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Am looking to get the new badge on my chest but wheres best to go for it ?
I have used Infamous Ink in Stirling for several years, as the guy who owns it Dave is a top class tattoo artist. I have several "Thistle" tattoos (including my Avatar of Oor Wullie with a Jags Scarf on
)Realise it might be a bit out of the way for you, but he is well worth the effort.
P.S. He passes the ultimate test of would you let him tattoo your child? I've paid for him to do tattoos for both my daughters
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Here was me thinking it must be the youngest ever keeper and sub-keeper in Jags history, but it turns out it's Ryan Scully's 19th Birthday today, so it's a nineteen year old in goals and a seventeen year old on the bench, that doesn't make me feel old at all!
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Utter stupidity. I work in Edinburgh and live in Falkirk and cannot get to any evening games. Saturday at 3 is the traditional time for football.
Ditto for me, live in Stirling and by the time I get home from work, no chance of making a Friday night game.
Will be the end of me buying my two season tickets if it happens.
If I have to miss even one game, which I've already paid for through this, will be the last straw for me.
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I'm in!
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Yes, Japanese people do not need to eat whales. However, the same can be said about many other animals. We can even be vegan.
The scientific research by Japanese whaling revealed that whales eat big fish like tuna too much. The protection of whale --non-endangered species-- damages our fishery.
And, unlike stock farm production, whaling does not waste grain. So whaling is ecologically correct.
Watch the documentary "The Cove" and see all the usual Japanese arguements for Whaling , shown up for what they really are.
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I'm going to miss those "Away games" against Stirling Albion, come on the Binos, promotion again next season?
I think the distances are a bit short? I'm sure I live about 25 miles from Firhill, not 20 miles and Google has me more like 27 miles.
1. Stirling Albion (1.5 m)
Forthbank Stadium
2. Alloa Athletic (5.9 m)
Recreation Park
3. Stenhousemuir (6.6 m)
Ochilview Park
4. East Stirlingshire (6.6 m)
Ochilview Park
5. Falkirk (9.4 m)
Falkirk Stadium
6. Clyde (11.5 m)
Broadwood Stadium
7. Airdrie United (16.6 m)
Excelsior Stadium
8. Albion Rovers (16.8 m)
Cliftonhill Stadium
9. Dunfermline (18.9 m)
East End Park
10. Partick Thistle (20.0 m)
Firhill Stadium
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Just reading guardian Football writers awards and found this description of Charlie Adam which I think is spot on...
"Best player Charlie Adam, Blackpool. Not since the days of Jan Molby and Gazza has a player looked like he's put down his pie, vaulted the hoardings and pulled on his boots. A tubby genius giving hope to every dreamer in the crowd"
Did we ever have a player that could be described like this (I mean for being really good, not just pie-eating).
No-one I can think of better sums it up than the Morton legend........Andy Ritchie!
He might have been a few pounds over weight but was certainly in the "tubby genius" mould!!
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There was some correspondence about JF quite recently. An excellent wee player for us. Here he is against the tarts, wearing my avatar:
http://ptfc.fotopic.net/p5814655.html
Edit: "Can't find the server."
So, have all those great old photos that everybody submitted......gone.....?
From the Fotopic Site:-
Dear Fotopic Users
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Discussions are in progress with a new team to rescue part of its service and the images.
The important points to note:
1.The images that have been uploaded to the Fotopic servers are safe.
Our aim is to find a migration path to a new service with similar or better functionality
than Fotopic and a method for users to export their existing images.
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Thank you for your understanding.
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A thread was started by a poster which caused a fair bit of outrage. The original poster then requested the thread be deleted. I am sure he will have received fair warning about some of his views. The matter should now be closed.
However, I am sure he is aware that he his jacket is hanging on a shoogly peg now and any further airing of such offensive views would result in action being taken. It's also up to other posters whether or not they want to interact any further with him. Personally if I were that poster (if he is or isn't real) I think I might feel now that this forum is no longer a welcoming platform for my ideas and might retreat a little.
This isn't a playground, we don't vote on who we do don't want to hang out with, it's a discussion forum where we expect to find a certain amount of disagreement. When someone says something unacceptable they should be given a fair warning for their behaviour and given the opportunity to make ammends. How many of us are guilty of losing the rag with someone on here or saying something we might regret later? If everyone got banned from one screw up (no matter how offensive / off the wall / in orbit it is) then the forum would be even quieter than it is.
Time to move on. If people are seriously thinking about moving on then that's pretty disappointing that we would let one person's ill thought out opinions further shrink the Thistle Community. We're bigger than this.
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I have just mentioned on the Nomads thread that I have 8mm film of Firhill from 1976. I was standing in the centre circle and filmed the complete ground in a circular movement. I have transferred the film to Video and am now putting it on DVD. If some bright spark out there could tell me how to put it on computer I would gladly post it to this Forum for others to see, that is of course if anyone wishes to view it. The ground is brilliant with the shed, terracing at both ends of ground and of course the Stand and old enclosure. There is also film of the outside of the ground. Hope this is useful to the Forum.
It will be a two step process to get this onto a site like YouTube:-
(1) Download some free DVD Ripping software, so that you can get the DVD into a file format that can be easily uploaded to Youtube, a nice simple choice of software would be BitRipper Software. The link as well as having a software download area, also has easy to use instructions with screenshots. If you are unsure of what file format to save the ripped DVD to try AVI file format, as it is very widely used.
(2) Stage two is taking your newly ripped DVD file and uploading it to somewhere like YouTube, you can simply Google "How to upload a video file to youtube" and you'll get plenty of help or look at the link Uploading a Video to YouTube Starting Point
P.S. Dont forget to let us all know the YouTube Link to the uploaded file!!
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Cheers WJ..Tried this last night with a monitor that was working and althought the power bttton was lit up on the lap top..i got the "no Signal input" which happens when the pc is not switched on...totally confused!!!
Some laptops will show the Windows desktop on both the Laptop screen and the External Monitor by default, (which is known as the mirror view).
If this doesn't come up on your Laptop by default, then you can use function keys (F1, F2, F3 etc) with common combinations such as <Fn> plus <F5>, <Fn> plus <F3>, <Fn> plus <F8> and <Fn> plus <F9> to toggle between the two screens. Refer to the laptop's user manual for the right key combination to toggle between the displays.
If I remember correctly on some eMachines laptops the combiniation is <Fn> key plus <F5> key to toggle display output between the Laptop display screen, external monitor and both.
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Three Scottish, guys on a works trip to London for the week, had been very well behaved all week as instructed by their Area Manager, but on the last night they can’t resist and go out on the lash, by the end of the night they are all very well oiled and found themselves unable to get back into their hotel. They did have had a mate staying in one of the company’s flats; he’ll put us up for the night they think. They get to the flat and the occupant Andy doesn’t want anything to do with them reminding them guests are a big no-no, gross misconduct in fact with the Company, but they persuade him they are desperate and they end on the living room floor for the evening.
It’s a muggy, hot summer night, so one guy, let’s call him Jim, just can’t sleep and gets up and goes to look out the window, he leans forward not realising the floor length window is wide open and falls out, luckily he doesn’t fall the two stories they are up but he lands on the roof of a shed some 15ft below and doesn’t feel too badly hurt, but his leg “does hurts a bit” (turned out to be a compound fracture, broke in 3 places). He starts to shout for help but not too loud, because he doesn’t want to wake the whole building, but the cries do start to increase in volume as no-one comes to his aid.
Meanwhile back in the room on the floor one of the other guys, called Gary, thinks he can hear someone calling for help, but ignores it as a drunken dream, but after a couple of minutes he becomes more awake and is sure the cries are for real. He wakes up the other bloke we’ll call him Ray and they both stagger about looking for Jim eventually they look out the window and in the gloom can make out their literally fallen comrade some distance below them. Andy the flat owner comes in and is frantic, don’t call anyone, he’ll lose his job, he’ll have nowhere to stay etc, and so they decide to solve things by themselves - Scottish Style!
Ray & Gary climb out the window and down a drainpipe and onto the shed roof with the injured Jim, now remember as Managers , they are all dressed in 3 piece suits and dress shoes, but decide to climb back up the drainpipe and back into the flat. Jim is helped to his feet but is complaining about how sore his leg has become, but Gary & Ray are having none of it and help this Moaning Minnie to climb up the drain pipe with his so called sore leg. Once all back in the flat Andy is still having kittens, Jim needs medical help but they can’t get it here, so Gary hatches a cunning plan, he goes back to the hotel first thing in the morning with Ray and packs all 3 of their cases and then goes back to the flat and picks up Jim in a taxi, Gary, Ray & Jim get dropped off at the underground and as Jim by now can’t walk at all Ray, who is 6ft 6” carries him piggy back down into the London Underground during rush hour, while Gary walks alongside with their cases, must have been quite a sight seeing these three Scottish guys, dressed in suits, one 6ft 6" carrying another on his back and the 3rd struggling along with three cases. They get to the bottom of one of the long escalators and wait for a lull in the people traffic, then Ray dumps Jim on the floor, while Gary runs to get a member of staff to help his injured friend who has fallen down the slippery London Underground escalator.
The staff arranges a wheelchair ride to the airport and the airline arrange an ambulance to meet the plane on arrival back at Glasgow, so you would think a good result in the end? Well not really as the Area Manager was a bit suspicious of the ”slipped on the stairs story” and phones Ray and bluffs him by saying “It’s okay Ray, Jim & Gary have told me the full story, I just want to hear your side of things”, to which Ray spurts out the whole sordid tale – Ray you are the weakest link!!
Result is Jim has to go into work for 8 weeks with a broken leg and sit at a paper shredder 8 hours a day, shredding old documents, meanwhile Ray & Gary got written warnings for their troubles.
P.S. all the details are true but names may have been changed to protect the innocent!
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Was on stirlings website there and seen this good guests and good prizes.
Some of those prizes are fantastic!!
Would love to know what they get sold for? Will surely raise a tidy wee sum.
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Discuss...
Saturday for me was the worst I've ever seen it, probably because there was a rugby match the night before.
The worst I had seen it before saturday was the 1st leg playoff defeat to Peterhead in May 2006. But Saturday, for me, was much worse.
IMHO it is the worst I've ever seen it and I'm surprised there hasn't been more said about it.
I totally understand the need for the rugby money, but the need to play the night before we play a game? It's not just the once it's happened either is it?
I can only talk for myself, but it does put doubts in my mind about the quality of football that can be played on that surface. I have a season ticket, but if I didn't I would be seriously considering giving a miss to a few games at Firhill between now and the end of the season.
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Hamish McDonald what a great Scottish Name!!
Glad that things are on the up....all the very best!!!!!
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One short of 1200 members this forum has and EIGHT folk have chipped in for this with 100% of it going to McCall's players fund. No wonder our club is fecked...
I make it only SIX folk so far.
Time for people to put their hands in their pockets and put a little straight to the Player Fund?
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Payment Sent
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Again, I wonder how this can be done for Falkirk's away games, if their supporters are more likely to stay at home and give money to the Falkirk tv web service rather than go and pay entry into the away ground.
Ah, I see "overseas" supporters specified. So, is the transmission blocked for anyone in the UK?
They test to make sure that the IP address you are using does not originate in the UK.
My twin brother told me it's not too difficult to mask your IP address and appear like you are is say Dallas, Seattle or elsewhere?
The camera work the last time was diabolical and the game was lost I think, for about 15 minutes
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Im almost 33 and went to my first game aged about 18 months, I say Ive had more than 30 years of this suffering...izat ok?
To OP, if this is the first time you have ever told yourself you were finished wi the Jags Id be very surprised...Ive had about 3 'crises of faith' but have always returned to the light. As someone else said, it's a drug!
Used to have a "crisis of faith" almost every time we lost, when I was a kid,(well aged anything from 10 years to 40 years plus
)total toys-out-the-pram stuff, scarf flung against the wall of the room swearing NEVER,EVER to return!!....... but come the next Friday night it was, "Where did I leave that scarf?" time. No-one EVER said being a Jags Fan was easy, but remember the things that got you loving it in the first place and you'll be back.
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And now their website is down. What a waste of money!
I should have realised that with the two of us on their site at the same time it would collapse!!
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I just paid for watching it. Thistle better win now...
The Cameraman is one of the Falkirk Under-19s, who is having to stand in last minute for the usual Cameraman, so the coverage is a bit patchy to see the least!
I have seen a lot of the lovely Falkirk night sky!! I realised the commentators would be Falkirk Fans, but still.......
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Best Line by Far!!!................criminal wae a beard..BARABBAS!
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Was watching the Ski Jumping and the sound and pictures were out of synch, so they were giving the result before the guys had completed their jumps.....some people would have found it annoying, I luved it!!!
If only all sports were commentated like this, telling you your team has scored, before the corner is taken?
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I have contacted the Korean who runs the "Only Soccer Store in Guam".
His English is broken, but understandable.
I want 4 shirts (home L/S, home S/S, away L/S, away S/S).
Mike from "Only Soccer Store in Guam" is a good, good good, friend of mine and he says he's never heard of you? Care to comment on that, by the way, know whit a mean?
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