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LemonSwan · 07/04/2023 00:58

Sorry what’s happened!?

SquidwardBound · 07/04/2023 07:48

LemonSwan · 07/04/2023 00:58

Sorry what’s happened!?

Not sure this thread is likely to provide clear answers. We’re all speculating on the state of their windows.

At this point I’m starting to feel like my granny, peeking through her blinds to check up on the people over the road washing their nets.

ResisterRex · 07/04/2023 09:19

Today's Telegraph:

Forbes supporters call for SNP election to be rerun

digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1299/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/1299/pub/1299/page/4/article/NaN

Pressure mounts on SNP deputy leader over Murrell ‘tip-off’
Ex-justice secretary urged to reveal details of meeting with police chief shortly before Sturgeon resigned

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Yousaf denies party is ‘in cahoots’ with police over raid

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Comment section:

The SNP ran Scotland as a one-party state. Now its authority is crumbling
After a long stretch of near total power, the party is now a personality cult without a personality

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Letters page:

The tarnished and hypocritical SNP is suffering a fitting downfall

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Chersfrozenface · 07/04/2023 09:24

Boiledbeetle · 07/04/2023 00:55

The scone of destiny....title for volume 2?

Actually imagine a scone that size! How much jam and cream would you need to get a decent covering?

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You know those things where people cook giant dishes for charity or to get in the Guinness Book of Records.

I would definitely buy a ticket to watch the baking of a Scone of Destiny and eat some of it.

It'd have to be somewhere a bit closer to me than Scotland.

Boiledbeetle · 07/04/2023 09:34

Chersfrozenface · 07/04/2023 09:24

You know those things where people cook giant dishes for charity or to get in the Guinness Book of Records.

I would definitely buy a ticket to watch the baking of a Scone of Destiny and eat some of it.

It'd have to be somewhere a bit closer to me than Scotland.

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If we make it big enough you'll just be able to stick your hand out the window and grab a bit, no matter where you are!

The filming would be interesting...

"And you join us on day 3 of the jam spreading stage. We should have been finished Tuesday but there here has been a sight delay whilst the contestants argued over whether to put the jam or cream on first. Janice has been disqualified for licking the cream knife and Peter was last seen up a ladder looking into the vat of strawberry jam. "

Waitwhat23 · 07/04/2023 10:00

We were having an afternoon tea at home the other day and I caught my husband putting the cream on his scone first. I had to take a minute to remember the (many) reasons I married him to stop myself googling the names of local solicitors.

A question though. Would the giant (jam then cream!) scone be pronounced...

Scone (rhymes with gone)
Scone (rhymes with cone)
or
Scone (pronounced skoon) - the name of the actual place

SquidwardBound · 07/04/2023 11:13

If the SNP is going to be in charge of the scone, we’ll be waiting several years for the jam. Only to discover that the accidentally ordered marmalade instead.

Villagetoraiseachild · 07/04/2023 11:21

There's always the scone cake.
You just take the dough and form it into a round, soda bread styley and bake.
For days when you cant find your scone cutter or just cba.

As for clarty...
In the north east you can be clarty because you've walked through the clarts.
The clarts being mud.
I love the word, it sits between clay and tarts...so the meaning could be literal or metaphorical.

lechiffre55 · 07/04/2023 12:58

SNP auditors quit after Peter Murrell police investigation
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65212357

remember speculation about an ongoing investigation would be contempt of the scottish court system and they take it very seriously

it's ok to speculate that the SNP is fukked and how bad this looks, it's not OK to speculate about the events that led up to this

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SNP auditors quit after police search Peter Murrell's home

The SNP is required by law to audit its accounts and has to provide a report for 2022 by 7 July.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65212357

lechiffre55 · 07/04/2023 12:59

PS I believe the SNP is "proper fukked"

persister · 07/04/2023 13:06

I never knew clatty was spelt clarty. You live and learn.
My mum always used to refer to her sister as a 'clatty bitch' for failing to meet her exacting standards of housewifery.

SquidwardBound · 07/04/2023 13:08

Maybe the auditors quit because they just weren’t being invited round for barbecues, and they weren’t happy that they didn’t get to experience Peter’s special sausage sauce. They decided they’d rather audit organisations who value them enough to invite them round for some slightly charred quorn.

This is the ground on which I think we can speculate.

SquidwardBound · 07/04/2023 13:09

persister · 07/04/2023 13:06

I never knew clatty was spelt clarty. You live and learn.
My mum always used to refer to her sister as a 'clatty bitch' for failing to meet her exacting standards of housewifery.

I find it interesting that clatty is spelt with an r. It’s not like us Scots to avoid pronouncing an r.

SquidwardBound · 07/04/2023 13:10

Not that we actually pronounce those Ts. That is definitely a glottal stop.

Chersfrozenface · 07/04/2023 13:25

Boiledbeetle · 07/04/2023 09:34

If we make it big enough you'll just be able to stick your hand out the window and grab a bit, no matter where you are!

The filming would be interesting...

"And you join us on day 3 of the jam spreading stage. We should have been finished Tuesday but there here has been a sight delay whilst the contestants argued over whether to put the jam or cream on first. Janice has been disqualified for licking the cream knife and Peter was last seen up a ladder looking into the vat of strawberry jam. "

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That would be awesome! Someone suggest it to Netflix. It would knock all the Bake Off progs into a cocked hat.

Anactor · 07/04/2023 14:14

SquidwardBound · 07/04/2023 11:13

If the SNP is going to be in charge of the scone, we’ll be waiting several years for the jam. Only to discover that the accidentally ordered marmalade instead.

Marmalade is cool. Marmalade and peanut butter, yum yum.

Maybe not on a scone ( pronounced skone), though.

Cailleach1 · 07/04/2023 14:18

Waitwhat23 · 07/04/2023 10:00

We were having an afternoon tea at home the other day and I caught my husband putting the cream on his scone first. I had to take a minute to remember the (many) reasons I married him to stop myself googling the names of local solicitors.

A question though. Would the giant (jam then cream!) scone be pronounced...

Scone (rhymes with gone)
Scone (rhymes with cone)
or
Scone (pronounced skoon) - the name of the actual place

Scone like stone!

SquidwardBound · 07/04/2023 14:23

Anactor · 07/04/2023 14:14

Marmalade is cool. Marmalade and peanut butter, yum yum.

Maybe not on a scone ( pronounced skone), though.

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I’m not anti-marmalade.

It’s more that I fear that the SNP will promise jam. Deliver marmalade (several weeks late) and then claim anyone who complains is a bigot.

persister · 07/04/2023 14:53

SquidwardBound · 07/04/2023 13:10

Not that we actually pronounce those Ts. That is definitely a glottal stop.

Oh yes. Pronounce the Rs, not the Ts.
I hear 'clatty ' in my head with a longish vowel and a glottal stop.

Boiledbeetle · 07/04/2023 15:21

SCONE RHYMES WITH GONE

Boiledbeetle · 07/04/2023 15:21

And breathe and relax

SquidwardBound · 07/04/2023 15:24

Do you think Nicola and Peter are wandering around saying that, while the police gazebos were lovely a couple of days ago, they’re fed up and just want their garden back yet? A bit like MNers desperate to take their Christmas tree down on Boxing Day.

SirSamVimesCityWatch · 07/04/2023 15:28

I don't know how to do bigly text, but it bloody well does not!

Scone rhymes with stone!!

ArabellaScott · 07/04/2023 15:34

Waitwhat23 · 06/04/2023 22:41

See, I wouldn't use clarty at all - I use maukit normally - 'pair of maukit bastards'.

Now, see, I thought that was spelled 'mochit'! We don't see this stuff written down enough.

ArabellaScott · 07/04/2023 15:35

Boiledbeetle · 07/04/2023 15:21

SCONE RHYMES WITH GONE

as in 'sgonnae no'?

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