Lots of experiments with footballs and small children.
― mzui (mzui), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ddb/teaching/hume/hume.jpeg
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link
ihttp://www.nrao.edu/whatisra/images/maxwell2.jpg
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~awarwood/omega.html
Scared the living shit out of me as an 7 year old.
― mzui (mzui), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― mzui (mzui), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/news/cult/2005/02/21/17166.shtml
― mzui (mzui), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link
Madchen OTM about Deuchars IPA. Harviestoun Bitter & Twisted is a good un too.
John Byrne is pretty awesome. I've never seen Tutti Frutti though. Apparently the reason it's never been repeated is that the BBC are being funny about royalites for the old rock n roll songs used on the show, but that always struck me as rather dubious.
Alexander 'Greek' Thompson. Renowned architect who made Glasgow look like it does, whose buildings have all too often been demolished or left to crumble by shortsighted/corrupt (ahem) local councillors.
The Barrowlands ballroom!
― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link
[ahem subs pls check spelling] but otherwise good fucking call.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link
i'm still not entirely sure what it was. a dude showing cartoons? that sounds kinda neat.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link
and my mum *FORGOT* to send in my birthday card to get read out. Unlike Mari0n W1ls0n's mum, who didn't. So on my birthday weekend, I had to suffer girl-cleverer-than-me getting her card read out by Glen. boo.
― stet (stet), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Ah yes - I forgot the hankies!
― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link
and this ...
So on my birthday weekend, I had to suffer girl-cleverer-than-me getting her card read out by Glen
this explains everything, stet :)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Glen Michael was in fact my first "gig" in Cumbernauld.
― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link
bloodthirsty barbarians who paint themselves blue and hurl themselves at the English, and yet the ultimate, almost parodic genteelness of the twee worldview of B&S, almost as if it's a an exaggerated reaction to the former (see also Momus). Is that all about the Highlands/Lowlands divide?
I don't think I'm particularly twee. I feel a sense of kinship with people like Alasdair Gray (I met him years ago in Aberdeen) and also with people like Stuart Murdoch, and also with Robert Burns. The gentleness in these people might be described as fierce, and, as in "The Wicker Man", there's a strong pagan sensuality and Celtic lyricism. My own ancestors were Gaelic speakers from the Hebrides (mainly the island of Mull, which my mother has written an excellent book about), and at least two of them (the McKechnies, Angus and Donald) won the bardic crown at the Mod for poetry in Gaelic.
― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link
i tried to visit mull once but the clouds poured down for two straight days and it was the most i could do to just see its outline across the harbor.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link
Also Tracer Hand OTM. So many top words. Like "cushty", "gallus", "chankin" and "chips"
― stet (stet), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― everything, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link
I like scenery and unfounded belief in crappy national football teams and tattie scones and butteries and wee pubs in the Briggait where men play banjos and "Dignity" by Deacon Blue and what Madchen said about the light (she forgot to mention me pointing out that the scenery stopped just south of Gretna) and hills and heather and the pool halls upstairs from the Scotia and the Woodside, and also the Woodside itself, especially its jukebox, and picnics in Kelvingrove Park and the view from the top of the hill at Daviot down to Inverness and the Black Isle and placenames like Acharacle and Ballachulish and single track roads with bemused sheep on them and the way the deer come down off the hills in the Highlands at dusk and the Trash Can Sinatras and the Old Man of Hoy and Christopher Brookmyre and the salmon leap at the Falls of Shin.
And some other stuff too.
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link
I forgot that most of all I love Gregory's Girl and Belle and Sebastian.
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:52 (eighteen years ago) link
2. Eat a buttery A traditional Doric delicacy, the Aberdeen buttery rowie is a gloriously Atkins-unfriendly combination of flour, yeast, salt and fat. Don’t be put off by the rock hard specimens they serve in Halls – get yourself to a local bakery for the real deal. Eaten with a nice bowl of homemade soup, there’s nothing better to fortify you against the North-East winter.
― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link
Absolutely and Still Game. The book Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Ivor Cutler and the Incredible String Band. Some of the ned slang/retorts. "Away an run up ma ribs" etc. Irn Bru and anything Tunnocks. Oh and Altered Images. Scotch broth, Abroath Smokeys.
― r.d. must lurk less. (fractal), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 20:07 (eighteen years ago) link
Other good things: Mackies honeycomb icecream, Highland cattle, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Still Game (xpost!), Archie Gemmill's goal against Holland, West Highland accents.
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 20:12 (eighteen years ago) link
YOu know, all these things "feel" the same, even Momus. It's like, I dunno, a droll yet twee grimness.
― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link