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50th Anniversary of start of Vietnam war.
Campbell Brodie-
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wow. Some very powerful images there. Make you think doesn't it!
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Think of the things that could have been done with the people and money thrown away on that farce
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Bit like Scottish independence innit...
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more revisions of history ...dont tell the thousand of dead Vietnamese who died fighting the french before a single yank got there ...your be saying next that WW2 started in dec. 1941
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Dien Bien Phu innit...
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Tôi Amna fou 'Sae muckle như mệt mỏi - cồn cát deid.
Đó là gey và khó Wark coupin 'gless cho gless
Wi 'Cruivie và Gilsanquhar và như thế,
Và tôi không 'Juist như bauld như aince tôi wes.
Đó là gey và khó Wark coupin 'gless cho gless
Wi 'Cruivie và Gilsanquhar và như thế,
Và tôi không 'Juist như bauld như aince tôi wes.
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Very good Paul! Hugh MacDiarmid's " A Drunk Man Looks At A Thistle". 
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far too philosophical for me
Campbell Brodie-
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I had to Google the translation Dermo, we never got Vietnamese at our school! 
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I meant the poem!! 
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I amna fou' sae muckle as tired - deid dune.
It's gey and hard wark coupin' gless for gless
Wi' Cruivie and Gilsanquhar and the like,
And I'm no' juist as bauld as aince I wes.
It's gey and hard wark coupin' gless for gless
Wi' Cruivie and Gilsanquhar and the like,
And I'm no' juist as bauld as aince I wes.
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"I'm not so much drunk as tired, dead tired.
It's hard work drinking glass for glass with Cruivie and Gilsanquher (two friends)
and I'm not as young as i was once..."
It's hard work drinking glass for glass with Cruivie and Gilsanquher (two friends)
and I'm not as young as i was once..."