Stadium Expansion

Us footballing fans are a funny lot really. Nobody would want to stand watching a film in a cinema for an hour an a half...even the supermarket checkouts here have seats for those that can't or won't stand while the person in front is being done. Yet we do all hanker for terracing back. It's a bit of an oddity and no mistake.

 

At the cinema, you look up towards the screen, at football you look down towards the pitch. Short-arses can usually see all of the screen at the cinema, but not necessarily at the football - particularly if the people in front of you keep standing up. If everyone is standing, you can move so you can peer between people's shoulders.

Also, if you're able to move about you're not stuck with comments from some ******** beside or behind you all season. At the cinema, all you risk is rustling of Quality Street wrappers.

 

yep yep I know all the reasons for standing....I have just one thought from your comment though. Who the feck takes Quality Street to a cinema?

 

I was thrown out of the cinema for singing "you only sing when your winning" during high school musical.

Plastics wouldn't join in even when I swore at them and kept telling me to sit down. **** day out.

 

Only ***** went to see High School Musical at the cinema IMO.

 

Armchair fan.

 

Could have sworn it was Glee to begin with

 

Just different things really. Is anything exciting likely to happen at the checkout? Anyway, if we want to see the return of a safe terrace (with increased capacity) then we should have it without 'nanny state' saying we can't.

 

The answer to your question is not 42 but popcorn. I once stood up in a crowded cinema and yelled "could you all stop rattling your effing popcorn buckets so I can listen to this film please". Then ten minutes later I left because I thought it was really boring. It was The Others b.t.w.

 

Surprised you lasted 10 minutes TBH.

 

In addition to my cinema story I was once thrown out of Sunday school for saying "that's bloody sh.t" when I had to listen to the creation story yet again. Worst thing I knew how to say when I was 12. Changed days eh? Anyway, I never went back. Best for everybody really. Sh.t day out.

 

That''s fine but keep your Celtic nanny state up there I don't want them deciding on what happens in England tyvm.

 

Now edited b.t.w. Nobody eats poocorn do they?

 

The hot off the presses new SNP policy is the Invasion of Luzon.

 

Yeah, there is 100 million Filipinos and what, a few dozen in the Royal Regiment of Scotland or whatever the army is called up there. Good luck with that I might even be able to take you all on.

 

But we've got advanced weaponry like decrepit nuclear subs, claymores and skean dhus and stuff. And Filipinos are notoriously small. Some Scots are over 5'6" tall. Some are even fiercer than Manny Pacquiao! I doubt you could take me on Philippine let alone the rest of us.

 

You are right. If you come here with a belly full of Bells you probably could take on the 100 million.

 

Has GF hacked Kelso?

 

This thread is like the arguments my 5 year old has with his friends.

"we have 100 tanks"
"Yeah well we have infinity tanks"
"We have infinity plus 1!"

 

Beats me.

 

I was planning on Talisker actually.

 

All in jest. But our tank numbers are actually infinity plus 2. No doubt you can advise on the mathematical possibility of that statement.

 

Talisker...Bells - same distillery.

 

Metinks you jest. However, maybe a bit of education is required.

Bells is a blend. It's a mixture of cheap, barley mash spirit whisky with some single malt additions to make it more palatable. Talisker is however a single malt distilled from, usually locally produced, malted (roasted) barley. It is the only single malt distilled on the Isle of Skye. Another Highland favourite is the Old Pulteney. Speyside favourites are the Cragganmore and the Macallan. The Islay favourite is the Caol Ila along with the Jura from an immediately adjacent island. My lowland favourite is the Glenkinchie, distilled just down the road from me at Pencaitland. Enough?

Anyway, before someone pops up with an accusation of thread hijacking I'll offer this.

Imho, we'd be best at the Vic to move to this rail-seating malarkey for the whole of the Rookery and the away half of the Vic. Road End, as currently configured, a.s.a.p. Then, following a successful lobbying campaign for those arrears to also be able to increase capacity vis a vis the German model, when those arrears are used for standing in the EPL, we should, if my mental arithmetic is correct, be able to increase our stadium capacity by a little over 3,000 at a stroke.

 

But both produced by Diageo I think.

 

From the footballgroundguide forum:

 

RIP Occupation Road and half the gardens in Liverpool Street.

 

Fml a little over an hour until kickoff and not a single fan or steward. Tinpot.

 

No WO clock ?

 

Agree

When we stood everyone sat down on the terrace at half time, now we have seats everyone stands up at half time !

 

Very impressed ... the builders must have been on double-bubble to get it finished within a week.

 

Archibald Leach design?

 

That is beautiful.

 

Nah! They just re-signed Rasiak

 

Interesting. And true I see although I'd draw a distinction between distilled/produced and owned. Plus they own another three on my list which shows they have good taste at least.

That was a fairly left field piece of information. Are you an employee?