Football Tops By The Side Of The Road

[fatjim]

I notice that flowers don't seem to be enough for some maudlin numpties these days. Football tops are littering the countryside where somebody has died in a car accident. The thing is though I don't think I have ever seen any other top than Rangers (oldco) and Celtic tops. Is it just old firm fans that do this or is it just them that feels the need to let everyone know what team the deceased supported?

Perhaps it's only old firm fans that are careless drivers or maybe someone is deliberately killing them.

If only they didn't breed so quickly.

 

Has anyone seen other football tops slowly rotting at the side of the road?

 

[BrianFaePerth]

Never understood this either. If it was a woman and she liked her scanties, would you put a bra and knickers by the side of the road? Would you put a copy of the Downton Abbey boxset by the side of the road?

[Kilkito]

Get it in the Central belt quite a lot, hence Glasvegas's song, Flowers and football tops, its a fair point that its only ever Old Firm stuff you see, I've never seen it when its a non-OF team. Was a young guy murdered in Springburn a couple of years back and the whole flyover of the Dual Carriageway was tricolours and Celtic tops.

[The Boofon]

Is it bad to smile when you see it's a hun or tim top?

 

No I thought not.

[fatjim]

I just remembered that I think I saw a Hibs top in Edinburgh where someone had been run over. It's a load of nonsense.

[tommo1903]

This thread is a bit of a coincidence, I was speaking about this about an hour ago to someone at work as we were talking about the Irish and how awful they are as people when it comes to revelling in misery.

 

Fatjim, your not a 23 year old attractive female are you?

[buchanskii]

Is it bad to smile when you see it's a hun or tim top?

 

No I thought not.

 

[Hewitt1983]

When I go, I'd be satisfied if my coffin was surrounded by Dandies tops as opposed to flowers etc.

 

Dandies tops and greeting scantily clad wimin.

 

Aye, that'd dee.

[gla5gowdon]

It's to mark where a poor person died.

 

In all seriousness, the working class generally define themselves by the team they support, the bars they drink in and what they drink there.

 

"Aye auld Tam was a good Bear. Always telling great stories with his McEwan's down the Nailgun Arms".

[Bluto10]

Only seen in bongo countries or minky old firm type strongholds

[Bluto10]

Ill leave nothin behind but tales of excess when I call it a day; decades worth

[daytripping]

Ill leave nothin behind but tales of excess when I call it a day; decades worth

 

Legends never die pal.

[Stoney]

This thread is a bit of a coincidence, I was speaking about this about an hour ago to someone at work as we were talking about the Irish and how awful they are as people when it comes to revelling in misery.

 

Fatjim, your not a 23 year old attractive female are you?

 

Not 23 or female but quite strangely attractive if your into that sort of thing

[reekie_dock]

Especially when they've been there for ages and they're all weathered. Its like the farmfoods carrier bag the mark oh a jakey cunt. But when the bag is weathered it becomes the sign oh a real madder!!!!!

[daytripping]

Are Lidl bags ok??

[Ke1t]

 

Not 23 or female but quite strangely attractive if your into that sort of thing

 

They all look the same from the back.

[fatjim]

 

Not 23 or female but quite strangely attractive if your into that sort of thing

 

You would wouldn't you?

 

I might even let you if you were dead.

[Clydeside_Sheep]

In post-Christian britain, these roadside 'shrines' of football tops + flowers etc is a manifestation of attempts to fulfill the human need which is unfulfilled for many in the absence of faith. Its trying to create a space for peoople to gather and reflect, a space decorated with items or symbols of love (in this case, for the deceased).

 

I dont mind it, but the council should be quick to remove the flowers when they die and go all scabby.

[Bluto10]

you leavin your gideon bible when you die clydside min?

[jassb]

It's littering. You're supposed to take your rubbish home and bin it.

[Clydeside_Sheep]

you leavin your gideon bible when you die clydside min?

 

Ugh! Douay-Rheims, if you please!

[fatjim]

Faith is for the weak.

[Ke1t]

Faith is for the weak.

 

I think this is true.

[Clydeside_Sheep]

Faith is for the weak.

 

 

Comfort eating is for the weak.

 

 

I think this is true.

 

Meh, I dont know enough about your figure to criticise (I daresay its not pretty though).

 

Faith is an amazing enlightenment and serenity.

 

That people - who ostensibly claim not to care for it - feel compelled to somehow attack it, only goes to show its inherent substance.

 

For example, you can only subvert that which is important, or mock that which has dignity, or deny that which is fundamentally true.

 

(Btw We should probably take care not to argue about religion too much, lest we bore the others lol.)

 

[Clydeside_Sheep]

Disregarding my own advice, I thought of a question:

 

Why is (do you think) faith 'for the weak'?

 

In some sense, it would be a great liberation if there were genuinely no rules in life, or no accountability for it. But there are rules, and there is accountability - surely to recognise this and so attempt (however badly) to live in this way is the more difficult choice, and therefore not 'weak'.

[fatjim]

 

 

Comfort eating is for the weak.

 

 

Meh, I dont know enough about your figure to criticise (I daresay its not pretty though).

 

Faith is an amazing enlightenment and serenity.

 

That people - who ostensibly claim not to care for it - feel compelled to somehow attack it, only goes to show its inherent substance.

 

For example, you can only subvert that which is important, or mock that which has dignity, or deny that which is fundamentally true.

 

(Btw We should probably take care not to argue about religion too much, lest we bore the others lol.)

 

 

You don't know anything about my figure either. All you have is a username that has no bearing on my weight. My name isn't even Jim.

 

If you choose to believe in something with zero evidence simply because of faith then that is a weakness. You need to fill a gap in your understanding with imaginary beings all based on the writings of bronze age goat herders. The weakness is the inability to face life without that imaginary friend and all the baggage that comes with it.

 

The rules you speak of are man made.

[ChutneyLove]

It is littering. People who do it should be identified by their scrawled messages and fined appropriately.

 

Additionally, if I did hit a tree sideways at 59 mph (notice I'm under the speed limit folks) and am killed on the spot - the last place I would like a shrine was the tree that knocked consciousness from my brain forever.

[Ke1t]

 

 

Comfort eating is for the weak.

 

 

1. Meh, I dont know enough about your figure to criticise (I daresay its not pretty though).

 

2. Faith is an amazing enlightenment and serenity.

 

3. That people - who ostensibly claim not to care for it - feel compelled to somehow attack it, only goes to show its inherent substance.

 

4. For example, you can only subvert that which is important, or mock that which has dignity, or deny that which is fundamentally true.

 

(Btw We should probably take care not to argue about religion too much, lest we bore the others lol.)

 

 

 

Disregarding my own advice, I thought of a question:

 

5. Why is (do you think) faith 'for the weak'?

 

In some sense, it would be a great liberation if there were genuinely no rules in life, or no accountability for it. But there are rules, and there is accountability - surely to recognise this and so attempt (however badly) to live in this way is the more difficult choice, and therefore not 'weak'.

 

1. Ad hominem, and thusly rejected as point of debate.

 

2. So is Yoga, alcohol, weed, sensory deprivation chambers, sleep, smoking (I'm told), and sex (if i remember correctly).

 

3. Debating the validity of religion is in no way attacking it. Having an opinion on its adherents is in no way attacking it. Holding a contrary position is not an attack. This is the victim mentality.

 

4. Demonstrably untrue.

 

5. Faith in a deity is in no way whatsoever a prerequisite for civilised behaviour. This is also an indesputable, demonstrable fact. So the implication that lack of belief in a deity equates to some kind of social depravity is an easily rejected notion.

[ChutneyLove]

All that fae fitba tops at the side of the road? Jeepers.

[K-9]

There was a new Dons top at side of road on Great Northern road tonight. Havent bought one so thought might aswell nick it as not being used.

 

It was only then i found out the boy wasn't actually dead and wasn't happy at me stripping him!!