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Alan Fresco
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An opinionated Edinburger mainly interested in the outdoors, science and politics.
Currently raging against the dying of the light.
I think it was this one.
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January 25, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Grow up Zarah.
January 25, 2026 at 7:07 PM
I remember breaking into a mini bar at 3am in a Kyoto hotel to get something to get the taste out of my mouth after a sushi meal prepared by a chef with a sense of humour.
January 25, 2026 at 3:54 PM
The twatmobile?
January 25, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Many years ago I had to entertain some Japanese customers who visited the factory. Being 25th January the canteen menu consisted of one choice, haggis.
They had never heard of it and asked what it was. I told them it was made of sheep and left it at that. They ate it.
January 25, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Interesting. His face is the same colour as the car.
January 25, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Fair enough Otto, I guess it may well do.
If you ever wonder about pronunciation try and visit some of the villages around Ayr. If you hear Burns recited by someone from Mauchline or Ochiltree you just know the accent hasn't changed in 150 years.

(It's sassenaCH btw).
January 25, 2026 at 3:36 PM
It wasn't so much what he believed in but how he arrived at his conclusions.
...but anyway...
January 25, 2026 at 2:49 PM
I'm guessing that's occurred to them.
January 25, 2026 at 2:47 PM
I once read a book of his where he covered his beliefs on a multitude of topics.
He should be nowhere near No. 10 in my opinion.
January 25, 2026 at 2:43 PM
As a Scot and having grown up in Ayr (a toon that ne'er surpasses for honest men and bonny lassies) I've never thought of it as a Scottish thing. Just a celebration of Burns' life, poetry and the remarkably prescient beliefs of an Ayrshire farmer.
January 25, 2026 at 2:30 PM
You know when the country has to pay £100 Bn a year in debt interest payments, and we can't afford to properly fund our health service discussions on the finer points of a Labour leader's politics is irrelevant because all the government can focus on is paying off the huge debt the Tories left us.
January 25, 2026 at 2:21 PM
I bet he's got a room at home filled with Swastikas and SS paraphernalia.
January 25, 2026 at 11:20 AM
I had to go to the US last Summer and as one might expect, I didn't see any turmoil and found most people I met were pleasant and normal. America is a big country and most of the time in most places, not much happens.
Just make sure your immigration documents are all in order.
January 25, 2026 at 10:43 AM
My landlady returned in the middle of the evening to find the whole house filled with carbon monoxide. The heater had started burning with a yellow flame while I was asleep.
If the landlady had come back later I might never have woken up.
January 25, 2026 at 10:18 AM
The closest I ever came to dying was with a paraffin heater. I was a student staying in digs and had a paraffin heater in my bedroom.
One evening after tea I went to my bedroom, lit the paraffin heater, lay down on the bed and fell asleep. Everyone else in the house went out.
January 25, 2026 at 10:18 AM