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RickMcD

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  1. I have already offered my kayak to Div! However I can borrow one from my Club, give him some lessons, and paddle across with him if it generates publicity as well as Tam and Stuart signing up!

    Funny how sometimes a word can crop up you've not heard in a while and then you hear it several times again quite soon afterwards. Kayak. Last Thursday morning I was in Birkenhead to get the Belfast ferry and a guy turned up whose only piece of hand luggage was a kayak that must have been about 15 feet long. It was a hoot seeing the check-in girl's face. She didn't have a clue what to say but the guy got permission to carry on. But because it was hand luggage the blokes that load the trailers for luggage pointed out he would have to take the kayak on the bus that takes foot passengers over to the ship. Now buses aren't designed to take fifteen foot canoes and it was hilarious watching them trying to fit it in. Eventually they managed and the bloke actually sat beside me with the kayak filling virtually the whole passage. I asked him did he know lifeboats were supplied on board but I don't think he was too amused. When we got to Belfast the bus that comes on board for foot passengers is a rinky-dink wee thing and it looked impossible to get it in. But after a lot of four letter words, they somehow managed.

    Anyhow, I digress. In an earlier post, Sonny, you rightly said this is the only show in town. How long do we piss about waiting on a shiny white knight? This is as near as we are likely to get and he's a genuine fan. I know some guys genuinely can't afford £12 a month but I don't understand how guys who can comfortably afford it won't do it. This might well be the last chance we get. For less than the price of a beer per week we have a chance to secure the long term future of Saint Mirren. There's an old aphorism about f**kups developing when good men do nothing. Do something positive. Sitting on the sidelines waiting for a perfect solution is achieving eff all. I'm signed up, by the way.

  2. Living in Northern Ireland, I often get asked the same. And I give the same answer and if I happen to have a couple of jars in me I quite often add where both bloody mobs should f**k off to. I am trying awfy hard to stop myself wanting mayhem and a blood-bath on Sunday. Honest, I am trying!

  3. I reckon that of Brits who watch television I would be somewhere among the 5% who watch least. Take sport out of that and I could well be about the1% mark. Doesn't make me a better person. I do think it's a bit odd to simply make a decision not to watch at all. But, hey, there's nowt as queer as some folk.

  4. Oooh dear that last sentence is seriously clutching at straws.

    Are you seriously boasting because a Christian church can attract more punters than the likes of Montrose and Brechin?

    My local Amateur Dramatics group can do that too.

    You seem to have confirmed my long held view that you're a drama queen.

  5. Is your friend called Jesus? smile.png

    Dunno, it could be his middle name, but what a friend! Why are Jews still allowed to tell Jewish jokes? I know they're brilliant at it but when anybody else tells stories with even the tiniest hint of anything that could just possibly be regarded as racist, the roof falls in.

  6. Could you run that by me again? I've often had good natured banter with England fans- I still do over here- but I can't for the life of me see where even knuckle-- dragging England fans should enter the Scottish independence argument. Rangers and Celtic ain't going south.

  7. Quite a lot of drama queens on here. If you are going to "chuck it" because of this I would suspect you were looking for an excuse to do so anyway.

    We have been playing at this stadium for years now and never actually sold it out. It's just common sense to try and fill as many seats as often as possible. The board have a responsibility to maximise our revenue and ensure our survival as a business.

    The point I would draw the line is if we were to start allocating away supports more seats than the St Mirren support, but that is not the case here.

    This should be repeated for all games we can sell out both ends of the ground. Celtic & Sevco fans should be charged 30 quid entry for the privilege.

    Only point is this should be made clear at the start of the season to Family Stand season ticket holders, who should be given a nice Main Stand seat when shifted.

    Tend to agree but admit if I was one of those having to flit I suppose I would be a bit peed off. Something that can't be denied, though, is that our BoD have elevated cack-handedness to a new level. Maybe for the last time? 4th. place isn't likely for us but it's still a remote possibility but imagine us going into that game needing three points and having that bloody mob there. If they asked nice, would our bored board let them sing the Sash?

  8. getting a new job with BEAR scotland,,one of my duties will be "messaging" on gantrys,,,,got a few ideas,dont know if i will get away with them,,what do you all think,,,

    if you dont want to do over 50,get off the fkn motorway.

    dip your lights you ejit

    dont use indicators,we will guess what lane you want

    lane ahead closed,drive right up to the cones then pull in,if your in a hurry

    suddenly pull in,in front of the 40 footer,he does not need all that room to break

    just a few,,,please add more

    Good stuff! I assume it was coincidence that your new job was just above the jobby thread on the menu.

  9. I know you weren't asking me but you're getting my opinion anyway, whether you like it or not. tongue.png

    It depends on how you look at it. I would tend to take the view that it is the ones who control the scientific discoveries that have killed all those people. Saying that scientists are to blame would be like saying that Henry Ford was to blame for every death in a car accident.

    I certainly blame Ford for shooting that nice boy Jesse James. You know my question was a bit tongue in cheek and it does depend on how you look at it. Henry Ford shouldn't get the blame for traffic accidents. That's down to the first guy that harnessed his horse or coos to a wagon. Or maybe we should blame whoever invented the wheel. Would he qualify as a scientist or an inventor? What's the differenc?

  10. Bringing Hitler into an otherwise decent debate is a great way to end that debate.

    i assume that sounds familiar.

    Ain't gonna look it up but possibly it was me that first brought up old Adolf's name first. Only to remind you and others that not only Christians started crusades. And my comment certainly didn't stop the debate. Can I ask you a question? Have scientists killed more human beings than all the despotic rulers who ever lifted foot?

  11. Are you saying that because you are no longer taking part that there's no debate? Are the rest of us really that thick? If you rule out Babykiller and thichasfcuk, I think the rest of us are quite able to debate at a reasonable level. tongue.png

    You're being very generous to an awfy lot of people if you really mean what you say in your third sentence. Or does your wee smiley yellow thingy negate it. As for Oaky, as the actress said to the bishop, 'Are you in or oot?'

  12. Anniversary of Cooper's death. 20 years ago? 10, maybe. Seems more like 20, but I would have to confess that it wasn't a JFK moment for me.

    Certainly wasn't a JFK moment for me either but such an early demise is regrettable even in an ex-Rangers player. No doubt I'll get some rebuttals. My only JFK moment among guys who were still playing was the great Scotland and Spurs player John White.

  13. Wonder why the Beeb decided to feature this now. Was it some kind of anniversary of his? He was a strange guy and if what I've heard is true, what he said to Fitzy was bang out of order. I was quite friendly with Colin Jackson back then and he always said that Cooper was a bit weird. He refused to be interviewed because he hated hearing himself afterwards 'because it made him sound so Scottish'. Hell, most of us don't like hearing ourselves. Especially when we talk shit. I do think he was a very good player,though, despite what a few on here have said. If a player like him was around now he would be an automatic selection for Scotland and would be playing in the EPL. I remember an evening game at Ibrox years ago when for the first eighty minutes I could have played better than him and then he destroyed us single handed in the last ten minutes. Bastard! I had no idea he was a religious bigot.

  14. Yep, I reckon he's one stubborn sob, because there have been quite a few posts recently that must have had him almost returning to us. But going on about 'grammar', as Faraway, BuddieinEK and Slarti have done doesn't help. To some of those of a certain vintage, and I'm getting close, Grammar suggests a certain educational establishment in Old Paisley which, to paraphrase Burns, was 'that school that nane surpasses, for poncey guys and bonnie lasses'. Mention of the Grammar gets Bluto twitching like Warden Hodges spotting a light. Bluto's good lady probably has to tie him down to stop him reaching for his keypad.

    Message to Bluto. Come back, we all miss you. Well, most of us do. Some of us do. Maybe a handful of guys. I kind of miss you. Haste ye back. OK, suit yersel!

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