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Our daughter just sent me this photo via text message, look at the size of the guy Connor beat (Connor on the left) I can remember Connor when he was 10 years old and we met our daughter in the local Cafe, Connor asked me what was a Glasgow kiss, I told him and he said "like this granddad..." ouch

Proud moment for me and the wife today, our eldest grandson, Connor has been picked to fight in the Scottish Novice Championships at Ravenscraig Sports Centre, Motherwell this afternoon and we will be watching him, I hope he and the other lads selected do well. From a young nipper to a grown bruiser.

Yeah, free-range animals have outdoor access while cage-free ones doesn't. But then again, it's still pretty vague and doesn't tell much about other factors of their well-being... Or like the ratings in German stores - even if they are true, the differences between 1 and 4 are still too low, in my opinion. Look at the size of animal enclosure: 4 is surely better than 1, but still - a 100kg animal in a 1.5 square meter space doesn't exactly scream of well-being. And number 3, Außenklima, suggests that the animals have "outdoor climate", but after a quick research, it appears that having a window open in the enclosure is enough to get that ranking... So yeah..

Aye, my son just told me too and I am going to watch it tonight once our grandson hits the pillow as he is here for the night, that guy shits all over Cruise as Reacher, the actor Alan Ritchson is 6ft 2inc AND built like a brick shithouse.

It's all just fantastic

Roy Keane up to being his usual classy self blaming the defeat on Dean Henderson, calling him awful. Man United are now a poison chalice, where the toxicity on the field is met with the toxicity off the pitch. They really need a reset, clear out everything. The problem is nobody will want their old overpaid players.

It was only a couple of months back I was saying that Poch would be dying to get the Utd job, because there are plenty of very talented players in that squad. And I still think that they are very talented, but you can’t ignore the fact that there is something massively wrong going on in that dressing room. Talk all you want about the problems from top to bottom at the club, but when we get to the squad, we see players like Sancho, Ronaldo, Rashford, Fernandes, Pogba, Shaw, Varane, De Gea etc. Those players are good enough to be thrashing Middlesbrough, yet they end up dumped out of the FA cup last night. I’m not sure I would want this job if I’m Poch. It just seems like a poisoned chalice, completely toxic in that dressing room. Unless he is given full reign to bin off the problems and bring in his own signing and given a long contract then I would say to him don’t bother if you’re wanting to build a team. If you want a good payday, take the contract but a long term project it isn’t.

And no cat in sight! But the underground looks the same. So the cat was in fact on the dining table? Chili looks good though!

Below freezing outside, so a bowl of chili is on the menu.

Both. I think what superstores are good for is the "common" cuts of meat and convenience. I used to think it was cheaper... but really, the price can depend on various things so... it's not always cheaper from superstores, I've found. But it's cheaper most of the time for the common cuts - so I definitely will buy meat from there. I still think there are lots of good reasons to go to your local butchers: Selection....not just the different types of meat you're more likely to find at a butchers... you'll also get better cuts Fresher & higher quality meat Putting money back into your local economy - superstores are either big national chains or international chains; your local butcher is most likely.... well local & part of your community. When you support local business, that's you putting your money back into your community. And chances are your local butcher gives a fuck about you eating good meat more than some rich dickhead running a giant grocer does I've also generally found myself shopping at superstores less and less for food (more for general things I need around the house, like bog rolls and shit like that) because aside from my fucking excellent local butcher... there's a few good local grocers around me. And some of them are significantly cheaper than the superstores around me for higher quality fruits and veg... so I'm glad I've learned about them.

I'm biased but I wholeheartedly disagree. The biggest destabilizing force is the US and their allies Saudi Arabia. The US creates power vacuums, the Saudis train/fund/support Wahabi and Salafist jihadists that make the region more unstable. The Saudis fund separatist groups in Iran, like the 3 Iranians that were convicted in Denmark today - all members of that separatist group (that was behind the London Iran embassy siege)... they were convicted of spying for the Saudis. And what the Saudis are doing in Yemen is an atrocity - it makes anything from the Israel-Palestine conflict seem humane tbh. And it's genocide that's being justified on the basis that their puppet is likely to lose power if they don't intervene. And it's typically these Wahhabi groups that are the ones that spread Islamicist terror outside the region as well (although their biggest victims worldwide are predominantly shia Muslims, which is why so many Iraqis and Iranians hate ISIS) - they're the ones that are spreading terror in Europe with ISIS... I don't want Iran to get a nuclear program because once they do it sets up the status quo that the IRI will control Iran forever. And to me, I'd like to see the country return to a democracy like it was before the US and UK shat all over that in the 50s. But I think it's funny that they're labeled the destabilising force in the region. Really I think the best evidence of that is the spread of their influence in Iraq... but what the hell did the world expect to happen, the US and UK came in, toppled Saddam (who's probably one of the most hated people ever in Iran) and then let the Saudis spread Wahhabi terror all along Iran's border. Of course Iran would try to gain influence over terrorists that want to kill their mostly Shia population. But surely if anyone is the truly destabilising force, it's the imperialists who came in from other continents to make a mess of the region, and their craven allies that profit from the mess the outsiders made

Operation Homemade Kebab was a success. Cost me my electric knife, as the meat was still pretty frozen despite it being out of the freezer for over an hour. Turned out quite well though. I was afraid that the meat would fall apart if I put it into the pan. But it wasn't the case for the most part. Made a Dürüm out of it, with cucumber, tomato, feta and homemade Döner sauce! I don't know why some of these pictures are blurry. Am I becoming John?

That's sad. I've been following this story and was hoping for a happy end.

Uerige or something, From Dusseldorf

@Tommy thinking of you while I skol this alt beer