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Reacting to a question on my account you mentioned Stephen Yaxley-Lennon in connection with Tommy Robinson. How are the two connected? Are they the same person?

StephenInd’s Profile PhotoStephen Ind
Yaxley-Lennon uses the pseudonym Tommy Robinson as it's the name of a hooligan in a film and he thinks that's something to aspire to.
What is most despicable about him is that he uses child abuse to stir up racial and religious tensions, when in fact he "helped" cover up abuse in his own movement
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/edl-english-defence-league-leigh-mcmillan-jailed-paedophile-old-bailey-a8231231.html
And tried to sabotage a trial so the perpetrators almost got away with their foul crimes.
Of course, everyone is outraged by child abuse, or almost everyone, as some detestable people like Yaxley-Lennon just think it is a good opportunity to spread their agenda, and what's worse is that a lot of people in America buy into the narrative that he's a free speech martyr being persecuted by an establishment that covers it up.

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The best movie for you is...?

The White Ribbon is the best film I've ever seen, set in Germany just before 1914, in a Protestant village dominated by the feudal lord and by the pastor, in which dark secrets live and powerful men try to keep them hidden.
Who is committing the mysterious crimes which happen in the village?
What does it say about events which will happen in the decades to follow?
Watch the film and you'll find out! A fascinating detail is that it's seen in black and white, but was originally shot in colour, then Michael Haneke (one of the finest directors working today, up there with Marty Scorsese and the Dardennes brothers) decided to drain the colour out, which says a lot about the mental atmosphere of the film, which I highoy recommend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE_ByB2ocVkHadacol’s Video 150639364348 BE_ByB2ocVkHadacol’s Video 150639364348 BE_ByB2ocVk

Which song reminds you of an ex and why?

I don't have an ex as I was single until I was 27 and then met my girlfriend, who I'm still seeing today.
Though as she lives in another city
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/tagged/birmingham
we don't see each other especially often, we met at the weekend but might not meet for a month or so (she doesn't always want me to visit her), which still feels like a long time.
So,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmFFTkjs-O0Hadacol’s Video 150615351292 UmFFTkjs-O0Hadacol’s Video 150615351292 UmFFTkjs-O0

What are a couple of your favourite places in real life, and a couple of your favourite places from fiction?

CactusDoug’s Profile PhotoDoug
My favourite fictional place is Greeneland, as a depressed ex-Catholic myself I love his outlook on life and how profoundly he understands the dilemmas people face and he certainly carried this into his own life (my favourite scene from his real life is where he refused to meet Padre Pio)
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2005/02/10/graham-greene-the-stigmata/
"Neither of us wanted our life changed"!
I've loved every Graham Greene book and I want to visit his places, even grim & terrifying places like postwar Vienna.
In real life my favourite places include Birmingham (my girlfriend lives there and it's a cool place), Edinburgh (I go there each year and my last visit was very recently) and anywhere that isn't the office.
What are a couple of your favourite places in real life and a couple of your
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What are a couple of common local expressions used by people where you live (or where you’re from, if you’d prefer)? (Including random/nonsensical/colloquial/dialect etc). Do you use it?

CactusDoug’s Profile PhotoDoug
Cost kick a bo agen a wo an yed it til it bosts? ;)
I don't use the dialect words etc in my normal speech though I understand them because my granddad does, I do think it's a loss though as some of the richness of speech has been destroyed.
It would be bad enough if we all spoke with the fake RP accent that was fashionable in the 1950s, but instead we've got dumbed down Estuary English that was never the native speech of anyone traditionally, and horribe vulgar Americanisms like starting sentences with so.
(The language is most debased in the case of illiterates, who are invariably the same people who blame every problem on immigrants and "foreigners", when in fact their method of speaking and thinking is almost entirely American).
The full list is here, sadly few of which are in my daily speech.
http://www.thepotteries.org/dialect1.html
The old dialects did cause misunderstandings though, a number of Geordies came here to work in the mines after 1945 and the struggles of them and the locals to understand each other are the stuff of legend.
I remember working with one Geordie and he wanted me to throwdown the piece of equipment I was holding onto the floor. After he'd said three times to give it a good hoy, I asked him what exactly he meant, and I did it as soon as he explained (I don't know if he thought I was being obtuse or refusing to do as he asked). Whereas if he'd asked me to slat it, I would have understood immediately!

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Do you have any great memories from 2017? ?

Yes fam, in 2017 I went here for the first and not last time
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/post/178956902279/dry-valleys-as-recompense-september-would-be
This is one thing I have a good memory of, and hope to revisit!
I like to think of myself as a flaneur so it was good to walk along the Water of Leith and see a green thread running through the city. I didn't make it as far as the sea, but I hopefully will soon!
Do you have any great memories from 2017
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Is it safe to walk on the streets of your city at night?

I don't think so, in a big city I'd be ok walking the city centre but not go to the council estates or other areas where rough people live, but here I wouldn't feel able to walk the area I live in or the city centre, as it isn't a big enough city to get that safety in crowds feeling and there's too much threat from drunks, druggies etc.
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/tagged/stoke-on-trent
Although as you can see I love my city, caution must be exercised. I do sometimes go out after dark as it's not that bad but a handful of antisocial elements make everyone worse off in that sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3gbwtLUeWkHadacol’s Video 150500244476 Y3gbwtLUeWkHadacol’s Video 150500244476 Y3gbwtLUeWk

What’s the last time you went to a library?

I'm going to the library tonight fam, I borrowed Doors Open by Ian Rankin to read during my Scotland trip as it's set in the criminal underworld and overworld of Edinburgh, he's a terrific author and this is a great book about the city.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/sep/20/fiction.ianrankin
I like the library and think it's essential that such places are preserved for future generations to browse books/magazines/newspapers and fully equipped so that the poor can have as much access to reading for interest and/or education as the rich. The vandalism and philistinism of those who want to close libraries should be fought against tooth and nail.

What is your favorite subject in school?

I haven't been to school since 2003!?
When I was at school my favourite subject was history, so I studied it at university (my dissertation was on the legacy of the English Civil War).
It's still one of my main interests today, so please allow me to recommend this excellent book I took with me on my Scotland trip, which I'm returning from (at the railway station now). It's an account of a trip Samuel Johnson and James Boswell made in 1773 and it's fascinating to revisit the same places.
If you look carefully you can find both these books on sale in one volume.
https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usebooks/boswell-hebrides/index.html
https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usebooks/johnson-westernisles/index.html

If you were an actor, what kind of roles do you think you would be good at?

Depressed ex-Catholics, strangely I'm still waiting for Martin Scorsese to give me a call though!
I think it would suit me best to play a Graham Greene character though I can't promise my performance would be any good?

Do you love autumn?

Yes mate, I love autumn, I'm a massive fan of late September & early October especially, but all of autumn.
Especially since today, I'm embarking on my yearly trip for Edinburgh & then the Highlands of Scotland.
I love eating apples & pears from my tree & trees that I randomly find in fields etc, golden leaves, and so on.
Have you read the autumn poem? Then you'll know!
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44484/to-autumn
Do you love autumn
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