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Thanks for the pictures ccc, will let you know how I get on when the godfather has a look at them :003:

hmmmmmnnnnnn This is not a rumour, he actually said this. Anyway, to my point, there is a thread started prior to this one in 'on the park' stating exactly the same :sleep01:

36. A fire in the kitchen is not a laugh. :015: :015: :015: You can just picture half a dozen stoned students laughing their heads off when the chip pan bursts into flames at four in the morning and then they throw a kettle of water over it, (don't do this at home kids), which makes matters worse and sends the aforementioned dons into raptures, as the kitchen units start burning and the curtains and blinds catch fire as well................. :015:wait till the landlord sees this :015: True, it's not quite so funny when it belongs to yourself :019:

Best news of the close season yet. This is also on Teletext just now. I thought Dods was immense last year and was my vote for ICT player of the year. You get what you see with Dodsy, no nonsense no frills defending, but consistently fabulous throughout the whole season, and a couple of goals thrown in for good measure. He has taken on the gap left by Bobby and continued to give the team a platform from which to build from. He is some Machine, and he does run on diesel. Last year he was turbo charged, more of the same please. Sign on the dotted line please Mr Dods....................................................... :003:

Bright idea, why don't you paint the lines green. :)

Get back in yer box ya grumpy old fert and leave us nice English people alone ya tcheuchter from the hills, time we had another clearance.

cuts no ice with me, good riddance, he is obviously frightened of Black.

Playing tennis at your age. Whats an old git like you playing a game for public schoolboys ya fekkin ponce. Get a grasp man, sort yersel oot. Of course, it does mean you can sit at home during the world cup and sip a few chilled voddies, how unfortunate, never mind. Strangely enough, I b/ggered mine playing badminton a few years ago. The hall I was in did not have sprung flooring therefore there was no give in the boards, the only thing that did give was my achilles tendon. Sore for weeks, not much fun. Anyway, this is what I want you to do if you want to make the start of the season. The treatment options for a complete rupture of the tendon include surgery followed by casting, or casting alone. There are advantages and disadvantages to each technique and the options should be discussed with your physician. With surgery, the tendon is either reattached to the calcaneal bone (if it has been pulled off or avulsed) or the two ends are sewn together is the tendon has been torn in two. In most people, a cast is applied after surgery until healing is complete. Each patient must be considered individually. There are many reasons why a person may not be a suitable candidate for a surgical repair of the injury. These include, but are not limited to: poor circulation, presence of skin problems at the site of the injury, age (old gits take longer), a sedentary lifestyle (fat bestard), other medical conditions (nutter) that make the person a poor candidate for surgery (such as heart or lung problems). If the injury is treated non-operatively, then a cast is applied until healing is complete. The length of time required for healing is highly variable. Often it may take as long as six months for complete healing to occur. Drinking copious amounts of vodka will dull the pain and transfer any soreness away from the affected area and onto the head, repeat dosage as necessary.

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[move]how the **** did you do that Richard[/move]

Yes it did say that a second French club would be confirmed later, therefore that surely rules us out. I wonder if it was based on a zonal draw, ie if the Danish teams pulled out we would have been entered, but this news is based on the Italians not competing, fraudulent baskets that they are.

I'm in, what do I win.

It's fekkin brilliant isn't it. Just the little pick me up you need before the World Cup starts. :)

It'll do, no complaints.

what world cup? :-

Something odd going on. How can ICT be the first reserve all along then all of a sudden they spring this one on us. Tell them to stick their competition up their erse, we appear to have been misled from the start, once again Scotland are just shoved aside, we have no standing whatsoever in European football. :-

Brilliant, but don't just take my word for it.....read on, and my pics are in the photo gallery CLICKY Bad to the Bone pics here CLICKY The band took to the stage with a thundering rendition of ‘Be Bop Grandma’ to rapturous applause and a sudden surge forward from the crowd. What took me by surprise was a guy trying to body surf the crowd - a miscreant from Lollapalooza perhaps? Otherwise the sea of bald heads and Led Zeppelin T-shirts had gone back 30 years to days of old and no-one was going to stop them enjoying the night. The Destroyer’s untameable style showed through with the grinding riffs and demonic sax taking centre stage - if the ageing rockers had difficulty looking the part (comfy beating cool in the dress stakes) they certainly sounded the part. The crowd loved it and were all dancing wherever they could. There is something about rock and roll with a touch of blues that never fails to appeal. As was expected, many classics such as ‘Madison Blues’, ‘Who Do You Love’, ‘Night Time’, ‘One Bourbon, One Scotch And One Beer’ and ‘I Drink Alone’ gave the crowd ultimately what they were looking for but it was subtly mixed with some new tracks from the ‘Ride ‘Til I Die’ album, which shows they are yet to fade away into obscurity, but are by no means flogging a dead horse. For someone who is quoted as saying his guitar playing is mediocre, George Thorogood made an amazing five guitar changes throughout the night, all of which seemed to belt out the same George Thorogood wailing sound. But that is what everyone wanted. Now pushing 60, Thorogood still appeals to a wide audience, especially those who have grown up with him and his music whilst his claims of being a dirty man still did the trick with the ladies - although in some other situations he may well have had to sign the register. The only down side to my evening was their decision not to play their cover of Hound Dog Taylor’s ‘The Sky is Crying’ - although they suggest on their play list that they did! However, on the night’s display I will almost certainly return the next time they are back to see if they do. Ending the toe tapping night on ‘Rocking My Life Away’ seemed very apt for a band now in their third decade together and still with the original line up! It is true that their glory days are probably past them but any band that can enjoy what they do so much whilst whipping up a crowd of over 40’s into a frenzy never seen before except at perhaps the launch of Radio 4 are well worth the watch. Their music style and stage presence scream that if you can have fun and enjoy playing your music, you’re going to go far. I fear George Thorogood and The Destroyers will be limited only by themselves in years to come but will indeed ‘Ride ‘Til They Die’. words: Dave Harris (eyeball kid.com)

Thats the saddest thing I have read this Spring. Meet you in the Innes for an ice cold Guinness. A voddie for the body, or a drammie for the Mannie. Gosh......I'm a poet and I didna know it. later.

Of the Scottish News of the World to give out free DVD's of the 2-3 victory over the Auld enemy at Wembley in 1967. We were unofficial world champions, the first team to topple England after that fateful day in '66, how appropriate to issue this just the week before the world cup starts. Those were the days when Scotland had quality players, Law, Baxter, Bremner, Gemmill, yes young people, we did have the quality and the passion for it. bring it on.

Yer using too much Bisto then. Misconception about aquifers and groundwater A common misconception is that groundwater exists in underground rivers (e.g. caves where water flows freely underground). This is only sometimes true in eroded limestone areas known as karst topography which make up only a small percentage of Earth's area. More usual is that the pore spaces of rocks in the subsurface are simply saturated with water — like a kitchen sponge, which can be pumped out and used for agricultural, industrial or municipal uses. The beach is an example of what most aquifers are like. If you dig a hole into the sand at the beach you will find very wet or saturated sand at a shallow depth. This hole is a crude well, the beach sand is an aquifer, and the level which the water rises to in this hole represents the water table. Aquifer classification Saturated versus unsaturated Groundwater can be found at nearly every point in the earth's shallow subsurface, to some degree; although aquifers do not necessarily contain fresh water. The earth's crust can be divided into two regions: the saturated zone (e.g., aquifers, aquitards, etc.) and the unsaturated zone (also called the vadose zone). Saturated means the pressure head of the water is greater than atmospheric pressure (it has a gauge pressure > 0). The definition of the water table is surface where the pressure head is equal to atmospheric pressure (where gauge pressure = 0). Unsaturated conditions occur above the water table where the pressure head is negative (absolute pressure can never be negative, but gauge pressure can) and the water which incompletely fills the pores of the aquifer material is under suction. The water content in the unsaturated zone is held in place by surface adhesive forces and it rises above the water table (the zero gauge pressure isobar) by capillary action to saturate a small zone above the phreatic surface (the capillary fringe) at less than atmospheric pressure. This is termed tension saturation and is not the same as saturation on a water content basis. Water content in a capillary fringe decreases with increasing distance from the phreatic surface. The capillary head depends on soil pore size. In sandy soils with larger pores the head will be less than in clayey soils with very small pores. The normal capillary rise in a clayey soil is less than six feet but can range between 5 and 100 feet. [1] The capillary rise of water in a small diameter tube is this same physical process. The water table is the level to which water will rise in a large diameter pipe (e.g. a well) which goes down into the aquifer, and is open to the atmosphere. For more detail on the saturation of an aquifer, see the water content and soil moisture articles Aquifers versus aquitards Aquifers are typically saturated regions of the subsurface which produce an economically feasible quantity of water to a well or spring (e.g., sand and gravel or fractured bedrock often make good aquifer materials). Aquitards (sometimes, if completely impermeable, called an aquiclude or aquifuge) are saturated regions, which due to lower hydraulic conductivity, do not yield a sustainable amount of water in an economic fashion (e.g., clay, silt or fresh bedrock often form aquitards). Economically feasible is a relative term; for example, an aquifer that is quite adequate for local domestic use, as in a rural area, might be considered an inadequate aquitard for industrial, mining, or urban water supply. In non-mountainous areas (or near rivers in mountainous areas), the main aquifers are typically unconsolidated alluvium. They are typically composed of mostly horizontal layers of materials deposited by water processes (rivers and streams), which in cross-section (looking at a two-dimensional slice of the aquifer) appear to be layers of alternating coarse and fine materials. Coarse materials, due to the high energy needed to move them, tend to be found nearer the source (mountain fronts or rivers), while the fine-grained material will make it farther from the source (to the flatter parts of the basin or overbank areas - sometimes called the pressure area). Since there are less fine-grained deposits near the source, this is a place where aquifers are often unconfined (sometimes called the forebay area), or in hydraulic communication with the land surface. For more details on ranges of parameters in aquifers and aquitards, see the hydraulic conductivity and storativity articles Confined versus unconfined There are two end members in the spectrum of types of aquifers; confined and unconfined (with semi-confined being in between). Unconfined aquifers are sometimes also called water table or phreatic aquifers, because their upper boundary is the water table or phreatic surface. Typically (but not always) the shallowest aquifer at a given location is unconfined, meaning it does not have a confining layer (an aquitard or aquiclude) between it and the surface. Unconfined aquifers usually receive recharge water directly from the surface, from precipitation or from a body of surface water (e.g., a river, stream, or lake) which is in hydraulic connection with it. Confined aquifers have the water table above their upper boundary (an aquitard or aquiclude), and are typically found below unconfined aquifers. A "perched aquifer" occurs when the porous, water-bearing segment of rock is located on top of a layer of non-porous rock. If the distinction between confined and unconfined is not clear geologically (it is not known if a clear confining layer exists, or the geology is more complex, e.g., a fractured bedrock aquifer), the value of storativity returned from an aquifer test can be used to determine it (although aquifer tests in unconfined aquifers should be interpreted differently than confined ones). Confined aquifers have very low storativity values (much less than 0.01, and as little as 10-5), which means that the aquifer is storing water using the mechanisms of aquifer matrix expansion and the compressibility of water, which typically are both quite small quantities. Unconfined aquifers have storativities (typically then called specific yield) greater than 0.01 (1% of bulk volume); they release water from storage by the mechanism of actually draining the pores of the aquifer, releasing relatively large amounts of water (up to the drainable porosity of the aquifer material, or the minimum volumetric water content). For more details on parameters related to the confined vs. unconfined distinction, see the porosity or storativity articles. Human dependence on groundwater Most land areas on Earth have some form of aquifer underlying them, sometimes at significant depths. Fresh water aquifers, especially those with limited recharge by meteoric water, can be over-exploited and, depending on the local hydrogeology, may draw in non-potable water or saltwater (saltwater intrusion) from hydraulically connected aquifers or surface water bodies. This can be a serious problem especially in coastal areas and other areas where aquifer pumping is excessive. Aquifers are critically important in human habitation and agriculture. Deep aquifers in arid areas have long been water sources for irrigation (see Ogallala below). Many villages and even large cities draw their water supply from wells in aquifers. Some aquifers are "riparian aquifers". These are related to rivers, fluvial deposits, or unconsolidated deposits along river corridors, and are usually rapidly replenished by infiltration of surface water. Some municipal well fields are specifically designed to take advantage of induced infiltration of surface (usually river) water, leaving them potentially vulnerable to water quality problems in the surface water body (chemical spills, petroleum spills, and bacteriological problems). Aquifers that provide sustainable fresh groundwater to urban areas and for agricultural irrigation are typically close to the ground surface (within a couple of hundred meters) and have some recharge by fresh water. This recharge is typically from rivers or meteoric water (precipitation) that percolate into the aquifer through overlying unsaturated materials. Subsidence In unconsolidated aquifers, groundwater is produced from pore spaces between particles of gravel, sand, and silt. If the aquifer is confined by low-permeability layers, the reduced water pressure in the sand and gravel causes slow drainage of water from the adjoining confining layers. If these confining layers are composed of compressible silt or clay, the loss of water to the aquifer reduces the water pressure in the confining layer, causing it to compress due to the weight of overlying geologic materials. In severe cases, this compression can be observed on the ground surface as subsidence. Unfortunately, much of the subsidence due to groundwater extraction is permanent (elastic rebound is small). Thus the subsidence is not only permanent, but the compressed aquifer has a permanently-reduced capacity to hold water. Examples An example of a significant and sustainable carbonate aquifer is the Edwards Aquifer [2] in central Texas. This carbonate aquifer has historically been providing high-quality water for nearly 2 million people and, even today, is completely full because of tremendous recharge from a number of area streams, rivers and lakes. The primary risk to this resource is human development over the recharge areas. One of the largest aquifers in the world is the Guarani Aquifer, with 1.2 million km² of area, from central Brazil to northern Argentina. Aquifer depletion is a global problem, and is especially critical in northern Africa; see the Great Manmade River project of Libya for an example. However, new methods of groundwater management such as artificial recharge and injection of surface waters during seasonal wet periods has extended the life of many freshwater aquifers, especially in the United States. The Ogallala Aquifer of the central United States is one of the world's great aquifers, but in places it is being rapidly depleted for growing municipal use, and continuing agricultural use. This huge aquifer, which underlies portions of eight states, contain primarily fossil water from the time of the last glaciation. Annual recharge, in the more arid portions of the aquifer, is estimated to total only about ten percent of annual withdrawals. The Mahomet Aquifer supplies water to some 800,000 people in central Illinois and contains approximately four trillion US gallons (15 km³) of water. The Mahomet Aquifer Consortium [3] was formed in 1998 to study the aquifer with hopes of ensuring the water supply and reducing potential user conflicts. The Great Artesian Basin is one of the largest groundwater aquifers in the world. It plays a large part in water supplies for remote parts of South Australia. hmmmmnnnn, no mention of the ICT aquifer, (sometimes known as the IHE aquifer) Methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) is a chemical compound that is manufactured by the chemical reaction of methanol and isobutylene. MTBE is produced in very large quantities (more than 200,000 barrels per day in the United States in 1999) and is almost exclusively used as a fuel component in motor gasoline. It is one of a group of chemicals commonly known as oxygenates because they raise the oxygen content of gasoline. MTBE is a volatile, flammable and colorless liquid that is relatively soluble in water. When in groundwater MTBE moves more quickly than other fuel components. (California Air Resources Board, 2004). MTBE has a typical odor reminiscent of diethyl ether, leading to unpleasant taste and odor in water. MTBE is used in organic chemistry as a cheap solvent with properties comparable to diethyl ether but with a higher boiling point and lower solubility in water. It is also used medically to dissolve gallstones. MTBE has been used in U.S. gasoline at low levels since 1979 to replace tetra-ethyl lead to increase its octane rating and help prevent engine knocking. Since 1992, MTBE has been used at higher concentrations in some gasoline to fulfill the oxygenate requirements set by Congress in Clean Air Act amendments; however, since 1999, in California and other locations MBTE has begun to be phased out because of groundwater contamination (California Air Resources Board, 2004), citing unproven health effects. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 drops the federal requirement for oxygen content in reformulated gasoline. Thats all I can remember about it, sorry.

Nice to see one of our players getting a bit of good press and well deserved recognition for his contributions this year, and last year. Well done yersel, Broonie. :021:

Time for Black to move on now, word on the street is that he may be getting above his station, another Bajram, we don't need any disruptive influences in the dressing room. Best to keep Dods though.

Alex, wheres Ostermilk?........is it in Belgium or Holland?

Bonzo, wheres yer dog and yer doo-dah band?

Skye marble. what!