Ah Didnae Come up in a Paper Boat.
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- mr_carver0
ock eye a noooooooooooo. i've been to scotland. it was when i was doing a seminar in the lake district. daft eh? good for golf though.
- chossy0
HOW DARE HE SAY BURNS IS BORING AND PROVINCIAL HAS HE HEARD A MANS A MAN!!!!!! the best song ever written, it's achingly beautiful.
Is there for honest Poverty
That hings his head, an' a' that;
The coward slave-we pass him by,
We dare be poor for a' that!
For a' that, an' a' that.
Our toils obscure an' a' that,
The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
The Man's the gowd for a' that.What though on hamely fare we dine,
Wear hoddin grey, an' a that;
Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine;
A Man's a Man for a' that:
For a' that, and a' that,
Their tinsel show, an' a' that;
The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men for a' that.Ye see yon birkie, ca'd a lord,
Wha struts, an' stares, an' a' that;
Tho' hundreds worship at his word,
He's but a coof for a' that:
For a' that, an' a' that,
His ribband, star, an' a' that:
The man o' independent mind
He looks an' laughs at a' that.A prince can mak a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, an' a' that;
But an honest man's abon his might,
Gude faith, he maunna fa' that!
For a' that, an' a' that,
Their dignities an' a' that;
The pith o' sense, an' pride o' worth,
Are higher rank than a' that.Then let us pray that come it may,
(As come it will for a' that,)
That Sense and Worth, o'er a' the earth,
Shall bear the gree, an' a' that.
For a' that, an' a' that,
It's coming yet for a' that,
That Man to Man, the world o'er,
Shall brothers be for a' that.- Got an English version of that?moth
- SHUT YOUR HOLE!!!!!!.chossy
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- kelpie0
gotta love region hate. Read any political blogs or messageboards lately? its fucking atrocious out there
- moth0
Dr David Starkey is my new hero.
He sounds like a right proper Tory.
- moth0
"Once upon a time England was a great country. Remember we're distinguished by the fact that we don't have national dress.
"We don't make a great fuss about Shakespeare like the Scots do about that deeply boring provincial poet Burns."
Brilliant.
- chossy0
"Once upon a time England was a great country. Remember we're distinguished by the fact that we don't have national dress.
You are destinguished by the fact that the English flag is called the butchers apron.
"We don't make a great fuss about Shakespeare like the Scots do about that deeply boring provincial poet Burns."
Aye but you English are a bunch of dicks though eh?.
- chossy0
Before this turns into something potentially properly nasty, can folk bear in mind Moth and I have met and are pals so please other English people realize I am just fucking with Moth and I don't mean it about any other English folk. Just incase folk are sitting at their desks fuming at what I am saying.
- Khurram0
"What the Scots and Welsh are, are typical small nations with a romantic 19th Century-style nationalism," he said.
He's got a point...
- moth0
Indeed. I would have loved to have seen Scotland cope with the RBS collapse without all those lovely taxes from South of the border.
It it wasn't for merry old England, eating sheep guts for dinner and prancing around in rags wouldn't just just be a tourist attraction...
- kelpie0
interestingly, a recent study has shown that the working class yoof in Scotland is losing the rolling R from their accent in an attempt to distance themselves from the middle classes. As the prevalent accent they are exposed to through television is estuary english they're starting to flatten the sound. Fucking cultural imperialists you lot.
Not a big fuss made about Shakespeare? don't make me laugh; Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth (ironically enough, and don't get me started on that hatchet job), Merchant of Venice and Hamlet were compulsory reading on my English class in school
pfft. You all should be aware that there is a red button in Holyrood upon the pressing of which all the tramps in london tool up and storm parliament
- Khurram0
By the way "scotch_roman". People from Scotland aren't called "scotch". Scotch are these egg treats.
People from Scotland are called "scotties".
- to be fair to him, the mistake was made many decades ago when the yanks classified the type style wrong, much as they did the whiskykelpie
- the whiskykelpie
- You're my favourite scotty, kelpie.Khurram
- I'm not a good scotty I'm afriad, I will don the kilt for the 1st time in my life for a wedding next monthkelpie
- wacha chattin about? You're a blonde haired blue-eyed fine figure of a celt!Khurram
- see that's the viking in me, if I were proper celtic I'd be short and pale skinned with black hairkelpie
- I am a phoney :(kelpie
- * ahem ginger ahemmoth
- Come to England, we don't hold to such "feeble" identities as hair colour and sun intolerance.Khurram
- Yes we do you fucking heretic.moth
- How else would one identify the weak?moth
- no we don't! We're a proud white nation. *raises fist*Khurram
- Better.moth
- you've a right nerve slaggin' the ginger, mothkelpie
- I merely pointed it out, kelpie.moth
- cool bro, solidaritykelpie
- blackisle0
ciamar a tha thu
- blackisle0
tha mi gu math
- SteveNo0
hey seck boy' nay feckin scag!