Scotland and Wales

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

Yep, when this kind of thing happens http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/5105452.stm it really makes me ashamed, but as you say there is good and bad anywhere, I'm sure there are plenty of articles on BBC news which point in the opposite direction.

Saying that, A England supporter attacked by a Gers fan?
Doesn't make sense to me!

It's sectarianism violence, not racist violence.

Not like Rangers and English supporters are classed as races.

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

Absolutely, a colleague of mine had a gun put in his stomach in Tesco petrol station at Notcutts in Shirley and they drove away with all his possessions and his Audi TT. It didn't even make the local news, but would have been national news in Scotland.

And thats a nice area there as well
Murders and deaths dont always make news down here, getting too common

outsider's pitchfork's at the ready.

Originally Posted by instigator

I'm Scots, living in London.

I can't quite describe why I despise Scotland and never want to return. There must be some deeper meaning to my hatred of the place. I'm here right now and I'm champin' at the bit to get back down South. Probably to get away from the Scots themselves. I don't like people with no ambition. People who are happy to sit in the same place, with the same people, for all of their lives. I cannot understand that mindset. That and the scumbag NEDS or any of the youngsters in general.

So I can remain 'content' in the fact that most of the Londoners I come across don't share that same mindset. Probably because they're foreign themselves. And if not, it's probably because I don't realise it as they don't speak English.

Poor we lamb, you were bullied at school weren't you...

http://www.samaritans.org/

Regarding Dunlop and the invention of the tyre. Yes it is correct that a good 40 odd years earlier something similar had already been done, by Robert William Thomson. The clue is in the name, you guesed it, he was Sottish as well. If the Christian names weren't Scottish enough, the Scots version of Thomson has no "p" in it.

Originally Posted by instigator

all my family and friends live up in Scotland.

Sorry to hear you haven't made any friends in England. Maybe it's you?

Originally Posted by Tiger 55

Sorry to hear you haven't made any friends in England. Maybe it's you?

Made plenty down South thanks. I was referring to 'original' School/Uni friends. But I accept that you're not happy that a fellow Scot can hate their own country as, like many other Scots, you really can't accept criticism.

Originally Posted by Bedhead

At the end of the day, Nationality is just a label to make yourself feel better.

Like such famous Englishmen as Amir Khan, Lennox Lewis, Scotsmen such as Rod Stewart etc..........

Rod Stewart wasn't even born in Scotland.

Correct he was born in Essex

[yorkie_chris]

Can't say I've anything against the pasty tight fisted porridge munching skirt wearing inhabitants of the wastelands even further north than geordies, but I don't know what you're on about calling Wales a country. It's actually a FRIGHTENING DISEASE OF THE MIND!