#glenrothes

[thesilicontribesman]

David Harding's 'Henge', Glenrothes, Scotland

A first visit to this piece of outdoor art in a town rich in ancient sites.

[benvironment]

Crikey, not what you typically expect to see in Glenrothes! 🌪🧙‍♀️

This pic was snapped by my better half a moment ago, down by the Shell near M&S Food, looking toward Leslie 😱

Anyone else see it?

[maltmemorandum]

GlenRothes 1998-2019 Cask#5166 for Shinanoya.

I would withhold detailed comment as enjoyed conversation with drinking. Much tannin and spices, typically seasoned sherry flavor.

[peacemore-springs]

Dear TNT Sport - Fife & Glenrothes

Dear TNT Sport

You should add an optional function for hearing the crowd and not the commentary on live and replayed sporting events.

Dear Fife & Glenrothes

As your national coverage includes advertising during games and at half time (Lloyds Bank, Inter Sport, Sony Play Station, numerous betting sites, and many more besides) I wonder why broadcasting customers are asked to pay a tv license fee at all. The companies involved in providing the broadcasts gain sponsorship from the many advertised companies during these sporting events. Your request for a licence fee falls out with the rule of regular monthly license fee payments as you do make use of advertising. My sincere apologies for mentioning this Fife & Glenrothes.

[maltrunners]

Glenrothes 25 Year (1997), The Whisky Age “Secret Speyside”

Part 11 of Reviews from The Single Cask Singapore  Review by: Whiskery Turnip Singapore is one of my favorite places to visit, and I leapt at the chance to finally return again during my summer conference schedule. I resolved to do a bit more whisky tasting while I was in the country and use my extended stay to drop by new places and meet new people. We returned to The Single Cask many times…

[beyondthedram]

How do you pronounce Glenrothes correctly?

Ever bungled an order of #whisky at a bar? Well, never do that again with our guide on how to pronounce #Glenrothes

Glenrothes isn’t one of the biggest names out there when it comes to whisky, but it’s definitely up there. It’s a whisky you see on the shelf and order because you want something new, something you haven’t tried before or had in a long time. But it’s not easy to say. This article explains how to pronounce Glenrothes correctly, so you don’t look a fool when you point to the bottle and say…

[engineer-gunzelpunk]

‘Now That You’ve Told Me, Can You Go Away?’

‘As you wish… my prince’

Seconds from disaster…

[gordonsgano]

the 35mm listings for Perth cinema next month are so exciting omg

[hotelbooking]

Holiday Inn Express Glenrothes Every effort is made to make guests feel comfortable by providing the best in services and amenities. Keep up with all your communications easily with the hotel's free Wi-Fi. Guests can enjoy free parking right at the hotel. Front desk services including luggage storage and safety deposit boxes can assist with your needs. Packing light is possible at Designed for comfort, all guestrooms offer a range of amenities to ensure a restful night. In-room entertainment amenities are available in some rooms and include television and cable TV. In some select rooms, you can find a coffee or tea maker at your disposal. Every morning you can wake up to a delicious free breakfast at

[thesilicontribesman]

David Harding's 'Henge', Glenrothes, Scotland

[bobcat-pie]

waitwaitwait holdonholdonholdon. Since Angus II was raised to defeat zargothrax and reclaim fife, and the oracle of glenrothes told him to gather his father's companions and quest for the vorpal laserblaster of pittenweem, the trajectory of Angus II's story was set rolling mostly by other people.

the first original idea that he has, that isn't prophecied, and is all his own, is to seek the robot prince of auchtertool.

the robot prince of auchtertool is, notably, "destined to reign forevermore." but because Angus chooses to NOT follow destiny, he recruits him, WHICH IS WHY HIS DESTINY CHANGES

[nocternalrandomness]

German Dornier Do 27 spotted at Fife Airport, Glenrothes, Scottland

[maltrunners]

Glenrothes 21 Year (1997) Cadenhead's Sherry Cask

Review by: The Muskox I’ve had this sample in my cupboard for a while, but I kind of forgot about it until the same bottling showed up in TOModera’s amazing Glenrothes quest yesterday. I think I’ve already found one amazing Glenrothes, but have yet to find another. Let’s see how this sherry-cask bottling from Cadenhead’s generally-high-quality Wood Range series measures up. Distillery:…

[scotianostra]

On  March 10th 1998, Alberto Morrocco, the Scottish painter noted for his murals and portraits in oil and watercolours, died.

Morocco was born Aberdeen in 1917 and studied at Gray’s School of Art in his home city as well as in France, Italy and Switzerland. The outbreak of the Second World War saw him detained in Edinburgh Castle, for a short time, as an enemy alien, but he was released and allowed to serve as a conscientious objector in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1940-46.

After the war he was influential as a teacher, teaching part-time at Grays and becoming Head of Painting at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee from 1950. He enjoyed commercial success with his work through the Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh right up until his death aged 81 in the late 1998.

If you are in Fife it is worth while popping into St Columba’s Parish Church in Glenrothes,  built in the early sixties his impressive ‘The Way of the Cross’ adorns the rear wall, alternatively see the whole painting here http://www.st-columbas.com/the-building/

[engineer-gunzelpunk]

Traintober Day 14: The Future

This one was based on a true story of a diesel breaking down and steam crew getting dissuaded from rescuing it's train because it would make the diesel look bad. (This seems to have been semiofficial VR policy).

Not So Super Rescue

The first B-class diesels were introduced formally on the VR network on 14nd of July, 1952 … and the steamies did not know what to make of them.

Built to the distinctive bulldog nosed EDM design originally designed by General Motors in the United States (American engines were not unknown to the VR locomotives, many of the Baldwin-built D3s were still tramping around the network in this period) over the Murray by the famous Clyde Engineering Works at Granville in New South Wales, they were truly strange engines to behold.

“Where’s your funnel, mate?”

"Don't need one, peon"

“Why have ya got two cabs?”

"So I do not need a turn table, which you antiquated throwbacks seem to depend on..."

The VR lavished no small amount of attention to the diesels, putting them in publicity materials, allowing them on coveted jobs and even gifting one the honor of pulling the Royal Train. (This left R704 "Glenrothes" with a deep seeded bitterness that lingers...)

Theey had their own special fitters at the South Dynon Loco Depot, which was closer to Melbourne’s heart; they were too snooty and up-themselves to let themselves be touched by enginemen who worked on steam engines. The steam fitters in turn were not to touch them.

This sense of petty favouritism was present even when a train pulled by a diesel broke down with fired steam engines nearby.

One time up at the Seymour Loco Yard, a B-class diesel, called Bulldog, proud in his gold and blue livery, was passing by with a goods train of bananas in the Up direction to Melbourne from the country. The steam engines in the round house glared at his smug impudence and the fact that he wore that livery (not at all lost on them that it was the colors worn by the S-class Pacifics, who had been unceremoniously scrapped years before).

An R-classer, her name being Morag, was steamed up and ready to go on another job when the engines witnessed a sight of such hilarity it had to be believed… the arrogant diesel broke down with the banana train in front of Seymour Depot. 

Smoke billowed out from his motor after a terrible grunting noise that sounded vaguely like human flatulence.

The laughter from the steam engines rang like thunder through the yard.

“You are supposed to transport the bananas, diesel, not eat them. Did you get tempted to have a nibble?” yelled an steam engine from the shed.

“Steamie prick!” grumbled Bulldog.

One of the Seymour steam fitters went to the Foreman and said, “Morag is ready… shall I pop over to her crew and tell her to get her ready to pull the train?”

The Foreman sadly shook his head and said, “Its more than your job or my job’s worth to put a steam engine on it…”.

The steam fitter scratched his head, “So we will have to call the fitters at Dynon then…”

“Mmmm hum…”, said the Foreman.

The fitter went to the Shed to make that phonecall.

Bulldog looked so very smug that he would not be pulled by a steam engine… but the banana train was late and it was a hot, hot day.

Surely they would rot as they had to wait for the fitters to come from Dynon

“Driver, Ah am fully ready… can Ah go noo tae pull the dismal diesel’s train?”, she huffed, anxious in the shed.

“I'm don’t think so, lassie… they aren’t coming over to us…”

“Why not? We got tae pull it on time…”

“Its just…”

“Its just what,Sir?”

“We can’t be seen to be showing up the brand spanking new diesels… even when they fail…”

Morag’s brows knitted, “But why? We can do as good a job as they can…”

Her driver shrugged, “Its the way of the future… its the way the Commissioners want it to be…”

“Even if the train is late?! Ah thought we had tae get it there on time! That's what they’re always telling us…”

Driver looked up at Morag, “Morag, listen to me. The powerful don’t like their decisions being questioned, they can never be shown to be making mistakes… or admitting that the choices they make are not perfect…’

“As far as they are concerned, the diesels never, ever fail… even when their batteries run out…”

“But Sir, surely they ken tha’ the diesels can break doon…”

“It doesn’t matter, Morag, its not about what actually happened… its about making everyone else believe what they want to believe…”

“Even if the bananas go rotten?”

“Yep”, he sighed. “Now lets get you ready for your original train…”

Morag sat back on her wheels and said no more, deeply frowning. This human ‘’politics” bullshit was doing her smokebox in, and she decided not think about it as she chuffed sadly out of the roundhouse..

Bulldog continued to look imperious, while the steam engines continued to make spiteful comments.

[coochiequeens]

WTF Scotland?

A prisoner who identifies as transgender is requesting taxpayer-funded “gender affirming care” through the National Healthcare System (NHS) in Scotland. Paris Green, 30, whose birth name is Peter Laing, is currently being held in the women’s section of Edinburgh’s Saughton jail, where he is serving a life sentence for murder. 

Green is seeking to become the first prisoner in the United Kingdom to have the full procedure euphemistically referred to as ‘sex reassignment surgery’ on the public dime.

In 2013, Green was one of three men found guilty for the torture and murder of 45-year-old Robert Shankland. 

Green, along with two other men had invited Shankland, 45, to a party at Green’s residence in Glenrothes, Fife, in March of 2013. Once Shankland arrived, the men tied him up, then beat and tortured him for seven hours. Shankland was also sexually assaulted him with a rolling pin before he died as a result of either suffocation or blunt force injuries. The three killers then sold Shankland’s mobile phone for £26 and spent the money on sandwiches, which they ate at the scene of the crime as Shankland took his final breaths.

When sentencing the trio at the High Court in Glasgow, Judge John Morris called the crime “utterly depraved,” stating: “This was a particularly gruesome murder which effectively involved the torture of your victim over many hours. It beggars belief that you could act towards another human being in this way.”

Upon conviction, Green was initially detained at Cornton Vale women’s prison, but was transferred to the women’s ward in Edinburgh after only five weeks in detention because he repeatedly engaged in sexual relations with the female inmates.

Speaking to the Daily Record from jail, Green said that he regretted committing the “inexcusable” crime and insisted that undergoing genital surgery would help him become rehabilitated. He blamed his “anger” over his identity for his violent actions and said he felt disgusted by his genitals.

“Nothing is more important to me than becoming fully the person I should have been. I want to feel comfortable in the shower rather than feeling repulsed. Having male genitalia feels wrong.”

When asked why he had committed the brutal murder, he said: “It was inexcusable – all I can say is I had a really awful childhood and was totally messed up. I was carrying a lot of anger inside me even before I realized I should have been a woman and that made me more angry.”

Green initially began taking hormones in 2011, and met with a surgeon at Nuffield Clinic in Brighton in 2020. But the medical professional delayed the procedure after expressing concern for the safety of other patients on the ward due to the nature of Green’s sadistic crime

Shankland’s family members have for several years campaigned against Green being housed with women, as well as being permitted to receive state-funded medical interventions. In 2018, the estimated cost to taxpayers for Green’s surgery was said to be approximately £20,000. Over the past decade, relatives of the victim have launched petitions and contacted representatives to state their case. 

One petition, created by Leigh Robb, states: “My uncle Robert was brutally murdered by three people who were all sentenced to a minimum of 18 years. Problem is that one of his murderers is a man who likes to be known as a woman ‘Paris’. This man is set to undergo full gender realignment on the NHS payed [sic] for by us tax payers. He should not be rewarded for this brutal crime and should serve his time in a man’s prison. Please help me get some justice for my uncle and our family.”

Family members spoke with The Daily Mail in 2018, detailing their objections to Green’s placement in a woman’s prison and to his potential surgery. Pauline Bell, Shankland’s sister, said, “[He] should not be getting the operation on the NHS. It’s not lifesaving treatment. [He] took ­somebody’s life away and destroyed a family.”

Shankland’s mother, Mary, told the press, “Green doesn’t know the meaning of the word remorse. [He] shouldn’t get the operation, especially when so many people need vital treatment on the NHS – and they’re not getting it. But the authorities are jumping through hoops for him.”

Shankland’s family also set up a Facebook page, Justice for Robert Shankland, where they shared updates and attempted to gain support for their efforts.

On one post from 2013, a woman who claims to have been housed in Cornton Vale with Green during the five-week period he was held there commented in support of the victim’s family, saying that the convicted murderer told her how he had committed the grotesque slaying. She also claimed that Green threatened to kill himself should he be sentenced to life in prison.

Using a mixture of both masculine and feminine pronouns, she said that Green was “vile to the core” and that he selectively took hormones, like a “game” he was playing with the staff at the women’s prison. “It’s always going to be [a] game to Paris. I can’t ever forget. I hate [him] with a passion,” the former inmate wrote.

Another former prisoner detained with Green similarly remarked: “When I first went in [he] looked, talked and acted like a woman. But [he] had a spell where [his] behavior changed. It seemed [he] was having doubts, had stopped taking the hormones and was growing facial hair again. [He] was also sexually active and everyone knew about it. [He] had at least one girlfriend.’

Still another anonymous insider told the media that Green was notorious for having sexual relations with female inmates, adding: “He didn’t seem to be acting much like a woman to me.”

At the end of January, following a slew of violent male criminals claiming to identify as women and some requesting housing in the women’s estate, the UK Ministry of Justice updated its transgender prisoner policy. The new framework restricts male inmates with intact genitalia, or those who have been convicted of a sexual offense, from being placed in women’s prisons. In February, the Scottish Prison Service confirmed that newly convicted or remanded prison inmates will initially be placed in jails according to their sex at birth.

Speaking with the Daily Record, Dr. Kate Coleman of the campaign group Keep Prisons Single Sex, said, “Green, who is serving a sentence for torture and murder, would, under the new Ministry of Justice policy, be held in the male estate. We hope the SPS [Scottish Prison Service] will similarly place the safety of women at the center of their revised policy when the policy is finally released.”

A report from The Times in 2018 revealed that a senior official of the Scottish Prison Service, Gordon Pike, who was one of those responsible for its “gender identity and gender reassignment policy,” would turn out to be a sex offender himself, having hoarded 22,000 indecent pictures of children.

By Genevieve Gluck

Genevieve is the Co-Founder of Reduxx, and the outlet's Chief Investigative Journalist with a focused interest in pornography, sexual predators, and fetish subcultures. She is the creator of the podcast Women's Voices, which features news commentary and interviews regarding women's rights.

Isla Bryson was convicted in January of raping two women in 2016 and 2019 

Prosecutors said 31-year-old, who still has a penis, 'preyed' on vulnerable women

Sex beast's lawyers recieved a total of £30,428.23 from Scottish Legal Aid Board

A trans double rapist received more than £30,000 of taxpayers cash to mount a defence - while she was initially sent to a womens prison.

Isla Bryson, 31, was convicted in January of raping two women: one in Clydebank in 2016 and one in Drumchapel, Glasgow, in 2019.

The case sparked an uproar after Bryson was initially housed in an all-female prison before being moved to the male estate following the outcry.  see rest of article