Beware snooping TV mics

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Offensive, insulting and abusive language is not condoned on CQN nor anywhere else but if you’re mumbling to this effect while typing more prosaic comments we don’t have a problem. If, by some clever use of technology, I discretely caught you on mic while recording a feature for CQN and broadcast your words it would be my fault, not yours.

If Neil Lennon addressed insulting or abusive language at an official or opponent then he should be correctly disciplined, but if, as reported, television microphones picked up randomly comments there is no case to answer.

We’re getting back to the days when directional radio mics were used to pick up sound from Celtic fans getting off buses outside Falkirk Stadium in 2009. This one feels opportunistic and is not balanced by audio from other technical areas under scrutiny. If this is how the SFA want to control technical areas, they should issue advice to this effect and introduce appropriate measures, not attempt to discipline Neil Lennon without precedent.
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  1. Very sad to hear about Iain Banks and his terminal cancer. Not all of his books were my cup of tea although I thoroughly enjoyed a few of them, particularly The Steep Approach to Garbadale and Stonemouth. Love his wicked sense of humour.

     

     

    I met Iain a few years ago at the Edinburgh Book Festival. A true gentleman. Here’s hoping he survives long enough to complete what will be his final book The Quarry.

  2. Celtic have access to legal advice.

     

    They know the score.

     

    A first year in law could dismiss the latest against NL.

     

     

    Have Celtic chosen to rabble rouse?

     

    Do us of CQN quality prefer to wallow?

     

     

    RRC @19:45 certainly provides a starting point.

     

    I’ve bookmarked that one.

     

     

    HH RRC.

     

    So stop moaning and Or w

  3. celticrollercoaster on

    Auldheid

     

    01:11 on

     

    4 April, 2013

     

     

    Surely Dermot and his cronies will vote it down!

     

     

    HH

     

     

    CRC

  4. Tom McLaughlin @01:11 like you I was floored.

     

     

    I just took it for granted that his solid and unpredictable investigations would be with us until old age.

  5. Ntassoolla –

     

     

    I may be wrong but wasn’t Iain Banks one of the writers who, as a group, demanded the impeachment of Tony Blair for war crimes?

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    Moonbeams..

     

     

    Sorry for Any Confusion..Reading the Blog Back from Page 10..Names were Disappearing..:O))))))

     

     

    if l read Back Far Enough it would Probs Just be You and Jinks..;-)

     

     

    Summa

  7. Tom I’m not abut to try myself on the details.

     

    It’s his investigations that I shall miss.

     

    By his method he awoke many young men.

     

    Some of whom startled me.

     

     

    He’s an example of what literary device can achieve.

     

    The antithesis of the demagogue. A challenge to the intellectual.

     

     

    In my wee world I see Ian Banks and Roddy Doyle as writers from the same tree.

  8. Margaret McGill on

    Tom McLaughlin

     

     

    01:34 on 4 April, 2013

     

     

    Aye Tom. Anti Blair anti Israel Walking on Glass. Whats no to like?

  9. Margaret McGill on

    The SNP stuff maybe..but he sees Scotland in terms of the declaration of Arbroath not the poisoned chalice of John Knox’s interpretation of Martin Luther’s declaration of his 95 theses.

  10. moonbeams wd. kano 1000 \o/ supporting neil lennon 100%. champions. c’mon wee oscar.

     

    Good luck to all the CQNers demonstrating in George Square on Saturday.

     

    BOTB. Bring own tea bags.

  11. MM your cherry picking and of one of Scotland’s Sons is not welcome.

     

     

    Appropriation of a man’s legacy when he has just declared his last?

     

     

    You remind me of those maudlin republicans who think that to mention Easter grants them the heritage of the Edinburgh Bhoy.

     

    Did it ever occur to you that such arrogance is why the Hibees spit on us?

  12. Margaret McGill on

    Ntassoolla

     

     

    03:03 on 4 April, 2013

     

     

    Cherry picking? Iain Banks? Elaborate. I’ve read most of his books. I admire him. What are you getting at?

  13. Thindimebhoy on

    The Sandaza Sacking

     

     

    His “sin” was he highlighted Sevcos costs down the road and his own ambitions

     

     

    Save the Sandaza 1 and Tommy fae Glasgow

  14. Sandazas’ real name is Keyser Söze who is AKA Tommy from Glasgow.

     

     

    UsualSuspects csc

  15. Margaret McGill on

    Posting on CQN is like hiring someone to tune your piano…

     

     

    A piano-tuner was called to a nightclub to tune the piano. He was at it for five hours, but the bill only came to £3. The manager said: ‘Is that all? How come you worked for five hours to tune the piano and you only charge £3?’ He said: ‘What?’

  16. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    Margaret

     

     

    Thanks,bud-off to my kip wi a smile on my face for a change!

  17. Margaret McGill on

    BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS

     

     

    03:59 on 4 April, 2013

     

    Good night BMCUWP. Seriously that is one of my all time favourites. The calibration from ouch to WTF was that is legend.

  18. midfield maestro on

    tom mclaughlin

     

     

    Wish we were back in Surfers, been peeing down in Sydney since we got here, hope it breaks tomorrow, me & Mairéad meant to be climbing bridge.

  19. Thindimebhoy on

    Player gets duped there is an investigation player gets sacked

     

     

    Chairman gets duped no investigation… period

  20. margaret mcgill

     

     

    02:48 on

     

    4 April, 2013

     

    Beware of snooping TV mics especially when youre buying players on EBT’s etc

     

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG27qGTMXa4

     

     

    That Walter Smith interview with St. Mirrens greatest ever supporter

     

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    Imagine, just for a moment, that that was an interview between NFL and some member, any member, of the SMSM.

     

     

    And there you have it….!

     

     

    G’Night Vienna…..

  21. Good morning friends from a currently dry but cloud covered East Kilbride. So not quite so cold this morning.

     

     

    Jobo

  22. midfield maestro

     

     

    Lovely, hot ‘n’ sunny here in Adelaide. And the wine’s better.

     

     

    S

  23. midfield maestro on

    shady

     

     

    Not doing Adelaide, still got 4nights in Sydney, the 2 in Melbourne & 4 in Perth, then hame tae Glesga.

  24. emusanorphan on

    That non alcohol induced sleep isn’t all its cracked up to be! Asleep at 1am, awake at 5am!! Now if someone told me I’d be reading a match report on Seattle Sounders v Santos Laguna at 5.30 am then I’d be looking for hidden surveillance equipment in my bedroom.

     

     

    Happy Birthday Bro if you’re lurking!

  25. Midfield

     

     

    Sounds like a cracking trip. What are you going to do with the airmiles?

     

     

    S

  26. Morning all!

     

     

    Still no statement from CFC concerning the SFA ‘witch hunt’ against NFL? Can we expect one soon?

     

     

    I would expect the club to stand shoulder to shoulder with the manager and give him full their full backing.

     

     

    Quite sure that Bob Kelly and wee Fergus would have had something to say by now!

     

     

    Another suggestion for the board: a complete overhaul of the PR department – bring in people with the necessary experience and guile who know how to deal with the press and media. I sometimes wonder if we actually have a PR department!

     

     

    HH!!