Hogmanay Party at Sturgeon's ???

And it wasn’t me that reported Maudis post that got deleted.

In spite of the fact that she called me an idiot?

And accused me of living in Scotland to boot.
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Apart from those who use Hogmanay as an excuse to get drunk there will be a lot of Edinburgh residents glad the street debacle had been cancelled. Nothing but problems with roads blocked off making access to their homes akward,noise building up over 24 hours. It's mainly a tourist event.

11:28Yammy

Your post gave me a giggle Yammy ?

Obviously we posters South of the border have a different sense of humour ?

Ooh sock puppets. You dont get many of them round these parts.

And accused me of living in Scotland to boot.?

Ooooooh, was that the ultimate insult, Peasblossom

Obviously we posters South of the border have a different sense of humour

Only a few of you, luckily.

Urmstongran

Stupid man for posting NS address on line. Took a funny joke too far. Her sister Gillian noticed it and alerted Police Scotland. It would have gotten a laugh - because it WAS funny to pretend she was having a Hogmanay party round at hers - but what the man did was dangerous in this febrile climate. There are genuinely a great many very annoyed Scots at these imposed restrictions over the festive season - they certainly didn’t all vote for NS!

"Took a funny joke too far."

Exactly how far would it have been appropriate to take this 'joke'?

“All round for a wee dram at Nicola’s gaff” would have been funny. Or not, as the case may be. A sense of humour is such an individual thing Isn’t it?
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I really do wish people wouldn’t report posts. Let them stand and we can read and judge for ourselves. And for any awful ones it does illustrate their mindsets.

I don't think the intention was just to have a joke.
I think the man genuinely hoped to get a rowdy crowd at the FM's actual home.

It stops being a joke when someone's safety is endangered.

Urmstongran

“All round for a wee dram at Nicola’s gaff” would have been funny. Or not, as the case may be. A sense of humour is such an individual thing Isn’t it?
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Give me your address then and I can post 'All round for a wee dram at UG's gaff' then.

Oh how we'll laugh because of course a sense of humour is such an individual thing; Isn’t it?

Oh Petera I said right at the beginning of the thread I thought this was stupid. It was funny enough. But putting NS address out there was irresponsible and wrong.

Goodness there are some very cross posters on GN these days.
I’m not coming back to this one. It’s turning toxic and will get worse the nearer we get to 31 December I bet.

I mean - Just look at those Celtic football fans today riled up against the SNP’s decisions. Only a third of Scots vote for Sturgeon. I think the SNP popularity tide is turning. Time will tell.

Give me your address then and I can post 'All round for a wee dram at UG's gaff' then.

“GIVE ME YOUR ADDRESS” ??
That’s exactly the bit that was wrong. Don’t you get it?

Funny if you’d said ‘all round to Urmstongran’s gaff for a wee dram’.

And nothing else. That bit was the joke.
I give up.

Dream on, lass. Just making up numbers doesn't serve the cause.

The results indicate the SNP would win 56 out of 59 Scottish seats in a Westminster election, with 48 per cent of the vote.

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/scottish-conservatives-face-general-election-wipeout-in-wake-of-christmas-party-scandal-poll-shows/ar-AAS9naa?ocid=BingNewsSearch

Urmstongran

Oh Petera I said right at the beginning of the thread I thought this was stupid. It was funny enough. But putting NS address out there was irresponsible and wrong.

Goodness there are some very cross posters on GN these days.
I’m not coming back to this one. It’s turning toxic and will get worse the nearer we get to 31 December I bet.

I mean - Just look at those Celtic football fans today riled up against the SNP’s decisions. Only a third of Scots vote for Sturgeon. I think the SNP popularity tide is turning. Time will tell.

They didn’t want independence last time and won’t next time either.
Fortunately not all voters ( including SNP voters) want to leave the Union.

As you say, it would have been amusing if they had left out the address, but to do that was possibly dangerous given all the hatred directed at politicians these days.

Urmstongran

“All round for a wee dram at Nicola’s gaff” would have been funny. Or not, as the case may be. A sense of humour is such an individual thing Isn’t it?
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It is so rare for me to agree with Urmstongran that I just have to put in my tuppenceworth. The bit that makes this whole thing totally un-joke-like is the giving of NS's address. Without the address, I agree that it is just a joke, although rather a poor one IMO.

There is no point in any of us getting into a discussion here about who votes/voted for the SNP or independence and who doesn't/didn't.

Yes. Irrelevant. Giving the home address of any person who is in a public role and may have enemies, whatever their politics or job description, is likely to lead to danger for them or their family. How on earth did the discussion veer off to throwing insults around and quoting predictions of the results of an election that isn't even on the horizon?

Totally agree Elegran. A few threads seem to be going down this road. It was suggested earlier to be the work of "two posters" but that didn't help ease the situation.

It wouldn't, would it?
Anyway, it clearly isn't.

Yes the whole 'two posters' thing makes the situation worse.

I think this thread would have been better not started.

I haven’t had a ‘sense of humour bypass’ which is probably why I find this comment revolting. It speaks volumes about the poster.

I can't stand Sturgeon and would love someone or something to wipe her smarmy smile off her face

It's pretty similar to 'just a bit of bamter' not exactly original is it.

Petera

Urmstongran

“All round for a wee dram at Nicola’s gaff” would have been funny. Or not, as the case may be. A sense of humour is such an individual thing Isn’t it?
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Give me your address then and I can post 'All round for a wee dram at UG's gaff' then.

Oh how we'll laugh because of course a sense of humour is such an individual thing; Isn’t it?

You don't get it do you, Petera.

I agree, Urmstongran (you know I don't often but no hard feelings! ?)
It could have been funny but it was malicious because of the publishing of the FM's address which was unforgiveable.