Top 10 posts, 12th-18th August 2012

Posted on August 19, 2012 by Rev. Stuart Campbell

The most-read WingsLand posts of the last seven days, in descending order.

Those vile cybernats
The positive case for the Union.

WCR Smackdown 2012
Willie Rennie performs epic fail, gets pwned.

The devolution reality check
Gordon Brown torpedoes the good ship Jam Tomorrow.

Another Union dividend
Is Scottish athletes being forced to emigrate a good thing?

The assault on reason
Subtly shifting the goalposts of “bias”.

A brief note on opinion polls
Cause for optimism.

Reading between the numbers
Analysing the meaning of Scottish newspapers’ sales figures.

Scots eat cake, demand cake
The greedy voters who want it both ways.

Showing your hand
“Liberal Democrats” attempt to silence liberal and democratic dissent.

Now that’s just going too far
Sainsbury’s tell Scots their place.

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Alf Baird on The Art Of Noise: “Scotland’s strategic geographic location on the Great Circle Route has not changed, so we continue to hold that advantage for…” Jun 28, 11:43

100%Yes on The Art Of Noise: “I have no idea what percentage of the general public is aware of the SNP stance on Indy, I would…” Jun 28, 11:15

Andy Ellis on Holiday Relief: “@Fherghas (passim) Good to see you shining a light on Alt’s obfuscations and attempts to re-write history. The fact he…” Jun 28, 11:14

100%Yes on The Art Of Noise: “Can you explain as to why my post on Craig Murray recent visit to the UN aren’t being posted. If…” Jun 28, 10:40

Grendel on Anatomy Of A Lunatic: “Kelly was our LACU Political Officer or some such thing, and in his time in office he did the square…” Jun 28, 10:24

Stuart MacKay on The Art Of Noise: “Alf. Your fired! Time to pick the the Ports and Transport portfolio once more. I’d be interested to hear what…” Jun 28, 10:05

Stuart MacKay on The Art Of Noise: “Sounds like Swinney is, quite deliberately, setting himself up for spectacular failure. No doubt with the goal of getting an…” Jun 28, 10:01

Sven on The Art Of Noise: “Turabdin @ 08.50. Sorry, argument falls down; not even a single reference to what Post Colonial Theory suggests and the…” Jun 28, 09:28

TURABDIN on The Art Of Noise: “« I want to deliver a significant advance on my political arguments for independence…» AI being so HOT with politicos,…” Jun 28, 08:50

Colin Dawson on The Art Of Noise: “The only thing that will bring independence any closer is destroying the credibility of the SNP long before the 2026…” Jun 28, 08:31

Alf Baird on Holiday Relief: “We have to consider the realities of the time, and over time, Fearghas, as well as how languages develop. All…” Jun 28, 08:06

Jamie on But Don’t Give Yourself Away: “What nonsense to say we can only have 1 referendum election, more like a million consecutively or as many as…” Jun 27, 23:55

Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Holiday Relief: “My fault Alf for not making my last question tight enough. However unlikely the prospect that you might one day…” Jun 27, 22:53

Mark Beggan on The Art Of Noise: “Stay on the Downers John boy that shit ain’t doing you no good” Jun 27, 22:51

Mark Beggan on The Art Of Noise: “Crack cocaine.? What else?” Jun 27, 22:49

Alf Baird on Holiday Relief: “It is well established that English (and other languages) use many words from various languages. The essential thing for us…” Jun 27, 22:17

Hatey McHateface on Holiday Relief: “Sure, Alf, and perhaps “cide” is derived from the Humous for “yellow, tunnel skulking, helpless lassie mutilator”, but that’s all…” Jun 27, 21:36

Hatey McHateface on The Art Of Noise: “Surely Swinney is doing a first-class job? It’s not his fault that nobody ever asked for the job description to…” Jun 27, 21:24

sarah on The Art Of Noise: “They got rid of the Good Guys and they changed the party rules to permit self-identifying of disability in order…” Jun 27, 21:13

Alf Baird on Holiday Relief: ““linguicide” (death of a language due to natural or political causes) is derived from the Latin ‘lingua’, meaning tongue.” Jun 27, 21:11

Hatey McHateface on Holiday Relief: ““Linguicide”

Loving it, Alf. BTW, what’s the Scots for linguicide? That’s surely gonna be the first question every alert…” Jun 27, 20:59

Hatey McHateface on And it’s goodnight from he/him: “That’s a thought provoking post, Andy, but tell us true. If we Scots all just shouted “Bairns Not Bombs” in…” Jun 27, 20:51

socratesmacsporran on The Art Of Noise: “You might have hoped, given what a success Swinney was as SNP leader, first time round, a half-way sensible party…” Jun 27, 20:43

Hatey McHateface on But Don’t Give Yourself Away: “James’s Mammie gone oot again. Hope she left James plenty of Kleenex!” Jun 27, 20:42

Alf Baird on Holiday Relief: ““Scots displacing other native languages” ? Hardly. Lets looks at the facts: Gaelic came from Ireland. Norse from Scandinavia. English…” Jun 27, 19:33

Andy Ellis on And it’s goodnight from he/him: “You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about. Many US defence systems actually depend on European (and sometimes Taiwanese, Japanese,…” Jun 27, 18:39

James on But Don’t Give Yourself Away: ““…You’re coming across as obsessed, tending towards unhinged…” ROTFLMFAO – look in a mirror, Prick.” Jun 27, 18:36

Andy Ellis on Holiday Relief: “@Fearghas I’m sure this has been pointed out to Alf before: the colonialism goose sauce serves equally well for the…” Jun 27, 18:26

Confused on The Art Of Noise: “stop being so lazy and read the article; grandad was a yookie who did a lot of yehudis but then,…” Jun 27, 18:04

Hatey McHateface on But Don’t Give Yourself Away: “Are you on a piece rate for every time you drop the ‘g’ word, Mia? You’re coming across as obsessed,…” Jun 27, 17:35

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