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January 02, 1968 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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Thanks Brian, that’s a really nice story to end the day with.
Oh sorry I’m late, Happy birthday for yesterday Nana, hope you had a good one.
Thank you Marie. I did have a nice day, however maybe a little too much cake and chocs 🙂
Had I known this was on, I’d have been there and I’m sure a lot of us Yessers would have too, had we known
link to twitter.com
Maybe next year!
This is for Macart and his bad back:
link to youtube.com
😛
@Tinto Chiel
Hahahahaha. LOLZ 😀
Cheers ma friend.
😛
Evening all how do we do, fun and games last night hehe, we must be getting real close to independence day now, the excitement continues. 😉
Brexit will not darken our day.
Evening, Cactus. I admire your stamina, young man.
Hi, soffisticates. These are the kinds of numbers I didn’t get in skool. Add the Fibonacci sequence and phi and the Universe becomes even more amazing.
link to m.youtube.com
You may have to tune out the references to God and Aliens, of course.
I’m sorry, but I’m going to play this again, things seem to be going well for a change, famous last words.
link to youtube.com
Here’a another couple, time to get rid of the UK, I’m the one on the right or left, and I think that’s Lucia at the Joanna.
link to youtube.com
Used that one or at least the title during Indy Ref 1, time to blow the dust off. And one for luck, yes it’s boring played these before so what. I’m the one on the right, and then the one on the left on the clockwork.
link to youtube.com
Hi All, Any of you in the Glasgow area looking for a night out Tues 4th, pop along to the Glad Café. James Kirby is playing there, he is well worth a listen.
If you are in the Inverness area he is playing at La Tortilla Asesina on the Wed 5th.
Please check out his website for details.
http://www.jameskirbymusic.com
@Nana
For for the Ian Brotherhood link and the wee video clip 🙂
Many thanks for all the links. Oh, and a belated Happy Birthday!
@Pnr
You are very welcome Alex, I’m only too happy to promote one of our own 🙂
As for the birthday, perhaps it’s best to gloss over it. I mean another year older 🙁
While I’m here, belated birthday wishes to Capella. I believe she is also a St Andrews day bairn.
A belated Happy Birthday to Capella too then 🙂
It would have been my brothers birthday the day before yours and my Dad’s birthday the day after. They both still live with me in my memory though and that’s all that counts.
If any of the regulars missed nana’s link to Ian B’s “advert” for the Buchanan Galleries where his paintings are on show here it is again.
link to brotherhoodart.com
If you’re a weegie or in the area you should rop by and have a peek, might give you something to wind him up about if your not too impressed LOL.
Best of luck Ian in the venture and to all the other artists in the gallery, if we can’t support out own home grown Scottish artists then who will we support?
Well…..
While we are oan the subject.. O’ Birthdays
It’s my Birthday today… and while I
totally understanding that it may not be possible… My Birthday wish is for a wee shout out from my dear friend Smallaxe… We haven’t crossed paths in the longest time,and I am hoping that we keep in touch here on off topic…….Because truth be told…
We are both completely shit at tryin to meet up at any marches or gatherings,it is honestly farcical… Either way I live in hope!!
Happy Birthday Liz G!
My favourite song of all time (and originally flip side to Buddy Holly’s “Heartbeat”) beautifully done by Lyle Lovatt. I’m going to see if it can be done in gaelic.
link to youtube.com
Yo’all might have guesed by now that I (like all proper folk) am addicted to Buddy Holly
link to youtube.com
Happy Birthday Liz g 🙂
All of Scotland should watch this
link to facebook.com
Dave McEwen Hill @ 8.25
Why..that was just wonderful.
I’ve shared it widely,and,I hope everyone does the too!!
…………………
Brian & Alex..
Thank You for the Birthday wishes.XXX
DMH – nice video thanks.
Q. 21 Billion Construction industry?
Seems a lot and something we never hear about, anyone confirm the figure please.
Bye! Pete Shelley. Another big hero gone.So many good memories though. Nostalgia for an age yet to come.
Hi Dave McEwan Hill.
That mega-url you posted above. You only actually needed,
link to facebook.com
which I copied from yours. Nice video though!
@Liz g –
Belated birthday air-kisses to you!
😉
P.S. You never do know, Smallaxe may pop in at any time. Well, we can hope!
Hi troops,
You tube “shittyflutes Christmas songs,” it will cheer you up with all the shit that is going on in the world.
Something that’s been buzzin’ roon ma heid over the past 48 hours… So I posted it on my Facebook page.
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Once you get your head round this, you have a better understanding of how politics work in the UK.
Most people think there is a handful of “big” political parties, like the Tories, Labour, Lib-Dems and so on. This is where the actual facts are hidden, by something (the three party system) that we plebs can take on board and understand.
The truth is that the UK is run by the “British Establishment” for its own benefit – not for the benefit of the people of the UK. The British Establishment wields its power through its political wing, known as the British Unionist Movement (BUM).
This BUM has two components; the left cheek is represented by the Labour Party and the right cheek is represented by the Tories. The Lib-Dems are the useless dangleberry, sitting between the other two cheeks.
Once you get your head round that, you can understand why the left cheek abstained on the proposals for ‘welfare reform’ put forward by the right cheek. The reforms removed wealth from the plebs and transferred it to the British Establishment. The dangle berry has to go with whatever makes it feel most comfortable.
So, when you vote for any of those three parties, you are voting for the BUM, whose job is to preserve the authority of the British Establishment.
When you vote for a different party, like the Greens or the SNP or the Monster Raving Loonies, or whatever, the BUM starts quivering, because that’s not how things are supposed to be. So, to upset the BUM, you now know how to vote in any future election!
Brian Doonthetoon at 9.54
Cheers
Ian Britherhood @ Dec 8th 2.37pm
Thank You Ian.
And, yes fingers crossed oor Smallaxe will pop back in and say hi…
Brian Doonthetoon
Cheers Brian. Just taking a wee break from the trolls and the yoonstream. 😉
“5” Royales – Slummer the Slum
link to youtube.com
Has the BBC in Scotland ever said anything negative about Brexit and the inherant English despotism it appears to convey? The thing is, the principle of a liberal society is that it seeks to maximise individual and collective “agency”. Agency isn’t optional, it’s vital to good mental and phsycal health. British nationalism shits on that, Britnattery being an expansionist and increasingly authoritarian form of English nationalism. As such, tough titty for all non-residents of England, as you have no human rights other than those defined by Westminster – a parliment dominated by English MPs. Colonialism in the 21st century, who’d have thunk it?
Remember kids, Scotland has no culture and Scots are not genetically programmed to make important decisions.
WHAT DRIVES WHOM? A CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE ON HUMAN AGENCY
link to pdfs.semanticscholar.org
What a beautiful day hey hey 🙂
Been listening in to the H of Commons comedy show on the wireless radio all afternoon… makes ye think that May was maybe trying to ‘fear-shock’ the politicians intae voting for her deal quickly, but lacking their obvious support had always planned to take the vote off of the immediate table.
Do ye’s remember the last two lines of the iFamous poem…
– Then Scotland laughs at them
– Then we WIN
Only everybuddy is NOW laughing at Westminster!
Many happy returns to all the birthday Wingers x
Hey iScot, thx for my latest iScot, came through the post this morning, Lovely Sligachan Bridge on the cover and Blaze n co up at The Applecross Inn, plus a bumper bonus Big Yin!
Hey iScot, aye was looking at the other iScot there…
Issue 48’s front cover is at the summit of Ben Tianavaig.
There are two rings to rear…
Preciousness.
Might one also add congratulations on your 4th Anniversary Edition iScot.
Choose Scotland – Big Enough. Smart Enough. Rich Enough.
Hey Breeks, looks like Scotland will be asserting and exercising her independent sovereignty come Thursday. It’s all about Scotland’s internationally recognised and respected sovereign authority.
BREAKING: Share prices in cornfields are rising in value.
PM being mocked in the hoose right now….
Speaking of the number 48 and that number being the minimum number of no confidence letters to be able to oust May…
Who’s to say, if there’s just one guy that’s tasked with receiving these letters (with naebody else seeing them) what’s the chances that there are already well over that number and he’s just not declaring.
There COULD be well over 60 letters lodged to oust May already.
Who is he accountable to… scrutiny?
And NOW… it’s TIME for some Q&A:
Q. What do call a single piece of popcorn?
A. A unicorn 🙂
There may be more…
Let’s go deeper:
Q. What came first?
– The chicken, or
– The egg
A. Neither, twas the shell that came first.
Have a think about that one, thinkers. 😉
Next time aye goto the cinema ahm asking for a bag of sweet unicorns hehe.
Yummy.
Sugar coated unicorns, mmm, NOW there’s a new sweetie if there ever was one.
Fizzy and zinghy!
Sweet.
Hi Cactus.
You seem to be here, if not all here…
Onnyhoo, I posted this comment earlier today – I thought it was rather pertinent, considering last night’s “debate” about swearing but it seems to have been lost in the flood of posts since.
It was on the “the-stoned-roses” page. I thought the link was rather amusing. I did a similar thing years ago, using Apple’s ‘text-to-speech’ feature on Macs.
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Brian Doonthetoon says:
10 December, 2018 at 6:53 am
RE: ‘swearie words’…
link to twitter.com
Evening Brian how do, aye, jist tick-talking along nicely.
The Art of Swearing 🙂
Who knows what new hell Westminster will be ra morra!
My laptop suddenly gave up the ghost after only 30 months a few days ago chiz chiz and so I have been weeding my i-Pad’s gander bag in a “close the stable door after the horse has bolted” kinda way.
This may be the first in an occasional series of old favourites to keep our mood light after a day of colossal meltdown for the Tories and the Establishment. Love faux Silvrikin Boy and the “And the cry went up, “Pish!”
link to m.youtube.com
Weird but very Scottish: get to Glen Lyon, Poindexters.
link to celticcountries.com
Lest we forget:
link to en.m.wikipedia.org
Evening Tinto, same here, guid luck wae yer laptop, ahm in the process of buying a new laptop. Aye previously bought a Dell laptop from John Lewis, but it turned out to be a lemon and was returned forthwith.
From looking at their online range, HP seems popular.
Any recommendations welcomed Wingers.
A very brave woman at a time when they didn’t have the vote but knew what rent-racking landlords were , while their husbands were “fighting for our country” and dying in large numbers for the ruling class.
link to remembermarybarbour.wordpress.com
Hi Cactus.
Get yourself a decent Mac!
Onnyhoo, the pair of you…
Further on swearing…
link to youtube.com
link to youtube.com
link to youtube.com
BTW: Morris Heggie was the editor of The Dandy.
Hi, Cactus, Winger Extraordinaire and minstrel de nos jours (yer actual French).
Had the opposite: my HP just gave out and all sorts of cyber experts have hymned “Dell” at me. It’s a funny old game, young man, and I’m totally bulgared.
But not as bulgared asTreeza, of course.
Like yourself, I need some recommendations, but not Apple Mac, they’re too dear and all my files are Word.
😛
I reserve the right to inflict more favourites on an unsuspecting public.
Scrollers, awake!
All the history you’ll ever need:
link to rahbarnes.co.uk
Ahem…
Word?
link to apple.com
You’ve been absorbing the pro-microsloth/anti-Apple propergunduh, iye?
8=)
Someone’s got a good anthem, and I speak from someone living in the the heart of the Welsh Old North: Cadzow, ya bass!
link to m.youtube.com
BDTT: I can be taught but defo can’t afford a Mac. All contributions to #Tinto Ents, please.
When I was a worker, I was once provided with a lovely Apple Mac which did everything in a user-friendly and logical way. Then my employer out-sourced the computing to a bunch of scoundrels who chained us to dreck machines and doleful speeds.
Ou sont les neiges d’antant, ya bass?
Hehe current gammon caller on lbc just compared the PM to their previous PM. Aye knew they had something in common, grunt like a pig oinky hehe.
Lbc live at W.. see how Westminster is in such disarray, could we suspend their parliament and run the show frae Edinburgh?
It’s an emergency efter awe.
S24’s!
The Hopi and the other nations were correct more than a hundred years ago. Takes the “civilised world” a lot longer to catch up. That’s me for the night.
link to oxfordreference.com
BREAKING…hehe the tampering of the mace at the hoose, politician ejected!
Watershed again, taps aff!
@ Tinto if only Aberlour did laptops !
Cracked it yet ?
@hackalumpoff: that is an outrageous suggestion, sirrah, which I refute completely!
Just booted up my Old Pulteney Generation6Borg interwebthingy. FFS, it’s fast!
Ya bass!
See link to wingsoverscotland.com
WOS post MMMMM is a coming soon…
Maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, maybe jeudi.
Maybe NOW.
Listen and weep: last for ce soir, Poindexters.
link to m.youtube.com
Hey Ian B, if it’s a quiet day at Westminster ra morra, knot, hehe, the next WOS post might not even be an article, it may be one of Rev’s favourite tunes for us all to sing and dance to 🙂
Let’s call it… “take and shake your mace” if you don’t have a mace to hand, a baseball bat will suffice.
Roll on 5,000.
Word.
Wireless radio just said and referred to the “ceremonial mace…”
SO we were correct all along, if the mace is only ceremonial and not REAL, that means that the United Kingdom is indeed only of a ceremonial set up (literally)
Sovereignty’s coming HOME, it’s coming HOME…
It’s always been there since Day One.
NOW it’s time for recognition time.
iScotland’s the real thing.
For your pleasure, one is demonstrating 3 things tonight in association with some recent reader requests.
Can you tell… isn’t it a most delightful evening one and all.
AYE but wait till aye change hat…
Apprendre.
Yes ahm gonnae wait till ra midnight hour of D-day 2018.
That’s when ra Tories come a tumalin doon.
We are at the eleventh hour…
Anything could happen!
Nana,
Thursday. In-patient? The parallel universe of Raigmore?
I shall be entering that realm on thursday for a few days ward 5A.
‘Ceremonial Mace’. Well it certainly looks like a pretty fancy spray can.
Best wishes, cearc. Have missed your trenchant apercus of late.
Further, picks from my faves:
link to eyeofthepsychic.com
And this:
link to thesonsofscotland.co.uk
And for intellechools, wherever youse are in Scotland:
link to maps.nls.uk
Since it’s Christmas.
Last for the night.
link to m.youtube.com
@cearc
Just a day out at the rheumatology unit, ugh!
Sorry to hear you have an actual stay. Hoping all goes well, and sending good vibes your way xx
Well have a great day out. Not my first choice for a day oot but I guess it’s a bit chilly for a picnic on the beach.
Thanks, TC.
Roderick MacKenzie, what a hero, eh!
More from the crypt: these are the trogs we are up against. Those of a nervous disposition should not follow the link.
May contain nuts:
link to mobile.twitter.com
One of my favourite squeezes:
link to treesforlife.org.uk
“Elm hate the man and waiteth.”
Not the Glasgow you may know:
link to theglasgowstory.com
Cactus: I may Dell.
😛
Strange but seasonal:
link to m.youtube.com
Night all.
My 9.50 should have ended “Man hateth Man and waiteth.”
Apologies.
Sorry, just had to share this fascinating document:
link to sites.google.com
Hi Tinto Chiel.
Did you bookmark that (Dundickshonary) when I (maybe) posted it here in the past?
Onnyhoo…
I think I also posted this link at some point.
link to sites.google.com
DEEP JOY!
@BDTT: of course it was yourself who posted it originally and it went straight into my faves. It could only have been yourself or That There Thepnr, and he’s no fae Dundee, eh/ken? A fascinating glossary which repays much study, so thanks again.
My Uncle Samantha (name has been changed to protect the innocent) looked remarkably like Mr Unwin and for that reason I have a sentimental attachment to the latter’s strange linguistic groovings and stylings, although my uncle was more of a Lobey Dosser man himself.
Last selections from my pruned gander bag later tonight.
The Nation holds its collective breath…….
😛
Don’t watch alone:
link to m.youtube.com
Don’t listen alone:
link to m.youtube.com
Smee!
Hey Ghillie and anybuddy around Edinburgh tomorrow.
Gonna go walkabout in the big city, check out the festive market, sample some of the seasonal wine, maybe go on the Big Wheel, maybe go skating in the weekend snow (do ye still do an ice-rink?)
Drinks at 7…
Edinburgh, come and visit us… it all began ne’er last 17th:
link to edinburghschristmas.com
Let us celebrate the reason for the season…
Santana and his siblings 🙂
Come and join us.
Oh the Joy!
Come and join us in off topic, it’s Friday night, everything gonna be aweright, enter dj’s…
Hey Tinto, aye ordered me up a new computer happy me like, delivery imminent… ahm gonnae try tae post anither music video from me moby (ah’ve got tae re-edit the pathline to comply, aye think)
Try once more, like you did before Scotland:
link to youtube.com
Yes 2 NOW.
“Sing a new song, indy Scotland…”
Whaddya think Jock Scot?
Let’s do a duo.
NPenguin.
Words.
Ahm listening to the BBC Radio Scotland the now, they just did a double play of Chris Rea’s… Driving HOME for Christmas on to The Road to Hell hahaha, how true.
Still Nick Cave and co are on NOW.
Another wee poem inthe Glasgow dialect
Chips
Haw Jinty, goat a fright doon the chip shoap wi Mae
The sit-in wiz busy – it wiz benefits day
Wee Elvis McGucken wiz gobbling his chips.
(His maw wiz a fan o’ thay gyrating hips).
He gobbled too fast as he gulped doon the coke
And help ma boab, Jinty, he started tae choke.
His maw,thon wee Bernadette,fae Paisley Road West
Pit her fag oot an’ started thumping his chest.
“Haw Bernie” oor Mae said “ yir oan the wrang track
He needs turning ower and thumped oan his back.”
Noo oor Mae learnt First Aid wi’ the Eastern Star
But she’d always help onybody, fenians nae bar.
“Sees over tae me coz he’s turning a’ blue”
Says oor Mae,”and ah’ll def-in-ite-ly sort it the noo.”
She hung him heid doon and thumped oan his back
But the wee bugger turnt white despite mony a whack
Well Jinty ah’ll tell ye, there’s mony a fright
But never like watching wee Elvis’s plight.
But a gent at next table – wi a special fish tea
Real posh and weel dressed said “leave it to me”
Grabbed the lad by the goolies and gave them a squeeze
And help ma boab,Jinty, he stairtit tae wheeze
And a few seconds later and you’d hardly believe
Through snotter and chewed chips he stairtit to breathe
Well, Bernie stopped greetin’ and hugged her wee lad
The rest o’ us recovered fae the fright that we’d had
The posh chap went back to his special fish tea
Oor Mae addressed him “A doctor you’ll be?”
“Well no” he replied “but the technique’s not new
I’m working just now for Inland Revenue”.
Hi peeps.
One before I turn in tonight. When I opened it my son immediately recognised it. He opined that Kylie had a good voice for “gothic” stuff.
Not a widely publicised track – I came across it on a Gothic compilation in the 90s.
link to youtube.com
Have a good greet
link to youtube.com
Ahm on a train, ah can’t complain.
Will give you a shout when ahm in da big Edinburgh city if you’re about furra festive drink Ghillie.
There be cold front a blowin’ in.
Choo-choo.
@Nana and Smallaxe
Be well you two. I think we’re getting near that time and we need the A-Team in fine form. 🙂
Hey Macart, dat’s me in the Big Yin… moseying on down and all around.
Market v busy, so infurrapint the NOW.
Hey Ghillie, ahm in the place where we awe were after the march if yer footloose.
Everybuddy get…
@Cactus
You take care out there fella and have a good one. 🙂
Cheers Macart, ahm somwhere else NOW, the band are just about 2 start, have an excellent evening.
Ahm a goin’ back IN.
Have fun, cactus. Lots of fun! (You’ve got too have fun for me too, ‘cos I can’t right now.)
Hi peeps.
Just trying something…
link to tapatalk.com
Seems to work. Might use that in future for odd stuff.
What happens is that before they overstay their welcome they introduce another name and post simple stuff with that to get established for a few weeks, then ramp up the main one and disappear, sometimes for good, sometimes till they hope we forget them.
I’m Nellie the elephant, I packed my trunks and ran away to the circus!
link to youtube.com
This lady appeared on one of the Rev’s threads.
If we follow her logic the equal Union Country (and the other two), should just stop voting.
Elinor Burleigh
@MagMil
·
3h
But it was a UK vote! Irrelevant how each home nation voted individually.
Hi folks, just popped in to say hello. I haven’t been commenting for a wee while. Just had enough of everything. The MT is full of trolls, and ithers moanin aboot folk swearing, or aboot Cactus drunken ramblings.
Dear god, ignore the trolls, and those that engage with them. Well most of us swear at sometimes, usually with exasperation. If ye dinnae like Cactus’s ramblings, dinnae read them. Then they’ll say well it doesn’t encourage no voters to see all this. Ah, jist gies peace wid ye. Live and let let live. Grrrrr.
Sorry for the we rant, feel better now. Onywho, how is a’body, are ye gettin ready fur the festive? I’ve been pittin up the tree and sortin oot cairds and things. Cheerier than whit else is goin oan. It could make a person tak tae the drink, but, I’ve resisted so far.
I see Nana’s having to take a bit of a rest, she’s a very busy wummin way a’ that she diz. What about Smallaxe, I see he’s missing, is he not too grand at the moment or just having a wee rest? Anyway, Nana and Smallaxe and families, love to all of you and wish you all the best for the coming festive season.
Ah right, I have to go now, having folk in for a meal later, got to get on. See you later, Byeeee.
Hi, Marie.
Yes, between the Puritans and the Trolls, the M/T doesn’t have its problems to seek at times. I was tempted to go on to You Tube and link to a Derek and Clive sketch by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, e.g. “This bloke came up to me” but I chickened out.
Harvey’s helping me doing my Christmas wrapping but he’s in a mood just now because it’s hardly snowed Where We Are and he bought some snow shoes on e-Bay last month.
Have a great Crimbo.
Oh Tinto, I’m sorry that Harvey is in a mood. We did not get any snow down here, but the rain was of biblical proportions. I reckon I’ll have webbed feet soon at this rate.
I’ll send Harvey a big cuddle and some carrots, will that maybe cheer him up?
I’ve just not long got the visitors away after the meal, so I’m needing a wee seat and a cup of tea to revive me.
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
TC, Ach, poor wee Harvey a sherry, that’ll cheer him up.
Dear Laydees,
You are very kind but I do not normally allow Harvey access to a) cuddles b) alcohol, as, in my experience, disaster is only a frapped amontillado away.
A strict regimen of carrots and bracing moorland walks is the best option, believe me.
Relax, now, Marie and cearc, I hope you are on the mend.
Gotta go: if Harvey finds the bay rum in the hut it could be a long evening.
@Marie Clark –
Aw the bestest to you and yours Marie.
Totally get where you’re coming from re MT, it’s very tiresome.
Still, this remains a haven, so more power to TC, BDTT and the others who keep it going.
😉
Awe thanks Ian, I’m glad I’m not the only one. Some days I think I must be going off my head, but, I don’t really think that it’ me.
MT is bonkers at times just now with the usual suspects, and some new britnat trolls. I suppose it shows the panic going on among them, which is good, but damned wearing.
Anyway Ian, aw ra best for the festive to you and yours. Cheers.
I see that Corbyn has been playing at The Grand Old Duke of York again, sigh.
Onywho, here’s a wee Christmas tune for a’body, well except Harvey as TC says he’s no allowed stroang drink. Oh aye, and ye’ll need tae bring yer ain paracetamol. Slaite.
link to youtube.com
Not a lot of people know about this:
link to en.wikipedia.org
More parts of it have been discovered very recently.
It’s impossible to know what knowledge was lost with the burning down of the library at Alexandria: thanks, Julius Caesar.
Afternoon, soffisticates. An old favourite from my cyber-gander-bag:
link to poetryfoundation.org
All very ambiguous, of course: “dark and deep” is a bit unsettling and “sleep”, well, I’ll leave you to muse thereon.
Smallaxe used to say I had a tortured poetic soul trapped in a male model’s body and who was I to gainsay the Seer on Sark?
Come on, Harvey, let’s make some Yule log……
Mind you, the way also likened me to this:
link to slovakcooking.com
“…..he also likened me to this:”
Shoulda been, obvs.
The Antikythera mechanism is something that I would really like to see, it is a really cool gizmo.
Cearc:I think most of it looks like just a lump of corroded metal but it has been analysed brilliantly by the use of x-rays etc.
Very much Off Topic but may be of interest in how well the Scots are regarded worldwide and not in the most obvious of places.
Whilst living in Colombia for a couple of years not so long back, I was taken to a place called Puente de Boyacá. This was the site of the last great battle faught by Simón Bolívar and his independence forces and the forces of Spain, the extant rulers of most of South America at the time.
The battle took place in August, 1819.
Bolívar had sent emissaries to Europe to recruit more fighters for his cause. The Napoleonic wars had ended at Waterloo in 1815 and there were many soldiers of various nationalities at a loose end.
About 5000 veterans answered the call, mainly Scots and Irish who had nowhere to call home) with a few Germans. These formed the British Legion.
Anyway back to the Battle of Puente de Boyacá. Bolívar had seen how effective the “British” legion was and realised where its strength lay. He started to call it “la Legion escocesa” (The Scottish Legion). He sent this legion in to battle first with great effect.
Needless to say, Bolívar’s fortces won the day at Puente de Boyacá and thus was born the republic of Gran Colombia, later to become Colombia, Venezuela and Panama. Bolivia was born and then Peru, Chile and Ecuador were liberated under Bernardo O’Higgins (yes, honestly!)
Back to my visit to the battlesite, very manicured and loads of monuments everywhere (nothing like Culloden), I, along with my female companion(French/Colombian) were standing by what looked like a very poor cairn with a bronze plaque.
The plaque was a dedication to “La legion Escocesa” commemorating all that had died there.
We were appraoched by a man in uniform, a member of the policia turistica (don’t worry, they are just very well versed tourist guides). He asked where I was from. As soon as I said Scotland all hell was let loose… he quickly called his bosses on his walkie-talkie and we were led to an office at the edge of the site. The captain of the policia turistica produced a bottle of Johnnie Walker blue label (not exactly cheap) and a very good time was had by all for a couple of hours. Someone even produceed a tape of a pipe band playing Scotttish Soldier which was played over the site tannoy system.
I wish I still had that photo of the bronze plaque. It disappeared whemn I had a major hard drive failure. before a backup :(.
Anyway, it also explains why there so many names of Scottish origin in that part of Colombia (e.g. Cambello = Campbell).
Just a thought
Another memory of Prague:
link to en.m.wikipedia.org
I visited the synagogue where it was supposed to have resided.
The Jewish Cemetery must be one of the saddest places on earth.
Tony, may I reciprocate with this?
link to ostrycharz.free-online.co.uk
You may be aware of these but Douglas is worth a visit for anyone of Polish ancestry.
Spotted this in Falkand, Fife in February this year too:
link to jackdeighton.co.uk
@Tom Busza
That was a great wee story, again I have learned something that I had not a clue about. Cheers.
My last full day of 2018 on this site tomorrow, so I send Season’s Greetings to all here and all the best for 2019.
I offer you this, as, being the self-confessed optimist that I am, we might one day see the Herald, and who knows what other MSM paper(s) turning our way. Anyhow, for now, just enjoy – and if suitably pleased to do so, sing also.
3. (of 20.)
Hark! the Herald journos sing
Hark! the Herald journos sing:
“Scottish Indy’s just the thing!”
Joy at home and mercy mild;
No and Yessers reconciled.
Joyful let our nation rise;
Join the triumph of the ‘Ayes’.
With th’angelic host proclaim:
“Scotland’s re-born to much acclaim.”
Hark! the Herald journos sing:
“Scottish Indy’s just the thing!”
_________
[With acknowledgements]
Songs for the New Politics
2013-2018
@Welsh Sion: thank you for the song. I think we missed a trick in 2014 – music is so powerful that if we’d had a few anthems it would have moved people’s emotions. Independence belief is head AND heart stuff, as we know – we need to appeal to both. Remember “Aye, aye, we’re all voting aye” to the tune of “She’ll be coming round the mountain”? Very catchy!
@Tom Busza – thank you for that story. I’d never heard it before.
Thanks for the wish, Sarah. As you will have seen I have 20 of these parodies – including an updated version of “Scots Wha Hae”. Feel free to contact me if you’d like some more to sing!
Merry Christmas and Happy Hogmanay!
Tom Busza, Thanks for that. I had no idea of those South American ties.
Have a great feast time Welsh Sion and keep with the scribing, thanks.
Hi Sarah, Greetings from Raigmore.
@cearc – Sorry to hear you are still there in ward 5a. How long for – do you know? I can tell from your comments btl that your brain is functioning well! [Better than mine.] But watch yourself – overexposure to seeing the corruption and general horror of MSM, Westminster, the Establishment etc etc could damage your health.
@Welsh Sion: thank you for the kind offer. I wonder if the new indy pipe band might be a good connection to make? Hail Alba Pipes and Drums.
@cearc – I wrote a response but it is in moderation because I also responded to Welsh Sion and named the indy movements pipes and drums band [s..r a..a]!
Anyway, sorry to hear you are still in Raigmore. Do you know for how much longer? Don’t overdo reading about MSM, Westminster and all the other stress-inducing matters – they could damage your health!
Not rec/d anything yet, Sarah. However, if you click on the hyperlink covering my name here, it will take you to my profile and you can contact me there. (I may not reply until Hogmanay now, though!)
All the best to you and yours.
Welsh Sion, what I said [apart from the forbidden words!] was a suggestion that your songs be shared with the new indy pipes and drums band [called the S..r A..a band – see their FB]. They intend to go on all the marches next year so it would spread the songs around.
Bliadhna mhath ur!
Sarah – Thank you! However, as I do not FB, would you be so good as to follow the hyperlink (as mentioned above) and send me details that way? Otherwise, I don’t think it wise to share an email address in the open.
Best to you all.
Hi
Welsh Sion.
Here are three non-FB links for you.
link to thenational.scot
link to saoralbapd.scot (Under construction.)
Check out the videos here. (You don’t need a Twitter account to view. Just unmute the speaker.)
link to twitter.com
Sarah,
Thanks, hopefully I might get away tomorrow (or friday) for a few weeks. Actually, my blood pressure is one thing that is fine. Dying of boredom or heat exhaustion are the greater risks! Thank goodness for decent wifi on the ward.
I have suggested that they should have climate segregated wards. ‘Urban’ for the lovers of CH and ‘Highlands and Islands’ for those that prefer wide open windows and the rain pelting in. I doubt that the management will act on the suggestion though.
cearc,
With any luck the snow will have fallen in a few weeks and you won’t be able to go back to Raigmore! The roads are clear now to get you home – so mild and dry.
But I know what you mean about boredom etc – I was only in a couple of nights when I broke my wrist and apart from the unwelcome distraction provided by another patient with “issues” who arrived in the small hours and never stopped talking very loudly, it was the tedium that got to me. Those were pre-wifi days.
However I did find the food a welcome surprise – best hospital food I’ve ever had because they had scotch broth on the menu and it was excellent. I nearly wrote to the catering department to congratulate the chef – should have done, of course, as it’s always nice to get some praise.
Best wishes that you get away tomorrow and have a good Hogmanay.
Unfortunately, I will need to be able to get back in three weeks but the food, yep.
Brilliant bakers, all the cakes, pies and pastries are first class. Not all the wards do have wifi, dunno why, loads of networks everywhere but not all the wards have ‘public’ log-ins.
Thanks to all. Will catch up on the links/references later.
Off to hibernate now – see you in the New Year!
Don’t become independent without me, Scotland! 😉
cearc,
Sorry to hear you must return to Raigmore so soon but perhaps you can spend your time there valuably by enlightening some Noes? I need someone to make up for me – I don’t think I’ve converted anyone since 2014!
And that is good news about the catering. Meals are so important when you’re in hospital. Don’t forget to tip the chef!
Good night. Sleep well.
Sarah,
Scotch Broth on the lunch menu this very day. I shall hold you entirely responsible if i don’t enjoy it!
Morning cearc
Perhaps there will be chicken for lunch 🙂
Take care xx
Hey cearc, wishin’ ye well, see ye at the next Wings night xx.
Ooh, cearc, I’m worried now – perhaps the Scotch broth chef has moved on. It was 10 years ago that I sampled that broth!
Sarah,
Breathe easy, it was great . As was the smoked mackerel, salad, apple crumble and ice-cream.
Nana, yeah right, bound to choose it when I have a freezer full at home!
Hiya, Cactus. Hope so depends on dates (of the calendar type).
Hopefully I’ll be off home within the hour.
cearc,
Scottish Health Service doing us proud, isn’t it? Sounds like real home cooking unlike the stuff provided in Kent when my mother in hospital.
And a neighbour fell and broke his hip at home on Tuesday this week, and by Wednesday lunchtime at Raigmore was sitting up with a new hip in place. Very comforting to see.
Nope, I believe the last comment I posted here around 5 minutes ago has been rejected. Will this one appear?
HAH! I will now email Rev Stu to get to the bottom of it.
Just checking in to wish all Aff-Topic crew festive greetings and to wish you and your families all the very best for 2019.
See you all on the front line.
Peace, love, unity and respect.
Hail Alba
Oh FFS refreshed and it was there. My Bad Stu 😉 Sorry big chap.
Oh no it’s still awaiting moderation. Mon Stu. Festive season and that. Peace
@Marie
Wishing you and your family a very merry Christmas.
link to youtube.com
Stu at the trolling. 🙂 Changed my S_a_o_r A_l_b_a to a Hail Caesar. 🙂
Hi William Wallace & Sarah.
At 12.02pm I received this email notification:-
William Wallace commented on Off-topic.
in response to RevStu:
For off-topic chat. Duh.
Just checking in to wish all Aff-Topic crew festive greetings and to wish you and your families all the very best for 2019.
See you all on the front line.
Peace, love, unity and respect.
HAIL CAESAR!
At 12.03pm I received this email notification:-
Sarah commented on Off-topic.
in response to RevStu:
For off-topic chat. Duh.
@cearc – Sorry to hear you are still there in ward 5a. How long for – do you know? I can tell from your comments btl that your brain is functioning well! [Better than mine.] But watch yourself – overexposure to seeing the corruption and general horror of MSM, Westminster, the Establishment etc etc could damage your health.
@Welsh Sion: thank you for the kind offer. I wonder if the new indy pipe band might be a good connection to make? HAIL CAESAR! Pipes and Drums.
(HAIL CAESAR! is code for you-know-what…)
I don’t see either of those posts up above.
I typed last night,
“HAH! I will now email Rev Stu to get to the bottom of it.”
The Rev must have been in shakkie-heid mode. I just got on to my home Mac and the reason for non-appearance of the comment of which I typed, was jumping at me from the text box that was still sitting there from last night. It was that the comment had a YouTube link that I had pasted in – with the h/t/t/p on the front!
SHAZBOT!
Onnyhoo, no point in posting it where it should have been (embarrassment-of-the-year) so I’ll stick it in here.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Hi Capella at 5:16 pm.
You typed,
“For those interested in the ongoing Integrity Initiative, Dark Money, election/referendum interference, smear campaigns etc all fuelled by our very own Foreign Office – here’s a video by investigative journalist Gordon Dimmack “A Very British Coup: Integrity Initiative update” 27 mins
link to youtube.com“
This is a post I did on my Facebook page a wee while ago, with a shortened version shared on various pro-indy FB pages.
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The dark forces…
Here are two quotes from the link…
“THE shadowy charity accused of running a British state-backed campaign against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed it held a meeting with a leading Scottish journalist during which they were briefed on how “vulnerable” Scots were to Russian influence.
The Integrity Initiative (II), a charity funded by the Foreign Office, British Army and MoD which has been described by the Sunday Mail as an ‘infowars’ unit, confirmed to CommonSpace it held a meeting with The Herald chief reporter David Leask.”
and
“Responding to Leask’s remarks, David Miller, a Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Bristol and director of the Organisation for Propaganda Studies, said: “The II is a project of the Institute for Statecraft a Scottish charity with a registered address in a derelict Mill in Fife. It is claimed to be a project to counter Russian disinformation and it has received over £2 million in funding from the Foreign Office. However recent revelations have shown that amongst its activities it has attacked the leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition – a cardinal sin in British democracy.””
link to commonspace.scot
I will now have a lie down…
Sorry Rev Stu.
Brian DTT,
Thank you! I suddenly realised why my message for cearc and Welsh Sion was in moderation so I wrote a different version which did appear safely. I expect the Rev didn’t bother posting the moderated one because I said much the same the next time to cearc and you had provided links for Welsh Sion to that pipes band [that shall be nameless]!!
Hi Sarah.
You’re referring to the HAIL CAESAR! pipes and drums, iye?
8=)
Hiya Brian – smiley thing!
@BDTT et al –
If we keep including HAIL CAESAR in comments we could get Rev so pissed off he’ll allow the original, or else hit us with something else.
😉
In the meantime, here’s Nick Cave presenting a masterclass on how to get a crowd going…
‘Jubilee Street’
link to youtube.com
Ian,
Yep, one smart guy. I’m a big fan of his novel as well.
@Smallaxe and Nana
Be well ma friends and the very best of Crimbo wishes from me and Mrs M.
Same tae yooz lot on OT. Have a good one folks.
link to youtube.com
YES! I do Crimbo cliches Mmmmkay?
Marnin all, let’s get a shakin!
link to youtube.com
All yours main thread.
Hey Dorothy D xx.
And ye can dance if ye wanna:
link to youtube.com
Make some shapes.
Behold… the King CyberNat:
link to youtube.com
Nat knows.
MIDNIGHT, 01/01/2019, Scotland, InterContinental Europe, This World.
That’s when the new wind a blaws in…
A synchronized vibration.
We own midnight. 😉
And verily, I say unto thee, before Wizzard and ELO there was this bunch of degenerates, who could all have done with some National Service, imo. It was 1972, and I was young and lovely:
link to youtube.com
A happy Christmas from me, Mrs Tinto and the Chielettes to all The Usual Suspects, lurkers, shirkers, Lobey Dossers, dork spanglers and houghmagandists. Think that just about covers everyone 😛
Oops, and of course The Laydees…
A momentous year in prospect: keep your powder dry and your whisky wet, Poindexters.
As one of The Laydees Tinto, thank you for your kind wishes. Merry Christmas to you and Mrs TC and the family. I hope Harvey will be on his best behaviour.
Well must go, we Laydees are busy at this time of year, especially when you have extra folk to feed. We are lucky as a family, we have each other, plenty of love and enough food. Spare a wee thought for those that are not so lucky, and a wee something for the foodbanks if you can.
Take care everybody, rest, relax and charge the batteries cause next year looks as if all of us might be busy workin for Indy2.
Merry Christmas, hope Mr & Mrs Smallaxe are doing okay, the place is no the same withoot him. Cheers.
And to you, Marie and fambly.
Harvey is busy stuffing the turkey with his unusual carrot and haggis combo and is on his best behaviour at the mo in case Santa doesn’t come.
Cheersmedears!
Came across this thread on money on twitter. It’s very good. Something to tide you over during the holidays. Once you realise where money comes from you realise all the fear mongering regarding the ‘economics of independence’ is easily debunked.
Merry Christmas!
D Laws
@d_magpie
Everyone knows that money makes the world go round but few know that it spins in completely opposite directions to how our monetary system is usually described. The UK money system explained in 2 minutes (plus links for further reading) thread follows:
Money 1 – Your Bank Deposit is a record of how much YOU have loaned to your bank (to use as it wishes) – a positive balance in your bank account is just a record of what your bank owes you.
As a depositor, you are a low ranking creditor to the bank. Therefore the Government provides assurance that up to £85000 per individual is safe. (link: link to fscs.org.uk) fscs.org.uk/globalassets/d…
Money 2 – Banks do not lend out your granny’s savings. Banks create bank money (credit) when they agree a loan with you. They take the risk that you might not pay them back.
When we complete a loan agreement with a bank, the increase in the deposit you find in your bank account is simply an increase in the balance that the bank owes you. Loans create bank deposits.
Money 3 – Just as bank money is created with the signing of a loan agreement, bank money disappears as loans are paid down.
Overall credit creation usually exceeds loan payments, so the bank money supply tends to increase over time. The global financial crisis led to a fall in bank money creation and the UK suffered a double-dip recession.
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Money 4 – Private banks run the payment systems we us. Banks have to settle up between each other with money they can’t create themselves; They have to use central bank £ Sterling, instead. This reconciliation system is run by the Bank of England (BoE) using Electronic reserves.
Major banks have an electronic (reserves) account at the BoE. At the end of the day the sum of all of the transactions are netted out between the banks and reserves are moved between accounts to balance out any differences.
Money 5 – Cash is a paper form of central bank money. The publicly owned Bank of England can add and remove money (reserves) into and out of any of accounts held at the BoE. The BoE instructs the creation of as much cash as is required by the UK economy.
Money 6 – The UK Govt. Treasury instructs the BoE to create new money (reserves) when the UK Government spends on public goods & services. Therefore tax income is not required prior to Government spending. There is no need to increase taxes to ‘pay for’ any political decision.
As major private banks have electronic reserves accounts at the BoE, the private banks, in turn, increase the corresponding bank money account of the public service/goods provider where the spending is to be directed.
Money 7 – Just as paying off a loan destroys bank money, UK taxation destroys previously created electronic £ reserves. Taxation is simply accounted for.
Taxes do not fund UK Govt. spending. When you pay your taxes to HMRC, your bank account balance falls and the balance of the reserves account of your bank falls accordingly. Hint: Inland ‘Revenue’; the money comes back and is effectively destroyed.
Money 8- There is technically no limit to the amount of £ that the BoE can create. The UK cannot go bust as our debts are denominated in £s. In this respect we are not like Greece who do not have their own central bank. Or Venezuela who have debts in a foreign currency.
From 1973 onwards, $ had no formal link to any commodity; this is the so-called fiat money system. The value of the £ moves with other currencies according to the strength of the UK economy, the net amount of money creation over time, BoE actions and geopolitical stability
Money 9 – If, at the end of the day, the Government has spent more money than it has received in taxes, by convention, the UK Govt. chooses to convert reserves it has already spent into new interest-bearing Govt. bonds (Gilts) as a service to savers and the financial industry.
Money 10 – If we paid down the national debt we would have no safe private sector savings. The amount of new bonds issued per period is called the UK Govt. Deficit. The total outstanding amount issued by UK Govt. and held by the private sector is called the National (Public) Debt
Governments should not usually aim to be in surplus. A Govt. surplus isn’t a lump of cash you can do something with in the future. A surplus simply destroys money. It occurs when the Government destroys more money than is created at the BoE.
Money 10 – The National Debt is not a burden for our children & grandchildren to pay off. It is a political decision to priories current spending away from the asset poor to the asset rich.
We desperately need to use our democratically controlled money creation powers to shape our future prospects. We need long-term mission-oriented investment by Govts. to deliver sustainable future economic activity
Money 11- The global financial system remains broken and never left intensive care. The Central Bank induced ‘wealth effect’ through inflating all financial assets has created the ‘everything bubble’ which is showing increasing signs of popping
Money 12 – A global reset of our economic goals is likely to be thrust upon us. Here’s hoping we heed the advice of Sir David Attenborough and adjust our priorities accordingly akin to
@KateRaworth
in her book #DoughnutEconomics
Economic activity is driven by the those who have the power to create and distribute our money. Private bank money creation is predominant, short-term and increasingly directed to and extracted by the super wealthy. We need to re-energise the power of public money creation. #MMT
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@Macart
Seasons greetings to you and yours Sam, from my house to yours.
We’ll have the last laugh!
link to youtube.com
Smallaxe says,
Peace and Love to you and yours, Sam and to All on Wings, thank you for your kind thoughts, have a great holiday. I wish for you what I wish for all of us. Independence!
link to youtube.com
Mrs S sends hugs to All, as do I.
Merry Christmas to all youse roasters and I hope Satan visits you all later this evening.
😉
Nice seasonal trolling Mr Botherhood.
Here’s one for our little friends.
link to youtube.com
Seasons greetings to all true wingers.
link to youtube.com
@hackalumpoff –
Cheers for those links, very interesting, both new to me.
So many artists, books, great music, and so little time…
Gettin a wee bit maudlin here…
🙁
Hi Peeps.
Merry Christmas to all of the ‘off-topic’ regulars and occasional visitors!
link to youtube.com
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Happy Christmas everybody, I hope Santa was good to you all x
Happy Christmas Everyone xxx
Absolutely classic. One of many by the same guy.
link to youtube.com
OK, I’m up at silly’o’clock on Boxing Day. It’s mild but dreich out. I’m wearing sunglasses. It must be time for more moral psychology and practical reason. Hopefully this might stimulate some inferential leaps of understanding.
As contemporary British nationalism articulates an alarmingly authoritarian and totalitarian form of English culturalism (see Brexit), here’s one for those still struggling to get their heads around what “agency” is. Don’t worry, you’re not the first.
link to oxfordscholarship.com
Part 1 of 2
link to oxfordscholarship.com
As such, in order for a resident of Scotland to support the imposed change to their legal identity that Brexit requires, they must first oppose the principle of universal human rights. Not a good look, frankly. Smells a bit like self-harm to me.
I know I’ve said I don’t believe some animals are more equal that others, but acknowledge that that is a political position.
What is so special about the human brain? | Suzana Herculano-Houzel
link to youtube.com
Hey Cameron…..
I think I’ve worked oot whit this agency thing is!!
It seems to translate in tae whit I’ve been sayin for years..
Liz’s Hoose,Liz’s Rules?
Aye??
Liz g
Not quite, though I might not have understood you correctly. Agency is often discussed in relation to the concept of “free-will”, which is a bit old-skool. Society impinges on all of us in individual ways and the origination of our intentional thought is rarely internal, so “free-will” can be a bit misleading.
I like to think of possessing agency as marking the difference between free, ‘self-determining’, members of society, and un-free subjects of cultural oppression. Well, I am a bit of a post-colonial feminist. Six in one shampoo, obvs. 😉
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TJenny
Just don’t. 😉
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Universal suffrage notionally shared equal voting rights and political agency with women. You could say the feminist movement has been the political struggle to emancipate female/human agency. I see the movement for Scotland’s self-determination in the same light.
the origination of our intentional thought is rarely purely internal
Here’s one to celebrate the reactionary social turn that Brexit represents.
Abney Park – Steampunk Revolution
link to youtube.com
Brexit promised to take back control and deliver Britain the sovereignty stolen by the EU. What a lot of pish. Brexit will undermine the political agency of most, especially those living outwith England. Women in particular.
link to egmontinstitute.be
P.S. I probably don’t have to point out that last one is not unsurprisingly presenting reality from the One Nation perspective.
Here’s one for all those former No voters who appear to have woken up to the true nature of British nationalism and the 2014 vote, even if only on the subconscious level.
This will only spread. 🙂
Planet Funk – The Switch (King Unique Pushin Vocal Mix)
link to youtube.com
After suffering at Pittodrie today I was listening to Imelda May and The Dubliners. Absolutely brilliant. Then I came across Rod Stuart`s version of “Grace” which the Celtic support have now adopted. What a really moving song with a great tune. Any thoughts?
re. breaking the power of the 1%. I think they may have broken British nationalism, so it’s not all bad. Imagine thinking they could force Brexit on Scotland. That’s cultural chauvinism at the institutional level, a product of structural racism. 😉
link to eprints.whiterose.ac.uk
Agency, social theory and social policy
link to researchgate.net
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.876.3537&rep=rep1&type=pdf
What sort of life will Scots be able to negotiate in Brexitania? Our political agency is already severely constrained and is unlikely to improve as a result of London’s intended power grab. A life without agency can not hope to rate above mere existence.
All nations are entitles to the Right to Development, including culturally and politically. This is an inalienable human right that Brexit simply ignores. As such, Brexit is a clear rejection of the principle of universal human rights. The One Nation ideology is not compatible with this principle. They can not coexist without the adequate political infrastructure and will. A scenario that is unlikely to evolve in my lifetime, that’s for sure.
Introduction: Negotiating Liveable Lives — Identity in Contemporary Britain
link to researchgate.net
Benhope at 11.49
“Grace” typifies the wicked idiocy of imperial Britain that actually set Ireland free. We are fortunate that Brexit idiocy is doing the same for us without the bloodshed. Kudos to Rod Stewart for having the guts to record Grace. Rod has just declared himself very publicy as Scottish (as has Emma Thompson and Tilda Swinson). When it comes down to the line good people know they have to make a decision and have the courage to do so.
Testing
Want to blow your mind?
What Is Reality?
link to youtube.com
This is a – perhaps forlorn – effort to get wur brothers Smallaxe and Oneironaut back into the OT fray…
LeeDorsey, ‘Who’s Gonna Help Brother Get Further?’
We need ye’s lads, seriously!
Please, at least, drop in and say ‘howboutyefuckface’?
link to youtube.com
Think-tank funding certainly needs to be transparent, IMHO.
Four think tank perspectives
link to lse.ac.uk
THE NEW RIGHT THINK TANKS AND POLICY CHANGE IN THE UK
link to core.ac.uk
Favoring the Elites: Think Tanks and Discourse Coalitions
link to researchgate.net
I’m not against think-tanks, as a rule.
Producing Knowledge, Producing Credibility: British Think-Tank Researchers and the Construction of Policy Reports
link to link.springer.com
Back to more pressing matters.
link to europarl.europa.eu(2018)603866_EN.pdf
I’m not sure if folk remember me suggesting that reality is defined through narrative?
How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky
link to youtube.com
From an anthropological perspective, states have historically been perceived as masculine and nations, feminine. Culturally, this has resulted in states being considered logical and trustworthy, while the nation thought irrational and untrustworthy. This cultural bias helps underpin our cultural suspicion of nationalism.
Sorry.
I’m not sure if folk remember me suggesting that reality is normative and defined through narrative?
OK, time for some more moral philosophy.
link to link.springer.com
Fundamentals of Normative Ethics
link to e-education.psu.edu
Normative Ethics: An Exercise to Facilitate Awareness
link to counseling.org
I’ve just been looking at views on the distributive justice of Brexit and thought I might drop this one. There is zero distributive justice for Scotland, when it come to Brexit. When will the ‘Left’ realise that socialist policy has more support from the EU than the Tories and that supporting Tory policy will not advance socialism.
eprints.lse.ac.uk/88297/1/Ishkanian_Social%20Movements_Accepted.pdf
I always thought Frank Field was a bit dodgy. A bit of an English utilitarian. He might not actually be a racist but he is supporting racist policy.
link to jrf.org.uk
@Ian B
I suspect Smallaxe has a bigger fight on the cards just now Ian. Nana passed on a’ the very best wishes just the other day on Smallaxe’s behalf. And yes, I’m makin’ buttons too.
Be well Mr and Mrs Smallaxe. Got the message from Nana.
Aaaanyroads. Been mindin’ the store for WGD over the break and trying to get some Lambrini time in with the family. Everything hunky dory on MT?
@ Macart 28 December, 2018 at 8:53 pm
You are a true Empath Sir.
We will need a new honorary title for folks like yourself in the Free Scotland.(Twitter Poll for Scottish Honours, Ian Brotherhood ?)
Smallaxe, Mrs Smallaxe, Nana and I, and MILLIONS of YESSERS and WINGERS have the fuel and spark to ignite and maintain combustion.
Not too sure about the Lambrini though, plenty local beverages that we can substitute.(Ronnie Anderson can advise LOLZZZ)
“womanhood is a political category……”. I suppose so, but women are still women and trans-women are still trans-women.
Sex is an expression of the biological, gender an expression of the psychological. It is not possible to change sex though it is possible to self-determine one’s gender.
link to oxfordscholarship.com
SEX AND GENDER: A CRITICAL REALIST APPROACH
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.511.8478&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self
The Metaphysics of Gender and Sexual Difference
link to oxfordscholarship.com
New National Anthem 2019 edition:
link to youtube.com
I’ve always found it a creepy earworm of a track so now I’m going to inflict it on you.
Of course, there’s always this contender for the more self-absorbed SEoE type:
link to youtube.com
Ok, ok, I’m going…..
From link to mobile.twitter.com
‘Nicole Bonner
@nicfree1888
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8m
Could Scotland en masse register as EU Nationals with the UKgov programme? Genuine question #Brexit #PeoplesVote #ScotRef’
Is there any mileage in doing this? A lot of us still consider we are European citizens.
If so it means we give the sods £65 but hopefully might scupper there ‘system’
Nicole Bonner
@nicfree1888
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8m
Could Scotland en masse register as EU Nationals with the UKgov programme? Genuine question #Brexit #PeoplesVote #ScotRef
Is there any mileage in this, as some of us will still consider we are European citizens after March?
It would cost each of us £65 but might help to overwhelm the pen pushers doing this ‘vital’ work.
Ian Foulds @ 11.48
Not if we pay by check and then cancel.
Like it Liz g
re. Conservative ideology. It is intrinsically, inseparably, bound to the doctrine of Jeremy Bentham’s utilitarian ethics. Bentham was an 19th century moral philosopher and early materialist. He wasn’t all bad, he gave us “nonsense on stilts”, but he also rejected natural law and natural rights, and so rejected the principle of universal human rights.
A Condensation of Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind
link to kirkcenter.org
David Hume and the Conservative Tradition
link to home.isi.org
Conservatism: An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume to the Present
INTRODUCTION
WHAT IS CONSERVATIVE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT?
link to gbz.hu-berlin.de
re. the “FUCK NAZIS” sign removed for not being “inclusive.”
I was saving this for when the BBC have that American Nazi on QT, if I’ve not already missed it. I’ve mentioned Karl Popper before and his Critical Rationalism. Well this dude is heavy and his thought considered profound. Anyway, he pointed out the paradox of tolerance.
“Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.” – Karl Popper, 1945, The Open Society and Its Enemies Vol. 1.
KARL POPPER’S CRITICAL RATIONALISM AND THE POLITICS OF LIBERAL-COMMUNITARIANISM
link to ir.canterbury.ac.nz
Karl Popper’s Vision of Democracy as the Ideal Society
erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/bitstream/handle/11295/18967/Oyigo_Karl%20Popper%E2%80%99s%20Vision%20Of%20Democracy%20As%20The%20Ideal%20Society.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y
The Limits of Tolerance: A Substantive-Liberal Perspective
link to pdfs.semanticscholar.org
For no particular reason, from the Bad Boys of Scottish rock:
link to youtube.com
Talking of whom, hee hee, something for Cactus:
Dell message on M/T received and understood: me too.
“My Uncle Francois has a new hat.”
“Angelique can play the piano.”
Meanwhile, in other news, “John Maclean” by Henry Bell is new and well worth a read. Thank you, Santa.
This is the hymn for my funeral
link to youtube.com
Hey Tinto, glad to hear you got your l’ordinateur sorted out too 🙂 ah saw Bobby and the band when they played the Summer Nights festival at the KG bandstand one time… excellent gig.
Looks like ah’ve caused a bit of a stushie on the M/T.
That’s the power of Love. 😉
Afternoon, Cactus, the Lord Byron of Wings, it seems 😉 .
Oui , et mon ordinateur marche bien. I paired up wireless headphones (a prezzie from The Supervisor) with it and the Chielettes gave me a couple of books and a bottle of The Glenlivet 12-y-o (but don’t tell hackalumpoff or he’ll be jealous) so Santa was good to me.
Hope to see you if there’s a Wings Multipartite Symposium in Feb.
Aye aye, February ’19 calling us all Tinto.
This is the last song that the band played at The Clutha last night that set me off (in more ways than one):
link to youtube.com
Such a pity that Donnie felt different… ah wonder what his thoughts are now.
@ Tinto here’s lookin at you kid, her indoors got me this.
link to thewhiskyworld.com
Lovely wumman and lovely watter, slainte.
Yup, haven’t a clue what Donny is thinking now but one can only hope. Maybe he still fancies a gong or two, Cactus. The Cringe is a terrible affliction.
@hackalumpoff: seriously? Your carer must be a wonderful wummin indeed.
😛
Jings, crivens, help ma boaby, quite a response on the M/T… ye’d think aye’d broken the bloody telescope single-handidly or summin!
Hopefully that engaging energy can be carried forward to the new year.
Nice to see some lurkers posting too, is that what it takes?
All comments duly noted, with thanks.
@Cactus
You have put the cat among the pigeons right enough, opinions are obviously divided but that’s Wings through and through 🙂
Anyway this is my Xmas and New Year tune for you, especially for you!
link to youtube.com
Worry not, Cactus: a spot of cabin fever/moral righteousness on the M/T. It’s never a good look, imo.
First time I met you, you were holding one of the poles of the Wings banner the night of the BLiS______D gala dinner at the Central Hotel, the night The Murphoid embarrassed himself with his “donation” to the homeless while the police looked on and ground their teeth to stumps.
Have a great Hogmanay and Ne’erday but we need you for February, mon vieux.
Hehe, that’s excellent Tinto, thanks, how fitting. 😉
Mibbies ah’ll double-down in future… here’s one of my favs for ye:
link to youtube.com
Cats are cool, they’re good for gauging public opinion.
Perception as always.
@Tinto Chiel and Cactus
Here’s the man himself on one pole with Ronnie A on the other outside the Central Hotel at the £200/head Labour Gala Dinner.
link to livestream.com
Cactus can be seen around 7:20 in and the first 3 minutes has Jim Murphy arrive with his carrier bag for the foodbank and get a bit of stick.
Happy days 🙂
Throne @ 6.47
Are you trying tae get mair X rated than Cactus?
Ronnie Anderson on one Pole and Cactus on another Pole at a £200 per head event….. That’s some picture ye were painting there Alex… I was thinking when the hell were they Pole Dancing and why did I not know about it.. LOL…
But that footage is a great reminder of how far we’ve come !
@ Cactus: good lyrics on that Foreigner track. Reminds me of my S6 school disco circa 1972 😛
Yes, Thepnr, interesting seeing that footage again. I suspect Murphy was hoping for an egg or two to hit him so he could play the victim again. I saw at least one BBC reporter looking very uncomfortable that night but she was translated to transatlantic glory eventually, a bookend to match James “Chaos on the streets of Glasgow” Cook, for services rendered.
@Liz g
Oh bejeezus Ronnie and Cactus on a couple of poles!
That’s some picture you’ve painted in my head, one that I’ll never be rid of arghhh 🙂
That Historywoman really is a tad reactionary and there’s a distasteful whiff of racism about her, IMHO. From an anthropological perspective, restricting freedom of movement is bad, mk.
link to skemman.is
The limits of identity: ethnicity, conflict, and politics
link to sheffield.ac.uk
On becoming ethical subjects: freedom, constraint, and the anthropology of morality
link to aotcpress.com
@Cactus
Here’s a “Jolly Boys Outing” and what else could they have played but “Everybody’s Talkin”. Reminds me of a Wings bus once through to Glasgow once upon a time.
Nostalgic wee clip from a Xmas special classic comedy program.
link to youtube.com
It takes all sorts to make a nation and we’re not all going to be the same are we?
Interestingly the song “Everybody’s Talkin” was also highly featured in the soundtrack of that great film “Midnight Cowboy”. Now who might that remind me of? LOL
I hope not: my bone structure is special 😛
Heard this recently, Thepnr, and thought you might like it:
link to youtube.com
A bit late-Beatlesy, in a good way.
We need music from CBB, MMcC and Ian of The Brotherhood.
Going for a Horlicks.
When I said late-Beatlesy, I may have had this in mind:
link to youtube.com
This Horlicks is somewhat disappointing.
Night, all!
@Tinto Chiel
I’d never heard that before and I’m a fan of ELO. In fact when I first started going with my wife the first two presents I ever bought her were ELO albums.
From 1976 “A New World Record” special red vinyl edition and of course from 1977 “Out Of The Blue” a blue vinyl edition would you believe.
My favourite track at the time from the two was probably this.
link to youtube.com
Seriously this is an astonishing video of ELO when you consider that it was made 40 years after the last one I put on.
I guess by the crowd and the set that these songs really were classics when were they were made in the mid 70’s. Amazing video.
link to youtube.com
Here are three for Cactus…
link to youtube.com
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link to youtube.com
(Song starts at 45 seconds in.)
Och, here are another three for Cactus…
link to youtube.com
(She was the female singer on Meatloaf’s first album.)
link to youtube.com
And last, if not least…
link to youtube.com
@Brian Doonthetoon
“Back in the night” by Dr Feelgood excellent song that I don’t remember seeing on OT before.
Patti Smith “Because the night” also excellent, think I might have played that myself here but the pièce de résistance has to be your last choice.
Classic that I played once specially for Ian B and Paula Rose LOL 🙂
link to youtube.com
Hi Thepnr.
The Strangeloves’ song was featured on a TV ad, a few months ago. I can’t remember what was being advertised, as I was more impressed with the choice of a rather obscure US hit!
Been listening to some Johnny Cash, forgot about this one 🙂
m.youtube.com/watch?v=-JyTw44MFvE
Hi Lenny.
Your link fixed.
link to youtube.com
ELO live at their very best
link to youtube.com
Hope I’m not thought of as one of the zoomers.
link to philarchive.org
The Sense of Self in the Phenomenology of Agency and
Perception
link to pdfs.semanticscholar.org
The Phenomenology of Agency and Freedom:
Lessons from Introspection and Lessons from Its Limits
matjazpotrc.splet.arnes.si/files/2016/02/Terry-Horgan.-The-Phenomenology-of-Agency-and-Freedom-Draft-6.pdf
@CameronB Brodie
You’re being tarred with the same brush as the rest of us and there’s no escape LOL
Thepnr
No great shakes mate, I just thought it a bit unnecessary.
@Dave McEwan Hill
Aye, that one was a foot tapper right enough. Does such a thing as a “band” still exist nowadays? I’m not so sure, guess I might have lost touch with todays scene lol.
Thepnr at 1.04
Exactly.The big companies have taken over music again.
British nationalism really is nasty habit.
link to fupress.net
Discovering the “We”: The Phenomenology of Sociality
link to ucd.ie
Toward a Cultural Phenomenology of Personal Identity
link to pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Hegel’s Master/Slave Dialectic In the Phenomenology of Spirit
link to medium.com
@ Cactus
Needling were ye 😉 Isn’t that what you desert plant types are supposed to do? 🙂 Bunch o moaning old farts so they are.
Anyway, just popping on to wish you all a happy new year (when it comes). Ah the very best to all of you and those you hold dear throughout 2019 and beyond.
Me, well rather predictably, eh am gonna be getting blootered.
If they thought Cactus was bad… 😉 🙂
William Wallace
All the best when it comes William X
No point in hanging about, is there? Wishing everyone a phenomenal New Year.
link to ricoeur.pitt.edu
The phenomenology of body memory
link to pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Embodiment, Enaction and Culture
Collective Body Memories
link to researchgate.net
I’m just checking out the postings here and there’s some ON-TOPIC posts.
Now hear this, this is off-topic and on-topic is off-topic for off-topic, whereas off-topic is on-topic for off-topic, so why are there on-topic posts on off-topic, eh?
Jings, crivvens and hilp ma boab.
Mmm, not sure if I got that right. The problem is that there are off-topic posts for off-topic as they’re off-topic for off-topic. I think I got that right this time.
It’s very confusing 🙁
yesindyref2
Sometimes it’s hard to remember where your coming from mate. Especially if you get your worldview from the BBC. Mood shapes judgement and behaviour, so the BBC in Scotland has the job of constantly undermining the Scottish self-conception of being a competent agent.
link to ru.nl
Practical competence and fluent agency
fas-philosophy.rutgers.edu/chang/Papers/Railton-PracticalCompetence%20Proofs.pdf
link to econtent.hogrefe.com
Welcome to the Zoomer Zone, yesindyref2 😛
Quite agree about RoB, DMH. Bev Bevan’s drumming on the original 45 was relentlessly energetic.
Found this on YouTube and had forgotten all about it:
link to youtube.com
Also another chance to see the Lovely Laydee cellists……
Constitutions just happen to be one of the means of empowering public agency and strengthening democracy. Unfortunately, Britain’s constitution only appears to recognise the legal identity to residents of England. Otherwise, Scotland would not be getting dragged out of the EU. As such, the Great British project has failed to enhance social equity across the nations, so in the final tally, must be considered a failure.
link to researchgate.net
Public Choice and Constitutional Design
link to chicagounbound.uchicago.edu
Constitutional Design and Comparative Democratic Performance
link to ecpr.eu
Aren’t the yoons looking to re-write the constitution so as to prevent the possibility of Scottish independence?
Abusive Constitutionalism
link to lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu
Putting “Abusive Constitutionalism” and Populism in Perspective
link to iconnectblog.com
The Populist Threat to Democratic Constitutionalism
link to blogs.eui.eu
Passing strange:
link to youtube.com
Twenty Gold Flake never tasted as sweet:
link to youtube.com
Cheertbythenoo, pop-pickers.
Cheerybythenoo obvs.
Hi everybody, howzitgon. Hope Santa was good to you all, and now we’re just aboot ready to head into 2019. Here’s hoping it’s a better one for all of Scotland. I’ll leave you with a wee tune or two the first yin is a wee blast from the past.
link to youtube.com
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link to youtube.com
A guid New Year tae a’body when it comes Slainte.
Oh aye here’s anither wee tune for you.
link to youtube.com
A Guid New Year to you too Marie and to all fellow zoomers of course. You’re included too Robert 🙂
zooooom
link to youtube.com
Jeez oh, we’re having some folk in shortly for a meal. The old boy just wandered into the kitchen, dressed for the evening. I think he’s been assisted by Stevie Wonder. Good Gordon Heelenders, my puir wee eyeballs.
He’ll no be persuaded tae gang and chinge, oh dear.
Thanks, Cameron. Managed to hypnotise myself. On Nibiru at the mo.
See you some time, Marie, Thepnr and CBB. I am beyond the help of Harvey.
Enjoy NYD 2037.
@ Liz G
You too. x
As for the rest of you “cold shoulder crew” groupies… Have a good one.
Tinto Chiel
It is a bit hypnotic, almost as if your falling in to it.
Looking forward to it, possibly at a wings get-together in the New Year.
As for the rest of you “cold shoulder crew” groupies…says the man that didn’t turn up to his own beach party.
William Wallace
All the best William and perhaps we’ll also get together in the new year.
Hi Peeps.
In the days when I was prone to do gigs on Hogmanay, this was the song I put on around 10 to midnight, immediately before “Auld Lang Syne”, leading up to the bells, as is Scottish tradition. None of this ALS AFTER the bells nonsense!
Onnyhoo, a single from 1976. Play it again at 10 to midnight.
link to youtube.com
BTW: as far as I know, he’s an Australian singist.
Then you can go into this (from 2.56 onwards) My childhood:-
link to youtube.com
Sending big love to all yous weirdos on OT.
Sorry I’ve been quiet of late, just zoned out on other stuff right now. It’s a stage of life thing.
Me and Ian we discussing the possibility of a Wings social towards the end of Feb in Glasgow. Venue TBC but central for travellers. Anyone else up for that?
@X_Sticks
I think they’ll be a few taking you up on that, me for one 🙂
@ CamB
In my defence I have turned up to the wings tent several times since to say hello. 😉
All the best to you and family for 2019 Cam. Hopefully see you at the February gathering.
Have a guid yin tonight friends!
Gil Scott Heron, ‘Third World Revolution’ –
link to youtube.com
Here’s a message to end the year on. The Tories are nationalists who reject science to a large extent. Ideologically, their morality does not extend to the universality of human rights, so I don’t wish the Tory cabinet “all the best”. The Prime minister also appears to be a white supremacist.
Science can answer moral questions | Sam Harris
link to youtube.com
William Wallace
OK, I’m a slacker. 😉
good morning fellow wingers, how are we all doing this fine morning. The sun is shining here in the southwest, I think I’ll take the wee dug for a walk.
I hope that the heids are no too sair, try a paracetamol, or if you prefer a hair o’ the dug. That’s never one I can face if I’m feeling a bit under the weather.
Onywho, it’s the start of the new year and the Rev seems to reckon it’s going to be a big one, so let’s get ready. Mind you, did Stu no predict that 2017 was going to be a boring year, how did that work out again.
Happy new year folks.
re. Theresa May saying the UK “never totally felt at home being in the EU”. If she means the New Right managed to achieve a narrow majority thanks to illegal practice and collusion with the corporate media, then I agree with her. As well as appearing to be a white supremacist, the Prime Minister also appears to be a populist manipulating the power of an outdated constitution. Her British nationalism is authoritarian English nationalism, simples.
link to tandfonline.com
Comparative Political Regimes: Consensus and Majoritarian Democracy
link to oxfordre.com
How majoritarianism endures in the structures of the UK’s devolved institutions
link to blogs.lse.ac.uk
P.S. When the Prime-minister refers to “the nation”, it is almost certainly a picture of England she has in mind, given she is English and grew up in the bosom of the Anglican church. Susequently, she appears to believe all rational men have the same notion of good. She is afflicted with English utilitarianism.
P.P.S. In order to rationalise his utilitarian ethics, Jeremy Bentham rejected universalism, resorted to God as the arbiter of an individual’s rights. No natural law, no principle of universal human rights. They are God given.
Morning, Marie. Happy New Year.
Just back from a ten mile walk with bending exercises and lashings of spring water.
A song for all of us here:
link to youtube.com
A peom wot I like, offering hope in midwinter:
link to poetryfoundation.org
A mephator for our movement, innit?
From the perspective of this Scottish resident, there doesn’t appear to be much respect for pluralism in the Prime-minister’s Brexit position.
link to tandfonline.com
Is Europe’s Problem Illiberal Majoritarianism or Creeping Authoritarianism?
Hungary and Poland are not seeking illiberal democracy. They are sliding toward authoritarianism under a false presentation of the majority will.
link to carnegieeurope.eu
INTRODUCTION
DISEQUILIBRIUM INSTITUTIONS AND PLURALIST DEMOCRACY
digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/61545/1/DISEQUILIBRIUM%20INSTITUTIONS.pdf
re. the UK “never totally felt at home being in the EU”. Lets get forensic. 😉
link to bfi.utah.edu
@William Wallace –
HNY to you mister!
😉
@ Ian
All the best for 2019 and beyond Ian. I think it’s going to be a year we will never forget.
One of the reasons I try to be succinct with my intros, is it minimises the risk of making daft statements.
And now for some Behavioural Neuroscience. As I’ve said, I view British nationalism as a bad habit, a delusion, a culturally harmful social pathology. Fortunately, the brain is plastic, or at least its structure is. This means that we are able to re-shape our brains through learning, leading us to think and behave differently.
For culturally and morally sterile nationalism, see British nationalism.
What Is Brain Plasticity?
How Experience Changes the Brain
link to verywellmind.com
Brain Plasticity and Behavior
link to psychologicalscience.org
Structural plasticity of the social brain: Differential change after socio-affective and cognitive mental training
link to advances.sciencemag.org
Had a wee chat with Ian last night and we’ve landed on a date for a Wings get-together.
Friday 1st March Glasgow. Likely venue Counting House (reasonable cheap and central for travellers).
If anyone has any other options it’s up for discussion so wire in.
Anyone fancy some depravity with tongues?
link to clanntuirc.co.uk
I’m writing a love letter:
link to youtube.com
Hi X_Sticks. Unless March 1st is my Counterpane Collective AGM, I hope to be there.
Saturday would be my preference for a get-together because I work on Friday so it’s a bit of a ßügger timewise. Saturday means a more relaxed journey, for those of us who have to travel a fair distance.
And a Happy New Year to abdee!
@BDTT
Aye, valid point. you may not be the only one working on the Friday.
Saturday might be a better bet.
Happy New Year to you and Chris 🙂
OK, so we can learn to be more caring members of society, right? A quality that contemporary British nationalism appears to have hollowed out of British civic society. That’s the Tory effect for you, the cultural embodiment of the moral psychology possessed by spiritually limited, bio-cognitively impaired, morally bankrupt, individualistic, delusional, traditionalists.
link to sciencedirect.com
The Neuroscience of Empathy
Neuroscientists identify specific brain areas linked to compassion.
link to psychologytoday.com
Social Plasticity
link to synapticpotential.com
Let’s put it this way.
Me and Ian B are going for a beer or two on Sat the 2nd March in the Counting House in Glasgow.
Anyone else who wants to come along is welcome.
There. Sortit!
I see that the MT has been invaded by the UDI crap again. Sighs. It was nice at Christmas when Trevor and friends were on holiday, but it would appear that they have returned and are catching some folk on their wee hooks. Deary me.
Onywho, that’s a’ the visitors away. the tree and all the decorations doon and laid away for anither year, and the hoose squared up again. My it disnae half feel empty noo wi’ everything laid away. I feel as if I’ve been cooking fro the five thousand this year, it’s been never ending. Ebeneezer has informed me that there’ll be nae tree and stuff next year. He says that every year mind, but he hisnae realised yet that it’s no up tae him. Oh well heigh hao.
Hope a’body is fine and that Santa came to all of you. Here’s looking at a busy 2019 for all of us. Hope that we will be hitting the campaign trail for indyref 2 or whitever it is to be soon.
That sounds like a plan X_Sticks!
Bus or car to get to the Counting House for teatime, a nosebag, then convivial blethers and pints!
A song for the UDI Bacon Rollers, Marie. What time-wasters they are. Next week it’ll be “You have to use the Euro to join the EU” or some such. They’re getting very agitated.
link to youtube.com
Must confess we relaxed at New Year and bought a big steak pie for six from a local butcher. ‘Twas most excellent.
Ebeneezer has the right idea, imo.
I missed Project Fear.
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – Little Demon
link to youtube.com
re. “Britain is on the brink of an historic strategic decision”.
I’m afraid I disagreed strongly with the claim that national character has no effect on the shape and performance of the economy. What are our public institutions other than expressions of national character? Britain’s structural racism certainly expresses itself through the Home Office, that’s for sure. Brexit is unlikely to help improve economic life and social mobility for the majority, so can not be justified ethically. Yet it has come about, despite the Civil Service Code of Conduct and Treasury rules controlling policy development.
Britain’s national character is maladjusted and does not provide a platform for a sustainable, tolerant and inclusive society.
Culture and Institutions
link to scholar.harvard.edu
Borders on the mind: re-framing border thinking
link to tandfonline.com
On Borders and Power: A Theoretical Framework
link to journals.uvic.ca
Bounded spaces in a ‘borderless world’: border studies, power and the anatomy of territory
link to tandfonline.com
R.I.P. and thank you Mr Ford.
link to youtube.com
Tinto, aye I know that you agree with Ebeneezer, I remember that from last year. Ach well, he’s no a bad sowell, he cooked the tea tonight.
How’s Harvey, I hope he behaved over Hogmanay. He didnae get into the drink cupboard I hope.
Here’s a wee tune, cause it’s kinda how we all feel at the moment,especially on the MT. It wid burst yer heid as they say.
link to youtube.com
PS Tinto, that’s no you in the video in the purple outfit is it?
Well said, Chick. For some reason that kind of song means more the older you get.
Marie, Harvey is still on Nibiru or Planet 10 after my unfortunate CBB-induced hypnotic interlude.
Factual Correction: it wasn’t purple, it was heliotrope 😛
On the bright side, at least my perm grew out!
And since we’re approaching Burns Season (how come Burns clubs are fu’ of Yoons?), this is a fearfully exposed a Capella version of a classic.
Short but powerful.
I’m sling-shotting ayont Pluto to retrieve Harvey. I may be some time.
@ X_Sticks 1:54 pm
I just checked my diary and it appears I have a wee job to do in Glaschu that very weekend.
I thought on reflection it might be better to link to the Burns song 😛 .
link to m.youtube.com
hackalumpoff: carry your bag, sir? I have an auger bit.
@ Tinto
An Auger bit is no good for a night on the tiles. However, you could take a hammer in case Rev Stu appears.
My all time fave poem:
link to youtube.com
Evening, hackalumpoff.
Chust sublime, mon vieux.
Is this our No-to-Yes strategy for 2019?
Have crampons, will travel.
@ Tinto
Crampons, Hammers, Augers, indeed we have a mountain to conquer brother.
link to youtube.com
Fairy Nuff, but I can’t go back to the slammer. I’m too pretty for the jyle.
@ Tinto
It’s a Big Country, they’ll never find you.
link to youtube.com
On the other hand I know people..
link to youtube.com
re. law in the stupid age. Legal doctrine is struggling to cope with the ongoing assault on the meaning of language.
link to open.edu
Reference and Representation in Thought and Language
link to oxfordscholarship.com
Social semiotics and social representations theory
link to visual-memory.co.uk
link to lra.le.ac.uk
Hee, hee!
I believe Mr Brotherhood has a plan for this month so until then I’m on the lam.
X_Sticks
Need a wee sesh in Glasgow, dae ye mind if I join yourself and Ian B on 1st March.I promise no to make an arse of maself and uphold the integrity of such august and distinguished company. IF references arerequire
Getting my links in a tangle there.
Representation & the Media: Featuring Stuart Hall
link to youtube.com
X_Sticks
Need a wee sesh in Glasgow, dae ye mind if I join yourself and Ian B on 1st March.I promise no to make an arse of maself and to uphold the integrity of such august and distinguished company. If references are
required as to my standing as a man of good character I am sure BDTT or Peter Grant will (maybe?) provide same.
Hi chasanderson200.
Saturday 2nd March.
From up this page a wee bit…
“X_Sticks says:
2 January, 2019 at 1:54 pm
Let’s put it this way.
Me and Ian B are going for a beer or two on Sat the 2nd March in the Counting House in Glasgow.
Anyone else who wants to come along is welcome.
There. Sortit!”
and, on the current main page at 9.24pm,
link to wingsoverscotland.com
@chas
It’s the 2nd Chas, and you’ll be very welcome. In fact I insist you join us 😉
Brian Doonthetoon
Sorry, I should have given you the nod Brian.
The Wonderful Insults of Marx
link to youtube.com
X-Sticks and BDDT
Thanks guys, ma brain needs an alcohol infusion….more than a fortnight since I had a pint!!!!!!
Ahhh the joys of granpappyship ( not).
See you on the 2nd.????
Media literate Scots will probably be aware that Scottish academia is no stranger to ‘socially conservative’ ‘personalities’. This is a strand of a broader tapestry, and is another product of the structural racism that shapes Anglo/American culture, and so subsequently Scottish culture.
link to opendemocracy.net
Socialists, try and think outside your ideological bubble for a minute. The cultural meaning of words underpins our understanding of reality. Sex is biological, gender psychological. Apples aren’t oranges, trans-women aren’t women. Your insistence otherwise is anti-scientific and illiberal in nature.
Here’s a human rights perspective on the issue.
link to ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk
I don’t know if folk remember me mentioning a discussion I had with a young BLiS__D member. Though I was old enough to have been his father, he decided to call me “son” when it was obvious his logic was flawed, and suggested I update my understanding of feminism. That is the attitude that is supporting the GRA.
link to classic.austlii.edu.au
General Introduction to Theories of Gender and Sex
link to cla.purdue.edu
Modules on Butler: On Gender and Sex
link to cla.purdue.edu
OK, this is from across the pond. Can the GRA advance the case of non-binary identities without undoing legal doctrine?
link to thepublicdiscourse.com
I’m not sure if folk will remember a Critical Philosophy view I posted that suggested “performativety” is essentially a repackaging of Neo-liberalism, so has limited potential as a technology for progressive social transformation.
link to journals.sagepub.com
Human rights contestations: sexual orientation and gender identity
link to tandfonline.com
On a Critical Realist Theory of Identity
link to link.springer.com
I’ll have to remember to sign-off.
Thievery Corporation – All That We Perceive
link to youtube.com
Nothing to do with anything really but quite the cleverest and most uplifting piece of music I have ever listened to. Reminds me very much of the children dancing in the streets of the township in Kano when the first rains came.
link to youtube.com
The original version of that adaptation of Toto’s big hit was by Perpetuum Jazzile – a Slovenian choir – and it’s shit hot as well.
Which reminds of the point I have made recently. Such is the explosion of population in Africa,and in particular West Africa, the world is going to have to get its act together and initiate the re -irrigation of the Sahara wastes. It used to be forrested a couple of thousand years ago and there are literally trillions of gallons of water still under it.
I hope folk have spotted the similarity of effect between the GRA and a Brexit that includes Scotland. The GRA will erase the legal personality, the embodiment, of what it means to be a woman. As with a Brexit that includes Scotland, our legal personality must hide in the shadow of English exceptionalism, so that we may “take back control”. A Brexit that includes Scotland is the articulation of misogynistic racism, simples. Well, it is a ‘policy’ from the English New Right, innit?
link to scholarship.law.cornell.edu
Legal Personality as a Fundamental Concept of International Law
link to pure.uva.nl
The Concept of International Legal Personality, An Inquiry into the History and Theory of International Law
link to academic.oup.com
Bob Marley – Get up, stand up
link to youtube.com
@Dave McEwan Hill –
Thanks for the link to that choir. Quite incredible intro, haven’t seen anything like that before.
😉
Hope Smallaxe enjoyed that one, Cameron.
Back to the future:
link to youtube.com
First British No.1 in the US of A, I believe.
Michael Ventris was brilliant.
link to en.wikipedia.org
Tinto Chiel
I certainly had Smallaxe in mind. It must be true what they say, nations are imagined communities.
Imagined communities that are limited in cultural and territorial authority.
So the yoons are weaponising anti-Semitism and the cultural guilt associated with the Holocaust? This hardcore misrepresentation is aimed at robbing Scots of their agency.
Now for a bit of Cognitive Psychotherapy and stuff.
link to file.scirp.org
The Impact of the Holocaust on Politics- by Professor Shewach Weiss
link to mfa.gov.il
Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Narratives: Towards a Theory of Transgenerational Empathy
link to ore.exeter.ac.uk
I haven’t played these guys for a while.
Chumbawamba & Credit To The Nation – Enough Is Enough
link to youtube.com
I can see colours, man……
link to m.youtube.com
Quiet in here, Christy will cheer you up.
link to youtube.com
One for Cactus, our very own Midnight Cowboy.
link to youtube.com
A contribution to the fuzz-fest, a love songs for the age of trans-cult extremism. I wanted to play “Right Side Of Woman”, but the only clip I could find was crap.
P.S. They’re French. 🙂
Sonic Chicken 4 – Sexiest
link to youtube.com
Man this is taking me back in time. Gender ideology is how one practices one’s sexual identity, so it’s something most of us do given the chance. ‘Trans-activism’ is a political movement that employs totalitarian tactics to advance an anti-scientific agenda. As their ideology is illiberal in nature, it requires state/NGO/voluntary sector assistance in order to gain public traction.
link to amherst.edu
Introduction: Gender and Politics: A Gendered World, a Gendered Discipline
link to oxfordhandbooks.com
A Critical Analysis of Gender Mainstreaming
link to cambridge.org
Forgot to sign-off again.
Sonic Chicken 4 – Girl 66
link to youtube.com
Aw.. Smallaxe
Tonight jist because…It’s that kind O’ night
Been thinking of ye and hoping yer well?
Much love tae you and Mrs Smallaxe XXX
re. Scotland taking its place among the nations of earth. Here’s some Post-Colonial thought and International Relations Theory.
link to link.springer.com
The end of liberal international order?
link to academic.oup.com
The US-led liberal order: imperialism by another name?
link to academic.oup.com
Well, I’m a bit of a radical feminist, apparently. 🙂
The Litter – Whatcha Gonna Do About It?
link to youtube.com
re. those who are still to change their mind over the future of Scotland’s legal personality. There were many reasons folk were not sufficiently confident to vote Yes in 2014, most of them outwith their control. The media environment seriously impaired the ability of Scots to make informed, rational decisions, so the vote was decided largely through the emotional fear of loss. Although I expect ProjectFear2 will be cunning and unprincipled, the site of battle will be better suited to our aim. Folk don’t like to be told who they are and what to do, that’s authoritarian totalitarianism.
Scotland needs to come together and show the MayBot what real solidarity looks like.
Empathy-Motivated Forgiveness: The Influence of Empathy, Prior Experience, and Contextual Factors in Route to Forgiveness of a Transgressor
link to graphyonline.com
Barriers to forgiveness
link to marshall.usc.edu
Cornerstones of Persuasion: Inclusion and Empathy
link to diplomacy.edu
The Persuasions – Good Times
link to youtube.com
@Kevin Hague
You appear not to support the principle of universal human rights and are simply unqualified to claim any intellectual authority in this debate, you nationalist FUD.
link to tandfonline.com
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Sorry, I forgot to sign-off again, so here’s some mopre geeky stuff.
link to onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Brexit and moral foundation framing: the key to a People’s Vote is in Vote Leave’s hands
link to blogs.lse.ac.uk
The Personality of Brexit Voters
link to psychologytoday.com
THE SELECTER – TOO MUCH PRESSURE
link to youtube.com
Brexit psychology: cognitive styles and their relationship to nationalistic attitudes
link to blogs.lse.ac.uk
I must say I’m a bit miffed that nobody gave me the nod for using Critical Evolutionery Psychology to critique the DUP. Well, polatics is a drag. 😉
link to youtube.com
polatics?
@Kevin Hague
Seriously dude, your argument is heading in an entirely unsupportable direction. Time to call it a day and leave the debate.
iep-berlin.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Wei%C3%9Fbecker_Discourse-Analysis-of-the-UK-Referendum-on-EU-Membership_2.pdf
(En)Countering Writing Conventions: Critical Language Awareness Teaching Aid
link to youtube.com
Mediating Populism
link to demos.co.uk
Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime
link to youtube.com
Hello CameronB, persumably that Talking Heads song is the “Unionists Say No to a Second Indyref” version. 😉
david
Trolling? Me? 🙂
Conservatives aren’t all the same, they vary in degrees of humanity, as we all do. Don’t blame them though for being anti-social, it’s a biological thing. Remember, socially conservative individuals tend to lack the brain architecture responsible for the capacity to feel genuine empathy towards others. They must rely on compensatory mechanisms in order to appear human (see the MayBot). They are socially handicapped and deserve sympathy not scorn.
link to digitalcommons.unl.edu
The Neurobiology of Political Belief
The long road to truly understanding what causes our political beliefs.
link to insidescience.org
Conservatism and the neural circuitry of threat: economic conservatism predicts greater amygdala–BNST connectivity during periods of threat vs safety
link to academic.oup.com
Scotland in 2019:
link to youtube.com
Should I have Jon and Vangelised?
This should really be played at one in the morning but wottheheck:
link to youtube.com
A pencil sketch of Humphrey B.
Geddit?
link to youtube.com
Etruscan was spoken in Tuscany and beyond but was extinct by about 100 A.D. It is regarded by most linguists as an isolate, i.e. like Basque, unrelated to any other tongue.
Emperor Claudius’s wife was Etruscan and he wrote a 20-volume history of the people and a dictionary which he compiled by talking to old Tuscan rustics.
Both works are now lost, unfortunately.
That is all, groovers: just had to share.
Let me try again:
link to youtube.com
re. human values. I blame the parents, frankly. Well, we’re talking about the human animal, so it’s a bio-cultural thing.
Does neuroscience threaten human values?
link to nature.com
Neurobiological Foundations of an Attribute Model of Memory
link to pdfs.semanticscholar.org
The Behavioral Neuroscience of Motivation: An Overview of Concepts, Measures, and Translational Applications
link to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The Neurobiological Foundations of Valuation in Human Decision Making under Uncertainty
link to adres.ens.fr
Nice one, TC. I didn’t know that Etruscan was an isolate. Shame about the dictionary.
Please remember that the conservatively minded are not best suited to handling new situations. Particularly if they are complex in nature (see Brexit).
link to oxfordhandbooks.com
Understanding the Neurobiological Basis of Behavior: A Good Way to Go
link to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Retrieval and Reconsolidation: Toward a Neurobiology of Remembering
link to learnmem.cshlp.org
Nouvelle Vague – Master & Servant
link to youtube.com
re. Barry Gardiner. His comments contained negligable relation to reality, so would be unlikely to bring about effective change in the real world. Britain apparently doesn’t have an opposition. If you think the vulnerable are already suffering in austerity Brexitania, you’ve not seen anything yet.
IMHO, the Establishment have run out of ideas and both the left and right simply want to start from scratch. Brexit will certainly give them that opportunity, IMHO.
re. the New Right and the New Left, values and Brexit.
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.826.4512&rep=rep1&type=pdf
What Nietzsche’s philosophy can tell us about why Brexit and Trump won
Hugo Drochon’s new book on Nietzsche can teach us about American populism and European disintegration.
link to vox.com
Straddling the Political Line Between Nihilism and Existentialism
Because the side you fall on can change everything
link to medium.com
Strategies for dealing with emotional nihilism
link to lesswrong.com
Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead
link to youtube.com
@Priti Patel MP
Oi, here’s a view from anthropological philosophy. Take your nationalism, not patriotism, and ram it. Do you support the doctrine of international law and the principle of universal human rights? I think not.
link to onlinelibrary.wiley.com
@Church of Scotland
Still support the yoonyawn?
Boy my proof reading is bad. Almost as bad as my spelling. Here’s some more philosophical anthropology.
link to brainpickings.org
link to new.evolution-institute.org
link to blogs.lse.ac.uk
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult – Devil Bunnies
link to youtube.com
I think Brian Wilson has just proven he has rejected the principle of self-interest and so, subsequently, rational thought an reason. The yoon’s a bam. Certainly hasn’t come into contact with Critical Realism. Wants to take his chances in Brexitania, governed by populist English nationalists. I can’t see them empowering Scotland’s potential, they’re driven by New Right Darwinism, Dark Money and English exceptionalism.
AGE OF CHANCE – TIMES UP
link to youtube.com
Second thoughts, he’s simple a selfish prick.
@Brian Wilson
Do you not appreciate your position undermines the principle of universal human rights, globally? Sort yourself out or declare yourself a Tory.
Hi, cearc. I suppose there is a chance the dictionary is languishing somewhere in the vast Vatican library but access is extremely restricted and no browsing/fishing is allowed.
Hope you are out the medical “slammer” and 2019 is a better year health-wise for you.
So the British Army are using the vocabulary of the alt-right to attract new recruits. That’s radicalisation of the youth, British style.
TC, well yes, the vatican library is almost as good as lost being treated more as a private possession than a world resource. Hopefully, one day it will become less secretive and more accessible.
I was home for a fortnight but back in last week and for a couple more days. I think I can safely assume that it will not be a great health year but should be improving in time. So planning jaunts and gatherings may be a bit tricky for a wee while.
Still, the food’s good.
Hope you get better soon and can really enjoy the spring when it comes, cearc. Nana told me the food Where You Were is pretty good as she has sampled it herself, I think.
At least we know Claudius’s works didn’t perish in the fire at the library at Alexandria, ‘cos it was burned down by Julius Caesar, the Roman geezer, before they were written 😛 .
Harvey tells me we at least have the Hall of Records under the Sphinx’s left paw to consult, so it’s all pretty peachy.
Poor spelling can actually produce some remarkable search results. Here’s some Social Anthropology and stuff. Vive la Integrity. 😉
link to journals.sagepub.com
Brexit, Archaeology and Heritage: Reflections and Agendas
link to pia-journal.co.uk
Why Brexit matters for the humanities and social sciences
Ash Amin and Philip Lewis explain the issues – and what the British Academy advocates.
link to thebritishacademy.ac.uk
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult – The Days of Swine and Roses
link to youtube.com
I’ve always liked the sly lyrics of this song, its infectious bass line and simple but effective key change at 2.08.
link to youtube.com
“She’s got cheekbones like geometry and eyes like sin,
And she’s sexually enlightened by Cosmopolitan.”
Pure peotry in my view, Poindexters.
OK, it’s a bust. 🙂
The EU Global Strategy after Brexit – A Chinese View
link to tandfonline.com
Xi Jinping?Work Together to Build the Silk Road Economic Belt and The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road
link to 16plus1-thinktank.com
China and Brexit: what’s in it for us?
link to ecfr.eu
Beat It
link to youtube.com
I’m sure I will enjoy the spring but this will not be over by then.
Not just the food but view is great as well looking right over Inverness and the hills. Yep, oor local is nae bad. Of course the internal climate is unbearably hot and dry but the car’s in the carpark for a bit of wet and damp.
Brexit exposes the incompatibility of British nationalism with the principle of universal human rights. The two ideologies are mutually exclusive, without the necessary political infrastructure and will to enhance Britain’s claim to democratic pluralism. Scots are unable to make effective claims to rights without legal identity and personality. British nationalism only appears to recognise the legal identity of those living in England, Wales and N. Ireland. That should concern those living in Scotland.
Identity, Nationalism and Anthropologists
link to halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr
From Brexit to Trump: Anthropology and the rise of nationalist populism
link to anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Cutting Scotland Loose: A Southern Briton’s Response to Preston
link to journals.sagepub.com
Pitbull Timber
link to youtube.com
Mutually excluding
As far as I’m concerned, Scottish Yes Tories could benefit from putting some thought into their name. Their support for independence suggests they are [c]onservative Conservatives who support the rule of law and human rights, not anti-social extremist of the New Right (i.e BritNat Tories).
And now for some more Social Anthropology.
link to pia-journal.co.uk
Brexit: Where once was an empire
link to perspectivesinanthropology.wordpress.com
Social and Cultural Perspectives on Brexit Britain: Identity, Belonging and the Media
link to ncl.ac.uk
KMFDM – Help Us/Save Us/Take Us Away
link to youtube.com
It isn’t possible to understand Brexit without acknowledging the reality that austerity laid the terrain of the Brexit campaign. Right, who’s for a bit of Social Policy and perhaps some more Social Anthropology?
link to cambridge.org
The realities of living on welfare are significantly different from government and media characterisations
link to blogs.lse.ac.uk
Unwrapping solidarity? Society reborn in austerity
link to theasa.org
The Upsetters – Grumblin’ Dub
link to youtube.com
Cammy,
Could anyone imagine a UK think tank writing such an eloquent and elegant report! A pleasure to read.
Xi Jinping?Work Together to Build the Silk Road Economic Belt and The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road
link to 16plus1-thinktank.com
cearc
I suspect that’s the effect of a differnt cultural aesthetic to that of the west. Glad you appreciated it.
re. Scotland’s “potential” and why Brian Wilson is a FUD.
link to www2.uwe.ac.uk
Exploring the Concept of Causal Power in a Critical Realist Tradition
link to onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Culture, context and society – The underexplored potential of critical realism as a philosophical framework for theory and practice
link to onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Max Romeo – Chase The Devil
link to youtube.com
Tinto Chiel at 3.20
My top four Scottish records of all time are “Perfect Skin”, “Lost Weekend” (Lloyd Cole and the Commotions), “Ordinary Angel” (Hue and Cry)and Pick Up The Pieces (AWB).
@DMH: in these matters you have exquisite taste 😉 .
It’s a beautiful morning and I’m honing my doorstep techniques for the approaching Indyref2 campaign with this self-help video:
link to youtube.com
That should do the trick.
I hope Priti Patel comes to regret not choosing an alternative narrative to her rather narrow and unhistorical account of Britain’s heritage, and its’ generative role in the production of British culture.
link to immi.se
link to lchc.ucsd.edu
link to journals.openedition.org
The Rezillos – Destination Venus
link to youtube.com
Re. Blair McDougal and Kev O’Donnell. Neither appears to support the principle of universal human rights. They are, however, using their media leverage to twist reality.
link to global.oup.com
link to research.ed.ac.uk
link to journals.sagepub.com
It is unreasonable to equate the emotions released by Yes supporters during the 2014 indy ref and those released by Brexit. Anyone trying to convince you otherwise is either delusional or a liar.
Saint Andrew and the Wollen Mill ‘ Rare to be Alev ‘
link to youtube.com
Re. Blair McDougal and Kev O’Donnell. They’re British/English nationalism would condemn Scotland to the uncertainties and volatility of the full English Brexit. They also appear to support the removal of powers from the Scoltand’s Parliament and possibly even the amendment of the constitution to prevent any future potential of Scottish independence. As such, neither appear to support the principle of universal human rights.
Self-determination is only the starting point for a better Scotland, it would provide a platform with the potential to develop a “rights based” approach to public policy. The benefits of a “rights-based” approach to government can be seen in the substantial reduction in Scotland’s homlessness under the SNP.
link to journals.sagepub.com
Questioning the ‘common sense’: Was Scottish independence really an alternative to UK neoliberalisation?
link to journals.sagepub.com
link to strathprints.strath.ac.uk
The Gladiators – The rich man poor man
link to youtube.com
Huvnyaclue wot it all means but it is a catchy little number:
link to youtube.com
Hi Tinto Chiel.
For your edumication, an’ thah’.
link to web.archive.org
Check out all the links spread across the bottom of the page. I believe “Lochee Luciano” was Mike Marra. Unfortunately, because it’s a grab by the Internet Archive, not all the graphics appear but as there are only 7 short pages, you won’t waste too much time out of your busy schedule.
And here’s the classic, obscure #1 hit all over the world in Dundee, mentioned at the site.
The A side…
link to youtube.com
The B side…
link to youtube.com
Thanks, Brian, for access to the secret ‘Dee Archive.
Saint Andrew was quite sublime. Apart from his famous chanson du peh, I find this number hugely entertaining:
link to m.youtube.com
I often muse deeply thereon.
Eh, Tinto Chiel.
St Andrew was a phenomenon that, probably, won’t ever be repeated.
If you were there at the time…
re. the seeds of Brexit. Labour adopted monetarism in 1976, then full blown Thatcherism under the Tories, characterised by an aggressive nationalism. New Labour as the left wing of the New Right. Austerity. Brexit.
British Labour are an English nationalist party, same as the Tories. Always have been.
link to policy-network.net
Austerity: Neoliberal dreams come true?
link to eprints.whiterose.ac.uk
The pathway out of neoliberalism and the analysis of political ideology in the post-crisis world
link to eprints.lse.ac.uk
It really gives me the boak that our politics is infested with so many professional ‘socialists’. For a proper boak though, you just can’t out-Tory a Tory.
link to eprints.whiterose.ac.uk
New Labour or the Normalization of Neo-Liberalism
link to researchgate.net
Neoliberalism in Britain: From Thatcherism to Cameronism
link to triple-c.at
Fugazi – Blueprint
link to youtube.com
P.S. The SNP appears to be developing a “rights based approach” to public policy and governance (see current Housing strategy and the ongoing reduction in homelessness). This approach to government is the antithesis of Neo-liberalism and is unlikely to survive Brexit. A written constitution which enshrines the “Right to Development”, would be a means for Scots to secure a “rights-based approach” to governance, IN LAW. Such a document would provide better protection for Scottish residents, from the excesses of improper government.
Here’s one to celebrate the zombie ideology of Neo-liberalism. An ideology that seeks to hollow-out the “human” from the experience of being human. The zombie ideology that when mixed with structural cultural chauvinism*, produces the full English Berxit.
* that’s structural racism to the layman.
Metallica – For Whom the Bell Tolls
link to youtube.com
Still on a zombie theme. re. the legality of Brexit and the promised debasement of Scotland and her people.
link to academic.oup.com
The Human Rights Act: Ambiguity about Parliamentary
Sovereignty
link to germanlawjournal.squarespace.com
The Least Dangerous Branch: Whose Role is it to Protect Parliamentary Sovereignty? Miller and the Human Rights Implications of Brexit
link to ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk
If I had children I certainly wouldn’t want their future decided through political fraud and the cultural chauvinism of another country.
THE UPSETTERS – A LIVE INJECTION
link to youtube.com
Everyone looks so damn young in this:
link to youtube.com
Botanical survey: do you call the spring woodland plant a bluebell or wild hyacinth or do you call a harebell a bluebell?
Asking for my pal Linnaeus.
@K**** H****
When are you going to start respecting the doctrine of international law? Never thought of supporting the principle of universal human rights, rather than your One Nation ideology and Westminster diktat? Is it not apparent to you that you haven’t a clue and that you’re simply a useful idiot?
Practise your Portuguese. How nova is your bossa?
link to youtube.com
There was a Scottish version with Ecclefechan in the title but it bombed.
@Tino Chiel: 5.13
My dear old Mum, a Southern England Surrey girl, always referred to Campanula rotundifolia as a hairbell or Scottish bluebell.
Hyacinthoides non-scripta, she called a bluebell, sometimes (wrongly) an English bluebell. It does grows extensively in Scotland and elsewhere in broadleaf woodland.
The Spanish bluebell, an invasive non-native that freely hybridises with the true bluebell she called a bastard!
My input RE: Bluebells.
This guy’s only UK chart hit, as far as I know…
link to youtube.com
Bossa Nova is King baby.
link to youtube.com
@ frogesque: that’s interesting. Most Scottish authorities would agree with your dear old mum in the first paragraph. Michael Scott in Scottish Wild Flowers (2012) calls CR Scottish Bluebell, while John R Lee The Flora of The Clyde Area (1933) calls it harebell, which is often regarded as its English equivalent.
Scott calls HN-S Wild Hyacinth, and Lee uses its (old-fashioned?) Latin by-name Scilla Nutans for what he simply calls Hyacinth.
BDTT: have to confess Mr Shand frightened me as a nipper. His face was so impassive as he played his jolly tunes that I got the shivers.
CBB: “Bossa Nova is King baby”: saw wot you did there–to’al respek.
@Tinto Chiel.
Took this pic some time ago at Elie.
Common Blue on a Hairbell
link to frogesque.com
Thanks, frogesque: that’s a beauty.
It’s always instructive for me to consult the Caledonian Brains’ Trust 😛
One day I may tell the world my Orange Tip story from Darkest Lanarkshire.
And I didn’t say Ruby Tip, I’ll have you intellectuals know.
link to youtube.com
Before I go for my Horlicks, here’s an ironic version of a song for the DUP and its Mrs-Doubtfire-from-Hell leader:
link to youtube.com
Sleep well, mes braves.
Tomorrow is another day (except for viewers in Scotland).
re. the DUP. Here’s some more Critical Evolutionary Psychology and stuff. 🙂
link to minddevlab.yale.edu
Religion, Intolerance, And Conflict
link to evolution-institute.org
The Biology of Bigotry
Is prejudice in your genes?
link to psychologytoday.com
Pearl Jam – Do the Evolution
link to youtube.com
I don’t mean to be a space-hog but Critical Evolutionary psychology really is quite useful for understanding the production of culture.
link to cep.ucsb.edu
New thinking: the evolution of human cognition
link to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Prejudice: The Interplay of Personality, Cognition and Social Psychology
link to diva-portal.org
Louis Prima – I wanna be like you
link to youtube.com
P.S. I should probably point out that Critical Evolutionary Psychology points to the causal forces of English cultural chauvinism and the Scottish cringe. Both are damaging social pathologies with deep bio-cultural roots.
The Bluebells I knew his cousin.
link to youtube.com
Oops last one was the Tory arsehole Peter Lilley who was even worse than Thatcher in my opinion.
Here’s the song I meant to play, from Arbroath I believe and his cousin Cumbernauld. You never knew what might be true though 🙂
link to youtube.com
It’s a tap your feet and clap your hands. Also just smile 🙂
Thepnr, I would have played that Bluebells clip at 5.13 myself but it has a very high Molly Weir (arch cringer to the gentry and leading anti devolution campaigner) content.
I remember seeing Lilley’s speech to the Tory party conference and thinking he was just about the creepiest little creep in Creepland. There’s a guy with skeletons in the cupboard, I’ll be bound.
Quite despicable.
re. the moral psychology of British nationalism. Britain began as a bastion of laissez-faire, liberal enterprise and slavery (England controlled the global slave trade at the time of yoonyawn). After a brief conversation with social democracy, Britain appears desperate to re-imagine itself as a Neo-liberal, ‘slave’, economy. Perhaps a residual effect of the buccaneering spirit that persists in the English psyche.
link to realclearpolitics.com
The Ethics of Globalism, Nationalism, and Patriotism
link to humansandnature.org
Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community
link to philpapers.org
CAPTAIN PUGWASH – Episode 1 (Down The Hatch)
link to youtube.com
@George Monbiot
I generally agree with you but I think you’re way off the mark recommending utilitarian ethics as a morality for internationalists.
link to halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr
Nietzsche’s Critique of Utilitarianism
link to philpapers.org
link to blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk
The Ends Justify the Means
link to youtube.com
P.S. Utilitarianism aims for social equality, which is not the same as social equity. Neo-liberalism involves a formal requirement for equality, but is doomed to failure as “socialised risk” is unsuited to delivering substantive social equality (see homelessness in Britain).
link to search.informit.com.au
THE NEOLIBERAL THEORY OF SOCIETY
link to homepages.warwick.ac.uk
The Ideas of Equality and Non-Discrimination: Formal and Substantive Equality
link to equalrightstrust.org
@George Monbiot
What are the Ethics of Development Studies?
link to core.ac.uk
ETHICS AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
THE DEVELOPMENT ETHICS PARADIGM
link to u-picardie.fr
The development ethics approach to international development
link to emeraldinsight.com
P.S. Scottish residents currently enjoy formal British citizenship, though clearly not substantively equal citizenship.
Right, time to give you all a break and head back to Edinburgh. I’ve still not managed to sort my t’internet, so I’ve been trying to get as much out as I could while in Dundee. Sorry for taking up so much space.
Max Romeo & the Upsetters – One Step Forward
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@George Monbiot
Ethics and international law: integrating the global justice project
link to cambridge.org
On J. A. Hobson’s “The Ethics of Internationalism
link to journals.uchicago.edu
Proper Distance: Mediation, Ethics, Otherness
eprints.lse.ac.uk/37518/1/Proper_distance_mediation_ethics_otherness_(lsero).pdf
Apart from the music, you may enjoy the car chase and an intervention by Bruce Willis.
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I like it when the wee guy in the back seat shorts out.
“The weak crumble, are slaughtered and are erased from history while the strong, for good or for ill, survive. The strong are respected, and alliances are made with the strong, and in the end peace is made with the strong.” – PM of Israel
The man is clearly a fascist. Political Zionism and contemporary British nationalism are very similar in character. Think austerity.
Typin’ aboot Edinburgh and ‘car chase’…
My son flagged this up to me at the weekend. The rendering of the graphics is amazing. If you know Edinburgh at all, you’ll find this fascinating.
Forza Horizon 4 – Exploring Edinburgh (Spring Season)
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When I was getting the link for the above, this next one popped up. It hits Edinburgh just after 2 minutes.
Forza Horizon 4 | Map Tour! Edinburgh, Motorway, Beach Gameplay and More!
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Just heard a headline on BBC 6 o’ clock news about a mothballed hospital.
That, of course, reminded me of this:-
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How prescient was ‘Yes Minister”?
Do you sport a hat?
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Warning: 2 a.m. music really.
@Tinto Chiel –
Cheers for the BN track, haven’t heard that in many years.
Hope you do be well there, and belated HNY to you and yours. Have been very lax in conveying good wishes to people, on here as elsewhere.
I hope to all known gods that this is our year man – not sure how many more we can do!
😉
Hi, Ian. Seasonal reciprocations to you and all the fambly too. Paul Buchanan of BN still lives in the West End of Glasgow, I believe. Their sound was unique (“Like so many others” as Jonathan Watson/Denis Law would say) and that sound is very 80s. You can’t imagine anything so moody and introspective today. Would they even get a recording contract? Mind you, in literature, would the likes of Alasdair Gray, Kelman or Warner find a publisher now?
It’s going to be a hell of a year, and the shitstorm we have seen in the last few days is nothing compared to what Perfidious Albion will attempt to destroy us with.
All to play for and we have to win but we fortunately we are starting from virtual parity in the polls and have a host of very committed activists in the movement.
The title of the main thread had been troubling me until I remembered this:
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There is now, of course, plenty of this commodity in Moray, most of it spouted by its desperate MP.
@ Tinto
Congrats, tune for you & Mrs Tinto
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re. The two child cap for those on social security. A discriminatory, short-term solution to a problem that is structural in nature. The policy is likely to result in possibly irreversible social harm. That’s 21st century Tory ethical politics for you, a return to negative eugenics.
link to scielo.org.za
RETHINKING PROGENITIVE CONFLICT: WHY REPRODUCTIVE AUTONOMY MATTERS
link to academic.oup.com
Reproductive Justice
Briefing Book: A Primer on Reproductive Justice and Social Change
link to law.berkeley.edu
@Lesley Riddoch
?I agree, a basket case England is not what iScotland would idealy look for. However, from the perspective of Political Realism, England’s problems are not Scotland’s responsibility. Indeed, it would be morally wrong for Scotland to try and alter English political culture. That’s what British nationalism does to us, and we don’t like it.
Brexit obliterates the myths of British nationalism and the notion of equality among the nations. Brexit is English cultural authoritarianism. Scottish empathy will not cure this particular social pathology.
#DissolveTheUnion
@hackalumpoff: thank you for your kind felicitations, mon vieux.
When I awoke this morning, I thought I’d turned into Wayne Rooney: I was in bed with a grandma!
Spooky…
Mind you, she was Miss Townhead & Garngad in 1972:
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Love the “take-off” @ 2.40 on this track.
Of course…..
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@BDTT re your last comment on main thread, I did contact the Rev the other day on the subject of mac’s racism, and included a request for several well-known trolls to be excluded. Sadly the Rev is more tolerant by far than I am.
This guy was my guidance teacher:
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Does anyone know what happened to the National Yes Registry Indy App?
Saying not available in your region on Apple App Store.
Asked on main thread this morning but appears to be too much troll shite going on over there.
@ Jockanese Wind Talker
12 January, 2019 at 7:10 pm
“Does anyone know what happened to the National Yes Registry Indy App?”
I’ve just downloaded it from link to nationalyesregistry.scot
for Android, it works OK albeit a bit buggy. It doesn’t seem to have many users.
I think it was designed for Yes groups to coordinate activities etc but some groups are more active online than others. My local group is on there but they also use whatsapp, email and text, so it seems to be a communications Clusterbourach, horses to water etc.
There is a Facebook page with the last post on 1st December.
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Cheer @hackalumpoff says at 8:00 pm
It still isn’t working for me on iPhone
@TC –
🙂
Brilliant Isaac Hayes video there, first time I’ve seen it.
I was once given a yellow card at a karaoke night in a Stevenston pub because I did that track and ‘there wisny enough wurds in it’.
Seriously!
😉
@TC –
When that Hayes track finished I got the intro to another song in my heid…took a minute to work out what it was…turns out it’s the song which followed ‘Shaft’ on a compilation cassette I used to play non-stop, ooooh, twenty-plus years ago.
New York City, ‘I’m Doing Fine’
🙂
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Morning, Ian. Retired early last night for my beauty sleep. I remember that song and a lot of work has gone into that compilation.
It reminded me of a great dance clip I think you posted a while ago:
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Oh, to be young and lovely…..
Shaft and Papa was a Rolling Stone must have two of the greatest intros ever.
To wit:
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To woo:
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Quite irrelevant but it always reminds me of heedtracker and his funny Toryboy schtick.
Wish you could play bass?
I bet you do:
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Sorry, Cactus, gotta play this for Marie Clark to say Happy New Year.
Don’t know who the Big Girlie in the bandana is but I like the song 😛
Hope your Dell boy has settled down.
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More from these weirdos.
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Harvey drives even worse.
Bonsoir, mes braves!
Did this guy get his style from James Brown, or vice-versa?
🙂 🙂 🙂
Matata, ‘I Feel Funky’
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Funky as Freuchie, Ian and it doesmake you think of Mr Brown. It got a good few French likes, I see.
I remember Stuart Cosgrove mentioning James Brown as a classic example of a hero he shouldn’t have met. Think he was trapped in a taxi with him for a short time and found him obnoxious.
I’m up late ‘cos Harvey got out and was throwing doughnuts at the badgers.
Night all (again).
‘Good God! Take me to the bridge!’
How often did I issue these cries whilst being supported home by student buddies…
Ah, the nostalgia…
🙂
I never found these two Cambridge Footlights types funny at all, apart from this series of sketches.
Harvey says it’s the Comedy of Incongruity or summink:
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Mind you, some of the comments ablaw the line show all is not well ablaw the dyke. As Macart sometimes observes, haters gotta hate.
Michael McCabe first posted this a while ago and I’ve always found the music and film quite hypnotic.
As James Cook would say, it’s chaos on the streets of pre-earthquake San Francisco as a streetcar travels down Market Street.
Watch out for suicidal pedestrians, wee boys getting hudgies, a Fatty Arbuckle-reject policeman (0.38), the Thompson Twins in a car (4.46) and the perennially lovely Lucia Daines mounting a sidecar (6.40):
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Hudgie Incident is at 4.55 btw.
I’ve been trying to think of an appropriate tune so I did this one instead.
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That was most gnomic, indyref2. I have mused thereon but so far I am unclear.
Is there anybody else out there?
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Got sci-fi if you want it:
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@Tinto Chiel
That intro to the Carpenters tune had me laughing, a nice one.
Are you up for a swift one on the 24th?
@Tinto Chiel
Played here before but has to be right up your street 🙂
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@Thepnr: bien sûr, and that’s my favourite version too, mon vieux haricot, much better than TfF.
Re 24/1/19, swift or slow, I shall be there. I have a particular revulsion for Yoons who attend Burns Suppers. One even attempted to tell me in 2014 that Burns would have voted No. That didn’t end well, for several reasons.
Re my wardrobe for the coming attraction: orc or Vlad The Impaler?
Appreciate your input.
@Tinto Chiel
I appreciate you asking but fashion has never been a forte of mine. I’d say go as you please:)
Regards next week good to hear that you’re venturing into the big city 🙂
I’d suggest we meet same place as before, will drop you an email anyway along with others who made it last year.
Last time was my Crombie coat and Doc Martens look with a hint of tartan.
I’ve moved on since then but will attempt to surprise you.
I may assail the SiU with a sonnet or ode, a metaphorical carnation down the barrel of a carbine.
My inbox awaits your contribution.
Saw attached on facebook, gotta say i agree with what is being proposed.
A Scottish Constitution By You,?For You,?Ready by Independence Day
As the dysfunctional Westminster Government drives us towards Independence by contemptuously ignoring our needs and aspirations, more people in Scotland are moving towards a realisation that we could do a better job of governing ourselves.
In Scotland, we can feed and clothe ourselves. We have almost limitless power resources and lots of fresh, clean water. We have a wide, diverse economy and export more than we import. We have a well-educated, resourceful workforce and a welcoming and understanding attitude to immigration and immigrants.
Scotland is a country rich in resources. Owning almost 3.5 million km2 of ocean, Scotland will have possession of more than half of the UK Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Westminster wants to keep control of these our assets as they contribute significantly to paying UK’s £2.0+ Trillion generated debt (which btw increases at the rate of £5,170 per second!).
A country is independent when it is self-governing and when its elected Government is in sole control of the money supply through its own National Central Bank.
Whilst we look on in wonder at the bourach surrounding the UK’s present government in London, we can ask ourselves three questions;
* Do we want to continue with the current system of parliamentary sovereignty that is more biased to benefit the monied classes rather than the well-being of society in general? ?
* Based on politics to date, is it likely that we can trust politicians to provide for Scotland a written Constitution for an equitable and accountable system of government? ?
* Do we want to continue with the present corrupted but tolerated system of banking and credit loans that benefits Teflon bankers and generates such massive and unpayable national debt? ?During the 2014 Independence referendum campaign two issues had the greatest impact: ?
• the lack of a intelligible Currency Policy (compatible with the rules of the European Central Bank); and
• a lack of a clear picture of what an Independent Scotland would turn out to be.
Today, in early 2019, our political leaders in Holyrood have not yet provided answers to these our questions. Scotland must be governed by the people, not a parliament such as we have today from Westminster.
“Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her own actions” – (NASSIM TALEB)
Now the people of Scotland will be directly instrumental in the creation of their own Constitution, the law of the land from which our delegated politicians on the Day of Independence will govern our Nation.
“The best way to predict the Future is to create it” (Denis Gabor)
So why do we need a written Constitution? Brexit is an example of the unbridled power of a parliamentary system that has no written Constitution to provide structured accountability to the people.
Governments inevitably require authority to deal with a wide range of situations and be able to operate in a flexible manner. But they must also be held accountable
* under a structured system of fundamental laws; ?
* that are set out in a codified written Constitution; ?
* that are designed and authorised by the People. ?Our Holyrood government may regard the preparation of a Constitution as something to be tackled only after a successful referendum. That is not in the interests of popular sovereignty as an incoming Scottish government would then be in a powerful position to make up the law as it went along. A pre-designed Constitution prepared by the Nation’s people will guard against undue influence from vested financial, business, political and nepotistic interests which will be lining up their lobbyists from day one of independence. ?A Constitution is not a set of guidelines for the self-regulation of Parliament. It is a statement of the conditions under which the people of a democracy grant their parliament the authority to govern them. It will be the fundamental law of the land by decree of the people, enacted into formal legislation by our Scottish Parliament. ?If we are to avoid a Constitution by default that is little more than a set of self-regulating guidelines for political parties and big business, there will be several conditions to be met before independence is achieved: ?
* every Scottish citizen of voting age has the right to initiate, amend and vote for this Constitution – this will be known as The Draft Scottish Constitution (the Draft), till ratified by the first Independent Scottish elected government; ?
* Scottish citizens will encourage others to exercise that right;
* the Draft must remain fully active until the day before the opening of Scotland’s first Independence Parliament, thus accommodating all circumstances and providing a transparent and developing picture of precisely what we are all voting for; ?
* the Draft must be presented such that literally every citizen is encouraged to have his or her say; ?
* the Draft will set out in plain, unambiguous and straightforward language and on a purpose-made platform accessible to all; ?
* the software must encourage intuitive participation in discussion and accommodate proposals to discuss, agree, amend or delete; ?
* with this will be the provision to vote meaningfully on every clause with absolute security and guarantee against any form of unasked for manipulation; ?
* public participation has to be in numbers sufficient to oblige government to adopt the document unamended as the will of the people. ?Currently two draft Constitutions are under development for Scotland, with both drawing upon “A Model Constitution for Scotland” compiled by Dr W Elliott Bulmer in association with the Constitutional Commission. One is set out in an academic style; the other in a more everyday language. ?The latter Draft Constitution, compiled by the Centre for Scottish Constitutional Studies (CSCS), was set out by experienced wordsmiths, and is currently being prepared for a secure Internet-based public debate. Some additional funding and sponsors are currently being sought to cover the cost of a secure, interactive website. So anyone who is interested can go to this link for a description and also make a donation if so inclined. link to ronnimor.wixsite.com ?When Scotland votes to regain our Independence, the Nation will require to rebuild a range of government institutions that have lain dormant for over 310 years. The guidance provided by a Final Draft Constitution composed from the contributions of the people of Scotland, and available on Independence Day, will be the basis on which Scotland’s first and all future Independent governments will govern. If left to politicians to prepare Scotland’s Constitution, this risks its architecture being left to the whims of a particular political party, rather than that of the people. ?By participation in the development of the Provisional Constitution for our soon-to-be independent Scotland, the people will shape the institutions of government, the forms of local government and the rights of all citizens. ?Every Scot will in this way be involved and will be able to claim ownership of the kind of country that we are voting for, what we want for ourselves, our children, our friends and Scotland’s prosperous, healthy and happy future. ?Robert P Ingram, Chartered Engineer?Centre for Scottish Constitutional Studies – 2019.01.12
@TC
Yes, it was quite oblique. For some reason music always comes into my mind to explain things, and it’s the chorus particularly this bit “And always keep your hat screwed on real tight Case you get in a fight” about Sturgeon and Salmond. Seems to me they’re keeping theirs on while all around them (against them that is) are losing not just their hats but their heads.
@yesindyref2: as my Dear Old Dad used to say, “I see, said the blind man” hee, hee.
Reminds me of the antidote Norman MacCaig used to tell against himself of the publication of his first book of peotry, which was rather obscure. A friend read it and then asked him, “When are you publishing the answers?”
Ouch!
SO good a song ahm gonnae PLAY it again Wingers!:
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NOW is the time to return to.
Go LIVE!
A most excellent One Hit Wonder, Cactus.
Afternoon Tinto, check this out…
Went out a lookin’ at the Rouken Glen, popped into their garden centre furra gander, went over to the indoor desert plant section and was met by a small red-breasted robin… did aye just see that, was that for real, anybuddy know if they have indoor birds flying about there?
But that wasn’t just it, see there’s been a wee robin following me around the park, is it the same one? Aye managed to get a photograph.
What does it all mean… ahm writing this by the pond in the park… it is getting darker now.
Ahm awa tae hug some trees NOW.
You’re never alone with a tree, Cactus. They don’t say they love you, drink your malt whisky and then run off with a used car salesman called Melvin from Newton Mearns. You know who you are, Cataclysmia Biggins.
Oops, I may have said too much……
Robins are clever and inquisitive. I’ve one which goes into my greenhouse when I go in for birdseed for my feeders and I have to make sure it is back out before I close the sliding doors.
They also seem to sense sympathetic humans and like to see what you’re up to.
Don’t worry, no zombie robins after dark, unlike Tories.
C u next week, I hope. Fedora or Stetson? Plz advise.
A capella, ya bass:
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Thinking of Burns, as always at this time of year…..
Live on, Jessie Lewars:
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‘Member this? Not really a morning song but so wot?
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Evenin’ Tinto, cheers for the robin info, gonna do the same walk again some time soon, ah looked into it a bit further and it’s all good birdy feedback… aussi, the trees were and continue to be excellent (ah had a shot on the zip-slide in the darkness too.)
What time is the rendesvous at Exchange Square… ah’ve got plans on Thursday evening so might not be able to make it along this time if it’s a late start.
If aye can, ah’ll be fashioning a beanie & brolly combo. 😉
@Cactus
I’ll be in the Yes bar from around 16:00, so might 1 or 2 others.
Groovyness, see ye’s there Thepnr. 🙂
Today is UK End of Days, Day 6.
FREE The Prisoners.
Yon b&b combo sounds about right, Cactus. May go all grunge masel’.
A song for our pretendy Scot brethren:
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The rain is on the roof
Hurry high, butterfly
As clouds roll past my head
I know why the skies all cry
Om
Hi yesindyref2.
Your wee poem immediately reminded me of a song. I did a YouTube search and it turned up but my left eyebrow raised itself. I hadn’t realised it was written by the Bee Gees.
Junior Campbell, he of Marmalade, has uploaded this to YouTube. The note he has underneath the video is historically interesting.
I only knew the song as a Marmalade song and it resonates, reminding me of my youth.
Onnyhoo, Junior Cambell’s video has the Bee Gees version, foloowed by Marmalade’s.
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What is this flag that appears in Sky News article on MSN, in which the Irish backstop is ‘explained’?
Thanks,
Ian
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Hi, Ian.
How weird: someone has changed the counterchanged St Patrick’s cross (a red saltire) on the Union Flag into a blue one.
If that’s what Sky do to the flag, I don’t think I would trust its explanation of the backstop.
Breaking news from Where I Am:
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Stole this from the Rev’s Twitter feed:
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Puts Putting Things Into Perspective into perspective.
Warning: you may need to sit down with a coffee and chocolate biscuit for about fifteen minutes…..
That went well: not!
Seems I’ve reached the end of the Internet (pace BDTT).
You’ll just have to follow the link from “orangepeel”.
Hi
Ian Brotherhood & Ronnie Anderson..
The Gathering tomorrow sounds like a Gentlemen’s nightout…
Which is Absolutely fine!!
But should the Ladies who can….. Do?
@Lizg –
Hadn’t even crossed my mind that it came across that way.
There are some women coming, but they’re not Wingers (so far as I know) and they’ll be going to The Social at or around the time the guests are arriving, so that should be approx 6.30-7.30, with most arriving after 7.
Saw on Twitter that a ‘flashmob’ is planned, although I couldn’t give you any details of that.
Hope you can make it!
😉
I hope Kate Pierson is coming.
*sighs*
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Apologies. Message to self:
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Hope youse all have a good time. Had it been tomorrow I would have come (being halfway there already) but tonight I have to be in Inverness.
Should have tested it here …
Sorry about that last one Rev, just testing.
Liz g here’s you Mrs what possesses tae thing that wummin weren’t welcome tae the SIU noise up ,we’re gender neutral when its for a get together
Ronnie Anderson @ 12.24
Ha Ha… It was the way it was reading Ronnie,it sounded like a guy’s night out!
That’s why I asked.
Anyhoo, I didn’t get home in enough time to make it,as you know, I’m always chasing ma tail,but will definitely make the March 2nd night out… Well…. almost definitely.LOL
What happened is that someotherdude with my email was stuck in moderation, whereas capitals in my normal name went straight through. Meaning that a name is tied to an email address, even if it’s sometimes in lower case and sometimes in upper case.
Fancy some Nancy?
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Pure kwality, btw.
And now for something completely different:
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And one to annoy all gammons:
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‘Moff tae muse a wee.
Oh well, do the Brexit with me.
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Test post with vid link from FB.
Not me, but braw FB vid and tune I saved from last year’s Glasgow AUOB march.
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Can anyone explain how avatar pics are added? Had a search including looking in the Thickos tab but couldnae find instructions. Maybe I need a Beyond Thickos tab. lol