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^^^^^^ Sent from the panic room.

Warren Buffet... ?

^^^^^^^ Negative response.

'..'Sake..., winters are supposed to be dark, wet, cold, shitey , snowey. Think youself lucky. Down my way, there has been precisely 3 days where there's been a slight overnight frost, and 2 days in the last week where there's been some hail in the brief rainstorms. That's it, the lot.

Ryan Stevenson has scored in 2 of the last 3 games. General impression for me is that he also has brought very good positioning, and accurate passing, to the side. Jaio Vitoria scored yesterday. In the circumstances, the position of the club, this stage of the season..., I hardly see a big queue of hot, freescoring, young, super fit, destined for Championship, or Premier futures.... players gasping at the doors of Stair Park, so maybe a bit of realism might be appropriate. On the subject of personal attacks, when the SFC Supporters group on Facebook got going, and the unofficial discussion forum died, I reckoned that the Facebook group would be mostly a cheerleading group, with little room for those not singing to the cheerleading tune....., and that's the way it has turned out. That's Facebook, basically.

Whaaaaaat ? You.. ? How can that be ? The stats though, don't lie. I've forgotten the number of unimpressive signings that have come and gone. I consider bringing in Ryan Stevenson and Joao Vitoria to have been good moves. But, if you're shipping goals......... Conversations should now be taking place about where to go from here, in terms of the manager. Is he the right person for League 2, or is he the right person to continue should the club ( miraculously ) stay in League 1.

Nice. Bought my 2nd ever LP at the Sauchiehall St branch around 1971. 'Electric Music for the Mind and Body' by Country Joe and the Fish. Richard Branson's Virgin Records was down on Argyll St. Bit of a sh*thole , as I recall. Lighting very low, couch in the corner, vague smell of weed. Hardly any records, and what was on show, I'd never heard of. I think this was Branson's VAT fraud period. 'Bruce' went on to manage the band Simple Minds.

The Luger was just a ( rather accurate ) solid die cast job. I never got much closer to the Winchester than my nose pressed firmly against the toy shop window, but as I recall, it had various all singing all dancing features. All a bit too near the real thing for my parents. Adults !!

Yes, same here. My parents were quite OK with it, but were a definite NO when I asked for a Winchester rifle for Christmas.

As a kid in the late '50's/early '60's, there was a game played in the school playground. It was paper/cards in shield shapes of football clubs' badges. You would hold a card with your forefinger, and the next finger along, then flick it towards other cards already on the ground. If you covered/majorly covered another card, then you won that card. The shields for the big clubs had some kind of higher value that I can't remember. I think the cards may have come with bubble gum, or suchlike. I never bought any.., I acquired mine by some alternative means.

The pipes were crap. The fairly obvious lesson there is that there is always a good reason why quotations are cheap. Whether it's for half a mile of pipery, or a multi billion project like HS2.

The last time I experienced Chinese involvement in infrastructure was...... I live in Axbridge. There is a large reservoir on the edge of town. Several years ago the the water company laid new underground pipes from one side of Axbridge up to the reservoir. A total of about half a mile, I'd guess. Clearly stated in all the blurb was that this was a six month project. In the end , the job took 2 years. The story from the water company, and the contractors involved, through that time..... was that 'unforeseen problems' had occurred etc etc. The town council even mouthed the same story. The truth came from the blokes on the ground. The water company had cut costs by buying cheap pipes from China. As the guys getting dirty recounted in the local pubs..... " The f*cking things won't fit together right.... ". So they leaked. The guys on the ground got blamed when the leaks showed up above ground. Fields flooded. No one ever did admit anything, but the whole lot had to be dug up, and relaid. Presumably with better pipes. 2 years.

By any chance would this be the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation..... aka HSBC..?

He may have given HS2 the go ahead, but if you look at all the obfuscations and qualifications around any of the bits north of Birmingham..., translated...., they're not going to happen. It's all really a project to get some businessmen down from Birmingham to London, and back, a little bit faster, and to make some construction businesses a lot of money.

Pretty much how I see it, also. If we win on Saturday, then maintain form, playoff place should be in reach, and Forfar for the automatic drop. If we lose on Saturday, then we're down, and Forfar have a decent chance of getting above Peterhead. If it's a draw, I think we're down, for sure., and Forfar for the play off place.

Where I live, rural Somerset, the railway line got closed in the Beeching cuts. Now with the 1 bus service, once an hour during weekdays, last bus about 6.30pm, and nothing on Sundays...., most people round here are just thankful when the thing actually shows up. Oh, and it's always First's oldest buses. On London, it's a case of what London wants, London gets. That's what happens when an excess of economic and political power resides there. In reality , London is parasiting on the rest of the country. Aside from independence for Scotland, what rUK needs is revolution. Just my opinion of course.

Nope. It was a perfectly good goal.

Or fried lice. Fetching my coat...

Cod War and Cold War both, perhaps. IIRC, Icelandic gun boats were soldly built and ideal for ramming, close quarter skirmishes and scrapes etc.., whereas British frigates were almost useless in that capacity. Part of the reason why Iceland won the Cod War was that there was also Cold War geo-politics involved. Something to do with Icelandic unofficial threats/suggestions that if Britain didn't back down, Iceland would start to become very uncooperative in the monitoring of Soviet vessels as they passed through that area into the Atlantic.

Quietly confident.

I hope all that Corona lemonade that I drank as a kid in the '60's doesn't come back to haunt me. ( the Dandelion and Burdock was the best )

What an absolute arsehole.

If there was going to be an evacuation, or airlift out, given the incubation period I'd prefer that they be flown in to some quiet airfield, and onward transferred to a remote island, supplies parachuted in..... and if they start to show symptoms, helicopter them out to isolation hospitalisation and treatment facilities.

I loved those Spangles as a kid. There was one particular flavour, a sort of yellowish/mustard colour, that unlike the others was not translucent..... , tasted great.

I expect at the airport, it was a bit like.... "What..., do you know who I am....?" "Yes, I do, you're that ginger haired little c**t from England, but the word from my boss is that I've got to let you through."