It's 5 o'clock somewhere'
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Not 'is widely regarded as far right' - 'is far right'
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Nice, hope it is.
I saw Lindisfarne three times in short order around the 'Nicely Out of Tune' 'Fog on the Tyne' time and while I've been to bigger concerts & seen more famous bands and singers, including Dylan more than once, I never had better nights out than I did at those Lindisfarne gigs
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Curlers on that very same pond, end of the 19thC or perhaps beginning of the 20th. See the ice reflect their forms.