Off sick windy thread!
So how do you feel about Scotland? Do you care a jot about their independence and currency debate?

Alt: do you like documentaries?
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:26, 216 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

I think they are being a bunch of sillies.
Alt: Rather depends on the subject matter.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:28, Reply)

Well yeah, there was a great documentary on Russia the other night.
Fantastic.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:32, Reply)

I like documentaries on music, because I have a very limited interest range.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:37, Reply)

Will there be a 'behind the scenes' section on the new album?

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:40, Reply)

I'm not sure there is a great deal of interest to be had from two men moving slowly around a shed.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:41, Reply)

There's probably a YouTube channel for it already.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:42, Reply)

As a fan, I'd be interested, I mean I think I should have a say here.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:43, Reply)

Just for you then, here is a picture of the shed:

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:50, Reply)

Is that the shed on my postcard? Cor!

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:06, Reply)

No, the shed on your postcard is in Roslea, Co Fermanagh
This shed is in Coventry.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:21, Reply)

alright
I'm Scottish. I'd like to see them independent, but there are too many important issues which the SNP haven't got cleared up. So, heart says 'yes', head says 'no'.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:29, Reply)

This is it,
People keep asking Alex questions, and he's all like "don't worry, it'll be great!"
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:34, Reply)

yeah, I sympathise with him really
But until the currency thing is sorted out then he's fucked. Everything else is pretty much manageable, but if he can't sort out whether it's Sterling, Euro or a new currency then it's a no go.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:37, Reply)

how do you expect it to stay afloat, when so much is funded by english taxes?
financially, not physically
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:35, Reply)

it's not as black and white as that
A fair chunk of oil and gas revenues go straight to England (crown estates et ), so it's disingenuous to state that Scotland operates only under English funding. There's also a very well established banking, fund management and financial services sector which does pretty well.

Every side of the yes/ no divide agree that Scotland can operate independently given current economic factors, it's not really an issue.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:40, Reply)

i'm sure people would LOVE having to pay for their own prescriptions and university fees

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:47, Reply)

He's right about the money.
It would get worse within a generation but is sustainable for now.

Without their own currncy though there is little sovreignity. Esp if they went with Sterling.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:51, Reply)

they did it before

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:53, Reply)

and then had to come running to the English for a bail out
when you spent all your money trying to conquer a south American swamp
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:05, Reply)

when they realised what they'd voted themselves out of, there'd be an uproar
well, a slow dull muttering, anyway
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:12, Reply)

I care not for the fate of the porridgewog.
Alt: I have a documentary saved on my magic telly recording box from a couple of years ago on this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repository
I found it fascinating, especially the thoughts on how to mark it as dangerous to future generations in thousands of years, when language may and probably will change beyond recognition.
( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:29, Reply)

I might watch something on that

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:31, Reply)

This is one, but not the one I have. It's good though.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Eternity_(film)

LINK FAIL CLICK THE ONE THAT SAYS 'FILM'
( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:33, Reply)

just draw a scary picture on the door

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:32, Reply)

There isn't going to be a door silly.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:33, Reply)

no door?
But then all the radiations would leak out, silly.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:34, Reply)

I think they're filling it in silly

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:35, Reply)

with expanding foam?

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:43, Reply)

Yes, with a final skim of polyfilla

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:43, Reply)

I think they should have a vote and then fuck off the ungrateful cunts.
No way should they get the Pound and the stability and bank of last resort benefits built on the backs of English (not British) tax payers. And in any event, why don't the rest of us get to vote too, it effects us?

Give them the oil back and then send the Navy to take it back by force. I am also pro-Hadrians Wall. Something like the Israel/Palestine wall will do nicely.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:30, Reply)

oi stunned!
The BoE was founded by a Scotsman or saink.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:32, Reply)

Many fine things in our modern country have been Scot invented or devised.
We are better as one country.

Alex Salmond's inferiority complex is not a reason to break up the UK.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:37, Reply)

it's not one country though and hasn't been so for a very long time

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:41, Reply)

I like the idea of the wall, maybe escape from new York style.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:33, Reply)

I'd cancel their fucking passports and driving licences too.
Burn their birth certificates if they are in our possession. Take the BBC off the airwaves in Scotland and block mobile phone frequencies that aren't going to be theirs or charge massive roaming fees obv.

I'd like to see them set up a state over night from scratch.

All of this for 5m people? 3 times that live within the M25.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:41, Reply)

Couldn't we round up all the ex-pat Scots and send 'em all back too?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:42, Reply)

yeah!

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:43, Reply)

I'd certainly make all of you apply for residency until your EU membership was complete.
Which, btw, I'd veto.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:45, Reply)

^ this ^
oooh Scotland's so great, it's so lovely, it's so great and lovely that I fecked off as soon as I could.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:47, Reply)

It does all seem a bit pointless to me.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:44, Reply)

what was that film with all the infected people caged up in Scotland?
Doomsday. Good plan then, good plan now.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:02, Reply)

i loved the currency thing
och, we'll keep the pound.

er no. that's not your decision.

och then, we'll have the euro.

er NO. that's not your decision.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:34, Reply)

Maybe they will just trade haggis.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:36, Reply)

And assorted deep fried and battered food

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:38, Reply)

I feel like they'd win.
I had deep fried chocolate ravioli yesterday and it was well good.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:40, Reply)

I expect it will be quite the opposite when it 'unraviolies' out your arse.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:42, Reply)

I feel quite sorry for people who think of the entire digestive process when someone mentions food.
It's a bit like those with OCD who go mad about germs.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:47, Reply)

i'm just worried that he is thinking about your bum-oley

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:48, Reply)

When I think of Shakira shaking her thang in my face, I generally don't think of what she does with it first thing in the morning.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:51, Reply)

I just took the opportunity to use a word that sounds like 'unravel', my depth of thought went no further than this

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:52, Reply)

I can see no flaws in your reasoning and thus support it wholeheartedly.
#affect/effect
( Kroney, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:35, Reply)

I wasn't sure which. I stick with effect normally.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:42, Reply)

if he EFFECTS the transaction properly, the EFFECTS will AFFECT you

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:44, Reply)

see also in/dependent and dependant
your DEPENDANTS are DEPENDENT upon you.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:46, Reply)

yer, that annoys me an' all

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:55, Reply)

Definately.

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:04, Reply)

keep these things SEPARATE
not SEPERATE, you loser.

and BUISNESS. ffs.

the only exception is gonz, who hugely improves things. fwah gwah might even have overtaken oboejeans as my new favourite gonzism.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:13, Reply)

defiantly
Also, 'loose' instead of 'lose' and 'chose' instead of 'choose'.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:14, Reply)

You effect something
Something affects you.
( Kroney, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:44, Reply)

Unless, of course, you're affecting something, but we'll ignore that for the moment.

( Kroney, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:45, Reply)

Chz. Noted.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:47, Reply)

Then, of course, something can have an effect on you.

( Kroney, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:51, Reply)

Effect as in, about to do. Affect as in, has just happened.
When I pirated Ben Assfleck's latest movie; the effect is that i'll have something to watch, but the affect is that he'll lose money. Or the other way around, WHY ARE YOU ASKING ME, I'M A MORRON ANYWAY.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:50, Reply)

All we got to do really is put the M25 on stilts, about 150metres high.
It's not like Eddingborough have nukes.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:40, Reply)

I'd like to have a vote in England, Wales & Northern Ireland, to see if we want the Scots to stay in the Union.
Alt: I enjoyed the Louis Theroux ones and like watching wildlife ones, particularly about big cats.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:38, Reply)

It'd be pretty lol if they voted to stay, but we all voted them out.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:39, Reply)

Exactly.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:42, Reply)

nobody likes the scots
even the americans think they are moaning cunts, and we know how the americans LOVE to think they have heritage from somewhere
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:45, Reply)

the French like the Scots
As do the Dutch.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:46, Reply)

We shouldn't have devolved any power to the regions in the first place. Give them a bit of responsibility & they get all cocky.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:47, Reply)

People with one Scotch relative or a vague history of Scotchcuntness often think they are Scotch as a result of this. It annoys me.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:47, Reply)

Speaking as somebody of limited Scottish extraction, I don't really care.
Though I would like it if, should they vote to be independant, they should fuck off and leave us alone; should they vote to remain in the UK, they should take the fucking chip off their collective shoulder and stop acting like the sulking kid brother.
( Kroney, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:44, Reply)

And if they do go independent, they can have exactly the same treatment as the God-damned French.
Exactly as much help and favourable trading as Brussels forces us to and not one iota more.
( Kroney, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:50, Reply)

The basis of the nationalism seems entirely founded in hatred of the English.
The rest is just detail.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:45, Reply)

no, it isn't

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:47, Reply)

^bates tbe Englisb^

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:54, Reply)

bates tbe ^ wants to be
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:09, Reply)

I'm getting really fucking sick of moaning Celts banging on about hating the English for some shit that happened hundreds of fucking years ago.
Vote 'em all out. They'll be begging England and the EU for handouts within weeks.
( Kroney, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:47, Reply)

I say we operate a scorched earth policy on exit.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:48, Reply)

I say we grant them independence, then fucking conquer them all over again, the whinging shitbags.

( Kroney, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:52, Reply)

I like this idea a great deal.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:53, Reply)

Hahaha

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:54, Reply)

I've said this.
Don't even waste the public money on a vote. Grant independence and then take it back. A little genocide and we don't have to consider this for another 300 years.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:54, Reply)

I'll vote for you.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:02, Reply)

A lot of the atrocities in that period were committed by turncoat Scots anyway

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:53, Reply)

Like my Dad's lot.
Men on both sides of the battle of Culloden.

lol
( Kroney, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:54, Reply)

less turncoats
and more the fact that the lowland and highland scots have always wanted to have a dust up and took the opportunity
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:12, Reply)

Lowlanders are basically English, anyway.

( Kroney, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:13, Reply)

Inside every forrin is an Englishman in need of rescue.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:22, Reply)

Lothian used to be part of the kingdom of Northumbria/Bernicia
So in Edinburgh, this is absolutely dead accurate.
( Kroney, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:26, Reply)

Bunch of subjugated fannies.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:48, Reply)

The problem was with the manifesto that Salmond
sent out at the start, in that he essentially said which bits he wanted to keep and which bits he didn't. Forgetting that they don't actually get to say which bits they keep if they leave. To then accuse Westminster of bullying was laughable as that seems to have been his drum from the very start. It is laughable that its has even got this far without a lot of issues being resolved and I feel that the Scots are getting a very poor deal from this as they are being asked to vote on something that will majorly affect them without many key issues being sorted. A simple Och it will be fine fuck the English from the SNP is not a reason to decide your countries future.

Alt: I have seen many fine sex based documentaries
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:53, Reply)

The main problem is he never really expected it to get this far.
Now that it has, he's panicking.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:56, Reply)

He makes me sick.
I can't even look at the cunt. Like Gordon Brown who has been SILENT on the issue. A former British Prime Minister.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:58, Reply)

that is how he sounds the most sensible, though
god he was a prick.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:14, Reply)

Gordon Brown texture like sun
lays me down through my mind he runs
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:20, Reply)

I like Gordon Brown.
Circumstances kind of ruined things for him and his desire to be Prime Minister clouded his judgement too much in the end.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:26, Reply)

what did you like about him, exactly?
the recession? or flogging off the gold reserves at rock bottom prices? or any of his other amazing actions that helped us all so very much?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:28, Reply)

You think that Gordon Brown caused the global recession?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:30, Reply)

i would put nothing past that bonk-eyed, power-mad flid
MAKE ME PRIME MINISTER, TONY. IGNORE THE FACT THAT NOT ONE FECKER VOTED FOR ME, AND QUITE CLEARLY THEY ALL HATE ME BECAUSE I'M A BONK-EYED FLID.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:33, Reply)

Ignoring your obvious mistake (we don't vote for Prime Ministers), I agree it was a mistake not to call an election after he took over the leadership.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:35, Reply)

That was funny and deeply tragic. The amount of know-nothing morons
that screeched about not having voted in Brown, when they hadn't voted in Blair, either.
( Kroney, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:40, Reply)

you say that, and technically it's of course true
but you can't deny that is how people think. and that was the point that brown either deliberately or dumbly overlooked: he didn't realise or didn't care that people didn't like him; he was going to be PM regardless.

result? the most unpopular PM ever.

still, at least we got the comedy gold of him slagging off a pensioner and then being stupid enough to be filmed talking about it because he thought he was on the radio.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:50, Reply)

I think Eden was the most unpopular PM while in office
And stop the Gold thing you are wrong
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 12:06, Reply)

He'd have been much better off going
"Yes, I called her a bigot. Because she clearly is, and I don't like bigots."

He lacked the balls, sadly.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 12:08, Reply)

Man who is not media friendly in media gaff shock

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 12:09, Reply)

It was painful to watch when his advisors tried to get him to smile more

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 12:13, Reply)

I think they just wired up the corner of his mouth and shocked him when they wanted it to happen
He should have played up on the disabled card more
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 12:29, Reply)

He could have nipped this whole situation in the bud, simply by giving her a straight answer to her question:
Bigoted lady: "Where are all these Eastern Europeans coming from?"
Gordon: "Eastern Europe."
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 12:15, Reply)

"Light touch" regulation of the banks didn't help.
RBS was biggest bank in the world in 2008. How the shuddering fuck did that happen?
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:35, Reply)

He and Tone did a bit of dealing with the devil in order to succeed, it's true.
But it is lazy Tory rhetoric to focus on silly things Labour did (acting more like Conservatives) and to ignore the great deal of good that they did.
They were far from perfect, but at least they were trying to effect a change for the better.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:39, Reply)

er
no, no they were not. they were simply seeking personal gain. look how much money the pair of them have made off the back of their careers. they sicken me, a truly slimy and reprehensible pair of fucktards.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:49, Reply)

So they were politicians then

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:51, Reply)

well, yeah. this.
there are very few politicians that are worth of respect. there's....

and..........
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:56, Reply)

^^this is bollocks.
The money is always a bi-product of high office.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:51, Reply)

yeah but that's why they do it
so to say "they were just trying to do their best" is bollocks. they were seeking power and as much personal gain as possible.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:53, Reply)

Same as any other job.
ANY OTHER JOB.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:54, Reply)

but nobody else pretends that they have a bleeding heart and want to help the people
only politicians. and those 2 more than any other.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:54, Reply)

+lawyers

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 12:00, Reply)

was it?
Surely it was Citi, not RBS?
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:57, Reply)

He was instrumental in bailing out the banks to stop the freefall
The gold reserves thing is a fucking stupid statement to make as the price was correct at the time of sale... at that time no one would have expected the price to sky rocket as it did, the gold price going up was a direct result of the recession as people put their money into it artificially inflating its value.

Gordon Brown for all his faults was a superb politician and one of the best chancellors in years, if you look at the actual figures rather than the "gap" figures that George used you will see that he generated one of the longest periods of growth in the UK
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:38, Reply)

he's a bonk-eyed flid
blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/thomaspascoe/100018367/revealed-why-gordon-brown-sold-britains-gold-at-a-knock-down-price/
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:52, Reply)

still doesnt change the fact that they were sold at the market value at the time
comparing a price of $300 in 2000 to £1600 in 2012 is fucking stupid and you know it.
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:58, Reply)

Also you can compare it to successive Tory gov's
selling national utilities
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:59, Reply)

this is exactly correct

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:59, Reply)

^this man knows onions^

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 12:00, Reply)

I liked it when he smashed that bird in the face with a phone or whatever

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:39, Reply)

Gordon CLOWN more like!!!!
( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:22, Reply)

HAVEN'T YOU LEARNED YOUR LESSON?

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:28, Reply)

I DUN IT SMALL

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:36, Reply)

If you think that a vote for independence = a vote for the SNP, you're a bit thick.
It's a lot of shouting on both sides really; the no campaign is running with scaremongering whereas the yes campaign does seem to be very 'it'll all be fine' without backing everything up.

I'm English but I live in Scotland, I was against it but every time the tories make a decision I lean a little more towards yes.

Plus whilst Scotland may not keep the pound, it also wouldn't have to keep George Osbourne, so it's alright really.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:40, Reply)

Yeah, I wouldn't mind independence from our current administration

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:46, Reply)

Indeed, the thing is the thing our current administration are doing doesn't seem to be very reversible.
And some of the things they're doing around civil liberties are genuinely terrifying (IPSA's and whatnot).
( Slippery Mick ‏, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:48, Reply)

I went on holiday in Scotland. I drove south all fucking day and got to the North.
It's not fucking natural. All day driving south and I got to Newcastle. I'm not having it. It's witchcraft. Burn them all.
( Kroney, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:54, Reply)

The A1 north of Newcastle is a fucking joke

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 10:59, Reply)

The A1 north of
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:01, Reply)

liddlebiddafootball

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:06, Reply)

Simple and effective
8/10 would office smirk again
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:08, Reply)

Anyone who uses the A1 beyond Newcastle is a fuckwit.
Take the A697/A68. More direct, better road, fewer cameras/caravans.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:03, Reply)

I do

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:05, Reply)

You take the A1 and you're a fuckwit, or you take the 697/68?

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:07, Reply)

Column A - Column B

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:08, Reply)

M74

( Slippery Mick ‏, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:43, Reply)

There was a tailback from Fort William all the way down to Glasgow.
I didn't even wan tto go to Glasgow. I had to drive through Paisley. They should have independence just so that innocent Englishmen don't have to see Paisley. That place makes Coventry look like a Caribbean village.
( Kroney, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:04, Reply)

I went to Govan hill in Glasgow a few months ago
*shivers*
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:07, Reply)

That's where my paternal Grandfather was born and raised.
First opportunity he got, he ran off to the relative paradise of Woolwich. Sensible man.

I haven't been there. I wouldn't last five minutes, there.
( Kroney, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:08, Reply)

It longs be be upgraded to "grim as fuck"

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:09, Reply)

^coming from a scouser^

( Kroney, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:23, Reply)

ey ey ey

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:28, Reply)

Hahahahahahahahaha. Yeah, mon.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:08, Reply)

It is, without any doubt at all, the most miserable, benighted, woebegone place I have ever, ever been to.
And I've been in Wales on a wet Sunday.

The place would make a Dementor miserable.
( Kroney, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:11, Reply)

Glasgow is a fucking shit-hole
The only place I've ever been invited "ootside" - and it wasn't to exchange underwear.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:14, Reply)

As one of the few on this board who actually reside in Porridgewogland I can quite categorically say
that Alex Salmond is a fat, smug, racist cunt.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:01, Reply)

He looks like his own waxwork dummy

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:08, Reply)

Hahahahaha

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:10, Reply)

*Votes fister*

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:08, Reply)

*fists voter*

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:09, Reply)

^ John Prescott ^

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:10, Reply)

Well played

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:10, Reply)

"connecting with the people"

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:13, Reply)

*votes fist ... *
Hang on this doesn't work
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:10, Reply)

* fiddles expenses*

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:10, Reply)

*fiddles with female constituents*

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:11, Reply)

*fiddles while Rome burns*

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:11, Reply)

A nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there
Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee have been the scene of epic nights out

Alt:
Yep, but not ones on fucking knobbers who hoard shit or on benefits and 'ting like that
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:03, Reply)

If Scotland leave the union, Westminster will only ever have Conservative governments
Labour will lose 41 MPs, and the combined Liberal / Conservatives, 12MPs. This shift in balance would be enough to guarantee continuous Conservative administration.

On the other hand, who wants a Labour government anyway?
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:20, Reply)

Ed "stroke victim" Milliband?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:21, Reply)

More like Mr Ed
The fucking gonk-toothed, wonky faced, drooling cockcbeese
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:22, Reply)

He looks like the sort of kid I used to enjoy bullying.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:26, Reply)

^

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:27, Reply)

He looks like his first job was either a helmet tester or a crash test dummy

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:27, Reply)

I think you'll find it's Ed "Cleft Palette" MillibLand!

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:27, Reply)

I'd far rather have a Labour government than a Conservative one.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:23, Reply)

that is because you are a leftie handwringing prick
and I say that with a LOT of love.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:25, Reply)

I know you love me really

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:29, Reply)

^^benefit scrounger

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:25, Reply)

Shut up, you're as left as I am.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:27, Reply)

Shhh!
Someone will hear.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:30, Reply)

*loses all respect for stunned*

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:35, Reply)

*doesn't worry about the loss of respect of a lawyer*

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:36, Reply)

Easily bought back

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:40, Reply)

In that case, you should probably vote Labour. HTH xx

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:26, Reply)

vote labour get stoned and sit dribbling rather than actually make it to the polling station
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:27, Reply)

I always exercise my right to vote and bring my children along to teach them the importance of doing so.
I do usually get stoned first, though.
And, if you don't mind, I'm rather sensitive about my dribbling problem.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:29, Reply)

It makes no difference here in this Labour heartland!!

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:27, Reply)

I don't really care, I tend not to involve myself in semi serious conversation online as you're mostly autistic knob heads with half baked ideas and overwhelming superiority complexes

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:33, Reply)

^ TGGI

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:40, Reply)

^

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:48, Reply)

^ One man think-tank

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:27, Reply)

I always vote for my local MP, who just happens to be a Labour MP.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:29, Reply)

Pricks, Barters, that's who.

( Kroney, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:24, Reply)

Hiya!!!

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:29, Reply)

it's hugely biased towards labour anyway
www.instituteofopinion.com/2013/05/electoral-bias-and-the-2015-uk-general-election/
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:26, Reply)

It's hugely biased in bearing no relation to the actual proportion of votes cast regardless of who favour

( Bazongaloid, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:29, Reply)

We should have a referendum on whether we want to adopt Proportional Representation.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:32, Reply)

Yes and it should have been done correctly rather than the sham version that we ended up with

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:41, Reply)

what, a first past the post poll on PR?
What form of PR are you in favour of?
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 12:01, Reply)

plus, referendums when we have representative democracy?
What fuckery is this?
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 12:03, Reply)

i remember learning about pocket/rotten boroughs when we did the chartists at school
imagine being the only person in your constituency who could vote. or owning a wall that had the right to vote. madness.

what we have now is still too much of a vague hangover, and does need overhauling, although fucked if I have a better idea.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:34, Reply)

Is it time for a lunch thread yet?

(DBT became a fruitarian on, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:46, Reply)

I think we've pretty much exhausted this subject and can move on to a new thread.
Let's make it a bit more interesting than lunch though, eh
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:48, Reply)

Maybe include an elevenses section, or brunch?

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:49, Reply)

Bruncb!

(DBT became a fruitarian on, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:56, Reply)

elebenses!

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:57, Reply)