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January 02, 1968 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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@SNP
I appreciate the Scottish public had to be shown that Westminster does not deal with Scotland in good faith, but it is ethically immoral to attempt to change their political culture. That’s exactly what British nationalism does to us and we don’t like it. Dissolve the yoonyawn and protect the human rights of those living in Scotland.
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199743292/obo-9780199743292-0119.xml
Ethics and International Relations
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21567689.2011.564410
Ethical traps in international relations
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0047117818808568
Ethical Reasoning in International Affairs
Arguments from the Middle Ground
https://www.palgrave.com/la/book/9781137290953
Some essential reading for the Prime-minister.
Hello everyone, is there such a thing as morality in the international arena?
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Hello_everyone_is_there_such_a_thing_as_morality_in_the_international_arena
One for all those who believes in the British version of constitutional government.
NOFX – The Idiots Are Taking Over
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kqLVeP7iHA
believes = believed.
Or perhaps an even better version.
In this great future we can’t forget our past
Watching all the hypocrites mingle with the good people we knew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMOxnrS7eFo&list=RDsMOxnrS7eFo&start_radio=1
Hi D McE H.
That’s a great version of the song. I recall it was on the B Side of the 12″ version of “Daddy Cool”. Hud on, I’ll check…
Yeah, it was.
https://www.discogs.com/Boney-M-Daddy-Cool/release/921373
She had a great voice for the song. Typin’ about ‘a great voice for the song’. This single came out around a year before Rainbow’s version. Another chanteuse with a great voice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJcZn4OOSMs
BTW: that song was written by Russ Ballard, ex-Argent. Here’s his version from just before Clout’s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6I_2nGtrF8
Question is… Why wasn’t it a hit before Rainbow’s version?
Brian Doonthetoon at 7.43
Yep. Much better than Daddy Cool. And that was the one that was played in all the Nigerian discos, beer houses, brothels etc. (Not a lot of difference). Gyrated with mony a dusky lass to the strains of that great disco record
Madness in NZ.
My daughter and grandaughter were locked in to their nursery for hours.
Now we will have to share their on going fear of reprisals.
Further to Waleed. I wasn’t joking when I suggested British society is afflicted by structural and institutional racism (see Westminster and Brexit, for example). The Islamophobic nature of contemporary British white nationalism has the same cultural root as English antisemitism. Brexit is as much about supporting Islamophobia as it is about exposing British democracy to further neo-liberal privatisation.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13691451003690882
Addressing racism: a new approach to promotion of positive policies is needed
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)32166-9/fulltext
Neoliberal anti-racism:
Responding to ‘everywhere but different’ racism
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0309132515627019
How to start dismantling white privilege in higher education
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/time-to-dismantle-white-privilege-in-higher-education/
Wee shout out to Smallaxe and Mrs S, if they’re still dipping in.
Aye thinking of ye’s.
😉
re. the state’s drive towards the self-id of sex and the adoption of radical science as the basis of pubic policy. Why would a right-wing and increasingly authoritarian state undergoing a sustained period of economic, political and constitutional crises, wish to conflate sex with gender? Neo-liberalism is sufficiently misogynistic without further assistance from the New Right.
http://www.zen49129.zen.co.uk/documents/Gender_Race_Class.pdf
Policy, Politics, Gender. Bringing Gender to the Analysis of Welfare States
https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.2383/34627
Reinforcing neoliberalism: crisis and austerity in the UK
https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/files/30943451/FULL_TEXT.PDF
How Welfare States Shape the Gender Pay Gap:
A Theoretical and Comparative Analysis
https://www.mcgill.ca/iris/files/iris/Panel2.1Mandel.pdf
Don’t get me wrong, radical science is an important part of proper science. It’s just that the state appears to be implementing a completely twisted interpretation of Radical Constructivism.
There’s me thinking today’s Calcutta Cup would be just another noble defeat for Scotland, so went about fighting the gender and race-blind injustices of Britain’s enduring colonial legacy. Wait….what? Oh nuts.
Critical Post-colonial Realist view on how to deal with the English school of International Relations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=600LY-DxJBs
So @hackalumpoff kindly dropped by today present me with the runners up prize from the @WingsScotland social auction. Thank you Nana! https://twitter.com/X_Sticks_Real/status/1107020482212233216
Here’s one for Scottish Conservatives who are unable to support contemporary white British nationalism.
Critical Post-colonial Feminist IR v English school IR, in the race for cultural hegemony
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6bB7V-JGXI
And here’s one for folk who’ve just skipped those last two links. This is sort the insight you’ve missed. 😉
The Best Spiderman & StormTrooper dance off Ever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr6ey0jpWLA
Here’s some sports psychology and a bit of Critical Realism, to reflect today’s match and Scotland’s constitutionally imperiled status.
http://oro.open.ac.uk/57453/
Critical realism as a philosophy and social theory in information science?
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/cdaa/e2cc369eb6b9469b091eb81d2dc52cf59c1d.pdf
Effective ways to develop and maintain robust sport confidence: strategies advocated by sport psychology consultants
shura.shu.ac.uk/9603/1/Maynard_Dev_and_maintain_robust_sport_confidence.pdf
Relational coaching in sport: Its psychological underpinnings and practical effectiveness
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/cdaa/e2cc369eb6b9469b091eb81d2dc52cf59c1d.pdf
https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui/bitstream/2134/28459/1/Ch%2047%20Final.pdf
@X-sticks –
Richly deserved sah!
😉
Sorry for taking up so much space but I’ve just go to be me. Hit or miss. Sitting here all by myself trying be everybody else. Can’t you see, I’ve got to be me….hit or miss.
Bo Diddley — Hit Or Miss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSRDz2wm0Dk
Ah, Cameron, there’s no doubting you’re you. At least not from me anyway 😉
@X_Sticks
Glad you liked it 🙂
@Ronnie Anderson
I missed your call Ronnie, I was out with the dug.
X_Sticks
Are you calling me a bit nippy? 🙂
@Cameron
You were only able to nip me by calling in reinforcements! 😉
X_Sticks
Still not let that go? Ah well, I feel for you. 😉
@Cameron
Aye, right! No Nana salved my pain with her lovely wee plaque. An I’ll be aiming to have another go next time. Supporters of independence NEVER give up! No surrender! (I’ve been listening to too many DUP politicains of late 😉 )
I’m a six in one shampoo type feminist, so I reckon expressing masculinity is fine so long as it doesn’t involve objectifying women or undermining their social position and AGENCY. I love tits though. My mum has a lot to offer in that respect, as her garden is home to Great Tits, Blue Tits, Cole Tits and even Long-tail Tits, although they’re not proper tits, apparently. 😉
Pornland – Funny Place
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_Hw_Nf8L2E
X_Sticks
By Grabthar’s hammer, “never give up, never surrender”. 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI5hi4c4y9k
Now, now, laddies – take it outside.
Hey X_Sticks.
Bo Diddley – I Don’t Like You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSb5mIqbfzg
Scottish Conservatives please note that it is the Tory element in your party that has destroyed Britain. As with natural law, Tories reject natural morality.
The Conservative Critique of Liberalism
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/files/staff/116/critiqueofliberalism.pdf
The Projective Consciousness Model and Phenomenal Selfhood
openhumanitiespress.org/books/download/Zylinska_2014_Minimal-Ethics-for-the-Anthropocene.pdf
Causal Theory of Action
https://philpapers.org/browse/causal-theory-of-action
Naturalizing Metaethics
https://open-mind.net/papers/naturalizing-metaethics/at_download/paperPDF
Rushed at that a bit and got ahead of myself, so here’s a bit of Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind and stuff.
https://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/paley-s-moral-philosophy
CONSERVATISM, EDMUND BURKE, AND THE INVENTION OF A POLITICAL TRADITION, C.1885-1914
https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/files/76938227/Emily_Jones_Conservatism_Edmund_Burke_and_the_Invention_of_a_Political_Tradition.pdf
Extended Cognition and Ethics
https://philpapers.org/browse/extended-cognition-and-ethics
Socially Extended Cognition and Shared Intentionality
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00831/full
P.S. Tories tend to be the
racist skinheadscultural nationalists of the Conservative world. That is who has led Britain to ruin. Certainly it would appear that contemporary British nationalism is only capable of accommodating those who identify as English/British Christians, or just plain white Anglicans. Is that how Scottish Conservatives want the world to view them as, a colonial in a Crown protectorate devoid of human significance and cultural value?@X_Sticks
🙂
Also? Same as Ian B. A wee shout out to Mr & Mrs Smallaxe.
You’re missed and hoping the best for you.
Ian B and Macart , I have been scared to ask how things are for Smallaxe and Sybil . I too think about them often and I hope for the best.
@Cameron
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7xMfIp-irg
@Dorothy
Of recent times, (when I’ve had to tend to family issues), I’ve had more than one occasion to think of good folk no longer posting or able to post.
You did well on the old MT this morning and yes there’s a lot of that horse shit on rinse and repeat recently. Hard to ignore it and sometimes harder not to. You know what to look for when that idiocy rears its head. A friendly face and a friendlier ear.
There’s plenty out there. 🙂
X_Sticks
Finding the Sea of Green and destroying the false philosophy of the Blue Meanies is really what it’s all about, frankly. The Tories are not Above Good and Evil 😉
The Beatles – Within You Without You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsffxGyY4ck
Cammy B and other seekers.
I am reading the book ‘Winners Take All” by Anand Giridharadas.
It is American oriented therefore arguably some years behind European intellectual thought but all the more interesting for that.
An interesting read. I don’t agree with everything in it but generally speaking his logic is sound.
Of particular interest is the way he tries to get inside the logic bubble of ‘the elite’.
The way he does this is by an imagined first person viewpoint from a young undergraduate’s perspective as they progress through the system.
As such, he may be erring on the overly generous side regarding the motivation of those people although I am sure there are many who do start out with essentially altruistic ideals.
It is still a recommended read from me.
chicmac
I feel like a bit of a show-off. Sorry for being a smartypants, it’s just that understanding social production of social stratification, was a topic of particular focus for us. You can’t plan a sustainable society unless you attend to the rectification of colonial-legacy issues.
https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/publications/pierre-bourdieu-and-elites-making-the-hidden-visible
The Social Foundations of Global Conflict and Cooperation:
Waves of Globalization and Global Elite Integration, 19th to 21st Century
https://irows.ucr.edu/research/glbelite/globeliteprop03.htm
Global Actors: Networks, Elites, and Institutions
http://oxfordre.com/politics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228637-e-9
Introducing elite discourse: the rhetorics of status, privilege, and power
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10350330.2017.1301789
Erm.. yes.
I did say that Giridharadas’s book was perhaps some years behind European intellectual thought but my commendation of it is specifically because it is:
a) American in viewpoint.
b) Has already attained a significant reach, potentially paradigm shifting.
c) The vicarious literary device he uses, greatly increases accessibility.
I guess it is kind of analogous to Stephen Hawking’s ‘Brief History of Time’ for non physicists in its dumming down while managing to contain the essence of the thinking behind ‘justifiable elitism’.
chicmac
Erm, sorry my bad. It was rude of me not to reply to your comment more fully. Thing is, I feel under a bit of pressure to keep my comments brief as I’m taking up so much space. That’s my excuse and I hope you’ll accept it.
a) totally relevant as there are strong similarities in cultural practice, e.g. neo-liberal governance. Britain used to trail the USA by a couple of decades or so, in terms of adopting USofA cultural practices (see NHS privatisation, for example). I think this dynamic has intensified since I studied it, in terms of strength of USofA’s cultural influence and the rate of social adoption in Britain of USofA cultural practices. Brexit will most likely further accelerate and intensify this form of socio-cultural reproduction.
b) about bloody time. 🙂
c) sounds like a good read. 😉
Nae bathir.
In my view, it is important to promote distilled, accessible material.
chicmac
I hear what your saying and totally agree. I just wish more of the stuff I’m posting was immediately accessible to the cause. These gives an impression of the sort of palate I’m trying to working with though.
A beginner’s guide to: Professor Eric Donald Hirsch
https://edcentral.uk/edblog/beginner-guides/a-beginner-s-guide-to-professor-eric-donald-hirsch
Theory, Culture & Society
https://www.theoryculturesociety.org/homepage/about-us/theory-culture-society/
A Beginner’s Guide to Social Theory
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/a-beginners-guide-to-social-theory/book209715
Understanding Communication Theory
https://www.routledge.com/Understanding-Communication-Theory-A-Beginners-Guide-1st-Edition/Croucher/p/book/9780415748049
Hi guys,
Something I just came across, for all you night hawks out there.
Hope you like it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zAThXFOy2c
@chicmac / @CBB
It needs both really, easy read stuff, and also more in depth stuff.
@CamB –
Any chance you could drop me a line at ianbhood@gmail.com
Someone wants to get in touch with you. It’s all good.
😉
Ian Brotherhood says
Still waiting on a confirmation code from gmail.
Book (feat. Ndidi O.) – Hold On, I’m Coming
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xA9L3kwQwk
re. the colonisation of womanhood. Time for some more International Relations Theory and a bit of post-colonial feminism?
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-137-09009-6_14
United by Strength or Oppression? A Critique of the Western Model of Feminism
https://www.e-ir.info/2015/09/29/united-by-strength-or-oppression-a-critique-of-the-western-model-of-feminism/
Understanding Postcolonial Feminism in relation with Postcolonial and Feminist Theories
ijllnet.com/journals/Vol_1_No_2_December_2014/7.pdf
Feminism and Postcolonialism: (En)gendering Encounters
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13688790.2016.1317388
Is it normal to wait for hour to get a confirmation code? Have I broken gmail or am I just too thick to set up an account? It’s almost certainly the later. Today has not been my day.
Perhaps not stupid, just not fully engaging the brain. I’m waiting for a text that will be received by a phone in Edinburgh. I’m in Dundee. ;(
Ian Brotherhood
Expect an e-mail from an unusual address.
Had to resort to a bit of the old “survival sex” myself. It’s not solely a woman’s issue.
Maceo and The Macks – Cross The Track (We Better Go Back)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnlo-6qz5MU
I’m certain Scotland’s nationals would be far more agitated about Brexit if they fully comprehended their vulnerability. The best way to combat vulnerability is by emancipating the victim’s powers of AGENCY.
https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01433835/document
Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe
Chapter 7 Vulnerability and Marginalized Populations
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK435787/
Why Marginalization, Not Vulnerability, Can Best Identify People in Need of Special Medical and Nutrition Care
https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/why-marginalization-not-vulnerability-can-best-identify-people-need-special-medical-and-nutrition/2018-10
A framework for understanding old-age vulnerabilities
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3672844/
victims of social or cultural oppression, obvs.
Young Pulse Rework – Running Away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtlK8vDu_yo
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, apparently.
re. the politics of Harry Potter. Interested in a bit of Critical Literary Analysis and perhaps a bit of Queer Theory?
https://wtamu-ir.tdl.org/wtamu-ir/bitstream/handle/11310/20/GREIF-THESIS-2015.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
A Feminist Literary Criticism Approach to Representations of Women’s Agency in Harry Potter
https://etd.ohiolink.edu/pg_10?::NO:10:P10_ETD_SUBID:55966
GENDER IN YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE: HARRY POTTER AND THE HUNGER GAMES
https://open.library.ubc.ca/media/download/pdf/24/1.0307443/4
After Criticism, a Call to Rethink Queer Theory
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327670476_After_Criticism_a_Call_to_Rethink_Queer_Theory
re. Scotland’s missed oil wealth.
Forensic Analytics and Management Accountants
https://www.imanet.org/-/media/5a5aa29ebad8442d9fbac42007bc9002.ashx
The Role of Forensic Accounting and Its Relationship with Taxation System in Iraq
https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-566560563/the-role-of-forensic-accounting-and-its-relationship
The Oxford Handbook of Distributive Justice
Introduction: The Idea of Distributive Justice
http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199645121.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199645121-e-38
Distributive Justice, Equity, and Equality
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.so.09.080183.001245
For everyone asking after Smallaxe, I spoke with him earlier today and he asked me to pass on his regards to you all.
He is battling through treatment at the moment which leaves him feeling very tired.
Here are two tunes from him so get up and dance!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3R7HYX5rG8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxy96N8cM8s
@Nana
Thanks Nana. 🙂
It’s literally been years since I last sent an e-mail, just checking I’ve not forgotten that particular social skill. Not meaning to be pushy, it’s just my emotional state is already under assault from the stresses of Brexit. 😉
Little Richard – Keep A-Knockin’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ6SstTS4YY
Ian Brotherhood
Doh!
Poor, woke-bro, Owen.
Let’s talk about racism in education and international development
https://www.ukfiet.org/2018/lets-talk-about-racism-in-education-and-international-development/
We may be leaving Europe, but pan-European racism isn’t leaving us
http://www.irr.org.uk/news/we-may-be-leaving-europe-but-pan-european-racism-isnt-leaving-us/
Challenging racism in the workplace
https://www.unison.org.uk/about/what-we-do/fairness-equality/black-members/key-issues/challenging-racism-in-the-workplace/
Tackling race hate incidents in the workplace
http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5771
Jim Hagart
Honest, I’m not stalking you bud. 😉 Time for a bit of cultural morphology?
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199585502.001.0001/acprof-9780199585502-chapter-7
Exceptionalism, Empire, and the Dark Side of National Greatness
https://www.fpri.org/article/2016/10/exceptionalism-empire-dark-side-national-greatness/
Becoming Exceptional? American and European Exceptionalism and their Critics: A Review
https://www.cairn.info/revue-l-europe-en-formation-2011-1-page-83.htm#
Brexit and British exceptionalism: the impossible challenge for Remainers
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2018/04/10/brexit-and-british-exceptionalism-the-impossible-challenge-for-remainers/
re. Fireman Sam being sexist. Does his character endorse or support misogyny and how?
Megatextuality: Re-enunciating media intertextuality in the age of global media discourse
http://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/assets/documents/research/working-paper-series/EWP14.pdf
Intertextual Politics in the Trump Era
https://anthropologyas.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/intertextual-politics-in-the-trump-era/
Making Meaning of Gender and Sexual Identities in Early Childhood: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Canadian Early Childhood Curricula
https://www.mobt3ath.com/uplode/book/book-26012.pdf
Queer International Relations
http://oxfordre.com/politics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228637-e-265
Time for some of my thoughts and some Gender Semiotics and stuff? Should be accepted knowledge to Sevrin Carroll @Guardian, given he’s the “Semiotic Kid” and all. 😉
Sex is a biological marker locating an individual’s reproductive place within time and space. It remains fixed throughout life, though it’s defining characteristics are vulnerable to change through the impact of environmental factors. The correct identification of sex is a vital component of effective health management by both the individual and state.
Gender is a socially constructed maker locating and individual’s social place in the world. It is fluid across time and space. Gender is a vital tool of political science and it’s introduction to practice has helped to improved the social position of women.
Conflating sex and gender can only have a negative social effect that will impact on the whole of society, not just women.
I’m all for gender fluidity but WOMANHOOD can’t be achieved simply by putting on a frock and denying bio-medical science. That way lies the totalitarian state.
http://www.academypublication.com/issues/past/tpls/vol04/01/03.pdf
Undressing the Power of Fashion: the Semiotic Evolution of Gender Identity By Coco Chanel and Alexander Mcqueen
https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1299&context=honors_theses
Clothing semiotics and the social construction of power relations
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249014940_Clothing_semiotics_and_the_social_construction_of_power_relations
Beyoncé as a Semiotic Resource: Visual and Linguistic Meaning Making and Gender in Twitter, Tumblr, and Pinterest
http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8330&context=etd
An interesting versionof the best rock’n’roll record ever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7aSb92wHKs&start_radio=1&list=RDN7aSb92wHKs
That put me in mind of another classic that’s been covered a few times.
Richard Berry and The Paroahs – Have Love, Will Travel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biwW1Zx2KDU
I forgot to mention earlier that there are strong ‘intellectual’ and ideological associations between the alt-right and the TRA movement in the USofA. The bridge between these positions is good old MISOGYNY. There’s probably similar in the UK.
@Black By Popular Demand
“I’d argue that sex is *more* concrete than race. ”
Sex is biologically grounded and characterised by it’s dimorphism. The descriptive category “race” has no biological basis and is socially constructed in the same manner as gender. It’s continued use as a means of describing humans has little sociological value and, in fact, perpetuates prejudice and racism.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24818443
@Black By Popular Demand
Of course there are genetic differences across ethnic groups, but these differences are insignificant. Your genome is essentially the same as mine, a white Scottish male, so we are both humans of the same value and significance.
It is really is scarry that this task has been left up to private members of the public with no real access to political power.
Sexual dimorphism and human evolution: An overview
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article
/pii/0047248480900524
Why are women smaller than men? When anthropology
meets evolutionary biology
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/287798.pdf
PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND GENDER ISSUES
https://www.eolss.net/Sample-Chapters/C03/E6-20A-19.pdf
Sexual Dimorphism in Human Teeth from Dental Morphology and Dimensions: A Dental Anthropology Viewpoint 🙂
https://www.intechopen.com/books/sexual-dimorphism/sexual-dimorphism-in-human-teeth-from-dental-morphology-and-dimensions-a-dental-anthropology-viewpoi
Kind of seems appropriate, somehow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB3ivplADe4
yesindyref2
I hope folk don’t think I’m some sort of “wingnut”. 😉
https://www.eolss.net/Sample-Chapters/C03/E6-20A-19.pdf
Shinty
Might be a bit rough for your taste but definitely starts in a country vein. Seemed appropriate seeing as how it’s pulp fiction that has brought us all here. 😉
Guitar Center Sessions: Dick Dale – Misirlou
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76fGo5I-rXM
@Kevin Hague
Get some help lad, you’re living in a delusional world of your own make-believe. That isn’t healthy for you or those you seek to influence.
https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/10.18352/ijc.814/
‘Decommonising the mind’: historical impacts of British imperialism on indigenous tenure systems and self-understanding in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland
@Kevin Hague
Just in case you’d prefer not to seek professional help and would rather rely on your own self-determination instead. Just remember, a healthier state of consciousness is within you if you only you are prepared to look hard enough. 😉
Colonizing and decolonizing minds
https://m.tau.ac.il/humanities/philos/dascal/papers/Colonizing%20and%20decolonizing%20minds.doc
The Interface of Language and Theory of Mind
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2000852/
The metaphysics of agency
https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/handle/10023/163
Them and Us*:
Autonomous agents in vivo and in silico
http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/michael.wooldridge/pubs/them-and-us.pdf
* With apologies to Will Hutton.
One for the ravegators.
ZHU – Cold Blooded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyjtTwnSfOk
@CBB
Ironically the only thing standing between Kevin Hague becoming the full, well-rounded and balanced individual he could become is the absence so far of a YES vote, where he can stop standing staring at the Wash and telling the waves to stop rolling over his feet.
I may have some details about that bit of history incorrect all the same 🙂
For those of us fortunate enough to see ourselves as Dundonians.
GG, the guy behind the “Retro Dundee” web site,
https://retrodundee.blogspot.com/
has started a new project, “Droll Dundee”, looking at quirky stories from the local press in the period before “Retro Dundee”, ie the 50s and earlier.
Worth a look and bookmark.
https://drolldundee.weebly.com/
http://www.change.org/p/dundee-university-stop-the-deportation-of-bamidele-chika-agbakuribe-aa4f162d-04b6-4214-bed9-cbec469ce144
@DMH
Don’t seem to be able to sign it Dave.
X_Sticks
That’s odd. I just signed it on that link. No idea why you can’t
I think I might have given K**** H**** too much credit. I thought his nationalism was of the liberal variety, though it appears he’s more of an authoritarian nationalist. Imagine thinking his graphs represented anything other than the abstract pictures in his mind. What an arrogant twat.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5702302/
Mindfulness
http://hr.qmul.ac.uk/workqm/wellbeing/mental-wellbeing/mindfulness/
Mindfulness for Innovation and Creativity
https://wellbeingagency.com/services/workshopsandfacilitation/innovation-and-creativity-at-the-workplace/
Mindfulness, Basic Psychological Needs Fulfillment, and Well-Being
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271658855_Mindfulness_Basic_Psychological_Needs_Fulfillment_and_Well-Being
@DMH
Got it now thanks. When I opened the page is showed 0 votes. Had to refresh the page and then it came up ok.
@Jack Appleby
Sorry for butting in to your conversation.
Self and Identity
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/psai20/current
The Mindful Self: A Mindfulness-Enlightened Self-view
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5645519/
Using Mindfulness to Navigate “Self”
https://www.mindful.org/using-mindfulness-navigate-self/
The Questions of Identity and Agency in Feminism without Borders: A Mindful Response
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/hypa.12017
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMaE6toi4mk
A bit of reflexive thinking here. DMH recently drew attention to a comment made by Abulhaq, which I felt to be racially motivated. On reflection, I may have interpreted the comment incorrectly and so wrongly attributed racially motivated political bias. I’m afraid I can’t find the comment to reassess my judgement, so would really appreciate help from someone who’s good at that sort of thing. I would hate to be a finger pointing bully.
@CBB
In my opinion you’re quite right, historically as well. Spurtle is the word I’d use.
yesindyref2
That helped. 🙂
Grace Jones – She’s lost control (long version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N64I_7HibVE
@Peyton Rose
I’m a ‘radical’ feminist who is often in Dundee. Hopefully we will bump into each other so you can throat punch me. 😉
“I am a transwoman – I am a male person with female sex characteristics who identifies with women I am not a woman – women are female; I am male (evidence: I have fathered 3 kids). Therefore the statement “transwomen are women” is necessarily wrong because it denies my identity.” – Debbie Hayton
Men can’t claim entry in to womanhood as they don’t poses the sexual history/epistemology of biological females.
What IS Sex?
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/what-sex
The Emergence of Sexuality: Historical Epistemology and the Formation of Concepts
https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/the-emergence-of-sexuality-historical-epistemology-and-the-formation-of-concepts/
The Dichotomy of Sexuality: A Narrative-Epistemological Framework for Social Work Practice and Research
http://www1.uwindsor.ca/criticalsocialwork/dichotomy_of_sexuality
What Epistemology Would Serve Criminal Law Best in Finding the Truth about R4pe?
https://www.bjutijdschriften.nl/tijdschrift/lawandmethod/2012/1/ReM_2212-2508_2012_002_001_005
That was a bit harsh as I’m not anti-Trans, it’s just that it is not possible is not possible for males to become PROPERLY female. Designing public policy assuming that it is possible, defies bio-medical science so can’t be considered “liberal” in the classic sense of the word.
Sorry if this is boring to some but this issue challenges how we view reality and relates to all forms of social interaction, both inter-personal as well as between individual and state. It undermines the normative foundations of society and opens the door to even more arbitrary recognition of human rights. This is not purely a woman’s issue.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/spc3.12328
Limitations of the biopsychosocial model in psychiatry
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4427076/
Biological and psychosocial determinants of male and female human sexual orientation.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16174346
A Comprehensive Approach to Sexual History-Taking Using the Biopsychosocial Model
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41344805?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
The biopsychosocial model is also significant to Scotland’s circumstances, as lack of AGENCY damages an individual sense of self.
Identity and the Value of Health
https://journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/3840
Identity Development in Adolescence and Adulthood
http://oxfordre.com/psychology/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.001.0001/acrefore-9780190236557-e-54
Maintaining personal identity
https://www2.health.vic.gov.au/ageing-and-aged-care/dementia-friendly-environments/personal-identity
Embodied health movements: new approaches to social movements in health
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2004.00378.x
re. the next No campaign. I’ve deliberately been avoiding Critical Disability Studies but I reckon selling the Capabilities approach to human development and democracy shouldn’t be too hard, especially given Brexit and institutional British Torydum. Your welcome. 😉
Towards a Critical Sociology of Democracy: The Potential of the Capability Approach
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0896920517701273
Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen, Volume 2: Society, Institutions, and Development
The Capability Approach and the Political Economy of Human Development
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199239979.001.0001/acprof-9780199239979-chapter-3
The Capability Approach and Human Development
https://www.ophi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/OPHI-HDCA-SS11-Intro-to-the-Capability-Approach-SA.pdf
New Directions for the Capability Approach: Deliberative Democracy and Republicanism
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11158-009-9091-5
Time to revisit this issue I think……….
docs.google.com/document/d/13OPs4c91U4ggD1XrHWGAig8YOoXbehVSEpGwaJJWtpc/pub?fbclid=IwAR3tAra1J7m5Oqzlh5t7Yjch6T_8TNFPYgm4obAFq1SBmeAUSCCnjvS53pg
Postal voting is ‘wide open to fraud’ and should be scrapped in its current form, a top judge warned last night.
Judge Richard Mawrey, who sits in judgment on election fraud cases, said ballot-rigging was now a ‘probability’ in some parts of Britain due to the extension of postal voting.
Mr Mawrey, a deputy high court judge, said the introduction of ‘on demand’ postal voting had failed to boost turnout. But he warned it had made Britain’s electoral system vulnerable to fraud on ‘an industrial scale’.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2578776/Scrap-postal-votes-elections-fixed-says-judge-warns-ballot-rigging-probability-parts-Britain.html#ixzz5Fq5fZxWH
Every time I have hear some person poo-pooing these concerns and talking of “consiracy theorists” I have asked them to explain the over 96% postal vote turnout at the referendum in five constituencies in Scotland. They can’t. It is not possible (and the figures are not in any doubt).
The reason of course that there are “conspiracy theorists” is because there are conspiracies politically – all the time.
The EC (in 2009 I think)also described the UK postal ballot system as a recipe for large scale fraud and pointed out that once it is effected it is very difficult to identify.
Any suggestion that a regime that can arm and collude with terrorists in Northern Iralnd in killing opponents or invade and destroy Iraq in a lie would not fiddle a ballot that could lose it a huge asset is risible.
WooHoo, ahm in oor Capital CITY…
Wur makin’ ah movie like..
SFX.
“Curiously they are welcoming male rather than male identifying playwrights. Either way, It strikes me that we need words people accept for both gender and sex and both should be protected – people may need protection on either count. Denying that both exist is itself exclusion” – Karen fountain
?
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucesswo/IJSSP%20ms.doc
Social Exclusion/Inclusion: Foucault’s analytics of exclusion, the political ecology of social inclusion and the legitimation of inclusive education
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23265507.2014.972439
Concepts of poverty and social exclusion in Europe
eprint.ncl.ac.uk/fulltext.aspx?url=219149%2FC74D69EC-C434-435F-912E-EAC1B3FAC84A.pdf&pub_id=219149&ts=636258739359065793
Immigrant Integration
Chapter 6: A Critical Review of Social Exclusion and Inclusion Indicators: Implications for the Development of a Canadian Framework
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261760136_Chapter_6_A_Critical_Review_of_Social_Exclusion_and_Inclusion_Indicators_Implications_for_the_Development_of_a_Canadian_Framework_-_Ilene_Hyman_Ruben_Mercado_Grace-Edward_Galabuzi_and_Dianne_Patychuk_
CameronB Brodie says:
21 March, 2019 at 1:34 am
“A bit of reflexive thinking here. DMH recently drew attention to a comment made by Abulhaq, which I felt to be racially motivated. On reflection, I may have interpreted the comment incorrectly and so wrongly attributed racially motivated political bias. I’m afraid I can’t find the comment to reassess my judgement, so would really appreciate help from someone who’s good at that sort of thing. I would hate to be a finger pointing bully.”
Hey Cameron. I use ctrl f which creates a word search box making it easier to hunt through threads.
NB. You can be caught out using this method if the comments btl went on long enough to create a second page. In that case you need to go back to older comments and ctrl f search that page too.
That circumstane appears to be the case with the comment you made but couldn’t locate. I presume the following is a link to the comment you refer to.
https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-great-coincidence/comment-page-1/#comment-2443389
Wonen are being excluded from political society. Scotland is being excluded from political society. That’s a lot of exclusion going on, which isn’t healthy, frankly.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2158244012471957
Thanks for your help Dan, I’m totally pants at that sort of stuff.
It was the first sentence that drew my attention and was the cause of my protest. I felt that the comment projected a generalised prejudice against the Palestinian people, which is, in essence, the articulation of racism. My self-doubt was that I had misinterpreted this from a claim of local and so, subsequently, superior knowledge. I’m happy with my initial call now.
I see the Tbot has finally come out of the closet and admitted her Christofascism. Well, she is a bit of an English utilitarian. It’s easy to slip from one ideological position to the other, if you don’t take care of economic pluralism and pluralism of thought. Both skills of critical thinking that are being systematically removed from the English education system, to be replaced by an ethos of utilitarianism. Such is the entrenchment of the neo-liberal state in a state of crises.
Critical Perspectives on Leadership
http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199755615.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199755615-e-002
Hi fellow Scotsfolk,
First post, quite long soz.
I’m a fan of Scotland the Brand and get more than a bit frustrated when I can’t buy a bit of Scottish meat in my local Scottish supermarket that doesn’t have the UJ tarted all over it.
I was discussing this with a work mate in ASDA the day during dinner break, when he stops me and says “watch this”…
Next thing he takes off down the fridge aisle, pulling out his phone as he goes.
Muscling in near some auldies he picks up a pack of British sausages and loudly declares into his phone.
“What?”
“Whits a Butchers Apron look like?”
The auldies look shocked for a second, like time stood still.
“Aw one o them?” he says, examining the sausage product closely.
Now aw these auld biddies are stopped deid and examining my mate very closely.
One even reaches into her bag and puts on her glasses.
Mate complains he can’t see anything without a UJ on it apart from a pack of chicken legs.
“But it’s fae Ireland” he says “ye want that?”
“Naw?”
“Nuthin wi a Saltire, sorry hun”
“Aye ah ken it’s no right” he goes, lobbing the Irish chicken legs back in the fridge wi a thud.
He looks about him at the auldies and shrugs, pointing at his phone, “the wife”
“Hang on” he says, picking up a different package and flipping it over.
“There’s one here says it’s FAE a Scottish farm”
“What?
“Aye, it hiz, two tone, red n white, nae blue, same pattern aye, will ah get that?”
“Naw? jis get a pizza instead, ok mi darlin, c u soon”…
He makes no apology, folds up the phone and walks.
I swear ye could SEE the penny drop.
Then one guy takes something out of his basket and slides it back on the shelf.
Then another goes “he’s right ye know”
Wifie wi the glasses nods.
We catch up at the tills and I congratulate him on his work.
A class act.
He learned that trick while kicking up a fuss ower there never being any Nationals.
Now there’s always Nationals.
Out in the van wi our peices, Oh how we laughed.
Now, if everyone was that gallus we wouldn’t have a problem with Scotland the Brand.
@Julia Hartley-Brewer
How did someone as obviously dense as yourself, manage to game so much social capital in the first place?
Here one for the cultural chauvinism that sustains British nationalism and delivered us the full English Brexit. No small thanks to the support of a partisan media and narrow, intellectually stunted, bigots like Julia Hartley-Brewer.
ZHU – Good Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CWVgu2Odjg
Sorry Rev.
The Sons (featuring Bret Reilly) – Too Much of a Good Thing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVhAJpdf7nI
Dedication to Alexa… and YOU!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VVFNgbsDC4
Have fun and a fun weekend!
Can we do THIS one again please:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86_vnQc1oBE
When the ukTory curtain falls aye.
One remains excitable hehe. 😉
The Westminster Conservative Party Show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YNg4Myw-io
Let’s Eat The Rich.
SO when did ye last hear this beauty of a belter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZrdo1PuUvQ
Take it ALL in.
Cameron B Brodie @ 12.26 am (22nd March)
You said ‘sorry if this is boring …’
Cameron, please may I just say that I find it actually flattering and it to be an act of the greatest kindness and respect that you share your findings, the articles and research that grab your interest with us here on Wings, without hesitation or showing the slightest awareness that some of what you share may go zooming way above some of our heads (mine especially) 🙂
I do read a lot of the abstracts and sometimes whole articles, some of which I manage to absorb and some which I think I kind of grasp a bit.
But what I really LOVE is that you NEVER make me feel stupid or inadequate because you lay out all that amazing information for us all to see as if, of course, we are all as academically gifted as yourself (and indeed some folk will be!).
Thank you Cameron. Never boring. Often challenging. Always informative. And above all, kind in the presumption that fellow Wingers can and do get it 🙂
Like Nana, and some of our more renowned and eloquent posters on Wings, you fill a special and specific niche. And sometimes you help me feel quite clever. Thank you =)
Hey there Cactus =) 7.05 am
Wow! I loved that Frankie Miller version of Caledonia!
Now you’ve got me thinking, after what I just said to Cameron B, that one day, children in schools or students at uni, will be writing essays, about Rev Stu of course but also about the different distinctive characters who posted on Wings, each contributing in their own unique way 🙂
And if you don’t know who you are, we do 🙂
Hi Ghillie.
I first heard Frankie Miller’s version (before I even knew of the existence of the song) on the infamous Tennent’s Lager advert.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX9h558Tz1E
Brian Doonthetoon, I never thought about that!
I think I just presumed it was Dougie Maclean.
A while back, my older son moved to Barcelona for a spell, not knowing how long they might stay, and it was Caledonia that he listened to so often and helped bring him home =)
That and a realisation that he missed (his family =) and home) the hills, the trees, the rain and the coolness! Well, just Scotland 🙂 Who wouldn’t?
So I owe a special dept of gratitude to that lovely song.
(PS I think we met you and your son at an Edinburgh gathering a while back =) )
Yes. One of the odd things. Frankie Miller (frae Bridgeton) wrote many songs,recorded by many people but his own biggest hit was a song written by Dougie McLean
Thanks Dave MacEwan Hill,
Again something I didn’t know (sooo much I don’t know!) but isn’t it a funny old world that Caledonia was so great for Frankie. (em… and Tennents!)
Actually, not so surprising maybe. It is one of those songs that lends itself to different artists. Love it, who ever is singing it. And THAT is the hugest testament to Dougie =)
Might he come up with Scotland’s new National Anthem?
Ghillie
Very kind words, too kind. I’m certainly not an experienced educator but I do my best. If I was a proper expert though, I’d have been able to cover this stuff in a much more straight-froward and accessible style. Not bad from a standing start after almost thirty years though, even if I say so myself.
What I think is brilliant is your willingness to look outside of the box and learn, which you are doing even if you think you aren’t (because you believe you don’t understand). Something will strike a chord, stick, and generate new thought processes and new ways of thinking and seeing the world.
May aim isn’t to train folk as social scientists, but to simply encourage folk to re-consider their perspective on life.
Gregory Porter – Liquid Spirit (Claptone Remix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_YvqX-2yOI
@Douglas Alexander
You’ve got a degree in politics and modern history, so how come you exhibit an extremely unsophisticated understanding of what nationalism is? Could it be that you’re a “path-dependent” British nationalist, who’s thought processes are constrained by the ‘One Nation’ ideology. Or could it be you’re simply a smart-arse Jack-the-lad on the make? You certainly don’t appear to be a rational thinker nor a supporter of moral democracy. More an old-skool colonialist, but then I’m a bit of a post-colonial feminist myself. Radical ya bas.
Reminder time – April the ninth in Brechin – for one night only, the legendary Grouse Beater.
New ways of seeing the world are important as they require and result in new forms of communication, which challenge unproductive or harmful tradition and modes of cultural practice.
FISHER – Losing It
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM2zHi-ouf4
Not posted on WOS MT for a wee while….posted comment today…then started to read other comments…say ‘comments’ but actually I find that certain individuals on MT only seem to want to antagonize people for posting their opinion.
Once it gets personal you lose the argument.
Yes one can disagree with others opinions or info presented as facts but if you feel they are wrong or misinformed….and you feel compelled to challenge or debate with them then you must always always try to remember to be sensitive to their feelings, diplomatic and respectful…easy to do ….but for some it seems easier to just dismiss and belittle points made by others.
If someone is of a sensitive nature they could very easily be put off commenting on here again if some know it all, or contrary for contrary sake individual or aggressive individual ridiculed or attacked their comments…thus making it a seemingly hostile environment for them to post subsequent comments…which is hardly the inclusive and open position we within the Indy community perceive ourselves to be.
I had a wee strop with someone on WOS a wee while back ( a one off for me on here), I immediately regretted it and apologised to him as I had misunderstood his joke and he was very magnanimous in his response to my strop..but in my defense the MT at the time was like a warzone…and I joined in via one comment. Me bad. The person did NOT deserve it…blame was mine….but I realised how easy it is to get sucked in to so much negativity which is courtesy of the usual suspects.
This site has some fine posters who know their stuff and others who are articulate and insightful but if you look at some of the aggression displayed from certain individuals…and look from the perspective of a person just discovering the site while browsing or a person who wants to have their opinion noted but too afraid of response they may get ….then you will see what I mean.
WOS advocates no abuse and play the ball not the man…there are unfortunately some who are indeed taking the p*ss…… and importantly forgetting that they are talking to another human being…and also in many cases to people who, like them, want independence…excluding obvious trolls.
One never knows what is going on in a person’s life or the shit they may be currently dealing with …..so with that in mind one should be mindful that a cross word or dismissive comment could have a very serious impact and I for one would not want to make anyone feel like shit just to score a point or appear more knowledgeable .
I know others on here have brought this same point up time and time again..this is such a good and informative site and so sad to see that WOS supplies us with the ammunition to deflect the Unionist lies via his excellent articles/posts and I am sure he must get pissed off at those who seek to undermine what he has written via petty arguments and baiting from obvious trolls.
Wow…two rants in one day….me bad !
Cheer up peeps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANWmPWzv_Sg
An issue that won’t go away
sputniknews.com/columnists/201903191073364702-willie-macrae-murder-suicide/?fbclid=IwAR3aLLRRs98ZyLnqQEJOduxaIRNIHDixLBw3l8VFk3HsOK-6UQ1YV6I61dA
Hi Clapper57.
I know what you mean. There are a couple of Wingers who seem to have taken on the role of ‘Speech Police’ and dive in against those whom they deem are not ‘on the same page’.
They probably know who they are. Sometimes they are on target; other times they are shooting at the wrong targets.
More on constitutional form and majoritarianism.
Capitalism, Democracy, and Countermajoritarian Institutions
https://web.stanford.edu/group/mcnollgast/cgi-bin/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Weingast.DemyCapmCMJ_15.0804.pdf
Countermajoritarian Institutions and Constitutional Stability
https://law.yale.edu/system/files/documents/pdf/Intellectual_Life/LTW-Weingast.pdf
Democratization and Countermajoritarian Institutions: The Role of Power and Constitutional Design in Self-Enforcing Democracy
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2554750
How majoritarianism endures in the structures of the UK’s devolved institutions
http://www.democraticaudit.com/2018/05/11/how-majoritarianism-endures-in-the-structures-of-the-uks-devolved-institutions/
Give HYUFD his due, the lad’s got stamina. 😉
Macy Skipper – Bop Pills
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQQm_LlUV7I
@BDTT
Yes.
Afternoons, we have arrived in the city.
In a mystery guest bar.
Flags ready.
I’m glad I have a post-colonial head, as that means I’m a little more evolved than your average Marxist. These dudes are like Tories, as their ideology requires a utilitarian ethics. Subsequently, the far-left and far-right tend to be equally misogynistic, as they are equally insensitive to matters concerning race, gender and culture. From a post-colonial perspective, Marxists are part of the problem. I suppose that might by why some might label me a “radical” feminist, as I’ll not condone left-wing misogyny and authoritarianism.
P.S. An post-colonial world view incorporates a Feminist Standpoint world view and epistemology.
P.P.S. Sex and gender are not the same. Sex denotes biological difference, gender denotes sense of “self” in relation to society.
International Perspectives on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Volume 1 : Practical and Theoretical Implications of Successfully Doing Difference in Organizations
Chapter 3 Social identities are intersectional
https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/S2051-2333%282014%290000001002
Black feminism and intersectionality
https://isreview.org/issue/91/black-feminism-and-intersectionality
Let’s Talk About Intersectional Feminism
https://nwlc.org/blog/lets-talk-about-intersectional-feminism/
Position paper on Intersectionality and Policy-making
https://www.aegee.org/position-paper-on-intersectionality-and-policy-making/
Did I mention that Martin Heidegger felt English Christian Bolsheviks were comparable to crab lice, or similar sentiments.
Krab Theory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxDSTCaWVZY
Thing is, my politics isn’t grounded in ideology, it’s grounded in philosophy and science.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1558/jcr.v9i3.299
Julian Go’s Post-Positivist, Postcolonial Realism
http://criticalrealismnetwork.org/2018/04/25/julian-gos-post-positivist-postcolonial-realism/
Identity in the Postcolonial Paradigm: Key Concepts
https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/books/9788376560687/9788376560687.1/9788376560687.1.xml
Introducing Postcolonialism in International Relations Theory
https://www.e-ir.info/2017/12/08/postcolonialism-in-international-relations-theory/
Putting knowledge in its place: science, colonialism, and the postcolonial
http://www.icm.arts.cornell.edu/sites/icm.arts.cornell.edu/files/Seth_Postcolonial_Studies_Reading.pdf
Feminism and Postcolonialism: (En)gendering Encounters
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13688790.2016.1317388
POSTCOLONIALISM AND OR FEMINISM
http://www.postcolonialstudiesassociation.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/PSA-Newsletter-15-Spring-2015-FINAL.pdf
Affective Citizenship: Feminism, Postcolonialism and the Politics of Recognition
https://org.uib.no/smi/seminars/Pensum/Mukhereeje,%20Monica.pdf
@Glinner
It all boils down to semiotics dude. The linguistic placeholder “gender”, is a powerful tool of the social sciences and has proven helpful to improving the place of women in society. It’s the conflation of sex with gender identity and the entrenchment of sexist stereotypes that goes along with it, that is the problem.
https://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14859
The significance of social identities
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.2044-8309.1986.tb00728.x
Gender Identity
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/917990-overview
Gender Socialization and Identity Theory
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/3/2/242/htm
Cactus
Agitating has method and requires self-control. I wouldn’t dream of telling you what to do mate, but do you want to encourage the yoons among us?
Steel Pulse – Tight Rope
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OcI_fbJQIg
Here’s another one for you Cactus, I wasn’t having a pop mate.
Wendy Rene (Nicolas Jaar Edit) – After Laughter Comes Tears
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjshL3w1cy0
Mornin’ Cameron, cheers for yours mate and it does indeed, usually at the weekend on a Cairnstoon thread, but as crunch time nears so does the excitable input, aye find it also helps to illuminate perceived yoonage. Ahm just stirring the oxygen tanks and venting a bit, though ah’ll check over ma measurements.
Good to be with y’all yesterday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww5GXbk58R0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kEDa6bXnA8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEuKkcX1uKA
WingsTwitter ever-increasing and NOW approaching 59.5K followers… therefore The People don’t appear to be put off and are on the contrary, engaging more with Wings 🙂
I note that we are all engrossed in Scotland in watching football from Montenegro tonight on SCOTTISH television . We have three hours in which to cheer on our nation England. STV is now doing the same as BBC and its news reports are now becoming more anti SNP than the BBC’s are.
@Scott Brand at 9.36 yesterday: thank you for reporting that episode in the supermarket. Very cheering!
Here’s one for Scotland’s woke lefty brigade and the nexus of their confusion over identity and support for gender-fascism. There are levels of stupidity then there’s denying Biological Anthropology. Fuck left-wing misogyny, the TRA movement and the horse it rode in to town on.
P.S. Mums are BRILLIANT.
Ween – Voodoo Lady
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO5R_OSZvoc
@Kevin Williamson
I consider your level of ignorance of particular concern, because you claim to be an intellectual. If you had any real idea of democracy and the politics of recognition, you would appreciate you are supporting an illiberal ideology that is a threat to social equality and open society. Or do you reject the biopsychosocial model of health and think you know better than social science?
@Kevin Williamson
Think about it. “Cope or adjust?!?” Does that not indicate coercion to you? Does that sound like it belongs within a liberal ideology? Should Scotland meekly cope or adjust to Brexit?
Hows about some smooth jazz to help strengthen the metabolism and our capacity for mindful, ‘free-form’, bounded rationality of shared intentionality? Nice.
John Coltrane – Giant Steps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30FTr6G53VU
Sorry Rev. 🙂
And here’s some “Bacon Fat” to lubricate the rest of the evening. Suite you sir.
Andre Williams – Bacon Fat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0kr0IFsM6E
Here’s one for all the neo-liberal intileckchulls out there, such as historian and British nationalist, Niall Campbell Ferguson. These dudes have a lot to answer for in terms of Britain’s current state of social anomie, and bringing us to the point of ‘national’ collapse with Brexit. A ‘trickle-down troll’, that’s what he is.
Tool – Schism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yNAABKD4IA
My God the MT just now !
When the Cat’s away the mice will play…..well maybe not play but gnaw away like a dug wae a bone…..there’s been a hijack…of this site….WTAF is going down….Nicola bad….is she though ?…it’s a wee liberty being taken so it is..so it is.
I’m keeping well oot o it…so much for civil discourse….what do I know ? Feck all it would seem….Lol
Safer in Off topic….I hope !
Should moral taste really only be determined by those with political power? Doesn’t that just lead to social stagnation and perpetual Torydum?
The Standells – Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvU-tmJ6KTU
@ CameronB Brodie
Well said on MT re certain individual moderating their comments towards others….personally it is much better to give constructive critique if compelled to do so rather than the condescending tone a certain individual chooses to take…..
You sir are a gentleman.
Too late to wish you a good evening…though hope you did have..so hope you have good day tomorrow.
Clapper57
I found myself in a place of extreme vulnerability and social exclusion when I was a young man. Add a training in social science and what do you get? A weirdo, by comparison with contemporary, (neo-liberal), cultural values anyway. 😉
Has anyone else noticed how a lot of confectionery, bakery products and such, have changed shape recently. Everything appears to be getting smaller, yet I’ve been an adult for quite some time now. Could this be the transformative effect of Brexit re-casting physical reality already?
One for Ranking Roger, RIP.
The English Beat – Mirror In The Bathroom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHWrmIzgB5A
re. the magical thinking that underlies Brexit. The head of the CBI might appreciate this short documentary, taking an historical perspective to it’s spatial analysis of similar circumstances. Please note that it is not particularly critical as the protagonists all lived happily in the end. This does not sit comfortably with Frankfurt School thinking. 😉
Space1999: Black Sun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8XT_6gX72M
Sorry Rev. but this is a CORE issue.
Rev., I’m trying not to clog this page up with science and stuff. It’s a difficult balance. I’ll stick it here so you can delete the post on the main thread.
Liz g
Think you’re funny? OK, I’ve run out of off-the-cuff Evolutionary Psychology, so here’s some more Cognitive Science and Moral Philosophy and stuff.
The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/0195174542.001.0001/acprof-9780195174540
Embodied Morality
Protectionism, Engagement and Imagination
https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137553980
Review – Moral Imagination
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=7294&cn=394
Beyond Sacrificial Harm: A Two-Dimensional Model of Utilitarian Psychology
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5900580/
https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/video/moral-imagination
Sorry for being a space-hog Rev., but it isn’t easy being engaging when trying to be edumicational about science and philosophy, to an audience that isn’t particularly science and philosophy literate. Try doing it when you’re as rusty as me. That last science post was probably my last intileckchull one of the day and was a cognitive science critique of utilitarian morality, which is kind of British nationalism’s modus operandi.
I’ve been trying to develop a running gag of being triggered by mention of the DUP. Apparently humour is a matter of personal taste and morality. 🙂
The Cramps – The Way I Walk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaIW7KJXKfQ
As far as I can make out, there is no salad in separatism.
J. J. (K)ale – Friday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdzlop4p0vc
Brexit didn’t come out of nowhere, it’s been in the pipelines for some time. Britain’s cultural evolution towards an outdated outpost of Anglo-American exceptionalism, has been pretty recognisable for those that cared to look, pretty much since Thatcher and Reagan began the neo-liberal war on civilisation.
Before 1976: How Punk Became Punk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHYwxbVW-ho
Some more frae the man… get down to the injun music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCi-5J8szls
For YOU, follow through
One of my favourite songs of his
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qWZg_RK2Io
Ah ken this song, word for word, line by line, ah would LOVE to sing THIS with a piano PLAYer
Along about 1917
Wow THIS next song on the playlist is a dedication to their UK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08RotsdK1z8
History knows
Critical thinking and identity politics are not deadly enemies. In fact, they are both vital to a healthy politics, as the individual’s self-conception of “self” is at the heart of the political process. Martin Luther King Jnr. was both a critical thinker and supporter of ‘identity politics’, ffs.
https://thehumanist.com/commentary/navigating-critical-thinking-intersectionality-identity-politics-secular-movement
Identity Politics and Racism: Some Thoughts and Questions
http://feminist-reprise.org/library/resistance-strategy-and-struggle/identity-politics-and-racism-some-thoughts-and-questions/
White Identity Politics
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/white-identity-politics/5C330931FF4CF246FCA043AB14F5C626
The politics of identity: from potential to pitfalls, and symbols to substance
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1070289X.2018.1508859
@PinkNews
Are you complete fucktards or do you have a plan to undermine social cohesion?
[Biopsychosocial understanding of human sexuality. Prerequisite for diagnostics and treatment in sexual medicine].
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16830127
@PinkNews
Or are you simply projecting (white) male chauvinism and entitlement i.e. misogyny?
Biological and psychosocial determinants of male and female human sexual orientation.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16174346
Thought I’d put this one up again. My favourite clip of all time. For my wake (along with Not Fade Away from Stevie Nicks)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJfWwFj_Rxo&list=RDnJfWwFj_Rxo&start_radio=1
That’s a great one Dave, never heard it before. For my favourite Stevie Nicks there’s this one, though not personally relevant these days. I’m not saying if it was or not at the time 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGO9jNHH5Lw
This one goes out to @Get The L Out.
The Au Pairs – it´s obvious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjbBr1_rSD8
Hi Dave McEwan Hill.
“Lyle Lovett – Well All Right”. A fine version of the song.
When I used to to Dens Park every week (first team and reserves) it was easy. The team’s main strip was dark blue and the alternative was white.
Why then, against St Mirren, was the Dundee strip Aston Villa’s colours?
I despair in this modern world.
Re the MT.
Genuine question. Though probably rhetorical.
Why does WOS seem to attract the most annoying trolling c**nts ?
They are like flies round a coo’s arse …with shite being the common denominator……one smells the shite the other writes it!!
Here one for those who are unsure whether patriotism is selfish.
The Staple Singers – Respect Yourself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pYKdqD1ls
re. “Labour working class solidarity”. British Labour will need to re-assess their “English utilitarian” nature and adopt the post-colonial perspective, if they want to be in anyway helpful, IMHO.
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/11986332/35380511.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Want to Understand Right-Wing Rage? Go Back to Plato
http://www.publicseminar.org/2016/09/want-to-understand-right-wing-rage-go-back-to-plato/
Mill and Sidgwick, Imperialism and Racism
https://www.utilitarian.net/sidgwick/about/200703–.pdf
Utilitarianism and Discrimination
fmwww.bc.edu/ec-p/wp797.pdf
N.B. 82% of Britain’s black and Asian ‘citizens’ voted to Remain, so can’t really be considered British citizens either, frankly.
re. gender ideology, Wittgenstein and the denial of biological science. Time for some semiotics?
wab.uib.no/wab_contrib-gdl.pdf
Wittgenstein’s Language Games
http://www.signosemio.com/wittgenstein/language-games.asp
Semiotics and the social analysis of material things
http://townsendgroups.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/webb_keane_semiotics_and_things.pdf
SEMIOTICS AND THE DECONSTRUCTION OF CONCEPTUAL LEARNING
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/education/jlemke/papers/jsalt.htm
I mangled the formatting of that Wittgenstein article, I thought I’d caught all the scanning errors. Worth a read all the same, if you have the time.
Gender, Sexuality, and Meaning: Linguistic Practice and Politics
https://philpapers.org/rec/MCCGSA
The Unity of Linguistic Meaning
https://philpapers.org/rec/COLTUO-4
Across and Beyond: The Semantics of Transgender Identity
http://lib.bsu.edu/beneficencepress/stance/2012_spring/2Lund.pdf
Gender and Race: What Are They?
(What) Do We Want Them To Be?
http://www.mit.edu/~shaslang/papers/WIGRnous.pdf
@Paul Embery
Glad I’m not a national socialist like you.
https://policyscotland.gla.ac.uk/economic-social-necessity-freedom-movement/
The Fiscal Effects of Immigration to the UK
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/economics/about-department/fiscal-effects-immigration-uk
Book Review: Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership edited by Sarah Fine and Lea Ypi
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2016/04/22/book-review-migration-in-political-theory-the-ethics-of-movement-and-membership-edited-by-sarah-fine-and-lea-ypi/
The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2011.646467
Inspired by a WOS retweet…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0z-WhgM378
WOW!
This came on after the Mad Jocks…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk
Which reminded me of the guy (a scaffie in Pitlochry), who rediscovered the art of bending notes on the bagpipes. Some comments from the YouTube page:
“Chic McGregor
4 years ago
Had the privilege of sitting in on a jamming session with him once. He was to the pipes what Hendrix was to the guitar.?”
“???$†l£??rD?
3 years ago
I’m just discovering this departed genius.
After hearing this, all other bagpipe music – perhaps almost all other music, period – sounds nebulously spastic in comparison. This is what the fabled Orpheus must have sounded like.?”
“Kerri Wolfton
1 year ago
To me anyone that can play Thunderstruck on pipes is sick. This looks hard enough on the guitar but pipes man that’s some serious talent. He’s got some lungs on him.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EwDlUHoDFo
BDTT, Wow, just wow.
Hey Cameron, you had me at…
“pubic health” on the main T
Hee Hee 🙂
Cactus
Don’t take the piss too hard. 🙂
Just to explain that. I’m struggling without my glasses and my spelling and proof-reading are appealing. It was an embarrassing but mitigated mistake. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it. 😉
OFFS. APPALLING!
Hehe excellent, don’t mind if aye borrow it for some other thread 🙂
Oh what a night
Oh what a year
Hey Cameron, it’s Pringles time fur me on the m/t again
This album cover is from the bridge underpass near Edinburgh Airport, ye ken the one with the 50mph speed cameras, just by the big multi double roundabouts…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-G28iyPtz0
Ah thought this one might follow that one quite nicely
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZTb8WxEW78
You may have seen or heard of it before here or somewhere else
Brexit is swallowing Britain up in a tsunami of right-wining, state-sponsored, authoritarianism. The outdated British constitution simply wasn’t strong enough to resist the force of dark money from overseas. This is how international fascism operates.
ZHU – Generationwhy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrK6QxS_ZRk
re. the freedom of movement. From an anthropological perspective, restricting freedom of movement is a fundamental infringement on human rights. British Labour do not have any progressive ideas on how Britain can go better, so they’ve decided to become Tories. Marvelous.
If only decades of British government had paid attention to social inclusion and nurturing social solidarity, instead of feeding social anomie through a cult-like adherence to trickle-down economic and vindictive, neo-liberal, violence against civilisation.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-journal-of-sociology-archives-europeennes-de-sociologie/article/global-justice-freedom-of-movement-and-democratic-citizenship/6EEEF9E6D9F4034A31C4C92ADCFCA5C4
Some Reflections on the foundations of Human Rights – Are Human Right an Alternative to Moral Values?
http://www.mpil.de/files/pdf3/08_romuald1.pdf
Sovereignty without Territory, Emigration without Movement: The Panarchist Solution
http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plcdib/territory/papers/tucker_sovereignty.pdf
https://movements-journal.org/issues/02.kaempfe/03.kelz–political-theory-migration-non-sovereignty-solidarity.html
Right, lets give white British nationalism the boot in the nads it deserves.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0731121417753369
“The impact of migration on the provision
of UK public services (SRG.10.039.4)”
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctpb21/reports/provision-of-uk-public-services.pdf
A critical analysis of the impacts of EU migration in the UK
http://tjdav.me.uk/critical-analysis-impacts-eu-migration-uk/2017/03/31/
Immigration and social cohesion in the UK
https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/immigration-and-social-cohesion-uk
OK, Scotland, do you want to allow “English utilitarianism” to damage Scotland’s economy and social sustainability?
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199731732.001.0001/acprof-9780199731732-chapter-6
It would appear then, that British Labour favour welfare chauvinism over an ethical immigration policy. Perhaps they are intimidated by England’s chronic housing shortage and general decay that has resulted from a depletion of social policy since Thatcher. Still, the English education system will soon have England singing in one voice, “there is no alternative”.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/religionglobalsociety/2018/04/a-new-settlement-the-uk-must-recognise-immigration-as-an-ethical-not-simply-political-issue/
The TV’s on as background audio/visual wallpaper while I surf.
Has anyone else got the feeling that “Mini Disco Divas” on BBC Scotland’s channel is like the bitch-child of “Minipops”, which was questioned ‘back in the day’?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkjlAWYl1fo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqNAIyLPsb8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh7NxD9fTGM
Here’s one for the TRAs and the woke-bro supporters, who thought they could erase any meaningful sense of “womanhood”. I’m glad folk are now finally waking up to the threat self-ID poses to open, liberal, society. I’ll now be expecting to be address as gender-free by Owen Jones, if we ever meet. 🙂
Moloko – Sing it Back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z06gUeqUpeo
So glad I was there when all this started – when the people took music from the big boys and the big companies and the world changed. So much better than the shite of today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHkUqRmKuP0&list=RDVHkUqRmKuP0&start_radio=1
Sorry for being a bit space-hog trying to join all the dots but Brexit scares the crap out of me.
Stereo MC’s – Connected
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3RzQ1b_c9w
I think those ethical communication links that are missing in action, might be caught in a word-filter.
(Mental) (Health) (Care)
Ray Charles – Mess Around
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNe5npkid-s
Well that was particularly dumb of me. I twigged what I think the word-trigger is but can’t remember if I took the necessary steps in the post that is currently stuck in moderation.
#diddy 🙂
Franz Ferdinand – Right Action
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqTsUtQLRFk
Petra
The ethical communication of knowledge is fraught with danger, especially bio-medical science.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10508420701713048
To Secure Knowledge
Social Science Partnerships for the Common Good
https://www.ssrc.org/to-secure-knowledge/
Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine
https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/students/timetable/partii/single/pem
Ethics: the essence of scientific and medical communication
https://www.fundaciogrifols.org/documents/4662337/4689075/monograph25.pdf/fdfe3959-29cd-44fa-8125-f7e3aa332240
I give up. Could I not have looked in the text for trigger words?
OK, last try. I hope the ones in moderation don’t eventually appear. Apologies in advance if that happens.
Petra
The ethical communication of knowledge is fraught with danger, especially bio-medical science.
To Secure Knowledge
Social Science Partnerships for the Common Good
https://www.ssrc.org/to-secure-knowledge/
Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine
https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/students/timetable/partii/single/pem
Ethics: the essence of scientific and medical communication
https://www.fundaciogrifols.org/documents/4662337/4689075/monograph25.pdf/fdfe3959-29cd-44fa-8125-f7e3aa332240
Ethics and Culture in (Mental) (Health) (Care)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10508420701713048
Evenin’ jj, we’re here aweright
Networkin’ dude
Aye
Dinnae ken 1st song
2nd song Elton john – Sacrafice
Dream lover followed by solitary sister, don’t know this one, sounds like klf
Country song by… cannae get it, awe it’s cliff R, a whistly song…
Spaced cowboy that’s me, ah can do gangstah lovin, a shooby-dooby-do-wah, they dinnae mean what they say beautiful south, ye need a little time and space tae work it out… 4/99
Here’s comes Summer and Ohhh My Love, aye HUNGER not so lonely now, don’t know this one, must be somethin’… lots of cymbal, that’ll be a Queen cover, lily vanilli, don’t ken this one, 60’s like…7/101
It’s the Belfast choild, Laura n Tommy, nup ah dinnae,
Back to Life, back to that Brexit reality
You’ll get it back on replay
When yer movin’
And that waz yer bits n pieces
Dinnae ken whit ah scored
Mibbies both
Next Bits n Pieces in less than five minutes
Did you know that
Tis a fact
Pens n papers…
How ye doin’ Scotland, ye guid
We’ll be HOME soon
Part 2
Harmonies… dinnae ken it… tarzan noises like Tina
Rite on thyme, blue moon da ga da gad ga bom bom, 80’s kinda song, don’t turn around baybee…
Sumbuudy reaching for the stars and heaven as a place on this Earth Belinda C… don’t know this one…
That’s yer Bros. tumblin’ sounds like the Shadows but it’s not… next Dr Who by who?…
Dinna ken this one, sail on, sailors, lady singer and now we have Eddie by the fair Fairground, life is 2 short…
Sounds like a kinda Tom Jones kinda singer, is this Phil see, 70’s song now that ah dinnae ken fit like… awe it’s poetry in motion within many a windin’ turn, good
Oh ah wonder, ah really wonder Enya wae yer Lovely Orinocco Flow, nice hammers..
Moon/Sunshine river, goes both ways, listen to the Orchestra
And that’s yer Bits n Pieces
Ah got 22 jj
Part 3, let’s go…
Yazoo, only way is north… guitar + harmonica remembers… sounds like AbbA…
RTS said somebuddy, to the postman into his sac letter back, Wet Wet Wet IGBWALHFMF… don’t know tis one, soundtrack frae The Last Tram Glasgow!!!!!!!!!! Kylie.. ISBSLIL
Ah dinnae kwn whom rocked the Hula, but pump up the volume, don’t know artist… da ra da, zat ra beatles aye it is, wae LOVE frae…
Dinnae remember that one or the next, but now they’re back…
Pet Shop Boys, da ra doo, and aye really do like it like, he knows…
Latischlach Bonita on her Summer Holiday by Cliffy, nae mair wurries, caught up in the Hoopla band, oh yeah them, The Beasties again…
Dinnae ken this ane, frigging Spitting Image star-reflecting across
70’s sounding kinda song
And there you have it
Nae messin’
20 jj
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Smoot cut
Anagram fit: Shuttle Bikes.
What they?
How ye doin’ chicmac, ah got “Sekib Elttuhs”
Any more than nine letters gets me 🙂
jj’s show begins at 9pm on new look…
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Tonight’s first quiz is different… starts at 10pm
You gotta fill in the gaps (missing word(s))
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REQUEST song of your choice here
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Back to the big intro quiz
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Bits n pcs
M&K respect table, ra Animals, House in New Orleans… PSB’s again maybe, aye…
Cannae remember this band is it the beach boys, La Bamba Ritchie Valens feat Los Lobos, ah’ve been tae Los Lobos island, blues number red rooster, it’s Carol Decker wae China in yer hauns…
Didnae get that one, but ah got this one… Ben E King stand aside me…is it Baby LOVE by maybe diana ross.. next up the river was deep Geo Michael… Girl ah really got u goin’…
YOU WIN AGAIN hehehehe, BG’s, don’t know this goodbye song, the beasties, Amadeus by the deep blue or summin! Another new one now… russ abbott mayabe, TFC by the excellent Europe (we LOVE U) and it is not unusual, Tom kens…
Dinnae ken this one but cool piano and now groovy Rolling Stones Last time
And that’s the last one in
T’Pau!
Always wondered why the sound of the pipes wakens something up in me.
It is what I am probably and what in Scotland we mostly are
The pipes are in the pentatonic scale (unlike the major scale which is used in much European music) and this is of eastern and Asian origin and explains why pipe music seems to strike a chord right across all the other continents. It is indeed a celtic scale and will have come to us with the celts from central Asia.
The Scottish/Irish connection probably explains why a lot of “country music” is pentatonic as well.
Should have pointed out that pentatonic is five major notes rather than the seven notes in other music.
Hi Dave McEwan Hill at 11:10 pm.
You typed,
“Should have pointed out that pentatonic is five major notes rather than the seven notes in other music.”
I remember reading, somewhere, years ago, that Eric Clapton lost the place when he eschewed the pentatonic scale.
Anyone else been watching “Born To Be Wild” on BBC Scotland channel?
They’ve been quite good. However, there seems to be a preponderance of English accents amongst those featured.
I’m just wondering why so many positions are taken by immigrants, rather than home-grown Scots.
Could it be that our vet schools are attracting more from south of the border, rather than kids leaving school here?
I’m not complaining – merely observing.
OK, so it looks as if the TRAs’ agenda has been recognised for what it is, a manifestation of structural misogyny and a threat to “equality” and “open society”. As with Scotland, the legal identity of biological women needs protecting from totalitarian colonialism.
https://www.nyu.edu/classes/jackson/causes.of.gender.inequality/
The Genetics of Sex Differences in Brain and Behavior
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3030621/
Introduction: Gender and Politics: A Gendered World, a Gendered Discipline
https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2016/06/08/restroom-guidance-a-thorny-study-in-administrative.html
Rendering the Sexed Body Legally Invisible: How Transgender Law Hurts Women
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2016/05/17033/
Brian Doonthetoon
Sorry Brian, I do my best to avoid TV.
“When we conflate things like ‘sperm’ with ‘men’, we erase the trans community, and perpetuate bad science.”
One for the woke-bros and woke-sistas who’ve just reached “peak trans”. This is what cults do to the mind and how they undermine liberal society.
The New Fast Automatic Daffodils – All Over My Face
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jybyJa0h9pY
Bdtt,
Wayback (when we was young) our vet training was regarded as the best and was first choice for applications.
Maybe that is still the case.
@CameronB
A wee reminder
Parcel sent to you on the 27th March, delivery attempted on the 29th of March and a card left for you to pick up from your local sorting office.
I don’t know if you are aware but if after 18 days the package is not collected, it will be returned to me.
Sorry Rev., I just get carried away some times.
Love – 7 And 7 Is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6An7KGK6U3c
Nana
Thank for your kindness and the heads-up. I think I might get off spud duty tonight, so I’ll be back in Edinburgh this week. 😉
Why are certain doctor’s who apparently hate woman, not having their licenses reviewed? The recording of sex classes that are grounded in biology, is a fundamental principle of clinical practice. What action is the BMA taking to ensure its’ practice is free of structural misogyny?
Genetics, personality and wellbeing. A twin study of traits, facets and life satisfaction
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-29881-x
The Truth About Sex Differences
It’s an elemental fact that people increasingly don’t want to hear: Sex differences in personality and behavior are real. And they have a profound effect on many aspects of health.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/201711/the-truth-about-sex-differences
Gender Differences in Emotional Response: Inconsistency between Experience and Expressivity
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0158666
Between the (Gender) Lines: the Science of Transgender Identity
http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2016/gender-lines-science-transgender-identity/
re. the silencing and political erasure of Helen Staniland.
An epistemology of gender or gender as a tool of analysis
http://archeologia.women.it/user/quarta/workshops/re-figuring3/szapuova.htm
Questions for left-wing people who support self-definition as a woman
https://fairplayforwomen.com/questions-left-wing-people-support-self-definition-woman/
Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics’ War on Women, the Female Sex, and Human Rights
https://booklife.com/project/female-erasure-what-you-need-to-know-about-gender-politics-war-on-women-the-female-sex-and-human-rights-18657
Erasure of Women
http://womanmeanssomething.com/tag/erasure-of-women/
jj’s next quiz of the night begins at 10 bells…
Some crackin’ songs PLAYin’ ra nite
What’s up next?
https://indylive.radio/
http://webcomradio.co.uk/
Oops, forgot tae turn mah clocks forward (it’s Spring afterall!)
Make that eleven
https://indylive.radio/
http://webcomradio.co.uk/
The Illegal Occupation Specialists(Israel) have just crash landed on the moon.
Expect Hamas to get the blame.
got a great selection of Rock’n’Roll on at 8pm following my Roundabout show at 7pm on Argyll Independent Radio
internetradiouk.com/argyll-independent/
I’ve been called back on contractual duty for a bit longer.
James Brown aka Nat Kendrick and The Swans – (Do The) Mashed Potatoes (Pt. 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7SC8Z7d73o
“Total Recall” came out the year after I collided with reality. I still hadn’t overcome a profound loss of personality and memory when I saw it on terrestrial TV. To say it messed with my head would be a bit of an understatement. 🙂
Butthole Surfers – Who Was In My Room Last Night?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3GoQG0nU7g
A wee song about Brexit.
THE MELVINS – “We Are Doomed” (30th Anniversary Tour)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-KjztYK9iY
mr thms mentioned “Our Planet” on the cartoon page a wee while ago. You can see it at the link below. I found ‘server 2’ was fine.
https://www3.1movies.is/series/our-planet-season-1/126136/213986/I8M1u4ex-watch-online-free.html
No, I wasn’t on drugs, apart from a couple of after-work pints of 3.4abv, I’d just wasn’t paying attention.
Singers Players Prince Far I – Bedward The Flying Preacher
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLUPNXTZzkk
Off topic – to share a smile or two, but also in deadly earnest.
“Welsh” Labour is having its Conference in Llandudno this weekend in Llandudno, with Corbyn due to speak later this afternoon.
Their slogan, “Standing up for Wales / Sefyll cornel Cymru” is exactly the same as last year’s. Indeed, they were also in Llandudno last year as well How original, eh, readers?
And I can’t help reading the Welsh version as “Sefyll yng nghornel Cymru” ( = “Standing in Wales’s corner.”) But maybe I’m just an unrepentant Nat.
Yours,
Here’s one for all those who get their news curtosy of BBC-HSBC-BAE news group.
Butthole Surfers – Sweat Loaf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwknFJpjl9g
I can’t leave you on a downer like that, kind of difficult to follow, I’d imagine. Sorry.
Little Robbie – I’ve got Troubles on my own
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVpZ20cbPJc
“Gender is about stereotypes. What’s so progressive about that? Time to ask again – please, someone, explain ‘gender’ without reference to stereotypes. I’ll be over here.” – Lily Maynard
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Nothing is progressive about gender stereotypes but gender is not the same as gender-identity, which embodies these stereotypes. This is another CORE issue, so here’s some stuff.
https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/S1529-212620150000020019
A Critical Analysis of Gender Mainstreaming
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/critical-analysis-of-gender-mainstreaming/7B885BD68A4321B6ED92F46DBB077CC9
Gender equality? What research reveals
https://www.elsevier.com/connect/gender-equality-what-research-reveals
Paid Work, Women’s Empowerment and Gender Justice: Critical Pathways of Social Change
eprints.lse.ac.uk/53077/1/Kabeer_Paid-work_Published.pdf
Sorry to be a pest but “gender” can be a helpful tool to aid female empowerment, so long as folk are able to compartmentalise the concept in their minds, keeping it separate from sexist, gender-identity, stereotypes. MK?
We need to be clear about what gender and gender-identity are. As with sex and gender, they are not the same things.
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/part-three-gender-identity-sexuality-and-gender
What is the link between sexuality and gender?
http://spl.ids.ac.uk/sexuality-and-social-justice-toolkit/1-issues-and-debates/what-link-between-sexuality-and-gender
How men and women see gender equality differently
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/02/how-men-and-women-see-gender-equality-differently/
Gender Equality
http://www.ecu.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Gender-Equality-1.pdf
Sorry Rev., that last post was rounding-off a point. That’s me done now.
Grace Jones – Hurricane Dub
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzUxZgGpPXc
So why is all this ‘long-haired’ philosophy stuff important? Pardon me while I go full geek.
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.705.4056&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Epistemology and Ontology
http://www.stmorgan.co.uk/epistemology-and-ontology.html
Rationalism and Empiricism
Some Notes on Epistemological Strategies and their Implications in Ethics
http://www2.onu.edu/~m-dixon/handouts/rationalism%20and%20empiricism.html
Rationalism, Empiricism, and Evidence-Based Medicine: A Call for a New Galenic Synthesis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6023440/
Is this why the BMA appears to support women hating GPs who promote gender ideology as an ethical basis for radical body transformation?
https://academic.oup.com/fampra/article/17/2/203/567480
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/paris-fire-raises-fears-about-palace-of-westminster/ar-BBVZGtu?li=BBoPRmx
Oh Dear.
So according to Mermaids, there is a very strong chance I actually suffer from gender dysphoria, not the effects of a serious brain injury and complex PTSD. I’m approaching my mid-fifties and have thoroughly enjoyed what sex-life I’ve had. It’s just as well there’s an “allegedly” authoritative advisory body to tell me my life has been a lie.
Mermaids posses a direct threat to public health and the general well-being of society. To think that they are publicly funded really is a bit of a mind shredder. The Mermaids input to the Scottish government must be re-assessed as a matter of top priority.
OK, I might not be a gender theorist but that doesn’t mean my insight is worthless.
https://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/genderandsex/modules/introduction.html
I’m actually finding a fair bit of this stuff, now that I’m getting back in to practice.
eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/99645/3/Travis%20Non-normative%20Bodies%20AAM.pdf
Language, Gender, and Sexuality
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199772810/obo-9780199772810-0109.xml
Gender Ideologies, Youth Sports, and the Production of Soft Essentialism
http://www.michaelmessner.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/01_ssj_Messner_2010_0066.pdf
Pratt & Moody With Cold Diamond & Mink – Lost, Lost, Lost
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ6M0dBstTE
Nana
Sorry but it looks like numb-nuts here has totally messed up collecting your present. My fault for not challenging my recall to spud duty. 😉
I really do hate putting folk out on my behalf, so please don’t go to any more effort or expense. Norrie can give it to me at the next do, if that’s ok with you. Fnuar, fnuar.
Hi Cameron
I asked a mutual friend to pass on your email address if they have it…. Provided you give your permission here…
Is that ok?
Liz g
That reminds me I’ve forgotten to remember to sort a g-mail. I’ll do that tomorrow and pass it on to IanB. Hopefully he has your contact details, or possibly ronnieA. Feel free to pass it on. I trust you won’t be linking me up with any weirdos. 🙂
Cameron B Brodie @ 3.55am
Ha Ha,no I’m the only weirdo that will be mailing ye!!!
And I’m pretty sure your ok with ma kind o’ weird 🙂
Liz g
Sorry Liz, I’m not meaning to play with your head. Your healthy weird so that’s ok. MK? 🙂
I’ll have Jonathon Shafi on my Roundabout show online on Argyll Independent Radio 7pm – 8pm (followed by my rock’n’roll show)
Want to get at the legal-positivist roots of 21st century utilitarianism, and the DWP’s apparent democide of the poor, through the seemingly criminal implementation of the WCA.
http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199238842.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199238842-e-029
What is Ethics as First Philosophy?
Levinas in Phenomenological Context
https://philosophy.unm.edu/news-events/sw-seminar/seminar/files/What%20is%20Ethics%20as%20First%20Philosophy.pdf
Levinas’s Existential Analytic: A Commentary on Totality and Infinity
https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/levinas-s-existential-analytic-a-commentary-on-totality-and-infinity/
Comparing Three Twentieth-Century Philosophical Antitheodicies
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/6/4/98/pdf
More on how British philosophy has gotten things so terribly wrong, and how analytic philosophy provides the intellectual foundations of contemporary Anglo-American neo-liberalism. 😉
http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/abstract/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199234097.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199234097-e-12?rskey=SUxCQl&result=2
Analytic Philosophy, the Analytic School, and British Philosophy
http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/abstract/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199238842.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199238842-e-002?rskey=SUxCQl&result=3
The Cultural Politics of Analytic Philosophy
Britishness and the Spectre of Europe
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-cultural-politics-of-analytic-philosophy-9781441126573/
The Elective Affinity Between Analytic Philosophy and the Political Status Quo.
https://againstprofphil.org/2017/03/20/the-elective-affinity-between-analytic-philosophy-and-the-political-status-quo/
If professional British philosophers are so clever, why are the Tories killing off the poor through the paradigm of austerity?
https://www.newappsblog.com/2018/07/foucaults-analytic-philosophy-of-politics.html
Analytic Philosophy of History
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312955928_Analytic_Philosophy_of_History_Origins_Eclipse_and_Revival
If Anglo-American Philosophy Is So Great, Where Is Its Las Casas? (guest post by Manuel R. Vargas)
http://dailynous.com/2017/05/16/anglo-american-philosophy-great-las-casas/
Neoliberalism as Concept
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/venugopr/venugopal2014augneoliberalism.pdf
Hope folk in Scotland are looking forward to becoming Brexitanians.
Big Jay McNeely-There Is Something On Your Mind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpsM3IkbrfE
Of course, not all Anglo-American analytical philosophy is pants. Especially since the invention of Critical Realism.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/1476743014Z.00000000037
Definitely Off Topic.
As France grieves at the terrible damage to their Grand Cathedral Notre Dame in Paris here it is in all it’s splendour with the magnificent American operatic soprano Jessye Norman singing in 1990.
What a terrible loss.
GOUNOD’S SANCTUS from Messe Solennelle.
YouTube:
https://tinyurl.com/y6bajja6
Headphones/earphones recommended.
Enjoy.
Further to the open letter to the Scottish Parliament re. the threats posed by the proposed reform of the GRA, here’s one that I’m sure Dr. Kath Murray would approve of. The accurate recording of sex isn’t only crucial to good health management, it is also vital to coherent jurisprudence and an effective penal system.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249720895_Different_Ways_of_Conceptualizing_SexGender_in_Feminist_Theory_and_Their_Implications_for_Criminology
@A Thousand Flowers
How do you support equality by denying scientific and legal rationality, while discriminating against biological human females? You are damaging society by supporting reactionary anti-science!
N.B. Sex and gender-identity are not the same.
http://www.bioethicsobservatory.org/2017/05/sex-and-gender-new-findings-new-controversy/17523
More in support of sex-classes grounded in biology. Sex and gender-identity are not the same things, changing law to suggest they are will undermine the social position of women, for a start. Law that is not supported by science, can not escape the charge of being illiberal.
https://www.dur.ac.uk/psychology/research/paa/cognitive/
I hope folk living in Scotland are sufficiently prepared to perform as Brexitanians, seeing as how the British constitution is clearly ‘optional documentation’ and Scotland not an equal partner in Yoonyawn.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-handbook-of-the-psychology-of-prejudice/from-prejudice-to-social-change-a-social-identity-perspective/96A86D773530B5873B23C3BAEFE48025
The Bias Beneath: Two Decades of Measuring Implicit Associations
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/the-bias-beneath-two-decades-of-measuring-implicit-associations
Models of social change in social psychology: Collective action or prejudice reduction? Conflict or harmony?
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2012-08867-011
Elise LeGrow – You Can’t Judge A Book By The Cover / You Can’t Catch Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v59qSlZlJyQ
#WorldMurdoDay, doh!
Evenin’ Cameron, cheers for yours mate
Hope ye can make it tae Glasgow on the 4th
Glasgow callin’
Cactus
I’ll certainly do my best to make it through.
Excellent
I’m pretty sure I pointed out the failings in HMG’s consultation over changes to the GRA. Insufficient consideration of biological women’s needs and too much focus on a legalistic interpretation of equality. For the umpteenth time, sex and gender-ideology are not the same things. Creating law that suggests they are will harm society.
Please peeps, forward this link to your local MP/MSP.
Gender, Sex and Sexuality Studies
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/sections/gender-sex-and-sexuality-studies#
Perusing comments on MT via ‘ A Plan of little Action’ and noted they are dominated by ‘The Life of Brian’ with his tales of cancelled SNP membership ( aye right) and obvious long held contempt for Nicola and SNP…..AND….why does he feel so compelled to tell us this….to make such contemptuous comments and then NOT expect a reaction ( aye right)…on an Indy supporting site where some members obviously support SNP….Duh….how obvious does one need to be….this fud is an opportunist.
I also noted some negativity towards Rev Stu re post on ” A plan of little action” …..sorry but is the person who OWNS this site not allowed to voice his opinion on statement given by Nicola…AND unlike (The Life of) Brian the Rev promotes a reasonable argument which generates discussion and food for thought …..think people should appreciate all of the brilliant posts he has written which has done way more for promoting the case for independence than many of the false prophets who flip flop from Indy to Corbyn loving Socialists.
This IS his site and thus he is entitled to write what he wants to write….one can disagree and challenge him on posts he writes …something he does not berate you for if you have a valid and well argued point….but some comments via his last posting are below the belt and totally undeserved…I am raging as this is so so unfair ….how easily some people forget or rather fail to appreciate how brilliant his contributions are and have been to the Indy cause. Are we really shooting the messenger ?.F**cking hope not ….I for one totally understand what he meant by his observation re Farage being best hope for us getting Independence.
Sorry for rant….but this site is precious to me and will defend it fiercely….even if I do not comment as much as I used to….I read it when he has posted new article and refer as many people as I can to it also.
Apologies if have offended anyone ….not my intention….but I think he must be exasperated and a tad pissed off at how easily people are offended and also how quickly they are to condemn him should he dare to criticise the SNP….and I say that as an SNP member and voter…..no party is above criticism and if it is warranted then it should be welcomed not condemned…we are after all NOT a cult !
Have a good day everyone….keep up the good work Stu and have a good day too.
Welcome back to your Friday Rock Show!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuKDBPw8wQA&list=PL36d3KnrhyLA-C-NBqRlYoQ6nMM3XDlXU
There are 22 songs on the PLAYlist
A bit of Midnight Oil.
We carry in our hearts the true country…
and that cannot be stolen.
We follow in the steps of our ancestry…
and that cannot be broken.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16bFBzx7I_0
Friday thought…How is it that so much music over the years, in a wide range of genres, highlights the wrongs carried out by the powerful and their oppression of the majority to retain that power, yet we still live under the thumb…
You gorra laff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrhXeBcCr78
and then on the Danube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4rvwU16dYw
and a last one I played before
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYwzG9EGtBU
That should cheer you all up 🙂
Those that are left that is …
Just heard about one of our Wingers 🙁 xx
@Cactus, me too.
Geez what a shock
One, strictly unofficial, way of counting the potential Yes vote for #IndyRef2 is by how many thousands are following the Wings account on Twitter.
Well, the good, no the *excellent* news is that 60 thousand now follow Wings!
So the Yes vote is forecast to be 60%. Not the ‘meager’ 49% shown by the latest opinion poll. 😉
Cactus, Nana, what’s the news? Any update?
It is with great sadness I have to inform you that our fellow winger cearc passed away suddenly on 20th of April in Raigmore hospital.
I received the news from her family this afternoon.
Sorry to read that Nana.
She was always so upbeat at the get-togethers and so on.
Shame.
@Nana – thanks for posting about cearc. I’ve just seen the email in my box and came to see if Wingers had been told. I only once met her at a local Yes meeting and was struck by her original mind and good feeling. She will be greatly missed.
That is indeed very sad news about cearc. I’m glad to have spent some brief moments with her, as she displayed a particular strength and independence of spirit.
Hi peeps.
On the news about cearc – I had a look, again, at the videos from a couple of “Wings Over Invergowrie” get-togethers that I uploaded to YouTube.
They are from February and October 2015.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZhc7uweLGk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_fkVUJby90
Hopefully, her spirit will enjoy independence when it comes.
cearc, God. Thoughts with family – and us. One of the best of us.
Morning Brian
Thank you for posting the videos.
We got to know Cearc when she came to stay with us during Ginger Dug’s visit to Dingwall. She was kind, witty and exceptionally bright.
I picture her wearing ‘that’ hat and smile.
Aye, very sad news about cearc. She went to great efforts to attend as many of the Wings social events as she could. I am glad to have known her, she always brought a cheerful, upbeat spirit to the group in spite of her own personal difficulties. She will be missed.
We’ll raise a glass to her memory at the next get together.
RIP cearc.
So sad that Maria won’t be with us on independence day. She was at the Dows gathering just a few weeks ago and was in fine form.
A beautiful generous woman, we’ll aye remember her with love.
So sorry to hear of cearc’s passing.
Sad news.
Deepest sympathies.
@Macart
Last time cearc emailed me, she was jolly and although in and out of hospital seemed to be coping well with the treatment, so yesterday’s news came as a complete shock.
As IanB says “A beautiful generous woman, we’ll aye remember her with love”
So shocked and saddened to hear of Cearc’s passing…
An inspirational woman whom wingers will remember with admiration and love xxxx
RIP Maria….
So incredibly sorry to hear about our Cearc – she was such a force!
I’ll never forget the night the Cactus, she and I spent in Glasgow after one of our do’s in the CH, kicking about the streets at 4 am, with Maria zooming around in her wee scooter (slightly tipsy – we all were), laughing her head off and having a rare old time 🙂
She was the best kind of bad influence I could have ever hoped for, and I’ll miss her dearly xxx
Dear All,
It is with great sadness that we have to inform you that our mother, your relative, friend or acquaintance, Maria Patricia Nolan, passed away suddenly on Saturday the 20th of April at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness.
We are making plans for a service to be held in Inverness on Wednesday the 8th of May. Further to that we will be having a memorial gathering at her home on her birthday, the 20th of May. To both, you’re most welcome, but please let us know at your first convenience if you wish to attend either or both and we will inform you of our finalized plans. These do depend on the number of people attending.
We gathered your details from personal contact lists, however we are unsure how complete this list is. So please do pass this on to anyone that you think should know and extend our welcome to them.
Warm regards,
Emma, Aubrey and Morwenna Hewes
RIP Maria XXX
Briandoonthetoon I guided Cearc’s celebrant Elaine Smith to your post re Invergowrie night out to give her a insight on Cearc
This one’s for you Winger Cearc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulvmdYMyT80
X
Hi peeps.
Posted this on the front page but thought I’d repeat it here.
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Kudos to RT UK.
They have a 3 hour 43 minute video of the whole march to Glasgow Green, done with no commentary, kinda like ‘candid camera’. There’s a break in the video at 2 hours 21 minutes until 2H 39M, when they start showing Glasgow Green from a high viewpoint.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQcDbR9Zr2U
And it was good to introduce Wingers to Wingers whom they knew by username but had never met.
Indyref2 meeting Yesbot was interesting…
8=)
I think I might have suggested sex is not the same as gender-identity. 😉
https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Development/RTDBook/PartIIChapter11.pdf
Women’s Human Rights
What are women’s human rights?
https://www.globalfundforwomen.org/womens-human-rights/
Promoting gender equality and women’s rights
Commissioned by: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
https://www.giz.de/en/worldwide/65544.html
https://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/sectors/human-rights-and-governance/gender_en
Brian Doonthetoon
Sorry Brian, I posted before refreshing. What a day eh? 😉
This week I’ve been mostly listening to the colour “pink”.
The Dramatics – Get Up & Get Down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXFKj2RpfRA
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1180842/
I’ll always support independence for Scotland, but right now I have serious concerns as to the logic and strategic acumen of certain senior SNP members. Do third wave feminists not acknowledge the task of the second wave has yet to be accomplished?
http://opil.ouplaw.com/view/10.1093/law:epil/9780199231690/law-9780199231690-e1745
As for the lack of support for the AUOB march in Glasgow. Uncontrolled popular action can be scary to some. Remember, the default setting for humans is small “c” conservative, as we share a “phenomenal conservatism”.
Rufus Thomas – Do The Funky Chicken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x-vCNSFSTc
One for the deniers of biological science, who appear to believe that radical and intrusive medicalisation is capable of transforming “man” into “woman”, thus suggesting “sex” is an emotional “performance” of sexist stereotypes. This is partly an effect of neo-liberalism on feminism and leads us back to a patriarchal society.
Remember, “sex” and “gender-identity” are not the same things. Confusing them will disrupt legal rationality, jurisprudence and public health, for a start. Undermining the rights of biological women advances us significantly down the path towards authoritarian totalitarianism. Needless to say, though I will go to the bother, discriminating against half the electorate is hardly likely to engender their support to your cause, is it?
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/societies/special_issues/gender-and-social-change
Ah was having a look at some stats and thought aye’d try some math
Should Scotland be an independent country?
Yes – 1,617,989
No – 2,001,926
Total = 3,619,915
IF the current poll is about 49% vs 51% (with margin of error). Based on an 84.59% eligible and similar turnout like last time, does that then mean that THIS TIME all we need are a further…
Yes – 1,773,758 (49%)
No – 1,846,157 (51%)
Difference = 72,399
We need 72,400 more Yes voters to get us over the line
(less even when more former no voters decide to Choose Yes this time)
SO does that then mean that…
We would only need 36,200 more, former no voters, to Vote Yes
(Ahm shure there will be other factors that come into PLAY)
Here’s one for folk that think I’m a bit weird (well ok) and I’m driven by a hatred of trans-women. I’m an ethical rationalist, my concern is inclusive and sustainable social justice. I’m an easy-going sort of guy who once shared a flat with my girlfriend, two lesbians and a transvestite (who boxed at light-middleweight and cross-dressed when serving in the army, though not at the same time). 🙂
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14767430.2018.1493842
To whom ever the designer was
I won’t have been the first (as i don’t get out the house much) but credit is due where credit is due –
THE NEW YES LOGO is just first class.
I said “X” boxed at light-middleweight, I meant light-heavyweight. “X” was a big lad and really needed a lot of help with feminising his cross-dressing, style-wise. Just as well the girls were there to help, once I got the ball rolling by slagging-off his choice of wig, which did him no favours, frankly. Well, I’m a bit of a critical realist even though I’m an ethical rationalist, and I discovered his alter-ego by accident. I was a bit stunned and thought honesty the best policy, when he asked me what I thought about him dressing as a woman. Not exactly the sort of conversation you expect, out-of-the-blue, when preparing to go to work in the morning. 😉
Bobby Marchan – There is Something On Your Mind (Parts 1 & 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvf_4_JNA80
@ronnie Anderson: I won’t be getting to cearc’s funeral tomorrow but I understand that the family are planning a gathering at Maria’s house on 20th May. If they give the details tomorrow [time, address] could you please report?
Thank you.
re. the cultural aesthetic of power, in an age of zombie neo-liberalism. I hope those living in Scotland are prepared to become Brexitanians. Remember, you’ll have to give up any notion of being protected by law, and definitely not the British constitution. Better be prepared to be treated as a possession of Westminster, with ambiguous human rights.
https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui/bitstream/2134/34179/4/05_10_2018_Whose%20cult.pdf
Given the human condition is biopsychosocial, Scotland better be psychologically prepared to submit to the British state and, subsequently, deny any significance or value to cultural heritage and national identity. Alternatively, the healthier option would be to act responsibly, as moral agents of choice, and work towards self-determination for Scotland.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4927584/
I’m not letting narrow minds re-claim the aesethic power of the “cybernat” tag, for the bullies. We took it from them and turned it against them. I’m a vile cybernat and a “virus” until Scotland is a normal, independent, nation again. 😉
The Magnificent Men – Peace of Mind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgDUjUAORr4
First posted five years ago and amended.
“My country has sucked the good years from my bones and rewarded me with a brittle poverty in retirement.
I paid for Bishops and Lords I didn’t elect and illegal wars that I didn’t support. I fired expensive missiles at foreign families in a rich man’s oil war. I paid for duck moats for dick wads to control me, and bonuses for Bankers to break the fabric of our financial system. I bailed banks that were resold at a loss to me.
I watched our political system lord over decades of financial and cultural incompetence. A system not fit for the purposes and needs of a modern world, hampered by ancient tradition, debilitated by class stricture and structure. A system choked by nationalistic pomp and circumstance and run by an ossified establishment. It’s a heavy burden for an ordinary man.
As I struggled to secure a roof and education for my sons, and lived honestly and frugally through each economic crisis, I watched the rich become richer and the poor eke an existence in a corrupt democracy of cash for questions, cronyism, expense scandals, and skimming politicians.
They sold my railways, energy companies, water and hospitals and I paid tax to private companies to keep them running. They devalued my currency four times, while propping up their cronies in the City.
All the money I generated over the decades, my personal GDP, was wasted in government ineptitude and inefficiency. My pensions were decimated. The taxes and cost of living crippled me.
My sons left for London and New Zealand. I don’t blame them; I blame the UK class system. A lifetime of yoke and boot. A lifetime of housing, heating, eating and education, necessities that were costed like luxuries. Democratic rights sold as privilege. And thus the continuation of the extreme Scottish economic immigration that is a great shame on the UK.
And through these decades, I have had the misfortune to suffer the false promises and prophecies of Scottish Labour. The party that adds insult to injury. The party that are simply a more incompetent version of the Tories, nothing more.
I had to listen to the lies of Project Fear and currently endure the blitz and bombardment of Westminster propaganda against the slightest ambition in Scotland to change the status quo.
With Brexit, I voted to Remain, along with the vast majority of my Countrymen. The EU is better for the North. There are economic, political and cultural differences between Scotland and England.
But we are dragged along by this undemocratic, hegemonic Tory & Labour duopoly, into an embarrassing mess that demonstrates the incompetence and unsuitability of a huge number of MPs for any type of Leadership. And confirms again that Westminster is no longer ‘fit for purpose’.
And in ten years, little has changed.
“The parliamentary expenses watchdog tried to cover up data showing 377 MPs, including nine cabinet ministers, have had their credit cards suspended for wrong, incomplete or late claims. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa), set up in the wake of the expenses scandal 10 years ago, initially tried to claim the information should not be released because it could hinder the operation of the expenses system.”
Guardian Today
For forty years I travelled and worked freely across Europe. Proud of my heritage and respectful of other countries. And now I am ashamed by a Brexit that is about ‘Southern populist xenophobia’ and the ‘British Establishment clawing back power and control’, both in the mistaken belief in an Empire that collapsed a long time ago.
And the cherry on the cake? The new Royal Baby has been given the title of the Earl of Dumbarton. A big rock on the Clyde where I was born. Aye right.
I am deeply ashamed of this United Kingdom in its current state.”
@Eric
It would be well worth posting that comment on the main thread for more exposure than in off topic.
Flags flags flags. Got a supply of 5ft X 3ft Saltire flags in again at Forward Shop including ones with the Euro stars (with sleeve and eyelets). Will post one to you for £4 (p&p included) or collect at the Forward Shop Dunoon). Cheques made out to “YES Cowal” at Forward, 186 Argyll Street ,Dunoon PA23 7HA
I think it’s pretty fair to say that Scotland’s political environment is completely messed up. I think it is also pretty fair to say that this suites the yoons. There isn’t really a road-map as such, we’re kind of waiting for the axe to drop at present, but there’s knowledge that can help us avoid unnecessary spats.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5901394/
Boris Brejcha – Night Owl (Original Mix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e04VaFyBEcQ
Adam Price AC/AM on BBC Breakfast, today:
https://www.facebook.com/PlaidCymruWales/videos/419686748852972/
Phantom Power’s excellent 90-second video of today’s march.
“The dragon awakes. Highlights of the incredible #AUOBCymru march for Welsh Independence in Cardiff @AUOBCymru #IndyWales”
twitter.com/i/status/1127243479422251008
Indy for all!
Going with the Wales theme, a Rolling Stones poster for a 1973 concert at Cardiff Castle.
Great artwork, including a dragon with Jagger-style lips and tongue. 🙂
(Artist is Aussie Kate Burness.)
https://auction.lelands.com/images_items/item_20812_1.jpg
If society doesn’t sort out the woke brigade that appears to have captured key positions within the world of politics, the everyday world that we inhabit is pretty much screwed, IMHO. The rejection of scientifically based bio-medical and legal rationality is a major step towards authoritarian totalitarianism. However, that does not mean I am insensitive to the suffering of those who’s embodied lived experience is one of gender dysforia.
http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/152/152
Hello My Friend I do not know if you still look in here now and again ? but if you do. On this day of all days Then this is for you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia6Tvpj6dPw Peace and Love
Good one, Michael McCabe.
Hi Smallaxe
Good to see you posted..
Stay well my friend, love to Mrs Smallaxe xxxx
Hi Smallaxe.
Greetingsto you both from me too, also, as well, an’ a’!
SHAZBOT!
“Greetingsto” should be “Greetings to”…
Hi, Liz & Brian:
Peace, Love, and Independence (soon) to you All!
Climb Aboard;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9OhXpdwAiA
We don’t need a lifeboat! The good ship Scotland can ride out any storm on its own, as long as the crew works together peacefully then the land of freedom is already beneath our feet.
Thank’s for the music, Michael. 🙂
Michael McCabe and Smallaxe
Nice to see you both posting again.
Jazz Reggae (Mandis Megamix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woS40mXN5FE
Hi Smallaxe (and other likers of that reggae).
Eh jiss cannae mind if eh huv postit these links in “off-topic” in the past (maybe huv). Onnyhoo, here they are again. The links may not play immediately; you may have to download then save/open but here they are. Scottish cross country reggae.
https://sites.google.com/site/webgaffer/myoozack/AlastairMacDonald-Lets-Foot-It-Out-64kbps.mp3
https://sites.google.com/site/webgaffer/myoozack/MagnificentSeven-Reggae-Bagpipes.64kbps.mp3
BTW: Alastair MacDonald is a Yesser. He was onstage performing at either a “Hope Over Fear” or “AUOB” rally in Glasgow in the past couple of years.
I see that muppet Hothersall is having a pop at Joanna Cherry. No surprise as his head is full of ideological, ‘One Nation’, mince. He’s a Tory at heart. A very confused chap.
Oi Dunc, you’re a reactionary twat.
https://www.psa.ac.uk/sites/default/files/conference/papers/2017/Ideology%20as%20Motivated%20Cultural%20Cognition.pdf
Hey Smallaxe, guid tae see you back in bro 🙂
Aye like your ship… mines is a carpet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPE9a_epmWw
Please have your voting tickets ready everybuddy
NOW 50 years since ’69!
@Duncan Hothersall
Do you not appreciate your British nationalism is the articulation of authoritarian structural racism (see Farage denying Islamophobia exists)?
https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/0199280711.001.0001/acprof-9780199280711
Well, I don’t mind a bit of reggae/bluebeat these days but I was slow to the party. I remember liking this back in the 70s when it was released.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SYA_FikPm4
When I discovered the snooze-delights of ‘easy listening’ (inspired by Cone Cattenach, one of my punters at the rock clubs I DJ’d at), I stumbled across this:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPHSgguzPtw
My previous exposure of Ron Goodwin had been the link below, which is still one of my fave tracks, through ‘Children’s Favourites’/’Junior Choice’, though Cozy Powell did a decent cover of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWXQUhBsUVM
And Cozy’s version…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x5Q1SIbjkk
Then there’s this from the early 70s…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C79spWeuakU
Which, obviously, leads on to…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-Tko909E2U
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfNsz9Z3jYE
To finish off this wee music sequence…
This track was a godsend! What I used to do at discos, ranging from rock clubs to wedding receptions, was to start with Sylvia’s original, then segue into Judge Dread’s version, then segue back and forward between the two.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cnejw0v8TE
Thought I’d have a few minutes off from the politics and listen to some magnificent live work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7aSb92wHKs&list=RDN7aSb92wHKs&start_radio=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av3PbfP6vhw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJfWwFj_Rxo
The Wanderer is in my opinion the best rock’n’roll song ever and Well All Right is my favourite song of all time.
Welcome back Smallaxe, looks like the gang’s getting back together again!
Thin Lizzy – The Boys Are Back In Town
“Guess who just got back today
Them wild-eyed boys that had been away
Haven’t changed that much to say
But man, I still think them cats are crazy”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_xqb416S7o
How do ye do Thepnr, hope to catch up with you again soon bro
Ah huvnae played this song in a while
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KtAgAMzaeg
Cheers
Structuration, now there’s word for you. 🙂
http://essedunet.nsd.uib.no/cms/topics/family/4/5.html
DMH yesterday @ 10.15pm, ah, thank you Dave, I just love that version of It’s Allright by Nanci Griffiths and The Crickets. I haven’t heard it in a long time.
Smallaxe, great to see you posting again. I hope you’re doing okay, kind regards to Mrs Smallaxe as well. The place hisnae been the same withoot ye.
The MT is doing my nut in these days, don’t post much at the moment. Seems I’m not alone. Where’s Tinto Chiel, Nana seems to be having a well deserved rest at the moment. Macart only comments now and again, and Thepnr as well. Mibbies we’re a’ gethering strength for the fight to come.
Cameron B, please don’t take this the wrong way, but, you seem to be overpowering both the MT and OT these days, could you maybe tone it doon a wee bitty, thank you.
Dan (the music fan/man).
Here’s my email to get in touch:
llddc01 [at] yahoo [dot] com
Hoping to hear from you.
Marie Clark
I appreciate you’re trying to be gentle. I do my best to moderate the quantity of my posts, but I post when I see an opportunity to develop folks understanding of our predicament. At least I provide sources so folk can look things up for themselves, in their own time. My mistake.
Lots of the best Scottish music on my “Roundabout” on our online Argyll Independent Radio at 7oclock.
A hard day’s graft for me so a hardish tune seems about right to vent on a Friday nicht.
Hey Theresa! You can stick your US trade deals up yet jacksy! Because I don’t want to be an…
Green Day – American Idiot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1BS7XnEZqc
@Welsh Sion, Cheers, I’ll get in touch soon.
OK, if the academic approach to defending sex classes that are grounded in biology, and a meaningful conceptualisation of “womanhood” is a bit overpowering, how about some 1970s easy-listening German pop culture? Nice.
Werner Muller & His Orchestra – Femme Femme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaymMvf4O0k
Is that a Jazz Club reference there Cameron?
Ooh, here’s a band I hadn’t heard of before. NiteWorks, from Skye, which seem to take traditional Scottish music into a modern fusion with electronic tech.
Now I’m embarrassed to say that my Gaelic isn’t very good at all, but this song appears to be about a group of hungry island lasses singing about their disappointment with the delivery service and culinary preparation standard of their meat and orange sauce Chinese takeaway order.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY7q1DjmsiE
Dan
What? Me? With my reputation? 😉
Busted, so you are really Rowley Birkin QC and are actually very, very drunk.
How lucky are we to be able to communicate and share info with the internet these days.
I guess Wings, Wee Ginger Dug, Scot Goes Pop, Talking Up Scotland, etc would’ve had to set up temporary radio broadcasts to get their info out if we were 50 years back in time.
Kasabian – Club Foot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk5iMgG-WJI
@Ronnie Anderson: just to let you know that I contacted cearc’s family and will be at the memorial gathering tomorrow at cearc’s house. Wearing my Wings badge on my hat, of course.
Here’s one that might help folk understand contemporary sexual politics in the USA, and the continued global war against women. This is where the New Right is leading Britain, so tough titty if you’re not already hetro-normative and illiberal. It might be advisable for you to start learning how to “perform” as an ‘acceptable’ citizen.
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.596.5569&rep=rep1&type=pdf
@ Sarah 19 May, 2019 at 4:14 pm
Look forward to meeting you there.
@hackalumpoff: great! Peter, a rare btl commenter, is coming too. Fingers crossed the midges hold off – touch wood, we’ve not had them yet but this is perfect conditions for them!
@ Sarah
I hope my Midge antibodies acquired from 1988 the peat cutting season are still effective.
In case of Emergency I’ll take a bottle of a Smokey West Coast Malt for a rub down, can’t be too careful out West.
Good to read that we Wingers will have representation at cearc’s farewell tomorrow.
She managed to get to at least a couple of WOS get-togethers in Invergowrie so I feel a tad guilty that I can’t make it tomorrow in the other direction.
My thoughts are with her family. She was a tad feisty, iye?
Hope the chickens are ok.
@BDtt: cearc was indefatigable – she got to places that I never did! Thank you for posting those clips of the Wings gatherings with her in.
I’m sure the hens etc will be OK – there’s loads of folk around locally who keep hens.
I see JaMur on the MT mentions G. Brown has made an appearance.
https://wingsoverscotland.com/89-of-scots-support-second-indyref/comment-page-1/#comment-2460577
Will Stu boot my arse if I post up a tune link and some amended lyrics for it here in OT?
I have been delegated to report back on the visit to cearc’s garden today [her birthday]. Maria’s children, grandchildren, sister and nephew/niece were very welcoming and politely listened to us talking at length about our memories of cearc, Wings and politics. Wings was represented by hackalumpoff, resplendent with a GOLD Wings badge, self and Peter.
The garden is lovely – very natural with a burn, lots of trees and grass. Not an easy spot to work on as the ground falls away steeply to the burn. There were places to sit at all the different levels – it was good to imagine cearc pausing for a rest and enjoying the views.
Ronnie’s wreath was still in flower – lovely colours. And cearc’s collection of badges from all the Wings gatherings, that she used to wear, was on display. I never knew that Chris Cairns cartoons are on badges!
The hens and ducks etc are all safe and now live with Emma near Gairloch. The sandwiches and cakes we ate had been made with their eggs.
We toasted cearc with several drinks – some made by cearc but in unlabelled bottles, which was fun! – but rounded off with a glass of pink champagne. A touch of frivolity with style – just like cearc.
Sarah Hackalumpaff Peter Im glad to see that you’s attended cerac’s memorial service . I couldn’t make it as I had cataract operation today . Wee correction Sarah the wreath was purchased by the Wings stall on behalf of all Wingers .
I know that Emma Morweena Aubry Mark would have enjoyed your remaniises of cearc .
The wee chooky hen woman will live on in our memories X .
@Sarah –
Thanks for that. Great to hear.
X
@Ronnie – hope the op went well. Cearc’s family mentioned you were having a cataract dealt with. They were very touched by your support, and that of Wingers in general.
Hackalumpoff will confirm that the drive to cearc’s house [the road and its own drive] are best not undertaken if your eyesight isn’t 100%!! Single track and very bendy… a really delightful spot though.
@IB – thanks.
@ Sarah, Ronnie et al
It was worth going to meet Cearc’s family who were so welcoming. They had decorated the house with pictures of her life story.
What really got me was how remote the house was 20 miles up the most bendy, tight, blind cornered single track road I can remember and I learned to drive on single track roads with more sheep than cars.
Given her disability it is almost unbelievable that she could drive to the nearest town every week, never mind to all the Wings events and marches all over the country, even in winter.
The family has kept her sash with all her Wings/Indy badges. I suggested it be kept for a future WOS collection/display in the National Museum. I nominated BDTT for Curator as he appears to be the unofficial Wings historian on here 😉
@Hackalumpoff: we were exhausted when we got home after that drive and we too wondered how on earth cearc had managed. Extraordinary brave character.
There should definitely be a Wings collection in our National Museum and I’m sure BDTT will do a grand job!
@ Ronnie
Hope all is well after your op. Ronnie. Although you couldn’t make it to Cearc’s memorial service, Wings folks have been well represented and it sounds like their presence was appreciated.
Cearc will be missed wherever Wings gathers.
@Prof. Alice Roberts
Blocking decent is analogous to running away from the issue, you do academia a disservice through your lack of engagement. How is society to resist patriarchy and learn more compassionate modes of living, if so called “experts” close down debate about what it means to be human?
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0104-026X2017000200435&script=sci_arttext&tlng=en
Sorry, I still need to get new glasses, the = are meant to be -, mk.
Doh, sorry, that last one was meant for the war-on-women thread.
Nature’s Time – The Way I See It
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3mjCFh5eUs
For Theresa May:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D6xSDffm6c
‘So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen” (from Sound of Music)
🙂
For Theresa May, part 2.
Dudley Moore and Peter Cook Sing “Goodbye”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0u3NM8rd1U
For wossername in Downing Street:
The Moody Blues: “Go Now”: Live 1965
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEGUVLpTzOs
For the crybaby at Number Ten:
She’s Gone (1976) – Hall & Oates
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnVXIUyshng
WHO’S NEXT!
Sensational Alex Harvey Band – “Next”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqx5j-FuqeI
Uh-oh! The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band remind us:
“No matter who you vote for (the government always gets in).”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XZGddMeRXU
Let’s stay cheerful, and look at the bigger picture –
the Wings fundraiser is closing in on £100,000
🙂
PanelBase poll shows a majority, 50.2%, want an early Indy Ref!
🙂
I’ll take that news, any day of the week.
The poll news comes from yesterday on Scotgoespop.
I’ve just posted this on my Facebook page. Thought I’d share it here.
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Not a lot of people get what I’m going to try to explain. Bear with me…
We live in the unitary state known, internationally, as the “United Kingdom”. It was formed in 1707, when the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England entered into a union. Scotland was a country in its own right. England comprised the country of England, the Principality of Wales and the Province of Ireland.
The “United Kingdom” is NOT a “country”.|
I heard the obfuscation on the TV news tonight. The politicians in Westminster, supported by the mainstream media, both print and broadcast, use various terms to avoid the use of the name “United Kingdom”.
Instead, they use terms “Britain” (tonight), which actually refers to the British Isles, also known as the Atlantic Archipelago – which includes the Irish Republic and all the Crown Dependencies, like Jersey and The isle of Man for example. Obviously NOT the “United Kingdom”!
Other terms used include our “Nation”. Which nation? The English, Scots, Welsh or Northern Irish “nation”?
nation
noun
a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular state or territory.
Not the UK then.
Then there is the use of “the country”. Which country?
country
noun (pl.countries)
1 a nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory.
So, when Westminster politicians talk of “the country”, are they meaning Scotland (with its own government), Wales (with its own government), Northern Ireland (with its own government) or England, where there is no parliament or government but they appear to regard the UK parliament/government as the English parliament/government, which was dissolved in 1707?
Incidentally, the Scottish parliament was NOT dissolved in 1707. Due to rioting in the streets of Edinburgh, the Scottish parliament was prorogued.
prorogue
verb (prorogues, proroguing, prorogued) [ with obj. ]
discontinue a session of (a parliament or other legislative assembly) without dissolving it.
That was why, in 1999, Winnie Ewing was able to announce, at the opening of the (now) Scottish Parliament,
“I want to start with the words that I have always wanted either to say or to hear someone else say – the Scottish Parliament, which adjourned on March 25, 1707, is hereby reconvened.”
There has been no contradiction, over the years, of her statement.
That was the event that featured a prominent YESSER from Dundee singing her heart out.
This mixing up of country, nation, Britain, and so on, is a cynical ploy to water down the individual nations that are contained within the UK.
Finally, why has England not been awarded its own parliament? Easy – because they see the UK parliament as theirs. That’s why Scotland has to be out of this unequal union ASAP.
Could it be that too many Scots actually believe Johann Lamont’s, (as Labour’s head honcho in Scotland in 2014), proclamation that as Scots, “We are not genetically programmed in Scotland to make political decisions.”
Oh yi bliddy think so?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hudNoXsUj0o
Pretty much spot-on Prof, Doonthetoon. It’s not rocket surgery, is it? And a wee nod to Dave, one from Brazil with a witchy theme to reflect the heresy of rational science that I’ve been trying to indoctrinate folk with. I’m totalitarian cultural Marxist, after all. 😉
Os Mutantes – Baby (English Version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK0HV-FxS6M
Science is it, CameronB?! Ah’ll get ma white labcoat…
Thomas Dolby – “She Blinded Me With Science” (with special appearance by Dr Magnus Pyke)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V83JR2IoI8k
Ooh, good call with Tam Dolby there David. Did we ever find that missing submarine or is it one of the rusting hulls lying in Rosyth?
Continuing the science theme I kindled up a fire recently with some old newspapers and took a wee scan over the text as one does during the scrunching process.
Hmm, some lad had carried out a study that supposedly proved normally grumpy octopuses seemed to react positively when dunked in a solution containing MDMA, becoming far more social and empathic and thus proving that humans and octopi? even after 500 million years of evolution still share some basic similarities in certain areas.
I did wonder why this student had chosen such a niche subject to study and whether he was really just after some pharma grade E.
Couldn’t help but chuckle though as it reminded me of Treeza’s government that was about as “strong and stable” as a pished jellyfish on ketamin.
B52s Roam (around the EU if you want to for the time being before you need visas and shit)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNwC0sp-uA4
I’m gonna paste a comment I posted on my Facebook page last week. It was in a post I did about “Marche des soldats de Robert Bruce” (March of the soldiers of Robert Bruce).
I’ll follow with a couple of links.
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“I know, as a DJ, I’ve been playing “Flower of Scotland” at the end of family functions (weddings, 21sts, 50ths, silver weddings, golden weddings and so on) since the 70s but I think “Scots Wha Hae” sung to the original tune, should be an independent Scotland’s national anthem.
After all, it’s known all over Europe.
Why disregard that recognition of our status as a NATION?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WulAWn_N_O0
See how many hits you get when you search for “Marche des soldats de Robert Bruce” on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=“Marche+des+soldats+de+Robert+Bruce”
Robert peffers and all with ebikes: I was interested in the comments a few days ago about ebikes. Would Raleigh be a good make to go for? We would like to be able to use them on forestry type tracks as well as our single -track road.
Thank you for any advice!
Brian Doonthetoon
I wrotetothe SNO HQ asking that this version be played to end allo ur conferences but git norepley. The pipes coming in always reduces me to tears.
The comments after does similar. The world is waiting for us. This is worth a million leaflets.
DMH and BDtt; we were astonished to find that Europe plays this tune so much, and so well. As you say, music appeals to people easily – I think we missed a trick in 2014 by not having more music played. This tune as the theme for all Yes events would be a great help.
“….I don’t have the emotional/resilience tools in my belt to deal with this.
I cannot continue having this conversation.”
A problem with many on the ‘liberal left’, is they have limited moral fiber. 😉
All The People (feat. Robert Moore) – Cramp Your Style
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoRMlxl6oK0
@Sarah re. E bikes
There has been a lot of developments in the design of E bikes over a relatively short time.
They have evolved quickly with advances in things like battery tech, how they operate eg. changing from hub motors in the wheel to a centrally positioned drive assembly in the middle of the frame which makes them better balanced.
There’s many different brands but they often use the same drive system eg Bosch.
There are often demo days arranged by some of the bike shops that will have a range of stock available so you can get advice and actually try riding different types of bike before committing to purchase one. They are kind of pricey though.
E bikes by nature are a fair bit heavier than a conventional bike so loading in and out of vehicles takes a bit more effort and care.
If you’re just sticking to the main forestry tracks you won’t need some all singing and dancing full suspension version which is used on the proper mtb trails.
A hardtail mtb with basic suspension front fork might be what you need, though it’s quite possible a hybrid road / offroad design may also be worth considering if you are a fairweather cyclist that won’t be getting too adventurous and needing the larger volume chunky treaded tyres to cope with bumpy and muddy terrain.
Dan, thank you for helping me out with this info. We are in our late 60’s and definitely fair weather, non-extreme pottering type cyclists – looking to make it easier to get to the start of a walk, or to post a letter in the box 3 miles away without getting the car out!
@Sarah says: 25 May, 2019 at 9:38 pm:
” … Robert peffers and all with ebikes: I was interested in the comments a few days ago about ebikes. Would Raleigh be a good make to go for? We would like to be able to use them on forestry type tracks as well as our single -track road.
Thank you for any advice!”
Sorry I was away doing other research and missed your post asking advice. I’m not really expert as yet but I’ll tell you what I know.
There is a comparatively new class of ebike they call Gravel bikes. These are a cross between a mountain bike and a street bike.
Here’s one that Halfords does but really I don’t know enough about ebike yet to recommend anything as yet. The reason I’m mentioning Halfords is that you can get free trials on the range of ebikes that Halfords stocks. Hope that might help.
Robert: thank you. That is really useful. It was inspiring to read the difference your ebike has made to your painful back. I’m hoping the same for my husband.
In these difficult and very interesting times I think we need a bit of serious contemplative music. This piece sums up the decisions we all face.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sxnXO2RjVg&list=RD6sxnXO2RjVg&start_radio=1
One to celebrate Funky Sunday. Well, why wait until next weekend? 🙂
General Crook – Do it for me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXZfcvHxdq0
A band I’d not heard of before but a band and a song I can appreciate intensely. 🙂
Me First And The Gimme Gimmes – I Believe I Can Fly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkXARgL2xaU
Curtice: “The SNP is dominant but can’t neccessarily deliver” [indy ref].
Well I’ve got some music for him, or at least, Adam and the Ants have:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B2a6l6wM2k
Hi yesindyref2.
Knowing of your interest in matters naval/military you may find this of interest.
https://wingsoverscotland.com/face-trippin/#comment-2463207
The discussion actually started on this (almost dead) page yesterday afternoon, with orri’s comment at 2.48pm.
https://wingsoverscotland.com/face-trippin/#comment-2462835
I replied to orri yesterday at 3.13 and 3.50 but he didn’t comment until today because of AWOL comment. As the page is near it’s demise, there are not too many comments to skim through to get up to date.
And they say the Germans have no sense of humour.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag-W1x2sjA4
Saw this wee joke on “The Land called Scotland” facebook group earlier. Made me chuckle.
In the old days the English and Scottish armies used to fight by gathering their armies on top of the hills and at day break they would run down the hillside into the deep gorge below to fight. One morning at dawn there was a fog (as thick as pea soup) and the two generals decided to refrain from fighting that day. Whilst the two armies were resting a voice, with a Scottish accent came from within the dense fog.
“Any one Scotsman can beat any 10 Englishmen”.
With this, the English general sent down 10 of his soldiers. There was a hell of a fight and NO ONE returned. An hour later, the same voice was heard.
“Any one Scotsman can beat any 50 Englishman”.
With this the English general sent down 50 of his soldiers. The same thing, a terrible fight ensured and again NO ONE returned. An hour later the same voice.
“Any one Scotsman can beat any 100 Englishman”.
So, down went 100 of the best. NO ONE returned. An hour later.
“Any one Scotsman can beat any 1,000 Englishman”.
By this time, the English general had enough and was about to send down his elite soldiers, when he saw a lone Englishman crawling up the hill. He was battered to a pulp. As he reached the top he shouted “Don’t send anymore troops down, its a trap, there’s two of them.” 🙂
Going for a world record tonight on my Not Fade Away rock’n’roll show on Argyll Independent Radio online. Trying to get 22 records into the the hour (from 8pm after my 7pm Roundabout show),
Got my 22 records in – just
I rarely laugh out loud at the telly but I was doing so at the “Two Doors Down” on Scottish BBC last night. Absolute classic.
Test post to see if I’m on the naughty step.
@Dan (10.08) –
Dunno if you’re on the naughty step right enough, but you are visible from here in Stevenston, Ayrshire.
😉
Is there a naughty step?
I mean a half-way house between having your comment impounded by a robot, to await judgement by the ultimate arbiter.
and expulsion of your e-mail address.
I was hit by the former, for mentioning by name someone who with hindsight should probably have remained nameless and an alleged
nome de plume she once used, or didn’t as the case may be.
@Ian at 10:52
Help, is that google earth got extra live tracking functions from my smart phone.
It’s just one post held in moderation for some reason as my test post above posted straight away.
While I am here I’ll update on my tattie growing as a couple of folk were interested.
I have Edzell Blues, Roosters, and Salad Blues (the latter having blue skin and flesh as seen in my gravatar pic).
As a test some rows were planted with the chitted seed spud sitting on seaweed.
Well it is pretty obvious the rows with seaweed have noticeably better and more consistent growth. Don’t think this is primarily down to the seaweed holding moisture as we’ve had plenty regular rain spells here so the soil has never really been dry. So maybe the nutrients and minerals in the seaweed are helping.
I guess the final verdict will become clear when I lift them later in the year. Just hoping they aren’t aw shaws and nae baws!
@Col.Blimp IV at 11:54 pm
Of course there will be some kind of post blocking facility. Having moderated on a forum in the past I’m aware it is just not possible to watch 24 / 7 in case issues arise, let alone drop what you are doing to start communicating with bickering parties to resolve the situation, so a temporary block on posters can be applied so folk cool off or to delay until time is availble to deal with the problem.
If Stu runs this site solely by himself then folk will just have to be patient if he’s busy or possibly tonight, watching footy.
There are also trigger words that may put posts into a holding status until they are manually (ooh, can you say manually these days?) cleared.
Hi Dan.
RE: nutrients for your tatties.
Have a read of the info here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20130415125313/http://www.seercentre.org.uk/
particularly,
http://web.archive.org/web/20130715183234/http://www.seercentre.org.uk/news.htm
Moira and Cammi are my sister and brother-in-law. Their tatties had a year shelf-life and were bigger than average.
The SEER Centre is no more, because they were shafted by an employee who took a job with a bigger competitor.
Hi Dan.
You may find the FAQ page informative.
http://web.archive.org/web/20130712004829/http://www.seercentre.org.uk/faq.htm
(The front page of the web site did not have all the links to pages – you had to delve through sub-pages. Poor design.)
@Dan: ditto Salad Blue and Rooster plus Highland Burgundy Red – red all the way through, Sharpes Express, Duke of York. Apparently the coloured potatoes are full of anti-oxidants which makes them good for us but I can’t remember why!
Seaweed adds potash my husband is saying. We are on old croft ground by the sea – all the crofters had seaweed boats to go and fetch plenty for their crops.
The only drawback to seaweed or other bulky matter at the bottom of the trench is that slugs seem to like it – so don’t leave the potatoes in the ground in autumn!
Nice avatar, by the way.
@ Dan: more tattie talk. We grew Shetland Black one year – amazingly high dry matter, presumably to go nicely with the salted herring my Shetland uncle used to eat.
But our soil is very stony and we found it hard to tell what was a potato and what a stone because the tatties were quite small!
Crikey, we’ve nearly turned OT into TT = Tattie Tattle!
The leaves on some of my spud plants are now larger than my hands. I have good soil and it seems my endevours have improved it further and increased worm activity.
Spoke with a switched on crofter recently that said the whole farming subsidy thing is crap and their subsidy should be based on how many worms they have per cubic metre. Nae worms, nae money!
There are big questions over the future of food production and its sustainability.
There is a recent film about 1 hr 30 min long called In Our Hands about farming (there is another film about war or something with the same name), which although filmed in England, does bring to light some things society should consider. Some may want to find it and watch it.
Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQPyKy-a1QU
The path we are currently taking is bonkers. What’s the point of tweaking policy to ban a few classic vehicles from cities when we have things like air travel being heavily subsidised, and we have plastic wrapped raspberries imported from Morocco in the shops in the heartlands of Scotland’s berry picking region.
If we can’t even get our own society to embrace the delight and environmentally sound principles of eating locally sourced seasonal food we’re on a hiding to nothing.
Cameron mentioned in another thread about some fancy titled group enabling sustainable communities. It seems it is all talk and little action to me or we’re paying people to theorise on stuff they have little influence to enact.
Birth rate falling, house prices out of whack with 3 times median wage mortgages, modern day clearances further diminishing communities, etc.
I heard that primates optimum group size is around a couple of hundred because at that number everyone knows each other and they all play a role in the functioning of their communities. Each member is therefore valued in both practical and social terms.
Maybe we should listen to or emulate monkeys because they seem to have got their shit together better than their supposedly bigger brained and higher functioning relations.
re. The suspension of Labour’s Peter Willsman for “anti-semitism” and “The Incredible Disappearance of Shai Masot”. Time for some cultural backstory?
https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319771939#
Ian Brotherhood on MT @ 23:13,
Your “modest proposal” is fair comment.
It would of course help if all those concerned were to readily switch over, but the worst offenders never seem to come over here, alas, so they would just continue on the MT unchallenged.
Better surely if posters avoided making responses in the first place that were gratuitously offensive. It’s not that hard to do. But we have one such who makes a speciality of it, and it’s more than mere “grumpiness”. Energetic debate is fine, but persistent mind-gaming and other passive-aggressive behaviour is not. And I am far from being the only regular who has observed and commented upon this misbehaviour. At least one person to my knowledge has been bullied off the site by this entirely unnecessary nastiness.
That’s where the real core of this particular problem lies.
One for Andy Wightman MSP. I do apologise for any distress I might cause to him and all his fellow, woke-bros, Green MSPs, when I point out that sex and gender are not the same things. Creating legislation that conflates them is discriminatory against biological women. As he appears keen to adopt best practice, I wonder if he could explain what best practice is and how it might be compatible with the denial of bio-medical science and the marginalisation of “woomanhood”?
https://academic.oup.com/ejil/article/28/4/1019/4866309
Womanhood obvs.
http://www.law.lu.se/webuk.nsf/(MenuItemByDocId)/ID158A9EA8E934AB23C1257DAA004E56F1/$FILE/What%20are%20Women%27s%20International%20Human%20Rights.pdf
Is it politically incorrect, or socially incorrect, or just plain wrong, in the current social climate, to link to this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rptW7zOPX2E
If so, I apologise to arseholes reading this.
And while I’m on a music groove, this track was on a 12″ single I bought, which also had Runrig performing ‘Loch Lomond’, live at Loch Lomond, if my memory serves me well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1jeyCX6oE8
However, I still think the best live performance of ‘Loch Lomond’ was at ‘Mod For Rockers’ at the Albert Hall in Stirling in the 80s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOwvlC_fO-E
And then an ancient Scottish tune, dating from at the earliest, as far as we know, the Battle of Bannockburn, 1314, which is known all over Europe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WWnrTSuV-c
That of course is our national anthem, Ronnie, and I’m getting really pissed off with the SNP that no longer plays it at the end of our conferences. I’ve been going to SNP conferences since the early sixties and that was what we all waited for.
Worth a million leaflets
Going to start a campaign for Aberdeen
And the best version – with the pipes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WulAWn_N_O0
Brian I should say.
Hi Dave.
Follow the links in my comment of last week –
https://wingsoverscotland.com/off-topic/comment-page-74/#comment-2463291
Here’s a quote:
“The Hubert commando is one of the seven commandos of the French Navy, considered as the most prestigious of them and as the most selective and complete unit of special forces of the whole French Army.
Made up of combat swimmers, the Hubert commando specializes in underwater action and in maritime counter-terrorism actions.
Two of them were killed in the night of 9 to 10 May while releasing hostages in Burkina Faso.”
https://www.armyrecognition.com/may_2019_global_defense_security_army_news_industry/commando_hubert_elite_of_french_special_forces_in_action_in_burkina_faso.html
Which explains that the video is of a ceremony on 14th May, to honour the two commandos who died. It has under the video,
“IN MEMORIAM:
Cédric de Pierrepont, Commando Hubert, 17/07/1986 – 10/05/2019.
Alain Bertoncello, Commando Hubert, 1991 – 10/05/2019.”
You’ll see a link to the latest version of “Soldats”, uploaded on 17th May. And it’s ALL bagpipes. And in the presence of President Macron.
@Dan 2nd June: I agree with what you say [including the primates!] BUT the worm count is a problem on our croft due to New Zealand flatworm – obviously came in on unsterilized plant materials and now a problem in many parts of Britain. I’d have thought we would be safe on Loch Broom but no.
These loathsome creatures eat our earthworms so it is a real thrill if I find an earthworm in my veg beds at all. Today I did find one.
The lack of earthworms means soil less aerated and hence less well drained leading to the spread of rushes on many crofts.
@Sarah
There have been flatworms in my area for years and I do get them in my garden, but the ordinary worms seem to be doing fine.
Flatworms always seem to be found on the surface under a bin or membrane of some sort. Seems the best way to catch them is to put down a bit of old lino then occasionally lift it and collect the blighters.
Spent the afternoon in the garden cutting grass. Took bloomin ages as with this warm and wet weather it’s been growing fast.
There’s loads of wild comfrey just over my fence. It’s the purple flowered Russian type and not the native white flowered type, so no edible fritters for me. I grabbed a load of it and threw it in a large container and added water. It’ll go dark and smelly but it makes an excellent plant booster.
Three of my neighbours and myself have all failed to have our parsnips germinate this year. Will re-sow with different seed but scunnered to have lost a month’s growth. Was looking forward to making an assortment of root vegetable crisps.
re. lets talk about sex, or law and gender if you’d rather. I wish it hadn’t taken me so long to remember about Public International Law. 😉
https://academic.oup.com/ejil/article/27/4/1176/2962226?searchresult=1
Profound words from a weasel:
Insisting his department represented Scotland’s interest at the heart of government and “strengthens Scotland’s place in the UK”, Mr Mundell said:
BREAKING: Surprise new candidate for Tory leadership emerges.
US rocker Pat Travers releases video outlining his policies:
“Snortin’ whiskey and drinkin’ cocaine” 😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9tgeaDwiCQ
HinDan just in from the garage working on a honda 350 four and seen ur message!
Dan mentioned in the front room that he would feature some YouTube motorsickle videos tonight. So I thought I would be sneaky. Three motorsickle videos.
The first must be the classic of all time. I saw ‘Easy Rider’ in The Tivoli (Continental Films), Bonnybank Road, in Dundee because neither the ABC or The Gaumont showed it. As far as I’m aware, this was the first mention of “heavy metal” (thunder).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egMWlD3fLJ8
Here are the other two.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pto17qNrSfc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNaaJa7sxQU
Gonna stick this one in as well.
“YES Bikers Arrival @ Glasgow Green-18th Sept, 2016” coz it’s one of mine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75a4NElxu2c
Hey Lenny, looks like player 3 (BDtt) has entered the game and beat me to posting both Easy Rider and Chris Spedding tunes…
I recently helped my neighbours with a 400 / 4 engine rebuild. Hoped they’d be up for this weekend’s run but they have an autojumble to attend.
I’m not going to post a load of heavy metal tune links coz some might not dig that, plus some of it is just noisy shite anyway. (personal belief / fair comment applies)
I guess most on here will be Restless Natives at the moment. I spoke to a young biker the other day and he hadn’t even heard of the film! The younger generation…
Big Country – Restless Natives (Suzuki GP 125 in film)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_xV1rZmRpQ
Tenuous link to motorbiking I know but who knew Joan Armatrading was actually talking about carb jetting and Castrol R!
Drop the Pilot… Smell my perfume!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoCWUNUB3ro
“Restless Natives” – great fullum.
Watch (or download with a Firefox add-on) here:-
https://www4.1movies.is/movie/restless-natives/5327/8ybpPTUP-watch-online-free.html
One with Jonathan Van Ness and all those who promote Queer theory over ethical rationalism in law. Queer theory was not intended as a legal weapon to disposes women of their sex-based human rights, but that is what it is being used for by narcissistic chauvinists, ably supported by the woke ‘left’.
https://academic.oup.com/ejil/article/19/4/841/349382?searchresult=1
That should have read, “with JVN in mind…”.
Equality Law in an Enlarged European Union. Understanding the Article 13 Directives
https://academic.oup.com/ejil/article/20/2/483/500824?searchresult=1
As I’m a bit of an ethical rationalist and post-colonial feminist, I can appreciate the logic and value of queering traditional boundaries, but I am also not prepared to disregard evolutionary science and human anthropology. Subsequently, I’m gender-critical as well to being open to queerness.
I do not apologies if this comment has caused any upset.
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.an.24.100195.003113
Can we please just put this proposal for self-ID on the rubbish heap, where it belongs? We might actually be able to address gender inequality then and how that inequality is manufactured, to a large extent, by sexist stereotyping.
https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/life-sciences/biological-anthropology-and-primatology/sex-gender-and-health?format=PB#
Here’s one for folk who feel as if their legal and personal identity is getting bent out of shape by contemporary life, perhaps especially by England’s turn towards cultural nationalism.
The Chemical Brothers – Got To Keep On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSYwtllbweY
Another to reflect Scotland’s existential fight with the moral bankruptcy of English Tories (I know). 😉
The Chemical Brothers – Eve Of Destruction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYsXKhBknyM
CameronB Brodie on MT @ 00:04,
If I can say this in the gentlest possible way, Cam, we are all signed-up supporters of independence, not captives of some wierd sociology course which will only let us graduate and escape once we’ve been forcibly reprogrammed. Useful as it may be for devotees, none of us are under any obligation to follow-through on your many highly-erudite references and extracts, especially when plainly off-topic on the MT. And disappointing as it may be to you, there’s no shame in that.
It’s not a question of “intelligence”, whatever that is. Denizens of the MT are mostly simply not interested in anything so esoteric in such undigested depth and large volume. Life’s too short. Anyway, the role of an educator is not to force-feed raw information to people as if to produce some kind of intellectual foie gras, and chastise them in a high-handed way if they baulk, but rather to reach out and interpret one’s expertise at a level appropriate for the intended public and purpose.
Hence my several previous references to the “doorstep test”. If the urgent purpose to hand is to convince the readership, what actually has traction, and what has not?
ElGordo was referring to a posting of yours upthread on the MT where you expressed your own opinion in your own words as based on your background knowledge. That works, and I’m sure we would all welcome more of that over there.
Hi, Off Topic peeps. Peace, Love and Let’s Get It Right Next Time;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXW-sL5gzHQ
Hi, Marie, a song for you. Peace, Love and Independence
“We Sell Hope” The Specials;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8KYo8CY8Uw
🙂
Ronnie Davis: “Equality and Justice”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0csnFJJ6uAk
Mark Knopfler: “Piper to the end”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsrKWwx3x7o
Peace and Love to All Wingers
🙂
I have to hide again now, I forgot to take the http bit off (again) so the Rev will be after me with his hammers.
I’ll pop back when it’s safe.
😎
Robert J. Sutherland says:
13 June, 2019 at 2:12 am
Very diplomatically put, totally agree with you there sir.
Robert J and Arthur C, well said. I did try gently a wee while ago to tell Cam B that it was overwhelming the amount of posts on the MT and especially here on OT. To no avail obviously.
OT has virtually died off recently. All the usual posters that had a sense of fun have disappeared. Where is Thepnr, Tinto chiel etc. I hope that they are just having wee rest and are both all right.
Smallaxe, thank you for the tune, hope that you have avoided the hammers. You dinnae want the Rev efter ye.
@ CBB – cool it!
Finbar Furey and Christy Dignam singing The Green Fields of France on The Late Show.
Lest we forget;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofhao4SHXGo
Some funk to chill out to after a long stint on the sewing machine making some bespoke Indy products for the weekend.
Lonnie Liston Smith – Expansions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5R3_SbE7XQ
Weather looks marginally better for motorbiking this Saturday, so fingers crossed we get a good run.
Should be some great footage through Glencoe… as long as I don’t dose to much Castrol R and end up filling the glen with reek so it looks more like a scene from a Cheech and Chong film.
That’s the bike checked over and ready to go first thing in the morning. My pals and I are really looking forward to the ride across our Big Country – Wonderland.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL378Cwz4zE
This cruise will hopefully have a big turnout and has the makings of being an epic. So chuffed to be a part of it.
Get that cupid stunt Jordon sorted, he’s beyond an embarrassment.
https://academic.oup.com/icon/article/10/2/531/666055?searchresult=1
I mean metaphorically sorted, obvs, though he does appear to be an ignorant misogynist. Please shut him the fuck up.
https://academic.oup.com/icon/article/14/3/545/2404482?searchresult=1
I really don’t want to hog all the space but I think legal rationality and women’s rights are worth pushing the boat out for. After all, they both have fundamental societal value.
https://www.bu.edu/sociology/files/2010/03/Weberstypes.pdf
Hi Smallaxe.
T’was good to see you commenting again this weekend.
Here’s some music for you – you can choose whichever of the first two versions you prefer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SYA_FikPm4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZYCfkWLWZI
However, one of my punters at the rock club I was DJ at in the 90s, persuaded me to explore the joys of “easy listening”.
This has got to be in the Top Ten of my favourite “easy listening” instrumental tracks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPHSgguzPtw
Marie Clark
We’re not here for a party and if nobody else posts, what do I do? Would you rather I left Scotland’s women to defend their human rights alone? Do you not think my insight has any value? Have you ever read anything I’ve posted?
Robert J. Sutherland
Weird sociology course. Apparently you fail to recognise practical insight aimed at social empowerment. How can I express this succinctly yet directly? Are you a fucking Muppet?
Doctor don’t cure the ill through witchery and magic, do they?
Introduction to Anthropology
Human Life & Possibility
https://www.livinganthropologically.com/introduction-to-anthropology/
One for Mhairi Hunter. The woman’s a fucking idiot.
Rational Ethics
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KYY7bz6uPsJzyQ5ED/rational-ethics
Seriously, get that Hunter skooled or give her the boot. She is seriously under-prepared for the role she appears to want to play.
Applying Relevant Ethical Theories to Equality
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/39473/1/MPRA_paper_39473.pdf
I think I will link to this:-
https://wingsoverscotland.com/off-topic/comment-page-74/#comment-2466769
and this:-
https://wingsoverscotland.com/off-topic/comment-page-74/#comment-2465634
and this:-
https://wingsoverscotland.com/off-topic/comment-page-74/#comment-2465501
So there!
Oh Danny boy the pipes the pipes are calling
From glen to glen and down the mountain side
or
The hills are alive… to the sound of bike pipes.
10 min vid of YES Bikers from yesterday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2viWcKZzKkI
Hi Dan.
That was a ‘well put-together’ video of the YES Bikers.
I was watching IndependenceLive, CAM1, front of march, yesterday, and as the bikers headed past the march, the marchers slowed down/stopped and were cheering the bikers.
CAM1 cut off just before the march reached the rally venue, possibly due to the rain.
However…
When I went back just now to look at the CAM1 footage, it’s truncated! Doesn’t show the event from the start. So the bikers drive-pass isn’t there. Just shows the last 13 minutes or so, before it dropped out.
KEVIN- you reading?
When I went
re. James Watt’s article “Reality and Illusion: Being vs Identifying As”. Man, that took me back and showed me just how rusty I am. So what makes a person, how they are categorised or how they feel? Time for some brain science? 🙂
N.B. From an anthropological perspective, sex difference is the largest single factor influencing health management.
https://www.dur.ac.uk/psychology/research/paa/cognitive/
And a bit more.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6013760/
Mairi’s Wedding is a short and upbeat tune. Here’s some tweaked lyrics for it.
Chorus:
Step we gaily on we go
Heel for heel and toe for toe
Arm in arm and on we go
All for Bonnie Scotland
Over hill ways, up and down
Myrtle green and bracken brown
Past the sheiling, though the town
All for Scottish Indy
Chorus:
Plenty herring, plenty meal
Plenty for the common weal
Plenty joy for every chiel
That’s a toast for Scotland
Chorus:
Scotland’s future beams afar
Bright as any sapphires are
Brighter than the Northern Star
That’s our darling Scotland
I’m tempted to join twitter, just for the gender debate. The abuse Iain McWhirter is getting from trans zoomers, calls for the application of some scientific ‘steel-toecaps’, IMHO. Complete melts like “Needles & Sins” calling him “reactionary”. This is where feelz over realz takes us.
Insights into Sexism: Male Status and Performance Moderates Female-Directed Hostile and Amicable Behaviour
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0131613
Sexism doesn’t occur in isolation, it is a predisposition of a political identity that is inescapably misogynistic. Sexism is bad, mk.
https://academic.oup.com/poq/article/82/S1/799/4963814
“Cis” defines men and women as not trans, thereby linguistically embedding “trans” as the ‘norm’, when judging membership of sex-class. This privileges “trans” over the current cultural understanding of “sex”, i.e. that is relates to the biological differences between men and women. As such, insisting on the use of “cis” constitutes an attack on language, logic and reason, IMHO.
Sex-classes must be grounded in biology if they are to have any practical value. Linguistic logic is also kind of important. Sexism is all the harder to fight, if the langue of resistance is no longer available.
Dan @ 12.37 pm 17th June
THAT IS BRILLIANT!!
Wouldn’t that be great to sing at the football and rugby?
(After the reverential singing/bellowing of Flower of Scotland of course)
That could even be the makings of a very jolly Scottish National Anthem =)
Wouldn’t it be great if there were a list of song lyrics that Yessers could print out to take to marches 🙂
Your variation on Mhairi’s Wedding would be top of my sing list!
@Ghillie
And herein lies the problem. You are the only one that felt enthused enough about the song to comment.
I actually visited a musician and singer this afternoon to discuss why it’s so difficult to get folk to join in with singing.
Much of what they said was totally in alignment with the conclusion I had reached from my own limited experience.
Namely that people are individuals with varying moods, emotions, and musical likes. Sometimes a concert clicks and the vibe is good with an engaged and up for it audience, other times it can feel flat with little energy and emotion expressed by the crowd.
Realistically the only way to get a group of folk singing together is with prior organised rehearsals and practice so they are confident enough to carry it off. That being the case the chances of a crowd of random folk spontaneously breaking into song are slim.
The problem is exacerbated in Scotland because the underlying small c conservative nature of our society stifles and restricts willing engagement even further.
BDTT. Do you know the names of the bands that played at the Dundee AUOB march last year?
There was one band towards the end of the day (5 pm ish) with a lass singing that were playing quite lively tunes.
Hi Dan.
I tried to have a look at at the independencelive footage from last year but all I get is a spinning circle. I’ve contacted Graham Brown so he may post a comment here or get back to me via FB.
@Dan on 9th June!!! Sorry for delayed response – though you’ve been enjoying yourself meanwhile on the bike trip to Oban so won’t have noticed. I found another earthworm today so perhaps I needn’t worry so much about the NZ flatworm. Mind you I have found the NZ worms under rocks in the middle of the burn so they spread easily.
Bad luck about the parsnip not germinating – very odd. My cauliflowers germinated but in 4 weeks have scarcely grown at all – still just their seed leaves. Weird.
Here’s one to celebrate a small victory in defending womanhood and a rational understanding of sex.
Women’s Identities and Bodies in Colonial
and Postcolonial History and Literature
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/61521
Laura Mvula – Phenomenal Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7—iGdDIBQ
@Sarah
I could send up a spare earthworm and they could start a family! I had to check you actually need two worms to do the business as they are hermaphrodites. They have quite a good case for Self ID because they sport both sets of equipment apparently.
Caught and squished five flatworms today. The old lino trick never fails to draw them in.
Spent the afternoon at the community farm where quite a few of the plants are struggling a bit this season.
Had an hour on my knees weeding the salad beds. The lad I was working with was laughing as I kept munching the edible weeds I was pulling out! So that was a Weed and Feed with fat hen, chickweed and dandelions. I mentioned it would be far easier if we just embraced and ate the weeds rather than the endure the stress and hassle of growing fancy bespoke plants.
Nobody ever complained of or had to treat greenfly on their dandelions or blight on their nettles…
For my efforts I got a load of large seedlings ready to plant out in my own garden. So that’s 12 lettuce, 10 Chard, 6 purple sprouted broccoli, and 4 Nasturtiums now filling the area where the parsnips failed to show.
My tatties, runner beans and corjettes are flowering now. Ate my first couple of strawberries today too, which makes a welcome change from freakin rhubarb.
re. Prof. Alice Roberts. Would I be correct in suspecting her of being a bit of a third-wave feminist? Perhaps this is the source of her naivety, but does she imagine the task of the second-wave has been accomplished? Perhaps she simply doesn’t feel particularly socially vulnerable? Whatever, from the perspective of bio-medical science, human sex is typically characterised by its dimorphism. That is significant, on a number of levels. 🙂
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1467-9566.ep10934409
I see Duncy is a wokebro and Captain Haggerty a wokesis. A right couple of opportunist ideologues, if you ask me. Have they made recourse to “best practice” yet?
This is what James Watt’s was pointing to in his article, “Reality and Illusion: Being vs Identifying As”. Perhaps Prof. Alice Roberts might take note? Perhaps not?
https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199594900.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199594900-e-12
Well, I’m a bit of a post-colonial feminist. Radical, innit?
Dub FX – NO REST FOR THE WICKED feat. CAde & Mahesh Vinayakram
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBmMzabdEKQ
Nana: I hope you look in to O/T and will see this. I was sorry to see that the Rev upset you. He told me off for not doing a link on a comment once. I didn’t think he meant to be seriously critical of me, and I certainly don’t think he could be of you, given all the valuable work you do. Aren’t you a Gold Wings Badge winner?
So please don’t feel downhearted about this.
re. PSA. Post-structural analysis?
Critical language and visual art:
a post-structural analysis
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/43167954.pdf
@Dan: you show off with your flowering runner beans and courgette! Ours are just starting up their poles [beans] or still being brought indoors at night for coddling [courgette] and looking rather pallid due to compost running low on nutrients. However potatoes, kale, onions/shallots doing well and our lettuces are ready to plant out, being big enough now to cope with slugs and snails.
Earthworms are wonderful – so convenient being able to deal with both sides of the issue [as it were].
Snap re eating the weeds – I was nibbling away at the bittercress whilst weeding the shallots. I have served it as a garnish to guests and put it in salads too – as you say, the “weeds” start v early in the year and there’s no work needed!
Blackcurrants are just starting but a very small crop due to a late frost, sadly.
Community farm sounds interesting – they are great. Get everyone doing something positive out of doors and there’d be no crime/stress etc etc!
Yes bikers in Galashiels. What the song on the last 3-4 minutes? Anyone know?
http://www..youtube.com/watch?v=2-HYgIjKIGQ
Hi galamcennalath at 2:32 pm
“Yes bikers in Galashiels. What the song on the last 3-4 minutes? Anyone know?
http://www..youtube.com/watch?v=2-HYgIjKIGQ“
Your link doesn’t work because it has an extra period in it. To work, it should be:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-HYgIjKIGQ
However, that video is of YES Bikers arriving at Glasgow Green in May and has no music.
Did you not mean the 9 minute video of the YES Bikers heading to and in, Oban?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2viWcKZzKkI
Sorry, don’t know how I got the wrong one.
This one. From 44:30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=PpLulfmG3vI
@Brian Doonthetoon at 3:54 pm
It’s a pity you don’t get smells on YouTube!
I dosed up a couple of exhaust pipes with my Castrol R dripper at the Green Welly knowing the scent trail would arouse pukka oldskool petrol heads as we all climbed up the hill towards Glencoe.
I didn’t get the benefit myself of inhaling, but it was quite a euphoric experience “au naturel” cruising along and enjoying the vibe of riding with 100 bikers.
Motorcycle – As The Rush Comes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGH8rnraxoE
just getting ready for my “Roundabout” and “”Not Fade Away” shows on Argyll Independent Radio online. Getting excited about Ron Culley coming down to Dunoon on Thursday to talk about his book “Who Shot Willie McRae”
Just chucked this together for any old new indy romantics reading in! LOL
It’s Friday nicht and you’re part of the Human League, so cider up, comb what’s left of your hair into a mad parting / fringe, then get your freak on and sing along to be part of The Sound Of The Crowd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twG5mu6coOA
Give Westminster a parting wave
Nae Pasaran
Say cheerio to the Union and its backward game
Rip the Treaty into little bits
Nae Pasaran
Dump it in the bin to a laughing sound
Get Indy now, get Indy now
Let the people of Scotland build a future that’s sound
Choose Indy now, you need to stand proud
Add your voice to the sound of the crowd
Want ruled by London’s steer?
Nae Pasaran
They’ve caused a fold in the island brushed with fear
Don’t let them steal your hopes
Nae Pasaran
We can do much better without those dopes
Get in line now, get in line now
Stay in time with the rhythm and rhyme
Get Indy now, get Indy now
Let the people of Scotland build a future that’s sound
Choose Indy now, you need to stand proud
Add your voice to the sound of the crowd
Get in line now, get in line now
Stay in time with the rhythm and rhyme
Get Indy now, get Indy now
Let the people of Scotland build a future that’s sound
Choose Indy now, you need to stand proud
Add your voice to the sound of the crowd
Get in line now, get in line now
Stay in time with the rhythm and rhyme
Get Indy now, get Indy now
Let the people of Scotland build a future that’s sound
Choose Indy now, you need to stand proud
Add your voice to the sound of the crowd
Another from Niteworks.
I believe my father made the chanter being played in this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RXN21jmYY8
Arrgh! New comments page means my song lyrics on previous page will be missed and never make the big time…
So who’s this Paul Martin and what’s his frame of reference? He appears to be an bit of an ignorant dickhead, tbh. Well he can fuck right of with his tribal irrational-ism. Conflating right-wing bigotry with a scientifically based gender critical world view, is no way to support sustainable, inclusive, social equality.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/hypa.12386
@galamcennalath
Regards the singer you’re asking about, I played a video on Off Topic shortly after the referendum. I believe it features the same song that you are looking for. This video has now had 65 million views on youtube, not bad for a Scottish mountain biker.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ_IQS3VKjA
The singer is Fiona Hunter and this is her singing said song last year at the Glasgow Hydro with Danny Macaskill the mountain biker from Skye who features in the first video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI7pQsukzks