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The Borders...Welcome to Scotland....then it's fooking miles before you get to Edinboro/Glasgow


Bagpipes - can anyone make a case for them?


Bannockburn - one poxy battle, that delayed the inevitable, celebrated like it was Marathon or Waterloo or D_day


The Union - instigated by James the 6th of Scotland and not some alien invasion by the horrid english


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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 ;-)

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 :)

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> 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.

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.

Alex K Wrote:

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> @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.

Parkdrive Wrote:

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> Jah Lush Wrote:

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> > The seething sectarian hate and bile that goes

> on

> > at an Auld Firm derby.


> Second that


As opposed to the non-sectarian hate and bile that goes on at English games, and readily appears in our very own Football Focus thread...

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