THE BRITISH THREAD II

You should have been vomiting, tim, in 2006-7-8 when every other ad was offering to lend money and usually to the most unlikely looking prospects they could find agency actors and actresses to play.

This now is just the vomit having dried out.

Bloody Spurs, first Hoddle then Pochettino.

Hoddle didn't exactly work out.

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Is Suarez injured? Not that anyone wishes the fella ill.....

I'm a bit freaked out by the Glasgow school of arts fire!
We were discussing Rennie Mackintosh's work over dinner two nights ago here in Tangier. Then I get news of the fire.
I understand the building is not completely written off.

Me too, me too.

I've read at length about it but am not very calmed. I never got to see it, but an architectural historian friend use to lead small tours there once in a while.. That and Green and Green places. Knowledgeable guy. I imagine he is crushed, this was a brutal fire.

Well, UKIP have just wiped the floor with the other parties in the elections!
I'm a UKIP voter..

Yes Margo, quite a shock. I've written more on this elsewhere. There is an extensive salvage and rescue/ restoration now under way. I'll link to the Herald (Glasgow Herald) at the end of this. It's Scotland's most important building, in the opinion of many: a unique place.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/experts-confident-school-of-art-can-rise-from-the-ashes.24338965

Remember the Phoenix Mac.

Perhaps it would be more useful, tim, if you vomited at the plethora of adverts on TV encouraging gambling.

Gambling is solely concerned with trying to get money off other people without working for it. And all the ads show examples of people being successful at it.

And easy loans are making a comeback.

The right time to vomit is when a plate is shoved under your nose which contains a dish which will make you ill.

It's bad manners vomiting at the dinner table.

An awful lot of topics make me vomit but, for the sake of preserving the sensitivities of my fellow humans, I do that in the seclusion of my home.

That one had such a taste of rot that I couldn't help myself.

I was tearing when I read the Guardian news on the fire, somewhat as it happened. People responding in comments were very fraught, completely distressed. I've read about Mackintosh off and on for years, but never been near his work, which I've liked in photos, since I never made it out the doors of Heathrow to set foot on the ground of Britain in my travels. An architectural historian friend conducted a tour there, probably back in the eighties - can't quite remember but remember he was quite happy for doing that. Anyway, I gather all is not lost, though the library was, but that they have the plans and rebuilding/renewal will happen. Thank goodness they have the plans.

Nah mate, in the opinion of jocks the most important buildings in Scotland are railway stations where they can hop on trains to desert their country and emigrate to England and take our jobs, houses and welfare..

Oops, I said that already. Ok, now I said it again.

Why doesn't that surprise even an antipodean like me?

You seem to be unaware of so many things, including the fact that it was the Scots who built Britain and its empire, its navy, its army, and its financial system. And supplied its first monarch of course. Since then you've had to make do with Germans on the throne, the Battenbergs.
I'm in favour of the Scots keeping England. We can still do much with it.

Wasn't Alfred Welsh? I hesitate to align myself with a Brit named Romeo Fabulini, but I do believe there were quite a few Englishmen of Norman & Anglo Saxon descent who played decisive roles in the buildup of the British Empire. We had quite a few of them over here ... names included the brothers Howe (Admiral & General respectively), Burgoyne, Dalrymple, Grey, Graves, Cornwallis.. Not many Scots among the lot.

Mac was only jesting George.

So was I.

Without the Scottish Enlightenment, England would probably still be festering to this day in its primitive and insular mindset, populated by people like Romeo.