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In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended
- usrnm 11mo agoWell, it wasn't that bad when I visited Scotland last time
- verisimi 11mo agoYou obviously haven't been there recently.
- stevenwilkin 11mo agohttps://archive.ph/Ta4ON https://archive.ph/Ta4ON
- WWWWH 11mo agoYou know I wondered who those guys throwing spears at the busses were. Thought they’d just come doon the watter.
- ErroneousBosh 11mo agoJust Wishaw things. I used to work with a guy whose parents were Pakistani but who had been born in Scotland, although he had quite a strong accent from living with his grandparents for several years. People used to ask him "So where are you really from?" quite often. "I'm from Wishie", he'd say. "No but where are you really from?" "Well, dinna tell onyone," he'd say, dialling up the Lanarkshire accent, "but I'm really from Newmains, but if they hear I'm from there they'll think I'm a bam"
- WWWWH 11mo agoPerfect. Right up there with, "but are you a Protestant Muslim or a Catholic Muslim?"
- rich_sasha 11mo agoNot true. They definitely didn't have deep fried Mars bars in the Stone Age.
- ErroneousBosh 11mo agoDeep fried Mars bars are an English thing.
- arethuza 11mo agoThe origins of the Deep Fried Mars Bar are disputed but all of the people doing the disputing appear to be here in Scotland? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar
- ErroneousBosh 11mo agoYeah, you can't believe anything that's on Wikipedia. I actually live in Scotland. I have never seen anywhere that sells deep-fried Mars bars here, but I have seen them in England.
- Antibabelic 11mo agoYou can believe the references the Wikipedia article is based off, such as BBC Scotland: "They surveyed hundreds of fish and chip shops in Scotland to find out if "the delicacy" was available and if people were actually buying them. It found 66 shops which sold them, 22% of those who answered the survey. [...] Annie Anderson, from the Centre for Public Health Nutrition Research at the University of Dundee, used to send her medical students out into the city to see if they could find somewhere that sold deep-fried Mars bar. "It was not much of a challenge in Dundee," she says."
- gvurrdon 11mo agoI lived in Dundee during the 1990s and they were available. I'm told that they were popular at the Victor (https://maps.app.goo.gl/9g3je56Gt7spifo26 https://maps.app.goo.gl/9g3je56Gt7spifo26) though I don't see them on the menu today.
- ErroneousBosh 11mo agoI read George Mackay Brown in high school - Greenvoe and An Orkney Tapestry were the set texts in 2nd year and 3rd year respectively - and I was struck by the immense sense of depth of history from a living poet. It's difficult to explain what reading An Orkney Tapestry was like for the first time. It's like seeing Saturn's rings through a telescope with your own eyes for the first time except it's a telescope that's letting you see in crisp sharp focus all the way through 5000 years of time, instead of 750 million miles. From where I was standing aged 14 in a fairly small town on the Isle of Skye, 5000 years seemed a hell of a lot further. I've been to Orkney several times, and it's an incredible place. The people who built Skara Brae had more advanced architecture than the Romans did (at least, they had better drains, and understood things like septic tanks and keeping drainage away from water supplies).
- sevensor 11mo ago> The people who built Skara Brae had more advanced architecture than the Romans did But why did they put so many spinner traps and magic mouths in the perfectly rectilinear, monster-filled maze underneath the town? In all seriousness, I had no idea until just now that Skara Brae was a real place, and not just a setting for tales sung by bards.
- ErroneousBosh 11mo agoVery very real. You can go there and see it. You can walk around and sit where people sat over 5000 years ago. I grew up not far from there (it's about a six or seven hour drive, followed by a two hour ferry journey, so it's not something you do every day, but barely 160 miles in a straight line) and it was all Iron Age brochs and such. Skara Brae was already ancient and lost when they were built.
- metalman 11mo agoI know a few people born in, or on the edge of the "neolithic", inuit from far up north, and idiginous peoples a bit further south, and more than a few scotts, including a clan of blacksmiths, but allas this space isn't quite suited to the raising of ghosts but as a fact, there is no invention or practice that is not bieng conducted nativly, astounding continuity, though essentialy invisible, as there are no signs, labels, certificates, or verifications, completly unplanned, though closed source in that most essential of ways
- baerrie 11mo agoThis is the best way for ancient culture to survive.
- meindnoch 11mo agoStone age? Nah, more like IRN age.
- IAmBroom 11mo agoYou sly dog. Take an upvote.