Reason for emigration #2: Scotland is a nation of bitter drunken louts. - by Scots Taffer
ercles on 29/9/2006 at 10:12
At least you can claim that hordes of your countrymen don't migrate to Bondi fucking beach every summer where they proceed to show off some serious pasty flab with their booty shorts and tank tops, and then, wearing said clothes get wasted, pass out on the beach (not before chundering on le sand) and then wake up the next afternoon wondering why the fuck they look like a bloody beetroot (poms can't tan, it seems). God damn I hate English backpackers. Oh and Irish ones too, I can honestly say I've never had a bad experience with the handful of Scottish backpackers that I have met
Scots Taffer on 29/9/2006 at 10:14
That's generally because we're not in our oppressive homeland anymore. ;)
SD on 29/9/2006 at 14:20
Quote Posted by Raven
we think we are better than the English and the English think they are better than everyone
No, the English
know they are better than everyone.
Ajare on 29/9/2006 at 15:01
I lived in Edinburgh for six years, and I'd add architecture to the list of reasons for Scots' dour demeanour. Edinburgh is grey and austere. Aberdeen is the 'granite city', ffs. I've seen drunken girls throwing up outside pubs at closing time in England, but I hadn't seen drunken middle-aged women throwing up in the street at around lunchtime until I moved north. The nearest "shopping street" had nine pubs within 100 yards. It gets to you.
With regards the racism, I don't think this is inherent in the Scottish psyche, it's just a result of Scotland's northerly posting on the Isles. Other cultures haven't penetrated as much as they have in the south, and again, what with GB being surrounded by a sea and all, the island as a whole is probably more xenophobic than elsewhere. No shock relevations there.
The reverse - the huge hordes of Aussies currently swamping the business side of the beer pumps - is what interests me more. We all know Britain's a terrible place for the reasons already outlined, so why come? My theory is that this is in part due to a feeling of isolation from Australia's remote geographical position in the world, and part the weird love-hate relationship they seem to have with their colonial progenitors. I'd like to hear a more definite answer, though.
Convict on 29/9/2006 at 15:13
Quote Posted by ercles
At least you can claim that hordes of your countrymen don't migrate to Bondi fucking beach every summer where they proceed to show off some flab with their booty shorts and tank tops, and then, wearing said clothes get wasted, pass out on the beach (not before chundering on le sand)...God damn I hate <s>English</S>New Zealand backpackers.
Fixed.
Ajare I think the reason is probably because of the strength of the pound - you lose half your money going to Europe so if you work in the UK then go to the continent you have much more money.
Rug Burn Junky on 29/9/2006 at 15:27
Fantastic post, Scots, I can practically taste the chips.
dvrabel on 29/9/2006 at 16:30
I like it here.
Haegan on 29/9/2006 at 16:31
Quote Posted by Rug Burn Junky
Fantastic post, Scots, I can practically taste the chips.
and fried mars bars.
*curls into a ball and waits to be pommeled*
Briareos H on 29/9/2006 at 16:32
the fucking chips
descenterace on 29/9/2006 at 17:19
The English are just as stupid as the rest of the world. They're just jaded enough about it not to waste their energy rocking the boat.
In other words, our relaxed outlook is not smug superiority, but boredom. Boredom erected as a defence against a government that keeps trying to tell us it knows what's best for us.
This attitude kind of spills over to our everyday dealings too. For that, some of us are sorry. The rest don't even notice.
