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by dpedin
Fri May 03, 2024 4:04 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 18002
Views: 971112

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

I like neeps wrote: Fri May 03, 2024 12:26 pm Blair Kinghorn starts for Toulouse in the semi final over one Tomas Ramos. That's impressive!
Ramos covers 10 and 15 so is an ideal bench option ... a bit ironic really?
by dpedin
Fri May 03, 2024 10:15 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Replies: 20115
Views: 705587

Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories

I really don't understand any claim that "he has something about him" - he is a con man, a liar and a cheat, they always have "something" about them, that's how they get away with it. It's gullible in the extreme to like this man. The fucking Guardian printed a picture of him jo...
by dpedin
Fri May 03, 2024 10:05 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Kicking off in Israel
Replies: 2999
Views: 141734

Re: Kicking off in Israel

It's interesting that the BBC have admitting fluffing their figures for deaths during the conflict. The figures supplied by Hamas included their soldiers, the true civilian death toll is around 20,000 - 24,000. Whilst a lot of innocent people have lost their lives at the hands of puppets in Iran, L...
by dpedin
Fri May 03, 2024 9:22 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Climate Change - Why don't we care?
Replies: 120
Views: 2093

Re: Climate Change - Why don't we care?

It's not even that, one of my wife's mates who has a place in Spain went there on a day trip with 4 mates last year because there were flights available at £4.99 return. That's seriously mental. I was reminded of this post just now. Two friends, one living in Newcastle, one in Birmingham, apparentl...
by dpedin
Fri May 03, 2024 8:25 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Things that don't deserve their own thread
Replies: 2613
Views: 139152

Re: Things that don't deserve their own thread

Get in there Jade! Those misogynists could even put their ski boots on because their fat beer bellies would get in the way! Massive achievement.
by dpedin
Fri May 03, 2024 8:22 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Replies: 20115
Views: 705587

Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories

Reminder, here's the twat announcing his new voter ID rules https://x.com/AdamBienkov/status/1786125618293178779 I really don't understand any claim that "he has something about him" - he is a con man, a liar and a cheat, they always have "something" about them, that's how they ...
by dpedin
Thu May 02, 2024 8:50 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Replies: 20115
Views: 705587

Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories

he doesn't come across as very knowledgeable, wants to withdraw from NATO to stop illegal immigration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qqB7ys5Quo Monty Panesar’s strength has always been limited to left arm spin, with his weaknesses encompassing everything else. Bloody good bowler mind still a bett...
by dpedin
Thu May 02, 2024 8:41 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Replies: 20115
Views: 705587

Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories

An approach which will get them to the state the GOP are now in. Yougov now has Tories on 18% and Reform on 15%. For some in the Tory leadership (Cameron) the referendum and Brexit were about defeating UKIP, they find themselves back at square one opposed by UKIP 2.0 but in a worse position themsel...
by dpedin
Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:38 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Heart conditions that deserve a thread
Replies: 61
Views: 1076

Re: Heart conditions that deserve a thread

dpedin Good to hear a story of the health services working as they are meant to. Wishing you all the best going forward, I am at the end of my “do sfa” rest period and am doing my morning walk every day, now to be joined with a session on the exercise bike that arrived today. BP has definitely stab...
by dpedin
Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:33 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Heart conditions that deserve a thread
Replies: 61
Views: 1076

Re: Heart conditions that deserve a thread

A short story. Got call from GP practice a couple of weeks ago to go to give blood as I am on blood thinners following blood clot in lungs a few years ago probably caused by covid and they need to monitor my blood. Made appointment for early morning last Thursday with phlebotomist and got follow up ...
by dpedin
Mon Apr 29, 2024 4:08 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Dinghy arrivals / asylum seekers / gimmegrants
Replies: 845
Views: 37111

Re: Dinghy arrivals / asylum seekers / gimmegrants

OS my point is anyone deported from the RoI to NI can simply walk back across the seamless border across which absolutely no kind of controls can be implemented per the GFA. So even if they are after a Irish passport just based on long term plan to re enter the UK there us absolutely no way the RoI...
by dpedin
Sun Apr 28, 2024 1:27 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Things that don't deserve their own thread
Replies: 2613
Views: 139152

Re: Things that don't deserve their own thread

TB63 wrote: Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:24 am
Feckin hell that Chinese hail could kill!
by dpedin
Sun Apr 28, 2024 1:22 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Dinghy arrivals / asylum seekers / gimmegrants
Replies: 845
Views: 37111

Re: Dinghy arrivals / asylum seekers / gimmegrants

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68914399 :clap: These people will surely just recross the border and go back to their new home because free movement across the border is part of the GFA. It looks like more of a CTA issue. As we've seen through Brexit the GFA in practice is about no barriers ...
by dpedin
Sun Apr 28, 2024 1:18 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Replies: 20115
Views: 705587

Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories

geordie_6 wrote: Sun Apr 28, 2024 11:30 am
Sandstorm wrote: Sun Apr 28, 2024 8:52 am500 pages….
Only slightly more than they've had leaders in the same time period, or so it feels...
Or Tory sex pests?
by dpedin
Fri Apr 26, 2024 10:37 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: President Biden and US politics catchall
Replies: 6555
Views: 288697

Re: President Biden and US politics catchall

TB63 wrote: Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:03 am

🤣
Even his hair is trying to desert the sinking ship!!!
by dpedin
Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:32 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 18002
Views: 971112

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

Former Edinburgh coach Cockerill blasts Scottish Rugby https://www.rugbydump.com/news/former-edinburgh-coach-cockerill-blasts-scottish-rugby/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3L4Muy4eI5tBilN9fYufTQAR0oMHQZfg8AEHN-n7XsGBP2MYYIf2CilRw_aem_AeAnC1sj1DmKyj2u4ja1HB4cnecjNU1mV633p9sM-7eWmRAghIT8rDrl2CzL2_28b6SI...
by dpedin
Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:09 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Replies: 20115
Views: 705587

Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories

I think there’s an underestimation of this: New Labour ended in foreign policy failure and the GFC Coalition austerity ended in foreign policy failure and Brexit Post Brexit Conservatism is ending with the country clearly in decline and not a lot of money in the coffers. So once Starmer fails to de...
by dpedin
Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:02 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official NPR Golf Thread
Replies: 754
Views: 27440

Re: The Official NPR Golf Thread

Crap down south too. So I’m coming your way! I’m balloted on the Old tomorrow afternoon then Elie on Saturday and Castle Sunday. Dinner at the East Pier Smokehouse. Scotland ♥️ That's a cracking line up of courses - easiest one being the Old Course! Elie is fun but I played it a long time ago, the ...
by dpedin
Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:53 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Replies: 20115
Views: 705587

Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories

In June last year there was an article that stated that since the Brexit vote 4m people had died and they were mostly leavers - presumably/hopefully it wasn't as crude as "they were old and so leavers", I don't know, but also 5m had come of voting age, again homely more substantial than, ...
by dpedin
Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:40 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Replies: 20115
Views: 705587

Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories

The model for Starmer’s Britain is Khan’s London. Don’t worry this isn’t a ‘muslamic ray guns 15 minute city’ post. What I mean is that they’ll do very little, posture a lot and funnel money to centre-left quangos. Will it be better than this? Sure I’d say so. But they’ll fail to achieve anything m...
by dpedin
Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:47 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Replies: 20115
Views: 705587

Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories

So it appears the Government is manipulating the numbers to male their latest claim re defence spending! Who would have thought eh?

by dpedin
Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:54 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Climate Change - Why don't we care?
Replies: 120
Views: 2093

Re: Climate Change - Why don't we care?

I read somewhere that every 1 degree increase in global temperatures leads to a 7% increase in moisture in the air which inevitably has to fall somewhere and this year so far it all seems to have fallen on Edinburgh! We have had huge increases in rainfall with the corresponding impact on the local e...
by dpedin
Mon Apr 22, 2024 3:14 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Replies: 20115
Views: 705587

Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories

https://twitter.com/adamcobb/status/1782144360487809391?t=4zCbH7XpoZRBZVlhsHL11Q&s=19 "FLAB?!?" JFC the photo on the left is of a thin man who is in no need of losing weight. Ive lost a couple of stone and put on a bit of muscle definition since I became economically inactive - I reti...
by dpedin
Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:59 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Kicking off in Israel
Replies: 2999
Views: 141734

Re: Kicking off in Israel

epwc wrote: Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:45 pm Which side do you trust?
That's a bit like asking me which testicle I want cut off!
by dpedin
Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:59 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Kicking off in Israel
Replies: 2999
Views: 141734

Re: Kicking off in Israel

https://news.sky.com/story/sky-news-footage-reveals-new-details-of-exchange-between-police-and-antisemitism-campaigner-called-openly-jewish-13120104 the 13 minute video on here certainly puts a different slant on the whole situation. the fella was obviously looking to cause a breach of the peace fo...
by dpedin
Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:22 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Brexit Thread
Replies: 3474
Views: 127523

Re: The Brexit Thread

Guess what ... it gets worse! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8vz9d8815po It is almost like someone somewhere hasn't a feckin clue what they are doing or they dont care as it won't be their problem to deal with? What a feckin shitshow, if they dont move the date then there will be carnage at th...
by dpedin
Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:55 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Replies: 20115
Views: 705587

Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories

Meanwhile and talking of shitshows .... https://twitter.com/pippacrerar/status/1781016090954346654?s=43&t=HLD6vNklQ4dAh8tOyeCXzQ As with Brexit issues this is another millstone for incoming Labour Government - this will have significant impact on their fiscal position going forward. Tories are r...
by dpedin
Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:50 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Replies: 20115
Views: 705587

Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories

Good day for Gov to quietly slip out that they are once again, 6th time, delaying the implementation of health and safety checking of EU goods at the UK border. Brexit is really the albatross around the neck of the Tory Party! Sorry it is just one of the albatrosses around their necks, I forget abo...
by dpedin
Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:10 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Replies: 20115
Views: 705587

Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories

Good day for Gov to quietly slip out that they are once again, 6th time, delaying the implementation of health and safety checking of EU goods at the UK border. Brexit is really the albatross around the neck of the Tory Party! Sorry it is just one of the albatrosses around their necks, I forget abou...
by dpedin
Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:03 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official NPR Golf Thread
Replies: 754
Views: 27440

Re: The Official NPR Golf Thread

Gullane No2 today and I have got the shorts on more in hope than common sense! Forecast is dry but only 10 degrees with a northerly wind, however it is past Easter and I refuse to be intimidated by this shitty weather we have been having. I have however retained my thermal base layer on top.
by dpedin
Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:57 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Heart conditions that deserve a thread
Replies: 61
Views: 1076

Re: Heart conditions that deserve a thread

Damn but it is nice to be home even if I have to be a quiet boy for two weeks. My wife, wishing to encourage me to be a good boy, reminded me of a favourite quote of hers from the movie Bitter Moon, a wife talking to her cheating husband who had an accident and was paralysed from the waist down. Th...
by dpedin
Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:51 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Brexit Thread
Replies: 3474
Views: 127523

Re: The Brexit Thread

Quelle surprise! New UK Border controls delayed for 6th time due to supply line and cost issues, or in other words kicked into the long grass and let Labour worry about this once they win the next General election. Brexit truly is the biggest shitshow of self harm a country has ever inflicted upon i...
by dpedin
Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:30 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official NPR Golf Thread
Replies: 754
Views: 27440

Re: The Official NPR Golf Thread

Anyone think Scheffler has a genuine run at all four majors in a calendar year? If the putting form persists, why not. Agreed! However if Tommy Fleetwood had putted like Scheffler at the Masters then Tommy would have won by a few strokes. He played brilliantly tee to green but couldn't sink a putt....
by dpedin
Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:26 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official NPR Golf Thread
Replies: 754
Views: 27440

Re: The Official NPR Golf Thread

Played my first ever round at Kilspindie today in glorious weather with the wind picking up through the day. In great condition, including the new lake in front of the 10th green. 😳 I was six over through seven without hitting a bad shot but then managed to pull it together and played the next 11 i...
by dpedin
Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:13 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 18002
Views: 971112

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

As an addendum, the chat is there are actually some very talented front Rowers coming through the academy atm. It's absolutely imperative that we get these lads game time. I've heard the same. Perhaps Turner hasn't been renewed - he'll be pricy enough and is second choice to Matthews at Glasgow. Tu...
by dpedin
Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:06 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Replies: 20115
Views: 705587

Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories

It is quite clear now that the whole Rayner non story has been manufactured by the Tories because they knew both the William Wragg and the Mark Menzies stories were going to get into the press and they wanted to distract the media and the public and create a 'dead cat' in advance. They will now comp...
by dpedin
Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:57 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official NPR Golf Thread
Replies: 754
Views: 27440

Re: The Official NPR Golf Thread

Played my first ever round at Kilspindie today in glorious weather with the wind picking up through the day. In great condition, including the new lake in front of the 10th green. 😳 I was six over through seven without hitting a bad shot but then managed to pull it together and played the next 11 i...
by dpedin
Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:17 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Replies: 20115
Views: 705587

Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories

Serious question. Since when do the police get involved in what is essentially a revenue matter ? Certainly in Ireland the revenue have far more powerful investigative powers than the police do, and if they think you've been economical with the truth in your return, will go through you like a dose ...
by dpedin
Sun Apr 14, 2024 12:50 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Replies: 20115
Views: 705587

Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories

As the motto goes 'Never shit on your own doorstep' yet the tories are happy to commit hari kari by shitting big style on their own doorstep! Mad. Why make tax evasion and electoral fraud as the issues given their own shitfest of both? They really are scraping the bottom of the barrel with this one....
by dpedin
Sun Apr 14, 2024 9:22 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Replies: 20115
Views: 705587

Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories

Rayner to step down if found guilty of a crime. Whilst I personally dislike Rayner, if she is found to have no case to answer then this may really bite the Tories in the arse. Hopefully this distraction is sorted quickly. It all seems quite vindictive and petty tbh but hey this is going to get very...