Wings Over Scotland

@CameronBB: I see Gordon Strachan has wandered into Johann Lamont territory in an attempt to explain the Ljubljana meltdown.

“Genetically, we are behind. In the last campaign we were the second smallest, apart from Spain.” Mentioning of one of the best teams on the planet kinda takes a chain-saw to that argument, of course.

*Contemplates lunar landscape of his hopes and orders another Babycham*

link to youtube.com

Fae the Book of Truth…

“The Wings works in mysterious ways”

Any mission is possible..

Ah’ll say!

Amen.

Let’s try that one again…

See ye at 10pm on the main thread..

Three. Little. Words.

Join me.

Here, check this one out.

(Anyone seen it before?)

@22 secs: ‘And what is it that you do?’

link to youtube.com

T minus ten for 10pm…

X.

Hey K1 x.

William Wallace fuckin’ legend, cheers bro!

We are the Dynamic Duo!

Ye pouring?

11pm…

Wait…

Thir’s mair.

“A generous mouthful of flavours rewards the palate with moist walnut cake, allspice, sea salt, chocolate and black coffee”

Think eh might hae to eat it instead 🙂

/Pours Cactus a wee hauf…

Pint 🙂

@WW –

Well? Curious for your verdict. Don’t touch the hard stuff meself but most Lidl stuff I’ve ever had seems to make the grade.

BTW, that vid I tried to post was about Liz The Queen doing a druidic ceremony in Wales prior to her coronation. Looks gen enough, British Pathe Reel stuff. Utterly bizarre.

Just put Queen and Druidic in the Youtube and it’ll come up.

Cheers fur ra wee hauf William Wallace 🙂

This could get messy…

Ahm already mixin’ the grape n the grain.

Speaking of wine.. I don’t have any socks on.

That makes me..?

(a wee hauf an hour tae go…)

Ben Bracken is VG & good value, a teaspoon of watter & you’re away kid!

/Pours abody a wee dram or twa and shares the cake.

It’s no bad at ah. Eh’m pleasantly surprised. It’s quite a smooth affair. Was expecting it to be a bit rough.

There is always midnight.

Right Cactus get your best tune with Midnight in the lyrics and get it on Off Topic bang on the bells.

Get it on, bang it on LOL

Here we go Cactus 🙂

link to youtube.com

It’s ah moving to slow fir persistent comedy.

* except fir viewers in Scotland. 😉

@ Alex

Eh ken it’s a snakes and ladders gemme but, it doesnae half remind me o a good gemme o family monopoly. 🙂

Should see oor hoose when that gemme gets brought oot. Grown adults reduced to bairns lol. Eh’m no even kidding.

It actually carries across generations. Mum, Dad and bairns on the same team v’s Mum, Dad and bairns on the other team. Meh femily are ah fkin mental eh swear tae god 🙂

Off topic is excellent.

Time check.

I suppose you could get away with suggesting contemporary Scotland is a bit like Greece without the sunshine. Might as well give up then, as I doubt an iScotland will be much sunnier. 😉

Cultural Identity and Cultural Policy:
Manipulating Expectations in Contemporary Greece

“One could say, without exaggerating that the crisis of identity constitutes the central problem of modern Greek society the constitutive element of contemporary Hellenism and the axis around which our modern history revolves” (Tsaoussis 1982:17).

Abstract
This paper starts with a short critic of rigidly separating ‘the civic’ from ‘the ethnic’ in nationalism theories as well as mapping them broadly as ‘good’ and ‘bad’ respectively. It further doubts the potential of such theories to provide explanations for the case of Greece. On the background of attitudes towards ‘co-ethnics’ during recent years where Greece has been transformed from a sender to a receiver society, the paper suggests that things might be subtler than that. It then turns to one widely accepted ‘ethnic’ theme of ‘Greekness’, namely the link between Modern Greece and Ancient Greece and, after presenting schematically its development, the paper investigates its possible persistence in Greek ‘public culture’ through a discussion of data in cultural policy.

It further explores how people might use what is ‘ethnically’ expected of them both in conventional and in ‘unexpected’ ways, as well as the conceptual and pragmatic implications of such uses. It, thus, investigates how cultural identity-expectations are used in everyday life and the active influence they might have on the possibility of action. The paper considers turning to the use of metaphors in conception in search of a subtler understanding of cultural identity construction and use. It suggests a more nuanced approach to understanding how identity is constructed and wishes to imply that an investigation of the case of Greece could provide novel tools for both theorising and understanding areas with similar itineraries but also other ‘unexpected’ ones.

link to lse.ac.uk

*Whistling, unlocks door to Paula’s gaff.

Surveys scene.

Locks door to Paula’s gaff.*

What’s been seen can’t be unseen…

Y’ye think Rock could actually be the Rev Stu? 🙂

Ian/Mistah Kurtz, it was the blow-up dolls of Alan Gilzean and Eamonn Bannon, the Swarfega stains and everywhere the nuts, the nuts, the nuts…

*Hides head in hands to expunge image*

“D’ye think Rock could actually be the Rev Stu? ?”

Fred, at the height of Petra-Clypegate last night, the same thought occurred to me. I said nothing, fearing the scorn and opprobrium of The Righteous.

I still hae ma doots…

And Insensate Dave returns! Silly old sausage!

Rock seems to have an encyclopedic knowledge of btl comments by Robert R, Alex C and Ian B in particular: very stalky, very stalky indeed. His wee 77 Brigade memory stick must be rid-het.

@ Ian

Sair 🙂

Making a nice lamb chop curry the now though so that will hopefully cure ah meh ills and get me back to normal. (Well, eh use the term “normal” loosely here 🙂 Getting me back to my normal state of mental might be mair apt). 😉

Re. (t)Ruthless Harrison commenting on mental health. I told you she has a brass neck, as neo-liberalism both demands and produces social inequality.

Poverty, inequality and a political economy of mental health.

Abstract
The relationship between poverty and mental health is indisputable. However, to have an influence on the next set of sustainable global development goals, we need to understand the causal relationships between social determinants such as poverty, inequality, lack of education and unemployment; thereby clarifying which aspects of poverty are the key drivers of mental illness. Some of the major challenges identified by Lund (2014) in understanding the poverty-mental health relationship are discussed including: the need for appropriate poverty indicators; extending this research agenda to a broader range of mental health outcomes; the need to engage with theoretical concepts such as Amartya Sen’s capability framework; and the need to integrate the concept of income/economic inequality into studies of poverty and mental health. Although income inequality is a powerful driver of poor physical and mental health outcomes, it features rarely in research and discourse on social determinants of mental health.

This paper interrogates in detail the relationships between poverty, income inequality and mental health, specifically: the role of income inequality as a mediator of the poverty-mental health relationship; the relative utility of commonly used income inequality metrics; and the likely mechanisms underlying the impact of inequality on mental health, including direct stress due to the setting up of social comparisons as well as the erosion of social capital leading to social fragmentation. Finally, we need to interrogate the upstream political, social and economic causes of inequality itself, since these should also become potential targets in efforts to promote sustainable development goals and improve population (mental) health. In particular, neoliberal (market-oriented) political doctrines lead to both increased income inequality and reduced social cohesion. In conclusion, understanding the relationships between politics, poverty, inequality and mental health outcomes requires us to develop a robust, evidence-based ‘political economy of mental health.

link to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

@(t)Ruthless Harrison
Here’s one you could possibly share with your David Torrance. Perhaps he can elucidate further, the next time he is presented as an ‘expert’ on the BBC in Scotland.

Neoliberalism Viewed From the Couch
Insights about economics gathered from a psychoanalyst’s couch
Neoliberalism has all the characteristics of a totalitarian discourse without being a political regime. It is so totalitarian that it has even consumed politics—our politicians are obeying the dictates coming from the financial world. As a totalitarian discourse, it has taken over education, health care, art—it is very hard to escape from it. It’s ‘The Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ (an old movie) all over. But it contains a basic flaw, and today, that flaw is causing a turn towards new discourse. The result of neoliberalism is that it sets us apart; it obliges us to become competitive individuals and only competitive individuals. Of course, humans are competitive, but we should not forget that we are also social. We need a group to feel good. The mantra of neoliberalism, put forward by Thatcher, says exactly the opposite: ‘There is no such thing as a society, there are only individuals’. Well, that idea has reached its limit; people are looking for new ways to set up groups. These groups are organizing themselves in a more cooperative way, meaning that both the individual and the community thrive. Think of the transition movement, think of deliberative democracy (Fishkin).

link to psychologytoday.com

Tory policy would ultimately enslave society to the irrationality and savagery of market forces. The British Labour party sing from roughly the same hymn-sheet.

“Neoliberal theorists are, however, profoundly suspicious of democracy. Governance by majority rule is seen as a potential threat to individual rights and constitutional liberties. Democracy is viewed as a luxury, only possible under conditions of relative affluence coupled with a strong middle-class presence to guarantee political stability. Neoliberals therefore tend to favour governance by experts and elites.” ? David Harvey

THE NEOLIBERAL THEORY OF SOCIETY
Simon Clarke
The ideological foundations of neo-liberalism
Neoliberalism presents itself as a doctrine based on the inexorable truths of modern economics. However, despite its scientific trappings, modern economics is not a scientific discipline but the rigorous elaboration of a very specific social theory, which has become so deeply embedded in western thought as to have established itself as no more than common sense, despite the fact that its fundamental assumptions are patently absurd. The foundations of modern economics, and of the ideology of neoliberalism, go back to Adam Smith and his great work, The Wealth of Nations. Over the past two centuries Smith’s arguments have been formalised and developed with greater analytical rigour, but the fundamental assumptions underpinning neoliberalism remain those proposed by Adam Smith….

link to homepages.warwick.ac.uk

How to think like a neoliberal: Can every decision and choice really be conceived as a market decision?
link to eprints.lse.ac.uk

School choice: neoliberal education policy and imagined futures

Abstract
Most recent policies and programmes of educational reform have been framed, justified and promoted on a widely held belief that aligning educational policies and practices with the economic, political and cultural changes that globalization signifies is necessary. However, this signification has mostly been couched in neoliberal terms– the view that globalization is largely an economic phenomenon, in which markets play a fundamental role in reconfiguring the nature of social relations. So globally ubiquitous has this mode of thinking become that it can appropriately be referred to as a ‘social imaginary’. The neoliberal imaginary of globalization has re-cast the purposes and governance of education, viewing it in human capital terms while supporting individual self-interests in an increasingly competitive society. This paper suggests that the contemporary era demands new ways of interpreting global interconnectivity and interdependence beyond globalization’s economic possibilities, but also as underpinned by moral and intercultural concerns. Hence, the need to work towards global common goods is greater now than ever before, as a way of ensuring that the world does not continue to slide into ever-increasing levels of inequalities, distrust and social conflict.

link to unesdoc.unesco.org

@David Torrance
What might a future UK society and politics look like, cut adrift from the EU and following a doctrine of Anglo-American neo-liberalism?

Public Pedagogy and the Politics of Neo-liberalism:
making the political more pedagogical
ABSTRACT Neo-liberalism has reached a new stage in the United States, buttressed largely by the almost seamless alliances formed among the Bush administration, religious fundamentalists, neo-conservative extremists, the dominant media, and corporate elites. This article explores the various ways in which neo-liberal cultural politics works as a form of public pedagogy to devalue the meaning of the social contract, education, and citizenship by defining higher education primarily as a financial investment and learning as a form of training for the workforce. Aggressively fostering its attack on the welfare state, unions, non-commodified public spheres, and any critical vestige of critical education, neo-liberal politics makes it increasingly more difficult to address the necessity of a political education in which active and critical political agents have to be formed, educated, and socialized into the world of politics. This article explores how the intersection of cultural studies and public pedagogy offers a challenge to both the ideology and practice of neo-liberalism as a form of cultural politics. In doing, so it outlines how the pedagogical can become more political in the classroom and how the political can become more pedagogical outside of the classroom via the educational force of the wider culture.

link to cws.illinois.edu

@ BDTT

Cheers for the excellent sangs. Sangs and discussions aboot the berries aywiz bring back some great memories. 🙂

Here’s ane back fir yi but, Alex might no like it 😉

Living next door to an Arab !!!

link to youtube.com

@CatBoyd
IMHO, it would be extremely difficult to separate BritNat culture and Anglo-American neo-liberalism. Scotland deserves better, don’t you think?

Neoliberalism in Britain: From Thatcherism to Cameronism
Thatcherism as Political Phenomenon

Eric J. Evans (2013) characterises Thatcherism as a fusion of neoliberal economic policy making and authoritarian state politics in matters of the nation, the military, law and order, crime and the police. “She believed in: individual rights, particularly in economic matters; private enterprise within a free market; firm, sometimes authoritarian, leadership; low levels of personal taxation; union and vested-interest bashing; simple, unqualified, patriotism” (Evans 2013, 3).

Hay and Farrall (2014) understand Thatcherism as a combination of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism characterised by “distrust of ‘big’ government; support for ‘traditional values’ (however defined); a focus on the ‘freeing’ of the economy from the control of the state; a reliance on the market as the most efficient mechanism for resource distribution and an associated normative commitment to the sanctity of the individual and individual choice” (Hay and Farrall 2014, 9).

link to triple-c.at

N.B. Contemporary British nationalism is an expansionist form of English nationalism.

Here’s one for the “Semiotic Kid”, Sev Carell.

The Semiotics of Place: Autonomy and Space

Abstract

In a New York Times article commenting on the protest movements which unsettled the status quo from Tahrir Square in Cairo to Zuccotti Park in New York City, the author cautions that ‘we tend to underestimate the political power of physical places’ (Kimmelman 2011: SRI). In this chapter we argue that neither should we underestimate the power of place in relation to language education, nor its relevance for learner autonomy. Benson (2011: 58) defines autonomy as ‘the capacity to take control of one’s own learning’ and characterizes it as encompassing three dimensions: control over learning management (cf. Holec 1981), control over cognitive processing (cf. Little 1991), and control over content. We propose a fourth dimension: space. How learners imagine a space to be, perceive it, define it, and articulate their understandings transforms a space into a place, determines what they do there, and influences their autonomy.

link to link.springer.com

@K1
Rock’s game is very simple. Whenever he/she/it sees a squabble breaking out, as it often does for some odd reason, it takes one side or the other to try to increase the division. The idea is that the other one will be happy about having “support”, and will go along with it and maybe even join in, hence making the division wider and maybe lasting longer.

Meanwhile other posters join in on one side or the other, and it sits back and feeds off the carcasses as blood is spilt in all directions. Kind of like a carrion crow, but rather than waiting for roadkill, it does its best to cause the blood in the first place.

That’s what it feeds off. When there’s no division, it’s just the usual boring “National subsidises the Herald with its falling sales while having falling sales itself”. Which doesn’t make a lot of sense, but it causes disruption.

@ Brian, Terregles Avenue isn’t my “Bit!” but is a residential street in Pollokshields, so a semi-bungalow sounds about right!

@Tinto Chiel
Cried when she died, took a couple of years to get over it. Saw Fairport live a couple of times at a fairly small venue at Uni. Knew a guy (deceased) who did some gigs with her on the circuit.

link to youtube.com

Meant to say, before they drag me off for personality realignment,
apart from her unforgettable voice, the guitar playing on that track is very delicate, and even the drumming on such a gentle song is beautifully done: each verse’s is quite different. A great production, all in all.

What’s that, Harvey? Time to count some carrots?

Coming!

Mmm, that was a bit OTT, here’s one I used to play in Indy Ref 1 thinking of us under Westminster “going to shut it down”.

link to youtube.com

and I’m quite agnostic about the monarchy!

“What’s that, Harvey? Time to count some carrots?”

Got that wee joke Tinto LOL Great film and played “the song” before.

link to youtube.com

@yesindyref2

That was class and a first 🙂

“Restrained”, obvs.

link to youtube.com

In case naebdee has noticed, the page at

link to wingsoverscotland.com

is still active. Latest post tonight, at 7:37pm.

@Brian Doonthetoon

I get your point about the tail end of threads, good patrolling.

@TC –

Brilliant vid there, haven’t seen it for yonks.

😉

@ Alex Clark

Dear Mr Clark,
Kindly add moi and t’other half to your Ferry booking. I am sure the itinerary and dress code will follow soon.
Kind regards & toodle-oo the noo,
BB

PS. Dunno how you are keeping your list, but, can I suggest that info is posted in the lounge over on Quarantine?

I heard a good joke the other day so I thought I’d make an epic poem about it

Wee Sammy Gow
The coort is fu’, the jury’s gowpin
The polis leads wee Sammy Gow in
He’s four fit nine an no an inch mair
An skelly wi’ it and no much hair
Coorts tae rise, the polis says
The judge swirls in and taks his place
The jury gasps , the charges read
Wee Sammy’s shagged big Senga Stead
Big Senga’s no averse tae frolic
But no wi’ manky alcoholic
She hidnae e’en finished her chips
When Sam(she said) exposed her hips
And puushed the hardy Glasgow doll
Against the back o’ cludgie wall….
All sit, says Alistair Farquar-Glenn
(all the wey from thon Bearsden)
“Such heinous transgression is before us”
(Whit the feck’d he say? is jury chorus)
“The onus is on accused’s defence
To prove there was no such offence.”
Is he gaun tae jile the jury pondered?
But how he’d done it they a’ wondered.
And thus the lawyer built the case.
Sam (he said)couldny reach that “place”
And he was accused wrangly surely
And Senga doll had indeed been poorly
(Fowerteen voddies had bin the sum
But it hidnae made her thingwy numb
“Ah know the bam was up ma’ khyber”
Couldny say how when pressed however
When prosecution returned whit did entail?
They had the proof tae hand – a pail.
A bucket? the judge expressed surprise
“Elucidate us please. We’re not that wise
(Whit the feck’d he say? again is chorus)
Put explanation clear before us”
The lawyer “Your honour,it’s our case
That Samuel Gow utilised this base”
He waved the bucket, left and right
“To climb up on it for extra height
With Senga halfway through her chow
She’d hardly notice Samuel Gow”
His lordship, Alistair Farquar-Glenn
Hid dealt wi’ hunners o’ wicked men
And though wee Gow looked fairly hairmless
He thoat it might indeed be careless
Tae come tae jury judgement soon
Wi’oot the facts been taken doon
“This court’s adjourned” he affirmed
Till proper measures are confirmed .
Wee Sam and pail were taken oot
The measures made wid leave nae doot
And court kid come tae safe decision
Because of sensible precision.
When judge looked at the final scale
He said that “even on the pail
Gow’s genitals as I can see.
Would hardly reach ‘bove Senga’s knee”.
“Case dismissed” – the final say
As polis huckled her away
The jury (who’d been given lunch)
Surrounded Sammy in a bunch.
And aff they went tae Scotia bar
Intent thaim a’tae hiv a jar.
“We thought ye’d end up in the pokey”
Said Sammy’s punting pal wee Jockie.
Wee Sam confessed, tae shocked surprise.
“Ah’m no a man fur telling lies.
Nae trial again so here’s the fact
The prosecution should be sacked
Ah did and Ah’ve got away
They didnae work oot what Ah’d dae”.
“Two pails ye had?” said Burke O’ Hare
“A wee ladder?” posed old Willie Mair
“Naw,easier still” wee Sammy said
“Ah flung the pail ower Senga’s head
………..And hung ontae the handle.

Brilliant Dave, just brilliant! nae wonder Rock thinks this is developing into a cosy wee social club!

@Dave McEwan Hill –

🙂

I’m looking forward to seeing that on the letters page of The National.

Digby Jones-Under The Sea link to youtube.com

Oops! Wrong thread!

“Seriously folks, Rock could be in some kind of institution?”

Could be, Fred but, going by the number of recent strange commenters, there’s a locked ward somewhere full of them.

More carrot cake, Harvey?

See if anyone can spot our own lovely Miss Paula Rose in this one.

link to youtube.com

Well Tinto, as the stag stalking season draws to a close, the jaggy jaiket & shot-silk shite-catchers can be moth-balled for another year! Try saying shot-silk shite-catchers when sober kid?

Was Smallaxe ghillieing for the Duke this year?

Personally, I see Brexit as the subjugation of human liberty and dignity by far-right neo-con ideologies aligned with neo-liberal ideologies aimed at valuing human existence in purely monetary terms. Of course, the BBC played a large role in selling the whole idea to the poor and politically illiterate. As such, here’s one for the Brexiteers and all their supporters to get down to.

“Pontius Pilate said to party.”

Pornland – Pontius Pilate
link to youtube.com

For no particular reason…

link to youtube.com

I’m trying to reach out in a spirit of hope. 😉

Severus Snape – Titanium
link to youtube.com

I rarely venture on here but I’m delighted that I did so.

Your poem is absolutely BRILLIANT Dave and you should think of getting it published. What talent! Rabbie would be proud of you. In many ways better than Rabbie’s work in fact. Keep going. Produce more of the same. More than anything tell the story (obliterate the lies), step by step, leading on from Rabbie of our fight to get our Independence. That would be EPIC.

…………………………….

Dave McEwan Hill says on 13 October, 2017 at 12:32 am.

I heard a good joke the other day so I thought I’d make an epic poem about it.

”Wee Sammy Gow
The coort is fu’, the jury’s gowpin
The polis leads wee Sammy Gow in
He’s four fit nine an no an inch mair
An skelly wi’ it and no much hair
Coorts tae rise, the polis says
The judge swirls in and taks his place
The jury gasps, the charges read
Wee Sammy’s shagged big Senga Stead
Big Senga’s no averse tae frolic
But no wi’ manky alcoholic
She hidnae e’en finished her chips
When Sam (she said) exposed her hips
And puushed the hardy Glasgow doll
Against the back o’ cludgie wall….
All sit, says Alistair Farquar-Glenn
(all the wey from thon Bearsden)
“Such heinous transgression is before us”
(Whit the feck’d he say? is jury chorus)
“The onus is on accused’s defence
To prove there was no such offence.”
Is he gaun tae jile the jury pondered?
But how he’d done it they a’ wondered.
And thus the lawyer built the case.
Sam (he said) couldny reach that “place”
And he was accused wrangly surely
And Senga doll had indeed been poorly
(Fowerteen voddies had bin the sum
But it hidnae made her thingwy numb)
“Ah know the bam was up ma’ khyber”
Couldny say how when pressed however
When prosecution returned whit did entail?
They had the proof tae hand – a pail.
A bucket? the judge expressed surprise
“Elucidate us please. We’re not that wise
(Whit the feck’d he say? again is chorus)
Put explanation clear before us”
The lawyer “Your honour, it’s our case
That Samuel Gow utilised this base”
He waved the bucket, left and right
“To climb up on it for extra height
With Senga halfway through her chow
She’d hardly notice Samuel Gow”
His lordship, Alistair Farquar-Glenn
Hid dealt wi’ hunners o’ wicked men
And though wee Gow looked fairly hairmless
He thoat it might indeed be careless
Tae come tae jury judgement soon
Wi’oot the facts been taken doon
“This court’s adjourned” he affirmed
Till proper measures are confirmed .
Wee Sam and pail were taken oot
The measures made wid leave nae doot
And court kid come tae safe decision
Because of sensible precision.
When judge looked at the final scale
He said that “even on the pail
Gow’s genitals as I can see.
Would hardly reach ‘bove Senga’s knee”.
“Case dismissed” – the final say
As polis huckled her away
The jury (who’d been given lunch)
Surrounded Sammy in a bunch.
And aff they went tae Scotia bar
Intent thaim a’tae hiv a jar.
“We thought ye’d end up in the pokey”
Said Sammy’s punting pal wee Jockie.
Wee Sam confessed, tae shocked surprise.
“Ah’m no a man fur telling lies.
Nae trial again so here’s the fact
The prosecution should be sacked
Ah did and Ah’ve got away
They didnae work oot what Ah’d dae”.
“Two pails ye had?” said Burke O’ Hare
“A wee ladder?” posed old Willie Mair
“Naw,easier still” wee Sammy said
“Ah flung the pail ower Senga’s head
………..And hung ontae the handle.”

Tinto Chiel There is actually an uncanny likeness.

Cannae beat the Bucket List but!

Auld Maw Broon went tae the toon tae get her wee dug its denner
But a bunnet fur her heid that she didnae need cost her her last tenner,
That puir wee dug jist scratched its lug & said “Ya daft auld bat! ah thocht it wiz a bane that ye’d bring me hame, ah cannae eat a hat!”
An ah’m stervin!

Mere celluloid can’t do you justice, Miss Rose, IMHO .

Does anybody have any idea how you can actually contact anybody – a real person – about Google and gmail?

My computer has crashed and I’m finding it impossible to get a new password for my gmail account to access despite going through the process 17 times,including with the assistance of computer engineers. Some are saying I have been deliberately taken down and am now being deliberately blocked.

William Wallace

Thanks. I’ll give it a try.

Anent Harvey Wienstein, how come the ugliest guys get aw the best burds?

@ DMH

It states:

Most all account recovery starts with the “Forgot password?” link on the Gmail/Google sign in page. That link leads to: link to accounts.google.com which can be used directly.

The linked article provides a lot more detail about the account recovery process and includes information to help pass it successfully: link to gmailaccountrecovery.blogspot.com
The Walk-Through and Additional Information sections may be the most helpful.

Sorry I can’t be of more help. I know how frustrating it can be.

Cause of his so called ‘power’ and ‘influence’ Fred…he abused it, basically ‘bought’ contact with the ‘burdz’…it is ever thus.

A merry the 17th of October to ye all Wingers.

Back later on.

Shinty at 8.48

Culloden wasn’t Scotland v England. It was Hanoverian v Stewart for the English throne and Scots and English were on both sides.

I remain confused about the affection for the Jacobites. The Jacobite cause was unionist, trying to seize the English crown.
If “Bonnie” Price Chairlie had stopped at the border we would be independent today.

@ DMH

I’m a reasonably competent techie (when I’m not being a drunken buffoon 😉 ). Does your machine have any symptoms or is it totally dead? I might be able to offer a diagnosis (if you are unsure as to the nature of the problem) to help get you back up and running.

@ DMH

Ouch, sair ane.

I got into the habit o backing stuff up to a wee external hard drive aboot a decade or so ago after suffering a similar fate for the second time. It’s a massive PITA when it happens and data recovery back then was extremely expensive (Still is relatively expensive even now).

I usually export browser data/passwords/bookmarks etc, documents folder and desktop folder at least once a week to be on the safe side.

I know it’s shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted but, you can pick up fairly large capacity pen drives these days for peanuts to prevent future occurrences (Less than a tenner for 32gb). You can also get various open source and freeware auto_backup apps that will let you specify source and destination folders and do the job for you to save you any future headaches.

I think the novels are far mair important tbh :). You could always ask abody in attendance at the branch meeting to try and mind what was said. Assuming the meeting wasnae held in the boozer ofc.

Luckily, in terms of data recovery the actual file sizes will be small. Were they on an SSD or an old style sata/ide?

Let me know what you are getting quoted on recovery for the critical stuff to be recovered. An old pal of mine is in that game and will probably do it for a pint or two.

@ Alex

That’s weird.

Saw that post here you just made and when I responded, your post and mine went awol. Posted on MT with the details.

@ Alex

Oot o interest here.

Did You ken Dave Nugent. Derwent Legend 😉

Here’s another Richard Leonard voiceover…

Boring Auld Theresa:
link to youtube.com

Will you be a serf, a knight or a wizard?

Let’s escape Castle Westminster.

1984 knows.

For those who are interested in the gravitational wave discovery (Petra) and unlike the MSM, an account which acknowledges Glasgow University’s contribution, here is a link to the Physics World article (may need to sign up for it, I can’t remember I’ve been getting it by email for many years).

link to physicsworld.com

Think ah’ll hang about here this evening. Ah’ll play catch up later. Though sporadic postings are always a potential possible.

Whit’s the blether of the weather..?

Tis not even nine.

On the oor.

2112hrs

Not on this clock.

But, what a RUSH:
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Geddy fuckin’ Lee!

Jeez Paula Rose.

You are, unusually, behind the loop, uryi no? This link has cbeen posted on WOS in the past few days.

link to eveningtelegraph.co.uk

Hey Paula Rose & Brian Doonthetoon ~

Lookin’ forward tae seeing yee’s on the 11th.

“Words of Love…” ~ MamasnPapas.

For the Love of Ivy WoS!

Words of WoS.

OSAWD. CD.

None the wiser – back to the day job.

Aye can hear FIREWORKS all around.

Can youuuuu…

Tell me darlings..

The New Zealand Pinot Noir is very good.

Perfect temperaturenessity.

We are in a good place.

We are happy.

Scotland.

Just because
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