Reason for emigration #2: Scotland is a nation of bitter drunken louts.

Ulukai on 29/9/2006 at 18:39

Quote Posted by descenterace

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.

That is a pitiful excuse, followed by an untruth.

It's a free(ish) country, people who are bored are bored because they're boring. Or more often than not, just bone-idle.

ffox on 29/9/2006 at 18:47

Or (shudder) they actually believe what they read in The Daily Mail. :p

Shevers on 29/9/2006 at 18:54

I guess I'm a masochist then, only I like the damn place. Maybe I just know the right/wrong people and have little enough of a life to be dealing with the - admittedly pretty massive - drinking issues regularly.

Suppose I just haven't been dealing with the dregs as much as all you jaded types.

Nicker on 29/9/2006 at 19:45

A Song of Patriotic Prejudice (abridged)
Flanders & Swan

The English, the English, the English are best
I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest.

The English are moral, the English are good
And clever and modest and misunderstood.

And all the world over, each nation's the same
They've simply no notion of playing the game
They argue with umpires, they cheer when they've won
And they practice beforehand which ruins the fun!

The English, the English, the English are best
So up with the English and down with the rest.

It's not that they're wicked or natuarally bad
It's knowing they're foreign that makes them so mad!

For the English are all that a nation should be,
And the flower of the English are Donald and Me!

Stitch on 29/9/2006 at 20:38

Quote Posted by descenterace

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.

You've got two threads now, why not make it three?

SULLEN TEEN REVOLUTION

Mr.Duck on 29/9/2006 at 22:30

It all boils down to the chips (oh, pun...oh, lovely pun...).

Lovely rant, Scots, haven't seen raging in such a coherent manner (not to mention entertaining) in quite a while ('sides GBMs', that is), cheers.

Actually reminded me of an anecdote at my homecity, can't recall most of the details, but it ended up with a couple being shot to death (I think the shooting end were the drunkards), some silly conversation-degenerating-into-an-argument-then-violence thing. Funny how situations like that can turn around into violence like *snap*.

Oh well...life goes on.

Also, in -after- Scots....shit....:(

[EDIT]Inching my way into page deuce...[/EDIT]

Shevers on 29/9/2006 at 22:32

Which actually reminds me of the freakish number of murders of people our family know/know of in Easterhouse over the last month. Dammit, where did my rose-tinted glasses go?

Mr.Duck on 29/9/2006 at 22:36

:o

That just made me feel nostalgic of my hometown...

Tocky on 30/9/2006 at 03:21

People who kill take all the fun out of violence don't they? I mean seriously, what is so bad about about a few lumps? OH NO I LOST YOU ALL MUST DIE! What the hell? Do they WANT to get butt raped? Because I guarantee there is somebody tougher in prison.

But yeah, I've never felt so close to you Scots. Give us some tongue. What you take most umbridge in is the fact it is YOUR people living up to a stereotype. You feel the weight of all that history on your shoulders and go out of your way to discredit it in your own actions only to have it pop up and shame you amongst friends in a relaxed atmosphere. Likely it didn't mean near as much to them. As an American abroad I felt it and as a southerner anywhere else in my own country.

Assholes never pick a good time do they? Always when you are having fun with friends or out with your girl. Never when you have just lost your job or your girl and actually want someone to start some shit. I don't think I would fare well in your old country. If I didn't rise to the bait I would feel unmanly and if I did I would feel guilty for being a redneck. The best is when they back down because something you say lets them know you have been there and will be particularly pissed to go back. I don't see that happening much in Scotland.

On the other hand maybe he was just a lonely bastard. There is a fine line between pity and smashing someones head on the table sometimes. I went to a bar not long back and saw a girl from the old days and knew she was lonely and just wanting someone to talk to who was human and not on the make so I shot a game of pool with her and two college guys who had her zeroed came up and one of them had the nerve to slap me on the back and say he would have to beat my ass. I told him he would just have to show me that trick and then he tried to get me on his side with "she's quite a looker" or somesuch so I told him to tell her that. She might like to hear it. She also might like not being referred to in the third person.

I felt pity for his clumsy romance dance but more for her having to put up with such dickheads. I ended up allowing them to be friendly with me, making conversation while she made her break for freedom. I was sad for them and sad for me but mostly sad for her. Bars are bleak places sometimes. I'm not sure what my point was. Sometimes you feel bad no matter how you handle it maybe. I don't know. He turned out to be less the tough guy and more a cloying shit I had trouble shaking in the end.

Gee that helped. See why I don't post much anymore?

Martin Karne on 30/9/2006 at 03:37

Tomorrow will be another bright and nice day, relax and enjoy.