On behalf of the Scottish nation and celts everywhere ..

Yep, shut up!

On a more serious note, just watching Panorama about secterian hatred in Scotland between Catholics/Protestants, ie Celtic/Ranger. Quite scary stuff, which I sort of understood while I was in skool in Kilmarnock. Having come from Wales, I didn't understand the prejudice, and used to get both beaten up by and befriend(ed) people from both sides of the divide.
 
My Father was born in the Highlands of Scotland, My mother was from the valleys of Wales. Neither could stand the relatives of the other so I was born in London.
The only advantage of such a heritage is that I can disown whichever team is playing the worst. At the moment it's a toss up between the three but the blind South African referee won the match yesterday and gets my vote as tosser of the match. What's the point of having video coverage if it's not used?
 
Re: Cast off Scotland

Did anyone watch Panorama on BBC last night?

I know it was connected with the round ball (Rangers v Celtic) but was enough to make me want to cast off Scotland, tow it to mid-Atlantic and sink it.
 
Re: Cast off Scotland

Erm .. yes .. there are a few absolute nutters. But suspect that most would still be nutters even if they'd been born in England .. perhaps just a different banner .. eg Football hooligan, NF , Huntsman ..oops did'nt mean that;-)
 
Re: Cast off Scotland

as a Glaswegian, I never got my head around the sectarian thing. I grew up supporting Rangers, my brother on the other hand is a diehard Celtic supporter. Go figure.
You on the other hand, are a Killie fan, or perhaps not. That's your problem. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Done already : towing Scotland: full background

i'm afraid that's already been done: Scotland used to be a mediterranean island, and if you look carefully, it fits perfectly to the side of Sardinia and has similar rough terrain.

After much earlier fights (which they lost) the victorious local eyeties decided they had to go, and hence the enforced towing away into midatlantic saga and, as today with the worlds unwanted waste products, it was parked it up here after some ridiculous tender process to clean the place up was won by northern brits, a habit which continues in modern times whether it's nuclear or old ships, we don't seem to care.

In order to make the trip, the whole land mass was cut away from the rest of Sardinia with hand tools to scratch away - hence "Scratchland" which eventually became "Scotand". The Scratchers (later "Scottish") themselves were referred to as "Picts" from the pickaxes they all used.

Whilst in the med, the locals used to wear skirts because of the intense heat but carried on doing the same even whilst in midatlantic, and still do so to this day, and this together with the everlasting iffy weather accounts for the very bad humour of many Scots.

The towing and dumping of scotland also accounts for the very common southerly drift of scottish nationals, still harking back to their homeland - yet whilst having moved south - the fact is that their homeland was originally in the south - much further south so really they should keep going, but resist this because of the natural caution about the sea, bearing mind the cockup with the previous national excursion.

Anyway, at the end of the voayage they the island was crash-parked and the damage resulted in lots of bits smashing up which are still visible as hebrides, orkneys etc.

Having finall shudderred to a halt they put up the international flag signal M for "I am stopped" which they rather stingily continue to use as their national flag to this day.

This part of Scotlands' history also accounts for the phrase "Scotland the Brave" which is actually a derivation of "Scotland the Barge".
 
Re: Done already : towing Scotland: full background

Actually we rowed and sailed it across to the other side of the Atlantic first, hence getting there before Zheng He.
 
Er, not quite all Celts Jimi. There are two Celtic Nations who play for their near neighbours. Cornwall players for England and Breton players for France. Sort that out, 'cos I can't.
 
Re: Cast off Scotland

Biggots are to be found everywhere. Better that they be spread around rather than concentrated in one place. The so called religious divide is no more than an excuse for thuggery and bullying. It is sad that we do not work harder to detach this kind of behaviour from the label it is given.

Sermon over. Now, what's the best way for me to get a dig in against all you Celts /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Have to be careful, though, my Mum's side of the family are all of Irish descent, Protestant Grandmother and Catholic Grandfather, and like every true Englishman I'm nobut a mongrel.
 
Try being a Lancastrian married to a Highlander with a son born in Ayrshire and all living in Scotland.........The jocks will support anyone but England.....European cup game a few years back England v West Germany....every pub in Troon full of jocks wearing German shirts!!!...only 40 years previous the Germans were bombing the hell out of Clydebank......

Paul.
 
Barges, bretons and cornish

Obviously, the ancestor of the celtic types in cornwall and brittany are those who jumped ship as the orgignial scottish barge made a refuelling stop on the journey north, or perhaps anchored overnight, or maybe it swung out badly if it was a long tow.
 
Re: Cast off Scotland

Worry not that you are a mongrel aitchw.
It's blatently obvious that most of the other mongrels on here don't even know their heritage. They may indeed be Celts (although I have my doubts about the short fat hairy ones that are more likely Hobbits) But the original Scots were not in fact Celts but aboriginal Picts and Scots. The Celts were originally from middle Europe and invaded the British Isles during the period from 1000BC and 500AD. The main waves of immigration were the Halstadt people who settled in 500BC in LOWLAND SOUTHERN BRITAIN bringing with them Iron technology (Iron Age A) Then in 300BC the main wave of La Tene people came (Iron age B) The La Tene people settled THROUGHOUT BRITAIN and were probably responsible for chariot warfare and probably started the whole road rage problem...... Then the third wave came after 100BC from Belgium so that until the Claudian invasion in 43AD Celts were the main race to be found everywhere. It was only in the latter part of Roman occupancy that there were Angles Saxons and Jutes landing in the South East of Britain in any numbers. These were the tall blonde blue eyed people of Denmark and northern Germany. (Relax Jimi lad you are safe!) So all those Pratts who think the Anglo Saxons are an ancient proud race of Britons who were here first. Rubbish! We were here hundreds of years before you were and only deigned to move over left a bit to allow you to have the south east of the island to keep you quiet. And look what you have done with it! Yuppie culture, overcrowding, bossy nanny state, political correctness, bloody hell you even invent a new game of football because you cant win without picking the ball up and running with it and you are now crap at that! But will all you Scots who call yourself Celts please recognise that unless you can claim Direct decent from Picts and Scots you are no different from the English who are mainly Celts too with a smattering of Anglo Saxon here and there. And the Welsh, bless their hearts can only claim a political and geographical divide from Mercia and Wessex, not a racial one. And by the way, for those Danes amongst us that call themselves Vikings, I have ignored you as you are all latecomers and in any case you are still Angles and Jutes anyway!
 
Re: Barges, bretons and cornish

Hardly obviously. If it had done any of those things it would have become yet another victim of the Cornish Wreckers! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
Re: Barges, bretons and cornish

Listen you lot, we left you there as an occupying army to keep things sorted but you've gone bluidy native you lot. Even managed to lose yer language, careless buggers
 
Re: Cast off Scotland

If the Celts and Picts had stood there ground and fought the Romans, instead of hiding in Scotland, and Wales us Angles would not have had to come over hear and look after you lot.

Brian
 
Re: Cast off Scotland

Actually we did such a good job of fighting the Romans that they could not defeat us and could only resort to building a bloody great big wall to keep us out.
No good now though my son, we are back in with a vengeance!
 
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