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    Petty Things That Get On Your Nerves...

    in The General Nonsense Forum

    Posted

    I was working near Liverpool today, and had a straightforward plan to get home by train;

    dep Hunts Cross 16:36 arr Liverpool South Parkway 16:40

    dep Liverpool South Parkway 16:46 arr Crewe 17:12

    dep Crewe 17:22 arr Watford Junction 18:48

    Walk to Watford Underground station, 10 minutes on the tube, home for 19:30

    (Long boring bit coming up, last paragraph is a one sentence summary.)

    The guy giving me a lift to Hunts Cross pulled out at the last minute, so I had to get a taxi.

    Because of this, I missed the train at Hunts Cross by 30 seconds (I saw it pulling out of the platform as I was walking over the footbridge), so I knew I'd get home an hour later. No disaster.

    Got to Liverpool South Parkway and whilst waiting on the platform a guy walked onto the track and stood in front of an express train (link here). First time I've seen anyone get hit and it was quite weird. The train stopped about 400m down the track, and the guy was lying at the end of the platform, between the two rails, obviously dead and I think also missing a hand. He was missing something anyway as his body just ended where it probably shouldn't have.

    What was weird was the aftermath, I always imagine lots of activity and fire brigade and police, but that only happens when they turn up. Until then it was very quiet, there's just me and a dead guy lying on the tracks.

    So back to the journey. Had to jump on a MerseyRail train into Liverpool Central and walk to Lime Street, thinking there's more chance of getting a train from there, but as all the trains have to go through the same route everything is cancelled. Eventually get on a train at about 7pm, and it gets stuck behind a broken down train in front, making it an hour late.

    By this time I'm due in Watford at 21:45, but just before Watford we slow down because a suspicious package has been found in a pub next to Watford Junction station and the station has been evacuated and no trains are allowed to pass through (link here). We sit for about 45 minutes before it is announced that the station has reopened but no trains are stopping. So they open the doors at Hemel Hempstead and let off people who want to get off. 3 guys who I've been sitting with need to go to Watford so I arrange to get a taxi with them, stopping at Rickmansworth so I can jump on the tube there.

    The final act is that when we go to get on the M25, it is closed and have to make a massive detour to get to Rickmansworth. The M25 is never closed at 10pm, what the hell is going on?

    I eventually walked in at 11.30pm, 4 hours late, due to a suicide, broken down train, bomb scare and the M25 being closed, all because I missed one train by 30 seconds. What a fucking day.

    cumbath

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    Livingston - all the threads merged

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

    Posted

    You guys are in serious danger of having no football club at all to complain about and I think you're missing some big points in all this.

    I know some of the background to Rankine's involvement at East Fife, and although it was/is controversial there is no doubt that he effectively saved the club from bankruptcy some years ago. I think he has done the same at some other clubs. Why? Don't ask me; we should just be glad that there are still some people around willing to put their own money (for that's what it is) into football.

    You criticise him for sitting beside Massone at today's meeting but how on earth could he or anyone get near to the truth about the club's financial position except by asking Massone and then talking and negotiating with him. Sources close to Rankine tell me that's exactly what he did and that the figure of £1.35m that is being quoted is the absolute minimum figure for the club's debts. It could be higher as more bills and more creditors come out of the woodwork.

    Taking over Livi is not something anyone would do for commercial reasons. There seems to be no business case for doing so - or the club would be in someone's safe hands by now. I don't know why Neil Rankine would want to get involved but it certainly can't be to make money, and it seems clear from all that's been said and that I've read that expensive stadium ownership - with a perfectly correct long term obligation to use it for football purposes - is the last thing that he would want.

    Give the man credit - he's at least trying to keep the club afloat in the First Division when administration or insolvency would mean being kicked out of the League and having to apply for readmission. Maybe that's what McDougall, who I understand didn't attend the meeting today, is waiting and hoping for.

    Those with an interest in keeping a League club at Livingston, which must include the supporters and the Council, seem to me to have a fairly stark choice - pull together or sink together. Massone seems to be more or less history as soon as he gets some kind of payoff and if the proposal for a community-based club with supporter and community reps in the Board is to go ahead you need to get heads out of sand. There aren't many shows in town so my advice is to give the proposals now on the table a fair chance. They may not work out, but what alternatives are there?

    Finally, from what I've seen at East Fife and heard elsewhere, Rankine is a terrier and very streetwise. Now that he's involved he isn't likely to give up easily or go away in the huff. Get used to him; probably around for some time to come!

    Why would Rankine be so keen to help out all these clubs that he doesn't even support? His majority shareholding at East Fife, though public knowledge, is still something that he won't go public over and as far as I know he's never been to an East Fife game to support us.

    Also, when did he save East Fife from bankrupcy? Any shares he bought would have went to the sellers and not the club surely?

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    5 True Statements About Yourself...

    in Top Fives

    Posted

    1. I'm a window cleaner, by trade.

    2. When I was younger I won a warhammer tournament in Edinburgh.

    3. I'm black.

    4. I didn't lose my virginity until I was 22.

    5. My first football top was actually an early 90s Dunfermline top that my mum bought me in a clearance sale in a shop in Glenrothes kingdom center.

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    5 True Statements About Yourself...

    in Top Fives

    Posted

    I hope you get raped by a horse you despicable c**t.

    I see you're another one of those neddy fuckwits that enjoys stealing songs, shoving pishy acapellas over them, pitching them so the vocals sound like Jonathon Pearce on helium, then passing them off as you're own. I bet you even top them off by adding some "DJ Ravehammer in the mix 2k8 MuTHAFucKA11!! crap at the start as well.

    DJ Rankin type wannabees should be fucking burned. Putting around shite which you pass off as "Hardcore". How about this - get some talent, get some software and produce some original material, rather than being stealing tracks and "remixing" them on Virtual DJ.

    p***k.

    Classic.

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    Win Counter

    in The Gambling Forum

    Posted

    I had a £150 treble of Chelsea, Peterborough and Dumbarton, which returned £432.

    Made another £178ish by backing them all -1 goal too.

    Fancy meeting you here at this time of the morning.

    Mr table bought me my tea with his winnings, he's ok like that.

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    Equine Eggstravaganza

    in The Gambling Forum

    Posted

    Edit; double lollerskates when you compare it with the post count of the Win Counter (all posters with more than 15 posts);

    Poster Posts

    SaltyTON 115

    Casper Rose 27

    mid-table 25

    Monster 24

    Latino Lover 18

    VillaKnollBoy 18

    ShakehandsTom - DFC 17

    Gall09 16

    DarkBlue62 16

    Wug 16

    Thats a few steak bakes.

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    Equine Eggstravaganza

    in The Gambling Forum

    Posted

    EDIT - Im refusing to use this thread properly untill the name is changed back to something other than Equine Extravaganza :lol:

    It makes it sound really macho, racey and exciting. It makes me feel like we're a group of US high school jocks in the showers, slapping eachother with wet towels.

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