StreetCowboy

“On yer bike”, as Norman Tebbitt said. A bicycle is a cheap way of accessing opportunities

London bin men can afford to live in Thailand. Thai bin men can’t afford to live in Bangkok. London bin men can’t afford to live in London.

A commendable attitude; our monarch can be a great source of celebrity tatle, but they have two jobs to do: - provide commendation in normal life - stand up to dictatorship when democracy suddenly fails us. When demracy sudeenly fails, I think thatany country would be wishing that they had a crown that the people and the armed forces could support

We should all care about royalty -our Kings and Queens are one of our last lines of defence against those who would be king, as we are seeing the devolved colonies suffering now. The monarch has power and authority when democracy goes wrong, but they can only use that power in desoerate circumstances with the backing of the people AND the institutions. SC

Back in the day when my elder brother worked on site, he recounted this tale to me, which I have no reason to believe is true. A bulky gentleman was abused by some younger fellows, who then ran off. "Come back here and get a battering now, or it will be the worse for youse in the long run" and they came back. I dont know how the battering went. Maybe he worked in a chip shop. But my point is this - they must be fit, to carry all that round.

Don't knock being Canadian until you've tried it

For all that Charles is King, Anne is the late Queen's eldest daughter and the patron of the Scottish Rugby Football Union, and a down to earth sort, like her parents. Luckily, she can concentrate on the SRU - we need all the help we can get. Her wee boy played for scottiish Schools, and Exeter University rugby league, if my memory serves me well.

Do you have any statistics for that?

I'm not saying that's what happened, but how would things be different if it had? We can all complain, but sometimes people try their hardest and things turn out for the best, regardless of our omplaints. SC

I'm guessing that the pre-coronation King Charles said that he'd like to abdicate in favour of his sister, Princess Anne, and she replied "i'll have you killed first, and then Andrew will be King", and it was all resolved for the good of the country.

Ye can have too much pop

I think "Walking back to Happiness" was early sixties - I've not checked on Google - tremendous record, long before my time, and none of her other songs lived up to it, and I think she suffered from a lack of promotion. But those good old days were no better than days before or after - its just that our memories of those days are better. Other people have other memories of other days. When people ask about the summer in Scotland, I say it's typically only one day - 30th June, 1984. The start of Trades Fortnight, the end of term at Royal High, a warm summers day... That's what summer is all about

I used the Google search engine to follow up on a clip of Jonah Lomu getting piled on by a bunch of guys in Barbarians shirts, and the Google AI engine explained it was the French barbarians. Should've left it there. It then went on to say "During his time with the Barbarians, he was instead noted for his devastating performance against Scotland in 2001, where he scored four tries. " Google AI might be advised not to come by Leith in the near future, that's all I'm saying, I don't know if Google AI bears a grudge, but I hope I'll not be needing a kidney machne in my old age.

Nothing wrong with showing off your hardness by displaying your prejudices, but you’d look harder talking to the blokes you’re talking about than talking to us.

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I’m sat in the pub and the blokes next to me have just wished each other “Happy Tuesday”, and fair enough, it’s the best Tuesday of the week so far, but in terms of Tuesdays, how does it rank? Back in the day, we were planning Pubcycle IX 2022, and recruiting volunteers. I got a message “I’d like to join” ”Nae bother!” ”Only I’m blind” ”That’s ok - I’ll call out the directions, as well as signalling” ”No - I need to ride behind someone with a tandem” Finding a volunteer pilot willing to put their own and their buddy’s safety at risk through the busy KL highways was a trivial matter, but finding a tandem at short notice for the Pubcycle proved more challenging. ”Well, maybe it was for the best; for a first ride together, the Pubcycle is a bit challenging, and no matter how limited, the drink is unlikely to help either of us” So we deferred the tandem ride to February 2nd - Tandemonium Twosday! I still couldn’t find a tandem, and that date passed. So maybe today was one of the best Tuesdays, unless you count the ones that never happened.

I think it's great that you ended on a compliment. There's nothing worse than being half-full of it

That’s the way that some small part of the money gets back to the provinces; through the remittances of the construction workers and serving staff. There’s not a lot that you can do to improve the lot of the poor, bar tipping generously whenever you walk past a construction site

Are you here for a two-minute argument, or the full five minutes?

Register for your porn sites with a mask.

What's good for kids is good for adults

We can't all keep rushing to keep up, as my late mother would tell you

It is dawn somewhere in the world, whenever you're shot

I watch rugby league to avoid being lined up against a wall and shot. At a rugby match, anyone can express their opinion, bar questioning the referee. I went into Sid's, back in the day, to watch the Calcutta Cup, a few minutes late, and English Steve ("the only thing that would make me vote SNP is English C***s like you" / "Good - F*** off ye Scotch Barstit") was there. "How's it going, Steve?" / "Alright, but the referee's bent" / "You can't say that, just because he's homosexual" /"I don't care if he's a f***in' p**fter" and at this the two English blokes sitting next to us pricked up and took offence, being younger and more woke than me and Steve put together, and I stirred the coals a little bit more "Steve, if you're going to start a fight, I'll hold their jackets" Don't question the referee.

If one is not lined up against a wall and shot, one's claims to be an intellectual sound a little false.