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Posted on
January 02, 1968 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
For off-topic chat. Duh.
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A tall tale
Wee Books
Video
Probably a robbery
Transphobia
Lost Paraguayos. link to youtube.com
@Ian B
Oh, that’s a good un’. š
Michael McCabe:
Put another chair on the fire,bring that bottle over here!
š
Peace Always
I have to play this. it just seems So. link to youtube.com
These two were a bit mahoosive when I lived in the states.
link to youtube.com
link to youtube.com
This Song ? Well I try my best. link to youtube.com
Before I turn in for tonight, I’d like to type that if you have been affected by anything you’ve read in ‘off-topic’ over the past 24 hours, there are various help lines available to supply you with comfort, in your time of need.
google.com is a fine source for what you need – that or ‘Quarantine’.
link to wingsoverscotland.com
And, BTW, this help is not available in any stores – it can only be found be sending me your bank a/c details, including any passwords needed.
Don’t be fooled by lesser claims. Try me now!
Michael McCabe:
Now you’ve got me putting on my velvet bell-bottoms and my
cheesecloth shirt!
š
Peace Man
I am proof you don’t need to be Smart to Appreciate Music. link to youtube.com
If Mr Doonthetoon can Not be available!
Telephone Smallaxe @ the PRO-CLAIMERS Arbroath 100
Peace Always
Michael McCabe:
Smart! Sir you have the intelligence of a Midge
š
Peace Always
The best of the Lords
link to youtube.com
Oooh, just noticed it’s 1.00 again! yippeeeeeeeeeee
yesindyref2:
I could nearly sing that song,but I could not have told you that guys name in a month of Sundays.
Peace Always
Michael McCabe
Hope you’ve not got a pretensious-o-meter handy but I think you’ve got a firm grasp on the human condition and can, on occasion, be quite profound, frankly.
@Smallaxe
Well, I did go for the flares and double-breasted jackets, flowery ties and colourful shirts, but then settled down into Brutus jeans for a while!
Mmm, I remember I had a black hat with a red cravat round it. Used to know I was doing OK if a girl I was dancing with took it off and put it on her own head.
indyref i just found this …i have no idea what or how have a look.
link to docs.google.com
i was in chrome docs program, then i came out then this appeared on my screen?
@Cherry
Answered on main thread š
Greatest western even and one of the greatest scenes.
link to youtube.com
Did everybody’s internet go down or just me?
Some one get that clip. Some won’t.
Yes, Henry Fonda as a baddie: that was a real shock. And what a western it was.
And of course CC…..
*sighs*
Anyhoo, something to get you all awake. Just don’t stand too close to your speakers, Smallaxe.
link to youtube.com
Tinto Chiel:
Thanks for the warning,I now have no speakers,I turned my clocks back last night and I think I overdone it.
I turned them back 310yrs,Freeedom š
Peace Always
Powerful and controlled performance fae this wee lass.
link to youtube.com
Here’s something for you Chic, it’s 15 minutes long but I believe you will like it.
link to youtube.com
Mid-semester essays bagged and ‘turned-in’.
Talk about a ‘sense of freedom’? Man, ahm pure dancin’ wi’ masel here…
š
McFadden & Whitehead, ‘Aint No Stopping Us Now’ –
link to youtube.com
I’m sure my mum had a Sirdar pattern for one of these JB outfits.
Soo-perb…
James Brown, ‘Soul Power’, Zaire 1974.
link to youtube.com
Ian Brotherhood
I’m sure our payback is coming soon Ian. All I can say though is tight, polished even. Very reveling. š
Months ago we were supposed to start rehearsals for the premiere of this at the Friends of WOS Independence Day social!
Has anyone been practising?
Obviously, we know who’ll be doing the sexy lady/heels stuff, but what about the rest of it?
I nominate Thepnr to be Bruno. (I’ve already baggsed the dude in the white suit.)
Mark Ronson, ‘Uptown Funk’ featuring Bruno Mars
link to youtube.com
Revealing not reveling.
That last comment might make some sense now.
Have to give this one a wee run-out from time to time.
The classic, when TOTP got mixed-up between Jackie Wilson and Oor Ain Jocky…
Rowland must’ve gone fucking mental when he saw the playback.
Dexy’s Midnight Runners, ‘Jackie Wilson Said’ –
link to youtube.com
Jocky Wilson doing his stuff without Dexy’s…
link to youtube.com
And there was me just about to suggest that difference provides the space for imagination, innovation and progress. Ach well. š
The B-52’s – There’s A Moon In The Sky (Called The Moon)
link to youtube.com
Thanks for stirring memories of adolescence Rock. š
Ian Brotherhood:
Congratulations Ian,well done getting your essays in.I just popped in with a flagon of “Electric Soup” for you,so that you can celebrate properly.We’re proud of you Professor Brotherhood.
Oh,by the way,just in case you drink it all,Happy New Year!
š
Peace,Love and Respect
Thepnr
He was a true enlightenment scientist, ‘dare to think’ unlike the majority these days who prefer deferentiality or lionisation.
Cannot stand those who try to win the argument by quoting some higher authority rather than giving their own reasoning.
Science is not a liberal arts degree.
I haven’t stuck on any music for a while so here’s one from 1968 to waken you up. It features Adrian Gurvitz, who went on to write a classic – in an attic.
link to youtube.com
The second two are from the early 70s. In the first, substitute the phrase “ESSO understands” in the choruses and think about a Morris Minor wending its way through English country lanes. Fans of Marmalade can check out the producer/arranger named on the label.
link to youtube.com
From the same band is this one, which, when I reheard it a couple of years ago I recognised but I’d never known who did it. It was unlocked from a dusty corner of my musical memorybockers.
link to youtube.com
@Smallaxe –
š
Cheers aplenty & thanks amuch.
When I get a place in an ivory tower I will have fond memories of y’all, and pen the occasional ditty about the days when I mixed with The Great Unwashed.
It’s the least I can do…
In the meantime, here’s Julie Fowlis doing ‘Touch The Sky’ with her pals –
link to youtube.com
And now for Something Completely Different. link to youtube.com
I forgot to mention you can also be quite brilliant Michael? As I perceive it obvs.
That was obs. meant to be a question, as in “did I mention….”.
@Michael McCabe
š š š
I particularly liked “I do not think clams stop rusting” for “Didn’t mean to make you cry”. Just stop it, OK! LOL
@Smallaxe
I go away for the weekend and miss all the fun, what with billboards causing mayhem all over the place and Express hacks giving Stu cause to sue.
Looks like the off topic gang are keeping you amused.
Hope you are doing well these days xx
@cearc
Tried calling you several times, no reply. Can you email me.
You’ve got to love these guys. What happened to that WOS dating service btw? Scotland needs repopulating! š
The B-52’s – “Song For A Future Generation”
link to youtube.com
Crossword in the digital National is the same as Saturday’s.
Is the dead tree version also thus afflicted.
Also the number square is the easiest ever, you could just write the numbers straight in by simple inspection.
Oh well, no excuse to delaying work on my windows.
B listed building, 170 years old, sash windows not allowed to alter their appearance.
I have devised a method for double glazing them but it takes a bit of work.
To be honest, I would have thought most LGBT identifying Scots should be open to “The Methodology of the Oppressed”. I’m straight though so what would I know?
Nana:
I’m fine Nana,thanks,hope you enjoyed your weekend.
Peace Always
@Smallaxe
Oops just saw your comment on the main thread. I usually post links, take my wee dug out and then I check the thread in case anyone has spotted a broken link or whatever.
Was chatting to the postie and now I’m chilled to the bone Brrr
Nana:
Postman’s knock? š
Peace Always
@Chic –
You’re right enough, the cryptic in paper is Sat’s, although other puzzles seem new.
Don’t know what that’s all about…
Ian
Aye, a wee bit annoying because I had two or three questionmarked answers to check.
“Iām straight though so what would I know?”
I just realised that’s a bit crass as I’m defining myself as “straight” (i.e. the norm) in comparison to LGBT folk, who must, therefore, be deviant or deficient.
Sorry, I’m not up on the latest labels. Rusty, Edinburgh.
CameronB Brodie:
CameronB,my friend,no need for labels,love is love.
Rusty,Edinburgh.See Tinto Chiel I’m sure he has plenty of WD40
although he may not have enough to do Edinburgh. š
Peace Always
nana,
Have done. The phone line is down.
Chic,
Unfortunately, I have lost contact with an old friend who had designed double and triple pulley systems that fitted into the same space as the originals. He was doing very nicely supplying them with approval to listed buildings in the Bristol/Bath conservation areas back in the ’80s.
So it can be done and I am sure that you can work it out. I think that the wheels were laid flat to the frame.
@Chic –
I checked with National, seems it was a hitch and all should be back to normal tomorrow.
Sorry, guys, it’s click-flooring week at Tinto Towers and I’m all out of lubrication (ooh, matron!), so this may be appropriate:
link to youtube.com
I know it’s almost tea time, but enjoy some cheese.
Thanks Ian, hope they still post the answers to Sat’s.
Thanks for that Nana. The system I came up with works no problem with the original pully weight systems and it is cheap and effective.
I did a trial conversion on a large bathroom with a large window (12 panes of glass). Chose the bathroom since it is about the worst place for potential steam ingress into the sealed units. It has been in for a year, and no intra glass misting issues. Also that room has gone from being the coldest one we had to the warmest now with no change in the heating system.
Tinto Chiel:
That’s Fricke n’ Rich coming from you!
š
Peace Always
Chic McGregor:
Chick!
I think that it was cearc,not Nana,that gave advice on windows
#Specsavers š
Peace Always
Heeheeheeheehee!
It’s the way ye tell ’em, Smallaxe.
At my age, I can’t get no genuflection.
Tinto Chiel:
Five deep knee bends….and relax š
Peace Always
Smallaxe
Your right, sorry cearc, Nana.
BTW Chick is short for Cearc, Chic is short for Tearlach. š
@yesindyref2
See you were busy putting some right over at the Daily Express tonight š
link to archive.is
Chic McGregor:-)
You win Chic,I’m off to Specsavers. š
Peace Always
A seaman meets a pirate in a bar.
They talk about their adventures on the sea.
The seaman notes that the pirate has a peg-leg, a hook, and an eye patch.
The seaman asks, āSo, how did you end up with the peg-leg?ā
The pirate replies, āWe were in a storm at sea, and I was swept overboard into a school of sharks.
Just as my men were pulling me out, a shark bit my leg off.ā
āWow!ā said the seaman. āWhat about your hookā?
āWellā, replied the pirate, āWe were boarding an enemy ship and were battling the other sailors with swords.
One of the enemy cut my hand off.ā
āIncredible!ā remarked the seaman. āHow did you get the eye patchā?
āA seagull dropping fell into my eye,ā replied the pirate.
āYou lost your eye to a seagull dropping?ā the sailor asked incredulously.
āWell,ā said the pirate, āit was my first day with the hook.ā
@Brian Doonthetoon
It’s good to have a wee laugh now and agin š
Once upon a time in the West. link to youtube.com
link to youtube.com
@Michael
Muppets funny as feck š š Na Na Na Na
In Scotland though some prefer Aye Aye Aye Aye Aye Ayeeeee.
I like this wee song. link to youtube.com
Michael McCabe:
I liked it also and I like the colours on his guitar
Peace Always
@Thepnr
Thanks, I think I’m starting to get the style now. Correct wrong info, highlight the bigotted comments, and welcome all to visit our beautiful country and check it out for themselves. We’ll always keep a welcome here.
Doddle!
link to youtube.com
Ooops.
@Smallaxe
Good morning, hope you had a restful night.
Get the coffee on, links on main thread and here’s a few more you and some folks may find interesting.
link to irishpost.co.uk
link to noglory.org?
1972 Bank of England director “We control all press & politicians”. Justin Walker, Harry Pilkington
link to youtube.com
Nana:
Thanks for the extra links,you have fed me well this morning.
Hope you are well,give your little dog a biscuit and a clap from me. š
Peace Always
@Smallaxe
Beautiful crisp morning here spent lifting the last of the apples crop. Looks like it will be apple pie, crumble or similar for some time. Neighbours happy to get their share and my wee dug had a chew as well.
My thoughts are with you and your family today, hoping the results are good xx
Nana:
Thank you for your kind thoughts,the support that I have received from your good self and many others has gone a long in lifting my spirits and confirming my belief that there are more good people than bad living in our beautiful country and planet.
Peace,Love and Gratitude
Billy
long way: up above š
@Rogue Coder ~
Cheers for me 10,000 flags delivery š
They all fly/stick from now until we’re independent and beuyond.
From the 1st of November 2016 until Thursday the xx/xx/20xx
‘Sherk-a-leg’ do not let Scotland down by AC/DC
link to youtube.com
Crossword back to normal today with Saturday’s answers.
Just a thought..
As there’s been many a talk of a new small book..
Consider.. ‘The Wee Black n Blue Book.’
Combine both into the one for the new update..
Begin on the negative and end on the positive..
I can see the cover already.. cheers.
Evening, groovers.
Haven’t had folk for a while. If you watched the PBS American Civil War series you might remember it.
link to youtube.com
Heard this in the car.
Well-known but good licks.
link to youtube.com
Three questions I need help answering. Can I get some please. TA
1. My wi-fi modem appeared to receive a ‘software upgrade’ and now keeps switching itself off. Have I been hacked or is it simply gash tech?
2. Can one achieve a ‘correct’ perspective without having all the necessary information on which to base one’s senses of proportion and priority.
3. If difference provides the space for progress, can progress occur in the absence of difference?
4. David Mundell, Secretary of State for Scotland, fluffy or dangerous?
5. Do I have a future selling turboencabulators?
6. Paranoid, me???
7. Is it not painfull how long it takes some folk to recognise the error of their ways and adopt better practice? It’s taken me until now to save this to a text file. š
link to un.org
Though probably unnecessary.
link to urbandictionary.com
link to urbandictionary.com
Cheers for the Folk Alley TC, a most excellent quartet..
.. I loves the swell of the strings š
It got the hair up on the back of ma neck, that’s endorphins for ye.
Heading out in the Southside furra swally in this fine city, look out.
From only the only Eno-less Roxy Music album I liked, you know, before they became just a Byron Ferrari cabaret act:
link to youtube.com
Fresh tablecloth.
Cheers, Cactus. Have a good night. Curry on the horizon ce soir?
CameronB: you’re a great man for the hard questions.
But who is David Mundell? Some kinda magician or somefink?
Can I re-work number two without appearing too up myself?
2. Can one prioritise ācorrectlyā without having access to all the information required to inform one’s senses of perspective, proportion and scale?
Strange thing happened on the herald today. I’d done that posting on leask’s article where I’d taken the unionists abusive postings and made a list, and even made indirect attacks on leask. All postings stayed up. But on another thread I made a reply, not aginst the rules, but a very weak reply which I didn’t like and wished I hadn’t bothered but didn’t delete it. 10 or 15 minutes later it was deleted. Like I say nothing offensive, but not my style. Makes me think someone was doing me a favour. I also think it’s happened before.
Very strange. Maybe I have a guardian angel, or at least, a herald one!
link to youtube.com
@CameronB Brodie
I quickly got this “2. If your computer’s connection is wireless/wifi, you may be on a crowded wireless channel,” (the other 2 choices not applicable).
Possible the software upgrade has switched wireless channels on your router, the computer has picked it up OK, but as it says it’s crowded, your neighbour is using the same channel!
You’d need to find out how to change channel on your router.
It’s a possibility, that’s all.
yesindyref2:
In the sunshine of your love?
be an angel
Peace Always
@CBB
Thinking about that, the software upgrade could ahve defaulted to the US which uses different channels to Europe. Don’t know the details, but maybe a passing taxi, your mobile phone, central heating pump emits enough on that frequency range to upset the router so it safetey reboots. I’m guessing!
Tinto Chiel
ffs I telt you he’s the “Secretary of State for Scotland”. In other words, he provides the solution of synthesis that enables English nationalism and the respect of human rights to co-exist.
Remember kids, British nationalism is English nationalism.
Just say no to thugs!
yesindyref2
Thanks, both for informing and taking the time to recognise there are actually a couple of serious questions there.
btw sorry for losing the rag the other night. If you were paying attention you may have spotted I used “nn” instead of the letter “m”. I’ve no idea what that was but perhaps it indicates the degree to which my mind was trying to rebel, as my self-respect fought to exert itself. š
Hope there’s no lingering animosity.
CameronB: got him now- Wee Snackbeard/Magnificent Husk, of course! Got him mixed up with yon Copperfield dude.
Mind you, that wee boy of his….. makes Jacob Rees-Mogg look like spliff-sucking hipster.
How are you, Smallaxe? Hope things went ok today.
@CBB
link to youtube.com
Peace Always!
@CBB
“4. David Mundell, Secretary of State for Scotland, fluffy or dangerous?”
Our man in manana.
link to youtube.com
yesindyref2:
Music to my ears š
Peace Always
Tinto Chiel:
Hi Tinto,I’m just a wee bit fu.. Kna.. tired,but OK.Thanks.
Quiet in here tonight,slow on main T.have you laid that floor yet?
Peace Always
Answers for Cameron. Remember that answers are like ‘Tory principles’- if you don’t like these ones, I have others…:
1: Of course you’ve been hacked! See ans to No. 6 for more details. (Or ask GCHQ)
2: Who defines ‘correct’, and who defines ‘necessary’?
3: Yes, progress can occur. This q reminds me of the one about ‘do we need bad things in order to have good things? No of course not.
4: Mundell IS dangerous. Not in himself, cos he is a useless buffoon, but in the party he supports. He is the fluffy cover for a psychopathic, criminal, gang.
5: TAKE MY MONEY NOW!! PS What’s a turboencabulator?
6: You may very well be paranoid. However, as you are indeed a ‘vile cybernat’, as evidenced by your posting on here, yes, *they* are indeed out to get you. And me. And everyone here in Paula’s Palm-House. But don’t worry, we have right on our side. š
7: You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink. Let time do it’s work.
8: 42 (Bonus answer.)
Joan Jett – I Got No Answers:
link to youtube.com
David
š
I’ll leave the rest up to your imagination.
5/ turboencaulators Factually no! Fictionally yes.
Peace Always
“Turbo Encabulator”
link to youtube.com
@yesindyref
What you had there with the Herald was a failure to communicate.
Luckily someone spared you from being punished. Unlike this guy.
link to youtube.com
A short clip from one of my favourite films. No, it’s not a western š
Re. selling āTurbo Encabulatorsā. I’ll probably need some graphs. š
CameronB Brodie:Graphs.
Photo?
Tele?
Holo?
Electro cardio? š
Peace Always
Cameron, for describing āTurbo Encabulatorsā to non-techie people, you need a straight-talker like Professor Stanley Unwin:
link to youtube.com
@CBB
Well, there is another possibilty as David almost says:
link to theregister.co.uk
Mmm, that made me download the latest firmware update. Very remiss. I’ve been getting a lot of blinking lights lately. Then I realised it’s my wife’s whatsapp’s phone.
@Thepnr
Well, I should beware of Geeks bearing gifts. And churches!
link to youtube.com
David
I might write like I’m the man’s child. Steady on though. š
Smallaxe
I’m not ignoring you, I just didn’t want to be a hog. Mind now, don’t get the wrong idea. š
THE COASTERS – I’m a Hog for You [alternate]
link to youtube.com
Space hog, of course. š
*Delivers paper*
link to archive.is
Aye Tinto Chiel..
I opted furra tandoori king prawn bhoona, chicken chaat and large coriander salad.
I loves coriander xxx
While I’m on the subject, the space “race” creates provides the stage for bigoted and exclusionary actors to perform.
Might I also suggest that from the perspective of post-modern critical social theory, it is important to appreciate the concepts of habitus and symbolic violence, if one is to tackle the problems of inequality. As such, if actors such as Mr. Hothersll, wish to contribute to the debate, might I suggest they climb back in their boxes. They should be mindful to take some Bourdieu with them and perhaps so Lorde. That way they might find some self-awareness.
That earlier clip from Cool Hand Luke is one of my favourite films because it is about a man whose spirit wouldn’t be broken. He ends up in jail for a petty crime that’s when his troubles begin.
Here is the scene for which he was imprisoned and following is the consequences for his crime.
link to youtube.com
link to youtube.com
Am sampling some Barca 43 tish-now..
Cheers tya Marga.
X.
Serious question:
Over 90% of UK oil and gas is located in Scottish waters. Do Scots occupy 90% of UK oil & gas jobs?
I assume several O&G companies have offices in London, and further assume less than 90% of people employed in these offices are Scots.
I have the impression that a lot of O&G jobs based offshore, and based in Aberdeen, etc, are filled by non-Scots. If so, why is this? Has there been a deliberate policy to hire workers from England’s north-east?
We have been lied to for over 40 years about oil, I’d quite like to have some truth now.
2. Can one achieve a ācorrectā perspective without having all the necessary information on which to base oneās senses of proportion and priority.
2. Can one prioritise ācorrectlyā without having access to all the information required to inform oneās senses of perspective, proportion and scale?
Could this be approached from the subtle but nonetheless important distinction between ‘stages’ and ‘states’ of development (consciousness) Cameron?
One can ‘experience’ fleeting ‘states’ of consciousness which are highly evolved where sense perception is transcended to the degree that one’s interconnectedness with everything is momentarily experienced. A ‘falling away’ of identity of ‘self’ as separate from ‘other than self’ if you like. That very experiencing is a ‘perceptual corrective’, all scales are balanced, a brief immunity from fear and a complete absence of the need to ‘fix’ ( as in static) self/situation (as in there is no such thing as a ‘fixed’ self, and situations by their nature, are ‘fluid).
The stage of development where this is a more ‘permanent’ and grounded ‘state’ is what requires process and takes ‘time’, so to speak. You already know what you know would be my answer to this question and therefore you are not ‘without’ the ‘access’ or better put: the access to the ‘necessary information’ is not out with you. You would of course ‘know’ at this ‘stage’ what ‘to’ prioritise. Which is? What’s right in front of you. The present moment.
(if that’s boring just ignore Cameron…ah enjoyed masel’ š )
K1
“Could this be approached from the subtle but nonetheless important distinction between āstagesā and āstatesā of development (consciousness) Cameron?”
Absatootly.
Didn’t know the rest and I try not to judge harshly. š
That’s a shame, can’t post youtube on the Express, so I can’t show Scott and Clerkin in action looking after Scotland.
link to youtube.com
Another reason I don’t care about not posting elsewhere. A key factor to success within the post-modern environment, is the identification and exploitation of niches.
Hope you’re all feeling exploited. š
Here’s a contrasting image of racial identity, to that of the Coasters earlier, the Neville Brothers before they became Bros. (if ye ken fit a mean). A re-post, I’m afraid, as I thought this graphic was perhaps a little provocative when I posted the clipped version. Can you guess why the dudes look like humans beings, rather than the dancing minstrels of the ’50s? Do you also notice the difference to perspective that a little context makes?
btw, I forgot this earlier and thought it might be helpful to some. Sometimes it helps to explain the problems of within (e.g. susceptibility to ideological dogma), by looking at the world outwith.
SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE IN EVERYDAY NARRATIONS: GENDER
CONSTRUCTION IN INDONESIAN TELEVISION
link to ajssh.leena-luna.co.jp
Also
exploring symbolic violence in the everyday: misrecognition, condescension, consent and complicity
link to link.springer.com
—
The Meters – It Ain’t No Use
link to youtube.com
CameronB Brodie:
No problem Cameron,sorry for my absence,I had a heavy day yesterday and fell into the arms of morphia.
Peace Always
Morning, Smallaxe. Glad you’re ok. Yes, flooring all down, one of those vinyl click jobs. It’s only a smallish room otherwise I would have got someone skilled to do it. Mrs TC has now identified the kitchen as an “area for development”. Sigh.
Cactus: midweek curry and bottles of wine? You’re living pretty high on Cameron B’s semiotic hog, surely.
*Cue: don’t call me Shirley.*
Breakfast bulletin: may have Stornoway black pudding and a poached egg, followed of course by the obligatory regime of bending exercises and Vichy Water, Jackie Bird’s favourite tipple.
Too early for big licks? This had a great B side called “Theme from Boat Weirdoes”. There was no film of that name, though.
link to youtube.com
As Groucho said, hello, I must be going.
Forgot to ask: why is there only one Monopolies Commission?
link to youtube.com
Tinto Chiel:
I have had the same “Hint” from Mrs.S re kitchen,Deep joy!
I envy your breakfast choice,I am on liquid diet,yum yum.:-(
Peace Always
Smallaxe
Has morphia got a mate? š
CameronB Brodie:
Yes Cameron,unfortunatly though,it’s me!
š
Peace Always
Tinto Chiel
Nice one. Joe Walsh is new to me but I might explore a bit deeper.
Re. context. IMHO, “There’s a Moon in the sky (called the Moon)”, is a celebration of post-modernity, inclusion, equality and hope, though I don’t know if that interpretation gives the correct perspective, frankly.
Nana:
According to my blood work,which is sky high with platelets,I should not be as “chirpy and mobile”,yet I am.Asked if I was taking any supplements,I answered”I get by with a lot of help from my Friends” š
Hope you are well,it’s a beautiful fresh sunny day here.
Peace,Love and Supplementary Friends
My pleasure, Cameron. Joe is worthy of the quest.
Regarding perspective, I remember this L&H gag:
(Stan Laurel answers phone.)
Stan: Hello.
Operator: It’s a long distance from Atlanta, Georgia.
Stan: It certainly is. (Hangs up).
Smallaxe, I think to avoid kitchen situation a sudden onset of repetitive strain injury may be required. Have a good rest today.
Tinto Chiel:
More like repetitive Wallet injury š
I’m having a quiet day surfin’ on the Wavy Wide Web!
Peace Always
Pax vobiscum.
Tinto Chiel
It’s Stan’s glaikit innocence. Priceless. š
Tinto Chiel:
Pax vobiscum Mon Ami
Always
Morning Smallaxe
Stay well
You friends sound wonderful.
Make the most of them!!!!
My best to Mrs Smallaxe X
@Smallaxe
As a former nurse I saw people recover from cancer after being told on numerous occasions they had an incurable form. I believe in some cases their own outlook may have been a factor as a few were of the ‘this ain’t gonna beat me’ state of mind.
Having good support from family,friends and filling your day with positivity is good for us all. Sometimes reading the news gets me down [a lot] listening to music and doing my art and of course talking with my wee dug calms me. My dug sure talks a lot of sense haha
Remember I told you I was gathering windfall yesterday morn well in the afternoon my dog starting barking furiously, went into the kitchen and saw a man standing at the back door. Held Mac by the collar and opened the door, couldn’t hear the fellow cause of the barking. Eventually managed to figure out what I was being asked.
He was polish [I think] and wanted to know if I would let him and his friend take some apples, he must have been hungry as he started to shove some in his pockets and bit right into one while muttering his thanks. I gave him a plastic bag and he proceeded to hit the branches with a rake.
Meanwhile his friend stood at the back gate shouting his thank yous in a really loud voice. I felt bad because I’d thrown so many in the compost after giving to neighbours and friends. Seriously though are folks so hungry or did he just want a fresh apple?
But you know what struck me, I’ve seen a number of local folk and oil rig workers walk past the back wall reach up and grab an apple yet these men asked permission to take one. Wonder how the daily rags would spin that.
liz g:
Of course their wonderful liz,I’m talking to one now,are’nt I?
Peace Always
Nana, Smallaxe…here is a very ‘salient’ Ted talk from Glasgow on ‘Intentional medicine’:
Intentional medicine ā shifting the focus of healthcare | Libby McGugan | TEDxGlasgow:
link to youtube.com
On that wee panel on the right of this vid is a bunch of very interesting and innovative Ted talks from this Glasgow event. Highly recommend folks have a wee sift through those. They are quite ‘short’ vids as most TEdtalks are.
Can’t resist posting this Tedtalk from same event as I was so moved by the passion of this woman Karyn McCluskey: ‘ Why couldn’t we lead the way, why couldn’t we lead the world in changing the lives of the most excluded’:
link to youtube.com
Nana:
Music and Family and friends like your good self do it for me.
Re.”Polish Gentlemen”.I have a flooded quarry nearby,on my better days I sometimes fish there”catch and release”.I noticed signs of people living rough in nearby woods,so I hung some fish in the shade,three days later I found a Thank you note,written in broken English.Sad.
Some of our people should take lessons from them.
Thank you again for your interest and concern.
Peace Always
Billy
I’d like to pose the question (rhetorical of course) re those Tedtalks, why isn’t our news filled with those voices who are making such a difference to our communities? Where are the celebrations/interviews regarding the groundbreaking work that is happening in our country? These are the subjects that our journalists should be focused on, the hard graft of those on the frontline within our fractured communities who are producing successful outcomes.
But naw. SNP bad.
K1:
Hi K1,thanks for the links to Tedtalks,I will read them with interest.Karyn McCluskey: looks interesting,inclusion is imperative to a balanced society.
Keep up your good work on the main thread!
Peace Always my Friend
@K1
I watch ted talks often, missed that one so thanks for posting. Agree with a lot of what she says re positivity. Now off to watch the next one, good excuse not to tackle the ironing!
My friend mentioned a book she was reading Wellness a state of mind. she seemed impressed so I must ask her to pass it on.
K1:
I am continually amazed and saddened by “intelligent” people
who have never heard of Ted.Usually when I endeavour to enlighten them,they invariably ask “Ted who”.
Banging my head against a wall is sometimes more satisfying.
Peace Always
CameronB Brodie “Thereās a Moon in the sky (called the Moon)”?
Not sure what your moon is called, but the only one I see is called Lunar, Lat Luna, It has an albedo of 0.136. who’s albedo is 0.30 see what I did there!
link to youtube.com
Can’t beat a bit of Vangelis.
Smallaxe
Really! this is not the platform for promoting vile teddy bears,
Oh Not that ted,
give me 10 min and I will explain!
Andrew McLean:@11:27
To the Unknown man? š
Peace Always my Brother
@ K1 – glad I popped in here to listen to the Karyn McCluskey TED talk. Why not post that on the main thread so everyone can share it? It’s not off topic IMO!
Hi Smallaxe – good to hear that you are posting fit. KOKO.
Capella:
I’ve just listened to Karyn McCluskey and I agree that it should be over on the main thread(as long as we here, get a wee peek first).
I’m enjoying your comments over on the main thread as always.
š
Peace Always
Speaking of Ted, a stalwart of the movement:
link to youtube.com
Chic McGregor:
An excellent contribution Chic,great song and the scenery shown,Stunning.Well worth fighting for, with or without oil.
W/Minster can Frack off!
Peace Always
Andrew McLean
I was referring to a B-52s track I posted the other day. Not wanting to be so crass as to suggest it is the art of a queer band speaking to young minds, in the late ’70s, I didn’t give you the full context. Though probably not a sin, it’s probably not your usual tipple. A bit different, innit. š
P.S. I’m about to play the Meters again. This morning was the first time I’ve played air-guitar since I was a bit younger. š
Andrew,
I’ve been to the Moon. No really I have. It is a cul-de-sac in Kirrie.
link to google.co.uk
Smallaxe,
Aye, Ted ‘better than Elvis’ Christopher writes some great songs and has put in a great deal of time and money for indy over the years.
Air-bass, actually.
Note to self: Remember to buy new strings for air guitar.
Chic McGregor:
Every day is a school day here on O/T.Eye has lernt sumfin elss twoday.Wunerfool!
Thanks Chic,I am checking out Ted Christopher and Bannockburn
at the moment.I must have led a sheltered life š
Peace Always
I’m with Nana on the don’t let it beat you, but at the 100% risk of sounding really really weird, and I’m not really, honest, I think you can get transference, and contact helps. Holding hands basically, in 50 years time they’ll probably discover it’s electricity at body pulse rate or something weird like that. There’s a couple of times in my life I may have helped people, just holding a hand for some time, and even stranger, I was exhausted after.
So for Smallaxe with apologies or something:
link to youtube.com
Capella:
It took a while but,KOKO,are you referring to our simian friend,if so I can’t think why?
š
Peace Always
To make this even more interesting, when I was in Germany there was this Tai Chi master, and just standing or sitting still, and him doing his meditation for a minute or two, he could give you a hell of an electric shock. There was no cheating with foot shuffling on carpets!
Small guy, after him meditating (concentrating) also, two strong people couldn’t lift him off the ground, his feet were stuck fast.
Anyway, enough of that, I’ll ruin my repuation as a cynical bastard.
yesindyref2:
Tai Chi Chuan,I have seen some seemingly impossible things, done by exponents of different martial arts.Twists your melon!
By the way,lets have less of the cynical.
š
Wahei Always
For yesindyref2
The funkiest song ever.
link to youtube.com
@Chic
Oh good, wife’s out for a walk, I can play it full volume š
@Smallaxe
Haud on a wee minute, if it’s less of the cynical, does that mean I’m supposed to be more of the b*st**d? Oh, OK!
Is it too early for a song about the emptiness of materialism, social alienation and a relationship with a (ahem) Latex Lady, if you get my drift?
Of course, it’s all done in the best possible taste…..
link to youtube.com
yesindyref2:
That makes two of us so far,I have an inkling that there are many more of us about.*stares admiringly across to Tinto*.
Some, bigger b*st**ds than others,it,s a ancient Scottish martial art ye ken. š
Peace Always
Hope I’m not stepping on anyone’s toes here but as Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg might say, lets change the beat.
Eric B. & Rakim – I Ain’t No Joke
link to youtube.com
Moi? Not me, Smallaxe, I’m a man of peace, probity and rectitude.
Like these gentlemen, f’rinstance:
link to youtube.com
I need to remember to refresh. Sorry guys.
Tinto Chiel:
I had an unfortunate experience with my Latex Lady.I thought that she was starting to look a little,shall we say,grubby. This was the only reason that I thought to take her into my bath with me.
We were enjoying ourselves splashing around in the bubbles so much,I only tried to give her one of my “special” hugs and tragedy!
She was so slippy,so very slippy,she shot out from between my
arms,flew out of the window and drifted silently in the window
of my elderly neighbours sitting room.My poor neighbour was down on her knees praying as luck would have it,beside her dear departed husband’s open casket and so missed my Lady elegantly landing on top of her loved one.
Just for a moment I had a flash of envy,then my thoughts went to my neighbour,poor Mr’s Macaloon.I thought that the shock may kill her,if she looked up and beheld this unholy tableau.Luckly it didn’t.
At the inquest,the coroner stated that she died from terror caused by and I quote “seeing the accused tiptoeing into her sitting room,naked,carrying a large rubber duck in front of his genitals”
Glasgow High Court,next Monday 10am.Please be there,I’m sorely
in need of a friend,my last one slipped away.
š
Peace,Love and Penal Penalties
Large rubber duck small axe? Boosting are we,?
š
You’ll be fine Smallaxe….when you’re “up before the beek “.
After all is no as if it’s your first time
Andrew McLean:
On the contrary,I was downsizing! š
I did so enjoy my intercourse with Peter,did you?,I could though,see his point,it was on his Head.
Peace Always my Brother
liz g:
Unfortunately liz,as you say it was not the first time.Last time,I thought that I could gain sympathy from his Lordship by
using religion.
I told him,”as God is my judge,I am innocent and should be freed.
He said, “He isn’t,I am,six months!
Nae luck.
Peace Always
Om – meditate – om – meditate – om – meditate
totally immoveable, invisible, all-seeing
Om – meditate – om – meditate – om – meditate
(can someone else do the tea, cakes and cocktails ta)
Smallaxe, I know you’ll be feeling a bit deflated about all this but don’t worry, you’ll soon be walking on air when you’re acquitted.
C u Mons. Will wear yellow carnation.
I have had to deal with idiots all my life, however it isn’t to much a bind, me having personal experience! Just wish he was honest enough to concede the argument, defeat and learning from that is the path to real intellect. Whereas just having a good memory is most people’s passport to positions of influence.
That said I shudder to think what James Kelly has on the Labour Party, he a legislator, can’t even understand the point he argued was a urge, he actually thought he had repealed the act. Man’s a blood liability, great he is on the opposite side to peace and justice though!
Point of order is the only acceptable action he understands. The rest a mystery. If you wanted to frighten your children from strong drink, just play them the last action of that demented fool today, I actually feel sorry for the presiding officer, having to explain what they were discussing to one of his own party.
Peter & Kelly:
If you can dreamāand not make dreams your master;
If you can thinkāand not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same.
R.K.
Peace Always
Abody’s just fannying about until we get Trump confirmed, so hey, WTF, why not do this just to annoy some folk who properly don’t like being ‘annoyed’ by anyone and think that ‘world affairs’ will draw attention away from their calamitous idiocy:
link to change.org
Tinto Chiel:
On Monday I shall be wearing,Handcuffs.
I will search the crowd,looking for that yellow carnation.
While I’m gone could you wear a yellow ribbon,or tie one on to
that old oak tree?
Sssh.Paula Rose is meditating or contemplating or regurgitating or sumfin.
Peace Always
Noticed Joe Walsh Further up off topic. So I could not help myself. link to youtube.com
Tinto,
Ah yes, featuring Kirriemuir’s finest (err apart from maybe J. M. Barrie, Hugh Munro etc.).
link to google.co.uk
KOKO and Robin Williams. link to youtube.com
An elderly couple had dinner at another couple’s house, and after eating, the wives left the table and went into the kitchen.
The two gentlemen were talking, and one said, ‘Last week we went out to a new restaurant and it was really great.. I would recommend it.’
The other man said, ‘What is the name of the restaurant?’
The first man thought and thought and finally said, ‘What is the name of that flower you give to someone you love?
You know…. The one that’s red and has thorns.’
‘Do you mean a rose?’
‘That’s the one,’ replied the man.
He then turned towards the kitchen and yelled, ‘Rose, what’s the name of that restaurant we went to last night?’
Michael McCabe:
You can’t argue with a sick mind
KOKO indeed!
Peace,Love and Primates
Do you remember this one on Off Topic Michael?
link to youtube.com
I think if KOKO was Scottish she’d be going apeshit and considering suing UKOK for trademark infringement.
No idea why but
link to youtube.com
@ Thepnr Hi Alex I don’t remember it on off-topic. I liked the film though. my favourite Robin Williams film is The Big White. Hope you and yours are doing well.
Just saw this on Rev’s twitter thing
A Glasgow couple go to the circus,trapeze artist,clowns,performing dogs and lion tamers.
Then the Ringmaster brings out a big ugly bad tempered donkey
and offers a hundred quid to anybody who can ride it without being thrown,three times round the ring.
The wee Glasgow fella shouts “a’ wull ride it”so he’s escorted
Into the ring and jumps on the donkey’s back.The donkey bucks, jumps and bucks again and again but the wee guy hings oan and
Gets it roon the ring 3 times,collects his money and goes back up to his seat.
His wife looks at him in amazement and says “Bobby wer did you learn tae ride like that” he says “dae ye mind thone time you hid the hoopin’ cough!
Peace Always
Smallaxe @ a friend who listens from a friend who noticed.
Thank You,for being around.
But you must know I keep odd hours.
Don’t get too tired.
Take care of you. X
I knew the media was biased a long long time ago.
I didn’t realise some of it was so thick and blind, they can’t even read.
link to twitter.com
compared with Education Scotland “Education Scotland is the national body in Scotland for supporting quality and improvement in learning and teaching. ”
link to educationscotland.gov.uk
I think they should allow some journalists to resit P1.
I’m genuinely shocked.
Thanks Liz,no problem.
Now I lay me down to rest
Just in ma pants
And a wee warm vest
I wish you all
A good good night
Before I talk some
Some awful sh:te
Emdy buddy goat a lullaby š
Peace and Love to All
Smallaxe
Night Hun sweet dreams to you both.
Anyway, back to normal. Keep sight of the objective, don’t get sidetracked, never mind the journos, I’ve just got to
link to youtube.com
That Loki certainly needs to get away from the money-set.
Loki, if it isn’t already obvious, my geek-out is directed at you. Your quest is unneccessary, the knowledge you seek is already in use. Your getting your chain pulled bud, in pubic. Get a grip!
He’s not the only one I’m working on though. ,)
CameronB Brodie:
Cameron,put him down,you never know where he’s been.
On second thoughts…..
Peace Always
Smallaxe
I grew up near a beach. I suppose old habits die hard.
Yes, Chic, AC/DC were never the same without Snakehips Bon Scott. He was a very bad man, and that’s a compliment.
I hope Paula managed to centre her Om. Pity she can’t CENTRE THE ASH TRAY ON THE BLOODY KITCHEN TABLE.
Sorry, don’t know what came over me there.
Anyhow, too early for cheese? It takes a lot of talent to take a strange vocal style and a moothie to produce a classic. Mind you, Mr Mercer could do the lyrics rather well.
I give you the Burt Lancaster of pop…….
link to youtube.com
Ian B: I’m not on SM but I signed your petition in the virtual world, i.e. ma heid.
It’s a bliddy disgrace, soanitis!
Sorry I snapped, Paula. Don’t know what came over me. I’ve been under a lot of pressure lately what with this pink strip hing and the royal baby having nappy rash.
I know you like a good Om so knock yourself out:
link to youtube.com
I had the perfect one in mind for any and all pussy lovers out there but I cant find “Cat Religion”. š
@Smallaxe
Noticed you did not get the kettle on this morning, hoping you are ok?
The thing that makes “Cat Religion” suitable for all is that it has no lyrics. It contains no ideology, barriers to it’s accessibility have been lessened and it’s meaning is more open to local interpretation. The double bass is also pretty cool and there’s a purring kitty to boot. What’s not to like. :0
Conversely, the unitary state of Britain is unsuited to the needs of Scotland. Despite this, considerable effort is being made to assert British nationalist ideology on Scotland. and a great effort is being made to hinder local interpretation of what it means to be Scots. This is not cool.
That’s just in case some folk are asleep up the back.
@CBB
Like this?
link to youtube.com
yesindyref2
It’s cool for cats, innit? š Here’s something silly.
The Revillos – Hungry For Love
link to youtube.com
I’d ‘moved on’ after their first couple of albums but I think there’s good stuff through most of their work. Getting right back into them though.
The B-52’s – Good Stuff
link to youtube.com
Sorry to keep going on about this but I put a considerable amount of effort in to learning about the form and function of social space. We were generally encouraged to plan ideology it out of the environment.
I’m not suggesting we should abandon best practice but I’d rather have Scottish ideology shaping my Scottish environment.
Is ideology bad?
link to timoroso.com
Iām not suggesting we should abandon best practice but Iād rather have Scottish ideology shaping my Scottish environment.I’m not suggesting we abandon best practice but what makes Scotland British, other than ideology.
Are the cultural links across our borders that poor that they would wither in the absence of British nationalist ideology?
I don’t know if you’ll remember me mentioning Scotland had been “internally colonised” and that there are doubts over the effectiveness of post-colonial theory as a de-colonising force.
link to sdonline.org
That was an interesting article, CameronB. Of course, it was mainly about the African American situation but it is clear that Scottish society still struggles with the attempts to colonise us “in the mind”, a much cheaper and slyer option than bringing the tanks to Berwick.
Of course, if you mention the C-Word, there is much frothing: look what happened to Alasdair Gray when he mentioned the effects on Scottish cultural life of mainly Oxbridge-type appointments to public bodies over the years.
Of course, colonising in the mind has gone on for generations in Scottish Universities, particularly in the disciplines of Scottish History and Literature, where the Yoon Version has been almost exclusively perpetuated, something which has only recently improved.
And then we have the wider, masochistic Jockholm Syndrome where the more we are exploited/disregarded/insulted, the more some of us queue up for more:
“More hot, sneering contempt for your humble pie, Sweaty?”
“Whenever you see fit, thanks.”
As they say in Kirriemuir, “Zut alors!”
Is it too late for this? Moody lyrics. No Eno, but not bad.
link to youtube.com
With Eno:
link to youtube.com
Tinto Chiel
The mechanics of the internal colonisation process may be different but it’s the outcomes that matters. That’s a pretty informed perspective I’ve offered. Got a better one? š
Or you can just go head-down wham bam with Bon.
link to youtube.com
Works for me…
At least the world of academia appears to think an analysis through theories of internal colonisation may be applicable.
Reviewed Work: Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development, 1536-1966
link to jstor.org
link to ocf.berkeley.edu
Now this is nice:
link to youtube.com
I feel better now.
Somebody mentioned Stanley Unwin yesterday but I can’t recall whether it was in ‘off-topic’ or on a main page.
Onnyhoo, this may tickle your humour gland.
link to sites.google.com
I wasn’t disagreeing with you, Cameron. We can see the result of internal colonisation around us every day: they are called Unionists. The Scottish bourgeoisie, particularly in the Law, Church and Education, have done very well from the Union and have defended their position at the expense of the rest of us for a long time.
Tinto Chiel
I’m not trying to win an argument with you, just making sure you understood where I was coming from. You’ve got it exactly. It’s their habitus that holds Scotland back and makes Whitehall very happy.
I suppose giving up filthy habit isn’t always that easy. š
Yes, Cameron, agreed, and I have tried to take a leaf out of Yesindyref2’s constructive book and now try to engage Unionists with my gentle nudge, nudge, wink, wink, suggestive digestive overtures to see things from the right end of the telescope, but closed minds abound, as they did on the doorstep in 2014.
I can’t even read the btl sections of Hootsmon, Herald etc. without reacting badly. Those who continue to fight the good fight there have my admiration, but I get too worked up and depressed at the same time. When I have strayed unwisely by a link to the Daily Mail/Express, I feel I need a brainshower. Grisly.
Now I know how the Nazis took over Germany, a highly cultured nation which was a leader in science, maths, psychology, music, literature und so weiter but which still fell under the spell of racist totalitarianism.
And it can happen in the UK, and would have happened if there had been a successful Nazi invasion in 1940/41. The Royal Family and the aristocracy would have “come to terms” pdq and the rest of us would have been fecked. And now we have poppy fascism.
Thanks for that bibliography. Excellent stuff for the winter evenings.
Brian Doonthetoon
That was Dave, the cheeky sod. š
Postmodernism, Post-Fordism, and Critical Social Theory
Abstract
The relationship between the transformation of advanced capitalist societies from Fordism to post-Fordism and the simultaneous rise within these societies of postmodern culture is investigated. In art and architecture the exhaustion of high-modernist aesthetic progressivism resulted in a postmodern āconditionā of āfree disposabilityā of aesthetic materials which was furthered by societal developments such as the dissolution of the Fordist model of standardized consumption into diversified and aesthetizised consumption, the rise of an experimenting culture industry after the youth revolt of the 1960s, the growth of the service class, and the advent of ādisposabilityā in regard to ways and styles of living. In social philosophy a general delegitimation of the grand narratives of progress and emancipation occurred as āhigh-Fordismā gave way to stagnating ālate-Fordismā and fragmented āpost-Fordismā. In this process the technocraticāstatist narrative of Fordism itself and the labor utopia of the industrial working class lost credibility, without any emergence of convincing utopian or grand reformist alternatives. The spatial (globalālocal) aspects of these transformations are emphasized and the paper concludes with some left-critical considerations which stress the democratic potential of postmodernism and its openness towards local alliances protective against the powers of global capitals and centralized states.
link to epd.sagepub.com
link to caringlabor.files.wordpress.com
btw, the other night’s outburst happened as I was wondering how to handle quoting extended bloxs of text. Split them or leave as is?
Tinto Chiel
Fear of change is a terrible beast. You’ll never change closed minds, especially those who shun difference. Thankfully, I think Scots are a culturally progressive people. We simply need the liberty to express our creativity and ambitions.
I’ve encamped myself here for the duration.
Not that we are under guard but we certainly don’t have our inalienable “Right to Development” respected.
CameronB: your Right to Development Right should be a killer argument but it seems some inalienable rights can be set aside when it doesn’t suit.
I get a bit cynical/pissed off some times at all this.
“Iāve encamped myself here for the duration.”
Good news: I have a primus stove, Paula likes a beef sausage and BDDT can do the disco under the marquee.
Problem solved, Alba!
Re. th “Right to Development”. Agreed. The principle should still count for something though. Perhaps stir a desire for equality?
For the future.
Bob Marley – Get up, stand up
link to youtube.com
Hope Smallaxe is listening.
We need to awaken the No voters to the fact that their rights as SCOTS are being trampled underfoot. If they take the view that that’s ok, we’re in for the long haul, i.e. after I’ve departed.
Human rights and environmental quality kind of go hand-in-hand.
Did I mention human rights and environmental quality are intrinsically linked?
As for the long haul……
link to youtube.com
Wish I could play bass like M. J-J B.
Some philosophy;
link to youtube.com
And them some great lyrics with a hook to match:
link to youtube.com
Night, all.
Thanks for the bleather. š
Deep joy, Brian Doonthetoon, deep joy indeed!
(Have we got any singers mad/brave enough to record that? š
In return, here is another mangler of the English language, Kenneth Williams as Rambling Syd Rumpo:
link to youtube.com
The record has a great start:
“Tonight I shall have great pleasure, but first of all I’d like to sing you a few songs…”
That one kept cutting out on me, so just in case. Let’s turn to the UKOK colour spectrum so we can see more detail, while we’re at it.
link to youtube.com
While WE’re at it?
Gary Clail / On-U Sound System – Two Thieves And A Liar
link to youtube.com
Paula Rose is no more.
@ town planners of a yoon persuasion
You can turn profession into service….
Jeez, Paul! What have you done with her?
Her disappearance could be – nay, is – bigger than Brexit!
Paul Wright
Are you still talking to us then?
YES – of course I’m still me xx
Gotcha. I’ve never spoken to the tosser before. Who are you?
Sorry Paula that was perhaps a bit obscure.
Paula Whatever
Does that mean I’m no longer welcome at the
punishmentcouching sessions? Paranoid, me?Sorry, if I keep saying things like that folk might start wondering about me. š
What do you mean, “start”?
8=)
Paul Wright @ 11.39
But that would mean… nobody would ever be taken aside at Wing’s events and asked the now iconic question.
You Do Know About Paula Rose Don’t You?
Well, these well known characters will miss Paula Rose – they were always shouting for her…
link to youtube.com
Brian Doonthetoon
Sorry to be all serious Brian but there’s a good bit of self-harm in there, IMHO. That’s the insidious nature of symbolic violence. That was funny the first time but it undermines our cultural identity. The guys were most probably completely oblivious of this while it was being scripted, perhaps not. When selected for broadcast?
How many times do you see positive Scottish role-models on-screen? About something you want to watch?
Did I put this fabulous thing up already.
link to youtube.com
Tinto,
‘Zut alors’?
Never heard that in Kirrie.
Now:
‘Fit like’?
or
‘Awa yer talkin’ pish.’
link to youtube.com
Still, ye redeemed yersel wi anither Bon vid. š
Here is one I might have posted here before.
I found it comforting in the immediate aftermath of indyref1.
It is by Scottish lass Jo Hamilton, although now based in England and private school educated it still has Celtic undertones.
link to youtube.com
Did I leave my Kazoo in here ? link to youtube.com
Brian Doonthetoon
I do appreciate it’s a reflection of what goes on but is it helpful.
Brian Doonthetoon
Meaning, meaning, meaning.
I meant did it show considered appraisal by the BBC? Grouse?
Very useful here though, thanks.
Fab event in Brechin on Tuesday – just ask.
@ Smallaxe here is another lost Bob Dylan Song for you. link to youtube.com
Paul/a,
If you think that a sex change is going to get you out of washing up and ashtray emptying, think again!
Now clean up this mess, it’s been busy in here.
I was lucky I got this message when young. Peep them then switch them off, then peep them some more.
Bob Marley – Could you be loved
link to youtube.com
Has post-modern critical social theory just gone feral in Scotland? I wonder how that will turn out man. And woman Reg. š
Hi CameronB Brodie.
I have to admit that I’m totally lost with your comments in response to my post at 7.36pm last night, where I provided this link:-
link to sites.google.com
My post was purely in response to the mention of ‘Stanley Unwin’, a day or two ago. I wasn’t trying to enter the discussion that you and Tinto Chiel were having last night.
I don’t understand your comments,
“Sorry to be all serious Brian but thereās a good bit of self-harm in there, IMHO”,
“The guys were most probably completely oblivious of this while it was being scripted, perhaps not. When selected for broadcast?
How many times do you see positive Scottish role-models on-screen? About something you want to watch?”
and
“I meant did it show considered appraisal by the BBC? Grouse?”
On the page I linked to, I did type,
“Here are two versions of “The Road And The Miles To Dundee”.
The first is a ‘normal’ version, sung by various folk singers over the years – and Andy Stewart!”
and
“The next version was inspired by the late, great ‘Professor’ Stanley Unwin and an over-indulgence of vodka ‘n’ cola one evening in 2006.
I just wondered how it would read in Unwinese.
It helps if you are aware of Stanley Unwin and imagine that he is saying the words as you read them…”
and
“Ā©Doon the Toon 2006”
I think, perchance, you read too much into my 7.36pm post?
Dare you? Don’t get the wrong idea, I always try to aim out the tent.
link to youtube.com
Chic: re zut alors…
I believe there is a small, French speaking enclave to the SE of Kirrie, dating from the aftermath of the Battle of Bauge (nay acutes in this field), when a few survivors returned with some exotic French dancers.
Love the TiS clip. In my faves now. I hear what you mean about Jo Hamilton.
So what’s happening in Brechin on Tuesday, Paula?
Brian Doonthetoon
No mate, I was talking about the puppets. I had one or two things on the go at the time. Sorry, I apologies to the owners of any toes I may have stepped on.
Also, I’m not sure I’m following you. Deal with when fresh?
David, just seen your 10.50: ah, the sublime R S Rumpo.
Marty Feldman wrote some great stuff for Round the Horne. My favourite was Kenneth’s remark after a Fiona&Charles sub-Brief Encounter sketch:
“Ah, they knew how to make films in those days: they just didn’t bother.”
Ooh, in’ee bold!
Brian Doonthetoon
I think the penny has dropped for me, I’m knackered.
Mock self-deprivation. Taking the whatever out of my often poor writting skills. I should probably stop that sort of thing eh. š
I hope I’m proof you don’t have to be able to spell in order to understand.
Hi CameronB Brodie.
Ah- the Gaelic sock puppets…
The only reason I posted that was because of the “Paula! Paula!” calling. However, re: the plot of the clip.
A few years ago, a pal of mine went to visit her sister, who had moved to Killin with her partner. She spent the weekend.
After she’d come back to Dundee, she said to me, “Know how people go on about the tang of highland air? Well, that smell is hash, coz there’s absolutely nothing to do except go to the pub and/or get stoned so you can smell it on the breeze.”
Hence my liking for that sock puppet sketch.
Just checking what you lot get up to in here! “Ashokan Farewell” just beautiful. Love it! Thanks Tinto.
Brian Doonthetoon
I got the Paula Paula, which was funny, I was trying to highlight the context – it was symbolic violence, IMHO.
Brian Doonthetoon
Also Brian, I had purposefully wrongly accused Dave of slagging my English skills by posting Stanley Unwin – hope you appreciated that Dave – so that I could start a running gag.
I’ve been trying to create the correct environment for myself, pretty much from my first presence. Trying to construct resilience in the team. Hope you don’t mind, I’ve been winging it. š
Fred: glad you popped in. I would say remember to wipe your feet when you leave but it would only upset A Certain Someone! Paul(a)’s gaff’s in a bit of a state at the moment and there was a bombshell last night I’m trying to pretend never happened.
I find O/T can be nice to relax in, especially when you get pissed off/frustrated at the slow rate of knots of HMS Independence. Plus folk keep playing the good stuff. And (obviously) talk a lot of blethers, especially at three in the morning or when Mrs TC’s watching the box set of “Gray’s Lobotomy”.
As for the Farewell, Jay Ungar made a remark along the lines of “This is what happens when a Jewish guy from Brooklyn plays Niel Gow.”
When you come back could you bring some fish paste pieces?
It’s a pretty klassy joint.
I suppose it is Friday Tinto. Last Friday I had “poached” & poached salmon fae the Clyde. Chust sublime with salad n new totties.
My niece’s husband’s brother is called Paul Wright.
He is a film director.
We are going to her younger sister’s wedding tomorrow.
Yes – when his movie came out with the attendant publicity I got a few congratulatory emails from folk I hadn’t heard from in ages. No-one ever confused me with the footballer of the same name – I’ve always been hopeless at ball games.
Give him my regards.
Alistair MacKinnon who pulled together the fringe meeting at SNP conference on the medical use of cannabis and the production of industrial hemp will be chatting to me tonight on my Roundabout programme (7pm – 8pm) on Argyll Independent Radio http://www.argyllradio.co.uk
We interrupt this Off-Topic for some Shakespeare (or is it McGonagall):
O Paul Wright-o, Wright-o! wherefore art thou Paul Wrighty-o?
Deny yir faither an refuse to be tame;
…blah blah, Montague, Capulet…
Ahem, what’s in a name?
A Paula Rose by any other name would smell as sweet,
But without the heels s/he’s more petite.
Around the world the people are keeking
At all the events s/he’s brought to Brechin.
Wee Ginger Dug, Dr Craig Dalzell,
Speakers on fire and raising hell.
Paula keeps the flame of Indy burning,
(And it’s for her Tartan Tory is yearning.)
But now, alas, the comic construct is gone,
Saint Kilda’s finest will be moving on.
No more to wind up naughty John McTernan,
No more enchanting Lord Darling in ermine.
We’ll all miss Paula, but not to worry,
There’s a farewell party, I’m bringing curry.
So rearrange the chairs in the Palmhouse please,
As we welcome Paul and put him at ease.
Careful David I’m as sentimental as she is *dabs eye with hankie*
Hi, Paul. O/T will never be the same now.
Surely you might, em, want to rethink the gravatar now?
*backs out gingerly*
btw, Dave McEwan Hill, I sent a link of your choir to my daughter who runs one and she was most impressed. Great stuff.
Has anyone seen Smallaxe around?
Haven’t seen a post from him for a while?
Tinto Chiel this is a new campaign not a re-run – if you’d like Paula to ensconce herself here then she might agree, for me now it is a matter of getting our world sorted and I’m very very serious about that.
Paul: fair enough. I wasn’t up to speed on your campaign. Good luck to you, and to us all.
Liz: I think Smallaxe had a hospital appointment a couple of days ago.
Hope you’re just a bit tired, Smallaxe and that you like this:
link to youtube.com
@Paul Wright
What the Fuck!
link to youtube.com
@Tinto Chiel
Excellent! You are correct. Yes are On The Road Again and about time.
Check out the suits.
link to youtube.com
Thepnr: yes indeed, I love that vid, the prowling routine and saturated colours, wee Alan “Bambi” Price on the kbs.
Mind you, you wouldn’t want to spill Eric Burdon’s pint, would you? Or big Chas Chandler’s, for that matter.
I feel we are on the move. The complications of Brexit are unravelling and there lots of unintended consequences. Fallon’s behaviour on the MT was pathetic and surely the folk on Clydeside can see that? Now you see it, now you don’t jobs? Whispering (in this case) wolf only works for a short time.
@Tinto Chiel
I watched that Fallon cip and laughed my arse off. He was pathetic and needed his young lady minder to step in for him.
They are on the run!
On a different, last week myself, Paula Rose, BrianDoonTheToon and Ronnie Anderson decided to join the Yes N.E. Fife cavalcade on a drive of miles around the ward.
There were about 20 cars bedecked in wee Saltires and other emblems of Independence along with a half dozen of the Yes Bikers. It was a great laugh just watching the faces of folk as we drove through small villages and large towns.
Some smiled and waved others gave the two fingered salute!
One thing is for sure though NE Fife folk now know that Yes haven’t gone away and we’re “back on the road again”.
This is an old corny number from 1973 that makes my point š
link to youtube.com
Trying to find out if I won the SNP Conference Raffle but no joy?
Wow! Lobo! I’d forgotten about him/them. What a hair style! But then I’m only jealous, he has hair.
Your Fife cavalcade reminded me of the Yes campaign, when we were dispatched to Larkhall one day in an official black Yes van with loudspeakers blaring out Indy songs. I was in the back with a lovely lady from Lewis when we got stuck at the lights.
Out of a house bedecked with BAs came a fag-wielding woman who gave us plenty of the old lateral-arm-and-elbow-action. LLL turned to me and said, “Well, that’s not a very nice lady, is it?”
Priceless.
@Tinto Chiel
My favourite memory of last weekend was an older lady and she was a lady at a mini roundabout in Crail, she watched about 4 of the Yes cars go through then mine and she took and hands from the steering wheel, clamped them over her head and silently screamed something.
I took it as meaning she didn’t want another referendum.
Then though there was a quite affluent middle aged couple in the High Street of St Andrews who smiled, waved and gave us a big thumbs up.
It is true that some despair at the though of Indyref2 but it is equally true that some rejoice at the thought of having a second go at ridding ourselves of the midden that is Westminster.
At this stage just being visible is enough, I literally can feel the change in atmosphere, Yessers are getting more upbeat and those that voted No, well heads are dropping.
I bumped into an old Yes supporting friend today, quite well known to Wingers, everyday during the campaign and after he displayed Yes on his car, his attire and even his work gear,. He gave up for four months recently through referendumitis. Glad to report that he is fully recovered and was proudly wearing his Yes badges again today.
We’re on the move.
link to youtube.com
Loved The Move, Thepnr.
When I left school in ’72, I think this was their last record before the ELO. Not an all-time classic but for some reason it stuck in the mind: me and my mates contemplated playing it at amateur night in the local pub. Thank God we were turned down by the Ents manager:
link to youtube.com
We have a Leith anthem, of course, which may come in handy:
link to youtube.com
š
fts: Bev Bevan of The Move, ELO.
Quite a drummer!
Hi Tinto Chiel & Thepnr/Alex.
This is one of my favourite two Move singles. (The other is ‘Blackberry Way’.)
link to youtube.com
@Tinto Chiel
Well, how ignorant am I? Had no idea that Roy Wood of Wizard and Jeff Lynne of ELO were even around in 1972 producing records.
As a special tribute to Leith here’s one you will NOT have saw before as a gift from the fowk in Dundee š
Before you watch this, turn the volume up full, get it on full screen and get the hankies oot lol. You too Michael McCabe.
link to youtube.com
Why is it, that in the olden days, you would click on “Submit Comment”, the page would refresh and you would see your comment in place on the page within a maximum of 20 seconds but nowadays, with the improvements in technology, it can take 20 minutes for your comment to appear in place?
Onnyhoo, there’s a scandalous urban myth that’s been going around for years that the first record played on the first morning of Radio 1 was “Flowers In The Rain” by The Move.
WRONG!
Get the real story at this link:-
link to sites.google.com
Brian: haven’t heard Tonight since I don’t know when. BW has always been a favourite. Did they ever get as far as Dundee or did you ever come across them?
Always loved SoL, Thepnr. I know fitba’ is usually off limits here but as a ‘Well fan I always admired Hibs footballing style. Hearts in the 50s were brilliant too: didn’t see them myself but old Dossers fans told me how good they were.
As for the Dundee teams, my first floodlight game was a ‘Well V Dundee floodlight match in the cup in the early Sixties. It was the great league-winning Dundee team and they beat the Ancell Babes 2-4. Awesome.
And The Arabs? Well, when we won the cup, my abiding memory is of their fans congratulating us when they must have felt like shit, ‘cos they hadn’t won the cup at all at that stage. I will always remember their gubbing of Barcelona at the Nou Camp.
Right, no more football.
BTW, that Stranglers Skin Deep track I parked here last night: hadn’t heard it since it came out originally. Boy, it describes the Blair generation, does it not?
You know, the superficial sociopaths who are busy fecking up our world.
Bitter, me? just a tad.
Night all. Great to talk to you dudes.
@Brian Doonthetoon
Haha, Brian that was a great read. well who knew eh it was a crap Dundee band that first played on Radio 1. Cheers.
Here’s the third after the move. Bee Gees, very good.
link to youtube.com
By the way will you stop winding up Rock š
Just catching up after a few days…
Man alive, what a frisky discourse! All-sorts going on, and a good few valuable links I’m planking away for my personal use (aye, youse two, TC and CamB).
But before I forget, Smallaxe, yer soo-perb ‘hoopin cough’ story reminded me of one which you’ll surely know, but survives re-telling:
The elderly couple are regulars in the front row at the kirk, have been for decades. They’re suffering in silence, as usual, along with a’body else…
Hoping to add some excitement to the morning, the man gently elbows his wife and whispers, ‘I just did a silent fart!’
After a diplomatic pause she elbows him back and replies, ‘Thanks for reminding me – you need a new battery for that hearing aid.’
This link provides even more intriguing background…
link to dundee3js.freeforums.org
Och Alex, Rock just asks for it! He’s (insert personal description)…
If we are talking about the Proclaimers. here is my Fav. link to youtube.com
Welcome back Ian, got any tunes š
I’ve one for you, another Dundee present.
link to youtube.com
Brian Doonthetoon, if I need emergency ear surgery after listening to the Portsmouth Sinfonia, you’ll be getting the bill š
They do to music what Scottish Labour do to politics:
link to youtube.com
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For those finding Paula Rose’s departure hard to accept, it was predicted in the final scene of Billy Wilder’s movie “some Like It Hot”.
Jack Lemmon plays Paula Rose/Paul Wright, and Joe E Brown plays a typical Winger:
link to youtube.com
Great song Michael, here are The Proclaimers with the same song and saying why it was written. Good songs are worth sharing twice š
If you listen right at the beginning you will here Craig say:
“Towards the end of next year there will be a vote on whether Scotland goes Independent or not. I don’t know how it’s gonna go but I hope it does. This song was written many years ago on that subject and it’s called…”
link to youtube.com
@David
Your Jack Lemmon clip was a hoot, I’ve known Paula/Paul for a few years now as have many other Wingers.
I not sure though what the plan is for this change of character.Paula has always been a character and an asset to the Yes movement. Might even start a bring back Paula Rose campaign.
Interesting times. I might be talking a load of proverbial, but it seems to me the H is steadily moving towards Indy, and it’s even possible that decision was made some time ago. Even Leask’s one-sided article last week could be a good move. The anti-Indy mob are getting worse and worse, really quite “vile” in their attacks, and if we could completely clean up our act, proactively as well by pulling up anyone who goes over the top, we could take and keep the high ground, leaving the anti-Indy nasties swimming around in their own filth.
I also think the T26 announcement of a future announcement has backfired spendidly for Fallon, with Mundell alongisde looking like a pet wally dog complete with wallies as a crown, and wasn’t Bernard Ponsonby a total hero – again.
But we need to keep our act clean as a washed and powdered baby’s bum. Incidentally, I support the change, we’re in the end game, but would like to see Paula posting occasionally!
Well, before back to bed after a Rothesay 28th wedding anniversary day oot, but afore I go:
link to youtube.com
liz g: Nana,et al
Have had no Wi Fi,I’m ok,will be back asap.
Things happen to happen when there happening.
š
Peace Always
Oh jings… I hope Paula hasn’t left the country!!! Who is going to advise on the make up palette and matching nail polish???
I’ll miss those girly night-ins, heels swapped for carpet socks (always sparkly ones), chillin’ with a rosĆ© or three…
and there were the dancin’ lessons…
Aww, pop back now and again and bring Paul š – he is such fun and always adds to the cultural scene.
Missing you already!
Morning Smallaxe
Thanks for letting us know your ok
Take care of yourself X
Tinto Chiel
That was a great link about the history of Scottish soldiers.
Thank you.
Have only got as far a the Queen Victoria bit but it’s fascinating and quite an eye opener.
Although it’s a bit like reading AAV, really makes you appreciate the Revs insistence on paragraph breaks.
It also got me thinking what High School History lessons will look like after we are Independent!
@Smallaxe
Good to hear from you.
Now what’s all this about Paula Rose leaving. Has she been upset by anyone in here? Have folks been keeping the place tidy? Is she flouncing off?
But most importantly has she left me a pair of her highest heels??
Paul Wright
Sorry Paul, I’d completely missed you coming out. Have I mised the party?
Hi, Liz. You’re welcome. Yes,it’s difficult to read because of the layout, as you say. You can still find the wee book in second-hand bookshops like Calton Books. Don’t pay over the odds for it, though. I once saw it for sale for Ā£55 on Amazon! Mine cost well under a tenner. The author was an ex-Cameronian, from memory, and felt very strongly about the subject. Not sure what a “real” historian like Trevor Royle would make of it……ahem.
Morning, Smallaxe. Glad it was just wifi probs and you’re On The Road Again.
Hi Tinto Chiel.
RE: expensive books. I’ve just finished “Snapshot” by Craig Robertson. Glasgow’s “lost village” of Grahamston, which disappeared under the first (northmost) part of Central Station in the 1870s, is central to the story.
I’d never heard of Grahamston so went a-Googling. Interesting stuff…
link to abandonedcommunities.co.uk
link to grahamston.com
link to independent.co.uk
There are loads more links but my final one is to Amazon, where you can buy the paperback “Glasgow’s Forgotten Village: The Grahamston Story”, mentioned in the second link above. It was published in 2002. It can be yours for, wait for it…
Ā£170.32!
link to tinyurl.com
I’d never heard of Grahamston either, Brian. Those wee links were very interesting. The Kirklee tunnel is a popular “secret” rendezvous and quite spooky. The Gothy wee kids like it to hang out in, I hear.
Then there’s the strange torture room supposedly discovered during renovation of the Central Station hotel…..
And the locomotive supposedly lying at the bottom of the Daer reservoir….
This one is true, though:
link to abandonedcommunities.co.uk
Ā£170 is pushing it a bit, eh? Someone’s got a brass kneck for such a recent book.
‘By focusing on prospects for psychic emancipation, Sandoval summons a new subject capable of love, hope, and transfor- mative resistance.’
I’m feasting on your link Cameron…(innuendo laden not intentional š )
K1
As Bob said “half the story has never been told”. Glad you’re enjoying the enlightened analysis of the post-modern condition.
Don’t give up the fight ’cause I never give up. š
I’ve chosen this track ‘cos of all the intellectuals here. It’s got Spanish subtitles an’ that, but also a great guitar riff.
And it’s very old.
link to youtube.com
And I have donned my psychedelic loon pants for one of my favourite mid-sixties tracks. The lyrics bear examination, imo.
link to youtube.com
Hope this stimulates dialectic.
That’s it I’m divorcing my other half – now where were we oh yes song time…
link to youtube.com
Stay strong, Paula. Syd’s not worth it…..
Or is he?
Ok, so it started as an ‘off the cuff’ casual remark on twitter, but this might have some fun mileage:
The ‘Wings Over Scotland Easter Ball’
Anyone else interested in getting this up & running. Venue TBC, but our Paula Rose reckons the mighty metropolis of Brechin has suitable venues.
The only train to catch, imo:
link to youtube.com
Sorry, have to go out and nadger my tups.
Finished: no mess, no fuss.
Off for my Horlicks.
Jimi’s staying up though:
link to youtube.com
Unbelievable, but amazing drumming too to keep up. Well done, Mitch.
Revenge of the goats! Sorry.
link to youtube.com
Hi Tinto Chiel.
Interesting stuff re: Bothwellhaugh in the link from your 11.15 post this morning.
RE: jazz musicians. This is from the link I gave in my further post about Johnny Duckworth at 11.37pm last night.
I quote from my link there (mentioning Johnny DANKWORTH):-
“Funnily enough, one of Dankworth’s musicians, who was with his band for many years, was trumpet player Jimmy Deuchar.
Mr Deuchar was born in Dundee in 1930, which would, chronologically, have made him a prime candidate for involvement in Duckworth’s orchestra. Although much research has been carried out, no connection has been found linking Deuchar to Duckworth. However, his connection with Dankworth has been well documented over the years.”
Here’s one of the links:-
link to youtube.com
You can get all the other info on Jimmy Deucher at my link from last night:-
link to dundee3js.freeforums.org
Is he trained to think in four-dimensional Euclidean space?
Messer Chumps – Sex euro Elvis pop
link to youtube.com
That was me chucking my hat in btw. š
BDTT: Wow! I found the speed, articulation and sheer skill at keeping it all together quite breathtaking. I remember the name Tubby Hayes vaguely from the sixties but jazz wasn’t my thing then. Amazing footage, so thanks a lot. It made me think, just how do you write this stuff? I must not have a jazz brain.
Have you a potted history of Jimmy? I find these forum layouts quite hard to follow at times. Your link had a copyright block, unfortunately.
Insensitive, me? Time waits for nowt and the environment may never change, on it’s own, to suite my requirements. It may never. That’s the way I see things.
You only have one life.
Brian Doonthetoon
Nice. š
When I was a diligent student @GU, this guy was up the QM enchanting the Laydees.
link to youtube.com
He creates a certain atmosphere, imo.
Hats off, Paul Buchanan.
Hi Tinto Chiel.
Check out the ‘Retro Dundee” links at the link I gave.
link to dundee3js.freeforums.org
Remember to click on the graphics at the Retro Dundee site to get the larger legible versions. However, there seems to be a problem with the graphics enlarging so I’ve emailed retro’s webgaffer to let him know.
You may be able to read the text by ‘zooming in’ if you’re using Firefox.
Hi Tinto Chiel.
Further on your comment about Central Station Hotel at 11.15am this morning.
When I was researching Grahamston, I did a search at ’28 days later’ (urban exploration web site) and this page turned up.
link to 28dayslater.co.uk
If you scroll down it, you’ll see a pic of a room with razor blades embedded in the walls. Your guess is as good as mine!
Getting it all now, Brian. Thanks.
I think I’ve led a boring life…….
š
Sorry, posts crossed, Brian.
Thanks, this may be the origin of the “torture chamber”.
Actually, who knows what it might be? A joke?
I’m just a Lanarkshire chiel, no’ a Glaswegian!
“Bitin’ and scartin’ is Scots fowk’s wooin’!” as my paternal grannie used to say.
Sheesh!
Thing is, thinking in four-dimensional Euclidean space enables one to plan flexibility into structure. Constructedness with scope, if ye ken fit ah mean.
See you, CameronB Brodie, I bet you can’t remember the answer to the question, “What’s the difference between a duck?”.
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WRONG! I’m sure the answer is in ‘off-topic’, somewhere…
Youse are all pure mental.
Just sayin…
link to youtube.com
Another way of describing thought in four-dimensional Euclidean space is thinking ahead. Simples. Sounded mind-boggling impressive though, eh?
Scotland’s Story link to youtube.com
Tinto Chiel, CameronB Brodie, I accidentally opened up your youtube links at the same time, so was listening (without realising) to John Coltrane and the Messer Chups at the same time! The resulting sound was actually quite good. š
Hey CameronB, you’ve only got 2 years until your big 5-0, time to start planning the party, man. Get the Palmhouse booked! š
In the meantime, please keep posting about human rights, and specifically what the UK has guaranteed to supply to its citizens, by being a signatory to various UN & international treaties.
If the UK isn’t giving us what it committed to giving us, then we need to be either (1) taking UK gov’t to court, or (2) taking ourselves out of the state that is failing us.
David
Oucheroonie. I suppose it take all sorts.
Sorry, I don’t know how to do more than I have i.e. link to the “Right to Development” and the LSE report earlier, which outlined the framework which the World Bank and internal development law operates within.
I’m not even sure if the UK is a signatory and haven’t chased it up. Not my area of expertise mate. I’ll never let it drop though.
Michael McCabe
That was the ticket. Perfect.
Nice little new blog from average. Serious question: who’s side is he on?
Have you seen the little piggies
Crawling in the dirt?
And for all the little piggies
Life is getting worse
Always having dirt to play around in.
Home soon!
Peace Always
Smallaxe
Breakfast. š
Bob Marley – Redemption Song
link to youtube.com
CameronB Brodie:
Thank you Cameron,for helping me sing the songs of Freedom
I will soon be home,not Anonymously.
Rise up this mornin’
Smiled with the risin’ sun
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin’ sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true
Saying’,this is my message to you
Singing’ don’t worry ’bout a thing
‘Cause every little thing gonna be alright!
Peace Always š
link to culturalsurvival.org
Peace Always ?
Peace Always ?
CameronB Brodie:
We must come to understand when the staging of authenticity is a destructive force and when it is not.
Peace Always,all ways
David: Coltrane and Chups…..
Careful,that way madness lies.
š
Smallaxe
I wouldn’t have thought that easy to judge in an social environment structured through “habitus” and “symbolic violence”.
Peace
CameronB Brodie:
Easily “judged” my friend,when violence “symbolic” or otherwise is avoided at all costs.
Peace Always,all ways
Cultures becomes powerless to defend their continued authenticity. I’m certainly not calling for violence but the BBC can do one.
I think Scotland needs to appreciate the threat to it’s cultural integrity. That’s important to sustainable development and the prospects of future generations.
Peace
The sustainability paradigm needs four pillars not four candles..
Culture: Forth Pillar of Sustainable Development
link to agenda21culture.net
The Fourth Pillar of Sustainability: cultureās essential role inpublic planning
link to culturaldevelopment.net.au
Peace
CameronB Brodie:
I fully agree with you,integrity must be maintained.Goverments decide when war is to be instigated,then their propaganda units (BBC et al) come into play,lying to the electorate and “Othering” the prospective “enemy”.
We (Scotland) are being and have been (“Othered”) for too long.Hopefully,our present situation can be remedied at the ballot box,if not…
“Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned; That until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man’s skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained.”
…We shall defend our Kingdom Nation.
Peace is worth fighting for!
Love creates space for the respect of difference and ultimately aids peace.
Thing is, were all interconnected through the environment we shape and which we are shaped by. Ideology is not a natural component.
We can love humanity,and dislike individuals who are a part of that humanity.Loving humanity, means loving only one race of people,the Human race.
Peace,for People,for Peace
One Love
Got stuck behind an Orange Walk in Livingston today.
If the band were removed there would have only been nine of them marching along. I’m sure her Majesty will be proud of her gallant band of brethren and will sleep easy knowing her realm is safe in their hands.
Love creates space for the respect of difference and ultimately aids tolerance and peace through inclusion of all.
Love creates space for the respect of difference and ultimately aids tolerance and peace through the inclusion of all.
P.S. That’s not of my own pen, it’s some other dude’s thought.
yesindyref2:
I had been looking back at this thread and I came across your post of 2nd Nov@3:19pm.Apologies,I missed it at that time.
“I think you can get transference, and contact helps. Holding hands basically, in 50 years time theyāll probably discover itās electricity at body pulse rate or something weird like that. Thereās a couple of times in my life I may have helped people, just holding a hand for some time, and even stranger, I was exhausted after.”
I have had personal experience of this phenomena,when I lived
with my Rastafarian brothers,I had treatment from one of the Elders.This man,of whom I speak,was held in high esteem by the tribe,we would probably call him a witch doctor or shamen,the Rasta’s called him “the African man”.
This man sat opposite me and held both of my hands,he immediately let go and asked me to take off my shoes,this he told me,was to “groundate” us otherwise my illness would go into him.My hands became warm and felt as if they were slightly vibrating,the feeling spread throughout my whole body.
After this very pleasurable experience,which left me feeling better than I had felt in months,he gave me a bottle of a herbal liquid every week for three weeks.I don’t know and didn’t ask what was in the liquid,it’s a pity that it’s not sold in this country,for some reason it made me calm and happy.I think that I know what at least one of the ingredients was. š
Peace Always
starlaw:
It’s like the Declaration of Arbroath,only different.
As long as there is 9 of them,there will always be 9 Ars*holes in Livingston.
Peace Always
@ronnie anderson
LOL Ronnie. Try decent food for starters!
Recommend Forthglade or Naturediet, you can buy it online or at Pets at Home. Bit more expensive than yer Chappie or Pedigree Chum but worth it. Only quality ingredients in it.
If you take this route, mind introduce the new food gradually over 4 or 5 days by mixing it with his usual food.
@ Thepnr did ah no ask fur ah professional advisor your expertise is in things that Float , an the am no training the Wee feker tae uas the pan, its whit he,s uased tae Pedigree chump, but I will take note of your suggestion anything fur ah smelly free environment lol.
Hahaha ronnie, just trying to be helpful. We’ve two wee terriers now and they never fart! Or if they do my nose doesn’t detect it lol.
Seriously though do a wee bit research about dog food, you wouldn’t believe some of the crap that goes into it.
We buy ours online from Berrieswood where it is 2/3rds of the price of Pets at Home. You can get wet or dry.
As I said, just trying to be helpful mate, sounded like you needed it š
@ Ronnie
Is that the same wee aggressive bugger you had at Holyrood who fell out with not so wee Ginger? And the rest…
Thepnr is quite right, most tinned dog food without mixer = smelly farts.
@ronnie anderson
What Thepnr says. We looked after a german shepherd whan a pal was rushed to hospital, they were going to put in in kennels for a week š Yeah farting and runny with the Chappie I was given, switched to Pedigree Chum strangely enough, but also biscuit stuff for roughage, problem solved.
Mind you, I picked him up from the kennels, god knows what they fed him in there, and he was kind of pleased to see me.
Interesting and provocative article in today’s Sunday Herald magazine. And here was me thinking Clitoris was a town in the South of France.
Ronnie Anderson
Be careful if you are giving the wee dog mixer some are allergic to it
Check with its owner first.
And don’t suddenly change it’s brand that can give it the runs.
I would give mine a wee Tate charcoal but I don’t feed commercial dog food
Definitely check with Morag before changing anything in its diet.
Oh and forgot to add Ronnie it might not be its food
If you’re giving it treats it could be them,espically if your giving it more than normal cause you’re sorry for it.
Or if it’s something it doesn’t usually get.
Thanks all for the advice , its the 1st time ave started ah thread oan fartin dugs, still makes ah break in aw that political stuff. I.ll try Thepnr’s suggestion & introduce it slowly & no I dont give it any treats other than the odd biscuit he’s ah beggin wee feker as well,ah might tye him tae a lamppost put ah bunnet doon an if he makes any money he can get steak .
Thanks all
Good luck Ronnie
And on the bright side….cause there’s always a bright side.
A major plus for dog owners
You never have to take the blame
Seriously,though. Sunday Herald improving in leaps and bounds under new editorial team. First class, well informed content throughout and a really good Sunday read. And never a sight of Tom Gordon.
link to youtube.com
@Tinto Chiel
Enjoyed that, something nice and mellow for an early Sunday evening.
@TC –
Nice one, haven’t heard that for many many years.
Anyone ever heard of this dude?
Was going down the Shannon with pals, summer ’86, stopping at wee towns. This character turned up unannounced, did a gig for approx 10 customers in a toty pub (maybe Killaloe, can’t be sure), we all chipped-in, that was it, but never forgot his name. This is one of the songs he did.
The Pecker Dunne, ‘Last of the Travelling People’
link to youtube.com
Glad you liked it Thepnr. Not the usual Stranglers style at all, at all.
It’ll maybe calm things down after Embra Peter in the other room.
Sheesh.
@Ronnie A –
By the sounds of it, that li’l fella may need his anal glands emptied.
(Not really a DIY job…)
Never heard of him, Ian but he has a great folk voice and he looks as if he led a “full life”.
He’s got my smouldering good looks as well……
š
Don’t know why but ah’ve a hankerin’ to post a couple of tunes that I’ve posted in the past. The first still gives me the shivery back when the pipes come in…
link to youtube.com
I think this one was overlooked by most peeps the last time I posted it. A fine vid-eh-oh…
link to youtube.com
@TC –
š
Aye, he’s a character alright. From Mayo, where my maternal grandparents lived. The travellers we get in our neck of the woods are, far as I can tell, from there and Donegal.
These are the people Brian Donohoe used to rant about every other week in the Ayrshire Post and suchlike. He openly referred to them as ‘scum of the earth’ on more than one occasion (allegedly).
Can’t help wondering if anyone ever bothered asking them what they thought of him? (Or their assessment of his website?!)
š
That sounds like Donohoe. The man makes James Kelly seem a charming raconteur or however you choose to spell it (!).
I knew an travelling woman on Skye in the 70s and 80s and you could have trusted her with your last penny. Many of the Scottish travellers kept our traditional songs going too.
I showed your clip of BD (introducing his website) to my wife and daughters and they found it hysterically funny.
Alan Partridge levels of lack of self-awareness.
BDTT: meant to thank you for posting the Marche des Soldats a few years back. I’ve had it on my favourites for quite a while now. Don’t quite know what the French thought of it but I love the pipes.
“Internal exile”: now there’s a term for CameronB to get his teeth into.
Hitting the sack (not the wine, obvs).
@TC –
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Aye, there’s a decent book to be written about Donohoe and his ilk. I ain’t doing it.
Any volunteers? (??!!)
Fuck Old Scottish Labour and their fankly frienships…
I’m half-cut, so this is just a wee dod of nostalgia.
Happy Mondays, ‘Step On’ –
link to youtube.com
Nah, this is the one I really wanted to post…
Primal Scream, ‘Loaded’ –
link to youtube.com
OK it’s midnight.
Time for the BBC sign off. Now stand to attention.
link to youtube.com
I’m just about to lay my head down but if there’s anyone here who does Twitter, methinks Paula Rose needs some calm pills.
Paula Rose ?@PaulaHoneyRose 20m20 minutes ago
I couldn’t give a flying f*** any more go f*** yourselves – I’m not going to be around too f****** longer anyway – f*** off.
Nighty night – and good luck!
I’m alone in cyberspace!
Peace Always
Smallaxe
No you are not.
What will we do with cyberspace??
Hi liz:
How are things,I’ve been away for a few days.Have I missed anything,is our friend Peter back?
Peace Always
Goodnight all
Peace Always
Good night my friend.
Corrie doon with Mrs Smallaxe.
We will see ye in the morning X
The acceptance of intolerance, inequality and ideological dogma were the causes of the condition of Britain’s inner-cities in the 1970s. The processes of internal colonisation produce similar results through similar mechanisms.
The principles of local planning aimed at sustainable development, require measures to be taken so as to plan ideology out of the environment, so as to maximise accessibility and social connectedness. Don’t believe me, ask the Royal Town Planning Institute.
link to en.wikipedia.org
British nationalism is ideological dogma that needs to be planned out of the environment. This will be a progressive process which starts with the understanding of ideological nationalism.
The Ballad of Lidl & Aldi link to youtube.com
Cameron B Brodie @ 2.21
It’s just ma thing but part of the reason I like reading your stuff is because I think/ hope we are soon to be writing a new Constution.
I am impressed by the American one but as we know it has been shredded since 9-11
In a way we have to depend on how much information we can get across, and how do you see our Constution meeting??? The needs of the people.
And how do you see us ( Scotland ) making sure we don’t turn into a mini me Westminster?
The British state does not provide the correct context to enable Scotland’s potential to be developed in a way that meets the needs of all Scots. Continuation of this approach to national development will impair the prospects of future generations.
Just how well has Scotland flourished within a context shaped by ideological nationalism?
Liz g
Haven’t got much of clue about constitutions, though it’s creation must be an inclusive process. There are plenty of examples to give us ideas but I’m not sure if a slave-owners charter is the best example.
Nationalism as an Ideology: Ukraine’s Revolution
link to preserve.lehigh.edu
The British state fails to provide the correct alphabet needed to articulate the humanity and potential of those who live in Scotland.
Signification, now there’s a word for you. Or is that a bit to semiotic for you man? And woman Reg. š
The Meters – It Ain’t No Use
link to youtube.com
Remember kids, habitus and symbolic violence are insidious.
P.S. The processes of internal colonisation are largely akin to those of ghettoisation. The Meters express the marginalisation of African Americans living under a system of internal colonisation.
…express the hopelessness caused through exclusion and marginalisation…
In a rather funky fashion. š
CameronB Brodie:
“express the hopelessness caused through exclusion and marginalisationā¦”
MAN,I come on here in the middle of the night,stupid 0’clock in the morning.Not a peep not a whisper from you or Micheal.
NOW,why do you think I would feel Hopeless & Excluded?
Could it have something to do with the fact that when I log off in despair,you BOTH log on “in a rather Funky fashion”
Peace,Love and Hopelessly Excluded!
Smallaxe
Hope you don’t think I’m avoiding you, I’m just a bit weird. Here’s one for you that I think expresses the in-authenticity common of the digital age. š
Afro Celt Sound System – Release
link to youtube.com
Scotland’s culture must not be foregone in order to suite the needs of an Anglo-centered world view and ambition, franky.
CameronB Brodie:
Your Weird!,as the Joker said “wait till they get a Load of Me” š
Good Morning Cameron
Peace Always
The World Today: Imagined Communities – On British Nationalism
link to youtube.com
Benedict Andersonās View of Nationalism
link to thenation.com
Remember kid you’re not a Scottish nationalist your a civil rights activist. Don’t let the wanks label you in a pejorative fashion that suites their needs.
Put the master’s tools down.
British nationalism is the divisive element in Scottish politics. It seeks to divide a nation against it’s own self-interest.
TEST
link to youtube.com
This kid can sing the blues
link to youtube.com
I think that first lot will be hearing from Jethro Tull’s Lawyer.
Peace Always
What a voice that kid had.
Aretha Franklin – Think
link to youtube.com
How can those living in Scotland expect to flourish if they do not have access to their inalienable human rights?
link to un.org
Scotland’s achievement is constrained by ideological boundaries.
Put the master’s tools down.
link to unac.org
The price of loyalty to ideological dogma is not one our kids should have to pay. Let’s leave the age of modernity behind eh?
Messer Chups – Supersonik Vibrator
link to youtube.com
For the first time ever (i think!) i’ve just seen not one, not two, but 3 Waxwings on the bare branches of the Cherry Blossom tree in my garden.
Or more correctly i’ve just identified them. At first glance i thought they were Jays but on further inspection (pocket binoculars) i went on to identify them as Waxwings.
Don’t think i’ve ever witnessed one before never mind 3 at the same time so i’m feeling pretty chuffed. Probably will not see a more beautiful wildlife sight this winter. Gorgeous!
link to archive.is
And on Wings’ 5th birthday too.
š
TRIAL
I think the MSM has exTRA edITORs
Stoker
Don’t quote me on this but I think Scotland is becoming a more popular holiday destination for them. I’ve spotted family groups in Edinburgh’s Meadows over the last few years. I spotted a swarm of 50+ pied wagtails in the Kingsway retail park in Dundee, just a few weeks back. Remarkable. I’m not a twitcher btw, I just like to face the world with my eyes open. š
Scrub that, I’m talking mince. I think they were Fieldfairs.
Stoker: yes, waxwings are really beautiful. I’ve only see them twice, one on its own in my backgarden and a tree containing about fifty just around the corner! Maybe the cold winter will bring more in to Scotland.
Bullfinches are another amazing bird. Love that red.
CameronB Brodie:
Fieldfares make terrible mince.
Peace always
Mmmm…
I see nobody was really bothered about the state of Paula Rose’s mental cosiness 18 hours ago….
link to wingsoverscotland.com
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Birds? Looked out my closie’s stair window a few years ago on the way home and saw what looked like a pied wagtail on the roof out the back but it was the wrong colour.
Checked my nature bible and it turned out to be a grey wagtail. Apparently, they’re quite rare in Scotland so what was this one doing in Dundee city centre? Here’s what they look like:-
link to reddishvale.moonfruit.com
Question arises… Why isn’t it called a yellow wagtail?
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Just done a Viewfinder survey for DC Thomson. In answer to the last question,
“If you were Sunday Post Editor for the day, would you introduce any new columnists to the paper ā and if so ā who would they be and why? “
I typed in this…
“I would introduce Stuart Campbell, the editor and brains behind ‘Wings Over Scotland’ to offer a forensic analysis of a story that has been heavily featured in the preceding week’s mainstream media. Like this:-
link to wingsoverscotland.com“
Smallaxe
I’ve not eaten meat in a very long time Smallaxe but I’ll take your word for it.
Remember folks, the form and functioning of the British state is in conflict with the principles of planning for sustainable development, as prescribed by the Royal Town Planning Institute.
@Brian Doonthetoon
Maybe because Paula Rose checked in this morning to wish the Rev a Happy Birthday.
We all have our moments and having a strop on twitter really isn’t a big deal. Just think of Torrence.
The Coasters – Run Red Run
link to youtube.com
CameronB Brodie:
I did not mean making mince out of them Cameron,I meant,they can’t cook.
They make a lovely pastry, though,it’s light as a feather. š
Peace Always
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Smallaxe š
Little Feat – Dixie Chicken
link to youtube.com
BDDT: a yellow wagtail is a different bird which only visits southern Britain in summer. The grey wagtail, which has a yellow belly too, is in Scotland all year.
Saw one (and a dipper) in the wee burn that runs through Strathaven about a fortnight ago.
Ok…I like birds…
IT DOESN’T MAKE ME A BAD PERSON! ALL RIGHT?
Jeez.
Only kidding, btw.
š
Irony overload:
BBC article, “Why Russians watch TV news they don’t trust.”
link to bbc.com
“They are looking to decipher a system of signals – who is on air today, who was yesterday, the intonation & choice of words.”
“And so, Russians are hyper-attuned to what the state is thinking. Even children.”
link to youtube.com
Watch the ankles: amazing.
Top tune. š
the slits – love und romance
link to youtube.com
If any one of you twitchers plays the “The Birdie Song”, FU……………………………………………………….CK OFF!!
Peace Always
I think I’ve posted this on the main’ birthday’ page but I’m not sure – it seems to be playing up.
I’ll post here onnyhoo.
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Hi Rev Stu.
Congrats on your 5th anniversary. The existence of ‘Wings Over Scotland’ has become essential on so many levels.
But it’s not just a web site / blog you have created. As stonefaction mentioned above, you have also created “the extended Wings family”.
Since early 2014, Wingers have been getting together to chew the cud and it’s all your fault!
The links below show examples of Wingers getting together, from all points of the political spectrum but all convinced of the right to Scottish self-determination.
I’ll split these into two comments, in the hope that they will be posted without the need for moderation.
Pics from the Wings get-together in Glasgow, May 2014.
link to sites.google.com
The Arbroath Seafest weekend, August 2014.
link to sites.google.com
The second Invergowrie get-together, February 2015.
link to sites.google.com
The Helensburgh get-together, July 2015.
link to sites.google.com
(Continued…)
To continueā¦
The third Invergowrie get-together, October, 2015.
link to sites.google.com
The Aberdeen get-together, January 2016.
link to imgur.com
The Glasgow get-together, including ‘Inform Scotland’ workshops, March 2016.
link to imgur.com
Lastly, pics from various events over the past couple of years, including assembled Wingers in George Square on 30th July 2016 and some pics from the weekend of 17th/18th September 2016.
link to imgur.com
You are responsible for all this insurrection, Rev Stu. More power to your elbow!
For Smallaxe, hope I don’t ruffle any feathers:
The Byrds “Eight Miles High”
link to youtube.com
Eagles “Take It Easy”
link to youtube.com
Christopher Lee reads “The Raven”
link to youtube.com
Horlicks time.
Before which, a reminder of what we are all up against:
link to youtube.com
Elvis was prescient.
I think I may have posted this pic previously.
We were in Jolly’s in Broughty Ferry for a nosebag just after the 2015 general election and these were the tables we had.
Delighted to see I am in the photo in George Square on 31st July.
I am on the extreme right (of the photo I hasten to add) with black jacket, jeans and trainers.
@Still Positive
Spotted yeh š
See the third picture in that montage, well here is the original Cyber Dug.
[IMG]http://i68.tinypic.com/ne7s5g.jpg[/IMG]
Try again.
link to tinypic.com
This is embarrassing but never give in.
link to i68.tinypic.com
Feck it. Direct link.
link to s804.photobucket.com
If this doesn’t work i give in LOL.
Arbroath before the referendum August 2014
link to s804.photobucket.com
Wings visit Edinburgh.
link to s804.photobucket.com
Political Ideology and Conflicting Environmental Paradigms
link to mitpressjournals.org
Ideology is not a natural component of the environment. British nationalism is incompatible with nature.
Environment and Ideology
Understanding the Basics
link to prezi.com
Contractarianism, now there’s a word for you.
Social Contract as Bourgois Ideology
link to clogic.eserver.org
Beyond the Psychological Contract: Ideology and the Economic Social Contract in a Restructuring Environment
link to theses.lib.vt.edu;.pdf
The UKOK is the product of ideological nationalism. As such, it’s underlying philosophy is incompatible with reality and makes achieving an equitable and sustainable spatial distribution of economic activity, highly unlikely. It’s ‘success’ has come at the cost of the internal colonisation of the Celt fringe.
Britain is the square peg forcing it’s way in to the environment.
The UKOK is the product of ideological nationalism. As such, itās underlying philosophy is a stranger to reality and makes achieving an equitable and sustainable spatial distribution of economic activity, highly unlikely. Itās āsuccessā has come at the cost of the internal colonisation of the Celt fringe.
Britain is the ideological square peg forcing itās way in to the environment.
Scotland would most probably have flourished over the last three centuries had it not been for union with England. As such, I doubt there would have been the same scale of structural problems for BLiS____d to concern themselves over. What would I know though?
Ideological nationalism is built on fudge.
Ideological nationalism is built on a foundation of fudge. š
WHAT a great place this is,who needs a TV?DJs,FILM PRODUCERS,PHOTOGRAPHERS
PHILOSOPHERS,RACONTEURS and no trolls.BLISSFULL!thanks a’body. š
Peace and Love to ALL
Ideology is not a natural component of the environment. British nationalism is incompatible with nature.Ideology is not a natural component of the environment. British nationalism is unnatural. It is environmental pollution which is harmful to Scotland’s well-being.
One is able to spot ideology in the environment through the process of semiotic analysis. Bet you didn’t know that Mr. Carrell. Felling ever so much a fannybaws?
If you’re wanting to examine an example of ideology in the environment, take a look at your nearest pluke on a plinth. That’s how colonialism is structured in to a society. It’s all semiotic man. And woman Reg. š
Sorry about this bu I want to be robust with my argument.
If youāre wanting to examine an example of ideology in the environment, take a look at your nearest pluke on a plinth. Symbolism of thatās kind is one of the mechanisms employed when structuring colonialism in to a society. Itās all semiotic man. And woman Reg. ?
Remember folks, habitus and symbolic violence are insidious.
I wasn’t entirely straight with folks the other night. I actually think semiotic-ally in four-dimension Euclidean space.
Ignore the BUM, it’s a facada. š
Frank Quitely, famous among world comic fans as an A league artist, also writes and is currently having a short story of his animated (by crowdfunding).
I paste the demo vid here only because the main character reminds me of someone from Scottish politics and wondered if others thought the same.
link to youtube.com
I like this one as it reflects the experience of African American’s living under a system of internal colonisation, which I thought relevant.
Get the picture? š
The Coasters – Run Red Run
link to youtube.com
It also show the transition from slavery and some of the vectors involved in colonising liberated humans.
Scotland will never resolve it’s structural problems until it faces up to the causes. In the majority of cases it is three centuries of union under a system of internal colonisation.
Square pegs don’t fit in round holes.
If sustainable development is your objective, approaches based on ideology will not proved the solution
The British state is based on and sustained by the ideology of British nationalism.
Showing my workings, sorry. š
If sustainability is your objective, approaches based on ideology will not provide the solution. The British state is based on and sustained by the ideology of British nationhood. Contemporary British nationalism is an expansionist form of English nationalism. Not cool and not very nice.
African American achieved civil liberties. Scots enjoy watching the BBC.
Scotland has authentic integrity. Britain is an ideological construct.
Got the picture. š
TESTING
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZtest
Fancy popping a tune on for us Smallaxe?
CameronB Brodie:
Cameron,that’s what all the “testing”is for but I don’t know how it’s done.Can you help?
Peace Always
Not a problem Smallaxe. Once you’ve found your tune of choice, copy the address bar at the top of the page, then post on Wings. You need to remove all characters that precede the www before submitting, or the post won’t appear. Simples, once you now.
…paste on wings.
Should have gone to speck….. š
link to youtu.be
link to youtube.com
CameronB Brodie:
That one is for you, my Friend.Thank you.
Peace Always
I’m got nowhere with that Smallaxe but my wifi has been problematic. You might want to check if it works for yourself.
Got Joe. My pleasure mate.
CameronB Brodie:
I’d posted a couple of tunes earlier that had been emailed to me, I just had to copy and paste them as I was only using a tablet.I have upgraded now to a new notebook.
Peace Always
An oddity: only the older listener may remember.
link to m.youtube.com
May The Force be with you.
Tinto Chiel:
Cheek “older”. Not old but…
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
I remember it well TC. Telstar, Apache, Acker Bilk’s Stranger on the Shore etc the soundtrack of my childhood.
Lollysmum:
Reminisce. š
link to youtube.com
Peace Always