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Post by Sheep2 on Mar 8, 2021 16:55:37 GMT
You think I read what people write?
I am not a vaccine courvoisier connoisseur, no.
Are you saying the Pfizer vaccine is like cognac?
But AZ is a fine armagnac?
I could get behind that distinction
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Post by amipal on Mar 8, 2021 16:56:50 GMT
Amipal's origins are surrounded in mystery. An enigma. Perhaps he’s secretly French, trying to throw us all off the scent... My family tree has been traced back to 16th century pig farmers in Kent. Prior to that, probably Normal nobility. But definitely not French. No. |
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Post by Tuffers on Mar 8, 2021 16:59:48 GMT
The net tightens.
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Post by Destry on Mar 8, 2021 17:05:58 GMT
I, too, got the AZ vaccine. The choice of champions. *
* I didn't get to choose.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Mar 8, 2021 17:22:58 GMT
Not the least troubling part of the Rangers thing is that the club did not use their social media to ask the mob to go home. In fact, Stevie G and some of the players emerged from the facility to greet the baying hordes.
However, Richard Gough has just been on the radio to reassure everyone that they just can't possibly understand if they're not a Rangers fan, so it's all fine really.
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Post by lazybones on Mar 8, 2021 17:40:21 GMT
A friend of mine from Glasgow once told me that the Boys Brigade was like a junior branch of the Orange Men.
I was perturbed because I used to be in the Boys Brigade.
Can anyone corroborate this?
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Post by lazybones on Mar 8, 2021 17:42:34 GMT
The Boys Brigade badge system did become increasingly march-centric.
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Post by crankcaller on Mar 8, 2021 18:09:48 GMT
Is there a Venn diagram of BB officers and Orange Lodge members? Possibly. I'd say there's probably a bigger crossover of Masons. Certainly in West Central Scotland *traditionally* Catholics were more likely to join the scouts than the BB. But that was partly to do with priests not wanting Catholic children attending non Catholic religious services.
I was in the Boys Brigade, but it was in the east end and full of cafflics. We didn't do much Bible study which was nice.
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Post by scubar on Mar 8, 2021 18:11:43 GMT
Is there a Venn diagram of BB officers and Orange Lodge members? Possibly. I'd say there's probably a bigger crossover of Masons. Certainly in West Central Scotland *traditionally* Catholics were more likely to join the scouts than the BB. But that was partly to do with priests not wanting Catholic children attending non Catholic religious services. I was in the Boys Brigade, but it was in the east end and full of cafflics. We didn't do much Bible study which was nice. The priests wanted first dibs on the boys, didn’t want the Scout Masters getting involved, I see. |
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Post by crankcaller on Mar 8, 2021 18:13:10 GMT
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Post by dakylosaurus419 on Mar 8, 2021 18:24:10 GMT
Morning all!
Valheim! I realised I can play it comfortably on the laptop without a controller. I've gone from rags to riches, and now have a house that looks like it was cobbled together by a blind and drunk cobbler(s), complete with fire, cooking stick, workbench, bed, and the bottom half of a door*. I've mostly been focussing on living comfortably, having barely moved from the starting location. Cutting down trees and collecting stones to build things with. I ventured a bit further down the coast and ran into a skeleton, so I turned around a ran away.
Now I'm not sure what to do next. I'm pretty much sorted for warmth and house, all I need to do is forage for berries every now and then. Probably just settle down and live out my years in purgatory. One day get the top half of that door.
*the top half of a door seems to be beyond me at the moment.
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Post by Chumbles on Mar 8, 2021 18:24:25 GMT
Perhaps he’s secretly French, trying to throw us all off the scent... My family tree has been traced back to 16th century pig farmers in Kent. Prior to that, probably Normal nobility. But definitely not French. No. I imagine Normal nobles sitting astride pigs with tin buckets on their heads and sharp sticks... bore on boar action, so to speak. |
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Post by RollingEscargot on Mar 8, 2021 18:27:07 GMT
It's weird that sports teams end up associated with political ideologies at all. All those flags and banners. I'm not comfortable taunting rival supporters with anything more symbolic than the odd sombrero or beach ball. Maybe an inflatable sheep on special occasions.
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Post by MrTiddles on Mar 8, 2021 18:35:17 GMT
A friend of mine from Glasgow once told me that the Boys Brigade was like a junior branch of the Orange Men. I was perturbed because I used to be in the Boys Brigade. Can anyone corroborate this? Mrs T says 'no', and if she says 'no', she means 'Narghhh'.
Case closed.
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Post by tenthenemy on Mar 8, 2021 18:48:24 GMT
TentHen. Researching Thebes and came across a set of arguments concerning Cadmus. Apparently it's from Ugarit and means something to to with the east. Cadmus was said to have settled Thebes after travelling from Tyre. Interesting stuff. Thebes is a very interesting place. The mythical Cadmus (Europa's brother), prince of Tyre, is credited with founding the city and introducing Greeks to the Phoenician alphabet, ultimately enabling Boxers to hoot into the abyss without employing Linear B. Thanks for that, Cadmus! (It's pretty much agreed that Herodotus is completely off with his chronological guess for Cadmus, although he was perfectly correct when he described the Near Eastern origins of the Greek alphabet. It would be nice to have the inscribed items he saw in Thebes.) (Some of this stuff is what Martin Bernal's Black Athena controversy was about; if you remember, he also wrote Cadmean Letters about the transmission of the alphabet which he (following Herodotus) dates way too early. Usually in archaeology it's true that everything is older than you think, but I'm not convinced it applies here.) Although Ugarit and Tyre are geographically close it must be noted that they were rival entities and that Tyre benefitted greatly from Ugarit's demise at the end of the Late Bronze Age. |
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Post by Felice Landry on Mar 8, 2021 18:52:37 GMT
You learn something new everyday here, for instance I didn't know Crank was in the Boys Brigade.
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Post by crankcaller on Mar 8, 2021 19:03:47 GMT
You learn life skills:
How to sew a button on.
How to polish shoes.
how to put a blunt knife in a poppy day tin and run up and down the tenement stairs so the money falls in a bag and keep the 50p's.
Stuff like that.
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Post by lazybones on Mar 8, 2021 19:07:49 GMT
Is there a Venn diagram of BB officers and Orange Lodge members? Possibly. I'd say there's probably a bigger crossover of Masons. Certainly in West Central Scotland *traditionally* Catholics were more likely to join the scouts than the BB. But that was partly to do with priests not wanting Catholic children attending non Catholic religious services. I was in the Boys Brigade, but it was in the east end and full of cafflics. We didn't do much Bible study which was nice. This is good content. I don’t remember much Bible study in our Boys Brigade group either. There may have been some. It may have been easy to secure a low rank badge or two with some basic Bible lore. |
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Post by lazybones on Mar 8, 2021 19:10:38 GMT
Now I'm not sure what to do next. I'm pretty much sorted for warmth and house, all I need to do is forage for berries every now and then. Probably just settle down and live out my years in purgatory. One day get the top half of that door. *the top half of a door seems to be beyond me at the moment. Build a house. Build another house. Set up a camp and then turn it into a house. I’ve begun to spend a lot of time deer-stalking. But then I’ve lost my clothes a few times and have needed to craft more. |
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Post by tenthenemy on Mar 8, 2021 19:28:41 GMT
Random find (the video, not the cat. No-one can find the cat):
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Post by RollingEscargot on Mar 8, 2021 19:39:41 GMT
You learn life skills: how to put a blunt knife in a poppy day tin and run up and down the tenement stairs so the money falls in a bag and keep the 50p's. Ooft. If the lads down the Order see that, you're going to get handed a revolver and a tot of orangeade at your next Lodge meeting. |
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Post by crankcaller on Mar 8, 2021 20:29:22 GMT
This valheim chat is giving me the pump. But as I'm Minecraft'n with the child I probably shouldn't.
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Post by crankcaller on Mar 8, 2021 20:33:29 GMT
I was there when the tin dipping took place. I was too scared of my mum to do it myself. I'd been taken home by the Polis about 12 months before that for breaking and entering and got a doin' from her. Technically it was entering. There was no breaking involved. Flats getting renovated. Climbed a scaffy and went in a window with no glass.
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Post by Chumbles on Mar 8, 2021 20:34:14 GMT
I had another observation about Goggle's logo; it's probably down to my filthy mind... every time I try to caption it I feel simultaneously disgusted with myself and inadequate. |
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Post by tenthenemy on Mar 8, 2021 20:51:45 GMT
I had another observation about Goggle's logo; it's probably down to my filthy mind... every time I try to caption it I feel simultaneously disgusted with myself and inadequate. What has been seen cannot be unseen. |
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