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| Independence Day 2: Resturgeonce |
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44 | 21.36% |
| ScotPol - Unclustering this gently caress |
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19 | 9.22% |
| Trainspotting 2: Independence is my heroin |
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9 | 4.37% |
| Indyref II: Boris hosed a Dead Country |
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14 | 6.80% |
| ScotPol: Wings over Bullshit |
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8 | 3.88% |
| Independence 2: Cameron Lied, UK Died |
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24 | 11.65% |
| Scotpol IV: I Vow To Flee My Country |
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14 | 6.80% |
| ScotPol - A twice in a generation thread |
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17 | 8.25% |
| ScotPol - Where Everything's hosed Up and the Referendums Don't Matter |
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15 | 7.28% |
| ScotPol Thread: Dependence Referendum Incoming |
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2 | 0.97% |
| Indyref II: The Scottish Insturgeoncy |
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10 | 4.85% |
| ScotPol Thread: Act of European Union |
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5 | 2.43% |
| ScotPol - Like Game of Thrones only we wish we would all die |
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25 | 12.14% |
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Will definitely be in, yeah. e: also, because I haven't posted in this thread for a while, thanks to whoever got me the Kezia avatar, it's lovely as heck
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Acaila posted:Updates Yeah, me.  I'll be getting in at about half six, depending on whether or not I get out of work in time. Will definitely be there by seven, anyway.
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Aug 20, 2016 12:26
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Just to check, is anyone going into Glasgow today for the Trump protest?
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Jan 20, 2017 16:19
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e: nm, I'm tired af
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Jan 25, 2017 20:52
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forkboy84 posted:High school built up a lifelong hatred of poetry in me, sorry. oh, you were serious. Have some Tom Leonard.
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Jan 26, 2017 16:08
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forkboy84 posted:Yeah, Scotland will have to join the EU as a new member, with everything that entails. Which isn't great, clearly. Better than not being in the club tough. I'm glad you're so confident that the EU's going to survive after this year, considering France, Holland etc. are going to elect strongly Eurosceptic governments in the next few months. Somebody has to, and I'm not.
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Mar 13, 2017 14:05
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We learned about Wallace, Bruce, Scotland in the late 19th/early 20th centuries (leading to WW1) and for some reason the Scottish Reformation. That wasn't too shabby tbh.
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Apr 7, 2017 00:39
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The Tories probably won't make ground in Scotland under FPTP, especially after Davidson's defense of the rape clause. Edinburgh West is 100% going to the Lib Dems at the very least, and Ian Murray will probably retain. Otherwise, I can see Black, Wishart, Sheppard, Robertson and Salmond definitely keeping their seats, but a fair few SNP folks will lose their seats to the Lib Dems. I'm guessing they'll have about 42 seats, something around that scale. Definitely the majority party in Scotland.
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Apr 18, 2017 13:18
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forkboy84 posted:I'm not sure it'd be a nightmare, it's still a very good performance considering how many MPs they had this time 2 year years ago, but it would be a solid confirmation that there's gently caress all chance of ScotRef passing. They were always going to lose MPs because this isn't held 6 months after the first independence referendum, though I do think Venomous's view is an extreme result. There's been no boundary reform as of yet, and while getting 49.97% nationally is not happening again and never would, the SNP losing 13 MPs seems...I don't see it personally. This is a fair point. I didn't consider the lack of boundary reform, and I also haven't looked into the polls recently. Thinking about it, if they lose Edinburgh West, they wouldn't even be losing a seat since iirc Michelle Thomson still hasn't rejoined the SNP. Same with Natalie McGarry and Glasgow East. 50 is a more reasonable estimate tbh. I still can't see the Tories making a resurgence though. By the looks of things there haven't been any Scottish polls for the general elections and since the Scottish local elections are conducted via STV I'm not really sure how well the Conservative support there will translate into seats. I still don't see the Tories doing all that well under FPTP, whereas the Lib Dems will probably take the Northern Isles (Carmichael's been out of the spotlight recently) and Edinburgh West and Labour will probably retake Glasgow East. I dunno, you have a point about the Tories and the Borders.
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Apr 18, 2017 14:12
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Coohoolin posted:Why are you so sure Edinburgh West is going Lib Dem? I live there. We went Lib Dem for the Scottish Parliament elections after Michelle Thomson hosed up, and it's either the Lib Dems or the Tories at this point for Westminster. However, we haven't returned a Tory MP since 1992, so the chances of us going for anything other than the Lib Dem candidate are quite slim. I mean, the SNP still has a presence around here, but their chances are a bit more slim now for the aforementioned reasons. Comedy option: we return a Labour MP for the first time since 1929. e: also, are Thomson and McGarry going to stand again? If so, they might split the nationalist votes because of the incumbency effect. Of course, this only applies if the SNP run candidates against them. Venomous fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Apr 18, 2017 |
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Apr 18, 2017 21:01
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Eh, you're probably right. I dunno, I'm pulling poo poo out of my arse here to distract myself from the final stretch of this fuckin dissertation.
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Apr 18, 2017 21:58
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Has Salmond not done a good job as constituency MP for Gordon? I don't see him losing his seat, is the thing.
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Apr 18, 2017 22:52
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Jedit posted:Salmond's been too busy showboating in Westminster and writing columns for the McSturmer to give two tugs on a dead dog's cock about his constituency. I don't know if it's enough to get him out, though. Figures. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ If it were two years ago I'd be really concerned about the SNP's chances, but I've come to realise that they're actually quite crap since then and I don't really care about Scottish independence as much as I used to. Guess that's why I was so pessimistic about the SNP's chances earlier. Niric posted:All talk of the absolute void of hopelessness that is the snap election aside, best of luck with the dissertation. The end part can be mentally brutal, that whole final where's-the-time-gone no-more-procrastination-possible panic thing. Try and vent about it when you can, just relying on distraction wasn't all that helpful in my experience! Thank you so much. I love both Kafka and Kelman, but urghhhh I just don't feel as motivated to write this as I should. Spent so much time procrastinating on it that it's just arghhhhhhh need to get all the references in, need to format it all correctly, need to make sure everything's in place for Thursday. Exactly what you're saying there. Actually, if there's a mod reading this, could I please have a 1 day probation? Really need to get this poo poo done, and I've been distracting myself here all evening.
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Apr 19, 2017 02:15
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Niric posted:That sounds really cool! At Glasgow uni? Seems like it'd be a good fit for Scot lit. If it comes down to a matter of priorities I'd say to get the formatting nailed before minor references; it's much more obvious to a marker that there's an inconsistency than if something is missing. Nah, Stirling. And yeah, all the references are there now, it's just a case of making sure everything's in place and it's formatted correctly and all that, as you say. Niric posted:FWIW it also seems like a really interesting pairing too. There was a great quote in, I think, a review of Kieron Smith, Boy, talking about how the whole literary vandalism controversy was absurd because Kelman is essentially an unrepentent modernist, and there's a definite shared sense of individuals being overwhelmed by circumstance. You also get a whole load of inbuilt alliteration for the title, which is always useful ('how late was it? Causation, contiguity and complex chronologies in kafka and Kelman,' that sort of thing). Aye, that sums up Kelman's protagonists to a T. It's a bit more blurry in Kafka's case because Karl Rossmann is the only protagonist in his novels who's overwhelmed by circumstance, whereas Joseph K. is an elitist liberal rear end in a top hat and K. the Land Surveyor is an opportunistic power-hungry sociopath. Both Kafka and Kelman are connected by authority and its effect on individuals though, and that's where I'm focusing the dissertation. Whether it's any good or not is for me to find out in due course.
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Apr 19, 2017 22:57
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ah yes, we could all stand to learn a lesson from Mount Rushmore, the most important one being that it's morally justifiable to steal Native American land and carve the heads of white men into them, two of whom owned slaves
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Aug 8, 2017 22:26
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MacDiarmid also wrote in a bullshit mashed-up Scottish language and he was a good poet, but he was also a fascist so
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Oct 14, 2017 15:59
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Oh cool, we still have a Scotpol thread! Just going to quote what I just said in the UKMT: Venomous posted:For all the Scotpol folks ITT:
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Oct 31, 2019 13:14
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Tom Leonard is spinning in his grave
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