The Official Nonsense Thread

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I remember that MP that got done over putting his duck house on his expenses.

St Midden's fans are mutants. Most of them are Rangers fans for whom it is their "wee team" (St Mirren used Rangers ground during WW2). Also they used their masonic connections with the town council to put Abercorn - also from Paisley & one of the founding fathers of Scottish football - out of business by denying them a place to play in Paisley back in the 1920s. The club continued to exist as a social club trying to get back into the game but gave up during WW2.

Their old ground was also one of Scottish football's biggest eyesores because they never looked after it. Alex Ferguson was their manager once. He took a bunch of nobodies to third in the league & their first European campaign - for which they fired him after he asked what money he was now going to get for players. He went to Aberdeen & you know what happened next - overthew the Old Firm's stranglehold, won the Cup Winners Cup & Super Cup, before moving on to do even better with Man U.

I've been watching the two lengthy interviews Ian Paisley's given that's been causing some fury. Wow, did he spill the beans! To cut a long story short, he claims to have acted the bigot in order to get a bunch of bigots to put him into power so he could get them to stop acting like bigots. What really struck me was his complete contempt for politics & politicians of Northern Ireland, but he also said that Northern Ireland very much got the politicians it deserved.

Funny enough, there was another programme on an hour later about the s3x Pistols first album, & it mentioned how Steve Jones always underplayed his role in the production even though in truth he played a big part in it, in particular speeding up the recorded tracks of Johnny Rotten's vocals to make him sound more shrill. The producer Bill Thomas asked him why he wanted to do that, & Steve took him to the pub across the road to watch the lunchtime news on the TV.

Ian Paisley was on, ranting to some NI crowd about something or other, & Jones pointed out that there wasn't a single person in that pub whose hackles weren't raised every time Paisley came on ranting & raving in that tone, that's what he wanted to copy because it would get them noticed - & everyone they provoked hated from in turn would find everyone that hated them buying their records out of devilment.

Thomas said while he understood where Jones was coming from, had Jones at all considered that the major flaw of his master plan was they might provoke such a reaction that they might not live long enough to spend the royalty money? Both of them were almost right