tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post3932023167769889385..comments2024-03-28T07:16:39.621+00:00Comments on Lallands Peat Worrier: "An alien & an interloper & despised of his fellow-men..."Lallands Peat Worrierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18276270498204697708noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-14596021288438198492011-06-28T18:04:56.344+01:002011-06-28T18:04:56.344+01:00Scottish republic,
Most English Tories I meet don...Scottish republic,<br /><br />Most English Tories I meet don't have nefarious plots for Scotland (well, no more nefarious than their schemes for the rest of the country). Their keynote is indifference; a shrug not a shriek. I doubt Mr Cameron would have remotely of Crosland's bitter spice, to think such passages, never mind compose them.<br /><br />Conan,<br /><br />A spiritual father, you might well thing. Actually, old T.W.H. makes the ghastly Kelvin seem sane and temperate. <br /><br />Anonymous, terrence,<br /><br />Thanks for that pungent quotation. My favourite phrase is the description of folk as being "in the scarecrow stage of verminous trampdom". Gives me something to aim for.Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-31835660756756836192011-06-28T12:45:42.749+01:002011-06-28T12:45:42.749+01:00terrence
The ellipsis suggests that the bedlamite...terrence<br /><br />The ellipsis suggests that the bedlamite yells refers to the 'Blatantly filthy language', not the Boyne Water chorus.<br /><br />The point is that the prose was robust and colourful and the slant unambiguous. Plus the subject matter is topical.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-20623580688738640202011-06-28T12:30:46.172+01:002011-06-28T12:30:46.172+01:00The newspaper did have a Celtic slant. I've se...The newspaper did have a Celtic slant. I've seen same article quoted as 1921.<br />Not the blog for tit for tat partisan exchanges. À mon humble avis.<br />Anyway "bedlamite yells" and chanting a choruis are probably mutually explosive.terrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15075471706398555654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-52321757563430685072011-06-28T10:42:09.232+01:002011-06-28T10:42:09.232+01:00Makes you nostalgic for the days of proper journal...Makes you nostalgic for the days of proper journalism, like this little vignette, which is sort of topical. Plus ca change.<br /><br />GLASGOW OBSERVER: 1 NOVEMBER 1924. “On the terracing at the Dalmornock end on Saturday there was congregated a gang, thousands strong, including the dregs and scourings of filthy slumdom, unwashed yahoos, jailbirds, night hawks, won’t-works, ‘burroo barnacles’, and pavement pirates, all, or nearly all, in the scarecrow stage of verminous trampdom. This ragged army of insantitary pests was lavishly provided with orange and blue remnants, and these were flaunted in challenge as the football tide flowed this way or that. Practically with out cessation for ninety minutes or more, the vagabond scum kept up a strident howl of the ‘Boyne Water’ chorus. Nothing so designedly provoking, so maliciously insulting, or so beastially ignorant has ever been witnessed even in the wildest exhibitions of Glasgow Orange bigotry…..Blatantly filthy language of the lowest criminal type assailed the shocked ears of decent onlookers. There was no getting away from it, chanted as it was by thousands of voices in bedlamite yells.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-72733004616063011702011-06-28T10:00:25.033+01:002011-06-28T10:00:25.033+01:00Was he Kelvin McKenzie's great grandather?
Ma...Was he Kelvin McKenzie's great grandather?<br /><br />Maternal line of course.Conan the Librarian™https://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-54282869477511081892011-06-27T22:15:41.252+01:002011-06-27T22:15:41.252+01:00Thanks for these excerpts from the Tory manifesto ...Thanks for these excerpts from the Tory manifesto but the picture is a rather unkind likeness of David Cameron.Scottish republicnoreply@blogger.com