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Woman buys thing with own money 258

Posted on March 24, 2015 by

(Or not. It might have been a present.)

recordcoffee

The MONSTER!

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Is there a doctor in the house? 266

Posted on March 21, 2015 by

Our dear old pal Blair McDougall tweeted this at a minute past midnight today:

brokenleg

Maybe someone can explain it to us.

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The Huffing Post 242

Posted on March 13, 2015 by

Last night: yes.

glasgowguardianglue

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Is there no end to this separatist evil? 86

Posted on March 10, 2015 by

The Financial Times has a gardening section. No, really, it does.

horticulture

We have not made that quote up. (Gigha, incidentally, was in fact bought out by the community in 2002, over five years before the SNP came to power.)

Category scottish politics, wtf

Zoomer Patrol 263

Posted on March 09, 2015 by

These are getting so numerous now we needed a place to keep track.

zoomer

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Watching the wildlife 226

Posted on March 08, 2015 by

As promised earlier, here’s the full glory of Scottish Labour MP Ian Murray’s stellar performance on Sunday Politics Scotland today.

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The Record’s Revenge 209

Posted on February 25, 2015 by

You can never accuse the Scottish media of being knowingly underhysterical.

hatredparanoia

Tonight the Daily Record snuck out its semi-apology for telling the Scottish people the biggest lie we’ve seen on the front page of a newspaper since its parent the Mirror published fake pictures of soldiers urinating on Iraqi prisoners.

You can tell they’re not awfully pleased we forced them to make that “correction” by reporting the lie to the Independent Press Standards Organisation, because they even reference it in the editorial above.

Speaking of which – well, heck, where do we even start?

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In case you missed it 240

Posted on February 23, 2015 by

This (from Sunday) is priceless.

14reasons

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Oil wells that end well 143

Posted on February 19, 2015 by

Remember before the referendum, readers, when the £30bn cost of decommissioning oil platforms was a nightmarish unaffordable millstone around a future Scotland’s neck that proved it couldn’t be independent?

oilburden

It turns out it wouldn’t have been so bad after all.

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A sudden change of fortune 88

Posted on February 10, 2015 by

The Telegraph, 13 September 2014:

“Scotland heading for a ‘Great Depression’ after a Yes vote

A study by Deutsche Bank said a Yes vote for Scottish independence would ‘go down in history as a political and economic mistake’ on a par with Winston Churchill’s decision in 1925 to return the pound to the Gold Standard or the failures by the Federal Reserve in America that triggered the Great Depression in the 1930s.

It warned that Scotland risked a similar depression if voters backed the Yes campaign on Thursday, and described the desire for independence as an ‘incomprehensible’ one which could have negative consequences ‘far beyond’ what people had imagined.

Gordon Brown said the Deutsche Bank report showed that Scotland was ‘in danger of falling through an economic trapdoor’.”

We can only assume something pretty amazing must have happened since then.

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Questions To Which The Answer Is No 97

Posted on February 09, 2015 by

We know we were all traumatised at the time, but how on Earth did we miss this?

rogiepoll

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A thousand miles of stupid 233

Posted on February 04, 2015 by

Even we can’t quite believe this one, readers.

Good grief, where do we even start?

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