The fucking BBC, political bias this time

[Heid the Ba]

Testicles, a west of Scotland term. No doubt when you use it in front of your colleagues they'll admire the cosmopolitan nature of your terminology. Or not.

[Lianachan]

chacks

What a lot of new words I'm learning these days. But, a short Google cruise has failed to provide enlightenment on this one.

I'd never heard that word either, but inferred the correct meaning from context. Pretty much any word can be used for the nuts around here - neatly demonstrated by The Two Ronnies repeated references to "The Trossachs".

[Heid the Ba]

Better together, but only if we vote the way the English want us to. They want to keep us in the UK, but not to vote for their/our parliament.

[Lianachan]

The BBC are back in full anti-SNP, anti-Scotland campaign mode, that's for sure.

[Heid the Ba]

Well I have voted, I have a postal vote logged for all elections since I am often away in May when most elections are, and I was away for the Referendum last year. So that is one - nil for our side, two - nil when I put my Mum's postal vote in next week.

[Lianachan]

Well played, sir. I suspect we're probably already down by about 17,000 - 1 due to the labour party's love of postal voting fraud, but we can hope that's been sorted out by now...

[Heid the Ba]

The current hatred for Labour in West Fife, a traditional Labour stronghold, is immense. Apparently none of them thought what would happen at the next General Election when they were on the streets being the face of the "No" campaign. And not following through on any of the panicked last minute promises hasn't helped.

[Heid the Ba]

And this is the man I just voted for. Oh dear.

[Lianachan]

And this is the man I just voted for. Oh dear.

Aye, but very selective reporting - see?

[Heid the Ba]

True, but their man being more of an arse doesn't mean mine isn't. Why anyone has a twitter account is beyond me.

[Lianachan]

Hmm. Is "our man isn't as much of an arse as your man" what people mean when they talk about "a race to the bottom"?

[Heid the Ba]

Exit polls suggest that 58 of 59 Scottish seats will be won by the SNP, I'd like it to be true but I'll believe it when I see it.

[Lianachan]

Exit polls suggest that 58 of 59 Scottish seats will be won by the SNP, I'd like it to be true but I'll believe it when I see it.

Not meaning that poll here, but I think the BBC are setting themselves up to announce the night as a disaster for the SNP unless they get at least 50 seats. Of course, before the election they only had 6, but still......

[Heid the Ba]

Guess who lives in the only Labour held seat?

Now predicting 55 which is still remarkable. There should be a Tory government, possibly with an actual majority which is good in one way in that there will be 50+ SNP MPs at Westminster for years rather than another election this year.

[Lianachan]

The strange way the BBC reported a maiden speech by a new SNP MP that has, otherwise, been universally hailed as tremendous.

[Heid the Ba]

As a comparator, The Grauniad article.

[Arneb]

Mhairi - now ho do pronounce THAT again?

[Lianachan]

If you ever meet one, it's pronounced "hoor". Honest....

[Arneb]

Where's that rat smell coming from all of a sudden...

[Lance]

Where's that rat smell coming from all of a sudden...

[Lianachan]

Mhairi - now ho do pronounce THAT again?

It's a bullshit name, really. It's incorrect. As it's written, it should really be pronounced "vaa-re"' but people generally pronounce it as "maa-re".

[Heid the Ba]

Virtually every Mhairi I have met is a vaa-re. Maybe it is just Highlanders who can't pronounce it.

[Lianachan]

Virtually every Mhairi I have met is a vaa-re. Maybe it is just Highlanders who can't pronounce it.

Well, that's how you'd pronounce the proper name. Mhairi is just nonsense.

[Lianachan]

BBC up to their old tricks again.

A British guy who wanted to shoot Trump. He's from Surrey, in England.

A Scottish woman who was smuggling drugs in Peru. Is she not British, then? How can she be "Scottish", but the English guy is "British"?

[Heid the Ba]

Why isn't Trump calling us all terrorists and wanting to ban us all from the US? Oh, yeah, that . . .