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https://www.youtube.com/user/KeyboardFox
This is a link to a friend's son's youtube page. He is Scottish neo classical composer (very folk tinged, in a post-Oldfield style) and pianist with a growing reputation
He recorded his last album at Abbey Rd with the English Chamber Orchestra and is currently writing a symphony for release next year.
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Is this not a politically incorrect term for Robinson Crusoe man servant?
no, but your attempt to write in a cod-afro carribean accent is a tad racist
that is what you were trying to do, isn't it
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Our commercial department is only interested in organising dinners and the old fashioned hospitality. While these are all well and good we miss out on so much more. If firms aren't spending as much on hospitality then we change what we're offering to entice them or go after different firms. Granted no one will want to come to watch us play so we better be offering something amazing!
I'd like to know how you can verify this statement, have the comercial department sat down with you and discussed their strategy with you? Have they given you an insight into the challenges they face? have they explained how much of an advertising budget thay have to draw on?
Or did you just make this up?
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I said "pretty" good source, don't go all Politian on me
He doesn't even come from Politia
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I wonder how you would feel if, because the hospital trust has to now maintain the roads around the hospital and the parking facility through money taken from the patient care budget, there was no surgeon available to take out your appendix? Or there was no available beds in your local hospital and you'd have to wait an extra 30 minutes while the ambulance chases across town to get you in A&E and the next nearest hospital - as happened to me three years ago.
Nothing is "free" when it's paid for by the taxpayer.
Terrible, the health board should really provide more bariatric beds
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I think that's the majority of fans to be honest.
The average Saints fan goes to every home game they can and would do if we were at the bottom of the third tier. And they don't post about it us social media either.
Saints fans who post about the club on social media and float depending on how well we are doing make up a very vocal minority.
Source?
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I'm not going to trawl through every post you ever made under your previous guise but, for example, you said you had been one of Danny's biggest critics for years and that he should have been sacked after we lost at home to Thistle in August, and if the BoD had signed another manager then we would have been in a far better position.
PS you also said that we will finish higher this year than we did in any year under Lennon. Let's see how that works out eh?
we will be further up a gum tree, is that a higher finish?
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Some thoughts on the last few days
So the journo put his name to the article, therfore not at all cowardly on his part
and dismissing the article becasue of the quality of writing is actually a little obtuse (maybe a lot)
SGG has accused fans of being knickerwetters and keyboard warriors? Again, he is missing the point, probably on purpose.
i actually felt ashamed that an employee of the club conducted himself in the way that Craig did in his interview.
I'll likely go to the game on saturday and get behind the collection of individuals who have found themselves in the position of being st Mirren's first team and will also find it really hard to feel as if I am behind the board, manager and coaches
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We never rolled over after we went 3-0 down. I'm surprised that me saying we never rolled over is seen as a negative. We could have rolled over and lost 6 or 7, would this have been better?
Between the start of the second half and the third goal we were absolutely shocking, that 20 minutes or so was as bad as I've seen us for a long time. That's when we lost the game.
I said when Tommy was appointed that I thought it was the wrong appointment. I also said I'd give him to Christmas before judging him, as I would with any new manager. I stand by that.
but your record on DL says differently
self-qualified coward
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No one forced you to eat a pie!
A bit off topic but this always ticks me off, the way football fans always seem to be forced to buy programmes, pies and have children just so they can moan about the cost.
i just realised how badly i need to putyou on ignore
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Can any body explain.
Tommy craig as assistant did all the shouting sbd stood on touch line now tommy us manager he does what danny used to do Abd sit on his hole for whole match Abd teale who is wasting energy as a potential sub does all the shouting makes no f**king sense
as a manager, he is realising that the battle is won in the week before the match and no amount of jumping around on the touchline is going to correct a week's worth of mistakes
why do people get excited about how animated a coch os on the touchline? in the grand scheme of things it means f**k all,
maybe some people are conned by a coach giving it laldy as a manager takes stock, I dunno
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Yes but he is guilty.
You are guilty of being unforgiving and sanctimonious.
not to mention vicariously outraged
i could go on, but i'm a forgiving soul
Love you!
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some sanctimonious pish on here, much as i dislike Malky McKay, he has lost out on a LOT of money and has paid a heavy price in other ways
People need to accept that we ALL do wrong at some point and the measure of a person is how they conduct themselves thereafter
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The long slow goose step to fascism begins here...
Long & slow/ We'll see!
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Is it a Tory idea? As far as I can remember it was a Labour government that introduced the "voucher" scheme that entitled every 4 year old to a number of free pre school hours per week in a nursery. My kids are 21 and 16 now. We had no free or cheap places for my eldest son who started school in 1998, but the second child got a free pre school morning place from the age of three in 2001 - he started school aged 4. IIRC the policy came about after a number of surveys suggested that children that had attended pre school nurseries performed better at school than those who didn't.
I agree with the point though that this is just another attempt to bribe the electorate by the SNP. In practice these nursery places are being funded by local authorities through their education budget, and with the council tax freeze still in place councils have had to look at limiting parental choice forcing more kids to take council run nursery places and capping the number of kids who can go to private or voluntary nurseries. The problem with council run places of course is that they close during school holidays meaning that any parent going back to work either better be a teacher, a teaching assistant, or have understanding parents or a very understanding boss.
so the yuppie mummies are going to be upset they can't use public hand-outs to place their wee lambs in their preferred nursey? Had there been REAL cuts affecting the poorer people then I'm afraid you would have been saying "serve's the scroungers right".
Seems "hardworking" families are really just upwardly-mobile scroungers with jobs who want the state to co-fund their social climbing.
it's a neat twist though, take a socialist ideal and use it to better the lot of the middle and upper classes. And all done without a hint of shame or irony
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Can anyone explain the fixation with increased childcare provision and tell me how it will improve matters?
Genuine question.
Surprised that this question arises in the context of Paisley, of all places, where the social and economic benefits of mass provision of nursery places were evident in the huge number of working mothers right up to the 70s. across scotland, industrial philanthropists used to know it made sense for the community and their own bottom line by supporting nurseries and schools with endowments. Nowadays, the provision of childcare vouchers is a key workplace benefit that attracts people to good companies, but demand outstrips supply and free or cheap childcare is hard to come by. Our population needs to be grown in Scotland and the widespread preferrence is to increase the birth-rate amongst stable families in order to reduce reliance on immigration in the future. along with the shortage of good quality affordable housing to buy or proper social renting properties, one of the biggest barriers to couples having kids is the cost of childcare. One guy who works beside me was paying over £1000 per month to get his three girls watched at the peak of their requirement. That is an eye-watering sum of money for many families, but why should they be denied decent prospects just because they had a family? had my colleague been forced to reduce his hours to reduce childcare requirement then it would have been to the detriment of our business, which spent a fortune developing his talents. His missus is also very highly thought of by her employers and it is surely a relief to her boss that she was able to go back full-time fairly soon after each of her pregnancies. The country and business need both a healthy population demographic and retention of experienced and talented people in the workplace, upping the provision and affordability of childcare is a key part of building a successful, stable and improving society. people also need to get over their narrow view of childcare as nurseries and childminders. People who have physically and metally challenged children desperately need the assessment, developmental and respite centres that come under the wider banner of childcare in our education system and this provision needs to be improved.
it is preposterous to suggest that this is a tactic to undermine parents and extend the reach of the nanny state, it is actually the opposite, empowering the good people who want to work and raise a family.
Hoepfully, once this is sorted, the government will turn their attention to social housing for sale and rent. recent reports suggest that Thatcher's council house sell off has been one of the slowest social and economic car-crashes of all time in the UK. rents are set to rise at almost twice the rate of earnings over the next couple of decades and without new investment in affordable housing and good social renting projects, we will see the current so-called buy-to-rent "boom" drag us back to the slum-landlord days of Rachman, which is something the council housing push of the 50s and 60s all but eliminated.
I have to laugh (ironically, cos it really aint funny) at some of the crap that pops up, (not getting at you BiK) on these kinds of forums. People complain about the "something for nothing" generation and the nanny state, when there is a so-called boom of landlords who are neither cashing in on hard work or earnings, but who by virtue of a half-decent credit rating sign up for an interest only mortgage and rent the property out so someone else (usually at the other taxpayers and council taxpayers expense) to pay for their "investment". good-hearted people try to improve lives by improving things like access to childcare and they are attacked for indulging in some dark form of social engineering. Wages have collapsed as a proportion of the GDP of this country ever since Thatcher's rise to be replaced with investments and benefits. our economy is built on sinking, rather than shiftng sands and some of the bullshitters on here continue to attack people who were willing to gamble on change on our own terms in Scotland. an economist on radio scotland the other day explained our so-called UK recovery was running out because consumers had all but spent the £22 billion that was claimed in PPI refunds-cameron and osborne had been gambling on another 6 months to try and see themselves back in power but are bricking it now the "recovery" is in danger of tailing off more sharply than expected.
Our economy hasn't been fixed, the UK's collapse has been stayed for a few years by a windfall that bought HD tellies and a never-never approach to renting everything from houses to cars and phones.
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who cares about his car, did he kick anyone while he was there or start trying to referree the whole olace
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Was he not perhaps wearing "work gear" because he was doing DIY at home? I don't think many people will paint and decorate with designer clothes or a business suit on.
He's had a hard time financially as others have said but I doubt he's completely on his uppers. His latest book was published in 2011 and he was Director of Football at Aberdeen until 2012. He's still got a pretty lucrative job for what it is at the BBC too where he'll earn anywhere from £200 - £400 working for a few hours on a Saturday as a radio pundit and the same again on a Sunday, and often on a Tuesday and a Wednesday as well.
Lucrative? i wouldn't get out of bed for that on a saturday
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At this stage, we have had a fortnight to analyse what is going wrong and maybe put some of it right. We now have an away game at Hamilton where we are not expected to do well and a cup-tie the following week. It might be more reliant on luck than anything else, but if we can turn these two ties around and get some success (2 draws would do me) then that might be a springboard for the next couple of months. We could maybe re-appraise things in January, i dont think TC is the man for the job but we are clearly stuck with him so we may as well get behind the players and take it from there.
talk of petitons and of the protest is undignified and the sort of caper we should leave to less classy clubs. The only thing that is for sure is that any sort of improvement will owe more to calm heads and steady nerves than it will to a baying mob. Bad as it is, we are still not in the last-chance saloon
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Ah, somebody who listened at school? Not damned if he does but damned if he pontificates about the deed.
You should have read the following lines for your answer.
"Note: Burns was a God fearing man. This poem is not anti religion. It is stricly aNow demnation of religious hypocrisy and self righteousness."
Now THAT is what i call self-righteous (from my vantage point on a high-horse)
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Always thought that was a lot of nonsense. If people want to give to charity and keep it to themselves and that's a choice. I much rather people who give make it as public as they like and hopefully it encourages others to give. Far too many people with a stack of cash already just want more of it. Not a huge fan of Alex Salmond but he's gone up in my estimation.
correct, if he doesnt go public people will assume he trousered the cash and he is setting the bar for other politicians.
Only a few days since someone related some of his expenses claims and voting record at Westminster on another thread but it didn't take long for the snipers to take aim when he does a wee bit of good
It's actually quite a sad reflection on society that he felt the need to make a statement, it's his money-earned in the same way as McConnell's and it would have been fair enough if he kept it.
had he kept shtum, it would not have been long before someone pointed out he was in receipt of both a pension and a salary from the public purse. That would have forced him to make the statement anyway
There was never any way he could win. at least from the point of view of the self-righteous snipers
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damned if he does and damned if he doesnt, some petty people on this forum for sure
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some people can be quite contrary, all of the guys mentioned had some sort of attitude issue that needed to be addressed by themselves.
i certainly dont think Imrie was properly welcomed by some fans and he is the sort of guy that this would rankle with
McGowan probably needed the wake-up call of being let go. It could be argued that keeping him on would have been a too-comfy place of refuge for him rather than the platform to grow up a wee bit and take it on a level that releasing him has provided
Harkins, i believe is playing well purely to spite us and he will fade sharply sometime soon
Paul McGinn-young player who worked his ticket out the door. it paid off for him so far but 9 times out of 10 this kind of move backfires on a kid. He engineered his own move and you can't blame a manager for letting a malcontent go. it may not be long before he shafts Dundee
Carey was the only stonewall certainty to succeed and was the only true lapse of judgement out of all of those with McGowan the only each-way bet. much as I criticise Craig, he cant be blamed for his part in the rest, unless fitness is an issue (which i think it has been for some time at St Mirren). DL's only mistake with that lot was signing Harkins in the first place-they were such an obvious personality clash
Different strokes for different folks. too many variables to call
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The bands charge it as they can - simple. If people never paid it, they couldn't charge it and yes paying a hundred quid for a couple of hours of entertainment seems crazy.... then again we could go to the cinema.
As it happens I did / am actually trying to get the fleetwood mac tickets and from 9 this morning the ticketmaster site has been saying no tickets, try get me in, where of course you pay even more. Something really stinks here.
Ticketmaster own get me in and directly sell a large proportion of the sought after tickets to them before you even get a sniff. Shortage is then execerbated and the price goes up x2, 3 or more. That site really is legalised mugging and completely shameless
The Tommy Craig Must Go Thread
in General St. Mirren Discussion
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Tsunami of angst?-nice to see you are keeping it all in perspective
I'd copyright that one before it shows up in a folk song somewhere