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January 02, 1968 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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For all Scots Cringers who attend Burns Nights: go funk yourself.
After this fashion, of course…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPf0YbXqDm0
Turn up the volume, Poindexters.
Avant de partir, another big western theme. Sounds like Elmer B. but it’s actually Jerome Moross:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQTH3a0mjR8
Ya bass!
@TC –
Great choice of sounds there.
🙂
Some tentative suggestions for March 2nd in Glasgow, just to get the ball rolling…
Can we kick-off fairly early (say, mid-afternoon?) to get the place set-up and make it possible for folk who can’t make it in the evening to join us for as long as they can?
Can the musically minded (i.e. not me) tell us if they’ll be bringing instruments?
Can everyone bring something to eat? Could be a bag of nuts, a packet of oatcakes, a bowl of coleslaw, what-ever, but I don’t think we have use of an oven, it’ll have to be cold stuff. Best to bring stuff in disposable bowls, plates etc, cause we’ll be cleaning up as we go along.
If anyone wants to take charge of organising a raffle, great. Others may be able to offer prizes. (Raid the leftover christmas presents!)
That’s enough to be going on with for now, eh?
😉
RE: Rock.
See,
https://wingsoverscotland.com/today-in-brexit/#comment-2428919
Cheers Brian Doonthetoon, that explains it!
This seems apt, Primal Scream with “Rocks Off”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ZCZjhjguA
@David: sublime choice. That track would be on my DID list.
Thanks, BDTT for your elucidation.
@Ian B: this looks like a job for Tinto’s Special Savoury Rice.
Laters, haters.
@TC –
Sounds interesting…go on, gie’s a clue.
😉
All I can say, Ian, is that it’s wholesome, organic and tasty. Made me wot I am today 😛
May even offer vegetarian and meat versions for the discerning Winger.
May even wash my hands 😉
@TC –
Well, I don’t feel much the wiser really, will just have to wait and see what it involves.
All this mysteriousness reminds me of working in The Grove restaurant in Glasgow, early 80s. I was in the kitchen but some of my school mates were waiters. One of their favoured japes was to tell customers that the Day’s Special was Chicken Surprise, and when the inevitable ‘what’s the surprise?’ was asked, they retorted, ‘It’s fish and chips!’
Oh, how we laughed…
🙂 🙂 🙂
I’m not giving out my kwality recipes for free, Ian. Every craft has its mysteries 😛
Just to complicate matters, may offer brown and basmati rice options.
That’s four ways to orgasmatronic experiences.
@TC –
Well, I have had good feedback for my potato salad lately, so I’ll maybe just do a bucket of that.
😉
Love potato salad, me. Looking furrit tae it, Ian.
I’m leaving this here for Gammons everywhere. Hope their BP doesn’t blow gaskets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDwyOApJzSw
Bonsoir, mes braves.
IB i will try and get to the doo on 2nd march, pencil me in as a mairs aye than naw!
Ib my other post has disapeared, put me doon for maybes aye, along with my special apple and date cake with a coconut toffee crust ? better than sticky toffee pudding ?
Evenin’ David ~
How ye doin’, aye ah’ve been following and watching the Wings Twitter followership grow DAILY (some excellent surges too) and did indeed make further reference to a ‘follower / NOW Yes vote percentage equivilator’ and approaching 60% now.
However, the original reference was made by another Winger, when the Wings Twitter readership was sitting in the early 50 thousands… aye think it might have been Jack that made the cool comparison.
(but that’s just the Twitter webpage… as ye know the Wings Over Scotland website has a followership in the hundreds of thousands!)
It’s the eleventh hour Scotland!
https://indylive.radio/
(ILRadio also available frae Facebook)
RE: March 2nd
I’m hoping to be in Glasgow that weekend. Keep you posted nearer the time, but I’d love to catch up with some folk. 🙂
Ian Brotherhood
Count me in for the night oot,I’ll bring a dish of something and something for the raffle..
Thank you for organising this…..
IanB i’ll be contacting Jock Scott tomorrow so he might be our DJ.
@ Ian
I’m planning to attend on March 2 (probably + 1, probably + food)
Can you confirm it’s the Dow’s in Dundas Street? When I searched for Sammy Dow’s, that seems to be defunct (was in Mitchell Street).
Cheers abody for the responses so far. Shaping up to be a good one.
@Crazycat –
Aye, it’s right outside Queen St Station if you’re leaving the west exit. Canny miss it!
😉
chas anderson Just by opperchancety we we’re in Dows after the SIU event & noticed Function room notice so we booked it for 2nd Mar ( tim martins no getting oor money) so’s its guaranteed
@ Ian
Ta. See you there.
Ian , hoping to make it – may be a brief appearance and clutching something for eats and the raffle .
Hope to be there. Shall I bring some gammon sandwiches in case Rock turns up?
Let’s go to Naples and dance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDWFVI8PQOI
@Fairliered –
Great you can make it. Gammon pieces always acceptable!
But should you use pan or plain…
???
IB
I’ll be there with plus 1…and munchies!
Ian,
I’m hoping to make it too if everything runs smoothly my end.
I haven’t been to any Wings get togethers since the first one you organised at the Counting House in April 2014 so it would be good to catch up with old and new wingers alike, lurkers or not.
Are you still on the Guinness?
Jock Scott will sort out his shifts to get time off ‘so’s thats DJ sorted Jock will contact Dows to see if they have a system that he can plug into .
Just to remind those that are disabled there is no disabled lift , its one flight of stairs .
@Breastplate –
Great you’ll make it! Your name too has gone on the list!
Guinness? Naw, had to give it up friend, I ran out of underpants…
🙁
I know what you mean Ian, a friend of mine used to sport a badge that said “Guinness makes you fart”.
I had to tell him farts aren’t supposed to be lumpy. 😉
I’m a “very likely” for this but, I might be refused entry for not being sophisticated enough. 😉 I’m only coming if you all promise to talk to me and not leave me muttering away to myself in a dark corner like you do in aff topic. 🙂
Who muttered that?
8=)
William Wallace: I’m not sophisticated, I’m from Ayrshire.
@ BDTT
That eediot in the coarner. 😉
@ Fairliered
Me neither, I’m from Dundee 🙂
Ah, that was you, Willie Wassal!
See you on the 2nd, no doubt?
Wee update on the March 2nd social in Glasgow:
20 names now on The List.
Most are the usual auld coupons, but some are not!
😉
Hi Ian B.
Me, Pete and Chris will be there, at some point.
@BDTT –
Hoots mon, that’s another two on The List!
😉
I can’t make it, money not time. Low-earning time of the year keeping going on any cushion from the summer season, it’s tight as a drum and there’s a couple of (family) expensive things going on soon after but before money really starts coming in.
It’s a shame, I would like to discuss tactics with like-minded trustworthy people. Operating alone you do get feedback from other forum posters (this is elsewhere), but there are some basic questions. Basically – is now the time? There’s no Ref on yet, is it better to save some things until it’s announced, and maybe even until it’s in full swing? It’s frustrating holding off, but shoot the bolt too soon and Bernie will laugh his head off. As well as get a shield and new weapons.
Ho hum.
@yesindyref2 –
Sorry you won’t make it, but there will surely be other chances later this year. If this place gets the thumbs-up from most then we’ll make it a regular for Glasgow gigs.
😉
Hi Ian B.
Can you not count past 2?
8=)
@ Ian Brotherhood
Hackalumpoff with attend on the 2nd March. I will bring some rather fine Guga based hors d’oeuvres based on recipes from my ancestral home.
Here’s a wee taster for those looking for alternatives to Haggis:
Boil cold water in a large pan. Add Guga and a well-used Harris Tweed cap. Boil until the cap is tender. Discard the Guga and serve the cap with potatoes and milk.
@ Ronnie, are you doing a raffle on the night?
@BDTT –
Must confess, I took a liberty and already had you on the list!
😉
Cheers Cactus, and cheers Jack!
And here’s err Kirk Douglas as ‘Cactus Jack’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKo4SVwWqv8
The weather Where I Am:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGLbmC2WXww
And the guga are flying low…..
Ian Brotherhood.
Can you pencil me + 1 in as well. Was at the Glenrothes do, fair enjoyed it. Cheers.
We had a nice wee Burns night in the YES Dunoon Forward Shop at the weekend so I asked the man to give us some up to date verses
ODE TO FLUFFY
Fair fa’ yer beardie, sleekit face
Great chieftain o’ the nawbag race
Aboon them a’ ye tak your place
For selfish reason
As House o’ Lords reward ye chase
Tae mark your treason
The damp soiled benches there you’ll fill
Your hurdies like a fluffy hill
And Ruthie, Dick and Willie will
Be keen tae follow
But Scotland freed yer hopes will kill
In shame you’ll wallow
But Mundell, thou art surely vain
In well proved foresight it is plain
The best laid schemes of mice and men
Gang aft agley
You’ll be aye remembered, to your pain
In London’s pay.
OOR WEE MICE
Wee cowrin, tim’rous Britarse lickers
Wae Union Jacks on bumper stickers
(And likely too on vests and knickers)
What makes thee crawl
Tae tax avoiding city slickers?
That screw us all
O’ wad some pow’r the giftie gie ye
Tae see yerselves as others see ye
And understaund that we can free ye
Frae spineless plight
We’ve backbones here we’ll gladly give ye
And prospects bright.
And how was The Great Man looking?
He certainly deserves two fingers of malt for those exquisite reworkings.
*Folds middle two fingers under thumb*
“And how was The Great Man looking?” Looking…for lassies I would imagine
@Bill wemyss (11.23) –
Done!
🙂
Evenin’ David ~
Ah’ve never watched the movie before (ah know of it though)
Gonna give your link a shot at midnight.
Cheers.
Asked this in a thread but probably more appropriate here. Can you get those Alexa jobs to play Indy radio and if so how? (Bearing in mind I still have to take the thing out of its box and set it up.)
@HandandShrimp –
I saw your appeal on MT but didn’t feel qualified to answer.
Sadly, I don’t think it’s possible, it the Alexa thing is anything similar to the Google ball thing. The Indyradio station is, technically, an ‘app’, so, far as I can tell, you’d only be able to get it via laptop or smartphone.
Others will know for sure but that’s my guess.
🙁
Pity, yet to find a use for the Alexa gizmo.
@HandandShrimp
Don’t know if it helps much as I’ve no idea how Alexa works, but if it can use apps then there is now one available for Indylive Radio.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.independencelive.indyliveradio
An app might do the trick I will invetimigate
Hackalumpoff As is normal some of the Wings women do the Raffle ( there smiles are better than mine lol ) .
Jock Scott was in Dows today we can hire their system at a cost of £50 , Jocks got microphones & stands .
Anybody with musical instrument/singers let Ian Brotherhood know via Twitter/or OT.
Just a friendly little cat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX6FUQG3z-I&start_radio=1&list=RDYX6FUQG3z-I
Thanks to Tinto Chiel and BDTT on previous page for info on gravatar.
I’ll have a think about it. Thought an avatar pic would be useful to make it clear I am Dan, not the loon Danny that seems to have now been banished from the site. As he’s gone it’s less of an issue.
March 2nd update:
Now 30+ names confirmed, but a lot of WOS regulars either don’t yet know about it, aren’t coming, or haven’t confirmed that they are.
The place seats approx 60, but I don’t know what the ‘official’ capacity is safety-wise so we do need a rough idea of how many are planning to attend.
Gut-feeling is we could quite easily see 100+ on the day. Not a problem if they arrive over late afternoon/evening, but if everyone turns up at once we could have a problem. Please ask anyone you know who *is* going to drop in here or let me know via Twitter @ianbhood
Cheers!
😉
I’m not sure, Ian.
I have to be in Inverness every third thurs night at the moment and that (on current schedule) will not be one of those weekends when I am halfway there already. So I will have to decide later whether I want another long trip on a ‘free’ weekend.
Obviously, I want to come so I will have to see.
@cearc –
Thanks for response.
Hope it’ll work out.
🙂
Cearc
Should I save up my egg cartons just in case?
It’s an eye frae me 2 Ian B, see y’all there, cheers 😉
First February Cairnstoon’19 next door laters.
This time, next month.
Hi Ian B.
Just testing.
I submitted a comment with a Google Maps link that hasn’t appeared.
So I’m sticking in this one to see if it appears on a reload.
Mmmmmmmm…..
It did.
I just pointed out that you are referring to “Sammy Dow’s”. The name of the pub is “”Dow’s”.
See this link but remove the – after the first h:-
h-ttps://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.8621395,-4.25234,3a,60y,324.75h,94.2t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQQmBE-OYz9PE-R5JVrIajQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Ian B.,
I’m intending to turn up to the next get-together in a months’ time.
I’m not sure though where it is! The only Sammy Dow’s I could find was on the South Side (Strathbungo?) but that has recently (I believe) become another Lebowski’s. There is a Dow’s Bar right next to Queen St. station, so is that the one..?
Brian Doonthetoon @ 05:58,
Duh, I must have landed on the previous page (that’s what usually happens) and so missed your helpful link.
Looks like it is the one next to Queen St. Station then. Thanks!
Though could somebody confirm please, just to avoid any misunderstanding…?
Chas, might be an idea!
TC,
Dartford Warblers? Is that not what they call the buskers by the tunnel toll booth?
@cearc: hee hee! Hope you can make it.
Sadly, for lovers of wit and wisdom, I intend to be there (official notice for Ian B).
@BDTT –
You’re right.
Sorry everyone. I don;t know how I had ‘Sammy Dow’s’ do fixed in my heid, will have to get on Twitter pronto and correct that.
Cheers for the heads up.
Dow’s Bar, Dundas Street.
Dow’s Bar, Dundas Street.
Dow’s Bar, Dundas Street.
Dow’s Bar, Dundas Street…
I’m a definite Ian Brotherhood
Dows Bar, Dundas Street…
Next to Queen St Station…
Bring a Dish and a Raffle if ye can….
March 2nd….!!!
🙂
I’m bringing an Indian chef and all the ingredients for a braw curry.
Who’s gonna bring the cooker, pots and pans 🙂
Cactus mind bring the guitar and a big pot LOL
Hi Thepnr.
On that list you are no doubt compiling, put down me and Pete for a curry. (Chris doesn’t like ‘spicy food’.)
And before I turn in, here’s a wee bit of music for you. Composed by Jimmy Page for Jeff Beck, it was the B side of “Hi Ho Silver Lining”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmO0OZC6Ifk
Mornin’ Thepnr, aye, n ah’ll see if ah can get a haud of Dixie 2.
Between now and then…
There gonna be a whole lotta shit a goin’ on down there partner.
Dow’s is the entrance, West of Independence Square ’19.
A song against Our Most Precioussssssssss Union:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LUpBSvN1a50
That BDTT track put me in mind o this, for some reason. Principal ingredients: dirty Hammond, psychedelia, large quantities of mind-altering drugs, free spirits:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ozzlnNRpHO4
Kick out your jams, brothers and sisters!
@Liz g –
Cheers Liz, I already had you down as a definite – 7th on the list actually! – so, sorry if I was being a bit presumptuous there.
Great you’re coming.
🙂
OK I think I’m getting the hang of this now. 15th October sees the launch of the crowdfunder for Scottish Independence Convention to do research into what’s needed to raise support for Independence. 3rd February sees the launch of the Progress Scotland crowdfunder to do research into what’s needed to raise support for Independence. 19th May sees the launch of the We Need More Research crowdfunder to do research into what more research is needed to raise support for Independence. 1st September sees the launch of the WTF Happened crowdfunder to do research into what happened to the research into what’s needed to raise support for Independence. 15th December sees the launch of the Rebooting Research crowdfunder into resarching to see if any more research is needed to research into raising support for Indepenedence.
It was a dark and stormy might, the rain came down in torrents. Alistair Duran the chief of his clan said unto his man “Come, tell us a tale”, and he began as follows. It was a dark and stormy might, the rain came down in torrents. Alistair Duran the chief of his clan said unto his man “Come, tell us a tale”, and he began as follows. It was a dark and stormy might, the rain came down in torrents. Alistair Duran the chief of his clan said unto his man “Come, tell us a tale”, and he began as follows.
Now I get it.
And on that note it’s time for bed said Zebedee. But first of course, because it makes sense:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX6fj4nkzpc
yesindyref2 at 6.33
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Exactly
Yesindyref2 and DMH – three minds with but a single thought.. I commented btl on MT much the same. We are in a crisis – what is the point in not asking folk to vote now before the dark arts get a stranglehold and the EU voters have all left? It’s not research and policy papers we need – it’s a vote!!
@DMcEH / @Sarah
Thanks for that. I didn’t post it on the main thread, not because I’m afraid of being called a fake indy supporter, who cares? That’s been done to death anyway. It’s because I don’t like being negative, so I didn’t even post anything like it on the National or Herald. And it’s got 9,000 signed up already it seems – a monthly payment presumably. Wow. If it had happened 18 months ago I’d have been wild for it, but now?
It’s 8 weeks time and we’re very likely out of the EU, no Indy Ref till next Holyrood session and none then because the SNP will lose votes and support like it’s going out of fashion. It really will be lost for a generation, a long generation, well past my best before date, and we didn’t even get to vote. And if these stupid politicians took their noses and ears and eyes out of their own self-importance, they’d know we’re so very close, the chances are all we need to do is hold the Ref. If we hold it, they will vote.
I remember talking to TJ at Glasgow Green 2015 (?) (his wee daughter with him) as we were queuing for a written up passport (mines’s for son), and he was inconsolable having heard Robin McAlpine talking about 2022 or something. “I want my life back” he said. Well, R McA is front page of the National, columnist saying like “in April we’ll know if the UK has Brexited”, Sturgeon is talking weeks as though they’re weeks not days to announce timing and commending this Lack of Progress Scotland Uninitiative and guess what, I want my life back too. Once I’m rid this nasty nasty bug, I think I’ll go for the Cobbler. Then Ben Lui, then …
yesindyref2 at 8.09
I was there. McAlpine got roundly booed. He is intense, well intentioned, detailed and wrong.
@DMcEH – I don’t listen to these speech things, not my thing. I like the atmosphere, looking around, maybe eavesdropping on conversations, talking to strangers, the police as well of course. Problem is that RMcA seems to be gaining ground, and from comments all over the place. a lot of Indy supporters now have given up on a Ref before Scotland is dragged out the EU. Well, I nearly have too.
On the thread on the Herald a little off the ball stuff btl, and this from a good guy unionist I’d happily have a pint with as long as we avoided Indy!
“4. Finally, can I take this opportunity of stating that Peter Piper is one of the best commentators in this forum. Both moderate and willing (on occasion 🙂 to concede on points made. Without the quality of post and debate Peter brings, the forum would have been very much diminished. There are not many Scottish nationalist posters, with their comments would have changed the voting intention of a soft supporter of the status quo or brought over to the “yes” side a “don’t know”. Peter is one of the few who could and suspect has. A worthy opponent.”
There’s been similar when some silly troll has had a go, but not gone as far as that last bit. But very bitter-sweet reading that, because, what’s the point? What really is the point if there’s no Ref in sight?
Anyways, don’t let me put you off, I’m ill and not feeling great, happy though apart from Indy having done family duty helping move two loads with my small van and made myself sicker in the process as one does going out before fully recovered, so I’m off to the AOM campaign which it seems I never finished before 🙂
Yesindyref2/DMH: sorry to hear you are unwell Yir2.
As you say, I avoid posting downbeat stuff on the main thread. But I don’t like these “big” names talking up indyref in the next two years. I have emailed my MP Ian Blackford about all the dark arts stuff plus the social need to start running Scotland ourselves – he responded very briefly [which is wise in the circs] to say independence is their focus so I hoped that meant sooner than later BUT then we get Angus Robertson’s project!
I want my life back too – get some hills walked again – not that I’m doing much now, just keeping local group ticking over, and worrying and fuming all the time about the injustice of our situation.
If only Wee Ginger, Lesley Riddoch and the Rev were in charge. That would be fun as well!! But we mustn’t give up hope – we’ll look silly if the wraps are about to come off something big. Not that I’d mind looking silly in those circs!
@Sarah
On the other hand …
Indy’s an objective, it’s long-term, medium-term and if it happens, short-term. SIC and PS can be used all three if neccessary, and they have funding and contact details. So I guess if Indy Ref 2 was announced quickly and short timescale, they’re ready to go. Plus the ring-fenced nearly a half million from whatever it was called, ScotRef or something.
Ho hum, back to the game and some strategy for the next level 🙂
Following on from the Spitting Image “Testing Ground” clip, here’s the video (and partially correct lyrics) that comes after it on the autoplay:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPdkeYoW6aA
http://spittingimage.wikia.com/wiki/Bonnie_Scotland_Song
There be many obvious BritNats in the comments.
Five years old but fresh as an oyster (other fresh things are available):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp2pv4cxan4
If I was a political strategist planning for independence I would be very loathe to indicate to the enemy what I was intending to do and when I was intending to do it.
In the next immediate period when time runs out at Westminster however an announced plan of action will become imperative.
If Brexit – deal or no deal – becomes certain we must immediately move for independence. We will do so secure in the knowledge that the EU welcomes us with open arms as has been illustrated by the plethora of positive remarks from EU leaders about Scotland’s future among them.
I just watched clip from the Scotparl before the last Scot election with Nicola insisting that that election was not about independence. Sorry,Nicola. It was. Everything in Scottish politics now is about independence. That election campaign was a massive misjudgement.
This should be on the main topic. I’ll move it over.
Owing to the cerebral nature of most soffisticates on here, I append this film which I saw when I was a nipper. Along with The Maggie and Geordie, it was one of the few films on the BBC which had any Scottish content:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC04Ipmhd-g
It’s also good for brushing up your colloquial Greek.
Enjoyment may be increased late at night by a couple of two-finger drams…..
Here’s mair shite from Spitting Image…
“Come to Scotland” (with reference to London and topical Wales):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yni2xwx62dc
The gaslighting runs deep.
Bad, bad boys…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMWNwHof0kc
And more than 50 years ago, too.
@Tinto Chiel
I was absolutely certain that you were going to play this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDEWlYbRUvE
It’s always a bit daft to be “absolutely certain” about anything.
@Thepnr: yes, Big Bad Gap-Toothed Dan was Da Man back then. Dunfermline’s finest, imho.
I might have played it a little later but I had to go to my flower arranging class and forgot all about it.
@Tinto Chiel
I am seriously thinking of signing up for bread making classes at the local college. Honest LOL.
Im considering the Indian cookery as well, Brexit 🙂
Did you say, Bread, old fruit?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24IfD-0VUu4
Hankies oot…
Typin’ about Fife and music in the same sentence…
This was the first single I bought by this band. Allegedly, Glenrothes inspired it.
(My spellchecker red-underlined “Glenrothes” and suggested “nightclothes” as an alternative. Spellchecker editing person needs investigating.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmr-uafcK7M
🙂 This one’s for Tory MP Ross “Groper” Thomson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9py5pu2rp0U
“You Need Hands” – Max Bygraves
Like my new yella strides?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAWF1OaMD8U&list=RDLAWF1OaMD8U&start_radio=1&t=15
Me too!
Yellow shirts too…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sB3Fjw3Uvc
Great track and saturated colours.
Alan Price, ya bass!
Hilarious – but a sweary word warning
l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3De2AtyJKr0RA%26feature%3Dshare%26fbclid%3DIwAR2Z2YqvJFl6t6AQINSnU0hgFxPLl4W3ZhLFgTL9_HFhAeZQVkBHChqarBI&h=AT0c1NhmQWLx_8r6p9b7a1_7VWYfySdjMyXWbHOl5j23nmyrHqx-brMGecCkOsPABlJNR8q3ooTto4irA2b-L58d5e0JRVThW39dPdylmpt3aTg_ir3SlLg30HHowfPGXx5a
“I can see colours, man.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHNbHn3i9S4
Singularly weird.
Any ageing romantics out there?
If so, you may remember this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6myNbk15sMs
Ross Thomson says that it is all a big mistake.As he was only doing his Tory Handcock Impersonation. ? ? ? ? ? ? ???????
Someone posted this YT clip of an Ali G show on Twitter.
All about Northern Ireland – how topical is that for off-topic!
😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCNG5UeKMZw
@TC –
That Beatles track is a belter, first time for me. And it was recorded in 1966? Blimey…out-Floyding Floyd?
@Ian B: yes, far out man (as I believe they used to say) 😉
A lot of late Beatles stuff is wonderfully strange.
Eric Burdon of The Animals was The Egg Man in “I am the Walrus” but I can’t explain the reference here for fear of offending The Unco Guid/unofficial site monitors who sometime afflict the threads.
Memo to same: “To the pure in heart, all things are pure.”
😛
I have my music set to play random all in the car and this turned up today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDRu6HIxRFU
Do we have any modern Scottish protest/rebel songs like this?
Is there a Scottish Christy Moore who can raise the roof wherever he plays?
Is the Interim Interdict still a thing?
If it is maybe a “class action” of x000 of Scots applied for an Interdict on Loss of Human Rights, Loss of European Citizenship or whateffer could put a spoke in the wheels of Brexit.
Whaddayasay Ronnie Anderson court marshal/jester.
I can’t be arsed with those main treads anymore, severely pissed off.
Hi Ian B.
Try this one from the Sgt Pepper album, 1967.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsffxGyY4ck
Hi Ian B.
Then, of course, there is the first Beatles instrumental, I believe from their sessions with Bert Kaempfert in Germany, around 1961/62.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXsfza2EaEk
As far as I can recall, they didn’t do another instrumental until “Flying”, on the ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ double EP.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ONJQLdZrk
“Sounds Nice”, who had a UK hit with an instrumental version of “Je Taime” (Jane Birkin & Serg Gainsbourg), did a version of “Flying” on their album. I prefer it to The Beatles’ version. After all, it does feature Stylophones and some funky organ!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebOhIbzfry0
Hi Ian B.
Another wee song – a Glasgow love song – you may not be familiar with. I bought this on 7″ vinyl when I discovered it in Chalmers & Joy, my record emporium of choice at the time; late 70s or early 80s.
Peter Nardini – A Think You’re Great
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR9mL_5sbTk
Hi Tinto Chiel.
How about this one? OK, it’s from the 60s but what’s 50 odd years out of over 300? The video is from 2012.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zpk5FYeaDM
@hackalumpoff
Chin up man, you’re in the clique LOL.
All that’s required to be a part of “the clique” is to turn up at an event, any event whatsoever and meet other people who post on Wings.
That’s it, you’re now in the clique 🙂 Simples.
I’ll certainly do all I can to get to the shindig.
Just been catching up with things and it appears that shouty sectarian UKIP and Loyalist bigots appear to be the face of contemporary British nationalism. Not that surprising really, as Brexit articulates the latent racism and misogyny that persist in shaping British/Tory culture. Remember, British nationalism and the Tory psyche are symbiotically entwined. The chauvinistic exceptionalism of each mindset nourishes and enables the other.
Had a very interesting chat with an English Christian today, who I’m pretty sure is a resident of Scotland. Anyway, though she claimed to have voted to stay, her logic regarding Brexit came directly from the Eurosceptic right wing press, and though she was unwilling to say whether England has the right to determine Scotland’s future, she felt we are ‘stronger together’. It’s a cultural thing but Anglicans can often struggle to think of a universe without England at its’ center. She was unwilling to indicate if she respected international law and supported universal human rights. She did indicated her husband is a strong supporter of Brexit and ‘taking back control’. Rational self-awareness was absent from her argument, which was essentially that of appeasing the far-right.
P.S. I wonder if the Church of Scotland still supports British nationalism?. Do they consider themselves agents of moral good, or are they comfortable being labeled “Tory enablers”? Does the Church of Scotland support the principle of universal human right, or do they reject natural law – a ‘feature’ of English utilitarianism/Tory ideology?
As there appears to have been a complete lack of concrete planning regarding the future of Brexitania, it’s most unlikely that any consideration will have been given to the long-term planning of the Scottish NHS. It is this lack of consideration and the likely harmful impact on Scotland’s public health, that tells us that Brexit is not only an articulation of English cultural chauvinism, it is immoral public policy.
Where there is no vision, the people perish: a utopian ethic for a transformed future
http://www.cusp.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/05-Ruth-Levitas-Essay-online.pdf
As I don’t think there’s an official Brexit anthem, I offer this as an encapsulation of racialised authoritarianism and narcissistic impotence. Brexit in a nutshell.
Eric Cartman – Come Sail Away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWMyo62MWoA
@BDTT 2019: never heard of this gent before.
These Campbells are right stirrers, non?
😛
@Church of Scotland
I’ll ask again. Do you consider yourselves agents of moral good or do you continue to support British nationalism?
Brexit demonstrates the need for a normative theory of political disintegration
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2018/03/29/brexit-demonstrates-the-need-for-a-normative-theory-of-political-disintegration/
The Ethics of Brexit?
https://divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/ethics-brexit
The Institute of Applied Ethics presents: ‘What Brexit tells us about the British’
https://culturenet.co.uk/events/the-institute-of-applied-ethics-presents-what-brexit-tells-us-about-the-british
Hey Cameron
Good to see you posting again..
It will be good to get some kind of handel on the “cray cray” that’s been going on.
Hope you are well and that you do indeed make it to the night out..
Take care of you my friend 🙂
Sorry to keep going on but Brexit really scares the shit out of me. Not only does it annihilate the principles of the Treaty of Union, the political authority of the British constitution has subsequently been considerably diminished. It can no longer justify its’ legal force, IMHO, yet this is the authority that will forecastle amend the legal identity of Scotland’s inhabitants.
From the perspective of Political Realism, continued yoonyawn not only represents an attract on the doctrine of international law, but also the rational basis of politics itself. Brexit also appear to be an attack on the “Precautionery Principle”, which isn’t surprising as Brexit’s a dream come true for the English New Right. And the English New Left, come to think of it.
P.S. I might have mentioned this before but pragmatism without recourse to ethics is simply clown-shows fascism. That’s Brexit that is.
https://www.bma.org.uk/-/media/files/pdfs/collective%20voice/influence/europe/brexit-briefing-international-trade-and-health.pdf?la=en
The precautionary principle under fire
https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/65524/1/Accepted_manuscript.pdf
The Impact of Brexit on the Environment: Exploring the Dynamics of a Complex Relationship
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/transnational-environmental-law/article/impact-of-brexit-on-the-environment-exploring-the-dynamics-of-a-complex-relationship/DC586129B4BE5672D6DF25B6032F8A27
Liz g
Thanks Liz. I don’t want to be a space hog but we’re kind of up against a deadline and Brexit gives me some solid social science to work with (in the vain hope of influencing public opinion). It’s also a subject that appear to have united Scotland, or at least spark the embers the yoonyawn’s funeral pyre. Folk don’t like being told who to be and what to do, which is exactly the intended position of Scotland in Brexitania.
I’m only stopping at my mum’s for a couple of days but I’ll try to squeeze in some links about the harmful mental health effects of constrained agency. 😉
Hey groovy cools ~
Question Time – 07/02/19
Ah was having a look at the still photograph of Billy ra Bigot and the remainder of the audience behind him… (via WOS twitter.)
Recognised one of our Yes peoples from the AUOB marches and other events.
If ye look 5 rows up and to the immediate left of the guy in the checkered shirt… he the guy with his hand / finger up, ye may remember frae efters at The Clutha:
https://twitter.com/WingsScotland/status/1093862835489247234
Yes always has a presence.
OK, time for some social psychology and perhaps a bit of feminist bioethics?
Brexit psychology: cognitive styles and their relationship to nationalistic attitudes
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/cognitive-styles-and-brexit/
Post-Brexit Politics: A Social Psychological Interrogation of Community and Citizenship
http://www.open.ac.uk/ccig/research/projects/post-brexit-politics-a-social-psychological-interrogation-of-community-and
Implications of Structure versus Agency for Addressing Health and Well-Being in Our Ecologically Constrained World: With a Focus on Prospects for Gender Equity
https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/ijfab.8.2.47
I’m not sure those hit the mark.
Rethinking the biopsychosocial model of health: Understanding health as a dynamic system
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/spc3.12328
The Biopsychosocial Model in Health Research: Its Strengths and Limitations for Critical Realists
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277346377_The_Biopsychosocial_Model_in_Health_Research_Its_Strengths_and_Limitations_for_Critical_Realists
A biopsychosocial model based on negative feedback and control
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00094/full
Sorry, I’m still not there (i.e the “philosophy of action”).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2848347/
Understanding Human Agency
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199606214.001.0001/acprof-9780199606214
Understanding Human Agency
The problem of human agency
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199606214.001.0001/acprof-9780199606214-chapter-2
All the talk about a re-unified Ireland:
Just watching the rugby and it has always struck me, going back to the days when it was just the “4 nations”, that the Irish RU team is, in fact, a unified team. The IRFU has always had jurisdiction over rugby for the whole of the island of Ireland since its inception in 1879. There is no such thing as a N. Ireland rugby union team, not in the realms of international rugby at least.
The politicians should take a leaf out of their book.
@BDTT –
Just caught-up, watched all the links you posted. Great stuff, thanks. I actually do remember the Nardini track. Wondering – is he one of the Largs Nardinis? There was that actress lass as well, in forget-the-name, that drama (This Life?) good few years ago. Wonder if maybe they’re related?
@Hackalumpoff –
Do you own a functioning turntable?
And there endeth the questions…
😉
The actress is Daniella Nardini. She is a Largs Nardini and lives in Glasgow but has family in Largs / Fairlie. Don’t think Peter Nardini is a Largs Nardini though (although I could be wrong).
@Ian Brotherhood
Fill yer boots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn1kXgaQ-9g
Lovely day Where I Am. It’s made me wot I am today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTuPbJLqFKI
Hi Ian B.
More on Peter Nardini – should be right up your street!
http://www.peternardini.com/
https://www.lemondgallery.com/history-of-shows/peter-nardini-profile/
https://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/14139242.Peter_Nardini_returns_to_stage_for_Clutha_Trust/
I see Kevin Hague is yapping for attention, again. When has accessing inalienable human rights ever been immoral. Pure cultist.
Postmodernism, geography, and the social semiotics of space
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.476.5357&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Development economics: from classical to critical analysis
ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2103&context=artspapers
The Complementary Roles of Human and Social Capital
http://www.oecd.org/innovation/research/1825424.pdf
Inalienable
I’ve lost my glasses, mk.
I was right the first time. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve typed that word but it just looks wrong. I suppose that’s just the way my brain is wired. A bit wonky.
@Kevin Hague
Got any views on the harmfull impact Berxit can be expected to have on the agency and social capital of Scotland’s government and public?
link
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/eab4/466e818ca2a9abf7336cfcf1f7b700b4516c.pdf
re. Angelos Sofocleous being excluded from a seminar on free speech. It is more than a little worrying that anti-scientific and illiberal views have come to dominate a space of learning.
Trans Activists’ Campaign Against ‘TERFs’ has Become an Attack on Science
https://quillette.com/2018/10/18/trans-activists-campaign-against-terfs-has-become-an-attack-on-science/
CfP: Affect and Gender between Academia, Arts and Activism
Genealogies – Methodologies – Normativities
https://www2.gender.hu-berlin.de/ztg-blog/2018/12/cfp-affect-and-gender-between-academia-arts-and-activism-9-10-mai-2019-berlin/
Beyond boundaries? Activism, academia, reflexivity and research
http://www.humanityinaction.org/files/505-beyondboundariesactivismacademiaetc.pdf
Anyone know if all is well with Macart? I’ve noticed he’s not been on the threads for a while.
If you are reading Sam, hoping all is well with you.
@Nana
Just got back last night Nana. Been off seeing to some family business. I’ll be peachy in no time.
Reading some catch up on MTs this morning and deary me. Some of the folks on there just now. 🙄
@Macart
Good to know you are still here, although you may be better of staying away. It’s pretty ‘wild’ out there in indy land at the mo.
Nerves of steel required and perhaps the occasional libation or two 🙂 in the evenings naturally!
These rhythms are good for the noives:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNTQTL-QI0A
I think X_Sticks would enjoy this 😉
If youse are pure wanting to edumacate yirsels further, youse may enjoy this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj6-irrsnsw
Some serious disputations btl, btw.
The law and legal doctrine are akin to magic and dark art to most of us. That’s a pity as the law is a powerful tool for achieving social emancipation.
https://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1752&context=hlr
Critical International Legal Theory
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199796953/obo-9780199796953-0007.xml
Critical International Law: Recent Trends in the Theory of International Law
http://www.ejil.org/article.php?article=2026&issue=101
@Nana
” although you may be better of staying away. It’s pretty ‘wild’ out there in indy land at the mo.”
Heh! Know what you mean. 🙂
There’s not much to comment on at this point tbh Nana. There’s only some folk looking to blame someone else for their woes. Some folk are also dishonestly looking to apportion blame where it’s not due to further their agendas du jour. Some folk know exactly who to blame, but are still looking/hoping for a miracle and a last minute save that probably won’t happen.
But mostly though? People are fearful. And for all sorts of reasons. End of the day, we are where are because some bods chose poorly a little over four years ago. Screaming in a dark room won’t help. (I know, because I’ve tried…cough)
Near as I can see it, and probably the best thing to do right now? Is just to keep talking to people and convince them they may have an opportunity to opt out of this shit show very shortly. That and help folk out where we can.
Hi Tinto Chiel.
I was well into my teens when I found out there were actual real words to this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0UZlQ8v3ZY
@BDTT: know what you mean. My Auntie Mary (who had no canary) sang that slowly to me once and then I got it.
David Lynch is a very strange man: ever seen Eraserhead? May put you off chicken for life. Also, some little creep nicked my brand new raincoat during the performance probably because I wasn’t wearing it.
That’s the GFT for you: you get a better class of scumball there 😛 .
If you disregard “psycho-babble” you ignore one third of the biopsychosocial model of health. Colin isn’t the bright spark he thinks he is. I also reckon he’s a fraud, treat his posts with extreme skepticism.
Heinrich Rommen, The Natural Law: A Study in Legal and Social History and Philosophy
https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/rommen-the-natural-law-a-study-in-legal-and-social-history-and-philosophy
Peoples’ right to self-determination and self-governance over natural resources: Possible and desirable?
https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/etikk_i_praksis/article/view/1800/1828
What can we do? A philosophical analysis of individual self-determination
http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1692-88572012000100005
Time for some international legal theory and new natural law?
etheses.lse.ac.uk/999/1/Searl_A_Normative_Theory_of_International_Law_Based_on_New_Natural_Law_Theory.pdf
re. Government funding ‘biased to trans activists’. Illiberal ideologies require institutional assistance in order to gain public acceptance. I don’t know if the First Minister’s feminism has made her vulnerable to the trans-activist cult. Whatever, I hope the government does an urgent policy re-think over supporting anti-science.
Or to put it another way, continued support of the GRA extends legal doctrine’s scope of interest from being that of human action, to also include human thought. Welcome to the era of proscribed beliefs and thought-crime.
N.B. Sex is biological, sexuality is psychological. Biological women are not subjective beings claiming identarian rights to a sexuality, they’re biologically women already. Their sex-based rights need protecting from the colonisation of their sex-class by privileged (white) males.
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/68062/1/From%20being%20sexual_2016.pdf
Or to put it another way. As we navigate our lives through a world of semiotics, we might as well start calling cats dogs, if it suites our purpose, if the GRA proceeds to allow self-ID of sex.
Cameron B Brodie @ 2.40
I’m waiting on the rage…
After I successfully sue club 18/30 for not recognising my right to go on holiday with them because I identify as 25..
When everyone on job seekers identifies as 12 and wants to go to High School and,and get family allowance/child tax credit!
And.. not to be Ageist ..
When someone in the house self identifies as over 75..
TV licence/Cold Weather Payments/Bus Pass.. The lot!!
If ye can self identity to access one part of the Social Security System (NHS) then why not all of it?
If my gender on my birth certificate is mutable..??
Then the date is surely not fixed!!
Liz g
Sex is immutable, it can’t be changed. Gender is fluid and can change over time. I generally look to support the marginalised interests but not at the expense of reason. Btw, this attack on legal reason is an attack on all our human rights.
Cameron
We’re on the same page
Live and let live should be the whole of the law..
I’m tryin to point out the idiocy of legislating humans and all their diversity!!
Humanity can’t be boxed or even defined…. We must get past this… We are better than this.. Aye?
Liz g
A tune isn’t a tune unless it has different notes. The art of life is found in appreciating such difference in ourselves.
I think I’ve been getting back into the long-haired stuff a bit too much. :0
Just watch it TJenny. 😉
@Macart
I too have tried screaming, left me with an aching throat and one very nervous dug.
Just getting through the days whilst waiting for the next piece of monstrous theatre from May.
I might have to stockpile antacids as I seem to going through an awful lot of them lately 🙁
The Tories make us all sick in one way or another.
There’s not even any tweet activity. Idle hands. 🙂
Critical Theory, Security, and Emancipation
http://oxfordre.com/internationalstudies/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.001.0001/acrefore-9780190846626-e-138
We the peoples? The strange demise of self-determination
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1354066115595096
THE IDEA OF EMANCIPATION AFTER POSTCOLONIAL THEORY
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369801X.2017.1347055
Here’s one for those who like gunboats, or who might have thought I’ve lost the plot when I suggest that a Brexit which force-ably drags Scotland out of the EU, should be considered an attack on the international rule of law and on the rational basis for politics itself.
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/0198295359.001.0001/acprof-9780198295358
And here’s a girrrl power cover of a track a posted a while back, just for kicks.
Detroit Cobras – Slummer the slum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hppEAn3QBrI
re. Daniel Kawczynski MP and dishonest politicians in general. Interested in a bit of Political Psychology? Well you should be as we get the politicians we deserve.
Review of “Political Psychology: Critical Perspectives”
https://jspp.psychopen.eu/article/view/342/html
Six Reasons Why Politicians Believe They Can Lie
Do politicians really think they won’t be caught when they lie?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-power-prime/201209/six-reasons-why-politicians-believe-they-can-lie
Is Honest Politics Possible?
http://www.iwm.at/transit/transit-online/is-honest-politics-possible/
If the Mirza men didn’t set you foot tapping, at least, then you’re possible dead.
Joachim Horsley – Beethoven In Havana (7th Symph., mv. 2 Rumba)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZRb0FyAa9s
This is getting tiresome and more than a little worrying that such patent nonsense has managed to gather so much institutional support.
https://opentextbc.ca/introductiontosociology2ndedition/chapter/chapter-12-gender-sex-and-sexuality/
This should put another nail in the British coffin when the results of the current enquiry are announced
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/northern-irelands-hidden-massacre-what-really-happened-at-ballymurphy/ar-BBMQi4Z?ocid=st
“Forensic science is a TERF”
Third wave feminism aims to turn that around.
NOT A YES OR NO QUESTION: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SEX AND GENDER IN FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6245&context=etd
re. the National asking questions of the BBC. The BBC only conceives of, and present, British politics in terms Tory v Labour. Both are neo-liberal, British nationalist parties with loyalty to the Queen, so there is no conflict with the Public Purposes of their Royal Charter. Fair treatment of the SNP definitely stands outwith the scope and is contrary to the intent of the BBC’s Public Purposes, specifically that of promoting social cohesion in Britain.
https://orca.cf.ac.uk/89096/1/1464884916648094.full.pdf
Think Tanks, Television News and Impartiality
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1461670X.2017.1389295
Bias, Bullshit and Lies
Audience Perspectives on Low Trust in the Media
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2017-11/Nic%20Newman%20and%20Richard%20Fletcher%20-%20Bias%2C%20Bullshit%20and%20Lies%20-%20Report.pdf
I could do this all night but I won’t.
What’s actually going on with the BBC and Brexit bias?
http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2018/04/17/what-s-actually-going-on-with-the-bbc-and-brexit-bias
Glasgow Airport link to City
Has the viability of using fast boat transfer to the centre of Glasgow by shuttle bus from the airport been considered if the shuttle rail link is going to affect the existing rail services?
Re. the Mermaids’ gender identity chart. Gender is a problematic but helpful linguistic placeholder to describe a complex biopsychosocial phenomena experienced, either positively or negatively, by all individuals. Gender is biopsychosocially grounded, malleable to social stimuli and capable of change over time. Sex and gender are not the same.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14767430.2016.1211442#
Test post.
Can’t find my more recent posts. Have ctrl F’ed various specific words I used over last ten articles multiple times.
Words I definitely used were disparity, growth rates, population, economic effect, Valentine, and get no hits.
I questioned Robert Peffers pulling me up on approximate population numbers and growth rates.
You’ll not keep new posters here if they get their post deleted.
Hi Dan.
Use Google Advanced Search.
In the “this exact word or phrase:” box, type
Dan says
.
In the “site or domain:” box, paste,
https://wingsoverscotland.com
.
You will get this page of results.
https://www.google.com/search?as_q=&as_epq=Dan+says&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=https%3A%2F%2Fwingsoverscotland.com&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=
About 25 results (0.24 seconds)
The WordPress search tool is rather crap.
Very appropriate currently. Some bad words
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVy7faNKEtM
Hey Dan ~
Robert Peffers is a long time Winger.
Robert means very very well.
Just get 2 know him like.
We all have our ways.
As do aye.
Hi Cactus.
I’ve seen you smokin’ fags. That’s no’ good for your lungs an’ thah. I was that man. I’ve had 12 rollie-ups since Hogmanay. The last was on 3rd February. Vaping is the way forward, for your lungs’ sake.
Haha ahm ah changed man bddt.
See ye 2/3/19.
Oui good.
Ahm just startin’ up bdtt…
Back on laters..
On tour.
Cheers for quick response Brian. But that still doesn’t find my particular posts.
Have found nearly all my previous posts with ctrl f search as only started posting a week or so back but not the 2 or 3 in question.
Looks like there was a previous Dan poster way back and also that recent character Danny who didn’t last long.
I’ve no problem with RobertP at all. Have often printed out his comments to share with my elderly neighbours who haven’t access to the internet.
Hey Cactus, I know RP is a stalwart of the Indy cause. My alert reader badge is why I know that, and also why I noticed my posts are missing…
Now beginning to think Rev deleted them because there was vegetable content in them and being an alert dude I also ken he doesn’t dig veg!
Here’s one for Spain’s political prisoners. Justice will win out, it always does.
Francisco Tárrega – Variaciones sobre “El Carnaval de Venecia” de Paganini
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov1yBmsAZtE
Doh! And the problem is solved. The posts I couldn’t find were on an article that had managed to accrue a second page of comments. I’d commented on the first page so they didn’t show up when I searched..
Quietly takes off alert reader badge…
Gender identity is located in the mind. Trans-women should have their own sporting competitions as they have unfair physical advantage against biological women, obvs. Men should not be enabled to choose which sex they are, as that’s simply pandering to social and cultural entitlement and would wreck our current understanding of reality.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257772428_Neuroscience_and_SexGender
Female or Male? Researching the Complexity of Gender Identity
https://neurosciencenews.com/gender-identity-sexual-orientation-2482/
Neurobiology of gender identity and sexual orientation.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29211317
Sorry
Men should not be enabled to self-ID which sex they are….
If the GRA passes into law, then I think all women should immediately declare themselves men and claim compensation for underpayment of wages and salaries (backdated obvs.). 😉
Batter in y’all, ahm here NOW.
Heuch!
Gies A leg up like Scotland…
Kenneth Ballantyne Andrew 13th February 2019 says ~
Tis awe aboot iScot.
Get intae it.
Words.
Okay ahm gonnae settle down NOW tae watch “Sully” settin’ it down on the Hudson.
Having SO much FUN on Wings Over Scotland.
Cheers WOS Boss 🙂
Love is cool.
OK, so you’re up to speed on the biopsychosocial nature of our health, as well as the neuroscience of our decision making, right? As such, you’ll no doubt agree that emotions are pivotal to the way we see the world, and fundamentally shape the decisions we make. So, how does British nationalism deal with Scotland’s emotional powers of reason and does it allow Scots a sense of affective citizenship? Not in my eyes, it doesn’t.
Acts of affective citizenship?: Possibilities and limitations.
Abstract:
After briefly discussing the ‘affective turn’ in citizenship studies, this afterword discusses the political mobilisation of affect to consider when, where, and how affect may be connected to citizenship. It asks: What does it mean and do to speak of affective acts as acts of affective citizenship? I argue that the phrase ‘affective citizenship’ attaches affect to a very specific object: citizenship. Studying affective citizenship requires attention to how some feelings attach themselves to citizenship and to how citizenship itself can evoke certain feelings. But affective citizenship does not occur ‘naturally’: it arises from, requires and/or produces knowledge, labour, and (new) ‘feeling rules’ (Hochschild in de Wilde and Duyvendak). I conclude with a call for more research into the dynamics of affective citizenship that go beyond a simple opposition between those simply conceived of as agents of disciplinary power and those seen as (resisting) subjects of disciplinary power.
Keywords:
affective citizenship, acts of citizenship, emotions, feelings, investment, knowledge
eprints.lancs.ac.uk/80777/1/Acts_of_affective_citizenship.pdf
Alexandra Parade, Glasgow?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTUKxyeunR0
Faites vos jeux…
And onto important matters…….
Surely the end of the line for Brendan Rogers. Every team he has managed has been unable to defend and I’m tired of watching Celtic fannying about in the middle of the park in their own half then losing the ball and losing goals.
Well, if were taking about midfielders.
Xavi Hernandez
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjSeRYFkSjo
Well, if were taking about midfielders.
Xavi Hernandez
youtube.com/watch?v=vjSeRYFkSjo
Marnin’ all howdes all, we were sharing some Talisker t’other nicht… aye now hear that some call it “the talkin’ whisky”, is that a fact, well aye never.
Ah likes to try tae add in a wee bit of spicy stimulation every now and then, especially on days before so-called important voting occurs in the Hoose of Common-peoples, maybe it’s automatic like hehe.
It is good to vent… periodically and then return to ‘normal’ 😉
Which is similar to Scotland really.
Ah’ll let Will Fyfe put things intae some kinda perspective:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNrVkDqPsbM
Have an excellent Friday, Super Troupers.
Look around.
So it looks like I’m needed on spud duty for a little longer than expected. I don’t mind, being family, but I generally consider it bad manners when others thoughtlessly impinge on my agency. It’s just my nature. Anyway, I hope all you readers in Scotland are ready to fit in to your new legal personality of Brexitanians, subjects to the new state born out of the Brexit debacle.
The Future Primitives – Everybody Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR8LZonCceM
I know that some of the ideas I suggest might appear totally wako but I guarantee you they will be closer to the truth than the bollocks you read in the papers. Right, time to go full Cultural Theory on your asses. 🙂
https://brill.com/configurable/contentpage/journals$002fjre$002f7$002f2$002farticle-p116_2.xml
Religion, ethnicity and colonialism as explanations of the Northern Ireland conflict
eprints.gla.ac.uk/2784/1/religionclayton1.pdf
An Examination of the Evidence on Sectarianism in Scotland
http://www.nls.uk/scotgov/2013/9781782566465.pdf
Remember, a hard Brexit is most strongly supported by residents of England who identify as non-practicing Anglicans, English only and with a strong opposition to immigration and multi-culturalism. The Brexit dynamics are simple. The media pimped the racism and greed of the far-right elite and the poor swallowed it. Britain is fucked!
OK, it’s not quite that simple. The poor were rejecting the Establishment, the status quo and stuff, as well. Anyway, prejudice and economic illiteracy now trump tolerance and prudential pragmatism, as the values defining the British nation.
“The media pimped the racism and greed of the far-right elite and the poor swallowed it.”
Great summary of events, Cameron, to which I would only add “blaming the EU for the effects of Red and Blue Tory austerity”.
Wise words, Sheena. Everyone knows the type.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvRUENevENw
Hi Tinto Chiel.
Here are a couple of Sheena videos from 2014, that you may like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C4To2I5C_A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebNAj5q4fxo
Thanks for some happy memories, Brian: seeing the blue Yes fire engine again, the pandas and even a Harry Lawson fae Broughty Ferry tanker.
The words of Indy Dundee make it all seem so straightforward, innit? I’m so old I remember the BBC playing “Bonnie Dundee” to introduce Dundee FC’s European Cup semi-final.
If any one likes Sheena W’s stuff, Hamely Fare is an excellent CD with some great versions of classic songs.
That Toby Yong knows jack squat. The thought that he was formerly Director of the New Schools Network is frankly disturbing. Entitled prick.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14494035.2018.1504484
@Stonewall UK
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/02/14305/
If you’re not concerned about the effects of Brexit, you probably don’t need to worry about your healthcare.
https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/114040
Why Bounded Rationality?
https://www.uibk.ac.at/economics/bbl/lit_se/lit_se_ws0506_papiere/colisk_why_bounded_rat.pdf
Expanding the scope and relevance of health interventions: Moving beyond clinical trials and behavior change models
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4107301/
When I was a teenager I got a job working with a girl called Emily on the petrol pumps at the local garage. I saw Emily play, of course, but I’ve played that already so this is another from that happy time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4DdAs0PddQ
One day a guy came in with a beautiful Porsche and told me to fill her up. I opened the petrol cap and saw a stone jamming the pipe. I got that one out but there was another below it, and then another, etc. Think the guy had made an enemy somewhere. He was somewhat beelin.
Fortunately, he put the car into the garage for repair and the head mechanic later took me out twice in it for a “road test” ‘cos he knew I was mad about sports cars.
No names, no pack drill 😉 .
One for the Billy Mitchell.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrxePKps87k
Hi Tinto Chiel.
I was at the Anderlecht and AC Milan games.
Onnyhoo, your Yardbirds track reminded me of this slightly obscure Spencer Davis track. It comes from that period when the Spencer Davis combo were morphing into Traffic. It featured on the soundtrack of “Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush”, which was the first X I saw, just before my 16th birthday, in the Dundee Gaumont.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY3oA6RbDnc
That soundtrack also featured Traffic, with the Spencer Davis Group playing as the band in the local youth club. ‘Twas Traffic who supplied the title song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdwy9OZelxg
The (young) cast included quite a number who went on to greater things – Barry Evans, Judy Geeson, Diane Keen, Adrienne Posta, Christopher Timothy and so on. You can download the movie at this link. The link on the page starts, “http://fboom.me” and is below the large graphic. (Select ‘Free Download’.) The file is a compressed AVI. Watch out for any dodgy popups before you access the actual movie file. I didn’t get any – the link went straight to the download page.
http://rarelust.com/here-we-go-round-the-mulberry-bush-1968/#more-24873
The soundtrack album contains all good stuff, if you want to search YouTube for it.
My comment on the main page,
https://wingsoverscotland.com/a-rose-by-any-other-name/comment-page-1/#comment-2435073
led me to this one as the next up:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvHeTArCnYQ
Wuv dun sum bra’ music an’ thah’, iye?
For some reason, on reading the latest page, I was reminded of this video.
Having, subsequently, blethered with Sarah and Sophie at different rallies, what I found eyebrow-raising was that they had no idea how iconic their action on the 19th was.
That took a special kind of courage on that night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9wPS78Xh6E
As happens, when watching a YouTube video, you get a ‘next up’. I’ve just watched one after ‘Saltire Sisters’, that I hadn’t seen before. It’s quite even-handed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aiOSwQGsA8
We do have some ignorant numpties, iye?
Looks like abdee’s gone ti the perty that eh didnae git an invite fur…
Brian Doonthetoon
Looks like I didn’t get an invite either.
Reggie Watts – A Song About Apples (Always Love Yourself)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO1CCXXMzBI
Seeing as how I might have sparked some folks’ interest in Post-Colonial Studies and Post-Colonial Theory. Owen Jones might be interested as he was on the BBC today. talking about colonialism. Good that the subject has gained attention but let’s treat the mater with respect.
https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_41167_en.pdf
The Fall – A Lot Of Wind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHlT38XZzO8
Morning, BDTT.
Missed your stuff: out goat nadgering again (’tis the season).
That first SDG track was rather strange but maybe it worked better in the film. I remember the poster for it and Judy Geeson and Adrienne Posta. My brother got in ‘cos he was older than me.
Sorry, that went off too early.
I can’t see us marching along the Royal Mile to an eightsome. How about Stand and Deliver by Adam and The Ants 😛 ?
The Saltire Sisters were brave. Probably the only thing that saved them was that even the knuckle-draggers couldn’t quite stoop to beating up girls. How nice of the police to arrest S&S and keep them in the cells while ignoring all the nasty little fascists who rioted and set fire to the Sunday Herald premises.
Off to clean my graith fae the night before.
Or we could process along the RM in this fashion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-2jLLMdEBw
Saw this a couple of days ago and typed to myself, “I like that!”
The Pedants’ Revolt…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzWwy6qXgAIS0hs.jpg:large
This turned up on my Facebook news feed:
“Here’s a heads up:
Saturday, April 20, 2019
Flash Cadillac 50th Anniversary
Celebration Concert at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College 7:30pm”
Reminded me of their great single which I bought in early 1977, thanks to guy called Norrie McGrath flagging it up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvq5FnJRzFw
re. measuring everything that makes life worthwhile.
Quantitative and qualitative social science
https://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2014/04/quantitative-and-qualitative-social.html
Qualitative research
https://esrc.ukri.org/about-us/what-is-social-science/qualitative-research/
Qualitative Social Research
Contemporary Methods for the Digital Age
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/qualitative-social-research/book239554
Thank you Jack Appleby, it is the sexist stereotypes attached to gender identity that are the real problem. We simply won’t evolve into a more geo-politically balanced, gender equal and tolerant global society until these are demolished as the foundations of patriarchal society.
Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development
https://www.idrc.ca/sites/default/files/openebooks/272-4/
4. How gender stereotypes/stereotyping harm women
https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Women/WRGS/2013-Gender-Stereotyping-as-HR-Violation.docx
Gender after gender: fragmentation, intersectionality, and stereotyping
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10253866.2018.1512238
See that Brian Wilson. I’ll take him on in debate any day he wants. So long as he promises to ensure his argument remains grounded in the real. “Sterile nationalism”, what a prick.
Sly & the Family Stone – Thank you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ptrc2cWRxU
All the evidence you need (if youneeded any) toprove tha t the medai is completely controlled by the UK/US establishment – and tha the lie about Syria is the biggest lie we have ever been told.
youtu.be/-nBbEOqCadM
Sorry about the typos. Pressed the submit before I had corrected it.
The Neoliberal Way of War: A Critical Analysis of Contemporary British Security in Policy and Practice
https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/40993/1/18019982_Whitham_thesis.pdf
So how can we think critically about the character of neo-liberal British/English nationalism? Does that style of nationalism fit your asperations, ensure security, or provide a comfortable fit for Scottish culture? How does it afford protection of basic human rights to Scotland’s resident population? In what way will Brexit require Scots to re-imagine themselves, in order to claim Brexitarian citizenship rights. What will be the ‘correct’ citizenship roles for future generations of Scots to come?
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13569310600687908
Ideological Analysis
http://www.jleadermaynard.com/uploads/5/2/9/9/52995413/ideological_analysis_final_changes.pdf
Editorial: Critical Perspectives on Ideology, Identity, and Interaction
1. Ideology, identity and interaction within discourse and society dialectics
http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/journals/cadaad/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Volume-5_Kopytowska.pdf
Is this the way forward for Scotland or does a “rights based” approach to government that is codified in a written constitution, not sound a lot more attractive? How does neo-liberalism affect your biological security? How will it affect you and your family in Brexitania?
http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/129274/1/Farnsworth_and_Irving_neoliberal_dreams_CSP.pdf
Currents of Neo-Liberalism: British Political Ideologies and the New Right, c.1955–79*
https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0e83c690-2d8d-418a-9c26-1036bae99b3f/download_file?file_format=pdf&safe_filename=Currents%2Bof%2Bneo-liberalism%2Bmanuscript%2Bfor%2BORA.pdf&type_of_work=Journal+article
NEOLIBERALISM
A Critcal Reader
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ronaldo_Munck/publication/314464865_Neoliberalism_and_Politics_and_the_Politics_of_Neoliberalism_Ronaldo_Munck/links/58c4226ba6fdcce648e4f12c/Neoliberalism-and-Politics-and-the-Politics-of-Neoliberalism-Ronaldo-Munck.pdf
Night night.
Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams (S?n Lê, Holderz Remix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv1-H9B3gj0
@SNP Administration
Please reconsider your position re. the GRA, as it is not supported by science and will undermine the social position of women. It is illiberal and sexist legislation.
Women’s Rights and the Proposed Changes to the Gender Recognition Act
http://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/womens-rights-and-the-proposed-changes-to-the-gender-recognition-act/
P.S. Policy can not escape the charge of being illiberal if it is not supported by science.
I’m sure I’m not alone among the savants, lobey dossers and loblollymen (and Laydees) on here in seeking all kinds of musical solace in these difficult times.
Sibelius has always seemed to me a kind of honorary Scotsman: dour, thrawn, melancholic, with a liking for the hard stuff and a lover of the majesty and mystery of the landscape around him, which all became transmuted into music like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy0_zqEOp4A
I wish the much-missed lumilumi were around to tell me where the stress is in “Tapiola” but I’ll settle for the Usual Suspects telling me where to go.
😛
Hi Tinto Chiel.
I’ve always liked Sibelius, from the days when the Intermezzo from the Karelia Suite was used as the theme for “This Week” in ITV.
It got me into The Nice as well. Saw them doing this in the Caird Hall in 1968.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2EtiNz7SSs
Then there’s quiet “ballad” bit of the Karelia Suite, before it goes into “Alla Marcia”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01FboSz_VAU
Which you will know as the signature tune of the world famous (on BBC Scotland) investigative reporter, Kevin Turvey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84XbjYS3XLc
JEEZ! The Alla Marcia video…
Does it not demonstrate how internationalist music can be?
Apropos nothing at all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMAb9SU6jzc&list=RDkZ6h0kyqSRk&index=2
Yup, BDTT, “This Week” was probably where I heard my first Sibelius as a nipper and probably why I like the Karelia Suite so much.
“Does it not demonstrate how internationalist music can be?”
Good point: the Germans call England “Das Land ohne Musik”. Draw your own Brexit conclusions. Languages unfortunately often divide peoples but music stimulates emotions and moods which transcend mere words.
I often have these grate thotts…
Incidentally, I went a rovin’ re my own question and it seems Finnish is stressed on the first syllable.
Tomorrow I am 65 but as long as Jake Hastie stays at Motherwell FC I don’t really care.
Oh, and David Turnbull too, obvs.
Oops! I may get Paula Rosed/Lucia Danesed for my lapse into fitba’.
*Thrashes self in advance*
Can I ask members of the SNP to apply the most urgent pressure they can to change the administration’s position re. the GRA. The ability to self-ID sex may advance the case of a minority but at the cost of legal rationality and the eradication of “womanhood”. It is illiberal, sexist and is storing up problems for future generations. As such, it can’t be considered ethical in inter-generational terms.
The GRA will undermine the contribution that social science can make in advancing the cause of gender equality.
N.B Currently, legal doctrine’s focus of interest is human action. The GRA expands this to human thought. The GRA can not be considered “liberal”, in the classical sense.
https://sfgov.org/dosw/gender-analysis-guidelines#what%20is%20gender%20analysis?
Feminist and Trans Perspectives on Identity and the UK Gender Recognition
Act
https://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/files/137336233/Feminist_and_Trans_Perspectives_on_Identity_and_the_UK_Gender_Recognition_Act.pdf
An intersectionality-based policy analysis framework: critical reflections on a methodology for advancing equity
https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/84934/1/12939_2014_Article_119.pdf
P.S. The GRA gives preference to “unbounded rationality” (empathy) over “bounded rationality” (reason). It dislocates the human subject from the social world. It undermines the normative foundations of human rights.
Sorry for long post.
It’s been a long time since these figures were posted on Wings by Petra.
I’m sure regulars in OT are familiar with this stuff but any new readers of Wings may not be.
They are years old now as I saw them back in 2014 campaign. I have added the gin figure since it became more widely known.
I always found this list extremely useful in helping folk begin to comprehend the viability of Scotland managing without Westminster.
I don’t want to post inaccurate stuff on a main thread and Petra said she has lost the info due to tech problems.
I mentioned that it would be great if these figures could be given a once over to make sure they are as accurate as possible and any additions that come to mind could be added too.
EG: There’s bound to be some changes to renewable energy production stats I would have thought. Plus I’m sure I read on here that someone had noticed significant clearing of forestry as owners / investors might have been cashing out or burning it all in a similar fashion to the cash for ash debacle in NI. Certainly the local estates around me have all had huge expensive industrial sized pellet boilers fitted around their massive poorly insulated old piles, and these are generally folk that would spend a pound to save a penny. So I guess tax payers are subsidising this “green initiative”.
Anyway, in between the tunes and banter over here can folk possibly cast their eyes over the following and see if they spot any errors or omissions.
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Scotland has only 8.3% of the UK’s population.
But we DO have…
32% of the land area.
61% of the sea area.
90% of the fresh water.
65% of the natural gas production.
96.5% of the crude oil production.
47% of the open cast coal production
81% of the untapped coal reserves
62% of the timber production
46% of the total forest area
92% of the hydro electric production
40% of the wind wave and solar energy production
60% of the fish landings
30% of the beef herd
20% of the sheep herd
9% of the dairy herd
10% of the pig herd
15% if the cereal holdings
20% of the potato holdings
70% of UK Gin production
…obviously 100% of the Scotch Whisky industry.
We have a…
17 billion pound construction industry
13 billion food and drink industry
10 billion business services industry
9.3 billion chemical services industry
A 9.3 billion tourism industry
7 billion financial services industry
5 billion aeroservice industry
4.5 billion pound whisky exports industry
3.1 billion pound life sciences industry
Scotland still has 350 million pounds worth of textile exports
We have 25% of Europe’s wave and wind energy potential.
And finally we are blessed to have 1.5 trillion pound worth of oil and gas reserves.
All of this, yet only 8.3% of The UK’s population…
Do you know… This is the UK’s legacy of success in our history of being better-together is as follows…
The UK has the 3rd lowest pensions in the 34 OECD countries of the world
The UK has the single most expensive childcare in the European Union
The UK has the second lowest-paid economy in the entire developed world
The UK has the 3rd longest working hours in the EU
The UK has the lowest number of holidays in the EU
The UK has the 8th highest gender inequality pay gap out of the EU’s 28 countries
The UK has the highest likelihood of poverty in disablement in the EU
The UK has the highest rail prices in Europe
The UK has the second highest housing cost in Europe
The UK has the highest fuel poverty rates in Europe.
The UK is the 4th highest country of wealth inequality in the entire planet
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Dan
I’d love to do the honours but I’m not online at present (when in Edinburgh). My fault and entirely unrelated to finance. I’ll see what I can do over the next couple of days though.
@Dan: thanks for the list. I had the Scottish %s saved on my old computer which died on me without warning before Christmas (I was bewailing the loss of the stats to Mrs TC just last week) but I hadn’t seen the “UK Bad” ones before.
I’m sure some figures will need revision but fortunately on Wings there are plenty of people with the knowledge and expertise to do so.
Unfortunately, I’m not one of them…
😛
Where’s Thepnr or yesindyref2 when you need them?
I’ve defined human sex as being biologically grounded in order to make the science accessible to the general reader. This isn’t strictly the case though, so here’s a little bit of complexity to hopefully clarify the self-ID debate and avoid any criticism of being scientifically selective.
As with sexuality and gender identity, sex is also biopsychsocially grounded. Genes are plastic in the same way as the architecture of the brain. They respond to social and environmental factors, such as pollution and the health of the parents. However, this does not detract from the reality that complex living beings, such as humans, are characterised by their sexual dimorphism. This fact is crucial to understanding human health.
The sexual dimorphism dilemma
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/press-releases/sexual-dimorphism-dilemma
Policy design and development is rarely value free. Who has been advising the SNP administration, HMG civil servants?
Using Feminist Critical Policy Analysis in the Realm of Higher Education
The Case of Welfare Reform as Gendered Educational Policy
homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~tkennedy/Courses/38H3/Shaw.pdf
Regarding the GRA, any of my attempts to alert my concerns to the SNP hierarchy have been met with closed ranks and a retreat into procedure.
At my local branch which is male dominated with the majority aged 60+ of those who are active, the attitude is one of dismissal that it is not urgent as ‘we have more important’ issues to deal with.
However, amongst my female acquaintances and friends who are of a similar demographic to myself, and who would normally vote SNP, there is a deep concern at how tone deaf the party appear. They seem obsessed with chasing what they think is the youth vote when in fact it is a tiny vocal minority – think TIE campaign etc.
I cannot emphasise enough how dangerous this will be for the SNP if they pursue this ignoring the concerns of women who have fought all their lives for equality. We feel marginalised , powerless and ignored in favour of those who have just jumped on the ‘woke’ bus at the last stop.
Cassandra
Thank you for sharing that. The SNP administration must be made aware that the GRA threatens to undermine healthcare and human rights. This isn’t an issue of uppity second-wave/post-colonial feminists pushing for more, this matter concerns the fabric of civil society.
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One for Scotland’s “louche left with leanings” who have still to recognize Brexit is inescapably immoral, Or to put it another way, Brexit is an articulation of contemporary British/English nationalism. It is void of ethical consideration and can be expected to make life harder for the vulnerable.
P.S. It should be noted that Oxford forms one of the intellectual drivers of British nationalism.
Scotland, Ireland, and Brexit: what history tells us
Iain McLean is Professor of Politics and a fellow of Nuffield College.
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/oxford-and-brexit/brexit-analysis/scotland-ireland-and-brexit
Dan
I’ve decided that my limited online time is probably better spent concentrating on the ‘wanky intellectual stuff’.
OK, this is the sort of ethical immorality I talking about re. Berxit. It is the sign of a failed state when government endangers the ‘national’ economy and biological security in the way that Brexit does. Without concrete planning, pragmatism is simply clown-shoes fascism. Simples.
SOCIAL INDICATORS AND QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH:
BACKGROUND, ACHIEVEMENTS AND CURRENT TRENDS
https://www.gesis.org/fileadmin/upload/institut/wiss_arbeitsbereiche/soz_indikatoren/Publikationen/isscnoll.pdf
Global Change and Indicators of Social Development
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270894042_Global_Change_and_Indicators_of_Social_Development
Social Indicators and Indicator Systems:
Tools for Social Monitoring and Reporting
https://www.gesis.org/fileadmin/upload/institut/wiss_arbeitsbereiche/soz_indikatoren/Publikationen/OECD-Forum-Noll.pdf
Happy Birthday Tinto Chiel hope you have a great day and hopefully catch you on the 2nd if you are going. ? ? ???????
This one is for Tinto Chiel
Have a good one Tinto!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UUWkr4FUlo
P.S. The GRA will obviously undermine the power of our social monitoring systems, so perhaps this is why the Tories are pushing ideology from the New Left.
Tinto Chiel
Sorry, head down and tunnel vision. Happy birthday mate.
Last on the subject today. The post-structuralist interpretations of the world that support trans activism are helpful to the scientific understanding of the social world. However, they do not correspond to the findings of contemporary science so they do not provide a robust model on which to base public policy.
Radical constructivism needs to be handled with care and applied in moderation.
http://www.proactiveteaching.org/pdfs/42.pdf
Happy birthday Tinto, have a good one. Just remember, yer no gettin auld, yer like a good wine, maturing nicely.
Anybody know how Smallaxe is doing. It’s been a while since we heard from him, the place is no the same withoot him. I know that he hasn’t been too grand, so I just wondered if Nana or Thepnr mibbies know how he’s doing.
@Michael, Nana and Cameron: thanks, playmates for your very kind wishes. From my point of view there have been far too many “days like this” and it is a tombstone, sorry milestone that I could have done without 😛 .
I got a card today from a relative with the message, “If you had a pound for every woman who found you unattractive, they’d soon find you attractive!”
Och, the benter… *wipes away a silent tear of hurt*.
Reminds me of a welcome mat I saw at the local ironmonger’s: “Friends welcome any time, family by appointment.”
I’m planning to be there in March, Michael, ‘cos That There Ian B is bullying me into bringing my Special Surprise Spicy Savoury Rice (veggie option).
As far as GRA is concerned, I’m astonished that someone with a male member capable of penetration can self-define as female and invade all-female spaces. I even heard on Women’s Hour of at least two women in English prisons who have been sexually assaulted by self-ID “women”.
Crazy.
And thanks to you, Marie. Just saw your message on the refresh. I wanted to be Chateau Petrus but ended up as Lanliq, hee, hee.
Coulda been a contender…
Going out to celebrate with my handler so laters, haters.
Happy Birthday TC!
😉
Thanks, Ian, you young-shaver-me-lad 😉 .
Breaking news: may include water chestnuts in my rice, with chilli and paprika. Taste sensation, imho.
Special message: “The geese are flying high tonight.”
😛
TC, Hope you has a good one. You’re three months ahead of me there.
Happy birthday TC.
@IanB
I am now a doubtful for 02/03.
Been taken into hospital with inflamed appendix and am scheduled for surgery today. I will see how quickly I recover and let you know
William Wallace @ 12.23
Oh my… I hope you get on ok William!
Your certainly having a time of it.
Please let us all know (as soon as you feel up to it) how you are doing!
Sending you all my best for a speedy recovery,and will be thinking of you and yours. xxx
Morning, cearc. Hope you will soon be on the mend and ready for our final battle on the plains of Mordor with the Forces of Darkness. I like a mephator, soanado.
It was good to meet you at Dumfries, William. Hope everything goes well today and you make it to Glasgow ok.
Thinking about that tortured lassie that is trying to come back from ISIS in Syria it has to be understood that what she thinks and how she feels is a direct and devastaing result of the utterly abominable behaviour of the UK/US axis of evil in the Middle East. Soem people seem to imagine that we can kill a million people, much of them innocent women and children, and we’ll just get away with it. Not for the next decades we wont. I wrote a poem some time ago after our savagery in Iraq
There has to be a hell
I went to bed last night
I wept
And as I slept
I heard no tread
But the silent dead moved by
But why, oh why, oh why I cried
Our leaders lied. They lied. They lied
I had no part
No bombs, no bullets in my hands
We sang, we marched
We sang, we sighed
Not in our name we cried
It wasn’t us.
And then …..
The quiet dead replied
A million quiet voices sighed
No bombs and bullets in our hands
No bombs, no bullets in our hands
It wasn’t us, it wasn’t us
It surely wasn’t us,
But on our lands and on our homes
Your bombs and bullets fell
And on our children in our arms
And still the silent dead marched by
As far as I could see
They wept with me.
If this could be
There is no God to tell
But pray, for those who sent the bombs
There has to be a hell.
Dave McEwan Hill
Best wishes for WW, today.
TC.
Well there’s always a bright side.. As my treatment includes high levels of steroids, my rheumatoid arthritis has been knocked out. So, actually, I feel way better and more mobile than I have for over 10 years.
It’s all the travelling that’s a drag. At least one night (about to be increased to 2 or 3) in hospital every 3 weeks and trips to the village every week that I’m not in Inverness. The upside of the more agressive regime is that they want new scans and tests before they switch, which means that I can go over next friday for them, stay in the non-med accomodation and mozy on down to Glasgow for the saturday knees up!
Just need to book somewhere to stay.
Cearc @ 1.56
Glad to hear you’ll make it to the night out 🙂
@ Dave M H: very good poem. Reminds me of the Great War poets – no lessons learnt by the powers-that-be, sadly.
More on antisemitism in Britain.
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3979-the-chimera-of-british-anti-semitism-and-how-not-to-fight-it-if-it-were-real
Antisemitism in Britain
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/antisemitism-in-britain/
ZIONISM AND ANTISEMITISM
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
http://www.pearsinstitute.bbk.ac.uk/events/past-events/2017-events/zionism-and-antisemitism/zionism-and-antisemitism-cfp/
Thanks for your kind thoughts and good wishes folks. I have had the op now and it has gone well. They did it all via 3 keyholes rather than me needing opened up fully. Can’t really move much at the moment but, I am hopeful that recovery might be swift enough to enable me to make the night oot, albeit sober or maybe just a wee pint on the night.
Another positive is that my CT scan results were good as there are no other issues down there (something that was worrying me enormously).
I’m a wee bit woozy with the oromorph so I’ll sign aff the now. Take care all and if I dinnae make the night oot, then I hope yiz ah hae a top night. (Have a wee dram for me)
Glad to hear you’ll be able to come down. I’ll save all my best jokes for you.
cearc?
cearc?
Good news too, WW.
Take it easy.
William Wallace
Sleep well, hopefully meet up with you in Glasgow.
@Daisy Walker: I asked a cousin who stays near Perth about that building. She said it is next to the Isle of Skye hotel so, as you probably know, it has difficult access. It has been a hostel for quite a few years and probably needs a lot of work. And it has been snapped up already!
Thanks Sarah, and for your earlier comments.
I was aware the site would need work – how and ever £350,000 is a steal.
Any idea the identify of who has bought it, and how friendly they are with the local Council.
Apparently this is one of many properties going, at discount rate.
Daisy – I think if my cousin knew anything along the lines of what you are saying she would have told me! Do we know it actually sold for £350,000 or was that just asking for “offers over”?
This might appear cold but these trans-activists are a social problem that is getting out of hand. Post-structuralism is useful to our understanding of the world but it is not a philosophy for practical living. Feels over reals is simply pandering to narcissistic fantasy, IMHO.
Can “performativety” really be considered more than a repackaging of neo-liberalism?
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7882/400d6033a37810c960b84d16372c2967cc8c.pdf
Personal Construct Psychology, Constructivism, and Postmodern Thought
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~alock/virtual/Construc.htm
Radical versus Social Constructivism: Dilemma, Dialogue, and Defense
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED525159.pdf
Sarah, I did ask my source – surely its offers over, or an auction, and I was told it went for £350,000.
However, I’ve nothing to back that up with and would have to check – somewhere, somehow. Not my field of expertise. My source is pretty good generally speaking.
Daisy – I don’t need to know the price – just idle curiosity!
Post-structuralismConstructivism is useful…Though it is the healthy option to construct yourself in ways that enable you to actualise your potential, this can not be achieved by denying reality and living in a world of fantasy.
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2014-38880-005
The cultural change that trans-activists demand is unacceptable i.e. the practical eradication of “womanhood”. IMHO, the cultural change that we need is the demolition of sexist stereotypes, not the adoption of radical science as our guide to public policy.
“What fresh hell is this?”
Gibberish.
Cough. And did I not suggest Theresa May is a
white suremasistcultural chauvinist.Joanna Cherry QC MP
Please don’t allow a naive approach to damage Scotland’s future. English culture is structurally racists. Racists don’t respect the Other or their culture.
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House
Audre Lorde
https://collectiveliberation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Lorde_The_Masters_Tools.pdf
N.B. Racists seeks to silence and exclude the Other.
Dated but topical:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzehb_yeZtU
I like a good paradox.
@TC –
Saw your comment on MT re the EIS/’strike’ etc.
Here’s hoping abody involves sees sense. It’s embarrassing.
re. Brexit and Scotland’s future. Want your future determined by the
cultural chauvinismracism of the “OLD FASHIONED PERSONALITY”?Personality Theories: Critical Perspectives
http://sk.sagepub.com/books/personality-theories
RACISM AND PREJUDICE
Psychological Perspectives
https://www.psychology.org.au/getmedia/e3ee1f94-9b79-4e4a-98e8-e57e26f9c0e2/Racism-and-prejudice.pdf
Orientalism at home: Islamophobia in the representations of Islam and Muslims by the New Labour Government
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1468796814525379
Old-Fashioned Racism, Contemporary Islamophobia, and the Isolation of Muslim Americans in the Age of Trump
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-race-ethnicity-and-politics/article/oldfashioned-racism-contemporary-islamophobia-and-the-isolation-of-muslim-americans-in-the-age-of-trump/DF3CF364ED112948C1BD52F712B6A8AE
Asa many years a teacher I find it worse than embarrassing. It is disgraceful and Swinny should just face them down -or remove the offer completely and offer them the same as the English teachers are getting.
There is absolutely zero public support for them
From my soundings from some of the large minority who voted to accept the SG offer, this could well be Flanagan’s Scargill moment, Ian, when he loses the membership who see it as simple politicking.
There was a preponderance of BLiS______d types in the EIS in the past as school representatives and there is probably still a residue pushing opportunistic buttons.
Frankly, I always found CP types more principled and realistic. Strangely too, most of the ones I knew have since moved to Yes.
Cheers Tinto!
Here is more news from 1981 –
– and funnily enough even then the Tories were anti-immigration:
Not The Nine O’Clock News sketch – Rowan Atkinson as a Tory at their Annual Conference.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crz13FKjp1I
Our best comedians can deliver essential but unpalatable truths.
The essence of two-facedness, as shown in Westminster:
One-minute sketch from Not The Nine O’Clock News, two politicians (Mel Smith and Rowan Atkinson) arguing hard with each other on a tv talk show, until…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9b7wmRsy9g
Hi, David.
Are you still living and working in Brazil?
UK politics are beyond satire now, sadly, but I enjoyed those old clips.
Belated Birthday greetings Tinto Cheil sees you on the 2nd March
Thanks, Ronnie. Not proud of my years but see you there, bp permitting!
It’s late, so get on the headphones and groove to a song for Nigel, Boris and Treeza
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyt0ViDtJ_w
Bonsoir, mes braves!
@Brian Wilson
I thought these might interest you, seeing as how you’re an academic and all. 😉
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/0199251568.001.0001/acprof-9780199251568-chapter-2
Legitimacy
https://pesd.princeton.edu/?q=node/255
Nationalism, Self-determination and Secession
https://opentextbc.ca/nationalism/chapter/self-determination-individual-and-collective/
P.S. Rational self-determination requires an element of inductive reasoning. Inductive reasoning is only possible in an information environment that provides realistic context. As such* Scotland’s media environment undermines the ability of Scots to think rationally about the independence question (see “Project Fear” and the BBC in Scotland). Scotland’s media environment is dysfunctional and anti-democratic.
* at least I didn’t start with “so”. 🙂
And just in case you thought I’d completely lost it by suggesting English culture is afflicted by structural racism. Why single out England? Scotland didn’t vote to protect the integrity of British/English culture, we voted to remain in the EU. We didn’t fall for the jingoistic and xenophobic campaign. Scotland’s vote wasn’t based on “blood-and-soil” nationalism, as England’s was, it was rational* and pragmatic, IMHO. This suggests an ethical component to the nation’s deliberation that was lacking in England’s.
Westminster in afflicted with institutional racism (see Brexit).
* as rational as possible given the circumstances.
https://dailyspectacle.co.uk/2017/09/british-racism/
Shining a spotlight on structural racism in Britain today
https://www.tuc.org.uk/blogs/shining-spotlight-structural-racism-britain-today
https://www.una.org.uk/news/un-human-rights-experts-scrutinise-uk-over-structural-racism
Way ahead of his time and a man of great talent and guts. The clip compiler worked really hard on this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RMQSUBk5kg
re. the institutional racism that afflicts Westminster. This shapes Westminster’s political disposition towards Scotland and undermines the life potential of those living in Scotland. England’s structural racism must not be allowed to determine Scotland’s future.
https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/publications/cjm/article/implicit-racial-bias-and-anatomy-institutional-racism
UN human rights experts says deaths in custody reinforce concerns about ‘structural racism’ in UK
https://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22997&LangID=E
The impact of racism on mental health
https://synergicollaborativecentre.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/The-impact-of-racism-on-mental-health-briefing-paper-1.pdf
This is the kind of music I feel we should play in Dows on March, at the outset anyway, to put guests at their ease.
Whatcha think?
Lonnie Smith, ‘It’s Changed’ –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lsZb93rY8E
Still not convinced English culture and Westminster are afflicted by structural and institutional racism.
Although this report appears to support the suggestion that British racism is generated by our political and media ‘elite’, please note that it also appears to consider England as representing Britain.
From an anthropological perspective, discriminatory restrictions on the freedom of movement is ethically immoral. Scotland and England’s needs are polar opposites. Scotland needs more immigration.
https://openeurope.org.uk/intelligence/immigration-and-justice/beyond-the-westminster-bubble-what-people-really-think-about-immigration/
The resistible rise of Islamophobia: Anti-Muslim racism in the UK and Australia before 11 September 2001
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1440783307073935
A Multilevel Analysis of the Relationship Between Institutional and Individual Racial Discrimination and Health Status
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447127/
Ian Brotherhood @ 21:42,
I’m not too fussed about what kind of music, TBH, but rather about the level. Personally I would prefer to have a confab with a bunch of folks, and find with typical ceilidhs and suchlike that the music is usually so loud that it strongly mitigates against.
Oh, and while I’m on the subject – just to have a better handle on what to bring, will there be any facility (eg. microwave) for warming anything, or is it strictly cold buffet…?
@RJS –
I was only joshing about the music – stumbled across that and it just seems implausibly smooth for what we’re doing, but soothing somehow…perhaps for the same reason that some taxi-drivers sprinkle very small amounts of baby-powder in the back before doing a night-shift – calms the punters!
On the food front – we’re playing safe by asking folk to bring cold stuff. As the night progresses I’m sure we could persuade staff to give us access to a microwave, but I can’t promise that. Will endeavour to find out and report back here.
Have a braw weekend there sah!
😉
Last on the subject tonight.
It is imperative that the Scottish public appreciate British politics is shaped by structural and institutional racism. Remember, attitude such as ‘no Pakies, no dogs and no Irish” were common-place in the early 1970s. Little has changed apart from these attitudes are no longer expressed openly. They are hidden from view but no less toxic.
Westminster treats the residents of Scotland as if we are second-class citizens, unworthy of political respect or inalienable human rights. It is the British way, as the legacy of Cecil Rhodes and the Milner Group continues to pollute British politics to this day.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/japp.12206
Race, class and Brexit: how did we get here?
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2018/10/09/race-class-and-brexit-how-did-we-get-here/
Racism, Identity Politics and the Hidden Curriculum
https://www.plutobooks.com/blog/racism-identity-politics-decolonise-university/
….Little has changed apart from these attitudes are no longer expressed openly. They are hidden from view but no less toxic. Brexit has fundamentally re-shaped this practice though, by emboldening open and increasingly hostile racism in England.
@ Ian Brotherhood,
May I propose an evening of Cactus’ Haiku recitals, unless he is on night Shift?
Was hoping to get out yesterday but my bowel has gone to sleep. Nothing ever goes smoothly does it? Hoping for some movement this morning as I don’t fancy the weekend in here followed by more invasive treatment on Monday. Really thought I was recovering very well until this. I find it very hard to get enough rest here too with all the checks etc. Really need to be at home.
Managed to start pumping a tiny bit. It’s more than a wee bit weird to be sitting here hoping to actually shite mahsel.
Check the nick o me 🙂
Down but not out. http://imgur.com/a/mJJgzh0
I see the BBC in Scotland has retreated into a state of colonial exceptionalism. This is to be expected as the BBC is afflicted by institutional racism. This undermines the health of Scotland’s resident population.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=23074&LangID=E
Hi, William.
You’re looking a lot better than me this morning, actually 😛
Hope this gets you up and out the ward more quickly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbZSe6N_BXs
@Citizen Tammy #763
I support the SNP. Are you suggesting I’m uneducated? Away and reflect on that, or forever remain a bigot.
re. the LibDem conference. LibDems supporting racialist authoritarianism. Now do you believe that “care in the community” has failed. These folk are simply Tory-wets who lack the political integrity to declare themselves Tories.
@WW –
More power to ye mister.
😉
re. the social ethics of Brexit. Remember, Tories don’t do social ethics, it’s not in their nature. They prefer protecting inherited privilege instead.
https://www.abc.net.au/religion/after-brexit-the-referendum-and-its-discontents/10096836
Brexit: lessons from the law
http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2016/06/since-the-brexit-vote-decided-nothing-it-is-merely-interesting/
Assessing the impact of Brexit on sustainability
https://www.procurementleaders.com/brexit/brexit-resources/assessing-the-impact-of-brexit-on-csr-sustainability
@Brian Wilson
Here’s your “sterile nationalism”, tube, right-wing populism and Brexit.
https://www.abc.net.au/religion/after-brexit-the-referendum-and-its-discontents/10096836
@Brian Wilson
Is this what you support, because this is the direction your British nationalism is dragging Scotland? Against our democratic will! Are you a democratic socialist or are you a racist fascist?
http://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/assets/documents/research/msc-dissertations/2016/Dissertation-Monica-Ibrahim.pdf
FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM!!!!!! 🙂 Ahm oot. 🙂
Sunday anna mighty fine welcome back to ye William Wallace ~
ayeAye an awe ra best bro, feels good 🙂
Scotland.
@ William Wallace
Good to see you’re on the mend.
Evenin’ anna howde do hackalumpoff ~
Ah had tae look the Haiku up.
That was yummy.
William Wallace
Great news William…
Now you be behaving yer self so that ye make it tae the night oot 🙂
@ William Wallace
Mend well and catch you in Glasgow.
One for the Tbot.
Roky Erickson & The Aliens – I Walked With A Zombie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISeuNUASHXc
Can anybody explain to me that Scotland leaving the UK and having a border with England is a bad thing but England leaving the EU and and having a border with 27 other countries is a good thing.
Apparently transgender men do not want to compete in the sport environment with men but rather compete with women. Why is there no transgender category in sport?
Very belated apologies Tinto Chiel!!!
Tinto Chiel says:
21 January, 2019 at 6:59 pm
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.
@Duncan Hothersall
Stop trying to con folk you’re an intellectual with a deep understanding of society, your an ignorant British nationalist. The identitarian commitment you espouse threatens Scotland’s public health and social sustainability. You are on the same side as Tory xenophobes you twat.
selfdeterminationtheory.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017_Arvanitis_Kalliris_pre_print.pdf
Here’s one to celebrate the Secretary of State for Scotland’s servile role in supporting xenophobic English nationalism. He certainly appears to know his place.
Parov Stelar – Chambermaid Swing (Doc-Terry’s Video Club Mix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN4tPpJngyM
@Duncan Hothersall
Please just step out the debate as you simply don’t have a clue. Your rigid, identitarian, British nationalist ideology is a threat to vulnerable lives.
http://file.scirp.org/Html/1-2250021_23900.htm
Introducing the Biopsychosocial Model for good medicine and good doctors
https://www.startpage.com/do/search
Biopsychosocial Contributions to Cognitive Performance
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK23780/
link
https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/29/introducing-biopsychosocial-model-good-medicine-and-good-doctors
@Duncan Hothersall
Your intellectually bankrupt argument is helping the cause of white supremacists.
https://networks.h-net.org/node/3911/discussions/1469347/english-nationalism-and-brexit
Nationalism, racism, and identity: what connects Englishness to a preference for hard Brexit?
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/englishness-racism-brexit/
How white nationalism became trendy—and so even more dangerous
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/how-white-nationalism-became-trendy-and-so-even-more-dangerous
Hi, Ian.
I’d forgotten about that!
As you say, MurdochVision is about as reliable as a David Mundell press release.
Hello Tinto, missed your last q, so apologies for my late reply. Whurraumi the noo, you ask.
Loose lips sink ships, I enigmatically reply, but rest assured that I’ve been busy glueing sequins on my Carnaval ‘fantasia’/costume. Know wot I mean squire, a nod’s as good as a wink to a blind horse. 😉
@David: any foaties? 😀
“The geese are flying high tonight below the horned moon.”
“Uncle Jean has changed his socks.”
😉
SCOTLAND!
(“Scotland the Brave” by the Isle of Cumbrae Pipe Band as they march out of Braemar, Scotland)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27cS1pDWcQQ
BRAZIL!
(Parade by samba school ‘Mangueira’ at 2013 Rio de Janeiro Carnaval)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vegwwz8pMAM
BRALAND!! err SCOTZIL!!
(Band ‘Brazilian Piper’ from Sao Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro state)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA1kRRHdOeU
No wonder I’m confused. 😉
P.S. Hey Tinto did you see me, I’m in the 7th row, 14th ‘pandeirista’ from the left…
Excellent pipe band and great to see a saltire flying in Braemar, David.
Some crowds at the Mangueira- even more than at St Mirren!
You were the guy in the kilt, eh? 😛
Special Appeal to all savants on here: my laptop died w/o warning just before Christmas and I lost all my favourites. Can anyone remember a mad techno-type music video posted on here with “Ya bugger!” and suggestive “Oo la la!” interjections.
Principal suspects: Cameron BB or Michael McCabe. You know who you are…
And oblige TC.
Tinto Chiel
Sorry but I don’t think I’m guilty this time. Not unless the track you’re thinking of had a load of elderly gents dancing to techno. I’ve had a look for it but can’t find it again.
How’s about a little re-imagining of an old classic instead.
Joachim Horsley – Rumba Prelude (Bach in a Rumba & New Orleans Style)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o–tEWER9g
I think this is quite appropriate to Scotland’s circumstances. 🙁
Joachim Horsley – Psycho Theme on Piano with Knives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X3YuZYhPDM
Thanks, Cameron. It was probably Michael then.
Yon Mr Horsely is a talented man and I see he has a good few things on YT.
Hope that Steinway was insured.
That’s me sorted for accommodation in Glasgow Central Travelodge. There are plenty of rooms available at £46/night, in case anyone else still needs a room.
Re. BLiS___d and Tricky Dicky’s rigid British nationalism. The early Fabians viewed socialism as a means of spreading British nationalism. This was a blood-and-soil response to Britain’s waning imperial power. He is simply carrying on in line with British Labour’s traditional values. He’s a British/English nationalist and no Scottish patriot.
https://fabians.org.uk/the-problem-of-english-socialism/
Popular Radicalism and the Socialist Revival in Britain
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-british-studies/article/popular-radicalism-and-the-socialist-revival-in-britain/6FC874703D99136C62B70FD6B1E4A5A8
“Anti-Socialism in British Politics c. 1900-22: the Emergence of a Counter-Ideology.”
https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9c80bc93-3fe6-4fa8-a43c-2536084f48f4/datastreams/ATTACHMENT1
Hi CameronB Brodie.
Knives in keyboards, iye? I saw Keith do this in the Caird Hall. The volume’s a bit low but it’s a rare “IN COLOUR!” video of the band as a quartet, before the lead guitarist was made redundant. Davy O’List was his name. I’ve always wondered if he was any relation to the musician called O’List, who is mentioned in Spike Milligan’s series of wartime autobiographies.
Onnyhoo,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW-XRlra_BA
Brian Doonthetoon
I do like the Hammond organ sound and a bit of experimentation Brian.
These guy might have a problem getting into America nowadays, being Mexican.
Question Mark & The Mysterians – 96 Tears
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeolH-kzx4c
A Burnistoun clip for posterity to mark the contributions made by a certain new arrival…
For Real!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuUV1TjZyXk
Hi CameronB Brodie.
Organ… That’s me too.
I think I’ve linked to this song before. Played almost daily on “Radio 1 Club” during May and June 1969. Never a hit but the single changes hands for £40+ because Greg Lake was in the band.
I think he sings lead on the A side – the vocal inflections are very similar to his vocals on ELP’s first album, particularly “Lucky Man”. It’s confirmed that he did sing on the B side.
Onnyhoo, I can play this organ run on my own keyboard…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o8MyuGcdY4
Here’s the B side…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y3L4a4EpUk
And I’ll finish up with “Lucky Man”, for comparison.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89g1P_J40JA
The problem Scotland faces is that British nationalism is an expression of “modernist” thought that has been welded to a “traditionalist” culture (see the medievalist nature of the British Establishment and their traditional customs). This is the way of thinking that underpinned colonial imperialism and was thought to have ended when we entered the atomic era. British nationalism is intrinsically outdated for the post-modern world and is incapable of acknowledging the uniqueness and value of Scotland’s cultural.
British nationalism is bad for the health of Scotland.
British Romanticism and colonial modernity in India, 1780-1840
https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/enlightenment-romanticism-contemporary-culture/projects/british-romanticism
Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature, 1899–1939
https://www.dukeupress.edu/modernism-and-colonialism
The End of Colonialism? The Colonial Modern in the Making of Global Modernity
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249874416_The_End_of_Colonialism_The_Colonial_Modern_in_the_Making_of_Global_Modernity
Nina Simone – How it feels to be free
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dlrXCYrNYI
re. the racist apartheid state of Israel. This is the state British nationalist support instead of a Scottish state. Political Zionism has deep roots in Britain’s Establishment.
Britain in Palestine, 1838-1882: The Roots of the Balfour Policy
https://www.palestine-studies.org/jps/fulltext/39775
The Road to Balfour: The History of Christian Zionism
http://www.balfourproject.org/the-road-to-balfour-the-history-of-christian-zionism-by-stephen-sizer/
Towards The Achievement of National Identity: The Role of British Jewry in the Creation of the State of Israel
http://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jhss/papers/Vol.%2021%20Issue1/Version-3/L021135464.pdf
British Zionism, Jews and Gaza
https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/antony-lerman/british-zionism-jews-and-gaza
P.S. The Balfour Declaration was drafted by Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, prodigy of Cecil Rohdes, administrator of British concentration camps in South Africa, and prominent Fabian socialist. Or was he?
Really doubt I am going to make the meet now folks. I am in a worse state now than when all this began. Something is up with the bowels. I think I might be visiting hospital again in the next few hours if this keeps up.
I’d cry but I don’t think I have any fluids left. 🙂
Aw William
I’m so sorry to hear that!!
You are really having a time of it..
There will be other meet ups,and while I’m disappointed that I won’t get to meet you…
We’d all rather you look after yourself…
Take care William and give my best to your family…
I’ll keep you and yours in my thoughts and never forget…
When you feel like a talk or mair tae the point a moan,about how bloody unfair this is… we’re all right here xxxx
Cammy, 6.20, Snap! See y’there.
WW, sorry to hear that. I’m just hoping that I don’t have to go in before next week as scheduled.
William Wallace
Sorry to hear that William. Hope you get well soon.
cearc
See y’there. 😉
re. the cult of trans-activism. Public policy needs to be based on scientific evidence in order to escape the charge of being illiberal. Trans-activism seeks to deny biological science and resists all public scrutiny. The trans-activist movement is a totalitarian cult, so must be resisted as threat to open, democratic society.
Gender Totalitarianism
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/leithart/2016/03/gender-totalitarianism/
Politics of the Visible
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/politics-of-the-visible
Twitter, Trans Rights Totalitarianism, and the Erasure of Sex.
https://janeclarejones.com/2018/09/26/twitter-trans-rights-totalitarianism-and-the-erasure-of-sex/
Why are the Tories implementing policy based on ideology from the New Left?
Echoes of Fascism in Contemporary Culture, Politics and Society
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sccs/activities/echoesoffascism/echoesoffascismprogramme
How Fascism Pushed Women out of the Frame
https://www.publicbooks.org/how-fascism-pushed-women-out-of-the-frame/
Fascist and conservative views on gender
https://varisverkosto.com/2015/03/fascist-and-conservative-views-on-gender/
re. England’s Eurosceptic pseudo-religion.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/gender/2018/11/07/gender-ideology-religious-fundamentalism-and-the-electoral-campaign-2017-2018-in-costa-rica/
Brexit appealed to white working-class men who feel society no longer values them
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2017/12/14/brexit-appealed-to-white-working-class-men-who-feel-society-no-longer-values-them/
Women, equality and the UK’s EU referendum: locating the gender politics of Brexit in relation to the neoliberalising state
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13562576.2018.1502610
The “radical” indy left appear to be victims of ideological puritanism. As such, they are playing in to the hands of far-right English nationalism.
@ LizG
Thank you for your kind words, they are a real source of comfort. You come across as such a lovely person who always has kind word for folk and I was really looking forward to meeting you.
I think I’d set the meetup in my mind as my recovery goal/reward and I was so looking forward to meeting those of you that I have not yet met (as well as those I have). Not to mention actually having a great night oot with such a diverse group of fellow Indy travellers (something I rarely get a chance to do these days).
Love and kindest regards to you and yours. I’m sure I’ll meet you at one of the upcoming marches anyway as I will not be missing any of them even if I’ve to crawl on my hands and knees.
@Cearc
Thank you
Fingers crossed and I hope everything goes smoothly for you. Is it a complicated procedure you are going in for?
@Cam
Thank you for your kind words. I hope we finally get the chance to meet at one of the upcoming marches.
Just to update: Today has gone better and I have managed to get up on my feet and get walking for the first time. Went for a wee stroll around the local park. Onwards and upwards 🙂
One for Duncy, who appears desperate to escape the bounds of empirical reality.
P.S. Cartman rocks. 🙂
The Stomachmouths – Don’t mess with my mind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhhBrpk–F8
It’s flag-raising day in Finland.
Ya hay!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nurXBbThY8E
@William Wallace –
When you’re back in full working order gie’s a shout – we could have a mini-gathering at a time and place of your choosing.
😉
Here’s a we number to contemplate whilst waiting for the new state of Brexitania to be created. Brexit will cost vulnerable lives. Simples.
Squirrel Nut Zippers – Hell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLYB9pvww2M
Time for a bit of Political Theory?
English socialism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ9myHhpS9s
Thanks, Cameron B. Truly, entertainment for all the family.
Reminds me of a “Round the Horne” Charles and Fiona sub-Brief Encounter sketch, after which the bold Kenneth said, “Ah, they knew how to make films in those days. They just didn’t bother.”
@ Ian
I have a great idea for such a lovely suggestion. Gretna. As close to Smallaxes as possible so he can join us too. 🙂
William Wallace
Good call, I’ve never been to Gretna.
@WW –
Good shout.
Let’s do it then.
Mibbe give us a few weeks to replenish the piggy-banks though!
🙂
One for the Tbot.
RIP Peter Tork.
The Monkees – Steppin’ Stone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFUOnT0ZnUc
William Wallace
Fantastic idea I’m in 🙂
The wee hoos nearby that Thepnr rented last time we went down there had quite a lot of space.
@Ian Brotherhood & Ronnie
Sorry I can’t make it along to the wingding but I am sending two raffle prizes, one is a signed artwork which Hackalumpoff will sell tickets for.
I would like the proceeds for that prize to go to Lindsey Bruce ayemail.
Hope you all have a great night, Slainte!
Sorry for taking up so much space Rev., it’s just that this is my last day of easy internet access, in the short-term, and I want to raise the awareness of the threat British nationalism poses to Scotland’s public health.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14767430.2016.1193675
Biopsychosocial Model
http://sk.sagepub.com/reference/the-sage-encyclopedia-of-theory-in-counseling-and-psychotherapy/i2350.xml
Human Agency in Social Cognitive Theory
https://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Bandura/Bandura1989AP.pdf
Last on the subject today.
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/toward-a-psychology-of-human-agency
@Fabian Society
You lot introduced Critical Theory to British academia, yet your actions suggest you’re every bit the blood-and-soil nationalist Tories are. What gives?
The Coasters – Run Red Run
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdVMQbZwP-0
Here’s one for Chela Sandoval.
Chicano Batman: Tiny Desk Concert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOwpqDhko3c
Methodology of the Oppressed
https://caringlabor.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/methodology-of-the-oppressed-chela-sandoval.pdf
Argyll Independet Radio back on air again. On from 7 but a great collection of Rock and Roll from 8
internetradiouk.com/argyll-independent/
@Nana –
Bummer you can’t make it. Hope you’re okay.
Thanks for the donation, I’m sure it’ll go down well and raise a few quid.
Next time!
😉
Just finished re-reading John Broom’s “John Maclean” (1973) and thought these closing words were still relevant:
“Most of the evils against which Maclean fought so valiantly are still with us. Our land remains class-ridden as a glance at the ludicrous society columns of any Tory newspaper will reveal. Dustmen, bankers and lairds are as far apart socially, if not perhaps economically, as in Maclean’s day. Control over the minds and bodies of the people remains in the hands of a small minority, whether they be TV magnates, press Lords, financiers or directors of the so-called nationalised industries. Adulation of royalty is even more nauseating than it was forty years ago, and any expression of republicanism via the mass media of communication is rigidly censored. Our penal system is still in may respects barbaric and more of our custodians of the law indulge in clandestine beatings up than is commonly imagined.”
John Maclean, 1879-1923: a man for all seasons.
One for Lenny.
Michael Prophet – Gunman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TJ0REf6bbQ
Bugger, just realised that I left the eggs at home. All packed up in a basket on the dining room table.
Sorry, my mind was more tuned to what I needed to take for hospital than what i needed to carry on down tomorrow.
Still, I’ll be there, not that that’s much compensation for the lack of eggs.
cearc
The eggs are subordinate material possession, they have value but no AGENCY. You bring more to hamanity’s cause simply by puting your AGENCY into action, so your value is incalculably greater in the grand scheme of things.
Take care and see y’there. ?
Sami Yusuf – Forgotten Promises
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKV2oeS4vw8
? = 😉
@Tinto Chiel
Sounds like a book I must read.
@cearc
We’ll manage without the eggs, just great though that you can make it. All the way from Ullapool yet there are many who won’t travel even a few miles to make it. Shame that but never mind.
I’m in the mood of a tune. something… well different.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2W1Wi2U9sQ
Forget that last link, watch this one instead. Same tune different setting 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NJRCCgK_AM
Well conveniently, I actually had to be in Inverness tonight, so halfway there.
Eggs is nice.
Cammy, when are you getting to the travellodge. I shall probably be there at 3.00 which is their earliest check-in time and will meander down to the pub shortly thereafter.
Thepnr
Sorry mate, just couldn’t stop myself. 🙂
The Imperial Lament
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYe_Ol5G1tI
@CameronB Brodie
Hahaha that was brilliant, I can just imagine all the Wingers doing this in between posts 🙂 Nice one Mr B
cearc
I don’t know if there’s much setting-up needing to be done, but I’d like to help if necessary. So I was planning on getting to Glasgow as close to noon as possible. Otherwise, it’s a date. 😉
Thepnr
I’m still laughing. 😉
See ye awe ra morra awe ye groovy cools.
Did anybuddy see the pre-sketch for laters CC toon?
The pussy cat knows…
Glasgow ’19.
Make that today NOW.
That was a close ONE.
Wings Over Dows ’19
iScotland ’19
Yes ’19
@Cactus
Don’t forget to bring the guitar tomorrow, I’m wanting some tunes.
Mornin’ Thepnr, aye Dixie is hoping to make it along with the guitar later on.
Look forward to seein’ ye dude.
Party time!
Here’s one tae get yer bloods pumpin’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDVuQi4gdtk
Oh those movie stars!
HOLD the NOW.
“Setting-up”? It’s a pub, there’s a raffle, a blether and perhaps a boogie. I’m aiming to arrive nearer 3pm book-in.
Willie Dixon – I got my mojo workin’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNU45upNQQ
Mornin’ Cameron and howde.
Aye Willie got it a goin’ on.
Cheers ye at 1500 bro 😉
When our independence day arrives, it’s gonna be fucking massive!
We hereby extend a hearty hand and handshake and an open invite to the Peoples of Scotland and beyond… ye be welcome to come and join us at Wings Over Dows Bar ra day.
Be U black, white, purple, brown, grey, colour no matter, you’re OK.
This is yer last chance to party b4 brexit ’19 folks.
One to say good night on. Let it not be said I’m unjust in my treatment of Westminster. So here’s one for the ‘Mother of Parliaments’.
Michael Prophet – You Are No Good / Scientist – Dance Of The Vampires
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCtCX2Oy2hU
You got the groovy cool dude beat camb 🙂
Dedication to main thread:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHGOO73Gxg4
Boogie 02.03.19.
To all the wingers going to Dow’s Bar today, have a great one. Sorry that I can’t be there to meet some of you. I see Gretna is a mibbies for a get the gither, so mibbies get to that one. Cheers.
Anybody know how oor ain Smallaxe is doing? I fair miss him.
That’s a pity, Marie. Harvey wanted to show you his new aubergine weskit with contrasting chinos.
I think Smallaxe is taking a complete rest just now. It could be a very busy year for us all.
Aw Tinto, my apologies to Harvey, I’m sure that’ll he’ll look wonderful in the new outfit. Have a good one anyway.
Thanks for the info on Smallaxe. Aye we are going to be busy, I just hope that he may be well enough to give us a hand. If not, well. we will just have to do the heavy liftin for him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl5vi9ir49g
Excellent choice!
Wounded that I won’t be able to make it but, I am there with you all in spirit. Hope you all have an amazing night and have one for me.
@WW & Marie Clark –
I’m planning to hold fire until later in the day, don’t want to get too hammered, but when I get my first I’ll be raising it to you both and Smallaxe, Sybil, Gerry Parker, Oneironaut, Lenny Hartley, Rodg Caldwell, ‘Cooncilor McVitie’, and all the others, Wingers or not, who would surely be with us if they could.
😉
cearc
I’ve been held up and won’t arrive until after 3pm, so don’t hang around for me. I’ll see you at the gig.
First date in years, as well, damn it. 😉
Hope everyone has a great time tonight. Wish I could have been there.
All the very best folks. 🙂
Ian Brotherhood @ 11.44. Cheers Ian, enjoy yourself, sad not to be there.
I’ve got a little time until my bus so here’s one so that (white) British nationalism doesn’t feel left out.
Michael Prophet – Love & Unity / Scientist – Your Teeth In My Neck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdODhFgE-Es
Leaving just now To all those Wingers who cant make the nite out Wherever Yous are hope yous have a good evening We’ll all be thinking of yous .
All the Bestest .
Heading into oor Big City on a ding a ling.
The bus now has Lovely new leather seats and USB plug in.
Swanky! 🙂
Hi guys, not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I’d like to say hello and thank you!
My name is David “Davey” Armitage, and I’m a Yorkshireman who has just moved up to Scotland with his wee Ma from the West Midlands. I fully support Scottish Independence, and met a great deal of the Indy family tonight in Glasgow. I had a whale of a time, and hope to see you all again on the 24th of March in Freedom Square.
Thanks!
Just want to say what a pleasure it was to meet up face-to-face with a bunch of you, posters and lurkers alike.
And a big thanks to those of you who put it all together.
May the next meet-up be sooner, and post-indy into the bargain!
@Robert J. Sutherland
I’m just sorry I didn’t make it, glad you all had a good time. You’re in the clique now and people will speak about you as you’ve been to a Wings night out LOL.
Thepnr @ 01:43,
I’m sure that’s a mixed blessing! =laugh=
I’m only sorry I didn’t have the chance for a wee chat, but hopefully another time…
@Robert J
We are assured of a next time and I look forward to having a chat then.
Just left Linlithgow on the journey home. In very good spirits after last night at Dows. Love being in the company of Wingers, goes without saying of course. Well done to everyone who brought food , I won’t need to eat until Tuesday. Just hoping I can make the next one. All the best to wingers everywhere.
A big thank you to Ian Brotherhood, Ronnie Anderson, Betty Boop, Jock Scot, the Lovely Wee Lady from Dundee and I suspect BDDT (and any other helpers I know not of) for organising the Wingding or Fourth People’s Grand Congress last night.
Great too to have had such an interesting chat with new-faces-to-me who were just names before: Cameron B Brodie and Breastplate.
Great night out Wingers. A massive thanks to Ronnie A for his auctioneering skills in getting a bidding war going for Nana’s handmade Scottish Historical plaque.
Thanks to the many bidders and the final winners: Quinie Fae Angus and Cameron B Brodie. Ronnie negotiated a truce and the winners agreed to donate their bids to Ayemail.
I have transferred the £250 to the Ayemail crowdfunder. The plaque will go back to to next wings auction.
For those wanting bespoke plaques or further details feel free to DM me at twitter @hackalumpof. Apologies, but I can’t post my private email or mobile No on here.
Nice to chat with Tinto, X-Sticks, Cearc, Ian B, Breastplate, Crazy Cat, Lynne, Michael M & Lynne, Robert Sutherland, Jock Scot (Thanks for the Song), BDTT Ninja Penquin, Steve Davis, Chas Anderson and apologies any I have missed.
Home, sweet home.
Good night, last night.
And breathe!
That was a really good evening with great company. Just what I was needing. What a wonderful bunch of folk you all are.
I’ll *need* to make sure I’m at the next one to have another go at Nana’s plaque! Cameron and Quinie – I’ll square up with you next time we get together.
Hope the unlucky ones that never made it last night manage to get to the next one. You were all missed last night you know!
Here to you all and to the next Wings social!
What a braw nicht indeed – so good to get together for a wee social like that. Great to see old faces and new. Dow’s was an excellent venue. The only thing missing was some soap in the toilets and a few paper towels.
Thanks so much to all of you who helped to pull it all together: Ian B, Jock Scot, Ronnie A, Gillian – and all the generous donors of food and treats.
Some highlights for me in no particular order:
Finally meeting the intriguing Mr Sutherland and having a good philosophical chat about the Winger mindset and culture!
Jock Scot totally coming into his own as PA man and music maestro; compere, DJ, and entertainer. Also a bit of a hero out in the dead of the High Street in the wee sma’ hoors….. 😉
Cearc speaking joyfully of her rejuvenated rejuvenation.
Everyone staring excitedly at their reams of raffle tickets with not a lucky one among them, while Ian Brotherhood has only three, and even misses the fact that one of them was a winner!
Cactus winning a Disney Princess doll in the raffle…and cuddling it lovingly for the rest of the evening. (Even when no-one was looking).
A handsome long-haired hunk (whose name I do not yet know) winning a prize, coming up to the “stage” to collect it, and Jock Scot handing him the upturned hat from which to pick the next lucky ticket. Hunk looks at hat. Long pause. Jock Scot: “Come on then man, are you pulling it, or no’?
Hunk: “Eh? I wondered what ye were talking aboot, there!”
Guffaws all round.
A stragglesome three Wingers wandering haplessly up and doon Bell Street, lost, bewildered and shut out of every door they tried.
A certain hirsute gentleman – who shall remain nameless but his name rhymes with “Still Gemme”, making several trips down several floors to keep himsel’ topped up wi’ fags. On each and every occasion, he forgot to take with him the Wings beermat etched carefully with the entry code. On each and every occasion he would phone a fellow Winger for help. Ronnie A’s phone was red hot. Not to mention his ears.
The hordes of young ravers in the flat opposite – apologising to US for the noise they were making. But none of us heard it for the racket we were making oorsels’!
Cactus’ late night mission for a kebab. Hell-bent on it, he was, despite the millions of munchies he’d already munched.
Aye, a fantastic night.
Those who weren’t there who should have been, were dreadfully missed.
Roll on, the next one!
“Twas a good night last night in Dows – apart from the no hand towels in the bog and the Victorian hand dryer being out of action.
It was good to see so many who who lurk on the WOS site but actively post elsewhere (Facebook & Twitter).
RJ Sutherland looked like RJ Sutherland should look!
Yeah, Dows upstairs could be the WOS clubhoos in that Glasgow.
Missive ends – wie a tune… An Edinburgh band from the 70s, who I may have linked to in the past.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u9T0RXL1fc
Oh Sorry – before the grammar police attack me – “whom I may have linked to in the past.”
Eh thank yioo.
Oh Sorry – before the grammar police attack me – further correction – “to whom I may have linked in the past.”
Eh thank yioo.
Hey thanks BDDT
I rememberlistening to that tune years ago when I was a nipper and loved it. Never knew who it was by though and had forgotten all about it till you pulled it out of the ether there.
Nostalgia.
@LizG
Re your comment on the MT, I am sure x-sticks will get another go at bidding as that plaque will be sent along to the next Wings do.
I just feel bad that Quinie & CamB didn’t get it, but I guess cutting it in half would not have been wise 🙂
@Nana
I will hopefully get another go at the plaque! I was outdone by unfair collusion! I hope Hackalumpoff remembered to pass on my love and best wishes xx
Morning X_Sticks, Hackalumpoff did indeed pass on your best wishes which are duly returned.
I’m putting the final touches to a rather large one for a local event at the moment. I’m having to wear sunglasses due to the amount of gold leaf 🙂
Fingers crossed for next attempt at winning the bid xx
Brian Doonthetoon @ 07:21,
Perfect at last! =grin=
It was pleasant to chat last Sat, by the way, even if all too briefly.
@Quinie,
“A handsome long-haired hunk” – What a way to drag a lurker onto the ‘stage’!
Me & my ego will now float up to Aldi for the messages while attempting to conceal a conceited grin…
Was great to see all the folks whose names I can never remember. Wingers are the best folk to drink with, bar none, but especially when they feed my EGO! xx
To Nod Bruce
Ha ha, glad you recognised yourself!! Now I can put a nae to the face, and you can float up to Aldi’s for the messages with all the swishing confidence of a man who cuts a rare dash on a Wingers’ Nicht Oot!
To Nana:
I loved that plaque and hope to either commission one from you in the future, or perhaps pick from one of the other two or three that yer man said you still have at home.
Again to Nod Bruce:
That was of course a “name” to the face, not a “nae”, as that wid be daft!!
I see Keith Flint of the Prodigy has died at 49. Sadly it seems to be suicide according to his bandmates. So sad.
My son used to be a fan of the Prodigy, and he had a great big poster of Keith Flint in all of his Firestarter look in his bedroom. After he moved out, we had our oldest grandaughter to stay over one night, she would be about three at that time, and we had not as yet removed all the posters from the room. The poor wean started howling, she was absolutely terrified of that bloomin poster. Mind you, he would have frightened the life out of you on a dark night.
Tinto, if you’re about, please don’t let Harvey watch this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmin5WkOuPw
A plaque for Nana.
Couldn’t agree more. 🙂
Nod Bruce Ah dont massage ego’s or anything else You urnae ah bad chanter , you certainly got them going in the bar hope to see you in the near future .
Just arrived home in Glenrothes after an extra day in Glasgow having a long sesh to recover from the Wings sesh. Will need to start detoxing tomorrow after a few pints in the Otters Head tonight. Brilliant to see everybody and be able now to put faces to names.
Leafleting for Peter Grant all this week so it is going to be a busy one, (sitting in the middle of about 2000 leaflets just now……. an me wi a sair leg tae!!!).
Looking forward immensely to the next wingding, see you all there.
Hi Quinie.
Pleased you enjoyed it!
Here’s one from 1979 which also didn’t dent the charts. I think I heard it on John Peel’s show. I possess one of the 2,000 in my vinyl collection.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-3NmbBg1Bk
@Quinie frae Angus
DM Hackalumpoff on twitter, he will pass on my email address.
*Tries again*
Reminds me of a Head teacher I once knew, Marie 😛
I’ll keep that clip away from Harvey, he’s on pills for his noives (Brexit-related) as it is.
Sorry to hear of Keith’s sad end. I wonder if The Prodigy ever saw this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en1uwIzI3SE
I second that emulsion, Macart @ 3.24. There’s an excellent plinth at the top of Buchanan Street. I don’t think the Green Girner would be much missed 😀
@ Tinto re the Green Girner;
I’ll bring a rope to the next Wingding..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI5k7vMj0Wk
I also have Plaster of Paris, for a new hobby, 3D plaques, this time next year Rodders..
@hackalumpoff: eh, can I remind you of your last great idea?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZj3BY3186I
@ Tinto: Ok Grandad, thanks for you assistance, ya dancer..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaYea0ZO43Y
Like to help but I’ve put my back out now 😀
Time for your Horlicks, surely?
I’ve not had much time recently but would like to now say that the Dow’s night out was excellent and it was great to meet people and marry names to faces.
Special thanks to Ian for organising it.
@Tinto Chiel 7.00pm
No. No, he wouldn’t be missed at all. 😎
@Breastplate –
Great to see you again. Thanks for going to so much trouble to join us.
Any credit should go to Ronnie – he spotted the place and booked it. I didn’t do anything apart from make a list!
😉
@Macart: indeed. Sorry you couldn’t make it to Glasgow on Sats but hope to see you somewhere doing the “Marching Season”.
I’m trying to follow the Macart/Dionne Warwick Doctrine on here and on-line generally but it’s not easy 😉
Chowing oan wuid at the mo!
@Tinto Chiel
Things ain’t going so well with personal time right now TC. Gutted I couldn’t make Saturday night, but so glad folks had a great time.
Hope things improve for you in the spring. Look after yourself.
Hackalumpoff’s hoping to corner the post-Brexit market in Cushelle and Wrigley’s spearmint so, as his lowly barrow boy/ “associate”, I can probs cut you a good deal.
Orrabestorratime.
Ian Brotherhood @ 12.34
Aw Naw
No anither Winger wi a list:.)
Lists? Ian’s lists are good lists!
Marching season Tinto, aw, haud oan a meenit. Am no gonna need a bowler hat and white gloves shirley? Onyways, I kick ( or was brought up, tae a learned sense) wi the ither fit. Oh, no that kinda marching, thank goodness for that, just my Saltire then.
Nice to see the wee lassie on Phantom Power from no to yes. I think that there will be plenty more folks who now feel the same.Keep the faith boys and girls, it’s comin yet fur a’ that.
I’ll leave you wi’ a wee tune. Byeee.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PinCg7IGqHg
Fear ye not, Marie, I kick with neither foot, like Motherwell FC strikers *absorbs this truth and hides a manly tear*.
PS: don’t call me Shirley 😛 That’s just a rumour.
That young woman on the M/T sounded so sensible, I’m at a loss to understand why she was such a No in 2014. I bet Harvey could have turned her with his aubergine weskit.
The Undertones were great: this is probs my favourite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgqa3cVOxUc
The name Tomkins keeps crossing my mind, for some reason.
I’m guessing this hasn’t been featured in ‘off topic’ furra wee whiley…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fEbReX2Ozs
Then there was the response…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAu3tGbtJ_k
Tinto Chiel at 8.14
She’s from Bellshill and that’s probably the hint.
@DMH: because I was brung up proper 😀 , I’ve never been fully clued up with the sectarian divisions of the Central Belt.
I admit to be quite confused when canvassing in Burnbank (you’ll know!) in 2017 and meeting a local Scot wearing an England shirt who looked at me in my SNP gear as if I was a dod of keech.
Your views on Syria have always chimed with me because I know how the BBC has consistently misrepresented its complex situation and I have a (now dead) French relative who saw Syria in the thirties and loved its culture and ancient traditions.
It made him a communist because he loathed colonialism and a maquisard later because he loathed Vichy France.
Pebbles in a pond cause all sorts of ripples.
Tinto
I canvassed Burnbank on countless occassions on my own behalf and that of wonderful Winnie. The salt of the earth people with a bit of pepper.
Before I went off to Nigeria I spent a couple of months managing a fine licensed establishment in Burnbank called the “Golden Feathers”, a veritable citadel of the flute tooters and was known warmly as the the “wee fenian bastard”. (I remember the owner of the establishment – a local builder – telling me he never knew how much the pub was making until I ran it for him!)
Whenever I came home on leave we would visit the “jaffa club” (the Orange Lodge Social Club on Burnbank Road)to cries of “here’s the wee fenian bastard – what are you drinking?”
Never been able to come to terms of how such warm people could turn into such utter eejits for the day or for the match.
Quite agree, Dave: my father’s family were from Burnbank and it was usually a fine place to live, with a distinct sense of community. Fortunately, both my parents took folk as they came and had no truck with all that nonsense or with other forms of discrimination. I realise now I was quite fortunate to be brought up in such an environment.
The “pepper” you encountered is totally baffling and just reinforces the madness of sectarianism. I worked in a town with a high citrus fruit content and also saw how normally kind and friendly people could change at the flick of a switch when the wrong comment was made about football or politics.
The consolation is it’s my impression such attitudes are diminishing steadily, although the repeal of OBFA might fan the flames again. Behaviour at football matches has deteriorated already. There has also been more racist abuse of players (which had become rare) and I put this down to Brexit and the tabloid hysteria re immigration.
Hi, Cactus, mon vieux haricot.
Happened to see your 3.08 on the M/T: I’d forgotten I’d put that on a wee while ago but thought it was still topical, despite its being quite old.
I lost all my favourites when my laptop died without warning and I can’t possibly remember them all now, chiz, chiz.
Only dipping in and out occasionally of the main threads at the moment: too many self-appointed Keepers of The Flame biffing supposed “dissenters”. Not a good look at all.
Nice to meet so many old Wingers at the weekend and a few new ones. I hope we’re all going to be very busy soon, out campaigning.
Re. a different country. Contemporary British nationalism is a social pathology that is damaging to both Scottish and English cultures. This is a challenging view to those who’s moral “self” is bound up with the British indentity, to the degree that the individual is submerged in an ocean of Union flags and renditions of “God Save the Queen”.
Early signs yet but it appears that Scotland’s political intuition is coming into focus.
Mapping the Connections between Politics and Morality: The Multiple Sociopolitical Orientations Involved in Moral Intuition
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pops.12006
Moral Psychology
http://people.stern.nyu.edu/jhaidt/moraljudgment.html
Reasoning Is More Intuitive than We Think
Is reasoning really different from intuition?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/social-design/201108/reasoning-is-more-intuitive-we-think
X_Sticks
“COLLUSION”. Nah, I’m a man of singular mind, you never stood a chance. Don’t worry about squaring me up though, mate, we do what we can. I just hope Norie appreciates the golden goose he bides with. That plaque could probably fund indy if its’ serial auction was carefully managed. 😉
P.S. Back on spud duty, again, I just needed to top up my prescription.
OK, last tonight on the interaction between moral identity and political intuition.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1902186
In tomorrow’s Brexitania, all art will be suitably retro-looking and tinged with a neurotic sense of individualistic, white British, entitlement. Remember, the culture of today becomes the mind that shapes the culture of the future. So much for a [c]onsevative approach to maintaining robust vigour within society and the economy. Brexit has certainly shown us their is no place in British politics for heretics of England’s Euroskeptic pseudo-religion.
The earth is cursed by Thatcher’s neo-fascist, zombie mantra, “there is no alternative”.
Frankie Stein & His Ghouls – Chained
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMy-3RKeJTU
Posted this on the main thread by mistake but, it was intended for off-topic. Really worth a listen. It is spread out over several years between the sessions.
Akala: Fire in the booth.
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEOKgjoxoto
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJOp1CqzaSg
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZnCBs8CBnc
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8umCijRdnQ
Absolute lyrical genius.
My interest here is purely linguistic, being a professional of that ilk.
What the £”&*&*$£”! are we to make of this bizarre caption in today’s Hootsmon?
“Cosmic: First man to set foot on Mars could be a Scottish woman”
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There could also be a joke here about deep-fried Mars bars and the so-called Scottish link to them, but I’ll desist …
This is a question for Lenny Hartley – or anyone else who knows the answer:
How could campaigners in mainland Ayrshire get in touch with any Yes groups/individuals on Arran? We have been trying to link up but attempts on social media have so far not been responded to.
Some of us may be going to Arran in a couple of weeks.
(Thanks for any information.)
Crazycat You could send a message to yes scotland arran on fb or message me on facebook,/messenger Collie dug in pic in case there are more than one of me ?
who have you tried to contact before? I did mention that we should be on the indy app but dnt think anybody has done anything about it yet.
I see there’s am insurgency of Mel Gibson fetishists unsettling what harmony there is in the indy movement. Here’s some Constitutional Legal Theory and stuff, in the hope of focusing on real-world problems, and keeping eyes on the prize, i.e nation state status for Scotland and a written constitution enshrining universal human rights.
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It should be remembered that the Brexit referendum was non-binding in nature and delivered 37% of the eligible vote in favour of hugely significant constitutional change, i.e to leave the EU. The New Right appears to have stolen British democracy through leveraging economic hardship and scientific racism, just like their progenitors did in the past.
https://academic.oup.com/icon/article/8/1/30/682632
The EU referendum: No legal salve for UK’s disenfranchised non-resident citizens
https://www.fljs.org/eu-referendum-disenfranchised-non-resident-citizens
The UK is heading towards a frightening constitutional crisis over Brexit
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2018/10/18/the-uk-is-heading-towards-a-frightening-constitutional-crisis-over-brexit/
@ Lenny
Thanks – Yes Scotland Arran have been contacted (not by me) and haven’t replied, apparently, though they have posted since the attempted contact.
I’ve just checked the Indy App and can’t find anything, so it looks as if you are right that no-one did anything!
I’ll ask the person who is organizing this to contact you – thanks again.
This Dr. Rachel McKinnon is a parody account, no? Is she really a licensed medical practitioner and why, if so, are the BMA giving her license to attack foundational concepts in biological science? And being a screaming misogynist whilst at it.
How can an individual claim sexual rights appropriate to their biological sex? Remember, sex is generally binary. This biological fact is vital to our understanding and management of human health.
OK, so we have biological sex. But what about the embodied lived experience that help to shape the individual’s sexuality and world view? Well that’s the personal life history of the individual, their sexual epistemology. For a biological woman, such an epistemology is normally called “womanhood”. This is what the TRAs appear to reject and consider an affront to their imagined identities.
TRAs reject contemporary biomedical understanding and insist we adopt a radical view of science instead. Ergo, the TRA movement is a threat to public health, IMHO.
Biology + sexual epistemology = sexual being capable of claiming sexual rights
P.S. Epistemology, a right good Scottish invention there. 😉
OK, back to Brexit and the legal identity of those living in Scotland. Remember, our European citizenship is currently protected by the ECHR. The government is following a course of action that would appear prohibited by international human rights law, i.e. force-ably stripping Scottish residents of their legally protected legal identity. Brexit increasingly appears to be a right-wing coupe by Tory extremists.
The postmortem of Britain’s body politic will most probably find the Conservative government guilty of majoritarian abuse of constitutional power. They’ve certainly shown no respect for the principles of Union, in their mad dash to consolidate a distastefull English nationalism.
https://publiclawforeveryone.com/2018/08/02/britains-constitution-is-buckling-under-the-weight-of-brexit/
The protection of fundamental rights in the EU
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/146/the-protection-of-fundamental-rights-in-the-eu
‘BREXIT AND OUR UNPROTECTED CONSTITUTION’
https://consoc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Brexit-and-our-unprotected-constitution-web.pdf
Hey Monsieur Tinto, guid tae see ye bro…
Has been fun-d on the MT, be tres bon.
Ahm awa’ tae miniclip 2 PLAY pool.
It’s a trick shot Mecca…
I’m sure you will agree there will be a lot of 80 minute Welshies and Scotties at Murrayfield tomorrow.
However, and as is my wont, I hope you will bear with me when I cease to support all things Scottish for those 80 minutes and cheer on the 15 men in red. Rest assured, normal service will be resumed thereafter – whatever the result.
Oh, and did I say? I hope you come a strong second.
Best wishes,
That Duncan Hothersall doesn’t appear to support universal rights nor democracy either. The man’s clearly a totalitarian cretin.
So why does the state appear to support anti-scientific, totalitarian, misogyny? Sorry, more philosophy.
The Gender Selectivities of the State A Critical Realist Analysis
eprints.uwe.ac.uk/18444/1/PhD%20Thesis%20-%20Martin%20Lipscomb.pdf
Where Constructionism and Critical Realism Converge: Interrogating the Domain of Epistemological Relativism
https://orca-mwe.cf.ac.uk/22307/1/SSRN-id1781119%20Realism%20epi%20relativism%20Al%20-Amoudi.pdf
The Situational Character: A Critical Realist Perspective on the Human Animal
https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1094&context=facpubs
From what I’ve gleaned, though my insight is not exhaustive, the process of bring the GRA to statute, has focused on the rights of non-binary individuals and a ‘bureaucratic legalism’ interpretation of equality. Little attention has been paid to the rights of women or the normative foundations of society.
Perhaps this is why the New Right has embraced radical constructivism as a means to an end, i.e. the minimalist state with maximal powers of social transformation. In a nutshell, misogynistic totalitarianism and paternalistic state authoritarianism.
The Fall – US 80s-90s (Peel Session)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-86FuhEaQQ
P.S. I’m not talking about the GRA in it’s entirety, there are probably some benefits to non-binary individuals. It’s the self-ID of sex that tells me it’s illiberal and, subsequently, anti-social.
Sorry to interrupt your stream CBB but as it’s Friday I thought I would lighten things up a wee bit with an oldie but still valid Hitler Parody.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dzWoHpk1UA&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2dZYXcANWjqOZc5JQt6fKr-IDJizN2_5xrzRTOUUQrFxnNiYLLgUz2kug
hackalumpoff
Crack on, I should have signed off, again.
As we approach again another anniversary of the Easter Rising in Dublin (which resulted, some very bloody years later, in an independent Ireland which now outstrips the UK in all indicators of an affluent society) we still meet obviously entirely sane Scots (as referenced by Kathleen Nutt at the “Scottish” Labour Conference in today’s National) who believe Scotland is too poor to be independent.
This is our fault.
There is only one argument to be won and we win a referendum. That Scotland is an economically viable country.
And why don’t we have songs like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0K1qKFRJrA&start_radio=1&list=RDV0K1qKFRJrA
re. contemporary western society and the articulation of political power through the nexus of misogyny and racism. Here’s some thought’s that take account of human evolutionery psychology, neurobiology, semiotics and stuff. Well , I’m a bit of a critical, post-colonial, feminist, apparently. Radical, ya bas.
P.S. It is in our best interests to understand the pychology of those who produce and diseminate popular culture, as they are some of the most responsible for shaping contemporary society.
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Prejudice-at-the-nexus-of-race-and-gender%3A-an-male-Navarrete-McDonald/10c48180123f105173f11e021a391f2b26a8110c
Gender on the Brain: A Case Study of Science Communication in the New Media Environment
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0110830
A Lack of Emotional Intelligence is Fueling Misogyny and Racism at Google?—?and Across Silicon Valley
https://medium.com/berkman-klein-center/a-lack-of-emotional-intelligence-is-fueling-misogyny-and-racism-at-google-and-across-silicon-2d50f3b4c6db
Mastering the heART of Communication | Taryl Hansen | TEDxFountainHills
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKpqZfNlU1A
re. the contemporary articulation of political power in Britain. Nations don’t normally seek to undermine their own viability and certainly don’t allow other nations to do so, unless they are psychologically ‘conditioned’ to be so inclined. Scotland’s continued yoonyawn with England is not rational, it is culturally bound ideology on stilts. It is the politics of popular, neurotic, submission.
Brexit Mapping
ROUTES THROUGH BREXIT
SCOTLAND SECTORS
http://www.brexitmapping.com/brexit_SCOTLAND_150-20.jpg
James Brown performs “Night Train” on the TAMI Show (Live)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF_rZrH4yBY
Hi CameronBB.
I’ve always rated this band since I got a copy of this album in a Dundee second-hand record emporium decades ago.
https://www.discogs.com/Paul-Revere-The-Raiders-Just-Like-Us/master/317040
They do “Night Train” on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF59drpV_Ec
But the outstanding track for me, is their version of Donovan’s “Catch The Wind”, where they do to Donovan what The Byrds did to Bob Dylan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bVw-EeruTo
Brian Doonthetoon
Definately a Byrds/Dylan sound there layer on top of Donovan. They dipped in to the black sound of the day and made a not bad effort, for an all white band of the day. Which was nice. Under-rated, IMHO.
Paul Revere and the Raiders – Soul Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WrZrsqu05U
I wish folk would just stop with the criticisms of post-structuralism, when it is obvious their understanding of the topic is scientifically limited.
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/120705-intersectionality-beginners-what-it-and-why-should-you-care-2017
Definition of Intersectionality
On the Intersecting Nature of Privileges and Oppression
https://www.thoughtco.com/intersectionality-definition-3026353
Why Our Feminism Must Be Intersectional (And 3 Ways to Practice It)
https://everydayfeminism.com/2015/01/why-our-feminism-must-be-intersectional/
Paul Revere & The Raiders – Undecided Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2edBcRGnaQ
If you want to tackle western society’s structural misogyny, than we need to look at the education system, for starters. It is not only the curriculum content that has bearing, once we learn to view and interpret the world in a Cartesian fashion, it is hard not to imagine a world that is not limited by binary constructs and boundaries. Apart from natural truths, such as biological sex being characterised by it’s binary nature, of course.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0962021950050206
By Any Other Name
Is philosophy really ignoring important questions about transgender identity, specifically what it means to be a woman?
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/06/06/philosophy-really-ignoring-important-questions-about-transgender-identity
Documenting digital feminist activism: Mapping feminist responses to new media misogyny and rape culture
https://gtr.ukri.org/project/A40F6230-B630-4433-AF83-A96659846F2C
Hi CameronBB.
Had you come across Paul Revere etc previously?
Onnyhoo, another American band, which I have linked to before in ‘off-topic’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35DUXA8G84U
The Americans produced some good stuff, after the Liverpool effect influenced them. But we always had The Commonwealth to depend on. Wasn’t Judith Durham a fit wummun?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmactMIhrRM
Brian Doonthetoon
I wouldn’t call myself a fan Brian but yes and yes. There were certainly a few careers made on the back of the Mersey beat. And the rejection of it.
My adolescence definitely had a garage punk sound-track. Telt you I was weirdo. 😉
Randy Alvey & The Green Fuz – Green Fuz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X37yGhzuTgQ
Hi CameronBB.
One more non-hit but shoulda been from the 60s before I turn in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DdMgbCQVvQ
Seeing as Petra seemed to get away with posting Pump Up The Jam on a main thread the other day I’ll throw this in the mix.
The Shamen – Phorever People
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAq3iyDnCQI
I think the lyrics work quite well (in a simplistic way) in describing our quest to be a progressive forward looking society.
I just can’t be doing with some slow old dirge that in my view is more likely to depress than inspire folk.
Our group played various other upbeat songs on the AUOB marches, and we started the Edinburgh march with the following.
Muse – Uprising.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KQmps-Sog
I wasn’t joking when I suggested those who trust their biological security to the Tories, really do need thorough psychiatric assessment of their state of mental competence. Tories don’t do social ethics or bio-ethics. Tories often hold biologically deterministic views, which is why they are often misogynists. I struggle to consider Tories democrats, in the modern understanding of the word.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)31926-8/fulltext
Media definitely do matter: Brexit, immigration, climate change and beyond
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1369148118799260
Beyond Brexit: Why is Europe so important to us?
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/research-action/features/beyond-brexit-why-europe-so-important-us
OK, is it safe to critically examine Zionism?
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199751471.001.0001/acprof-9780199751471-chapter-6
Zionism from Its Inception to 1948
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199840731/obo-9780199840731-0006.xml
Zionist hegemony, the settler colonial conquest of Palestine and the problem with conflict: a critical genealogy of the notion of binary conflict
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2201473X.2017.1321171
Zion as Proxy?
Three Jewish Scholars of Nationalism on Zionism and Israel
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322303334_Zion_as_Proxy_Three_Jewish_Scholars_of_Nationalism_on_Zionism_and_Israel
Hard to think this was over 40 years ago. One of the defining records of the 20th century. When I went into the streets of the Sabon Gari township in Kano,Nigeria (the township outside the old city for the Christian people from the south)this would be playing all over the place. Most of the houses had big speakers hanging above their front doors and they played music loudly all day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJzJewlOfVs&list=RDjJzJewlOfVs&start_radio=1
One for the JRMs in the world, who are ring-worms weakening society from within. He also appears to be a bit of a cunt.
Phloen Phromdaen and Kong Katkamngae – Klua duang
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-tqI0D1CAU&feature=youtu.be&t=16
OK, here’s one for “affirming parents” who may be straying in to the realm of child abuse. SEX and GENDER are NOT the same thing. Healthy identities are shaped from within, not by external fads, with or without the support of state authority. It is important that children grow up to love themselves in an ethical manner that is grounded in the social reality of who they are. Don’t allow your misconceptions to cripple your child’s future development path.
Same applies to Scotland’s residents who feel more Scottish than British, or who chose to retain their EU citizenship, a significant majority.
The Psychologizing of Injustice?
On Axel Honneth’s Theory of Recognitive Justice.
http://www.ethical-perspectives.be/viewpic.php?TABLE=EP&ID=1299
The Social Self: The Role of the Social Situation
https://opentextbc.ca/socialpsychology/chapter/the-social-self-the-role-of-the-social-situation/
Confronting suffering with narrative theory, constructed selfhood, and control: Critical perspectives by Simone Weil and Buddhist metaphysics
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23312521.2019.1567296
These might be more accessible.
SELF AND SELF-BELIEF IN PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION:
AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
https://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/PSHistoryOfSelf.PDF
Low Self Esteem
https://www.simplypsychology.org/self-esteem.html
Loving Yourself—How Important Is It?
Can you love someone else if you don’t love yourself?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/maybe-its-just-me/201004/loving-yourself-how-important-is-it
James Brown – Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag – I Feel Good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJgkuyJ8NLo
Are there still those who doubt that austerity is driven by ideology that is inescapably anti-social in nature? Time for some Critical Accounting and some gender-aware social economics and stuff?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280086955_Public_sector_accounting_accountability_and_austerity_More_than_balancing_the_books
Austerity, Audit, and Accountability : New Public Management and the Privatisation of Local Audit in England
https://journals.openedition.org/osb/1925
A ‘new politics’ of austerity, workfare and gender? The UK coalition government’s welfare reform proposals
https://academic.oup.com/cjres/article/4/3/355/334465
Dedicated to Theresa on her various trips…
Talking Heads – Road to Nowhere
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQiOA7euaYA
C’mon Scotland, we’ve got better destination options available to us rather than letting this current clown continue holding the wheel.
The past two years condensed into 40 seconds. We really don’t want to hang around and get caught up in the end result.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0DWNKTNpHw
One for Conservative MP Dominic Grieve, who appears to be a democrat who respects the voluntary nature of the yoonyawn. Come on Scottish Conservatives, show the world you’re not blood-and-soil, English nationalist, Tories and give British nationalism the cold shoulder.
Sam Cooke – A Change Is Gonna Come
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH25EUgFMmI
https://mobile.twitter.com/Zarkwan/status/1105769413486276609/photo/1
For the moment we could keep the parliamentary union with England and Wales but be separate along with Northern Ireland with an Economic Union?