Scarlet Pimple

I have never had a problem, before a few days ago, in marking all posts as read and, to my best recollection, I had been working under the left margin selection of "content that I have not read" basically since you changed the site. Then the problem arrived although, as stated above, I have never had occasion to change any selection ---since it was working fine--that's a no brainer....eh?...... but before starting this post I had a look at the filters and found that NONE were selected. Why? Haven't got a clue.--something happened to change the original selection that I had made long ago when you changed the site and I know it definitley was not consciously done by me. Being mildly surprised, I selected what you saw in the screenshot and then I tried again but without result. So I will now change to what you recommend and , hopefully, all's well that ends well. Having now read your blog, being a simple enough soul I had to read it more than once just to make sure I more or less understood it. It sure is complicated. I can't recall ever having read it in it's entirety--once I got everything working fine I never bothered to go that far back to find instructions.However, I must have read it in the past but being double your age, Scotty, please remember that my memory is not as sharp or as good as yours may be. And, in addition, this is your baby and you are working with it day and daily so how can I remember all the stuff that you have in your head when I access it only once in a blue moon? And may I just ask why you and Don have made the site so complicated and not as simple as it was before? Why so many selections? Is the theory in electronics nowadays that more is always good or to put it another way--when is enough not enough. Microsoft changes everything every five minutes so that they can force us all to buy a new email programme or a new operating system when there was nothing radically wrong with the existing setups. e. g. Outlook Express for the constantly problematic Windows Live Mail and XP for Windows 7 etc. But what exactly do you and Don gain from your major changes apart from keeping up with the Jones's of the computer world.? Certainly not money. I.m off to make my change. OMG I hope it works.

A rose by any other name smells the same. Rangers Newco, or whatever other name one twists and turns to call it , it is still Rangers F C in another guise. A wolf in sheep's clothing, no less because the ramifications of allowing this club back into the SPL will be far-reaching and this act will remain in the memory for a long time. It will be nothing less than a completely cynical, self-serving betrayal of all that's good in scottish football. End of story.

Still not working fully. Occasionally it may work but often not? I sent you a screenshot Scotty . Did you get it?

12th MAN,----- IT DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE ABOUT WHAT IS RIGHT (I.E SAME OLD, SAME OLD) BUT IT'S ABOUT THE STATUS QUO WHEN THAT IS CONVENIENT. Right? MEANING IF THE RULES CAN BE CONVENIENTLY SIDETRACKED TO ALLOW THE 'GERS TO ENTER THE SPL, THEN WHY NOT USE THEM ALSO TO ENSURE THAT THE DEVIANT CLUB IS ALLOWED TO SWAY THE RESULT IN IT'S FAVOUR. If you see what I mean-- and THATt is bizarre and no mistake. The whole thing is a sickening crock and the clubs must see this . I think that if they vote in favour of allowing Rank Rotten Rangers into the SPL then they are about to commit suicide and I can't put it any more plainly than that. For sure, nothing will ever be the same again for the vast majority of the fans and if Scottish Football is currently on a downward slide then such a vote may well complete the job.

O K --but it worked fine up to now and I haven't changed anything on the site Scotty. I wiol try again after finsihing up here today.

I have tried to delete all the posts on the site tonight after I read the posts on the Forum via the "Mark All Posts As Read" but it does not work and all the threads come back again and again. Any particular reason for this?

Well, the punters invariably state that pre-season is for warming up and for trying out things but not necessarily for winning games. Let's have a look at the final squad to assess it's experience before we prejudge.

How can we have lost players if they really were never here? Loanees for stop gaps but local boys for the future?

What it sounds like to me is that the whole of Scottish Football is on the brink here if this vote takes place. Who really thinks that ICT will die if they don't vote for the entry of Rangers without having to suffer the penalties discussed? Why would they die if they entered any of the lower three divisions? And why would they die if they even went back to the Highland League. Heck, theysurvived in that League for many years before the Pimple was even born and he's ancient? Would not everyone feel a lot better watching ICT in action in any league which runs itself in an upright and legitimate manner; meaning that We know that we CAN survive without Rangers. What a refreshing thought that is!

Oh and IHE, me boy,..many a word spoken in jest. Auld Scar Baby did have a vasectomy and the Doctor a lonnnnng time ago. And the fella who did it was a Chinese man who did not say ..."cough" when he removed his pencil from his top pocket. And I was thinking ..."OMG, what's he going to do with that then?" :lol:

IHE --you really are awful, but I like you . :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

It would be asinine to allow them into the SPL without being demoted. To do so would be to flaunt the rules that should be sacrosanct until they are changed only by due process (within the rules of course). To flaunt the rules would render them toothless and meaningless. Which means that referees' decisions would also be open to contempt and a refusal by the players to obey him could also be instigated at will on the grounds that the rules no longer exist because his decisions are made within the framework of , and at the direction of, the SFA who have put these rules in place. And what rule could censure all the clubs at once if they refused to play Rangers F C right from the start of the season. Chaos would result. And what rule could force clubs to pay a fine levied by the SFA if they ALL refused to co-operate and said over and over again said that the rules no longer existed .They could make the lives of these SFA officials a complete misery and a complete nightmare To even think of allowing such a precedent to be set just to favour a club who more times than not always seem to get more than their fair share of decisions on the park going their way (against the rules of course) would be to pen up a very dangerous can of worms indeed. It would lower the moral compass po0f the SPL, the SFA, of the clubs who voted for it and of Scottish Football in general would be in tatters and the laughing stock of all football as complete, irresponsible, games-playing idiots. Besides, The Pimple wants to see an SPL without Rangers just to prove that we can all get along just fine without them.

Retirement is not a bowl of cherries chums. It's........... scary, c'os it gives you too much time to think. And ruminate and consider yer past mistakes and get morbid about the ICT team when what you should be doing is being out there working like Terry and his cohorts. Starchief--all I can say to sum it all up is....you made my day! Ha! Ha! Irony with slit eyes at it's best.

Decent pay check for Ross but a footballer's career camn be a short one. Hope he does well, anyway. Blackie--wouldn't he want to be playing for a team who has a bevy of very good players in it already--this would make it easier for him to shine on the park and maybe allow him to ease off on the physical side too? Just a thought?

Mantis, Very sorry to hear of your detached retina. Over he past three years I have had 4 eye injections, laser bolts into both eyes, a vitrectomy (removal of tissue from the retina) and recently a cataract operation where they remove your lens and slip in a new foldined one made of polypropelene or something and then it opens up like a flower in spring inside yer eye. Amazing to watch under local anaesthetic--some guys see rainbows .Me? I was too busy trying to get my 199 blood pressure down. Ha Ha! So I hope that all that stuff is over and done with but if your retina problem is fixed, your OCT scans look good and you keep your IOC in order you should be fine, deo volente. Send me a P.M if you like..I know what that depression thing is about too --that hit me at the beginning but not now. You just get used to all the stuff and just accept your fate. No wonder you weren't posting on here!

Mantis ..you have come out of the woodwork and made us all come alive. Goodness, it's long past your awakening from Hibernation time. Must be the cold Spring--certainly is cold here in Western Canada Imagien? Putting the heating on in B.C. in June? Incredible. As for Gen. George Custer he was also rash and a glory hunter which were the reasons that he got involved with the Injuns at the Battle of the Little Bighorn and lost BIG. And he wasn't HORNY afterwards because he was dead.! And so were all his small troop of cavalry. Oh My! Vainglory will do that to a young man. 2000 injuns versus about 100 to maybe 150 cavalry. Its CALVARY ahead for you in the future, George, NOT cavalry. Pity, eh Charles, that he made his name in the American Civil war and then lost it so hastily in Montana. --or was it Idaho . Och who cares? :love02: Comparing Terry to George does have some similarities but at least Terry the Titan has another opportunity to come good. Whether Terry has toned down his outbursts and bull in a china shop approach we won't find out quite yet but the situation he now faces is rather bleak, chums. He had better be very selective with this player choices and if we give him the beneft of the doubt maybe he can unearth some good-'uns . Panic Button--press it? Why? The situation has been obvious for months. It's more a question now of just waiting for the inevitable, methinks.

Why Charles it's you again? Interesting comments which deserve an explanation. When I emigrated to Canada, I got out of the barrel with the inward -looking staves staring me in the face as I climbed up. Then I suddenly realised, at a still relatively young age, that the horizons were much farther afield and the views were much more extensive from the top of the barrell.Not to mention the opportunities in a country countless times larger than The United Kindom with a lot less people in it and so on. So I opened my wee eyes and never looked back . And that is why I know more about the American Civil war than you and the teachers at the IRA. All previous wars that I had learned about in the IRA were usually about powerful Princes trying to steal vast tracts of territory from other powerful Princes. But the American Civil war was fought over very large Principles, in the North, and very entrenched attitudes in the South hell bent on retention of slavery and wealth. Each territory had their own basket of Goods and neither was at all interested in stealing that which belonged to the other. Which to me was very interesting.And very unusual don't you think? So like a good schoolboy I paid attention and read a lot. Sometimss, opening your eyes is a bit of a shock. but when you come back to your "home " country and find that many of your former inward looking friends have no interest in how you are doing "abroad" or have no interest in what kind of a country you went to, etc., then that's an even bigger shock. Where I am now the only thing that stops me from making any change I like in my career or my life is entirely my own mindset or efforts whereas, where I came from, the class snobbery and several other similar things that I encountered as I grew up were hurdles that were insurmountable. And also prevented a fella making progress through earnest endeavour and hard work based on ability and drive and an honest approach . Sure, you will suffer debilitating discrimination when you arrive, but so what? Get over it and get on with it. Now Britain is almost a financial basket case with even my former employer, the mighty Royal Bank of Scotland, having gone into a moral downslide of mind-boggling proportions, their shares dropping from 23 pounds to virtually 23 pennies just a few years ago. So, Charles, why don't you try it out for yourself? It's a neat expereince, as no doubt other new Canadians will testify to. Hope to see you soon and we can reminisce about past good times in Blighty. Cheers the noo .

I do think that Rosscoe would have thought twice about moving to Ross County had he been treated with more respect (in his view anyway) and that he could very well be bad news for ICT on derby day. If you think that another bunch of loaness will come in at the last moment and play in the derby, not knowing the other players very well nor their type of moves and play and not Terry's "new " systems etc, and save the day, you may be delusional. As IHE says, County will be concentrating on their defence and the hiring of SPL players will give them a solid advantage in this respect. This is an ambitious management. So where is Terry going to get new and experienced SPL players from now? And can he even put a team together by the starting day of the season? Is anybody relying on the likes of Ian Black coming back? If so where would his higher wages come from? What I am worried about is what will be the outcome at the end of this coming season? If the team gets relegated then Terry will have to go--his contract is up anyway. But will a new Manager make any difference since by then one can reasonably think that the fan base wmay be reduced a lot more, the money won't be there unless a tooth fairy arrives with a full bag of money and the next season could be even worse, because the loanees will probably have left to go back and someone will have to start the merry-go-round up again, but it definitely may not be Terry with his English contacts. Oh My!

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That's right Scotty. And I feel this lad has some intelligence and a fit body becase of it so ...good luck Gary. This could be a very good move for ICT to stesdy the ship.

That's the fella. John Brown 's effort at Harpers Ferry where he siezed one of two of the Union's army arsenals , was defeated by Robert E Lee. leading a troop of Marines against him. This is very interesting because Robert E Lee subsequently became a rather brilliant tactician , outsmarting the Union army constantly when he dared to enter the Union Territory going North up the through Virginaias and thne other states on a March to Washington, which he never reached. At that point he had become the General and supreme commander of the REBS --the Southern rebels and his brilliant startegies prolonged the war by probably several years beore the better resourced Northen Union army inevitably triumphed at Gettysburg. This two- day, horrific battle was the defining moment in the whole war and after that Lee, and what remained of his army, were always more or less on the defensive and in retreat. The American civil war staretd at Bull Run (Appomatox ) and, strangely enough ended at the Appomatox farm where Lee finally signed his surrender document. The cost of this 5-year war? .... 500,000 casualties which was more than the total of all deaths that had occurred in all the wars that had taken place prior to this event at that time. The benefits?--well, you can see which country emerged as the most powerful one on the panet in modern times but the South suffered hugely, with their pride shattered, their slaves dissipated and often turning on their owners, the loss of the cotton trade that had made many a plantation owner wealthy, and a countryside which had been completely ravaged and almost no family in the land left unscathed by this momentous event. Sorry friends seem to have ot carried away --tha,s what happens when there is no footie to get all fessed up about...Och!

Gary the Great will be fabulous once he gets his feet under the table . Once he realises that footie is footie and he can cut it at the level we are in at the moment (not just Caley thistle but all teams in the SPL) he will have a rush of blood to the head , will start to brim with confidence, will not score many goals but will do a real good turn in the part in front of goal and will succcccceeeeddd masterfully. Then he will get complacent , will concede a few , will get a right good bo-likking frae Terry theTerror , will smarten up and will do a good turn......... and will be here for years, growing in reputation umntil his 16th year at the helm when Terry the Terror will............................go on--complete the sentence.

Time for ODDQUINE to come in to steady the ship with hner common sense approach to doing business. Preferably the no-nonsense, doughty, courageous HMS Sneck which, like John Brown's body, lies a moudering in the grave. Er.... does anyone on here know who this John brown was?

I think Tichy was referring to a Rarebit of business. Hoch ! Hoch ! Bleeding hope so--it's about time we got a break .