Cult blog-site?

[cme]

T and T being the Tigh na Truish? Maybe someone can youtube him ... I don't anticipate my boss giving me vacation anytime this decade.

[dubhsgeir]

Jack maconnel our dear departed and ofcourse seventhseils fave Wendy Alexanderpants thats two funnies for you.
Talking about jokes did any of you prolls go and see the wee dukie on thursday......................... thought not to busy working,i think he should be done for war crimes against the peoples of argyll over the last 500 years.

[buddhaboy]

Well I have just joined after moving here from alpha centuri just on the outer rim, took me quite a few light years to get here. Landed accidentily in seil but decided to stay as there is quite a few aliens here already especially in the T&T star wars bar comes to mind. I am thinking of starting some Tai Chi classes in the new hall down seil anyone who might be interested please email me coldhands7@hotmail.co.uk. Please leave your light sabers at the door !

[Bugfreik]

There's lots of good stuff in the Heritage Centre/Museum.Like old censuses, and who's who at the cemetery. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Susta ... pment/7523
Of course if you're a 'local' you think it's only for 'tourists'!
I once visited Balvicar. Felt like a tourist!
Then I visited Easdale Island......
Is fuar an innis an cairn.

[a nonny mouse]

I once visited Balvicar. Felt like a tourist!

I went down to the local hostelry yesterday for a late lunch. It was about 2.30 and there was only about 10 other people in there. We bought cokes on the way in, ordered something very ordinary, and then sat and waited and waited - half an hour before our meal arrived and just before we turned into skeletons. By then we were thristy again and asked the waitress for more cokes, to be told curtly to go and get it from the bar ourselves!

We've been down there loads of times for meals and never had that kind of service before. I might add that a very 'posh' speaking crowd came in just before we left and they were being served drinks at the table. I need to learn to talk posh.

[NickB]

the lassie with the long dark hair tied back?

- Nick

[a nonny mouse]

the lassie with the long dark hair tied back?

- Nick

Possibly, the red mist had come down by then

[cme]

There's lots of good stuff in the Heritage Centre/Museum.Like old censuses, and who's who at the cemetery. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Susta ... pment/7523

Thank you, Bugfreik. I'm giving it a look now.

[cme]

Possibly, the red mist had come down by then

Would that happen to be a reference to the work of (my son's favorite author) Brian Jacques, whose badgers see a red mist or something of the sort when they are in battle mode?

[a nonny mouse]

Possibly, the red mist had come down by then

Would that happen to be a reference to the work of (my son's favorite author) Brian Jacques, whose badgers see a red mist or something of the sort when they are in battle mode?

Heheheh, yes!

[Herby Dice]

I once visited Balvicar. Felt like a tourist!

I went down to the local hostelry yesterday for a late lunch. It was about 2.30 and there was only about 10 other people in there. We bought cokes on the way in, ordered something very ordinary, and then sat and waited and waited - half an hour before our meal arrived and just before we turned into skeletons. By then we were thristy again and asked the waitress for more cokes, to be told curtly to go and get it from the bar ourselves!

We've been down there loads of times for meals and never had that kind of service before. I might add that a very 'posh' speaking crowd came in just before we left and they were being served drinks at the table. I need to learn to talk posh.

If you will go and get thristy with the staff, you can only expect the cold shoulder (delicious with mustard btw). Have to say I have not experienced anything like this at the TNT, never been anything but entirely gruntled, but I trust a tip was not forthcoming?

[a nonny mouse]

I trust a tip was not forthcoming?

Well, I could have given them one, but I'd have been thrown out

[Ticonderoga]

Going back to the original question of this theme, I find it strange that no current users of this site seem to have considered that this forum might be being referred to others as giving an insight into all that is intrinsically unhealthy about so many Highland communities just now.
Amongst all the usual 'I can say something funnier than you - or at least I think I can' entries that clutter so many forums, it seems that much of what is discussed centres around the outlook of locals vs the outlook of incomers. Perhaps it is this that is generating a, perhaps, not so healthy interest in this site.
For exampe, I note that one contributor who flies the St.George's Cross and who, I therefore presume, is from south of the Border, just adores calling Scots - Jocks.
I would think that, viewed from many perspectives, being English and being in Scotland and calling the country's population 'Jocks' was not dissimilar to moving to Italy and calling the indigenous population Wops, to Japan and calling them Nips or to any place where the local folk have a darker skin colour and referring to them as Wogs.
So, is this racism or just harmless fun that should be guffawed off? Is, indeed, the increasing amount of anti-English feeling that is now being more openly expressed than for many, many years, genuine or just a bit of harmless banter?
Perhaps this forum is attracting increased attention, but for a totally different and not very complimentary reason to that which most would like to think.

[a nonny mouse]

So, is this racism or just harmless fun that should be guffawed off? Is, indeed, the increasing amount of anti-English feeling that is now being more openly expressed than for many, many years, genuine or just a bit of harmless banter?

I can't say I've noticed much anti-Englishness lately, or if it's there perhaps my eyes have just skipped over it. I'm English myself, not Scottish, and the only hostile posts on the forum directed specifically to myself have been from a fellow English person.

[spiderman]

Hi TC, my feeling is that in everyday life there's very little , even no, anti-English feeling on Seil. Not just because more than half the folk here are English but because the local Scots recognise that their English neighbours consciously chose to move here - quite a compliment to the place. We know it beats most places into a pokey hat so we welcome them in their enlightenment. Anyway, maybe Dubhsgeir on another string is right and we just need to get a sense of humour. Being called "a Jock" isn't a problem - I think it comes from "we're a' Jock Thamson's bairns" which means we're all equal......

[canUsmellthat]

How do the "locals" of this island define themselves? I would hope that they define themselves as being kind of local because they have had family on the island for more than one generation, at least, but then maybe I’m just old fashioned or too local for the new breed of settler!

[cme]

How do the "locals" of this island define themselves? I would hope that they define themselves as being kind of local because they have had family on the island for more than one generation, at least, but then maybe I’m just old fashioned or too local for the new breed of settler!

As someone who's lived many new places, I'd say not being first generation is one common denominator -- or having lived almost a generation's worth in the place. Certainly a ten year old child in a community shouldn't have any more right to the mantle of "local" than someone who moved there 40 years ago?

Of course, I've lived in 9+ states, numerous and widespread locations within each and in Germany and consequently have never been "local" to anywhere. Odd state of being. The opposite of omnipresent, which could be considered local to everywhere?

[novus ordo seclorum]

What's all this talk of being so called "local" having more rights than other islanders? We all have equal rights, all being born equal. To state otherwise smacks of the chip on the shouilder xenophobia which is starting to raise its head frequently amonsgst certain 'contributers' to this forum.
NOS

[a nonny mouse]

deleted. can't be bothered with the hassle

[Seventhseil]

Please, lets not have the "who is more local" conversation.....................

It gets us nowhere, although there will always be a certain amount of friction between "locals" and "incomers" due to there different reasons for living here.

There is very little need for a look at people's geneology to find out if their opinion is valid.