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  • Pearl Juli
    Pearl Juli Posts: 1,213
    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??? :)
    MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: 2008-06-11

    ♪ Juli ♪
  • Klumpie
    Klumpie Posts: 2,649
    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 :p. 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
    qwerty1 Posts: 142
    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!
    This sidewalk is for regular walking, not for fancy walking!
  • Klumpie
    Klumpie Posts: 2,649
    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
    Pearl Juli Posts: 1,213
    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.
    MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: 2008-06-11

    ♪ Juli ♪
  • amentvedder
    amentvedder Posts: 3,610
    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 :p 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 :D
  • Klumpie
    Klumpie Posts: 2,649
    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
    amentvedder Posts: 3,610
    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!

    kissmascottisharsebu4.jpg

    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
    amentvedder Posts: 3,610
    Klumpie wrote:
    Yes, you said you didn't like it. And now you like it. I will chance it.

    I like it alot :D
  • Klumpie
    Klumpie Posts: 2,649
    amentvedder wrote:
    I like it alot :D

    hehe finally, we get each other :p:D
  • amentvedder
    amentvedder Posts: 3,610
    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
    amentvedder Posts: 3,610
    Who started me off on all this Scottish crap LOL :D:D
  • amentvedder
    amentvedder Posts: 3,610
    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
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    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
    Klumpie Posts: 2,649
    amentvedder wrote:
    Who started me off on all this Scottish crap LOL :D:D

    Sorry no idea...nice sig!!!

    Damn, I'm going to love Scotland :)
  • amentvedder
    amentvedder Posts: 3,610
    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 :p
  • amentvedder
    amentvedder Posts: 3,610
    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 :D
    I now understand, hence my sig ;)

    So are you visiting here then??
  • Klumpie
    Klumpie Posts: 2,649
    amentvedder wrote:
    You're "all scotland fans are idiots" comment didn't help hahaha i lost 40 blood vessels :D
    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
    evo Airdrie, Scotland Posts: 185
    lets not forget the 2 best things about Scotland

    Square sausage and plain bread

    oh, and tablet and irn bru
    Hail Hail
  • qwerty1
    qwerty1 Posts: 142
    amentvedder wrote:
    kissmascottisharsebu4.jpg

    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.
    This sidewalk is for regular walking, not for fancy walking!

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