Pacific Quay Musings?

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23 minutes ago, Scott7 said:

The Radio 4 Today programme five minute sport slot this morning referred to Hibernian captain James Taver nee ay.

 

Don’t know who the bloke was. They’re usually pretty good except at tipping.

 

Incompetent new geezer or sinister PQ infiltration?

The natural reaction is 'don't be paranoid' but given what we see almost weekly, you start to have reasonable doubt.

 

Edited March 11, 2019 by buster.

[Uilleam 5,409]

34 minutes ago, Scott7 said:

The Radio 4 Today programme five minute sport slot this morning referred to Hibernian captain James Taver nee ay.

 

Don’t know who the bloke was. They’re usually pretty good except at tipping.

 

Incompetent new geezer or sinister PQ infiltration?

I heard that. 

Sloppy copy?

Or an indication that years -decades- of insidious and constant drip, drip, dripping, of anti-Rangers propaganda has worked, and continues to work,  and that any negative story re: Scottish football automatically, by default, without thinking, as a matter of course,  is couched with Rangers/its support as the villain(s). 

 

Meanwhile, the real big story -not football thuggery, but football buggery- is treated with the softest of kid gloves. 

 

 

 

Edited March 11, 2019 by Uilleam

[26th of foot 5,829]

11 hours ago, ian1964 said:

 

Jum has a cheek.

 

Two years past, Jum and his wife were perambulating along their village high street of an evening. A chap on the other side of the road began shouting at the pair, Jum reported the incident to the police. 

 

Jum went straight to both print and media and told of the most unpleasant experience. In fact he decreed it as 'terrifying'. He hinted the motive was sectarian.

 

Unsurprisingly, Police Scotland did not arrest anyone for shouting abuse from the opposite side of the road.

 

So, there you have it; a Rangers player at his place of work has a kick and a punch thrown at him, and Jum treats it as a joke. Jum is shouted at and runs to the Polis.

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1 hour ago, 26th of foot said:

Jum has a cheek.

 

Two years past, Jum and his wife were perambulating along their village high street of an evening. A chap on the other side of the road began shouting at the pair, Jum reported the incident to the police. 

 

Jum went straight to both print and media and told of the most unpleasant experience. In fact he decreed it as 'terrifying'. He hinted the motive was sectarian.

 

Unsurprisingly, Police Scotland did not arrest anyone for shouting abuse from the opposite side of the road.

 

So, there you have it; a Rangers player at his place of work has a kick and a punch thrown at him, and Jum treats it as a joke. Jum is shouted at and runs to the Polis.

To be fair, PC Murdoch is the 'go-to man' if ever the young team gives you a sherrickin'. 

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7 hours ago, Uilleam said:

To be fair, PC Murdoch is the 'go-to man' if ever the young team gives you a sherrickin'. 

Jum has embarked upon investigative journalism and published the conclusions in his Dundee Courier column. 

 

PC Murdoch is revealed as a Grand Panjandrum of the Orange Fadouk. Further, his pernicious practices as a Master Mason are aired in an exclusive interview with Soapy Soutar. Stuart Cosgrove PhD is unequivocating in condemnation, "Pc Murdoch is a h-u-n and a typical orange wanker". Clare White, Compliance Officer is also quoted, 'in light of these revelations, it is my recommendation that a two game suspension be offered to Alfredo Morelos'.

 

Next week, Jum will be telling the truth reference Fat Boab and Maggie Broon's divorce. Glue sniffing and constant demands for non-lubricated anal sex drove Fat Boab to demand his Solicitor serve the necessary papers.

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Actually, I have long held that Jim Spence is a cartoon character, trapped in a cartoon character's body. 

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5 minutes ago, Uilleam said:

Actually, I have long held that Jim Spence is a cartoon character, trapped in a cartoon character's body. 

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Didn't realise that you were in his Fan Club. 

[26th of foot 5,829]

Tribalism or Sectarianism?

 

PQ's weekend starred T800 Model 101 aka Stuart Cosgrove aka DrStu' aka a cybernetic android disguised as a human.

 

DrStu' leveled the pump action shotgun at one target after another. Thursday's media review had him opining, "I am a BBC License Fee payer and I am a Scot". I have heard this expression before, usually disgusted Rangers fans are uttering the statement. DrStu' ended a discussion on BBC Scotland's new second TV channel by applauding and encouraging a deeper Scots slant on news. His cri de coeur evokes a sense of entitlement. I know it does not work for Rangers supporters, we just receive apologies.

 

DrStu's finger was on the trigger, the left hand worked the action and a round was chambered in the Mossberg 500 weapon. Next up was a discussion on Michael Jackson's music being withdrawn from the public air waves because of mounting evidence of child rape? The Glitter/Saville/Harris analogies were raised by others on the panel, DrStu' was not happy, his rage found comfort in boom-boom time, "I will not support banning or withdrawing Jackson's music. A lot of his songs were collaborations with the likes of Quincy Jones. There were four other vocalists in the Jackson 5, why should they be punished"? You see, DrStu' has just finished his trilogy on the history of soul music, he knows more on the subject than anyone. It's very Donaldesque, he is a denizen of Trumpton.

 

It's twelve O'Clock on the Bandstand and the Trumpton Cyborg's leaden boot steps shudder to a halt on Saturday afternoon's Off the Ball. Rangers skipper, James Tarvenier being confronted by an exuberant Hibby was not helpful. In fact, coin throwing, confrontations, and broken seats were all interference. Despite his co-host, Tam Cowan voicing concern on concealed weapons being carried on to the pitch, DrStu' was having none of it. This was all tribalism and it was masking the real problem raised by Steve Clarke's speech  on sectarianism.

 

The 12 gauge was fully loaded and DrStu' became the clinical android as he worked the action and squeezed the trigger :

 

BOOM - on Clyde player Declan Fitzpatrick playing two games unregistered and the club being docked four points, "the SFA saw the name and decided to issue a draconian punishment, where's Chick Young and his comments on catholic education now"?

 

BOOM - Reinforcing his fourth mention of Clarke's sectarian speech, "this the real problem, it highlights a decades old problem in Scottish football. We've had local authorities letting housing on a sectarian basis".

 

BOOM - Steve Clarke being the target of sectarian chanting does not equate with coin throwing, "anyways, we've already seen a linesman having his head bandaged this season, did that stop sectarianism"?

 

BOOM - "Sectarianism needs to be followed up".

 

BOOM - you know we could go on, the Terminator had an itchy finger. The targets will fall when hit, but do they? The scatter gun approach lacks penetration.

 

We have chorused this before, entering into a debate or discussion with an opponent insisting on strict adherence to his/her preferred parameter on use of language; is NOT a debate, it's a diktat. DrStu' has banned whataboutery and he insists Rangers supporters must move on, we should forget about the Rangers Tax Case Blog.  DrStu'. like Steve Clarke does not mention Kris Boyd being the subject of sectarian abuse and of course, it weakens both of their arguments. Sectarianism is very much a two way street. Further, Boyd was specifically abused with the word, 'orange' and it's very mention draws light to DrStu's own print statement that Rangers supporters were, "h-u-ns and typical orange wa-nkers". Imagine being lectured on sectarianism by someone who is a perpetrator, whilst said perpetrator is holding a shot gun?

 

Remember, DrStu' constantly tells us that lack of balance and injustice keeps him awake at night. Constant insomnia awaits because the show's guests were James Grady, Chris Sweeney, and Hugh MacDonald. BOOM, BOOM, BOOM. James Grady tells of being pelted by paper aeroplanes at Ibrox, Sweeney wants to plug his book on Thomas Graverson, ..................................... etc. 

 

The rapid fire approach is the quickest way of turning live rounds into empty cases and by the end of an hour, DrStu' was reduced to sharing an indulgent joke with Big Dick reference Morelos' mother being a mattress. If tribalism is running interference on a specific interpretation of sectarianism, it is also running interference on events less than a fortnight old. Remember Valencia, several thousand Yahoos leave a trail of arson, wrecking bars, fighting police, and stabbings. Where is the follow up on BBC Scotland?

 

DrStu' has a much used favoured phrase, "new, modern Scotland", and he is quick to tell all of us what will be acceptable and not acceptable in this fabled land. I hope he is counting his rounds because a change is gonna come. 

 

       

Edited March 11, 2019 by 26th of foot

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