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Scorrie got a reaction from Davie P in Entry Policy - Mareel
Two different people's opinion in two different areas of the building.
.It's a judgement call at the end of the day by the person who is looking at the bod in front of them. Once ID has been asked for then you have to follow the guidelines. End of.
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Scorrie got a reaction from Davie P in Entry Policy - Mareel
A quote from the article in the Shetland Times:
"Steven was with Joanne and her brothers Marc Sherwood, 34, and Sean Nicol, 22. They had even told Sean to take ID because he looks young."
And now he's complaining because he couldn't ID himself?
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Scorrie reacted to oxna in Lerwick Up Helly Aa
Why do women always leave the toilet seat down? Seriously, they should be told that that isn't the universally accepted default position!
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Scorrie reacted to George. in Women Against Trump
I kept ahold of the teeth they pulled out. Perhaps I could nip along to Montfield and get them to put them back in again. After all, think how much I'd save on Steradent!!!
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Scorrie got a reaction from Colin in Lerwick Up Helly Aa
Phatboy I don't think that anyone has said that they don't enjoy UHA, or want to see the back of it.
The sticking point is the attitude of those who continue to excluding wimmin from taking major on the ground roles in the proceedings.
UHA is on the world stage now and, at the moment, some elements are sadly still in the same league of sexist idiocy as those 'men only' golf clubs that many people treat with amused contempt.
If this was a historical re-enactment of Norse tradition, with the men taking mens roles and the women taking womens roles whilst accurately portraying Norse culture - such is in historical re-enactment societies like Regia Anglorum or The Vikings - then you'd get no argument from me at all. But it isn't, is it? And never has been.
It's a great celebration that I would say the vast majority of people in Shetland are quite rightly proud of, no doubt about it. I know that I certainly am.
But 'no women' in this day and age? Really? You're embarrassing yourselves.........
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Scorrie reacted to phatboy in Lerwick Up Helly Aa
sound a bit like "we are legion" which, I think, is quoted in William Peter Blattys 'The Exorcist' or a sequel.
The visualisation is disturbingly similar too
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Scorrie reacted to Not again in Parcel force
If someone walks into a Post Office and sends a Parcel it costs exactly the same whether you send it next door or to the furthest reaches of the UK.
However if you are a business and you take a contract with Parcelforce/RoyalMail, then depending on where you are sending you get either more or less favourable rates based on the amount of Parcels they deliver in a particular area.
For instance in centre of Glasgow they may deliver 20 parcels to the same street. All done in a few minutes. So it works out cheaper
Delivering 20 parcels in Shetland may entail several hours. You therefore pay extra for this and it is more expensive.
If you were a business would you rather have a cheaper deal to delivery to a possible 600,000 people in Glasgow at the expense of 22,000 in Shetland?
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Scorrie got a reaction from Acid in Parcel force
If you use the Parcelforce website quote facility, it comes up with exactly the same prices to post a 5kg package from Shetland to either Wick, Northampton or Plymouth: £12.98
The price from Plymouth to Shetland is also the same as above - and the price from Shetland to Shetland is the same as well.
Also, the price from Plymouth to Northampton is exactly the same price as quoted above so, as far as I can see, sending a parcel internally in England is no more costly than sending a parcel internally in Shetland, or from Shetland to the UK and vice versa.
http://www.parcelforce.com/price-finder
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Scorrie got a reaction from RileyBKing in Women Against Trump
JustMe:
If the Brexit vote had swung marginally in favour of remaining in Europe - would you have posted the same as you have above?
Thought not.....
There's no mileage whatsoever in criticising the rights or wrongs of a US or UK voting system, because everyone who takes part in it lives or dies by the same rules.
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Scorrie reacted to MuckleJoannie in Women Against Trump
My thought on this is that consensus politics has brought us blander and blander politicians that are more and more removed from real life. The electorate have decided it is time to try something different.
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Scorrie got a reaction from Suffererof1crankymofo in Lerwick Up Helly Aa
Blimey.
I never knew that they built the galley, made all the kit an did all the rounds of 'ospickles, orphanages, homes for the dangerously daft and New York all in just one day.
This has changed my stance on the subject completely, Roachmill. If it's only for one day then I'm sure that we can all happily endorse the slightly embarrassing, early-20th-century-throwback 'no gurls' misogyny that is being hotly defended by the party faithful. I'm glad we got that sorted out quickly
Now.......what else can we whinge about?
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Scorrie got a reaction from brian.smith in Lerwick Up Helly Aa
I hope this doesn't lead to a stampede North to Marys shop at Aywick on UHA day.
I don't want all them Tooneys coming up here with their big shiny cars and queer ways, nicking all the buns and talking funny
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Scorrie got a reaction from brian.smith in Lerwick Up Helly Aa
Blimey.
I never knew that they built the galley, made all the kit an did all the rounds of 'ospickles, orphanages, homes for the dangerously daft and New York all in just one day.
This has changed my stance on the subject completely, Roachmill. If it's only for one day then I'm sure that we can all happily endorse the slightly embarrassing, early-20th-century-throwback 'no gurls' misogyny that is being hotly defended by the party faithful. I'm glad we got that sorted out quickly
Now.......what else can we whinge about?
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Scorrie got a reaction from Frances144 in Lerwick Up Helly Aa
I hope this doesn't lead to a stampede North to Marys shop at Aywick on UHA day.
I don't want all them Tooneys coming up here with their big shiny cars and queer ways, nicking all the buns and talking funny
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Scorrie got a reaction from Roachmill in Lerwick Up Helly Aa
I hope this doesn't lead to a stampede North to Marys shop at Aywick on UHA day.
I don't want all them Tooneys coming up here with their big shiny cars and queer ways, nicking all the buns and talking funny
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Scorrie got a reaction from brian.smith in Parcel force
If you use the Parcelforce website quote facility, it comes up with exactly the same prices to post a 5kg package from Shetland to either Wick, Northampton or Plymouth: £12.98
The price from Plymouth to Shetland is also the same as above - and the price from Shetland to Shetland is the same as well.
Also, the price from Plymouth to Northampton is exactly the same price as quoted above so, as far as I can see, sending a parcel internally in England is no more costly than sending a parcel internally in Shetland, or from Shetland to the UK and vice versa.
http://www.parcelforce.com/price-finder
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Scorrie got a reaction from Glitterball in Lerwick Up Helly Aa
Legally correct.
But we all know there's a massive chasm between what is law and what is perceived to be right by the majority.
And the negative publicity is only going to build up......
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Scorrie got a reaction from Acid in Lerwick Up Helly Aa
Legally correct.
But we all know there's a massive chasm between what is law and what is perceived to be right by the majority.
And the negative publicity is only going to build up......
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Scorrie reacted to Rasmie in Lerwick Up Helly Aa
The status of a squad would make it very unlikely to be pinned down as an entity. basically its a score of mates going around a dozen private parties.
However, This is the 21st Century and a lot of last century's norms are having to alter. I think its dangerous in the long term not to simply open the door. Whereas currently the Hostesses appear not to want change, the hostesses themselves will change in 10 or 20 years.
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Scorrie reacted to Ghostrider in Lerwick Up Helly Aa
Would it work though, or would it just make a longer trail of people to bury it and/or to sue over it? Devolving the issue down to squad level would just mean that anybody who believed they had grounds to mount a legal challenge would mount it against the individual squad(s)/squad leader(s) who chose to have a male only membership policy, and it wouldn't necessarily absolve the committee entirely, as there would still be the angle that they permitted such discrimination in an event they oversaw if anyone their was mileage in running with it.
Its a step in the right direction though, and for sure its not an issue thats going to go away, so it either needs a plan, or quite rightly as you say, at some future time, maybe soon and maybe not, its going to blow up, possibly spectacularly in folk's faces. 35 years ago any mention of including other genders made by the general public were few and almost all made in jest. Different story now, the number and volume of the critics has been increasing year on year and show no signs of slowing down, and they'd deadly serious.
While the its a "private party" angle and we'll run it as we want to run it argument, is all well and good in many respects, it falls down where the event relies on public areas etc to exist. Were it held wholly on private property little could be done to change things, but it is only as long as the event has the goodwill and tolerance of the general public to give over the various roads, venues etc utilised and "let it happen" that it can continue, and unless those overseeing their "private party" in those areas address the concerns of the rest of the population who tolerate it and let them get on with it, they're living with the apparently steadily increasing risk of people starting to feel strongly enough about things that they decide to withdraw their goodwill and tolerance of the event.
UHA's predecessor was the tar barrel. It had its supporters or it would never had become established in the first place or lasted as long as it did. Presumably any detractors in the early days were few, but times move ahead, things change and attitudes change, and eventually the detractors outnumbered the supporters leading to it being banned. To continue with any sort of similar tradition the tar barrellers had to invent UHA from the bottom up, and could only manage to include tentative tips of the hat to their former activities for it to be acceptable in the age in which they were living.
Credit to them, they must have done a good job, for what they designed has endured relatively unchanged for over a century and has been extensively supported during that period. Times though have again moved on, much has changed and attitudes have dramatically changed in that period, UHA is now of an older vintage than the tar barrel was when it was judged as unacceptable for the times, and folk apparently in ever increaseing numbers are again questioning UHA's acceptability in the times in which we live.
While UHA as it stands may well be believed to be "legal", that has no bearing on its social acceptability. Those running the event can either take the view that the levels of detraction and criticism are exaggerated and that the apparently ever growing opposition to gender based entry has or will shortly peak and subside, or they can address the issue by evolving their event to better suit the times and attitudes.
The tarbarrellers by most accounts were made aware over an extended period that their activities were bcoming less and less tolerable, yet they chose to change their ways little if any, and history records their fate from making that choice. Maybe UHA is big enough and can rely on enough support to continue as is for years if not decades to come, maybe it can't. One thing history is very clear on is that the survivors are those who evolve and adapt as their enviornment changes around them, those who don't ultimately die out. Its always not so much a case of "if", but when that death will occur.ar b
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Scorrie reacted to tirvaluk in Vikings in Edinburgh?
There are hundreds of tourists that come every year for UHA, they are mostly happy to see the squad through the day and go back to their hotels after the procession. I spoke to loads of them last year. Just see how fast the tickets sell for the Fiery Sessions in the afternoon. Also the Jarl's Squad trips to Edinburgh and NY advertise Shetland as a destination not just UHA.