I kinda wish I were there. Well, except for the smell and the neds.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
I am quite excited that Cornish classes are a thing which exists outside Cornwall!
Last time my parents were in Cornwall they brought me back a book (more of a pamphlet really, probably only 10 or so pages) of Cornish words which I spent a while excitedly crosschecking against the Welsh and Breton dictionaries we stopped mr spacecadet's father putting in a skip when his linguist mother died. The Breton part was a bit tricky as it was Breton-French.
Actually I don't think we got very far on that quest, but I liked that the Breton for rain is "glao", which is like the Welsh but spelt better.
― Schleimpilz im Labyrinth (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
Cornish is a lot like the Welsh but spelled phonetically! It's great that way. It's funny, all Celtic minority language speakers are kind of obsessed with checking how their words translate in the corresponding cognates.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
want to explore the seafront?http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=prestwick+promenade&hl=en&ll=55.495784,-4.619318&spn=0.000741,0.002642&sll=55.495755,-4.616803&sspn=0.000748,0.003664&hnear=Promenade,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=55.495784,-4.619318&panoid=Q9jXDPb4MoXVJC_UPa0fIQ&cbp=13,281.97,,0,-2.83
ive taken you to the left so have fun going all the way to the other end
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
I want to say raining is ow kul glow (pronounced to rhyme with cow) in Cornish but I'm probably misspelling it.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
this will make it easierhttp://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=prestwick+promenade&hl=en&ll=55.495785,-4.618807&spn=0.000741,0.002642&sll=55.495755,-4.616803&sspn=0.000748,0.003664&hnear=Promenade,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=55.495801,-4.619555&panoid=GDc0R_dDdZFVqPhMfyXe1Q&cbp=13,339.49,,0,2
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Nope, it's spelled Glaw.
Snow is "ergh" which I'm convinced is onomatopoeic for what ppl sailors say when they open their doors and think "I have to go out in that?"
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
i would like to find a pic of the council flat we lived in EK until i was 2 1/2 as i dont recall it at all. I do remember the council house in greenhills, EK, but cant find it either, it goes to a totally different address. Stupid google.Doubt the house in Blackwood will be on google maps
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Did you have a browse along the seafront?
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
A picture of the seafront at sunset. That's Arran in the distance
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Tides out as you can see. Used to go out quite far in summer. In winter it came up over the wall when it was stormy just in front of my friends house. Along past the sailing club and up where i posted the pic from, you got it the most. Further you went to the right it didn't go anywhere near the wall.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'd promise to buy your house back, but I've never bought a lottery ticket.
― Also unknown as Zora (Surfing At Work), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sorry, I fell asleep reading my beeches book.
That photo with the crepuscular rays on the clouds is incredible, Arran looks so pretty. Can't ever get streetview to work on my interweb connection, which is just as well as I'd be spending hours strolling down country lanes in like, Lamorna, if I could.
On a completely unrelated note, I have just realised that I've spent the past ages mistaking "codex" for "concordance" and I only just found out while trying to look up on wikipedia what "indexicality" actually means (approximately what I thought it meant, but it was still nice to know.)
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 08:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
while looking for info on the cats on iron maiden covers thing i came across thishttp://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/Rock-n-Roll/witchcraft.htmThere's no thread on witchcraft in music so i thought hows about discussing it here? It's not really something I know about so not starting a thread on it.
Anyway i just kinda wondered what your mum thought of stuff like this?
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 08:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
and i mean properly, not laughable articles like that
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 08:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha it links to this http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/04/george-w-bush-barbara-bush-and.html not heard that one before
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 08:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm not sure why my mum would be bothered? I suspect, knowing her personality, she'd think it was rather laughable.
I don't know. It seems like a lot of people in rock n roll muck about with ~the occult~ just to be shocking and a bit weird, and some paranoid people within christianity take it all rather too seriously, but they strike me as the same kind of thinking level as conspiracy theorists. Hedonism and rock n roll are all intimately tied up together, hedonism and satanism are all tied up, ergo they are one and the same. But these are people who think that the Devil is an actual gentleman who walks around with red horns and a tail, rather than a metaphorical personification of evil, which is a much more complex topic.
It's strange, I have to admit I've always had a vague fascination with the occult - but the devil worshipping aspect of it (usually christian projection onto older nature cults) always just seemed silly.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 08:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
But these are people who think that the Devil is an actual gentleman who walks around with red horns and a tail,
reminds me of that witch episode in The Blackadder.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 13:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
What's Ed & Emsk up to these days? Is Mark C still around? I miss him.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 14:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ed's on the bike forum mostly, don't know where Emsk is about. That reminds me, we were supposed to go on a walk to the Wittenham Lumps this weekend, but seeing as I've not heard from anyone since it was first mooted, I'm going to assume that's now not gonna happen? The internet was supposed to make it easier to keep in touch with people, but in many ways it's made it harder.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Based on occasional attempts to hang out with Emsk over the last few years, she is probably working, whenever you read this.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 17:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
Our walk does appear to be happening! Hurrah for Wittenham Lumps!
Also, random mindblowing etymological fact of the day: apparently Book comes from the same atymological root as Buche (German) meaning Beech! Books are not just made from trees, in a strange way, they *are* trees.
*head explodes*
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 19:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
this is pretty sad, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-17128997 they will only get £30 for scrap value according to the guy on the news but i dont think it's been stolen to order as there's a lot of metal theft in Scotland just now. A statue of a miner in Moodiesburn was stolen about a week after it was put up.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Afternoon everybody
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 23 February 2012 12:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Bleurgh. Afternoon. I'm feeling kind of otherwise.
Going to force myself to draw this afternoon, but I feel like I really should be researching for the Psychogeography Gang's walk this weekend. Like, are the Wittenham Lumps actually signature Capability Brown Clumps or are they overgrown Neolithic earthworks or something else?
They appear to have their own website! Or rather, a website dedicated to Paul Nash's paintings of them. I'm worried I might get obsessed.
http://www.nashclumps.org/
Ah, it appears they are both. they are chalk outcrops, with earthworks on top, and yet the beech clumps are some of the oldest planted beeches.
A Wittenham Lump:
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 23 February 2012 13:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
But now I am worried I will see them not as their own Lumpy selves, and not even as the drawings I will no doubt make of them, but as Nash paintings.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 23 February 2012 13:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm sure you will have fun.
do any brits post on ilx now? it seems empty in the mornings until the yanks come online. Are they all on facebook or livejournal?
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 23 February 2012 13:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
I blame the Austerity, man. Austerity.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 23 February 2012 13:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
i dont get the love of facebook and lj myself. or twitter.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 23 February 2012 13:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm usually here in the morn...
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
i miss the tales of the grout schoolrun
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, it's all "right tara youse two" either I'm out the door before them, or vice versa. They all grown up and walk to school themselves...
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
you must miss it. What age are they now?
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
I mainly lurk on here these days and find that there are a diminishing number of threads I want to post on, or even comprehend from their titles. And I no longer have the kind of job or the inclination to click on 'blue writing' I don't understand (perhaps sadly).
Very busy at the moment, lots of travel. Was in Chester yesterday and will be in Leeds and Bingley on Monday!
But yes, the walk is ON. Huzzah for Wittenham Lumps!
WCC, thanks for the Buche/Book thing. It solves a mystery for me. There is a kind of finch which is called Buchfink auf Deutsch and I was trying to figure out the connection twixt books and birds!
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
there are a diminishing number of threads I want to post on,
Why I'm so glad to see the cooler back!! I really missed it.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yep Pfunkboy, I missed it too!
Bird was this geezer (if that's not a contradiction) -- a chaffinch:
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
They are 13 and 11 (14 and 12 next month)
I don't post much about them here thesedays, they have their own Facebook profiles (around 100 pics of themselves on there).
Still, Alice is a dab hand at finding old pics posted on this place..
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
they could be posting here and you dont know! Like when enbb didn't realise who roberto spiralli was!
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
is that them now? I forget which one is the eldest
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
Amber is the eldest.
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
Between books and birds, no, but between birds and beeches, and beeches and books, yes! the link between books and the paper they are made from is strong in many languages - another analogue is codex as latin for book, and codex as latin for bole. (Though that confuses me as I think of a codex being vellum.) But yes, boring linguist is boring.
I don't know. I don't think that Facebook or Livejournal have hived off any more people since the Great Schism. (Well, 77 might play a role? I don't know, I'm not on it and never will be.) I think it's just natural attrition. That a messageboard is like a forest, that you have tall oaks like Ned and Dan who have been here since day one, and then you have an undergrowth of people who come, stay for a while, and move on when their work gets busy or they have babies or whatever. The thing is, in US ILX, there's a constant refreshing of the undergrowth. But UK ILX, the recolonisation has taken much more slowly. People have left and their footprint has not been replaced. Sorry for the forest metaphor, but this beechwood book I am reading is fascinating.
Whenever I complain about ILX and think that it's awful, well, spending a couple of weeks to a month on any other messageboard quickly cures me of that. It could be so much worse. I also get that tiredness when I look at new answers, and there's *nothing* I want to talk about. My answer to that is always, start new threads! But it's tiring when you try to coax a little thread into life and find that no one at all gives a shit about sea arches except you. But every now and then I see a thread which I started, and which sputtered and went out, creep back into the SNA and suddenly it catches fire for whatever reason, and then I've got people talking about that thing I wanted to talk about, back then.
But, you know, it's kind of a slog when SNA is all American television programs and American sports and American politics etc ad nauseum and it becomes reinforcing because maybe new British ppl don't stay because they think it offers nothing for them.
But this is all boring meta blah blah blah and I'd rather talk about beech trees and chaffinches.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 23 February 2012 15:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
I would really like to be present when a sea arch collapses and becomes a stack. That would be something.
― the feeling is surreal (snoball), Thursday, 23 February 2012 15:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Vellum, parchment, whatever.
But I suppose even a parchment codex looks in profile like a hunk of wood or the bole of a tree, even when they're not made from wood pulp.
But this book thought the link between beech/buche/book might be spurious, though it was supposed to have been associated with writing on bark. Maybe.
x-post did you see the Cornish LANDSLIP video that was posted last autumn? It wasn't actually a sea arch, but it was a massive amount of a Horse (the coastal rock formation not the beast) that dropped into the sea one stormy day!
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 23 February 2012 15:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
― the feeling is surreal (snoball), Thursday, 23 February 2012 15:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
That is indeed the one, and it was slightly alarming as it was right near where I'd been staying, I've walked that particular bit of coast many times.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 23 February 2012 15:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Not in Cornwall, but.
The famous Marsden Rock was always a sea arch for many years.
Then, one day, it collapsed in the 'bridge' section. Leaving a big rock and a column. Then men came along and bulldozed the column away.It's still a rock, I guess...
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 February 2012 15:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
Pics or it didn't happen!
Anyway, I need to stop skiving and ink my EXTREMELY POINTY AND VIOLENT spires pic that I've drawn.
Without jellyfish, despite all the requests for jellyfish.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 23 February 2012 15:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
In Cornwall, but not a sea arch:
After that "We'll take manhattan" Bailey/Shrimpton thing, I wondered what had happened to J. Apparently she had bought a hotel in Marazion and become a recluse. Which seemed odd because I then found a recent interview with photo, and I thought to myself "A bit rubbish at being a recluse". And then I realised, I'd actually seen her. I'd gone into a hotel in M to get drinks for the family, and I noticed an oldish lady, skinny, looked 'unfriendly', but wasn't. Again, not exactly 'reclusive'..
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 February 2012 15:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
I had no idea that there was a rock formation called a horse!
I wonder if it is etymologically linked with the animal (as clothes horses and the type you vault over def are) or if it's a "false friend"?
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 23 February 2012 15:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
sounds like
― j., Monday, 18 March 2013 22:25 (2 months ago) Permalink
computer programming isn't the most age-friendly career, it's true, but it may also depend on what technologies he's familiar with. does sound like a bad situation though, good luck to him
(suspect someone more US-based would be better placed to provide specific advice, sorry)
― susuwatari teenage riot (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 18 March 2013 22:30 (2 months ago) Permalink
my dad was recently in this situation and he wound up getting a contract job with a cemetery. there are jobs out there, it's just a question of looking in perhaps unconventional places.
― maura, Monday, 18 March 2013 22:53 (2 months ago) Permalink
yeah, the guy is my dad, also
― steaklife (donna rouge), Monday, 18 March 2013 23:11 (2 months ago) Permalink
there's at least some time before all this happens (his current job ends next year and he'll have a pretty decent severance package). and today he underwent some significant surgery that i'm optimistic will do wonders for him, so he'll be in better shape by the time he has to seriously start dealing with this
still, hell of a spot to be in :/
― steaklife (donna rouge), Monday, 18 March 2013 23:16 (2 months ago) Permalink
It's rough, but having computer skills is one of the few ways "make money from home, ask me how" can work out for people.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 18 March 2013 23:17 (2 months ago) Permalink