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    • Sven on The Sacrifice: “socratesmacsporran @ 08.48. I well recall in the 1980s hearing an elderly speaker, probably in his late seventies, commenting that…Mar 23, 09:06
    • socratesmacsporran on The Sacrifice: “I am old enough to remember TW3 (That Was The Week That Was) on Saturday nights on television. We used…Mar 23, 08:48
    • Hatey McHateface on The Sacrifice: “Nae shit, Sherlock!Mar 23, 08:21
    • Hatey McHateface on The Sacrifice: “A standing ovation, no less! I’m starting to worry afresh about a resurgence in Jacobite support. Let these people have…Mar 23, 08:18
    • 100%Yes on The Sacrifice: “@ Lorn 6:17 I think you’ll find gender ID is a dead duck and the SNP has kicked it into…Mar 23, 08:11
    • yoon scum on The Sacrifice: “I strongly believe that many in Scotland treat voting for a party the same as they treat supporting a football…Mar 23, 07:33
    • Callum on The Sacrifice: “When published Peter Murrell’s memoirs will be far more interesting than Nicola Sturgeon’sMar 23, 07:10
    • yoon scum on The Sacrifice: “You forgot the part about her suddenly leaving said shared home just before plod appearedMar 23, 06:44
    • yoon scum on The Sacrifice: “If you think the SNP wouldn’t grasp any chance for indy then you’re a loony HOWEVER If you think you…Mar 23, 06:40
    • Cynicus on The Sacrifice: “Should Chris not have used artistic licence to give the scapegoat a beard?Mar 23, 01:10
    • Mark Beggan on The Sacrifice: “The sad story of the little Nasty and the Gravy Kiddettes.Mar 23, 00:49
    • Anthem on The Sacrifice: “I feel your pain. She is laughing at all of us. A civil law suit should do the trick, but…Mar 23, 00:10
    • Mark Beggan on The Sacrifice: “” and I looked into brainwashing house and they were all running around playing with each other then my Father…Mar 22, 23:33
    • Former President Xiden on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: “So the Crown office spent 4 years trying to decide on a case in which there was ‘not a scrap…Mar 22, 23:18
    • agent x on The Sacrifice: “It’s cost £2.1m and Sturgeon is joking about it!Mar 22, 22:25
    • Hatey McHateface on The Sacrifice: “Oh dear. Exactly as I predicted earlier, Sturgeon’s comedy circuit debut appears to have gone well. Disapproving, heckling, unhappy Sovereign…Mar 22, 22:22
    • agent x on The Sacrifice: “https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25029859.nicola-sturgeon-jokes-police-probe-comedy-festival/ Read and boke!Mar 22, 22:21
    • James Barr Gardner on The Sacrifice: “How long will wee peem be alive ?Mar 22, 22:13
    • Maxxmacc on The Sacrifice: “Best. Cartoon. Ever!Mar 22, 20:18
    • diabloandco on The Sacrifice: “Hear! Hear!Mar 22, 19:53
    • Hatey McHateface on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: “Here you go, Mia: Per Apathy Ad Indy I’ve made you a wee cod-Latin motto so you can continue to…Mar 22, 18:29
    • Lorn on The Sacrifice: “100%: independence was scuppered by gender ID during the most fertile time of opportunity ever in the party’s history. It…Mar 22, 18:17
    • Lorn on The Sacrifice: “You are very probably right, Sven. All so predictable and so depressing.Mar 22, 16:50
    • Skip_NC on The Sacrifice: “I don’t see sunlit uplands. I see a well-hidden cliff. Note Muscleguy’s point above.Mar 22, 16:20
    • Mia on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: ““but how does that help anybody?” How does continuing to take part in and legitimising with our vote a rigged…Mar 22, 16:18
    • Skip_NC on The Sacrifice: “This is a good point. Saint Nicola of Dreghorn and Colin Beattie admitted to being incompetent, lazy, incurious or uncaring-…Mar 22, 16:16
    • Mia on The Sacrifice: ““berates all and sundry for being critical of and not showing empathy for SHE” Well, as far as I am…Mar 22, 15:48
    • Young Lochinvar on The Sacrifice: “Apols for the typos above..Mar 22, 15:27
    • Hatey McHateface on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: ““Refusing to participate … is far more likely to deliver change” There’s no point in you just posting the same…Mar 22, 15:25
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