Got To Keep Current, and Hopefully, Controversial
There has been a bit of a lull in the blog, but for good reason; I was in Islay with Mi Mujer for the whisky and music festival, Feis Ile. I will make a post about it, but in reality it should be several posts. It’s definitely worthy of talking about.
I just feel spurred to make a post to affirm that I am still here because my last post got such great and controversial comments. I am pleased as punch about how many people offered their differing views in the comments. I particularly liked John Bull’s, not so much for intellectual content but for being ballsy and anti-Yanqui. edit: I realise this last sentence can be taken out of the context that I intended it. It was more of a tongue-in-cheek comment on finally getting somebody to call me out on something and not a presumption of John Bull’s motives or intellect.
Seriously, if you don’t like me, please post. It fuels my writing. I already have ideas for posts about how much English sausages suck, the fish and chips here are a disappointment at best and stop and search laws without reasonable cause.
But next, I promise to post about Feis Ile on Islay. I need the weekend to sort it all out.
By the way, my negative comments aren’t directed to the Scots, ’cause they rock.
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May 30th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
My negative comments ,as you see them, are in no way anti yanqui. I’m surprised you viewed them as such. Fish and chips, sausages etc. .. depends where you buy them. Keep feeding the stereotypes. Hope you have a great time in scotland, make sure you have a deep fried mars bar before you come back. Intellectual blogging would no doubt attract intellectual comment. …Don’t you think?
May 31st, 2008 at 3:56 am
Hmmm…doesn’t Scotland deserve a capital? I guess intellectuals rise above all that.
May 31st, 2008 at 6:23 am
Cool looking forward to your post about Feis Ile on Islay… Ahh, are all the English sausages tht suck as you said? Or you’re jz being unlucky ended up having meal in a bad place? lol….Anyway, enjoy your trip thr.
May 31st, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Scotland does have a capital: Edinburgh . Joking aside, no malicious intent on my part. Scotland,.. there you go.
May 31st, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Absolutely controversy gives you traffic which is the lifeblood of a blog.
May 31st, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Seems that there is a bit of that healthy tension going on here, with your little commentaries on the country you now live in eliciting a lot of reaction. That is a great thing for a blog though, for how is a blog different from a static website if there isn’t some time of post and comment ping pong?
May 31st, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Ooh good - I love a bit of controversy. Don’t get much here in the mid-west. It’s all a bit PC!
May 31st, 2008 at 8:14 pm
John Bull, I hope you stick around. My comment about being anti-Yanqui should probably be clarified as it was written after a few whiskies. Best if I don’t post after those.
Anti-Yanqui was directed at me personally, not Yankee in general i.e. Americans. And it was with tongue firmly planted in cheek, because after over a year of blogging, nobody ever said I was spreading rubbish. Although there are more than a few posts where I was.
It was also written before I had seen your further comments. I do think you are a reasonable person and, while we might not agree on all the little details, I think we’d get along just fine.
While I don’t like the bangers because they just taste like bland, fatty sausages to me, I do love many things about England and I appreciate having the opportunity to live in London. It’s a fantastic city, not without its flaws as any city is, but a world class city for a reason.
June 1st, 2008 at 11:52 pm
I’ll certainly be back. I like you.
June 2nd, 2008 at 5:14 am
Don’t worry about controversial comments. Staying controversial is what will make your blog popular and want folks to come back.
June 2nd, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Well I can’t say I missed you while you were gone because I just now found your site. But I am glad you’re back. Your stuff makes me laugh. Here in Atlanta, Georgia, USA we don’t hear a whole lot about life in London so it’s interesting to read the perspective of an American living there. Keep it up! Thanks.
June 6th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Fish and chips is all about location.
On the beach at Whitby is about as good as it’ll ever get.
And don’t neglect the mushy peas.
June 23rd, 2008 at 4:50 pm
I like being controversials. Like Mark said it will make your blog more popular.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Stereotypes are not necessarily bad, their psychological mechanisms for us to size up and analyze people initially when we know nothing about them. When I go to any country those are the first things that operate, but what is but if we never get over them and not make room for new perspectives.
July 12th, 2008 at 3:48 am
It is great that you are inviting even criticism in your blog — after all that’s what blogs are supposed to be there for — for dialogue and yes, sometimes, debate.