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  1. The Real PapaBear
    Which one do you think (and this is a serious question) shows greater "service and bravery" - a cancer nurse or a soldier?
  2. The Real PapaBear
    Galloway is a Georgist. What's good for George is what he supports. George is a fervent supporter of Irish Independence. George is a fervent opponent of Scottish independence. George opposes Scottish independence on the grounds that a) all Catholics would be hung from lampposts twenty minutes after the SNP come to power and b) George would be told to sling his hook from the English Parliament and go back to Scotland. I'll leave you to decide which one keeps Georgie bhoy awake at night.
  3. The Real PapaBear
    I do have an issue with Rangers being so closely associated with the military. I mean, when did this whole "support the troops (once they come back from invading someone else's country)" thing begin? Could it be that it started after Celtic fans had disgraced themselves on national TV by booing the minute's silence? Maybe as an opportunistic response to that?
  4. The Real PapaBear
    Couldn't agree more, mate. Well said.
  5. The Real PapaBear
    Ah yes. Of course. Without these fine soldiers running off to invade Iraq, Afghanistan or god knows where else the cancer nurses and geriatric carers wouldn't be able to do their jobs. How silly of me to overlook such an obvious truism. But humour me; Can you tell me which military operation, campaign or war we have been involved since 1945 in has resulted in nurses having more freedom to carry out their work?
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    alternatively, we could drop this display of militaristic jingoism entirely and replace it with something worthwhile. Why not have a particular day set aside ever season where we celebrate one particular branch of public sector workers - not just soldiers. We could have nurses one year, carers who work in old people's homes the next year, firemen the year after that. All of these jobs are far more valuable to society than that of a soldier and far more deserving of recognition.
  7. The Real PapaBear
    Went for the diamond formation mate. Disnae matter where, just as long as there's lots of them.
  8. The Real PapaBear
    Once upon a time, on car journeys of any length, I'd pass the time by putting together my all time Rangers team, or the best Scotland side from players of all clubs, or best Rangers players to play for scotland. But it's got to the stage with us, that driving home from work tonight I was putting together the ideal Board of Directors. How sad is that? FFS.
  9. The Real PapaBear
    quite superb, Mr Steel - an excellent summation of why things were never going to be what we all fantasized they would.
  10. The Real PapaBear
    Well, no. No they won't (heavy sarcasm noted, btw ) - but if we clean up the songbook they won't have anything legitimate to complain about and will be exposed for what they really are.
  11. The Real PapaBear
    I think that's a border crossed long ago. These people supposedly follow a football team who are in the most glamorous Champions league group possible, they are about to coast away with their third championship title in a row and their team is full of interesting comings and going in the transfer market - yet, what do they spend their time thinking about?....... Rangers. Their hatred for us is all-consuming and eternal and it really is a mental illness.
  12. The Real PapaBear
    I'm sure we've got an agent provacateur planted over there.
  13. The Real PapaBear
    I just love this bit: "BS - with hindsight I should have been rewarded for financial performance not football basis." in other words BS, (how very apt are those initials) recognises that he should have been paid for the job he did, rather than the job McCoist did. Sometimes it's hard to know where incompetence and disfunction end and corruption begins.
  14. The Real PapaBear
    I think the difference between the approach taken by other bloggers and that taken by D'art in this article is the attempt to look for an explanation for the hostility shown towards us. The level of antipathy, at best and hatred at worst, that was exhibited towards us by many in scottish football was so extraordinary that it merits a deeper examination. This hatred may have been fostered and instigated by the sellik-minded, but its manifestation was by supporters of other clubs as well, from Hearts to Motherwell to you name it. There has to be a reason why our misfortune at being delivered into the hands of a criminal and subsequent plight was met with almost universal glee, whereas other clubs whose non-criminal owners have mismanaged their affairs to the extent that they are forced into admin or liquidation are met with universal sympathy. D'arts referencing of Allport is a good start at looking at why this is the case. I must admit that I had indeed heard of Allport's scale before, but had viewed it as something of historical relevance to the way in which the Jews were treated by the Nazis or the treatment of black South Africans under Apartheid or of Palestinians by Israel today - but I had never considered that it applied to me. But guess what? It does. There is, beyond any reasonable doubt, a body of people at work whose aim is the destruction of Rangers FC and part of that process is the toxification of the brand and the denigrationa and dehumanisation of those who support that brand. Dart's piece has helped to articulate what they are doing and how they are doing it. He has shown that these attacks are not only something which exist only in our imaginations, but rather that there is a template for this behaviour and, like most pathologies, it adheres to predictable, and even quantifiable, patterns, and further that each attack on our club was not a random or isolated event, but something which formed part of a much larger picture. His article was extremely valuable as far as it went, which was to lay the groundwork for understanding and articulating what is happening to us. The next stage in the process of enlightenment is to examine who these people are, why they are doing it and why they are being allowed to get away with it. This is trickier however, as we leave the realm of sociology and can quickly enter the realm of liable lawyers if we're not careful.
  15. The Real PapaBear
    It was clear that until we got our logistics operations sorted out, there would always be questions asked about the effectiveness of this board. Now that this board has managed to enlist specialists in palletised freight no less, well, King may as well stay in South Africa.
  16. The Real PapaBear
    Alternatively, we stop any reference to Popes, F***ians or terrorist organisations - none of which has any place at a football match anyway - or at any celebration of Protestant culture, come to that. Removal of that stuff removes any weapon from the hands of our opponents. As for the argument that "they'll just come after Penny Arcade etc". Well, let them. The only reason anybody gives any credence to their claims about Penny Arcade etc is because we do sing sectarian and terrorist glorifying stuff as well. Therefore, the average citizen can always be forgiven for thinking that there may be something in the Tims claims about the normal songs as well - even when there clearly isn't. Take away any sectarian stuff and their claims will be exposed for what they are.
  17. The Real PapaBear
    Except it's not nonsense. I've been going for a decade and a half longer than Andy and was brought up in a Rangers environment as well. I don't recall references to, or songs about, the UVF starting until the 1980s, maybe late 70s and never, until the last few years, was there and suggestion that the songs were in praise of the WWI soldiers. It was widely accepted that chants of UV - UVF and songs in their honour were a tribute to the sectarian murder gang of the Troubles. I'm not disputing that flute bands have references to the original UVF, by the way. This stuff about our UVF songs being about WWI is a direct response to the Celtic support claiming that BotoB etc were sung in honour of the original IRA and not the murder squads of the Troubles - and equally transparent.
  18. The Real PapaBear
    From which I surmise that a) you were adopted or b) your father was doing a stretch at Her Majesty's pleasure. Other than those two scenarios, I can find no justification for 7 wasted years.
  19. The Real PapaBear
    I'm not saying that the quality of writing to be found on Gersnet is unmatched in any other fans forum, but the quality of writing to be found on Gersnet is definitely unmatched in any other fans forum.
  20. The Real PapaBear
    http://player.stv.tv/programmes/champions-league-extra-time/ from 30.50 to 31.14 "The Boys of the Old Brigade" can clearly be heard being chanted by a sizeable section of the crowd. This is on a CL night in front of a worldwide audience, mind. And yet? Nothing from Channel 4. Not a word from Sky News. BBC? Quiet as a mouse Alex Thomson? Dude's become a Trappist monk it would seem. SFA? Tumbleweed.
  21. The Real PapaBear
    Honest to god, the only thing slimier than Lennon's teeth is Lennon's character.
  22. The Real PapaBear
    Gonnae help me out here? Gonnae sumdy explain how when we have 30% possession and end up taking a point off Barcelona, we play anti-football and deserve to be slated and criticised. But when celtic have 40% less possession than we did and end up getting beat, they're a bunch of admirable hard luck heroes?
  23. The Real PapaBear
    I'd probably have season tickets generally a bit more expensive - say 10% - than the cheapest single match tickets, and also price the SMTs according to the opposition, so that the cheapest ticket for Celtic or hearts would be more than the season ticket price for those games. If we follow the Ryanair model, though, all our home games would be played in Carlisle.
  24. The Real PapaBear
    An magnificent example of how the sport should be played......if that sport is running around, chasing after where the football used to be 5 seconds before you got there for 90 minutes and then kicking people when they're lying on the ground. Even more magnificently, they managed to restrict Barcelona to a mere 82% of the possession - a huge improvement on the 88% Barcelona had last year. I'm looking forward to wee neil explaining how, despite being made to look like a shower of talentless tits for an hour and a half, Celtic were actually the better side, how Brown didn't deserve to be sent off for kicking Neymar in the back and how they can still qualify for the knockout stages.
  25. The Real PapaBear
    You been watching re-runs of Kung Fu? Getting all wise and fucking zen master on us? But, fair enough. Any argument that has me agreeing with Spiers and insulting tribes of cultured, tool using, Early Europeans would seem to be one I'm on the wrong side of.
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