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Toast's reign of terror is over before Scotland play. Phew.

It's 2-2 in the Dutch game with 10 mins left. Toast says random, I'm beginning to suspect vodoo tbh.

Scotland 0-2 Czechs Poland 1-0 Slovakia Spain 2-0 Sweden

I'm ending my subscription to the Nostradamus Toast football prediction service now.

On a roll! If Holland draw, please give us the lottery numbers, ta.

Feel free! Also tbh I'm mostly thinking of Boris the Killer Tomato. Or to give him his full Glasgow name, "that cunt Boris Johnson". (As seen in Willz posts, he is also called Bawjaws up here, not in a friendly way, but also as seen in Willz posts, that doesn't seem to translate beyond the Clyde valley! It's a chap who talks on and on and says nothing but shite, which sums up Johnson quite well imo.)

Aye, tbh I was trying to lighten the mood - which I see I did really well! Any anxiety here is mostly needle based, which I think is a fairly sensible dislike - and anticipation of an event. I just want to note for fairness that I didn't mention you by name last night, and mark this thread as read instead of reading it. Like the Harry stuff (this forum was in danger of a name change at one point) if it sticks to its designated parts of the forum, it can be easily ignored! Although tbf life is pretty draining at the moment. Asked to shield on health condition for a year, then Boris changes the rules so you wind up in the neverland of being on the vulnerable list to covid but not a vaccine priority, a red tape issue which befell thousands of Brits. Then he shuts down a lot of the business, but has the rules such that millions of small businesses like mine just fail to qualify for the furlough scheme. Having done that, his government send out weekly mail about how great furlough is for folk like me. Trolling bastard. Also because he couldn't be arsed sorting out some basic trade red tape with over a year to deal with some basic page 1 stuff, he cut off valuable income from abroad for small businesses at the same time he wasn't financially supporting them. Meanwhile people with far more manageable conditions than mine we knew dearly got covid and were just snuffed out within days. Funerals we couldn't go to, people who could only be comforted by Facebook message. Limited savings taking a battering because income is down and shop prices have a pandemic brucie bonus on them. It's a bloody miracle I've kept this house debt free in the last 18 months, thanks to this Prime Ministers continual inept reactions to everything. (And as someone who has managed to turn ill fortune and ill health destroying his career prospects into dragging himself to becoming a tax paying member of society, I think I'm allowed a small rant about it now and again!) And this entire thing is his fault. Boris. He knew about covid before we did, and did nothing. He could have shut flights in January 2020, but didn't. He could quarantined folk with it when they were numbered on a single hand, but chose not to. He could have traced the virus when it was miniscule and killed it at the source before it spread throughout the UK. He chose not to. (Note that had he done these three we'd have avoided such a long lockdown. Or indeed any lockdown...) He could have suspended flights in February 2020. He chose not to. He could have avoided sending people into the hospitals or care homes. He chose not to. He could have acted sooner than end of March 2020. He chose not to. He could have acted firmer last summer to starve the virus. He chose not to. He could have restricted travel to India when the known Indian strain became apparent in March 2021 but not only did he chose not to, you can still get direct flights from the UK to most of India as of this week. As noted throughout a lot of our more illustrious bits of history, we are a fucking island. We could have New Zealand'd that bastard. But every step Boris has taken is the worst possible move, designed seemingly to do nothing but spread illness. He's Typhoid fucking Mary the Prime Minister. (Its only hindsight if you are the general public, when you are Prime Minister with all the security details and hidden information, this is your job! A job Boris has fundamentally failed at every step of the way.) Anyhow, I'm taking the jab - even a 0.0001% risk factor (that's timing the deaths by 100 like you suggested) is still far better odds than me getting the covid which keeps munching its way round Glasgow! (And its far better odds than some medicine I've taken to save my own life in the past, let alone the chemo many of the DDP picks take.) Oh, and one lighter note about Children of Men prophecies. As that book showed, and as my own experiences do, no medical prognosis's are infallible! In my teens, I was given an accidental overdose of medicine which led to weekly blood tests (yeah, that's why I don't like needles!) and I was told I'd be unable to have kids. 20 years later, in 2021, it turns out they were quite wrong about that: I am very, very tired Dad.

Yeah, wont we think of the paranoid who are having their first jab in 48 hours! (I'm firmly on the "its safe" boat but every third post on this forum at the moment appears to be "you're all going to die!" which is fucking draining...)

England 3-1 Croatia Austria 1-2 N Macedonia Netherlands 4-1 Ukraine

UEFA say stabilised. He is one lucky boy.

Christian Erikson has just collapsed on the pitch during the Euro 2020 game with Finland and is getting CPR. TV cameras shoudnt focus on it so much ffs. Bit grim.

All downhill from here!

Wales 1-1 Switzerland Denmark 1-1 Finland Belgium 4-1 Russia Looked up the World Cup thread and apparently I got 2 scores correct out of 64!

Noel Conway can't even enjoy the Euros now, because he is DEAD. A DDP pick for veterans Mr C who hold the joint record for most DDP appearances ever.

For a moment, I thought this was going to be the death notice...

With Scotland at the Euros for the first time since 1996, Former Scottish manager Craig Brown's getting a lot of reappraisal in documentaries this week and looked quite old and a bit frail tbh. Apparently he had an aortic aneurysm last year and is lucky to still be with us. One to watch, now. Aberdeen and Scotland hero Craig Brown reveals he had 30-percent chance of survival after an aneurysm (thescottishsun.co.uk) (Btw, alcoholic George Burley in the mention above still lives.)

One of wrestling's carousel wheel of addicted fuckwits we mention 2 or 3 times a year. Apparently Sunny was in jail last month for breaking various parole orders and no one noticed. She's fallen so hard now I don't give her long unless she manages to turn it around at the 11th hour. Tammy "Sunny" Sytch released From jail - Wrestling Inc. Wheel of fortune turns so we should hear the latest idiocy from Marty Jannetty any week now...

Damn, sad news, I was a fan. Hope he gets better soon...

The Common members voted to hang up the photo. Now they've voted to replace it with another. Someone put a line in there designed to rile up twitter and the government about it, and it worked. Non-story. All it does is remind me Gavin Williamson is manifestly unfit to run a soft play centre, let alone one of the more prestigious offices of state in the UK. (Although a man who leaked important security secrets to the press shouldn't even be in parliament, let alone the front bench...)

Just a quick bit of fag pack maths, if you put the 99 cases out of 100 are hidden as true, and take the Christmas massacre above, then that'd be a death surplus in the UK alone over a few months of circa 700, 000 people. Which might be difficult to disguise given this government struggled with 120k over a year. You may sense slight scepticism... Anyhow, if there was a mass covid death outbreak this Christmas, that'd kill this government outright. Their entire PR strategy has been vaccine related.

Quick fag pack count (assuming TMIB's 31/12/2017 list is accurate) is 159 now. Keep at this rate and we'll have a "Who is DDP's 200th hit" thread inside 3 years...

There was an update on Smith in March. Basically, the fortnightly 3 day chemo (urgh) is keeping him stable for now, but his tumour is wrapped around an artery so surgery is an 11th hour hail mary they can't really do. So imo the end game when it arrives will be very quick. (And if you hear about his chemo being changed or surgery, that's also an ominous note.)

Turkey 0-2 Italy

Oh man, what DDP co-host thought it was a good idea to drop a dude with pancreatic cancer? This idiot!

Was still alive but now isn't. (1) Toby Hadoke on Twitter: "RIP that dependable character actor Godfrey James: 1985 TV Oliver Twist, The Land That Time Forgot, The Lotus Eaters, Legend of King Arthur, Tripods, Wish Me Luck, Emmerdale, Blood on Satan’s Claw, Tripods, Doctor Who: Underworld. 40 years of good credits, always a solid presence https://t.co/s7MyGB6NAo" / Twitter Why are tweets not imbedding again? In bloody everything - Darling Buds of May, Witchfinder General, Emmerdale, Tales of the Unexpected, Onedin Line, Dr Who, Basil Brush Show, etc etc.