Superstar Tradesman

The thing is, what is being done about it? Nothing as far as I can see, other than pointing a finger at a deid sick cunt. Why isn't anyone following up with questions like: Who were the arresting officers? Who let all these accusations slide? Who swept all these assaults and rapes under the carpet? Who kept him in the clear to continue fucking kids, corpses and disabled folk? Someone had to be pulling the strings to have him get away with it for so long. Someone must have been watching his back. Just seems like they've gone "Ah well, he's dead now, case closed". Surely some of the rest of the people responsible must still be kicking about that can be outed for this scandal? The buck surely doesn't stop at Saville but what's being done?

I see Scott Brown has now overtaken Clangers in minutes played. Would be good to compare all of their stats side by side.

The Arabs play the Tims three times in March. We actually need them to come onto a bit of a game if they're going to be of any help to us.

Fly via Moscow, they're giving it away for free. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11309785/Rouble-strengthens-as-Russia-forces-exporters-to-dump-foreign-cash-reserves.html

Of those 2m viewers you'll probably find a few million more subscribers sitting round their mate's house watching the same tv, and a few million more down the pub nursing a hangover over a full english. 10m adds up if that's the case. Great points made on the rest of your post btw.

Just goes to show how much they are making.

Take a walk down the highstreet and you'll already see signs of it.

I was, in a round about sort of way, having a dig at the fact that Aberdeen voted against independence. The area is afluent, the council is skint, all the money heads South to Westminster and doesn't trickle back up the road again. Still, as long as the missus has a Range Rover Evoque to tackle the potholes in the road so that she can drop the kids of at school at the end of the street then why bother with change?

Aberdeen is the city that continually votes no for any type of change. They have the city they deserve.

Yup. But like a bad smell they just won't go away. Unfortunately I doubt they ever will.

Protestant Popes, serial killers, children's charities............. you're shooting off on so many tangents there I suggest you try focusing on the topic of the thread otherwise it's going to be like herding cats. But to answer your question, I'll recap as it's plainly gone straight over your head: I'm surrounded by them. I work, rest and play with them on a daily basis. Visit their countries on a fairly regular basis. Eat their food. Read their newspapers. Take an interest in their culture. Garner their thoughts on current issues such as this. Sikhs - nope, although I see plenty kicking about, but I can't say I know any personally. Hindus - as per the Muslim community above. Jews - nope, none that i'm aware of. Catholics - my father's side are all catholic. Not sure what the correlation between all that and the atrocities in Paris is though? Let me know if you need to know my experience or lack thereof with Buddhists, Scientologists, Taoists or any other religion though, as I'm hoping you've got some sort of point you're trying to make, even if I can't fathom what that is. So.............. back on track, guns vs pencils, cartoons vs bampots. Fuck it, who cares, it's just ghost stories anyway.

Well Mr Worldlywise, I'm currently living in and around Muslim countries, have been for a couple years now, in fact I was in one yesterday as it happens. The food was decent and nobody aimed a jihad in my general direction so all is well in my tiny, blinkered, secular world. The current demographics of where I stay are split like this: Whereas I believe you float about between the UK and Australia, which are respectivley split per the following: Now if this were a pissing contest I'd say you'd barely have dribbled out of your shorts and straight down your inside leg. But that's not what you were aiming for, or was it? Regardless of the Mizer-like wank-bank material above I'd say that at the very least it permits me to have an opinion of my own. As I said, my 'beliefs' are that if you're denied basic human rights to eat, drink, fuck, scribble cartoons, read books, wear clothes, attend school, cut your hair, show your face or any other weird and wonderful combination of oppressive behaviour then you're going to rebel. Be that munching on a bacon sarnie when you're studying in the UK, 10000 miles away from your devout parents, or driving a Toyota Hilux into a crowded market place loaded with cow dung and Glade Shake 'n Vac. The more extreme the oppression, the more extreme the kick-back. The Islamic nutjobs even state they're blowing themselves up so they can go get their hole from 72 frigid virgins. How much more proof do you need that they're gagging to cut loose and enjoy themselves for a change? As for my catholic priest theory; don't you find it strange that Protestant priests never seem to be tarred with the same paedo brush as their Catholic counterparts? Same religion, same God, same set of values, same fairytales, same places of worship. Yet one is permitted to go home and get his end away and relieve any tension with his missus whilst the other can't even crack one off at the wrist in fear of fire and brimstone. But it's ok, the latter will get help from his religious leaders to sweep any kiddy fiddling under the parapet/carpet, because they're all in the same spunk-filled pressure cooker of oppression.

I put extremism down to boredom. Like Catholic priests that aren't allowed to marry who spend their days banging altar boys. The Islamic religion is oppressive, whether it's the run of the mill Muslim or full on ISIS / Sharia law. Can't drink, can't mix with the opposite sex, can't wear certain clothes, can't eat certain foods, can't eat at all during certain times/days of the year. Something's got to give, especially when you grow up in countries where you can largely please yourself.

I was on the fence but have changed my mind as I have literally seen the signs that it's our year:

Peaky Blinders on Netflix. It's excellent.

How's the bypass coming along?

This for me, is the whole key to the ongoing saga. 'Regular' Muslims need to do more, or need to be seen to be doing more to out these people who are sullying their religion. I just don't feel like they are distancing themselves enough from the extremists, or perhaps they're not being allowed to by the people Tom is pointing the finger at.

Amen to that.

A real tradgedy, especially compounded given the time of year. That all said, I think prosecuting people for what they type on keyboards is a bridge too far: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-30585301

Durrant been demoted. GIRFUYYBNC yi bluenosed cunt!

Armageddon they said.

Until they can afford to pay off McCoist or come up with £8m they're due before April then I can't see anyone competent or right minded* wanting to be involved. *does not apply to ex-huns like Butcher or McCall.

Shouldn't that money then filter down to the clubs that were denied that cash due to the cheating scum?

Bearing in mind that we've just had a local company sweep in and clear our debt, and an overseas oil company sponsor us then I've got to say Milne is talking shite. Granted I've not been to Pittodrie in God knows how long......... I'm actually struggling to remember when? A one-all draw with Celtic, which felt like a defeat because we were all over them, would be my guess, whenever that was? But I digress. If it's from the side of bigger gates due to travelling fans then I see his point, but on the investors side then I can only ever remember investment going towards the Old Firm with them also mopping up the lion's share of tv revenue and competition money. Fuck going back to those days when the rest of us fought for the pittance we got.

Who?