u/FootOfDavros

Seems like this would be a fair way to keep one of the leading players in the tournament.

What do YOU think? Should Trump make the special call?

I have some 18mm class 3 plywood to use as a new subfloor in our upstairs bathroom.

I ripped up all the old subfloor some time ago now (which was some kind of tongue and groove plywood I think) and am left with the old floorboards sitting atop the joists.

The floorboards are 25mm, so my plan was just to screw the boards down at some kind of set interval with 4x40mm wood screws (drilling pilot holes through the plywood first)

The bathroom is pretty small - something like 2.2m x 2.2m so I will need to use 2.4x1.2m boards.

So I have two questions here:-

1. Am I okay just securing these boards into floorboards with these 40mm screws; and if so how far apart should I do so? Or should I be working out where the joists fall as well and putting some longer length screws in at those points?

and

2. Is there any preferred way of laying the boards, e.g. inline with the floorboards which are already running across the joists. Or should I lay them perpendicular to the floorboards or does it not really matter?

If it doesn't really matter, I also have the question of whether it is better to have the split running across the centre of the room for the side the entrance door is. Or whether the split should go from left to right mid-way across the room, which would mean one full sheet would be in place under where the bath will sit against the opposite wall.

Thanks for reading and for any advice you may be able to give.

Me and my partner are both on the Smarty network which I believe piggybacks off Three UK.

Last night on her way home from work she was just asking me re what I fancied for dinner.

I texted:-

>I'm happy with pizza. But if you could just get a reasonable size basic Margherita one from Aldi or Sainsbury's (just a cheap one) and get a little tin of anchovies and some black olives, I'll make it up...

Her replies came back as "Eh?", "Are you unwell?", "Have you been taken over by AI?", etc with me becoming increasingly confused. Anyway, she eventually said I'm going to text back what you sent. And I received this:-

>I'm happy with pizza. But if you could just get a reasonable size basic Margherita one from Aldi or Sainsbury's (just a cheap one) and get a little tin of an of meal planning or what you'd like to do at the weekend. Try not to let it get you down.

😂

Can anyone let me know what's happened here? Has the word "anchovies" triggered some AI takeover half way through my message and caused it to write absolute gibberish?!

Pretty funny in this case and we were laughing looking at it on each others phones afterwards but what if this had been a serious text I was sending to someone and I'd potentially have had no idea it'd done something like this.

Is my phone the problem, the receiving phone or did the network do something to it in transit?

Was in Aberdeen today for daughter's graduation and meant to pick up a copy before we left.

Probably highly unlikely but does anyone know anywhere in Edinburgh which may possibly sell print copies?

I'm thinking possibly at one of the train stations but even then, I'm not sure...

I appreciate that there's already been one or two threads pointing out just how poor Steve Clarke has been for Scotland in this tournament.

But I just wanted to focus on something which I don't think has had enough attention among the general kick up the arses he's been getting and it's this:-

The guy has had six months specifically to prepare for this, to think of a system / set-up which would best work for the players we have, against the sides we were going to go up against.

I saw little to zero evidence he had a clue what he was going to do.

He changed formation every game. He picked Shankland to start two games even although he'd never bothered with him before and put him in set-ups which pretty much guaranteed he had no chance. He didn't work out where McGinn was going to fit in and be effective if he was going to play Gammon-Doak. He didn't have a set-up to bring out the best in McTominay. He picked Gordon for the send off game but then just binned him. What was the point? The defence was always going to be a problem but he had no clear idea there either obviously by switching his centre half two games in...

I mean, completely different ball game and resources but look at the classic Klopp Liverpool set-up. They played EXACTLY the same formation all the time and everyone knew there job in it. Even that cup final when half the side was out injured, he just swapped the kids in seemlessly and the machine kept rolling...

Now, like I said, completely different as far as Scotland are concerned but given our limitations, couldn't we have had some kind of system set in stone long before a ball was even kicked here that all the players knew and were comfortable playing?

To be fair maybe there was and that was our hoof-ball to Dykes and Adams? If so, why did he change it? Sure to be fair, the clamber was there for change but if HE - the manager - didn't believe in it / couldn't work out how to play differently, he shouldn't have bothered.

Quite depressing in a way watching Cape Verde last night and looking back on the Morocco game.

Undoubtedly we'll set up in the same way, if not even more negatively, against Brazil. And really, you couldn't even blame Clarke for doing so against Brazil who - despite maybe not currently being at their glorious best - could still potentially give us a hammering.

Same in a way with Morocco. Still a very strong team, ranked highly in the world and who knows - maybe if we had set up and bit more positively, they'd have hammered us.

But still... Watching Cape Verde actually going for it last night, not being afraid to attack and to attack quickly, with some seeming kind of plan to do so transitioning quickly through the midfield just left me wondering:- What really was the value in Scotland getting here?

Was watching us scrape over the line versus Haiti and following that up with two contained, hopefully not get hammered performances just to reach a knock out game - which could land up being against Germany (!) even worth it? And if not Germany, it could be Mexico in their own back, where we'll be set up to...er, not get hammered!

So will that have been worth it if that's what comes to pass?

Wouldn't it have been better for Clarke to accept that we have a midfield with some actually pretty good players in it this time and build up, playing through it, rather than hoofing the ball OVER it?

I don't know... What do YOU think? Is he right to set us up to not get hammered and maybe make it through the group stage? Or do you too think - well what's the point, shouldn't we actually have tried to just play some football and show the world we have team would could be proud of?

I was just looking at the pairings for the Uzchess Cup, which is currently underway, and noticed that once again you have some players having five games with the white pieces, some only four.

Couldn't they just invite an odd number to these events, e.g. nine or eleven, to ensure everyone got an even number of games with the white / black pieces?

I mean, maybe they do (?) but it just seems to me every time I see these single round robin events it's set up like this.

Just wondering if anyone knows the name or any info re the band that was playing at the Meadows festival this afternoon at ~ 1:45 at the stage on the Melville Drive side?

Kind of weird because I've been going there for years and the bands have always been somewhat in the background for me, never really finding them to be particularly special (no offense!).

Anyway, I was drawn in from hearing these guys from quite far away and found myself wandering over to listen to them closer... The singer mentioned the song they were playing was an original composition of theirs which should have been available on streaming but their credit card had been declined trying to pay for it being put on whatever service they were trying to use! 😂

Anyway, if anyone can "name that band" I'd love to know and maybe find that song streaming somewhere in future!

It's been nearly a week now since the VAR review footage was made available for the infamous Motherwell Vs Celtic penalty decision.

Before this additional footage was released all discussion had centred on whether a "clear and obvious" error could have realistically been called, given it was impossible to say - given the 3D perspective we were looking at it from.

However the new footage at ~ 1:18, which is said to be getting used to check the throw in, rolls on and shows us the header from the angle everyone wanted to see in the first place and was presumed not to exist, i.e. right in front of the players!

If you watch this it quite clearly shows the defender cleanly heading the ball away - his left hand, which was used in the stills from the non conclusive angle - visibly no where near the ball!!

Now the VAR team totally ignored this angle, did not make it available to the referee, whilst verbally directing him that there had been a handball. Why have a seen so little coverage / media attention around this second angle?

It's hilarious - I have actually seen some Celtic fans edits pop up on YouTube and they've actually REMOVED this camera angle as it's clear as day there was no handball. But yet, I've seen very little of this - Not even an edited down clip of this other angle...

Bit weird this - Was taking a walk over Blackford Hill for the first time in a good few years I guess and I came down on the Observatory Road side.

At the top on the left hand side there's this modern design new build which went up a few years ago and must have raised a few eyebrows / objections at the planning stage as it's nothing like anything else on that road plus totally overlooks the public walking area at the bottom of where the actual observatory is...

Anyway, walked past it tonight and it pretty much looks abandoned! Surely it can't be - but the front garden side is all totally overgrown, massive weeds, etc and pretty much all overgrown even around the door. Looks like these reclaimed by nature buildings you'd see in some apocalyptic movie!

Anyway, what's the story? Anyone know?