???? Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 The Borders...Welcome to Scotland....then it's fooking miles before you get to Edinboro/GlasgowBagpipes - can anyone make a case for them?Bannockburn - one poxy battle, that delayed the inevitable, celebrated like it was Marathon or Waterloo or D_dayThe Union - instigated by James the 6th of Scotland and not some alien invasion by the horrid englishRant over Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43870-things-i-hate-about-scotland/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted May 3, 2014 Author Share Posted May 3, 2014 Ps honuory mentions for Salmond, midges and 'the Old Firm" Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43870-things-i-hate-about-scotland/#findComment-744017 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StraferJack Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Good effort. But you won't top this trolling of Scotland Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43870-things-i-hate-about-scotland/#findComment-744020 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Medic Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Scotland after independence Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43870-things-i-hate-about-scotland/#findComment-744023 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Help-Ma-Boab Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 NSFW: Trainspotting. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43870-things-i-hate-about-scotland/#findComment-744029 Share on other sites More sharing options...
numbers Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 I can make a case for bagpipes dearest quids. and I say that as someone who, as a teenager, suffered greatly at the sounds of my younger brother learning to play the blasted things. Practising Piobaireachds over and over.Bagpipes should ideally be accompanied by drums. Which reminds me, my other brother was learning to play those in the bedroom next door to mine. I sometimes look back and wonder what it was that spurred me to leave home at 17 years of age ;-) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43870-things-i-hate-about-scotland/#findComment-744033 Share on other sites More sharing options...
numbers Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 anyone read the invention of tradition by that old marxist eric hobsbawm who died a year ago or so?tartan AND the kilt - invented by the english :)) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43870-things-i-hate-about-scotland/#findComment-744034 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 I'm finding the run-up to the vote genuinely something of a buzz. How often is so black and white a decision which could result in real historical change left to a popular vote? And the turnout will surely be near-universal. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43870-things-i-hate-about-scotland/#findComment-744036 Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveo Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Devo max is a nasty shade of grey Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43870-things-i-hate-about-scotland/#findComment-744037 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salsaboy Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Will Alex Salmond be out of a job if they vote yes? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43870-things-i-hate-about-scotland/#findComment-744038 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otta Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 I assumed he'd be their prime minister which is why he's so desperate for it to happen. That alone would be enough to make me vote no, the self serving twat!Will be interesting if there is a yes vote to see how long it takes for all the negotiating to take place. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43870-things-i-hate-about-scotland/#findComment-744041 Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveo Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Can't wait to see President Alex all gussied up to state visit the Queen and demand the keys for Holyrood. Then he'll send the Scottish navy to take possession of the oil platforms and evict the nukey submarines.Then he'll have to print some money.The job list is endless Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43870-things-i-hate-about-scotland/#findComment-744043 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peckhamgatecrasher Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Someone's made a case for them:http://www.bagpipecase.com/Anyway, whatever Quids can drum up gets trumped by one thing: tablet. QED. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43870-things-i-hate-about-scotland/#findComment-744044 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StraferJack Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 All the scare stuff is nonsense thoThere is precedent in the uk within last 100 years Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43870-things-i-hate-about-scotland/#findComment-744046 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belle Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Tablet - yes! Tablet does trump most things.And I can definitely make a case for the Borders! It's beautiful. And from next year there will be a train line from Edinburgh down to the Borders, for the first time since Beeching cut the line in the 60s. Beautiful countryside, rolling hills. I am biased though :) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43870-things-i-hate-about-scotland/#findComment-744092 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burbage Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 ???? Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Bagpipes - can anyone make a case for them?Oddly enough, yes. But I can't put the case any better than the glorious Kathryn Tickell who plays the Northumbrian pipes. The Highland Bagpipes are, of course, a different thing and, like the kilt, haggis, oatcake and shortbread, a rough-edged variety of the civilised version.If there's something I will miss about Scotland, it's the variety of sardonic tramps that constitute their chief export, but I can't say I;ll miss them any more than the corrupt, criminal, grasping, lying, fraudulent and venal national bank which it seems I've been forced to own. The referendum is a useful start, but I can't help thinking that if Scotland hand been tied to Ireland, towed out to soemwhere deep and sunk, the last two centuries would have been a whole lot pleasanter for both everyone and the fishes. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43870-things-i-hate-about-scotland/#findComment-744127 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Help-Ma-Boab Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Stirling fuckin Albion. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43870-things-i-hate-about-scotland/#findComment-744136 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex K Posted May 4, 2014 Share Posted May 4, 2014 @Belle -- You sent me to Wikipaedia. The short-sightedness of ending railway service between Carlisle and Edinburgh... The new line is a scant thirty miles, a bit beyond Galashiels only, commuter trains: Better than nothing, though. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43870-things-i-hate-about-scotland/#findComment-744169 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBen Posted May 4, 2014 Share Posted May 4, 2014 Scotland is not best known for well planned, forward thinking infrastructure projects.But this thread generally? 1/10 to quids and near zero for Burbages effort. Even Louisa's maggots are bigger and juicier. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43870-things-i-hate-about-scotland/#findComment-744173 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted May 4, 2014 Share Posted May 4, 2014 I genuinely hope for a no, we are both more than the sum of our parts (ooeerr missus) but second worst campaign of all time (after lib dem electoral reform) may well have achieved a yes. Best of luck frankly, I truly wish Scotland well but would happily see Salmond fall off something fatal. Proper shit that man. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43870-things-i-hate-about-scotland/#findComment-744191 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jah Lush Posted May 4, 2014 Share Posted May 4, 2014 The seething sectarian hate and bile that goes on at an Auld Firm derby. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43870-things-i-hate-about-scotland/#findComment-744193 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otta Posted May 4, 2014 Share Posted May 4, 2014 What El Pibe said. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43870-things-i-hate-about-scotland/#findComment-744201 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belle Posted May 4, 2014 Share Posted May 4, 2014 Alex K Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> @Belle -- You sent me to Wikipaedia. The> short-sightedness of ending railway service> between Carlisle and Edinburgh... The new line is> a scant thirty miles, a bit beyond Galashiels> only, commuter trains: Better than nothing,> though.Yes, would be much better but it's a start! after 50 odd years without any rail links... and a bus route from the Borders to Edin that took 1 hr 3/4 to cover 35 miles...Hopefully if it is a success the line might be extended. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43870-things-i-hate-about-scotland/#findComment-744202 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parkdrive Posted May 4, 2014 Share Posted May 4, 2014 Jah Lush Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> The seething sectarian hate and bile that goes on> at an Auld Firm derby. Second that Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43870-things-i-hate-about-scotland/#findComment-744231 Share on other sites More sharing options...
red devil Posted May 4, 2014 Share Posted May 4, 2014 Parkdrive Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Jah Lush Wrote:> --------------------------------------------------> -----> > The seething sectarian hate and bile that goes> on> > at an Auld Firm derby.> Second thatAs opposed to the non-sectarian hate and bile that goes on at English games, and readily appears in our very own Football Focus thread... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43870-things-i-hate-about-scotland/#findComment-744235 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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