Scorrie

I think you'll stuggle to find any fictional programme that is 100% geographically accurate when you look at the continuity.
 
Take, for example, 'Last of the Summer Wine' - which is situated in Holmfirth, Yorkshire. The locations used are spread across three villages: Holmfirth, Meltham and Marsden.
So when a character walks round the corner from Sids Cafe to Auntie Wainwrights shop, they have actually been magically teleported from Holmfirth to Marsden - 12 miles away.
 
Does anybody care? Not really.
 
Good fun people and place spotting, though.

What baffles me is why Gaelic recieves all the attention, Why isn't there funding for Scots language as well? I'm pretty sure it was a separate language up until about the 16th century, what about Doric and (especially, here) Norn as well?

As I said earlier: You want to learn Garlic? Put your hand in your own pocket or join a group that isn't funded by dosh siphoned off the Shetland edjication budget and I'll wish you well.
In fact, I may even join you. It would be nice to rip the pish out of some of my Sutherland/Western Isles oppos in their own Godawful language.
 
 
 
BTW: I'd suggest you look up the meaning of 'indigenous'. 

So, what name places could we make up?
 
Lerwick becomes Muckletoon?
 
Scalloway: Peerietoon?
 
Mossbank: Gaza?

Finally got around to watching the second episode last night and really enjoyed it.
 
As I had hoped,as often happens with series like this, it has improved greatly now it is being written as a TV series and not based on the books. As a modern crime drama it is still at the low end of the scale, again mostly due to the characters from the books not being particularly good, but this should improve as they get a chance to develop.
 
No question it is a great advert for Shetland, and of course us locals will notice logistical inaccuracies but a few thousand of us out of 6.12 million viewers (source : http://www.barb.co.uk/whats-new/weekly-top-30 ) really doesn't matter, and its more than made up for by the fun of location and people watching.
 
So, not as good as it could be (Cracker, Bridge, Hinterland) but better than its been.

I can't believe it, I really can't.
I've just finished watching Superman - and it turns out it wasn't filmed on planet Krypton at all but right here on planet Earth!  Did anybody else know this?  My childhood is now destroyed.
 
Sometimes I wonder why hardly anybody posts on Shetlink anymore, then I read topics like this and my memory is restored....

Although Caithness is officially a part of Scotland, they've always had a great deal of passion about their Norse ancestry.
 
Interesting to see that the newly unfurled county flag harkens back to these links - with no reference to Scotland whatsoever:
 
http://community.caithness.org/article.php?id=5346&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook
 
 

Regarding landings and overfishing:
 
Some (not all, I hasten to add) creelers are more than happy to drag up anything off the seabed and attempt to flog it regardless of how it affects stock levels. This isn't a problem unique to Shetland, but there's certainly some that if I had my way I'd take the licence off them and let someone else have a go.
 
I've seen landings where 50% of the total landed have been rejected at purchase point for being light, soft, obviously dead in the creel, in horrendously bad condition with black spot or underweight. Useless. And when confronted, all you get is dummies being spat out and complaints about 'being ripped off' frome these individuals. Yet other boats manage to land consistently good quality crabs of the right size. Doesn't take an Einstein to work out who's doing the ripping off in these circumstances.
 
It's a pity a system can't be employed where if a licence holder consistently lands rubbish, their licence would be revoked. That would give newcomers a foot in the door.

Regarding landings and overfishing:
 
Some (not all, I hasten to add) creelers are more than happy to drag up anything off the seabed and attempt to flog it regardless of how it affects stock levels. This isn't a problem unique to Shetland, but there's certainly some that if I had my way I'd take the licence off them and let someone else have a go.
 
I've seen landings where 50% of the total landed have been rejected at purchase point for being light, soft, obviously dead in the creel, in horrendously bad condition with black spot or underweight. Useless. And when confronted, all you get is dummies being spat out and complaints about 'being ripped off' frome these individuals. Yet other boats manage to land consistently good quality crabs of the right size. Doesn't take an Einstein to work out who's doing the ripping off in these circumstances.
 
It's a pity a system can't be employed where if a licence holder consistently lands rubbish, their licence would be revoked. That would give newcomers a foot in the door.

Regarding landings and overfishing:
 
Some (not all, I hasten to add) creelers are more than happy to drag up anything off the seabed and attempt to flog it regardless of how it affects stock levels. This isn't a problem unique to Shetland, but there's certainly some that if I had my way I'd take the licence off them and let someone else have a go.
 
I've seen landings where 50% of the total landed have been rejected at purchase point for being light, soft, obviously dead in the creel, in horrendously bad condition with black spot or underweight. Useless. And when confronted, all you get is dummies being spat out and complaints about 'being ripped off' frome these individuals. Yet other boats manage to land consistently good quality crabs of the right size. Doesn't take an Einstein to work out who's doing the ripping off in these circumstances.
 
It's a pity a system can't be employed where if a licence holder consistently lands rubbish, their licence would be revoked. That would give newcomers a foot in the door.

Tut tut, Nowsted. 
 
Not the done thing, old chap. Paul had an excellent reputation in the Isles, watch you don't blow it with dodgy advertising tactics like this - Shetland folk don't appreciate someone trying to bullpoop them.
 
And good luck for the future with Islesat.

But......
 
SIC (in the 2013/14 figures) alone had a financial defecit of £18.31m on provision of services alone, they had to draw down on £21m reserves to meet the costs:
 
"2. In 2012/13, as recorded in the comprehensive income and expenditure statement, the council spent £178.725 million on the provision of public services and had an overall deficit on provision of services of £18.531 million. After taking account of statutory adjustments, the overall draw on reserves was £21.407 million,....."  
http://www.audit-scotland.gov.uk/docs/local/2013/fa_1213_shetland.pdf
 
That's a 20% of the extra £80m revenue generated in self-governing taxes smoked before we even start rebuilding Shetland.
 
 
I'm wary of any stats giving potential generated income, I'll lay money that the figures quoted will be at the top end of an pretty optimistic range.
I'm probably not alone in remembering the hype generated by the SNP drones in the runup to the Indy ref regarding how much extra oil money every Scotch person would receive in a 'brave new world'...... apparently we would all be eating with solid gold knives and forks and riding round on hover-llamas if we voted 'Yes', thanks to the extra oil revenue that would be arriving Tsunami-like upon the shores of Scotchland.
 
But now, with oil prices being where they are? To use a footie chant: " It's all gone quiet over there". 
 
However, Shetland on the same footing with the UK as Faroe is with Denmark? I'd go for that.

Learning a new language isn't the issue here. Funding out of the existing education pot and foisting a non-local minority language on all in the education system is.
 
You want to learn Gaelic? Then good luck - as long as you've volunteered to learn and none of the funds come out of the existing Shetland education budget.
 
Also, having seen the Highland Council trying to foist Garlic translations onto obviously Norse settlement signs in Caithness as opposed to the original Norse version (as we do here), I have a healthy mistrust of the Gaelic political mafia in Scotland. Don't trust them, they'll not rest until they've 'tartanised' the whole of Scotland and the Northern isles.

So you're advocating teaching an obscure minority language to an Island population that has virtually no historical or cultural Gaelic links? 
 

Maybe any spare cash would be better spent on "promoting" the Shetland indigenous language first, before we worry (and spend) on someone else's. *If* it hadn't been literally battered out of generations of Shetlanders and the "Queen's English" battered in, by Scots as much as anyone else, it might well be in a far more healthy condition today. The "eduction system" owes us that much, even if they owe the Hebrideans the same.

As I said earlier: You want to learn Garlic? Put your hand in your own pocket or join a group that isn't funded by dosh siphoned off the Shetland edjication budget and I'll wish you well.
In fact, I may even join you. It would be nice to rip the pish out of some of my Sutherland/Western Isles oppos in their own Godawful language.
 
 
 
BTW: I'd suggest you look up the meaning of 'indigenous'. 

As I said earlier: You want to learn Garlic? Put your hand in your own pocket or join a group that isn't funded by dosh siphoned off the Shetland edjication budget and I'll wish you well.
In fact, I may even join you. It would be nice to rip the pish out of some of my Sutherland/Western Isles oppos in their own Godawful language.
 
 
 
BTW: I'd suggest you look up the meaning of 'indigenous'. 

Learning a new language isn't the issue here. Funding out of the existing education pot and foisting a non-local minority language on all in the education system is.
 
You want to learn Gaelic? Then good luck - as long as you've volunteered to learn and none of the funds come out of the existing Shetland education budget.
 
Also, having seen the Highland Council trying to foist Garlic translations onto obviously Norse settlement signs in Caithness as opposed to the original Norse version (as we do here), I have a healthy mistrust of the Gaelic political mafia in Scotland. Don't trust them, they'll not rest until they've 'tartanised' the whole of Scotland and the Northern isles.

Learning a new language isn't the issue here. Funding out of the existing education pot and foisting a non-local minority language on all in the education system is.
 
You want to learn Gaelic? Then good luck - as long as you've volunteered to learn and none of the funds come out of the existing Shetland education budget.
 
Also, having seen the Highland Council trying to foist Garlic translations onto obviously Norse settlement signs in Caithness as opposed to the original Norse version (as we do here), I have a healthy mistrust of the Gaelic political mafia in Scotland. Don't trust them, they'll not rest until they've 'tartanised' the whole of Scotland and the Northern isles.

So you're advocating teaching an obscure minority language to an Island population that has virtually no historical or cultural Gaelic links? 
 

^ Offering it is fine *if* there's any demand for it, as long as the powers that be in Edinburry don't insist every secondary school has a language teacher on staff qualified it teach it "just in case" anyone wants it, and/or something else more valuable, or relevant to a greater number of pupils isn't being squeezed to let their Gaelic in.
 
Given the near dearth of relevance or prevalence of anything to do with Gaelic locally, the whole idea rather reeks of yet more pointless paperwork, box ticking and wasted Admin time which in the current climate of ever deeper education cuts, is unjustifiable.

So you're advocating teaching an obscure minority language to an Island population that has virtually no historical or cultural Gaelic links? 
 

So you're advocating teaching an obscure minority language to an Island population that has virtually no historical or cultural Gaelic links? 
 

So you're advocating teaching an obscure minority language to an Island population that has virtually no historical or cultural Gaelic links? 
 

No-one is forced to shop at Tescos.
 
If you're not happy with what they stock - go elsewhere. And if elsewhere don't have it either, well, that's one of the joys of living on a remote group of islands.
 
The only routes open to you then are:
 
1. Move to some built up area of Scotchland (other countries are also available).
2. Buy on the Internet.
or
3. Set up a business importing containerloads of tinsel and glaze cherries.