tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post2948000506346498106..comments2024-03-28T10:14:23.792+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: SCOTLAND. BEST PART OF ENGLAND. SHERIDAN GAGGED.call me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-68235297700131901092012-02-04T10:55:35.541+00:002012-02-04T10:55:35.541+00:00Agatha..
I wasn't claiming to be any more or l...Agatha..<br />I wasn't claiming to be any more or less Scottish than Ishmael. Just giving him my history.<br />I'd always assumed citizenship was where you were a legal citizen. Either by birth or by taking an oath to your new Queen/ president whoever renouncing your previous country and handing back the passport. And that's it.<br />But then I met people with multiple passports and rights in various countries so I don't know.<br />As EU citizens we've lost our national identity so if you move south after independence it's neither here nor there although I'd prefer you to stay as we need businesses to thrive here.throbbernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-67303386226050454102012-02-02T20:17:25.808+00:002012-02-02T20:17:25.808+00:00I like the idea of freedom from oppression, as doe...I like the idea of freedom from oppression, as does most of humanity, with the exception of those who would like to have their own way in all things. e.g. politicians.<br />It matters little what comes out of their mouths (spittle excepted) because their only aim is oppression, no matter how they wrap it up.<br />As long as their are politicians there will be discontent and discord, and the folks "on the ground" will pay for it all.theosophusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-58635011496121270952012-02-02T14:10:55.551+00:002012-02-02T14:10:55.551+00:00Hi, Throbber,
What tests could be employed to dete...Hi, Throbber,<br />What tests could be employed to determine Scottishness? <br />Place of Birth would exclude children born to Scottish parents whilst on holiday/working abroad.<br />Accent - a Miss Jean Brodie Edinborough accent sounds nothing like Rab C., which sounds nothing like a Western Isles accent.<br />Scottish Property owner - this would exclude Scots who rent their accommodation.<br />Scottish business owner resident in Scotland - oh, yeah, he might just have moved here.<br />Having one or two Scottish parents - well, how do we define their Scottishness?<br />Lives in Scotland - they might be just be sneaky English people who have moved here for the Quality of Life<br />Educated in Scotland – lots of foreigners come here for the quality of the education<br />Religion – oh yes, easy one, that!<br />Whiteness – oh dear, oh dear, oh dear<br />Likes football – so do the English, God help them. More a test of male tribalism than Scottishness<br />Ginger? Class? Chip on Shoulder?<br />Let’s face it, there is no defensible test of Scottishness. It is all racism and foolishness. <br />I live and work in Scotland. I own a house here and run a business here. The money in my purse has funny little pictures of Scots history on it. My grandson was conceived here. My husband is ginger in parts. I say things like “weans” and “outwith”. And yet I was told by a colleague that, come the glorious day, he would escort me to the border, under cover of darkness, and give a good push.Agathanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-84718835278990724912012-01-30T12:19:04.853+00:002012-01-30T12:19:04.853+00:00Mike...
I must admit it was just good banter and ...Mike...<br /><br />I must admit it was just good banter and both sides gave as good as they got.<br />I loved my time in the Forces and wish I was back there. Never mind.<br /><br />Gorgeous George never disappoints for entertainment value but I can never understand why he's allowed to get away with his support for Cuba, Stalin, Iran etc<br />If any callers to his radio show take him to task he berates them or cuts them off or tells us how Cuba has great healthcare etc. Never mentions the thousands Cuba kills and tortures who don't 'agree' with the system and try to escape to the freedom of the US.<br /><br />I found this link on another blog the other day about Cuba. Scary place if you're Cuban...<br /><br />http://www.therealcuba.com/page5.htmthrobbernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-50860231408807333102012-01-30T06:07:37.932+00:002012-01-30T06:07:37.932+00:00Hey throbber: you think you have copped some abus...Hey throbber: you think you have copped some abuse, try being a Pom in Australia.<br /><br />They call you a bastard, but you soon learn its a term of endearment and there are no hard fealings.<br /><br />As for Georgeous George, he's my favorite. Anyone with the brass balls to tell the US Senate to fuck off, has to have some residual good points. He's a politicain, cleverer than most, so we can't be surprised he's on the make, and socialists seem to have more of a sense of their personal worth.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-10960558027999330932012-01-30T00:11:56.846+00:002012-01-30T00:11:56.846+00:00I'm no lover of Salmond Ishmael and only vote ...I'm no lover of Salmond Ishmael and only vote SNP because they're the only party that offered us a referendum on independence.<br /><br />I've got no illusions about politicians but think the smaller the amount of politicians in charge then the more chance of accountability. Might be bollocks. But what's the alternative ?<br /><br />As for being more or less Scottish than me. I don't know. I was born in Edinburgh and did 22 years in the Forces as a sweaty sock. A thick porridge eater. Treated as a joke by the English.throbbernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-32623243225433411122012-01-29T23:32:48.094+00:002012-01-29T23:32:48.094+00:00Thanks, mr throbber, but I am at least as much and...Thanks, mr throbber, but I am at least as much and maybe more "Scottish" than yourself, even though I deplore Mr Salmond's posturings and so I already knew I was free to stay - unles of course he starts shipoing out those nit proper enough for him.<br /><br />The prole with you uber-Nationalists, thouggh, is that you think your enemy is the English when, in fact, he is the billionaires' collective foregathering in Davos, carbing up the world, including Scotland, for himself.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-33571241571978353512012-01-29T17:44:33.273+00:002012-01-29T17:44:33.273+00:00Ishmael
"Sniping from the bushes, supported ...Ishmael<br /><br />"Sniping from the bushes, supported by the native Resistance, Sheridan and Galloway were fine"<br /><br />Tommy was rejected by the people of Scotland and Galloway never got a look in . Although the English liked Galloway and voted him into power in their cesspit of a parliament.<br /><br />You might not like the wording 'Scottish Government' but that's what it's called. But I agree , the word government or administration , executive etc is all semantics. Everyone in Christendom knows that Scotland isn't independent and the wording doesn't have an effect on this state of affairs either way.<br /><br />I hope you stay after independence Ishmael but it will still be a free country so you will still be free to fuck off somewhere else that is more to your liking.throbbernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-79693886373138962332012-01-29T14:45:25.749+00:002012-01-29T14:45:25.749+00:00They represent, mr jgm2, in a strange way, Tommy a...They represent, mr jgm2, in a strange way, Tommy and Gorgeous, what is great about Scotland, perhaps the home of organised Labour - there is a much more vibrant, even angry political consciousness up here and the Devolution process enabled the election by PR of people like Sheridan, who, to be fair to him, was, before he became gorged on his own semen, a right royal thorn in the side of Power.<br /><br />I suppose the ultimate rottenness of CelbrityLeftism raises the question of the Nobility of constant, principled opposition and its worth - which was answered by the NewLab Gang of Four with a resounding Power At Any Cost! quickly seeing the political parties and the country degnerating into wholesale corruption, a state from which we will not, as we see, recover.<br /><br />Sniping from the bushes, supported by the native Resistance, Sheridan and Galloway were fine, how quickly though, they turned into John Prescott.<br /><br />I may have mentioned before that I travelled from Edinburgh to Inverness one Thursday on the First Class Highland Chieftain and in my end of the Buffet Car there were three SNP MSPs going home for the weekend; although they would have been home in time for tea, they each consumed a dinner and drinks which would have cost the taxpayer about eighty pounds a head.<br /><br />What chance did poor, sloganising Tommy have, once thrown into such luxury? And won't Tommy, too, have a radio show and a newspaper column, like his comrade, Gorgeous George?call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-30937022975153356682012-01-29T14:23:13.916+00:002012-01-29T14:23:13.916+00:00It is right to say, mr throbber, that Scotland, my...It is right to say, mr throbber, that Scotland, myself included, ditched the ghastly, thieving bastards of Old/New and BrownLabour, in favour of the FatMan but I would suggest that disaffection with Labour and hatred for the Tolries of McLetchie and Goldie does not and will not translate into a vote for Independencs or separation or whichever gloss Salmond and his bunch of braying fuckpigs put on it. Commentators should never forget that rather than being a breath of fresh air, Lardface is just more of the same, having learned his shabby trade in the bars and knocking shops of Westminster and self-fellating with the same worthless shower of journalists - only, Christ knows, Iain McWhirter is more of a shitfaced cocksucker than is even Andrew Marr - and the pretence, therefore, that he represents a new politics is as absurd applied to the SNP as it is when attached to the shitgobblers of the LibDems.<br /><br />As to the question of whether it is a govament or not, well, I don't consider it to be anything more than an enlarged local govament, I grant you it is a matter of semantics but there is nothing wrong with that - how else can we assure accuracy of communication if not by linguistic exactitudeness, as Dubya might have said ? - and if it can't declare war, set benefits levels and raise taxes it's not a govament, Holyrood is no more a govament than is Stormont or whatever they call that joint in Cardiff, is it Cardiff, where the Welsh play politics? if it was a givament it woiuld not be bleating about more powers. Would it? Quad erat demonstrandum, thus it is demonstrated; such is political infantilism, the logic of the position is that the case for independence would be better made if Holyrood DID NOT call itself a govament but claimed that it wanted to be one.<br /><br />That is not to say that the SNP advances have nothing important to say to us about UK politics - it's just that - with respect for your sentiments and I have no wish to bludgeon to death your interesting comments- I don't think they say as much as you hope them to. And on the question of Freedom I would also refer you to my earlier reporting of the wee Fat Fucker proclaiming that political blogs were "not what the Internet is for." The cheeky cunt. That's enough, in my judgement, to hang him up from the nearest lamp post. Not what the Internet is for. Right.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-60490831022284060192012-01-29T12:47:17.940+00:002012-01-29T12:47:17.940+00:00"Ah....NuLab semantics in an attempt to garne..."Ah....NuLab semantics in an attempt to garner votes."<br /><br />Scotland ditched new Labour .<br />This is our 2nd SNP Government.<br />Not that England has noticed. But that's ok we're used to it.<br />England kept voting for Tony and his cronies though.throbbernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-36931647629937022632012-01-29T09:53:25.813+00:002012-01-29T09:53:25.813+00:00I doubt, Mr jgm2 that Salmond`s dignity would be a...I doubt, Mr jgm2 that Salmond`s dignity would be assuaged by a mere Learjet. He would require his own version of Airforce One when he represented his subjects, er, the Scottish people at Brussells, with the Son of Heaven in Beijing and with whichever dunderhead is infesting the White House.<br /><br />From an early age Top Hatters are trained to conceal their sense of entitlement. Not so their oppos on the left like the grotesques exhibited by our host. Remember the desperate, sweaty attempts by the Kirkaldy hobbledehoy to prise the switchgear of power from Jug Ears ? An ageing Livingstone convinced that London Belongs to Him ? The laughable fratricide between the Milibands neither of whom is fit to hand round the biros at a parish council meeting.yardarmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08700165830593026578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-20087118998489288932012-01-29T02:38:02.239+00:002012-01-29T02:38:02.239+00:00Ah....NuLab semantics in an attempt to garner vote...Ah....NuLab semantics in an attempt to garner votes.<br /><br />Can't set your own taxes...not a government.a young anglo-irish catholicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-27871706517133279722012-01-29T01:58:29.204+00:002012-01-29T01:58:29.204+00:00"The fucking BBC insists on referring to the ..."The fucking BBC insists on referring to the 'Scottish Government' - it is not. It is an 'administration.'"<br /><br />No you're wrong. It was the "Scottish Executive" but is now officially the "Scottish Government" since 2007.<br />The Parliament is home to the Scottish Government and all references in correspondence etc are Scottish Government.<br />If the Lib/Lab/Con would just back off and give us independence it would be the independent Scottish Government. But we only have 10% of the UK voters and the English voters keep voting for the Unionist parties to keep us part of the UK unfortunately.throbbernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-8090466456493497742012-01-29T00:58:14.225+00:002012-01-29T00:58:14.225+00:00The fucking BBC insists on referring to the 'S...The fucking BBC insists on referring to the 'Scottish Government' - it is not. It is an 'administration.'<br /><br />Odd, really, for the lefty broadcaster when Scottish independence will mean the end of Labour as a governing power in England...<br /><br />Incidentally, was chewing the fat in London tonight with my Hong Kong Chinese friends. They had with them a friend from China, a TV producer.<br /><br />She gave up working for the BBC in Shanghai - calling the BBC a pain to work for. She now works for Sky in Beijing.<br /><br />A young woman - very poised - brought up under communism can't stand the Beeb and heads for Sky. Figure that one out.<br /><br />Like Paxman's bleating with three young chinese women last week. 'But you can't change the government' said the '68er'. 'Why do we want to change the government said the lovelies, Chanel handbags to hand.<br /><br />'Well' lamented Paxo. 'Maybe they have the most important freedom of the lot - the freedom to make money...'a young anglo-irish catholicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-41634445830917463802012-01-29T00:52:14.837+00:002012-01-29T00:52:14.837+00:00I've never understood Galloway. He rants again...I've never understood Galloway. He rants against the West in his weekly talksport show yet is quite happy to get paid by Iran where independent bloggers, journalists, gays and anyone who complains gets hung from a crane in the village square. Or shot in the face on the street.Hugh Janusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-46696390139249020862012-01-28T22:39:22.920+00:002012-01-28T22:39:22.920+00:00Private Eye has the would be future Emperor of Jo...Private Eye has the would be future Emperor of Jockland well and truely sewn up in the current issue.McTheobaldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-78072524716364541042012-01-28T21:35:52.474+00:002012-01-28T21:35:52.474+00:00With such fuckwits as Sheridan and Galloway as alt...With such fuckwits as Sheridan and Galloway as alternatives to Labour and the Tories is it any wonder that Salmond is soon likely to get his own Learjet. As befits his status as the 'Independent' President of Regional area 'Scotland' of the EU.<br /><br />FREEDOM!!!<br /><br />I bet he has a fucking brochure from Bombardier already. Already picked out the design he wants on the tail. Charged Alcoholics Dormant on a sanguine background most likely.jgm2noreply@blogger.com