The Official Nonsense Thread

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Can't blame you. I could understand people exaggering if going into work, but not if coming home & worrying your family in the process).

I applaud your mango Eye of Sauron. A plateful of mangos would never last long enough with me to be made into anything

Speaking of railway gods, the wotsit is going to hit the fan as word's been leaked out Virgin trains have been spending six times more on train rolling stock than the East Coast line currently under government control.

Hearts have finally been freed from the Lithuanians, the last of whom have agreed to let Ann Budge take over & see if she can sort them out before the fan organisation takes over in five years time. A big relief all round & that makes it eight out of eight for Bryan Jackson when it comes to getting football clubs out of admin without liquidation.

The other big news up here is that two congregations are quitting the Church of Scotland over the ordination of gay ministers. On the surface it doesn't appear much, but it turns out between them each contributes a staggering £315 000 to the CoS's central coffers. Last year the famous Tron church in Glasgow had to be shut because everyone upped & left over the same issue, losing them £300 000 a year from one of their biggest contributers. There's another eleven of their churches about to announce they're also leaving, & this could end up The Disruption part 2. Back in the 19th a third left to form the Free Church of Scotland over political interference in the appointment of ministers, & it took the CoS about 80 years to recover from the blow. That was back in the days of plenty of bums on pews, this one could prove to be a more fatal blow. I've lost count of the number of old churches that are now "Charlie Chalks" (nurseries) or Wotherspoon pubs.

No doubt the Dawkins types will cheer the news, but I can't help but feel a little sad at Scottish presbyterianism driving another nail in their own coffins with yet another schism. I'd sooner have them around instead of the sinister happy clappy loony cults doing the rounds like escapees from old episodes of Home & Away.