Scotland

Pearl Juli

Klumpie wrote:

Nevermind Amentvedder, I think all is a communication fault. I never said that you guys are idiots, see my post in your other thread.

Then a old ladies teaparty isn't a term of abuse. But in Dutch it means something different then you understand.

I would take the "old lady tea party" comment to mean that the thread has been taken over by girls...just as in America someone would say "this has become a sausage fest" when there are too many guys in a place and no girls???

Klumpie

amentvedder wrote:

Of course i understand and it's cool. I hope you understand too, we are not weird, it's just the words n stuff you use mean different things in English. We can all be tolerable of each other yeh and different languages

by the way, i like your new sig ;)

I hope it's all good now. Because I never want to be rough to anybody. But my English is worse and your Dutch is even worser . So we could never communicate on a very good way.

Thank you for compliment and go Glascow Rangers and I hope Scotland will be on the European Championship 2008.

qwerty1

There is a book called something like "How Scotland conqured and ruled the World", and its essentially how Scots and people of Scottish heritage, invented and inovated so many things today we take for granted. TV and standardized time being 2 of the most important.

BTW born in Toronto, but fully of Scottish heritage!

Klumpie

Pearl_Juli wrote:

I would take the "old lady tea party" comment to mean that the thread has been taken over by girls...just as in America someone would say "this has become a sausage fest" when there are too many guys in a place and no girls???

No a old tea lady party = in a topic about football, not talking about football.

And a saugage = het zal mij een worst wezen.

Pearl Juli

Klumpie wrote:

No a old tea lady party = in a topic about football, not talking about football.

And a saugage = het zal mij een worst wezen.

Ohhhh! ok...makes sense now.

amentvedder

Pearl_Juli wrote:

I would take the "old lady tea party" comment to mean that the thread has been taken over by girls...just as in America someone would say "this has become a sausage fest" when there are too many guys in a place and no girls???

haha

2 ladies speaking about football and a guy comes and says this is like "an old ladies tea party" is slightly condesending, don't you think?? Firstly, less of the old Anyway i never took it that way i took it in good nature and joked back. I have since found out it's dutch for boring conversation or similar. We had sorted it out long ago, wot made me mention it is Klumpie saying we are weird, we're not, to any British person i imagine they'd have seen it same as me.

Funnily enuff i understand "sausage fest" perfectly well

Klumpie

amentvedder wrote:

Damn it's gone ! lol

Yes, you said you didn't like it. And now you like it. I will chance it.

amentvedder

qwerty wrote:

There is a book called something like "How Scotland conqured and ruled the World", and its essentially how Scots and people of Scottish heritage, invented and inovated so many things today we take for granted. TV and standardized time being 2 of the most important.

BTW born in Toronto, but fully of Scottish heritage!

That is also a good read. OH CANADA ..i have family in Toronto Isn't that always the case hehe i will visit 1 day and soon i hope

amentvedder

Klumpie wrote:

Yes, you said you didn't like it. And now you like it. I will chance it.

I like it alot

Klumpie

amentvedder wrote:

I like it alot

hehe finally, we get each other :D

amentvedder

John Paul Jones, born in Scotland, founded the American navy.
Alan Pinkerton, born in Glasgow, 1819, founded the world famous detective agency in the U.S.A.
John Campbell from Glasgow founded the city of Auckland, new Zealand.
John Law, born in Edinburgh, founded the Bank of France.
William Paterson, born Dumfries, founded the Bank of England.
James MacDraw from Aberdeen founded New Zealand,s first University in Dunedin, 1869.
James McGill born in Glasgow, founded the University in Montreal.
William Smith, born in Thurso, Scotland, founded the Boys Brigade.
Samuel Craig from Inverkething founded the Russian navy.
The first Prime Minister of Australia was Andrew Fisher, born in Lanarkshire , Scotland.
John McDonald, born in Glasgow was the prime minister of Canada for nineteen years.
Thomas Brisbane, born on the west cost of Scotland, was the state governor in Australia, the city of Brisbane was named after him.
James McDonald, born in Dundee , Scotland, was the voice for Mickey Mouse for over 40 years.
Patrick Gordon from Aberdeen was Peter the Great's adviser in Russia
Charles Cameron from Aberdeen designed many buildings in Leningrad during the reign of Catherine the Great
There are more Scots living outside of Scotland than inside.
Scotland is the only country in the World to invade England twice.
More than half of the defenders of the Alamo were of Scottish decent, among them Davy Crokett and Jim Bowie.
Austin in Texas was built from blueprints from Scotland.

amentvedder

Who started me off on all this Scottish crap LOL :D

amentvedder

Scotland has the least populated density in Europe.
The furthest you can be from the coast in Scotland is about 50 miles.
The first person mentioned in the Bible is a Scot, King James VI.
The last battle to be fought on British soil was the Battle of Culloden,1746
Scotland is the only country in Europe that the Romans could not conquer.
Scotland is the only country in the world, that Coca Cola is not the best selling soft drink. Irn Bru made by the Barr company is the best selling soft drink.
The shortest scheduled flight in the world, is westray to papa in the Orkneys, 1.5 miles long and takes 1 minute 14 seconds.
Scots were great adventurers even in the early Christian era in Rome, there is an inscription on the walls of one of the Catacombs-" Quid Scoti hic fuerunt". ("The Scots were here").
There are more Scots living in Canada than any other country abroad.
The greatest distance from North to South of Scotland is 275 miles and the greatest width is 154 miles.
There are more pipe bands in America than in Scotland.
The guillotine was used in Scotland 200 years before it was used in the French Revolution.
The Lincon Monument in Edinburgh was the first statue of an American president to be constructed outside the U.S.A. in 1893 in memory of the Scottish soldiers who fought in the American civil war.
The first medical school in north America - the university of Pennsylvania 1765 - was modelled on the medical school at Edinburgh university 1726.
There are over 450 golf courses in Scotland.
The first Airship to cross the Atlantic was built in Scotland.
Theodore Roosevelt said of the Scots " they became the vanguard of our civilisation ".
Edinburgh was the first city in the world to have its own fire service.
7 Scotsmen were in the us 7th cavalry with General Custer at the Battle Of Little Big Horn on 25 June, 1876.
Johnny Walker red label is the worlds largest selling whisky.
The Romans called Scotland , Caledonia.
The Q.E.2 was the largest ship built in Scotland.
Scotland has 787 islands most of which are on the west coast.
St Andrews golf course is the oldest in the world.
Haggis is the national dish of Scotland.

LikeAnOcean

amentvedder wrote:

I love my American and worldwide friends but last week a guy actually said to me - Scotland? hah who is Scotland and that i should be thankful to America for Pearl Jam. Of course i realise not everyone is so arrogant but i'm proud and thought i'd print this little list..knowledge is the bomb

Scotland Inventions





adhesive postage stamps

anaesthetics

antisepsis

artificial diamonds

reaping machine

Bank of England

latent heat

Brownian movement

Buicks

chemical bonds

penicillin

the decimal point

documentary films

Encyclopedia Britannica

engineering sciences

fax machines

first cloned mammal

flailing machines

geosciences

golf

historical novels

hypodermic syringes

Kelvin scale

percussion powder

logarithms

Maxwell's equations

marmalade

mackintosh raincoats

macadamized roads

microwave ovens

colloid chemistry

breech-loading rifle

tubular steel

quinine

Sociology

pneumatic tyres

pink bathtubs

hollow pipe drainage

Peter Pan

radar

paleobiology

polarization

cure for scurvy

King Arthur

Halloween

refrigerators

Neptune

bakelite

iron bridges

solitons

the steam engine

telephones

thermos flasks/dewars

the telegraph

television

the stereotype

sulphuric acid

the steam-hammer

cure for insomnia

paraffin

Sherlock Holmes

Toad of Toad Hall

Long John Silver

Jekyll and Hyde

Auld Lang Syne

Whisky

US Navy

Chilean Navy

Economics

Cloud Chamber





Mathematical & Financial


Logarithms

The Bank of England

Capitalism

The overdraft

The decimal point





Technological


The threshing machine

The gravitating compass

Street lighting

The steam engine

The pneumatic tyre

The pedal bicycle

Tarmacadam (the modern road surface)

The locomotive

The bus

The telegraph

The thermos flask

The telephone

The gas mask

Colour photographs

The lawnmower

Television

The fax machine

The photocopier

Video

The kaleidoscope





Scientific


Theory of combustion

Electric light

Geology

Gardenias

Helium

Radar

Neon

Artificial ice

Dolly, the cloned sheep





Medical


The hypodermic syringe

Anaesthesia

Morphine

Antiseptics

Insulin

Penicillin

Interferon

The thermometer

Ante-natal clinics





Sport


Golf

Curling

Shinty

Tennis courts

The bowling green





Electronic


The alpha chip

Blue lasers

Kerr Lens Modelocking techniques





Everyday Items


Marmalade

Writing paper

The fountain pen

Postcards

The Mackintosh (aka raincoats)

Suspenders





Miscellaneous


Finger-printing

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Documentary films

The traffic cone

Sherlock Holmes

Lets not forget mens plaid skirts.

Klumpie

amentvedder wrote:

Who started me off on all this Scottish crap LOL :D

Sorry no idea...nice sig!!!

Damn, I'm going to love Scotland

amentvedder

LikeAnOcean wrote:

Lets not forget mens plaid skirts.

haha we call them tartan kilts but thanks for pointing out that Stones shorts are Scottish influenced

amentvedder

Klumpie wrote:

Sorry no idea...nice sig!!!

Damn, I'm going to love Scotland

You're "all scotland fans are idiots" comment didn't help hahaha i lost 40 blood vessels
I now understand, hence my sig

So are you visiting here then??

Klumpie

amentvedder wrote:

You're "all scotland fans are idiots" comment didn't help hahaha i lost 40 blood vessels
I now understand, hence my sig

I never said that, but ok. I'm fine with it.

amentvedder wrote:

So are you visiting here then??

Someday in the future, but I'm not traveling in big cities. You can find me in the nature.

evo

lets not forget the 2 best things about Scotland

Square sausage and plain bread

oh, and tablet and irn bru

qwerty1

amentvedder wrote:

That is also a good read. OH CANADA ..i have family in Toronto Isn't that always the case hehe i will visit 1 day and soon i hope

Yup, thats the book I was talking about. I read a little of it every time Im at the book store. And yes half of Toronto is related to Glasgow, I am.

Plus Scotland has the Highlands, the most beautiful part of Europe IMO.