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Anything about Scotland, and i probably can answer it.

Anything about Scotland, and i probably can answer it.

When are you going to stop blaming the English for everything that goes wrong there?

Anything about Scotland, and i probably can answer it.
Why you're so much worse in football than England? Money? Climate?

Is there any foods that Scots DON'T prefer to have deep-fried?

Is the new Holyrood parliament building really as ugly as it looks in the pictures? And why the hell didn't they make SOME effort to have the architecture fit in with the rest of the Royal Mile?


Do other Scots actually understand glaswegians? Or do they do like the rest of us and smile politely and nod while thinking "what the fuck did (s)he just say?"

And lastly, is it true that copper wire was invented by two Scotsmen fighting over a penny? ;)

Why are Scottish women in general so damn ugly?

And why is it that every Scot seems to have a speech impediment? Or is that really the way you guys think English is pronounced? ;)

Whats Nessies real name?

Why do you hate me because I'm a sassenach? Don't you know that I'm 1/32nd Scottish?!

Because I'm only 31/32 English am I still a sassenach?

Lord, the man said ask questions not "Hey everyone, why don't you all rip the shit out of my country"...

Does Scotland have any remnants of the old languages the way the Welsh and Cornish do?

whats the cheapest and fastest way from scotland to canada [o_O]

i need to um.. leave the country

Lord, the man said ask questions not "Hey everyone, why don't you all rip the shit out of my country"...

Does Scotland have any remnants of the old languages the way the Welsh and Cornish do?



its called gaelic (i hope i spelled that right)

Why are Scottish women in general so damn ugly?

And why is it that every Scot seems to have a speech impediment? Or is that really the way you guys think English is pronounced? ;)


Not all scots women are ugly, just really CHAVY!

Why you're so much worse in football than England? Money? Climate?

Cause scotland are better, we just don't wanna show up the english



HOWEVER

have you notice that When england win they are called england

when the lose the come home as britan? Hmmm???

Do other Scots actually understand glaswegians? Or do they do like the rest of us and smile politely and nod while thinking "what the fuck did (s)he just say?"



So I wasn't just imagining it! This happens to other people too?

Anything about Scotland, and i probably can answer it.

You know and drink Ardbeg?
You have a bottle from before 1974?
If yes, you must be a rich man since they are sold at Sotheby's at a few 1000 pounds a bottle. They have new owners yet and it is still good but not that great anymore.

No, I am not talking about Cola but something typical scottish. Some use Spey water for it :)

Cause scotland are better, we just don't wanna show up the english



HOWEVER

have you notice that When england win they are called england

when the lose the come home as britan? Hmmm???

That may be true of sportsmen, but the football team play as England, win or lose (and they win more often than Scotland).

Is the Uni in Edinburgh as good as they say? Considered that sometimes

Sod it, I'll reply seeing as he's not here.

1. When are you going to stop blaming the English for everything that goes wrong there?

Round about now. We've got the Scottish Parliament to blame instead, so you can rest easy from now on.

2. Why you're so much worse in football than England? Money? Climate?

Our football team is a national joke, and we have resigned ourselves to this fact. It's no longer a tragedy, just something we've got used to. Money, you'll have to explain. The climate isn't really that bad unless you live in the Highlands, and that can be explained by the fact that it's nearer the equator and has more North Sea around it than England does. (Edit: Nearer the equator? Wtf am I smoking? Nearer the North Pole, rather. Sorry about that.)

3. Is there any foods that Scots DON'T prefer to have deep-fried?

Haggis isn't deep fried. Incidentally, the deep fried food all comes from Glasgow. Glasgow doesn't have a reputation as a slum for nothing.

4. Is the new Holyrood parliament building really as ugly as it looks in the pictures? And why the hell didn't they make SOME effort to have the architecture fit in with the rest of the Royal Mile?

It's actually worse. Completely hideous. I have no idea why they didn't even try to make it fit in, and I never will. The SMPs are jumped up council leaders, and you can only expect them to act as such. They're not a responsible government, and they won't be in the future. Their monstrous building is a testament to their incompetence.

5. Do other Scots actually understand glaswegians? Or do they do like the rest of us and smile politely and nod while thinking "what the fuck did (s)he just say?"

There's two different kinds of Glaswegians - the incoherent ones and the middle class ones. The middle class ones are easy to understand, with their faintly anglicised accents. The others are incomprehensible to everybody but themselves.

6. And lastly, is it true that copper wire was invented by two Scotsmen fighting over a penny?

I don't know, but I'd like that to be true.

7. Why are Scottish women in general so damn ugly?

Sorry, we'll try harder.

8. And why is it that every Scot seems to have a speech impediment? Or is that really the way you guys think English is pronounced?

We don't have the same background as you lot. Parts of Scotland are so cold, wild, and difficult to get to that nobody bothered colonising them or trying to take over them. Would you? I know I wouldn't. Hence our accent has different roots to yours and is obviously very different.

9. Whats Nessies real name?

Cunning Marketing Ploy.

10. Does Scotland have any remnants of the old languages the way the Welsh and Cornish do?

Gaelic. It's dying out though, despite the BBC's best efforts to get us all interested in people with mad beards playing the fiddle and tartan clad women wailing incomprehensible songs.

Is the Uni in Edinburgh as good as they say? Considered that sometimes

It's excellent.

Edit: The actual Edinburgh uni, that is, don't confuse it with any of the other "universities" also in the city. Like Napier, for instance. God no, the other ones are abysmal.

Right - I cannot stand by and see my mother country ripped to shreds by you assholes so allow me to enlighten you.


When are you going to stop blaming the English for everything that goes wrong there?

When the English stop screwing our contry up - then we will stop blaming them.

Why you're so much worse in football than England? Money? Climate?

Why are you worse than me at grammar?. We are a sparsely poulated country for our size and therefore cannot always produce a first class team. We are not worse in money, just look at north sea oil and the tourism industry. Climate is simple geography and to be honest it's not that bad.


Is there any foods that Scots DON'T prefer to have deep-fried?

I cant think of one to hand. Must say though i do hate deep fried pizza.

Is the new Holyrood parliament building really as ugly as it looks in the pictures? And why the hell didn't they make SOME effort to have the architecture fit in with the rest of the Royal Mile?

Not really and I agree they could have made an effort to make it fit in more. Meh - we're not payin for it and in any case its in Edinborough and who wants to go there?

Do other Scots actually understand glaswegians? Or do they do like the rest of us and smile politely and nod while thinking "what the fuck did (s)he just say?"

I have no trouble being understood being glaswegian myself, however the burgeoning peasant class in Glasgow does have trouble.

Why are Scottish women in general so damn ugly?

Are they? Sure we have our mingers but there are plenty of attractive women in our fine nation.

And why is it that every Scot seems to have a speech impediment? Or is that really the way you guys think English is pronounced?

Whilst I could dip into sociolinguistics to explain why you percieve the scottish accent to be a speech impediment I shan't because it seems to be you have a thinking impediment and so would not understand. :)

Whats Nessies real name?

The full name is:
A. Made-Up-Story-To Fool-Fat-Americans-Into-Giving-Us-Their-Money

Why do you hate me because I'm a sassenach? Don't you know that I'm 1/32nd Scottish?!

So, point is you're still english ;)

Does Scotland have any remnants of the old languages the way the Welsh and Cornish do?

Yes, gaelic is still spoken by many people in scotland however it is dying out gradually.

whats the cheapest and fastest way from scotland to canada ?

ughh... Airplane?

Right - I cannot stand by and see my mother country ripped to shreds by you assholes so allow me to enlighten you.



Beat you to it. Heh.

TPLAC - yeh i noticed
:)

I'm still English? ... Damn, so i bought this kilt in vain then? *tear comes to eye*

Beat you to it. Heh.

i started before you :P

I'm still English? ... Damn, so i bought this kilt in vain then? *tear comes to eye*

Wearing a skirt doesn't make you Scottish, but I swear on my very last penny piece that eating three kilos of haggis in five minutes will.

Your time starts now.

Scottish people have the coolest accents.

Why do you keep insisting you're a sovereign nation? There's only about 5 million of you and half of you are descended from English people anyway. Might as well have an independent Birmingham. Although that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing.

When are you going to stop blaming the English for everything that goes wrong there?

When the English stop screwing our contry up - then we will stop blaming them.
Us screwing your country up? We just had university top up fees and foundation hospitals forced on us by Scottish MPs, while they weren't implemented in Scotland!

Why are you worse than me at grammar?.

Just maybe because it's my third language?

Us screwing your country up? We just had university top up fees and foundation hospitals forced on us by Scottish MPs, while they weren't implemented in Scotland!

Consider us squared over the Poll Tax then.

Why do you keep insisting you're a sovereign nation? There's only about 5 million of you and half of you are descended from English people anyway. Might as well have an independent Birmingham. Although that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing.


We decended from the irish

Why do you keep insisting you're a sovereign nation? There's only about 5 million of you and half of you are descended from English people anyway.

We don't really. The Scottish parliament was set up as a way to shoosh the bagpipe-bashing SNP supporters who were crying about hundreds of years of hurt from teh evil englishmen. It was obvious at the time to anybody with a modicum of sense that it was going to be a puppet parliament only and wouldn't be worth shit. That's becoming more painfully obvious now.

The only people who still cling to idea of scottish independence etc are the sort of people who would be shut away in padded rooms in an ideal world.

Wearing a skirt doesn't make you Scottish, but I swear on my very last penny piece that eating three kilos of haggis in five minutes will.

Your time starts now.

Kilos? By jove, what are they? They aren't those evil European units again are they?

I've had deep-fried Haggis from a take-away in Edinburgh though - does that count?

I've had deep-fried Haggis from a take-away in Edinburgh though - does that count?

No way. And you actually ATE it? And didn't die? Good lord.

Edit: About the kilos. I wouldn't understand metric very well were it not for the fact most drug dealers use them these days.

Why are Scottish women in general so damn ugly?

And why is it that every Scot seems to have a speech impediment? Or is that really the way you guys think English is pronounced? ;)

you see that's a common misconception because everyone up there wears skirts. A trick to remember, is the one with facial hair tend to men....

actually the ones with short hair are men. less likely to get in to problems that way

you see that's a common misconception because everyone up there wears skirts. A trick to remember, is the one with facial hair tend to men....

actually the ones with short hair are men. less likely to get in to problems that way
lmao :D

you see that's a common misconception because everyone up there wears skirts. A trick to remember, is the one with facial hair tend to men....

actually the ones with short hair are men. less likely to get in to problems that way
auts, my stomach hurts.......

you see that's a common misconception because everyone up there wears skirts. A trick to remember, is the one with facial hair tend to men....

actually the ones with short hair are men. less likely to get in to problems that way

:D

Too funny and too true. :eek:

We decended from the irish

some of you did. Mind you, a lot of Irish are descended from English too, just like a lot of English are descended from Irish.

some of you did. Mind you, a lot of Irish are descended from English too, just like a lot of English are descended from Irish.

i think he was more generalising, and refering to the scotti (sp?) who came over from ireland, beat the shit out of the picts and became the scottish.

A lorra Scots have Norse ancestry, especially those clans whose land is along the coasts and islands.

I'm one Englishman that hasn't descended from any Irish. Mind you, my 1/32nd gene being Robertson supposedly means some of my ancestors would have come from what is now Ireland about 3,000,000 and a half years ago or something, but it's not really the same thing.

i think he was more generalising, and refering to the scotti (sp?) who came over from ireland, beat the shit out of the picts and became the scottish.

i also think that.

and a lot of picts went to ireland.

Why are Scottish women in general so damn ugly?

I got this one!

When my viking ancestors set off for their sail to Iceland they stopped by in England and Scotland and picked up everything worth having, including the good looking women.

The rest is genetics

A lorra Scots have Norse ancestry, especially those clans whose land is along the coasts and islands.

I'm one Englishman that hasn't descended from any Irish. Mind you, my 1/32nd gene being Robertson supposedly means some of my ancestors would have come from what is now Ireland about 3,000,000 and a half years ago or something, but it's not really the same thing.

would'nt robertson be anglo-saxon? son of robert as it were

i think he was more generalising, and refering to the scotti (sp?) who came over from ireland, beat the shit out of the picts and became the scottish.

How do you tell who "the scotti" was though? Most people beat the shit out of the picts.

Apart from the Romans that is, but they realised that someone had built Hadrian's Wall for a reason... wait a minute...

Anything about Scotland, and i probably can answer it.

Do thistles tend to grow through the slats of benches, thus making them impossible to sit on? Is this annoying? Have you ever fallen in a big pile of thistles? Can you eat thistles? Have you tried anyway? Insert miscellaneous inane thistle question?

Do thistles tend to grow through the slats of benches, thus making them impossible to sit on? Is this annoying? Have you ever fallen in a big pile of thistles? Can you eat thistles? Have you tried anyway? Insert miscellaneous inane thistle question?

They stay away from benches, but I have fallen into a patch of them before. It hurts a lot. You know they're quite big? About two inches of jaggy circumference. I've never tried eating them, as they're not really the kind of things you can easily pick.

Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh eats them, though. Isn't he english?

IamScottishandmyspacebarisn'tworkingforsomereason-sorry.

Ah, now it is.

Ok, Thistles aren't that annoying. ironically they are considered a weed.

You mostly get them in hills and stuff (we have lots of hills).

Oh yeah, and which part of Scotland are you from?


Ah yes, and we have never been occupied fully by ANYONE, including the Romans.

Apart from the Celts, we just embraced their culture.

And ya know where the Celts came from? Ireland!

So although we generally hate the English, we like the Irish.

That is possibly why the IRA seem to seek some sort of assylum here.

How do you tell who "the scotti" was though? Most people beat the shit out of the picts.

Apart from the Romans that is, but they realised that someone had built Hadrian's Wall for a reason... wait a minute...

I never understood Hadrian's Wall. On one side we have the romans, a bloodthirsty, hard as nails bunch, with all the latest miltary hardware, horses, enormous armies, baths, sanitation etc. On the other side we've got a gang of hairy, woad-smeared men in skirts waving pointy sticks.
"Quick! Build a wall before we're overrun! The terror!"

It couldn't all have been the smell, could it?

They stay away from benches, but I have fallen into a patch of them before. It hurts a lot. You know they're quite big? About two inches of jaggy circumference. I've never tried eating them, as they're not really the kind of things you can easily pick.

Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh eats them, though. Isn't he english?

Technically he's a donkey. Some of our citizens may be donkeys, but none of our donkeys are citizens.

Technically he's a donkey. Some of our citizens may be donkeys, but none of our donkeys are citizens.

You're reading too much into the statement. When I said Eeyore was english, I was thinking more of AA Milne and his characters being generally part of the bygone gentile english age, not calling the english donkeys.

Some of my best friends are english. </stock politically correct statement>

Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh eats them, though. Isn't he english?

Insofar as a fictional depressed stuffed donkey can be.

I never understood Hadrian's Wall. On one side we have the romans, a bloodthirsty, hard as nails bunch, with all the latest miltary hardware, horses, enormous armies, baths, sanitation etc. On the other side we've got a gang of hairy, woad-smeared men in skirts waving pointy sticks.
"Quick! Build a wall before we're overrun! The terror!"

It couldn't all have been the smell, could it?

they just couldn't be arsed to conquer it because it was so bloody far to walk, full of inconvenient hills, and the population were said hairy-arsed purple-painted pointy stick men.

so they built the wall because then 10 blokes with modern military technology could keep the entire scottish nation's nose out of their wine, crops etc

How do you tell who "the scotti" was though? Most people beat the shit out of the picts.

Apart from the Romans that is, but they realised that someone had built Hadrian's Wall for a reason... wait a minute...

oh you can't unless you resort to genetics.
Its the same a a englishmen saying he's anglo-saxon. etc.....

You're reading too much into the statement. When I said Eeyore was english, I was thinking more of AA Milne and his characters being generally part of the bygone gentile english age, not calling the english donkeys.

Some of my best friends are english. </stock politically correct statement>

"The English are lions led by donkeys". This is a famous quote that typically english (read posh, bone idle and corrupt) MP Alan Clarke used, quoting some 15th century general or something. Only Alan Clarke made it up.

Also, has anyone in scotland heard of Ivor Cuttler?

You're reading too much into the statement. When I said Eeyore was english, I was thinking more of AA Milne and his characters being generally part of the bygone gentile english age, not calling the english donkeys.

Some of my best friends are english. </stock politically correct statement>

Actually I was trying to be amusing and ironic, but it's so hard to do tone by email. I had taken no offence whatsoever, and like Scotland and Scots a great deal.
General threads are knockabout fun, and generally not to be taken too seriously.

Actually I was trying to be amusing and ironic, but it's so hard to do tone by email. I had taken no offence whatsoever, and like Scotland and Scots a great deal.
General threads are knockabout fun, and generally not to be taken too seriously.

Heh! This is a case in point, actually. I knew perfectly well you'd taken no offence, and was merely trying to wind you up. Hence the stock politically correct tag - "some of my best friends are [insert thing]" is horribly snotty without such a qualifier.

If there's one thing I can be trusted to do, it's not to take anything on the intermaweb too seriously. Perhaps not a stellar ability, or even an admirable one, but one I can do all the same. :D

Heh! This is a case in point, actually. I knew perfectly well you'd taken no offence, and was merely trying to wind you up. Hence the stock politically correct tag - "some of my best friends are [insert thing]" is horribly snotty without such a qualifier.

If there's one thing I can be trusted to do, it's not to take anything on the intermaweb too seriously. Perhaps not a stellar ability, or even an admirable one, but one I can do all the same. :D

Touche!
Now, en garde you Scots blaggard!

Is it known by the Scottish that the Scottish national flower is actually the bluebell?

Is it known by the Scottish that the Scottish national flower is actually the bluebell?

And the national anthem is Scotland the Brave, not Flower of Scotland. :)

Edit: Although I don't believe anybody knows the words

No, cos it is the thistle

and when will Scotland rise up again...

and recapture Berwick on Tweed ?

No, cos it is the thistle

and when will Scotland rise up again...

and recapture Berwick on Tweed ?

Ah, just take it. We've finished with it now.

We only wanted it because you had it. Can't you just give it to Wales?

"The English are lions led by donkeys". This is a famous quote that typically english (read posh, bone idle and corrupt) MP Alan Clarke used, quoting some 15th century general or something. Only Alan Clarke made it up.

Ah yes, Alan Clarke was funny.

As to Scotland The Brave...

Scotlans the Brave and... Mighty?
And Berwick is just annoying.
It seems to run right up the East Coast.
(Thats where I live. The Capital, Edinburgh. ANd the parliament building was a building site the last time I saw it. Chavs are annoying ;) And the festival is fun. Athough I don't appreciate it as much as should...

And the national anthem is Scotland the Brave, not Flower of Scotland. :)

Edit: Although I don't believe anybody knows the words

Even I know some words! (hmmm hmm... land of my heart forever, Scotland the brave!)

Ya know, I never did figure out why everyone thinks that us Scots are all just a bunch of people wearing kilts (A.k.a. Skirts), saying 'Och aye the noo!' repeatedly, and somehow managing to like bagpipes music.

No, cos it is the thistle

and when will Scotland rise up again...

and recapture Berwick on Tweed ?

You're wrong, and I'm not a Scot and I know it. The official flower of Scotland is the bluebell, not the thistle.

Take Berwick-on-Tweed if you want as long as you will let us still make some clothes out of tweed... and you'll send us some haggis to eat down here.

Edit:

Hey, situation-problem-solving idea here - if you sent us some live haggis we could let them loose in the wild so we can hunt haggis in stead of foxes! Now everyone's happy! Yay.

Ya know, I never did figure out why everyone thinks that us Scots are all just a bunch of people wearing kilts (A.k.a. Skirts), saying 'Och aye the noo!' repeatedly, and somehow managing to like bagpipes music.

Because that's the national identity you put across :P

Ya know, I never did figure out why everyone thinks that us Scots are all just a bunch of people wearing kilts (A.k.a. Skirts), saying 'Och aye the noo!' repeatedly, and somehow managing to like bagpipes music.

Because we perpetuate the stereotype, just as the english like to perpetuate the stereotype of them being tea-drinking, colonial noblemen.

Although I don't think anybody can convincingly pretend to like the bagpipes. Horrid things.

Ya know, I never did figure out why everyone thinks that us Scots are all just a bunch of people wearing kilts (A.k.a. Skirts), saying 'Och aye the noo!' repeatedly, and somehow managing to like bagpipes music.

I blame 'The Hogmanay Show'. Total shite every New Year's Eve. It scarred us at an early age.

Why you're so much worse in football than England? Money? Climate?

Population size?

Ohh it seems the english are letting out some stress. Someone asked if we had our own language. Gaelic is spoken in the north west isles. Scottish was spoken until the union of the crowns, when the kings thought english was "higher class", but still nowadays scots still speak alot of scots. It really depends on where you go, The north of scotland speaks alot but the central belt a little less. Aye and the holyrood parliment is very damn ugly, but we have a parliment which allows us to push for full independence from the horrid thing know as the United Kingdom.

Ya know, I never did figure out why everyone thinks that us Scots are all just a bunch of people wearing kilts (A.k.a. Skirts), saying 'Och aye the noo!' repeatedly, and somehow managing to like bagpipes music.

I suppose that's techniacally racist.
It does get annoying though...

I *gasp* like bagpipe music. BUT THEY DO NOT NEED MICROPHONES!

I was in a echoey hall and they had a mike on the pipes and the speaker (huge, they were) right in front of me. Any much longer and the mic WOULD have been required. I also like scots music with other scots instuments. Like accorian...drums...keyboard and...ELECTRIC GUITAR? Ok, correct that, other instrments.

Ohh it seems the english are letting out some stress. Someone asked if we had our own language. Gaelic is spoken in the north west isles. Scottish was spoken until the union of the crowns, when the kings thought english was "higher class", but still nowadays scots still speak alot of scots. It really depends on where you go, The north of scotland speaks alot but the central belt a little less. Aye and the holyrood parliment is very damn ugly, but we have a parliment which allows us to push for full independence from the horrid thing know as the United Kingdom.

Yes. Horrid, naughty United Kingdom! O', why must you plague these isles so!?

If Soctland is that bad why does the british government not give us independence??????

Us screwing your country up? We just had university top up fees and foundation hospitals forced on us by Scottish MPs, while they weren't implemented in Scotland!

more fool you!

If Soctland is that bad why does the british government not give us independence??????
Well, after our ancestors spent hundreds of years finally conquering you properly we were loathe to give it up, no matter how useless the new lands proved to be...

Well, after our ancestors spent hundreds of years finally conquering you properly we were loathe to give it up, no matter how useless the new lands proved to be...

Actually, it was the scottish monarch who took the english throne. And Scotland agreed to the Union.

If Soctland is that bad why does the british government not give us independence??????

If we were to gain independence from the UK, our economy would die a horrible death.

I'd move to England, pronto. I'll have nothing to do with Scottish Nationalists - no grasp of economics whatsoever. A mythical monster in a lake and a finite oil resource does not a nation support.

If Soctland is that bad why does the british government not give us independence??????

Bad form. It's impolite for a nation to go around cutting out all the bits no-one likes (proof - the continual existence of Liverpool) and the English are famous for their good manners.

If we were to gain independence from the UK, our economy would die a horrible death.

You mean, like Ireland's didn't? And like Iceland's economy didn't, when it separated from Denmark?

You have to ask yourself: why was the Tory party so fundamentally opposed to Scottish devolution, never mind independence, if Scotland was just an economic drag filled with Labour voters? Surely they would have been desperate to get rid of us?

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Originally Posted by North Caledonian
If Soctland is that bad why does the british government not give us independence??????


Well, after our ancestors spent hundreds of years finally conquering you properly we were loathe to give it up, no matter how useless the new lands proved to be...

Useless? At least we have some geography as apposed to boring flat England. You did spend hundreds of years trying to conquer us but in the end it was the economic sanctions which got us. If you hadn't got our support you'd be ruled by the french right now.

If you didn't have scotland - how would you have got the empire you managed to throw away. Scottish regiments were the strongest in the brtish army and were it not for them you wouldnt have got most of india. Not to mention other lands brought under you heel by them.

and to the person who was annoyed about tuition fees - thats our great big thank you for the highland clearances

On a completely unrelated topic, which Scottish regiment held the famed 'Thin Red Line' of (I think)1851 against a Prussian cavalry charge whilst in Line formation?

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Originally Posted by North Caledonian
If Soctland is that bad why does the british government not give us independence??????


Well, after our ancestors spent hundreds of years finally conquering you properly we were loathe to give it up, no matter how useless the new lands proved to be...

Useless? At least we have some geography as apposed to boring flat England. You did spend hundreds of years trying to conquer us but in the end it was the economic sanctions which got us. If you hadn't got our support you'd be ruled by the french right now.

If you didn't have scotland - how would you have got the empire you managed to throw away. Scottish regiments were the strongest in the brtish army and were it not for them you wouldnt have got most of india. Not to mention other lands brought under you heel by them.

and to the person who was annoyed about tuition fees - thats our great big thank you for the highland clearances

Boring flat England? You've clearly never been to England, and if you have it was only to Cambridgeshire or thereabouts.

I agree that if we didn't have a union with Scotland we wouldn't have all the great things we have, but neither would Scotland.

We'll thank you for helping us conquer India by giving you the next influx of Indian economic migrants to enrich your highland culture.

Now, can we please calm down and have some tea? I have some whiskey I could make "Scottish tea" with if you like.

On a completely unrelated topic, which Scottish regiment held the famed 'Thin Red Line' of (I think)1851 against a Prussian cavalry charge whilst in Line formation?

The 93rd Highland Regiment, later amalgamated into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (and it was Russian cavalry, in 1854).

Scots make exceptional soldiers, Englishmen make good soldiers and exceptional pilots, the Cornish make good sailors and the Welsh don't tend to be big on the military... The British Armed Forces are the best in the World - why must you try and split everyone up?

Boring flat England? You've clearly never been to England, and if you have it was only to Cambridgeshire or thereabouts.Oh come on - you think England isn't flat, you've obviously never been anywhere with proper contours. And I'm not talking about Scotland here! ;)

Scots make exceptional soldiers, Englishmen make good soldiers and exceptional pilots, the Cornish make good sailors and the Welsh don't tend to be big on the military... The British Armed Forces are the best in the World - why must you try and split everyone up?

Nothing to do with me, mate -- and you're the one making up unjustifiable stereotypes based on geographical origin. I'm a Scot, and I can tell you I'd make a bloody awful soldier. I don't like being told what to do, I sleep late, have a congenital aversion to strenuous exercise, don't believe there's anything worth killing for and suffer from a morbid fear of death.

How does the Scot feel about Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi? Also, a which do you prefer, a recent single malt or an aged blend?

When do we get a fair share of the North Sea money?

Ah cannae find a good kilt distributor in Manchester. Can ye gi' us a recommendation?