Maybe I am wearing a larger than usual tinfoil hat, but there does seem to be an ever growing narrative designed to take our attention away from something.
That something is the SAR (Save another Rangers ) campaign.
It manifests itself in the form of decisions on the football field, honest mistakes which when analysed are neither honest nor mistakes.
But as they continue, the media focuses on other stories, many of which appear to be entirely constructed from within the fourth estate, and clearly with an agenda.
At the weekend, Celtic overcame a fiesty Motherwell to secure another three points. The 1-0 win, courtesy of a Tom Rogic goal, was marred by some novel and refreshing refereeing, with the free reign given to the clogging club to , well, clog away to their hearts content.
With Celtic’s current injury crisis, that’s exactly what i’d do if I were minded in the same way as the current crop of Lanarkshire graduates seem to be. Let them kick lumps out of the main title rival in the hope that someone gets hurt.
The media have jumped aboard this particular ship, with Kyogo Fuhruhashi now labellled as a diver, effectively a cheat, when all he has done is have the temerity to fall down when pushed, or to bruise when assaulted.
On Sunday, it seemed that every time a motherwell player hit the deck, it was a foul. Which broke up play, an understated tactic of referees for quite some time now, and again no early cards were awarded to the visitors, while one Celtic player was booked for walking on the cracks in the pavement on his way to his car that morning.
I’m exaggerating, but you get the point.
No doubt on January 2, some Celts will be booked for putting their socks on the wrong feet early in the game….
Ross county are up next, a difficult away trip at the best of times, and i can;t be the only one who’s noticed that Celtic seem to find quite a few spirited performances from lesser sides, whereas another side from over the river always seem to catch these teams on an off day….
When Celtic at boardroom level condone and collude with the SAR campaign, you wonder what other clubs are prepared to do to maintain the old firm status quo….
When Celtic closed the top tier of a stand when the other lot were finding their feet in their new world of senior football, it wasn;t down to lack of demand, it was to enforce the myth that there was a lack of demand.
We’re being played, and there will be more evidence of that as the season goes on.
In the meantime, we protest against the appointment of a man, Bernard Higgins, that hasn;t and quite likely won;t be made. in fact, i’d wager that the club had no intention of appointing him, but used it as a means to deflect attention from the real issue, the SAR campaign, which if it were seen to support would cause rage among their customer base.
A complaint was made by the club regarding referee chief Crawford Allen and his comments on Kyogo, but when the Sun reported it, they included a story about a woman getting a question wrong on the telly in the same article, which deliberately trivialised the issue.
Elsewhere, a contestant on The Chase was asked when Celtic were founded – but she got the answer incorrect.
Lucy, 25, was in the middle of her face-off with The Beast when she was asked about the Parkhead club on the hit quiz show.
The London zoology student was quizzed on the year that appears Celtic’s badge, which shows when the club was formed.
Her options were 1666, 1777 or 1888.
Lucy guessed incorrectly as she chose option B, 1777, the correct answer being 1888.
Before the blunder she told presenter Bradley Walsh that football questions were not her forte.
She said: “I really didn’t want a football question to come up.”
But the veteran host was quick to reply when he said: “It’s more about history really.”
Chaser Mark Labbett answered correctly.
There’s a serious debate about referee’s, and a serious breach of protocol when their boss condemns a player, but the sun puts this in the same category as a woman getting a question wrong on the telly.
And they all ignored this…..
Rangers have 2 new directors at TRFC: David Graham and Kenneth Barclay. Graham is their PR guy and is a Worshipful Master of the Orange Order and a member of the Royal Black Preceptory,
As for Celtic, they’ll keep us talking about things they’ve already settled, with the added bonus it will make them seem like they’re listeing to fans, and while they do, we’ll keep seeing protests such as the Green Brigade sulk, which serve only to disrupt the team, as the board are positively encouraging it by remaining silent on the issue.
If we’re moaning about something that they have already decided won;t happen, then we won’t be moaning about the events on the pitch, and the media narrative to break our players concentration, especially Kyogo, who is the major threat to SAR.
They won’t be able to handle a full strength Celtic on the field, and with three Glasgow derbies to come, the plan is currently to get “rangers ” into a huge lead, presumably just in case anyone does buy any of their key players.
All of which are for sale, and none of which will be turned down if it’s even remotely close to their own ludicrous valuations.
Despite what the media tell you, despite what their board tell you and despite what the lunatic fringe of their support tell you, they are losing money weekly, and without player sales in January, there will be major issues.
It appears to me they’re borrowing on the strength of UCL money next season, that automatic group entry, another narrative thats not strictly true, which would wipe away the soft loans and clear a few bills.
In short, it would save another Rangers.
Player sales are essential, and the Record got on board when they published their top ten players of 2021.
Curiously, Joe Aribo, (he’s the one with the pony tail, if you, like me, wouldn’t recognise any of their players if you bumped into them in Asda, even if they were in their work clothes, was named as the second best player in Scotland, and described as follows…
For a guy of 6ft 2ins, his first touch is like velvet. There isn’t a player in Scotland better with a ball at his feet in tight situations. Aribo could keep a beach ball off you in a phone box.
It isn’t, there is, and he couldn’t.
Looks like this week the store are promoting Aribos…..
Presumably interest has dried up in Nathan Paterson, and it’s interesting to note that Barisic has “snubbed ” Gerrard to stay at Ibrox.
I’d be surprised of any of their players fetched more than their manager when it comes to cash.
It’s depressing to think that Scottish football is prepared to go down the same path it travelled that led ultimately to the liquidation of one of it’s clubs. There are better ways to save a club than cheating, and surely the fact it didn’t work last time would have made them more cautious this time round.
Except, of course, they’re already waste deep in doo doo at the SFA/SPFL, and so a few more inches won’t make much difference to the smell.
All we can do is win the league this year.
That will put them back to sleep until the next regeneration, and that requires full support for the team, full anger at the authorities and complete awareness, above all, of what is going on here.
Ignore the higgins thing, it’s not going to happen, and if you can;t, simply bombard the club with emails, protest outside the ground, or if need bem a mass exit when the game is won.
But don’t fall for their shite, more than at any other time this is the board versus the fans, and we need to play by our rules, not by theirs.
Be angry at whats happening, not what might happen.
The last caption competition was last week…..
Caption. See Agnes, I telt ya climate change wis real.
Today
I’m awaiting the Jim Farry moment on the 2/1/22
Yes, I remember it will. I’m convinced George Cadette would have won that game for us. One would hope in todays more open society that Farrygate wouldn’t be repeated…….but then again. If only wee Fergus was still at the helm.
The economic reality that would have applied to Fergus is that Scottish football clubs to a greater or lesser degree depend on TV money to keep them solvent.
The TV money in turn depends on games between Celtic and them to get the paltry (by comparison) amounts other leagues are paid.
That reality exists still and Fergus would have accepted the 5WA as DD and PL did.
Fergus may have baulked at the idea of same club, no title stripping shit and insisted on domestic FFP and proper football justice re titles won using taxpayers subsidy but if Sevco threatened to walk away leaving the other clubs on boder line insolvent would Fergus had any other choice but accept the 5WA.
Moral hazard rules.
Sad to say, Auldheid, but Scottish fitba is run more like The Dukes of Hazzard, with Boss Hogg’s power grip now fully out of control.
It’s not often that I disagree with you, but on this I do.
Fergus was a known Celtic supporter, being the Croy Celtic supporter bus’s treasurer. Although DD was on a different planet monetary wise comparted to Fergus, Fergus’s character was completely different, in that he would fight for the club with everything he had, the Farry – Cadette incident is a case in point. When you four discovered and fought for Res.12, Fergus IMO would have taken it forward, fighting Regan all the way, the loss of CL income would have enraged him. Of course you are right about media income, which as you know is slanted towards the cheats. But, CL income would have negated any media income and that’s my point, proven by the share price rise when it was discovered that Celtic had a clear pathway into the CL Qualifiers. I really cannot see him (Fergus) allowing them to keep the titles and trophies stolen by cheating. They no doubt would have started again in some other guise, possibly as prisoners in cell block 14. Fergus had more about Celtic than DD and Dicky Mint, his puppet.
‘More open society’?!
Is that one where Rangers are still deid?
Ffs, mate, where do you live, I want to move there as the society I’m in has the government, media and medical staff waging all out war on humanity.
Maeda Fail ..?
And don’t rule out the season being called early using Covid as the excuse if we are only 1 point behind them and the season end is only a handful of games away.
CL money or liquidation. It’s that simple.
I’m afraid not, mate …
As their most recent insolvent years have shown us regardless of what happens they will not be allowed to die, no matter how much dosh needs washing.
I’m away for a bath, I’m tired. Now where is that bottle of piss I was drinking…………
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European trucker enjoying a wee brexit break …
Smsm catch up with David Graham to ask about being a director of a financially doped football club ? Ask that again son and you’ll be in here swimming wae ma single fish! Now am tyred of all these questions now gea us 20 grand of FO
One of the Rangers players enjoys the facilities at the team’s luxury mid season training camp.
Better than a wheelie bin, that’s for sure!
Parks of Hamilton owner launches the xmas must have gift for the gullible. The Ipox hot tub time machine, 4 trebles, 9 in a row, liquidation and yer clubs deid mate all erased for only £1690. Bargain.
sfa’s wheel of fortune
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Innit weird how you get more Likes for the word ‘Caption’ rather than the actual caption itself ..?
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Your piece makes absolute sense on all the issues raised, the board are not fit for purpose and are cravenly creeping along with their O.. F… partners in crime. Back the team and sack the board.
But how do we sack them if we keep giving them money?
Caption: The Broad Black rimmer
Rimmer, eh ..?
Caption – William Wilton; acclimitising himself, shortly before he, and Struth, went down to Gourock to attempt it for real.
Dear Lawwell (Yes we see you skulking in the shadows, behind Bankier)
You seem to believe that the “Old Firm” is necessary to our ‘commercial wellbeing’. Do you honestly think that, if the boot was on the other foot, the huns, the SFA and the media, would give a flying fuck whether we existed?
In answer to the question – No. They fucking wouldn’t. We’d be absolutely dead the first time around, never mind going for a second bite at the CL cherry.
Get your act together; support YOUR club, YOUR team and YOUR supporters, for fuck sake.
Kill off the huns and the masonic SFA, with extreme prejudice.
Signed
Every single Celtic fan with a brain. (IE, most of us.)
Watched that episode of The Chase,the chaser,nicknamed The Beast got the answer correct then stated that Celtic were founded by Brother Wilfred,doh.Loved the moment (not really)when the ref and his linesman didn’t notice that Taylor had already taken the corner when DT ran along the line with the ball? Concentration at it’s finest.Also notice that the Hun’s Embra cousins don’t seem to be making much of a fuss over the pen incident at Swinecastle,come on Robbie,can’t seem to hear you?…..
What you talking about, the only cheat in all of Scottish football is Kyogo!
And I knew a guy who thought the priest who created Celtic was called Brother Alfred and refused to take no for an answer.
He also thought the actor Wilfred Brambell was called Alfred Brimble …
Ye gorra laugh
🙂
Walfrid wasn’t a priest, as you’ve been told several times before.
He was the parish priest for Sacred Heart chapel & primary school in Bridgeton as YOU’VE been told numerous times before.
You can read all about it in this excellent study here:
Glengarry: Glasgow’s Sacred Heart
https ://the-shamrock.net/2016/09/18/ glengarry/
As an aside and as I’ve mentioned before my grandmother knew Andrew Kerins personally as he was both her priest and headmaster and she knew more of the good true man that he was than any of us ever will.
I’ve also posted this link before, just a couple of months back, but you clearly chose to ignore that too, preferring to stick with the BBC narrative as ever.
So, you enjoying the article on Brother Walfrid then, Cha?
Put some of your misguided preconceptions right, has it ..?
I’ve read it before and like a lot of Shamrock articles, a damn fine read.
You, on the other hand, have either not read it and certainly haven’t comprehended it.
“Father Edward Noonan, the first parish priest of Sacred Heart, was a Limerick man and he and Brother Walfrid had their work cut out.”
Marist Brothers aren’t priests.
Its not a difficult concept to grasp but perhaps the bacofoil has boiled your bonce and frazzled your few remaining marbles.
I read it and he was known by all as ‘the parish priest.’
You’re just being technical and cvnty because you can’t help yourself.
So if it walks like a priest and gives communion like a priest and does all priestly duties and is called a priest I think it’s fair to say that he was priest.
Unlike you where the word ‘cvnt’ can easily be inserted instead.
Hahaha, read it again, soft lad.
He was a priest and you just feel bad cos I’ve shown up as a muppet again.
🙂
*Shown YOU up as a muppet once again.
You ever spend much time in Brigton, Cha?
In the dark dangerous underbelly of the Hun scum beast?
Nah, I know you haven’t, cos if you had you wouldn’t be that daft cocky loudmouth ye are today.
Cos you’d have learned something there you can’t learn anywhere else and I can see clearly that you’re now too dim to ever learn it.
No matter how many articles from the BBC you might share trying to prove how ‘clever’ ye are.
Tell me something, Charles …
See if the BBC got caught lying about something would you ever trust them again?
Genuine question:
If someone, anyone, lied to you would you ever put your trust in them again?
Well, Charles ..?
Would you?
Trust a liar..?
Hmmm ..?
In a change to the advertised programme Harry Secombe presents Songs of Praise from the Saltcoats Nudist Club. Many thanks to the William Wilton Loyal for providing the spare tyres.
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Big fisherman in little pond.
Caption – Luxury spa facilities open at Murray Park
Neither harmless nor best ignored, chappie, as you well know.
“we’ll keep seeing protests such as the Green Brigade sulk, which serve only to disrupt the team”
Oh dear, a comment that will be music to the ears of the board.
The vast majority of fan orgs and, I believe, by extension fans support the actions against the potential appointment of the horrendous Higgins, which is no surprise given his appalling actions, as shown in grim videos by FAC etc.
Of course, it has to be admitted, there’s a minority of grey old men in our support who don’t give a damn that young and not so young lives were ruined by his evil eyes, as it didn’t affect them or anyone they know and “its easy to sleep on another man’s wound”.
Thankfully, the vast majority of fans aren’t that selfish.
I get that you’re pissed off that your personal pet peeve hasn’t winder resonance in the fan base but that’s just tough.
What’s Ralph’s ‘pet peeve’ then, soft lad?
Come on, soft lad, stop mucking about with Dislikes, what’s Ralph’s ‘pet peeve’ ..?
Caption:
You can lead a Hun to water but you can’t make him think.
Just got your moniker. How daft am I. Parsley sage. Etc
No, Ian, it’s an auld Glesga saying for disbelief, like ‘Away ye go’ …
’Aye, yer @rse n parsley!’
Parsley sage rosemary and thyme. Had to be
No, it’s an auld Glesga way of saying ‘Away and don’t talk pish’.
As R.St.P himself told us hardly anyone knows it but I know a few that used to say it back in the 70s.
Good yin, R.St!
Btw, what’s Pat’s blog that Christina mentioned where you can have a laugh without getting half yer words and entire posts censored?
That sounds like a fine spot for like minded Tim’s to get together, especially those of us forced to join Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band sue to the u predictable and wholly unquantifiable effects of whatever’s leaking out those jabs all the wimmen seem to be taking these days.
No way am I taking that chance just to get my end away, besides I’ve had a lifetime of fine tings, mad thigh they be, and I suppose all good things Ah’ve to come to an end, sad and unexpected though it had to end so abruptly like this.
Pat’s blog, aye …
Is it ACSOM, the one Monti keeps getting banned from?
Gringo’s got it right Ian, it’s an old Glasgow expression for those of a certain vintage. It should really be Arsene Parsley but someone was already using a very similar name on here.
Pat’s blog is called Jabba the Agnivore but don’t mention my name, whatever you do!!!
Cheers, Arsene, much appreciated!
And I’m sorry but I missed your inserted comment about ‘borrowed time’, I apologise profusely for my own crassness and will be praying for you as you’re a fine man, as all are on here, when they don’t let their own crassness get the better of them.
You’ve supported me in the past and are clearly a man of good sense and reason and I feel really bad about my jumping the gun.
Hope you get well soon and know that your writing has brightened up many a dull dark moment for me and 8m delighted to now have all of it stored for future reference.
I’ve been writing my entire life and your imaginative wit has often proved inspirational and there’s not many in this Earth I can say that about.
All the best, mucker.
Hail Hail,
The Green Machine
Should point out Pat’s system holds new posters in moderation until he gets round to approving it (he’s a lazy sod by his own admission) but future posts go straight through. Should also warn you he’s a pretty abrasive character and will fillet you for some of the stuff you come up with on here – that’s not a judgement, just a warning. That aside it’s a funny hun-skelping blog that deserves a wider readership.
Good to know, ta for the tips, but I generally keep quiet about that stuff unless some fool starts blithering on about things they haven’t a clue about as I’m happy not to bother arguing with idiots lest they pull me down to their level.
Luckily enough most loudmouths are so dumb such a trick is impossible but I’m largely content to let most of them either along in their self willing ignorance.
Still doesn’t alter the fact that the constellations never change and have repeated their same annual drift every year for millennia though and there’s nothing anyone can say to argue with that fact anyway.
🙂
I’ve had a look and sad to say he’s just another gullible compliant unthinking muppet..
Anybody that trusts the British government AND its propaganda arm the BBC on any matter needs their fvckin heads examined.
But cheers anyway.
Maybe I’ll go on and start subtly winding him up once I’m in the mood for an argument again, just to see how he reacts, but Christmas is coming and I can’t be @rsed.
Enough hassle on here it’s a wing and a prayer if you get through. It usually follows a half hearted effort with less punch that gets through
Sort have to agree with Daniele probably on anges mad idea to throw the 3 Japanese boys for the Huns game. If necessary
David probably ffs Danielle. Aye hur as well
Provan. Ffs not provan
‘Danielle probably’?
’Provan. Not provan’?
’Throw the three Japanese’?
Are you alright, Ian, or is this some kind of trick post?
Imagine two Tims, Disliking a comment where a fellow TIm prays for a man’s health …
I ask you in all sincerity and under the eyes of God ..
WHAT THE FVCK IS WRONG WITH YOU CVNTS?!
Whit the fluck did ye dae that fur.
It’s the one haven on the blogosphere that hasn’t been yet polluted by that nutcase.
To be honest I doubt Pat would put up with Gringo for long but I thought it might advertise his blog on here as it’s down to about four regulars these days and one is English Bob and his feckin nature rambles!
PS Did you know you missed Christina on here the other day?
Regarding Christina, I replied twice to her and they only appeared after a new diary was up. This feckin site is a disaster as you can’t conduct a meaningful conversation on it.
I see what you mean about Pat’s site, poor Hector’s pretty much on his own these days. As for TGM,Pat would eat him alive. A bit more muscular moderation is what’s needed here – maybe limit him to a couple of hundred posts a day! Seriously, does this guy ever go to work? He’s on here morning, noon and night.P
I work, Oughball.
I’m working all the time.
You don’t have to leave your house to work, you know, but it’s nice to know you appreciate my input 🙂
And if you don’t like it don’t read it.
How difficult is that?
Blah, blah, blah…work from home do you? Is that as the art historian you were claiming to be last month or the song writer you claim to be this week? Nobody’s impressed by your bloviating buffoonery, pal. Everybody here thinks you’re a joke. They certainly don’t respect any of your delusional ravings. If you had any sense of self-awareness, you’d realise what a prize tit you are and be embarrassed by the tripe you post on here instead of polluting the place with your verbal diarrhoea day after day. Stay in yer mammy’s attic or get yerself a girlfriend if you can but find somewhere else to haunt and give us all peace.
Desi, since the site is capable of blocking out so many perfectly innocuous posts, can’t you do something about this feckin headcase and his incessant flooding of the comments section with his asinine drivel?
Why don’t you go back to Pat’s blog, doughball?
Then you’ll never have to think about me ever again and you can just safely enjoy English Bob’s nature rambles in the serenity you so plainly seek.
Harsh but fair.
What do you know, soft lad?
You who quotes from the BBC even though you know they lie to you about Rangers dying every day.
I asked you a question that you didn’t answer so I’ll rephrase it for you:
If someone lied to you repeatedly why would you ever trust them on any topic ever again?
Answer it this time, or be forever known as the dumb unthinking soft lad that we all already know you are.
What’s harsh about it Cha!!?
🙂
You won’t answer the question, soft lad?
Why do you trust the BBC who lie to you every day about Rangers still being alive on any topic?
Tell us why, Cha, and at least try to scrape back some of your one time reputation as being a somewhat ‘clever’ man.
Go on, Cha, give it a go …
Why do you trust known liars?
Away back to the vitriol filled Jabba’s site where you belong, ya spite faced wee toerag.
Guys like you are a joke to humanity and it’s no wonder you’ve a stick up yer jacksie when other folks’ opinions offend you so much.
No one likes you on here either but you don’t see me wasting my time telling you that, I’ll just point out what a sad faced wee hoor ye are and give everyone a laugh at yer stupidity in those rare moments where ye’re not doing the same yirself, which are rare, admittedly, as making a monkey out yirself is your natural habitat.
Now away back tae Jabba‘s and tell him to watch out as The Green Machine’s coming and he won’t even know until it hits him.
Hurry hurry now, little man, off you trot …
So nothing to say about your ‘degree’ in the History of Art, then? Forgotten about it, hadn’t you? Can you tell us the name of the ‘university’ you attended? One of the Oxbridge colleges perhaps or maybe the Sorbonne in Paris, knowing you!!!?
That’s the trouble with telling so many lies, you need to be able to remember all the bullsh*t you’ve come out with in the past (and you’ve come out with a mountain of it) or hope everybody else has forgotten what you said. Well, tough luck on that!
And make the lie believable ffs!!! The idea of a clown like you passing tertiary education in any subject is risible – your literacy is barely above primary school level. Desi would be doing you a favour by banning you – you’re so thick you can’t see what a laughing stock you are.
I told you what uni I attended, muppet.
I told you the first time.
Glasgow Uni.
Now whats the difference between Monet & Manet?
So you’ve CLEARLY forgotten what uni I attended as I told you it only a few months ago!
So how much of a laughing stock does that make you now? 😀
Hahaha, whit a fvckin muppet you really are, d’Oughball! 😀
Hi Owen et al- I saw your post last night and I replied but more in hope than expectation that you would see it. I wasn’t permitted to post on here yesterday but tried my luck again today and woohoo I’m in 🙂 I’m wary of posting any of my musings on here as I think I would get eaten alive not least by GM. As you guys know I tend to write a novel when I’m posting about stuff but if I did that here it would never get by the dreaded censors!! So, for now, will just stick to replying to you guys when I can and we’ll see how it goes. I post on James Forrest’s blog sometimes as his site was where I started posting. I used to get on quite well there James liked my stuff and was kind to me. I also met Greg McLachlan (RIP) there who was the one pushing me to start a blog of my own. He was a lovely guy we used to chat a lot on messenger and he sent me a lot of material that he wanted me to write about. I was very upset when he passed away suddenly (only young too in his 30s) and that kind of finished my plans on blogging. Better finish this or it will never get by moderation!
I wouldn’t eat you alive, Christina, cunning linguist though I am.
Unless of course you asked for it …
🙂
Anyway enough of the past how you guys all doing? Hope you’re all well and looking forward to festivities. First of all we have the Cup Final of course the Neanderthals are going…of course so just me & my wee dog will be watching on TV. Just as well I thought the bloody ceiling was coming down the other night when Tony Ralston got that late goal! Place was like a morgue before that 🙂 then the goal and the shouting & whooping must have been heard for miles around lol! So a much happier house since then. I hope same for Sunday, as we all do, would be great to start off the festive season with the first of our trophies back in the cabinet wouldn’t it? Fingers, and everything else, crossed oh a wee Hail Mary for good measure!
Much love ❤ to you all Cx
Christina, were you ‘Maria’ over on The Celtic Blog?
With GregM ‘Paul Brady’?
Hi Christina sweetheart. I’m doing okay thanks, all three jags just to annoy TGM and still alive! Who’d a thought it? Sadly it’s almost impossible to have a conversation on here. Either your post gets blocked or you’re interrupted by an exposé on French impressionist, fascism or early Renaissance classicism by the site’s resident ‘art historian’. But I hope you and the family have a great Christmas and a Gringo-free New Year!
French impressionism and fauvism. Predictive text strikes again!
Here, d’Oughball, what’s the difference between Monet & Manet?
Google and Wikipedia must have taken a hell of a walloping today to get your ‘expert knowledge’ of art up to scratch! Still, it was cruel of me to remind you about your ‘degree’ – you’re more to be pitied than laughed at really.
PS No need to put (sic) after the word asinine, just because you don’t know what it means. It’s a real word – try looking in the dictionary between a*sehole and ass, two words I’m sure you hear a lot on your travels.
If you had managed to pass your O levels before taking up your milk round full time you’d know that it is imperative to use the adverb ‘Sic’ to highlight an error from an initial text.
And your texts are so riddled with errors and asinine assumptions that I like to limit such highlights to certain words to see if you or anyone else can spot the difference.
Lets call it a little test of your intelligence.
And oddly enough I did spend quite some time in France, d’Oughball, and so French is of course one of the 3 languages that I speak, 4 if we include my largely unused speckled German.
How many languages do you speak, d’Oughball?
Btw, d’Oughball, did you know that The Girl With A Pearl Earring (allegedly by Jan Vermeer) is in fact a fake?
And that the ‘art experts’ (sic) in the auction houses know it but refuse to discuss it as modern art is largely a front for money laundering, hence the terrible quality of all the garbage that tries to pass itself off as ‘art’ these days?
It’s no coincidence that ‘Vermeer’ in Dutch means For More, you know …
Anyway, to get back to the painting, here’s how you can spot it’s a fake for yourself, and remember it was ol’ Green Machine who pointed out this plainly obvious art fakery to you ..
Look at her collar and most especially her smock or dress…
You’ll initially be distracted by her face but look closely at the detail, or, more to the point, lack thereof, on her the smock dress …
There’s nothing there but two large blocks of dreich brown and that’s it!
Furthermore it has a shocking lack of finish for a painting of that period, just being blocked in.
The expression is also Modern: the girl doesn’t look like a model of that period for so many reasons plus craquelure is too consistent, and it doesn’t have any of the other expected damage.
On top of all this it doesn’t even fit Vermeer’s oeuvre. that is, he didn’t paint anything else like that at any time.
He wasn’t a painter of life-size busts, or even half-size busts, he was a painter of miniatures, nor was he known for being loose, he was known for being tight, almost to the point of obsession.
So this painting is almost as bad a forgery as the van Meergerens that ‘fooled’ so many in the art market but who of course knew they were frauds to begin with and let them through as a matter of course as it’s all just a money laundering scam anyway, in exactly the same way Sevco are allowed to get away with all their fraud and money laundering,
As though an alleged ‘Master’ like Vermeer would go to all that trouble of painting a beautiful girl’s face with such precise detail then just splash in two browns for her smock dress and a vague blob of white for her collar then leave it at that …
In fact, if you get a good sized pic let’s go even further in and look at the earring itself …
First of all, it doesn’t seem to even be attached to her ear, meaning the artists DIDN’T EVEN BOTHER PAINTING THE KEY PART OF THE PAINTING but here’s the real joke …
Some ‘art historians’ are openly saying that the earring is fact made of TIN!
So the painting that sold Ver Meer money than your wee squashed brain could ever imagine not only shouldn’t be celebrated as it is, given the ridiculously bad collar, smock and headscarf but should also be renamed as The Fake With A Tim Earring!
Have a good look at it for yourself and you’ll see exactly what I mean.
Indeed Fiona Bruce tells us in the TV show Fake or Fortune that half the artmarket may be fake and in another episode on the famous forger van Meergeren she admits that ‘many forgeries are still in major museums’, but tries to brush this fact aside as though they’re all just small pieces by lesser known artists when all the art world knows that this is NOT the case and that many of them are famous works by some of the most famous artists of all.
This again just like Sevco, where everyone in football knows Rangers died but spend every minute of every day pretending that the fake forgery we see kick the ball before us is in fact the real thing because to these crooks it’s nothing to do with integrity but is all about getting their money washed instead.
So pull up an image of this painting, d’Oughball’ and let me know what you think.
Examine the craquelure closely and compare it to other Vermeers but pay special attention to the ridiculously poor quality of hot the earring and indeed her ear, quite apart from the terrible lack of detail on her smock, collar and headscarf, and you’ll soon see within a mere few minutes that ol’ Green Machine is right again.
You can thank me later.
Say on Mike’s page, or maybe Pat’s, yeah …?
See ye soon, son! 😀 😀 😀
Go on, d’Oughball, let’s see how clever you are, just as a wee check as for some odd reason you seem to think you’re quite ‘smart’ …
So answer this simple question …
Whats the difference between Monet & Manet?
You let the British government inject you THREE TIMES with unknown toxic substances just to annoy a guy on a fitba blog?!
You’ve done yer bunnet, mate!
Seriously, you’re aff yer fvckin nut.
Thanks Owen and the same good wishes to you. You sound so different on here but I guess that’s the nature of things when you can’t be sure if your post is going to go through or if your reply is going to get lost amidst all the *ahem* replies! So miss our banter and also our conversations with Arsene & JimboH too. I was sorry to read that Pat’s blog is so poorly attended these days his work deserves better his books are excellent too! I think part of the issue may be that there are so many of these blogs now that people just probably read and move on. I read quite a lot of them but I don’t post much. I think the only one which has a regular core of readers and a sort of ‘community spirit’ going on is the Sentinel Celts they do have some good posts I did post there a few times when I first started reading and they are a nice lot. Anyway, for now I’m allowed to post on here again (well replies anyway) so we can all keep in touch and see if ‘things’ improve. Bit nervy about tomorrow Hibs will give us a game I think and with that bassa Beaton on park anything can happen! Still, I think we will prevail and get the first of our trophies back! The league is going to be a fight I think not because we aren’t better than the Ibrox tramps but they need this CL money so bad that I struggle to see Scottish football allowing any other outcome (you only have to look at how some teams play against them compared to how they are with us – Livingston being a prime example) but a second title for them. Makes me sick to think of it so I’m just hoping Ange can pull this off and put the trash in their place! Again, so lovely to talk to you again- maybe we will get our ‘normal’ repartee back at some point eh?!
Much love Cx
Owen have sent a reply to this but it’s “awaiting moderation” so might not make it through. Will keep this replyshort to see if this makes it through. Same good wishes to you and yours & lovely to be in touch (sort of) again! Best wishes to Arsene ,& JimboH too – much, much love Cx
Christina, I’ve come up with a possible Gringo-free means of communication but am waiting on a reply from Parsley. Tune in to Radio Sevco tomorrow
Will do ‘ I’ve saved & bookmarked the page so should be fine!
I saw your ‘secret post’ on Radio Sevco, d’Oughball!
In fact, it’s Awaiting For Approval right here now, either there’s some word of yours that Akismet doesn’t like or it’s simply offended by your complete lack of grammatical spacing! 😀
Ah, d’Oughball, doughball, d’Oughball, I’ll give you a wee word of advic3 …
if you want to meet folk in a ‘secret place’ it’s usually best not to tell the person you’re trying to avoid exactly where that secret place is! 🙂
Hahaha, the stupidity of some people is beyond all comprehension but this one, d’Oughball, well, even for a first class clown like you, this one takes the biscuit!
😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
Were you ‘Maria’ on the Celtic Blog, Christina?
Wasn’t it there we discussed Freemasonry together?
And don’t you worry, d’Oughball, Christina doesn’t need to be ‘Gringo free’, in fact, she quite likes my company and cunning linguistics, don’t you, dear?
🙂
No, he wouldn’t ‘eat me alive’, I’d make a couple of points showing him how gullible he is by, say, asking if he thinks having the health professionals making TikTok videos of themselves dancing around the wards is an appropriate response to a mass ‘pandemic’ then watch him explode in fury then he’d ban me because, like all the chumps on here, h scant answer the question without admitting how easily fooled he’s been.
No one has ever ‘eaten me alive’ neither online nor in the real world, not on this topic nor on anything else, because I know what the facts are and can prove all my points with just one or two sentences, and the easy and obvious simplicity of my argument hurls them into a state of cognitive dissonance that makes their head explode and their only response is to ban me, as they’re too thick and ill informed to argue their own case.
So do YOU think two years of online dancing doctors & nurses is an indication of ‘hospitals being overwhelmed’ or do you consider it an insult to all of humanity, not least ‘the dying’ under their care ..?
If you ‘know what the facts are’ and can ‘prove all your points’ perhaps you can explain why this comment is directed at me as I didn’t mention the pandemic or use the quote attributed to me. Honestly, you do yourself no favours with this aggression to all and sundry over the slightest thing. I’ve tried to be civil with you in the past but you can’t seem to help yourself. You have a knack for pissing people off and I’m inclined to agree with Owen that your input needs to be curtailed.
Apologies, R.St.p, it was aimed at the newbie who can’t spell Shiftiness.
But replying in the wrong reply box doesn’t change my knowledge of the facts, does it?
For example, do you think doctors & nurses would have time to make TikTok videos of themselves dancing around the wards if they were genuinely being overwhelmed by a worldwide pandemic?
Or that dancing and laughing is an apt response to the dead?
I’ve asked numerous folk this question and not one them has replied, the rude cvnts that they are, but as I know you’re a decent man you likely will reply as it’s a genuine and very serious question.
Apologies again.
Ah, so hive joined the ranks of the censors too now have you, Arsene?
Well, Owen accused me of posting ‘asinine drivel’ (sic) for no reason at all and if you’re going to insult someone you can only expect an insult in return.
Also, I have no problem with anyone on here unless they insult me and even then I throw out a few return blows then get back to being pals with them.
Even young Prince Charles of the BBC gets a bye once I’ve done slapping him around and besides these things shouldn’t be taken too seriously as if we can’t have a laugh what’s the point of writing at all?
I
mean, we’re all grown adults and it’s just a bit of fun.
Unlike the grave situation of our international heath professionals dancing & laughing around the wards while millions of people under their care lie dying …
Now which do you think is more serious, Arsene?
A few jokes on a Celtic blog or the medical industry making mockery of the dead?
Here’s a solution that should suit everyone, Arsene …
Why don’t you & Owen and your newbie mate who can’t spell Shiftiness go back to Pat’s ranting & raving & asinine drivel then what I have to say I won’t bother any of you in the slightest?
Alternatively you could all stay here but simply skip by all of my posts and not read one word of them.
Or, as a third option, you could read them and take them in the good humour with which they’re intended and even allow yourself a little laugh where necessary?
I’m doing all I can to help you guys out with your mad angst here so you now have a range of options that doesn’t demand you press the Kill switch.
So if I were you I’d go for Option 3, as that would be the one most likely to brighten up your day although I’m afraid that for Owen and the newbie sticking with Pat’s inane drivel looks to be the best shout as for some reason I appear to trigger them with every word I write and they just can’t stop themselves from reading it anyway.
What do you think?
Well, that escalated pretty quick! From a half-hearted apology to a full-blown feck off in three lengthy examples of ‘asinine drivel’! I can’t be bothered with you anymore. Knock yourself out with your tedious rants and arguments that are of interest to no-one but yourself – I’ll just stick to the occasional caption entry until Desi takes some control here and stops the blog from being strangled to death by your interminable tripe.
Yeah, I spoke to her on here a week or so ago.
Good to catch up.
You’ve possibly right about Pat’ site especially English Bob. He’d be more at home on some Environmental site with his homespun Attenborough commentary.
Yawn,yawn,yawn… i’m not sure at times if Hector is extracting the uric acid or genuinely conversing with him at times.
Just had Pat’s latest tome delivered.
Hardback, good quality pity about the mini Butcher’s Apron on the front. Can’t even leave it lying about on the coffee table as ‘ a conversation piece’. ‘Yes I completely understand Father O’Leary but is it not best to try and understand…..’, is not the route I want to go down.
Just started it, Hoping for a quiet Yuletide.period. Have found myself with 4 books on the go at the same time. Time to buckle down as sure as fate I’ll be receiving a few more ‘good reads’ from Santa.
Take care R St P. We are all like characters in Hansel & Gretell leading ‘breadcrumbs’ on diverse site.
JimboH
No it’s not but it’s nice to to know I’ve a fan(ny) there waiting for me 🙂
As though the author isn’t a big enough f@nny himself.
But you’re on here two days and insulting a major contributor of more than 7 years standing?
Your Mammy never teach you manners?
Btw, Gloria Hunniford, I wasn’t gonna bother going on at all as yer man Jabba’s a halfwit but since you’ve rolled out the Welcome mat I’ll make a point of it now.
And that’s spelt ‘Shiftiness’, mate, not ‘Chiftiness’ …
You can thank me later.
Oh and if you really can’t stand me, why you here?
Or just go back to Pat’s vitriol filled mire from whence you came.
You belong there after all.
If you don’t like me so much, Gloria, you could always go to The Celtic Blog, where wee Janice is still gnashing his teeth in fury at all the shut I called him on his blog.
Or you could try Barely Sentient Celts, where the headline is Calling It Straight and Co ck Ups & Conspiracies but where you instantly get banned for calling it straight or even so much as approaching a genuine conspiracy.
Then there’s The Huddleboard, Kerrydale St, Video Celts, A Celtic State of Mind, all of which would welcome someone like yourself who can’t spell Shiftiness with open arms …
Go on, wee man, be my guest …
🙂
I know the saying well I grew up in Mary hill makes me look more daft. Good coincidence though
Yer Maw’s cawd Mary Hill?
So you’re Ian Hill ..?
Any relation tae Benny ..?
Lance ..?
What’s the coincidence, Ian?
Caption
Inventor of the first russian jaccuzzi puts it down to a Eureka moment involving flat cider and pickled herring
Caption
Dortmund fan celebrates easy draw against tyred Huns
Monday night at Charlie Adam’s bit.
Caption.
Ibrox jacuzzi upgrade sees sports scientist doing a test run
Divide & Conquer (Divide et Impera) is the main Freemasonic motto alongside ‘Order Out Of Chaos’ (Ordo Ab Chao) and Problem-Reaction-Solution.
By these three short phrases they have taken over the world, by turning everyone against each other, and the tighter the bonds the more they have split them, as evidenced by the open hostility towards my words and opinions on these pages has repeatedly proven.
Contrary to what a lot of people think Freemasonry does NOT rule the world but its role as an enforcer and playmaker for those who do is absolute.
And what better way to rule people after millennia of open warfare than by clandestine warfare, having frightened the absolute wits out of them with a massive scare story first then gaining their trust to such an extent that they’ll allow these liars who act as their ‘rulers’ to do anything they like with their bodies, up to & including the insertion of unknown substances.
If your boss threatens to sack you for refusing to have inter course with him legally it is coercion and he will pay for it but if he forces you to accept another form of penetration it is now perfectly acceptable …
Who changed the rules on what we allow be inserted into our bodies so quickly like this and why does humanity not only allow it but then argue and fight for it?
For our bodies are sovereign and, like the sky & the Earth itself, were wholly and self evidently designed by The Great Creator, as one look at the never changing constellations proves, and those doing the devil’s work know this and these slaves of his in the political, ‘scientific’ (sic) and medical arena will soon be paying for their terrible crimes against humanity despite what they’re getting away with now and for all their foolhardy supporters happily go along with their mealy mouthed deceptions.
’What makes politicians, Mummy?’
’Well, sweetie, when a clown and a serial killer fall in love …’
And in case Ralph & Desi decide this is too ‘off topic’ and ban me please note that it’s simply in response to the quote in the pic for today’s article, meaning that it’s fully ON TOPIC regarding what is being discussed.
Cheers.
*The Goethe quote that Ralph put there.
Lest anyone accuse me of being pretentious.
Some are playing phylogeny. Selection evolution.
‘Play it’ is all they can do, port, as they haven’t one shred of physical evidence for the theory, which even Darwin himself protested had been hijacked and twisted to suit a specific agenda, which was and still is to hide the existence of our Creator.
Tea to toe.
And toe for tea.
Isn’t it weird how fish became monkeys and monkeys became people but no monkeys decided to become, say, giraffes instead?
You know, if it was a higher level they were looking for ..?
Evolution Devolution
Hairy fish n’a
Hairy fish n’a
Hairy hairy fish n’a
All we are saying
Is give perch a chance!
As nutty as this is it’s that fish jumping oer the fence behind him that really takes this pic to a different level.
Is it the wee yin’s Maw looking for revenge?
Either way, things don’t look too good for the big guy.
All I want for Christmas is Maeda. Do you reckon his Mammy had to always produce his birth certificate when coming through his junior years ? 24yo ?
What`s Santa bringing you Khids ?
To prove Maeda’s Mammy made a Maeda?
Caption:
Hot hun time machine.
With this new mild variant of the covid-19 virus, Ange will have to change a winning side.
Celts 7-0.
Caption 2
Hot tubby, Mr blubby in the tyre for a scrubby ,
Captains hat , single fish big cigar talking pish
Electric soup ,had a poop, everything is lovely jubbly
Hot damn!
Chubby in the tubby!
Holding up a fish and drinking fake bubbly!
Fat man!
Rubbing on his stubby
What good is a cigar
When ye’re in a fishes tummy?
You don’t like ..?
We are definrtly soft in the midfield.
Though no on the side, is there too many to be had ? Over looked position.
For God`s sake, please teach a keeper not to shield a ball on the goal line. Never let your keeper hit the net.
Caption- “Ahoy there! Have you seen any seamen?”
All hands on dick?
Ask the soft lads!
Ah, it’s you, d’Oughball!
Sure and aren’t we looking at a piece of semen right now wit yirself, sure?
Caption: In 10 mins he’ll have a roach in both hands and be desperate for a Wagon Wheel.
Higging`s holidaying in Honolulu, sourcing goonies and satin linen.
Michael Nicholson, watz fo lunch ?
It`s Xmas bottle-o-whiskey perk time. McAvennie is reacting
Is today the day Joe gets chipped ?
Celts 18-1.
The SFA email has met all referees. Converse and look concerned while officiating a Celtic game.
Remember, smile, you
re on Candid Camera.We need an aim here banner at ground level behind the oppositions goal.
Foul throw linesman.
Yeeeesss ralston season winner
Too slow at thinking inside the box.
Go on Gerry, say it. “We are officiated differently.”
yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
A great get out of jail goal from Anthony Ralston.
Team’s have sussed us out, give them as many corners and free kicks around the box as they want as we can’t do anything with them.
The defense took holiday
s early today. And the pitch look nice though the players treated the middle if it was a training drill. We were well read from the Saint Johnstone midfield. Theyre a good side.It was RossCounty.
That goal deserves a streaker
What a finish, Muir did his best to stop Celtic, but they still came through, ten men or not. Probably not get a drink down at the Crown
Ay-oh the dario, we
re gonna win the league.Merry effin Christmas Ghirls and Bhoys.
Michael send Douglas Ireland Parks a Christmas wrapped gutter.
We would!
If we could!
But finance demands we can’t!
For Scotland needs
A bunch of cvnts
To make Celtic reliant!
Starfelt had his arse felt by a journeyman. Ralston’s a rough diamond. There’s been a few of those polished to 24 carat in this jersey. Nights like this forge a squad into a team.
Yup. If you are going to get a player back, get him back in the middle of the pitch. Not in and around the box. The players need it drummed into their heads.
If the opposition blatantly hits you, it is not seen. If you hit them, 4 officials witness it and 3 of them argue at the temple in who told the ref first.
…and them cvnts sitting at the table do not give a flying fvck.
Tables for the poor became tables for the rich …
Just like that!
The brother that either is or is not a priest and whose name might or might not be Alfred, Walfrid, Andrew or The Sacred Heart of Brigton & Glengarry prior either will or won’t be surely spinning in his grave.
Though I’ve the saddest suspicion that by this stage he gave up on all this silly pish long ago.
Aye, true stuff, Woofie, that was nearly like the 70s again, no doubt about it
Starfelt’s gay?
Like Monti & Cha?!
That will be a major result in the story of the league this year. Despite yet again piss poor refereeing we coke through in the end. Should have been about 10-1.
We scored in 97 mins. The ref could have made that disappear.
You can be sure that the added time will be forensically examined by the Scottish media…as they do with all events that affect Celtic.
Starfelt had a visible bleeding face injury that took a long time to be examined, cleaned and treated. Added to that were ALL the subs by the teams (30 seconds added for each one?)….the added time was totally justified and the best team won.
When we get a first choice full strength Celtic team on the park there’s nobody that
will be able to live with us.
Well done young Ralston and especially to Tom Rogic who supplied the exquisite cross to the back post.
We’ll look back on this result at season’s end.
What was the actual minutes of extra time on the 4th official`s board ? The commentators missed it.
150 years ..?
Sure, in’it’dat dat Old Firm magic for ye der now?!
Nae fvckin wonder everybody else is pissed off.
If the whole damn thing weren’t a fvckin sham from top tae fvckin bottom …
Are you saying the ref had a good game? I thought he was awful which is normal for refs and Celtic in Scotland. The standard of refereeing is very poor generally in Scotland. This is compounded by lack of accountability, no VAR in Scotland and no rules about refs and what games they are allowed to referee given their team allegiances
No I’m not. But I think Starfelt was pash and lost it when he got a wee bump on the muzzle.
starfelt was utter minging. at fault big time for their goal, missed the ball before Nisbit made him a complete chooky we were lucky that wasnt a goal. Then goes pushing people around in the box for a pen hibs should have had, get him tae
Broxi Bear says ‘We’ ..?
Cuckoo cuckoo
Dancing nurses …
Appropriate pandemic response?
I’m asking you a question, Roxy;
Are dancing nurses an appropriate response to a pandemic?
That which is laughed off, is that of why the inert Scottish Football Association is of amateur basis.
Silence is a golden leafed prawn orderve.
LRA, the Celtic Children are laughing.
There.
Now.
Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba
Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba
Ba, ba, ba
Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba
GIRUY, cracklin` Craigan.
Der’s no limit
Dat’s all Ah want to say to YOO!
(Not you, Port; you’re grand.)