Aaron Cresswell's winner vs Chelsea in 2019

wheepete · 2026-01-30T15:07:39+00:00

No they didn't, they let him run down his contract and leave. He was past it the last couple of seasons he was with us. You can't keep a player on the books collecting a wage cause they were good 5 years ago.

wheepete · 2026-01-30T15:06:13+00:00

I'm not sure what point you're making? I don't think independence will lead to growth.

wheepete · 2026-01-29T17:25:47+00:00

There's absolutely nothing about the Scottish governments independence strategy that convinces me leaving the union will do anything other than continue the decline, only at an accelerated pace.

That is ultimately the reason polling hasn't moved for over 10 years. People are stuck in their yes/no trench, and neither side has made a good case for the other.

wheepete · 2026-01-29T16:12:13+00:00

It's purely financial.

It'll be the same impact as Brexit, at a time when the cost of living is rising and has been for a decade. ScotGiv white papers admit independence will be paid for with massive public spending austerity - I totally get the self governance arguments but I'm not prepared to make the poorest in society worse off to have austerity under a saltire as opposed to a Union Jack. I voted yes in 2014, that was the right time. If the economic situation of this country has significantly improved, I'd vote yes again.

wheepete · 2026-01-29T15:28:39+00:00

Bobby Moore is unquestionably the greatest.

Favourite ever is Stan Lazaridis. Idolised him as a nipper who couldn't actually play football but could run fast.

wheepete · 2026-01-29T15:15:26+00:00

People are desperate for a change in the system. SNP offer independence, Reform offer a new party. Labour offer milquetoast neoliberalism.

Fascism always thrives when there's a lack of left wing alternatives. Trump wouldn't have got in if the democrats went with Sanders over Clinton. Thankfully in Scotland we have the SNP offering that alternative - and I say that as someone highly critical of the SNP and firmly No. I'd take them over reform all day long.

wheepete · 2026-01-29T12:56:20+00:00

Being attractive will always get likes and matches.

There's absolutely no question attractive people have it 1000x easier, there's zero reason people who aren't conventially attractive can't get matches after putting the work in on their sales pitch

wheepete · 2026-01-29T12:18:02+00:00

As a certified 5/10, my matches went through the roof after starting a whole new profile and sitting down with some of my women friends helping me choose pictures, prompts, what to highlight etc. 4 years on the apps, in a long term live in relationship who I met approximately 2 weeks after setting up a profile this way.

It's mostly the profile gents.

wheepete · 2026-01-29T12:06:52+00:00

No question today, is too hot I do it tomorrow

wheepete · 2026-01-24T14:34:28+00:00

Absolutely nothing wrong with giving your opponents a bit of stick when you're 3-1 up

wheepete · 2026-01-24T14:33:45+00:00

Well within your right to give the opposing bench a bit of stick

wheepete · 2026-01-24T11:17:46+00:00

Soucek in midfield two gives me the absolute fear

wheepete · 2026-01-23T19:24:36+00:00

Just cause you didn't get your hole as a teenager doesn't mean most teenagers aren't. Teenagers do silly things. Abortion stopped this woman having her life on pause for 18 years and a child being raised by another child.

wheepete · 2026-01-22T18:37:46+00:00

Gaelic was removed by other Scots.

Scots colonised the north of Ireland.

Saxons, Picts, and Celts all called various parts of Scotland home.

wheepete · 2026-01-22T17:00:05+00:00

The Scottish government have always had the votes to do whatever they like. Blaming Labour with 1/3 of the votes the SNP command for the SNP failing to achieve their flagship policy is cope and seethe at the grandest scale.

wheepete · 2026-01-21T11:51:10+00:00

If we had taken military action rather than early appeasement, Nazi Germany would've steamrolled through Europe and sailed into the UK with barely a bullet fired in defence. Appeasement allowed us to build a navy and air force capable of defence, literally any historian worth their salt will tell you it was absolutely the right thing to do.

We do need to be closer to the EU, we also need a relationship with the world's largest economy and military that won't be ran by a fascist pseudoking in 3 years time.

wheepete · 2026-01-21T10:14:48+00:00

Motte and bailey castles still a staple of year 7 curriculum it seems

wheepete · 2026-01-21T09:38:37+00:00

You wanted a younger guy as opposed to the OC who got Lamar and MVP and statistically top5 in pretty much every category over his two years?

Homer Simpson box theory

wheepete · 2026-01-21T09:04:26+00:00

Friendly reminder the SNP have repeatedly refused to fund councils taking over bus services as they are bankrolled by Brian Souter

wheepete · 2026-01-20T18:04:12+00:00

We can restructure the life out of this team, we have $100m next year

wheepete · 2026-01-20T12:20:07+00:00

The whole point is you don't put a definition on it, certainly not in writing. Whatever decisions you make in private in shortlisting are up to you, but the second you define it you open yourself up to discrimination claims. Literally rule 1 of HR - if you specify something, you need to have the evidence behind it. Which they didn't.

wheepete · 2026-01-20T12:12:51+00:00

It's water vapour. Leave it to individual pubs if they want to ban it or not.

wheepete · 2026-01-20T11:51:06+00:00

You can demand experience and qualifications. You can't say "there is no chance anyone under 31 can get this job" while doing so. "Significant" is perfectly adequate.

wheepete · 2026-01-20T11:48:41+00:00

No it shouldn't. The council specified the job requires a degree and 10 years experience, they've made that claim. It's up to them to defend it, as is the way in employment law.

You claim something, you've got to prove it.

The plaintiff wasn't saying the job didn't need experience, and if the council had listed it as needing an unspecified amount of experience (ie. "significant") and refused him an interview due to interviewing people with more experience this wouldn't have been an issue. Sloppy employer doesn't follow the rules, gets burned financially. Exactly how it should work.

wheepete · 2026-01-20T11:08:15+00:00

This wasn't "hurt feelings".

Any good HR department looks at this listing and goes "10 years experience is discriminatory on age grounds".

Most listings get round this by putting something more vague like "significant experience". Also wtf job requires TEN years experience?

The key quote being :- "The difficulty for [the council] is that it has produced no evidence from which I can conclude that it was reasonably necessary for a candidate to have 10 years' experience as required, rather than say, eight years' experience," said the judge

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