Scotland and Wales

Originally Posted by simesb

I'll bite.

Scotland is great, but it's the Scots that make it. They're superb wherever they go. That is why the British Empire was built on the back of Scotsmen and Scottish inventions (Television, pneumatic tyre, tarmac, the list goes on and on)

Television - suggest you google for Paul Nipkow, who invented the whole television process before Baird was born. The 'Nipkow Disc' was the key to Baird's work. Nipkow doesn't sound like a very Scottish name to me.

Pneumatic tyres - Dunlop's pneumatic tyre patent was declared invalid because a man called Thompson declared prior art. In other words, Dunlop didn't invent the pneumatic tyre, someone beat him to it.

Tarmac - Macadam developed a method of sizing stone to use for road building, but the act of adding tar to the stones to bind them together and make the road harder wearing was invented by an American. So Tarmac is an American invention, not Scottish?

All these marvellous (non-Scottish) inventions were patented long after Britain had built an Empire

Originally Posted by simesb

England became part of the Scottish Crown, but their jealousy never stopped

A comment to be treated with the derision it deserves.

Originally Posted by maviczap

Good job it isn't 2010, as you'd be struggling already Lozzo

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=144398

I'm getting them all in now at the back of 2009, so 2010 can be free of it all.

Originally Posted by husky03

Typical ar$ehole comments that make the english the most hated nationality after the yanks in the whole world.

everybody loves the english surely the eu seem to really dig us

Originally Posted by Lozzo

A comment to be treated with the derision it deserves.

I'm sorry, I thought by starting this thread you were displaying a sense of humour; had I know it was just a random xenophobic attack I wouldn't have entered into the spirit of it.

[Bibio]

Originally Posted by Lozzo

If these two places (I baulk at calling them countries) are so great, then why are so many of their proud sons and daughters living in England and not in the Nirvana they claim their homeland to be?

nothing to do with not liking their homeland more to do with work.

sorry but why are the english hated all over the world, when the welsh and scottish loved and treated with respect?

anyway. Merry Christmas my fine English neighbour.


oooohhhh and just to add there are thousands of you so called English flocking up here every year as well. you just have to visit places like Livingstone, Glenrothes, Edinburgh and St Andrews to discover this.

Originally Posted by Bibio

nothing to do with not liking their homeland more to do with work.

sorry but why are the english hated all over the world, when the welsh and scottish loved and treated with respect?

anyway. Merry Christmas my fine English neighbour.


oooohhhh and just to add there are thousands of you so called English flocking up here every year as well. you just have to visit places like
Livingstone, Glenrothes, Edinburgh and St Andrews to discover this.

My dad moved down here because there was no work available in the Bellshill area, he suffered more racism from the English than he deserved, bit surprised at you starting a thread like this lozzo mate.

Originally Posted by Bibio

oooohhhh and just to add there are thousands of you so called English flocking up here every year as well. you just have to visit places like Livingstone, Glenrothes, Edinburgh and St Andrews to discover this.

Thats true, my brother moved up there last year after retiring from the police force, dont know where as we are not speaking

I love Scotland i went there a year last September for the first time in my life and fell in love with it within seconds it is a beautiful place and as for the "Scots" themselves i think they are one of the most friendly of people i have met and trust me i have travelled in quite a few other countries.
I have been back there 3 times within that year and if i had of had more time and money it would of been a lot more than that

Good and bad wherever you go imo.

Lozzo, even I don't find this in the least bit funny. A bit of banter between the nations can be had but this is just down right rude.