Jaggernaut

I wonder what the "option" to be examined is. Finally sending a begging letter to yon Euromillions winner?

Rockall is the place to be in the future!

Interesting. Many British nationalists who are against Scotland looking after its own affairs in the world claim that it's only due to the union that we have been able to survive the recent/current global economic crisis, so that's somehow good. Yet many of them also point the finger to the Eurozone and how the united zone is able to bail out Greece, Ireland etc and say that that is somehow bad. Where's the consistency in that? There is none!

Fleece jackets for the turnstyle operators. Said pies stored under the jackets. Sorted.

That would be me.

With respect, to me it looks virtually impossible that anything would make you change your mind.

"There's a goal!" (Guy kicks it into the net again:) "And another one!"

Yes, just as well as we were able to. They are basically debt-free, so would simply need to drastically reduce their outlays.

Easy to do, and a nice gesture.

Soft-hearted Hana (George Harrison)

Bids in.

Yes. Edited to add: You can just imagine the unionist clamour if the SNP government went for a two-stage referendum; they don't even want the one that's coming! And of course it's not really possible to start "negotiating" now, though the SNP has accepted that a proportionate slice of the UK debt would be taken on board.

Vs. Ross County: What was our penalty given for, and why was the guy sent off? Paul Paton's LEFT-FOOTED cross which led to the equalizer seems to have gone largely un-noticed. Vs. Morton: Tommy Stewart curled his goal in really well. Morton actually created a good few (half-) chances; as the saying goes these days, they'll play worse than that and win. But us too!

Thanks; will try that.

So what do you suggest, that nothing should ever change? I'd suggest that you know very well what you'd vote for, which would be full economic independence for our own country. This will replace filling London's coffers and then having to accept what they decide to give us back while they refuse us the right to negotiate economics with the rest of the world according to our own perspectives. What they want is to be able to continue tell us that we can get what they decide to let us have, while they get protected first of all. It has been thus since the formation of this damned union, which the Scots population never voted for, remember.

Flash Gordon (Queen)

Hmm, all freezing up on my computer, which doesn't usually happen. Anybody else got the same problem?

On the first point, wrong. You cannot prove to anybody beforehand that you can do the job; the only way you can prove that you are capable is to get the job in the first place and then do it. What you need to do beforehand is show that you are well enough qualified to do what's asked, and the SNP are clearly best qualified for leading Scotland in the future. On the second point, your entrenched view and avatar bring to mind images of old codgers saying things like "Computers will never catch on", "Whit, machines that will transport people in the sky? Never!", or "Horseless carriages that propel themselves? I don't believe it!"

Door?

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If not a refund, some other sort of gesture, like a complimentary catering voucher or something like that. The numbers would be very small, so worth it purely from a buttering-up perspective.

I suppose Dundee fans are moaning and claiming that all the other clubs are plotting to destroy their club, as nobody is simply sitting back and letting them walk the league.

That's a valid point. Frankly if we had the choice between getting into the SPL and surviving there on transfer deals or continuing in the 1st (and occasionally the 2nd) division with several youth teams that might produce a couple of 1st team squad players now and again, then I would advocate ditching the youth system right now.

One in ten people born in Britain emigrate for a better life elsewhere. Just take a look around this forum and you'll see no shortage of examples from Scotland. For whatever reason, the British union doesn't seem so great that those folk want to live here. I'm not saying that an independent Scotland would definitely be more attractive, but I've talked to people who live abroad who have said it would make the prospect of returning more likely.

So it's up to us all to try to get folk along who normally wouldn't go.