BS: 25 reasons to leave Scotland

Subject: RE: BS: 25 reasons to leave Scotland
From: Jim McLean
Date: 03 Feb 14 - 04:43 AM

If today's Financial Times is anything to go by, you'd be better off financially by staying in Scotland.

Subject: RE: BS: 25 reasons to leave Scotland
From: Joe_F
Date: 02 Feb 14 - 08:18 PM

26. When a Scot moves to England, it raises the average of intelligence in both countries.

Subject: RE: BS: 25 reasons to leave Scotland
From: akenaton
Date: 02 Feb 14 - 06:37 PM

Hey Tattie, whit ur yoo daein oan here?
This place is worst thin Stompin'...is it shut fir the Sabbith or whit???

Subject: RE: BS: 25 reasons to leave Scotland
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 02 Feb 14 - 05:32 PM

Right now, and I'll say it 25 times over to make up my 25 reasons...folk who plaster their pro- or anti- independence views across every forum, social network or website going, and who label anyone who has a different view from theirs a "sh#te" or an "erseh&le": they do their cause no good at all.

Oh, and we do indeed get midges in Edinburgh! On the rare occasion that it's warm enough to sit out in the garden on a "summer" evening, we'll be pretty soon driven back indoors by the wee monsters.

Subject: RE: BS: 25 reasons to leave Scotland
From: John J
Date: 02 Feb 14 - 03:23 PM

Windfarms
Midges
Windfarms
Ticks
Windfarms

JJ

Subject: RE: BS: 25 reasons to leave Scotland
From: kendall
Date: 02 Feb 14 - 09:34 AM

How about a list of reasons to stay? There must be at least 50.

Subject: RE: BS: 25 reasons to leave Scotland
From: GUEST,gutcher
Date: 02 Feb 14 - 07:41 AM

Guest at 6-17am was I.
For those who do not know, Mr Darling is in an unholy alliance with the Conservatives and is in charge of securing a NO vote in the referendum in Scotland. Conservatives in Scotland having only one MP at Westminster.
Would you buy a second hand car, let alone trust the fate of your country, to a person with his proven record of legalized theft from the public purse and from an organization which deems him a suitable person to front their efforts to gain their nefarious ends.

Subject: RE: BS: 25 reasons to leave Scotland
From: Jim McLean
Date: 02 Feb 14 - 07:07 AM

I wrote this in 1964 and nothing has changed.
Melody: I' m off to Dublin in the green AKA The Merry Ploughboy.




I am a Scottish MP
From a city grey and black,
So I'll shut my mouth when I'm in the south
Just in case they send me back.

Now some folks work for Labour
And some for the Tory class,
But I work like hell for me myself
And the rest can kiss my kilt.

Chorus: For I'm off to London in the morn, in the morn,
In Westminster I will be,
And I'll leave behind my brains and mind
And try for an MBE.

Oh Scotland, dearest Scotland
You have given me your trust,
And if I make the grade to the Board of Trade
Just guess who I'll trade first ?

I'll trade the Lowlands for a peerage
Give me an Earldom for the Isles,
And the whole damn lot could be easily bought
With one of Lizzie's smiles.

I am a Scots Home-Ruler
At my English Queen's command,
For my real birth-right is to be a knight
And the rest can be Republicans.

So come Grimmond, Home and Ramsey
Our Scottish Englishman,
Nationality for a Scots MP
Means tea at Number Ten.

Subject: RE: BS: 25 reasons to leave Scotland
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Feb 14 - 06:17 AM

One of the main reasons unionist politicians leave Scotland is to get their nose in a deeper trough than is available at home. Then there is the added bonus, if they play their cards right, of elevation to that most undemocratic of places 'The House of Lords' where for a mere sighning of their names they can daily draw £300 plus exorbitant expenses.
Go to it ye downtrodden and disadvantaged and keep voting for these parasites to keep them in the manner to which they have become acustomed too.
Ask 'flipper' Darling, he who changed his main residence four times in order to fleece the taxpayer, why you should vote NO in the coming Scottish referendum, if for nothing else, if truth be told, than to gain him an ermine robe and all the associated perks. A YES vote will of course scupper his plans and that of his cohorts.

Subject: RE: BS: 25 reasons to leave Scotland
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 01 Feb 14 - 03:00 PM

Them Scottish midges are clever buggers, once when fishing on Skye one summers evening, I smothered myself in Jungle Formula, my wife Moira sat in the car all the time with the windows shut tight, Moira got bitten to death and I never got bitten once, I even caught some fish.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: 25 reasons to leave Scotland
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 01 Feb 14 - 02:24 PM

Not so much mossies as midges. F'in great lowering black clouds of the fuckers, to small to swat, to fast to flee.

Scottish beer, for example McEwan's heavy.

Rain. The Scots think the winter the English have just had is a nice dry summer.

Gangs who thing "Razor King" is another word for the bible.

Puritanism.

The fucking Stuart kings foisted onto us as our James 1 (their James 6) and successors.

Mary Queen of Scots.

The tawse (unless you like that sort of thing).

Subject: RE: BS: 25 reasons to leave Scotland
From: gnu
Date: 01 Feb 14 - 12:57 PM

Al... love it! As usual.

Subject: RE: BS: 25 reasons to leave Scotland
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 01 Feb 14 - 11:32 AM

The mozzies in Skye don't carry Kalashnikovs, they don't need to - have you seen the size of their f*****g teeth? :-)

Subject: RE: BS: 25 reasons to leave Scotland
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 01 Feb 14 - 11:16 AM

Never saw mozzies in Edin or Glasgow either. Just rats. (during the Great Dustbin Strike) But Skye - crumbs, the mozzies were carrying Kalashnikovs.

Subject: RE: BS: 25 reasons to leave Scotland
From: Jim McLean
Date: 01 Feb 14 - 11:13 AM

I don't think I've ever seen a "mozzie" in either Glasgow or Edinburgh, and by the way the pie was great, no gravy or potatoes, just a Scotch pie washed down with a couple of glasses of Merlot!

Subject: RE: BS: 25 reasons to leave Scotland
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 01 Feb 14 - 11:12 AM

How dare you Dave! Scotch pies are to die for. (and don't tell me that many do!) I left Scotland mainly because of the cold climate. My legs were getting hairier and hairier. My sis, who still lives up there, has even got quite a hairy face. Ghastly.

Subject: RE: BS: 25 reasons to leave Scotland
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Feb 14 - 10:49 AM

The mozzies always come to get me when i go to Scotland!!!

Subject: RE: BS: 25 reasons to leave Scotland
From: akenaton
Date: 01 Feb 14 - 10:28 AM

She says " kin ye go a pie?...ah says AYE!!

Subject: RE: BS: 25 reasons to leave Scotland
From: Jim McLean
Date: 01 Feb 14 - 07:59 AM

Ah, Dave, I live in London and regularly order Scortch pies from Edinburgh. There's one in the oven right now!

Subject: RE: BS: 25 reasons to leave Scotland
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 01 Feb 14 - 07:46 AM

Scotch pies, a joke that the Jocks play on the English, we once got one in a packed lunch whilst fishing the River Nith, I threw mine on the river bank, it was still there four days later, even the rats and birds wouldn't eat it.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: 25 reasons to leave Scotland
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 01 Feb 14 - 07:00 AM

T wrote this beautiful love song for Anita Manning, the auctioneer in BBC's Bargain Hunt. She never replied. For years I have fantasised about passionate Scottish women wearing heather scented Elle MacPherson lingerie - Moirs Stewart, Daniella Naedini and above all the beautiful Anita.......

https://soundcloud.com/denise_whittle/lovesong-for-anita-manning

Could it be they all flint heartedly reject my overtures....?

Subject: RE: BS: 25 reasons to leave Scotland
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 01 Feb 14 - 06:11 AM

1-25. Going home.

Subject: RE: BS: 25 reasons to leave Scotland
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Jan 14 - 11:28 PM

1. The men dress funny.
2. Fuadach nan Gàidheal.
3. Wild, rabid haggises.
4. All of the friendly sheep moved to Wales.
5. The movie "Braveheart."
6. Bonnie Prince Charlie the Current.
7. The match-up at Glencoe.
8. They all talk funny there.
9. Flodden's far field.
10. Moss-troopers!
11. Henry Stewart.
12. Kirk o' Field.
13. John Knox.
14. The Rough Wooing.
15. Sporrans.
16. The Old Course at St. Andrews.
17. What they do on the Old Course at St. Andrews.
18. Sir Walter Scott.
19. Bobby Burns.
20. William Dunbar.
21. The Kirk.
22. "Alfred, a Masque."
23. The Highlands.
24. The Lowlands.
25. The Scots are beguiled.

Subject: RE: BS: 25 reasons to leave Scotland
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Jan 14 - 09:35 PM

1) The sheep are only slightly more friendly than wolverines.

Subject: BS: 25 reasons to leave Scotland
From: Bert
Date: 31 Jan 14 - 09:30 PM

1. The weather
2. Haggis
3. The language
4. The Loch Ness Monster
5. Hmmm, perhaps there aren't that many reasons after all. 'Cos the people are nice (even the Glaswegians)