Scots Suport England

[monty-python]

I must be hallucinating!!!

3 pages of posts,

And the guff's havn't mentioned 1966

Swoon

[telecat]

Spent some time "touring" Scotland a couple of Years ago. It's a Beautiful place but so is England. So no problems there. I had a Scottish Trainer with me and as She had a pretty balanced view of her own country. Most of the "attitude" seems to come from the percieved "conquest" of Scotland by the English. What is not mentioned is the different nature's of the people of Scotland. The Bandit nature of the Clans which affected the Low landers as much as pi$$ing off the English is the major influenence that seems to cause the friction. This is seen as being a Scottish independent streak where it caused as many problems to the Scottish people themselves, an example being the "clearences" where a lot of Scot's moved to Ireland and beyond. Those events where caused by the very people the Scot's in many instances laud as "heroes''. That is the Clan Lords finding a cheaper way of making money. It's a case of selective memory picking and choosing events to suit how any people's see themselves. Rob Roy and Robin Hood share a similar folk legend. Neither could actually be called a hero but in the Victorian era they have had there legends created and their stories "cleansed" of any bad influences. Basically delve deep enough and the reasons for events are there and do not justify the "hatred" seen by the factions. I'm not a big fan of Sting's politics, but to those who don't try "History will teach us nothing".

[highland lassie]

I've been trying not to add my tuppence-worth in this thread, but it's starting to do my head in now, and I think now would be a good time to point out that very few Scots have any issues with the whole England thing - personally I don't know a single person that has a genuine problem with it.

You'll probably find that 99% of us use it as a source of entertainment, wind-upery and general banter - anybody taking it seriously has either never left their home county or are narrow-minded beyond belief. So can you lot stop taking the bait and give us normal Scots a break?

[exiled yorkshireman]

I've been trying not to add my tuppence-worth in this thread, but it's starting to do my head in now, and I think now would be a good time to point out that very few Scots have any issues with the whole England thing - personally I don't know a single person that has a genuine problem with it.

You'll probably find that 99% of us use it as a source of entertainment, wind-upery and general banter - anybody taking it seriously has either never left their home county or are narrow-minded beyond belief. So can you lot stop taking the bait and give us normal Scots a break?

I think you'll find the vast majority of us 'engleeeesh' are happy to take most of it as fun and banter

....after all...our teams better than yours and we stole all your oil!...nar nar ne nar nar

[bikespace]

Blah blah blah and give us normal Scots a break?

That almost seems sensible and believable, but you forget, some of us have met you.

[neonsurge]

I think you'll find the vast majority of us 'engleeeesh' are happy to take most of it as fun and banter

I think you'll also find that there's a (perhaps) surprsingly large number of English, Scots, Welsh and whatever other nationality you care to mention who simply don't give a toss.