The Mantis

Strange how these things work out. Preston are on 2 points in the Premier after 2 games, a point behind Spartans, with Whitehill top on 6 points at the moment. The accepted wisdom down here IMO is that the East Seniors play better football than the juniors, but at a slower pace and less physical. (This is a bit similar to comparing Caley, County etc pre 1994, with the more physical but less skilful SFL teams who provided the opposition in the Cup.) More often than not I would say the seniors have better pitches than the juniors too. Gala and Vale of Leithen are both in div 1 and looked very poor to me - we'll see what the draw for the next round brings.

Bound to be next Saturday at Meadowbank. I went to Vale of Leithen v Gala Fairydean. Pretty poor standard. Makes you appreciate the SPHell. My usual port of call would have been Whitehill. But this was the only tie in South East Scotland today- a derby in front of about 100- amazing how the draw sent all the local teams to North or South West.

Brora 0-5 Cove Rangers Civil Service Strollers 1-2 Selkirk Clachnacuddin 2-2 Edinburgh City Coldstream 0-4 Dalbeattie Star Culter 7-0 Hawick Royal Albert Fort William 0-6 Spartans (Mountain? What mountain? :001:) Fraserburgh 1-1 Huntly Girvan 2-0 Forres Mechanics Glasgow Univ 0-2 Buckie Thistle Golspie Sutherland 3-1 Preston Ath Lossiemouth 1-3 Whitehill Welfare Newton Stewart 0-6 Linlithgow Rose Rothes 1-4 Nairn County St Cuthbert Wndrs 2-6 Pollok Vale Of Leithen 3-1 Gala Fairydean Wick Academy 0-5 Deveronvale Wigtown & Bladnoch 3-5 Burntisland Shipyard

Aye, sadly Dee, as soon as you hit the woodwork you knew it would soon be time to switch channels......

Just thought I would upset the mod/peeps balance again :023:

Just in case nobody has seen this before- did you hear that there is growing concern that women are at risk when visiting car parks, especially at night? The answer is to have special car parks dedicated to women, with special security arrangements so that men would not be allowed. Plans are here

Mrs Mantis thinks men are far more courteous. In our street we usually have to turn the car round to go anywhere. In the middle of your 3-point turn some woman comes up the street and sails past your bonnet :029: If it's a man, he stops and lets you go.

End of reasoned debate anyway :015:

When I try to access Footy Focus > Match Pictures I get "You are not authorised to view this resource. You need to login." Tried it with Safari and Firefox. Not with PeeCee though. Seems to be OK for other pages.

People who refer to ICT as 'thistle' :023: :023: :023: Also people who park on the wrong side of the road (isn't that an offence?) then they hold you up as they have to cross the traffic and they can't see.

It's supposed to be UNanswered questions :blah01:

No, I'll let him off with 100 lines "I must spell "sanctimonious" correctly."

In my day all we sang about was Bobby Moore and the bracelet :007:

That phone they had on Tomorrow's World, the one for deaf people that flashed a light instead of ringing, then Rowan Atkinson picked it up. What, you mean Not the Nine O'Clock News wasn't the same as Tomorrow's World?

Does Naelifts own a wallet?

You're barred.

This round wasn't seeded then...

Here's the best I can do Heilandee Mind you if you search Flickr there's loads of the pair of them. Also Beachcomber, Haggis Chick has added a couple in the last few days :015: I must say my photies are wider than hers :015: :015: :015: :015:

They were separated at birth after all :029: :017: Are we still talking about Mee's ears here?

The result seems to imply that we have a better squad than them but there'll be less in it if we both play our best XI. The boys better be up for it when we play them in the league at Fir Park in a few weeks.

'Moderators' sounds too much like the Kirk. What about 'Junta' ?

Innes Bar. You'll recognise me by the lack of a pelt.

I don't suppose there's anywhere on the net you can access the commentary from BBC Radio Scotland? I just had a notion to use it as a ringtone :015: :015: :015:

Mr Job: Fawlty Towers was the best ever but you wouldn't ask JC to do stand-up at short notice either.

Why all the fuss about Barrowman? So far he's done no more than Iain Stewart.