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Posted on
January 02, 1968 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
For off-topic chat. Duh.
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Transphobia
Thanks Smallaxe. I’m now feeling quite mellow after that 🙂
Aweright ma Scotland!
Smallaxe now you know how to post the Music. link to youtube.com
Michael McCabe:
I think….:-)
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Lollysmum:
Your most welcome, spoil your self. 🙂
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Is there Something happening over the water ? link to youtube.com
Michael McCabe:
Democracy Michael, over there?
I know when that will happen.
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Michael McCabe:
Is this about Hilary?
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Smallaxe. You never know. link to youtube.com
Smallaxe. You Never Know. link to youtube.com
Michael McCabe:
Do you think She’s a Witch?
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
All Aboard. link to youtube.com
Will you take my Pulse?
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
The New Basement Tapes. link to youtube.com
Presidential Elections all over the T.V.
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Michael McCabe
I think our hearts have meat.
met. I’m in bits.
I was Soul Train what did it. Top tune mate, thanks.
Smallaxe a wee nightcap for you. link to youtube.com
I and I say you bad bwai Michael, big bout yah tha’ be Boonoonoonous Mon.
A child of my time:www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfAWReBmxEs
Goodnight All
Peace Always
link to youtube.com
another try
Peace Always
link to youtube.com
another try
Peace Always
this thing keeps telling me that I’ve already said that!
Just a thought. The BUM is the master’s whip, especially the BBC.
I’m sure some graphic bod could manage to link the BBC with the state of “boundness”. 😉
TRY TRY TRY AGAIN
Goodnight Again
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Peace Always
Chris de Burgh – Satin Green Shutters
link to youtube.com
Not sure this would have been the version you were thinking about. It’s the address of the vid you want, not the search. 😉
Billie Holiday – Ghost Of Yesterday
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CameronB Brodie:
Thank you for your assistance,Cameron.
link to youtube.com
PeaceAlways
link to simplypsychology.org
H-Bomb Ferguson – Good Lovin’ – Slowly Goin’ Crazy
link to youtube.com
Me too
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Bim Sherman – Bewildered
link to youtube.com
Esquerita – Better Believe Me
link to youtube.com
There is one good thing about it!
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Lollysmum, I’m so old I remember Stranger on the Shore from the children’s series. Hope you’re settling in abune the dyke and socking it to the Mundellites (that’ll get Smallaxe thinking of Israelites and cue for more reggae) down in them thar borders.
It’s the first day of the Trump presidency. Only one clip will do:
link to youtube.com
He’s been here before but it seems appropriate.
Thank God I’m going onto Glasgow to meet an old pal today for some sherberts…..
Misty in Roots – Follow Fashion
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Tinto Chiel:
You must have a crystal ball 🙂
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Smallaxe, going to Slaters today for my asbestos boxers, which we’re all going to need. You’ll be a medium, I’m guessing.
That’s some “stogie” Bob’s puffing. Mind you, after last night, I might be joining him in the herbal cigarette stakes.
Naw, mebbe stick to sherberts.
Nature Notes No.3: I’ve got redpolls on my bird feeder and it’s snowing Where I Am.
Tinto Chiel:
It’s raining,but I have my doves to keep me company.If I knew how,Iwould send you a picture.
link to youtube.com
🙂
Peace Always
Let’s see if I can encourage that fire to catch. Can you imagine this being reported on by the BBC? Neither can I.
link to iss.nl
Frequently Asked Questions on the Right to Development
link to ohchr.org
Derrick Morgan – The Conqueror
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Imagination, you have to use it.
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
A sustainable approach to global development will not be achievable without the full realisation of all human rights.
Human rights and environmental quality are “intrinsically internally linked”. They depend on each other.
CameronB Brodie:
Human Rights!
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
CameronB Brodie:
More Human Rights!
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Total lack of self-awareness there from RightsInfo. It’s as almost as if their world view is that Britain is One Nation?
CameronB Brodie:
You are better at the Human Rights Cameron,I will leave that up to You.
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Smallaxe
Don’t get me the wrong way Smallaxe, I’m no the boss.
Brilliant find thought as it exemplifies how ideological the institutionalisation of British nationalism is. Someone might want to get in touch with them and point out they’re a bunch of fannybaws.
Louis Prima – Beep! Beep!
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Brilliant find thought as it exemplifies how ingrained the ideology of British nationalism is, most worryingly with regard human rights. It’s almost as if they weren’t aware that Scotland is a distinct country to England and that the people of Scotland lack access to their inalienable human rights.
FANNYBAWS
Man on the Moon:
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Are the people of Scotland only allowed inalienable human rights within an arbitrary set of invisible parameters defined by HMG of England?
Bim Sherman – Mafia
link to youtube.com
The Mafia had 13yrs during prohibition to amass huge sums of money,this money was used, among other things,to send their kids to college.
These “kids” don’t stand around outside their headquarters,saying “bud a bing bud a boom”.They now sit in Congress,the White House and the Pentagon.Politicians court mafioso to obtain votes during elections. A mafioso’s mere endorsement of a certain candidate can be enough.
Who runs the country?
DON Trump
Peace Always
link to pachamama.org
Social Indicators, Social Justice and Social Well-being
link to ideas.repec.org
Did I tell you my dad was a tool-maker. 😉
Not blunt and heavy enough there but it sets the scene.
Social Justice: transforming lives
link to gov.uk
Perhaps a lack of self-awareness? Social justice UKOK style. Only for followers of prescribed ideology need apply.
Why not ask you no voting friends if they are aware the new approaches open the potential for social justice in Scotland. We have none at present.
Without human rights, social justice is unobtainable.
Are we witnessing an attempt to obliterate Scottish cultural integrity? I don’t see much space for those who do no wish to submit to alien ideology.
link to sicotests.com
We are shaped by the landscape which we shape.
link to philosophydocuments.files.wordpress.com
Is Scotland’s landscape the same as England’s?
Landscape, self and others
link to landscapeself.blogspot.co.uk
Saint Andrew – Skye Boat Song
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Esquerita – What’s Wrong With You
link to youtube.com
Now this is VERY topical hahaha
link to youtube.com
Test post
Boston Tea Party
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Peace Always
Instant Karma
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Peace Always
Too soon
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🙂
Working Class Hero
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Peace Always
Small axe
He swears on that song, the Rev won’t be happy, this is a clean site, 🙂
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Very good Smallaxe and Andrew. All very topical.
@smallaxe do you think that was a hatchet hanging from Alex Harvey’s belt on TOTP LOL.
These are two who are now gone. It’s now up to Putin and Trump to sort it out. I think Putin would win.
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Andrew McLean:
As long as Hamish100 doesn’t see it,I thinkI’ll be safe 🙂
Peace Always
@Smallaxe
Your video posted at 11:50 pm does not exist 🙁
Thepnr:
where do you think I got IT?
Peace Always
A beautiful poem put to music
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
DESIDERATA
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Peace and Love
Thepnr:
The video does exist,but only in my mind.I wish you could hear it too
Peace Always
Goodnight
GOODNIGHT from the BEATLES, written by Lennon/McCartney “Goodnight”
a Lullaby
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All You need is Love: Peace and Love
Human rights or social justice? Rescuing human rights from the outcomes view
link to ucl.ac.uk
link to theadvocatesforhumanrights.org
link to amnesty.nl
Nut, got them in the wrong order. The above should have been my second post.
Or even the first.
Poor planning. 🙂
@Smallaxe & Tinto Chiel
Just read your comments from yesterday morning, sorry I did not reply at the time. I was busy entertaining our overnight guest, a respected winger who came with us to see the Wee Ginger dug give his talk on Tuesday evening.
@Cearc
Hope you got back home safely, it was a pleasure having you visit.
Nana:
No need for apologies,it’s us who have you to thank for the links
Peace Always
Nana: just managed to extricate myself from my room with the IKEA Billy bookcases, so no probs.
Anyone know who won the election?
😛
@Tinto Chiel
take my advice and go lock yourself in the room, and maybe consider turning it into a fall out bunker!
I’m sending Hubby off to the local builders yard for bits to shore up the Anderson shelter in the garden. But I’m thinking there might not be room for the cooker, fridge, beds, stereo…..
BREAKING NEWS! BREAKING NEWS!
Morther-in-Law has just told my wife today that next referendum she will be voting YES!!
She came to that decision herself, that’s it now, Indy2 is in the bag.
Nana: oh yes….yes….see what you mean.
*pauses to take in enormity of situation*
Does IKEA do Anderson shelters?
(Actually, Mrs TC’s best friend lives in Switzerland now, where each house must have a nuclear shelter. I’ve see hers and have decided living there indefinitely is probably worse than the quick version.)
Autumn DIY @Tinto Towers almost done: just one silly wee CD tower to knock up and then I’m free at last, free at last.
Unless SWMBO sees the new catalogue, of course.
That’s momentous Thepnr, I too am awaiting a similar ‘event scenario’ from mine, if that happens…then it really ‘is’ in the bag.
Our No voting friends and families switching to yes will be our ‘poll’…this is how it we will know we are winning.
My niece, who voted No along with the rest of her family,has now changed to yes.She is studying EU law at Edinburgh uni.Her whole family has changed with her,that’s another 6 Yessers.
Peace Always
Special case my Mother-in-Law. Absolutely not for turning despite my and her daughters best efforts at the last referendum. She even read the WBB cover to cover yet still wouldn’t budge.
Sneakily I even tried to use her adult grandchildren as levers. Nope she was having none it lol.
To get this news today shocked me, really, something is brewing with the general population. I’m hopeful that a great many are teetering on the brink. So much going on that I’m looking forward to hearing of many more conversions.
I might be wrong (wouldn’t be the first time) @ Thepnr says at 3:13 pm
“Something is brewing with the general population. I’m hopeful that a great many are teetering on the brink.”
I think the whole US election Trump vs Clinton and actions of the media and big business have made Scots re-evaluate the IndyRef and Brexit, our media and big businesses complicity.
Did your Mither in Law give you a reason for here change of mind?
Might be a useful to know what turned her as an example to use on other similarly minded individuals.
SON, I VOTED YES:
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
@ Smallaxe says at 3:34 pm
Class.
Peace yersel’ always ‘n’ a’
Regarding welcome conversions to yes, pennies take their own good time to drop, I think. Softly, softly/Sneaky Pete tactics can have a delayed effect and are probably better than doorstep canvassing, which often arouses defensiveness in the voter, simply because you’re on their threshold and their spuds are boiling over.
The trigger can also be something quite unexpected but once that point is reached, the scales fall and there’s no going back.
I have to say, if people aren’t go to vote for Indy after all the Carmichael the Yoons have thrown at us in the last two years, I don’t know when.
Strangely for me, I’m optimistic. Avalanches start with small movements in the snow mass.
I leave you lovely people this:
link to youtube.com
Enjoy your tea.
Jockanese Wind Talker
Your right, my wife and her mum were talking about Trump as president, and from there on to Brexit. My wife asked if she had noticed prices going up yet because of Brexit but her mum said No.
My wife said “well I have, will you vote Yes next time?” Her mum replied “yeah, I think I will”.
Not 110% commitment then but good enough for me, before she had always been a 110% committed No voter. Not even a soft No.
Thepnr it’s been a long time coming – perhaps the shift is happening at last.
Paula Rose:
Where have you been?
For You 🙂
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Homage to The Trumpster. Not:
link to youtube.com
What is hugely significant is the huge loss of respect for Westminster, London,the establishment and a growing perception that the previously accepted truths that they knew what they were doing and were looking after us all is a fallacy.
We are left with the very important factor of a belief in the economic sustainability of Scotland and that is a diminishing worry to many as it is fairly obvious now to many that the UK economy offers no guarantees (if it ever did).
We must be very clear that we are not going to engage in any discussions about figures produced about a Scotland trapped in a bust UK economy and concentrate on the huge strengths our economy actually has which can only be properly utilised when we control our own economy
Congratulations, Thepnr!
I think that the obvious, chaotic and incoherent mess down Westminster way will be changing the way a lot of people think.
It’s going to be pretty hard for anyone to think that Westminster are better at running a country than we would be.
It must be pretty clear to even the most casual observers of current affairs that they hadn’t even looked at what leaving the EU might entail and had no idea what to do when leave won.
Paula Rose,
It struck me at the WGD thingy that the demographic was about 80% over 50s (even counting in the children).
What’s it like at your events?
Smallaxe, this is for you:
link to youtube.com
Peter Mandelson, this is not for you:
link to youtube.com
Tinto Chiel:
back at you,Mon
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
@cearc
Regarding your question to Paula Rose, it is obvious that is us older generation that are pushing the boat out for Independence.
I have no idea why that is considering the support for Independence in the younger crowd as demonstrated by the polls.
Maybe it’s because us lot were more used to protesting in the 60’s and 70’s LOL. I for one would very much welcome more support from our younger folk.
Thepnr,
In fairness, maybe the younger ones are busy putting food on the table and need babysitters etc. and will be busier when there’s a date to aim for.
Smallaxe: thanks. A great way to spend 2.48 mins.
Sad to say but we’ve lost another great…
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RELEVANT WISDOM, RELEVANT TODAY :JOHN LENNON speaks*
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Celtic Woman:MY LAND!where we live!
link to youtube.com
It’s all about the BASS:by Post Modern JukeBox, do yourself a favour
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“She said she was a Dancer” shut your eyes,do you know who’s singing?
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
and bored out of my skull, Goodnight All 🙂
Rest in Peace Leonard Cohen:
link to youtube.com
Paula Rose:
Sorry, I didn’t know that you were there,Bad news,good Man.
link to youtube.com
Peace Love and Leonard
Thanks for Suzanne, Smallaxe, I deliberately didn’t post that one…reminds me so much of my dad (who loved this song…we were weaned on his musical sensibilities)…but now that I am hearing it again…I suppose I must’ve needed the tears. Peace friend.
Not sure if I got rid of the crap so my bad if a re-post.
The Clash – Should I Stay or Should I Go
link to youtube.com
K1:
Peace Love and my Thoughts of comfort to you my Friend.
My Heart is in my Words
Smallaxe
Hi Hun been a bit busy but I know you have been chatting away the past few days so I don’t need to worry.
Well I will always worry but you know what I mean!!
Give Mrs Smallaxe my best,and tell her I am asking for her
Just wanted to check in cause we haven’t spoken in a wee while and I don’t want you to think I have forgotten you.
Ha Ha ..as if…
Take care of you and your’s my friend X
This is who your up against fan-boy. Think your up to a metaphorical square go? What about a metaphysical tumble?
Lee “Scratch” Perry & The Upsetters – Kung Fu Man
link to youtube.com
@ FAN-BOY
I’ve got an older brother you know. He really does know how to fold a HUMAN.
Lee “Scratch” Perry The Upsetters – Super Ape
link to youtube.com
Whoops, forgot to modify the link.
Great poet, great loss.
link to youtube.com
@ FAN-BOY
Just to really fuck you up big style, that album provided the rough template for my strategy of approach. I’ve been playing with you for months and months. Dick.
Did your employer hear that?
@ FAN-BOY
As you’ll no doubt be aware, the supreme Art of War is to defeat your opponent without engaging them in battle. I’ve not laid a finger on you but can you get up?
Scotland certainly will. Dick!
End of!
Smallaxe
Here’s a catchy one to get your ears around. Hope you have a pleasant day.
Bob Marley & The Upsetters – Stand Alone DUB
link to youtube.com
Will Podmore
Will, your heart might be in the right place but your approach is incorrect. Hope you’ve been watching.
Keep that “Differential Oppositional Consciousness” building folks. Post-modernity? Pah, amateur graphs of yoonie scribblers are no match against proven contemporary science. Should they be used to achieve purposes that may hinder development to it’s advancement?
CHELA SANDOVAL’S THEORY OF DIFFERENTIAL CONSCIOUSNESS
link to publishing.cdlib.org
link to caringlabor.files.wordpress.com
btw, it lovely to see structure become visible among folk who’s only connection other than through modern technology, and the odd get-together, is hope. Marvelous. 🙂
When and where is the next booze-up btw? Keep that quiet now. 😉
Tower of Song. link to youtube.com
liz G:
I did not for a moment think that you had forgotten me,I have been watching the main thread and see that you have been busy. I received this from the Humanist Society of Scotland and thought it may interest you.
To learn more about our campaign work on education please visit http://www.enlightenup.scot
Peace Always
Michael McCabe
Am I going to get shredded Michael, you have a record? No slur implied. 😉
Last Orders For Leonard. link to youtube.com
@ FAN-BOY
Hope you don’t mind but I was wondering if that was brutal enough, or do you have space for more? I’ve got plenty left and I could pep it up a bit if you like. I can go way past eleven you know. Dick.
@ FAN-BOY
I hope I’m not distressing you. Dick.
FAN-BOY
I wouldn’t want to be the cause of any harm to your BEING as that would be a human rights violation. Perhaps I’ll go and have a re-think of my values and judgement. Dick.
CameronB Brodie:
Good Morning Cameron,hope you are well this fine morning,thank you for the instrumental,it was new to me.
A word of caution,be careful with those e-mails just in case that they may be misconstrued.
eg. I’ve been playing with you for months and months. Dick. I’ve not laid a finger on you but can you get up?
🙂
Peace Always my Friend
Michael McCabe:
Sad news about Leonard,All of life is a dream walking, all of death is a going home.I hope Leonard is Home.
link to youtube.com
Peace and Love Always my Musical Friend
“There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.”
? Sun Tzu, The Art of War.
, ,
Heping Zong shi
FAN-BOY
Were you listening carefully or would you like me to summaries how we got here? Pet-project, eh?
Smallexe
I was only demonstrating his feebleness but I take your point. I’ll let him catch his breath? 😉
The day’s been a bit upsetting so far. Your self?
CameronB Brodie:
I am having a good day so far Cameron,thank you for asking,I hope that the rest of your day, is not so upsetting.Don’t let the Barstewards get you down,my friend.
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Small Axe,
She she was a dancer,
Is the answer, Mark Knopfler, Dire Straights.
🙂
My favourite Cohen poem.
Sublime guitar playing
link to youtube.com
Hello all. This is something very important to me, and I hope you don’t mind me sharing it here:
link to socialscreen.co.uk
As I catch a glimpse of all the politicians with poppies, the sombre faces, the red – so much red, everywhere – I think: Why do we keep forgetting?
We don’t remember them for their military glories. We don’t remember them for the victory parades, the righteous crusades, the wrongs corrected. We remember them for the senselessness of their deaths, the price for a mile of No Man’s Land in a pointless, stupid conflict that has left parts of our precious world poisoned and destroyed to this very day.
“Never forget.” “Remember Them.” They didn’t die for soundbites. They didn’t die to have their memories appropriated for new conflicts. They died because they thought they were protecting their homes, their families, their worlds, from destruction and chaos. And we are failing them. Every day.
I hope Benchmark 6 can act as its own reminder, in the way The China Syndrome, Threads, Fail-Safe, and other films can remind us of the dangers of nuclear accidents, and the folly of nuclear war. It’s being directed by a good friend of mine, and a fellow independence/CND supporter.
This isn’t about making money for a feature film: it’s about making a mark on the creative and cultural consciousness. Those films led to discussions, controversy, and even enacted change. Maybe this could do at least something to bring the real nightmare of Trident into focus.
Andrew McLean:
Sorry Andrew,It’s Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull,he fooled me the first time that I heard it,spooky intit.
Andrew, I owe you an apology, when I asked for criticism on that piece of work,I did not mean you to set to work immediately. I feel I spoiled our conversation by not making myself clearer in my request. I regret that stupid mistake.In future, I will be more careful in the “White Room”
Peace Always Brother
Taranaich says:
11 November, 2016 at 6:46 pm
“Hello all. This is something very important to me, and I hope you don’t mind me sharing it here”
I would doubt very much if anyone on O/T would mind,my friend.I attempted to make a donation,does the site not take Paypal?
Peace Always
Small axe,
Brother you are the last man on the planet that needs to apologise to anyone, but me?
It’s the only white room I am in, what with the projectile vomit from one end, and a bust washer on the other, too much?
Didn’t even make a remembrance, too ill, and highly infectious I’m told.
Funny that is what a lot of young men did after some devilish work in the trenches. Now this is true, I was in a small troop, where one guy said ” sarge how do you make sure you don’t get hit” his answer was, ” too late your fucked, you should have not joined up!”
Billy Bragg like soldiers do
link to m.youtube.com
Small axe
And while we are at it link to g.co
Don’t you just love Billy Bragg, well I do!
link to theguardian.com
Andrew McLean:
Conscription? this guy knows all about That!
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Andrew McLean:
Of course, I love Billy Bragg,I have a soft spot for people who don’t ever sell out.Billy has stuck to his principles from day one.I give you an old friend of mine,a man who stood with me in solidarity,singing, and holding “The Red Flag” whilst we buried our Comrades.That was a long time ago,a lifetime.
I won’t be coming up and seeing him again.
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
I’ll use half-time to stick in this comment or twa…
I’ve obviously missed something, somewhere, coz I find myself bereft of a scoobie as to what all the references to “FAN-BOY” are about.
Onnyhoo…
A couple of musical interludes, appropriate for today.
The first link; over the years, when I was doing a ‘family function’ – weddings, engagements, silver weddings, 60th birthday parties, and so on, I used the second half of this track as my finishing off track, right after I had got everybody up in a circle – for ‘the hokey cokey’. Of course, I didn’t tell them it was ‘the hokey cokey’; I announced that there was only one way to finish off a Scottish party – with everyone on the dancefloor in a circle – played ‘the hokey cokey’, then went right into the second half of the link below.
The reason I kept using it, over the years, was because it ALWAYS generated a spontaneous round of applause – which was nice…
link to youtube.com
BTW: that track was the B Side of ‘Man of Action’, the signature tune of Radio Northsea International, broadcasting from off the coast of The Netherlands, in the early 70s.
link to youtube.com
Last links…
When I play this, I always think of the 16 Dundonians who gave their lives during the Spanish Civil War.
link to fdca.org.uk
Here’s the song…
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Brian Doonthetoon:
I hope you don’t mind my contribution.
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
@BDTT: well played, Brian. One of my absolute favourites.
And this from WW2:I think Lady Astor called the PBI who had to fight their way up through Italy “D-Day Dodgers”.
link to youtube.com
Steve:
Your words,
You’ve done it all, you’ve broken every code
And pulled the rebel to the floor
You spoilt the game, no matter what you say
For only metal, what a bore!
Blue eyes, blue eyes
How come you tell so many lies?
Sad!
link to youtube.com
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
90 minute patriots might be annoyed but we’ve got a lot more to worry about in the real world.
Driving bass and drums, swirling synths and sarky lyrics offer advice. Play in pink rather than dark blue, what ya expect? Thanks, FIFA.
link to youtube.com
Brian,
Thanks for that memory
I remember my maternal grandfather telling me about the Spanish civil war, he fought in quite a few of the major offensives in the First World War, came through it ok till late on in the war, but was gassed, he said from his own side when the wind changed direction, he lived late into his 70s, but I will never forget the sacrifices his generation made. A life long communist, he despised capitalism to the very soul of his being, the Rev wouldn’t like him as he loved poetry,
You shall not come to think them well content
By any jest of mine. These men are worth
Your tears: You are not worth their merriment.
Some great stuff above.
FWIW, I had a granda (mum’s da) who was, allegedly, in the original IRA, then joined the British Army, ended up in France in WWI, made sergeant, was debagged for drunkenness, sent home, then recalled when they were desperate, survived a specific hell-hole near Ypres (forget the name) and then came ‘home’ (to Mayo) but was forced to moved to Scotland because he’d ‘collaborated’.
He and gran moved in with us when I was about 10, 11, spent his final couple of years dying of leukaemia, and I don’t recall him ever saying a single word to me, or my sisters. I’ve no idea what his voice was like as I didn’t actually ever hear him speak to anyone. My Dad once managed to engage him in conversation, and asked him why he’d fought for ‘both’ sides. His answer was short: ‘I was young and I wanted a scrap.’
No big ideology involved. In his post-war years, as a ‘pipe-layer’ (i.e. ‘navvy’) living in the Gorbals, then Castlemilk, he was known as ‘Seekie’ (spelling?). He would get drunk on Saturday night (just that one night) then go out into the street and shout an invitation to anyone interested, to come down and have a fist-fight.
Remembrance Day?
Yeah.
We remember it in very different ways.
Andrew McLean:
I still have my maternal grandfather’s war papers,he fought at Ypres, amongst other places,he was shot on two separate occasions and gassed once.
I was lucky enough to have him until I was 16yrs old,I am his eldest grandson,and was named after him.He was a Gordon Highlander,he was my Hero
Peace Love and Memories
Ian Brotherhood:
It looks like your grandfather fought alongside mine,one thing that bothered my grandfather, was when he found out in later years, that Hitler was also at Ypres,he used to say,just one bullet in the right place and they could have changed history.
Peace Always
I know a person small—
She keeps ten million serving-men,
Who get no rest at all!
She sends’em abroad on her own affairs,
From the second she opens her eyes—
One million Hows, two million Wheres,
And seven million Whys!
“We remember it in very different ways.”
Yes indeed, Ian B.
I remember in the 70s we would go to my Auntie’s for New Year’s dinner. My great aunts would be there, two wee women siting on a settee, their feet not even touching the floor.
They still wore widows’ weeds because their husbands had died within a few days of each other at Loos in 1915.
In later years, I thought of how hard their lives must have been, and how they were blighted by a meaningless and brutal war which solved nothing.
I have stopped wearing a poppy now because I feel it has been taken over by the Establishment as a glorification for all their illegal activities.
I still place a cross in the local garden of remembrance for the dead and the family members I know who died in two world wars but I’ve stopped my public display.
Inconsistent, probably, but that’s how I feel at the moment.
Meant to say, the French like this too:
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He could have fought at the Third Battle of Ypres, Passchendaele, I think most men who lived through that were scared for life, I was said by someone that they were brave for not speaking, but they lived in a world without wall to wall depiction of war as horrific.
A few seconds would change them forever. They didn’t talk because they were proud, the carnage ate into their souls. I would not judge to harshly, lest you have walked the same road.
Ok bothers all our grandfathers fought along side each other. In France. For a land fit for heros and to end all wars.
Pity Syria tonight, not nice living in a street being bombed to hell, with you children at your feet.
Never forget.
I like this,my mother used to sing it to me quietly,as a lullaby,when I was very young.
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Peace Always
Good night chaps,
link to g.co
Goodnight Andrew.
Peace Always
For our grandfathers
link to m.youtube.com
@Taranaich
Well said my friend.
Dandelion
Now Arthur was only a young cub
A brave lion and merely fifteen
But with the rest of his pack
He was sent to attack
To a war that was cruel and obscene
But those lions fought hard and fought bravely
While the donkeys just grazed in a field
They had no sense of shame for their barbarous game
And the thousands of lions they killed
And when he saw them marching up Whitehall
I remember what old Arthur said
He said the donkeys are all wearing poppies
So I shall wear dandelions instead
Now every remembrance sunday
Well I pause at eleven o’clock
And I remember those dandy young lions
And those donkeys and their poppycock
Cos they’ve taken those beautiful poppies
And they use them to glorify war
Well I remember those dandy young lions
And I don’t wear a poppy no more
And when he saw them marching up Whitehall
I remember what old Arthur said
He said the donkeys are all wearing poppies
So I shall wear dandelions instead
Now if you take an old dandelion
And just blow it quite gently he’d say
You can see all the dreams of those soldiers
In the seeds as they just float away
But then the wind takes hold of those seeds
And they rise and quickly they soar
Like the spirit of all those old soldiers
Who believed that their war would end war
And when he saw them marching up Whitehall
I remember what old Arthur said
He said the donkeys are all wearing poppies
So I shall wear dandelions instead
Cos those lions were dandy young workers
Who those donkeys so cruelly misled
And if the Donkeys are gonna wear poppies
I shall wear dandelions instead.
Goodnight All
Peace Always
I was reading the twitter, never good to aid slumber.
A message for you insulting wings,
Those are the wings of the Angel Gabriel and he has a message for you!
You’re finished!
@Andrew Mclean
Fuck off, we’ve not even started.
Thepnr
Listen to this song all the way to the end!
🙂
link to m.youtube.com
@Andrew Mclean
Hahahaha. What is this a battle of wits? I thought we were on the same side, are we not? So please I don’t want a three hour long song.
I’ve calmed down, your just taking the piss. Feck off you cant. 🙂
Guys, the future look bright.
In one corner, the reigning ideology of imperial colonialism has a pet-shop owner as it’s salesman. He appears to think using graphs so as to achieve strategies likely to hinder the advancement of science, is his best approach towards sustainable sollutions.
In the other corner, the contender is informed through post-modern critical social theory and the “Methodology of the Oppressed”. The challenger is also brimming with the energies of ethical and moral justification and the shared HOPE of those seeking social justice.
Better get your money down fast guys, this isn’t going to last too long. 😉
There Comes a Time. link to youtube.com The Sooner the Better.
Michael McCabe
Don’t take this the wrong way Michael but I think we make a good team. Nice. 😉
@Michael McCabe
No bad +50 you have done a lot better though.
@CameronB Brodie
Hope to see you soon. You take care my friend.
Thepnr
Trying to mate. Looking forward to the next gathering. 😉
Will Podmore
Will, I’m not meaning to be nasty but I hope you are beginning to understand why an appreciation and acceptance of aesthetics, is an important element included in the processes and mechanisms involved in constructing values. Vital, frankly.
Will Podmore
I’m not trying to brutalise you the way I did with FAN-BOY, he’s a dick, but without an appreciation and acceptance of aesthetics, one is in danger of becoming a slave to ideology. A very British trait, apparently.
Unfortunately, ideology provides an unsuitable base for the planning of sustainable development strategies in the real world.
Britain is an ideological construct that lacks authentic, integral connection to the Scottish landscape and people. Bummer.
Us nasty NAZI cybernats are dull, uneducated scum though, so what would I know?
P.S. Space is not the same as place but that perspective is probably alien to an ideological Marxist Trot., such as yourself.
P.P.S. That’s probably why Marxist Trots. walk hand in hand with Tory Yoons. Both share the perspective of a colonising ideological mindset that lacks connection to authentic human experience and values. Neither have much time for human rights either, unless it supports the ideological construct. You’ll not find social resilliance down that path mate.
P.P.P.S.
Nor sustainable solutions to real-world problems. Time to think rather than follow?
Will Podmore
I know you can’t respond but I also want to be robust. Don’t feel bruised, rather see yourself as a tool of learning. 😉
….an appreciation and acceptance of aesthetics is an important element included in the understanding of processes and mechanisms involved in constructing human values. Vital, frankly.
@ GRAPH-BOY
Would you agree with the above analysis? You might want to consult with FAN-BOY, though I’m not sure that would prove enlightening as you probably share the same ascetic appreciation. You apparently share the same perspective on human rights i.e. the ideology of British nationhood is superior to the international law supporting the obliged delivery of inalienable human rights of Scots.
Graph that. Dick!
Don’t let ignorance and ideology prevent Scotland following sustainable strategies to development and social justice. Don’t listen to yoon dicks, they provide a facade of credible knowledge to hide colonialism in the 21st century. God bless the Queen though.
Gotye – Smoke And Mirrors
link to youtube.com
link to un.org
Scotland existed before someone thought Britain in to existence. Should ideology be allowed to prevent the sustainable development of an authentic Scotland that is fitted to the landscape?
Remember folks, contemporary British nationalism is an expansionist form of English nationalism, an Englishman telt me. March that down that road for a while and see where you get to.
Think don’t follow.
Here’s that Englishman I was talking about, who was actually Irish. Whatever.
The World Today: Imagined Communities – On British Nationalism
link to youtube.com
An Introduction to Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities – A Macat Politics Analysis
link to youtube.com
Ensuring cultural integrity plays a vital role in planning sustainable development strategies to meet present and future needs.
link to culturaldevelopment.net.au
Judgement can not be formed accurately without having the correct perspective. This can only be formed through observation and interaction with the real world, not ideology.
Rigid adherence to ideology prevents good judgement*, frankly.
*That’s why the BBC is the BBC, innt.
The BBC is attempting to construct a Scottish character and identity that suites alien ideology. This is not compatible with Scotland’s continued cultural integrity and prevents truly sustainable solutions being applied to Scotland’s national development.
The BBC impairs good judgement through well planned British nationalist propaganda. Not cool and actually a human rights violation.
The BBC does not allow space for the representation of a Scotland that is not bound within the context of Britain. They’re grooming you to accept subtle slavery to the British state. Creeps.
link to en.wikipedia.org
Scotland will never be British, it will only ever be North British. A golden goose to protect the neo-colonial 21st century status quo Establishment.
Aren’t end-of-empire days fun yoons?
Cameron, 2.15am
For want of a comma, the reputation of the Wings gatherings has been trashed!
Cearc,
Classic! 🙂 🙂 🙂
I’m just not getting it, perhaps I’m having a thick moment. Glad you brought a smile though Cearc.
Penny has just dropped. Oops. 🙂
‘ I want to mate.’
Oh, maybe that’s what you meant. Bit too much information really.
Or should it have been, I want to, mate.
Should have gone to….
That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it. 😉
Still laughing,
Hi I’m Cameron, I’m a Sagittarius, I am into cosy fireside chats and just love puppies.
Ha,he,
I making my own jokes up now, he, he,
🙂
Andrew Mclean
I’m trying to work that concept in to my ongoing skooling of the angry wheetabix, but to no avail yet Andrew. 🙁
@FAN-BOY
Which of us do you think is more likely to be able to apply good judgement when considering what is best for Scotland’s future? Yourself, with a degree in psychology and a belief in ideological nationalism, or myself, with a degree in town planning and a belief in human rights.
Not a difficult one to work for you FAN-BOY as you will no doubt have an appreciation of habitus and symbolic violence. Is the money that good?
link to en.wikipedia.org
For the want of a comma
you’ve started a drama
but maybe its Karma my friend
I hope you can mate soon
It would really be great son
It would be the beginning of the End.
Peace Always Cameron
your grammatical error gave us a much-needed laugh today. 🙂
CameronB Brodie:
No offence my friend,but it was funny.
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
I’ve got a track in mind but it wouldn’t be suitable. None taken Smallaxe. 🙂
@FAN-BOY
Don’t take this as an thoughtless insult, simply as an informed observation. Sorry to be brutal about this but you appear more neo-fascist than democrat. Well, you are a Tory fan-boy sooking up to English nationalism, innit?
CameronB Brodie:
Have you been awake all night Cameron?
Get some sleep, my friend,there is enough of us to stand guard whilst you rest.Come back fresh to the fray.
Peace Always
Smallaxe
Thanks but I’m having fun. I was up late yesterday so it’s not as bad as it might appear. I’ve just not got anything better to do right now, so I’m putting my time to a productive cause. Unlike the entirety of yoonity. 😉
@FAN-BOY
This might help your understanding my perspective re. you being an anti-democrat. Read any Heidegger lately?
Scottish nationalism = organic nationalism shaped through the Scottish landscape and culture
British nationalism = ideological nationalism shaped through an expansionist form of English nationalism
CameronB Brodie:
As long as your enjoying yourself Cameron.Get ripped into them. 🙂
Peace Always
Smallaxe
It is my great pleasure though I wish it was unnecessary. 🙂
CameronB Brodie:
As do we all my friend,we only ask for what is already OURS.
Peace Always
@FAN-BOY
I’m wondering why an enlightened individual would wish to deny their inalienable human rights and how they think that might be possible. You do understand what inalienable means? Care to enlighten us in your next scribble?
It might be embarassing to admit your not particularly well informed in how shit works but it will be good for the soul. Dick.
link to un.org
@ FAN-BOY
I’m also wondering how someone with a degree in psychology can appear so ignorant of the process involved in self-recognition and identification, given their fundamental importance to human well-being. Care to enlighten with your next scribble? Dick.
P.S. Any idea when you next BBC gig is to represent the rational opinion of Scotland?
What does it suggest if someone with a degree in a field of social science, holds beliefs that are in opposition to the theories of their scientific training?
What does it suggest if the BBC broadcasts that opinion as being credible and worth listening to?
I don’t know about anyone else but sick to the back teeth with ignorant/malicious dicks informing my community’s perspective and undermining it’s objective judgment.
Bob Marley – Want More
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CameronB Brodie:
YES!
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Evening all.
I chanced upon these eastern delights earlier, thought I’d share em with ye..
link to youtube.com (“Girly Man”)
link to youtube.com (“May He Poop”)
Description:
“This is what an eastern film sound like in english. This is not a translation but what it sounds like in english.”
Turns out there’s a whole series.
Enjoy your Saturday night Scotland.
X.
Smallaxe
Glad to here it. Good tune but I wasn’t getting any specific link until the end. Nice. 😉
I wish I was young enough to learn.
The Best Capoeira Video Ever (so they clame)
link to youtube.com
Cactus
Lost in translation, a bit like what is happening to authentic Scottish culture as it is translated in to British Scots, or more accurately defined English Scots. 🙂
Aweright CameronB, aye yer right there.
We need to be understood, to be 🙂
Try this one:
Redneck Avengers
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CameronB Brodie:
This is one of the Martial Arts I am trained in.
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Don’t normally post music links here but had this in my clipboard. The Laggan with Jarama Valley and Bandiera Rosa, I played this to Gramsci on a visit to Rome, if he wusnae deid I think he would have liked it !. Reason it was in my clipboard is that I saw a photo on fb tonight and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade were mention, I always assumed that the Lincoln battalion mentioned in the song referred to one from Lincolnshire. Before long their May have to be another Lincoln Brigade not to physically fight but be keyboard warriors to try and educate the White working classes of the USA that voting in a right wing nutter as president does not alleviate your problems!
Http:m.youtube.com/watch?v=l_Ql-iLRnKs
Hi Lenny.
Sorry – you’re 24 hours behind the times! Blame the ferry…
link to wingsoverscotland.com
8=)
CameronB Brodie:
This is the other.
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This is the late Shigeru Kimura,who graded me up to NI-DAN
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Who’re you lookin’ at, buster? Want a fight?
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Brian Doonthetoon great minds think alike eh, bonus point if you can tell me a connection with “The Laggan” and Dundee?
Don’t let your baby down… John Prine xx
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Hi Lenny.
You got me! Google needs more input than I can give.
I could tell you about the connection between The Barron Knights and Dundee – but not tonight; I’m for retiring…
Take you an apple and take you a song…
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ITS GROWING:
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Peace Always
Brian Doonthetoon it’s a bit tenuous but John McDermott the Laggan’s Banjo player (whom I had the privedge of sharing a few pints over the years) appeared in an Oor Wullie cartoon, Oor Wullie busked with him.
Sadly McDermott never saw it as it was a tribute just after he died, got to say it was the best funeral ever. Even the Crematoriam was jumping with the surviving members of the Laggan giving it laldy.
I’d rather be in Tokyo..
link to youtube.com
Croompenstein
Thanks for the link
I love Belle & Sebastian ‘Nobody’s Empire’
If we live by books and we live by hope Does that make us targets for gunfire??
Andrew McClean says:”If we live by books and we live by hope Does that make us targets for gunfire?”
Ask the people of Syria etc,but you already knew the answer, my friend
Peace Always
Day late so please forgive the post:
But have been awa’ remembering fallen comrades of recent foreign misadventures.
Also, lest the UKOK Fascist Bastards forget from a historical point of view:
The 1st Independent Polish Parachute Brigade was formed in Leven, Scotland, on the 23rd September 1941, as The Polish Parachute Brigade.
link to en.wikipedia.org
The Brits, Americans tried but the Poles did it.
link to en.wikipedia.org
No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron had the highest kill ratio of any Squadron during the Battle of Britain and flew Hawker Hurricanes not the Spitfires of legend.
link to en.wikipedia.org
And finally after all that sacrifice:
The London Victory Celebrations of 1946 Parade caused political controversy in the UK and has continued to be criticised because of the lack of representation of Polish forces.
They were not represented (there was 100% lack).
They were not allowed to march.
Despite during the war, more than 200,000 members of the Polish Armed Forces in the West had fought under British High Command.
These were loyal to the Polish government-in-exile, were opposed to the Soviet Union since the time of the Nazi-Soviet pact and hoped to return to a democratic, non-communist Poland after the war.
However, by 1946, the British government changed its diplomatic recognition from the pro-democracy Poles in exile to the new communist-dominated Provisional Government of National Unity in Poland, where, according to Winston Churchill and others, totalitarian control was being established.
Maternal side during WWII was REME, 8th Army, North Africa and Italy.
During WWI Family had Great Great Casualties in the Labyrinth at Arras, during Mons, Passchendaele and Cambrai.
JWT:
It’s never too late to remember the tragedy of war.Especially if your family was personally involved.
A very good and relevant post my friend.Thank you for the excellent links.
Peace Always
Thanks Smallaxe.
I will never forgot how pissed off my Paternal Grandfather was about the Free Polish getting fucked over for politics, looking back it maybe galvanised my cynicism.
As with most families we lost a lot during WWI, mine are mentioned in “The Sword of the North – Highland Memories of the Great War” Published 1923.
Personally I served 10 years with the RAMC as as Combat Medical Technician (when I was younger, dafter and definitely naiver.)
Cameron Honey have you finished yet? Busy with the broom.
Still up Paula?
Here’s a wee Cash number for you I haven’t played before. Up your street I think.
link to youtube.com
@ Thepnr this one is for you. as I know you like the big Man. link to youtube.com
Thanks Michael, loved it.
That man was a genius and is a true legend. He knew the score.
Keep the noise down, please.
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Spot on Cactus. That would be telling Paula . 😉
The BBC does not allow space for the representation of a Scotland free of ideological constraints.
Without such space, respecting difference becomes increasingly difficult. Love and hope can ultimately wither in such an ideologically shaped environment.
The BBC is BAD for Scotland’s well-being.
Are people still paying to be constructed into colonial serfs of the British state?
CameronB Brodie:
Good Morning Cameron,early start this morning?
Peace Always
@Smallaxe
Just spotted your morning call on the main thread. Hope you are doing well these days and watch out for the winter bugs.
I’m getting a bit weary Billy. The news increasingly worrying what with Trump, Farage, tories and the bbc getting me down. History has a habit of repeating itself, that’s if we allow it to.
Best go walk the dug or he’ll be in a bad mood all day.
Nana:
Yes, Nana,the world is becoming a very frightening place,if only we could get people to realise that all of these “powerful people” have no power whatsoever without our support.When the ordinary people stop doing their bidding, the “powerful” have nothing but money,which in reality is only figures on a screen these days.
link to youtube.com
Peace and Love to You and Yours Nana
Billy
Smallaxe, like your new gravatar, in honour of which:
Young Glasgow honeymoon couple are getting undressed.
The bride says, “I didn’t realise you were so pigeon-chested.”
Groom replies, “That’s why I love ya like a do.”
I’ll…get… my………
I am seriously concerned about what sort of future might be unfold in England. Scotland needs too keep it’s eyes open and remember that time changes everything.
Those who voted No need to be sure their desire for security won’t rebound next time. They also need to accept they were sold a pound of mince, bulked out with all sorts, innit.
Jim Alley & The Alley Cats – The Great Pretender
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Smallaxe
Morning Smallaxe.
Catch them while they’re asleep, innit. 🙂
Jockanese WT.
Quite right about the Polish contribution and Churchill’s perfidy. My parents always had a high regard for them because of the ones they’d known during the war.
There’s a couple of nice monuments to them in Douglas, Lanarkshire. Many were stationed nearby in WWII.
All the Poles I know are in work and work hard. As one said to me, “Yes, we do the jobs you Scots won’t do.”
Just another people harmed by Perfidious Albion.
Anyhow, how about some nonsense to cheer ourselves up:
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Tinto Chiel
That’s definitely in my top picks, nice one. I once made up a 90min comp of r’n’r with a jungle theme. Did the same for cowboy & injuns, the orient and all sorts. Weird, me? 🙂
Tinto Chiel:
Hi,Tinto, that’s one of the collared doves on my bird feeder in my back garden.He is looking in the window because I was a bit late putting out his food.Da Doo run run!
Cameron:
Keep up the good work,soon we will put them to sleep forever.
Peace Always
Here’s a wee taster. 🙂
Duke Mitchell – The Lion
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CameronB: that was a truly strange one.
Your compilations would be fun to hear.
We had a pair of collared doves that used to hang around the garden, Smallaxe but a sparrowhawk took one off the garage roof. Pretty gruesome.
Off into town with Mrs TC. Hitting the shops.
AAArgh! Weasels rip my flesh.
Hi peeps.
To go with all the Polish references overnight…
Apologies if these links have been featured recently.
“The Great Polish Map of Scotland measures some 50 metres by 40 metres and lies in an oval pit surrounded by a 142 metres long perimeter wall. Covering an area of 1590 square metres, it is understood to be the largest three-dimensional physical representation of a country and the largest outdoor relief map in the world”
link to baronycastle.com
And you can watch the drone footage of it here:-
link to youtube.com
Another Lion.
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Brian Doonthetoon:
That drone view was Amazing,why don’t we know about these things in our own country?.Thanks for that.
Peace Always
It was something to do, ok. The thing about this art is that it was created in an environment of internal colonisation.
LINCOLN CHASE – Deep in the Jungle, Pt 1
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LINCOLN CHASE – Deep in the Jungle, Pt 2
link to youtube.com
I wouldn’t have felt confident playing this stuff before you all knew where I was coming from. I might have been accused of being a racist as well as being weird. 🙂
Tinto Chiel:
My wife wanted to go shopping at 3am this morning.She thinks I’m made of bricks! 🙂
Peace Always
A tribute to children who have lost Fathers in WAR.
link to youtube.com
PEACE
The “space” themed one was fun. Topical, me? 🙂
Skip Stanley – Satellite Baby
link to youtube.com
CameronB Brodie:
Cameron,we still don’t know where you’re coming from,but we Love you just the same. 🙂
Peace Always
I’d like to join humanity, not look down on it. I’d need human right to do that though.
Sonny Sheather – Orbit with me
link to youtube.com
Smallaxe
I’ve not figured it out yet myself. 😉
Is it possible to get satisfied and get out of this world alive?
Jackie Lowell & The Astronauts – Rocket Trip
link to youtube.com
I do requests you know, just name a topic. Rock’n’Roll is good for the soul. 🙂
Danny Wheeler – Teenie Weenie Man
link to youtube.com
I’ll leave you with this. Blondie was a post-modern band, blending old and new to some effect.
Bel-Aires – Space Walk
link to youtube.com
Cameron:
Was “Teenie Weenie Man” about Willie Rennie?
This is.
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
CameronB Brodie:
Post-modern Blondie!
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
That’s the one, a good example of how culture reinterprets itself over time.
iScotland could do the same, keeping the good and chucking the bad of Britain. We don’t have to be gouverned by another country, that’s weird that is. In fact, we need to be independent if Scotland is to remain healthy and able to continue contributing to the broader community within the British isles. India did it.
We are living under conditions similar to those that caused the inner cities of the ’70. Scotland has done a no bad job in re-structuring it’s economy to meet the 21st century, so it would be a pity to undermine that by sticking with neo-colonial rule by an Establishment that is riddled with ingrained nepotism and corruption and which is still struggling with concept of the Enlightenment.
With our place in society protected only by the rights we are allowed.
link to un.org
P.S. I’ve dropped through the safety net when younger and it’s not a place you want to go.
CameronB Brodie @ 12-40pm:
Very well put Cameron,you got that exactly.
“An Establishment that is riddled with ingrained nepotism and corruption and which is still struggling with the concept of the Enlightenment.”
I know now where you are coming from my friend.
Peace Always
In a parallel universe, far, far away, this will be an anthem for Wee Gap-Toothed Willie Rennie:
link to youtube.com
Then again, mebbe not…..
Are we nearly there yet?
Sometimes the three-minute dash does the business, no mess, no fuss.
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BOOM. link to youtube.com
And I say thanks, Michael: awesome stuff from the oldies.
Brilliant.
@Smallaxe –
‘Vimy Ridge’.
That’s the place my Granda, allegedly, spoke about. Well, my Mum remembers him mentioning it. Don’t know what he did there, but it must’ve had some significance for him. From what I’ve read (not much tbh) it seems it was Canadian troops who took the brunt of casualties.
Just a thought. I was trained how to understand and shape social space for the benefit of all. FAN-BOY was trained to understand and shape minds for the benefit of….
@ FAN-BOY
Hey WANK, when you on the BBC next?
@FAN-BOY
My argument is substanciated by principles of biology and Social Science, your?
WANK
P.S. I’ve also got Heidegger on my side FAN-BOY.
WANK
@ Tinto Chiel 10-35pm I am no that old link to youtube.com
Amen to that, Michael.
Yon wild colonial boy, Ian Brotherhood, introduced me to your lovely lady wife at Glesca Green but used my real name so she won’t have a clue who I am.
Jeez, I sometimes don’t….
@FAN-BOY
You’ll no doubt be please I’m using BBC approved humour though, no?
WANK
P.S. Be mindful that solutions of synthesis can evolve if correctly applied ACROSS TIME. 😉
WANK
Hi CameronB.
I asked the other night but no explanation came through. In ‘off-topic’, we seem to be reading one side of an online conversation you’re having with someone you refer to as FAN-BOY.
I don’t have a clue what comments you’re responding to or, indeed, who FAN-BOY is.
Onny chance o’ a skiffie?
Brian Doonthetoon
Sorry Brian, this is still an new environment for me and I forget to be mindful of it’s linear nature.
We all know who FAN-BOY is, he’s the BBC’s favourite go-to
WANK‘expert’ for a rational analysis of Scotland’s position in the world. Given that he appears to hold views that conflict with science, you don’t think the BBC is trying to shape minds so as to impair judgement? Pervert them even? Is it acceptable to mention the BBC and perversion in the same sentence? You decide folks.link to en.wikipedia.org
@FAN-BOY
A fan of culture-jaking yet?
WANK
@ Tinto Chiel 12:22am Her name is Lynn but she is not my Wife. She is one of my Closest Friends. Anyway this one is for Ellen Macarthur. link to youtube.com
Brian Doonthetoon
Not quite specific enough there. FAN-BOY’s apparant beliefs conflict with the principles of the specific social science the WANK is trained in.
Does that help? Let me know if you need a hand joining the dots. 😉
Ian Brotherhood:
Sorry, I’ve just seen your post,I’ve been out.I have my grandfather’s war records.The second time that he was shot,he was taken to the 7th Canadian General Hospital at Etapees France,on the 23rd March 1918,he was fighting alongside Canadians,so I think you are correct in saying that the Canadian troops took the brunt of casualties.I have some war diary extracts on my Tablet that I can try to transfer to this computer if you would be interested.
Peace Always
Matt McGinn,This is oor land.
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
@FAN-BOY
As you are apparently another thick ideolog, you may not appreciate I view you as harmful pollution which needs to be planned out of Scotland’s environment. Got any comeback kid? Perhaps you’ll reply on the BBC so that all of Scotland’s homes can share the pleasure.
WANK
@FAN-BOY
Be mindful the master isn’t the only one who leaves tools lying around. Also, that solutions of synthestis can emerge organically or they can be shaped into existence.
That mean your up against a time traveler kid. Got a credible response? A positive case for union perhaps?
WANK
link to youtube.com
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Smallaxe
Thoughtful selection. 😉
Hi Cameron:
I thought everyone had gone to bed!
Peace Always
Smallaxe
Thanks for minding Smallaxe. My mind is still turning over and I’m not one to stand in the way of evolution and intellectual progress. I never know what connections I’ll visualise and what paths I’ll find towards shaping desirable outcome. Just doing my thing. 🙂
Should you not be tucked up yourself?
Insomnia, Cameron,I have again placed myself into the sweet arms of Morphia to ease my racing mind.
Peace Always
But sometimes…
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
It does exist!
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
@ FAN-BOY
Here’s a bit of Sun Tzu for you. In case it escaped your attention, my argument is also based on principles prescribed by the Royal Town Planning Institute. What you got?
WANK
————-
There are good things in life and there are bad things. I would have thought it best to try and hold on to what is good and improve on deficiencies, where required.
Billy & Mickey – You Are
link to youtube.com
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Smallaxe
We are all part of a community that benefits from kindness and honesty. Without these principles, humanity is undermined and at risk of subsequently being diminished. That’s post-modern thought for you, that is. Can’t see UKOK’s Victorian outlook holding us much longer, mate. 😉
Smallaxe
Here’s a thought. I bet this is the first time FAN-BOY has come up against and existential phenomenologist capable of projecting consciousness through time and space. Wonder if his employers have been watching. 🙂
P.S. I have slept.
Here’s another thought. Scottish town planners are guided to plan ideology out of the environment. They are doing so with a context of an ideological construct that trains and shapes Scotland’s environment through policy i.e. the ‘nation’ of Britain.
A fruitless task?
Here’s another thought. Scottish town planners are guided to plan ideology out of the environment. They are doing so within a context of an ideological construct that trains and shapes Scotland’s environment through policy i.e. the ‘nation’ of Britain.
A fruitless task?
Any biologists care to comment?
@FAN-BOY
Have you space in you agenda to investigate our very different life experiences?
WANK
CameronB Brodie:
Good Morning Cameron:
I’ve had about as much sleep as I can stand.I see that you’re still fighting the good fight. I will go now and make sure our borders are secure.England is only a few hundred yards from my house, so I have to be alert for intruders
Peace Always.
Cameron,this is what I’m trying to prevent.
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Smallaxe
Looks like Scots better hurry up and secure access to those inalienable human rights that are being withheld from the Scottish public.
link to un.org
Smallaxe
Of course, I meant an existential phenomenologist capable of projecting consciousness through time and space, and who has an appreciation of ascetics, post-modern critical social theory, the semiotic theory of space and place, post-colonial literature and theory and various other established contemporary Social Science Theories. Seen Paula and her broom? 🙂
Me, a thick nationalist?
P.S. I also know a bit about how to plan and achieve sustainable development strategies, both in theory and real-life practice.
Cameron:
I’m old fashioned, I still use Transcendental Meditation for travel and problem solving.
Peace Always
@ GRAPH-BOY
You’re most probably next to get the treatment. Better start graphing like you’ve never graphed before.
Smallaxe
I’ve done a bit of yoga and that got me through a though patch, though I didn’t really develop and knowledge or skill. I could really do with getting back in to it and taking it further. Perhaps when I’m done kicking metaphorical fuck out of yoonery.
Psychological brutalisation is surely allowed? 🙂
Cameron,Psychological brutalisation has been their tool to subdue us,why then can we not use it for our own purpose against them?
As the saying goes “Alls Fair in Love and War”. We would not want to be unfair to them, would we?Let us give back what we have received!
Peace Always
@Michael McCabe 12.51.
Apologies for my mistake. I’m easily confused! And I hadn’t even touched a drop.
Talking of which, is it too early in the morning for this strange oompapa hit from the 70s?
Precisely. 🙂
I find it’s usually better to include links you refer to:
link to youtube.com
Think I’m losing it…..
Tinto Chiel:Think I’m losing it….
An old drinking buddy of mine seems to have found it.
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
FAN-BOY
You gonna defend yourself against my metaphorical assault or will you flounce?
WANK
Billie Eilish – Six Feet Under (Ninski & Mickey Valen Remix)
link to youtube.com
Smallaxe
I forget to mention I also have an appreciation of ethics and social science methodologies of analysis and shit. 😉
Gosh! Frankie Miller: what a voice he had.
Smallaxe, if you’re on sentry duty on the border a) make sure to wear your thermals and b) remember to let in all the folk on the run from Farage and his Goons.
Tinto Chiel:
Frankie and I used to drink in the Ashfield Club every Sunday,there was strippers and a band, of course, we only went to listen to the band!
a/I wear a Gillie suit and of course my thermals.
b/I only let people through the border if they can shout YES! loudly and proudly.
Peace Always
CameronB Brodie:
I have an appreciation of social security,ethics, and shit.Excepting the shit written or reported in the MSM.
Peace Always
Just so knowone is in doubt as to the purpose of my recent conduct, FAN-BOY has a lot of social capital that needs dislodging. Habitus can be a tough beast to slay, unless you’ve got the knowledge, innit. 🙂
@ FAN-BOY
I do my best in life not be exclude folk and really dislike snobs intensely. I don’t like to be boastful, arrogant or hurtful but as it’s you I’ll GLADLY MAKE AN EXCEPTION.
WANK
The Undertones – Smarter Than U
link to youtube.com
@ BBC
Why are you wasting tax-payers money broadcasting FUN-BOY’s unsubstantiated, irrational and anti-scientific opinion?
Where and when will this solution of synthesis end, I hear you ask? Don’t know myself tbh, but I think that’s enough for now.
@ BBC
Oops FAN-BOY, sorry. Don’t want to be accused of lacking accuracy in my analysis. 😉
Small Axe
Now I imagine you living in the Gretna design outlet village, wandering about in your night coat and slippers.
Handy place to live I suppose, once tried to stay overnight in your car park, they don’t like that!
Andrew McLean:
Andrew,there’s a bed for you here at any time,don’t go sleeping in car parks.Anytime you are passing your welcome to pop in for a coffee or dinner,both my wife and I would be delighted to have your company.I keep a spare phone so anytime you are in the area I can switch it on for a predetermined time,and switch it off again once arrangements have been made.
Peace Always
@Smallaxe –
It’s all fascinating, but I find ‘family history’ stuff really really heavy, messes with my head big-time. Few years ago, in local charity-shop here in Stevenston, found a box-file full of hand-drawn maps, journals, reminiscences of someone who’d fought in WW1 and was writing it all down, perhaps in old age. Didn’t have any cash. Went back next day but it was gone. So sad that someone had simply given away such material, but who knows, perhaps they had good reason. At least it wasn’t just binned, and someone will still have it.
Must ask my Mum what else she remembers him saying. So far as I know he didn’t keep any letters, photos, diaries or anything else.
Ian Brotherhood:
I have amongst my Grandfathers papers a cutting from what seems to be The Dundee Advertiser.
I quote,
PUBLIC NOTICES
LEST WE FORGET
POPPY DAY
SATURDAY,November 7,1953.
The claims on the Earl HAIG FUND are more urgent than ever and I would appeal to the CITIZENS OF DUNDEE to contribute generously on Saturday
I shall be pleased to receive, and acknowledge any individual contributions if sent to me at EARL HAIG FUND office CITY CHAMBERS.
On the other side of the cutting it says, and I quote.
JIMMY SHAND record to cheer exiled Scot.A Jimmy Shand recording of “The Gordon Waltz”will be carried by a Glasgow man when he boards the plane at Prestwick on Saturday night.Mr.Alexander McGuire (Big Sandy)of Tylefield street is flying out to visit his sister Mrs.Alice Hamilton,41 Aberdeen Avenue,Trantford,Ontario,who is seriously ill and has sent for him.
She asked him to bring the Jimmy Shand record,as she thinks it will cheer her up.
Sandy was born in Perth 56.years ago.He worked in Messrs. Moncrieff’s glassworks at Perth,and though he left the Fair City for Glasgow 20 years ago,has always remained a keen ST.Johnstone supporter.
I don’t know what bit my Grandfather was interested in,but I thought you would like it as a piece of local interest.
Peace Always
Smallaxe, were you and Frankie in the Ashfield in Hawthorn Street?
I’m sure you averted your gaze, being a man of probity and rectitude.
Tinto Chiel:
That’s the very place Tinto and of course, we averted our eyes,what do you think we were,Men? 🙂
Peace Always
Smallaxe: 😛
Tinto Chiel:
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
I posted this on the current main page a wee while ago.
It’s a link to a survey on alternative and pro-indy media (and the BUM), being carried out by Strathclyde Uni.
link to t.co
Anyone else (apart from me) completed that survey? Usually people mention if they have done so.
It’s a chance to show the academics (and the BUM) just how important the likes of WOS, Indyref2, WGD, Commonspace and so on, are to us – and how much the BUM is mistrusted.
BDTT 🙂
Done on other thread, Brian 🙂
Peace Always
Come on People it takes 3mins!
Am gonna go make some of my tasty mega-moon soup..
Ingredients:
Potatoes, carrots, onions, sweetcorns, chickpeas and lentils.
Fresh coriander, basil and spinach.
Garlic & ginger.
Cumin, chillies, turmeric, pepper, salt, olive oil, bouillon.
Filtered water.
To be served with extra chopped coriander atop, zyummy.
Coriander.
X.
Cactus:
I’m having Electric Soup!
Peace Alway
Cactus:
This is for you,UP there^ “s” it goes at the back of Alway
Peace Always
Cactus, that soup of yours:
link to youtube.com
Small axe
My post never appeared! 🙁
Much prefer sleeping in pub car parks, need to watch out for the rozzers though, in case they think I am the nefarious type.
link to wildcamping.moonfruit.com
Brian Doonthetoon 7:11pm Survey Done. Cheers for the Link
Well, I’m off to have my evening nosebag, which tonight, will be, mostly, Beef Bourginion (sp), with tatties and green beans.
Then I will retire to safe distance till the morning.
Nighty-night, y’all!
Andrew McLean:
“This site is able to be viewed on mobile phones and tablets”
Well, thanks for nothing! I’m over on the main thread,singing your praises,and you go and put THAT up where “MY WIFE” can now SEE IT!
Have you completely lost IT,And now that I Think about it,you thought it was”good” to live near the Gretna fkn Gateway,well let me tell you,You don’t know “MY WIFE”.
Yours Sincerely in near Destitution,a wreck of a man.
Gretna!
Peace always
BDTT:
Enjoy your meal,and I bid you a Good Night Sir.
Peace Always
That’s ma telephone writin’
link to youtube.com
Ten Years After
Peace Always
“Sup”
In addition to soup, this word is also commonly used in and around the beautiful city of Glasgow on a regular daily basis.
Similar to the American phrase which represents the question, “How are you doing?” The people of America have been known to say, “Wazzup?!”
Here in Glasgow, you will hear people say singularly, ” ‘sup? ” out of general curiosity to determine the mood of a person, or in a sentence.. concerned about someones well-being, you might say..
” ‘sup with ye? ” (What is up with you?)
link to youtube.com
Super.
X.
@Cactus
Some don’t sup soup they shoop it. Here’s the shoop shoop song 🙂
link to youtube.com
@ Cameron B Brodie
Don’t let that tosser Torrance get to you,Cameron. I wouldn’t lose any sleep over him. It’s better just to laugh at him than let him rile you.
Ever since he wore that Fair Isle top he’s reminded me of the Gumby characters in Monty Python’s Flying Circus. There were 5 of them and they all wore knotted hankies on their heads, Fair Isle tops, braces, rolled up trousers and gumboots. It makes me want to laugh every time I see him on television, just imagining him dressed similarly.
@ Caledonian Lass. Not seen you in off topic Before. Welcome. link to youtube.com Click on the Link
Hi Michael and Welcome Caledonian Lass:
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Ane Brun link to youtube.com
If no doing anything else, this recommendation from Chic might be worth watching. I guess I am.
link to upstreamist.pw
Goodnight.
link to youtube.com
Peace ALWAYS
@FAN-BOY
Your irrational opinion is that of ideological anti-science. Authentic Scottish identification is not possible within the context of ideological British nationhood shaped and promoted through the BUM.
WANK
link to infoscience.epfl.ch
FAN-BOY
You’re a fraud. You know that yourself but I’ve got nothing better to do than expose you, through principles of contemporary SOCIAL science.
WANK
Santana Maria Maria link to youtube.com
@FAN-BOY
As someone with a degree in psychology, you’ll nodoubt be aware of the fundemental role self-recognition plays in shaping human values and judgement? As such, you’ll also be aware that without properly formed self-recognition skills, accurate self-evaluation is difficult. Why then, as an enlightened man of the 21st century, do you continue supporting ideology that denies my humanity and which is detrimental to my skills of self-evaluation?
WANK
link to en.wikipedia.org
Solomon Burke- Flesh and Blood. link to youtube.com
Don’t Give up on Me link to youtube.com
Michael McCabe
You do do it better than most mate. 😉
I boils down to one simple question folks, do you want to find out who you are or do you want to be told who to be? If the latter, you have chosen to impare your own judgement to make future decisions. That’s FAN-BOY that is, the kid with a psychology degree.
That’s also why the BBC is Scotland’s enemy number one. It is detrimental to Scotland’s self-evaluation of an authentic self. This impairs the development of Scotland’s judgement and decision making. Creepily colonial, what?
Scotland and England are organic nations with distinct charters and needs. Britain is an ideological construct which seeks to obliterate this difference, in favour of English needs. These needs have constrained Scotland’s development for three centuries, and ill-match Scotland’s requirements. Ideology does not provide a suitable base for the development of sustainable strategies for growth or solutions to real-world problems.
Think, don’t follow.
I thought hard before suggesting FAN-BOY is a bit of a neo-fascist. It doesn’t take much investigation though to confirm he a BIT THICK.
link to thefreedictionary.com
@FAN-BOY
Given your degree in psychology and shit, what DO YOU THINK might be the nature and scope of psychological damage that could be expected to result from being forced to adopt an an artificially constructed identity? One that is not of authentic origin or connected to authentic BEING. One that is not fitted to AUTHENTIC cultural VALUES?
How would the personal development of such an individual be expected to progress?
WANK
What do I Ken. link to youtube.com
Morning Cameron B Just to let you know. I read all your posts. Cant say I Understand them all. But I know you have my and many others best interests at heart. So keep on keeping on my Friend. I agree Torrance is a Tosser. link to youtube.com
Michael McCabe
Michael, you ken what it takes to have a grounded connection to authentic human experience and values. That provides a solid base from which to make rational judgements. You are also able to project your consciousness by articulating your knowledge and humanity, through art. The quality of your choices suggests a well developed aesthetic appreciation which protects you against de-humanising ideology and stuff.
See what no kennin does for you. 😉
Billboard suggestion.
FAN-BOY + BBC
the voice of anti-science helping Scots see themselves and the world around them.
It will give you the boak but I see FUN-BOY’s puss printed 10 feet tall, with an old style BBC microphone with logo, placed in front.
BBC Scotland, the voice of anti-science helping Scots see themselves and the world around them.
P.S. Only an idea. 😉
Sorry, FAN-BOY.
WANK
Caledonian
Sorry I missed you.
Spot on, despite a degree in psychology and shit. Perhaps he focused on the latter when he specialised. I specialised in self-development strategies in the developing world. FAN-BOY has tones of social capital, I have very little.
At least I’m not a thought-challenged, Tory FAN-BOY Gumby though. 🙂
CameronB Brodie:
Good morning Cameron,I see that yourself and Michael have been manning your post all night.
Well done you Men,we are proud to have you both on our side,I will try to arrange some leave for the two of you.As you know we are at a crucial point in our endeavours and Vigilance is our watchword.
I have patrolled the border this morning, and I am pleased to report,all is as it should be.We shall persevere until victory
is ours.We will refuse to understand our foe,we will Overstand them at all times.
Peace Always
@FAN-BOY
As someone with a degree in psychology and shit, you’ll no doubt be able to establish why you’re a ideologically driven WANK.
link to en.wikipedia.org
link to en.wikipedia.org
link to en.wikipedia.org
P.S. Perhaps an ill-formed atheistic appreciation gives rise to your apparent lack of self-awareness, hence your apparent disconnection to normal human values. I imagine it is this condition that enables you to legitimatise a neo-colonial/neo-fascist disregard for human rights.
WANK
link to un.org
@FAN-BOY
Sorry but as a fellow social scientist, I’m sure you’ll appreciate my desire for robust rigor in my analysis.
Perhaps an ill-formed atheistic appreciation gives rise to your apparent disconnection to normal human values, leading subsequently to your apparent lack of self-awareness. I imagine it is this condition that enables you to legitimatise a neo-colonial/neo-fascist disregard for human rights, with your psychology degree and shit.
WANK
@FAN-BOY
Having a psychology degree and shit, you’ll no doubt understand why your ideologically driven, colonising, yoon mindset, is similar to that of a Marxist Trot., which I’m sure will please you. You’re an example of modernist Victorian thought and display a spectacularly unenlightened perspective. Both product of and supporter of habitus and the exclusionary symbolic violence against the weak that it lives by.
WANK
link to en.wikipedia.org
@FAN-BOY
Cheer up dick, think of yourself as a tool of learning. 😉
WANK
@FAN-BOY
You should be pleased to know that I always had you in mind, I was simply waiting for the right opportunity to introduce myself properly. I didn’t want to suddenly leap out and scare you when I showed you my solution of synthesis. Do you like it? Well, you’re all Better Together in the final analysis, eh?
WANK
@FAN-BOY
How do you imagine Scotland’s cultural integrity can remain intact, within the context of an ideologically shaped environment that is not authentically linked to Scottish landscape and culture? Do you seek the demise of an authentic Scotland? Do you object to the concept of sustainability?
WANK
link to washingtonsblog.com
Caledonian Lass
Sorry, I didn’t set out to strip you of your chosen identity. 😉
Smallaxe
Afternoon mate, sorry I missed you earlier. Do you reckon FAN-BOY has been properly skooled yet? 😉
CamreronB Brodie:
He has had a good schooling,but I think he may need “Special” schooling,
in what we used to call approved school!
ST.Johns home monks would sort him out with a good sharp *shock*
Peace Always
Smallaxe
British nationalists are ideologically minded, not rationally minded. British ideology is insidious and strong enough to bamboozle even those with degrees in psychology and shit. 🙂
JEEZ! Just caught a trailer on Channel 5 featuring the programme “The Freddie Mercury Story: Who Wants To Live Forever?”, which will be on at 9pm on Sunday.
The “JEEZ!” is because the trailer mentions that it is 25 years since he died. Where did the time go? My mind still thought that he died “recently”…
Brian Doonthetoon:
Gonny no Dae That Brian,Ahm still tryin’ tae get tae grips wi’Janis and Jimi!
Peace Always
Hi Smallaxe.
Did you read the story in iScot, by the guy who was there the night Jimi Hendrix died?
I found the whole thing “disturbing”.
@BDTT –
I’m constantly astonished at how fast time ‘flies’, and yeah, it’s a cliche, but the older I get the truer it seems to be.
All the more reason to do the job which has brought us all together. We have different ways of doing it.
Roll on 2017. Specifically, May 5th…
Aye Ian, We all come from different directions, we may all have a different post-independence goal in mind, but we all share the ultimate goal – the freedom to choose the the kind of government that will reflect the aspirations of Scots, of whatever ethnic origin.
Why do some of us Scots continue to “not get it”?
Ian Brotherhood
Did you get my post @ 4:21 pm yesterday?
BDTT: No I didn’t see any article about Jimi,Please enlighten me.
Peace Always
Ian Hunter,”Once Bitten Twice Shy”
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Hi Smallaxe.
It’s a story entitled “The Man Who Wasn’t There”, in the June 2016 edition. That’s the one that has ‘The Wee Bleu Book’ reading from the back.
BDTT:
Thanks, Brian,muchly obliged. 🙂
Peace Always
@Smallaxe
I’m so slow this morning, just spotted your comment on the main thread. Took me ages to read the main article, formidable stuff from Taranaich.
You doing ok these days I hope, it’s good to see you posting on the threads.
Let’s have some Nathaniel & the Night sweats.
link to youtube.com
BDTT:
Sad story Brian,FKN.MUESLI, who would have thought.
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Got 10 ac wrong yesterday, souse instead of saute. Sous chef is under the leadership of the chef with e being the literal leadership of expert, plus soaking in water is arguably closer to steaming than basting with oil or fat.
Didn’t spot the leading letters answer because it seemed right.
Nana:
I’m doing ok Nana,thanks for asking and thank you for the music,hadn’t heard them before,I will put it into my playlist.I hope you are well and looking after your hands,as you know I depend on your links for breakfast,
you fed me well today. 🙂
Peace Always
Chic McGregor says:
“Didn’t spot the leading letters answer because it seemed right.”
Chic, @ Specsavers. 🙂
Peace Always
@Smallaxe –
Sorry, have just got it now, hadn’t scrolled back enough last night…have been falling further and further behind, but thanks.
CameronB, are you writing ‘WANK’ as an imperative verb, or as a descriptive adjective?
Asking for a friend whose right arm is getting a bit tired…
NOT SAFE FOR WORK 😉 :
Ivor Biggun – ‘The Winker’s Song (Misprint)’
link to youtube.com
P.S. For those who have had a sheltered upbringing, Ivor Biggun was a character played by Doc Cox. Yes, *the* Doc Cox who appeared on Esther Rantzen’s “That’s Life” Show! 🙂
P.P.S. Serious question – are you calling David Torrance a Fan-Boy because he’s a fan of Margaret Thatcher?
You all know what I think of monkeys! ADULTS ONLY 🙂
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
A less well known Ivor Biggun single. This is the 12″ ‘Dirty Gertie’ version.
link to youtube.com
Help and advice needed??
My son’s MacBook pro got water damaged a couple of weeks ago. Water got in the power brick which is blowing the fuse when plugged in.
We have had it drying out for a while but still cuts out.
Anyone know if there is anything that can be done.
Apple are no help, usual response ‘buy another one’
Nana,
Have you tried sticking it in rice to draw out any residual water?
link to wikihow.com
@Jockanese Wind Talker
No I did not think of that, I will give it a go. Thanks!
David
Are you taking the piss. 🙂
David
Sorry, sort of. FAN-BOY kisses English/British nationalist, Tory ass. WANKER.
@Alex Massie
I see you are still clueless as regards identity and equality issues. Why not enlighten yourself by introducing yourself to some humanity, rather than talking pish for a profession?
WANK
link to tasa.org.au
I trust you lot are keeping the place tidy and watering the plants in my absence –
The delightful Billy Kay is speaking at the Caledonian Hotel in Brechin next Tuesday, doors open at 7.
@ Robert Peffers
Just a minor piece of intriguing information for your attention:
At one point in Jane Austen’s novel, Mansfield Park, which was published in 1814, the author refers to the UK as
“the united kingdoms”
… plural, no capitals.
I put this on the main thread but meant to leave it here.
Top 10 news stories according to BBC Scotland Text Service for
16/11/16 @ 6pm:
(1)-Car shooting murder was targeted attack.
(2)-Scotrail to halt rush-hour stop skipping.
(3)-Murray beats Nishikori in London epic.
(4)-Stressed men prefer heavier women.
(5)-Shell to axe 380 Scottish finance jobs.
(6)-Pauper funerals cost £500,000 a year.
(7)-East Ayrshire worst for hate tweets.
(8)-Formula milk bill passes Commons hurdle.
(9)-Giant airliner in island exercise.
(10)-IndyCamp eviction cost Holyrood £100,000
Absolutely appalling!
Who is responsible for prioritising these stories?
IMO, numbers 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 all take priority over No1.
Re story number 5, i wonder how many of them voted ‘No’?
Also @6pm Jackie Bird announces headlines:
(1)-There’s been a murder….
(2)-Handy Andy wins in London….
That’s yer lot folks, a despicable excuse for a news outlet.
BBC Scotland = London controlled mouthpiece.
Ian Brotherhood
I’ve been meaning to get round to talking about “Teenage Lobotomy”, that I posted the other night. Hope you didn’t take it as a personal comment on yourself. I’m not sure what it was, spontaneous fun, an exorcising of linger ghosts, serious comment on how our society is impaired by the poor development of real “value” perception.
No personal insult intended mate, I was actually trying to boost group resilience. King or an enabler, me?
“East Ayrshire worst for hate tweets.”
Is there not quite a Citrus Fruit presence in EA?
That might go some way to explaining it.
Remember, remember the 19th of September.
Just to let folk know, i plan to start going through the WOS archives again but this time, each night, i will post a minimum of 10 links to old articles.
Hopefully this will be helpful to those of us who have tried to remember a particular article we meant to save/bookmark, as well as providing reading material for the nightowls.
I’ll leave them here in Paula’s hoose (aka O/T) so anyone interested can pick them up here. I’ll put them on late at night to minimise the disruption to any possible ongoing chats.
It’ll take me about a year maximum to link to all the archives but hopefully it will help arm some established Wingers as well as any newbies and/or lurkers.
We’ve got some serious battles ahead and we need to be up for it.
🙂
Good stuff Stoker, bloody great idea…can start re stocking ‘Wings files’ that I lost when mac went kaput last year. 🙂
——————–
My liege…fur you…
link to youtube.com
😉
I’ll have some of that!
There is no peace to be had in our present situation. The situation Must be changed.
Peace Love and Independence
@CamB –
No offence taken mister, I’m not even aware of the comment you’re referring to.
TBH I’m only drifting in and out of here lately. Your links look interesting but I fear they’re out of my league, just a tad! As it is I’m having to tackle quite a lot of literary theory and only have so many brain cells to spare daily. (I think you’d probably enjoy a lot of it, if you haven’t already.)
Hope you’re looking after yourself – seriously!
(INSERT ‘STERN’ SMILEY HERE)
All work and no play, all that jazz…
Hoots, as ever brother, and hope to see you soon.
Tinto Chiel at 6:57 pm:
Aye, a very pungent orange, quite caustic too.
😉
_____
K1 at 7:41 pm:
Yer mad ya hatter!
🙂
WOS Archives for April 2010
There is only one crime, is there not?
link to wingsoverscotland.com
The Prime Minister’s miracle
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Opportunity knocks
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Knives out
link to wingsoverscotland.com
WOS Archives for April 2010
What you can do for your country
link to wingsoverscotland.com
The unheard voice
link to wingsoverscotland.com
The unemployed are the new paedophiles
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Kenny Dalglish for Prime Minister?
link to wingsoverscotland.com
WOS Archives for April 2010
Immigrants to UK not welcome
link to wingsoverscotland.com
They don’t, they don’t speak for us
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Thank you for the homework.
Peace Always
Steve Miller Band
link to youtube.com
Steelers Wheel
link to youtube.com
Iggy PoP
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Pete Seeger
link to youtube.com
link to youtube.com
link to youtube.com
Peace Love and Pete
worth fighting for
link to youtube.com
Peace
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking!
Peace Always
Ian Brotherhood
It’s not a problem then and don’t worry. I’m linking to under-grad. and post-grad. level material, so I’ve got no expectation it will suite all occasions or tastes. You know what they say though, throw enough and some might stick. I am trying to quote the most relevant passages so folk can gain access to the relevance, without having to dig for themselves.
Anyhoo, best of luck with your own endeavors mate. See you around. 😉
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And soon
Peace Always
Smallaxe
That must be oil-based code, I’m water-based. Care to elaborate mate?
CameronB Brodie:
morse
Peace Always
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Peace Always
But guli Chachimos.But guli.
Peace Always
CameronB Brodie
Jekh dilo kerel but dile hai but dile keren dilimata
Mashkar le gadjende leski shib si le Romeski zor
Peace Always
Smallaxe
I kent it was Morse, I just lacked access to it’s meaning. Still do, but I guess you kent that. 😉
This is what ideological British nationalism prevents Scotland from being, in addition to authentic. Flexibility, agility and integral strength are requirements for survival in the post-modern jungle.
Capoeira Master – Cat Man
link to youtube.com
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Independence is coming (TRANSLATION)
@ 8:42
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NOW DO YOU UNDERSTAND9 (TRANSLATION)
@ 9:39
Peace Always
Smallaxe
That is what I believe as I think I have a reasonable understanding of the circumstances. Still no knowledge of Morse though. 😉
@FAN-BOY
Here’s one for you to get your head around, with your psychology degree and shit. Still not a fan of human rights?
Lee “Scratch” Perry – Kiss The Champion
link to youtube.com
CameronB Brodie:
Are you telling me that you’ve never heard of Inspector Morse,played by that late great actor,Jack Regan?
🙂
Peace Always
Smallaxe
Morse was my dad’s favourite. Takes all sorts I suppose. 🙂
WOS Archives for May 2010
Clegg: I will never join a coalition
link to wingsoverscotland.com
The blame game
link to wingsoverscotland.com
I’m too sad
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Exactly how stupid are Labour?
link to wingsoverscotland.com
WOS Archives for May 2010
Things we’ve learned in the last 24 hours
link to wingsoverscotland.com
You count for nothing
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Can’t get there from here?
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Everyone in Britain is a moron
link to wingsoverscotland.com
WOS Archives for May 2010
Well, here goes
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Want some free money?
link to wingsoverscotland.com
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WOS Archives for August 2010
Eyebrows of the day
link to wingsoverscotland.com
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WOS Archives for September 2010
The creatures looked from pig to man
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Thanks, Stoker.
These are brilliant links. You should mention them on the main thread each time. They’re a great resource for Indyref2/Armageddon.
I’m regressing. In my world it’s now the mid-sixties.
I’ve whipped out my sitar and I can see colours, man….
link to youtube.com
Can’t get out this time machine.
Where’s my sonic screw driver?
link to youtube.com
Have a laugh folks
link to twitter.com
Help ma boab, they just keep coming:
link to youtube.com
It’s the lizard folk, they’re controlling me.
Watch the skies! Watch the skies!
AAAARGH!
No, scrub all that, mebbe just a touch of indigestion……
Byron Ferrari’s just arrived.
link to youtube.com
Nana, that is so troubling I’m away to open a bottle of malt whisky…..
Tinto Chiel
My son sent it to me earlier, he has a wicked sense of humour.
Now don’t go blaming me if you have a hang over tomorrow morn.
Don’t worry, Nana, it’s only two fingers of Talisker: between the index finger and the pinkie.
😉
Lovely water, this…..
Tinto Chiel:
About that hole in your shoe
link to youtube.com
And you will never get all that drink into a glass
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Nana:
You have proved what we thought all along
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Hola Smallaxe
link to youtube.com
Smallaxe: great old song but I normally go to Timpson’s thanks 😛
It was great to see old Phil L again. That clip looked live. Another loss in a long list.
Nana:
Muchos gracias Nana,disfruté de eso.
Jk did not write this
link to youtube.com
Nana:
Spanner wrote this for JKs next movie!
link to youtube.com
Peace and Love twice. One is for up there ^ 🙂
Tinto Chiel:
Unfortunately,that list seems,to me, to be getting longer daily.
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
@Smallaxe
That’s you off JKR’s Christmas card list Hahaha
No sweat, Smallaxe. I’ll stay off the list if you promise to… 😉
Meanwhile, Ray says something significant about it all:
link to youtube.com
God bless and sleep well, my friend.
On reflection, Smallaxe, a song about an old love affair was a bit sombre so I offer this as an alternative:
link to youtube.com
Quite uplifting in its way.
I’m off to bed. If I had a licence, I might have watched QT.
Thank Carmichael I’m free at last, free at last…..
Tinto:
Goodnight my Friend.
More Kinks
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
You caught me in my Winceyette pyjamas, Smallaxe, brushing the old toothy-pegs.
Never heard that before: very psychedelic, could feel my loon pants and Afghan coat slipping on me.
Hope you sleep well, mon vieux.
Tinto:
More Kinks,Relevant today.
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
WOS Archives for November 2010
Man tells truth, is made to apologise
link to wingsoverscotland.com
The only way to save Britain
link to wingsoverscotland.com
WOS Archives for December 2010
You know…for kids
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Here comes tomorrow
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Daily Express Spot The Difference
link to wingsoverscotland.com
WOS Archives for February 2011
Lies and the lying liars who tell them
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Question time
link to wingsoverscotland.com
WOS Archives for April 2011
How many chickens is this?
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Four years on
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Who are the Tartan Tories?
link to wingsoverscotland.com
An unexpected result
link to wingsoverscotland.com
WOS Archives for April 2011
Why i could never vote Labour
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Andy Kerr’s Dancing Hands
link to wingsoverscotland.com
The Coin Dozer Gospel
link to wingsoverscotland.com
The alternative to the alternative
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Smallaxe
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Tha mi dochas gum bi e an seo a dh’aithghearr.
Espero que esté aquí pronto.
Stoker:
Thank you,please excuse the pun but you are keeping us well stoked,keep
that Fire lit.The light from the fire!..may it guide the people who are still in darkness.
Peace Always
Smallaxe
Hope they’re helping to keep your mind off negativities. When i first thought of doing this you did cross my mind. Awe the best!
😉
WOS Archives for May 2011
The new flag of the United Kingdom
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Scotland for beginners
link to wingsoverscotland.com
When the clock strikes one
link to wingsoverscotland.com
If you think AV will lead to PR, read this
link to wingsoverscotland.com
WOS Archives for June 2011
An open letter to Scottish Labour
link to wingsoverscotland.com
WOS Archives for August 2011
Wee Blue Links
link to wingsoverscotland.com
David Cameron’s new best friend
link to wingsoverscotland.com
A riots reader
link to wingsoverscotland.com
If there’s no future, how can there be sin?
link to wingsoverscotland.com
WOS Archives for September 2011
Why the SNP should run in England
link to wingsoverscotland.com
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Well, troops, that takes care of the hit-n-miss early days but now that the Rev has found his feet and established WOS we are about to enter into some seriously good articles, in both quantity and quality. Don’t forget to save/bookmark your favorites, you never know when you’re going to need them.
Goodnight troops
Chic McGregor:
Presented with just a series of dots and dashes I have the problem of not knowing where each character starts and ends.
As for the other question,how fast would you like it
🙂
Peace Always
In Spite of Ourselves. link to youtube.com
Chic McGregor:
hope so too and that it’s here soon
Mashkar le gadjende leski shib si le Romeski zor,Si khohaimo may pachivalo sar o chachimo
Peace Always
The Marshall Tucker Band. Cant you See. link to youtube.com
Aye aye, whit’s goin’ on in here..?
It’s alive!
Do we need more chocolate for the fountain 🙂
Like the latest decor.
I was going to play this 3 nights ago. link to youtube.com
Michael McCabe:
it’s their fault
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Peter Green and the Splinter Band
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Indigo Girls-Kid Fears. link to youtube.com
Cactus:
Sorry man, never notist ye ther’, hows things gaun, ok aye,nice tae see ye
ower here.Waant tae gies sum sounds?
Peace Always
Ten Years After: Good morning little Schoolgirl
link to youtube.com
White Bird: ITS A BEAUTIFUL DAY
link to youtube.com
pEACE aLWAYS
Would you look at that mess I made of that last signature?
OH well everyone makes mistakes.
Here’s Dr.Hook,to explain
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Happens to the best of us Smallaxe.
Not often enough though!
Lucky old Dr Hook!
Smallaxe if you type Austin city limits into you tube. you will find a lot of good music. link to youtube.com off to my bed now. Night.
Goodnight Michael, That was cool
Peace Always