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IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
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RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
(Whoever shut the CV thread at 666 has a macabre sense of humour).
Article here about how self-isolating on the hills is not such a good idea when everyone else is self-isolating on the hills.
I realised I have to keep my cycles within walking distance of home. Once I would have leapt onto a train or tram if I was tired/bike had something wrong, but no more.
“Whoever shut the CV thread”
Don’t know how that happened.
Open now.
i trained with ray mears for months in the 90s
what you need to know is this:
forget rabbits as a long term food source, the meat is too lean, you'll get ketone poisoning
the essential fats you need are either deer meat, or salmon
if you can source either of those regular, you're fine.
I was telling my mum about "rabbit starvation" for some reason just the other day.
@chdot - “Whoever shut the CV thread”
Think my post was 666. Not sure how I could close thread though!
@laidbck, the number of the beast, who would have guessed?
after 23 pages as well.. KLF vibes in the area..
Anyone who thinks they can survive alone needs to reflect on Iron Age architecture.
@bax - I love the KLF! Read the book by Vic Galloway (I think).
@gembo - Must be quite a few threads with 'that number' in them. Not all mine I hope!
@laidback
what better time then, to secure your eternal brick in the people's pyramid
@bax I do feel sort of justified and indeed ancient but I dont drive no ice cream van
Bill Drummond - tried to persuade Copey to kill himself to boost sales. It was not to be. Tho I believe there is a song Julian Cope Is Dead. They were not pals. Both Drummond and JC tell good rock and roll biogs but Miles Davis remains the all time king. Birth of the Cool on iplayer has a Miles Impersonator reading out chunks which is worth the licence fee even before the music kicks in. Doubt Mrs Garto will allow it to be repeated alas also she has reached peak Limmy. Knew it was too good to last.
KLF only sold two bricks so far? Their undertaking business not thriving? Bet they wish they did not burn that million
No. 23 for me was associated with the outfit 23 Skidoo. Also Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth had some mystique going on around the number 23. Maybe that's where Bill Drummond picked it up from?
Just back from salvaging some wood I kept my distance with my hatchet but was busy as a sunny sunday
All within 500m radius of house
@crowriver: All these are merely further proof that 23 really is everywhere. ;-)
@bax: Thanks for the link to the interesting remix! Also, good to know that the JAMMs are still keeping busy, in a possibly very timeous fashion.
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@daveycyckl you mean selling their bricks?
@crowriver Drummond's interest in the '23 enigma' came from the author Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus Trilogy - he worked as set designer for Ken Campbell's stage version. The JAMS / KLF group names also came from that book.
Gen's TOPY took their 23 directly from WS Burroughs, however.
23 Skidoo were excellent.. who could forget their gamelan classic The Culling is Coming..
@bax, I knew about the Anton Wilson and Burroughs links, but what I did not know is the origin of 23 Skidoo - in Charles Dickens no less!
"The phrase "Twenty-three" is in a sentence in the close of that powerful novel. Sidney Carton, the hero of the novel, goes to the guillotine in place of Charles Darnay, the husband of the woman he loves. The time is during the French Revolution, when prisoners were guillotined by the hundred. The prisoners are beheaded according to their number. Twenty-two has gone and Sidney Carton answers to – Twenty-three. His career is ended and he passes from view."
Jacques de Molay, tu es venge !
From wiki Throbbing Gristle the precursor to TOPY in a way, had a song about Bill’s Capt Clark
RAW seems to know all about selection bias and confirmation bias
This sort of Fortean Times angle is possibly an interesting way to teach stats
Big Bob Morris the first holder of the Koestler Chair of Parapsychology at Uof E was in fact a Statistician. He did have an Astrakhan type hat that he put lights on at Xmas (well I saw that reported in the Gemboean Times). I did however attend one of his stats seminars which was quite interesting.
ah, koestler.. cheers for bringing him up, gembo.. i've been meaning to read the new translation of darkness at noon
@bax best read when 18 and gloomy but why not go for it
Is that the Russian novel where the details are given of having to keep your arms out over the covers whilst sleeping which must have been cold. But rules is rules. Particularly in the Lubyanka
Quite a dramatic time to be writing and indeed 80 years since one German manuscript went to Zurich and one English translation to London. I did not know that, good old Guardian
aye, thats the one. have read the original translation obvs but the new one looks too good to resist
translations are such a hit or miss affair.. the first translation of knut hamsun's hunger was so full of americanisms it was almost unreadable
and i would love to read louis ferdinand celine's journey to the end of the night in the original parisian argot, as i expect the translation i'm familiar with is a bit like reading a german translation of trainspotting
close, but no cigar
Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive your plow over the bones of the dead has an American translation (as you can see in the title) but does translate a storage space as cubby hole which I liked but a very clever polish person pointed out to me that polish homes do not have cubby holes
Is this who I think it might perhaps be, or have they just been following the instructions in The Manual? (There are definite echoes either way, and they're certainly in the same space orbit above the pyramid, at least...)
JAMs/KLF yip
Each of these bricks will contain the cremated ashes of a willing individual.
Say what brother?
Fear not brother IWRATS the first two bricks were from people who were already dead, indeed ashes to ashes
Statement by Ian Blackford:-
"Thank you to everyone who has contacted me over the last few days regarding Covid-19 and in particular regarding tourists coming to The Highlands. I can only apologise that the volume of messages are going to make it difficult for me and my staff to respond to all of the correspondence in the short term. As an example we have had many hundreds of emails yesterday and I do want to thank all who have got in touch with me and to thank my staff for helping to manage the increased level of correspondence.
Now to the substance, requests to the public not to come to the Highlands are not working and we need to move to take firmer action. The emergency powers legislation comes in front of Westminster tomorrow. I will be calling on the UK and Scottish Government to take a number of steps. Key to this is to shut down all accommodation providers including hotels, guest houses, bed and breakfast accommodation, holiday rental properties and the right for tourist camper vans to come to the Highlands and Islands except for those on essential working engagements that need accommodation. All camping and caravan parks need to be shut to tourists, all ski resorts that are currently attracting significant numbers and any tourist destinations need to be closed. The Jacobite train from Fort William to Mallaig as one example must be closed.
I need to call out examples of completely unacceptable behaviour. A spokesperson for Sykes who arrange holiday rental accommodation, wrote to me yesterday the following:
“Given concerns surrounding the current outbreak, it is understandable that people would want to arrange private accommodation in more remote locations to distance themselves from larger towns and cities.
“As latest Government guidance does not prohibit travel in the UK, we are continuing to provide a service for customers and property owners.”
This I have to say is the height of irresponsibility. This company are actively encouraging people to come to the Highlands risking the potential spread of Covid-19 that would threaten our communities and put pressure on the health services in remote and rural areas. We are not like a city where you can travel to the next hospital if one is already under pressure. If you live in the north of Skye you will be 135 miles to your nearest general hospital. Sykes are not alone. For example the Cottages website are forcing home owners to accept bookings.
As there is a lack of an ability to accept responsibility we need to take action to force providers to shut down.
My message to tourists is in the Highlands we are renowned for the welcome we provide. Once we have defeated this virus we will of course welcome you back. For those visiting the Highlands just now, please leave. Please go home. For anyone thinking of coming to the Highlands just don’t."
I'm half-tempted to sign up for mumufication, I like the eccentric "Long Now"-like style of the construction of the pyramid.
But I'm less keen on trying to work out which part of me I could spare to be cremated down to 23 grams to fulfil my part; I'd always preferred to be lowered into a hole somewhere in the countryside, reasonably intact (donated organs aside), with a tree planted on my head.
Just discovered that the BBC has done a documentary about The People's Pyramid...
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