tom_widdows

School and University (NCAA) sports play a massive part in how the draft works. Some NCAA games get bigger crowds than the NFL. Uni's make a lot of money out of it meaning it is in their interest to give scholarships to kids who would never get there based on their academic abilities. The additional advantage is while at Uni effectively being a professional sportsman you are getting a qualification which you can fall back on should the sports thing not work out. Now lets have a look at the school and Uni sports situation in Scotland (or even the UK as a whole).

DantheDon retains the title as nobody predicted the correct total for the record going on 'points per game' the final Dons total would be 57points (so close!)

Sportscene rewind was a decent watch this evening. Only seen highlights of the featured games on 'Team of the Decade' etc but tonight got to see extended versions which showed the matches weren't as one sided as they seemed in the old videos. Also didn't know Roy Aitken was sent off in the 1984 cup final.

Well its hard to leave them on buses and trains at the moment

Only reading a transcript from the Guardian but FFS the questions/ comments coming from the Tories compared to the opposition parties 1 Tory asks about a fucking steam railway 1 Tory asks what fuckwit thinks about the Hay-on-Wye Book festival going on line Theres people dying, people living on the streets, and others soon to join them and these 'elected' officials waste their constituency's questions on that?

That sounds like something from a passive aggressive domestic argument. Perhaps it was the last thing he heard before he headed off to Westminster this morning

There used to be a sign behind the bar in a pub back home 'Be alert! Britain needs Lerts' Sort of slogan I can see above a BJ version of the Kitchener poster. Guardian is claiming part of tonight's speech to the nation was recorded yersterday which hasnt gone down very well with the cabinet.

So apparently much like the 'brilliant' settled status application App, this new CV-19 tracing one will also have issues working with certain phones. Im looking forward to the tories releasing a public information film on Betamax & Laserdisc

Made it to 87

The downside of having children

Carrying on the testing bullshit https://twitter.com/JamesClayton5 Mainstream media complicit in 'celebrating' tory success. I wish I could say I'm surprised by YouGov's recent snap poll stating 50% of people would vote Tory if there was an election tomorrow.

Seems they are already backtracking on the 200,000 target. Wonder if that's a record?

200,000 tests a day by the end of May now. At the risk of being cynical this really is a primary school playground.

Series 5 of GF Newmans 'The Corrupted' is currently on BBC Sounds Series 1-4 have also been re-added so you can start from the beginning. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b050z5cf If you haven't heard of it, its the story of one particular family told by the son who is in prison for a crime he didnt commit with each series covering a different decade in UK history (each episode covers 1 year) with fictional characters being written into 'true history'. So you get people like the Krays, Thatcher, Major, Blair etc. Series 1 - 1950s Series 2 - 1960s Series 3 - 1970s Series 4 - 1980s Series 5 - 1990s Part of me wants everything done and dusted after this series but another wants to see how the Character's deal with Blair's exploits and the 2008 crash, and perhaps even how they could deal with Corona virus.

Well thats Monday's 100,000 sorted then

In terms of mortality the UK is now the second worst in the world based on reported stats 1 in 6 people who have reportedly caught the virus have died. Spain and Italy may have higher number of cases but their mortality rates are 1 in 10, and 1 in 7 respectively. Only country which is worse is Belgium but that is only fractionally and will probably have changed by tomorrow.

Thing that springs to mind immediately is 'short termism' The curse of what seems to be all current political thinking around the world is 'Only do/ work on things which can be achieved in the 4-5 years we definetly have power. Anything long term which will be good but causes a bit of stress to the public without a seemingly quick positive return will be used by the opposition against us and will probably be cancelled if we lose control. A very simplistic form of this is the test some scientists/ pychologists did on kids which involved sitting them at a table and placing one sweet in front of them. The kids were told that if they didn't touch the sweet for 15mins they would get another sweet and could then eat both. I understand the majority if not all of the kids in the tests ate the single sweet immediately. The instant return was seen as better than the better long term gain. Another example is the hundreds of fad diets and exercise equipment that will supposedly make you lose 3 stone or have you looking like an olympic swimmer in a week. Alternatively there is the logic of governments that the more the people know the less likely they are to vote for you so keep them as dumb/ in the dark as possible. 10 years ago the UK was shut down due to heavy snow and then we discovered most of the snowplows etc had been sold off as there hadn't been any heavy snow for years and the chances of it happening were supposedly small therefore it was seen as an easy 'saving' / boost to the coffers. We also live in a world where everyone wants everything but resents the fact we have to pay for it. Tell the UK population an additional 1p on the pound tax was being introduced to make sure the country was prepared for a pandemic which may or may not happen and come election day that government would be kicked out in a landslide. Suggesting raising taxes is seen as political suicide but even if a government was voted in on a socialist high tax model (like scandinavia) I wouldnt be surprised if the fuckwits who go into politics now would find a way to waste/ lose the extra funding. If by some miracle the extra money was wisely spent it would take decades for the real changes to be seen and all the while the opposition parties would be accusing the government of picking the pocket of 'hard working families'. After all why should you pay for stuff you dont actively use all the time when you could be spending your money on a new TV or Sofa every year etc etc?

Daily Record (I know) claiming the new stadium is on hold indefinetly and capacity may need to be reduced. Perhaps getting close to that magical 13500

Im pretty sure there is a film or perhaps an episode of Criminal minds where the serial Killers preferred method is injecting bleach and other household cleaners into his victims.

I think Auchinleck Talbot are that league's version

Hasn't gone down well. 32 game season with what i presume was 7 official match days left meaning they would have had to play 2 (sometimes 3) games per week every week till the end of the season. Injuries and fatigue would be a factor as protentially would be availability of certain players given it is a part time league.

Appears the West Region Junior League has declared Auchinleck Talbot as champions this was the league table before everything shut down GP W D L GF GA GD PTS 1 Kilwinning Rangers 25 16 5 4 51 38 13 53 2 Pollok 22 13 3 6 48 22 26 42 3 Auchinleck Talbot 16 13 2 1 51 15 36 41 4 Irvine Meadow XI 22 12 2 8 36 35 1 38 5 Clydebank 28 11 4 13 42 45 -3 37 6 Glenafton Athletic 20 11 3 6 39 30 9 36 7 Beith Juniors 21 9 7 5 40 35 5 34 8 Kilbirnie Ladeside 24 10 3 11 44 44 0 33 9 Cumnock Juniors 25 9 5 11 39 45 -6 32 10 Rossvale 25 10 2 13 33 39 -6 32 11 Largs Thistle 25 9 4 12 41 44 -3 31 12 Hurlford United 19 8 5 6 29 26 3 29 13 Troon 24 6 4 14 31 51 -20 22 14 Benburb 20 5 4 11 27 39 -12 19 15 Rutherglen Glencairn 17 3 3 11 26 42 -16 12 16 Kirkintilloch Rob Roy 17 2 0 15 8 35 -27 6

I hope Im wrong (especially as it will directly affect me) but I won't be surprised if by the end of next week there are newspaper reports stating only about 10% of businesses applying for the furlough scheme being approved same as the small business loan shitshow. Much like Universal credit I suspect the Tory attitude is the majority of people applying are trying to cheat the system so they will make it as hard as possible to get it, and if you do get it they will be looking for the smallest opportunity to take it back.