DAM

Would I be banned if I called someone a hadfoop?

Well, lets put it this way. I knew a Hawick player who was also in the Scotland squad, he moved to England and played League and his opinion was that he thought Union was hard until he started playing League rugby. When he got hit playing rugby Union he knew about it but when he got hit in rugby League he knew very little about it!!!

Pretty sure it won't be your account. There is nothing at account level on IP Board (the forum software) that would cause "browser refreshes" like your describing. I suggest clearing out all of your temporary internet files, cookies and browser cache. I cleared all my cookies and internet and files and stuff, but it didn't seem to make much differenece. Though today this site seems to be working fine. :) Don't speak too soon Renegade, I have the same problem now!

Very wise - I wonder how many cases of Swine Flu we'll read about in the Courier next week!!

Excellent post Bob and it's all fact. I have lived in the Middle East - I know the score.

Who's voting Tory? I, for one, certainly am not. The Tories will be lucky to win a single seat in Scotland at the next election. As far as "victimising the vulnerable people in our society" goes Gordon Brown made a bloody good job of that when he was Chancellor - for one thing, remember the 75p he awarded the OAPs , that couldn't even buy them a loaf of bread.

However much are you earning AF? Are you seriously suggesting MPs aren't paid enough? Government Ministers are paid a basic salary of 144K - many of these have second jobs and others agree to their names being used on company letterheads - so called non-executive directors - for which the going rate is around 20K a year. They are paid handsomely! Why then have so many claimed ludicrous additional payments - expenses for mortgages for (alleged) second homes, even when they have been paid off? It's deception, it's utter greed, it's an obscenity. Some of these people should be barred from ever holding public office again, and be made to face criminal proceedings for theft from the public purse. Couldn't agree more Johnboy. Some people on here are missing the point - even if the MPs were on one million pounds a year basic some of them would still fiddle the "expenses".......and they have the cheek to accuse some other countries of being corrupt.

Utter crap all season. We were relegated long before the split. "we were relegated long before the spilt" Did you even think that when TB took over??? Yes. If TB had taken over in early December I'm convinced he would have kept us up. The Board f****d up. You never wrote back DAM........????????? I did write back Wyness - read it again, it's immediately above your last comment.

Utter crap all season. We were relegated long before the split. "we were relegated long before the spilt" Did you even think that when TB took over??? Yes. If TB had taken over in early December I'm convinced he would have kept us up. The Board f****d up.

Utter crap all season. We were relegated long before the split.

I trust you don't include me as a media puppet you condescending ****. I am more that capable of thinking for myself and the fact of the matter is that if it was not for "freedom of information" we would never have found out the extent that those morons have ripped the tax payer off.

"but we're only in uproar because of the current climate". This makes it right then does it? They are just corrupt thieving ******** in my book and NOTHING makes it right.

She'd get my vote long before the hapless and ineffectual Gordon Brown... What would you expect of Gordon Brown anyway, he's from Fife is he not, and you know the saying "beware of a Fifer"!!

This thread seems to have changed direction Johnboy.

It began with the death of John Smith and the appointment of one Anthony Charles Lynton Blair as party leader. I had high hopes that Gordon Brown would bring about a change the direction of the party after Blair's disastrous last few years in office.... I couldn't have been more wrong.... These hopes were very quickly extinguished. I disagree with that. The rot began in the 80s when first Tory then Labour employed spin over substance. The electorate then made their choice that was what they wanted. That's who I blame - the voters. And they are going to do it again. The Tories have profited from Labour's Iraq and Credit Crunch crises despite both parties being of the same mind. Vote for your party as though it was a football team, then there's every chance you'll get a poor result. You're correct starchief. Unfortunately some of the voters are too young to remember things like that and think that today's standard of politics is normal. Us older ones can make a comparison with how it used to be and how it is today.

Well Bob, I for one will not be voting for the Westminster Wankers be they Labour or Tory.

How about trying the old idea of "Q ships"? These originated early in the First World War as a means of sorting out Uboats. The Uboats used to prefer to accept surrender on the surface and sink their prey by gunfire rather than waste torpedoes from beneath. What the British did was to send apparently defenceless merchantmen out and when the Uboat approached, the crew would appear to abandon ship. However what was less obvious was that they had left behind a party to man the gun which suddenly materialised when a false wheelhouse fell flat. The gun then proceeded to blow the **** out of the Uboat. It should be even simpler off Somalia since these pirates don't have the option of submerging to attack which the Germans eventually did once they wised up to the Q ships. Quite simply, arm a few merchant ships to the teeth with concealed weapons, wait until the pirates get quite close, show the teeth in question....bye bye pirates. This might well also provide a huge disincentive for some of their mates to try it on. I say, do the honourable thing Carruthers and blow the bounders out of the water!

Nice one Bob! you and I are always singing from the same hymn book. I enjoy your posts immensely.

I don't give a sh!t what the rules say - this is blatent theft from every taxpayer in the land.

It's absolutely true Bob.... She has already owned up and is promising to repay the costs of these porn movies. We appear now to be governed by the lowest of the low, the very dreggs of society.. What are you doing in Galway? You're not by any chance representing an Indian tribe of native Americans trying to recapture a canoe? see here According to the papers she has also claimed 88p for a bath plug but that's understandable, after all the poor lassie is only on 141 thousand pounds a year plus all other perks.

You've seen nothing yet, I hear that plans are afoot to add Polish names once the proposed Tornagrain development is completed.

I am not for or against Gaelic signs but if the signs had never existed does anyone seriously believe that any money saved would have been used to improve our road surfaces? Recently some plonker of a councillor here in Aberdeen stated that Aberdeen's roads were the best in the country. I suggest he gets off his fat shiny erse and drive around the streets but take his blinkers off first. The point I am trying to make is that the money spent on Gaelic signs is minimal in the wider scheme of things and any savings made by not having them would certainly not be utilised for road improvement.

Are you, by any chance a gaelic speaker Dam? I haven't a clue what the Gaelic names mean.

Well I certainly don't class them as "bloody dangerous". I concentrate on reading the English words and not the Gaelic words and can't understand what the problem is.