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Why we love Scotland! (Original Post) Soph0571 Feb 2019 OP
Classics! SunSeeker Feb 2019 #1
They do have a way with language packman Feb 2019 #2
I love cockwomble PJMcK Feb 2019 #3
K & R! Those NEVER get old! 50 Shades Of Blue Feb 2019 #4
Makes me proud I had a Scottish granny. Vinca Feb 2019 #5
I think it would sound even better when spoken with that biting Scottish accent! LiberalLovinLug Feb 2019 #6
That is what I thought too! Evergreen Emerald Feb 2019 #39
i love Scotland. trueblue2007 Feb 2019 #7
Reads like Ben Kingsley's part in "Sexy Beast." VOX Feb 2019 #8
Olympic Gold for the Scots!! KT2000 Feb 2019 #9
Alba gu bragh sarge43 Feb 2019 #10
Love Scotland. I am so glad I have Scottish heritage. demigoddess Feb 2019 #11
I couldn't have said it better myself lillypaddle Feb 2019 #12
Spoogedrizzle Joe Nation Feb 2019 #13
It's like a flash of diamond dazzle isn't it?! lunatica Feb 2019 #35
And those are only the ones that can be published! marble falls Feb 2019 #14
Someone here has used "Orange shitgibbon" and that always cracks me up oldsoftie Feb 2019 #15
They'll no doubt say the same thing when he dies they said about Thatcher: sandensea Feb 2019 #16
scotland nearly owed me a keyboard!! niyad Feb 2019 #17
Are you sure this is from Scotland?... lame54 Feb 2019 #18
LOL Soph0571 Feb 2019 #23
I stole apricot hellbeasr a long tine ago. NT irisblue Feb 2019 #19
Oh my. TommyCelt Feb 2019 #20
K & R... N_E_1 for Tennis Feb 2019 #21
Heh he.........that's my ancestors doing their thing!!! Bengus81 Feb 2019 #22
And so we have... Soph0571 Feb 2019 #24
Ahhhhhh, the flag of St. Andrew. Haggis for Breakfast Feb 2019 #37
the ugliest american ever spanone Feb 2019 #25
He pulled his classic Trump "deal"... SergeStorms Feb 2019 #46
Spunkbubble underpants Feb 2019 #26
To the Scots Haggis for Breakfast Feb 2019 #36
I was in Edinburgh a couple peacefreak2.0 Feb 2019 #27
K&R Scurrilous Feb 2019 #28
The next to the last one is an INSULT Wolf Frankula Feb 2019 #29
Color me very impressed. Ferrets are Cool Feb 2019 #30
I think I hurt myself. Harker Feb 2019 #31
Even better with a Scottish accent. Adrahil Feb 2019 #32
Alba gu brath! TomSlick Feb 2019 #33
So proud recovering_democrat Feb 2019 #34
Robin Williams and Scotland billh58 Feb 2019 #38
To a tee! Myrddin Feb 2019 #44
a "Womble" was fictional cartoon creature in the UK Demonaut Feb 2019 #40
LOL@HellBeast! I'm Cha Feb 2019 #41
I'll rec that Blue Owl Feb 2019 #42
pithy and to the point, perfect for witty reparte at dinner parties not_the_one Feb 2019 #43
"weaselheaded fucknugget" montana_hazeleyes Feb 2019 #45
OMG, that last one is a tour de force - lark Feb 2019 #47
Left one out! Grins Feb 2019 #48
What about scabby scunner? BSdetect Feb 2019 #49
Just to start with... BobTheSubgenius Feb 2019 #50
"Shit spackled muppet fart"...lmfao. Brilliant!! Docreed2003 Feb 2019 #51

VOX

(22,976 posts)
8. Reads like Ben Kingsley's part in "Sexy Beast."
Tue Feb 19, 2019, 03:05 PM
Feb 2019

Which was nae Scot, but very anti-Gandhi.

If the UK “brexits,” Scotland will likely again vote for independence, and re-join the EU.

Makes me proud of my heritage, Scottish on both sides of the family tree.

sandensea

(21,726 posts)
16. They'll no doubt say the same thing when he dies they said about Thatcher:
Tue Feb 19, 2019, 04:28 PM
Feb 2019

"3 million pounds for a funeral! For 3 million you can give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we'll hand him to the Devil himself!"

Bengus81

(6,939 posts)
22. Heh he.........that's my ancestors doing their thing!!!
Tue Feb 19, 2019, 05:08 PM
Feb 2019

Time to get my Scotland flag out once again and hoist it up my flagpole!!


spanone

(135,950 posts)
25. the ugliest american ever
Tue Feb 19, 2019, 05:19 PM
Feb 2019
Trump and Scotland

Two flags flutter in the breeze on top of what used to be the coastguard station at Menie, on the Aberdeenshire coast in north-eastern Scotland.

From this buff-coloured block of 1950s architecture, there are stunning views over Donald Trump’s golf course, across marram grass-covered sand dunes out to the North Sea.

The couple who have made this converted watch house their home are David and Moira Milne. From their roof they fly the Scottish saltire, white on blue and - more curiously - the green, white and red tricolour of Mexico.

The Milnes hoisted the Mexican flag in solidarity with that country when Mr Trump promised to build a wall on their border and make them pay for it. “He’s already tried that here,” says David. “He built a fence and sent us a bill.”


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/Trump_and_Scotland

SergeStorms

(19,205 posts)
46. He pulled his classic Trump "deal"...
Wed Feb 20, 2019, 04:27 AM
Feb 2019

promising the Scots everything and giving them nothing but lies and bullshit. Both of his Scottish golf courses were purchased with Russian money. With all of the investigations finally giving TrumpCo. a thorough going over, he may never finish his grand plan for Aberdeenshire. I hope Trump is forced to sell everything he owns in his next - and final - bankruptcy. I want to see him ruined, destitute, penniless. I want the entire Trump family to be living in a refrigerator box under a railroad overpass in International Falls, Minnesota. Everything Trump touched turns to shit, and the people of Scotland are about to find that out. It's too bad it cost them a beautiful stretch of natural, living shoreline.

peacefreak2.0

(1,023 posts)
27. I was in Edinburgh a couple
Tue Feb 19, 2019, 06:06 PM
Feb 2019

Of years ago & my cabbie called him a bawbag. Didn't know what it meant at the time!

34. So proud
Tue Feb 19, 2019, 09:24 PM
Feb 2019

To be of Scottish descent is a real honor in this world today. Thanks for this loverly demonstration of Scots thinking.

billh58

(6,635 posts)
38. Robin Williams and Scotland
Tue Feb 19, 2019, 09:53 PM
Feb 2019

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not_the_one

(2,227 posts)
43. pithy and to the point, perfect for witty reparte at dinner parties
Wed Feb 20, 2019, 12:41 AM
Feb 2019

You'll either be loved (you pick your friends well) or asked to leave (you're better off without them)...



But for something beautiful about Scotland, if you have a 4K teevee, go to Youtube, look specifically in 4K UHD, and look up Beautiful Scotland. It lasts a little over 8 minutes. The visuals are beautiful, and the music that goes with it is absolutely incredible. Listen to it turned up. It starts softly, but builds... Gives me chills.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,580 posts)
50. Just to start with...
Wed Feb 20, 2019, 09:50 PM
Feb 2019

...how can you not love a country whose national animal is imaginary? That is just FANTASTIC, in my opinion.

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