Wings Over Scotland

What is it with you boys – never heard of Bernie? Its been the main story of the American campaign amongst progressive folk! Do you not have contacts on social media with like-minded folk across the globe!

(new comment re Saturday coming soon)

Ian Brotherhood
He’s been a thorn in the side of the Anglo /American Establishment for some time now. I don’t think the Koch side of Wall Street likes him either. The last time he was on my radar he was pretty isolated. I hadn’t been aware that he was news. Perhaps it’s a sign that change can’t be held back.

I think he’s an Independent of the small “c” conservative variety, which I suppose now counts for ‘socialist’ in the USA.

Bernie Sanders: No! to War with Iraq (10/9/2002)
link to youtube.com

Joy of joys – my latest winged Knight in shining armour – Archie [not Erchie] will be bringing me to Glasgow on Saturday. Driving from Aberdeen he will pick me up in Brechin.

There is space on the luggage rack for a couple of others so if you want to be able to say to your grandchildren in years to come –

“I had a ride with Paula Rose”

Make your case here.

@ Paula Rose You better wear your Feather Boa or Archie ( not Erchie)might miss you at the pickup point.

Hi Conan the Librarian.

Re Friday. March in Edinburgh. Not sure of times – try a search on other Wings pages (Edinburgh might work).
57 (%) white roses being laid at the Mercat Cross in Dundee at 12.30. Yes Rutherglen party in the evening. YES flag flying from my window all day.
George Square on Saturday. (See ‘off-topic’).

@Conan

I hope you’ve got the 26th on your calendar.

As someone said on the main thread – where has Bugger (the panda) disappeared to. Does anyone know if he’s ok?

I thought I had his email address but can’t find it.

@ Ronnie Anderson
@ Paula Rose

Jings, reading the comments above, Archie (not Erchie), a “winged Knight in shining armour”, and Paula’s arrival in Glasgow, feather boa flying in the breeze, might be like a scene from Priscilla Queen of the Desert!

Cannae wait 😉

If there is a seat on the bus left then I would love to fill it!

@ X_sticks

Just emailed him.

@Ronnie, I’m working Friday might might turn up anyway…

Gosh TWO handsome beaus escorting me to Glasgow!

Paula

I’ll be your taxi driver for life if you can spot a UKOK sticker on the trip down! 😀

My majestic steed has a solitary heated seat for you and Archie to debate over, there is also an audio input for the radio so feel free to bring some tunes.

Oh goodie a taxi driver for life! Knew it was sensible of me not to have scraped it off the lamp-post! ( I presume Finlay honey, you mean any bt/no sticker )

Silly boy changes rules and expects free lunch – we may be an hour late fellow wingers.

Then have a word with Finlay about upsetting schedules.

Hi X_Sticks.

Re Alliance Convention.

This is a post I’ve just done on the “YES Dundee and Surrounding Areas Events & Information” Facebook page.

“Has anyone heard anything about the Yes Alliance Conference, organised by Dom Anderson, that was supposed to take place in January but was postponed until Saturday, 19th September?

When I log into yesconnect.scot, it says I have no events.”

http://yesconnect.scot

Update: I’ve just received this email:-

“A message that you sent to the following recipient could not be delivered due to a permanent error. ** The remote server 212.227.15.41 responded with: ** dom@allianceforscotland.org.uk 550:Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable This message was created automatically by mail delivery software on the server avasout02.”

Methinks, perchance, this event is not happening…

@BrianDtt

Thanks Brian. Yup – event cancelled – no notification apart from post on facebook.

Still not sure if I can do Glasgow, got a wedding reception in Banchory in the evening.

I’ll need to revise plans to see what I can do. Will be at Glasgow if I can.

Giddy with excitement darlings – not only Archie [not Erchie] and Finlay but also hunky X_Sticks escorting me to Glasgow! Swoon xx

Martyn in da’s hoose

Yer oan the list too!

Up to 43 fabulous Wingers

Hi Betty Boop.

Add Croompenstein to your list – and Hoss Macintosh and Alan Macintosh.

BTW: “Castlemilk Chavy” is actually Castlehills Chavie.

@ Bdtt

Thanks Brian.

That makes 46!

Apologies Chavie. I did know it was Castlehills, but, it’s the day after the night before and I accidentally miscalled your name.

We’re still fabulous 🙂

Hi All

I reckon there were at least 49 Wingers as there are at least three missing from ‘the List’ ( proud to be on that one as well as the MFI one)

Below is a wee ‘after gig’ video from the Clutha with my apologies for the crap post-production which I couldn’t be ersed doing..lazy I know but lack of sleep and the wish to put this out a.s.a.p is my excuse. It’s on the YEW CHOOB supplemental channel but is unlisted as I thought we limit it to the ‘family’

link to youtube.com

With reference to having lost ‘Ronnie’s erse shot’ in the first video..I’ve just found it but will only ‘go public’ if Ronnie consents or there is so much of an outcry that the material is released under an FOI request.

Also..many thanks to the Yes Rutherglen Wingers who invited me to their Shindig the previous evening and for providing a bed for a travelling CHOOBER.X

@ Archie [not Erchie], thanks!

For me, social media is excellent, because I am outside the UK and yet I can keep connected to what is really happening in Scotland through articles, pics, etc. put online by Wingers.

I keep in touch with what is being spun as the news in Scotland by reading the MSM. 🙂

Hi David.

You could find this link of interest:-

link to dundee3js.freeforums.org

Once the thread gets going, most of the input is from me (specially since September 2013); most of the comments are from ex-pats.

Well that’s us back home after a hectic weekend. Wonderful meeting all the beautiful wingers. Paula Rose, how you manage to walk on those heels, well I’m soooo jealous!

And Finlay you stood me up, but I will forgive as you were in good company. Ronnie and everyone I missed saying cheerio to you as we got waylaid by friends and ended up going for a meal.

For Paula link to youtube.com

and for everyone else with much love

link to youtube.com

Hi Bob Sinclair.

Yirran affie man, iye?

Yi turn up at Geordie’s Square as the curtains are being drawn (not painted), then you do a post here that should have been in Quarantine.

What are you like? Your badge name noted onnyhoo…

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@ cearc talking aboot erses, the Clutha vidio by Yew Choob Jock Scott,you,ll need tae watch the directors cut & Happy Birthday tae the wee chookie hens N duck xx.

@ Archie [no erchie] thats the fulla JTL lol ,hi JTL.An whit dey U mean normal people except Ronnie,is it the wie ah walk,explain yerself Mr ,an nae refferences tae Cearc wee Duck lol. An U better watch oot ah could be in a place near U soon lol.

@ Betty Boop You missed oot NinjaP,s Husband & Son.

@ Nana Kevin/Delboy (livestream) got the plaque & said thanks muchly,ah never even got ah keek at them, Hi Norman.

I saw Paula Rose attempting to conceal the hairy string in her cleavage, but she surreptitiously removed it shortly thereafter as it was too itchy.

Great to see the list above – more than 40 Wingers? 🙂

JLT – how did I miss you? 🙁

Best Dressed Winger of the Day (Male) – Taranaich
(No other awards are being made as no-one else has been nominated in any other categories.)

@Nana Smith

I’m so sorry! I got myself into an interesting discussion with Ian Brotherhood and Taranaich and it’s a crime to prematurely leave a stimulating conversation!

I thought I’d be getting a free lunch from Paula this weekend but I think it is I who owes you a free lunch now. Damn. Oh well! There aren’t many people who I’d rather spend lunch with than yourself. Maybe the gorgeous Paula Rose. 😉

Lovely meeting you and Norman and I hope we can all make the event on October 24th so I may repent!

@Ian Brotherhood and Taranaich
Pleasure to meet you two, there are not many people who can produce a powerful enough chat to make a man miss lunch with Nana Smith!

@Ed Winchester Doonthetoon
A one off change of pseudonym – especially for you. 😛

@Archie[Not Erchie], X-Sticks and Paula Rose
Pleasure driving down with you guys, thanks for the tunes Paula and thanks for keeping me awake on the road back Archie!

Pity you had to leave so soon X-Sticks however the quality of your company more than exceeded the quantity.

A momentous honour to have been stroked by the stunning Paula Rose (and to have my beard fondled by a random passer-by; a Paula Rose wannabe?).

@Jock Scot
I don’t know why I was so sleepy driving home… perhaps one or two of the anecdotes were a tad too much for me… A bridge too far! 😉 Hope you found a suitable Ronnie approved receptacle for your snotty Jura!

@Ronnie
What a cheeky fellow! Great craic. Especially loved the story of your silver-tongued flag flipping. I hope everyone is o’er the moon today. Perhaps Pete can make you a flashy new badge! 😉

@All the Wingers I met yesterday
What a day! My absolute pleasure meeting the Wings Family and experiencing yesterdays event. Some memories to last a lifetime!

Shame I couldn’t get enough time with some of you, will need to meet up again soon.

If a cause can be measured by the quality of its participants then I think you guys and girls raise the bar higher than Jim Murphy in a glue factory!

All of my love.
Finlay

Oh slap ma face wie ah wet haddie, how could I miss Jan / Patrician & Gerry Parker,sos gerry ah never got over tae speak tae U.

I made a big post earlier which hasn’t appeared and I didn’t save it. If it doesn’t appear by tomorrow I’ll rewrite. 🙁

And also Quinie most definitely Finlay is the handsomist young man ever to sport a beard – swoon!

@ Finlay You were welcomed by all the Wingers yesterday, now welcome to the bain of Wings, GCHQ interception your lost post goes via Cheltenham lol.

Gordon Bennett!

Paula Rose does Spike Milligan!

And as for Quinie frae Angus at 10.32?!

Carry On Wings!

O) 😉 🙂

Well Paula, I am not surprised. Archie kindly walked me down the road from the Square to the Clutha and I was most impressed at the way his kilt was swinging, this way and that.

I am now most intrigued and look forward to hearing more.

@Finlay (10.00) –

‘I made a big post earlier..’

Awww man, please don’t encourage them, eh? 🙁

link to bbc.co.uk

Lib Dems invite Labour to play Tory with them?

Well I’m knackered. Off to bed. Might take a leaf out of David Cameron’s book and count pigs instead of sheep. 😉

Here’s a double-header, for Paula and Quinie –

Suzi Quatro & Bonnie Tyler –

link to youtube.com

@ Brian Doonthetoon , thanks for the link to the forum. I’ll be reading that later, but tonight I’ve been busy reading Twitter about the exploits of David ‘Long Pig’ Cameron. Haven’t laughed this much in ages!

And on the plus side for Indy, the Daily Mail revelations about Cameron’s interspecies shenanigans must be worth another 2% onto the Yes side’s vote.

The craziest thing for me was how strangely forgiving of Cameron’s behavior the Mail commentators are! Eg:
“So what?! Good for him, enjoying his student years.”

“God it was the 80s and Cameron’s from an upper middle class background. Can’t stand all this holier than thou nonsense!”

“I actually think this article just makes Cameron look like a normal bloke with lots of money at Oxford”

Link to original article for those who don’t do Twitter:

link to dailymail.co.uk

Here is the archive version of the same article:
link to archive.is

Thanks for all the photos and video from Saturday.

Glad I made the effort.

Sorry I missed you Quinie, as you say, next time x

*note to self “don’t post when pissed” 😀

Hi Finlay.

Your post has appeared above. It, most likely, went into Rev Stu’s manual moderation queue, because of the change of username.

BTW: I’ve no idea where “Hector” came from!

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Hi Jock Scot (and others).

You can see (as long as you don’t blink) Ed Winchester, right at the start of this clip, twice, then just before the end. It’s Part 1 of the uploaded Series 1, Episode 1, of “The Fast Show.

link to youtube.com

If your appetite is whetted, he appears again in Part 2. If you do watch Part 2, doesn’t Professor Denzil Dexter look like a pi$$take of Neil Oliver? Watch the way he flicks his hair. Prescient stuff…

link to youtube.com

Which Scottish man has won an Olympic Gold medal, has been top of his profession for the last two years and recently achieved something never done before by any other?

He won a million euro last week by winning straight off the top 3 grand prix horse jumping races in the world. He’s from Fife and another world class Scot in my view.

Remember hearing all about his success last week on the telly? No neither did I. Here is a snippet of what it meant.

Funny that the Canadian crowd knew what it meant, we heard fuck all as usual.

link to youtube.com

Just read the Constitutional Wrangle for dummies post from 2012

“….and lo it came to pass”

well done Stu

@pete

Sterling effort Pete and a fantastic result. That was some stint you put in on the badge stall. I hope they bought you a pint when you eventually got to the Clutha. Beers on me next Saturday 😀

@BrianDTT.

Thanks for all the stuff on Andy Pelc, Brian. Much appreciated. Comments below the line duly noted!

I don’t visit O/T very often. Usually tucked up with my Horlicks and Willie Pettigrew Special Edition Lounging Silks at this hour.

Met Paula Rose on Sats: those heels!

Wow!

Just, wow!

@ pete the camera Wow ah thought by weight & bucket nearly full but £1000 + the £165 for iScot , days & nights oot dont come any better.

I went to a footie match once – a cup final Motherwell won 4-3.

@ ronnie – Thats the first time I ever lifted [a wee bit] £1000 in a bucket. Great news and all credit to BDTT for his unflappable demeanour.

@ BDTT – Thanks for giving the wee boy in the wheelchair those extra badges. That made my day special. His Mum was over the moon.

Hullo?

Just thought I’d stick my head round the door and say hello.

Fantastic collection on Saturday, I love my new badges. The “special” one will be kept close to my heart.

@Conan the Librarian

Will see you there too mister.

@Conan

Look forward to seeing you in Edinburgh.

Your round I think 😀

Hi Simone honey – lovely to meet you in the Square.

I’ll take a badge, Brian!

My latest blog isn’t directly related to Scottish politics, but the similarities between gamergaters/rabid puppies are striking, as evidenced by the comments:

link to wildernessofpeace.wordpress.com

Figures this’d be ridiculously popular (500 hits in the past hour, more than half from one blog)

Oh damn, sorry, I thought Quarantine and Off-Topic were the same! Yes, I hope to be wearing the same, more or less.

Hi guys, great to see so many faces at George Sq and hope to meet more at George St!

I’m planning to get the train at around 3 or 4pm with Hevvabeccywoss and Cactus – details to be finalized, so it would be cool if we could arrange to travel east with a few more Wingers!
(coming back on the last train too)

I’ll check back in tomorrow to see if it’s doable 🙂

3 – 40m at that railway station opposite freedom Sq which needs a new name.

Do you really want to be removed from my Christmas card list Ian honey?

@Ian Brotherhood

Thought I’d jump in and beat you to the kick off.

Born To Be Alive – Patrick Hernandez

link to youtube.com

haha That gut learnt everyone of his great moves from me 🙂

IB try this
link to youtube.com
mine’s a double

Here’s Ottawan, with D.I.S.C.O. –

link to youtube.com

There was an obscene version of this, sung entirely in Glaswegian (by a tribute ‘band’ called ‘Thearrawan’) all about the attributes of the singer’s girlfriend. Thankfully, no copies of it exist.

I am going to Stomp right in here with a bit of Bliss. link to youtube.com