paulb Posted June 11, 2012 Report Share Posted June 11, 2012 but a fair chance that your roof will blow onto the trees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stilldellin Posted June 11, 2012 Report Share Posted June 11, 2012 Yep, a bit more to Shetland than peat fires, sunsets and ponies ! tonight at 22.42 hrs http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/bb479/beenister/pluto9.jpg Guy Mealing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJ Posted June 11, 2012 Report Share Posted June 11, 2012 So whit's wi aa the negative posts about the wadder, when was the last time any of us were flooded out of our homes ? Well there was this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3122650.stm Wasn't here for that one, flooded homes tend to be isolated, but it's not unknown, sure we don't have the rivers for large scale floods, but it's not unknown, historically the houses at Channerwick had problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stilldellin Posted June 12, 2012 Report Share Posted June 12, 2012 ^ I was there, stuck on the north side of the avalanche but canna recall any houses in Shandrick being flooded, I think the Wirlie at Sandwick was probably most affected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulb Posted June 12, 2012 Report Share Posted June 12, 2012 Yep, a bit more to Shetland than peat fires, sunsets and ponies ! tonight at 22.42 hrs http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/bb479/beenister/pluto9.jpg looks like a nice still night. you know what comes out on still night. midges Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjasga Posted June 12, 2012 Report Share Posted June 12, 2012 I wonder weather the OP is under the wrong impression that Shetland does not suffer from the same "problems" as the rest of the UK.We have our druggies, scroungers, immigrants looking for an easy life (mainly British, but some from eastern Europe and far flung places) I'm aware you probably didn't mean this as I'm reading it, but the slightly unsavoury way immigrants are being spoken about in this thread grates with me a bit. All the immigrant workers I've known in Shetland work as hard as anybody else and certainly aren't here for "an easy life". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shetlandpeat Posted June 12, 2012 Report Share Posted June 12, 2012 Some may also be refugees. We have had all this on another thread.Let us not get this one locked! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJ Posted June 12, 2012 Report Share Posted June 12, 2012 I think you miss my meaning, an easy life is different for many people, for some it means not living hand to mouth, to others not having to worry about "disappearing", for others unfortunately it does mean living of DSS.Immigrant in the way they are being discussed in this thread are those who are moving to Shetland from outside.Previously when living and working south, I found myself working in sectors where very few of my colleagues were originally from the area, not many would work 16hr shifts or start at 4am or finish at 3am. I am not suggesting that folk move to the UK to live off benefits, that is unfortunately a symptom of the asylum legislation and EU regulations.I would question people who move up, take up a residence off the main transport routes, with no means of their own transportation, away from any employment opportunities, with no means to support themselves, expecting the state to subsidise them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironwithin Posted June 12, 2012 Report Share Posted June 12, 2012 You only have to look at the names on the court list in Shetland to see an unproportionate high ammount are immigrants, especially from Eastern Europe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crofter Posted June 12, 2012 Report Share Posted June 12, 2012 You only have to look at the names on the court list in Shetland to see an unproportionate high ammount are immigrants, especially from Eastern Europe. Hmmm. Care to tell us who are the immigrants from tomorrow's list? 1 Gavin EDWARD BEY SCS/2012-067201 LE12000234 012 Richard Garry BRADLEY SCS/2012-045512 LE12000109 013 John ROBERT BURGESS SCS/2012-056600 LE11000458 014 Jamie WILLIAM CLARK SCS/2012-054245 LE12000266 015 Beverley JANE COLLINS SCS/2012-045509 LE12000089 016 Beverley JANE COLLINS SCS/2012-045514 LE12000120 017 Kevin James COULSON SCS/2012-062115 LE12000091 018 Trevor WILLIAM COUPER APP/2012-012670 LE11000482 019 Trevor WILLIAM COUPER APP/2012-012672 LE11000564 0110 Andrew STEVEN CUMMING SCS/2012-036876 LE12000132 0111 Paul ANDREW D'EATHE SCS/2012-047534 LE12000230 0112 Kim DAVIDSON SCS/2012-056606 LE12000100 0113 Christopher DUNCAN SCS/2012-061048 LE12000287 0114 Yvonne Caroline DUNCAN SCS/2012-056604 LE12000094 0115 Christine LORRAINE GANDY SCS/2012-062115 LE12000091 0116 Sandra GRANT SCS/2012-036876 LE12000132 0117 Sandra GRANT SCS/2012-067205 LE12000261 0118 Amy MICHELLE GROAT SCS/2012-067327 LE11000386 0119 Laura LYNN HASSAN SCS/2012-046463 LE12000228 0120 Nicole Jeanene HASSAN SCS/2012-048586 LE12000175 0121 Kristopher JAMIESON SCS/2012-067204 LE12000257 0122 Alastair DOUGLAS KIRK SCS/2012-061051 LE12000290 0123 Saban KUSMUS SCS/2012-056611 LE12000211 0124 Martin Andrew MACDONALD SCS/2012-045507 LE12000084 0125 Ross Ian MACDOUGALL SCS/2012-067202 LE12000241 0126 Kenneth Brian MACLENNAN SCS/2012-056609 LE12000203 0127 Paul Scott MILLAR SCS/2012-041154 LE12000207 0128 Kyle Burns MITCHELL SCS/2012-056642 LE11000446 0129 Dhanni Magnus MOAR SCS/2012-045508 LE12000086 0130 Gordon James MORE APP/2012-013092 LE11000449 0131 Steven Alan NICHOLSON SCS/2012-011063 LE12000034 0132 Alan John REID SCS/2012-058348 LE12000280 0133 Jessica LOUISE RICHARDS SCS/2012-045515 LE12000128 0134 Violet ROBERTSON SCS/2011-168010 LE11000580 0135 Violet ROBERTSON SCS/2012-033772 LE12000038 0136 Violet ROBERTSON SCS/2012-067203 LE12000244 0137 Jonathan Tait SINCLAIR SCS/2012-061049 LE12000288 0138 Christopher Philip SMITH SCS/2012-056604 LE12000094 0139 Kelly MARIE SMITH SCS/2012-061050 LE12000289 0140 Ryan Alexander STEWART SCS/2012-054243 LE12000213 0141 Malcolm WILLIAM STOVE SCS/2012-056608 LE12000173 0142 Iain Raymond TULLOCH SCS/2012-033773 LE12000040 0143 Wayne UREN SCS/2012-067327 LE11000386 0144 Jason ROBERT WARRIOR SCS/2012-044958 LE12000224 0145 Remigiusz WLASZCZYK SCS/2012-056605 LE12000098 0146 Ryan GLYNN WRIGHT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piddly Posted June 12, 2012 Report Share Posted June 12, 2012 Some of the gash written on this thread regarding immigrants is pathetic. Yes there are some bad apples amongst them but in my experience and what i hear from others is that the eastern europeans who have graced our Island over the past few years are hard working, pleasant folk. We have 2 families living next to my work and you couldn't meet more pleasant folk. Now, you look at Crofter's post and that tells its own story. The people who really get on my t*ts are the local layabouts/junkies and the UK migrants/junkies who come of the boat, get a house and go straight on the dole. Give me the Polish any day of the week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted June 12, 2012 Report Share Posted June 12, 2012 You only have to look at the names on the court list in Shetland to see an unproportionate high ammount are immigrants, especially from Eastern Europe. LOL after reading crofters post above. I can't believe anyone would write something like this without checking some facts - you're not a journalist by any chance are you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironwithin Posted June 12, 2012 Report Share Posted June 12, 2012 At least 2 out of the 41 folk, but thats a very low week, so atleast around 5%, even that seems a high percentage for the number that must be here? Keep on looking each week as its normally higher. I agree a lot of them are hard workers but some are bad apples as well. But the worst seem to be from the sooth mooth UK. Wonder how many on that list came here that way? I can see a few names that stick out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shetlandpeat Posted June 12, 2012 Report Share Posted June 12, 2012 I cannot believe you are discriminating only using names. How anal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted June 12, 2012 Report Share Posted June 12, 2012 At least 2 out of the 41 folk, but thats a very low week, so atleast around 5%, even that seems a high percentage for the number that must be here? Keep on looking each week as its normally higher. I agree a lot of them are hard workers but some are bad apples as well. But the worst seem to be from the sooth mooth UK. Wonder how many on that list came here that way? I can see a few names that stick out. There's so much wrong with this post that I'm not even going to respond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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