i am still unsure if one is supposed to take this Vine bloke seriously, or if he is deliberately provoking, or if, and i believe this one most, he is supposed to be a second rate Alan Partridge tribute act, running long past the point of being funny and way beyond any memory of it supposed to be just a parody. every now and then i tune in to his radio concern, look you see, to hear what the latest is. maybe one day a clue to which of the truth he is shall reveal itself.
quite recently, then, this went to a whole new level. he (and i think we have to take as a given he sets the agenda for his own shows) decided to give airtime to a campaign. not just any campaign, but this one linked right here, dedicated to exonerating a few thousand people (mostly women) sentenced to death and what have you, for being witches, five hundred (or so) years ago, in Scotland. and also building some sort of memorial or statue to honour them.
let me, for the most part, leave it to the official site (link above, also news story right here) to expand and explain on it all. and, of course, encourage you to consider supporting them; i may well end up with one of them mugs on my shelf. for here, though, it is the reaction people had to it, on air. yes, also, it has inspired me to go and rediscover my passion for MS Paint art, here below to illustrate this post.
obviously the most prominent reaction was the predictable, ready to go "what a waste of time and money" line, as well as asking if "these people" had "nothing better to do". such as, for instance, listen to a radio broadcast on the subject so as to complain, the one that caught my interest, however, was a call or message which suggested we should not be so hasty, for as Scotland is, in the present day, witch free (mostly), some good came from this. sure, i mean, of course one or two of them what got burned at the stake might not have been witches, but greater good, etc.
before you all kick off and say preposterous, why not cast an eye to St Patrick, and Ireland. is it not so that he is revered for driving snakes from that land, and is celebrated for doing so, proof being no snakes in Ireland? unless you take as a given that his celebration is all clever marketing. should it be so that he brought a greater good (assuming the place is better off with no snakes) to Ireland, then is it not so the same is true of them what rid Scotland of witches?
anyway, yes, i might well follow this story. but, also, i may very well not. you are, of course, welcome to do much of the same, or something different.
be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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