How Scotland Invented the Modern World

How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It

Who formed the first modern nation?

Who created the first literate society?
Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism?
= The Scots.Mention of Scotland and the Scots usually conjures up images of kilts, bagpipes, Scotch whisky, and golf. But as historian and author Arthur Herman demonstrates, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland earned the respect of the rest of the world for its crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics—contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since.

Arthur Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish history. He lucidly summarizes the ideas, discoveries, and achievements that made this small country facing on the North Atlantic an inspiration and driving force in world history. Here is the untold story of how John Knox and the Church of Scotland laid the foundation for our modern idea of democracy; how the Scottish Enlightenment helped to inspire both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution; and how thousands of Scottish immigrants left their homes to create the American frontier, the Australian outback, and the British Empire in India and Hong Kong.

How the Scots Invented the Modern World reveals how Scottish genius for creating the basic ideas and institutions of modern life stamped the lives of a series of remarkable historical figures, from James Watt and Adam Smith to Andrew Carnegie and Arthur Conan Doyle, and how Scottish heroes continue to inspire our contemporary culture, from William “Braveheart” Wallace to James Bond.

Victorian historian John Anthony Froude once proclaimed, “No people so few in number have scored so deep a mark in the world’s history as the Scots have done.” And no one who has taken this incredible historical trek, from the Highland glens and the factories and slums of Glasgow to the California Gold Rush and the search for the source of the Nile, will ever view Scotland and the Scots—or the modern West—in the same way again. For this is a story not just about Scotland: it is an exciting account of the origins of the modern world and its consequences.

“The point of this book is that being Scottish turns out to be more than just a matter of nationality or place of origin or clan or even culture. It is also a state of mind, a way of viewing the world and our place in it. . . . This is the story of how the Scots created the basic idea of modernity. It will show how that idea transformed their own culture and society in the eighteenth century, and how they carried it with them wherever they went. Obviously, the Scots did not do everything by themselves: other nations—Germans, French, English, Italians, Russians, and many others—have their place in the making of the modern world. But it is the Scots more than anyone else who have created the lens through which we see the final product. When we gaze out on a contemporary world shaped by technology, capitalism, and modern democracy, and struggle to find our place as individuals in it, we are in effect viewing the world as the Scots did. . . . The story of Scotland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is one of hard-earned triumph and heart-rending tragedy, spilled blood and ruined lives, as well as of great achievement.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_inventions_and_discoveries

If you end up with a boring miserable life

Message here? Think for yourself in life, and NO disrespect to anyone 

 

 

5 Minute “Audio Blog” Me speaking about Pain x

Yes, this is Shaun lol

PLEASE listen, 5  minutes of me talking. more love, less pain, Shaun

When a loved one passes, we get to keep something, I kept this

 

 

When people die people often get asked if they want to take something from the house to remember the loved one, this could be family, friends, whatever, something my family have always done

Like many families we have greedy bastards who go for money or gold, I don’t care for money

When my Mum’s mum passed away around 19 years ago now, I was 21 or so, all the grandkids got taken into the house and were asked “What do you want to keep to remember Nana”

I took the above. Some took a TV, Video player, HI-FI, Gold, money, whatever

For me, this was the best thing she had. When we stayed overnight, my cousins and I we would all get thrown into two double beds in the spare room, sometimes 10 to a bed, pretending I am not. My Nana would say this “Childs Prayer” to us all and we would say it after her and with her

For me this has more meaning than money or gold, I still have it as you can see

Before I had my Daughters I hung it above the Boys room’s right in the middle, now I have 4 kids in three rooms as the girls want to share a room, I positioned this to the millimetre the same distance from each room. It means more to me that most things I own, it is old, battered and all tatty and bent, it is gold plated but is priceless to me

I would like to thank Faye @ http://blueeyepictures.co.uk/ for bringing this idea to blog to my mind, Faye did a blog (If you go visit her site) about how we keep things from childhood and this got me thinking

Some things have love value and meaning in a way we can’t describe. At night, for the last 21 years I have walked out of my kids rooms, touched this picture and blessed myself and thanked God for keeping my kids safe

The small things in life to count

More love…

…Less hate

Sopranos actor James Gandolfini dies

I am DISTRAUGT here; James Gandolfini who played Tony Soprano has died.  I am deeply upset here. The part he played in the Sopranos I loved as I could relate to what his life was. I know he did movies and other TV stuff, but I will always remember him as Tony, the man who didn’t want to be the Criminal like his Father was but played the part because he had to. His character I loved, I really could relate to Tony in the Sopranos, I loved the man as Tony

R.I.P James Gandolfini, a heart attack at 51 years of age is so unfair, I am so sad for him

From the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22980414

James Gandolfini, the US actor best known for his role as the mob boss in The Sopranos, has died at the age of 51, the HBO TV network has confirmed.

Gandolfini died of a possible heart attack while on holiday in Rome, the network told the BBC.

According to TMZ website, New Jersey-born Gandolfini went to Italy to attend a film festival in Sicily.

He won three Emmy awards for his role as Tony Soprano, a mafia boss juggling his criminal career and family life.

“It is with immense sorrow that we report our client James Gandolfini passed away today while on holiday in Rome, Italy,” said his managers in a statement.

“Our hearts are shattered and we will miss him deeply. He and his family were part of our family for many years and we are all grieving.”

HBO said the star of The Sopranos, which aired on the cable channel from 1999-2007, would be “deeply missed”.

“He was special man, a great talent, but more importantly a gentle and loving person who treated everyone no matter their title or position with equal respect,” said its statement.

“He touched so many of us over the years with his humour, his warmth and his humility.”

James Gandolfini in the actors studio full show

 

Brilliant Actor, will be missed, he will always remembered as Tony, so sad for his family and close friends.

George Carlin: education and the owners of America

 

 

Anyone want to argue with George here? Very small video..Seriously, is there a debate here? I hope so, as George is 100% on the money, I would LOVE to debate someone who does not think George is on the money here 🙂 Brilliance from a man gone, but never forgotten. Brilliant piece this and OH SO TRUE.

The American Dream – You got to be asleep to see it  

 

What the Scottish invented..

 

 

Many conversations I have with people on Word Press lead to many saying they have Scottish ancestry, and this is good. Many want to know more about their bloodline, so I am doing a blog on exactly what Scottish people invented throughout the centuries, we are an innovative race. I knew we invented the TV and Radio and the Bike, Lightbulb etc, but this is unreal. Proud I am, aye…

Some of it I did not even know, it is a big list, so here goes

 

Road transport innovations

Macadamised roads (the basis for, but not specifically, tarmac): John Loudon McAdam (1756–1836)

The pedal bicycle: Attributed to both Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813–1878) and Thomas McCall (1834–1904)

The pneumatic tyre: Robert William Thomson and John Boyd Dunlop (1822–1873)

The overhead valve engine: David Dunbar Buick (1854–1929)

Walkodile a multi-award winning invention by Elaine Stephen MBE, a primary school teacher from Aberdeenshire (launched in 2007)

 

Civil engineering innovations

Tubular steel: Sir William Fairbairn (1789–1874)

The Falkirk wheel: Initial designs by Nicoll Russell Studios, Architects and engineers Binnie Black and Veatch (Opened 2002)

The patent slip for docking vessels: Thomas Morton (1781–1832)

The Drummond Light: Thomas Drummond (1797–1840)

Canal design: Thomas Telford (1757–1834)

Dock design improvements: John Rennie (1761–1821)

Crane design improvements: James Bremner (1784–1856)

 

 

Aviation innovations

Aircraft design: Frank Barnwell (1910) establishing the fundamentals of aircraft design at the University of Glasgow

 

 

Power innovations

Condensing steam engine improvements: James Watt (1736–1819)

Coal-gas lighting: William Murdoch (1754–1839)

The Stirling heat engine: Rev. Robert Stirling (1790–1878)

Carbon brushes for dynamos: George Forbes (1849–1936)

The Clerk cycle gas engine: Sir Dugald Clerk (1854–1932)

The wave-powered electricity generator: by South African Engineer Stephen Salter in 1977

The Pelamis Wave Energy Converter (“red sea snake” wave energy device): Richard Yemm, 1998

 

 

Shipbuilding innovations

Europe’s first passenger steamboat: Henry Bell (1767–1830)

The first iron-hulled steamship: Sir William Fairbairn (1789–1874)

The first practical screw propeller: Robert Wilson (1803–1882) [citation needed]

Marine engine innovations: James Howden (1832–1913)

John Elder & Charles Randolph (Marine Compound expansion engine)

 

 

Military innovations

Lieutenant-General Sir David Henderson two areas:

Field intelligence. Argued for the establishment of the Intelligence Corps. Wrote Field Intelligence:

Its Principles and Practice (1904) and Reconnaissance (1907) on the tactical intelligence of modern warfare during World War I.

Royal Air Force. Considered instrumental in the foundation of the British Royal Air Force.

United States Navy. Created largely by John Paul Jones, who was born in Kirkcudbrightshire.

Special Forces: Founded by Sir David Stirling and other Scottish Royal Marines, the SAS was created in World War Two

In the North Africa campaign to go behind enemy lines to destroy and disrupt the enemy. Since then it has been regarded as the most famous and influential special

Forces that has inspired other countries to form their own special forces too.

 

 

Heavy industry innovations

Coal mining extraction in the sea on an artificial island by Sir George Bruce of Carnock (1575). Regarded as one of the industrial wonders of the late medieval period.

Making cast steel from wrought iron: David Mushet (1772–1847)

Wrought iron sash bars for glass houses: John C. Loudon (1783–1865)

The hot blast oven: James Beaumont Neilson (1792–1865)

The steam hammer: James Nasmyth (1808–1890)

Wire rope: Robert Stirling Newall (1812–1889)

Steam engine improvements: William Mcnaught (1831–1881)

The Fairlie, a narrow gauge, double-bogie railway engine: Robert Francis Fairlie (1831–1885)

Cordite – Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel (1889)

 

Agricultural innovations

Threshing machine improvements: James Meikle (c.1690-c.1780) & Andrew Meikle (1719–1811)

Hollow pipe drainage: Sir Hew Dalrymple, Lord Drummore (1700–1753)

The Scotch plough: James Anderson of Hermiston (1739–1808)

Deanstonisation soil-drainage system: James Smith (1789–1850)

The mechanical reaping machine: Rev. Patrick Bell (1799–1869)

The Fresno scraper: James Porteous (1848–1922)

The Tuley tree shelter: Graham Tuley in 1979

 

Communication innovations

Print stereotyping: William Ged (1690–1749)

Roller printing: Thomas Bell (patented 1783)

The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark: James Chalmers (1782–1853)

Universal Standard Time: Sir Sandford Fleming (1827–1915)

Light signalling between ships: Admiral Philip H. Colomb (1831–1899)

The telephone: Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922)

The teleprompter: Frederick G. Creed (1871–1957)

The first working television, and colour television; John Logie Baird (1888–1946)

Radar: Robert Watson-Watt (1892–1973)

The underlying principles of Radio – James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)

The automated teller machine and Personal Identification Number system – James Goodfellow (born 1937)

 

Publishing firsts

The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1768–81)

The first English textbook on surgery (1597)

The first modern pharmacopaedia, William Cullen (1776). The book became ‘Europe’s principal text on the classification and treatment of disease’. His ideas survive in the terms nervous energy and neuroses (a word that Cullen coined).

The first postcards and picture postcards in the UK

The first eBook from a UK administration (March 2012). Scottish Government publishes ‘Your Scotland, Your Referendum”

 

 

Fictional Characters

Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie, born in Kirriemuir, Angus

Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Long John Silver and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson

 

 

Scientific innovations

Logarithms: John Napier (1550–1617)

The theory of electromagnetism: James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)

The first theory of the Higgs boson or “God Particle” by Englishman Peter Higgs particle-physics theorist at the University of Edinburgh (1964)

Popularising the decimal point: John Napier (1550–1617) [64]

The world’s first oil refinery and a process of extracting paraffin from coal laying the foundations for the modern oil industry: James Young (1811–1883)

The Gregorian telescope: James Gregory (1638–1675)

The concept of latent heat: Joseph Black (1728–1799) [67]

The pyroscope, atmometer and aethrioscope scientific instruments: Sir John Leslie (1766–1832)

Identifying the nucleus in living cells: Robert Brown (1773–1858)

Hypnotism: James Braid (1795–1860)

Incandescent light bulb: James Bowman Lindsay (1799-1862)

Transplant rejection: Professor Thomas Gibson (1940s) the first medical doctor to understand the relationship between donor graft tissue and host tissue rejection and tissue transplantation by his work on aviation burns victims during World War II.[72]

Colloid chemistry: Thomas Graham (1805–1869)

The kelvin SI unit of temperature: William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824–1907)

Devising the diagrammatic system of representing chemical bonds: Alexander Crum Brown (1838–1922)

Criminal fingerprinting: Henry Faulds (1843–1930)

The noble gases: Sir William Ramsay (1852–1916)

The cloud chamber recording of atoms: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869–1959)

Pioneering work on nutrition and poverty: John Boyd Orr (1880–1971)

The ultrasound scanner: Ian Donald (1910–1987)

Ferrocene synthetic substances: Peter Ludwig Pauson in 1955

The MRI body scanner: John Mallard and James Huchinson from (1974–1980)

The first cloned mammal (Dolly the Sheep): Was conducted in The Roslin Institute research centre in 1996

The seismometer innovations thereof: James David Forbes

Metaflex fabric innovations thereof: University of St. Andrews (2010) application of the first manufacturing fabrics that manipulate light in bending it around a subject. Before this such light manipulating atoms were fixed on flat hard surfaces. The team at St Andrews are the first to develop the concept to fabric.

Tractor beam innovations thereof: St. Andrews University (2013) the world’s first to succeed in creating a functioning Tractor beam that pulls objects on a microscopic level

Macaulayite: Dr. Jeff Wilson of the Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen.

 

 

Sports innovations

Main article: Sport in Scotland

Scots have been instrumental in the invention and early development of several sports:

Football (Soccer)

several modern athletics events, i.e. shot put[90] and the hammer throw, derive from Highland Games and earlier 12th century Scotland

Curling

Gaelic handball The modern game of handball is first recorded in Scotland in 1427, when King James I an ardent handball player had his men block up a cellar window in his palace courtyard that was interfering with his game.

Cycling, invention of the pedal-cycle

Golf (see Golf in Scotland)

Shinty The history of Shinty as a non-standardised sport pre-dates Scotland the Nation. The rules were standardised in the 19th century by Archibald Chisholm

Rugby sevens: Ned Haig and David Sanderson (1883)

 

 

Medical innovations

Pioneering the use of surgical anaesthesia with Chloroform: Sir James Young Simpson (1811–1870)

The hypodermic syringe: Alexander Wood (1817–1884)

Discovery of hypnotism (November 1841): James Braid (1795–1860)

Identifying the mosquito as the carrier of malaria: Sir Ronald Ross (1857–1932)

Identifying the cause of brucellosis: Sir David Bruce (1855–1931)

Discovering the vaccine for typhoid fever: Sir William B. Leishman (1865–1926)

Discovering insulin: John J R Macleod (1876–1935) with others

Penicillin: Sir Alexander Fleming (1881–1955)

General anaesthetic – Pioneered by Scotsman James Young Simpson and Englishman John Snow

Ambulight PDT: light-emitting sticking plaster used in photodynamic therapy (PDT) for treating non-melanoma skin cancer. Developed by Ambicare Dundee’s Ninewells Hospital and St Andrews University. (2010)

Discovering an effective tuberculosis treatment: Sir John Crofton in the 1950s

Primary creator of the artificial kidney (Professor Kenneth Lowe – Later Queen’s physician in Scotland)

Developing the first beta-blocker drugs: Sir James W. Black in 1964

Developing modern asthma therapy based both on bronchodilation (salbutamol) and anti-inflammatory steroids (beclomethasone dipropionate) : Sir David Jack in 1972

Glasgow coma scale: Graham Teasdale and Bryan J. Jennett (1974)

EKG [Electrocardiography]: Alexander Muirhead (1911)

 

Household innovations

The television John Logie Baird (1923)

The British Broadcasting Corporation BBC: John Reith, 1st Baron Reith (1922) its founder, first general manager and Director-general of the British Broadcasting Corporation

The refrigerator: William Cullen (1748)

The first electric bread toaster: Alan MacMasters (1893)

The flush toilet: Alexander Cummings (1775)

The Dewar flask: Sir James Dewar (1847–1932) ]

The first distiller to triple distil Irish whiskey:[113]John Jameson (Whisky distiller)

The piano foot pedal: John Broadwood (1732–1812)

The first automated can-filing machine John West (1809–1888)

The waterproof macintosh: Charles Macintosh (1766–1843)

The kaleidoscope: Sir David Brewster (1781–1868)

Keiller’s marmalade Janet Keiller (1797) – The first recipe of rind suspended marmalade or Dundee marmalade produced in Dundee.

The modern lawnmower: Alexander Shanks (1801–1845)

The Lucifer friction match: Sir Isaac Holden (1807–1897)

The self filling pen: Robert Thomson (1822–1873)

Cotton-reel thread: J & J Clark of Paisley

Lime cordial: Lauchlan Rose in 1867

Bovril beef extract: John Lawson Johnston in 1874

The electric clock: Alexander Bain (1840)

Chemical Telegraph (Automatic Telegraphy) Alexander Bain (1846) In England Bain’s telegraph was used on the wires of the Electric Telegraph Company to a limited extent, and in 1850 it was used in America.

 

Weapons innovations

The carronade cannon: Robert Melville (1723–1809)

The Ferguson rifle: Patrick Ferguson in 1770 or 1776

The Lee bolt system as used in the Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield series rifles: James Paris Lee

The Ghillie suit

The percussion cap: invented by Scottish Presbyterian clergyman Alexander Forsyth

 

Miscellaneous innovations

Boys’ Brigade

Bank of England <<HA HA .. devised by William Paterson

Bank of France devised by John Law

The industrialisation and modernisation of Japan by Thomas Blake Glover

Kirin Brewing Company founded by Thomas Blake Glover

Colour photography: the first known permanent colour photograph was taken by James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)

Safe tray invented by Alison Grieve

 

My god I thought my copy and paste function was going to break and my Microsoft word die!!!  That is some list.

If you ever need a good idea, go ask a Scottish Person 🙂

 

Shaun

Shotts Prison Scotland – The reality

Just a quick one here, many ask me about “The Scottish Tough Guy” from all over the world. I can never answer. This video is from Shotts prison, 25 miles from my home. The Scottish, Shotts sections starts 22:00 minutes in on the Video. I know one or two of these people. Not best friends, I just know of them. Scotland is a very small place.

Not nice to view, all young kids mostly. This is the reality of life in Scotland “Europe’s Knife Capital” for Murders. The first 20 minutes or so are from an European prisons. I got this sent to me from a friend, it was never shown in Scotland, was in the USA.

Seeing people I have met in that environment is a strange feeling, listening to their stories is something else

Why do we buy “Stuff” we don’t need

Went to bed with my new Toy. This does it all..Love it

Went to bed about 11 pm, shattered I was, could not keep my eyes open. I put a few films on my Samsung pad to watch, or I had the choice of music,  I can even network it with my home network and hook right into my main PC, or to read my book, Time Raiders by Alex Scarrow, I am on the 3rd book, 3 to go, then a 7th book coming out in December I think. Time Travel, anyone who knows me will tell you Time Travel is my thing. Since I was a very young lad, it just grabbed me, to this day, I love it, the first book I ever read was part one below

Part 1, I am on part 3

Then it dawned on me, why am I ever bored? I have all the latest technology, I want for nothing. I save heavily, but when I am bored there is always something to do, or is there. Do I buy this stuff because I want to or because TV land planted a seed in my head and I just “Had to get it”

Strange concept TV adverts or magazines, newspapers etc, they tell us how to look and dress, what to buy, what to eat, how to eat, what to buy, tell us we need a 62 inch plasma TV, yeah I have one, I fell for that also. I also have Sky-HD and the best DVD player there is, although that was cheap.

So what is it with “Wanting stuff” I ask? I am not the only one, far from it, I even have a car that Danced on TV for me, and yeah I bought that also. We just “NEED” stuff. Then the argument is “You can’t take your money with you”  So the car, why did I spend thousands of pounds on it? I don’t even like it! But being disabled, I do need it

Dancing got me! 😦

In real life below 

Mine is in Green, a nice green, tartan type Green.

So why do we do it? Why do we? I know I am not alone, sales of I pads are through the roof and also big TV’s and technology for PC’s and Laptops, we all MUST HAVE IT. I have 2 PC’s at my work station a Laptop in the Kitchen for peace and when I need to work or do something that requires I need the kids out the way. I surrounded myself with thousands of pounds of “Stuff” I don’t know why.

My Tv

My good PC

So debate time, why do we do it? Why do we fall for TV land and its promise that “This Product will change your life and make you happy” I think about this a lot. People get themselves in to heavy debt to get this, I save heavily, so when I think I can afford a wee “Pick me treat” I treat myself. And to be fair, my partner just shakes her head at me. I can hear her think “Fool” But I am in pain right? Yeah that excuse did not work with Miss Shaun either 😦 No excuse, I got sucked into TV land and spent a fortune on things I don’t need. I already had a PC. I did need my Car though! But all this extravagance is it a bad sign or a good sign?

I also have a Wii Gathering dust, an IPod Touch gathering dust and a PSP gathering dust (Play station Portable), I have fell for the very thing I hate. Greed and “Want” It does not make me a bad person. I have money, I spend it, and Miss Shaun looks at me Funny. But it doesn’t stop there, oh no! If Miss Shaun is foolish enough to let me go to the BIG SHOP on my own, I bring back things that was not on the list and I come home with bags of toys for my Daughters or a game for the PS3 or Xbox for my son’s they wanted. Maybe I am just kind? Lol

Well I could not sleep, so I blogged this rubbish, to go along with the rubbish I buy.

My area of the main room, with the Laptop I bought my Partner in the background

Shaun 🙂 Idiot

ps: I even got an HTC Windows phone 🙂 lol

Mine is the one showing

 

May I add I am not rich in any way you would say “He is rich” I just save heavily. And if money is spare, I would rather buy something, that drink the money away, or waste it.

Define beautiful in a person

Boring plain old me..

This is a blog I wanted to do for a while. My partner did a little modelling when she was younger. She had not before I fell in love with her, I fell in love with the woman, that came next; she is beautiful in many ways, inside and out.

Many Woman are very nice looking, but ugly on the inside if you follow, trust me I have been on the wrong side of many, they think because they have the looks they can have any man, and I guess that is kind of true, but not all men are sex hungry fools, I certainly am not

Anyway, when I talk of beauty, I talk about what I hear, what I feel, how the person comes across, how the person looks is secondary to me

But we are all different, and this is good, if we were all the same, it would be Orwellian and 1984 and boring, so it is good we have differing kinds of people.

Men, I did a blog on Men, so this blog is about Beautiful people in any and all of the sense of the word, if that makes sense, I hope it does. I know friends, nice lads, some are married some are not, sadly many cheat on their partner, they need to feel like they can say “Look what I did”

For me if you meet ANYONE, and on the first night Sex is on the agenda, you know both people are that type of person and some expect a relationship from this, but then get disappointed when they realise the person is just in it for Sex. Many people go up town to meet people, score the first night, and then get upset when it was just a one night thing

That is not beauty that is ugly, inside and out. I know many beautiful woman, my partner is fine with me having girl pals, I was like this before we went out then got together, so nothing has changed, I like a good night out with my pals, get drunk, even though I don’t really drink, I think we all need a good blow out for time to time. My partner and I live in the area we grew up in almost, so people we both knew we meet a lot, and I have found myself online trying to explain to girls “Sorry, I am not like that”

But this is about beautiful, Men, Woman, young girls at college and young lads also. The song below hits the mark for me. I know a man who dresses as a woman, is he any less beautiful than some blond woman with big chests or a man with a 6 pack and good looks? No, the answer is no

Beauty is on the inside. People can be facially good looking. I feel in love with Kylie Minogue as a young man, but it is just a stupid thing we all do, my partner likes a famous football player (Soccer) player and has pictures of him on her phone. Big deal, lol

Kylie. Good on the eye. But what is she like as a person?

Rudi Skacel, a fancy man my Partner likes. He is actually a decent man

So what is beauty? I will let you decide, as everyone is different. This is my blog, so please, feel free to add a comment on your opinions; this is what debate/blogging is for, people have hangups and go through life thinking beauty they see portrayed on TV as “This is how I should look” This is not the case, and TV is wrong to do this, in my opinion, I know many woman and men who look at magazines and TV and copy beauty they see. Again the song below, I think covers my argument here well. I hope you agree. Some people are Gay (Religious issues there) But being Gay isn’t a choice, Gay people are attracted to the same sex. And I know many gay people, men and woman, I have never met any nasty horrible people with any, they are happy people, but get judged. This is 2013, the world has moved on, so have feelings and emotions, should we just ignore this and condemn gay people to hell? I don’t think so. But I know gay people. So my take on it may differ from someone who judges Gay people without knowing them. They are just NORMAL PEOPLE for the love of God. Sorry, but this is a bug bear for me. And I in no way want to upset anyone with my views, all these are, are my opinions, feel free to fire your opinions into this blog. Debate and blogging is for this, so lets……..

This video speaks VOLUMES for the point I am making, and again, a superb song

We all know the singer in the Video above, she was bullied at School for being ugly. I don’t know her, some of her videos can be “you know” This one is her speaking from her heart.

My partner is good looking to me on the outside, but the person on the inside is so much more. And she knows this also.