They don't have to know how "we" do things. They tend to know how "they" do things.

If you lived in our village, would you go to the Sikh family in the house down the road and tell them to start putting ferrets down their trousers and force them to believe Geoff Boycott was a better cricketer than Monty Panesar?

No problem whatsoever with wistful nostalgia, but when it is used to scorn those living nearby who have every right to live in their homes in the way they wish, it becomes something else.

And that something else isn't a trait of being Scottish either. We have bigoted fools down here too. We apologise for them and ignore them, a bit like decent Scottish people do you.






Comparing an opening batsman to a spin bowler isn't a good comparison, but it'll do. Ok, Boycott, for all his faults was the best opening batsman ever. It's just that the bugger knows it.