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English/Scottish/Welsh etc vs British (pg. 3)
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| isoterra |
| to be fair, the scots have invented alot of things. i know this because on three different forums now when england vs scotland arguments have come up, some over-patriotic jock has copy/pasted a massive list full of their invention feats in order to try & prove they're better, and it's the same list every time :p |
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| dj_mdma |
i'm british because i was born here, brought up in a british way etc but don't call myself english as i hardly look like a typical anglo-saxon :stongue:
but if i was an anglo-saxon in blood, then i would class myself as english. |
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| moondog |
| quote: | Originally posted by dj_mdma
i hardly look like a typical anglo-saxon |
Bloody right there, you look like a ing retard!!!11:p |
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| dj_mdma |
| quote: | Originally posted by moondog
Bloody right there, you look like a ing retard!!!11:p |
been looking in the mirror again have we?! :stongue: :p |
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| moondog |
| quote: | Originally posted by dj_mdma
been looking in the mirror again have we?! :stongue: :p |
nah, i learnt not to do that after one splintered and got me in the eye :(.
Was just looking at your profile pic on harderfaster;):p |
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| est |
| quote: | Originally posted by isoterra
to be fair, the scots have invented alot of things. i know this because on three different forums now when england vs scotland arguments have come up, some over-patriotic jock has copy/pasted a massive list full of their invention feats in order to try & prove they're better, and it's the same list every time :p |
You mean the poem? Here it is!;)
| quote: | Wha's like us? (Damn few an theyre a' deid!)
The average Englishman in the home he call his castle slips into his national costume, a shabby raincoat, patented by Chemist Charles Macintosh from Glasgow, Scotland.
En-route to his office he strides along the English lane, surfaced by John Macadam of Ayr, Scotland.
He drives an English car fitted with tyres invented by John Boyd Dunlop, Veterinary Surgeon of Dreghorn, Scotland.
At the office he receives the mail bearing adhesive stamps invented by John Chalmers, Bookseller and Printer of Dundee, Scotland.
During the day he uses the telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh, Scotland. At home in the evening his daughter pedals her bicycle invented by Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Blacksmith of Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
He watches the news on television, an invention of John Logie Baird of Helensburgh, Scotland, and hears an item about the U.S. Navy founded by John Paul Jones of Kirkbean, Scotland.
Nowhere can an Englishman turn to escape the ingenuity of the Scots.
He has by now been reminded too much of Scotland and in desperation he picks up the Bible, only to find that the first man mentioned in the good book is a Scot, King James VI, who authorized its translation.
He could take to drink but the Scots make the best in the world.
He could take a rifle and end it all, but the breech-loading rifle was invented by Captain Patrick Ferguson of Pitfours, Scotland.
If he escaped death, he could find himself on an operating table injected with penicillin, discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming of Darvel, Scotland, and given chloroform, an anesthetic discovered by Sir James Young Simpson, Obstetrician and Gynecologist of Bathgate, Scotland.
Out of the anesthetic he would find no comfort in learning that he was as safe as the Bank of England founded by William Paterson of Dumfries, Scotland.
Perhaps his only remaining hope would be to get a transfusion of guid Scottish blood which would entitle him to ask:
"Wha's Like Us?" |
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| RickyM |
You know why Scotsmen wear kilts?
Because sheep can hear zippers from a mile away :D |
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| Fundamental |
What exactly have you guys invented then? I want to hear these "facts" you speak of. :p
| quote: | Originally posted by RickyM
You know why Scotsmen wear kilts?
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Yes. The kilt was never a universal garment for all Scots, but it was confined in use to the Highlands of Scotland, originally. Before the kilt was developed in the Highlands, the Gaelic peoples often wore a long tunic called a leine with no breeches or leggings underneath. In fact, most peoples of the world began with a simple tunic of some sort and no trousers. Trousers were never needed until the development of horsemanship in a society. Romans considered trousers a lower class garment because only the slave classes rode horses in their society. Affluent men and women were pulled in chariots and wore tunics or togas. In the Highlands of Scotland, most people could not afford horses as they were uncommon in the region. Those who did ride horses wore trousers or tights, but most men never had need for them. For this reason, their dress evolved along different lines than in places like England or the continent, where horsemanship was an integral part of society. |
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| slinkyhead |
| quote: | Originally posted by Fundamental
What exactly have you guys invented then? I want to hear these "facts" you speak of. :p
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here's a few for you:
Parliamentary democracy, free market economics, the industrial revolution, modern medicine, tanks, computers, trains, jet aircraft, femdoms, bondage |
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| Ian |
| quote: | Originally posted by slinkyhead
here's a few for you:
Parliamentary democracy, free market economics, the industrial revolution, modern medicine, tanks, computers, trains, jet aircraft, femdoms, bondage |
mate, whats a tranceaddit ? |
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| slinkyhead |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ian
mate, whats a tranceaddit ? |
hahaha whoops :D |
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