The first of the selected posts (two a day will be published each weekday through January) is up over at Online Opinion. James Farrell gives a useful backgrounder to this year’s selection process over at Club Troppo.
UPDATE: All the BBP2007 are tagged as ‘features’ over at OLO, in case people were wondering which ones they were.
UPDATE II: Troppo is still borked, not sure for how much longer. They’ve been having a few ‘technical issues’ of late; with any sort of luck Jacques will get them sorted in due course.
UPDATE III: Troppo now appears to be back on deck, although power outages in WA mean that it may still disappear from time to time.
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A good first choice, I think. I particularly enjoyed reading the comments. This one jumped out at me
I don’t think that author has been accused of being a Howard apologist before.
Interesting what happens outside the confines of Ozblogistan
Its hard to open CT, often the site is down
It’s on the blink again, rog - they’ve had serious technical problems of late. James’ article is up over at Online Opinion - you can read it there.
This might be the thread to congratulate Skeptic since the great news is that the new defense minister will be reviewing the Super-Hornet purchase and her SURE-TO-BE PRIZE-WINNING POSTS on this site with regards to the Raptor…. and especially the quality guests she lined up…. was part of the overall campaign to give this matter a second look.
I might not make any sense today as I’ll be celebrating.
Hopefully the judges will vote these posts the best of 2007 because of the possibility they could have influenced matters.
>I might not make any sense today as I’ll be celebrating
So you celebrate everyday of your life? what are the causes?
Ho ho.
You know what Keynes said about every economic idea your average bloke has its just some defunct notion from some long dead economist.
Well most chattering class ideas used to start off as communist party directives such dupes most people are.
They being the most cohesive group of sheeple appear to be able to control most of the flock.
Did Marx hate fractional reserve?
SL/Jason/Anybody
I am probably having a very blonde day, but I cannot find these best blogs.
Neither Marx nor Keynes realised that it was fractional reserve that they were fucking whining about.
Keynes put it down to “animal spirits”.
Got nothing to do with “animal spirits”… the problem was only with fractional reserve.
There are two posts a day up on OLO, John - unfortunately they’re not tagged as being ‘best blog posts 2007′ (as they were last year). I’ll ask Graham to flag them for people.
Thanks doll. How’s Oxford? I hope you are knocking them dead!
There’s one by Adrien up today, one of our most popular commenters
I’m in Edinburgh just now John - back to Oxford on Sunday for 0th week. I’d been planning to put my (rather good, even if I say so myself) Hogmanay pics up, but accidentally abandoned my camera cable in Oxford.
Do we know this person?
I have feeling young Adrien may be a chap well known around these parts, yairs…
Our Adrien has such an interesting life story? Mind you, why would a fine Scot be born in London? Tsk, tsk.
I dunno Sinclair. Ask my parents. I was whisked away to Glasgow pretty smartly thereafter. Toughen’ me up. Pakistan’s just too cushy doncha know?
Damn right. Do they paint themselves blue and run naked into battle?
Mind you, that mightn’t have been paint - just the weather.
Apparently it’s a bit of a myth about the blue paint which was assumed to be woad. But woad doesn’t serve well as a body paint. It’s thought that the ancient Celts wore tattoos and this is where Caeser’s references to the Brit’s marked bodies and the name for the Pict tribes come from.
But naked yes. Some kind of nature-worshipping thing. Bloodshed was sacred. Batshit bunch aren’t we?
There’s this fantastic ad for beer from New Zealand. It features two groups of men one Maori, the other Scots. It’s either a prequel to battle or a rugby match. The Maori are all huge guys (funny that) and they’re doing a particularly fierce Haka. The Scots - kilted, bare-chested with designer long hair - are standing impassive.
The Haka rises to high intensity (if you ever seen one up close they are scary). The Scots don’t move. The Haka finishes and the Scots slowly reach down and lift up the hem of their kilts high.
The look on the face of the Maori chief is priceless.
LOL. Fantastic. Do you know the beer - to hunt down the YouTube.
Adrien must be a campbell, hence the secrecy
Here is one, but not the one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUgpfWntZm8
Obama beats Hillary in Iowa
here it is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRy4DAR0AEI
scotch not beer.
But wait, there’s more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bdnsAosfVA&NR=1
No, just variations on a single technical issue.
The clan tartan was a recent invention, previously they all wore plaid which was brown and more of a cloak/blanket than a skirt
I thought scots were all work and no plaid
Thats the usual caber
Nothing worse than go to bed with a tartan waking up with a haggis
A highland fling could end up with a bag o pipes
stop it you are kilting me
Actually Rog I am a Campbell. It’s my middle name (my father’s too). I’m also a McDonald (on my mother’s side).
As I understand it there were various plaids/tartatns that were indicative of your village or home district and also by defualt your clan. The number of colours also indicated your status. But as you say this is all relatively recent and as the Celts spent more time throwing rocks at each other’s heads and didn’t write things down we don’t really know.
Thanks for that Sinclair. Dunno why I thought it was beer. the Scotch probably sux but I’d buy it just ’cause the ad was so good.
I was asking myself: is that Sharon Stone until…
Nuff said.
Och nae, best not to mention Glencoe laddie…
The distinctive clan tartans were adopted in the 19 century (maybe 18th, I’m working from memory), before that everyone wore any colour they liked. Arthur Herman sets this out in his excellent book “How the scots invented the modern world“. If I ever see that scotch I might buy it - the ads are very good. There are many others on YouTube - all very funny.
When I was at St Andrew’s College at Sydney they had a clanbook with all the tartans in it — ran to hundreds of pages as I recall.
Scotland - settled by Celts who thought Ireland wasn’t either cold or wet enough for the likes of them.
The word ’scot’ in Russian means cattle.
Sinclair,
The wearing of anything associated with the rebellion (if you accept the English word for it) of 1745 was banned once it was put down. Once the ban was lifted and Scottish “traditional” dress became trendy under Victoria there was a lot of “reconstruction” (read faking) of old tradition. The same happened with Morris dancing and other stuff from the ancient past of the UK. Much of it was Victorian invention, based, sometimes, on fact.