The Mantis

:015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: Aye just beat me Dee. What did Ena drink in the Rovers?

Re: The Masters You, yer a master o sums :001:

How's Jaiket Man?

You got an A pass and you can't factorise :015: :015: :015: I'm sure he'll be able to tell you how to do both of them! First, if you expand 5(2y+3) you just multiply both terms inside the brackets by 5 to get 10y+15. factorising is just the reverse. Look for the highest common factor of 10 and 15, ie which times table are they both in- answer 5. Now divide both by 5 and put it outside. Your equation is fine but your way will not work 100% of the time, so try: 4(3x+2)=68 12x+8=68 12x=60 x=5 BTW what is GCSE :015: :015: :015: :015: :015:

According to OTB they're allowed 5 loans in a season and AM is their 5th. BBC article refers to him as 'the Englishman' but I'm sure I heard once he was from Musselburgh :017:

Russeldinhooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Is that you back then Johndo? Or have you found a solar powered computer somewhere? Make that wind powered :023:

I must admit Dingwall was my first thought :015: :015: :015: A quick glance at the grey bits on the road atlas suggests East Kilbride and Glenrothes but also: Irvine, Helensburgh, Alexandria, Grangemouth and loads of places near Glasgow that just run into each other, like Blantyre. All bigger than places like Montrose and Cowdenbeath which already have clubs, which begs another question: what is the smallest place to actually have a league club? Can't be bothered looking it up but I bet somebody will :014:

Brings to mind the old saying- 'If Racquel Welch had triplets, I'd be the one getting the bottle' :015:

That guy who shouts at the players and calls the ref a mappet, he'd make a great coach. Just pull his teeth out and put some seats in.

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What a comedown, Kris Kristofferson to Dross County in 48 hours :015: :015: :015: :015:

I just managed to get a ticket myself (cheers Lesley :love04: ). On the way up to the stadium I had big Dougie on the phone, hardly missed a game in his life. He's stuck in traffic round about Aviemore and he's shouting down the phone 'you never told me it was a feckin ticket game!' He only got in thanks to Peter McCallum knowing he was a regular and finding a ticket from heaven knows where.

Dargo's a professional. If he can't get a move to better himself financially then he will do a job for us for say another two years. Nothing personal in it. If he'd never even heard of ICT 5 years ago, so what? The wee man's one of the classiest players ever to wear the shirt. I'd love to see him paired up with Denzil and terrorising defences next year.

I suppose Butcher's a bit better looking. Any time DC came on the TV I nearly spewed up my Campbell's condensed :015: :015:

Just been watching recording of Scotsport, can see myself at the equaliser, inviting the Rangers supporters to sodomise themselves ......

I think he means from the prime ministers, not you :015: :015: :015: :015: I'm usually a believer in the '****-up' rather than the 'conspiracy' theories, but I make an exception here. Under the 30 year rule, we're finally finding the truth of what happened in the 1970s, and the lengths the establishment would go to, when Scotland threatened to go it alone. We're sold this propaganda that only we (uniquely amongst all the world's nations) are too poor, stupid etc to govern ourselves. Yet the British establishment kindly hangs on to us just as a huge favour. The truth is, there are two explanations why we have never been cut adrift to get on with it: 1) Labour would be unelectable in the UK without Scottish votes. And, more importantly: 2) The civil servants who really run the UK (regardless of which party is in power) are in thrall to the Americans, who in turn need Scotland for strategic reasons, eg Holy Loch and all the early warning stations further north. Not to mention pioneering nuclear power at Dounreay and such like. Like Charles I have a healthy contempt for politicians, even the ones I will probably vote for, but the people have a duty, once a particular set of numpties have been voted in, to make them accountable (eg the recent expenses scandals). And I'm afraid the current set of numpties have had it coming for a long time: at least 30 years, since I was old enough to go to the local working men's club with my old man and see these corrupt, arrogant councillors in action, fixing things for anybody willing to buy them drink.

Livi fans in 'sense of humour' shocker :015: :015: :015: :015: Actually that's no bad, but I think it's an old piece from 2005. Here's another one

Never watched it since Albert Tatlock kicked the bucket, laugh a minute he was.

It was mentioned a few weeks ago by somebody that Barry Wilson was a better player than Barry Robson, and the response (OK response is stretching things a bit) was a load of laughing smileys from that 'font of wisdom' cantbeatus. But if you look at their careers so far, it's a fair point.

The board's always far busier after a home game as Scotty says.

There's hardly been any hate IMO, just a feeling that we should drop him to try out formations for next year which will be tough with our small squad.

Never underestimate the importance of sport in the morale of a nation..... Never met you Clacher but I think you're probably a bit young to remember Argentina 78 and the first devolution referendum of 1979....... It took us a long time to recover from having belief in a superb team in late 77, to being shown up as losers/junkies/alkies in front of the whole world 9 months later. To make it worse, the 'British' media didn't have England to cover so they just made up stories about the Scotland players instead. Same in 1974- I've still got some footage of the Essex boys from the tabloids trying to wind up Willie Ormond at training one day.

I thought we'd miss Dods badly, but it's true what was said a couple of weeks ago, we missed Granty more and conceded 3 each time.

It was actually ten honest men against 12 (the lassies plus Collum).