Muckle Oxters

Do any of the anti Facebook groups have a constructive purpose? Are they taking any positive actions (beyond petitions and demanding work be stopped)?
The handful of groups I've seen or been invited to seem to be (I say this with respect and empathy) collective handwringing support groups for people who genuinely believe Shetland is being destroyed. There doesn't seem to be any acknowledgement that there could be any kind of positive side to the windfarm. 
I expect membership of the anti groups would further compound those ideas and biases and serve to collectively increase the anxiety levels of the group members.

I'd recommend The Handmaid's Tale, but it's not exactly family friendly. (Unless you have a very dysfunctional family, I suppose.)

Just finished The Queen's Gambit here and was as pleasantly surprised at how good it was. This, from the man who put off watching War Horse for years because how good can a movie be about a horse (sorry Francis!) but was equally pleasantly surprised.
"Us" and "Life" are both on iPlayer I think and we're pretty good.
Our absolute favourite thing on the box just now is "This is us" on Amazon if I mind right. Really well done and doesn't always follow the path you expect.
We watched 2 recent Netflix Bruce Willis movies... utter tragedies the pair of them. And not in a good way either.

Cobra Kai on Netflix was good for a bit of light hearted viewing, it's a fictional tv series follow up to the Karate Kid films but set 30 years later, the main characters have the same actors.
The series has flashbacks to the films for those who haven't seen them, viewing the original films is not necessary for the younger generation or those who find 80's cheese flicks intolerable.
Agree 100% with the Queens Gambit btw, I never thought a series about chess would get me hooked.

To be honest the forum section of Shetlink has been dying on it's backside for years. Lack of new and vocal contributors is part of the issue. When you see the same people dominating the conversation all the time you get bored with a place. Shetlink needs more people, Christ knows how you bring them in or bring old users back.
 
If you don't like what Nullvoid has to say then you have two options. Firstly just don't respond to them and if that doesn't work for you then use the block function. Everyone has a right to an opinion but in some people you'll just never agree and there is nothing they can say or you can say to change each others mind. IRL you just wouldn't go near each other, can do the same here.

I wonder how many folk do not post here is case NulVoid decides to crap on everything by responding with the usuan barrage of garbage ?
 
In fairness, there may just be one or two points of interest buried in there somewhere, but fom my own personal position, I prefer to skip his/her/it's entire post.  Once, that is, after I have managed to scroll past a series of awful graphics.
NB;  Pretty pictures do not prove anything.  Try reasoned argument instead. If I wanted to see pictures, I would buy The Beano...
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Happy New Year aabody. I hope you aa find a wye to find tae hae a fun, and I hope 2021 is a better een dan 2020!

George, here's a tip fur dee. Put dat du likes grammar and doesna like Westminster in dy signature. Dat wye du can make sure to post it wee every message. I for one love readin dat du likes grammar and doesna lik Westminster and I widna want dee to miss an opportunity to remind wis  

Nah nah, I'm no gettin involved we dis level o apocalyptic pleepsin. Dry your eyes boys and try no let folk annoy you sae much.
 
I'm finished me wark so I'm aff for a walk and I'll liklee nip intae da shop. Da only inconvenience is dat I'll pit me mask on whin I get dare.
 
On me walk I'll liklee meet some folk dat subscribe tae a different religion, vote for a different political party and dirs a wife dat works in da shop dat came fae anidder country. Dir's even a gay fellow I sometimes meet. My heavins! Whit is da world comin tae!
 
Dey'll liklee try to pinch my pint o milk, or try tae convert me, or try tae turn my pilly intae a tootie, so I tink I'll joost byde home and complain aboot dem on da internet.

^^ Yun might be my favorite post in da history o Shetlink!
 
Nailed it bang on 

Nah nah, I'm no gettin involved we dis level o apocalyptic pleepsin. Dry your eyes boys and try no let folk annoy you sae much.
 
I'm finished me wark so I'm aff for a walk and I'll liklee nip intae da shop. Da only inconvenience is dat I'll pit me mask on whin I get dare.
 
On me walk I'll liklee meet some folk dat subscribe tae a different religion, vote for a different political party and dirs a wife dat works in da shop dat came fae anidder country. Dir's even a gay fellow I sometimes meet. My heavins! Whit is da world comin tae!
 
Dey'll liklee try to pinch my pint o milk, or try tae convert me, or try tae turn my pilly intae a tootie, so I tink I'll joost byde home and complain aboot dem on da internet.

How aboot dis for a plan.... We should aa try to work sense until folk come up we a vaccine.
 
I should liklee try to find a YouTube video o folk workin sense, as YouTube videos seems to be da wye tae mak a point here. But I doot it widna be very interestin - it wid joost be folk doin normal stuff, spikin aboot da weather, gettin on wee each idder, wearin facemasks... and generally workin sense.

Du doesna half spik some dirt NullVoid.

You're all guns-a-blazing there NullVoid. But with facts being completely disregarded, whataboutisms-a-plenty and dropping some obviously distracting baited hooks... I'm going to leave you to it. Like I said; I'll wait to see what the petulant man-baby comes out with.

No really, at first you're legally an asylum seeker until your application for refugee status is processed. If you're successful den you can work, claim benefits, have an NI number etc but you're still no a citizen, and you could have refugee status revoked if da government decide you no longer fit da refugee criteria (if da country you fled fae isna a risk onymare fur example).
 
You need to apply for citizenship separately. 

What happens to asylum seekers when they reach the UK? > https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33729417 
 
Depends on whit du means by 'dole'. Job Seekers Allowance is up to £58.90 a week. Asylum seekers canna 'seek work' and get £36.95 a week.
 

Dey got da contract to house asylum seekers, a specific kind o migrant > https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/refugees-asylum-seekers-and-migrants

No really, at first you're legally an asylum seeker until your application for refugee status is processed. If you're successful den you can work, claim benefits, have an NI number etc but you're still no a citizen, and you could have refugee status revoked if da government decide you no longer fit da refugee criteria (if da country you fled fae isna a risk onymare fur example).
 
You need to apply for citizenship separately. 

What happens to asylum seekers when they reach the UK? > https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33729417 
 
Depends on whit du means by 'dole'. Job Seekers Allowance is up to £58.90 a week. Asylum seekers canna 'seek work' and get £36.95 a week.
 

Dey got da contract to house asylum seekers, a specific kind o migrant > https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/refugees-asylum-seekers-and-migrants

Since when did stating da bleedin obvious ta onybody wi a even da smaaest grain o' midder wit need a qualification.
 
If you accept da 'scientist's' wird dat he spreads trow oral/respiratory fluids an can live aff o' a livin host fur a time, you micht is weel fecht fog is run fae im.
 
Unless dey kit wis aa oot wi divin masks an oxygen tanks ta wear 24/7, da peerie sausage il ey fin sumeen ur somethin ta live upoa tae wye ur da tidder.
 
An BTW, 'dae say' attackin da person redder is dir POV is a sign oh suntin.......I canna rightly mind whit, just eenoo. Hit'll come ta me tho.....

Some o you guys are amusin. Wan o you posts a link tae a story in a right wing comic lik da Sun or da Daily Mail and exaggerates whit it says, den folk add dir ain exaggerations to each idders exaggerations and you aa get your kickers in a collective knot.
 
Wan minute NASA is drappin twatree past-dir-sell-by-date nicknames, next minute dey've discovered offensive planets, da next minute folk are worryin aboot being arrested for saying 'black hole' by a police force dat doesna exist, and dis is aa da fault o loony lefties and snowflakes.
 
It most be ootwearing being so easily offended by folk you're accusin o being easily offended. I don't suppose you see da irony though.

Some o you guys are amusin. Wan o you posts a link tae a story in a right wing comic lik da Sun or da Daily Mail and exaggerates whit it says, den folk add dir ain exaggerations to each idders exaggerations and you aa get your kickers in a collective knot.
 
Wan minute NASA is drappin twatree past-dir-sell-by-date nicknames, next minute dey've discovered offensive planets, da next minute folk are worryin aboot being arrested for saying 'black hole' by a police force dat doesna exist, and dis is aa da fault o loony lefties and snowflakes.
 
It most be ootwearing being so easily offended by folk you're accusin o being easily offended. I don't suppose you see da irony though.

The problem is, who’s ‘say’ wins out when there are strong opinions on both sides?
 
I’m on the opposing side but the notion that folk haven’t had a chance to say their bit is nonsense.
 
Objections were made, the decision-makers disagreed with them and one side lost out - they were never going to be able to please everybody.

Whaa promised a vote?

I'm not sure where to start with that little ditty. I'll not bother as there's little point talking to a literal age-old brick wall.

I'm no sure how yun two stories mean 'it's staring to come apart at da seams' - dat's mibee a bit over dramatic, but liklee looks lik dat if you're main source o info is da Daily Mail and Sun!