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Bad for the lung-ish or lun-kist as those would say that wouldn't hear of the lesser points of the demo nicks ... demographics? Just scattered words without appropriation ...
 
Jae said:
As someone who's 1/2 Scottish, I'm watching this conversation closely.
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My 100% Scottish friend (born somewhere around Glasgow IIRC and immigrated with his family as a child) would have heartily agreed about the ego and then defended it by demonstrating how Scots really were the most important people on the planet :rolleyes::cool:.
 
Mendalla said:
My 100% Scottish friend (born somewhere around Glasgow IIRC and immigrated with his family as a child) would have heartily agreed about the ego and then defended it by demonstrating how Scots really were the most important people on the planet :rolleyes::cool:.
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They are...I didn't mention that as it's a given. ;)

Paper deliveries Part 1 and windchill.
 
LAST as I make a vain attempt to understand the logic of the powers-that-be in my place of employment. Snowing like a sumbitch all morning, closed one of the northern campuses before it opened, we all struggled onto the campus, there's exams being written, final Christmas parties in the dining room, etc. Close down, 11:30 a.m. We're all there; the snow activity has considerably let up...
 
I'm half-Scots, too. And they do have an ego problem. Every Scot will tell you how the Romans couldn't conquer them. In fact, the Romans creamed them with ease, and they occupied much of Scotland for many years. They left because it wasn't worth occupying. That's why they pulled back and built Hadrian's wall.
But I have long sought a person who might know a Scots folk song. The opening words sound like Hayla, hayla shayla.....
It was sung by women as they beat the wet wool on a table. My mother sang it to me as a lullaby.
Why beat wet wool? Because there's nothing else to do in rural Scotland.

I frequently spoke at Rabbie Burns dinners, usually offering the toast to the immortal memory. Once, finishing my speech, I headed for the washroom. To my surprise, a dinner guest followed me into the washroom.
"I saw you," he said. "And I thought to myself, I must meet this man." With that, he stood before me, eyes aflame. I tried to edge nervously toward the exit.
It turned out he was a famous Scottish journalist who wanted to get a job in Canadian news media. In fact, he was more than that. He wrote the song that became immensely popular as "Scotland the Brave."
Now he wanted to get out of Scotland and come to Canada.
Well, living in Canada beats pounding wet wool on a table.
 
Please no more ethnophobia everyone. It's as wrongful to mock Scottish people as it is to mock any other people group.
 
It's snowing hard here in Toronto. Time to call in the army. Canada's world class city must keep moving.
 
I don't think it's ethnophobia if we're laughing at ourselves, which Graeme clearly is. By the same token, I'm afraid I'm fairly entitled to Irish jokes. They say we'd have ruled the world if it weren't for alcohol...
 
BetteTheRed said:
I don't think it's ethnophobia if we're laughing at ourselves, which Graeme clearly is. By the same token, I'm afraid I'm fairly entitled to Irish jokes. They say we'd have ruled the world if it weren't for alcohol...
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That's the trouble with people with no scotch in their plasma ... no sense of the fete noire ... darker humis? No sheepish gut for such laughter ...
 
BetteTheRed said:
I don't think it's ethnophobia if we're laughing at ourselves, which Graeme clearly is. By the same token, I'm afraid I'm fairly entitled to Irish jokes. They say we'd have ruled the world if it weren't for alcohol...
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Perhaps. Not all here are @Graeme.
 
But lots of us are Scottish - who are actually the Irish who got kicked out of Ireland.

Good deliveries despite the cold and snow...roads were good...ended up crashing a funeral when I made a stop at the Baptist church -thankfully I knew the deceased and the family.
 
Point is, Irish people can make Irish jokes, Newfies can make newfie jokes, and Polish people can make Polish jokes. It's the rules. If you're offended, take it up with Graeme - you're both part Scot.
 
Jae said:
But those who are not Scottish, like you Bette and @You just never know, shouldn't mock we Scottish.
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How do you know @You just never know has no Scottish ancestry? Bette is English, we know that, but I have no idea of his background. My brother did a genetic trace and we may actually be more Irish and Scottish than our family tree indicates. I know of only 1 Scot in my direct line (a great-grandmother on my mother's side) but apparently if you go back further, there may be a legitimate reason I actually like bagpipes and Irish tenors.
 
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