Extreme0 posted:

Yea that's why I'm against it. No way we are going to have representation of a poo poo footballer and his team owned by Iceland.

jre posted:

Season ticket is worth at least £300

Niric posted:

Thinking about the implications of brexit, are there any real life examples of "federalised" immigration policies, or any interesting pieces that talk about something similar? Not that it would placate the SNP, and I suspect the immigration "debate" is so toxic right now that no PM will want to wade in with much more than platitudes, but separate immigration policies in Scotland and england might be technically possible, if obviously extremely complicated. I'm curious if there's (m)any practical mechanisms that already exist and could be applied to a Scottish context; for example, visas allowing the right to work in one state/region/place of a common travel area (whether national or inter-national) but not another, or if such a thing is too logistically problematic to bother with.

Coohoolin posted:

Service industry, mostly, which is having a bit of a boom, it looks like. Loads of places hiring, new restaurants and bars opening up, places expanding. I'm not proposing using oil as a prop, but we can at least stop pretending it's completely worthless.

Jedit posted:

This is true apart from the bit about the rents.

And the idea that Aberdeen is bustling is risible if you've ever walked down Union Street. There are a lot of units either vacant or worse, cycling through a number of short-lived businesses. I'm seven years in post now and bored to hell with it, but right now I don't dare consider switching jobs because I have the only position in my department that cannot be eliminated.

Sion posted:

Like, if it's done by unit then cheaper, stronger drinks (ie, the drinks that are usually consumed in large quantities) will be hit. This will raise prices and further raise poverty levels. Raising taxes on smoking did not seem to have that big an impact on the number of people that smoked.

jre posted:

You don't get how minimum pricing works do you ? If your normal drink of choice has risen in price then there won't be a cheaper alternative, that's the entire point of the policy.
Also talking about "meths" misses the point that this policy is not targeted as sleeping rough alcoholics, it's targeted at the depressingly large proportion of the population who drink an unhealthy amount every week. I find discussing minimum pricing interesting because people with an unhealthy relationship with alcohol always out themselves with rants about how it won't work despite all the evidence.

jre posted:

duckmaster posted:

Not much to say at the moment though really. I'm watching the C4 election special, are the other channels any good?

cis autodrag posted:

That's weird because when I was up in Edinburgh I saw a lot of people walking pit bulls or just chilling with them on the sidewalk. American pit bulls are descended from Irish or English pit bulls anyway, the differences aren't that pronounced.