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electricpicnicCSC
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1 Aug 2013, 10:52 PM
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- Sean Daleer
- 12 Dec 2012, 11:12 AM
Yup. KDS's Ari Gold.
I am very, very late to the huddler appreciation party but that is the finest post I've read in my five years with KDS, I remember just after I'd joined Murphio did the Hitler video about signing Samaras and that had been my top post as I had bust a gut laughing and showed it to anybody who had a set of eyes, even my hun father in law (not well recieved). That tops it though, bullseye after bullseye to the point anybody trying to argue should have worn out their white flag waving arm. Superb Huddler. Huddler: you should have been writing the paper, not selling the ad. space my friend. A true gent and one of the most articulate gentlemen in hoopsville. Well played bud. #copenhagenEmerald
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George McCluskey
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6 Aug 2013, 12:19 PM
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Languid Genius
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Bumblebee Tuna http://kerrydalestreet.co.uk/single/?p=12371728&t=8787763
An articulate, cool-headed contribution on an emotionally charged topic. This is KDS at its best
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AtLeastIDontWorkInAmazon
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6 Aug 2013, 01:02 PM
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- George McCluskey
- 6 Aug 2013, 12:19 PM
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6 Aug 2013, 01:19 PM
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Just before the Dawn
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http://kerrydalestreet.co.uk/single/?p=12371150&t=8817196
paddybhoy86 nails it re Sevco/Wattie.
Spoiler: click to toggle There is an almost pitiful air about the Sevco now. Scrambling around, spouting soundbites about "integrity", "dignity" and "unprecedentedness". They are, as a section of the Scottish and Ulster populace, in the grubber - financially, sportingly, morally and culturally. Perhaps their sense of entitlement might slowly dissipate. Although if it does, what do they have left? Nothing.Because the basis and entirety of their identity is hereditary (monarchy) or simply being born as "The People" (a bastardised, half-arsed, illiterate version of Calvinist Election. Something which in itself is misogynistic and downright repugnant.). If you expect someone to give you something for free, and it doesn't arrive what do you do? The Irish diaspora that they discriminated against, abused and assaulted for decades has emerged, as all immigrant and oppressed populations tend to do (check the leader of the Free World) as a vibrant and open community, powerful yet aware of its influence. Simply because the basis of our club lies not in entitlement, but rather in openness, debate and education - see the multitude of opinions on the Green Brigade for starters. I got slightly angry when I read Smith's reference to "integrity". I thought about my ancestors who have suffered their bile in more egregious ways than I have. But then I realised that nothing about them has ever displayed integrity. Integrity is when you are down and work your way up. Integrity is paying your taxes as everyone else does. Integrity is obeying the rules everyone else does. Integrity is having self-respect and respecting others. Not for what or who they are but for what they have achieved. Integrity is addressing injustice, and seeking to resolve it through clear, informed and open debate. "Integrity"?
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Joe the Baker
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9 Aug 2013, 01:52 PM
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It feels like yesterday... I wish it was tomorrow.
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Jungle G has the huns down to a tee
http://kerrydalestreet.co.uk/single/?p=12382679&t=8817196
Brilliant stuff.
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HenryClarson
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13 Aug 2013, 06:48 AM
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Bolstering the duty of good faith
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- George McCluskey
- 6 Aug 2013, 12:19 PM
Yup. Brilliant post.
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iaintic
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19 Aug 2013, 11:21 PM
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- Declan Brendan Timmy Bhoy
- 9 Aug 2013, 01:52 PM
Wins my vote, if only because of the sheer genius of 'Struthian lingo wallopers'
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HenryClarson
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5 Sep 2013, 07:19 AM
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Bolstering the duty of good faith
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Gems like this piece of background information from Cossy are what make the Sevco threads worth ploughing through.
Spoiler: click to toggle I worked in IBM when McClelland was the plant manager at Greenock and I dealt with him when he published the McClelland report (more on that later).
Anyway, anyone who worked in IBM Greenock at the time would have told you that the main key requisites to get on, were to be from the Inverclyde area, be a Mason, play golf, say yes to senior management and simply spend a lot of time in the office. McClelland ticked all the boxes and slowly but surely, this unremarkable man made his way to the top. I say unremarkable in that he is painted as some real visionary and captain of Industry, but has anyone heard him speak? Does he have a huge list of speaking engagements? Does he get many gigs out of Scotland? The answer to all of these is a resounding no. He's not self made and never ran his own business and has been a salaried lackey (like me) all his days.
At IBM, under the direction of his US paymasters, the manufacturing of Consumer Desktops (the awful Aptiva device) was to be put to subcontracters. Now, good procurement would mean that such operations would be put to tender where established electronic subcontract manufacturers would be invited to bid and at the time Scotland had Solectron, Fullarton, USI (not sure if Jabil were about then). But oh no!! The bold John, after being Private Jetted on Murray's plane to Marseille (CL Semi Final Timmy) and given the board room succulent lamb, gave it to the recently and specifically formed "MIMTEC", Murray's company at their facilities in Peat Road Livingston and Faulds Park in Gourock. It was an abject disaster and the aforementioned Fullartons ended up taking it over and McClelland was subsequently mutually consented from his £100k pa job in 1995 and replaced by Ian Crawford (Kilmarnock fan and geek) and then by huge tim, Charlie Morrison (good guy).
Murray, then rewards McClelland with a seat on the board of the now deceased Rangers FC. It is also at this time McClelland starts to appear on "committees" and "boards" such as Scottish Enterprise Renfrewshire, which was then the wholly autonomous Renfrewshire Enterprise.
Fast forward to 2006 and after nearly 10 years flitting between the huns and sitting on all manner of publically funded "boards" he is commissioned to write the "McClelland Report" into Public Sector Procurement in Scotland. Except, he did not write it, he merely put his name to it! How do I know this??? I was one of the team of Cap Gemini (the mob who had the original ePrcorement Scotland implementation gig) Management Consultants who wrote it!!!
A team of 4 guys (2 tims, 1 hun and 1 Rugger loving Edinburgh based Englishman) from Cap Gemini wrote 90% of the report, which was then top and tailed by a guy in the then Scottish Executive.
Anyway, that's McClelland's real CV. The guy is one of life's great imposters, he knows this, but he does at times, tend to forget it.
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Jas13
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4 Oct 2013, 09:39 PM
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The huns are dead-it's true!!
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- iaintic
- 19 Aug 2013, 11:21 PM
- Declan Brendan Timmy Bhoy
- 9 Aug 2013, 01:52 PM
Wins my vote, if only because of the sheer genius of 'Struthian lingo wallopers' Seconded ! Struthian lingo walloper has now entered the KDS dictionary. Inspired .
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lenobhoy
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4 Oct 2013, 09:50 PM
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Catch some light and it'll be alright
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- HenryClarson
- 5 Sep 2013, 07:19 AM
Gems like this piece of background information from Cossy are what make the Sevco threads worth ploughing through. Spoiler: click to toggle I worked in IBM when McClelland was the plant manager at Greenock and I dealt with him when he published the McClelland report (more on that later).
Anyway, anyone who worked in IBM Greenock at the time would have told you that the main key requisites to get on, were to be from the Inverclyde area, be a Mason, play golf, say yes to senior management and simply spend a lot of time in the office. McClelland ticked all the boxes and slowly but surely, this unremarkable man made his way to the top. I say unremarkable in that he is painted as some real visionary and captain of Industry, but has anyone heard him speak? Does he have a huge list of speaking engagements? Does he get many gigs out of Scotland? The answer to all of these is a resounding no. He's not self made and never ran his own business and has been a salaried lackey (like me) all his days.
At IBM, under the direction of his US paymasters, the manufacturing of Consumer Desktops (the awful Aptiva device) was to be put to subcontracters. Now, good procurement would mean that such operations would be put to tender where established electronic subcontract manufacturers would be invited to bid and at the time Scotland had Solectron, Fullarton, USI (not sure if Jabil were about then). But oh no!! The bold John, after being Private Jetted on Murray's plane to Marseille (CL Semi Final Timmy) and given the board room succulent lamb, gave it to the recently and specifically formed "MIMTEC", Murray's company at their facilities in Peat Road Livingston and Faulds Park in Gourock. It was an abject disaster and the aforementioned Fullartons ended up taking it over and McClelland was subsequently mutually consented from his £100k pa job in 1995 and replaced by Ian Crawford (Kilmarnock fan and geek) and then by huge tim, Charlie Morrison (good guy).
Murray, then rewards McClelland with a seat on the board of the now deceased Rangers FC. It is also at this time McClelland starts to appear on "committees" and "boards" such as Scottish Enterprise Renfrewshire, which was then the wholly autonomous Renfrewshire Enterprise.
Fast forward to 2006 and after nearly 10 years flitting between the huns and sitting on all manner of publically funded "boards" he is commissioned to write the "McClelland Report" into Public Sector Procurement in Scotland. Except, he did not write it, he merely put his name to it! How do I know this??? I was one of the team of Cap Gemini (the mob who had the original ePrcorement Scotland implementation gig) Management Consultants who wrote it!!!
A team of 4 guys (2 tims, 1 hun and 1 Rugger loving Edinburgh based Englishman) from Cap Gemini wrote 90% of the report, which was then top and tailed by a guy in the then Scottish Executive.
Anyway, that's McClelland's real CV. The guy is one of life's great imposters, he knows this, but he does at times, tend to forget it. Loved that and so did a few others in my work.
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stevoknevo
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13 Oct 2013, 12:32 AM
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Pops reply in the 'Did the Romans invent Jesus' thread 
http://kerrydalestreet.co.uk/single/?p=12531142&t=8854173
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HenryClarson
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18 Oct 2013, 05:29 PM
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Bolstering the duty of good faith
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The Outlaw Raparee on the huns thread. Straight in at Number One for me.
Spoiler: click to toggle Dear Sons of Struth
As requested, please find below, The Truth.
No one likes you. But you don't care, so that's okay.
This is, in part, due to 8 decades of institutional sectarianism and bigotry at the club you supported, instigated by the man whose stern features adorn the wagon you are driving around town, the purpose of which remains unclear. Are you trying to jog the memory of the Man in the Street, hoping he will deliver new insights into what has happened at Ibrox in the past couple of years?
Well, here's a short version. Don't thank me, it's been a pleasure watching it.
Rangers were run into the ground over a period of decades, not the last two years. David Murray came in and bought your club, which had won three championships in 20 years. It was a club that, on the face of it, appeared to be on the way up after those two decades of ritual humiliation. For the next ten years, David Murray fed the delusion of 'we are the people' with grandiose boasts and unsustainable spending. When one of your directors tried to enlighted the fans, he was lambasted. Only last year, he was dismissed as a doddery old man when he spoke of the culture of 'cheating' that everyone behind the scenes Ibrox knew of and embraced. When he died, his memory was besmirched.
All for trying to tell you the truth. As it turned out, he was right. The club was hammered into the ground and sold for a pound. You threatened Lloyds bank and demanded they clear the way to install Craig Whyte, because he was touted as your saviour. He was carried down Edmiston Drive on the shoulders the grateful fans. Attempts to enlighted you were met with anger and derision. The BBC was picketed for running a story, with the demand for 'parity of esteem', another bizarre soundbite where implied dignity obscures meaning and relevance.
Craig Whyte burned you, as predicted. 'But nobody told us, why didn't anyone tell us?' you wailed. Well, you were too busy standing behind banners on the picket line to see the obvious.
No one, not the fans or the 'billionaire' businessmen who are suddenly full of moral fibre, wanted to step up and 'save' the club and pay the money owed to the taxpayer. Remember that. It's important, if you want to know The Truth.
A deliberate decision was made to kill the club and stiff the general public of money that could have been used for services (maybe equipment for those soldiers cavorting around the pitch on Armed Services day?).
Charles Green clearly stated that the club would die and all of its history be wiped out if a CVA wasn't agreed. Still, no one stepped up. The club died and the fans allowed it to die. Maybe if you had driven around with a van at the time demanding the truth, things would have been different. Probably not, right enough. It's only a van. Not a vehicle for real change.
Charles Green was rightly suspected, but a few choice digs at Celtic and Neil Lennon and you all loved him. That shows you up for the utter lack of intelligence of your entire support. That no one could see past him anymore, simply because he had found out that bigotry was the glue that held your club together.
The truth is that Rangers exists no more than a succulent lamb breathes on a plate.
You have sat and watched your new Company be torn to pieces and you have done it with a smile on your face, backing one asset stripper one minute, then backing another a minute later. You do not have the wherewithal to make up your own mind, instead buying the stories of scheister after scheister as long as someone with 'Rangers best interests at heart' testifies on their behalf.
Whether that's Ally McCoist or Walter Smith depends on whether they are walking away, threatening to walk away, or meeting themselves coming back.
You are idiots, led by idiots. The smart people associated with the defunct club and the soon to be defunt replacement company are those who left with their pockets full, to the wailing of 'why us?' ringing in their ears. Well, why not you? You are a soft target. You have been fooled, duped, laughed at, and duped again. Not just by the spivs, but by football in general and society at large.
It has been no surprise to hear of your zombie incarnation beaten by the likes of Annan, the only surprise was it took 3 or 4 days to learn of such 'shock results'. Because no matter how you try to keep your ugly mugs in the paper, the fact is your Sevco is truly an irrelevance.
William Burroughs said this in an interview:
"The nasty sort of power: white junk, I call it—rightness; they're right, right, right—and if they lost that power, they would suffer excruciating withdrawal symptoms. The picture we get of the whole [Rangers FC and fans], people who are exclusively preoccupied with power and advantage, this must be an addiction. Suppose they lose it? Well, it's been their whole life."
Study that and you get close to The Truth. The day your club was liquidated, it lost it's status in society as a self-proclaimed 'institution' second only to the Church of Scotland in importance (another multilayered soundbite that was gobbled up by the easily outfoxed Ibrox fodder). Get used to it. It's not coming back.
Any further versions of the 'the company' are just like the whiff of mint sauce in the air as the plate gets cleaned.
You're finished. And that's The Truth.
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tomtheleedstim
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18 Oct 2013, 08:32 PM
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- stevoknevo
- 13 Oct 2013, 12:32 AM
Don't know how I missed that post. Magnificent. Sums up my own beliefs in a way I couldn't articulate.
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Wee Red
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5 Nov 2013, 01:41 PM
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- tomtheleedstim
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- 13 Oct 2013, 12:32 AM
Don't know how I missed that post. Magnificent. Sums up my own beliefs in a way I couldn't articulate. Excellent post. Humane is the word.
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Jas13
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16 Nov 2013, 05:54 PM
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The huns are dead-it's true!!
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- stevoknevo
- 13 Oct 2013, 12:32 AM
Missed that first time around - well said, that man.
Couldn't agree more when, in disaster areas, you see folk from Medecins Sans Frontiers and suchlike, doing wondrous stuff but with no hidden agenda - no conditions of bible reading, condom rejection or to build up holy points for the next world.
It is a miracle that we are here as our species has come perilously close to extinction and but for a fortuitous few forks in evolution, we wouldn't be here at all.
Add to all this the fact that you're not a hun - result !
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16 Nov 2013, 08:13 PM
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Still makes me laugh, 3 days later
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Tim Waits
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22 Nov 2013, 01:14 AM
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Small-Minded Bien-Pensant
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CaltonBhoy1967 on Peter Lawwell and everything else ...
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24 Nov 2013, 11:32 PM
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10 Dec 2013, 12:33 AM
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Ernesto's superb riposte to Bawman's impassioned plea.
A lot of heat in that debate but nice to see understanding and respect for others' perspectives.
http://kerrydalestreet.co.uk/single/?p=12635154&t=8877514
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10 Dec 2013, 11:16 AM
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- Grafenwalder
- 10 Dec 2013, 12:33 AM
I read once that one person will judge the intelligence of another based on how closely their opinion matches with his own. Going by that, I find ernesto to be a highly intelligent fellow.
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