12th Man

:029: Dont you mean Ten past eight, eh

I don't think the condition of the A9 will come in to the equation at all but the surrounding streets may fail us, the irony being that the salt depot is 300yds from the stadium. If the A9 is taken in to consideration it would be double standards as ICT fans have never been thought of in that way travelling down the A9 for central belt cup games over the years. One thing that I cant understand is the need to say that the latest a game can be postponed is 4 hours before hand,to avoid what happened at Falkirk? If its unplayable 90 mins before kickoff surely its better to say so there and then as opposed to giving yourself a gagging order knowing its unplayable and saying nothing, getting all the fans in and then abandoning the game at kick off.

And if he scores the winning goal on Saturday (weather permitting) is it Dougie Imrie, Dougie dougie Imrie.

Us season ticket holders are creatures of habit

I popped in and bought ours on the 31st

What is the current collateral value of ICT fc? How much dept do they have? Will a billionaire businessman let it go bust if it ever comes to that, so instead of making the usual shrewd investment, actually give something back. You can only have so much, then it just becomes numbers on a balance sheet.

So much for having the right to vote I feel its like going in to a rough neighbourhood and having the option of being able to pick the person who you would most like to rob you later that evening. Politics is more to do with representing and supporting the majority as long as you have policies to look after them they will keep them in a job. I would far rather a successful business men/persons run the country instead of politicians running round in circles getting tied up in their own policies and then appointing quangos to resolve the problem who then have an investigation to warrant revised policies. I cant speak for all politicians but the usual entry route seems to be via the council so they have already been institutionalised into having no real business acumen, what I mean is its more to do with policies than looking at the real value of money.In the mean time the council workers on the lower rungs of the ladder and us get screwed for their mistakes. IE Cutting back on gritting the roads by to trying to save money, will equate to 10 times the cost on repairs caused by letting the water into the tarmac to then freeze not to mention the added strain on the emergency services but thats OK because that comes from a different budget in a different department but it still costs us money . Polices seem to override common sense and a bizarre logic seem to run rife throughout the government establishments.If you don't spend/waste the money given to your dept, next years funding will be less.

AYE it said in the courier that they would be valid for the rematch or you can get a refund.

A bit of nostalgia for the expats, noticed it when I watched the above

If we can get the pitch playable again and we have a bit of a thaw for the roads, new grit would have arrived by then so I think its games on. Check your transport options seeing as you'll be getting off at Aviemore anyway and getting a bus. its been nearly 3 months since we lost a game at home so we cant let well upset our run.

Any thoughts for songs for these guys I would like -----?, -----?, -----is on fire. To be used for a worthy player.

?If Terry wants to take matters further it is up to him but, as it stands, Stuart will be returning to us. ?In that event I will not allow him to play in the Scottish Cup for Inverness.? From the same article, I take it that McGee wants to see what he can get out of ICT and hes not allowed to play against well unless ICT come up with something. Does he think we are made of money. I hope Duff stays longer it will do him far more good in the long run, unless he enjoys sitting on benches.

All that just rolled off the tounge and my secretary just typed it all for me, some people would just assume I did a search for the Gregorian calendar, and just copied and pasted, some people have little faith. As for Charliee I tried to wind him up before and he didn't bite, if he does have a peek on here the odds he calculated but forgot how to get to the answer was 7657/2.

My brain hurts, anyone who can say it is 1 BC at the time can predict the future. Just to confuse things slightly more. September 2, 1752, was a great day in the history of sleep. That Wednesday evening, millions of British subjects in England and the colonies went peacefully to sleep and did not wake up until twelve days later. Behind this feat of narcoleptic prowess was not some revolutionary hypnotic technique or miraculous pharmaceutical discovered in the West Indies. It was, rather, the British Calendar Act of 1751, which declared the day after Wednesday the second to be Thursday the fourteenth. Prior to that cataleptic September evening, the official British calendar differed from that of continental Europe by eleven days?that is, September 2 in London was September 13 in Paris, Lisbon, and Berlin. The discrepancy had sprung from Britain's continued use of the Julian calendar, which had been the official calendar of Europe since its invention by Julius Caesar (after whom it was named) in 45 B.C. Caesar's calendar, which consisted of eleven months of 30 or 31 days and a 28-day February (extended to 29 days every fourth year), was actually quite accurate: it erred from the real solar calendar by only 11? minutes a year. After centuries, though, even a small inaccuracy like this adds up. By the sixteenth century, it had put the Julian calendar behind the solar one by 10 days. In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII ordered the advancement of the calendar by 10 days and introduced a new corrective device to curb further error: century years such as 1700 or 1800 would no longer be counted as leap years, unless they were (like 1600 or 2000) divisible by 400. If somewhat inelegant, this system is undeniably effective, and is still in official use in the United States. The Gregorian calendar year differs from the solar year by only 26 seconds?accurate enough for most mortals, since this only adds up to one day's difference every 3,323 years. Despite the prudence of Pope Gregory's correction, many Protestant countries, including England, ignored the papal bull. Germany and the Netherlands agreed to adopt the Gregorian calendar in 1698; Russia only accepted it after the revolution of 1918, and Greece waited until 1923 to follow suit. And currently many Orthodox churches still follow the Julian calendar, which now lags 13 days behind the Gregorian. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since their invention, calendars have been used to reckon time in advance, and to fix the occurrence of events like harvests or religious festivals. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why So Difficult? Since their invention, calendars have been used to reckon time in advance, and to fix the occurrence of events like harvests or religious festivals. Ancient peoples tied their calendars to whatever recurring natural phenomena they could most easily observe. In areas with pronounced seasons, annual weather changes usually fixed the calendar; in warmer climates such as Southern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, the moon was used to mark time. Unfortunately, the cycles of the sun and moon do not synchronize well. A lunar year (consisting of 12 lunar cycles, or lunations, each 29? days long) is only 354 days, 8 hours long; a solar year lasts about 365? days. After three years, a strict lunar calendar would have diverged from the solar calendar by 33 days, or more than one lunation. The Muslim calendar is hence the only purely lunar calendar in widespread use today. Its months have no permanent connection to the seasons? Muslim religious celebrations, such as Ramadan, may thus occur at any date of the Gregorian calendar. The phases of the moon have nonetheless remained a popular way to divide the solar year, if only because a 365?-day year doesn't exactly lend itself to equal subdivision (the 71?-day month has yet to find favor among menologists). To compensate for the difference in the solar and lunar year, calendar makers introduced the practice of intercalation?the addition of extra days or months to the calendar to make it more accurate. The semilunar Hebrew calendar, consisting of twelve 29- and 30-day months, adds an intercalary month seven times every 19 years (which explains the sometimes confusing drift of Passover?and consequently Easter? through April and March). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Despite its widespread use, the Gregorian calendar has a number of weaknesses. It cannot be divided into equal halves or quarters; the number of days per month is haphazard; and months or even years may begin on any day of the week. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best of All Possible Calendars? Despite its widespread use, the Gregorian calendar has a number of weaknesses. It cannot be divided into equal halves or quarters; the number of days per month is haphazard; and months or even years may begin on any day of the week. Holidays pegged to specific dates may also fall on any day of the week, and vanishingly few Americans can predict when Thanksgiving will occur next year. Since Gregory XIII, many other proposals for calendar reform have been made. In the 1840s, philosopher Auguste Comte suggested that the 365th day of each year be a holiday not assigned a day of the week. The generic "Year Day" would allow January 1 to fall on a Sunday every year. Needless to say, this clever solution was not widely embraced. The French Revolution also saw an attempt at the introduction of a new calendar. On October 5, 1793, the revolutionary convention decreed that the year (starting on September 22, 1792?the autumnal equinox, and the day after the proclamation of the new republic) would be divided into 12 months of 30 days, named after corresponding seasonal phenomena (e.g. seed, blossom, harvest). The remaining five days of the year, called sans-culottides, were feast days. In leap years, the extra day, Revolution Day, was to be added to the end of the year. The Revolutionary calendar had no week; each month was divided into three decades, with every tenth day to be a day of rest. This straightforward calendar, however, perished with the Republic.

I'm on Mrs ICTFCs side here, I had carefully cleaned my windows and lights, even patiently waited for the windscreen to demist and started to move but I too forgot to clean the roof. The movement of the car, started an avalanche from which the 30 foot tower of snow on my roof collapsed in on itself,burying me for 3 days until help arrived.I wish I had cleaned the roof. Another time I had 6'' of snow on my roof, 15 mins into my journey I braked and it slid off the car.

My girlfriend bought some ready to use screenwash out of tescos and had it sitting on the passenger seat to be uses when I had found out what the problem was, the unopened bottle had started to freeze up that was left overnight sitting on the seat. This is my first car that has ever had this type of problem.

Does anyone else have this problem this is our first winter with a 207 and if the water container freezes up, the 10A fuse blows when you try to clean the windscreen. I checked the web and its a so called safety feature?? so how safe is it if you are on a long journey and the fuse blows,should you then abandon your car ? where as any normal car you could pull in leave the car running generate some heat and spray your windscreen 10 mins later. Its fine and well using antifreeze but it usually only works to minus 2 at best as the water and antifreeze starts to seperate. I have now fitted a 10A resettable cut out from maplin as I dont want to get in to the habit of keep replacing fuses, I have had to offset the pins slightly as they are staggered, so far so good but not the ideal solution to Peugeot's problem,

The next time we play them in a cup game where will he sit? Think you will find its ICT First and Celtic are the other team. will he cheer if both teams score?

No winter break for me. This current cold spell has proven we cant predict when the bad weather will arrive, it used to be the tail end of January and well in to February,it has now arrived 4 weeks earlier. Would this put too much strain on our players who will be playing for their countries in summer competitions. What else would you be doing in the middle of winter when it is cold and dark outside,at least it gets you out in the fresh air and lastly what about your other hobbies and interests that are better to do in the middle of summer. And lastly, yes I really mean it this time, would a winter break upset the logistics of the transfer window.

Its puzzling when he quotes "I've not spoken to the manager about it, but I'm just happy to play and then I will see what happens."

A rover 400. and here was me assuming you own a 4wd, going by your I wont be beaten by the snow outlook.

I was looking forward to the game today but wasnt looking forward to getting there and thats coming from someone who does a lot of miles, the compacted snow is just turning to ice with more snow on top. I would say its quiete likely that the game could have been abandoned today anyway with more snow forecast. and skifreak can you please let me know what type of vehicle you drive.

.To install that, the whole pitch has to be removed and then relaid,ours used a plough style machine which split the ground and buried a pipe in it afterwards to become a giant radiator, going by the TV coverage when it was installed. IMO From looking at your attachment, the inditherm looks like an expensive bit of kit and I don't think that the 'salesman's' energy savings figures could ever be recouped. Due to the overall cost of the installation, the equipment, maintenance and lifespan,especially as it will rarely be switched on. The installers must have also found an installation/manufacturing safety fault with the system, it may only be a SELV system but it cant be run at 50v all the way from the control panel the volt drop would be too great, so they must have 415v cables under the pitch and installed in series, thats my assumption anyway. http://sport.scotsman.com/falkirkfc/This-f...kill.2647361.jp So I'm glad we have a nice and simple low maintenance alkathene piping system, To stay on topic d day for butcher, no.

Porterfield ? or did you have to stay further afield At 3k an hour I would change energy suppliers.

One game at a time, just remember to enjoy each game as it comes instead of honing in on 1/5/09 it would be great to go straight back into the SPL, just remember to enjoy watching our team along the way. I do believe that the team will collect more points in the second half of the season than the first and where that takes us I dont know.