Bill

Like they would know! Thankfully these days the media is as n the dark as we are.

Not all comparisons are equally valid And I think trying to deny the existence of genuine experts by issuing a smoke screen of silly examples is adolescent.

Seems to me here’s a trend on social media not only to question expert opinion but to deny it out of hand. I read there is absolutely nothing to be gained by wearing masks when it’s patently obvious that isn’t true. We might argue about the efficacy of masks and whether that benefit is the same for everyone. We might debate whether masks should have been introduced sooner or where they should be worn, or even the type of masks we should wear, but to declare on behalf of humanity that masks should not be worn seems to me to be arrogant and selfish. If one Other person feels less vulnerable, less fearful because I do them the courtesy of wearing a mask then surely that alone is reason enough to do so. Or have we become so self-serving that we don’t care about others and are willing to invent expertise to justify it? It’s not about big brother or controlling society. It’s just a f**king face mask and the tiny effort to wear one for others. If you can’t get your head round that you need to have a serious word with yourself.

Regarding Covid and face masks, the truth is elusive and everyone will have to live with their own decisions. But I suspect the latest Govt instructions are a response to what will shortly be announced - that the Oxford vaccine trials have failed and all focus must now be on controlling the virus through next winter and spring. That will mean doing absolutely everything possible to minimise transmission rates by the autumn and face masks are one element. One thing we would be wise to accept is that we might not actually be the virology or epidemiology experts we think we are - and be prepared to listen to advice like adults.

I once used Follow Follow over ten years ago. I can’t remember why.

Yes, we sink or swim in this cesspit. Like it or not, this is our only option. The idea of playing in England is as futile as it’s groundless.

Incredulous, no. Dispirited, yes. When you think they could make it even worse ......

Anything but the megastore

No chance. A vaccine for it will be along any minute. I already have one but I’m waiting until the price goes up.

“So called virus”? ”Horrible hoax”? Do you think it doesn’t exist?

That won’t do at all. How then would you let everyone know how virtuous you are? ?

You really have to laugh at the way "equality" is held up as an immutable truth, as if it held together the fabric of the universe and without it all creation would crumble to dust. It's one of the great dishonesties of our age, that equality is a natural state of the universe, when in actual fact the opposite is the case. Everywhere you look there is inequality. Intellectually and physically, all people are different. All organisations are different, have different strengths and weaknesses, produce greater of lesser success in pursuit of their objectives. Nowhere does "equality" exist in nature, nowhere. If it did there would be no evolution, no progress, no development, no achievement. Only the cold bland soup of the socialist myth. Diversity doesn't need a leg up, it's an inevitable consequence of life. Artificially mixing stable, evolved cultures isn't creating diversity, merely the conflict and instability you see all around you. I could have nothing to do with anything as contrived as equality-worship.

Sounds like a total non-story

I'd take €20m. More would be better of course but buying clubs are well aware of the financial realities of the Scottish game. A key test of our DoF

Who's George Floyd?

There are two choices. Either Man City's acquittal is corrupt or UEFA's charges were incompetent. Either way it says a lot about the continuing decline of football as a fair and competitive sport. Cheating is endemic in football. Players cheat routinely at game level, clubs cheat at every opportunity and those running the game make the mafia look like the Salvation Army. It's hardly unique in the "sporting" world but football has become so seedy, the stench of corruption so pervasive, that were it not for my deep attachment to Rangers I wouldn't cross the street to watch another game. UEFA, FIFA, names that make your skin creep, run for and by the rich and the very rich. It's like Celtic in Scotland, only on a grand scale.

The Glasgow Sons of William or just the homeless, standalone version?

Instead of taking the knee, how about Rangers doing the hokey-kokey before every game. Show them kaffliks what’s what.

Pedantry is the last bastion of the twattering classes

Spiers playing his appointed part in the deflection.

This is a thoroughly pointless, if mildly amusing, topic. Where is the option that says "either really, or both"

Other sports manage substitutions without stopping the game. Why does football need stoppages and why is playing time at the unexplained discretion of a referee. Football still has one foot firmly rooted in the past.

No you haven’t ?

I read an article yesterday with detailed analysis showing that the youngest cohort of voters are significantly more right wing in their views than their big brothers and sisters. I remember in the late 1960's it appeared that the socialist revolution was upon us - the next you knew they were Thatcher's children worshipping loadsamoney and buying Sid's shares. Given the extreme lunacy now being promulgated, I think we might just be approaching a new tipping point.

Diversity is NOT the universally good thing portrayed in the modern myth. It tends to destroy social cohesion and is almost always a source of division and conflict. Diversity does not enrich or strengthen human society and, like socialism, is promoted purely as an ideological challenge to the established order. Do not swallow the fiction that diversity is good for you. Inclusion as a concept is simply meaningless tosh, which is probably why it has been selected by the left as a pillar of modernity and political correctness. The reason why @compo has trouble understanding this shite is it's not intended to be understood. It's an assemblage of labels and mantras that cannot be measured, cannot to defined and therefore cannot be challenged. In a nutshell, like most of the socialist agenda, it's total horseshit and Rangers would be best ignoring it and focussing on something worthwhile.