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    • DaveL on Governing For Beginners: “That’s pathetic! Calm down, throw something out your pram instead.Jan 13, 02:25
    • Cynicus on Governing For Beginners: ““ Get some vitamin D into you Rev..” ========= An ye can tak the boay oot o video gemmes, aiblins…Jan 12, 23:28
    • Heaver on Governing For Beginners: “Get some vitamin D into you Rev..Jan 12, 21:59
    • sam on Governing For Beginners: “Glubb Pasha an aw. Hi, Northy. Cheer up. The dancers from the Bolshy ballet will soon be in town. Serge…Jan 12, 21:56
    • Scot Finlayson on Governing For Beginners: “This year will see the 100,000th killing, by assisted death, in Canada since the regime voted for it in 2016.…Jan 12, 21:43
    • Hatey McHateface on Governing For Beginners: “As of 2025, concerning debt to GDP ratios, four EU countries were in a worse state than the UK. Looking…Jan 12, 21:28
    • Hatey McHateface on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Looky here, Professor Baird. DaveL wants to discuss classic poetry written in the Scots leid. This is gonna be great!Jan 12, 21:14
    • Hatey McHateface on Governing For Beginners: ““You’ll know all about assisted death at the sharp end” Er, naw, Mastermind Dave. If I was at the assisted…Jan 12, 21:02
    • DaveL on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: ““Walking the walk is a different matter.” Aye for sure it’s hard yards when you’re goose stepping everywhere.Jan 12, 20:39
    • DaveL on Governing For Beginners: “You’ll know all about assisted death at the sharp end being a Bandera fanboy. It just occurred to me that…Jan 12, 20:32
    • 100%Yes on Governing For Beginners: “Calls for an “immediate” general election are set to be debated by MPs after more than 1 million people signed…Jan 12, 20:09
    • Hatey McHateface on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Aye, Alf, weel spattit. The extra word wrecked the scansion, and that would have sore aggrieved Grieve. My prediction about…Jan 12, 20:01
    • Northcode on Governing For Beginners: “Sir John Glubb says this about the citizens at the heart of once great empires that are in their death…Jan 12, 19:54
    • 100%Yes on Governing For Beginners: “You can’t even make the SNP membership see sense on Independence never mind anything else. The SNP and its membership…Jan 12, 19:48
    • Hatey McHateface on Governing For Beginners: “Want to bet I’m smart enough to attach a reply to the post I’m replying to? Another £20 says I…Jan 12, 19:47
    • Hatey McHateface on Governing For Beginners: ““check out “THE FATE OF EMPIRES” by Sir John Glubb” Ooo Northy, fit are ye like, eh? Quoting an Inglis…Jan 12, 19:38
    • agentx on Governing For Beginners: “I still have my ZX Spectrum with added full size keyboard, 64K expansion pack and printer. I will have to…Jan 12, 19:33
    • Alf Baird on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Aye, weel spattit, Hatey. Ye shoud mebbe get a wee jobby as a colonial watchdug? Ye hiv tae handit tae…Jan 12, 19:33
    • Laughable on Governing For Beginners: “Want to bet £20 you can spell ‘swallow,’ as in donkey spunk? I bet you can.Jan 12, 19:32
    • Northcode on Governing For Beginners: “Aye, the end of empires is always a bit messy and the sheets on their death beds very often need…Jan 12, 19:05
    • Hatey McHateface on Governing For Beginners: “Want to bet I can spell callow? £20 says I can.Jan 12, 18:23
    • Laughable on Governing For Beginners: “The usual wretched, calow, shallow right-wing drivel from you.Jan 12, 17:41
    • Hatey McHateface on Governing For Beginners: “Could be the explanation is a lot simpler. When so many people are now dependent on sucking at the swollen…Jan 12, 17:32
    • Hatey McHateface on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “I dunno what edition you’re looking at, Alf. But there’s no “(lose)” in the last line you quote in mine.…Jan 12, 17:10
    • Patsy Millar on Governing For Beginners: “I’d never seen that film and am now in a somewhat traumatised state. I knew Tony Blair was evil and…Jan 12, 16:32
    • sarah on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Good points, James! More and more I see what Cunningham Grahame meant when he said that the problem for regaining…Jan 12, 16:30
    • James Cheyne on Governing For Beginners: “Does or will fear of dying prevent you dying, If that was the decision you allowed someone else to make,…Jan 12, 16:29
    • sarah on Governing For Beginners: “Thank you, Rev – another clear explanation and description of the current state of our existence. Direct democracy would improve…Jan 12, 16:26
    • Alf Baird on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “MacDiarmid was certainly conscious of the reality of colonialism, identity and loss of nationality for Scots under English domination, as…Jan 12, 16:24
    • James Cheyne on Governing For Beginners: “Most of the wealthy believe their are to many people on this planet, however fail to note they are also…Jan 12, 16:06
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