Heilandee

Near spat meh coffee oot ya auld scrote

No such thing as a good United goal! Well done the day folks

A "source" from the SPL advised,"Supporters wishing to use the safe standing areas will be required to participate in a 2 day safe standing course which clubs will run on a monthly basis supervised by representatives from the health and safety executive. Supporters will learn safe jumping heights currently set by European advisers at 10 cm except in certain circumstances where 15 cm is permissible if a harness is attached to a fixed point,Advanced standing courses will be available for supporters wishing to stand and wave scarves simultaneously,but it is expected to take several seasons before these are available at all grounds" Don't think there will be any danger to spectators standing as they will be well protected by the amount of red tape surrounding the implementation of any "safe standing" area,the problem with the whole thing is ,by the time it becomes a reality , I will be so old i'll want a seat by then :irritated:

Sweetie the panda is the latest victim of the bill and is to be shipped back to China with immediate effect,Alex Salmond is reported to be furious with the bigot bear caught on film by a vigilant tourist who said, "i was appalled to see Sweetie mimicking Gazza and his outrageous behaviour

Therein lies the problem, one mans banter is another mans offended to the core.Therefore, sit down shut up,all interaction between opposing fans is forbidden,nae *teuchters,sheep, gypsy,tinks,gadgies,farmers,arabs,huns,tattiemunchers,bnb's or anyother referance can be used as someone WILL be offended, The whole think is unenforceable and it,s the supporters of "diddly" teams that will be pulled up and used as scapegoats to highlight the "zero tolerance " I guess i must be pretty thick skinned and i can't think that I've ever been offended by supporters at football singing anything but don't dare let me hear anyone refer to Scumdee again or yer getting reported! *The above terms as used purely for the purpose of debate and in no way represent the views of the author

Happy Birthday Manny, guid few candles on yer cake noo eh? Have a cyber pint on me

brilliant

My thoughts exactly, should all be completed just as i retire! :irritated: Sod it, i'm gonna buy a caravan and spend my retirement driving up and down it in the ootside lane slowing down a'body to get my own back VictorMeldrew DSC

I hear this morning they have confirmed the A96 is also to be dualled although i never heard a completion date.

I'd be gutted if that happened to my Ferrari

Blatant simulation and if the SFA are to retain a shred of credibility (do they still have any) they must find Aluko guilty as .....

Good news, but if fuel prices continue to rise there wont be much need as naebody will be able to afford it

The whole thing is desperately sad for all concerned,can't begin to imagine what his family are going through.

Forget yer prawn sandwiches and corporate days, this is what it's all about....... The Blue Brazil

Dundee?? Cocky?? Never !! .......

D, ehm no doubting happy unstressed folk are generally more healthy than angst ridden miserable folk,but this is not about improving patient care , it's taking staff on "laughter courses" at ?350 (of taxpayers money) a pop FFS!! "they are going to have an after-work laughter yoga club in Perth, Dundee and Kinross where staff can go and de-stress, connect and energise". Is that no what going to the pub wi yer mates after work is about?!! the absurdity of the whole thing had me checking the date or looking for a spoof link somewhere, but sadly it's true. Ehm aff to look for an application form for the post of "certified laughter yoga leader".....someone,somewhere certainly needs certifying

Unbelievable.....Having a laugh....Surely!!

The disenheartation of politcality is symtomatic of the whole genericasisation of party politiking..........i think

Politicians of all hue's are a bland bunch these days with very few (any) having any real commitment or values,easily spun and whipped to agree with any policy that will win a handful of votes.Totally disheartened with the whole political spectrum these days :irritated:

Yngwie finds his Drachma..........

Hmmmmmmmm, I might just risk a wee daunder up the shops to get meh lottery if it looks clear out there ............

According to Mark Matney, a scientist in the Orbital Debris Program Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, the odds that any of the 7 billion people on Earth will be struck by a piece of the soon-to-fall satellite is 1 in 3,200. "The odds that you will be hit ? are 1 in several trillion," Matney said. "So, quite low for any particular person." To make this calculation, Matney explained, analysts work out how much debris will actually make landfall. (Most falling junk just burns up in the atmosphere.) They then make a grid of how the human population is distributed around the globe. Oceans, deserts and the North and South poles are largely devoid of people, for example, whereas coastlines are brimming with them. In short, they must figure out which patches of Earth have people standing on them. Throwing in a few more minor details, such as the latitudes over which satellites spend most of their time orbiting, the scientists calculate how likely it is that a piece of space debris will strike the ground where a person happens to be. This time around, the odds are 1-in-3,200, and there's a one-in-several-trillion chance that not only will a person get hit, but that person will be you. Sounds scary? It shouldn't: You're a few million times more likely to get struck by lightning in the next year. [Lightning Strike Survivor Video: Real or Fake?] So let's assume you dodge this particular satellite. What are the chances you'll get struck by something falling from orbit ― space debris or otherwise ― during your lifetime? NASA says it's impossible to nail down the overall risk to an individual posed by all the spacecraft, satellites and space junk currently orbiting us, even though it believes the risk is extremely small. "It would be difficult and time-consuming to generate the numbers correctly for any particular spacecraft," Nick Johnson, chief scientist for orbital debris, wrote in an email. "To do that for all of the thousands of spacecraft and rockets in orbit ? past or present ? would not be tractable. Such a calculation cannot be made, in part because we do not know the construction details of foreign spacecraft and launch vehicles." The European Space Agency, on the other hand, feels more comfortable pinning down the odds: "The annual risk of a single person to be severely injured by a re-entering piece of space debris is about 1 in 100,000,000,000" ― one in 100 billion, said Heiner Klinkrad, head of the ESA's Orbital Debris Office. In the course of a 75-year lifetime, then, the odds of getting injured by space junk would be a little less than one in 1 billion. [Will We Be Able to Deflect an Earthbound Asteroid?] By comparison, Klinkrad said, "the annual risk that a single person gets struck by a lightning is about a factor 60,000 higher, and the risk of a serious injury from a motor vehicle accident is about 27 million times higher than the risk associated with re-entry events." In 1997, the tiny threat of space debris became a reality for Lottie Williams. The Tulsa, Okla., resident became the only person known to have been hit by a piece of space debris. A DVD-size piece of metal from a Delta II rocket struck her shoulder while she was exercising at a park. Luckily, because of wind resistance, it was fluttering to the ground so slowly that she wasn't hurt. Klinkrad noted that most people accept lightning strikes and car accidents as necessary risks of day-to-day living. In this modern world where we rely so heavily on satellites for communication and navigation, perhaps we must also accept the exceptionally small risk posed by space debris. Fascinating eh?

Whats the odds of winning the lottery then being killed by a falling satellite ?

That's me off to the supermarket wi the van to stock up the beer fridge

I hadn't heard that one Alex, but interesting to read Dundonald is owned by the Loch Lomond Golf Club, so obviously had a vested interest in keeping the Open to raise the profile ( and green fee's) of their course.As a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to golf ,i find it a wee bit sad and a tad galling the many superb and varied courses we are blessed with in Scotland are overlooked in favour of the latest "championship" development from some business consortium or other with a financial gain to be made (i include CS in this) when we have courses of the standards of Dornoch, Brora and Nairn. What price Balmeddie being awared the Ryder cup 2022 with Trumps financial muscle, following Celtic Manor as the latest new "must play" (at a cost) whilst Royal Aberdeen and Murcar sit adjacent with all the same attributes plus history and tradition on their side, The Rennaisance , where i believe the Scottish will end up in 2014 has several neighbouring courses at Gullane and North Berwick that would blow it out of the water in a golfing context but i'm resigned that the marketing men will have their way.