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Thank GOD The Windy Season Only Comes ONCE Per Year, Why, Kites with “Bulldogs”

Submitted by Annoyed Visitor


I’m sure it originated out of Africa, must have, every Massi Warrior needed to scare his dinner to death rather than use skill to hut same. Now today there are Bajans that think their neighbors need to be harassed with noise pollution day and night so they can show off their Kite (Chinese manufactured) flying skills ( kite comes with instructions).

Do our island visitors think this practice is acceptable, not from what I’ve been hearing at hotel pools, bars, beaches, restaurants etc. Most find this kite flying with noisy bulldogs most annoying and disturbing. I heard one lady state that she phoned the Hasting Police Department to complain and was told if it’s not interfering with aircraft then there’s “NOTHING WE CAN DO”. About what I’d expect from the Barbados Police Department knowing Bajan mentality. Like the saying goes “Barbados has a rule for everything and enforcement of nothing”, think I’m wrong, just check out today’s Nation Newspaper for a list of outstanding Income Tax and VAT business’s and individuals that remain uncollected for several——– years.

If Barbados has any ambitions of being classified as a First World Country then they have to step up to the plate and “WALK THE TALK.

82 responses to “Thank GOD The Windy Season Only Comes ONCE Per Year, Why, Kites with “Bulldogs””

  1. Nationalist Avatar
    Nationalist

    Why the reference to Massi warriors and canabalism? Sir your slip is showing.
    http://www.skratch-pad.com/kites/where.html

  2. Mobertthegreat Avatar
    Mobertthegreat

    What you need sir is another kite with a razor attached to the uppder string, fly it near the other one and yank hard, problem solved. Bit of effort, but you yourself may have some fun while doing it.

    This was a challenge in the old days, cutting others’ kite strings.

  3. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Duh doan want dem pun de beach playing cricket

    Duh doan want dem in de sea swimming in front duh hotel.

    Now duh want to tek way duh kite too ?

  4. Wily Coyote Avatar
    Wily Coyote

    @Hunts

    “QUI”, de kite wit de “BullDog”

  5. David Avatar
    David

    @Hants

    It is the price of progress, build up multicultural society and all.

  6. ac Avatar
    ac

    @annoyed visitor
    Buy earplugs . As a visitor we welcome you. But it not your right to tell us what to do. Nextyou would want a law enforced banning an age old tradition on the island.We islanders love our kite flying at this time of the year and are gung ho and competitive in doing so. It is part of our culture, Leave us alone .!

  7. The Scout Avatar
    The Scout

    I’ve been feeling threatened by these non-nationals who are gradually cementing themselves in MY country and is telling us what we can and cannot do. Whether tourists or non-natinal resident in Barbados, we have our culture just like you have yours, we can’t tell you to change your, don’t try changing ours; when you’re in Rome do as the Romans do. My problem, too many of the traditional things that we used to do as young children are being lost by not transferring them to our children. Instead of curtailling some of them, we should be encouraging our children to be creative and build on what we used to do as young children. Like the song said” don’t try to change us or rearrange us .”

  8. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    David I was born in Barbados and spent the first 20 years of my life in Barbados.

    I fly kite, pitch marbles , play beach cricket,roast flying fish and breadfruit pun de beach, hull waves, fish,went crabbin and all the things Bajan teenagers do.

    The price of progress must not eliminate the wholesome activities of young Bajans.

    I would like Bajan youngsters to enjoy the same things I did when I was their age and that includes staking out yuh kite from evening till next morning.

  9. Wily Coyote Avatar
    Wily Coyote

    @ac

    If the tourists leave us alone, then the country would collapse. Remember its the tourists and offshore banking income that pays the majority of the bills !

    “Nextyou would want a law enforced banning an age old tradition on the island”, done, abolition of Slavery, you can thank me later.

  10. Wily Coyote Avatar
    Wily Coyote

    @Scout

    Unfortunately the Romans have moved in and taken over, progress you know.

    Don’t feel bad its happening all over the world, tomorrow your girlfriend/wife/outside women may have to wear a Hijab, welcome to the world of cultural integration.

  11. ac Avatar
    ac

    @Wild cayote

    Judas! i am not quite ready to sell out my rights for thirty pieces of silver!
    Next you would be saying that it is alright fuh dem to take over the country. because they pay de bills don’t give them the right to tell the citizens what to do! You are the type that would sell yuh soul fuh a dollar without even thinking about it just to pay the bills. You are a spineless gutless CAYOTE! With no respect or concern for the country. To You I Say “Leave Us Alone! Traitor!

  12. The Scout Avatar
    The Scout

    Wild Cayote
    Unfortunately, the Romans have moved in and taken over.
    —————————————————————-
    Cayote, I feel sorry for you, if the Romans have taken over by you, I’m still in charge of my dynasty. I have been living on agricultural land for a very lond time, quite recently, a guy got his agricultural land sub-divided and now my new residents wants me to sign a petition to have a chicken farm on one of my neighbour’s Agricultural lot closed down. Obviously, I refused and now they stop speaking to me, i understand they are going ahead and putting a case in court. I was burning a section of my land to plant a crop and they called the police to have me extinguish the fire, again the police told them they can’t stop me and they claim the laws in Barbados has to be modernised. There are certain things that happen on agricultural land, if they were overseas and didn’t know what they were buying , it’s just not my fault and no-one will come into MY country and tell be what I can and cannot do.

  13. Wily Coyote Avatar
    Wily Coyote

    @ac

    When Barbados stops begging for handouts from USA, Canada, EU, UK etc. den we can say leave us alone. At the present we need their support, financial, tourists, expertise, food just to name a few. When and if we are ever in a position to fully STAND ON OUR OWN FEET then we can dictate, right now however we must show respect. Remember we have not been self sufficient in this country, ever.

  14. David Avatar
    David

    Unfortunately Barbados can’t surrender to tourism in 2011 but expect to practice the customs of the 60s when all we had were sugar cane fields and grass pieces.

  15. Wily Coyote Avatar
    Wily Coyote

    @Scout

    Sounds to me like the Romans are already in your neighborhood sub dividing lands, making new rules etc. It’s only a matter of time until your girlfriend/wife/outside women may have to wear a Hijab, welcome to the world of cultural integration. I did not say I liked whats going on, however I realize some changes will happen, it’s called progress.

  16. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @The Scout

    You did burning cow itch ?

    My farduh (bless he soul) newes to farm 15 acres till he dead an I neva see he burnin nutten.

    He newses to grow vegetebles an flowers.

    Wuh you growin pun you lan?

  17. Random Thoughts Avatar
    Random Thoughts

    Dear Wily Coyote “Remember we have not been self sufficient in this country, ever.”

    Care to explain yourself?

  18. Random Thoughts Avatar
    Random Thoughts

    Dear Hants and the others:

    I had a Canadian tourists explain to me once how her holiday in the Caribbean was ruined becasue the birds woke up so early and their early chirping woke her up and greatly annoyed her. This is a true, true, true, true story.

    Another truth is that some tourists are as miserable as yesterday’s stale piss.

    Nothing you can do shor tof sealing them in a sterile hermetically sealed contained will ever please them.

    Don’t we all remember the U-tube video of rats trunning all over a restaurant’s tables in New York City?

    Isn’t New York still the restaurant capital of the world?

    Look as long as it is cold as ass in the Northern Hemisphere the tourist will want to get their sorry assess out of the -30 C weather for a while. So as long as it is cold in the North and warm in Barbados some will come.

    That is another TRUTH.

    And it is better if the miserable ones don’t come back here anyhow.

    I bet that Mr., Mrs. Miss or Ms. Misery even while complaining is trying to find out how he or she can come to live in Barbados permanently.

  19. Nationalist Avatar
    Nationalist

    Actually I agree with the ”Visitor”,but not with his preamble. These giant kites with their over sized and over amplified “mad bulls” are annoying. Some of us may have become accustomed to such noise, ie on the way to being deaf, but to persons who come from a relatively noise controlled environment, this noise is a nuisance. So too are those motor cycles with their silencers removed and and cars with modified engines which you can hear on our highways all hours of the night. As a people we have to learn to respect the rights of others, otherwise we can talk until we turn blue in the face, we shall forever remain a Third World Undeveloped Country.
    And for those who do not think that we need visitors,well the Royal Navy , in spite of what the BritHC said, has pulled out of our waters. Lets see how fast and how easy it will be to replace the RN,without crawling to the USA or Canada.

  20. Random Thoughts Avatar
    Random Thoughts

    The ones who like being in a hermetically sealed container can take a hermetically sealed cruise ship where they are hermetically sealed in with the germs of 4,000 complete strangers.

    But no kites buzzing overhead.

    No birds chirping early in the morning either.

    No cocks crowingeither I suppose.

    But we see how people from 30 countries attended a party at Hugh Hefner’s mansion and now more that 70 of them sick as dogs.
    Ligionenella or something from a maybe from a fog machine which induced germs deep into the lungs of people from 30 different countries.

    But no kites buzzing overhead over there.

    No birds chirping early in the morning either I suppose.

    Some people so foolish.

  21. Random Thoughts Avatar
    Random Thoughts

    And David, tell that fool that he needs to learn how to spell Maasai.

  22. Random Thoughts Avatar
    Random Thoughts

    Look Nationalist:

    The Royal Navy was in Caribbean waters to keep marijuana and principally cocaine out of British noses.

    You really think that any Bajan needs to import marijuana when marijuana grows so well here.

    And you really think that we are the principal market for the South American cocaine producers.

    Methinks that the Royal Nave has cut off its nose and will spite British features (in the case of coaine injury to British noses maybe literally so)

  23. Random Thoughts Avatar
    Random Thoughts

    The biggest drug problem for the Caribbean is the GREAT SUCKING SOUND coming from the North and East of us.

  24. The Scout Avatar
    The Scout

    Wild Cayote
    Once, so time ago, an indian and a woman in a hijab or whatever they call them things that hide their face, came into my driveway and wanted to purchase a ram from me. I told her I don’t deal with anyone that I can’t see their face. She was the one transacting the business with me, she said it was their custom, so i told her my custom also is to see the faceof whom I’m dealing with , she just turned and walked back into the car and the two of them left. What I’m trying to say is , none of them can try their scrap with me. When I’m gone and my offspring allow them to take over this country, well, it would be their fault.

  25. Wily Coyote Avatar
    Wily Coyote

    @Random Thoughts

    “Remember we have not been self sufficient in this country, ever.”

    Care to explain yourself

    Very Easy,
    first 1492 the island was under Spanish control and SUPPORT,

    1625 – 1644 English Colonization and SUPPORT,

    1644 . 1700 . Sugar, Slavery and SUPPORT under the British,

    By 1720 Barbadians were no longer a dominant force within the sugar industry. They had been surpassed by the Leeward Islands and the Jamaica. British SUPPORT,

    1807 – 1838 . Abolition, rebellion and emancipation under British SUPPORT,

    1939 – 1961. Barbados is a British Colony with full British SUPPORT,

    1961 -1966. Barbados was first occupied by the British in 1627 and remained a British colony until internal autonomy was granted in 1961. The Island gained full independence in 1966, and maintains ties to the Britain monarch represented in Barbados by the Governor General. British SUPPORT,

    1967 – 2011. Barbados now independent but now highly subsidized by Britain to maintain economic stability. Over the years British economic support has decreased, however during this same timeframe Barbados has become more dependent on assistance from USA, Canada, EU, China, Cuba and numerous CARICOM countries. Basically the country has never been self sufficient and cannot hope to ever be self sufficient. WE need assistance from other world countries just to survive. Think I’m wrong, no petroleum, no electricity, no water, no water, no survival. Not to mention we import the majority of our day to day food. Barbadians have to realize that they have no natural resources, limited industry, limited agriculture and today is totally dependent on tourism, off shore banking and off shore real estate sales for their livelihood.

    Did you ever think why Barbados, as a location, was not fought over by the French, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese etc. like other Caribbean Islands, fact is Barbados was considered as an undesirable land of poor soil quality, lack of fresh water and viewed as of little value.

  26. Wily Coyote Avatar
    Wily Coyote

    Several commentary’s show obviously distaste for tourists, Bajan’s have to remember it’s your government policy and as such your policy that tourists, off shore banking are here and the associated dollars they bring totally support this country. I personally would not want to go back to my grandparents days of hard work, survival living, poor medical, limited education etc. These tourists and other off shore institutions have raised my standard of living which I’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain it. If the BULLDOG has to go then it’s GONE.

  27. Random Thoughts Avatar
    Random Thoughts

    Oh shite Wily it looks like I got my history all wrong.

    I always thought that the labour of the black slaves (in Barbados and many other sugar growing areas) produced a high value crop, sugar (I hear that in its heydey which lasted for at least a couple hundrd years that sugar was more valuable that cocaine is now) which made Britan rich.

    So I always thought that Bajan labour, Bajan soil, Bajan sunshine, Bajan rain, Bajan ingenuity, suported the British people.

    How could I have got it so wrong?

    You mean that Britian at the height of Empire was so loving and so generous that even though they realized that Barbados and Bajans were useless peices of shit, that the British Empire carried on SUPPORTING our foreparents and us from 1625 to 2011?

    Those British people must be the most wonderful people in the word.

    One of these days I’ll have to go visit them and thank them personally.

  28. ac Avatar
    ac

    Yeah . We need tourist but we not going to be hijacked with every demand the asked for. I demand they Buy Earplugs.

  29. The Scout Avatar
    The Scout

    Wild Cayote appears to be one of those “white people lackies”, he/she seems to be willing to lick “foreigners” backsides for his survival, well go ahead, it takes alot to make this world and I hope one of them fart hard on you. Take it with a mile, they are the ones that are giving you a good life.

  30. David Avatar
    David

    The fact we are debating this issue shows how much our society has changed. The easy simple, we can fly kites just don’t ‘stake’ them out.

  31. The Scout Avatar
    The Scout

    David
    El Verno Del Congo sang Welcome the morning sun, just don’t try to change us or rearrange us, we love simplicity. There are certain things that young people do especially boys, for example, stake out kites at night, roast breadfruit, in my day tief cane, plus raid the neighbour fruit trees moonlight night, these are normal boy things, some have become too dangerous but PLEASE the more normal things let children be children. I’ve been in USA and during summer children were out on the street ALL NITE playing street basketball and very noisy, that’s their culture and I learned to adjust, I didn’t try to change them, I was only there for a few weeks, therefore when the tourists or visitors of any kind come here let them adjust too, why must we always try to please everyone and displease our own?

  32. Wily Coyote Avatar
    Wily Coyote

    Wily Coyote as they say; throws in the towel, waves the white flag, bowls out etc. I’ll bring up this discussion up again in say 5 to 10 years and we’ll revisit our comments to see what and whom has changed.

  33. ac Avatar
    ac

    After the kite issue. Then they will be another thing they want to change. Right now is a good time to say NO!NO! NO!. Eventually they would get the message and LEAVE OUR CULTURE ALONE.

  34. Crusoe Avatar
    Crusoe

    @Random Thoughts ”I bet that Mr., Mrs. Miss or Ms. Misery even while complaining is trying to find out how he or she can come to live in Barbados permanently.”

    —

    Listen, some peop[le are perennial complainers. Even some bajans. I personally know some like that. If they had a hundred punds of gold, penthouse on the ocean, people doing everything for them, and not have to work, they would STILL complain.

    Complain, complian, xitch about this and xitch about that.

    Miserable xss as tail.

    I run from them people.

    And you k now the joke. They cant see the woods for the trees, because the xhit they complain about, is and will be nothing if in the big picture, the middle east goes to pot.

    Then, we going see how barley grow…or not.

    By the way, where you think the British warships gone? Of course, you know they could and would never admit it, you know what that would do to the oil price? It would shoot past 200 and keep moving.

  35. ac Avatar
    ac

    DE lashes were too hot fuh wild cayote so disappear.

    Thanks BU . Peaceful protest ! it Works!

  36. Bonny Peppa Avatar
    Bonny Peppa

    Random Thoughts
    you in easy a’tall. ya got ma cryin.

    ac
    an a betchya when dese peeple cannn find nutton ta complain ’bout dem gun complain dat dem in got nutton ta complain ’bout. fa tru.

  37. Charlie Avatar
    Charlie

    Now that Wild coyote has gone.
    Has anyone ever had a big kite stake out over their house right through the night?
    I am a bajan accustomed to kites but a stake out kite aint easy on your night’s rest.

  38. ac Avatar
    ac

    @Charlie
    “”A stake out kite aint easy on your night”s rest.

    Neither arecocks crowing in the early morning hours. Yuh want to ban them too!

  39. confused Avatar
    confused

    you guys say that the cops said they cannot do anything about it yet police from another station told my neighbour that they will come and cut it next time he has it out.Is it legal to do that?

  40. confused Avatar
    confused

    cops from another station than the one mentioned above came and told a neighbour of mine that they will come and cut it the next time he stakes it out at night.is it legal for them to do this?

  41. Charlie Avatar
    Charlie

    AC
    Sometimes the cocks crow at night too but they go to sleep eventually not the kites. I like when the cocks crow in the morning because they wake me up, so no problem.
    Flying a kite at night was never a Barbadian tradition.

  42. BAFBFP Avatar
    BAFBFP

    I got a BICO truck dat is pass my way every odder flippin’ day wid he music blaring … I call management twice fah he rass an’ dey tell me dat de children love it so..! I call de police and get laugh at … reassuringly of course! Now I got a Bajan solution … Big Rock! Wha’ is de penalty fah dat dese days …?

  43. Random Thoughts Avatar
    Random Thoughts

    I certainly remembered my brother and his friends flying thier kites all day and staking them out for the night at sunset

    My brother migrated to England in 1960.

    So certainly this tradition is at least 50 years old.

    And confused believed that “police from another station told my neighbour that they will come and cut it next time he has it out.Is it legal to do that?”

    I have a nice bridge in Brooklyn which Iscan sell you. Gimme $5 million US$ and we gone clear.

  44. ac Avatar
    ac

    @Charlie
    See i hate dem cocks crowing in the early morning . but yuh know what that too is part of barbados culture.Yes from ever sense i can remember people have staked out kites.!

  45. The Scout Avatar
    The Scout

    Charlie
    I’m in by 60’s and in the village I come from staking out a kite at night was the norm, my older brothers and village boys did it before me, I did it but unfortunately I didn’t do it with my son and now I regret causing him to lose that part of being a bajan lad.

  46. Nationalist Avatar
    Nationalist

    I am also in my 60’s , came up as a a real country buck, and up to when I left these shores towards the end of the ’60’s ,I cannot recall seeing, or rather, hearing of kites being staked out at night.
    Noise and Smoke are now somewhere near the top of the list of our biggest health hazards facing us today.

  47. Bonny Peppa Avatar
    Bonny Peppa

    sumting dat does really really piss me off is dese Jehovah Witnesses dat feel dat it is dem God-given right to knock pun my rasthole house, bram,bram, bram, as hard n steady as dem feel til dem hear sumbody inside. dem doan kno if ya inside sick, if ya work de nite-shiff, or ya havin sex. dem does get me real cruellllll. I plan ta open my window or door de nex time n tell dem strait n plain, ‘ lemme tell wunna sumting see, when wunna-all cum in dis neighba hood, pass dis fcuking house strait or i gun thra sum stale piss pun wunna scunt’.
    BAF, you feel i would get lock-up fa dah affense? I serious as bumba-clawwt.

    ac
    i feel when a fella wanna sleep, he does sleep. jus so. tink of de bull-kite as a ‘lullaby’. or count de bzzzzzzzz’s til ya drop off. LOLLL

  48. anthony Avatar
    anthony

    @bonny

    I heard heavy metal does keep them away if yuh could stand it.

  49. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ Nationalist, we were staking out kites in the fifties and sixties.
    They were not very loud because our biggest kites were about 24″ long.

    Bajans were not as anal retentive back in the day.

    Making and flying kites was a great pastime for me and my homies.
    There were no patent kites to buy so you made your own.

  50. ac Avatar
    ac

    @Bonny Peppa.

    Wuh lullaby ! i jus put my arms and snuggle up to the other half .It always work.

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