Poppin the pills

So it turns out the Scotland team were using the Columbian marching powder whilst on the road with Ally's Army.

At least they can put their hands on their hearts and say that the drugs were not performace enhancing!

The Carrbridge Chainsaw Massacre

This Sunday, get yersel down to Carrbridge for a course in chainsaw sculpture.

Orange Tartan

De Nederlander es wering de keelt an dreenkin de Boocky.

Great ad...but I still prefer the Barr Bru

This has nothing to do with Scotland whatsoever, indeed the White Cliffs of Dover denouement is quite the opposite, but I love it.

Sun picks the festival's funniest gags

The Currant Bun travels to the fringe and scrapes the comedy barrel. This is apparently one of the funniest gags:

Is it fair to say that there'd be less litter in Britain if blind people were given pointed sticks?

Makes me well fecked off that I missed it!

Today's teuchter watch

It's a dangerous place Dunoon - the local rag reports on:

"groups of youngsters roaming around squirting both people and property
with so-called “silly string”"

Shocking, so it is.

A Scotsman's Home...

More bad news for London expats who reckon that London prices are so high that they could sell up and buy a castle in Scotland.

Seton Castle - just outside Edinburgh is on the market for £15 million.

Team GB

FIFA want a British football team at the 2012 olympics. Not sure about this at all.

Firstly because despite what FIFA say they would love to get rid of the home nation sides, and second cause I wonder how many Scots would get in.

Twisted Firestarter

Most lawyers in Ed start their morning with a swift hand-job from their PA and a browse of Caledonia Calling. Go on lads, try and deny it!

So perhaps one of them can clear this one up. Mike Watson sets fire to a hotel last November, but it is only 8 months later that he resigns as an MSP? I presume that is 8 months of public money that he's pocketed. I also presume that he gets to keep his peerage.

The people of Cathcart must be proud - but then let's remember that Cathcart used to have Teddy Taylor as their MP.

Dali wins

Follow up on The Herald's search for Scotland's favourite painting - Dali wins!

Reading the article I find that not only did Glasgow buy the painting but also copyright to the image, so rather that breaking this copyright again I'll just link to my initial misdemeanor.

Lies, damn lies and stats

Reporting Scotland last night ran a piece on how the Scottish Executive had promised to cut drug deaths by 25%, but they had in fact gone up by 22% since 1999.

You don't need to shagging Carol Vorderman to work out that these numbers don't look good. So some respect to Henry Harris, Deputy Justice Minister who gets to defend the Exec's position.

“I don't want to get into a statistical argument,” he says.

Er, is that because that stats are so shite? Ya plamf ye.