ian4lynn Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 Did I hear on the radio that the Shetland Fudge company had their windows smashed??I hope that wasn't over this issue. If thats true, then thats just sick!!!!!!! No business deserves to have their windows smashed in.This is about 2 businesses that need to sort out their afairs privately, its nothing to do with where they were born, thats irrelevent!! Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shetlandpeat Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 So now there could be a criminal investigation, I hope it is not linked to this. It has had enough airing now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biglad Posted October 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 I'd still be surprised about this, there are plenty of halfwits going around at the weekend capable of this, in fact broken windows on Commercial Street at the weekend is common and nothing new! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorrie Posted October 26, 2011 Report Share Posted October 26, 2011 Sadly, there'll always be dickheads who will use any excuse to vandalise or worse...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egbert-Mcwhirter Posted October 26, 2011 Report Share Posted October 26, 2011 Does the famous CCTV they spent a fortune on ever actually catch anyone ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironwithin Posted October 26, 2011 Report Share Posted October 26, 2011 The CCTV seems to have been a complete waste of money and is just an excuse for someone to be able to sit in a nice warm room watching a screen when they should be out on the beat, as all trouble i have heard of on the street the CCTV has seen nothing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoogler Posted October 26, 2011 Report Share Posted October 26, 2011 The window thats smashed isn't on the Commercial Street side but is on the lower side facing Esplanade (next to Peerie Shop Cafe) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted October 27, 2011 Report Share Posted October 27, 2011 @Kavi UglMy comment on not understanding written Shetland is in no way related to the second part of what I said.I wouldn't suggest for a second that people stop writing in the Shetland dialect - this seems obvious it being a Shetland forum, all I said was that I didn't understand what Ghostrider was saying. A guy mentions that he's done a bit of fishing in Aberdeenshire and you assume they 'obviously' haven't spent a winter in Shetland, that's a bit silly in the same way a suggesting that I should stay away from Shetlink if I don't understand 'Written' Shetland.Are you the ultimate Shetlander? With your Viking DNA? I recently had my DNA properly tested for a Shetland study looking at the name 'Tulloch' I'm more than happy with the results, are you sure about your DNA? Anyway smashing peoples windows over Teddy Bears is dumber than dumb, as has been mentioned before, smells like Xenophobia to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snurtmunchkin Posted October 27, 2011 Report Share Posted October 27, 2011 Whits Viking DNA got tae do wi bein a Shetlander? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulb Posted October 27, 2011 Report Share Posted October 27, 2011 nowt. its how you feel about the place and the ties you make. birth really has little to do with it. after all there are loads of native borns that hate shetland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironwithin Posted October 27, 2011 Report Share Posted October 27, 2011 ^^^^ I assume you were not born in Shetland as birth and where your parents come from has a lot to do with it, you can not be a Shetlander otherwise. I hope the smashed window has nothing to do with the argument but if it does I dont think it can be called xenophobia, more like taking sides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted October 27, 2011 Report Share Posted October 27, 2011 @snurtmunchkin"Whits Viking DNA got tae do wi bein a Shetlander?" What's that your saying? I don't understand, only kidding But yeah my point exactly, here' the results of my DNA sample Your direct paternal lineage, your Tulloch lineage, appears to be Pictish in origin. It belongs to the S145 group and matches the Orcadian Tullochs at the small number of markers we have tested, and they in turn match the Pictish type at a large number of markers. This subgroup is only really found in Scotland, something like 7% of Scots belong to this group. It is not found on the continent and is very rare in England and Ireland. This is the signature of descent from the earliest peoples of Scotland in the Neolithic era, who in turn were the ancestors of the Picts. I don’t think that these Picts would have lived in Orkney and Shetland, it is more likely that in the 15th or even 14th century the first Tulloch, potentially Bishop Thomas de Tulloch, came to Orkney from Scotland and at some point a descendant moved to Shetland. His ancestors, apparently from Dingwall in Easter Ross, would have gone back to the local Picts and the Stone Age before. I have yet to sample a Tulloch from Easter Ross to confirm the connection and no data for men named Tulloch are available from open access internet resources. I do however have data on Tullochs from Orkney and you match them, thus showing that this is likely to be the original genetic signature of the Tullochs of the Northern Isles of Scotland and that there has been no non-paternity in the intervening generations. I believe it likely that the indigenous Orkney and Shetland Picts were wiped out by the Norsemen about the year AD 800. About 4% of Orcadian men belong to this group, and probably something similar in Shetland, which is about half the frequency in most other parts of Scotland because of the large Norse component in the Northern Isles. You will also carry Norse blood, through your other Shetlandic ancestors, the women who married into the Tulloch male line over the generations. Like I say I'm over the moon to have some real facts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunkissedeclipse Posted October 29, 2011 Report Share Posted October 29, 2011 Im a bit off subject but i saw a car with fair isle car dice and i was just wondering where i could get some, i love them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shetlandpeat Posted October 29, 2011 Report Share Posted October 29, 2011 Now then, my Grannie would have been able to make them, my Mam too, alas, my sister no. I bet it will not be hard, there are many folk who may show you. Then, you could make some yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoots Posted November 15, 2011 Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 I don't mean to offend anyone, but I always thought the Shetland dialect, or Shaetlan, is just that - a dialect, and not a language? It does, after all, share words with Scots and Doric, doesn't it? Or am I completely wrong? If it is a dialect, I can't see how English would then be a "second language". A Gaelic speaker, or Welsh, or even Rom, might be able to make the claim, but it seems a stretch to apply in this instance. (eventide, does this mean you're more a Shetlander than the "Vikings" round these parts? ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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