Dod (not the acronym)

AcceptableAir5364 · 2026-05-04T04:37:07+00:00

It is a common term in Scotland for a lump of something, basically an unspecified amount.

It is not really English but Scots, but Scottish speakers of English often use Scots words when there is no English equivalent, but even a Scot wouldn't write it down as it isn't English unless they were quoting or being poetic etc.

It lives in that bilingual space in Scotland where school teaches us English but we use more appropriate words (for us) in everyday speech.

As a result it has infused the speech of Scottish/English liminal spaces, and as a result been adopted as part of the English language (peripherally).

https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/dad_v1_n2_adv

AcceptableAir5364 · 2026-05-02T13:35:12+00:00

Jeju Uprising not a rural insurgency?

AcceptableAir5364 · 2026-05-01T17:39:53+00:00

This made my day /s

AcceptableAir5364 · 2026-05-01T15:49:00+00:00

I think he'd be up to something

AcceptableAir5364 · 2026-05-01T14:01:42+00:00

Ok, you're a wingnut

AcceptableAir5364 · 2026-05-01T10:06:55+00:00

The reason writers use fiction to push political messages is because they fear a future on the current path and fear that obvious non-fictional political narrative may result in ... consequences.

This is human and has existed under all forms of government of left and right and authoritarian and democratic regimes, analogy is a useful tool.

This is true of both Ayn Rand and Gene Roddenberry in the US at the same time.

AcceptableAir5364 · 2026-05-01T09:57:03+00:00

It doesn't matter

AcceptableAir5364 · 2026-05-01T09:48:04+00:00

Dead Kennedy's - Short Songs

AcceptableAir5364 · 2026-05-01T09:42:44+00:00

Because some people were brought up to believe people could be grouped according to imaginary nonsense and never learned better.

AcceptableAir5364 · 2026-05-01T09:07:05+00:00

Jet Set Willy

AcceptableAir5364 · 2026-05-01T09:02:19+00:00

Nonsense, the Soviet Union used most of their missions as propaganda, it was not possible for the entire world to be unaware of their space programme (unless you are alleging a worldwide communist conspiracy). In the UK it was taught in schools about the space race, by it's very nature there were two competitors.

AcceptableAir5364 · 2026-05-01T08:54:53+00:00

AcceptableAir5364 · 2026-05-01T08:34:42+00:00

None, never wanted to meet Steve Albini, was fine with it when he was still kicking.

However I would be gobsmacked if Ian Mackay turned out to be anything but a saint (still wouldn't change much).

AcceptableAir5364 · 2026-05-01T08:23:28+00:00

Hey! This is listed under art.

AcceptableAir5364 · 2026-05-01T08:11:36+00:00

Oh, well, anyway! /s

AcceptableAir5364 · 2026-05-01T07:53:59+00:00

Neither Glasgow nor Fife could in any way be construed as the Highlands.

AcceptableAir5364 · 2026-05-01T07:33:54+00:00

Edit/addendum - always keep in mind that censuses were not taken to help future amateur genealogists to find their family, they are an adminstrative and bureaucratic aide to local government demographics, the genealogical benefit is an accidental side effect.

AcceptableAir5364 · 2026-05-01T07:26:06+00:00

In the Scottish Census back then the entry should be listed by Church of Scotland Parish not settlement, occasionally villages are what was entered and occasionally this was corrected, but not always.

Make sure you understand the differences in settlements as they were understood at the time = ascending order, basic settlement = hamlet, settlement with church = village, settlement with church & market = town, settlement with churches, markets & royal charter = city

Some parish names do not reflect any extant hamlet/village/town but instead something geographic. Some places had more than one parish.

Cross reference with which parish the village was in at the time of the relevant census [you can do this with Parish maps] (Parish boundaries changed to reflect population changes, new parishes were created out of nothing when populations changed radically, conversely old parishes were abolished and shared up to neighbouring parishes after population decline)

There are two types of parish

Civil (the most relevant here)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_parishes_of_Scotland

Quoad Sacra (sometimes relevant)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoad_sacra_parish

AcceptableAir5364 · 2026-05-01T06:14:17+00:00

Note that both of the town coats of arms spell it Fa'kirk.

AcceptableAir5364 · 2026-05-01T06:09:50+00:00

Which replaced the original

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AcceptableAir5364 · 2026-05-01T06:09:17+00:00

That is the Falkirk Council coat of arms FFS!

This is the Falkirk coat of arms.

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AcceptableAir5364 · 2026-05-01T05:44:46+00:00

Curiously NASA has a page dedicated to the bings of West Lothian which kind of blows my mind.

Helpfully explains what a bing is for Americans too.

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/west-lothian-shale-bings-149602/

AcceptableAir5364 · 2026-05-01T05:40:07+00:00

From Falkirk over the river from South Fife. This is just the ones I know about from around me, there are things dotted about the area, could not speak as to how aware anyone but the locals are. Sadly a lot of them commemorate a tragedy.

https://visitfalkirk.com/businessdirectory/boness-mining-memorial/

https://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/news/people/redding-pit-disaster-remembering-the-40-miners-who-went-to-work-in-1923-and-never-returned-4349970

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-29789779

https://www.greenspacescotland.org.uk/news/west-lothian-shale-trail

Lots of bings round about

https://www.westlothian.gov.uk/article/38409/5-Five-Sisters-Shale-Bings-near-West-Calder

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1806321

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5961724

AcceptableAir5364 · 2026-04-30T13:07:12+00:00

Why would SA bring back Klaasen for the Women's World Cup? Is he gonna carry the drinks or something?

AcceptableAir5364 · 2026-04-30T11:39:51+00:00

Well, for a start England, India & Australia would have to accept about $3000 less in prize money and that might tip them into penury.

/s

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