Sharon Shannon is a treasure. Many videos on YouTube of her playing the accordian with various Celtic bands. My favorite is her rendition of “Galway Girl” with Mundy. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3V-oXwCWL4
speaking of farm animals (a sheep in this case); can you understand what this guy is saying?
The fellow is speaking English and he is Scottish.
I was unable to understand most of what he said.
The Highland Scottish accent is nearly impenetrable. As is the Irish accent in the west and northwest of the country. And, God help us, in Belfast especially.
In my younger years, I used to work on a monastery farm. I was a tenor in a classical music chorale and would practice my parts ( when I was alone.) Many times the cows would come up and all face me. Very strange.
I’m curious to know how many commenters here would actually describe themselves as “pro-Russian”. To me “pro-Russian” means:
1.) You think Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a reasonable response to a legitimate threat, either from the Ukraine, NATO, or the West;
or
2.) You think Russia has some kind of moral justification for invading Ukraine, like Western decadence or Ukrainian corruption or something like that;
3) You have some other reason for describing yourself as “pro-Russian” that I didn’t think of.
I am not pro-Russian, and I believe that their invasion of Ukraine is aggressive and unjustified, and that Putin’s government is self-evidently evil.
Russia’s attack is illegal and if they are allowed to keep ANY of Ukraine then the UN is a dead man walking. The UN exists to prevent this. Unfortunately, Europe is largely run by ninnies.
Niketas,
I agree with what you write in your last paragraph. I also believe U.S. foreign policy possibly accelerated or gave Putin a cause for the invasion. I also believe Ukraine is incredibly corrupt and there are possibly corrupt American actors who, with many Ukrainians, are benefitting from the black hole of U.S. taxpayer money flowing into the war. I also believe the Biden administration may have derailed potential for a negotiated settlement early in the war and there are now hundreds of thousands dead on both sides whose sacrifice may have been unnecessary.
There are many who refer to people who share some or all of these opinions as “pro Russian.” That is a silly ad hominem. Personally, I am not pro-Putin at all. He’s a kleptocratic monster. But I feel for the Russian men he is using as cannon fodder. As in so many wars, the vast percentage of combatants often have little control over their fate. I admire the strong will of the Ukrainians and their resourcefulness.
Hard to know how reliable the polls are in Donbas, but there is a significant percentage of people in the region who are for unification with Russia. From what I hear from friends in Ukraine, that has decreased since the start of the war. Putin’s aggression has rallied Ukrainian patriotism. But it was a volatile area prior to the invasion.
I don’t disagree on the UN’s general fecklessness, but the Donbas is a complex region.
(I also agree the Europe is largely run by ninnies.)
men and women of good will can dissagree on the question, but General Milley or his successor General Brown, Bill Burns or Avril Haines they have no such excuses, same with Mr Smithers Blinken and the one from the Munsch painting, Sullivan,
who were responsible for the Kabul capitulations that ended at Abbey Gate,
now the problem is the core of British and American intelligence is wholy unsuited for this mission, the likes of danchenko and steele, possibly even litvinenko who seemed too lowly a figure in the ORPO,
the crime fightingbranch of the FSB to really know what he suggested,
now some of these ba pennies like deripasha a player in the world aluminum market pop in the gaetz portmanteau
One of the unusual activities here in the estuary is night fishing at low tide during the salmon run. I had never heard of this before. Here is a short video from my security camera. This is almost every night.
Rufus T. Firefly, if California, now filled with foreign persons, voted to leave to US and join Mexico, I would be on the side of conquering Cali and ethnically cleansing the secessionists into to sea.
certainly the coastal areas are problematic, but this is the problem with partitions, one doesn’t have any hard and fast boundaries, the eastern region is more MAGA, but one assumes there are pockets in the West
This video is good for the soul.
Sharon Shannon is a treasure. Many videos on YouTube of her playing the accordian with various Celtic bands. My favorite is her rendition of “Galway Girl” with Mundy. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3V-oXwCWL4
speaking of farm animals (a sheep in this case); can you understand what this guy is saying?
The fellow is speaking English and he is Scottish.
I was unable to understand most of what he said.
https://youtu.be/Kf-B1zjipeY?si=A-uLrRFZf0LZSckC
The Highland Scottish accent is nearly impenetrable. As is the Irish accent in the west and northwest of the country. And, God help us, in Belfast especially.
In my younger years, I used to work on a monastery farm. I was a tenor in a classical music chorale and would practice my parts ( when I was alone.) Many times the cows would come up and all face me. Very strange.
I’m curious to know how many commenters here would actually describe themselves as “pro-Russian”. To me “pro-Russian” means:
1.) You think Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a reasonable response to a legitimate threat, either from the Ukraine, NATO, or the West;
or
2.) You think Russia has some kind of moral justification for invading Ukraine, like Western decadence or Ukrainian corruption or something like that;
3) You have some other reason for describing yourself as “pro-Russian” that I didn’t think of.
I am not pro-Russian, and I believe that their invasion of Ukraine is aggressive and unjustified, and that Putin’s government is self-evidently evil.
Russia’s attack is illegal and if they are allowed to keep ANY of Ukraine then the UN is a dead man walking. The UN exists to prevent this. Unfortunately, Europe is largely run by ninnies.
Niketas,
I agree with what you write in your last paragraph. I also believe U.S. foreign policy possibly accelerated or gave Putin a cause for the invasion. I also believe Ukraine is incredibly corrupt and there are possibly corrupt American actors who, with many Ukrainians, are benefitting from the black hole of U.S. taxpayer money flowing into the war. I also believe the Biden administration may have derailed potential for a negotiated settlement early in the war and there are now hundreds of thousands dead on both sides whose sacrifice may have been unnecessary.
There are many who refer to people who share some or all of these opinions as “pro Russian.” That is a silly ad hominem. Personally, I am not pro-Putin at all. He’s a kleptocratic monster. But I feel for the Russian men he is using as cannon fodder. As in so many wars, the vast percentage of combatants often have little control over their fate. I admire the strong will of the Ukrainians and their resourcefulness.
Chases Eagles,
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Donbas_status_referendums#:~:text=Another%20poll%2C%20taken%20by%20the,form%2C%20and%205%25%20wanted%20to
Hard to know how reliable the polls are in Donbas, but there is a significant percentage of people in the region who are for unification with Russia. From what I hear from friends in Ukraine, that has decreased since the start of the war. Putin’s aggression has rallied Ukrainian patriotism. But it was a volatile area prior to the invasion.
I don’t disagree on the UN’s general fecklessness, but the Donbas is a complex region.
(I also agree the Europe is largely run by ninnies.)
men and women of good will can dissagree on the question, but General Milley or his successor General Brown, Bill Burns or Avril Haines they have no such excuses, same with Mr Smithers Blinken and the one from the Munsch painting, Sullivan,
who were responsible for the Kabul capitulations that ended at Abbey Gate,
now the problem is the core of British and American intelligence is wholy unsuited for this mission, the likes of danchenko and steele, possibly even litvinenko who seemed too lowly a figure in the ORPO,
the crime fightingbranch of the FSB to really know what he suggested,
now some of these ba pennies like deripasha a player in the world aluminum market pop in the gaetz portmanteau
One of the unusual activities here in the estuary is night fishing at low tide during the salmon run. I had never heard of this before. Here is a short video from my security camera. This is almost every night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB6IAbfW0bw
Rufus T. Firefly, if California, now filled with foreign persons, voted to leave to US and join Mexico, I would be on the side of conquering Cali and ethnically cleansing the secessionists into to sea.
Here is pre-commie relocate-troublesome-populations map
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Subdivisions_of_the_Russian_Empire_by_largest_ethnolinguistic_group_%281897%29.svg
certainly the coastal areas are problematic, but this is the problem with partitions, one doesn’t have any hard and fast boundaries, the eastern region is more MAGA, but one assumes there are pockets in the West
https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2024/11/25/dishonest-media-strikes-again-as-outlets-take-concealed-cash-from-teachers-unions-for-positive-coverage-n2182471
back of the book section,
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1861237441346314615
a crime where none of the subjects are ever charged how does that work,