The New Fat Scotland 'Thanks for all the Fish' Thread.

beecher2

mollycat wrote: »

Okay, I understand why people enjoy twitter, but would question where it fits in any heirarcy of places to find out "what's going on", from a reliability perspective.

I think philosophically, I am now much different from my 20's, 30's and 40's, (maybe you will be too ), so day to day "news" is often irrelevant to my long term life goals.

I know we disagree on the indy thing; I genuinely think it's a pity that you would give headspace to some random (?nutter's) opinion on an RBS advert or Poppy Scotland.

ps Have gone off topic, apologies

I follow local pubs and cafes, and there's a local community twitter feed which tells me what's going on in the area. I live in Glasgow so there's a lot going on I often wouldn't know about with twitter. . I like to keep up to date with news, always have and probably always will. My parents did all their days. We're all different and all that.

I think I get annoyed because the papers give so much publicity to random nutters from the indy side, but overall I usually find some of the comments quite entertaining, though I do admit that some of the anti Irish comments last night got me a bit irritated. Do think some people should step away from twitter as they think it is representative of the real world. and that's clearly not the case.

mollycat

beecher2 wrote: »

I follow local pubs and cafes, and there's a local community twitter feed which tells me what's going on in the area. I live in Glasgow so there's a lot going on I often wouldn't know about with twitter. . I like to keep up to date with news, always have and probably always will. My parents did all their days. We're all different and all that.

I think I get annoyed because the papers give so much publicity to random nutters from the indy side, but overall I usually find some of the comments quite entertaining, though I do admit that some of the anti Irish comments last night got me a bit irritated. Do think some people should step away from twitter as they think it is representative of the real world. and that's clearly not the case.

A criticism of twitter is that people only follow, (subconsciously maybe), stuff that confirms or reinforces their current world view; so it's not as "enlightning", as they think it is. (Not accusing you of this ).

BTW, I wasn't promoting an "ignorance is bliss" approach.

Having an awareness of what's going on in the world is important; that is not necessarily consistent with being a sponge for the information the media chooses to pump into our homes every evening.

Anyway, happy to agree to disagree for the present, as I'm off out

TrickyTree83

beecher2 wrote: »

I follow local pubs and cafes, and there's a local community twitter feed which tells me what's going on in the area. I live in Glasgow so there's a lot going on I often wouldn't know about with twitter. . I like to keep up to date with news, always have and probably always will. My parents did all their days. We're all different and all that.

I think I get annoyed because the papers give so much publicity to random nutters from the indy side, but overall I usually find some of the comments quite entertaining, though I do admit that some of the anti Irish comments last night got me a bit irritated. Do think some people should step away from twitter as they think it is representative of the real world. and that's clearly not the case.

Do you know any Catholics in Glasgow? If so what was the local response to Sturgeon exploring ways to circumvent the abortion laws in Northern Ireland?

elantan

TrickyTree83 wrote: »

Do you know any Catholics in Glasgow? If so what was the local response to Sturgeon exploring ways to circumvent the abortion laws in Northern Ireland?

Patrick Harvey asked a question regarding abortion in FMQ last week ... Nicolas said she would look into it ... what she said in Ireland was an add on to the FMQ part ... do u watch FMQ ? I would recommend it, much more grown up that what goes on in WM ... although it could still do with a bit more maturity

beecher2

mollycat wrote: »

A criticism of twitter is that people only follow, (subconsciously maybe), stuff that confirms or reinforces their current world view; so it's not as "enlightning", as they think it is. (Not accusing you of this ).

We often do the same with the newspapers we choose to read, and the people we discuss politics with too. Aware of the echo chamber of twitter, and the danger of thinking the way I think is the way others think - always a challenge to see things from other perspectives. Living in Glasgow meant that I thought support for independence was higher than it was, particularly in my area which had so many Yes posters on display.

I've enjoyed following some American feeds on twitter as it has lead me to read quite a few American newspaper articles I wouldn't otherwise have known about, or seen.

kabayiri

mollycat wrote: »

A criticism of twitter is that people only follow, (subconsciously maybe), stuff that confirms or reinforces their current world view; so it's not as "enlightning", as they think it is. (Not accusing you of this ).
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I can't recall Shakey considering the beneficial case out loud on here for remaining in the Union.

I don't remember Hamish considering the case against large scale migration.

It must be the case that single agenda people operate in the twitter sphere too.

I speculated on here about the case both for and against Scottish independence, so it can be done.

I like the idea of greater local autonomy, which would fit the independence case. However, I worry about poor implementation which benefits very few except the politicians.

So...come on...independence advocates. Tell us why the counter argument to your viewpoint has merit!

Rinoa

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3985608/ANOTHER-plank-Project-Fear-bites-dust-Support-Scottish-independence-SLUMPS-despite-Sturgeon-s-warning-Brexit-trigger-break-union.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

A_Medium_Size_Jock

Oh my, what a surprise.
Just what some of us have been telling pro-SNP supporters on here for some time.
Now queue denial, diversion and irrelevent posts galore!

beecher2

That's disappointing, thought there would have been a bit of movement.

Who knows how things are going to play out, we've got a deeply divided country which has changed so much in the past few years. The collapse of Labour looks terminal, Tory support is at 25% and everything seems to be seen through independence/unionist lens.Even if independence is taken off the table for a decade, I think it is going to always be hovering in the background.

I know many people keep thinking that the SNP will lose support, but where where would that support go? Labour now projected to have only 17 MSPs
http://www.scotlandvotes.com/share/faa8wcs2pq

A_Medium_Size_Jock

beecher2 wrote: »

I know many people keep thinking that the SNP will lose support, but where where would that support go?

From Rinoa's link:

The Tories appear to be picking up support from the two parties, with 25 per cent saying they would vote for Ruth Davidson's party in a Holyrood election - up four points from August.