Deid

[stewarty27]

I’m nae Hassan’s biggest fan. Like many in the media, he “supports Dundee United” which automatically sees him in the Cûnts category ie safe, bland, timid, feart to make a Proper Mannies’ choice of a Proper Mannues’ club, probably takes a black and orange teddy bear to matches with him, and assaults Funso Ojo, and sometimes his analyses are a bit under-powered when he presents his opinions as facts. Good resumé of Comrade Nairn here, though:

https://www.scottishreview.net//GerryHassan644a.html

Decent review for a intellectual pigmy (Hassan) compared to Tom.

Quid pro quo.

https://robinmcalpine.org/scotland-h...-then-he-died/

[57vintage]

Decent review for a intellectual pigmy (Hassan) compared to Tom.

Quid pro quo.

https://robinmcalpine.org/scotland-h...-then-he-died/

That’s very good. A mark off for using ‘gotten’ though. Fuçking Yankeeisms.

[InversneckieDob]

I'd heard of Mr Nairn, but am shamefully deficient in my knowledge of his written output.

Two good articles which I think lead onto a wider discussion on anti-intellectualism in both politics and wider society.

I'm reminded of a quote from Barack Obama -
"In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue. It’s not cool to not know what you’re talking about. That’s not keeping it real or telling it like it is. That’s not challenging political correctness. That’s just not knowing what you’re talking about.”

Simplifying debate, "dumbing down", is not good.
But it's the norm.

[57vintage]

Sylvia Sims is deid (89). Adolescent self-abuse fantasy in the classic Ice Cold In Alex, where a scene was cut due to an extra blouse button coming undone. I think a still of it was printed in John Mills’s autobiography.

She also starred with the great Mills in Flame In The Streets, an early (1961) examination of post-Windrush racism in London.



https://youtu.be/ouYKeeTz7Yw

[InversneckieDob]

File that one under "thought she'd died years ago".
A comely lady back in the day and an accomplished actor.
Did she nae portray "Hooor whose name shall not be spoken" in a film or TV programme?

RIP quine.

[TheDeeDon]

Sylvia Sims is deid (89). Adolescent self-abuse fantasy in the classic Ice Cold In Alex, where a scene was cut due to an extra blouse button coming undone. I think a still of it was printed in John Mills’s autobiography.

She also starred with the great Mills in Flame In The Streets, an early (1961) examination of post-Windrush racism in London.



https://youtu.be/ouYKeeTz7Yw

She was a natural looker, although I only came across her (not literally) in more recent times.

Was only earning £30 a film for years due to her contract, which included Ice Cold in Alex and this was only rectified when a fellow actor fought her corner in the 60s.

Gave up the chance of greater stardom too by staying in the UK and being married instead of going to Hollywood.

[donsdaft]

Tom Verlaine


Hesitating.

Fück sake, what a January.

[InversneckieDob]

Barrett Strong today, seems to be a conveyor belt just now.
RIP fella.

[DondyDan]

That’s very good. A mark off for using ‘gotten’ though. Fuçking Yankeeisms.

Much as it pains me to defend American (basta*dised) English, gotten was the common past participle of get until the 16th/17th century. There are examples if its usage in Chaucer, in letters from Walter Raleigh and in Shakespeare to name but a few.

Whilst it declined in usage on our side of the Atlantic, it remained on the other.

So whilst it can be infuriating to see its increasing use amongst today's youth (due to Americanisation) it is not technically wrong.

Does beg the question why the past participle of forget never got reduced to forgot.

[donsdaft]

Lots of old English words survived in American usage.

Bill Bryson wrote a decent book on the subject.