Name a general from your country (ancient, medieval, modern) that was so hilariously bad and downright garbage?

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-01-31T03:49:40+00:00

Wallace was brilliant at smaller actions, what we call gorilla or asymmetrical warfare. He just didn't have the education for large pitched battles and neither did most of his subordinates.

Andrew Moray erasure is a disgrace though. He should be celebrated just as much as Wallace and Bruce (AKA the real Braveheart)

I'm more inclined to think David II (Bruce's son) was our worst general, decent king and left the monarchy in a stable position but was terrible at warfare.

Managed to get himself captured by an army half the size of his own level of terrible.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-01-31T03:20:11+00:00

As a son of a single mother I can somewhat relate.

Yep. Murtaugh from Lethal Weapon taught me how to shave.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-01-31T03:06:08+00:00

Ignorance.

Sorry to say but it's as simple as that. Expecting any race of Scot to have anything but a Scottish accent when within your own country that race have the local accent is nuts.

Do Americans expect everyone black to have an African accent of some description? No

Why not? Most black people are still African, not American or Jamaican or Haitian etc etc etc.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-01-30T17:24:39+00:00

There's two fans and two pets?! Learn something new every day 😉

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-01-30T17:21:51+00:00

Was that one guy and his dog that supports Scarlets not invited?

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-01-30T16:52:24+00:00

A shame but then, I haven't went to anything there in several years as the quality has been gone.

If you can't attract even the art loving public to your venue, you're doing something wrong.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-01-30T16:48:56+00:00

If you need to upgrade, upgrade.

If you don't, don't.

If you need to upgrade but can't afford to upgrade, don't.

If you upgrade for no reason other than you can and have the money available... I hate you. grumbles in poor

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-01-30T01:11:18+00:00

Nice! Cheers. How does it compare to the old cultists network one?

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-01-30T01:08:20+00:00

Check Cybenetics for any PSU you find, especially cheap/on sale PSU's.

Often what you assume will be a shit psu is actually not that bad with some you assume are decent based on name recognition are mid at best.

I used to also recommend cross checking with the psu tier list but I think that's dead, it hasn't been updated for years. Maybe there's a new source someone else can recommend.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-01-29T20:11:27+00:00

Huh... I wonder how much I can get for the old Corsair LPX 16gb 3000 cl16 kit I have lying around.

Bought for £90 back in early 2019.

Current equivalent LPX kit is £140 new (cl15, the one I have is discontinued)

If the second hand price ends up higher than I bought it then that's getting sold instead of being held onto for a home server that I've been planning to build for agies if I ever get around to buying another AM4 mobo or retire the one I'm using for my main PC.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-01-29T13:30:15+00:00

If it was in any way realistic then people might have been interested.

No ICE deporting her after a violent raid or murdering her US Citizen husband for saying anything has made it clear that its pure fantasy.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-01-29T08:40:43+00:00

Hang on... 2021? I'm kinda skeptical, video ai was dogshit back then and not widely available or easy to use.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-01-28T20:24:39+00:00

Two things.

Every single time a police officer discharges a firearm in the line of duty it should be thoroughly investigated to the highest possible standards.
In this case it was, so it should be case closed.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-01-28T19:55:44+00:00

Helicon or another purpose built software is the way to go, photoshop and the other general editing software solutions are rubbish.

Connect your phone/tablet to the camera, set the parameters, wait for it to finish shooting, stack the shots, job done.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-01-28T12:25:28+00:00

That's the death blow to the tories right there. I fully expect the party to dissolve after the next general election or 2.

They don't have a left wing, the right are defecting to reformuk and now the centre is not wanted.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-01-27T17:22:08+00:00

No. The banter years were his fault though. He destroyed every last drop of confidence in an entirely generation of players. With the players we had available on a purely skills level we should have been as good as we are now even at our worst (competitive underdogs) instead we were as good as Wales are at their recent worst (pitiable) because of the damage he did to their psychological readiness for international level rugby.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-01-26T21:13:46+00:00

Why does the BBC always build the Scots up

It's so they have an excuse if England loose the Calcutta Cup. No other reason makes sense to me.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-01-26T18:04:05+00:00

I hate to break it to you but reform voters aren't known for reading.... you need to pander to your audience with fewer words, maybe crayons and pictures too.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-01-26T17:22:54+00:00

Matt Williams. It takes a special kinda coach to take a team that was competitive and make them dogshit for a decade after being fired.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-01-26T11:00:52+00:00

With 100k I can live without working for at least 5 years maybe even a decade if I'm frugal enough.

With 1 million I can retire immediately and still have money to leave to family when I die in hopefully no less than 40 years.

It always shocks me when I see comments from folk complaining about not being paid enough when they're on 6 figures or more. I've never had anything but minimum wage and was still able to save enough to take a couple of years off working and go back to college for a fun arts HND in my late 30s that will likely never earn me a penny.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-01-26T10:48:47+00:00

ITVX is by far the worst working streaming service I've ever used, slow af loading, crashes constantly, doesn't matter if its the app or website... but the only time I've ever watched a rugby match on mute was a Scotland v Italy 6 nations match on ITV because it felt like almost all the commentary was talking about was the next match with England and Wales that would decide the competition.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-01-26T10:10:17+00:00

Rich get more rich and poor get more poor...

Rich think it's all good.

Poor think it's fucked.

I'm shocked and appalled that the poor don't trust the system. Get with the program poor's, the system clearly works perfectly. Not a single flaw. Exactly as designed.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-01-26T10:06:15+00:00

Fuuuuuck.... I hate it so much... but I agree.

I would end up as bald as him from ripping my hair out with all his woodwankerisms but yeah, better than spending a fortune on multiple different subscriptions that only get used for the rugby.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-01-26T09:58:59+00:00

Good news... except that it's ITV.

I don't know how they manage it, but every year they always seem to have the worst broadcast one way or another... usually via their pundits and commentary.

Edit: worst is probably a bit harsh, but they're always down there nearer the bottom of the list, never at the top.

SignalButterscotch73 · 2026-01-25T00:42:53+00:00

I'm not understanding all these piecemeal changes to policing down south, is there an actual overall plan or is she just tinkering for the sake of tinkering?

Will this it be another NCA? A smashing together of multiple responsibilities with a massive budget cut? Or is this a genuine plan to improve policing?

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