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Aye! and to pull up wee laddies to make them take the sticks out of their flags !! ACAB!

Evening meal would definitely go for smoked salmon starter and cranachan dessert Aberdeen Angus steak with whisky sauce ? Venison Chicken Balmoral is nice but sometimes chicken dries out lunch Cullen Skink if you have access to smoked haddock - recipes easy to follow breakfast - if you go for Ayrshire bacon - sliced sausage - Stornaway black pudding - haggis - tattie scone - you won't be hungry by lunch - have a couple of filled morning rolls maybe

Fantastic contribution. Well done.

And so long as we keep improving ourselves, that's a good thing. It's good for us if Scottish football as a whole improves. Now we need to concern ourselves with getting better results in Europe and starting to reliably generate some serious cash there.

And people will continue to pretend to be shocked at this . . .

I am trying to plan a perfect day of Scottish food for my family - breakfast, lunch and evening meal (dinner or tea, whatever its called these days - it was called tea when I was wee, but now I call it dinner - but when I was a school we had school dinners at lunchtime). I'd love some suggestions on what should be included. This isn't trying to be healthy, but it is trying to be Scottish (crisps in a roll and a can of Irn Bru have been ruled out though). At the moment foods I am thinking about: Porridge, Sliced Sausage Roll, Scotch Broth, cranachan, scampi (don't even know if its Scottish, but it feels it to me), smoked salmon, oatcakes, wee bit of haggis - maybe in a chicken balmoral but I have never had that. Shortbread and tablet get in there too.

RCP is a right wing news site. I don't mean that as a slur—I mean I could but I don't in this instance—they're a site for decidedly right-leaning political news. They do a poll aggregator that's not bad, but yeah, they always seem to rush to include polls that are good for Republicans and come up with a shifting goalpost when including ones that are bad for them. They're not Newsmax or One America Network one of the other super duper Trumpy sites, but they're a staunchly Republican leaning outfit. All you have to do is read their headlines. 538 was Nate Silver's baby, and while his politics are a little left of center (though not very left when it comes down to it), when he started it his career was in sports analytics and he made his money either on gambling or on informing people about gambling. I remember long enough ago when he was still holding down his sports analytics day job and doing his political stuff under the handle "Poblano." (no idea why) But his methodology has always been open and his selection criteria explicit. Basically he maintained a database of polls going back decades and graded them over a number of elections on their accuracy and precision, and then builds his polling average and predictive models using the stated margins of error and corrections for "house effects" and then doing a weighted average based on their grades. When he does his predictive models, he basically uses a Monte Carlo random walk and runs like 10k iterations for every prediction and gives a result. By his model, he predicted Trump had a 1/3 chance of winning in 2016, which a lot of people interpreted as a near certain thing when it absolutely wasn't, it was a one in three chance. I don't particularly like Silver personally—after he sold 538 to the New York Times he got increasingly cocky and obnoxious in his commentary. And now he's ****ed off to do something else and left another data weenie in his place, who seems to be less cocksure but possibly even more up the arse of the numbers and less critical of the inherent limits of polling as it's become even harder to get responses. But I like their model better because it's based on the core tenants of probability and the underlying assumptions of polling and they're open about how it works. RCP to my knowledge doesn't release their methodology, but from everything I can tell it's much more of an "old school" average -- just a straight number weighted by time without trying to do the sophisticated error blending that 538 does. Inasmuch as I still follow polls, I far prefer 538 average both for its methods and its transparency. As for Marshall, I mean I'm a Donna Haraway fan and I'll go on about situated objectivity until you're sound asleep if you let me, so of course all of our viewpoints are situated, but he's kind of a hard bitten old curmudgeon at this point, and not particularly prone to wishcasting. He spent all of last year repeatedly telling everyone that despite the fantastical situations everyone was playing out, a Trump primary loss was total wishful thinking and that the Donald was the nominee barring something outrageous happening. That proved spot on. He also spent the beginning of this year telling all of the "let's swap out Biden" crowd that they were spouting silly nonsense and that nothing like that was happening, and that also proved spot on. So not saying he's some kind of oracle but he and the reporters he hires often cut through the bullshit of American politics better than most pundits.

I travel through Doha quite frequently (well, at least once a year). Your bags SHOULD go all the way to Japan - just check that with the airline though in case there is something odd about your tickets. In Doha, if you're connecting you generally have to go through security again. It has always been busy when I have been there, and it seems a bit chaotic, but you get through reasonably quickly, then go downstairs into the main departures area again. It is where all the shops/restaurants are (as well as a slightly scary giant teddy bear sculpture). Depending on which gate your flight to Japan is from, you might have to use the internal monorail to get there - it is dead easy/free - you dont need to go back outside to get on it.

He was the master of the pass back. At a time when Scottish football was all blood and thunder, he used the pass back to control the tempo of the game. He had the ability to beat a couple of players from sweeper and play it back to Henry to take up a few more minutes if we needed time, or if he didn't have a decent out ball. I think I remember him scoring against Hamilton in a 7-0 win at home - he certainly didn't score many for us. Great player and a real leader and mentor on the field. I don't think we should have made him joint-manager - and I never really understood why we did.

It's a huge airport and the Edinburgh flight is usually a bus to terminal which takes about 15 mins - then follow connections signs and go through hand luggage security which is pretty fast before finding your gate on screen or there's staff at foot of escalators who you can ask and they will point you in direction of gate .(they scan your ticket) By sound of your ticket your cases will just go straight to your connection with Qatar Airlines that's normal Due to a delay Ive had only one hour between landing and connecting flight taking off and just made it - it's usually 2 hours at least which is fine .

I just don’t understand the Atlanta Falcons taking Michael Penix Jr at the number 8 overall pick. They just signed Kirk Cousins to a 4 year $180m contract and didn’t even tell Kirk or his agent that they were going to take Penix. Really baffling selection, Penix will be 24 at the start of the season and now going to be sitting on the bench for how long🤷‍♂️

Even lower than that, man. Even lower.

Naismith is clearly trying to bring in some intelligence into the final 3rd. Dhanda and Spittal are calm on the ball and can make things happen and hurt other teams. If we can afford Armstrong, he'd be massive for us with Barrie on the left.

I was going to explain some stuff from my own experience, but actually I think you should ask the airline about your specific itinerary.

Why is there still problems with members details/points ?

Armstrong reminds me of wee Jesus who played in the 2012 Cup Final.

Were the flights booked as separate point to point flights, or are they all on the same ticket and booking?

I've never had to get a connecting flight before. In 2 weeks I'm.off to Tokyo with the wee man and I'm getting a connecting flight out of Doha. Both flights are Qatar and were booked at the same time. Couple of questions. Do I need to get my baggage in Doha or is it automatically put on the next flight. Do I need to go through security or do i just go to a new gate. How smooth is it? Really anxious about those first two questions.

It's the lowest of the low, james.

Deary me.

Based on the evidence of our last couple of Hampden trips / recent Rangers games I'd say he's not alone.

Seems Regan will demand that her Referendum Bill from last year is resurrected in exchange for supporting Yousaf This essentially put forward the premise that instead of using an election as a de facto referendum on independence an election should be used as a de facto referendum on whether the Scottish parliament should have the powers to hold a referendum on anything (including independence) at any time of their choosing Good strategic move as you would expect with Eck at her back I wonder if there will also be a requirement from Alba that their SNP 1/Alba 2 election proposal, designed to deliver an independence supermajority at Holyrood with SNP constituency MSPs and Alba list MSPs must be adopted by the SNP in 2026 The SNP under Sturgeon insisted on SNP 1/SNP 2 last time resulting in more unionist list MSPs Yousaf may not play ball however since the VONC is in him as FM and NOT in the SG itself meaning there is no requirement for him to resign as FM (or as SNP leader) even if he loses this confidence vote He'd be a lame-duck FM but he kind of was already even before this no confidence motion The question is why did D Ross not move VONC in the government which if passed would be much more likely to result in a Holyrood election? And if Yousaf remains in post next week will Sarwar move such a VONC, targeted at the SG rather than at Yousaf himself?

Legally you are spot on 👍🏽