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Posted on
January 02, 1968 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
For off-topic chat. Duh.
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@CameronB Brodie
I think I’ve been “stiffled and limited” so I will vote Yes and do my very best to get others to do the same.
We will be a confident Nation proud of our our country, our government and the policies it chooses. Why? We will have voted for those policies and they will be OUR policies.
Let’s take what belongs to us back under our control. We have been messed around for too long. I’ve had enough.
CameronB Brodie Glad I met you at the Newsroom. This ones for You. link to youtube.com Vote Yes
Ooh look quantative easing…
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@Paula Rose
One word. Brilliant!!
Michael McCabe
Cheers and ditto. 😉
Here’s one for Danny Alexander. 🙂
Chris and the Alphabets – Count It Higher
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I live in a great country, it is called Scotland.
Ooh look our two favourite djs Michael McCabe and CameronB Brodie swapping notes! Wha’s like us, we have the best, any excuse darlings…
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Whoops wrong one sorry…
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Here is one for David Bowie.www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=GGonBhUEUVM
Sorry. link to youtube.com For David Bowie.
And the Winner is. link to youtube.com Vote Yes
Here’s another one for Danny Alexander. 🙂
Rick Reason – Two and Two Are Four
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You are all the people I dreamed I would find xx
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Was great to meet a few fellow wingers at the Newsroom on Friday. Though I couldn’t stay long, it was great to meet (and put a face to!) Handclapping, Thepnr, Paula Rose (didn’t know), T Jenny and her friend Karen, Cameron B, X Sticks, Wingman 2020, Brian and his wife, the two girls from Hawick, Tartan Tory, Flower of Scotland.
Hope to see you all again before the big day!
David Heriot
@Thepnr
“We are being nobbled, doesn’t take a idiot to see that. Tell everybody they can’t stop us all from getting the truth out.”
Speaking of which, is there anyone here who uses a Gmail/Googlemail account who has noticed their incoming and outgoing messages either being delayed or going completely missing despite the fact that they were apparently “sent successfully”?
Maybe I’m just being paranoid, but after finding a trojan virus on my system not too long ago, and the fact that this issue just neatly sabotaged my attempt to communicate with a friend in the local Yes group who was trying to organise newspaper deliveries in Stevenston, I’m starting to wonder if I’m being gradually isolated.
If anyone with a GMail account is having the same issues then I can assume it’s just a problem with Google being idiots, then I can relax and take off the tinfoil hat!
But these coincidences are getting worrying (and extremely annoying!)
Feel lucky, cyberpunks, well do ya? Ladbrokes the bookies have got a new bet out for the Referendum:
Polling Wars
Which company’s final poll will be closest to the result?
YouGov 2/5
Survation 7/4
Go on, make their pay-day.LOL!
link to sportsbeta.ladbrokes.com
@David
That’s something I just can’t miss. I’m gonna be rich lol!
@Quinie frae Angus
Nae bother darling – great meeting you, (and others too numerous to mention) again.
@CameronB Brodie
Aye – was thinking it would be guid to have a few pints at some point. Have yer number but will just post on here – see who else is about. Going abroad soon for a bit: August would work.
Of course we have BBC 3 and WOS5 or 6 at some point. Love the idea of the pub crawl as a campaigning tool. Someone else can organise it but!
@David
Don’t rub it in! I’ve been kicking myself because I couldn’t afford to put anything on us winning the referendum back in the days when the polls were showing massive odds against it and anyone betting for a Yes vote was considered a total mug.
Could have cleaned out most of the bookies in town on independence day… *sigh*
Even if it is a Yes vote, that’ll be my biggest regret of this whole thing!
Ah well, I’ll just put it down to me being generous towards local businesses, ‘cos I’m nice like that! (Grrrrr…)
Anyone posted photies yet?
Robert Peston…..
Balanced? More so than normal.
Unbiased? Probably not.
Scathing? No.
Likely to sway undecideds? More than I expected.
The programme has basically stated that the economics play perfectly well. There has been a complete lack of investigation into what could be done with all the levers of power. It has ended on a note of the main issue being about personal identity rather than the £ in your pocket.
Overall, 6 out of 10. Could do better, but it could have been a lot worse.
@ TT – thought that was a balanced programme, interested if you have niggles.
@ Paula Rose
My main niggle is that nobody was given the chance to explain what could be done differently under independence. The fact that we could have 15,000 new defense jobs, a load of ship building work and a much better military presence in our waters and our airspace and still have a BILLION left over from currenty ‘spending’.
The fact that 70% of our spending is done for us on things we might not actually want/need.
Talking to the London money boys, the assumption was always that the current spending and priorities would remain in iScotland.
The first ‘journalist’ who actually raises these points in an investigative manner will get closer to a ten.
This was just lip-service to a nation who are realising that the BBC is the establishment mouthpiece.
But it’s a start! 😉
Call me cynical but i think I could have produced a much more balanced programme. The bits I didn’t like in particular was the interviews with the Weir Group and BAE compared with the Balhousie Care Home businessman.
Why not get Willie Walsh of BA or Michael O’Leary of Rynair who are both in favour of Independence as it suits their own businesses.
The currency question wasn’t given fair treatment either in my view as there was nothing on the effects to rUK economy without one.
Finally the section on Oil was well just crap, no mention of west of Shetland reserves nor the fact about record investment. 4/10 overall from me.
@ TT – honey I just love your leather (excuse me fellow wingers, this man is gorgeous) – I thought the programme was fair.
@ Paula Rose
Oh stop it woman! I’m starting to blush and it’s bad enough knowing that you are only a few miles away!! 😉
@Thepnr
I also noted that they only talked of ‘N.Sea Oil’ as opposed to Scotlands total ‘reserves’.
The business side of it appeared parochial with the chap from the care homes, but Sir Tom was there too. You’re right though, Willie Walsh woud have brought more weight to it.
Nothing was said about the effects on the rUK economy becasue that’s not what the programme was about.
Not long back from a musically themed long weekend, a thoroughly awesome one all in all.
@Jock Scot ~ cheers for your kind words dude.
@John King / Irene ~ I was wondering where dem CS’s had gone.. I’ve never had a hat ransom put on me before hehe and is the first time I’ve been made aware of lost property through the magical power of the Wingternet! Muchos thankos for holding on to them.
Look forward to seeing all you groovy people next time 😉
Cheap Sunglasses ~ ZZ Top
link to youtube.com
Gosh, I feel like i’ve ‘arrived’ having just been trolled by Maggie Vaughan.
@Paula Rose
This one is for you. Happy memories.
link to youtube.com
The Shetland Charitable Fund are doing well of the Oil companies & only useing the profits.A small part of Scotland showing the way to the wider Scotland as to what could be acheived in a Independent Scotland.
@Paula Rose, Tjenny, Quinie frae Angus and Lesley-Anne
And all you special women. xx
link to youtube.com
Thepnr. Partician forwarded your email to me, I will be seeing Garry this week, He will be delighited with the Wings plaque many Thanks,i,ll see you at the weekend.
Thepnr – thank you sweetie. 🙂
Thanks, Thepnr – nice wee bit of nostalgia there… 🙂
A nice chap I met in Cambridge at the weekend expressed surprise that Yes supporters in our referendum are not more vocal. He doesn’t think that any more 🙂
I’ll be in Dunoon the weekend of the BBC Demo but I’d like to try and get back over for it. Any one from Argyll planning to go across for it? i’d like to hitch a lift – and pay towards travel expenses of course. I’ll be at Stratheck from 24th.
TIA
Message for Thepnr.
Re a get-together in that location I suggested.
How would the Saturday night of the SeaFest weekend work out?
Saturday afternoon in Arbroath, evening in Dundee…
That would give us Dundee WOS2 in August, leaving September for Glasgow or Edinburgh – or Aberdeen!
BTW: the gift shop in the old Arnott’s/DM Brown building is doing plain polyester saltires or ‘royal standard’, 90x60cm for £2. 150x90cm ‘Scotland the Brave’ saltires for £4.99. Saltire bunting, 12 feet long with 11 wee saltires for £4.99.
jiss sum ehdeaz an’ thah’, iye?
8=)
Comments about the big debate on Skye???
Jenny Marra said that we would be retaining Trident in Scotland because Salmond would be using Trident negotiations to get a shared currency. I thought there was definately not going to be a currency union, absolutely definately not…. Her implication was that there WOULD be a currency union because we would not be getting rid of Trident.
John Boyle….. WTF was that? If that was the best they could come up with from the business community for the No side, we’ve got no worries! I could have come over far better than that for No, and I’m a total Yes!
I don’t want to appear complacent, but I reckon that audience was at least 75% YES. 🙂
BBC bias. The audience knew it too. The public are not as stupid or ill informed as I feared. Well, at least not on Skye.
I enjoyed the programme anyway. 🙂
@Thepnr I’ve been wondering about the set up for Seafest. Will there be any display boards for posters/ poster sized printed up articles for people to have a read at?
I’m hoping to get some of the NHS for yes leaflets to bring and wonder about poster sized version as well.
@ Leather clad man aka Tartan Tory – we win this by inspiring our folk to embrace reality.
Ronnie came for a wee visit tonight and we took a photie of a Dug wi Wings. link to weegingerdug.wordpress.com
Send the dug a pic of your Yes pet and I’ll add it to the page to celebrate Indy Pet Dance.
To hell with the politicians, pundits and bawbaggers.
This is what it’s all about:
Final scene from ‘Papillon’ –
link to youtube.com
Bugger that Ian. IMHO, the required ‘leap of faith’ is nowhere near that daunting, though I have been questioning the validity of the British state since 1979. 🙂
@Thepnr
“Call me cynical but i think I could have produced a much more balanced programme.”
Ever thought of making your own? 🙂
Jees get in the queue.
@Brian Doonthetoon
I can get to the venue Friday around 13:30 do you fancy meeting me there? Saturday 9th Aug sounds like a good idea as a few of us will be in the area for the Seafest.
@chipmonkey
Hadn’t planned any poster size prints yet but that is a great idea, don’t need many as we won’t be giving these away. As you say stick them up around the gazebo. I can get the Wings and Aye Right ones done. Can you do the NHS?
PS I would appreciate your email send it to thepnr@mailinator.com
@Oneironaut
Maybe one day and there are the people with the required skills right here on Wings.
Here’s my bedtime song. one for the masses.
link to youtube.com
Hi Thepnr.
Unfortunately, I will earning a crust at that time.
Due to one member of staff (team of 4) being on holiday, I can’t get time off.
I don’t arrive ‘doon the toon’ until after 5.
If you need any info, fire off an email to me at:-
brian@doonthetoon.BUMFLUFFplus.com
(Remove BUMFLUFF for correct email address.)
Sent you an email.
Got your email ok Thepnr.
Pure genius. Pooling and sharing of the highest order: Tory MP Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury) calls for a UK football team in light of England’s poor display. Home nations should ‘come together’ ‘to allow outstanding British players’ a chance to play in the World Cup. Oh, bless him.
@ Quinie frae Angus
That wee thing wee were talking aboot.
DialMforMurdo on the Guardian is the cove; nae names, nae pack drill.
Just been reading the posts over on the Pensioner Jackpot. So here is a tune for all the Older Wingers. link to youtube.com Vote Yes.
Or link to youtube.com Vote Yes.
Some good stuff here Stu, in the latest Aye Mag from Yes Clydesdale. Great pics from Yes in the Park.
But my favourite piece has to be, if you flick through to page 22, a fine article, The Sunset Empire, from Craig Dalziel. It would make a fine guest post.
link to yesclydesdale.org
edit, Dalzell, sorry Craig.
@Conan the Librarian
Thank you for that.
Have any of you fine people told people in the Yes camp that I’m a feeble and hungry soul wasting away to nothing???
The reason I ask is that yesterday I got two VIP invitations for food…..
The first was to be one of fifteen at a Business for Scotland lunch in Edinburgh at the Scotch Whisky Association (they have obviously not been ‘bullied’ to provide this!) and the second was to be a VIP at a Yes Scotland dinner in Glasgow.
I don’t get excited at being called VIP, since the last time it was presented to me as being a vulgar, ignorant, p***k. In retrospect, with some self-analysis I think this is probably close to the mark, buy hey-ho.
The later has offered me a table of ten (black tie) at an frightening cost of £900. This is a 10% discount over the £100pp price. Anybody here fancy chipping-in and putting on a party frock? I imagine that Paula could be pretty fetching in a cocktail dress!!! Guest speaker is Alex Salmond, so I suppose it could be fun! 😉
Sorry about the grammatical errors above. Bottle of red last night, fell asleep on the couch while ‘debating’ indy on FaceBook and now still not quite awake!…
Perhaps Project Fear is ready to start using some of this stuff:
The 100 Greatest Movie Threats Of All Time :
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No posts since mid-day?….. Is it something I said? 🙁
Its been Awfully Quiet on of topic lately. Anyway here is a Song for the life. link to youtube.com Vote Yes.
@Tartan Tory
Hey don’t you go getting a complex now 🙂
@Michael McCabe
Another good song. Cheers.
@Tartan Tory/Michael McCabe/Thepnr –
Is this the lull before the proverbial?
It’s as if everyone’s taking a collective huge breath, sucking it in…
Thepnr says:
Hey don’t you go getting a complex now
I went to the doctors in Brechin today. He listened intently for several minutes and then diagnosed me as being paranoid!
Well, he didn’t actually say that, but I could tell he was thinking it…… 😉
@ Tartan Tory Remember you are never alone with Schizophrenia. Here is a wee song to help you sleep at Night. link to youtube.com Vote Yes
@Ian Brotherhood
I think that is exactly what it is. BT have been very quiet the past week or so, other than the usual pish. Today was a laugh for example we got cross border energy and then oil from OBR.
Pretty week stuff, they definitely are of the opinion that if it’s said often enough it must be true. They really didn’t expect there would be anybody there to debunk their ideas since they knew they had the media sown up.
Tough titties eh!
@Thepnr –
A positive note on which to end this evening mister.
More power to ye, as always.
Nichty-nicht.
Very good read here.
link to golemxiv.co.uk
@Thepnr
“BT have been very quiet the past week or so, other than the usual pish.”
Saving up the rest of their pish for a big event perhaps?
Noticed on my calendar here, Monday 14th is listed as a N. Irish holiday called “Orangemen’s Day”. In light of recent events, something about that strikes me as slightly ominous…
Anyways, gotta go. I have a massive backlog of Yes newspapers still to be delivered in Stevenston that got dumped in my lap after the other volunteers went M.I.A.
Busy weekend ahead… 🙂
I am born in Dundee, yadda-yadda, and I will move my feet to return Scotland’s government where it belongs. 🙂
The Triumphs – Burnt Biscuits
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Oscar Mack – Don’t Be Afraid of Love
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Chips – You Make Me Feel So Good
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Wha’s thon CameronB Brofie? Ah dinna think I ken them 😉
Yo – back on line after glitches and bursting with news – tomorrow Brechin hosts a Harley-Davidson event, you know- big boy’s playthings, anyway at the beginning of the week – No Yes stall.
Now we have one! Lots of lovely leather clad boys with throbbing engines between their legs- can’t wait!
Tartan Tory, darling will I see you there! All wingers welcome!
Thanks to Paula Rose for inspiring today’s music link.
Definitely was born to be wild! 😉 hehe.
link to youtube.com
I feel like this every time I meet one of you…
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Hi
Favour requested, if anyone spots Nana Smith on here or anywhere in Wingsland,could you ask her to get Norman to check his e.mail for a link. Thank you very much…
Whilst I’m here may I chip in the music thread with this. Hate Meatloaf but think Todd Rundgren is,… well nearly as wonderful as Paula and there are guitars sounding like motorbikes and shit..
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Any body got Kendomacaroonbar,s Email addy.
@ Ronnie Anderson Kendomacaroonbar,s Email addy over on Scottish media rediscovers voice 8:21pm
@Paula Rose
Wow, a Harley do in Brechin with hairy bikers? Now that I’d love to go to.
Unfortunately I can’t, I’m sorry. Just saying I’d love to.
@Quinie frae Angus says:
@Paula Rose
Wow, a Harley do in Brechin with hairy bikers? Now that I’d love to go to.
Your missing out on the Giant Slide as well Quinie frae Angus
link to thecourier.co.uk
@pete the camera
Highlight of the day – A motorbike race down the water slide?
Brechin is quite a bit out of my range, but I’d hitch-hike all the way there just to see that! hehe 🙂
Darlings! Leather, wetness and Aye Right leaflets in a thousand hands!
Here’s another scene from ‘Papillon’.
‘A Wasted Life’ –
link to youtube.com
Something to watch out for tonight on the T in the Park coverage. Paolo Nutini – Iron Sky (the lyrics suggest he may be supporting independence). Looking forward to seeing the response to that song from the crowd at Balado. His set is on from 10pm I believe.
To the rotten establishment and it’s placemen in the media who have caused untold harm to the people of these isles with their hypocritical corrupt laws and policies. While they have indulged in every conceivable depavity and are at heart the maintaining cause of much of our social ills, they have presented themselves as ‘role models’. Capitalising on ignorance and ill education they have promoted the overarching world view of ‘greed is good’ from which we, in Scotland, are now on the brink of escaping.
Your days are numbered, your narrative has been revealed for what it is; a sorry tale of lost boys whose souls were consumed by an insatiable greed for power. It’s too late to be sorry.
link to youtube.com
@K1 –
Sorry if I appear really ignorant, but that singer is new to me.
Karine Polwart?
Seriously. Never heard of her before. That’s what I totally LOVE about this place – I’ve never spent more than a few hours on it without discovering something completely new, especially music-wise.
So, cheers!
And, stonefaction, totally with you on that one – gaun yersel’ Paulo, let’s hear it loud and proud.
Jock Scot [Yew Choob] latest song, with a little help from a friend.
Please share….
link to youtube.com
Better Together getting the message across as only they can. Taking my lead from Ian. B above this is Paul Newman. Cool Hand Luke.
link to youtube.com
@Nana Smith –
Superb. Well done you, and Jock, et al (whoever he is).
Surely there’s enough YewChoob stuff for an album now?
Ian,
Agreed, learn something new on here everyday…
She also wrote an aritcle for the Scotsman in February 2013:
link to archive.today
And this:
link to youtube.com
Nana
That was great, your famous now and will be listened too in 300 years time.
Jock puts your lyrics over as only he can. The visuals as always are superb. Why don’t Yes Scotland use visuals as good as these?
New Yew Choob vid – honeys I am in awe, widely circulated already, Jock dear – your promise of a reflexology 69 is sooooo tempting xx
@Ian Brotherhood
Thanks Ian….there are another 5 verses which Jock hopes to get done for a part 2. All depends on how much time he has. He’s a pretty busy & talented guy.
By the way so are you, very impressed with your media appearance on a newsnet article. Came across very well I must say.
@Thepnr
Jock is a talented chap for sure. Another 5 verses still to come, if he gets the time.
Glad you liked my effort…
Nana Smith – my fondest regards, that is so good.
Nana
Your right about the Ian Brotherhood persona in front of a camera, seen two or three now and he’s always good. There’s a good one on here where he is handing out SSP leaflets on a cold winter night outside a Better Together meeting.
I can’t find it, maybe Ian will provide the link. I’d watch it again if he does. Goan Ian.
@Thepnr –
You know how to flatter a man.
Anyway, as it happens, I posted that very link on the ‘They Are Legion’ thread a few minutes ago…weird or what, eh?
@Paula Rose
You are so kind, hope to meet you sometime!
@Thepnr
Would like to see that. We are in dire need of ‘real’ people in front of the cameras instead of the crud we see and hear each day.
I love warming Ian up after a long day – such a wise head on such a young stalk.
Oops – that could be misconstrewed!
@Ian Brotherhood
Shit, that is impossible!!! I swear I never saw that on the other thread, just reading Nana’s post made me think of your video. Thinking rationally it must be that it made you think the same and that’s why you linked to it.
There is no such thing as coincidence except when there is.
@ Nana – where do you reside honey?
@Ian Brotherhood
Liked this bit, “between 62 and 67% remember where you heard that first”
@Paula Rose
Invergordon for the past 23yrs. I was born and raised in Stornoway. The island of the Marag Dubh.
OK since tomorrow is World Cup final day here’s an “old” video from March 2008. It’s goals of Messi brilliantly edited to music by Pearljam.
Can you believe that this video is made up of clips before he even reaches 21 years of age. Oh and Celtic and Rangers also feature…
link to youtube.com
Still footie happening?
OMG – Nana, best black pudding in the entire universe!
Time to share a goddess
link to youtube.com
@Thepnr –
Dem time-stamps don’t lie mister!
It’s synchronicity!
The Police, ‘Synchronicity II’ (AKA The ‘Scottish Lake Song’) –
link to youtube.com
I heard it somewhere…
link to youtube.com
@Paula Rose
Tut Tut. Same one as before. See I do watch them 🙂
Oh embarrassment darlings – the clits
link to youtube.com
eek more faux pas
Hey Paula
Sad to hear today about the passing away of the last surviving member of the Ramones, only 62 as well, I guess they partied a lot. Here they are in London 1977, were you there?
link to youtube.com
@ Thepnr – this dear?
link to youtube.com
Oh HONEY great minds think a like!!!
link to youtube.com
Paula Rose,Ian Brotherhood
The best black pudding is wee Eddies in Aultbea.
Sting agrees.
goldenayr – are you taking the michael?
sting? – ludicrous
It’s a simple question. Yes or No. Would you take the red pill or the blue pill? Your choice.
link to youtube.com
Ian Brotherhood I Knowyou are old enough to remember this. Enjoy. link to youtube.com Vote Yes.
Aultbea black pudding,whether its Eddies or the butcher who is sadly now closed,wipes the floor of Stornoway or Orkney.
And I might be ludicrous but my claim is not.
Where the fuck is everyone?!
If we keep on at this rate, Rev won’t have to post anything ever again, or if he does, it’ll be as a ‘Comment’ on ‘Off-Topic’.
Ian take a chill pill. Preferably a red one 🙂
@Michael McCabe
Nice one, 63%.
Ian
Holidays(kids) and the Brazil/Holland game.
Oh dear – now, step by step, my dear goldenayr I curtsey to your greater knowledge xx, Ian darling, temper dear xx, Thepnr – darling take a green one xx
63% – anyone ken how to place a bet? No stopping us now.
For Thepnr and Paula Rose and all the other saints from Wings Over Scotland. link to youtube.com Vote Yes.
Paula Rose
I you want to take a short cut,go by Achnasheen and pop into the Gareloch butcher.A very good second to Aultbea and the best steak pies,turkey,chicken crowns there are.
If you want venison,keep heading north from Garve and just punch their lights out at the side of the road.
I’ll garralluch them for you.
67%
Goldenayr – you are so kind xx
Mr Michael McCabe – my heart sings xx
Paula Rose
I usually keep the sweet meats,this time they’re yours. 🙂
btw I’m wrapped up in Tartan Tory’s leather at the moment! yum
btw I’m wrapped up in Tartan Tory’s leather at the moment! yum
So good I said it twice!!
Sweet meats? Bliss, my tongue is all yours!
And still no footage of TJenny at T in the paddling pool – yet another example of MSM bias, that lady is more awesome than moi.
End of empire darlings…
link to youtube.com
Paula Rose
You weren’t joking about daft talk.
Y’d soon change y’re tune if you met me.
goldenayr – can’t wait honey!
Paula Rose
One day when you’re blind and desperate,I
Paula Rose
One day when you’re desperate,I’ll take you up on it.
goldenayr – for you doll
link to youtube.com
Fortunately we don’t have this…
link to youtube.com
I remember watching that on the OGWT.
My Dad tut-tutted but didn’t turn over,even when I called him old fashioned and incapable of appreciation.
I miss the old warmongering sod.
I miss so many people who would cheer as we determine our future – your old man seems to have hidden virtues.
Sorry missed ‘had’ – x
@Michael –
Bang-on mister.
Ali?
Too much…too much…the man is still alive as well.
Remember this?
link to youtube.com
We are a family of Jacobites.
Dispossessed of our lands after the ’45,like so many others.
Didn’t stop him caring for his comrades and charges,he was an officer,during his NS.
Fought alongside Mad Mitch and the Palestinians,even after they were sold out.
Funny how you don’t realise what you’ve got till it’s gone.
Goldenayr – I love the fact that we are a nation, our attitude is one of peace,, love and understanding. There is a golden air about us.
Paula Rose
I prefer “ayr”,it means “song”.
And I should quantify that when the union is gone…I won’t miss it.
So a song –
link to youtube.com
Paula Rose
Heard him practice it under Neils oak.
Thank you for the memory.
@Jock Scot
Easily best one yet Jock. But that’s probably because of Nana’s excellent reworking of that ol’toon. 😀
@Nana
Getting stalked by Paula Rose there Nana. Just be careful’s all I’m saying 😉
@ X_Sticks and the lovely goldenayr – I love you all! btw the gorgeous Jock is coming to practise his reflexology skills – I’ll let you ken.
@ Ian Brotherhood better together NO THANKS Want to take us back to this, link to youtube.com They can go and Themselves. Vote Yes.
Its all quite simple – talk to people who have children, explain the future, we will do this if we follow the simple instruction – explain to one other.
@Michael –
Cheers.
Your link brought me to this. Knew the song, never saw the video. Unbelievable, how young those lads were when they were making this music. Genius:
UB40, ‘Red Red Wine’ –
link to youtube.com
@ Ian Brotherhood Same song different Version. link to youtube.com Vote Yes.
@X_Sticks
Dinna be worrying yersel aboot me. I’m no young thing as an old hubby will no doubt testify to that….hahahaha
I enjoyed reworking Dylan’s best and there is another 5 verses still to come if Jock finds the time. Will be good if he does as there is one verse regarding the british broadcasting corruption.
It’s gone down well with folks who have heard it so here’s hoping…..
Land of Confusion:
link to youtube.com
Connected:
link to youtube.com
I’m not really worried Nana, I know Paula is a gentle soul in spite of all her bluster. as far as I know it’s only us boys that are in danger when Paula get her heels on 😉
I hope Jock can manage to get the ‘extended’ version done, he’s done a cracking job on it so far, definitely the best yet.
Just been on ‘Scotland’s Talk-in’, where I managed to get a plug in for wingsoverscotland.com, in connection with the pensions letter that is on the site.
I read out the pertinent first half of the letter and pointed out that all the myths about pensions had already been busted but keep being repeated.
@ Nana Smith, just catching up on posts over the weekend
was with Thepnr yesterday,he told me about your song,
brilliant A Big Tammy Doff Tae YOU & tae Jock Scot & Ninja.
To Wee, To Poor,To Stupid. Ah bet their kicking
theirselves the left oot TALENT.
@ronnie Anderson
Thank you Ronnie,your kind comments mean a lot. Hoping Jock finds time to do the second half.
K1 loved the Genesis one, some great songs being posted, where can I find the BT equivalent?
This is not on the official BT playlist but mibbe should be.
link to youtube.com
@ Thepnr. I hope you got into your work today, a lot of activeity in the Docks last night Polis Security, this commonwealth games security has overkill, an it isna even Glesga
@ronnie anderson
Yeah got in OK, never noticed anything that might have went on earlier. Thanks for coming through yesterday and bring the Wings plaques and all the Aye Right leaflets.
@ Paula Rose
Sorry if you’ve been missing me honey! No leather for me today. The Hardleys in Brechin aren’t my sort of thing! I was displaying 4-wheeled automobillia at the Glamis Extravaganza and have spent the last two nights as a guest of Lord Strathmore….. Not as posh as it sounds as I’ve been sleeping in a tent on the grass in front of the castle!
There was a group of a dozen with me and the Yes camp had a landslide. On ONE no voter in the group so he got exilled from the BBQ area! 🙂
No matter what ointments I apply, Project Fear just refuses to go away. These probably won’t clear it up, but here are some tunes you probably won’t have heard of before. You might not hear them again, assuming you check them out in the first place. 🙂
The 5 Jones Boys – Mr. Ghost Goes To Town
link to youtube.com
Terry Noland – There Was A Fungus Among Us
link to youtube.com
Screamin Jay Hawkins – I Put A Spell On You
link to youtube.com
Tartan Tory dear – I do hope you gave him some lettuce, we do not want hungry people.
Wee tune…for hungry people.
link to youtube.com
We need to vote YES to help them.
Don’t dream it’s over…
link to youtube.com
link to bbc.co.uk
They’ll be promising the moon next.
🙂
Dunno if anyone here is from Kilwinning or can get there easily.
Thought I’d draw attention to this anyway…
The Queen’s Baton Relay will be passing through Kilwinning via the old Abbey Tower at around 1:20pm on Tuesday 15th.
(Got an E-mail from the folks at the archery club there whose historical links to the town got them selected to act as sort of an “honour guard” to accompany the relay through Kilwinning. They’re not sure if they’ll be allowed to carry arrows though, so you don’t need to worry about being shot at! hehe).
Apparently there’s a strong possibility that the BBC will be along to add appropriate unionist bias to the proceedings.
So it may be technically possible to strategically position a few people with Yes badges or banners around so that it’s impossible for them to get a good camera angle without including at least one Yes in the background. (Not that I’m suggesting people set out on such horrific acts of intimidation! 😉 Not at all!)
(But if you do, be sure to take your own video as evidence, just in case the BBC try to get you hustled out of there, or try to photoshop the Yes banners out of their film!)
@Oneironaut,
Watch out for Saltires here
link to bbc.co.uk
@12:38. Saltire and Lion being waved vigourously. Well done girls.
🙂
We’ll soon be home!
link to youtube.com
This is a hoot
link to tastefullyoffensive.com
@ bugger, tears running doon ma leg.
🙂
@BTP –
!! 🙂
Who remembers ‘Ygorra’ magazine? The Glasgow Uni Students fundraising mag. Don’t know if it’s still going…
‘Ygorra’ could be a useful prefix:
YgorraGOYA = ‘you’ve got to get off your arse’
YgorraDIY = ‘You’ve got to do it yourself’
YgorraRegistertoVote…etc etc
It’s the ‘Y’ at the start that helps link it to Yes. Obvious, but simple, and could be effective as and when we see genuine graffiti appearing.
@Ian Brotherhood
YgorraGOYA = ‘you’ve got to get off your arse’ Nails it for me.
Ha ha Bugger, that made me laugh.
Dunno if anybuddies played this one yet, but here’s the advert that was used to promote a popular alcoholic beverage made in Scotland:
Something So Real (The Chinheads) ~ by Love Decree
link to youtube.com
Too serious boys – lets have some love…
link to youtube.com
On the same theme Paula Rose..
Be My Baby ~ By Vanessa Paradis:
link to youtube.com
@Paula Rose –
re ‘Je t’aime’ –
I well remember you singing that, in Dundee, as Thepnr played his mini-accordion, while we were all outside ‘Jolly’s’ having a fag.
Those fleeting, fractured glimpses will stay with me for many years…
Here is Someone French Singing about Love. link to youtube.com Vote Yes.
And here is Someone Scottish with a song for Paula Rose. link to youtube.com Vote Yes.
@ Bugger
Choked.
For no particular reason…it’s just wonderful (although the sound quality isn’t great) –
Bob Marley, ‘Redemption Song’ (acoustic):
link to youtube.com
I Just Love a Pretty Face. Good Song too mind You.www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP5JBYdrGvk&feature=player_detailpage Vote Yes.
If at First You don’t Succeed. link to youtube.com Vote Yes.
We’ve been putting up signs in Perth and Kinross at the entrances to villages and towns.Even put one on the A9 south of Ballanluig.
If anyones interested in doing the same in other areas,go here.
link to facebook.com
Sorry,should have said scroll down to the 6th July entry.
@Kininvie, could we make a arrangement to meet up, we
have a Signed Wings Banner for the Rev, I can drive to
Bathgate anytime you say.
There is an on-line poll on the referendum and social attitudes to it on the Scottish Times website (www.scottishtimes.com), which may be of interest. It won’t take more than ten minutes to complete. My profound apologies, if someone else has posted this already.
Douglas Macdonald – thanks for the link to the poll. There were only 5 voters on when I started and 30 when I left it. Most of the %s were high for pro indy answers and the other 25 folk may well be Wingers, ‘though it’s a wee bit late for us to vote en masse. Perhaps you should post the link again on a new thread tomorrow. 🙂
Scottish Times Survey now 43 Yes 30 No 9 Undecideds 3 Cant Vote 1 Vote Yes.
I Can Feel it in the Air. link to youtube.com Vote Yes.
Hi All
Message for Braco if anyone can get in touch with him.
At the end of the ‘If we’d brought Parkinson’ thread he asked where he could get more Aye Right business cards. I’m the man to see about that (though there may be others) so here’s my email address:
ecktaylor@btinternet.com
I’ve only a few hundred left (Braco’s most welcome to them) but the printer I used has the details and can get them printed up quickly and fairly reasonably.
Cheers
@Alex Taylor
I’m sure you’ll hear soon. Well done for offering them, they are very useful. I was in the Co-op the other day and spoke with the woman serving me. I couldn’t resist it as she was such a cheery girl.
I asked “are you voting Yes” she said “what” “the referendum will you vote yes?” “Absolutely” she said, I handed her half a dozen cards and said, “pass them to the rest of the staff”.
And to think that we have yet to begin to fight!
Hi people
Just to say thanks for the Edinburgh WoS donation 🙂
Just to let you know we are setting up 2 events for August that are going to be interesting and one more cool one if we can manage it. Will keep you informed.
Doing a live stream in Edinburgh on Mon 21st…
@Douglas Macdonald, did that poll duplication of the questions with different wording ( a lawyers trick )
To lift your spirits. link to youtube.com Cheers. Vote Yes.
Fancy A Drink. link to youtube.com Vote Yes.
So Sad to hear about Flight MH17 link to youtube.com Rest in Peace.
Alex Taylor,
Thanks so much for min. Just got in myself tonight so sorry for not being able to answer you earlier. Will email you tomorrow morning as soon as I get a moment. Once again thanks to you and to everyone else that’s been trying to help me with this. What a team! How can we lose?
Cheers again and talk soon.
@Michael McCabe
Still on the ball I see and the standard isn’t slipping. Cheers
Time is running out, don’t delay and do your bit.
link to youtube.com
I am posting this a bit early bit, it is for all the boys and girls of the late Night Playschool, especially the gals of a certain age. Conan can look too.
It is in French, subtitled in English but it is superbly a visual joke too.
Nightol
link to youtube.com
@Bugger (the Panda
hahaha class!
@goldenayr
Great sign!
link to tinyurl.com
galamcennalath
You should see them up.Will get some photos and post them.
Cal ma pal,
Send it to largsyesshop(at)hushmail(dot)com. I just opened it so you will be the first email. Looking forward to it. Cheers min!
@ Bugger
Nothing new there for me, I sleep with a granny every night of the week…
@ Conan
But does she look like a 35 year old?
Harold and Maud – a great movie, I taught that young man everything!
link to youtube.com
Braco, I’ve just sent you an e-mail.
@galamcennalath 2:17 pm and @goldenayr
I’m a green yes now. Jealous of the sign! Brilliant.(Our trees have a couple of window posters tied up in them and our wall has leaflets under stones.)
chipmonkey
Get your local YES group to order one and stick it your garden.
Right guys,needing some help here.
I’m looking for an already compiled list of pro indy sites to print out for leafleting/canvassing.
Anybody got one?
Goldenayr have you tried http://www.indyposterboy.info They have leaflets ready which I’m using which have sites on them and you can get 100 I think for £6.50 incl post and packaging.
Ps…think our house may BE the local yes group:-) Know of other YES supporters of course. Maybe I’ll try Kirrie for a sign.
Goldenayr,
Try this one
link to scottishindependencereferendum.info
If you must…
link to facebook.com
damn wrong link – ignore
I think this is the one…
link to youtube.com
Kind of ‘off-topic’, but not really –
link to haaretz.com
No Particular reason other than I like it. link to youtube.com Vote Yes.
First it was Hands across the Border. Now it’s Walk along the Border. What next ? Hokey Cokey for the Union. You put your expenses claim in. You take your mortgage payments out. You Squander Scotlands oil wealth and tell them it’s worth nowt. Pass me the Trough for my snout. Oh Scotland we love you. Honest Scotland we love you. Please Scotland we need you. Of that you can have no Doubt. Vote Yes.
Ian Brotherhood
Israel isn’t a Semitic state.
This is not so strange, because what one is talking about are in reality two entirely different forms of political philosophy with the same name — anti-Semitism. Contrary to received opinion, there is nothing in common between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. Certainly the Zionist movement has deliberately confused the two, but the former is a form of anti-racism whereas the latter is a form of racism. There can be no blurring at the edges or overlap. One is either an anti-Semite or an anti-Zionist. One cannot be both.
link to electronicintifada.net
link to electronicintifada.net
link to en.wikipedia.org
Churchill viewed the Zionists as potential colonists on behalf of the British Empire, but this idea did not linger long; even after Britain took on the League of Nations mandate he never viewed Palestine as part of the empire (and it technically was not). The interest the Zionists served was not that of the British Empire but of Western civilization as a whole. This was a fine but significant distinction. So powerful was the civilizational argument for Churchill that to him it overrode whatever historical
claims a people might have. Any group that did not properly develop land; advance science, literature, or philosophy; or introduce liberal laws, culture, and institutions on their land—in other words, contribute to the progress of civilization—in effect mortgaged their right to that land.
link to yalepress.yale.edu
link to en.wikipedia.org
Chipmonkey
I’m too isolated and only get released to canvas under observation.Maybe they think it’s dangerous to have me mix freely.
I just want to get the message out about the signs,get them up across the country.If it’s been going on elsewhere I must have missed it.
Robert Peffers, Bugger The Panda, The Man In The Jar, The Tree Of Liberty
Just read your comments re. Marshall Aid post WWII on the Big Bruvver thread and thought it best to reply here. The idea that Britain was hard done by at this time by not getting any aid is a myth. The long slow decline of industry post 1945 was down in large part to British government arrogance and economic incompetance. What a surprise!
link to bbc.co.uk
@Cameron B –
Sorry mister, but I’ve been unable to respond to your comments – no access to WOS (or anything else) since approx 8-ish this evening.
I only linked to the Haaretz article because I thought it was an interesting piece.
TBH, I have no idea what ‘Israel’ is.
Whatever ‘it’ is utilises global MSM to make genocide a form of spectator sport.
This will cheer you up Ian B
link to youtube.com
Here is a wee Song I play when I get sick of listening to the unionist nonsense you cant do this and you cant do that, link to youtube.com Vote Yes.
For the People who do the canvassing, man the stalls, Give there time freely, Help fund this Website and other good causes. Provide all the links. In other words go the extra mile. I would like to say. link to youtube.com Vote Yes And to Rev Stu. Your the Man.
Is this how the establishment does business now?
link to bbc.co.uk
How about some surf music? Here is some more Finish mastery, I hope it doesn’t give anyone nightmares. 🙂
Laika & The Cosmonauts – Boris the Conductor (live)
link to youtube.com
These guys rock. 🙂
Emmaa etsimässä part 2. – Laika And The Cosmonauts
link to youtube.com
Blue Stingrays – Brave new world 🙂
link to youtube.com
I’m not sure how old this is, sorry.
The City of London debates Scottish independence
link to youtube.com
Good Sunday morning to you Scotland and afar. I was wondering what the Scottish branch of the CND will do thereafter, when our independence is achieved and the WMD’s are arranged for removal/disposal.. probably celebrate!
Civil War ~ Guns n Roses (War footage)
link to youtube.com
X PEACE IS CLOSER X
God help Gaza.
We need independence, if for no other reason than to be free to scream on the international ‘stage’ about what’s happening.
Radiohead, ‘We Suck Young Blood’ –
link to youtube.com
Could any of you guys who know how to use twitter consider posting this video there please? I am clueless about twitter but I think this video might help the cause.
We have some friends of our son Ewen staying with us in Kirriemuir on holiday from Finland. They are an intelligent and talented bunch of kids and I took the opportunity to ask them about Scottish independence. This is a video from my tablet I took of that ‘interview’. It follows a very good jamming session where they came up with what I think is a very good ad hoc composition.
link to youtube.com
My guess is that if we get 77.5% turnout.
That way if we win it will be the best £500 I’ve ever thrown away, if we lose I can get drunk for a month :).
Oh! wait what happens if we win I’ll still want to get drunk for a month…back to Ladbrokes.
My guess is that if we get 77.5% turnout it will be a walkover for YES. So I’ve just been to Ladbrokes and put £500 at 10/11 on the turnout being >77.5%.
That way if we win it will be the best £500 I’ve ever thrown away, if we lose I can get drunk for a month :).
Oh! wait what happens if we win I’ll still want to get drunk for a month…back to Ladbrokes
Update on the Arbroath Seafest for all the volunteers. My cheque was cashed Friday past so I expect some communication this week as to where our pitch is ect.
Message for Tartan Tory, get the car decorated, even if we can’t get it next to the gazebo we can park it prominently elsewhere. Are you still up for getting the kids balloons?
This weekend I had a friend and his wife staying who are from Louisiana. Yesterday I took them to Anstruther and a boat to the seabird sanctuary “Isle of May” in the Forth.
I also took them to Scotlands Secret Bunker where in a room devoted to CND I picked up 3 leaflets all pro Yes from the CND point of view. Worthwhile me requesting more of these for Seafest? Any thoughts appreciated, not just from us who will man the stall.
Thepnr
One of the undecideds I talked to today, had been totally bamboozled by the whole ‘debate’. She said she couldn’t believe anyone and didn’t know which way to go. I suggested that it was unlikely she would ever be in possession of all the facts and that it might help to keep it simple. I then asked her if she was in favour of Trident and it’s replacement and suggested a Yes will remove them from Scotland. She hadn’t looked at things that way and was pretty enthusiastic about getting rid of them. Wait until I tell her about the oil off the west coast. 😉
Thepnr
Given that the removal of trident is absolutely a priority I would say yes, get those leaflets.
Slightly off your thread, but my Sister, who up until now refused to discuss finally took the plunge and let me explain the Yes stance. Removing Trident was absolutely a key point which she agreed with. After a lot of attempts I think i’ve finally got her crossing over to our side.
This is something I would not have been able to do without the support and advice i’ve recieved from all the brilliant wingers out there
@ Thepnr Badges taken care of Wings Alert Reader,Im on The List,& Thanks to Kendomacaroonbar Ceramic Wings Badges & Ceramic key chain trolly Coins. did you get the Saltire’s.
@ronnie anderson
Aye ronnie I sure did, thanks. Got them on Friday but as I said been busy taking care of guests this weekend.
The good news is we also went to Pitlochry on Saturday, saw so many Saltires and giant Yes signs in peoples gardens.
On one of the Yes signs some wee twat had wrote NO in felt pen hahaha. Going there lifted my spirits as I have always viewed the area as fertile ground for a No vote.
Now I’m not so sure!
@ Thepnr.
Thanks for the update.
@Ronnie,
Sent you an e-mail this a.m. I have brand new WoS button badges for you to hand out at the forthcoming events.
Need to work out how to get them to you in time.
What hope Gasa?
Yeah Yeah Noh – Blood Soup (John Peel Session 1986-01-19)
link to youtube.com
I meant Gaza, doh.
A wee bit of Boogie for all you Yessers out there. link to youtube.com Vote Yes.
Michael McCabe
I happily give way Michael. I think you’ve got a more accessible groove there. 😉
Hey Michael
Lesley-Anne is gonna love this. Expect kisses thrown you way 🙂
Oooh! Ya little beauty!
How’d you know I’d be drawn over here to listen to that one Michael. I love you. XXXX 😉
Hi Thepnr.
My sister lives between Straloch and Enochdhu in Strathardle, 7 miles from Pitlochry, over the Moulin Moor.
All of the extended family (8), in Pitlochry, Blairgowrie, Perth and Strathardle, are YES.
Jim McIntosh,
“My guess is that if we get 77.5% turnout it will be a walkover for YES.”
Based on a rough calculation I did more than 2 years ago, I concluded that Yes would win with 55% of the vote on a 75% turnout.
But the grassroots campaign might result in a turnout approaching 80%.
55% in the absence of rigging that is.
After a Yes Vote. This song is for Lamont, Rennie, Davidson, and Cameron. No not our lovely CameronB. The Cameron that lost the Union. The words fit them to a tee. link to youtube.com If that’s not enough to make you vote Yes. My money is on a Yes Win by 67% Hello to all the Wingers out there.
@Thepnr When and Where is Seafest taking place ? I might take a wee trip through.
@ Lesley-Anne Forget Rory the Tory and his Stones. I am a Rock Man and this ones for You. link to youtube.com Sorry Its Posted so late. But you can catch it later on Today. Vote Yes.
@Michael McCabe
Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th August.
@Thepnr
“On one of the Yes signs some wee twat had wrote NO in felt pen hahaha.”
That happens to every Yes sign that goes up in North Ayrshire.
Probably the same ones putting “Naw” stickers up everywhere.
With the increasing frequency of cars with Yes stickers on them, I’d thought this area was starting to come to its senses (especially since it’s far from being a rich area).
But in recent months I’ve been having serious doubts about the people around here.
I hesitate to use the word “brainwashed”, but there I just did!
Hopefully the free thinkers will outnumber the drones when it comes down to the final count.
Can’t remember who suggested this (maybe TJenny or Lesley-Anne?) but here’s Yew Choob’s take on Radio Ga Ga link to youtube.com
@ Thepnr
Working on decals for the car as we speak. As for the balloons, all I need is an invoice! Give me a call if you want to discuss anything. 😉
As far as the car is concerned, I’m afraid it will have to be AT the stand, or not at all. It doesn’t lock, it doesn’t need a key to start it (!) and I can’t leave it sitting anywhere on display unless I’m VERY close by. Without putting too fine a point on it, the car has cost me more than I paid for my house!!!
People may be wondering what this is all about, so perhaps I should explain. As well as being a fervent Yes man, I am also a bit of a ‘petrolhead’. The car we are talking about has been described as my ‘life’s ambition’. It’s a bit special to most people with even a passing interest in 4-wheelled automobillia and, as such, it’s a bit of a crowd-puller. I suggested to Thepnr that I could bring it along to the Arbroath Seafest as a promotional item and have it covered in Wings/Yes decals.
If anyone is in the slightest bit interested in the story behind the car, or indeed the vehicle itself, have a look at the following link, but be warned… To read the whole thing needs an hour and a cup of coffee!:
link to classic-audi.co.uk
🙂
Yew Choob says..”Credit and thanks to everyone involved in the making/suggestion of BBC Blah Blah”.
Special credit and thanks to our unsung heroes Nod and my sister Janet Scot.. see you Sunday
Tartan Tory
You are a complete nutcase.
Well done. Hope to see the car sometime.
Thank-you Brotyboy! I have previously noted your Gravitar image and guessed that there must be at least one more ‘petrolhead’ in here! 😉
@Tartan Tory
ooo, nice car! 😀
Being a computer tech, I’d go for something a bit more “Knight Rider” myself 😉
Jock + YCs, I too hope to be at PQ on Sunday, and after listening to your fab ‘Radio Blah, Blah’, which is an excellent depiction of all that’s wrong with ‘Aunty’, I think we should all sing it on Sunday.
As I suspect it’s too late to get permission (like we’d get it :-() for a big screen to show the whole vid, would it be a good idea if those of us going who have printers (I unfortunately don’t), could print out pages of the lyrics to be distributed throughout the crowd, for those who may no have seen the vid, with Jock, Nod et al at the microphone? Shurely we couldn’t get bad press for, gulp, singing, could we?
Lesley – Anne – I hope you’re getting in full voice for the chorus, if not the verse: D although I agree with you that sometimes older eyes (or should that be ayes?) don’t find it easy to follow the lyrics whilst viewing the background.
(posted on other thread too).
@ T Jenny
Thank you for your kind words on behalf of myself and the YC’s. Don’t know if your idea would be feasible or may put noses out of joint,(I expect Sunday to be a rather emotional affair) but a nice image none the less. Thanks again for being an inspiration and helping to feed a Ninja Penguin and provide Janet and Nod with the opportunity to show what they can do. As I was trying to explain to Ronnie in the Newsroom … the most important thing to remember and respect, is that it is the person with the original idea who deserves the credit cos without them…. So hats off to us all.
Still laughing at Stu’s Positivity Overload on main page but this is how to lovebomb
link to youtube.com
Could someone with the necessary skills please do a ‘Downfall’ type script to accompany this scene from Team America, where Gary vomits?
A lot of us have really had enough of the BTUKOKVNOBNOTHANKS shite…
link to youtube.com
This Guy can sing with Feeling. link to youtube.com Vote Yes.
@Ian Brotherhood
‘Downfall’ type script? Not too sure what that means…
Surprised BT haven’t made their own remix of the Team America theme song actually. They need all the positivity they can scrape together between them after all (which isn’t much!)
@TJenny + Jock Scot
Maybe see you there on Sunday! 😀
@ cameron brodie, thepnr,ian brotherhood and any body else.
I subscribe to an online blog by the ICBJ which is a campaigning group of journalists.
This is what landed in my inbox and again made me think of dirty USA and UK tricks.
link to icij.org
I am on my tablet so no tinyurls available.
Note how they are looking for a crusading story to investigate. Any ideas where they could find that.
I believe they worked with the Guardian on the offshore bank details of moves and shakers and have made an interesting interactive programme.
BtP
@Bugger (the Panda)
There is no doubt that there is a story to be told. Whether it will be told now or after the games is anyone’s guess.
As much as I would like it to happen it would be a real surprise if the hypocrisy, lies and propaganda were to be exposed before the referendum.
Maybe in the unlikely event of a No vote something will come out just when everyone is at their lowest point about 2 years after the vote that will make the No voters feel even worse.
On a positive note I drive around 40 mile each way to work everyday and just recently their is not a day that i do not see a car without a Yes in the window. I never see a No. Getting visible is the answer, it is looking like the Yessers are not afraid nor embarrassed to show openly their support.
I still believe it will be over 55% and I don’t think I’m naive.
A wee tune for those who’s youth left them in the early 70’s 🙂
link to youtube.com
@BtP –
I had a brief look at the link you provided, but will have to revisit.
TBH, I’m still stunned by the pish I’ve just listened to via Radio Scotland, and am not at all sure how the general ‘public’ (in Scotland) will react to what’s happened.
Here is another for my fans
link to corruptglasgow2014.com
Have fun chickadees.
BtP
Hi all
Is anybody going to the Yestival closing party in Stirling next Saturday? It’s a free event. Live music/DJs/spoken word. Sounds like it might be fun.
Details and tickets here
link to eventbrite.co.uk
@ Thepnr – trust the vibes 63%, like me you talk to folk, there is no scaredy yes, if they say yes they mean yes.
@Bugger (the Panda
Bloody Bloody Hell. I knew there was corruption in that council but good grief. This should be copied and put through every door in Glasgow.
If I were a Glaswegian reading that would make me vote Yes. {I live in the Highlands and no doubt there are plenty underhand goings on in our council as well]
Pumeza – oh what lovely songs we sing, just watched “come freedom”.
BtP – that was an interesting read.
Has the link been sent to Private Eye?
They’re quite good at that sort of nonsense…
A Wee tune to chill out to. link to youtube.com Vote Yes.
Try this before you go to sleep to de-program yourself from any contact with the BBC..
Courtesy of Yew Choob,
Sleep well folks.
That will look like a stupid post if the you tube link doesn’t appear
What I was trying to post was BBC Blah Blah
link to youtube.com
Michael McCabe. Thanks for the reply, yes I could do with a lift mate. Or I can take my car if you want to go halfs on petrol. Email- scott.luke1@btinternet.com
Drop me an email, and i’ll send my mobile no.
No way i’m putting that on a public forum. 😉
Cheers. ‘Defo’
Hi Defo I have sent you a Email its from mcccat88 that’s me. Await your reply. Cheers.
for thos who don’t do twitter, new headwear for Sundays PQ3 demo:
and ronnie waves a saltire we will have for the kiddies, these ones have the same flag on both sides:
Brian Doonthetoon
Normally PE take articles from journalists in Scotland who cannot get their copy published in Scotland, as they do in London from disgruntled Fleet Street scribblers.
I hold out no hope that will ever happen.
There is another printed magazine called the Digger and it charts the criminal connections in the West of Scotland with local political figures.
I was in Glasgow recently and bought a copy.
It was shocking, both in the extent of these criminal gangs and their ability to infiltrate one political party.
One funny snippet was the appearance of a gang in the Glasgow area which specialised in ripping off other drugs gangs of their money. Their modus operandi was to swarm the gang in their territory when the were cash rich, blindfold them and take them for a drive in the country, threaten them with guns and then dump them miles from home.
These victims would suddenly lose all memory of what took place and thus be unable to furnish any details to the Polis.
The Polis had a file open on these acts called “Alien Abductions”
Doo dee doo doo doo!
We are not alone.
Good evening Scottish soireé people.
@goldenayr ~ I left a reply for ya at the end of Stu’s recent IAQ’s article, apology not required, all good 🙂
Thought I’d let you know here, as the main threads are filling up exceedingly fast in case you missed it in the recent comments, cheers.
Whose gonna start-up the jukebox this Friday night then?
I Am happy with oven chips. link to youtube.com Vote Yes.
I Love a Friday. link to youtube.com Vote Yes.
@Michael McCabe
You never fail! Great as always, readers never skip a McCabe link. At least so far he’s bound to run out of quality soon!!
I’ve got to say well done to the swimmer dan wallace on getting his gold and for having the balls in the heat of the moment to cry “For Freedom”.
The mood in the Scotland Athletes camp seems very pro-indy judging by the You Tube video of them all singing Flower of Scotland before entering Celtic Park for the opening ceremony.
These games, I now see are going to be a major boost to the Yes campaign, let’s hope we can build on that after they finish right up to voting day. I’m cock-a-hoop. Whoo Whoo.
@ Thepnr Are you going to PQ3 on Sunday ? Hope you can make it. Thanks for the kind words. This one is for you and all the other Wingers. link to youtube.com Vote Yes.
Michael I can’t make it work is getting in the way. I haven’t watched your last post yet but here’s one for Dan Wallace and the rest of us.
link to youtube.com
@ Thepnr Cheers for that. And hats off to Dan Wallace that took Athleticism and Balls to say what he did. And I think he might have started a ball Rolling. Lets hope so. Will Catch you at Seafest.
@Michael & Thepnr –
Great stuff.
There’s something in the air, and it reminds me of this:
Sham 69, ‘If The Kids Are United’ –
link to youtube.com
@Ian Brotherhood
I can remember chanting that myself. I think my two grown up kids feel the same. They have both recently changed their facebook profile picture to one with a big YES stuck on it LOL. I’m chuffed to bits.
There is Something in the air alright. Positivity. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOWO–z1S8A&feature=player_detailpage Vote Yes.
Michael
haha, very smart. I expected this:
link to youtube.com
The YES campaign IS the In crowd, your on the right side, we are all in the “in crowd”. I’m in a bloody good mood 🙂
@Thepnr –
Good moods are infectious!
Check this one out. One of the first albums I ever bought was Talking Heads, ‘Remain In Light’. Popped into my head earlier after reading your comment, so I looked it up and found this ‘live’ version of one of the tracks – never saw it before.
Not sure if I’ve ever seen any band in such an obviously good ‘mood’ while playing, and it shows. Fabulous stuff, and Tina Weymouth? What a total babe.
You’re right to be in a good mood mister. We are getting there, and all the pieces are falling into place without us having to do an awful lot – that’s because the ground was already fertile, and the seeds were planted at the right time, by various folk, at different times, over the past century. We’ve played a very small part in it, but should be rightly proud.
Keep the heid abody – we’re nearly there.
Talking Heads, ‘Crosseyed And Painless’ (live, Rome, 1980)
link to youtube.com
To Follow you Thepnr. And How we are going to win. link to youtube.com Vote Yes.
To Follow you Ian Brotherhood. We might not get another chance so we should take it. link to youtube.com Are you going to PQ3 Ian ? Hope to see you there. Vote Yes.
Thanks Ian and Michael all good. Must get a kip now, work tomorrow. Night.
I Used to think the BBC was good. Now this is what I think of them. link to youtube.com Found A Lot of Good People on Wings Over Scotland Though. Good Night Folks. Vote Yes.
@Michael –
FFS, that was great. Another newbie for me.
What a performer David Byrne is. Shamanic material.
Ian honey – any more united kiddies and I will get very annoyed.
Found a nice upbeat one… 🙂
“Ready Set Go it’s time to run,
The sky is changing, we are one,
Together we can make it while the world is crashing down,
Don’t you turn around…”
link to youtube.com
“Leave it all behind you now,
The final wall is breaking down,
We are what it’s all about,
Nothing can stop us now!” 😉
@Hood
By the way, are there any of those 400mm Wings logo metal cutouts left?
Michael McCabe says:
25 July, 2014 at 11:11 pm
There is Something in the air alright. Positivity.
I was expecting this one:
link to youtube.com
Family member at local Wicker Man Festival now says that the atmosphere is good and full of Yes flags and enthusiastic Yessers.
@Oneironaut
There are two Wings plaques left which were kept for the raffle at the next Wings night out.
Oneironaut and Thepnr – I am ok about my beloved wings thingy being re-homed.
There is no greater love that I have than for my lovely friends here xxx
Paula
I hope you hang onto it. A fitting memento of these times and there’s not long now.
Thepnr dear – so looking forward to our outing by the sea xx
Chatted with various SNP politicians last night- they are unconcerned about postal votes and confident about the future.
btw Thepnr honey – mum-in-law voting yes?
Just thought of a more concise word for the BTUKOKVNOBNOTHANKers – ‘Nawbags’!
@Paula Rose
Working on it, just showed her this picture of her granddaughters new facebook profile:
link to i804.photobucket.com
I’m chipping away lol, week to go.
@Ian Brotherhood
First we had UKOK, then Nob Orders. Now we have Nawbags! Brilliant their paid publicists are doing a grand job. For YES.
Brian Doonthetoon at 1:00pm Good Song Great Era. Here is one from that Era. For what its worth. link to youtube.com Vote Yes.
Heading through to the protest the morn – hope to see a few familiar faces. 1pm kickoff I believe. Sounds like tube to Ibrox is best? Sorry you canny make it Thepnr
@Thepnr –
I have heard no less a media luminary as Stuart Cosgrove using ‘bawbag’ as a verb e.g. ‘…he was bawbagging on about this, that and whatever…’
So, we have ‘Nawbag’ (noun) which is, obviously, a bawbag who supports the BTUKOKVNOBNOTHANKS camp. And we also have ‘Nawbaggery’ (another noun) which is any form of deceptive, misleading, or blatantly biased discourse aimed at bolstering a ‘No’ vote.
But the verb form could be useful:
‘Mr Darling nawbagged magnificently, until presented with any semblance of facts…’
Regular WOS readers are accustomed to seeing ‘Unionist Of The Week/Month’ etc.
The same nominees can be also described as ‘Nawbies’.
I posted this in the comments after the “Non-Political Games’ thread but I’m gonna post it here as well, coz I’m well p!$$€d off!
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I posted this on my Facebook timeline, a wee while ago…
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And they wonder why we Scots get uppitty!
I had BBC1 on a wee while ago, while I was updating myself Facebook-wise.
I happened to catch Claire Balding coming out with this….
Now, you’ve got to remember that ‘BBC’ stands for ‘British Broadcasting Corporation’, ie it is SUPPOSED to represent “Britain’ – it’s not SUPPOSED to be the ‘English Broadcasting Corporation’.
During this chat show type format programme, broadcast live from BBC Scotlandshire’s HQ at Pacific Quay in Glasgow, after the live coverage of what’s been going on in the Commonwealth Games tonight, she had the ignorance, or the audacity, to come out with this utterance,.
I quote directly from the broadcast…
“And they are here tonight. Give them a huge round of applause. OUR mixed team triathalon gold medalists, from ENGLAND!”
This is BBC1, which is broadcast all over the UK, including in the host country of the Commonwealth Games, Scotland.
And the British establishment just doesn’t get why they are giein’ us the dreh boke????
18th September can’t come soon enough for us to get rid of this patronising twaddle from the UK establishment.
VOTE YES!!!
Found This on You Tube. Think its Rather good. link to youtube.com Vote Yes.
@Thepnr
Ah ok. If that’s in Glasgow, I might try my luck at getting one on the night 🙂
Had an idea I was tinkering with for the Pacific Quay demo that the Wings plaque would have gone nicely with, but having trouble getting hold of some of the other required materials.
Techno-magical trickery is hard when you’re skint!
@Paula Rose
Definitely! You should keep that as a souvenir, a little reminder of a time when we all made history! 😀
Here is a wee song for Everyone going to Protest Tomorrow. link to youtube.com See you all there. Vote Yes.
Don’t know why but something wrong with my formatting of the address for the archived copy I made of the Herald article about how Westminster is downplaying value of N.Sea oil. If you want to print it off to show undecided on the doorstep the address is:
https(colon)(forward slash)(forward slash)archive(dot)today(forward slash)(forward slash)KEZ7o
Michael McCabe
I hadn’t heard Hannah Grace before. Cheers, she is something special and I’m pretty sure Innes sounded more like Dylan than the man himself. Nice one. 😉
Unfortunately can’t make it through to PQ today. 🙁
So here’s another version of (one of my favourite songs), as posted above ‘I’d Rather Go Blind’, this time from Christine Perfect + Chickenshack. Enjoy and good luck at the demo folks.
link to youtube.com
TJenny
Don’t stress and enjoy what comes. 😉
link to youtube.com
CameronB – thanks but not stressed. 🙂 I’m watching it on the livestream. Jock Scott from Yew Choob’s just been on singing Radio Bla, Blah, with lyric sheets handed round the crowd, it sounded no too bad and crowd were enthusiasticlly signing away. I joined in from home of course. Interested to see the numbers, as everyone’s been given a numbered card.
@Thistle ~ Many thanks for Independence Live at PQ3 today.. that was necessary.
Maybe our friend, Rev. Stuart would consider premièring some or all of it for you / us, for the world to see?
Thepnr and Tartan Tory – any news on the car? I want an historic ride.
Sorry dears – that could be misconstrued.
Smut – the lovely boy playing bass
link to youtube.com
That’s a pure belter of a video Miss Rose, especially like the way they have an American Saltire in the background, wink wink 🙂
Welcome back to all the new and recent undecided readers, it doesn’t take long to learn, your turn..
Cactus honey – the Rev allows us to play here, I think it very important we only comment on the main threads if we are making a pertinent point. This is so very important – agree?
@ All my friends – same point as I made to Cactus, fun here, but let us leave the main threads for serious discussion, I am sure that is the Rev’s point after my flippant comment.
Completely. The readers will find their way here to play anyways, XX marks the spot everyone.
Main articles = Related comments
Off-topic = Anything goes (within reason)
Dedication:
Anything Goes ~ Gun’s N Roses
link to youtube.com
Some pics of PQ3 today.
link to dropbox.com
Cactus honey – I might lie down next to you next time xx
TJenny
Re future plans for gathering, there has been talk of Dundee which is a little far for me. Also Glasgow. My own view is we should be looking at WOS 5 dundee, 6 glasgow,7 edinburgh and maybe even 8 and 9 if someone can pick it up in North (fort william/inverness) and south (dumfries).
Doesn’t need to be a hundred folk and some could be done simultaneously.
1 ubergig if is appealing but not fair on those outwith the central belt.
Time is running out – need some suggestions of venues. And a Saturday appeals to me.
Just my thoughts – all it takes is for a few undecided to come along and it’s worth the hassle. It also would be lovely to see you all again x
Hi Cactus.
I think I prefer this more reflective “Anything Goes”…
link to youtube.com
Thought I had laughed and smiled as much as I could today Paula, but Stu’s “Oi you”,was priceless.
Cactus..cheers dude..shite singing but I wisnae the only one..Such a shame I didn’t get to see you both today..same with TJenny, hope you are cool my friend..Thanks for the kind comments.
To the rest of you guys who are wonderful to us, Thepnr,Rab the doubter, Mr and Mrs King and the rest of the Wingers I would like to say it is a great privilidge to be a part of something so inspring.
Credit to Thistle and the Indy Live crew.
Nana and Norman Smith..your names are on the Wings banner as requested.
Cheers
@Tam Jardine –
Regarding future get-the-githers, how about we select a centrally located camping/caravan site, take it over, and have a proper all-nighter/weekender? Either that, or a sympathetic landowner could let us use a secluded acre or two? (Kind of Bohemian Grove thing going on there though – we’d need a 25-foot tall WOS sculpture.)
My only beef with the nights I’ve attended is that they simply fly-in.
Link I posted above not working, will try again when I can.
Ian, that’s a damn good idea.
Ian Brotherhood
I like it – take over a couple of acres, we all move in, build a compound and await the coming of Rev Stu
I struggle to get out for a few hours never mind overnight but I know where you are coming from.
Sorry darlings – irresistible…
link to youtube.com
Jock Scot
Singing was great.
Is anyone going to the Yestival closing party in Stirling on Saturday?
@Paula Rose –
What a carry-on right enough..
The following could be useful for footage of Nawbags at and about their business – ‘comic’ sound effects. My personal favourite is at 1.19.
link to youtube.com
Scaredy Cat..so glad I met you and your wee yin today..Wings was certainly well represented and maybe next time we meet we can have a chat, last few times have been hectic but so much fun.
PQ3 today, some images:
link to imgur.com
Again, if you do not want to appear in any of these photos please let me know.
@Patrician –
Cheers. Great images, and good to see some familiar coupons. (Really hacked I couldn’t go, but ’twas not to be.)
everyone really needs to look at the final photo. This hasn’t been photoshopped and that is ronnie anderson’s car, with him driving.
Sorry people operchancity missed in the last photo am giving up wearing ma Alert badge,back to training school fur me.
Brian Doonthetoon ~ liked your alternative ‘Anything Goes’, could be a re-mix in the making!
Miss Rose ~ sounds good.. be forewarned though, I always wear my hat and boots whilst horizontal 🙂
Jock Scot ~ maybe we’ll get a chance to have a jam at the next sociable..
Ian Brotherhood ~ great idea for a weekend country gathering, tent is ever-ready.. somewhere down by a riverside? We could build a camp-fire hehe! This is our summertime after all.
Gactus honey, we are all still laughing! How much longer will you persist in the idea that the sainted moi would choose to nestle up to your slenderness?
Gactus honet – that was a C.
@Paula Rose –
But you always get an ‘A’ for Effort.
Ian honey! always an ‘A’ from me doll xx
I don’t think the Rev likes smut – hardly surpriing, nevermind…
link to youtube.com
Re Guyana weekend suggestion, is it BYO Kool-aid, or is the good Reverend going to be expected to oblige ?
Have Project Fear actually managed to coral those who threaten us from space !
“somewhere down by a riverside?”
Floors castle has a lovely wee lawn running down to the Tweed.
Is anyone here pally with the Duke of Roxburghe ?
Maybe met him at Eton, or Magdalene ?
Miss Rose, you are quite the tease, help me out here X-Sticks..? Cheers, Gactus Honet 🙂
@Thepnr
Betty Boop and I are still OK to help with the stall next weekend. Has anyone sorted out a “duty roster”? It would be a bit awkward if we all turned up and couldn’t fit in 😉
We are available from late Friday right through to close of play Sunday.
How are things with info materials? We also have quite a few YES balloons and sticks that we can bring. If we need more, that can be arranged.
… and, of course, I REALLY meant weekend after next (9th & 10th)
Just back from holiday and still trying to get head calendar sorted :-/
@Cactus
Me? Not sure I would want to get between you and Paula Rose, with those cuban heels and stillettos it could get dangerous.
I thought you two were snuggling up at TJenny’s after the Newsroom. That’s the rumour I heard anyways 😉
That said we all know how profligate our Paula can be when there’s a Yes vote to be had.
Haven’t had much time to keep up this weekend, great turnout at PQ and big credits to all who made it there. I couldn’t make this one, but hoping to make the next. It won’t change the bbc, but is probably helping them to keep more honest than they would like to be.
Maybe tonight I’ll get a chance to watch the LiveIndy footage.
@Ian Brotherhood
“we’d need a 25-foot tall WOS sculpture”
Like one made out of wicker, that we can lock Tories inside and set it on fire while we all dance around it singing? 😀
The Sea Fest has a facebook page link to facebook.com, which is where most of the current information seems to be located (their website, and that of Red Pepper Events, are a wee bit scant on detail).
There is a map of the event site on a leaflet here: link to facebook.com
I’ve photo-shopped out the ads around the periphery of the map and placed a copy of that here: link to dropbox.com
I’ve also asked Red Pepper if they can provide a list of attendees/exhibitors and a “proper” site map with the exhibitors shown. I wait with bated breath for their reply 🙂
@Oneironaut 11:51
Is that environmentally friendly? All that hot air and dross being spewed into the atmosphere?
I’m sure young Mr Harvey would have something to say …;-)
Just had a response from Red Pepper – they don’t release any information on who has stalls or where they are located.
Just turn up and enjoy, it seems.
@ X_Sticks – very sticky ground you are negotiating dear, those claims by young Cactus are sweet, but really!
Hi lads n lassies ronnie logging in from Maryhill food bank. I have given Julie £400 donation from the wings BBC Demo.
To all the Wingers on WOS sincere thanks for the money given it will make a big difference to the families in Greater Maryhill. Keep up the good work that you are all doing.
Julie Webster
Excellent result Ronnie.
I hope they get their premises either free or at a significantly knocked down rate. I’ve read about the Glasgow slab group charging full rates for some other foodbanks.
@Thepnr – do you have a stall with an electricity supply?
Any word on the Rev’s wee Blue Book? Would that be available for the fest?
Great news about the fund raising. The generosity of people was staggering.
The sad thing is that this is only a drop in the ocean but we know it will be put to good use.
I for one do not want to spend my remaining days asking people to donate so that a family can survive for another week, this nonsense has to be stopped and the people responsible for poverty in the UK held to account in a criminal court.
The ONLY chance we have of putting an end to this is a big loud resounding YES.
@kendomacaroonbar
Hi
We met at the Helensburgh yes opening. I was really pleased that you came and hope to meet up in the future. The idea of a Wings night at the Clyde Bar in Helensburgh sounds great to the largely silent Wings followers in the area.
Thanks for the badges. Feel free to drop by the office for a coffee.
Richard
Major chuffed moment from PQ3 when Ronnie called me over and introduced me to the Polis as a Winger…one for the C.V. methinks
I mentioned to the male officer that I thought that since the introduction of Police Scotland that the force had undergone a redefining of itself and he thought it was a good point and when I asked him how we had done re our behaviour ..he said we had done well and had attracted quite a few passers by to come and join us
What a feckin’ fabulous day..cheers tae aw the wingers
link to 37.media.tumblr.com
Jock dear – you are a credit to our nation xx.
@Ronnie –
What a tremendous gesture. That message from Julie Webster is proof that what we’re doing is right.
FWIW, I reckon that Julie could, in a refreshed Scotland, be a serious politician, in the mould of the original Labour Party socialists. (I wish we could claim her for the SSP, but for all I know she may already be a member!)
More power to all of ye who did PQ3 – fantastic work.
Tiptoeing with every fibre of my being here Paula Rose 😉
Hi X-sticks..think you’ll be ok..think Paula’s having a lie doon
Paula you say the kindest things… x
@Jock
That’s when she’s at her most dangerous 😉
@Jock Scot –
That snap of you and Ronnie with the Old Bill is fantastic, and potentially priceless as and when the big guns turn on any WOS-related activity.
Definitely one to keep, right alongside that of the two officers posing happily with the PQ2 Pandas.
We’re building up quite the photo-gallery, eh?
‘History in the making…’
Watching a stoned-looking Alistair Darling (on the latest thread) reminded me of this ‘educational film’ –
link to youtube.com
I’ve just posted this on another topic (the-non-political-games) but I thought I’d share it here, coz I know yooz like some muzak, now and again.
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donald anderson says:
28 July, 2014 at 8:37 pm
Thanks Brian. I was beginning to think I was the last Scottish Rebel with all this nicey, nicey approach.
Och, eh’m no’ really a rebel! I first heard that song in a local ‘clubbie’ in the early 70s and it appealed to my growing sense of ‘Scottishness’.
As a DJ, I snuck it it in, over the years, at various functions when I thought ‘this’ll work’.
Like this one…
We used to do parties for the local Labour Party in Dundee, in one of the organisers’ houses. I HAD to buy this album, because it was requested so much.
I guess it shows how the attitudes of the Labour Party have changed since the 70s and left their traditional support at the side of the pavey. This track still gives me shivers up the spine…
link to youtube.com
Darlings! I’ve got a twatter thingy! You can fawn over me at Paula Honey Rose how fab. I’ve already been talking to some big cheeses.
@ caz-m
I have added your photos to link to imgur.com album.
I have been informed by imgur that someone has been trying to hack the account, I have therefore updated the password to be 50 characters in length, best of luck trying guess the 80 characters used.
@Paula Rose –
It’s ‘Twitter’, actually.
‘Twatter’ should only be used if you’re deliberately looking for people to rub you up (one way or t’other).
And who do be these big cheeses you tell of?
Some character called Blair Mac Dougal and a Duncan Hotherthingy and a wee lad called McTernan.
At X_Sticks
Whoops she awake and I see what you mean…although if her twatter thing keeps her distracted…oops better not speak too soon
Paula..don’t forget about us, as you will obviously attract so much desire with your Twatter that they may take you away from us
At Ian…yeah no doubt if the Daily Mail get their hands on it, we will be held up as an example of vile and nasty cybernats hassling the Polis..you can, to be fair, see all that hatred in the faces..hope we meet up soon.
And Mac Dougal likes cornish yarg and membrillo – who’d have thought!
And the Rev is hunting for smut in the wilds of Somerset!
Pal of mine just spent half an hour on Twitter arguing with someone who demanded to know the annual costs set up in the White Paper & where they’d get the money. Apparently page numbers to individual costs weren’t enough, he wanted complete collation & costing handed to him on a silver platter. Quite how he expects anyone to possibly know annual costs with any certainty beyond 5 years, let alone 10 or more, is beyond me, but sometimes I despair.
Over at Wee Ginger Dug there’s a link to a really heartening interview with a lovely Loyalist lady from Bathgate. Well worth a listen-what a heroine! The OO is a sinister organisation. Many who support it are NOT. A large contingent of the Tartan Army are Rangers supporters. There is a rich vein of Yes support here. Drove through Larkhall recently. It is festooned with Saltires!
@ Cmon Lads n Lasses KENDO M BAR asked for a Wings Nite
out in Helensburgh> Im up for it, & the work Kendo,s done
he needs our support.
Liking the new photie Ronnie 🙂
@ Jim Thomson,Thanks to Gerry & Jim for the photo,will get the Wings banner included in a update.
Spent most all day at Maryhill foodbank with Jackie One of Julie,s voluntears,& it would drive you to Tears to deal with some of those People,no money, no food,NO HOPE, I hope we can give them a BETTER FUTURE.
Did a shop with Julie & two of the women at Tesco last night 8pm, that was the bright spot of the day, a laugh a min,thats the only way those voluntears could cope to lift their spirits or they would crack up dealing with dispondency day in day out.
Most of what Wings donated of the £400 GONE in one Trip
round Tesco, then pulling the 3 Trollys across Maryhill Rd to the Foodbank, then stocking the shelves, 10.20pm finnish.
Anyone in or around Maryhill can give any help as a Volunteer contact Julie through the Maryhill F/Book, Twitter page.
There is also a Furnature store,so if your disguarding any old furnature, keep in mind Maryhill, Thanks.
@ronnie
Sterling effort ronnie. I’m proud of the WoSsers getting behind Maryhill. The real Common Weal in action.
We CAN make a better Scotland, we just need to win our sovereignty back first.
@ronnie anderson says: 29 July, 2014 at 11:18 am:
“Spent most all day at Maryhill foodbank with Jackie One of Julie,s volunteers,& it would drive you to Tears to deal with some of those People,no money, no food,NO HOPE, I hope we can give them a BETTER FUTURE.”
What breaks my heart, Ronnie, is the realisation that the Maryhill Food-bank, and its wonderful volunteers, are not unique but can be replicated in every major area throughout our nation. It worries me, though, how those in our more remote areas manage. Isolated as they so often are.
I’m more or less housebound myself, only able to go as far as I can return if I get the warning a bad turn is coming on, (I get around a 20/30 minute warning sign). I have a wee adapted camper-van that allows me a bit more distance but the downside of that is, if a turn comes on, it can last for a very long time. During one such bad turn I spent over 19 hours in an isolated lay-by that had no mobile phone signal to allow me to get help.
So knowing the kind of problems disabled and isolated folks suffer, I worry for my fellow Scots in our more remote areas. May all our efforts to gain our independence succeed and we then build a better Scotland for all The People of Scotland.
Mair power tae yer elby Ronnie, Scotland needs mair like ye.
Is there a list of local foodbanks that we can support? Presumably other people in other localities need this kind of help?
@ Ronnie Anderson
At long last, I see the hut. Still no wheels on it though!
Well done at Maryhill, Ronnie. I am certain you would have helped lift the spirits too and that would be important for the volunteers.
Shame on those who have brought so many people to this level of dependency. If there was only one thing that should make people realise that we need a better political direction, food banks should do it.
Onward to September.
@Robert Peffers, 19 hours in isolation.. that’s a frightening experience, respect to you. Oor Ian Brotherhood made suggestion of a weekend Wings get-the-gither, possibly camping/caracamper-van.. if suitable, would you maybe consider joining us if the plan comes the-gither?
Ye see, there be many friendly feathers that form the wings of WoS.. we look out for each other 🙂
Also, kendomacaroonbar / ronnie anderson ~ If the chosen date is suitable, I’m up for Wings at the Clyde (Helensburgh).
“It’s, down by the riverside, down by the River Clyde”.
Helensburgh wings night – Include me in on that.
I reckon Jock Scott should be the first independent Scottish Government Minister of Culture & Media.
He’ll be too busy on his world tour.
Thought I’d familiarise by suggesting a few soonish dates furradoo wherever:
August
8th, 9th, 10th (Fri, Sat, Sun)
15th, 16th, 17th (Fri, Sat, Sun)
22nd, 23rd, 24th (Fri, Sat, Sun)
Countryside, Helensburgh, Glasgow west-end, Dundee, Edinburgh, your City/town?
Pics of ronnie anderson delivering the donations from Sundays PQ3 demo:
Thanks again to all who donated money and/or time on Sunday.
Cameron nuclear deal behind parliaments back
theguardian.com/world/defence-and-security-blog/2014/jul/29/nuclear-weapons-us-uk-cooperation
@JimnArlene fixed URL for that article:
link to theguardian.com
SSP branch meeting earlier this evening, in Irvine – one of the lads told me he did a stall last Saturday, in the Bridgegate, and was astonished at the response.
He shifted far fewer leaflets and SSP ‘Voice’ magazines than usual. The reason? –
“Nah, you’re alright, just keep it son. Ah’m votin’ aye anyroad…”
Anyone who knows the man also knows he isn’t given to exaggeration – he reckons that 80% of the folk he spoke to on Saturday are definite Yessers.
@Jim Thomson
Sorry folk for lack of information on Seafest. I’ve been patiently waiting for some kind of confirmation letter from ed Pepper showing details of stall location ect. but so far nothing.
I do have an email from a couple of weeks ago saying “no issues” and the cheque has been cashed. I haven’t got in touch with them since as been working 7 days a week for the last 3 weeks due to the particular job I do.
I will do my best to send you all an update by email tomorrow with regards to how many volunteers we have for one or both days, where our gazebo is and if Tartan Tory can bring his car.
Anyway all will be explained tomorrow. Let’s get stuck in as best we can.
@Ian Brotherhood
Could you get SSP leaflets to me or one of the others coming to Seafest? More the merrier.
@Thepnr –
Nice one. Will try to get some stuff to you. Need postal address.
@Thepnr thanks for the update.
e-mail me at wings (at) whitnoo (dot) com and I’ll pass contact details
So – to stop HS2 – the English home counties rely on a Yes vote in Scotland, or am I missing something?
Need more information Paula 🙂 to provide an answer.
Cactus
Sat 23rd August in Edinburgh or Glasgow guid for me. Big Wings meet or just a missionary pub crawl to talk a few scoopers round and spread the message.
Need some ideas troops – CameronB, TJenny, Ian B, Thepnr, Ronnie – I would love to do something for Yes and help Maryhill FB (and mibbe an Edinburgh equivalent) with some funds but I have no imagination. And I have nae the freedom to go dicking about in a tent unfortunately much as I would love to!
Thepnr dear – so much devastation planned for the English countryside, if they talk to us nicely we can help them out – after we have helped our fellow folk first.
Yes we vote and yes we may well have to help our fellow folk in England, but then I believe the red cross is already.
We have more than one nation to save from the neo-cons!
I want to take you into my world
link to youtube.com
persevere its a long peice but I promise it will be worth it,
the girl playing trombone with the scrunchie in her hair is in my seat, although I didnt wear a scrunchie, 😉
ps this band could not hold a candle to the band I played in but there is no live recording of us playing this peice.
Paula Rose
A request for your input obviously requires a seperate post – I don’t want to just include you on a list. Can you think of a way to combine pro yes, drinking, music, companionship with raising some money
somebody email me with details of meeting place and date in case I dont get on here for a while, (on holiday and might be away)
Sell tickets Tam dear…
link to youtube.com
@john king
Got you covered mate.
Jock Scot says
“To the rest of you guys who are wonderful to us, Thepnr,Rab the doubter, Mr and Mrs King and the rest of the Wingers I would like to say it is a great privilidge to be a part of something so inspring.”
Gonnie on call me Mr King Jock?
last time I was addressed like that it was followed by please rise and face the bench. 🙂
and the only person required to call Irene Mrs King is me 🙁
Oh btw ,Irene and i are going to try and make the Seafest. if you need us that is?
People – sorry to bother you, but I’m trying to find one of Stu’s bits of data…and for some reason I find that almost always impossible. I’m writing a piece, and trying to reference where in the last survey he referred to people complaining about not having enough information – then indicated that they hadn’t realy tried looking very much for it at all. Unfortunately, in the haze, I cannot even remember when the survey was (some time in March?) never mind the names of the posts in which he delivered the results. Can anybody give me the month, or even a bit of a month (start, middle, end)???
Apologies again… [sobs for uselessness]
Water wotsit – what’s the problem dear? Do try and be a bit more concise, just 50 days to go honey and March was a while back.
@thewaterbeastie
Just above the twitter box [right hand side of page] there is a box for month and a box for category. Try putting in some appropriate words such as ‘survey’
Hope that helps.
Someone please tell me – what is the ‘Seafest’ date?
Sat 9th Sun 10th August
And it’s in Arbroath Ian dear home of the Smokie xx
And if you are a good boy you can sleep on my floor.
@Nana Smith – yeah, tried that already – survey brings up loads of spectacularly unrelated returns. I’ve tried a few variants – so I was hoping somebody might recall roughly ‘when’ he was sharing the results of our last survey. Once I have that, it should be quite quick to find the salient group of results posts.
[Sorry not to meet you at the Counting House last time, Paula Rose – was hoping I might have seen you on Sunday…]
@thewaterbeastie
Sorry can’t help.
Waterwiggly – are you coming in Arbroath at the Seafest?
sorry not ‘in’ – to
You cant have a Seafest without a Ship Song. link to youtube.com Vote Yes.
@thewaterbeastie
Might it be found here?
link to wingsoverscotland.com
On the 9th? I’ll put it in the calendar and see – while since I’ve been up to Arbroath…
Not sure I’ve ever been to Arbroath before but she-who-must-be-obeyed used to holiday there many many moons ago.
Youngest lad also recommends (deep breath) battered smokies. He attends the occasional Ayr match up there, and that’s the only excuse for his bizarre taste that I can muster.
The Point of Nae Return – you are a gem, Sir!!! From that result, I scouted the other write ups from the results, and found this from 2 days later: link to wingsoverscotland.com
Many thanks!! 🙂
BBC Demo August (around the 16th)
Very successful last demo with over 1000 in attendance and again a trouble free carnival atmosphere. Sorry I didn’t have time to report on it (I’m having a bit of a health problem just now) but I’m sure you all seen the photo’s Jim and Caz-M posted.
Another BBC Demo is planned for August and the organisers have asked us if we would like to have someone from wings speak at the event.
Ronnie is going to a meeting today to confirm the details.
Anyone interested in doing a pitch for wings at this event?
That includes you of course Stu.
🙂
For Kirrie Yes Shop – popped through for a blether but door was closed. Have popped a couple of dozen NHS for Yes leaflets through the letter box. Will catch up soon.
@ Tam J
“Can you think of a way to combine pro yes, drinking, music, companionship with raising some money?”
I’m sure Paula might have an answer to that. Not sure you’d want to know the answer 😉
@Tam J
“Can you think of a way to combine pro yes, drinking, music, companionship with raising some money”
I’m sure Paula will have an answer to that question, Tam, not so sure that you’d want to know the answer 😉
Aberdeen game for the non-sky folk starting in 2mins
link to stadium-live.biz
St Johnstone game 15mins
link to wiziwig.tv
X_Sticks honey, our lovely Tam J is young, please do not excite him – he has to arouse the expectations of the many undecided. If he wants some ideas, then he knows how to get in touch.
Xsticks says
“I’m sure Paula will have an answer to that question, Tam, not so sure that you’d want to know the answer”
Thats aw very well Xstick but wit happens if ye cannie play poker? 🙂
does anyone have a list of yes shops and thier addresses, Im scunnered looking for them and not finding any.
@John King which area?
here are a few:
Irvine, High Street KA12 0AL
Glasgow, 136 Hope St. G2 2TG
Stirling, 67A King St.
Leith, 7 Easter Road.
Kirriemuir (can’t find an address)
Dunfermline, Bruce St.
I just did the ol’ google thang 😉
Try a search for yes shop
… and add a town name
1 High Street, Brechin
add:
Inverness, Union Street
Kilmarnock, John Finnie St.
Another Yes shop in the High Street Elgin.
@john
Gin rummy?
Beggar my neighbour?
One in Oban too, 125 George St.
Bo’ness, 19 South Street (info hub)
Any Yes shop got a better address than ours in Brechin?
Number 1 the High Street!
Glasgow’s lives in hope 😉
Anyone else having to skip forwards a page after submitting a comment? My attempts take me back to the previous 500 messages and I have to click on “newer messages”
Paula Rose
Your suggestion last night was very interesting…. I am just not sure if I have the figure for it (or anyone would pay money to witness such a spectacle).
I got a bit of sun at Pacific Quay on Sunday so I’m no quite as peely wally as before but still… maybe best stick to the cairds
@Paula Rose, Thepnr, et al (whoever he is) –
I have, by circumstances which must remain completely secret, come into temporary possession of a badge-making contraption.
If youse would like some wee badges made-up for the Seafest gig, please submit suggestions for a simple text, elsewise a wee copyable graphic, and I’ll make some. It will be a truly ‘limited edition’ as I have limited time and elbow grease, but I could do, say, a couple of hundred? T
PS
I would love to be able to deliver them in person, on the day (and there’s an outside chance I might) but it would be safer to get them done and posted to Thepnr, along with whatever SSP leaflets I can purloin.
Just back from Hampden, really enjoyed it it. Great atmosphere and respect for all competitors, their countries and national anthems.
Glasgow is doing a great job in the “friendly games”. This undoubtedly is one of the best games ever.
Ian, thanks for the offer with the badges, everybody else feel free to contribute a simple slogan that might fir on a wee badge.
News though tonight is that I had no reply to my email to Red Pepper events about our stall for Wings at Arbroath Sea Fest. Possibly we have been nobbled? Will know for definite tomorrow when I call the organisers.
Darlings (and Ian) I’ve discovered this thingy called Twitter, apparently you can all read what I type there if you ‘search’ for Paula Honey Rose. Making many faux pas but already a young man called ‘Ian Torrance’ wants me to stop ‘following’ him. Advice?
@ Ian Brotherhood (Badges) one for the girls. And all because the Ladies Love a Yes. Yes looks good on you. Things happen after a Yes. 4 out of 5 Scots Recommend Yes . Ready Steady Yes. Don’t get mad get Yes. Yes makes everything better. Designed for Yes. Vote Yes you know it makes sense.
@Ian
How about “Just Vote”
@ Thepnr
How about “Vote”
“Vote” does it for me.
@Ian Brotherhood
For badge ideas, I definitely like the Radical Independence group’s “Sack the Tories” stickers that have been appearing here and there throughout Saltcoats.
Maybe that could be adapted into a badge…
How do you get the images for it? Are they just the sort of thing you print off on regular paper?
Could maybe try a bit of graphical tinkering with some ideas if you like 🙂
I’ll be in the library tomorrow, might see if they do colour printing…
Thanks all, but I was thinking about badges made specifically for the Wings Seafest gig, along the lines of ‘Wings on Tour’ etc…the machine isn’t mine and I’ll be handing it back shortly, so I’d have to be quick.
‘WOS SEAFEST 2014’
?
Wings Will Make You Free!
Who was it I saw at the Counting House gig wearing the Wings T-shirt?
Was a play on “Red Bull gives you wings”, except it said “Read Bull?”
If that could somehow be condensed into badge form, that would be perfect! 😀