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    Stewards v Arbroath

    in General Morton Chatter

    Posted

    3 hours ago, The Bewilderedbeast said:

    It's the group of lads who play the drum and have volunteered around the club.

    Good on them

    I was unsure if it was a club contrived thing or something organic which came from the supporters themselves.  Didn't want to see Cappielow turn into a mini-Stamford Bridge or worse still, Firhill - but a few banners from supporters doing it off their own backs is okay i suppose.

     

    Humza Yousaf

    in General Nonsense

    Posted

    20 hours ago, Cappiecat 1.2 said:

    That twitter account is nothing more than general racism, islamophobia and all the usual right wing dog whistles.

    In my opinion this hate filled shite has no place in our forum.

    I'll bow to your greater judgement on this.  I've never really bother with social media, but someone showed me that topical image the other day and found it funny.  I done a quick google search and it was on that Twitter/X page that i'd never visited before.

    Just out of interest, what is a 'right wing dog whistle'?

     

    Stewards v Arbroath

    in General Morton Chatter

    Posted

    On 4/14/2024 at 5:30 PM, Mr.Blue said:

    I think they were put up by the  Cowshed boys. They have a twitter feed and have been selling merchandise for a while. They made the signs for the cup games and paint the wall at the toilet entrance too.

    who/what are 'thu cowshed boys'?

    Stewards v Arbroath

    in General Morton Chatter

    Posted

    On 4/12/2024 at 1:03 PM, Toby said:

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    Looking forward to seeing that head steward trying to justify her existence for half an hour before kick off tonight by trying to find a swastika on each of these.

    Were these put up by the club or by supporters themselves?

    EURO 2024 Thread

    in General Football & Other Sports

    Posted

    14 minutes ago, TRVMP said:

    It was 20 euros for the pair of them, so 10 bottles total, 2 euros apiece.

    That's not far off retail price here. With tax, it's $1.42 per 330ml* bottle.

    *Stella is almost unique in being sold in 330ml here as it is in Europe. A regular beer here is 12fl oz, which is 355ml, and virtually all cans and bottles are that size, even of imported European brands.

    Ah, I see.  So 'myself and a colleague had 5 330ml Stella Artois for the princely sum of 20 Euros. So 2 euros for a third of a litre.' Should have read 'myself and a colleague each had 5 x 330ml Stella Artois for the princely sum of 20 Euros. So 2 euros for a third of a litre.'  Which would have made more sense.

    Lettuce see...

    €20 = £17.10 / 10 = £1.71 per can/bottle with seems okay I suppose, except its Stella Artois which I'm not overly fussed about.  

    Okay, carry on.

     

     

    EURO 2024 Thread

    in General Football & Other Sports

    Posted

    12 minutes ago, Cet Homme Charmant said:

    Just spent a very enjoyable few hours after work having a few Stella Artois. Myself and a colleague had 5 330ml Stella Artois for the princely sum of 20 Euros. So 2 euros for a third of a litre. Everything here is ridiculously expansive, except for beer.  

    So €4 for a 330ml of wifebeater.  That's expensive.  Do you only drink small measures because you're a wee guy?

    EURO 2024 Thread

    in General Football & Other Sports

    Posted

    2 hours ago, TRVMP said:

    The strength of average Lager in the UK started off very low in the 70s and 80s then peaked in the late 90s - Stella was 5.2% and has been decreasing ever since. Tennents is 4% and I want to say Carling is 4.2%.

    In the US light beers are generally 4.2% and normal lager is 5%. In Germany it tends not to go lower than 4.8% and even session beers can be north of 5.1%. In Poland you just can't find lager under 5.

    It's worth noting the same beers can be different by country. Stella is 5% in the USA. 

     

    They are all wet though?

    Seriously, unless its something like Tennents Super Lager which is fucking revolting and avoidable at all costs, you tend not to notice the strength until you get pissed quicker than you normally would.

    I always thought that most beer and lagers was between 4%-5% ABV as standard, and occasionally there were a few north of the 5% mark.

    Still, it is indicative of the times we live in when football supporters are being 'warned' about the strength of the local beer.  Especially as most who will be travelling would have already experienced it (or similar) over the years.

    Commercial Activity

    in General Morton Chatter

    Posted

    2 hours ago, TRVMP said:

    I draw the line at clip-on ties.

    It elevates the occasion if people put the effort in. It makes it feel more special. It is also, counterintuitively, egalitarian: nobody can really upstage anyone else if there's a dress code because it means the expectations are clear and people won't feel under- or over-dressed.

     

    But the occasion is already as 'elevated' as its likely to be.  And if someone with a smart tailored dinner suit is sitting next to someone in a Tesco bin bag, well, one is kinda being upstaged which kinda defeats that argument.

    To be fair, the majority of folk that go to these kind of things would already know how to dress for them, so it shouldnt be an issue.  However, we're a club supported by predominantly white, working class males - we're not a 'Lodge' and we aren't golf club wankers* - the kind of attire most people would wear to a day in hospitality should be fine.

    *at least most of us aren't.

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    Black tie is obviously an exception but people also mistake dressing smartly for dressing expensively. I generally wear slacks/chinos and a button-down collared shirt each day and these cost me significantly less than a graphic t-shirt, for example.

    reminds me of this:

     

    Commercial Activity

    in General Morton Chatter

    Posted

    Just now, thehustler said:

    Dressing smart pisses me right off. On that basis Hitler would be welcomed with open arms whilst Jesus would be told to bolt! Same shit at hospitality....what is wrong with society??

    Smart (or Smart-ish) Dress should be acceptable, otherwise the place will look like a queue for the Lourdes bus.

    Jesus would go down a treat, turning water into wine etc.  He'd save his table a fortune.

     

    Next.

    Commercial Activity

    in General Morton Chatter

    Posted · Edited by capitanus

    12 hours ago, TRVMP said:

    It's 150 years, rent one if you have to or nip to Tesco, I'm sure they do them for well under a hundred.

    Is that what we have to reduce ourselves to if we are having a 150 year knees-up?  Sitting about in Tesco clobber?  :lol:

    Seriously, Fuck that.

    Commercial Activity

    in General Morton Chatter

    Posted

    8 hours ago, TRVMP said:

    Honestly I don't think black tie was unreasonable for the club's 150th anniversay.

     

    6 hours ago, TRVMP said:

    Fair point. I'd completely forgotten that, in fact.

    That should be black tie imvho.

    The average Morton supporter would normally only wear a black tie for a funeral though.

    Smart dress should be sufficient for these kind of things.

     

     

     

    Stewards v Arbroath

    in General Morton Chatter

    Posted

    1 hour ago, vikingTON said:

    Wouldn't criticise individual stewards for this, but it's notable that when there was some Celtic supporting jakey openly smoking a joint and giving out continuous, dreadful patter* about wearing a hair band to some Dundee United player a few weeks ago, eagle-eyed enforcement of The Rules was nowhere to be seen. Given the regular reports of spitting from the other side of the Shed too, company policy seems to be that they will pick and choose their battles - i.e. against those not likely to cause them trouble. 

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    *Probably the worst offence of the lot

    I think that spitting is pretty grim, and overall disgusting behaviour.  Who is doing that?

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