Notices by EmmyNoether (emmynoether@spinster.xyz)

@HebrideanHecate @Funsizescot1975 @PohlMe My mum used to reminisce fondly about the time she met a couple of Welsh rugby players, wrapped in chiffon scarves belonging to their girlfriends, on the verge of tears because of the midges.

We once went to the other extreme with tent siting - pitched it on a cliff edge to keep the midges off, tent blew away (merficully inland) in the middle of the night.

@Hollahollara @D00B Give that man a Darwin award. Top effort in the “so stupid it hurts” derby.

@caekislove @okuu Funny you should say that. I posted the following earlier today, a propos of the BBC’s coverage of Kate Forbes’ candidacy for leader of the SNP.

I was cross with the BBC news this morning. It was all “Forbes is against gay marriage.” No, she said she would have voted against, and her private belief is that it is wrong, but she accepts that other people have different beliefs, and she would respect both those beliefs and the law.

That’s classical liberalism (in the good sense, before it got corrupted by the numpties who use it to mean “liberal means anyone who can tick off every single one of our required list of mantras and everyone else is.a.literal.fascist”).