300 Years Of Union

oil alternative
oil alternative Posts: 192
edited January 2007 in A Moving Train
has the union of 'Britain' only served to divide these islands?

http://www.sundayherald.com/analysis/analysis/display.var.1107575.0.its_been_300_years_since_the_act_of_union_is_it_good_for_scotland_or_has_the_time_come_to_rip_it_up.php
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    no
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • oil alternative
    oil alternative Posts: 192
    ok
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    To break down borders and realise that we are one species and then the true patriotism comes from pride and love of the human race, not from the tribes of which we currently are divided, open your eyes your mind will see! - ME
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    no probs
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • sponger
    sponger Posts: 3,159
    pfft..english politics. This will get as much response as the faulklands thread did. Hey, this reminds me of a story of when I was a kid. My dad had this scottish friend who was basically kind of a crazy fellow. He was in the army during vietnam and I think that whole experience kind of made him funny in the head.

    I don't know the guy's real name. Everybody called him Scotty. He was usually piss drunk and he was just a reall funny guy. I think it was mostly the way he talked that made him funny. He would say stuff like, "Shake the hand that shook the hand of king james" or some shit. I forgot exactly. He talked about sailing in the high seas and looking up through the eye of a hurricane. I'd be like wtf..lmao...scots...
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    sponger wrote:
    pfft..english politics. This will get as much response as the faulklands thread did. Hey, this reminds me of a story of when I was a kid. My dad had this scottish friend who was basically kind of a crazy fellow. He was in the army during vietnam and I think that whole experience kind of made him funny in the head.

    I don't know the guy's real name. Everybody called him Scotty. He was usually piss drunk and he was just a reall funny guy. I think it was mostly the way he talked that made him funny. He would say stuff like, "Shake the hand that shook the hand of king james" or some shit. I forgot exactly. He talked about sailing in the high seas and looking up through the eye of a hurricane. I'd be like wtf..lmao...scots...


    you've met my dad!!! :cool:
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • CorporateWhore
    CorporateWhore Posts: 1,890
    Americans have trouble with this because we've been a nation for roughly 225 years. 300 years is long to us. However, 300 years in the history of Scotland and England's relations isn't as long.

    If I were a Scot, I'd probably want to remain under the union jack. Splitting nations off always sounds like a good idea at the time, but we Americans were really the only ones who were allowed to do it: no one else should risk it.
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  • stu gee
    stu gee Posts: 1,174
    Im a Scot and do not want to remain under the Union Jack, i dont feel British in the slightest and never have. Dont have anything against the rest of the UK but i am in favour of an independent Scotland for sure.
    People say im paranoid. Well, they dont say it, but i know that's what they are thinking.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    CorporateWhore wrote:
    Americans have trouble with this because we've been a nation for roughly 225 years. 300 years is long to us. However, 300 years in the history of Scotland and England's relations isn't as long.

    If I were a Scot, I'd probably want to remain under the union jack. Splitting nations off always sounds like a good idea at the time, but we Americans were really the only ones who were allowed to do it: no one else should risk it.

    I'd like my country to be its own again... its time I think!

    nothing whatsoever against english, welsh or N.Irish people... I truly mean that... i hate how scottish people think its great to hate the english, i find it embarrassing.. but I just would like my passport to be a saltire instead of the queens emblem stamped over it... my national anthem not to include a line about crushing rebellious Scots... I just long to be our own nation again!! :)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.

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