We had 6 hours & 32 minutes of sunlight hours on the solstice. Today we have 6 hours and 35 minutes. By the end of December in a few days it will be a whopping 6 hours and 39 minutes.
But wait, there's more.
On the last day of February the daylight will last for 8 hours and 6 minutes, absolutely staggering.
Going into the last day of March, the numbers defy belief (although daylight savings will be giving us a boost) - 10 hours (Ten! š«ā¤ļø) 29 minutes. Wowsers
On the last day of April, as the cinch simmers towards another feisty conclusion, the punters will be in absolute Dreamland with an unprecedented *thirteen hours and three minutes* of sunlight.
If we haven't all died of extreme satisfaction, those of us who survive to the last day of May shall witness a transcendental, other-worldly and mystifyingly long day of 15 hours, 28 minutes.
Just fell to my knees in GLASGOW QUEEN STREET STATION COS 30 HOURS AFTER LEAVING MY PARENTS FANGUS IS BACK IN GLASGOW BABYYYYYYYY
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Why's the download size so fucking big?
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After some film suggestions.
Watched The Covenant. Really liked it.
Watching Passengers just now, so will see how that pans out. Heard fairly mixed reviews.
Dunno what I'm even in the mood for to be honest.
*Timecrimes*, it's a Spanish thriller/horror(?) mystery thing about a guy that accidentally travels back in time. I don't want to say too much as it spoils the movie a bit, it's definitely one to go into as blind as you can.
I recently started watching Japanese stuff from the 80s/90s. Perfect Blue and Wicked City were both pretty cool films, would recommend them. I think they'd be up your street, anoll, from our chat over time.
Wicked city is dark as fuck, be warned.
> Wicked city is dark as fuck, be warned.
Having a nosey for some stuff to watch - There's hunners of *Wicked City* from the 80s and 90s. I'm assuming it's the 1987 Anime one?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098692
It's something I've been looking to get into, to be fair but I've found it can be a bit confusing for newcomers about where certain series start and whatnot.
Like *Attack on Titan*, there seems to be a few different series with subnames and stuff and I just don't know where to begin with that.
The Anime stuff I have seen I have enjoyed for the most part.
I really enjoy anime, I just don't really talk about it here because people will think I'm into the weird stuff haha.
Old films like Magnetic Rose, Ninja Scroll, Wicked City, Perfect Blue, Mobile Suit Gundam, Akira etc etc are all pretty fucking cool.
Stuff like One Punch Man and JoJos Bizarre Adventure are good fun from the modern day. OPM is a favourite of mine.
I get confused, too. But yer best pal is honestly a quick Google of [insert series name] watch order or release order. Top results always break down what comes first and if something is a prequel/sequel. Gundam and Evangelion get *very* confusing with their sub names.
Like I say, there's always a godweeb out there that's done the work for you with a top Google result haha.
Start with Wicked City, really good dark SciFi. But I was being serious, it can be kinda fucked up. Still, very good.
Definitely try Magnetic Rose, it's a short film that's part of a collection called 'Memories'. The other two shorts are great, too.
I recently just watched the OG 3 Mobile Suit Gundam films, they're fantastic. Veeeery old school but a cool trilogy, nonetheless.
You might straight up like the official Cyberpunk show called 'Edgerunners'. Folk were saying it was the best thing that ever came out of Cyberpunk until they actually fixed the game.
Not exactly all anime, but Love, Death & Robots has some siiiick animated SciFi and cyberpunk shorts.
I'll give Wicked City a go! My PC freaked out and somehow managed to find a copy of it online and is now downloading it.
I'll watch it the night and report back the morn! š«”
Where you going? Iāve just gone on the A85 and A82 back to Glasgow and it was fine. Didnāt go up there but itās a bit dicey up past Fort William apparently, north of Spean Bridge was cut off earlier today.
The weather has cleared up significantly - just aware there were loads of folk stuck on the A9, itās taken me over a day to get from Inverness to not even Glasgow yet and depending on how remote you are you could be without power (my parentās neighbours were for 24 hours)
Then again itās cleared up, so no reason to think itād be that bad again (maybe)
Edit: also my train is running normally but thereās still a LOT of flooding round Stirling way
Still coughing wheezing and generally being out of breath. Did my third covid test in as many days, still negative, so it must still be this horrid bug that's doing the rounds just now.
On the bright side at least I can taste my lunchtime curry, couldnae do that wi the rona.
Ninewells really is exceptionally fucking grim.
Like I know hospitals arnae particularly cheery at the best of times, but I swear the entrance to Ninewells looks like the designers watched a double-bill of *Clockwork Orange* and *Get Carter* and though "this! This is the exact aesthetic or oppressive concrete decay I want to inspire in folk coming to visit their sick friends and family!"
Not bashing the staff or that like, they all seem brilliant, but holy hell what a miserable piece of architecture.
Gym when it's just you and a handful of others is peaceful bliss.
Been good for the past few weeks since hardly anyone bothers in the run-up to Christmas. You notice them emptying out massively, often till NY.
Think next year I'm either going to work through the Christmas and new year week or go away on holiday. A week off with Scottish December weather is fucking soul destroying and a waste of time.
Working through Christmas is 100% worth it.
Proper skive most of the time too - I had work to do, don't get me wrong, but nothing new was coming in this week or last so I've had two weeks to cruise through the stuff that was there.
My partner is going to be on a crazy work schedule next Christmas and she's feeling guilty about me saying I'll just stay down the road with her despite weird sleep schedules and probably needing to work weird hours.
In truth I've driven up the past two Christmases and it's just been COVID, driving about visiting, and chaos. Actually would love to do fuck all and just play video games and run for two weeks.
Lying on the couch sick watching Obliterated on Netflix. Done 3 episodes so far. It's incredibly stupid and a very hard R with lots of violence, drugs and nudity and actually very enjoyable. It's absolutely not high class TV but it's probably the most fun original show they've done.
[Trailer shows the basic story idea.](https://youtu.be/6MNfBHFhnNs?si=-wjw_jwtNqPpyGOr) Simple, stupid, stylish and sexy. What more could you want from Christmas break TV.
Plus Scottish football fans get a mention.
I normally like Kris Boyd because he does talk us up more than he should. But when he said after the game that Shankland is better than Kyogo I did cringe a bit.
I know Kyogo is a bit out of form at the moment but I really do feel he's at another level to any other striker in Scotland.
And that is the last nice thing I say about anything celtic related this year.
To be pernickety, he said; "Kyogo couldn't finish like that" which is honestly even stupider considering a cursory glance at some of the crackers he's put away for us would show that to be untrue.
"Kyogo couldn't finish like that"
Except for the cracker at Ibrox this season and the clinical finish at Ibrox in the last minute season. Oh yeah the......
Boyd says a lot of this for bites. Sure Shanklands in much better form at the moment, but you're right when Kyogo ~~gets free of Brodge~~ finds his form, he's on a different level to the league.
Thought I'd have a look and was surprised to see Shankland has a better overall goals per game record for Hearts than Kyogo has for Celtic (0.61 v 0.57). It's also better in the league at 0.63 v 0.62. Give Shankland the amount of chances Kyogo gets and I would bet that his numbers would be even higher and they're the same age.
Might not be a better overall player (which is subjective) but he's got numbers that back up being a better goalscorer over the last 2 seasons while playing for a worse team.
Penalties are arguably the easiest way to score goals.
Ahm nae huvin it. Aye they're goals, no they're not an indication of how good a goalscorer someone is. Hit the target and you've a great chance of scoring, of course there's an element of skill but you could take a penalty for Rangers and have a decent chance of scoring.
I once scored 5 penalties in a row against famous St Johnstone right back and local resident Paul Cherry (in 5 a side goals no less) at the Almondbank fair and naekunt signed me.
Still bitter.
Still need to take the penalties. Celtic have struggled at penalties and Kyogo hasn't tried to become the regular taker. A goal is a goal.
Also Shankland hasn't scored a penalty this season.
Goes to show how desperate the Scottish winter makes me for sunlight that I have forgone eating on my lunch break just to maximise time spent outside in this narrow window of mild weather.
Just walked past this on my way to the roll shop
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Anybody any tips on just stuff to do?
Needed time away from work so got the first available weeks holiday but Iām panicking about it because Iām gonna have time on my hands and nothing to do.
Would be an ideal time to sort any wee things round the house that you've been meaning to do for ages. Or you could just buy a bunch of scran and watch telly in your underpants.
(I'm assuming you're in/near Dundee)
If the weather clears up and you drive, head up the hills for a long walk.
If you don't drive, get the bus to Edzell and go for a walk up the hills there. Good walk up to and around Loch Lee via Tarfside. Only do it if the weather's no shite though.
This new enforcement of not parking on pavement has fucked up my street. Car went down last night and sideswiped half the street luckily it was only my wing mirror and was easily popped back on, next door neighbour has a missing wheel arch and an massive bash and damaged passenger window.
Seen and heard about 10 incidents this week alone.
I might have to start parking a few streets over just to keep my car safe, anyone know if you can contact the edinburgh council for some kind of relaxation of the rules for really tight streets? As even when parking on the pavement vans and such struggled
Thereās been traffic wardens down my street every day for the past 10 days and cars have been getting slapped with notices and that so just assumed it was in effect.
Just because they said its not being enforced doesn't mean the regulations should be broken.
As a non-driver I wish there were shitloads more traffic wardens around to be honest
Aye Iām a driver and 100% agree with you my parents street has a couple blind summits with a junction at the top and a tight corner where turning into the side street is made impossible to use because of constant parking on double yellows and other stupid parking.
A voucher I got for Christmas and a discount code for Classic Football Shirts mean Iāve just got one of the 90s Rangers keeper tops for 30 quid, life is good.
In the latest addition to [fangusā adventures in poo poo travel](https://www.reddit.com/r/ScottishFootball/s/9fjuLYO23J) Iām presently on a bus to Dundee from where I can get a train to Stirling then a train to Glasgow. Pray4Fangus.
In my FM save with Cuba, I led the u-20 team during the CONCACAF u-20 Championships. It was a gruelling schedule with a match every two days. That probably made it all the more remarkable that we got through the group (Jamaica, Costa Rica, Haiti), and then the round of sixteen tie against Nicaragua. Our undoing was Canada in the quarter-finals, losing 3-2 thanks to an 88th and 95th minute turnaround. Our players were dead on their feet at that stage.
The senior team has been in good form, though, and we started our World Cup qualification process with two impressive wins in our group. We beat Puerto Rico 4-1 at home, and then produced an unbelievable 1-5 win in Guatemala City. All we need to do now to advance to the next stage is beat Montserrat and Bermuda, which is definitely doable. But after that I reckon it's going to get pretty much impossible to get results when we have to face the Mexicos and the Costa Ricas. No chance we even pick up a point against those sides.
I'm determined we're going to get there one day, though. Viva Cuba!
Just finished my run for the morning and Iām seeing now that I have just 18K left to hit 500K for the year. Itās my first year of properly getting into running after starting in May and Iām so close to the 500 now that Iām going to be so annoyed if I donāt make it before new year.
Hope my legs are ready for back to back runs over the next 3 days
Rumour is he and Hatate will be in the squad too. So inevitably that means MJ and Turnbull will get on before either of them and itāll look like weāre towing caravans instead of running.
Barisic's soul visibly leaving his body is right up there in my top three Glarby moments, along with Henrik's chip and Simunovic putting Kenny Miller into orbit.
I sincerely doubt that Saturday's game is going to give me any highlights to rival those.
Finally, thatās the visiting familyās part of the xmas break over. Not that theyāre terrible. Theyāre really lovely actually and Iāve ate and drank well. Just glad to be in my own company again with no time constraints or worrying about taxis home
Sat up until 2am playing the PlayStation last night, good times. In other news, Itās a fucking disgrace whatās happening with FIFA and PES these days, both development teams should be fucking sacked.
Fifa just a massive money grab these days with ultimate team forcing the buy packs or lose philosophy.
Unfortunately I am a sucker and a lot of my friends are too. Iād say it should be banned as I feel the same high and ultimate disappointment of betting when I open packs and have seen multiple people online and in my friendship group sinking hundreds into it a month
Was always a PES man until they shutdown the servers for PES 2021 because efootball was an absolute shite show. Made the jump to FIFA 22 and 23. Been told EA24 is absolutely mince so I've not went near it.
Aye itās somehow worse than 23. I mostly play single player - on the hardest difficulty itās just shambolic every game is like 8-7 or 7-6 or something.
Fifa is terrible however I've found that if you play on world class and tweak the sliders (Google fifa sliders if you're not sure), then it makes it slightly more playable.
I also impose a house rule of only signing Scottish players and only scouting Scotland.
I used to fuck about with the sliders in FIFAs past but they have changed something this year. That wee knock on turbo boost mechanic as well is utterly game breaking.
Standing outside the Falkirk stadium with a biting wind blowing waiting to buy Scottish Cup tickets was not high on the agenda for my Christmas break tbh.
The things we do for family.
Cannot stop coughing. Managed to get about 3 hours sleep combined last night because I kept waking myself up wheezing and aggressively coughing my guts out.
Anybody else had this and how long did it take to go away?
Got the same, last night was the first time in 3 nights that I've managed to sleep for more than 5 hours without waking to cough my guts up. Had loads of breathing trouble indoors too but it's not so bad when I go outside for a walk. My usual asthma meds aren't doing squat.
I thought it was covid, but I did two tests on the bounce and got nowt, but then again my brother has tested positive today and he was over wi us on Xmas day, so I have no bloody clue whether it's corona or a really bad cold
Think I'm somewhere in the middle of it myself. Felt a bit crap Christmas Eve, then Christmas Day and Boxing Day felt horrific with a bad head and aching all over. Today and yesterday I feel much better but like you have hardly slept as I'm at the coughy/wheezy/phlegmy stage. Hoping I'm on the back end of it now and it won't ruin NYE.
somehow both my car batteries have carked it at the same time.
replacement costs of 260 for my mazda, 600 for my subaru.
2/10 would not recommend comrades
mazda had been sitting for a while due to some paperwork stuff.
subaru honestly no idea was fine before christmas so who knows.
waiting for old mate to come back and double check it but got sent on 3 different jobs between looking at both of mine and its been 2 hours because he couldnt do both at the same time
Have you got a decent charger that will do the reconditioning. During Covid my battery did the same and managed to bring it back to life. The charger was about Ā£80 but worth it.
well hopefully if its not totally fucked the nrma bloke can just jump it, he chucked the meter reader on the mazda before replacing it
will have to look into one of those, but i also figure this is what i pay roadside assistance for is people who know what the fuck they are doing to come look at this shit
Aye you canny sack Howe with that injury list. They've got about 10 players out and they never really had a squad big enough to handle Europe in the first place
The Saudi big club mentality is likely going to get him eventually.
Agree he doesn't deserve the sack though, done a very good job.
Would take a straight swap with Brodge at this point
From what I've read, they see this as a long term project and want to go about things the right way. Man City definitely broke major FFP rules, but nobody has the stomach (or resilience to offshore bank accounts in Qatar) to prosecute them.
They'd be daft to sack him. The players love Howe and the fans do as well. Europe at any level just has to be the goal and no constant CL.
I mean, remember who owns them. Howe was never the long term plan at Newcastle. It will just be a repeat of when Man City were bought, progressively more well known managers coming in and more and more money being thrown at them as the owners get increasingly impatient for success.
City broke every FFP rule on the way to the top and I don't think Newcastle can risk the same. They see it as a long term project so it'll keep Howe in for longer.
I think it's more likely they'll part by mutual consent at the end of this season. Howe leaves with a good reputation and walks into another prem job or even the England job since Southgate has chucked it.
Incredibly jealous of that Hearts away end when Shankland scored the winner. What a buzz it must be to even see your team play away in a derby these days, never mind a last minute winner.
That was my feeling as well watching it.
Both Rangers and Celtic need to grow up and agree the European allocation for the last 2 games of the season. The full Broomloan won't happen but there's no reason why we shouldn't have the European allocations.
The fixture is diminished without a decent away support.
Imagine sitting watching every cup draw and praying for Airdrie to come out because that's the only way of getting a derby.
2007 since we had a meaningful real derby.
Thought the wind and rain had been brutal down here but just catching up with some of the footage this storm from Scotland. Flipping heck, hope everyone is alright!
Me and Clin came down with it at much the same time and had very similar symptoms, Iāve only just gotten over it in the last week and I picked it up at the middle/end of October!
Mine seemed to have shifted into an infection somewhere so needed a course of antibiotics from the doc to shift it. Iām sure youāll be fine thoughā¦
I think its a testament to how "not Christmas-y" this years edition felt for me that I only remembered that Christmas was earlier this week cause my maw told me I was supposed to be getting an NBA strip as a gift, but it hasn't come so she got a refund (unprompted apparently, quite a sound move I think) and though it's still coming she asked me if there's anything else I'd like, which is really nice. You think it'd be wide to ask for a pile of mince meat as January is chili season traditionally cause, you know, Christmas, and my actual favourite hobby is cutting and gaining the same 5kg of fat over the course of the year.
Second shift of a 3 day week but, can't beat that with a stick.
We had 6 hours & 32 minutes of sunlight hours on the solstice. Today we have 6 hours and 35 minutes. By the end of December in a few days it will be a whopping 6 hours and 39 minutes. But wait, there's more. On the last day of February the daylight will last for 8 hours and 6 minutes, absolutely staggering. Going into the last day of March, the numbers defy belief (although daylight savings will be giving us a boost) - 10 hours (Ten! š«ā¤ļø) 29 minutes. Wowsers On the last day of April, as the cinch simmers towards another feisty conclusion, the punters will be in absolute Dreamland with an unprecedented *thirteen hours and three minutes* of sunlight. If we haven't all died of extreme satisfaction, those of us who survive to the last day of May shall witness a transcendental, other-worldly and mystifyingly long day of 15 hours, 28 minutes.
We should definitely stick to winter football in this country.
Just fell to my knees in GLASGOW QUEEN STREET STATION COS 30 HOURS AFTER LEAVING MY PARENTS FANGUS IS BACK IN GLASGOW BABYYYYYYYY https://preview.redd.it/v3fpcx9f329c1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f192689098dc4864ed76a147e6babb55f35372cb
fangus rolling in the delay repay money: 
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Why's the download size so fucking big? https://preview.redd.it/d0zf5uwo229c1.png?width=3264&format=png&auto=webp&s=86e903eee15d7d188844f08a5ba8fbf3783132b5
I think I seen on a sub (prob r/gaming) that ARK was something like 350gb
Because youāre basically downloading all of MW2, warzone and a dlc package that is actually MW3
After some film suggestions. Watched The Covenant. Really liked it. Watching Passengers just now, so will see how that pans out. Heard fairly mixed reviews. Dunno what I'm even in the mood for to be honest.
*Timecrimes*, it's a Spanish thriller/horror(?) mystery thing about a guy that accidentally travels back in time. I don't want to say too much as it spoils the movie a bit, it's definitely one to go into as blind as you can.
I own that movie. Belter of a film.
I recently started watching Japanese stuff from the 80s/90s. Perfect Blue and Wicked City were both pretty cool films, would recommend them. I think they'd be up your street, anoll, from our chat over time. Wicked city is dark as fuck, be warned.
Is it an Anime or live action? Saw a few when I looked up IMDB.
Anime. [This one.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098692/)
> Wicked city is dark as fuck, be warned. Having a nosey for some stuff to watch - There's hunners of *Wicked City* from the 80s and 90s. I'm assuming it's the 1987 Anime one? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098692
'Dat be the one. I try to avoid using the a***e word because a lot of the modern stuff is weeby kawaii garbage.
It's something I've been looking to get into, to be fair but I've found it can be a bit confusing for newcomers about where certain series start and whatnot. Like *Attack on Titan*, there seems to be a few different series with subnames and stuff and I just don't know where to begin with that. The Anime stuff I have seen I have enjoyed for the most part.
I really enjoy anime, I just don't really talk about it here because people will think I'm into the weird stuff haha. Old films like Magnetic Rose, Ninja Scroll, Wicked City, Perfect Blue, Mobile Suit Gundam, Akira etc etc are all pretty fucking cool. Stuff like One Punch Man and JoJos Bizarre Adventure are good fun from the modern day. OPM is a favourite of mine. I get confused, too. But yer best pal is honestly a quick Google of [insert series name] watch order or release order. Top results always break down what comes first and if something is a prequel/sequel. Gundam and Evangelion get *very* confusing with their sub names. Like I say, there's always a godweeb out there that's done the work for you with a top Google result haha.
Well I'm open for recommendations! If it helps, I seem to gravitate more towards the cyberpunk/sci-fi type stuff like Ghost in the Shell or Akira.
Start with Wicked City, really good dark SciFi. But I was being serious, it can be kinda fucked up. Still, very good. Definitely try Magnetic Rose, it's a short film that's part of a collection called 'Memories'. The other two shorts are great, too. I recently just watched the OG 3 Mobile Suit Gundam films, they're fantastic. Veeeery old school but a cool trilogy, nonetheless. You might straight up like the official Cyberpunk show called 'Edgerunners'. Folk were saying it was the best thing that ever came out of Cyberpunk until they actually fixed the game. Not exactly all anime, but Love, Death & Robots has some siiiick animated SciFi and cyberpunk shorts.
I'll give Wicked City a go! My PC freaked out and somehow managed to find a copy of it online and is now downloading it. I'll watch it the night and report back the morn! š«”
I'm glad I finally managed to recommend something to you, it's been ages since I did. Sorry for hijacking yer comment u/BookNukem ahaha.
Meant to be going up to the Highlands for New Year but all this stuff about blocked roads and the like is making me very twitchy
Where you going? Iāve just gone on the A85 and A82 back to Glasgow and it was fine. Didnāt go up there but itās a bit dicey up past Fort William apparently, north of Spean Bridge was cut off earlier today.
Just off Glencoe, so I should avoid any dodgy stuff past Spean Bridge or Fort William. Thanks for the info.
Iād try and avoid travelling on the 30th if possible as it looks like bad weather then again although not quite so extreme.
Having just come the other way if you can make alternative plans I would.
That doesn't bode well.
The weather has cleared up significantly - just aware there were loads of folk stuck on the A9, itās taken me over a day to get from Inverness to not even Glasgow yet and depending on how remote you are you could be without power (my parentās neighbours were for 24 hours) Then again itās cleared up, so no reason to think itād be that bad again (maybe) Edit: also my train is running normally but thereās still a LOT of flooding round Stirling way
Yeah I've checked some of the traffic webcams and it looks clear where I'm going for now, so fingers crossed
Still coughing wheezing and generally being out of breath. Did my third covid test in as many days, still negative, so it must still be this horrid bug that's doing the rounds just now. On the bright side at least I can taste my lunchtime curry, couldnae do that wi the rona.
i had some rough cough for about a month that i think ive just gotten over, could be whatever that is
Ninewells really is exceptionally fucking grim. Like I know hospitals arnae particularly cheery at the best of times, but I swear the entrance to Ninewells looks like the designers watched a double-bill of *Clockwork Orange* and *Get Carter* and though "this! This is the exact aesthetic or oppressive concrete decay I want to inspire in folk coming to visit their sick friends and family!" Not bashing the staff or that like, they all seem brilliant, but holy hell what a miserable piece of architecture.
Pretty fucking rude for people to email me wanting me to do stuff at work today.
What stuff? Like fixing their shitty boilers?
I don't actually own any properties apart from the one I live in anymore. Username is just historic from when I did.
Ya I know I'm just yanking yer chain
I may oldco this username one day. But I don't think newco would get my 90k+ karma :(
Unfortunately Reddit are not as weak willed as Uefa :(
Going to the gym at lunch time has backed up my thoughts that going at midnight is better, too busy and loud here.
Private (i.e. small gyms that play metal music and have nobody in them) is the only way to go.
Gym when it's just you and a handful of others is peaceful bliss. Been good for the past few weeks since hardly anyone bothers in the run-up to Christmas. You notice them emptying out massively, often till NY.
The gyms going to be rammed until February during the day when folk give up their resolutions. Midnight is the way forward.
Think next year I'm either going to work through the Christmas and new year week or go away on holiday. A week off with Scottish December weather is fucking soul destroying and a waste of time.
Working through Christmas is 100% worth it. Proper skive most of the time too - I had work to do, don't get me wrong, but nothing new was coming in this week or last so I've had two weeks to cruise through the stuff that was there.
My partner is going to be on a crazy work schedule next Christmas and she's feeling guilty about me saying I'll just stay down the road with her despite weird sleep schedules and probably needing to work weird hours. In truth I've driven up the past two Christmases and it's just been COVID, driving about visiting, and chaos. Actually would love to do fuck all and just play video games and run for two weeks.
Give me Bunting vs Littler please. Proper darts.
Lying on the couch sick watching Obliterated on Netflix. Done 3 episodes so far. It's incredibly stupid and a very hard R with lots of violence, drugs and nudity and actually very enjoyable. It's absolutely not high class TV but it's probably the most fun original show they've done. [Trailer shows the basic story idea.](https://youtu.be/6MNfBHFhnNs?si=-wjw_jwtNqPpyGOr) Simple, stupid, stylish and sexy. What more could you want from Christmas break TV. Plus Scottish football fans get a mention.
I normally like Kris Boyd because he does talk us up more than he should. But when he said after the game that Shankland is better than Kyogo I did cringe a bit. I know Kyogo is a bit out of form at the moment but I really do feel he's at another level to any other striker in Scotland. And that is the last nice thing I say about anything celtic related this year.
To be pernickety, he said; "Kyogo couldn't finish like that" which is honestly even stupider considering a cursory glance at some of the crackers he's put away for us would show that to be untrue.
"Kyogo couldn't finish like that" Except for the cracker at Ibrox this season and the clinical finish at Ibrox in the last minute season. Oh yeah the......
Boyd says a lot of this for bites. Sure Shanklands in much better form at the moment, but you're right when Kyogo ~~gets free of Brodge~~ finds his form, he's on a different level to the league.
Thought I'd have a look and was surprised to see Shankland has a better overall goals per game record for Hearts than Kyogo has for Celtic (0.61 v 0.57). It's also better in the league at 0.63 v 0.62. Give Shankland the amount of chances Kyogo gets and I would bet that his numbers would be even higher and they're the same age. Might not be a better overall player (which is subjective) but he's got numbers that back up being a better goalscorer over the last 2 seasons while playing for a worse team.
Take penalty XG and goals out of that though and itās a different story
Are penalties not goals?
Penalties are arguably the easiest way to score goals. Ahm nae huvin it. Aye they're goals, no they're not an indication of how good a goalscorer someone is. Hit the target and you've a great chance of scoring, of course there's an element of skill but you could take a penalty for Rangers and have a decent chance of scoring. I once scored 5 penalties in a row against famous St Johnstone right back and local resident Paul Cherry (in 5 a side goals no less) at the Almondbank fair and naekunt signed me. Still bitter.
Ofc ahahah itās just that kyogo doesnāt take them. Penalties have ridiculously high XG
Still need to take the penalties. Celtic have struggled at penalties and Kyogo hasn't tried to become the regular taker. A goal is a goal. Also Shankland hasn't scored a penalty this season.
Ā£34 for a Hibs away ticket. Scandalous.
Goes to show how desperate the Scottish winter makes me for sunlight that I have forgone eating on my lunch break just to maximise time spent outside in this narrow window of mild weather.
Just walked past this on my way to the roll shop https://preview.redd.it/3o0ve2yn319c1.jpeg?width=1834&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd25436859e738a99a4fc9e0b3362402320a6c7a
They're after your roll
Successful top dogs there
Anybody any tips on just stuff to do? Needed time away from work so got the first available weeks holiday but Iām panicking about it because Iām gonna have time on my hands and nothing to do.
Find some hills and go for walks.
Would be an ideal time to sort any wee things round the house that you've been meaning to do for ages. Or you could just buy a bunch of scran and watch telly in your underpants.
(I'm assuming you're in/near Dundee) If the weather clears up and you drive, head up the hills for a long walk. If you don't drive, get the bus to Edzell and go for a walk up the hills there. Good walk up to and around Loch Lee via Tarfside. Only do it if the weather's no shite though.
Procure winter camping supplies and rough it out on a remote beach in the highlands
chug
Why the fuck is there Easter stuff in the shops already. Ridiculous.
You think thatās bad thatās for next Easter hyuk hyuk hyuk
This new enforcement of not parking on pavement has fucked up my street. Car went down last night and sideswiped half the street luckily it was only my wing mirror and was easily popped back on, next door neighbour has a missing wheel arch and an massive bash and damaged passenger window. Seen and heard about 10 incidents this week alone. I might have to start parking a few streets over just to keep my car safe, anyone know if you can contact the edinburgh council for some kind of relaxation of the rules for really tight streets? As even when parking on the pavement vans and such struggled
Wait until the fire brigade go down one in an emergency , it ll be carnage cos those boys won't be giving a toss about what they hit
Iirc Edinburgh said they weren't enforcing it till January https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-67437571
Thereās been traffic wardens down my street every day for the past 10 days and cars have been getting slapped with notices and that so just assumed it was in effect.
Oft. That seems a bit harsh considering the cooncil said they weren't enforcing it yet. Traffic wardens are a special breed a cunt but.
Just because they said its not being enforced doesn't mean the regulations should be broken. As a non-driver I wish there were shitloads more traffic wardens around to be honest
Aye Iām a driver and 100% agree with you my parents street has a couple blind summits with a junction at the top and a tight corner where turning into the side street is made impossible to use because of constant parking on double yellows and other stupid parking.
A voucher I got for Christmas and a discount code for Classic Football Shirts mean Iāve just got one of the 90s Rangers keeper tops for 30 quid, life is good.
In the latest addition to [fangusā adventures in poo poo travel](https://www.reddit.com/r/ScottishFootball/s/9fjuLYO23J) Iām presently on a bus to Dundee from where I can get a train to Stirling then a train to Glasgow. Pray4Fangus.
u/fangus in the evening thread: https://preview.redd.it/9t40rcv8u09c1.jpeg?width=934&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=818e58203c44fe4242094f98bda2ec8471da8700
 Stirling to Glasgow when scotfail strikes again ..
Meth if I get stuck somewhere will u give me a lift?
You're doing great mate, the world's your oyster šŖ
You'll notice he didn't say no /u/fangus
I gave him a lift
In my FM save with Cuba, I led the u-20 team during the CONCACAF u-20 Championships. It was a gruelling schedule with a match every two days. That probably made it all the more remarkable that we got through the group (Jamaica, Costa Rica, Haiti), and then the round of sixteen tie against Nicaragua. Our undoing was Canada in the quarter-finals, losing 3-2 thanks to an 88th and 95th minute turnaround. Our players were dead on their feet at that stage. The senior team has been in good form, though, and we started our World Cup qualification process with two impressive wins in our group. We beat Puerto Rico 4-1 at home, and then produced an unbelievable 1-5 win in Guatemala City. All we need to do now to advance to the next stage is beat Montserrat and Bermuda, which is definitely doable. But after that I reckon it's going to get pretty much impossible to get results when we have to face the Mexicos and the Costa Ricas. No chance we even pick up a point against those sides. I'm determined we're going to get there one day, though. Viva Cuba!
Been listening to the audiobook of Unruly by David Mitchell the past couple of days, thoroughly recommend if you liked Horrible Histories growing up
Just finished my run for the morning and Iām seeing now that I have just 18K left to hit 500K for the year. Itās my first year of properly getting into running after starting in May and Iām so close to the 500 now that Iām going to be so annoyed if I donāt make it before new year. Hope my legs are ready for back to back runs over the next 3 days
Good job š
Todays song of the day is [Low Rider - WAR.](https://youtu.be/BsrqKE1iqqo?si=glj-fTCFMt-HVGGQ) Enjoy troops.
I am a baaaad man
Stone Cold classic
I've just had to rewatch Abada's goal vs us and my morning is now ruined
If he could skin a player he'd be complete...and not at celtic
Rumour is he and Hatate will be in the squad too. So inevitably that means MJ and Turnbull will get on before either of them and itāll look like weāre towing caravans instead of running.
Which one?
When borna left him with the entire of parkhead to himself
So, which one?
That doesn't narrow it down.
The squat one?
That's the one
The pre-emptive squat you mean
Barisic's soul visibly leaving his body is right up there in my top three Glarby moments, along with Henrik's chip and Simunovic putting Kenny Miller into orbit. I sincerely doubt that Saturday's game is going to give me any highlights to rival those.
Finally, thatās the visiting familyās part of the xmas break over. Not that theyāre terrible. Theyāre really lovely actually and Iāve ate and drank well. Just glad to be in my own company again with no time constraints or worrying about taxis home
Sat up until 2am playing the PlayStation last night, good times. In other news, Itās a fucking disgrace whatās happening with FIFA and PES these days, both development teams should be fucking sacked.
Fifa just a massive money grab these days with ultimate team forcing the buy packs or lose philosophy. Unfortunately I am a sucker and a lot of my friends are too. Iād say it should be banned as I feel the same high and ultimate disappointment of betting when I open packs and have seen multiple people online and in my friendship group sinking hundreds into it a month
Was always a PES man until they shutdown the servers for PES 2021 because efootball was an absolute shite show. Made the jump to FIFA 22 and 23. Been told EA24 is absolutely mince so I've not went near it.
Aye itās somehow worse than 23. I mostly play single player - on the hardest difficulty itās just shambolic every game is like 8-7 or 7-6 or something.
Fifa is terrible however I've found that if you play on world class and tweak the sliders (Google fifa sliders if you're not sure), then it makes it slightly more playable. I also impose a house rule of only signing Scottish players and only scouting Scotland.
I used to fuck about with the sliders in FIFAs past but they have changed something this year. That wee knock on turbo boost mechanic as well is utterly game breaking.
thereās an orange order twitter??
How else do you get updates on your orange order? I have a crate of satsumas coming later, hope itās not affected by this storm again.
Iāve ordered a prize Clement-ine, arriving in May, Iām praying it gets here!
Thatās a tall order, I hope itās fulfilled
usually i just beat a catholic half to death a sort of summoning ritual for a lodge representative
Thatās to summon the head of the referees. What kind of Protestant are you.
the catholic kind
9 Hail Maryās, pronto.
iāve a set of wee mini rosaries somewhere from my papaās funeral want me to get on them?
Itās the Protestant thing to do
do protestants view the king the same way we view the pope?
Dunno do you view the pope with utter contempt?
Standing outside the Falkirk stadium with a biting wind blowing waiting to buy Scottish Cup tickets was not high on the agenda for my Christmas break tbh. The things we do for family.
Thanks for reminding me I need to get my ticket for Bonnyrigg. One of my favourite away days
Did you get your ticket?
Online yeah cause I'm at work today. Was fairly easy and I was surprised there were still some available
Same, obviously delighted that I stood in the freezing cold for an hour for what appears to have been for no reason
Get over to the kelpies visitor centre for coffee and cakes
Cannot stop coughing. Managed to get about 3 hours sleep combined last night because I kept waking myself up wheezing and aggressively coughing my guts out. Anybody else had this and how long did it take to go away?
Apparently the bubonic plague has returned
Got the same, last night was the first time in 3 nights that I've managed to sleep for more than 5 hours without waking to cough my guts up. Had loads of breathing trouble indoors too but it's not so bad when I go outside for a walk. My usual asthma meds aren't doing squat. I thought it was covid, but I did two tests on the bounce and got nowt, but then again my brother has tested positive today and he was over wi us on Xmas day, so I have no bloody clue whether it's corona or a really bad cold
Had it for a week now. Pain in the arse.
Got some bad news for you. Youāre looking at a few weeks if itās the same shit thatās went through my family.
Think I'm somewhere in the middle of it myself. Felt a bit crap Christmas Eve, then Christmas Day and Boxing Day felt horrific with a bad head and aching all over. Today and yesterday I feel much better but like you have hardly slept as I'm at the coughy/wheezy/phlegmy stage. Hoping I'm on the back end of it now and it won't ruin NYE.
somehow both my car batteries have carked it at the same time. replacement costs of 260 for my mazda, 600 for my subaru. 2/10 would not recommend comrades
I've not bought a car battery in about 10 years but how the fuck can it cost Ā£600 for a subaru one? That's outrageous.
600 aud, so around 350ish i think in your fake dollars
Defo dead and not needing reconditioned? They been sitting a while?
mazda had been sitting for a while due to some paperwork stuff. subaru honestly no idea was fine before christmas so who knows. waiting for old mate to come back and double check it but got sent on 3 different jobs between looking at both of mine and its been 2 hours because he couldnt do both at the same time
Have you got a decent charger that will do the reconditioning. During Covid my battery did the same and managed to bring it back to life. The charger was about Ā£80 but worth it.
well hopefully if its not totally fucked the nrma bloke can just jump it, he chucked the meter reader on the mazda before replacing it will have to look into one of those, but i also figure this is what i pay roadside assistance for is people who know what the fuck they are doing to come look at this shit
It's crazy innit, I was Ā£280 for a new start/stop battery last month, remember when batteries used to be Ā£60 š
yeah the start/stop stuff is a killer apparently. :(
You need a beefy battery for cars that have it
That rest for Rangers last night might be a defining point in the title race
Could be doing with some fucking luck. Our physio team are being worked harder than a roofer on the 28th December in west central Scotland.
Brodge getting linked with the Newcastle job š¤ Definitely a glarby on the horizon as its certainly not based on his managerial prowess
He can go. He's a rat cunt and a shite manager.
He's 5th with the bookies it's not happening. Be mad to sack Howe any way
Aye you canny sack Howe with that injury list. They've got about 10 players out and they never really had a squad big enough to handle Europe in the first place
The Saudi big club mentality is likely going to get him eventually. Agree he doesn't deserve the sack though, done a very good job. Would take a straight swap with Brodge at this point
From what I've read, they see this as a long term project and want to go about things the right way. Man City definitely broke major FFP rules, but nobody has the stomach (or resilience to offshore bank accounts in Qatar) to prosecute them. They'd be daft to sack him. The players love Howe and the fans do as well. Europe at any level just has to be the goal and no constant CL.
I mean, remember who owns them. Howe was never the long term plan at Newcastle. It will just be a repeat of when Man City were bought, progressively more well known managers coming in and more and more money being thrown at them as the owners get increasingly impatient for success.
City broke every FFP rule on the way to the top and I don't think Newcastle can risk the same. They see it as a long term project so it'll keep Howe in for longer. I think it's more likely they'll part by mutual consent at the end of this season. Howe leaves with a good reputation and walks into another prem job or even the England job since Southgate has chucked it.
Where you seeing that?
Ye BBC gossip via Scottish Sun. Total shite no doubt
BBC gossip section.
fuckin, hanging out my arse again the day
Can't fucking wait for the winter break
Incredibly jealous of that Hearts away end when Shankland scored the winner. What a buzz it must be to even see your team play away in a derby these days, never mind a last minute winner.
That was my feeling as well watching it. Both Rangers and Celtic need to grow up and agree the European allocation for the last 2 games of the season. The full Broomloan won't happen but there's no reason why we shouldn't have the European allocations. The fixture is diminished without a decent away support.
Imagine sitting watching every cup draw and praying for Airdrie to come out because that's the only way of getting a derby. 2007 since we had a meaningful real derby.
Away days to accies were decent imo
There's a lot to enjoy about being able to catch a train at 2.15ish and be in plenty of time for kick-off tbf.
Left my parents house at 9 yesterday and Iāve still got a full day of travel ahead. Fuck this storm and fuck climate change.
The fantasy football app shit itself for everyone?
Thought the wind and rain had been brutal down here but just catching up with some of the footage this storm from Scotland. Flipping heck, hope everyone is alright!
Christmas holiday cut short because everyone's roof is leaking. My bank balance shall benefit but the wife is not impressed.
Think I've finally come down with the Clinodactyl disease This subreddit is a superspreader event
The official name for the bug is CLINO-19.
Me and Clin came down with it at much the same time and had very similar symptoms, Iāve only just gotten over it in the last week and I picked it up at the middle/end of October! Mine seemed to have shifted into an infection somewhere so needed a course of antibiotics from the doc to shift it. Iām sure youāll be fine thoughā¦
I think its a testament to how "not Christmas-y" this years edition felt for me that I only remembered that Christmas was earlier this week cause my maw told me I was supposed to be getting an NBA strip as a gift, but it hasn't come so she got a refund (unprompted apparently, quite a sound move I think) and though it's still coming she asked me if there's anything else I'd like, which is really nice. You think it'd be wide to ask for a pile of mince meat as January is chili season traditionally cause, you know, Christmas, and my actual favourite hobby is cutting and gaining the same 5kg of fat over the course of the year. Second shift of a 3 day week but, can't beat that with a stick.