Lerwick Up Helly Aa

[bayhaa]

WHAT WAS THE CONTEXT IN WHICH IS WAS USED?? ( HONEST I DON'T KNOW.)

[Honky Tonk]

WHAT WAS THE CONTEXT IN WHICH IS WAS USED?? ( HONEST I DON'T KNOW.)

Is your keyboard permenantly jammed on caps?

[Rasmie]

i think there should be a law punishable by a hefty fine for people who misuse innocent words and turn them into words meaning something else.

 

Gay was a nice happy word. You don't feel able to use it in its proper maening these days. Black used to refer to a colour not a person. Soothmoother was a genuine descriptive word with only one meaning -

 

what other word have been detroyed by the pc brigade?

[Guest posiedon]

Soothmoother is no more derogatory than Geordie, or Scouser, or Cockney, and yes, I am a Soothmoother.

[Fjool]

what other word have been detroyed by the pc brigade?

It is not the PC brigade who destroy words, it is the people who use them in a derogatory sense that do that.

 

The term 'soothmoother', when used to discriminate and express hate (the phrase was 'I hate soothmoothers') then it has been used in a derogatory sense.

 

Anyway, this is drifting off-topic...

[EM]

The term 'soothmoother', when used to discriminate and express hate (the phrase was 'I hate soothmoothers') then it has been used in a derogatory sense.

 

Exactly so. It was the way the term was used which led to the action, not just the word.

 

 

Soothmoother is no more derogatory than Geordie, or Scouser, or Cockney, and yes, I am a Soothmoother.

 

Excellent to hear such good sense. Your position is more common than some may realise.

[bayhaa]

WHAT WAS THE CONTEXT IN WHICH IS WAS USED?? ( HONEST I DON'T KNOW.)

Is your keyboard permenantly jammed on caps?

 

 

YES IT IS.... .....THANKYOU DARLING HONKY TONK....I SEE YOUR SPELL CHECKER DOESN'T WORK THOUGH.............MAYBE WE SHOULD BOTH GET OUR KEYBOARDS FIXED

[trout]

^^ Please be aware that text written in CAPS is considered as SHOUTING when used in the context of forums and or emails etc.

[bayhaa]

^^ Please be aware that text written in CAPS is considered as SHOUTING when used in the context of forums and or emails etc.

 

Thankyou sooooo much, I really was so not aware of that. (honest)

[trout]

No worries - welcome to Shetlink by the way!

[moorit]

If calling someone a 'soothmoother' is a crime worthy of being chucked off the committee, ....................

I think that anyone who is giving support to this guy surely couldn't have read the full article.

 

I saw on this forum the full content of what the ex committee member wrote on his Bebo site before the MODS edited it out.

 

A lot of people keep referring to it as if it was just by him using the word 'soothmoother' that the committee forced him to resign. If you could read what he actually wrote you would see there was a lot more to it than that.

[Guest posiedon]

Fjool

The term 'soothmoother', when used to discriminate and express hate (the phrase was 'I hate soothmoothers')

If this is the case then the offending word is surely hate and could have been used against any group of people.

How can you hate a large group of people collectively without even knowing them?

[Pooks]

Indeed, that would appear to have been the problem.

 

Before this thread sways off topic may I remind everyone that it is a thread about Up Helly Aa.

[Hollian]

I kinda love the way that the Lerwick UHA evokes such strong feelings in people, you either love it or hate it.

I love the procession - and try not to think too much about how seriously some folk are about the whole thing.

The article in Shetland Life a while back still makes me laugh when I think about it. (the one where he wrote about if UHA was new idea being presented to the council - problems with H & S and equal ops etc). I'm laughing thinking about it - think I will go and hunt it out now for a read!

[tlady]

Up Helly Aa = Transvestite Tuesday ...

 

Or is that bringing the name of transvestites into disrepute ..