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- on Holiday Relief: “@Baird You’re speaking English, though I’d agree it is bad and terribly misspelt. Honestly, it’s like explaining to a 9…” Jun 19, 10:51
- on Holiday Relief: ““volkgiest”
There’s still time for you to make it big on the comedy circuit, Northcode.” Jun 19, 10:46 - on Holiday Relief: “@ Alf Baird says: 19 June, 2025 at 9:27 am “biased in favour of the minority Gaelic language over the…” Jun 19, 10:45
- on Holiday Relief: ““e.g. an englishman will whine that he couldn’t get “a full english breakfast” on HOLIDAY IN PORTUGAL” Actually, this Englishman…” Jun 19, 10:44
- on Holiday Relief: ““Ma Englis isna too bad, tho Englis is niver ma mither tongue.” Mine isna tae bad aither, Alf. An like…” Jun 19, 10:28
- on Holiday Relief: “There is a level of irony you are missing Northcode (tune up those synapses!) – the ‘boom boom’ was there…” Jun 19, 10:16
- on Holiday Relief: ““I would think Urdu,Punjabi and Arabic are the second most spoken languages in Scotland after English,” Naw, Scots langage is…” Jun 19, 10:09
- on Holiday Relief: ““the highly vaunted “approach to the UN” has been completely rebuffed at the first hurdle” No, Aidan, it has not,…” Jun 19, 09:35
- on Holiday Relief: “Ma Englis isna too bad, tho Englis is niver ma mither tongue. The first thing a liberated people grasp is…” Jun 19, 09:27
- on Holiday Relief: “@ Anthem Aye, much the same around my rural area with increasing numbers of white flighter “refugees” from England. There’s…” Jun 19, 08:28
- on Holiday Relief: “No, he isn’t. I know exactly what he’s talking about. It’s the same on the Fife coast.” Jun 19, 07:57
- on Holiday Relief: “Northcode… Why aren’t you posting in Scots Northcode ? Your English is appalling !” Jun 18, 22:36
- on Holiday Relief: ““Scot” “Was down the East coast ,North Berwick to St Abbs, last weekend,full of posh English immigrants being attended to…” Jun 18, 22:27
- on Holiday Relief: “ODASAI-FÀNAIS ALBANNACH 2025 A Hàil, Fosgail an doras… Fosgail saitse an spàil-fhànais, a Hàil… Cha chreid mi gum fosgail, a…” Jun 18, 22:11
- on Holiday Relief: “I would think Urdu,Punjabi and Arabic are the second most spoken languages in Scotland after English, then Polish. Was down…” Jun 18, 21:38
- on Holiday Relief: ““It will just add to the usual crap, hot air and stinking filth coming south across the border, boom boom!”…” Jun 18, 21:24
- on Holiday Relief: “@ Northcode says: 18 June, 2025 at 8:45 pm I saw that story on the BBC. I wondered if somebody…” Jun 18, 21:09
- on Holiday Relief: “@ Confused says: 18 June, 2025 at 7:25 pm “the anglos will have 3 months to learn 500 Scots words”…” Jun 18, 21:00
- on Holiday Relief: ““The figures from the 2022 Census showed 130,161 people in Scotland had some Gaelic skills – an increase of 43,105…” Jun 18, 20:45
- on Holiday Relief: “O/T Swinney the ninney and precious kate refused to meet with nurse peggie ay follyrood today Terrible” Jun 18, 20:22
- on Holiday Relief: “@Confused says: 18 June, 2025 at 7:35 pm No, nothing coming through! Why aren’t you posting in Scots, Confused? Seriously!…” Jun 18, 19:48
- on Holiday Relief: “All the whining bastards on wings are english bastards. – that is my hypothesis. Whining is not ordinary complaining about…” Jun 18, 19:35
- on Holiday Relief: “@ TURABDIN says: 18 June, 2025 at 6:37 pm “Modern Hebrew was constructed from various sources including the liturgical language…” Jun 18, 19:32
- on Holiday Relief: “ottomanboi – The use of Hebrew as the national tongue, an ancient language no one spoke, was a deliberate choice…” Jun 18, 19:28
- on Holiday Relief: “The point is : the anglos will have 3 months to learn 500 Scots words – if not, then they…” Jun 18, 19:25
- on Holiday Relief: “@ Confused says: 18 June, 2025 at 6:42 pm Haha, who cares. The key takeaway is that whatever it was,…” Jun 18, 19:13
A tall tale
Wee Books
Probably a robbery
Transphobia
Life in Bedlam
Video
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Your career is dead,
Wish you were too.
Delicious…..
My brother just had a leaflet through the door from his SNP MSP, detailing all the wonderful things he’s done for the area.
Not one mention of the political party he represents. Nor, as my brother pointed out, any mention of the Europe’s Most Impressive Politician
#RuthDavidsonStrategy.
A knock at the door.
Is it Interflora or Interpol?
Do we need permission for Self-Pollination?
Brilliant
best one yet imo
Time perhaps again for that poignant little poem by Hugh MacDiarmid —
“THE LITTLE WHITE ROSE
The rose of all the world is not for me.
I want for my part
Only the little white rose of Scotland
That smells sharp and sweet—and breaks the heart.”
And as regards justice and injustice in high places, it might not be entirely amiss to take out of context the following first verse of MacDiarmid’s ‘First Hymn to Lenin’, and address it (of course without undue adulation) to Alex Salmond —
“Few even o’ the criminals, cravens, and fools
Wha’s voices vilify a man they ken
They’ve cause to fear and are unfit to judge
As they’re to stem his influence again
But in the hollows where their herts should be
Foresee your victory.”
Just a wee hint of Howson.
Where have all the flowers gone
Gone to Nikla
every one
when will we ever learn
when will we ever learn
Where have all the mandates gone
Long time passing
where have all the mandates gone
far far away
Where have all the mandates gone
Under a gravy bus
every one
When will we ever learn
when will we ever learn
Turns out that yesterday was the climax of WGD’s annual fundraiser.
He was asking for, among other things, £2,500 to get his car fixed.
I’m not joking:
Twittery reaction suggests he’s not Pet of the Month.
Anyone fancy a bet that he won’t show in Dundee next week?
Cheers, nice one !
If only they’d thought of it earlier Margaret Ferrier could have gotten some – particularly given the extent to which colleagues were allegedly convinced not only about the danger that she was in personally, but her risk to others in consequence.
That said, initially triggered by the spirit of the jest, the following might be of interest to anyone able, or keen, to get legalgpt onside and proceed with due caution:
Section 2(14) of Criminal Justice Act 1987 (*1) being, in context, an abomination (presumption of innocence renders entrapment fraudulent and a specific offence of telling lies to a policeman would be arbitrary) the strict inference from the oddly worded police caution (*2)
“You do not have to say anything. But it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence.”
when taken in context of Section 2 (3)(a)(ii) and (b)
“..
(3)
The Director may by notice in writing require the person under investigation or any other person to produce at [F6such place as may be specified in the notice and either forthwith or at such time as may be so specified,] any specified documents which appear to the Director to relate to any matter relevant to the investigation or any documents of a specified [F6description] which appear to him so to relate; and—
(a)if any such documents are produced, the Director may—
(i)take copies or extracts from them;
(ii)require the person producing them to provide an explanation of any of them;
(b)if any such documents are not produced, the Director may require the person who was required to produce them to state, to the best of his knowledge and belief, where they are.
..”
is that anyone who is questioned for serious fraud prior to being charged MUST become immune to prosecution (and presumably also able to invoke Scottish precedent to benefit from judicial review and reasonable compensation in advance of any such prosecution being attempted..
)
(*1) link to legislation.gov.uk
(*2) link to hnksolicitors.com
@ Ian Brotherhood
Crikey! With WGD paying 2500 quid to get his car through the MOT he might want to consider giving up the blogging and instead learn vehicle maintenance and repair. Or alternatively spend his time learning which few models of car on the planet that aren’t just shitey money pits.
It’s a worthwhile endeavor as bought my car for a hundred quid 10 years ago and it’s still going strong with over 300k on the clock.
I got it cheap coz it needed… a radiator! Bonus was I managed to source a used one off ebay for 10 quid delivered!
It did require 20 quid of antifreeze to fill cooling system though, because for some inexplicable reason Ford made the cooling system volume huge as if everyone was going to be towing a heavily loaded car and huge caravan across the Sahara.
NB. Antifreeze isn’t just for winter to stop frost damage to engine, it also contains corrosion inhibitors to protect components in contact with the cooling system from damage.
Top tips for MOT passing:
Putting a pack of chocolate Hobnobs or box of fudge donuts in the passenger seat prior to test has been proven to increase pass rates.
Probably going to be a straight fail if you put a YES badged car into a unionist run garage. And vice versa with a union jackery equipped vehicle into an Indy supporting garage.
@Ian Brotherhood.
You mean Lord Hee Haw who indoctrinated the few to vote SNP?
There are great cartoonists and above them is Chris Cairns.
Brilliant depiction of where we are currently.
@Ian Brotherhood.
You mean Lord Hee Haw who indoctrinates the few to vote SNP?
There are great cartoonists and above them is Chris Cairns.
Brilliant depiction of where we are currently.
Ian Brotherhood 12.54 .
Paul Kavanagh has become a piece of work , he’ll be claiming disability benefits ( pip) at the higher rate because of his mobility & Carers allowance . I ditched him years ago BASTWARD .
Ian Brotherhood 12.54 .
Paul Kavanagh has become a piece of work , he’ll be claiming disability benefits ( pip) at the higher rate because of his mobility & Carers allowance . I ditched him years ago .
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Brilliant cartoon, again.
And great poem from “I, despair” @10.27am. May I say I agree with its sentiment.
Hey Ronnie Anderson, how are you?Good to see you here.
You’d think after slavishly trotting out support in the face of every SNP financial disaster (legal or otherwise), WGD would have remembered not to be honest about where a large chunk of the money was going.
Also, with that kind of bill it may be time to look to start again with a replacement. It looks to be throwing good money after bad. You’d not take that sort of approach with other things, like ferries for exam…oh, never mind.
£2.5k to get a car through it’s MOT?
What’s Kavanagh got, a BMW?
Are Durham lassies quick learners, Daisy Walker a cracker should be sung on the AUOB marches
And in yet another co-running Universe, another song lyric rewrite applies.
She aint nothing like a Dame,
Nothing more absurd.
“Independence is to blame.”,
Is all you need to become a Dame.
@Ian Brotherhood
I am surprised Wee Grifter Dug doesn’t have a mobility car, for which he wouldn’t have to pay for any upkeep with his medical problems
Not to be “that guy” but… that’s the English caution.
And don’t forget Kavanagh put the wee Ginger Dug down.
No health reasons to do so. Just the inconvenience and impracticality after his stroke.
And I recall his begging bowl message after he had the stroke where he was pleading for donations to allow him to get ” a wee cottage ” more suited to his needs.
Sorry the guy is unwell but he’s a begging bowl lush looking for a freebie. He typifies the SNP grifters to a tee,
David Lee says:
Not to be “that guy” but… that’s the English caution.
Well spotted David.
One might expect that that Female police officer would be saying it with her English accent. Being as she is English. From England.
link to en.wikipedia.org
Don’t know about the police officer, but she seems to be engaged with a generic Indy idiot. Unfit, thick, unsure of what’s being said to him, and generally not fit for human purpose. Like your average Indy supporter.
ASA @11:46 pm
If sir, you cannot with logic and reason explain why independence is sensible and normal for around 200 countries but isn’t for Scotland, then you either have to abandon, or at least moderate, your vituperative disdain of Scottish nationalism or else have yourself considered the thicko you so hastily declare others to be.
Remember, any retort must contain logic and reason, not simply more of your customary cheap insults.
Looks more like a Britnat lager lout to me
David Lee @6:30
This the one ?
link to en.wikipedia.org
Each crime its own merits but looks as though the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) act 1995 respected the Law in so far as refusing to give your name, address, place and date of birth, mothers maiden name, etc was a possible exception to being not obliged to answer any questions – and thus not a crime even AFTER you’d been charged as being suspected of involvement in an actual one.
By contrast, the Criminal justice (Scotland) Act 2016 appears to have used ambiguity in the earlier act to introduce the name rank serial number obligation. A nucrime which, by accident or design, is negated by principle of Self ID (FFS?
)
*not necessarily bad for business in the cops v robbers game since its been honed over centuries of war and is presumably intended as an aid to interrogation resistance rather than, say, as a means of grooming the public to make interrogations more challenging for those who enjoy that sort of thing.
Surely it should be the Scottish caution and not the English one?
“You are not obliged to say anything but anything you do say will be noted and may be used in evidence.”
Sorry but I don’t get the cartoon, can someone explain who it is and what it’s referencing?
it’s a stitchup of a fitup of a travesty of kangaroo court, but say it with flowers anyway
the thug reminds me of a howson character; if I had the money, I think 300K is the going rate, I would commission him to paint a gigantic state of scotland/state of indy/state of politics canvas, involving all the characters and events since 2014.
– a cheapo way of doing it would be to think of the elements, get the AI to draw the bits, then do a big collage, plus liberally ripping off known classics
the r4pe of the sabine women (metoo, salmondgate)
the raft of the medusa
the ship of fools
cronus devours his children
napoleon crossing the alps
mr and mrs andrews (murrell) gainsborough
Belshazzar’s Feast (Rembrandt) “you have been weighed and found wanting”
whatever does it for you, the pre-raphaelits, dada, vorticism.
Cuffs not required.
It’s time to get the marching orders in place.