Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking

[Alex]

Pointed out to Kristi, that if Scotland play any football games in New York, someone is going to figure out a way to put a traffic cone on the head of the statue of liberty.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/3974211746218379

[Trevor]

Pointed out to Kristi, that if Scotland play any football games in New York, someone is going to figure out a way to put a traffic cone on the head of the statue of liberty.

😄🤣😃😂😀🐢

[Trevor]

Pointed out to Kristi, that if Scotland play any football games in New York, someone is going to figure out a way to put a traffic cone on the head of the statue of liberty.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/3974211746218379

😄😂

I saw a vid on X a few minutes ago where almost every statue in Boston is wearing a traffic cone 😳😄😂😃

[Alex]

Pointed out to Kristi, that if Scotland play any football games in New York, someone is going to figure out a way to put a traffic cone on the head of the statue of liberty.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/3974211746218379

😄😂

I saw a vid on X a few minutes ago where almost every statue in Boston is wearing a traffic cone 😳😄😂😃

Yeah, sounds about right. It's only really done in Glasgow, and on the one statue there (Duke of Wellington, outside the Museum of Modern Art), but send them overseas and...

[Trevor]

Pointed out to Kristi, that if Scotland play any football games in New York, someone is going to figure out a way to put a traffic cone on the head of the statue of liberty.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/3974211746218379

😄😂

I saw a vid on X a few minutes ago where almost every statue in Boston is wearing a traffic cone 😳😄😂😃

Yeah, sounds about right. It's only really done in Glasgow, and on the one statue there (Duke of Wellington, outside the Museum of Modern Art), but send them overseas and...

😂😃😅😀🐢

[Alex]

Pointed out to Kristi, that if Scotland play any football games in New York, someone is going to figure out a way to put a traffic cone on the head of the statue of liberty.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/3974211746218379

😄😂

I saw a vid on X a few minutes ago where almost every statue in Boston is wearing a traffic cone 😳😄😂😃

Yeah, sounds about right. It's only really done in Glasgow, and on the one statue there (Duke of Wellington, outside the Museum of Modern Art), but send them overseas and...

😂😃😅😀🐢

So far they've drank 300% more alcohol than the busiest St Patrick's Day (one aircraft was out of alcohol within 30 minutes of leaving the ground), had to get lots more alcohol shipped to Boston, laughed at the bar that tried selling them Stella Artois at £16 a pint (over here, Stella is referred to wife beater, rather than the luxary importer lager they attempted to sell it to them as). My favourite video I've seen is of the Boston policeman playing keepie uppie with a bunch of fans and then disappearing under a wave of bodies as they all jump on him to congratulate him on his skills. The Tartan army has to travel down to Florida for their next game and my feed is full up with people offering to let them come and stay in their homes. This is a big, big mistake unless you really, really want to party. Still from what I heard, volunteers turned up to clean up some park where they'd all been partying and were surprised to find the fans had tidied it all up for them already and all they had to do was collect up the bin bags.

Since there are something like 180,000 unsold tickets for this world cup (the last I heard. I've not been closely following that though so maybe there was a last minute surge of demand), one can only wonder at the party atmosphere that would have accompanied it had it been as sold out as previous tournaments, or even if all those who had their ETSA's cancelled at the last moment had been able to attend.

[Trevor]

Pointed out to Kristi, that if Scotland play any football games in New York, someone is going to figure out a way to put a traffic cone on the head of the statue of liberty.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/3974211746218379

😄😂

I saw a vid on X a few minutes ago where almost every statue in Boston is wearing a traffic cone 😳😄😂😃

Yeah, sounds about right. It's only really done in Glasgow, and on the one statue there (Duke of Wellington, outside the Museum of Modern Art), but send them overseas and...

😂😃😅😀🐢

So far they've drank 300% more alcohol than the busiest St Patrick's Day (one aircraft was out of alcohol within 30 minutes of leaving the ground), had to get lots more alcohol shipped to Boston, laughed at the bar that tried selling them Stella Artois at £16 a pint (over here, Stella is referred to wife beater, rather than the luxary importer lager they attempted to sell it to them as). My favourite video I've seen is of the Boston policeman playing keepie uppie with a bunch of fans and then disappearing under a wave of bodies as they all jump on him to congratulate him on his skills. The Tartan army has to travel down to Florida for their next game and my feed is full up with people offering to let them come and stay in their homes. This is a big, big mistake unless you really, really want to party. Still from what I heard, volunteers turned up to clean up some park where they'd all been partying and were surprised to find the fans had tidied it all up for them already and all they had to do was collect up the bin bags.

Since there are something like 180,000 unsold tickets for this world cup (the last I heard. I've not been closely following that though so maybe there was a last minute surge of demand), one can only wonder at the party atmosphere that would have accompanied it had it been as sold out as previous tournaments, or even if all those who had their ETSA's cancelled at the last moment had been able to attend.

You're really keeping my crippling depression at bay with these, thanks 😃😃

I just saw a clip on YouTube of someone attempting to put a cone on Robert Burns' head and almost falling off in the process 😳😄😅🐢

[Alex]

Pointed out to Kristi, that if Scotland play any football games in New York, someone is going to figure out a way to put a traffic cone on the head of the statue of liberty.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/3974211746218379

😄😂

I saw a vid on X a few minutes ago where almost every statue in Boston is wearing a traffic cone 😳😄😂😃

Yeah, sounds about right. It's only really done in Glasgow, and on the one statue there (Duke of Wellington, outside the Museum of Modern Art), but send them overseas and...

😂😃😅😀🐢

So far they've drank 300% more alcohol than the busiest St Patrick's Day (one aircraft was out of alcohol within 30 minutes of leaving the ground), had to get lots more alcohol shipped to Boston, laughed at the bar that tried selling them Stella Artois at £16 a pint (over here, Stella is referred to wife beater, rather than the luxary importer lager they attempted to sell it to them as). My favourite video I've seen is of the Boston policeman playing keepie uppie with a bunch of fans and then disappearing under a wave of bodies as they all jump on him to congratulate him on his skills. The Tartan army has to travel down to Florida for their next game and my feed is full up with people offering to let them come and stay in their homes. This is a big, big mistake unless you really, really want to party. Still from what I heard, volunteers turned up to clean up some park where they'd all been partying and were surprised to find the fans had tidied it all up for them already and all they had to do was collect up the bin bags.

Since there are something like 180,000 unsold tickets for this world cup (the last I heard. I've not been closely following that though so maybe there was a last minute surge of demand), one can only wonder at the party atmosphere that would have accompanied it had it been as sold out as previous tournaments, or even if all those who had their ETSA's cancelled at the last moment had been able to attend.

You're really keeping my crippling depression at bay with these, thanks 😃😃

I just saw a clip on YouTube of someone attempting to put a cone on Robert Burns' head and almost falling off in the process 😳😄😅🐢

Trevor, google Jobi Liquor and prepare to laugh your ass off.

[Dr. Whom]

laughed at the bar that tried selling them Stella Artois at £16 a pint (over here, Stella is referred to wife beater, rather than the luxary importer lager they attempted to sell it to them as).

To state an interest I am native of Leuven where Artois was founded, and I can just about see the original brewery from my apartment. But to market Stella as a luxury lager must be one of the most shameless tricks in the history of advertising.

[Alex]

laughed at the bar that tried selling them Stella Artois at £16 a pint (over here, Stella is referred to wife beater, rather than the luxary importer lager they attempted to sell it to them as).

To state an interest I am native of Leuven where Artois was founded, and I can just about see the original brewery from my apartment. But to market Stella as a luxury lager must be one of the most shameless tricks in the history of advertising.

From what I heard, no one was buying it at that price. It isn't exactly a hard drink to get in Scotland.

Some of my favourite things I've heard about the party in Boston. Previously, only one bar in Boston sold Tennants. Now 76 stock it after emergency supplies were shipped over (not exactly a high-quality drink, it is kind of what people start on here). The most popular US domestic beers and lagers overseas seem to have been avoided by the Tartan army, with Bud Light and Coors going mostly untouched. Understandable since the way they are brewed over there makes them taste terrible. Samual Adams does seem to have sold well (I must admit that when I've been in the states its one I prefer to drink myself). My favourite quotes about it that I've heard from people being interviewed on the news channels were "How can they drink that much and their be no riots?" and "How can anyone drink that much and then be up at 6 am to play bagpipes?" along with the guy who jokingly asked if Scotland was a desert without any water.

[Trevor]

Pointed out to Kristi, that if Scotland play any football games in New York, someone is going to figure out a way to put a traffic cone on the head of the statue of liberty.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/3974211746218379

😄😂

I saw a vid on X a few minutes ago where almost every statue in Boston is wearing a traffic cone 😳😄😂😃

Yeah, sounds about right. It's only really done in Glasgow, and on the one statue there (Duke of Wellington, outside the Museum of Modern Art), but send them overseas and...

😂😃😅😀🐢

So far they've drank 300% more alcohol than the busiest St Patrick's Day (one aircraft was out of alcohol within 30 minutes of leaving the ground), had to get lots more alcohol shipped to Boston, laughed at the bar that tried selling them Stella Artois at £16 a pint (over here, Stella is referred to wife beater, rather than the luxary importer lager they attempted to sell it to them as). My favourite video I've seen is of the Boston policeman playing keepie uppie with a bunch of fans and then disappearing under a wave of bodies as they all jump on him to congratulate him on his skills. The Tartan army has to travel down to Florida for their next game and my feed is full up with people offering to let them come and stay in their homes. This is a big, big mistake unless you really, really want to party. Still from what I heard, volunteers turned up to clean up some park where they'd all been partying and were surprised to find the fans had tidied it all up for them already and all they had to do was collect up the bin bags.

Since there are something like 180,000 unsold tickets for this world cup (the last I heard. I've not been closely following that though so maybe there was a last minute surge of demand), one can only wonder at the party atmosphere that would have accompanied it had it been as sold out as previous tournaments, or even if all those who had their ETSA's cancelled at the last moment had been able to attend.

You're really keeping my crippling depression at bay with these, thanks 😃😃

I just saw a clip on YouTube of someone attempting to put a cone on Robert Burns' head and almost falling off in the process 😳😄😅🐢

Trevor, google Jobi Liquor and prepare to laugh your ass off.

😄😅😂😀😃😃😀

Thanks for that.

Always reminds me of Sir Billy Connolly and his story of the Jobbie Wiecha.

"Jobbie.... outward bound" 😅😂

Guy directing traffic: SPLAT 😳😄😃😀

[Alex]

Trevor, Boston and Glasgow have now been officially declared sister cities. The mayor of Boston has decided to join in the practise of placing traffic cones on statues' heads.

I saw this and thought it might give you another chuckle.



During the last major football tournament Scotland was involved in, the town where the Scottish fans were based submitted a petition with 50,000 signatures asking if Scotland and Germany could play a friendly every two years in their town. They were asked to stay after the team had exited the competition just to keep the party atmosphere going. The team might not win many games, but the fans do know how to have a good time regardless. If they are ever playing near you, I recommend going just for the fun.

[Rev. Powell]

Stella Artois isn't really considered upscale here, but it is one of the few European beers found relatively frequently out in restaurants. Beer snobs turn their noses up at it, but I actually don't think it's that bad--certainly not in Belgium's top beers by a longshot, but at least it's better than Heineken (which used to be omnipresent here but has thankfully disappeared).