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    • Xaracen on Everybody’s Normal Nowadays: “You are projecting, Aidan, and deflecting. You’ve just backtracked on your original assertion and are now attempting to pretend that…Jul 28, 09:33
    • Dan on Safety First: “Well, aw it taks for darkness tae prevail is for guid folks tae continue tae allow the lights to be…Jul 28, 09:05
    • Aidan on Everybody’s Normal Nowadays: ““Aidan is getting no more from me” – exactly, because you have no more to give. The idea that you…Jul 28, 06:23
    • The Flying Iron of Doom on Safety First: ““I also seem to recall that Scotland was once home to the enlightenment, those days are clearly long gone.” Well,…Jul 28, 05:50
    • Young Lochinvar on Safety First: “As my good lady wife pointed out to me, the whole affair has been an exemplar of fine footie but…Jul 28, 02:22
    • Stuart on Safety First: “The trans gender nonsense continues, this time in the shape of Museums and Art Galleries Scotland, this from the Herald.…Jul 27, 23:37
    • Mark Beggan on Safety First: “What’s the penalty for pretending to have a bomb on an aeroplane these days? Boy! This lads ass is grass.Jul 27, 22:53
    • Mark Beggan on Safety First: “‘colonially subjugated’ I find a glass of warm water with a teaspoonfull of cider vinegar does the trick.Jul 27, 22:49
    • Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Safety First: “Encouraging high-register article by KATHLEEN STOCK on UNHERD (25 July 2025) – ‘IS THIS THE END OF TRANSGENDERISM: We are…Jul 27, 22:38
    • Mark Beggan on Safety First: “Under Thatcher they would have taken away the wheelchair.Jul 27, 22:37
    • Southernbystander on Safety First: “@Dave L. International fees can be set by the university. International fees in an ordinary ni in England are about…Jul 27, 22:31
    • Alf Baird on Safety First: “Yes James, a colonized people are ‘procured’ (Memmi), the wages of colonialism (‘Equivalent’) paid to native elites, many already assimilated…Jul 27, 22:27
    • Hatey McHateface on Safety First: “@NN! You need to prove that you are not paid to come on here and make Scotland and Indy look…Jul 27, 21:45
    • GM on Safety First: “Welcome. Anything to report since you have been away?Jul 27, 21:35
    • Hatey McHateface on Safety First: “Yes NN!, I have considered the matter. For a start, my considerations lead me to believe it’s not a “fact”…Jul 27, 21:26
    • MaryB on Safety First: “Sarah, Northcode etc I find that inde-car ie Gordon Ross, also known as Partick Driver, is the best place to…Jul 27, 21:06
    • Captain Caveman on Everybody’s Normal Nowadays: “@Xaracen ‘… I’m disinclined to acquiesce to your request.’ Oh, I bet you are. Imagine my surprise.Jul 27, 21:05
    • Nae Need! on Safety First: “Well, I enjoy Confused’s posts, sometimes simply cos they annoy YOU so much, but mostly cos they’re excellent. None of…Jul 27, 20:56
    • Southernbystander on Safety First: “@Young Lochinvar. English students pay the same as they would in England yes. I suspect overseas students from China, India…Jul 27, 20:49
    • Andy Ellis on Safety First: “Folk are of course free to support the referral to the UN using the process and procedure which is in…Jul 27, 20:39
    • Xaracen on Everybody’s Normal Nowadays: “@Captain Caveman; I’m disinclined to acquiesce to your request.Jul 27, 20:38
    • DaveL on Safety First: “So how much do they pay?Jul 27, 20:38
    • Stuart on Safety First: “Mr Ellis, how dare you mention the obvious solution! Not when those pushing this farce at the UN can keep…Jul 27, 20:26
    • Nae Need! on Safety First: “Laughing out loud here 🙂 There’s an awful lot to unpack, Confused, when it comes to a witty come back…Jul 27, 20:23
    • Nae Need! on Safety First: “No, Agent X, it’s not a laugh, and we’re not treating it as a laugh either. Like wot Willie says,…Jul 27, 20:14
    • Andrew scott on Safety First: “O/t FFS Engerlannd win the footiieJul 27, 20:04
    • Nae Need! on Safety First: “Asides from your entirely unnecessary jibes/aspersions on my character, of which there were too many lolz, Mr Hatey, I do…Jul 27, 20:01
    • Nae Need! on Safety First: “Yes. Of concern to me to.Jul 27, 19:49
    • Nae Need! on Safety First: “Hatey, Ever considered the fact that those outwith those two categories of behaviour might actually be fewer than you think?…Jul 27, 19:46
    • Hatey McHateface on Safety First: “Ah, c’moan noo, Andy. 1000 to 1 says absolutely delusional. With a healthy side order of “give me Indy, but…Jul 27, 19:42
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