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Yaaaaas. Buchlyvie 10k in under 50 minutes. First time I've managed it and so so happy to get that monkey off my back. about a dozen attempts last year and failed and managed it first time this year. Lets hear it for dropping a few pounds and joining a tougher running group. *Happy dance*

After 5 years in remission, my mum has been given the all-clear from breast cancer. Me and the wife have signed up to do the walk 10 for marie curie, those nurses dont get enough credit for the fantastic work that they do.

I wouldn't want to get up either if i had to wear some of the stuff you buy from amazon.

You even had to check? Next up will be 8MileBU's theory of relativity. If you fling a boomerang-shaped piece of shite towards Linlithgow at the speed of light it will have travelled through time as well space by the time it arcs back to Bo'ness providing the time required to step out of the way so it winds up hitting somebody in Grangemouth.

I'll order it on Wednesday when I have some cash again. I learned a wee bit about the country at school for a project, found it interesting..couple years later I start to learn the cyrillic alphabet. I mostly use a site called Interpals to talk with native speakers, a couple of them I speak to regularly on Skype to keep me going. Apart from the odd online source, watching Ukrainian TV and listening to local radio stations on my phone, that's about it. That was four years ago but don't get me wrong as much as I know enough to get by, I'm still a million miles away. There's no way I'll feel comfortable enough unless I was there speaking it every single day. I recently started to look into Russian which I assumed would be easier but I found it really difficult for some reason. I suppose the cyrillic alphabet is the first big hurdle - being able to read it (more so the road signs etc) the first time I went there when I just turned 19 it was a godsend - something simple like "інформація" - informatsiya - information. Locals couldn't be more patient, especially when they seen I was making an effort.

What did your clubs' old stadium look like? What are your abiding memories of the old place? Are you (honestly) in a better position the way things are now? Or would you prefer to go back to the good old days? It would also be interesting to see your memories about visiting the grounds that other fans mention too. As for Rugby Park - here's some crackin' pictures of how it used to be... I have only fleeting memories of the old place, but we are most definitely better off now. Yes, the 'new' Rugby Park is far too big for our needs, and the leg-room is ridiculous in all stands but the Frank Beattie, but it's home.

In fairness, Fat Sally doesn't have a midfielder with the passing calibre of Robert Sloan and Mark Ferry. Looking back it was probably one of my most memorable seasons in my short time as a Rovers fan.

f**k sake, I'm getting depressed reading about the depression surrounding the depression on the depression thread!

Stellarium is very popular, free and I like it. There is currently an active course on Coursera that is aimed at acting as an introduction to astronomy to uni undergrads, the first set of lectures covers 'positional astronomy' which is how the astronomers work out where things are in the sky. Might be too advanced for what you are looking for but you it could be worth downloading the first 3 lectures on week 1 for getting yourself into it a bit deeper than just recognising constellations.

Know what the poster means about loud women, there's one at my work who makes the entire canteen empty as soon as we see her approaching outside. At her hen night she had a giant inflatable penis and went around hitting men with it. Every week she shouts about drinking this and that and how a member of her family is in jail or up the duff or dead or something. She gets on the bus with some poor sod who tries to hide but she sits right next to him shouting about how her fanny hurts from last nights pumping. I think my worst nightmare would to be on a night out with her and her mates, I like a laugh and I'm not a prude but f**k sake tone it down a bit please.

David Bowie - The Bewlay Brothers

Nothing seems to be happening. The new stadium will be five years old on Jan 31 this year. Tesco bought the old ground and we all thought a Tesco store would be flung up on the site as part of the re-generation in this area of Paisley. However, as time passed with no sign of work starting, there were two rumours. One was that Tesco couldn't get permission for the new store to be big enough and the footprint of the stadium site couldn't accomodate a big store, a petrol station, the car park, and so on. The second rumour was that Tesco never intended to build on the site at all - they wanted another site on Renfrew Road, near Chivas bottling plant, and only bought Love Street to stop another supermarket chain buying it. Tesco just flattened the old ground, fenced it off, and sat on it in their land bank. At this moment in time, Tesco are constructing a new store just up the road in Linwood - on the site of the old Linwood shopping centre (1960s concrete monstrosity that had fallen into vandalised graffitti-strewn disrepair). This work is well underway. The most likely scenario is that if the economy picks up, Tesco sells the Love Street site for housing, or perhaps an extension of the businesses attached to the nearby airport. Maybees aye, maybees naw. The timing of our deal with Tesco was the jammiest thing - a year later and bingo, the banking crisis, financial meltdown, probably zero chance of our BoD brokering such a deal that got us sorted with a new, modern, but admittedly a bit soul-less new midden. On the whole though, it's our soul-less midden. Bought and paid for and fit for purpose with an award-winning playing surface, and vastly superior dressing rooms and so on. Job's a good un'.

Honestly, you're better just letting him post like that, anything else just encourages deflection, THERE'S ONLY 1 POLL THAT COUNTS, the snowball is being manoeuvred into position.

Getting called an attention seeker when that's not really the case is rather offensive; especially when you take the nature of the matter into consideration.

Joan Osborne - One Of Us

http://youtu.be/nkqfa-kaRFM

Picture of the Holte End at Villa Park Its like the Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Largs Thistle 3-3 Kilsyth Rangers (3-4 on penalties) Scottish Junior Cup fourth round replay, 25th January

I love our 'diddly' team. Was up yesterday to get my lottery winnings. Game was off but my son was allowed to see round the ground, In through the players entrance, into the boardroom, walk up the tunnel, get on the pitch etc. Totally priceless memories. Also spoke to Davie McGurn, he was suggesting May before he was back !!

Don't think the guys n gals knocking on doors will need any pep talks for a wee while. http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/scottish-independence-within-snp-s-grasp-poll-1-3281655 ALEX Salmond is within reach of victory in the independence referendum, according to an exclusive poll showing that support for the cause has grown dramatically by five percentage points over the last four months. The largest swing towards a Yes vote recorded so far in the campaign is revealed today in an ICM survey for Scotland on Sunday, which has found that support for independence has grown from 32 per cent to 37 per cent since September. The surge in those backing Yes was accompanied by a corresponding drop in No support by five percentage points from 49 per cent in September to 44 per cent currently. The poll also found that when the 19 per cent who said they didn’t know how they would vote were excluded, support for Yes is at 46 per cent compared with 54 per cent who said they would vote No. There was more good news for Yes Scotland, when the “don’t knows” were pressed further on their views on independence. When they disclosed how they were “most likely” to vote, the results were factored into the equation and the pollsters found that support for independence stood at 47 per cent compared with 53 per cent in favour of No. The figures represent the largest backing for Yes to be recorded in an independently-commissioned survey and are the first clear sign that support for breaking up the UK is growing after months of stagnating polls. Were the progress recorded over the last four months to be replicated in the eight months remaining until the September 18 referendum, the first minister could succeed in his dream of creating an independent Scotland. The poll of more than 1,000 over-16s was conducted by ICM for Scotland on Sunday between Tuesday and Friday. Last night, the Yes campaign suggested that the launch of the Scottish Government’s white paper offering a blueprint for independence in November has resulted in a game-changing bounce for ­independence. Blair Jenkins, chief executive of Yes Scotland, said: “A potential Yes vote of 47 per cent at this stage is an excellent place to be with eight months to go. It demonstrates very clearly that we are getting our message across and that momentum is very much on our side. “The poll represents a very significant swing to Yes and shows that we need just over a 3 per cent swing to take the lead. It is particularly encouraging that there is a five-point increase in support from women and a four-point rise in the number of people who believe independence will be good for the economy is also a welcome shift in our favour. “We know that the more people learn about the benefits of independence the more likely they are to vote Yes. “People are now also carefully weighing up the consequences and costs of a No vote and, as a result, support for Yes increases. The referendum is about two choices. One is sticking with a Westminster system that isn’t working for Scotland. The other is a unique opportunity to make decisions that match our own needs and priorities, to better use our vast wealth and resources for the benefit of all people in Scotland and to build a fairer country of which we can all be proud.” A spokesman for Better Together, the pro-Union campaign, said: “Despite Alex Salmond spending millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money, the majority of people in Scotland don’t want to trade the strength and security of the UK for the risk and uncertainty of independence. We will campaign tirelessly between now and September to convince those who have yet to make up their mind that we are stronger and better together. This poll is a message that there can be no complacency from those who support Scotland remaining in the UK.” Plans to increase childcare provision for working mothers were at the heart of the white paper, a move that was seen as a bid to make independence more attractive to women. The SNP’s failure to win over women has long been seen as an Achilles’ heel of the party, yet today’s poll shows that female support has grown significantly. The percentage of women prepared to vote Yes has grown from 28 per cent in September to 33 per cent. The economy also emerged as a key issue and is another area in which Yes Scotland makes progress. In September, 31 per cent of those polled by ICM thought that independence would benefit the economy. Today that figure has increased to 35 per cent. The percentage of people who felt that independence would be bad for the economy has also decreased, from 48 per cent to 42 per cent. The SNP has argued that independence would offer the chance to create a more equal society in Scotland. According to the poll, the proportion of people who believe that there would be less inequality in an independent Scotland has increased from 27 per cent to 31 per cent. Those who believed that there would be more inequality rose slightly from 20 per cent to 21 per cent. Those who thought independence would make no difference to inequality fell from 34 per cent to 31 per cent. Better Together has made much of the uncertainty over pensions that it claims would result from the dismantling of the UK. But the poll revealed that the percentage of people who believe that they would have a higher pension in an independent Scotland has increased from 16 per cent to 20 per cent. A recurring criticism of the Better Together campaign has been that it is failing to set out a positive vision of what would happen to Scotland in the event of a No vote. Labour and the Conservatives have established commissions to look at whether the Scottish Parliament should be given more powers within the UK. Both parties are due to publish their findings in the spring. The poll found that the percentage of those who were resisting constitutional change remained constant on 28 per cent. Whereas those who believed Holyrood should become responsible for taxation and welfare increased from 59 per cent to 64 per cent. John Curtice: Best news on voting intentions the Yes campaign has ever had TODAY’S ICM poll is the best polling news the Yes side has had yet in the referendum campaign. Once the Don’t Knows are excluded, 46 per cent think they will vote Yes in September; 54 per cent No. This is the highest Yes tally in any independently commissioned poll so far. It represents a six-point swing to Yes since last September, the biggest yet in a campaign in which the polls have been remarkably stable. True, there is one word of caution. The swing is entirely confined to those aged 44 and under. All pollsters, including ICM, find it more difficult to get younger voters to answer their questions. Consequently, their estimates of how such voters will behave are more likely to change randomly from one poll to the next. Even so, there are signs the swing is underpinned by something real. And in line with the message from the Scottish Social Attitudes survey last week, what emerges is that the answer to “What will determine the eventual outcome in September?” is simply: “It’s the economy, stupid.” In September only 31 per cent thought independence would be good for the economy, while 48 per cent reckoned it would be bad. Now 35 per cent reckon independence would be beneficial while 42 per cent feel it would be deleterious. That represents a five-point swing towards a more optimistic view. Meanwhile, people’s perceptions are clearly fundamental to their decision whether to vote Yes or No. No less than 88 per cent of those who think the economy would be better under independence expect to vote Yes, while 87 per cent of those who reckon it would be worse belong to the No camp. None of the other perceptions tracked by ICM has either shifted as much or obviously matters so much. True, the proportion who think there would be less inequality in an independent Scotland – one of the Yes side’s key claims – has increased by four points from 27 per cent to 31 per cent. But the proportion who believe it would be more unequal has edged up a point too, to 21 per cent. That means on this issue the swing is just 1.5 per cent. At the same time, only 63 per cent of those who believe there would be less inequality in an independent Scotland think they will vote Yes, while 63 per cent of those who feel there would be more inequality are inclined to vote No. Both figures are lower than the equivalent ones for the economy. Meanwhile, the proportion who think pensions would be higher under independence is up four points from 16 per cent to 20 per cent. The proportion who believe they would be lower is down two points to 23 per cent – a swing of three points. But having a rosy view of the prospects for pensions is an even less powerful recruiting sergeant for the Yes side. Only 58 per cent of those who reckon pensions would be higher think they will vote Yes – though 75 per cent of those who think they would be lower anticipate voting No. The lesson for the Yes side is clear. Their hopes of winning the referendum rest on their ability to win the economic debate. They may now be a little closer to doing so. • John Curtice is Professor of Politics, Strathclyde University

Or maybe Dave just made it all up lol

Stats eh? Did you know that 74.5% of stats are made up on the spot? HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA DO YOU GET IT? DO YOU DO YOU IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE I'M SAYING STATS ARE MADE UP BUT USING STATS TO PROVE THIS I AM FUCKING AMAZING!

And to top it off I can honestly say that is first time I have ever left a football stadium with a loaf of bread under my arm.

Ask your top source at the club.....

Prat A Manger.

Never a Scottish League ground, but an interesting story from Edinburgh. In Victorian times there was a gasworks between the Royal Mile and Calton Hill. It closed and on the site a football ground was built - notably used by Edinburgh Emmet Juniors. Big crowds were attracted, courtesy its city centre location. In 1926 it was compulsory purchased and turned into the corporation bus garage, latterly the Waverley underground carpark. A few years ago this was demolished, and after much legal wrangling is to be used for the 'Caltongate' development. Today the site is bordered by: the Royal Mile (S); Council HQ beside Waverley station (W); East Coast Mainline (N); and Canongate kirkyard (E). 'Tight' fans used to watch for free from the curve of Regent Terrace on Calton Hill. In those less PC times, it was known as the "Jews Gallery". Incidentally the Motherwell? team bus which got jammed under a railbridge recently did so at the foot of New Street, between the gapsite and the council HQ building. Edinburgh Emmet were successful Juniors averaging 2000 in the years before they lost Bathgate Park (named after a bailie - councillor - who helped them obtain the gasworks site).

In fairness, drugs are fucking brilliant.

Thanks for the feed back guys. I've got my list for my beer festival sorted now. Ambers Ales-Choc Orange Stout Batemans-Salem Porter Black Hole-Cosmic Box Steam-Steam Porter Cairngorm- Sheepshagger Gold Castle Rock-Black Gold Church End-Rest in Peace Exmoor-Beast Grafters-Over The Moon Great Nwsome-Sleck Dust Highland-Orkney IPA Hopback-Crop Cirlcle Kelham Island-Pride of Sheffield Mighty Oak-Oscar Wild Mild Milton-Nero's Stout Nethergate-Umble ale Oakham-Citra Orkney- Northern Light Poachers-Black Crow Stout Rebellion-Mutiny Skinners-Keel Over St Austell-Ruck and Roll Steamin Billy-Bill's Porter Timothy Taylor's-Dark Mild Timothy Taylor's-Boltmakers Thornbridge-Jaipur IPA Williams Bro's-Joker Woodfordes-Wherry Ciders Mr Whiteheads-Devils Device Moles-Black Rat Perry Skidbrooke-Farmhouse Dry Cyder Scrumpy Wasp-Amnesia Snail Bank-Summer Fruits.

Absolutely brilliant thread. brilliant pictures so far with the old pavilion pre war ariel view pre redevelopment another ariel view before the main stand was redeveloped 1960's i think main facade 1960's again main facade with tram. looks 1950's my favourite of all these pictures Inside looking from east end of stadium

Subbuteo stadium of every young boy's dreams...

3 games later he was gone,I really really hated John fucking Lambie.

10th Feb. I saw a trailer the other day on Fox and it said they will now Air on a Monday (1 day after the US). Instead of a Friday

Ppl hu thynk itz ackseptable tae tok lyk dis. Fucking do one.

Mario Gotye

#100happydays The f**k is this? If you need a target to not be a miserable dick, you're definitely a miserable dick.

Water really is just very useful for the job. Neutral pH allows it to dissolve metallic and non metallic ions equally, the fact organic molecules (more on that in a minute) can be both hydrophobic and hydrophilic with respect to H2O means that you can create specific water enclosing membranes - i.e. you can start to use simple organic molecules to create structures like cells. Another thing going for it is the fact that it's small molecule size would mean it would ordinarily be a gas, but for the polar nature of the molecule, this hydrogen bonding holds it into a liquid state - it's very easy to get energy in and out of the system, so that any water environment is thermodynamically quite stable, which allows for quite a quiescent enviroment for life to flourish. Carbon, is the other big one. Carbon has a flexiblity in forming compounds that is virtually unmatched aside form silicon, it can form long covalent bonds with hydrogen and oxygen to form organic polarisable molecules that become the building blocks of proteins and then to DNA. The reason that is important is that we can consider any instance of life in terms of information storage and transmission, what you are can be reduced to the map of your genomes, each repeating instance of certain proteins in sequence, like a bitstream of data. Life, at it's most basic is the ordering of information in unique forms which are then repeated, spliced, overwritten and re-ordered. Why carbon is important is that it allows for the construciton of a great many different base molecules ot form the proteins that become the DNA sequence. Other base elements would not be able to form the variety of molecules Carbon does, and thus would limit the number of more complex structures that could be formed. That limitation would inevitably restrict the amount of information that could pass from generation of life to the next and would stunt the growth of any evolutionary tree. Carbon,then, represents an optimal state of formation of information carrying molecules. So, yeah, we look for those elements, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen, as these are the elements that allow the formation of complex molecules and further into more complex biochemical structures. That's not to say they ar ethe only ones. Ammonia could easily replace water, as a cradle for life to form, and silicon could conceivably form the base of long complex covalent chains, as carbon does - but it has the disadvantage of not forming double or triple bonds as easily as carbon, also, unlike carbon it has a strong association with oxygen, oxidised silicon forms a solid, oxidised carbon forms a gas. Think of that in terms od respiratory systems. We breathe out carbon based gas - imagine trying to cough up silicon oxide (or sand, as it's more commonly known). Now, that might be thinking too anthropomorphic and respiration might not be based on oxygen elsewhere, but there is no doubt that the exchange of energy between carbon and oxygen is an optimal reaction in comparison to most others. Silicon also lacks chirality: carbon based molecules form left and right handed mirrors of each other in sugars and proteins, important in allowing for the replication of DNA. Finally, there is a far greater percentage of Carbon than silicon in the universe. Making life based on carbon, a higher probability. Again, there is nothing to say that life could form without using DNA, it is probable, however, that in terms of reordering and replicating information, you require to build complex molecules, and while alien life might not exhibit what we'd recognise as a double helix DNA strucure, it's not a bad assumption that it would be based on chiral carbon chains. So, we go looking for environments that would support the formation (or at the very least, survival) of such molecules (I say survive becuase it's possible that these chains originated in comets that then crashed to earth, all life, may be extra terrestrial!) water, we know is a fantadtically benign environment for life to originate in - but it's not just water, being a rocky and volcanically active place, there has always been oases of energy that allowed complex carbon chains to form without being too volatile that they were destroyed. This in term enables the formation of life. Could life originate on Jupiter? the gas giant possibly could, but without a relatively constant energy source, could life arise, maybe in the upper atmosphere? the problem there is that as soon as your carbon atom is heavier than the hydrogen that makes up the majority of Jupiter's mass, so it sinks down towards the core, where, under immense pressure and heat, it strips any attempt at a complex molecule back to it's base elements. Places like Europa are of interest, as we are fairly sure it has an acitve geothermal core and a nice big ocean: energy, a thermodynamically benign environment to regulate the energy and carbon. Finally, we cannot escape the basic anthropomorthism of the search, we look for water and carbon and oxygen becuase we know it works. It could work with ammonia and/or silicon but we don't know how and all oour chemistry suggests it would be a less than optimal set of circumstances. That's not to say it couldn't happen though.

Melissa Reid Leigh Griffiths

IP 80.255.209.128 has had 5417 posts from Nov 2011 and only 2 members have used that IP address,Bennet and VickyTheViking. I rest my case.

They also say there's more Paulo Sergio aliases on the Internet than there is grains of sand on the Earth

Same, shame we live in such a cloudy country! Also, one of my favorite videos on the side of the universe

No it isn't. You are using your illness as an excuse to get offended by everything.

English is going to be a loss to the journalistic community. One of the few not scared of getting ra peepil telt. Although yesterday's article in the Scotsman on McCoist was a good 'un as well. Dave "glib and shameless liar" King is a compete joke figure. In fact he might be quite well suited to a boardroom position with the New Rangers FC(copyright W.Myth).

My mistake, your top source must sell programmes rather than pies. Sorry Dave...

Replying twice to the same post, i must have upset Norman lol.....

Long story short. I split up with my partner recently and moved out into a B&B as my own house is rented out at the moment, so right now i'm searching for a short term house to rent until i can get my own back. Should have something sorted out this week hopefully. Annway was in the lounge watching telly last nigh, on a few websites courtesy of the free wifi and was asked what website this was and we had a chat about it. End result was a new member. Now if any normal person had noticed the IP issue they would have sent a PM asking for an explanation but no not Keith. He had to do his 'hardman thing' and try to be a 'big' man. A little common sense and courtesy appears to be lost on him. Keith has two choices here, he either admits he's f**ked it up (somethin he should be used to by now) or he bans me for 'using another account' which is against board rules afterall.

If folk have specific questions about their trips it's fine, P&B have posters who have traveled the globe. Otherwise go and buy a book. This is not "The Lonely Planet".

We got emails saying our coursework wouldn't be marked for a while due to the ongoing conflict that was going on. That was on the 28th of November. I just got back the mark a few days ago. Not really satisfactory considering their feedback policy is 2 weeks.

You are a complete turd sometimes No8 complaining about grammar whilst posting bad grammar yourself, "i" or "I" so which is the perfect grammar ?. So Tedi goes to Bennett's B&B to watch Rangers on a free stream often .

That's as may be but I bet the programme sellers are bringing more dosh to the club/company at the moment. Could be this is something Wallace should look into.

Cause it's not like you could fully appreciate the misfortune at having to once again either having to increase a dosage of a rather not very pleasant combo of psychiatric drugs or add a new one into the combo all together. I'm going to be like this for life and you feel you have the right to call it out as melodrama? f**k you. Idiot.