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I think it’s cute that we’re still pretending that Pro Bowl votes matter, or fully reflect the quality of season a player had.

GFT Screen 1 before a movie in the Truth To Power retrospective series.

GFT Screen 2 before documentary about Jonah Lomu

Yet another fantastic Glasgow Film Festival. Great to see so many events sold out this year, and so many people being entertained by cinema. Top introductions and programming as always. Shame in a way that everything in the Truth To Power retrospective series is still so relevant to the present day.

Glasgow Central Fire Sparks Travel Chaos Across the UK A major fire beside Glasgow Central has shut Scotland’s busiest station, triggering nationwide disruption and raising urgent questions over UK rail resilience.

Awful news about Glasgow Central, I'm still hoping the station itself escaped serious damage.
But while we're here, can anyone spot the problem with the news photo below, from thetraveler.org/glasgow-cent...?
We've really got to STOP using AI to fake things.

Stock photo of an old man in a pub pointing and speaking. If he was real, he'd be called Old Jim and would be described as 'a character'.

If you're new to commenting on Glasgow fires, here's a few starter phrases to get you rolling:

"Surprised it wasn't a bank holiday!"
"That'll be student flats soon enough!"
"It's all part of <insert party>'s agenda!"
"Can't remember the last time I was up town!"
"Yet there's money for cycle paths!"

Turnip Boy Robs a Bank | Download and Buy Today - Epic Games Store Download and play Turnip Boy Robs a Bank at the Epic Games Store. Check for platform availability and price!

I had a ton of fun with both Turnip Boy games, and the gentle rogue-lite Turnip Boy Robs A Bank is free until Thursday. Also has a decent sense of humour, which is always welcome: store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/turn...

BBC football clip: GOAL Rangers 1-0 Celtic published at 100' Emmanuel Fernandez Ibrox goes wild, but this surely won't stand. Emmanuel Fernandez has just scored with his hand.

they got the fuckin cheshire cat writing the bbc coverage?

I will admit that I’m more annoyed by the phrase ‘penalties are a lottery’ right now, because BBC Radio Scotland have used it about 500 times in the last 10 minutes.

Don’t think there’s a more tiresome cliche in football than ‘penalties are a lottery’, especially after a demonstration that the team who were much worse at kicking the ball from 12 yards out lost.

Morning.

BBC Sport headline for FA Cup match between Wrexham and Chelsea, with photo of Ryan Reynolds looking like he just heard the joke about the Panda who eats, shoots and leaves for the first time.

This is the stuff that tires people out. It’s the FA Cup. Find a photo of a fan with a trophy made out of a cereal box and tin foil. Or a player. Or the ground. Or use the old BBC template photo of a Mitre football. Today isn’t about Ryan Reynolds.

Such is the very weird state of Scottish rugby that until now the best performances of the modern era were widely acclaimed to be drawing ENG & losing to NZL. That's how broken we are.

Beating this French team with fifty points on the board.

This is the best pro Scotland performance ever. #SCOvFRA

ITV could learn about a thousand lessons from Andrew Cotter, and one of them is that sometimes moments like that can speak for themselves.

How to make a thumping victory feel like a draw 😅 Obviously a mad overstatement, but that’s still a real pain

Blooming bonus point. Making games like this tense in the last ten minutes. What a dreadful idea 😃

Stop France getting the bp please

I didn’t think Scotland would win today. I certainly didn’t think they’d absolutely hammer France’s points difference. I’ve never seen anything like this.

My working hypothesis is that revoking Stuart Hogg’s MBE has magically removed a curse from Scotland.

Kyle Steyn has pistons for leg bones!

a man with a mustache is standing in front of a sign that says " it 's the hope that kills you " ALT: a man with a mustache is standing in front of a sign that says " it 's the hope that kills you "

Scotland five points up at the break.

Seen more from the Townsend playbook in 27 mins here than the previous 9 years (excluding games against the English of course)

Right, who’s coached that move into Scotland?

Get the feeling Ramos could successfully kick a conversion if he was staring straight into the Ark of the Covenant

Conservative peer quits after Lords probe into PPE deals It comes after a Lords standards probe into his contacts with ministers and advisers during the pandemic.

Lord Chadlington is such a US College Frat House dude name.

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I guess you never coach with a view to losing, but a drop goal attempt for the bonus point did look like a better call there.

Spending ten minutes during a cinema screening of Selma scrolling through Facebook, leaving your ringer on, and then leaving halfway through is…well, it’s certainly a look.

Vernon Kay = A stormtrooper from the Star Wars books and graphic novels

All the love in the world for Vernon Kay, but I’m not having that for a World Book Day costume. That’s a real shoehorn.

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Braehead is getting arena football (🏈) for the first time this summer, where the Glasgow Tartans will play six home games. The season ticket prices have just been released. I know this stuff costs money to run, but at £112.50 a game I’d be wanting to see an actual NFL team. A good one.

Nice to see Aston Martin bring a bit of its Warwickshire-based coal mining vibration white finger heritage to the new F1 car. 👍

I love movies and all, but this is a crazy quote from someone working in the film industry in 2026