beware!
another battle of bannockburn/culloden/independence/wotsit is imminent.
judging by the comment's made by english, scots, a sprinkling of others - and a canuck of scottish descent [which is not unexpected, knowin a handful of em] to boot; certain individual's on both sides of the border not only have massive chips on their shoulder's still; both are also equally guilty of condescension, misplaced arrogance and xenophobia.
i have had the utter pleasure/displeasure to know both set's of folk personally and in passing; and some have been mate's for a long while. so methinks i'm well placed to tell the more churlish of both parties to grow up.
and as my earlier remark about knowin em canuck's, they seem to have pretty good memories about the unjust mistreatments their scottish forefather's suffered under em english - re: the highland clearance's and suchlike. woe betide if you tell em it's the past and they should move on.
the irony is they'd say exact same to me whenever i launch a diatribe about em jap's and wwII.
and i can't wait to tell the next canuck i meet - who if ever mentions the above - how come they are still part of the commonwealth. or how come the Queen is still their head of state.
no, it'd be: how come those fresh-off-the-boat amoebic amongst their lot cannot seem to accept the fact that a non-canuck - no, make that a non-caucasian; also read: yers truly - could be in charge of their monthly pub night's.
isn't it in their Constitution that they must not and should not discriminate anyone regardless of descent?
hypocrisy? or due to their scottish heritage? anyways, comin from folk who haven't a clue if they should be frog or yank, that's not surprising.
oh and as an aside, one of em poster's in the forum said about the yorkshireman being ".. a scot with all the generosity knocked out of him..", it reminds me of this wee episode whilst in London when i stopped this rather gorgeous, 7-footer [i think] blond chap for directions.
i queried afterwhich: "pardon my sayin so, you sound scottish but looked swedish."
his reply: "i'm from york."
that says it all, innit.
as enscribed by the letter b @ June 24, 2006 07:52 AM | someone's pinged