Hi, Marie. Sorry to hear about your wee goat. They’re awful cute at that age.
Haven’t heard Chick’s Beatles number for ages. It was an oddity I liked.
Harvey had snapped put of it. He went sledging in the heavy snow and really enjoyed it. He also liked the Delibes but now wants a dress “like the pink lady”.
Just when things were getting back on an even keel…
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Actually, he’s now upstairs in his room playing this, so it’s going to be a long night.
Meanwhile, in other news: I keep getting drawn masochistically to listen to the unbelievable The Media Show on Pravdasound4 on a Wednesday for the massive amount of hypocrisy/delusion/irony it spews out.
This afternoon we had some wummin from Channel 4 referring to Syria and Aleppo. Apparently she does VERY SERIOUS JOURNALISM (she told us this at least twice) and talked about C4’s high journalistic values too, which was nice.
Cherry on the cake: the obligatory reference to The Wild West of The Internet, i.e. social media and bloggers you just can’t trust, unlike the BBC etc.
Stu Campbell=Billy The Kid?
It’s only Wednesday, so couldn’t even uncork the Valpolicella Ripasso and blot it all out.
Marie Clark
6 years ago
Tinto You shouldn’t watch Pravdasound, it’s bad for your health. I reckon Wednesday or not, I’d have opened the bottle.
Funny that Harvey likes the Prodigy. That song put me in mind of quite a few years ago now, my then teenage son (late teens) had a poster of Keith Flint, in all his firestarter garb, up on his bedroom wall. My oldest grandaughter ( she was the wee one I used to play Guns & Roses sweet child of mine to) wouldn’t go into that room cause the poster frightened the life out of her, poor we soul.She was only about three at the time. I don’t know how that wean grew up to be the lovely, sensible lass that she is.
All three of the grandweans are rarin to go when indyref2 comes round. They were too young to vote the last time, but they’re meanin business this time. Good, cause it’s their future.
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Keith gives me the heebies too, Marie.
The young will do us proud next time. They’re impervious to the press because they don’t buy these chip wrappers.
I’m optimistic about Indyref2 as long as we can get the voting procedures right.
smithie
6 years ago
Hi wingers, i have a task for you, for the last two decades off and on i have looked for a copy of “We’ll be there” the B side of Blue Mink’s Stay with me, i have searched high and low but can’t get it, i could of course bought the 45 but i have no way to play it, so any sugestions?, it means a lot to me….thank you in advance
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
smithie: it looks like you may have to buy a turntable if you want to hear it again.
The original platter can be got pretty cheaply, I think, so might be worth shelling out for the equipment.
Isn’t vinyl supposed to be in again anyway?
BDTT may be able to help you.
Michael McCabe
6 years ago
smithie @ 12:44am if you can get a copy of the song on Vinyl or a copy on tape ? there are companies out there that will transfer the song onto CD for about £15 plus postage. one such company is Squiggle Media Limited. look them up on line for all the details. Hope that helps.
Michael McCabe
6 years ago
Nana if you are tuning in I had a Notion that you might like this. So link to youtube.com
smithie
6 years ago
Thanks for the replies folks, yep looks like i may need to buy record after all and worry about getting it into digital form later.
I’ll be ranting on about various things online on Argyll Independent Radio and I’ll give Wings a mention 7pm Rock’n’Roll from 8 pm
Chick McGregor
6 years ago
DMH
Don’t know if you read WOS OT while you are on air.
I’m tuned in right now, you come over really well.
Will say, the equalisation between voice mic and music is off. The music is much louder which means continual volume control adjustment required.
Also when you move the cursor off the speaker icon to adjust, the volume control slidebar more often than not disappears
Maybe just my set up but thought I’d mention it if it helps.
Dave McEwan Hill
6 years ago
Thanks, Chick. Got your message halfway through the programme. We’ve had this problem before. Dropped the music levels bit for the rest of the shows.
yesindyref2
6 years ago
Bloody hell, feels like I’ve spent all day carefully fending off crocodiles, then a big box of packaging boxes (for business) arrives at 19.30 with a wet bottom and some boxes wet. Should have used a nappy. Turns out the delivery van had loads of flowers (Mothers Day) and it wasn’t easy keeping a flaming huge but fairly narrow unstable box out of harm’s way. The things delivery drivers have to do to earn an honest crust. And me come to that, though most of the crocodiles weren’t business ones but about Indy and all that.
I fucking hate crocodiles.
yesindyref2
6 years ago
Oh well, this made me laugh about the final crocodile on MT before I go off for some delayed work before getting some zzzzs before the rugby:
This comment is prompted by the fact that I was watching ‘Pointless Celebrities’ and, in the ‘head to head’ questions, Wonder Woman was featured.
(This will probably be of more interest to Smallaxe.)
When I did my first search on YouTube, years ago, for the “John Dummer Band”, this was the only video that turned up. I thought it was ‘quite clever’ – and did feature Wonder Woman, whom I have always admired. (It’s her eyes…)
Here’s archive footage of the John Dummer Band performing ‘Nine By Nine’ on French TV. I saw them doing it live at Dundee Uni in 1970/71.
That was some night. The band’s van broke down on the way up from Glasgow. Supposed to be on stage around 11pm, they eventually made it for just after 1am. The four of us walking home at the back of 3 were asked by a couple of coppers at the Coldside Circle, were we were going and where we had been.
@Ian B: that’s teaser. Je n’ai pas de scoobie, mon vieux. Who’s the wee guy skulking at the back?
Are any Wingers going through on Fri 23/3 to the Hands Around Holyrood Demo?
I suppose most folk will be at work so it leaves just deadbeats and non-productive members of society like me. Might even wear my beret…..
Ian Brotherhood
6 years ago
Well, according to one of the commenters posting below that video, it’s Elvis Costello, and he was working with the Pogues as a roadie.
When you look at it again it’s hard to believe anyone could mistake him for anyone else, eh?!
😉
Lucia Daines
6 years ago
No it’s not Elvis Costello and no he was not a roadie – Tinto I’ll be there on the 23rd.
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Looking forward to meeting you, Miss Daines.
Still no movement on the lava lamp situation, I’m afraid.
cearc
6 years ago
There are better cures for constipation than lava lamps (and make sure you clean it proprely if you succeed!
Can’t do 23rd as I have to go down to the big cities this weekend to get another car.
Anything good happening in Glasgae (or Edin) on friday night?
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
cearc: are you thinking of Brownian motion?
I’ll get my lab coat.
Found one of my daughter’s LLs after she moved out so now so now I can mesmerise myself and allow my consciousness to roam the multiverse and listen to the music of the spheres.
Lovely water this…
cearc
6 years ago
Nah, that’s wot that sciency bloke’s cat did or didn’t do in the box.
hackalumpoff
6 years ago
Tinto, Ian B, I’ll be there on 23rd. Also looking forward to meeting Lucia XXX
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
hackalumpoff: excellent news. I’ll be “under supervision”, hem, hem but hoping for a big turnout.
hackalumpoff
6 years ago
@Tinto, I’ll be under a tinfoil hat to fend off yon psychotronic radiation. link to youtube.com
Then again maybe balaclavas will be the new spring fashion..
Lucia Daines
6 years ago
cearc there’s a Yes gathering in Glasgow Saturday afternoon and evening.
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Hackalumpoff: I tried walking around the house with a colander to defeat cosmic rays. My wife didn’t approve. Relations became a bit strained
hackalumpoff
6 years ago
@Tinto, Masterchef tip, take the spaghetti out before you walk about with it.
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Thanx. That explains the sudden rise in temperature.
Thought it was caused by microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang.
Fred
6 years ago
Already March & my new colander is still in the press!
cearc
6 years ago
I do not look like a plateful of spaghetti and meatballs, I do not look like a plateful of spaghetti and meatballs, I do not….
(courtesy of Mad magazine eons ago).
cearc
6 years ago
Ms. Daines,
Thanks for that but I am already doing stuff saturday.
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
I have been musing deeply about hackalumpoff’s trenchant aperçu re spaghetti and associated tin-foilery. I am now working on a monograph which will explore the link between any strip pasta and string theory.
Expect regular bulletins.
cearc: it will all be ok if you just call it polpette al sugo.
On a completely different topic I had expected a burst of spring this week after our cold snap but I note that our native trees are being a bit reticent. They are still sitting tight and their buds are not bursting into life. I suspect we might still have a another cold spell with frost coming along.
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Yep, buds still tight Where I Am, Dave. Snow forecast for the weekend, though my forest flame is showing signs of life.
*None of the above are metaphors*
Pasta strip and string theory bulletin: still conceptualising but this song keeps playing in my head:
@ Smallaxe, how’s trix pal, hope you’ve stopped swallyin the Black Russians, Russophobia being what it is these days!
Dave McEwan Hill
6 years ago
I hope to have Al McKinnon on my Roundabout Show at 7 pm tomorrow on Argyll Independent Radio. He will be talking not only about the medical uses of cannabis but also the huge other uses of hemp which can make paper, cloth, rope, oil, insulating bricks and animal fodder and which was widely used for these and medical purposes for many years.
The SNP Scottish Government has asked Westminster to devolve responsibility for the use of medical cannabis to Scotland to no response.
Fred
6 years ago
The elder brother of a notorious Glasgow criminal has been caught with 25 kilo’s of cannabis in his possession but apparently he’s a Buddist monk.
Om mani padme hum!
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
@DMH, Fred: since medicinal cannabis has been legalised in California, I believe large areas of marginal land are now being given over to cannabis growing in the West.
Meanwhile, in other news, I heard a mistle thrush belting it out loud and clear this morning.
That is all.
Liz Rannoch
6 years ago
Just popped in to ask if anybody knows if there’s loos, parking and cafés near Holyrood? Me and him are going on 23rd but not if there’s nane o the above. Couldnae last a’ day without them!
Fred,
Don’t worry, I don’t drink vodka as it has the propensity to turn me into Ghengis Khan in a bad mood.
Dave McEwan Hill,
Many thanks for helping to bring the benefits of cannabis into the public domain, as you will probably know, I have an incurable blood cancer which according to the oncologists should have killed me off several years ago.
I put my survival down to the fact that cannabis oil in a dose of 1Mltr per day has kept me alive thus far, for legal reasons I can’t keep this oil at home as once it’s turned into oil it becomes a class A drug so I could be prosecuted and have a criminal record just for trying to save my own life. This plant has many uses as no doubt your guest will explain on your programme.
I fully agree that this herb should be rigorously examined by people qualified in this area and made available to any cancer or MS sufferer and others who could benefit greatly from its use.
Rick Simpson Oil; link to youtube.com
Thanks again Dave. Respect!
Brian Doonthetoon says:
10 March, 2018 at 8:55 pm
“This comment is prompted by the fact that I was watching ‘Pointless Celebrities’ and, in the ‘head to head’ questions, Wonder Woman was featured.
(This will probably be of more interest to Smallaxe.)
When I did my first search on YouTube, years ago, for the “John Dummer Band”, this was the only video that turned up. I thought it was ‘quite clever’ – and did feature Wonder Woman, whom I have always admired. (It’s her eyes…)”
Thanks Brian, I’ve just noticed the post you typed above and coincidently just received a copy of John Dummer’s Famous Music Band “Blue” album on cd from Amazon this morning, so consider this track dedicated to you, my friend. link to youtube.com
🙂
When they played that at the Uni, it was introduced as “Nine Bar Blues”. When the “Famous Music Band” album was released, it had changed to “Nine By Nine”.
BTW: all their albums are available on CD, as far as I know. I bought a reissued vinyl version of their second album and burned it onto CD. Managed to get the rest via eBay and/or Amazon. (All my JDB albums were pinched in the great album heist at the Bowlin’ Alley in the late 70s.)
Brian Doonthetoon
6 years ago
Your “birds” mention started my brainbocker cogwheels turning. Stay with me…
The lyrics of this song are based on a passage in Ecclesiastes 3.
Lyrics and title
The lyrics are taken almost verbatim from the book of Ecclesiastes, as found in the King James Version (1611) of the Bible[2] (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8), though the sequence of the words was rearranged for the song. Ecclesiastes is traditionally ascribed to King Solomon who would have written it in the 10th century BC, but believed by a significant group of biblical scholars to date much later, up to the third century BC.[3]
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, a time to reap that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
I’ve always liked that single so imagine my surprise at my Mum’s funeral in 1999 when that passage was read out. I’ve no idea why – maybe it was one of her favourites. Must ask my sister. Funeral was arranged by my Dad.
I intend to buy more of JDs music, I haven’t found a track yet that I don’t like. This one, as you know is from the “Cabal” album.
The John Dummer Blues Band: “When You Got A Good Friend” link to youtube.com
yesindyref2
6 years ago
I’m just going to play this again. Why? Because it’s AWESOME that’s why.
I think we should get this on screens, stages, streets, windows, music boxes, outside polling station all over Scotland on YES day, err, I mean Indy Ref 2 day. Who on earth could even think of voting NO after this?
Dave McEwan Hill
6 years ago
Smallaxe at 7.25
Thanks Smallaxe. Alastair also has a serious health issue and he is very clued up on this.We’ll see how much he can tell us from 7pm tomorrow.
Problem we face is the careless conflation of the medical uses of cannabis and the multitudinous uses of the hemp plant with the “recreational” use which is a different issue (which we also need to think seriously about).
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Smallaxe: I’m here, pouring the cognacs. Hope Miss Daines turns up with the blinis and smoked salmon.
Hugged a tulip tree today: there’s one down the bird reserve and it’s quite unusual to find a foreign species down there. Must have been planted by the estate gardener a long time ago.
Talking of biblical songs Brian gives me the perfect excuse to play this song based on the text below!
Mathew 7:19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.
“Small Axe” Robert Nesta ‘Bob’ Marley, OM (Order of Merit) link to youtube.com
Rastafari!
Good luck, with your programme Dave, I’ll be listening in.
Tinto,
I hope that’s Remy Martin Champagne Cognac that you’re opening, I have very expensive tastes, don’t cha know.
“We Are Stardust” (Woodstock) Matthews Southern Comfort; link to youtube.com
Southern Comfort, also acceptable.
😉
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
MSC: the best version, Smallaxe, imho.
Spirits optional, of course.
yesindyref2
6 years ago
@BDTT
I suspect they support Independence 🙂
Yes, maybe some tracks put together and people with cars as well playing them loud through the day, get the mood.
For that dance one that Km Music have got some good ones, I was watching a fair few some nights ago, there’s what is love, rhythym is a dancer and so on. Daresay they’d have to be paid for the performing rights for anything formal. Could be done even with mobile phones and bluetooth, or laptops.
I think we’d (or Gerenation YES is it?) need to get some dance classes going early, get loads, thousands, a hundred thousand into it, taking the hands of the old ones (being careful not to break them!) and dancing them into a YES polling station. Who could resist? Might even get a laugh and a YES vote out of that James Kelly and Murdo Fraser 🙂
Dance and smile Scotland to YES. It’s music wot dunnit.
@ Tinto, anent Tulip Trees, there’s about half a dozen planted at Morrison’s in Glasgow’s Gallowgate! also three Giant Redwoods opposite the Ranza Bar in Provanmill.
@ Smallaxe, thanks for young Fran & Anna wagglin their wallies as Jack McLaughlin used to have it! How aboot something classy like Neil Gow’s “Lament for the Death of his Second Wife?”
Brian Doonthetoon
6 years ago
Highland dancing, Smallaxe?
How about some Scottish cross country reggae dancing?
I love tulip trees for their leaf shape: passing strange.
My Asian newsagent is quite a filosifer. I was buying my Vile Sep News and other requisites this morning and after he’d finished totalling my stuff he said, “Is that you?”
“Yup, that’s me,” says I.
Then he looked lingeringly and significantly at me and said, “Are you sure?”
Things can get pretty deep at my corner shop…..
Fred
6 years ago
@ Smallaxe, many thanks for Neil Gow, chust sublime, listened to the other versions as well.
Burns’Howff I mind & Jackson’s also, plus a dozen odd mair in Parley Road. Ma Gramps drank in the Trossachs.
@ Tinto, have you read James Jauncey’s, “The Witness”? An armed uprising in the Highlands of the future. Liked this book, a bit Cone-Gatherer-ish & the author is a gt nephew of Don Roberto.
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Thanks for that, Fred. I see it gets good reviews. Have taken a punt on it since I’m really a multi-millionaire.
In return: The Douglas Affair by Alistair Mair (M.D.). Have you ever? Fifty years old but bang up to date. If reprinted it would sell like hot cakes, or even cold cakes. I’ve lent two copies over the years and never got them back. Chilling and believable.
Kinda getting suspicious as to why it languishes in obscurity.
Memo to senior SNP politicians: never drive down The Switchback…
Fred
6 years ago
Tinto, read it kid VG. Just started Devine’s “The Scottish Nation!” so that’ll take a wee while eh?
Any sign of Petra yet? she thinks the site is a Troll-Show now. she could be right!
Wishing the Mankies a good weekend! Spaciba Bolshoi for this weeks crack!
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Think Petra’s taking a wee break. Things certainly haven’t improved in the Tumshie Stakes on the M/T since her absence, have they?
Have a good weekend yourself. I’m going out for more snow shoes and Harvey’s knitting a new muffler.
Would be interested in your views on Devine’s tome.
I have my own, of course……..
*enigmatic smile*
Ian Brotherhood
6 years ago
How youse doin there?
Watched ‘Murder Most Foul’ last night. Soo-perb. Was sure I’d seen it as a child but no, it was new for me and thoroughly enjoyed it, esp the music:
Now I know what my newsagent meant this morning…..
Ian Brotherhood
6 years ago
Cheers TC, that ‘made’ my evening. Can’t wait to give it a miss.
One has to wonder what yon Jakey wummin would’ve written had she sold her soul to Santa instead…
;(
Ian Brotherhood
6 years ago
@TC –
Aside from anything else, what incentive does such dross provide for genuine actors to work on their craft?
Ian Dury knocked back £1 million gig to do ‘CATS’ lyrics for Lloyd-Webber because he couldn’t stomach the guy’s music. And that was, what, 30 years ago? (Richard Stilgoe ended up doing it.)
The array of wonderful actors in that clip have banked ??? squidlings, they’re working elsewhere now, it’s all over. But what did they get from it otherwise? And what do they expect/hope the audience will get from their performances?
Ach well, I suppose the most likely defence would be ‘If I hadn’t done it someone else would’ve had to!’
Aye. Indeed. How often have we heard that one in other contexts?
Anyone know if there’s going to be a Wings presence at the AOUB Glasgow rally in May?
Brian Doonthetoon
6 years ago
Hi Macart.
Ronnie Anderson organises the WOS stall. The May march/rally is a two pronged effort. The march is AUOB and the rally in George Square is Hope over Fear/Solidarity.
I think there is a problem in that Hope Over Fear are looking for cash up front from potential stalls in George Square.
Ronnie will know more.
Macart
6 years ago
Cheers Brian
I’ll keep an eye open nearer the time.
Lucia Daines
6 years ago
Liz rannoch – loos in the vicinity, 1/2 hour of birthday left – still sober. off to twitterland.
Fred
6 years ago
@ Shinty, a good yin!
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Ian B: I’m still looking for a talent I can shamelessly prostitute for oodles of shekels.
Thanks for the Frankie Boyle clip, Shinty. After independence he’d be an obvious candidate for Scottish ambassador in NY or London.
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
DMH: I know Wings is not perhaps the ideal forum, and the Rev might not approve, but a main thread article on Syria from you might be able to provide a coherent and informed account of a subject which has been shamefully distorted by the MSM for over four years.
The Salisbury Incident is surely just a small piece in a much bigger jig-saw.
Just a thought.
Brian Doonthetoon
6 years ago
Indy2 and Rock are really Fükkin’ up the main pages, iye?
Shinty
6 years ago
BDTT – as I see it, this will continue and increase as we get closer to indy.
Try to ignore and post something of interest below each of their comments.
Meanwhile chill and listen to one of God’s angels (not religious by the way, but don’t know how else to describe this) link to youtube.com
Dave McEwan Hill
6 years ago
Tinto Chiel at 10.06
An idea worth considering. Would be better if somebody like Eva Bartlett, Vanessa Beeley or John Pilger could be persuaded to give us a piece
It is a far from simple situation. Both Beeley and Bartlett are routinely abused as apologists for the “the butcher” Assad.
Regarless of the behaviour of Assad their is no doubt that the US/UK have been plotting to remove him since about 2009 and the fiction that there is a civil war in Syria is used to obscure the fact that what Syria is fighting against is an invasion of Syria by externally armed and very well funded Islamic fanatics.
Dave McEwan Hill
6 years ago
Tinto Chiel at 10.06
An idea worth considering. Would be better if somebody like Eva Bartlett, Vanessa Beeley or John Pilger could be persuaded to give us a piece
It is a far from simple situation. Both Beeley and Bartlett are routinely abused as apologists for the “the butcher” Assad.
Regardless of the behaviour of Assad there is no doubt that the US/UK have been plotting to remove him since about 2009 and the fiction that there is a civil war in Syria is used to obscure the fact that what Syria is fighting against is an invasion of Syria by externally armed and very well funded Islamic fanatics.
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
@DMH: indeed, I can understand that. The USA and UK will use any weapon to further their planet-ravaging ends. Ironically, they will spend billions short-sightedly supporting Muslim terrorists against peace-loving Muslims if it furthers their aims of weakening the Soviet Union/Russia/any opponent of Saudi Arabia/Israel.
Craig Murray has produced some excellent blogs on the whole Salisbury Incident over the last few days, as you are probably aware.
I can’t believe the Russophobe MSM of the last fortnight: crazy and utterly irresponsible propaganda.
I’m beginning to think they’re bigging up Strong&StableTreeza for an impending GE: the Britnats love a good war footing.
Dave McEwan Hill
6 years ago
Tinto Chiel at 9.45
This is an interesting introduction. Lots of the Jimmy Dore Show on YouTube
Dr Jim’s right on MT, it is an “attempt to get this site shut down by filling it up with badness”, or at least discredit it completely. A couple have tried picking on regular posters to provoke a reaction, but another couple are trying to stir up threats and abuse in response to theirs. Response is best ignore or treat with humour I think, within limits that’s not against the law!
Ghillie
6 years ago
Liz G and Robert Peffers,
Hugs from me. Those were ghastly attacks.
What does strike me though is the panic in their tone.
And Wingers all held the line with decency and integrity =)
Ach here’s another couple wee hugs =)xxx
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Thanks for that, Dave. Something else you’ll never see on mainstream broadcasting in the UK.
Yet the only Syrian commenter that Pravdasound4 seems to know of is the wee guy in his English bedroom who calls himself the Observatory.
The sad thing is the American military-industrial complex must have perpetual wars or their profits fall. The “Allied” actions in Libya and Iraq were all about oil, yet they destabilised secular heads of state and fragmented both societies by terrorism or religious extremism.
I see we have an infestation on the M/T. Obvs all that money racking up for the Rev is getting them into an hysterical state. Quite why anyone replies directly to them amazes me. The only thing worth reading at the mo is Nana’s links.
All their nonsense is a big turn-off and needs to be dealt with. Can hardly be bothered myself to read the blt comments myself.
Nana
6 years ago
@Lizg
Just read the comment directed at you on the MT, nasty.
Don’t let it get you down Liz, they hope for a reaction and to stop you from commenting. Hugs to you 🙂
William Wallace
6 years ago
@ Lizg
What Nana said. You are a lovely person and thanks for always taking the time to look out for others (myself included). Keep on keeping on. Big hugs. x
Macart
6 years ago
@Lizg
Just what Nana said.
This site has six figure views every month and most reasoning human beings will know those who post with consideration for others and those who do not. That’s a LOT of people and they’re not stupid. They can see what we can see.
Move on past and talk to those friendly and weel kent faces you are happy with. I’m always happy to chat with friends. 🙂
Dave McEwan Hill
6 years ago
Tinto Chiel at 9.46
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,as you point out, is wee single guy in a semi detached house in Coventry. He hasn’t been in Syria for fifteen years and fled the country fearing arrest for anti Syrian behaviour. He is an Islamic fundamentalist opposed to Assad’s secular regime and has absolutely no reliable information about Syria as all the information he has he gets from friends on the phone. Yet he is regularly featured in our media.
I actually find the huge lie we are being fed about Syria and the Middle East now the most compelling reason now for us to get out of this UK – and I never needed any other compelling reason than the ones I have had since I was a teenager.
If our decent people knew the depths of wicked depravity of the US/UK axis we would very soon be independent.
I wish I knew a way to get the whole truth to them.
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
“I wish I knew a way to get the whole truth to them.”
Ditto, DMH.
Fred
6 years ago
What is needed are a couple of Moderators on here, nae mair prob’s. Personally I would like a button to administer electric shox!
cearc
6 years ago
I looked at MT early hours yesterday morning, catching up from travelling. It was dire. I haven’t looked since.
Whereas, I always uaed to catch up on threads I now rarely do if they’ve been running a couple of days as it’s always the same. I am actually less annoyed by the trolls than I am by the people who insist on answering them, that is what really destroys the thread.
Regardless of how provocative or insulting they are if everyone refrained from responding they would have no effect.
It can be hard to I know, especially personal attacks but everytime anyone responds to even one of their comments they are winning in their aim to disrupt.
Liz g
6 years ago
Thank you all very much for your kind comments..
I won’t stop posting.
But I will be taking Macarts advice and not be engaging with the fool’s…. Or a least tryin harder not to….I didn’t actually recognise that poster’s name last night,before responding.
…….Note to self ….pay more attention….
Anyhoo, let’s just (as William said) keep on keepin on!
Hopefully last nights carry on will have a bit of a Streisand effect for those who try to disrupt….
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Quite so, cearc. I’m going to give it a miss myself for quite (a long?) while. The foul-mouthed abuse last night was completely unacceptable.
I may pop in here for the occasional sausage-sizzle round the camp fire and a dose of Kumbaya, but that’s about it, I think. Think I may have reached my Petra Moment.
Cheersmedears.
Fred
6 years ago
How come U don’t get wummin trolls? well, unless the Rocket is a wummin? Possible subject for a PhD, naw! Chin up Liz, where’s that Petra when U need her!
Liz g
6 years ago
Fred @ 10.20
Will do Fred thanks.
I miss Petra too and I am sure she would vote with me fur you tae be in charge o’ the shox button.LOL
As fur wummin troll’s ….cause they’re aw in the Tory party, and typings beneath them…well that’s wan explanation…!!
Thepnr
6 years ago
@Tinto Chiel
As you know I felt like that for a bit and came on here to moan about it, Things is I know that that is what they want to get rid of the good guys and gals.
I made my mind up after yesterdays episode with the abuse Liz g got and today I came out fighting, have a read of the posts on the main thread on todays topic.
Rock slinked off with nary a word. They won’t be pushing me off this site, I’m a stuborn auld git and I’ll push back. Bit more subtly than I would have done in the run up to 2014.
Older and wiser when it comes to posting online but the still the same guy but I’ve learned to bite my tongue as I know others are reading and I want their support for Independence.
Best we can do now is totally ignore and only respond nevr by name but just to make them look foolish. Please stay 🙂
PS I don’t think kinters will be back.
Thepnr
6 years ago
And only 5 minutes later my PS is proven to be wrong.
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
As I said, Alex, I may drop in here occasionally to see if the lava lamp reappears and to get the barbie on.
I hardly contribute anything on the M/T onywise and many others say things better and quicker so I’m off to contemplate my omphalos.
I may be some time, hee, hee.
P.S.: Hope to see some Wingers on Friday at Holyrood.
Tinto Chiel and all of the rest of the people who ‘used’ to be frequent visitors to O/T get your arses back here and show the unionist trolls that we can laugh in their faces.
Are we going to let a shower of bastards on the Main Thread who support this Corrupt, Rotten, Paedophile Protecting Government and the BBC stop us from showing them the contempt that they deserve?
We are Scots, we do not retreat. Either ignore the trolls or rip the shit out of them verbally but FFS get O/T moving again, tell a story, play some music or share your thoughts and worries here, amongst friends and fellow Patriots, one of our own my dear friend Liz g was abused by a unionist pig on the main thread just the other night, are we going to let this continue?
I’m not and I don’t think all you people will either, so let’s get things moving again on O/T and let them know that they will never keep us down!
Here’s tae us, wha’s like us.Tae Hell wi’ the union!
hackalumpoff
6 years ago
Thanks Smallaxe, badly needed.
I think if the Rev was seen to sort out some Trolls he might get a bit more cash from the 99% who couldn’t contribute to OUR fundraiser.
I’m quite busy, Smallaxe: my wee Singer’s rid het.
Nevertheless: saw a strange product in a Yoon supermarket last week (I only darken its portals to place copies of The National on top of the daily dreadfuls). It was a large sack with the words Whisky Smoking Chips.
I immediately thought, “Sounds like a great Scottish night in.”
Good to see you up and aboot and in good spirits. I’d contribute mair tae aff-topic but, dinnae really hae much to say for myself the now or at least much that fowk here would want to hear. Dinnae want to be dragging the place doon wi my tales of woe either as I can see people are pissed off enough with what is happening over on the MT’s.
I will make a bit more effort to contribute something funny, artistic or entertaining over the coming weeks to help shake the dust aff the furniture and the cobwebs aff the ceiling. Miss reading the banter on aff topic myself. It’s been affy quiet this year really.
Good to see you back and getting in amongst it though.
Good book about the zero hours evil – Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-wage Britain by James Bloodworth.
William Wallace
6 years ago
@ Sma
Naebody could ever be fed up o you my friend. You are truly one of a kind an abody on here holds you in the highest regard. Truth is, the place is just no the same when you are gone. Will drop you an email soon.
Following my interview with Alastair McKinnon on AIR last Friday about the uses of Hemp and the medical use of cannabis he has sent me some links.
The one below was prepared for the SNP Conference resolution on the medical use of cannabis and uses of hemp. The SNP subsequently asked Westminster to devolve permits on the matter to the Scottish Parliament to no avail. Alastair will be on my show again on Friday at 7pm. This is something the SNP Government should be pressing.
I’ll send some other links but they are all worth reading.
Traditional Scottish Gaelic “Mouth music” -“Capercaillie” link to youtube.com
I hope everybody was singing along.
😉
Another one for the pot!
Excuse me, while I light my spliff; “Easy Skanking” link to youtube.com
Thepnr
6 years ago
Is this the fightback!
Music overload today lol, could only manage Johnny Cash from hackalumpoff , Pink Floyd and Deacon Blue before my urge to post took over 🙂
Good to have you back Smallaxe and you William Wallace, good tunes hackalumpoff, well the one I watched anyway 🙂
I agree with the sentiment of let’s laugh in their faces, sure it’s a long slog but we knew that anyway. Here’s a great tune from a movement that never gave up until they achieved their goal.
Know what I would like? A wee program that would read all the youtube links on an Off Topic page then play them one by one in the background.
Then I could carry on with my surfing and never miss a tune just like having the radio on. Off Topic radio has a certain ring to it then I’d only need to pop in now and again to see what’s what and maybe add my own tune.
That must be easy to do, not for me but there are are people who could do that easily. Hmmm might look into that further. Meantime.
Don’t you hang about here for too long, the fightback started a long time ago and you’re one of our best fighters on the Main Thread SO GET OVER THERE!
😉
The link works just fine… but “Use Tories For Bait?”
The only fish that would eat them follow the Sludge Boat, mind you, wee Fluffy’s beard would probably work.
🙂
The Selecter:”On My Radio” link to youtube.com
Singer’s assembly lines were very depressing, the goldfish in the canal kept me sane. They were originally in a pond in Singers but made a break for it to the canal & multiplied! Are they still there one wonders?
Thepnr, I saw your message will reply soon.
…………………………………………………………
To any Wingers who look in tonight or whenever, be nice to each other, excepting those who we all know, we are all here doing what we can to free our Kingdom Nation from this accursed union. I hope that day comes quickly and Peacefully.
Peace and Love to you All, I wish for you what I wish for myself.
I’ve always had the temptation to write a limerick featuring Sanquar. An opportunity now presents itself.
A pathetic example from Sanquar
Is responsible for much current rancour
An airfreshener was sprayed
On a wee girl dismayed
He’s obviously a manky old …… can’t quite get the last line yet.
“Labour councillor” doesn’t quite rhyme
cearc
6 years ago
‘A rose by any other name…’
Just get on with the dusting!
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Great to see the thoosands and thoosands of beautiful people (and dogs, bizarrely) around Holyrood today, who managed easily to surround the parliament and make the whole thing a great spectacle. Makes me seem very optimistic for Indy2mageddon.
Paul Kavanagh and Craig Murray were there, and many famous Wingers too, some lovelier than others.
Such a pity the BBC couldn’t make it. Maybe too cold and bright for the cameras.
Well done, I’m proud of you. A wee word of warning, if you go on the M/T ffs don’t mention dugs! link to youtube.com
😉
Liz Rannoch
6 years ago
Tinto Chiel @ 7.48pm
They were there – in disguise I think. Their clip – a very quick pan – of the crowd must have been taken about 11.30am cos the view of the 2 Wings flags was about the time me and him were edging up to Ronnie Anderson. I was rather nervous – trembling appropriately – and blurted out ‘and who are you?’ Like some school marmish idiot!
I was also introduced to Paula Rose and another guy and woman whose names I didn’t quite catch, half deaf you know.
Anyway none of them recognised me as Liz Rannoch.
Anyhow, great day, sun shining lots of good speeches and music. I looked all day and never saw a ‘big camera’ so as not to stand out (and be mauled!) On EBC web thingy as ‘Power Grab’ protest at Holyrood. On telly as 1500 attending hmmm?
Michael McCabe
6 years ago
Good Evening Smallaxe. Since Fish has been in the News recently I thought I would play this. link to youtube.com Hoping you are taking it easy my Friend.
Liz Rannoch
6 years ago
Note to self.
Tinto Chiel @ 6.48 – not 7.48 Numptie
Liz Rannoch
6 years ago
Note to self. Numptie
Tinto Chiel @ 6.48 – not 7.48.
Brian Doonthetoon
6 years ago
Hi Michael.
When you mentioned (capitalised) “Fish”, I thought you were linking to this chap.
Liz R: sorry I missed you. No sign of Paula Rose 😉 but I met Miss Lucia Daines, whose limpid, crystalline beauty transcends the earthier charms that PR used to radiate, imho.
Great to meet Big Ronnie and Bob The Builder again, crazycat and Jeanie frae Dundee and that rarest of rarae aves, the lesser-spotted John King (jdman) a masterly Twitter warrior but sadly missed here. Peter A Bell there too but only saw him from a distance.
Smallaxe: you would have been heartened today: a great turnout, almost exclusively from the “vintage people” hem hem and lots of English voices in the crowds, too. I thought they were predominantly No voters? Hope to see you in Freedom Square in May, old mole.
Seasick Steve came up with the great one liner, “I started out with nothing and I still have most of it left.” Know how he feels
Btw, if anyone wishes to have a disturbed night’s sleep, read the short story “Pollock and the Porroh Man” by HG Wells (I think), available on line. I read it when a nipper and it was rather unsettling.
I watched it on Livestream (courtesy of Nana), I heard from a friend that a lot more turned up at lunchtime.
I was looking for you but I think the cameraman realised that if he showed you that the other lovely people would look drab in comparison.
Hi Brian Doonthetoon Thanks for the Fish song. I kind of found this and thought it might be up your Street ? Anyway hope you and yours are alright also Pete the Camera. link to youtube.com
Thepnr
6 years ago
Hope all you fine folk that made it along to Holyrood today had a grand time despite the weather. I had planned to go but a last minute offer of work when it is scarce couldn’t be refused.
Always next time and there will be a next time. Well done all.
Fancy a bit of rap :). I like all kinds of music and this is about sticking in there as we all do. Get in wie the head down, you never give up.
A wee story for you. In 1995, my wife (at the time) was chef at the Jack Daniels pub in Whitehall Crescent, Dundee.
A couple of Dundonians, who were serving in Bosnia, had written to Cathy, the boss of Jack Daniels, bemoaning their missing Sunday nights in the pub, when Mafia were the band onstage and were wondering if any recordings were available.
She mentioned this to my wife who said that I could probably put something together.
Onnyhoo, I spent the last Sunday in March and the first Sunday in April in Jack Daniels recording the band, with a feed from the mixing desk. I put together a C90 of the best tracks from the two nights, did copies for each of the band and a couple for Bosnia.
I still have my original copy, which is in my pile of cassettes for mood music whilst I’m relaxing in the bath. I’ve never got round to uploading to YouTube but will, “one of these days”. Their version of “Higher and Higher” is sublime. The brass section were so tight. In “Love Train”, Dougie even mentions Bosnia.
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Smallaxe: judging by my reflection in the windows at the parliament entrance, my cheekbones were still exquisite.
Hope to see you in Glasgow, Brian. Still negotiating for Glenrothes.
Fred: package arrived today. Recommended goods as described.
“Aunt Julia is back from the coast.”
“Fill my heart with a monotonous languor.”
Thepnr
6 years ago
@Smallaxe
Aye, wee sniffles there. sniff sniff.
Thepnr
6 years ago
@Tinto Chiel
“The carbon is hidden in the diamond and is not to be seen.”
Got BBC4 prog about cover versions on at the moment. Caused this track to pop into head. When I bought it in 1970, after hearing it on Alan Freeman’s Sunday afternoon show on Carnoustie beach, I took it home on my day off, stuck it on the Dansette with the arm up for infinite repeats, and managed an infinite number of monkeys before I had to take a break.
A single that actually put together two covers (Captain Beefheart and The Shadows) on the same record.
Do you think Johnny Cash would Clash with a Bob Marley song? link to youtube.com
Strummin’
Thepnr
6 years ago
@Tinto Chiel
You didn’t tell me if you liked the poem or not LOL 🙂
Getting near bedtime once again, this is probably the song I’ve played more often than any other on Off Topic so if you’re an old hand just skip as you’ve probably seen it,
Still I think it’s good and I’m going to follow it up with my next most played. so be warned!
Indeed Chick McGregor.
link to youtube.com
Tinto, I’ve a wee bit of sad news, one of our wee goats died on Monday Heartbroken, she was a lovely wee thing, just a wean herself.
How is Harvey, he’s no still in the huff surely. I’ve a song for the pair of you, I hope it doesn’t depress him like last time.
link to youtube.com
Hi, Marie. Sorry to hear about your wee goat. They’re awful cute at that age.
Haven’t heard Chick’s Beatles number for ages. It was an oddity I liked.
Harvey had snapped put of it. He went sledging in the heavy snow and really enjoyed it. He also liked the Delibes but now wants a dress “like the pink lady”.
Just when things were getting back on an even keel…
Actually, he’s now upstairs in his room playing this, so it’s going to be a long night.
link to youtube.com
Meanwhile, in other news: I keep getting drawn masochistically to listen to the unbelievable The Media Show on Pravdasound4 on a Wednesday for the massive amount of hypocrisy/delusion/irony it spews out.
This afternoon we had some wummin from Channel 4 referring to Syria and Aleppo. Apparently she does VERY SERIOUS JOURNALISM (she told us this at least twice) and talked about C4’s high journalistic values too, which was nice.
Cherry on the cake: the obligatory reference to The Wild West of The Internet, i.e. social media and bloggers you just can’t trust, unlike the BBC etc.
Stu Campbell=Billy The Kid?
It’s only Wednesday, so couldn’t even uncork the Valpolicella Ripasso and blot it all out.
Tinto You shouldn’t watch Pravdasound, it’s bad for your health. I reckon Wednesday or not, I’d have opened the bottle.
Funny that Harvey likes the Prodigy. That song put me in mind of quite a few years ago now, my then teenage son (late teens) had a poster of Keith Flint, in all his firestarter garb, up on his bedroom wall. My oldest grandaughter ( she was the wee one I used to play Guns & Roses sweet child of mine to) wouldn’t go into that room cause the poster frightened the life out of her, poor we soul.She was only about three at the time. I don’t know how that wean grew up to be the lovely, sensible lass that she is.
All three of the grandweans are rarin to go when indyref2 comes round. They were too young to vote the last time, but they’re meanin business this time. Good, cause it’s their future.
Keith gives me the heebies too, Marie.
The young will do us proud next time. They’re impervious to the press because they don’t buy these chip wrappers.
I’m optimistic about Indyref2 as long as we can get the voting procedures right.
Hi wingers, i have a task for you, for the last two decades off and on i have looked for a copy of “We’ll be there” the B side of Blue Mink’s Stay with me, i have searched high and low but can’t get it, i could of course bought the 45 but i have no way to play it, so any sugestions?, it means a lot to me….thank you in advance
smithie: it looks like you may have to buy a turntable if you want to hear it again.
The original platter can be got pretty cheaply, I think, so might be worth shelling out for the equipment.
Isn’t vinyl supposed to be in again anyway?
BDTT may be able to help you.
smithie @ 12:44am if you can get a copy of the song on Vinyl or a copy on tape ? there are companies out there that will transfer the song onto CD for about £15 plus postage. one such company is Squiggle Media Limited. look them up on line for all the details. Hope that helps.
Nana if you are tuning in I had a Notion that you might like this. So link to youtube.com
Thanks for the replies folks, yep looks like i may need to buy record after all and worry about getting it into digital form later.
so here’s a wee song for you all
link to youtube.com
Sorry Rev, posted earlier and forgot to remove the http
@Michael
Thanks for that, she is terrific. After watching a few of her vids I came across this lassie. Lovely girl with a lovely voice.
link to youtube.com
Could I ask that whoever moved the lava lamp from the ladies’ excuse-me in the PRMG return it immediately?
I have received a strongly-worded letter from a Concerned Patron on this matter and would appreciate a quick resolution.
And oblige,
TC.
Step for a hint:
link to youtube.com
I’ll be ranting on about various things online on Argyll Independent Radio and I’ll give Wings a mention 7pm Rock’n’Roll from 8 pm
DMH
Don’t know if you read WOS OT while you are on air.
I’m tuned in right now, you come over really well.
Will say, the equalisation between voice mic and music is off. The music is much louder which means continual volume control adjustment required.
Also when you move the cursor off the speaker icon to adjust, the volume control slidebar more often than not disappears
Maybe just my set up but thought I’d mention it if it helps.
Thanks, Chick. Got your message halfway through the programme. We’ve had this problem before. Dropped the music levels bit for the rest of the shows.
Bloody hell, feels like I’ve spent all day carefully fending off crocodiles, then a big box of packaging boxes (for business) arrives at 19.30 with a wet bottom and some boxes wet. Should have used a nappy. Turns out the delivery van had loads of flowers (Mothers Day) and it wasn’t easy keeping a flaming huge but fairly narrow unstable box out of harm’s way. The things delivery drivers have to do to earn an honest crust. And me come to that, though most of the crocodiles weren’t business ones but about Indy and all that.
I fucking hate crocodiles.
Oh well, this made me laugh about the final crocodile on MT before I go off for some delayed work before getting some zzzzs before the rugby:
link to youtube.com
Less than 28 Scottish days tae go till Gig at Glenrothes.
And oooooh, new 32,000+ page.
Fucksake… sumday needs tae hoover ra carpet 😉
link to youtube.com
Four weeks today, markin’ it, kick.
85,456,082.
Me comments tonight have been brought to you in association with common Vodka ‘n’ Coca Cola (full fat sugar).
Aye ain’t tried the stuff in ages… it’s good… SO far…
Looking forward to waking up!
Scotland tomorrow.
Scotland today.
Scotland now.
Scotland is now.
Just putting a WOS tail on it.
Tee hee.
I Love symmetry. 😉
Fabulous
link to youtube.com
Aye, and the carpets not improved by having cola spilt all over.
Where is MS. Daines?
Just ‘cos. Like the percussion as well as that wonderful voice.
link to youtube.com
This comment is prompted by the fact that I was watching ‘Pointless Celebrities’ and, in the ‘head to head’ questions, Wonder Woman was featured.
(This will probably be of more interest to Smallaxe.)
When I did my first search on YouTube, years ago, for the “John Dummer Band”, this was the only video that turned up. I thought it was ‘quite clever’ – and did feature Wonder Woman, whom I have always admired. (It’s her eyes…)
JEEZ! It was uploaded to YouTube in 2007!
link to youtube.com
Here’s archive footage of the John Dummer Band performing ‘Nine By Nine’ on French TV. I saw them doing it live at Dundee Uni in 1970/71.
That was some night. The band’s van broke down on the way up from Glasgow. Supposed to be on stage around 11pm, they eventually made it for just after 1am. The four of us walking home at the back of 3 were asked by a couple of coppers at the Coldside Circle, were we were going and where we had been.
No hassle…
Ahoy abody…
For no particular reason…
Sparks…
link to youtube.com
Ahoy abody…
Here’s a wee Sunday night teaser for ye’s all…
The link below is for a Pogues song, and it shows a still image throughout.
But who’s in that image who wasn’t actually in the Pogues at that time? And what’s he doing there?
It’s someone you know.
Nae merr clues!
😉
link to youtube.com
@Ian B: that’s teaser. Je n’ai pas de scoobie, mon vieux. Who’s the wee guy skulking at the back?
Are any Wingers going through on Fri 23/3 to the Hands Around Holyrood Demo?
I suppose most folk will be at work so it leaves just deadbeats and non-productive members of society like me. Might even wear my beret…..
Well, according to one of the commenters posting below that video, it’s Elvis Costello, and he was working with the Pogues as a roadie.
When you look at it again it’s hard to believe anyone could mistake him for anyone else, eh?!
😉
No it’s not Elvis Costello and no he was not a roadie – Tinto I’ll be there on the 23rd.
Looking forward to meeting you, Miss Daines.
Still no movement on the lava lamp situation, I’m afraid.
There are better cures for constipation than lava lamps (and make sure you clean it proprely if you succeed!
Can’t do 23rd as I have to go down to the big cities this weekend to get another car.
Anything good happening in Glasgae (or Edin) on friday night?
cearc: are you thinking of Brownian motion?
I’ll get my lab coat.
Found one of my daughter’s LLs after she moved out so now so now I can mesmerise myself and allow my consciousness to roam the multiverse and listen to the music of the spheres.
Lovely water this…
Nah, that’s wot that sciency bloke’s cat did or didn’t do in the box.
Tinto, Ian B, I’ll be there on 23rd. Also looking forward to meeting Lucia XXX
hackalumpoff: excellent news. I’ll be “under supervision”, hem, hem but hoping for a big turnout.
@Tinto, I’ll be under a tinfoil hat to fend off yon psychotronic radiation.
link to youtube.com
Or maybe a colander like this chap
link to edition.cnn.com
Then again maybe balaclavas will be the new spring fashion..
cearc there’s a Yes gathering in Glasgow Saturday afternoon and evening.
Hackalumpoff: I tried walking around the house with a colander to defeat cosmic rays. My wife didn’t approve. Relations became a bit strained
@Tinto, Masterchef tip, take the spaghetti out before you walk about with it.
Thanx. That explains the sudden rise in temperature.
Thought it was caused by microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang.
Already March & my new colander is still in the press!
I do not look like a plateful of spaghetti and meatballs, I do not look like a plateful of spaghetti and meatballs, I do not….
(courtesy of Mad magazine eons ago).
Ms. Daines,
Thanks for that but I am already doing stuff saturday.
I have been musing deeply about hackalumpoff’s trenchant aperçu re spaghetti and associated tin-foilery. I am now working on a monograph which will explore the link between any strip pasta and string theory.
Expect regular bulletins.
cearc: it will all be ok if you just call it polpette al sugo.
Problem solved.
link to youtube.com
On a completely different topic I had expected a burst of spring this week after our cold snap but I note that our native trees are being a bit reticent. They are still sitting tight and their buds are not bursting into life. I suspect we might still have a another cold spell with frost coming along.
Yep, buds still tight Where I Am, Dave. Snow forecast for the weekend, though my forest flame is showing signs of life.
*None of the above are metaphors*
Pasta strip and string theory bulletin: still conceptualising but this song keeps playing in my head:
link to youtube.com
I only have a few pullets laying.
All my mature hens have not started laying despite looking as though they are on lay. I guess they knew.
Floods of snowdrops though and a few crocus and daffs.
Had a five-o’clock shave and looked in the mirror:
link to youtube.com
Get ready for take-off at 2.40…..
While I’m at it:anyone out there gotta fag?
link to youtube.com
Tinto,
You seem to be alone, here’s a fag;
link to youtube.com
Now, have you got a light?
link to youtube.com
Smallaxe, you witty fellow:
link to youtube.com
I’m old enough to remember the original Strand ad.
And, I adduce:
“Do you have a light, mac?”
“No, but I’ve got a light brown overcoat.”
I’ll get ma Crombie…..
I fell out of a three story window once but luckily I was wearing my light fawn suit!
I’m falling so I’m taking my time on my “Ride”
link to youtube.com
All I can say:
link to youtube.com
January?
“Lies” JJ Cale:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zurxnFdNcUk&list=PLTTdr4ArA36hYkktHJ4d7je8pIQH–OCk&index=20&ab_channel=tostesson
It’s March, intit?
Hi Smallaxe good to see you in the groove once more. Anyway got to go as. I’m with Her-See you Around. link to youtube.com
See you around, Michael,
link to youtube.com
Good to see you on, my friend.
“I Hate Politicians”
link to youtube.com
Come to think of it, they don’t think too highly of me.
😉
“Midnight Hour”
link to youtube.com
Morning Smallaxe. That’s me back again. She’s Gone. link to youtube.com
Morning Michael, she’s gone?
Love Ain’t Fair;
link to youtube.com
But it’s good while it lasts.
I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AULOC–qUOI&ab_channel=jackmoore
I’ll drop in again soon.
Goodnight
Harder than Easy link to youtube.com
link to youtube.com
@ Smallaxe, how’s trix pal, hope you’ve stopped swallyin the Black Russians, Russophobia being what it is these days!
I hope to have Al McKinnon on my Roundabout Show at 7 pm tomorrow on Argyll Independent Radio. He will be talking not only about the medical uses of cannabis but also the huge other uses of hemp which can make paper, cloth, rope, oil, insulating bricks and animal fodder and which was widely used for these and medical purposes for many years.
The SNP Scottish Government has asked Westminster to devolve responsibility for the use of medical cannabis to Scotland to no response.
The elder brother of a notorious Glasgow criminal has been caught with 25 kilo’s of cannabis in his possession but apparently he’s a Buddist monk.
Om mani padme hum!
@DMH, Fred: since medicinal cannabis has been legalised in California, I believe large areas of marginal land are now being given over to cannabis growing in the West.
Meanwhile, in other news, I heard a mistle thrush belting it out loud and clear this morning.
That is all.
Just popped in to ask if anybody knows if there’s loos, parking and cafés near Holyrood? Me and him are going on 23rd but not if there’s nane o the above. Couldnae last a’ day without them!
Fred,
Don’t worry, I don’t drink vodka as it has the propensity to turn me into Ghengis Khan in a bad mood.
Dave McEwan Hill,
Many thanks for helping to bring the benefits of cannabis into the public domain, as you will probably know, I have an incurable blood cancer which according to the oncologists should have killed me off several years ago.
I put my survival down to the fact that cannabis oil in a dose of 1Mltr per day has kept me alive thus far, for legal reasons I can’t keep this oil at home as once it’s turned into oil it becomes a class A drug so I could be prosecuted and have a criminal record just for trying to save my own life. This plant has many uses as no doubt your guest will explain on your programme.
I fully agree that this herb should be rigorously examined by people qualified in this area and made available to any cancer or MS sufferer and others who could benefit greatly from its use.
Rick Simpson Oil;
link to youtube.com
Thanks again Dave. Respect!
Brian Doonthetoon says:
10 March, 2018 at 8:55 pm
“This comment is prompted by the fact that I was watching ‘Pointless Celebrities’ and, in the ‘head to head’ questions, Wonder Woman was featured.
(This will probably be of more interest to Smallaxe.)
When I did my first search on YouTube, years ago, for the “John Dummer Band”, this was the only video that turned up. I thought it was ‘quite clever’ – and did feature Wonder Woman, whom I have always admired. (It’s her eyes…)”
Thanks Brian, I’ve just noticed the post you typed above and coincidently just received a copy of John Dummer’s Famous Music Band “Blue” album on cd from Amazon this morning, so consider this track dedicated to you, my friend.
link to youtube.com
🙂
Tinto, Tinto, where art thou my tree-hugging compadre and long-tailed tit tormenting twitcher;
“For the Birds”
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Pluck it!
😉
Thanks for that Smallaxe.
When they played that at the Uni, it was introduced as “Nine Bar Blues”. When the “Famous Music Band” album was released, it had changed to “Nine By Nine”.
BTW: all their albums are available on CD, as far as I know. I bought a reissued vinyl version of their second album and burned it onto CD. Managed to get the rest via eBay and/or Amazon. (All my JDB albums were pinched in the great album heist at the Bowlin’ Alley in the late 70s.)
Your “birds” mention started my brainbocker cogwheels turning. Stay with me…
The lyrics of this song are based on a passage in Ecclesiastes 3.
Lyrics and title
The lyrics are taken almost verbatim from the book of Ecclesiastes, as found in the King James Version (1611) of the Bible[2] (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8), though the sequence of the words was rearranged for the song. Ecclesiastes is traditionally ascribed to King Solomon who would have written it in the 10th century BC, but believed by a significant group of biblical scholars to date much later, up to the third century BC.[3]
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, a time to reap that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
That’s from:-
link to en.wikipedia.org!
I’ve always liked that single so imagine my surprise at my Mum’s funeral in 1999 when that passage was read out. I’ve no idea why – maybe it was one of her favourites. Must ask my sister. Funeral was arranged by my Dad.
Onnyhoo,
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You’re most welcome Brian,
I intend to buy more of JDs music, I haven’t found a track yet that I don’t like. This one, as you know is from the “Cabal” album.
The John Dummer Blues Band: “When You Got A Good Friend”
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I’m just going to play this again. Why? Because it’s AWESOME that’s why.
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I think we should get this on screens, stages, streets, windows, music boxes, outside polling station all over Scotland on YES day, err, I mean Indy Ref 2 day. Who on earth could even think of voting NO after this?
Smallaxe at 7.25
Thanks Smallaxe. Alastair also has a serious health issue and he is very clued up on this.We’ll see how much he can tell us from 7pm tomorrow.
Problem we face is the careless conflation of the medical uses of cannabis and the multitudinous uses of the hemp plant with the “recreational” use which is a different issue (which we also need to think seriously about).
Smallaxe: I’m here, pouring the cognacs. Hope Miss Daines turns up with the blinis and smoked salmon.
Hugged a tulip tree today: there’s one down the bird reserve and it’s quite unusual to find a foreign species down there. Must have been planted by the estate gardener a long time ago.
We are all stardust, mon vieux.
Talking of biblical songs Brian gives me the perfect excuse to play this song based on the text below!
Mathew 7:19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.
“Small Axe” Robert Nesta ‘Bob’ Marley, OM (Order of Merit)
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Rastafari!
A well put together video, yesindyref2.
I like this.
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Good luck, with your programme Dave, I’ll be listening in.
Tinto,
I hope that’s Remy Martin Champagne Cognac that you’re opening, I have very expensive tastes, don’t cha know.
“We Are Stardust” (Woodstock) Matthews Southern Comfort;
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Southern Comfort, also acceptable.
😉
MSC: the best version, Smallaxe, imho.
Spirits optional, of course.
@BDTT
I suspect they support Independence 🙂
Yes, maybe some tracks put together and people with cars as well playing them loud through the day, get the mood.
For that dance one that Km Music have got some good ones, I was watching a fair few some nights ago, there’s what is love, rhythym is a dancer and so on. Daresay they’d have to be paid for the performing rights for anything formal. Could be done even with mobile phones and bluetooth, or laptops.
I think we’d (or Gerenation YES is it?) need to get some dance classes going early, get loads, thousands, a hundred thousand into it, taking the hands of the old ones (being careful not to break them!) and dancing them into a YES polling station. Who could resist? Might even get a laugh and a YES vote out of that James Kelly and Murdo Fraser 🙂
Dance and smile Scotland to YES. It’s music wot dunnit.
Only the best for O/T, Tinto, no rubbish here.
How about some Highland Dancing, lads?
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Hi yesindyref2.
This was one of the first “mashups” I found when I first started exploring Youtube. I revisit yearly.
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Another Scottish band who seem to have disappeared from the Scottish gig circuit. This was filmed in Switzerland (I guess from the comments below).
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@ Tinto, anent Tulip Trees, there’s about half a dozen planted at Morrison’s in Glasgow’s Gallowgate! also three Giant Redwoods opposite the Ranza Bar in Provanmill.
@ Smallaxe, thanks for young Fran & Anna wagglin their wallies as Jack McLaughlin used to have it! How aboot something classy like Neil Gow’s “Lament for the Death of his Second Wife?”
Highland dancing, Smallaxe?
How about some Scottish cross country reggae dancing?
(You may have to download then play.)
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Fred,
Niel Gow’s ‘Lament for the Death of his Second Wife’
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You’re welcome.
🙂
Sorry but I’m not to swift atm.
Got it Brian, thanks, enjoyed that.
Try this;
“Power of Scotland”
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Naebdy aboot, I’ll play this.
X certificate
“A Boy Named Sue” Glasgow Version;
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Tulip tree in my garden as well, a bit wee still.
For those who drank in John Waterson’s Burns Howff,
Stone the Crows:”Freedom Road”
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Any old Dug Hoose drinkers in tonight?
Easy come, Easy go;
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I’m Gone
I love tulip trees for their leaf shape: passing strange.
My Asian newsagent is quite a filosifer. I was buying my Vile Sep News and other requisites this morning and after he’d finished totalling my stuff he said, “Is that you?”
“Yup, that’s me,” says I.
Then he looked lingeringly and significantly at me and said, “Are you sure?”
Things can get pretty deep at my corner shop…..
@ Smallaxe, many thanks for Neil Gow, chust sublime, listened to the other versions as well.
Burns’Howff I mind & Jackson’s also, plus a dozen odd mair in Parley Road. Ma Gramps drank in the Trossachs.
@ Tinto, have you read James Jauncey’s, “The Witness”? An armed uprising in the Highlands of the future. Liked this book, a bit Cone-Gatherer-ish & the author is a gt nephew of Don Roberto.
Thanks for that, Fred. I see it gets good reviews. Have taken a punt on it since I’m really a multi-millionaire.
In return: The Douglas Affair by Alistair Mair (M.D.). Have you ever? Fifty years old but bang up to date. If reprinted it would sell like hot cakes, or even cold cakes. I’ve lent two copies over the years and never got them back. Chilling and believable.
Kinda getting suspicious as to why it languishes in obscurity.
Memo to senior SNP politicians: never drive down The Switchback…
Tinto, read it kid VG. Just started Devine’s “The Scottish Nation!” so that’ll take a wee while eh?
Any sign of Petra yet? she thinks the site is a Troll-Show now. she could be right!
Wishing the Mankies a good weekend! Spaciba Bolshoi for this weeks crack!
Think Petra’s taking a wee break. Things certainly haven’t improved in the Tumshie Stakes on the M/T since her absence, have they?
Have a good weekend yourself. I’m going out for more snow shoes and Harvey’s knitting a new muffler.
Would be interested in your views on Devine’s tome.
I have my own, of course……..
*enigmatic smile*
How youse doin there?
Watched ‘Murder Most Foul’ last night. Soo-perb. Was sure I’d seen it as a child but no, it was new for me and thoroughly enjoyed it, esp the music:
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Evening, Ian.
May I offer you something really weird?
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Now I know what my newsagent meant this morning…..
Cheers TC, that ‘made’ my evening. Can’t wait to give it a miss.
One has to wonder what yon Jakey wummin would’ve written had she sold her soul to Santa instead…
;(
@TC –
Aside from anything else, what incentive does such dross provide for genuine actors to work on their craft?
Ian Dury knocked back £1 million gig to do ‘CATS’ lyrics for Lloyd-Webber because he couldn’t stomach the guy’s music. And that was, what, 30 years ago? (Richard Stilgoe ended up doing it.)
The array of wonderful actors in that clip have banked ??? squidlings, they’re working elsewhere now, it’s all over. But what did they get from it otherwise? And what do they expect/hope the audience will get from their performances?
Ach well, I suppose the most likely defence would be ‘If I hadn’t done it someone else would’ve had to!’
Aye. Indeed. How often have we heard that one in other contexts?
Something to cheer.
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@Shinty (10.42) –
🙂
Hoots aplenty!
Anyone know if there’s going to be a Wings presence at the AOUB Glasgow rally in May?
Hi Macart.
Ronnie Anderson organises the WOS stall. The May march/rally is a two pronged effort. The march is AUOB and the rally in George Square is Hope over Fear/Solidarity.
I think there is a problem in that Hope Over Fear are looking for cash up front from potential stalls in George Square.
Ronnie will know more.
Cheers Brian
I’ll keep an eye open nearer the time.
Liz rannoch – loos in the vicinity, 1/2 hour of birthday left – still sober. off to twitterland.
@ Shinty, a good yin!
Ian B: I’m still looking for a talent I can shamelessly prostitute for oodles of shekels.
Thanks for the Frankie Boyle clip, Shinty. After independence he’d be an obvious candidate for Scottish ambassador in NY or London.
DMH: I know Wings is not perhaps the ideal forum, and the Rev might not approve, but a main thread article on Syria from you might be able to provide a coherent and informed account of a subject which has been shamefully distorted by the MSM for over four years.
The Salisbury Incident is surely just a small piece in a much bigger jig-saw.
Just a thought.
Indy2 and Rock are really Fükkin’ up the main pages, iye?
BDTT – as I see it, this will continue and increase as we get closer to indy.
Try to ignore and post something of interest below each of their comments.
Meanwhile chill and listen to one of God’s angels (not religious by the way, but don’t know how else to describe this)
link to youtube.com
Tinto Chiel at 10.06
An idea worth considering. Would be better if somebody like Eva Bartlett, Vanessa Beeley or John Pilger could be persuaded to give us a piece
It is a far from simple situation. Both Beeley and Bartlett are routinely abused as apologists for the “the butcher” Assad.
Regarless of the behaviour of Assad their is no doubt that the US/UK have been plotting to remove him since about 2009 and the fiction that there is a civil war in Syria is used to obscure the fact that what Syria is fighting against is an invasion of Syria by externally armed and very well funded Islamic fanatics.
Tinto Chiel at 10.06
An idea worth considering. Would be better if somebody like Eva Bartlett, Vanessa Beeley or John Pilger could be persuaded to give us a piece
It is a far from simple situation. Both Beeley and Bartlett are routinely abused as apologists for the “the butcher” Assad.
Regardless of the behaviour of Assad there is no doubt that the US/UK have been plotting to remove him since about 2009 and the fiction that there is a civil war in Syria is used to obscure the fact that what Syria is fighting against is an invasion of Syria by externally armed and very well funded Islamic fanatics.
@DMH: indeed, I can understand that. The USA and UK will use any weapon to further their planet-ravaging ends. Ironically, they will spend billions short-sightedly supporting Muslim terrorists against peace-loving Muslims if it furthers their aims of weakening the Soviet Union/Russia/any opponent of Saudi Arabia/Israel.
Craig Murray has produced some excellent blogs on the whole Salisbury Incident over the last few days, as you are probably aware.
I can’t believe the Russophobe MSM of the last fortnight: crazy and utterly irresponsible propaganda.
I’m beginning to think they’re bigging up Strong&StableTreeza for an impending GE: the Britnats love a good war footing.
Tinto Chiel at 9.45
This is an interesting introduction. Lots of the Jimmy Dore Show on YouTube
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Dr Jim’s right on MT, it is an “attempt to get this site shut down by filling it up with badness”, or at least discredit it completely. A couple have tried picking on regular posters to provoke a reaction, but another couple are trying to stir up threats and abuse in response to theirs. Response is best ignore or treat with humour I think, within limits that’s not against the law!
Liz G and Robert Peffers,
Hugs from me. Those were ghastly attacks.
What does strike me though is the panic in their tone.
And Wingers all held the line with decency and integrity =)
Ach here’s another couple wee hugs =)xxx
Thanks for that, Dave. Something else you’ll never see on mainstream broadcasting in the UK.
Yet the only Syrian commenter that Pravdasound4 seems to know of is the wee guy in his English bedroom who calls himself the Observatory.
The sad thing is the American military-industrial complex must have perpetual wars or their profits fall. The “Allied” actions in Libya and Iraq were all about oil, yet they destabilised secular heads of state and fragmented both societies by terrorism or religious extremism.
I see we have an infestation on the M/T. Obvs all that money racking up for the Rev is getting them into an hysterical state. Quite why anyone replies directly to them amazes me. The only thing worth reading at the mo is Nana’s links.
All their nonsense is a big turn-off and needs to be dealt with. Can hardly be bothered myself to read the blt comments myself.
@Lizg
Just read the comment directed at you on the MT, nasty.
Don’t let it get you down Liz, they hope for a reaction and to stop you from commenting. Hugs to you 🙂
@ Lizg
What Nana said. You are a lovely person and thanks for always taking the time to look out for others (myself included). Keep on keeping on. Big hugs. x
@Lizg
Just what Nana said.
This site has six figure views every month and most reasoning human beings will know those who post with consideration for others and those who do not. That’s a LOT of people and they’re not stupid. They can see what we can see.
Move on past and talk to those friendly and weel kent faces you are happy with. I’m always happy to chat with friends. 🙂
Tinto Chiel at 9.46
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,as you point out, is wee single guy in a semi detached house in Coventry. He hasn’t been in Syria for fifteen years and fled the country fearing arrest for anti Syrian behaviour. He is an Islamic fundamentalist opposed to Assad’s secular regime and has absolutely no reliable information about Syria as all the information he has he gets from friends on the phone. Yet he is regularly featured in our media.
I actually find the huge lie we are being fed about Syria and the Middle East now the most compelling reason now for us to get out of this UK – and I never needed any other compelling reason than the ones I have had since I was a teenager.
If our decent people knew the depths of wicked depravity of the US/UK axis we would very soon be independent.
I wish I knew a way to get the whole truth to them.
“I wish I knew a way to get the whole truth to them.”
Ditto, DMH.
What is needed are a couple of Moderators on here, nae mair prob’s. Personally I would like a button to administer electric shox!
I looked at MT early hours yesterday morning, catching up from travelling. It was dire. I haven’t looked since.
Whereas, I always uaed to catch up on threads I now rarely do if they’ve been running a couple of days as it’s always the same. I am actually less annoyed by the trolls than I am by the people who insist on answering them, that is what really destroys the thread.
Regardless of how provocative or insulting they are if everyone refrained from responding they would have no effect.
It can be hard to I know, especially personal attacks but everytime anyone responds to even one of their comments they are winning in their aim to disrupt.
Thank you all very much for your kind comments..
I won’t stop posting.
But I will be taking Macarts advice and not be engaging with the fool’s…. Or a least tryin harder not to….I didn’t actually recognise that poster’s name last night,before responding.
…….Note to self ….pay more attention….
Anyhoo, let’s just (as William said) keep on keepin on!
Hopefully last nights carry on will have a bit of a Streisand effect for those who try to disrupt….
Quite so, cearc. I’m going to give it a miss myself for quite (a long?) while. The foul-mouthed abuse last night was completely unacceptable.
I may pop in here for the occasional sausage-sizzle round the camp fire and a dose of Kumbaya, but that’s about it, I think. Think I may have reached my Petra Moment.
Cheersmedears.
How come U don’t get wummin trolls? well, unless the Rocket is a wummin? Possible subject for a PhD, naw! Chin up Liz, where’s that Petra when U need her!
Fred @ 10.20
Will do Fred thanks.
I miss Petra too and I am sure she would vote with me fur you tae be in charge o’ the shox button.LOL
As fur wummin troll’s ….cause they’re aw in the Tory party, and typings beneath them…well that’s wan explanation…!!
@Tinto Chiel
As you know I felt like that for a bit and came on here to moan about it, Things is I know that that is what they want to get rid of the good guys and gals.
I made my mind up after yesterdays episode with the abuse Liz g got and today I came out fighting, have a read of the posts on the main thread on todays topic.
Rock slinked off with nary a word. They won’t be pushing me off this site, I’m a stuborn auld git and I’ll push back. Bit more subtly than I would have done in the run up to 2014.
Older and wiser when it comes to posting online but the still the same guy but I’ve learned to bite my tongue as I know others are reading and I want their support for Independence.
Best we can do now is totally ignore and only respond nevr by name but just to make them look foolish. Please stay 🙂
PS I don’t think kinters will be back.
And only 5 minutes later my PS is proven to be wrong.
As I said, Alex, I may drop in here occasionally to see if the lava lamp reappears and to get the barbie on.
I hardly contribute anything on the M/T onywise and many others say things better and quicker so I’m off to contemplate my omphalos.
I may be some time, hee, hee.
P.S.: Hope to see some Wingers on Friday at Holyrood.
@ Thepnr, ye look young in yer photie!
Tinto Chiel and all of the rest of the people who ‘used’ to be frequent visitors to O/T get your arses back here and show the unionist trolls that we can laugh in their faces.
Are we going to let a shower of bastards on the Main Thread who support this Corrupt, Rotten, Paedophile Protecting Government and the BBC stop us from showing them the contempt that they deserve?
We are Scots, we do not retreat. Either ignore the trolls or rip the shit out of them verbally but FFS get O/T moving again, tell a story, play some music or share your thoughts and worries here, amongst friends and fellow Patriots, one of our own my dear friend Liz g was abused by a unionist pig on the main thread just the other night, are we going to let this continue?
I’m not and I don’t think all you people will either, so let’s get things moving again on O/T and let them know that they will never keep us down!
Albannach:”Scotland Is Her Name”
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Will Ye No Come Back Again?
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Here’s tae us, wha’s like us.Tae Hell wi’ the union!
Thanks Smallaxe, badly needed.
I think if the Rev was seen to sort out some Trolls he might get a bit more cash from the 99% who couldn’t contribute to OUR fundraiser.
Some motivation. link to youtube.com
Thank you, Hackalumpoff,
I hope you and your good lady are well, I wish you both and your family Peace Love and Happiness, always.
“Scotland Is Ma Hame”
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Gie us yer money Wingers!
🙂
Loch Lomond Lyrics – Runrig Ft. The Tartan Army
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Money is our ammunition, fire away Wingers
Money!
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Donate or remain a slave! They say that Scots are tight, let’s show them different.
I’ll pop back in once I’ve finished running up these curtains for the Ladies’ Excuse Me in the PRMG, Smallaxe.
Having some emotional realignment at the mo.
😉
I’m waiting!
Pink Floyd:”Money”
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The love of money is the root of all EVEL!
Tinto,
My friend and fashionable fellow let’s fill the future of Wings with filthy lucre.
Al Jolson:”Brother can you spare a Dime”
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Let’s build a great Nation for our children and grandchildren and all who come after.
Keep them running, it’s been done before!
Johnny Horton:”Battle of New Orleans”
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Hello Smallaxe, good to see you at the turntable:)
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OK then Smallaxe here’s Van M on aboot money.
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I’m sure Johnny CASH qualifies so this is one for Smallaxe. link to youtube.com
Woody Guthrie:”All You Fascists Bound To Lose”
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Bound to! Because;
I’m FREE!
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I’m quite busy, Smallaxe: my wee Singer’s rid het.
Nevertheless: saw a strange product in a Yoon supermarket last week (I only darken its portals to place copies of The National on top of the daily dreadfuls). It was a large sack with the words Whisky Smoking Chips.
I immediately thought, “Sounds like a great Scottish night in.”
And all in a handy bag…
Us And/OR Them!
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Us!
Hackalumpoff,
I got Stoned and I Missed it
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😉
Smoking chips? Tinto,
French Fries;
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O’JAYS:”For The Love Of Money”
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For the Love of Scotland, give us your money!
You really get your money’s worth if you find this on the jukebox.
Are they still thing?
Heart of The Sunrise by Yes.
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Remember people,
Curtis Mayfield:”We Got To Have Peace”
link to youtube.com
That’s a must!
Try a “Moondance” in the Kelvingrove park, Hackalumpoff,
link to youtube.com
🙂
Unable to donate now?
How about on;
“Wages day” Deacon Blue;
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Dance, with my feet Smallaxe?
Mrs Hackalumpoff is ROFLHAO.
Hackalumpoff,
🙂 🙂 🙂
link to youtube.com
Russians?
“Give me Your Money” Warning, shaking bahookies;
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@ Sma 6:03pm
Amen to that brother.
Good to see you up and aboot and in good spirits. I’d contribute mair tae aff-topic but, dinnae really hae much to say for myself the now or at least much that fowk here would want to hear. Dinnae want to be dragging the place doon wi my tales of woe either as I can see people are pissed off enough with what is happening over on the MT’s.
I will make a bit more effort to contribute something funny, artistic or entertaining over the coming weeks to help shake the dust aff the furniture and the cobwebs aff the ceiling. Miss reading the banter on aff topic myself. It’s been affy quiet this year really.
Good to see you back and getting in amongst it though.
William Wallace,
What are you worried about, they’re all fed up with me but I just keep going.
Email me if you want to talk, my friend.
Big Phil,
This one is for you,
Elvis:”Money Honey”
link to youtube.com
😉
Dedicated to Mrs Hackalumpoff and for everyone struggling with cash and/or Zero hours contracts.
Joan Baez
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Good book about the zero hours evil – Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-wage Britain by James Bloodworth.
@ Sma
Naebody could ever be fed up o you my friend. You are truly one of a kind an abody on here holds you in the highest regard. Truth is, the place is just no the same when you are gone. Will drop you an email soon.
Another one, for my, and Scotlands dear friend, Mrs Hackalumpoff.
“Forever Young” Joan Baez;
link to youtube.com
Take it easy, Mrs Wumman.
🙂
Wull,
I’ll look forward to hearing from you, just when you’re ready, no hassle my friend.
This one is for you;
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C’mon people, we even take dollars!
Start the Bidding!
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A couple for the pot.
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Crofters Scat from the Bard.
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Last one tonight, just for Bertie, the Fishermans Fiend.
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Following my interview with Alastair McKinnon on AIR last Friday about the uses of Hemp and the medical use of cannabis he has sent me some links.
The one below was prepared for the SNP Conference resolution on the medical use of cannabis and uses of hemp. The SNP subsequently asked Westminster to devolve permits on the matter to the Scottish Parliament to no avail. Alastair will be on my show again on Friday at 7pm. This is something the SNP Government should be pressing.
I’ll send some other links but they are all worth reading.
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Traditional Scottish Gaelic “Mouth music” -“Capercaillie”
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I hope everybody was singing along.
😉
Another one for the pot!
Excuse me, while I light my spliff; “Easy Skanking”
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Is this the fightback!
Music overload today lol, could only manage Johnny Cash from hackalumpoff , Pink Floyd and Deacon Blue before my urge to post took over 🙂
Good to have you back Smallaxe and you William Wallace, good tunes hackalumpoff, well the one I watched anyway 🙂
I agree with the sentiment of let’s laugh in their faces, sure it’s a long slog but we knew that anyway. Here’s a great tune from a movement that never gave up until they achieved their goal.
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Know what I would like? A wee program that would read all the youtube links on an Off Topic page then play them one by one in the background.
Then I could carry on with my surfing and never miss a tune just like having the radio on. Off Topic radio has a certain ring to it then I’d only need to pop in now and again to see what’s what and maybe add my own tune.
That must be easy to do, not for me but there are are people who could do that easily. Hmmm might look into that further. Meantime.
link to youtube.com
Thepnr,
Don’t you hang about here for too long, the fightback started a long time ago and you’re one of our best fighters on the Main Thread SO GET OVER THERE!
😉
Stand Up For Your Rights;
link to youtube.com
Anent Bertie and the fash:
link to dailygael.com
Odd address hope the link works, if not try : dailygael.com/scottish-tory-mps-to-be-recycled-as-bait-by-angry-north-east-fishermen/
Something,
Special;
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Hackalumpoff,
The link works just fine… but “Use Tories For Bait?”
The only fish that would eat them follow the Sludge Boat, mind you, wee Fluffy’s beard would probably work.
🙂
The Selecter:”On My Radio”
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I’m going to lurk on the main thread… and then
“I’m Going Home”
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Let us all watch the main thread grow.
Ah’ve started watching the ‘True Blood’ boxset.
Give me your yummy V Sookie.
“Twice”
Here’s a bass guitar solo that is VERY topical.
It’s from a song called “The Fish” from the band “YES” and was played on their “Union Tour”
link to youtube.com
How weird is that LOL 🙂
“OPEN UP! DRUG SQUAD! HAUNS OAN THE TABLE!”
Good to see U back Smallaxe! zat a sewin machine ah hear? used tae make them in another life! hated that job!
Hi Cactus, 🙂
Thepnr, bass?
Jack Bruce:
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Whit did ah tell you! Get Back and fight. 😉
@Smallaxe
I missed the bass reference LOL funny as fuck, we can be heroes!
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Fred, if you used tae make sewing machines, dis that mean yer a good Singer!
Coat oan!
I had to use the old Singer peddle sewing machine for a short spell in my life. Forced labour it was got pretty good at it too.
Hahaha, memories eh!
Thepnr,
We Are Number One;
link to youtube.com
🙂
Singer’s assembly lines were very depressing, the goldfish in the canal kept me sane. They were originally in a pond in Singers but made a break for it to the canal & multiplied! Are they still there one wonders?
Thepnr,
I used tae sew mailbags and ah didnae hiv a fckn sewin’ machine!
🙁
The Prisoner;
link to youtube.com
@Smallaxe
“We Are Number One” was great, I think I got it 🙂
Fred,
Wonder no more;
Goldfish:”Talk To Me”
link to youtube.com
Thepnr,
Don’t blame me, you asked for this,
She’s Got It;
link to youtube.com
Thepnr, I saw your message will reply soon.
…………………………………………………………
To any Wingers who look in tonight or whenever, be nice to each other, excepting those who we all know, we are all here doing what we can to free our Kingdom Nation from this accursed union. I hope that day comes quickly and Peacefully.
Peace and Love to you All, I wish for you what I wish for myself.
Go Placidly with;
DESIDERATA
link to youtube.com
(Namaste, Little Sister)
Hehe, notsobritnats are like dem ‘shape-shifters’.
Aooooow!
Sookie!
Yer toenail cutting:
link to timeanddate.com
Aye ahm a vampire, ah ah ah, seven.
Drink V.
That’s quite a bit of magic you’ve worked there Smallaxe .
The whole thread’s jumping…
Stay well my dear friend and as always love to Mrs Smallaxe X
Looks like someone spiked the water in here tonight, slainte.
Mellow and profound. ‘Pacing The Cage’ Bruce Cockburn
link to youtube.com
Sláinte cearc and Liz g 🙂
‘Solid Air’ converted to 432Hz…whole album, rich and smooth:
link to youtube.com
Good to see you Smallaxe. 🙂
Macart,
Thanks, I’ll need to rest up for a while now but I hope to be back soon, my friend.
🙂
Thoughtful stuff last night! hope they’re looking in at Coatbridge Analytica & learning something!
Bit much when special forces are disbanded and prevented from engaging.
Another very useful link to the debate about the medical uses of cannabis.
Clinical Application of Cannabinoids and Terpenes
link to youtube.com
I’ve always had the temptation to write a limerick featuring Sanquar. An opportunity now presents itself.
A pathetic example from Sanquar
Is responsible for much current rancour
An airfreshener was sprayed
On a wee girl dismayed
He’s obviously a manky old …… can’t quite get the last line yet.
“Labour councillor” doesn’t quite rhyme
‘A rose by any other name…’
Just get on with the dusting!
Great to see the thoosands and thoosands of beautiful people (and dogs, bizarrely) around Holyrood today, who managed easily to surround the parliament and make the whole thing a great spectacle. Makes me seem very optimistic for Indy2mageddon.
Paul Kavanagh and Craig Murray were there, and many famous Wingers too, some lovelier than others.
Such a pity the BBC couldn’t make it. Maybe too cold and bright for the cameras.
Tinto,
Well done, I’m proud of you. A wee word of warning, if you go on the M/T ffs don’t mention dugs!
link to youtube.com
😉
Tinto Chiel @ 7.48pm
They were there – in disguise I think. Their clip – a very quick pan – of the crowd must have been taken about 11.30am cos the view of the 2 Wings flags was about the time me and him were edging up to Ronnie Anderson. I was rather nervous – trembling appropriately – and blurted out ‘and who are you?’ Like some school marmish idiot!
I was also introduced to Paula Rose and another guy and woman whose names I didn’t quite catch, half deaf you know.
Anyway none of them recognised me as Liz Rannoch.
Anyhow, great day, sun shining lots of good speeches and music. I looked all day and never saw a ‘big camera’ so as not to stand out (and be mauled!) On EBC web thingy as ‘Power Grab’ protest at Holyrood. On telly as 1500 attending hmmm?
Good Evening Smallaxe. Since Fish has been in the News recently I thought I would play this. link to youtube.com Hoping you are taking it easy my Friend.
Note to self.
Tinto Chiel @ 6.48 – not 7.48 Numptie
Note to self. Numptie
Tinto Chiel @ 6.48 – not 7.48.
Hi Michael.
When you mentioned (capitalised) “Fish”, I thought you were linking to this chap.
link to youtube.com
But I was at thewrong end of the fin, without a paddle…
Hi Michael.
When you mentioned (capitalised) “Fish”, I thought you were linking to this chap.
link to youtube.com
But I was at the wrong end of the fin, without a paddle…
Hi Michael,
Beautiful song, Thank you. I’ve got no other choice than to take it easy atm but I’m getting there.
Not only fish live in the sea,
link to youtube.com
I hope you are well, my friend.
Brian,
A country boy should know, how to bait a hook.
link to youtube.com
😉
Just Playing for Change;
link to youtube.com
Liz R: sorry I missed you. No sign of Paula Rose 😉 but I met Miss Lucia Daines, whose limpid, crystalline beauty transcends the earthier charms that PR used to radiate, imho.
Great to meet Big Ronnie and Bob The Builder again, crazycat and Jeanie frae Dundee and that rarest of rarae aves, the lesser-spotted John King (jdman) a masterly Twitter warrior but sadly missed here. Peter A Bell there too but only saw him from a distance.
Smallaxe: you would have been heartened today: a great turnout, almost exclusively from the “vintage people” hem hem and lots of English voices in the crowds, too. I thought they were predominantly No voters? Hope to see you in Freedom Square in May, old mole.
Seasick Steve came up with the great one liner, “I started out with nothing and I still have most of it left.” Know how he feels
Btw, if anyone wishes to have a disturbed night’s sleep, read the short story “Pollock and the Porroh Man” by HG Wells (I think), available on line. I read it when a nipper and it was rather unsettling.
Didn’t affect me, affect me, affect me, affect me, affect me………………………………………………..
BDTT: I know you were working but sorry to have missed you (and Thepnr, for the same reason). We intellectuals must stick together.
For better, for worse:
link to telelib.com
Tinto,
I watched it on Livestream (courtesy of Nana), I heard from a friend that a lot more turned up at lunchtime.
I was looking for you but I think the cameraman realised that if he showed you that the other lovely people would look drab in comparison.
How did You Look?;
link to youtube.com
😉
Hi Brian Doonthetoon Thanks for the Fish song. I kind of found this and thought it might be up your Street ? Anyway hope you and yours are alright also Pete the Camera. link to youtube.com
Hope all you fine folk that made it along to Holyrood today had a grand time despite the weather. I had planned to go but a last minute offer of work when it is scarce couldn’t be refused.
Always next time and there will be a next time. Well done all.
Fancy a bit of rap :). I like all kinds of music and this is about sticking in there as we all do. Get in wie the head down, you never give up.
link to youtube.com
Hi Tinto Chiel.
Somebody has to keep the Medical School functioning. I’ll be at George Square in May but also at the Glenrothes shindig on 7th April.
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Thepnr,
Try some,
Black Eyed Peas;
link to youtube.com
Hi Michael.
RE: “Mafia”.
A wee story for you. In 1995, my wife (at the time) was chef at the Jack Daniels pub in Whitehall Crescent, Dundee.
A couple of Dundonians, who were serving in Bosnia, had written to Cathy, the boss of Jack Daniels, bemoaning their missing Sunday nights in the pub, when Mafia were the band onstage and were wondering if any recordings were available.
She mentioned this to my wife who said that I could probably put something together.
Onnyhoo, I spent the last Sunday in March and the first Sunday in April in Jack Daniels recording the band, with a feed from the mixing desk. I put together a C90 of the best tracks from the two nights, did copies for each of the band and a couple for Bosnia.
I still have my original copy, which is in my pile of cassettes for mood music whilst I’m relaxing in the bath. I’ve never got round to uploading to YouTube but will, “one of these days”. Their version of “Higher and Higher” is sublime. The brass section were so tight. In “Love Train”, Dougie even mentions Bosnia.
Smallaxe: judging by my reflection in the windows at the parliament entrance, my cheekbones were still exquisite.
Hope to see you in Glasgow, Brian. Still negotiating for Glenrothes.
Fred: package arrived today. Recommended goods as described.
“Aunt Julia is back from the coast.”
“Fill my heart with a monotonous languor.”
@Smallaxe
Aye, wee sniffles there. sniff sniff.
@Tinto Chiel
“The carbon is hidden in the diamond and is not to be seen.”
Thepnr,
“Don’t Cry” Guns N’ Roses
link to youtube.com
Hi peeps.
Got BBC4 prog about cover versions on at the moment. Caused this track to pop into head. When I bought it in 1970, after hearing it on Alan Freeman’s Sunday afternoon show on Carnoustie beach, I took it home on my day off, stuck it on the Dansette with the arm up for infinite repeats, and managed an infinite number of monkeys before I had to take a break.
A single that actually put together two covers (Captain Beefheart and The Shadows) on the same record.
link to youtube.com
Thepnr @9.31: no, I don’t wear ladies’ underwear!
“The salt is on the briar rose, / The fog is in the fir trees.”
Brian,
Weirdly, that worked, I enjoyed it, thanks. Try a bit of,
Tony McPhee:’Write Me A Few Short Lines’;
link to youtube.com
Tinto Chiel says:
23 March 2018 at 9:50 pm
“Thepnr @9.31: no, I don’t wear ladies’ underwear!”
Liar! You wear “Hot Pants”
link to youtube.com
😉
@Brian Doonthetoon
Hahaha was the that the first punk record? The start gave me a headache and I liked punk 🙂
@Tinto Chiel
Ah T.S. Eliot, I only have one favourite poem and it caused a fall out with me and the Rev LOL. It was this by Walt Whitman.
Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring,
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish,
Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew’d,
Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,
Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,
The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life.
Answer.
That you are here—that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
Punk Goes 90s;
Falling In Reverse “Gangsta’s Paradise”
link to youtube.com
Hows that headache, Pnr?
@Smallaxe
Give me a few minutes and I’ll let you know after I listen to your latest on the jukebox.
@Thepnr: yes, I remember that night. Wish he would take such exception to the twallies who feck up the M/Ts day in, day out.
Smallaxe: do you think crushed velvet aubergine loon pants are still me? Thought I detected some old-fashioned looks today…..
I’ll redeem myself, Thepnr.
Do you think Johnny Cash would Clash with a Bob Marley song?
link to youtube.com
Strummin’
@Tinto Chiel
You didn’t tell me if you liked the poem or not LOL 🙂
Getting near bedtime once again, this is probably the song I’ve played more often than any other on Off Topic so if you’re an old hand just skip as you’ve probably seen it,
Still I think it’s good and I’m going to follow it up with my next most played. so be warned!
link to youtube.com
Tinto, don’t worry,
You’re “Just a good old fashioned Lover Boy;
link to youtube.com
The Mute Swan screams silently. The owl has left the barn,
Probably this is my favourite song that I’ve ever played on OT. It’s by Heather Small lead singer of M People and I love it.
link to youtube.com
Thepnr: the whole point of the poem you quoted was the last line, wasn’t it? That’s why it was so relevant.
Walt was rather unorthodox, hem, hem in his social interface situations, I believe.
Smallaxe: I taught Freddie all he knew, really.
A song for Miss Daines. You’ve heard it before.
link to youtube.com
Moffuptaemapit.
A bientot!
Goodnight, Tinto.
Sleep in Peace;