Scots' Liberties
The Scottish executive is shortly due to announce the stance it will be taking on gay marriage - before the situational deaf start beating themselves and pulling out their hair, the term actually refers, in this case, to partnership rights and next-of-kin status - north of the border.
Apparently there are three routes they can take; ignore the issue entirely, which unlikely to be the case; make changes to Scots law, which would probably be the best thing, whether or not it works in favour of gay people; allow Westminster to legislate on behalf of the entire Kingdom.
The latter would pretty much be a guarantee, as that is the direction that legislation is taking in the capital; my reason for favouring the second option is that the Scots are in a good position to demonstrate again the autonomy that they have been arguing towards since time began (1707), itself a great issue. They have, in the past, also demonstrated a great maturity in coming to decisions that govern minority issues fairly, something England has had difficulty trusting them with; I have some faith and hope that they can pull this off independently of England, preferably in our favour.
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What would you know, filthy Sassenach scum?!
Didn't time begin a century earlier than you claim?
What's a Sassenach?
What's a Sassenach? Have a look at the following site:
http://www.royal-stuarts.org/sassenach.htm
According to Phil, probably not, though I am inclined to say "yes".
You know, Phil talks just like the person in above link, which makes him very hard to understand - we can only communicate on paper these days as the funny accent is easier to read, though he can sometimes imitate true English, as here, with a little effort.
Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi' bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee
Wi' murd'ring pattle!
Ah dinnae kin fit yer sayin' y'auld scrueball!
If we gay people are allowed to marry, think of the new revenue opportunities it will bring for flower shops... We'd go to town!
BTW I quickly skimmed back through some of your past posts and came across your Dante's Hell Test, or whatever.... I'm 7th level too. let me know when you die, maybe we can hook up down there.
So... Weirdness, question, question, answer, snide remark, more weirdness, stairs losing his marbles and off topicness (by the terms of this comments section anyway). Okay. I think I need to go to bed.
That sounds like a pretty good haul to me. What's this "off topicness" of which you speak? I'm not familiar with the concept...
Add me to your AIM list... dmonkey1000
'off topicness' - The intrusion of miscellany into the conversation, causing the conversation usually to veer more erratically off into other directions.
Speaking of conversations:
http://www.kottke.org/03/09/030911bilingual_co.html
And interesting discussion about bilingual 'code switching' ... basically like me telling Stairs "Some people so bodoh you know? Tak tau even what bilingual codeswitching is about. Pei sehlah."
So there. ;)
Ah, but for miscellany to intrude here, you'd have to be reading someone else's journal; I'm the most erratic person within ten feet of myself, so it's only proper that this be reflected online.
I liked the entry you linked to above; it sounds like many people I know; my mother will chat with her family in English and Urdu, interchanging freely "Ah, 'ma? Ap ke seheh? Oh, I'm fine etc. etc." She can do this in Burmese too, and when she's in the middle of it all, I'll sit nearby, grinning like a mad thing.
Like you, I assume, I invariably speak terribly bastardised Manglish with my friends back home, but that isn't foreign to me; I never learned Burmese or Urdu from my mother, something that I regret enormously (and begrudge my father for his being English), so hearing her do it in a tongue that I don't speak is totally absorbing.
Anyway, we can't cakap Melayu ini, lah, especially to call orang-orang ini bodoh. Saya cinta bahasa melayu, tetapi kita mesti cakap inggeris ini, ok?
Okay, the 'bodoh' part was probably a bit much. Sorry. My brain doesn't function after working hours. Bastardised Manglish is fun. Especially if you're Chinese, then it comes with several dialects.