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  1. If you will tolerate a non-Bairn interjecting, there is some great nostalgia on here. Brilliant stuff I`m 60 next year and I`ve never seen my team play in the top division. I hope I do at some point but who knows. Reaching the B&Q cup final in 1997 where we put up a decent show but lost to Falkirk was as good as it got for a while. We`ve managed to win the diddy cup twice since then. Reaching the Scottish Cup final in 2008 was amazing. The 4-3 win in the semi against Aberdeen remains my best day as a QOS fan. I cried at the end of that game. The final was a great day and to be there with my dad was really special. 2 games in Europe followed that, again something I thought I`d never see. Heady times. Sorry to butt in but the posts in the thread brought back some great memories. Cheers.
    13 points
  2. First Deacon now Parish. I guess that means Simon Church is next.
    11 points
  3. When yo wife opens up Instagram and shows you Nacho Novo in a Dumbarton training top
    10 points
  4. These cheap digs at my boy Simon are unacceptable tbqh.
    8 points
  5. Dundee is Dark Blue and always has been. Any United fan (of there is very few) has broke away from family tradition of following the Dark Blues. Dundee fans cover 95% of the City. We then have the Goths outside the Auld Steeple, the 4J's, Carseview, Primary 3/4s who fell for Cerzniaks treble call whilst still young and underried and the Womans Knitting club of the West End which is dominated with Tangerines. Thank you.
    7 points
  6. For whatever reason a lot of people didn't take to Naysmith from day one. It's all very puzzling to me. Gavin Skelton went an entire quarter of a season without a single victory yet didn't receive anything like the level of criticism that our current manager is receiving for going unbeaten in two games.
    7 points
  7. This was Commons 2 days ago. Reckon he'll be on the bench for the Thistle game.
    6 points
  8. Do us a favour and just f**k off.
    6 points
  9. BBC Scotland news tonight had a famous face. No mention of Sons' Sorrow or tactical genius, disappointing.
    6 points
  10. I was taken to my first game in the 68/69 season and was pretty much hooked from then. We had moved around a lot because my dad was in the army and eventually settled in Grangemouth. My dad was a big Hibs supporter like most of my uncles and cousins ( except my granny who supported Falkirk ). Every home game we would have pretty much the same routine. Dad and his pals going into the railway tavern for a few before the game.... me outside with my packet of crisps and cola. Short walk down to Brockville... lifted over turnstile.... another packet of crisps and a juice... then down right behind the goals while dad and pals would be halfway up the Hope Street end with their carry out. Bus home.... stop off at Rennies in Grangemouth for fish and chips. Happy days. Eventually over the years I would make my way round to the choir.... then as years passed I would be back behind the goals halfway up the hope street end. Have some great memories of Brockville that would take me hours to put down on here. I can't help thinking though that a lot of kids that go to the games these days miss out on so much. Being asked to sit in a certain seat and not being able to wander around as you like is something I as a youngster would have hated. Brockville to me was a social event. My last Falkirk game was a really special event. My Dad died on March 14th this year and the next Falkirk match after his funeral was against the team he grew up supporting ( Hibs ). My brother his 2 kids and myself made the trip through and had a few drinks in his old local Middletons on Easter Road. I just hope that over the years the Falkirk Stadium can grow into something similar to Brockville... but I can't see it happening with so many rules and regulations these days it takes ( for me ) a bit of the fun out of going.
    6 points
  11. Trolley attendants in supermarket car parks should be allowed to shoot folk who are too lazy to return their trolley to the bay. In fact, there should be snipers positioned on the roof of the supermarket who will shoot folk in the head if they can't be arsed to put their trolley back properly.
    6 points
  12. It's going to be difficult to f**k up promotion from here. But I'm confident I can manage it.
    5 points
  13. Nah, you're ok, thanks mate. http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/06/grammar-myths-among-or-between/
    5 points
  14. One of the better photos of Zeus. That's him two now.
    5 points
  15. My dad is coming up for 60 and I have been to the same amount of Scottish cup finals as him which for me shows how special 97 was. Getting the bus from the vic in carronshore, sitting out in the beer garden with the pub mobbed, face painted and my grandpa and uncles were with me and my dad. Double decker bus through to the game was bouncing, I was only 10 years old but knew how big this occasion was for the town even though I'm from Stirling (my dads a carronshore man so drummed Falkirk into me from birth I think) was heartbroken after it and to make things worse our bus broke down on the way home. I can look back on that day fondly even though it was a case of what could have been. favourite game was, as has been mentioned, the absolute hosing we have hearts in the 4-0 game. Couldn't believe what I was watching. First ever game was the 93 B&Q cup final. After winning that I think I had delusions of grandeur about how massive Falkirk were and expected cup wins each season. Alas that has not been the case but there has been some amazing memories made from then. Sometimes it pisses you off being a Falkirk fan, it can be extremely frustrating as well. But I wouldn't change it one bit. Fucking love this club.
    5 points
  16. The original title of Middle Of The Road's seminal hit, it's a good thing for them that they changed it.
    4 points
  17. Getting to be a right wee poser
    4 points
  18. The Hilltoon is Derry'd oot it's nut. Thank You.
    4 points
  19. Harry I'm 70 in October and miss Brockville,Dens park,even Third Lanark ,I've been in. Cathkin with over 30K. Shawfield 20K.I could go on,,also its harder for Kids to meet their heroes. I was at Hampden in the Early 60s with my old Dad and we met Alan Gilzean ,Hugh Robertson and Alex Hamilton at the pie stall under the stand. my first cup final was Bairns v Killie 1957 and my old Dad took me to every one that wasn't an old firm game till I was old enough to go myself. we must meet up and bore the shit out of the young guys ,my daughter lives in Callander Park so I'm through there often i can always sign you into club 1877 on the 5th August
    4 points
  20. I hope your user name isn't inspired by this incident.
    4 points
  21. I'm the same, I absolutely adored the place. It was a shithole but it was our shithole. The memories I have of that place will never be replaced. I have a watercolour of Brockville which is pretty much the view from where we stood on the Hope Street terracing that I got from the West End gallery on my livingroom wall and I've got the top of the concrete stantion from where we stood out in the summer house. When I was a kid being taken to the stand by my Dad I used to sit there and watch the choir and pray for the day to come when I could be in there. I still find it very hard going into Morrison's [emoji22]
    4 points
  22. Thanks for the news update, rival team fan.
    4 points
  23. Show some respect - he's "been places, and done 'hings"...
    4 points
  24. I am sitting drinking with Siroki ultras right this minute. What happened last night in mostar had nothing to do with Siroki.
    4 points
  25. Any conversation about the style of play seems to use the Allan Johnston side that played in the seaside league against part-timers as some sort of yardstick. It really isn't a fair comparison. We'll never know how he would have had us perform at this level because he buggered off to be a complete failure at Kilmarnock. Given what McIntrye achieved with that group of players, and given what AJ managed with Dunfermline last season I think it's fair to assume he would have had us round about where we ended up anyway. All managers when they come in talk about playing football the right way, and putting their stamp on things but it is just buzzwords and management mumbo jumbo. The style of play comes down to the abilities of the players more than anything. I think some people need to take a reality check and have a think about where our standing in the game is and perhaps lower expectations a touch.
    4 points
  26. Anyone taking any form of satisfaction from this, whether they are being serious or thinking they are being funny are complete and utter scum.
    4 points
  27. Rolling Stones - Play With Fire
    4 points
  28. A pound coin says One Pound on it but I call that a quid. I don't let the man tell me what to do.
    4 points
  29. Exactly, totally my thoughts, never ceases to amaze me how people moan and want to create an issue about anything.
    4 points
  30. It is financially viable unless you are actually trying to say that a country with higher growth than the UK, half the unemployment level of the UK, a better educated population than the UK, more top unis per capita than the UK, more natural resources than the UK, more water, more space, more exports, a better balance of trade and the highest GDP per capita in the UK outwith London and the South East can't run their own country ? Is that what you are saying ? It's not the SNP or any other persons job to install some belief in you, that's up to you to wake up and smell the coffee and realise that the UK and especially the black hole which is London is holding us back. Independence has been rejected ONCE. There was a devolution referendum 40 years ago which was won but was fudged by Labour. Not surprised that you didn't know this to be honest.
    4 points
  31. It was the Arbroath physio who treated Ricky, and Alloa's treated their player that went down. Thomas and Ricky signalled the severity of it and the Alloa Doctor came on. Ewen is a fitness coach and sports scientist and there are very few people in Scotland with his qualifications and education and we were very lucky to have him. He got a deserved full time move to England in February. The same warm up routines by coaches with years and years of experience won us the league. Find me a Sunday Pub team that did that.........
    4 points
  32. The Jambo lads on here completely forgetting that they've got Iain fucking Cathro in the dugout.
    4 points
  33. Yeah sorry, I know I quoted you but I was really responding to some of the over-the-top nonsense of the past few days, than you directly. I think our thoughts on the current situation are fairly similar. I completely agree the jury is out. For some however the jury has already made their mind up on both Naysmith and the new signings after two games, which is frankly ridiculous.
    3 points
  34. Great human being and football player. [emoji6] In seriousness though I think he'll do well at Hibs after watching him Saturday, even if it was v Montrose, he got a bit of a hard time at United because he was from Dundee I think. Lot of focus on him in the papers etc. Be able to quietly go about his business at Hibs if he keeps his head down. Better players around him too and he won't be relied on as much. Hope to see him improve his game and I really hope the Hibs fans, who are a great bunch, take to him eventually. Enjoyed seeing him get two goals on Saturday. That Harp and Castle is a no bad pub too by the way. Will be back if we ever draw you on a Saturday. Ps. Murray is gorgeous.
    3 points
  35. If I can work out how, this will be my new avatar.
    3 points
  36. Mott The Hoople : Roll Away The Stone
    3 points
  37. People who dump their wee bags of dog shite at the side of the road or on bushes.
    3 points
  38. Yeah come on Aberdeen. Sick of Celtic being our only representatives, get yourself through so we all have a team we can really cheer on in Europe.
    3 points
  39. I suppose, back in the start in 1963 it wasn't set in stone what regeneration was, indeed, it wasn't until Pertwee left that the term was explicitly used. In the beginning it was something more akin to 'renewal' - more a reversing of aging of the threadbare first doctor into the second, than the random body change it became later. Troughton's change to Pertwee was called a 'change of appearance' without really referencing the implicit mental changes the character must go through as one actor and writer's interpretation gives way to another's. So we're into the mid 70s before we actually start seeing more of the Timelord society put into perspective. Actually, then would've been a good time to do it, the Doctor, at the time was played very asexual, or at least, above human concepts of gender, loved his line in City of Death: "Your a beautiful woman, probably". So really, in the original show, back in times when genre writers didn't do series bibles, canon or continuity on a show that managed 26 years it's simply a case of a concept changing from one thing (rejuvenation) as a device required to write out an ailing actor, to another (complete metamorphosis) without ever really embracing the latter concept's implications. It just never occurred to them. And the longer it went, then there was more inertia against it. It's always been a bit of a pull on Doctor Who to present the main character as alien, but also recognizably human. It's interesting in other future set shows - like Star Trek - that humans in the 24th century are no different from 20th C humans, in terms of physiology and morality, when indeed you wouldn't ever imagine us being so static. The reason being is that, incorporating any kind of evolved humanity onto these shows, whether it was the incorporation of cybernetic components, or psi powers, or being faster rand stronger generally, would serve to sever the audience link to the characters. The Doctor is alien, but in so many ways, also very, very human. Much more so in the new show. They kinda got away with regeneration because, there is, or was, quite a narrow interpretation of the character, and until Davidson in 1982, a narrow(ish) age range of actors to choose for the role. In that respect it's easier to look at the Doctor as the same person even with a different actor. At 29, Davidson was quite a big departure for the show, but again, like Tennent and Smith later - it worked because Davidson played him as much older than he himself was. The big thing here being the suspense of audience disbelief that someone who looks and sounds different, and, depending on the writing, even have a bit of a different personality, is the same person. It's a fragile thread that runs through the character development. Whittaker is a break from that. She shouldn't and won't play it as the previously recognizably male doctor now in female form. She, and the writers, will have to find the distillation of the Doctor's character beyond the surface beats that the other actors have used previously. I reckon she'll be fine, but it's worth noting the low level disquiet that went with Capaldi's casting: What once would've been the quintessential actor to play the doctor was met with uncertainty because the production team thought people might struggle to identify with the 55 year old Capaldi vs. the two younger, swashbuckling men who preceded him. You can see that anxiety in Capaldi's first episode, where, unlike all the others - at least in the new show, he had to share screentime with his predecessor, who's phone call to Clara was such an obvious thing for the audience: HE'S STILL THE SAME GUY being the slightly angsty, screamed message. As long as she can monologue she'll be fine, that's basically the doctor's job (and no one can do a big set piece speech like Peter Capaldi). After a couple of episodes it'll not even really be an issue. For me, it's more the fact that Chibnall's episodes have been interminably dull and plodding. The writing could well be the major issue here.
    3 points
  40. Just watching A Time For Heroes again......bring Stubbsy and John Doolan home
    3 points
  41. Young fans will never experience days like that. Away days as a Bairn then were the best ever.
    3 points
  42. Might be taking it to far but seen this picture of Aaron Carter on my Facebook feed but I think it's mchattie begging for a chance ha
    3 points
  43. 3 points
  44. Where there's a Loyalist, a bigot, or a fleg waver needing defended you're never far from the front of the queue. This thread is another example of that. You say you are not sympathetic to Orangeism or Loyalism, but given all you are to most people is a shoal of pixels on a computer screen, your first intervention after the Sunday Herald article was printed was: to suggest it was a "photoshop job", dismiss it as "propaganda", make the fantasy claim that the Orange Order and Nazism were being presented as two cheeks of the same arse in the article (they absolutely were not) and then some truly bizarre whataboutery involving Prince Harry dressing up as a member of the Afrika Korps. Your subsequent questioning of the news values of the Sunday Herald is another cloud of octopus ink muddying the issue- a fat bigot in Airdrie dresses up as Adolf Hitler, his kids as Jews, and the brethren think its a right old laugh and award him a prize. This may well indicate a disjunct between the values of a bigoted and sectarian organisation and the rest of contemporary society, which may well matter, given that they were amongts the most vocal opponents of independence, and were openly courted by Ruth Davidson in the run up to the general election. Now, to people who have no idea who you are, it is not a huge piece of deduction, given the variables above, to think that you might be a raging bigot and staunch defender of the Brethren, just a bit more subtle about it than the likes of Red Rob. If you're not, and your intention all along was to offer a nuanced Lowland-League-Noam-Chomsky-style analysis of the article in question, maybe 1. actually read it and then 2. do a better job of analysing it. I know you are consumingly obsessed with Northern Ireland politics (I'm not really quite sure why, but anyway, everyone has his hobbies). At the moment, how you come across on here, as you discuss that subject, makes people think you are a supporter of the kind of politics you claim to oppose. People aren't flinging shite at you for no reason. I am from a Protestant background and grew up not too far from some of this type of behaviour. I recognise we live in a democracy and people have the right to associate freely as they wish, just as I have the right to condemn vocally these throwbacks and nenaderthals. I note, however, that others from a PUL background on here have condemned this nonsense immediately and unequivocally (jacksgranda) which for some reason you seem determined not to do. Instead, you have been focusing all your efforts in opposing the alleged "propaganda" of this story and trying to rubbish its credibility. That may be something to reflect on. Or not, given how utterly stubborn / inflexible you are in your positions. Spare us the self-pity, at least.
    3 points
  45. ^^^ Reasonable force. Should have posted this earlier but back in May I got on a train from Central to Wigan and met a high quality c**t. The train reservation system was fucked so it was every man for themselves. No problem - train was practically empty. There's a guy sitting in an extra legroom seat as you come into the coach so I grabbed the one in front of him. Then cunto appears in the shape of a 70 something harridan. She looks at the guy behind me. "This is my seat". "Sit anywhere" says the boy. "But this is my seat". I interjected - "there are no reservations". "But I LIKE this seat, I always sit here". I'd have told her to fuckin bolt but incredibly the guy got up and gave her the seat. He then proceeded to sit back down beside her. "You're not going to sit there are you? There are plenty of other places to sit". I bit my lip - not my fight I thought. Anyway, 2 hours down the line and we're 15 minutes late. Ticket man comes along and it turns out this bint has a connection at Crewe and there's only 5 minutes between the trains. She has a wee hissy fit at the boy "what am I supposed to do. This happens every time!" Now she's got a point but most folk planning a long distance journey don't rely on 5 minutes for a change 250 miles away. The conductor suggested she might get an earlier train. By f**k she went mental. Demanding his name. "James" he said. "James what?!". They'll find me ok with James". She called him for everything. She was still haranguing him at Wigan. "Excuse me". Nothing - rant continues. "Excuse me!". Nothing. "Ho, get out my fuckin way". That caused her to pause and move. I left the conductor with a bit of encouragement "she's been a fuckin clown since she got on the train in Glasgow mate - pay no attention to her". And left him to it although I knew she'd follow through with a complaint so I fired an email to Virgin to set some context and confirm the boy was very professional. They were very pleased. I doubt if the old c**t was.
    3 points
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