Blantyre Explosion

I heard the Christy Moore version of this old scottish song about the Blantyre Mining Disaster which took place on October 22, 1877 where 207 miners died and 92 widows made, and 250 fatherless children. I had never heard of this explosion yet, this town is just next to my home city Glasgow till i heard this song. Tears came down my face first time i heard this..

Dunno there is something about this song that really touches me, makes me think of all us ordinary people that get fucked over by a system that reduces us to a means of production or reproduction, or a wastage underclass and how precarious our existances are within that set up…

It is songs like this that gives us an insight into the real lifes and emotions of such events that can alas only be generally put into statistics for us to recount such is the magnitude of the problems of this world….

I came across the chords for it and have been practicing it, i like to sing real songs about real people, and the real struggles that we all have to endure that rarely get noticed.

Anyway heres a great version by Luke Kelly and below are the lyrics..

By Clyde’s bonnie banks
as I sadly did wander
among the pit heaps
as evening grew high.
I spied a young maiden
all dressed in deep mourning
a weeping and wailing
with many a sigh.
I stepped up beside her
and this I adressed her
“Pray, tell me fair maid
of your trouble and pain.”

Sobbing and sighing
at last she did answer
“Johnny Murphy, kind sir,
was my true lover’s name
twenty-one years of age
full of youth and good looking
to work down the mine
of high Blantyre he came.
The wedding was fixed
all guests were invited
that calm summer’s evening
my Johnny was slain.
The explosion was heard
all the women and children
with pale anxious faces
made haste to the mine.

When the truth was made known
the hills rang with their mourning.
Three hundred and ten
young miners were slain.
Now husbands and wives
and sweethearts and brothers
that Blantyre explosion
they’ll never forget.
And all you young miners
who hear my sad story
shed a tear for the victims
who were laid to their rest.”

 

Demonstrations of Diversity…

 Edited to add: This post HAS got past the spam thing, I’m too impatient with these computers, anyhow i will leave this post here, since i would like to have some dialouge with feminists and PUA around the themes that PUArtistry throws up. I will write a more extensive post on these aims here in due course.

Stupid title i know but i thought it sounded like PU community talk so i just couldn’t resisit it. Anyway what is presented below is a post i made on the excellent thinking girl blog thread on feminist critique of PUA ideology.

 http://thinkinggirl.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/professional-pick-up-artists-run-woman-tricking-business-to-help-guys-get-laid/

Unfortunately, my posts resemble spam thus the spam blocker blocked it so im going to post it here anyhow just in case anybody should be intrested in reading it.

One of the little-understood facts of the PUA community is that PUAs and PUA gurus are constantly trying to “neg” and “AMOG” those who are not of their group or school or method, or someone who they deem as a rival for their “target’s” attentions.

Negs are definitely popular within the PU community but they are by no means deemed as universal. I have posted a couple of posts I discovered after a quick web search to give a couple of examples to demonstrate this point.

http://direct-method.net/invisionboard/index.php?showtopic=2489

Last night I was explaining to my wing, a guy with Aspergers, how negging is dumb because it is used to cut girls down. I told him that it comes from lack of inner game, because by doing it, you are automatically assuming the girl is of higher value, or better than you. Then you cut her down out of insecurity and revenge for this “subjective” fact. This is a bad mindset. You are being reactive because you place her frame higher than your own. I told him you could never get too far with this girl because you are already assuming she is better than you, and IF she stays with you, she will only do so if you keep cutting her down, putting her in her place per se. she would have to be pretty low self-esteem to take this as well.

http://direct-method.net/invisionboard/index.php?s=&showtopic=2489&view=findpost&p=18403

By “negging” you are demonstrating lower value, as well as trying to qualify yourself to her.

The point of negging is to bring her down a notch or two. That automatically sub-communicates that she is above you, and that you have to try to bring her down to “your level”

The other point of negging is to show that you are not intimidated by her beauty, and that you feel comfortable enough around HB9’s and 10’s to the point where you can behave that way around them, but it just sub-communicates that you are also trying to qualify yourself to her at the same time.

“I negged you, because I’m not intimidated by you” so to speak.

It’s like when you’re about to get into a fight, and your opponent says “I’m not afraid of you” or “You don’t want to fight me”

By saying that, it shows that he is indeed afraid of you, but he’s trying to convince you he’s not.

Same principle applies to “negging”

With regards to ”arms dealing” and Neil Streuss, I was just arguing essentially that this ‘arm dealing’ thing is a precedent that has already been done by David DeAngelo. (At least according to the wikipedia article). But from my own personal experience with ALL PUA gurus (including the ones that I have a wee bit of a leaning towards),  are all in it for the money, and just like any good capitalist, the best way to maxamise returns is through finding new markets. Reminds me of the growing male cosmetic industry, some bright spark in some boardroom had the epiphany that there was another 50% of the population that was an untapped potential market.

 Neil Streuss has proven with the creation of the “annhilation method” his quasi nepotisitic marketing as the ‘worlds greatest pickup artist’ with a source that was far from objective demonstrates that his first concern is with his bankaccount, not with his conscience.