Flat Earth

This is well worth a read, it changed my perspective a little bit on "who I think I am". It puts your genes in perspective by stating the bleedin obvious, but its framed in a way I hadn't actually properly considered. http://qz.com/557639/everyone-on-earth-is-actually-your-cousin/

We were on holiday there and the notes were in the hotel. I went straight back the next day!! But I think I know how you must have felt when you learned about the graveyard in Virginia. I hope you get the chance to go back one day. I find this stuff fascinating.

Only recently took an interest in this, I think it happens when you get older and realise you have more dead family than living. In the summer I went to Bragar cemetery on the west coast of Lewis, just to be close to my grandparents unmarked grave. No idea where their remains lie, but wanted to visit the spot as I'd never been. Found a grave with a Donald Maciver and Margaret Maclean, no biggie, there are plenty Macivers there, and its a sizable grave yard. Got back and checked the genealogy notes my father passed on to me and discovered Donald and Margaret were my great grand parents. That freaked me out, in a nice way, to have found myself drawn to a single grave stone out of hundreds and hundreds... I also know the family croft was 21 Arnol, and found an archeological study online of the black houses of the whole township with detailed notes of every croft. There is also a published booklet I've got my hands on listing all the families in every croft in Arnol and North/South Bragar from around mid 18th C to present day. There is a wealth of family information in there that shows how many many families were inter-related. On a side note: there were about 40-45 crofts in Arnol at the time of the first world war. 21 of their sons did not come home.

Its a charter from David I in 1136 that gives Aberdeen Harbour its place in the Guinness Book of Records as the UKs oldest business...

Is this troll still posting shiite on here? Alan you are a bawbag. Interesting fact.... The %age of gaelic speakers would be much higher if it wasn't for the British establishment's cultural ethnic cleansing. My grandparents, all four of them, spoke gaelic as their first language, learning english in school. My parents had gaelic thrashed out of them. I'm a monoglot. You're a tosser.

Good luck! I can't get my head round this stuff. Its beyond what I consider possible....

The marathon and finish: https://debtrisforkona.wordpress.com/2015/08/24/ironman-sweden-the-scorcher-of-a-run/

The bike bit: https://debtrisforkona.wordpress.com/2015/08/24/the-sideways-bike/

The swim bit: https://debtrisforkona.wordpress.com/2015/08/23/ironman-sweden-the-hilly-swim/

Man up. If Debbie Moore can get knocked off her bike, end up in hospital and physio, then end up back there again a few weeks later with a blood clot in the lung, and go the last four weeks of training with no running at all, then do a FULL IRONMAN in under 11 hours then, I dunno, I run out of explanations as to what is possible for human beings to achieve. She only bl**dy qualified for Kona... That's 4km swim in open water, 115 miles on a bike, then a full marathon. And she was second woman in her age category. I dunno if the links to her blog will work, but if they do then everyone prepare to be inspired...

Aye, once a week for an endurance run is plenty! You're practically there. Got a half marathon in mind? Glasgow is coming up and its a good one. Aviemore is a week after it...

How much building up did you do before running 17.5k? Please tell me this WASN'T your first run over 10k....

Alien. Just in case nobody has said it yet.

Dunno if its related but our BT hub occasionally blocks the TAMB. Kills it dead, wont load. We need to reboot the hub to get back on. Which as you can probably tell by my posting history only happens when the missus can be ersed doing it... Spoken to BT, they say there's no problem at their end, even sent us a replacement hub - but made fukkal difference. Only happens with the TAMB...

Behave min, if my mental arithmetic is right you've just 17.5k in about 99 minutes. [10k in 55min, 5k in 28:45min, 2.5k in 15min] That leaves you 20 minutes for the last 3.5k. If you did them at the same 6min/k pace that's 21 minutes and bang on 2 hours! You're practically there!

Forget about the pace, concentrate on building up the distance. Endurance is being able to keep running without stopping. Pace doesn't matter! (Step 1) Stamina is being able to running at the same pace without slowing down. (Step 2) And the training runs don't need to be anywhere near race pace. On a long sunday run I struggle to hit 9min/mile over half marathon distance. But on race day yesterday averaged 8:08/mile. First time I sneaked under 2 hours my long runs were averaging almost 10min/mile and my 10k time was about 50-52 minutes. If you run a 24 min 5k you should run about 50 min for 10k and under 2 hours for a half - theoretically...

The end of Capitalism is in sight, we're all just waiting for the wheels to come off. In the last 40 years the human population has doubled and the global animal population has halved. This trend is unrestrained and continuing. We all know the status quo is unsustainable, but we're all burying our heads in the sand as the alternative is too awful to contemplate. Our attention is still fixated with "growth" on a finite planet with finite resources being the answer to all our problems... Meanwhile: "Austerity" is a plan. In essence it is the rich asset stripping the poor, the elite feathering nests for what will be a near extinction event. There have been umpteen famines engineered throughout history, some of the worst of them in the 20th C. The super rich will survive. Some workers will become a slave class - and they'll be happy to do it. The rest will starve. Bilions of us. The global financial institutions have ripped Greece a new arsehole and shown all of us that even if left wing governments are democratically elected they will be overthrown and replaced. People are already starving to death in the UK, and we're being conditioned into blaming them for their own deaths - and to not care. As these become more and more frequent it will be normalised in our minds. I've no idea about timescale. I hope its generational and not imminent. But either way we're sleep walking into this. And god has nothing to do with it. Nor owls. Nor stupid numbers and dates.

I can't say we were ever mates, but I'm shocked to hear this. His heart was always in the right place. Another one to remember over a dram the day Scotland gains its freedom, there are too many already...

Seriously disappointed at the lack of belligerence and the level of good humour and intelligence. What the hell has happened to this place?

After all the slagging Dons fans have taken on this board over the years - from all quarters - I think it says a lot that after 8 straight wins, no goals conceded and top of the league by 4 points in January there isn't an Aberdeen thread on the front page. This proves 2 things. 1. You all talk sh*te. Aberdeen fans don't dominate this board. 2. You lot only ever want to talk about Aberdeen when we're getting humped. I expect normal service will resume when Dundee or St Johnstone put us back in our box. GIRFUYs.

Just lost interest to be honest. SFA shafting the fans, people who should know better defending the season ticket prices, fans falling out with each other over it, SFA arranging games against England and Northern Ireland, turning the travelling support into an annoying minority, treating us all like 10 year olds with the marketing e-mails, telling me to unsubscribe if I don't like the patronising e-mails, then not replying to me when I point out that I need to be subscribed to their shite e-mails to get info about tickets... I'm just totally scunnered with the whole thing. Regan is a khunt. We're just an income stream to them. Loyalty is a one way street. And few of my mates post on here now anyway, so I just keep up to date with everything on Facebook or twitter. The TAMB is pretty much redundant now I think. All its good for is an argument with the odd tosser now and again, and there's not enough hours in the day...

You don't want to get on the wrong side of the Coventries. There's four of them, and they are all a total hoot. Even their parents are cool! And on a totally unrelated point Jam and Jonny were they first two cheques I received for TAMB t-shirts right back at the start of the very first Kemal Karic appeal, long before anyone ever thought about the Sunshine Appeal or the Tartan Army Childrens Charity.

You chose not to correct the situation and thereby exarcebated it. Deliberately. You troll!!

Harsh. You ambushed him by pretending to be a nawbag hun!!! And you shouldn't make fun of him on here cos he can't answer back. Jam was banned a few years back. Which was a crying shame, cos he contributed quite a lot and didn't mean half the sh*te he posted!! Genuine good guy. One of the best. (As are you Mr Scunnered).