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RUFG (Roll upö flair gaffing) GMEA (Gaff me ers aff)

The more harmless fires and bangs the better. It's a mind-boggling historical remnant though, when you re-read the story in any more depth than the one sentence explanation you get when young. Other cultures may publicly burn effigies in response to an event, and we may scorn them for doing so, but here it was made compulsory, and then continued the custom for 400 years. All concealed by the naming convention really. If it was called anti-terrorist day, or anti-catholic day, it would be an entirely different affair.......for a short time, until it was banned.

Stone me it's the common market all over again. I'll shut down my windfarm no problem for £7,500/hr. In fact I'll not build it at all for £10,000/hr if it's on the table. £15,000/hr and I'll stick to burning peats forever.

LOL, or should that be GOL, for Gaff Oot Lood.

So, here's one for you. I may regret this, but hey-ho... Guy Fawkes night, what's that all about? We annually celebrate the capture and subsequent torture and death of a terrorist intent on assassinating the English King, doubly clouded by the fact that his declaration prior to brutal torture was: ...and that he wasn't burned, rather he was hanged by his own volition upon the gallows to avoid the subsequent "drawing and quartering" that he would have suffered. To summarise, we all get together around pyres once a year to burn an effigy of a Catholic, Scottish-hating terrorist, who committed suicide in 1606, after three months of torture. Kinda opens up a world of gruesome and unpalatable possibilities. What are we celebrating, again? His failure, his death, the survival of James I, or, perhaps, and earlier festival hidden under the guise of Guy Fawkes night(as is sometimes the case) or just the excuse to blow things up and burn things on a smaller scale, and perhaps burn effigies of any chosen adversary? I dunno, just askin' (*** Mod - split into new topic of its very own... ***)

Plenty of short runs Patzel, on which which enterprising locals have been know to use quads for ski lifts, and some longer runs that require a bit of a treck. The Scord of Weisdale is probably the classic. With enough snow there may be ample opportunity for some pretty good ski-touring up the backbone of Shetland, possibly heading north from the Wesidale hill. Scousburgh Hill may be good too. Never tried touring, not so easy with a board.

Ah! Cusk was the key to better info, I couldn't get out of the loop caused by torsk being the Norsk name for cod, and tusk bringing up millions of links for long teeth-like things and Fleetwood Mac albums. Cheers

What's the English name for a Tusk? Not the elephantine kind, the fish lik an olick.

It does I've seen it What, all finished and open for business?. Er, no, yun pictir clearly has the hole in the wall that DITT are using to get materials in and out of the building. I doot yuns an up to date pictir Kavi.

It does I've seen it It looked exactly like that picture.

Exactly GR. There is also the antithesis that some parents freely indoctrinate their children into fervent football bigotry, for example, or even racism. But a society that forbids even bigotry within the home is a scary prospect. Some civil liberties are already illegal as practises, as soon as ideologies also become illegal, the world will be a much scarier place. We're already in a figurative sociological place where democracy is a well-represented myth. Driving any large scale belief system underground, however misguided it is, is nothing more than wrapping it in camouflage and throwing it into the woods.

Oooh sweeping statement. Akhenaten was onto a safe bet: You can't go wrong, scientifically of theistically, with a bit of sun worship as a creationist ideology.

The reflected light of the flares is visible most nights that there are clouds to the north. If it is orange, it is either the flare or streetlights. Aurora would also only be visible in a cloudless sky, or parts thereof. Its a bad time of year because the post-sunset light remains in the north west until quite late in the evening, so it seems like there is something there when often there is not. This after-light would be all but gone by 2300. Last night there was a recorded increase in auroral activity at around midnight. If it was green(particulalry a green arc), purplish or perhaps red it may have been aurora. Hope that helps

Flaming Nora! What piece of kit!

Hey, that's not fair. It is not a mad.......ah alright. You're right, it is. Welcome Scorrie.

Without being unnecessarily invasive into aforementioned man's privacy, he was out of Shetland for a while, but came back (Or was until very recently anyway). Since his return he has promoted a gig in Shetland, both in a venue and in a back garden.

Fantastic photos and the time lapse is truly excellent. :

Not going to speak for Shetland authorities, but I can say for a fact that in Aberdeenshire you can deliver the material to a specified dump yourself and not be charged. A contractor would be charged. If you were doing so, bagging/wrapping it would be a courteous thing to do for those handling it at the other end.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/gang-suspect-killed-by-police-did-not-fire-his-gun-tests-show-2335134.html

Never heard it put like that before!

An elderly associate of mine reckons quite sincerely that they should start shooting the rioters below the waist with shotguns, having the double effect of deterring them from rioting and easily identifying the guilty parties. They've really brought out the worst in everybody. Edit - mind you, food dye in the water cannon.....

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Now that I come to think of it, the answer is a proven zero. Two seismic events in the past five years would have spawned tsunamis, as such, and neither tsunami was even noticed, let alone fatal.