Another reason not to visit Scotland

[TheBigYinJames]

Sorry, I wasn't trying to claim the first, it was an observation from my travels and not my usual Scottish xenophobia.
That phrase raises anothe issue. I was pulled up for using Scotch to refer to anything Scottish and told it should be Scots, Scotch being whiskey or is that whisky.
Can you expand what Wikki says (and is it accurate).

Personally, I don't like 'Scotch', and I think this is because it's become synonymous with the drink. If you look back 100 years, Scotch and Scottish are used interchangably, so there's no historical reason to prefer one to the other.

[TheBigYinJames]

The cannie Scots are planning to generate half their electricity from renewals by 2020, and to get the ball rolling have just okay'd the construction of a 600MW wind-farm. Europe's largest Seems like the Brits are actually leading the world in something new for a change, let's hope wind isn't all hot, umm cool, air.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07...ire_wind_farm/

Well if Scotland has one thing in abundance, it's wind. And rain. We need some sort of rain-power.

[TimberWolf]

Personally, I don't like 'Scotch', and I think this is because it's become synonymous with the drink. If you look back 100 years, Scotch and Scottish are used interchangably, so there's no historical reason to prefer one to the other.

But you don't say Scotchland, unless you're Scottish like Sean Connery.

[TheBigYinJames]

Well Culloden was more of a religious/civil war - the lowlands were protestant, the highlands catholic etc.

I'm sure Charles Edward Stuart was a very religious man The Jacobite/Hanover thing was both a religious struggle and a fight for the crown of (ultimately) England, which the Stuarts thought they had a right to. It was nothing to do with Scotland at all, that's just where their main fighting support was from.

[TheBigYinJames]

But you don't say Scotchland, unless you're Scottish like Sean Connery.

I remember a joke that Sean Connery has "Scotland Forever" tattoed on his arm. But he had the bit "I'm leaving" above it removed by laser surgery

[snaw]

I'm sure Charles Edward Stuart was a very religious man The Jacobite/Hanover thing was both a religious struggle and a fight for the crown of (ultimately) England, which the Stuarts thought they had a right to. It was nothing to do with Scotland at all, that's just where their main fighting support was from.

I'm sure King Henry VIII was a very religious man - besides the point. It's not really a Scottish English war, as much as a civil war with Highland/Lowland Scots on either side, as well as French and English.

Anyway, the same guys who got beat at Culloden went on to help carve out the British empire, so the Sassenachs should all be grateful

[TheBigYinJames]

Anyway, the same guys who got beat at Culloden went on to help carve out the British empire, so the Sassenachs should all be grateful

So indirectly, you can blame the Scots for all of the world's post-colonial problems Mugabe should really be McGabey.

[EternalOptimist]

I remember a joke that Sean Connery has "Scotland Forever" tattoed on his arm. But he had the bit "I'm leaving" above it removed by laser surgery

I liked
'Aye, aye, the noo. You are a sh 1 te for sore eyes' - S Connery

[snaw]

So indirectly, you can blame the Scots for all of the world's post-colonial problems Mugabe should really be McGabey.

That's almost funny

[EternalOptimist]

I'm sure King Henry VIII was a very religious man - besides the point. It's not really a Scottish English war, as much as a civil war with Highland/Lowland Scots on either side, as well as French and English.

Anyway, the same guys who got beat at Culloden went on to help carve out the British empire, so the Sassenachs should all be grateful

we are indeed. To the nation that gave us G Brown - we salute you.