Reply to: FAO Scots on board

[Batcher]

BAU.

Selling snake oil

That sounds too much like hard work. I'll be in my bed watching Jeremy Kyle waiting on my dole cheque to arrive

[FatLazyContractor]

I don't know what we in Scotland would do without your contributions

BAU.

Selling snake oil

[Batcher]

Thanks to one and all for those wonderful links about history of Scotland.

If I can infer one thing from them, it is this -> The Scots have always been spongers

HTH

Sorry, you must have missed my previous post on this.

THANK YOU to all our English, Welsh & NI friends and taxpayers for providing free uni tuition, prescriptions, care for the elderly, no tolls on any roads or bridges in Scotland, etc, etc.

I don't know what we in Scotland would do without your contributions

[FatLazyContractor]

Thanks to one and all for those wonderful links about history of Scotland.

If I can infer one thing from them, it is this -> The Scots have always been spongers

HTH

[Batcher]

Like the British the 'Scots' were a mix of the ethnic groups, the Picts and the Gaels mostly.

He is confusing the Scots with the Gaels who did come from Ireland through the isles.

Unlike batcher I did actually listen to Scottish history at school ( I actually doubt his authenticity if truth be told for the amount of times he comes out with such obvious bulltulip it is hard to believe he is real )

You really should google before you post

Scotland's Irish Origins - Archaeology Magazine Archive

Around A.D. 400, people from Dál Riata began to settle across the Irish Sea along the Scottish coast in County Argyll. Other Irish migrants were also establishing footholds along the coast farther south, as far as Wales and even Cornwall, but the migrants from Dál Riata were especially noteworthy because they were known to the Romans as "Scotti" and they would eventually give their Gaelic language and their name to all of what is now known as Scotland.

[MicrosoftBob]

Like the British the 'Scots' were a mix of the ethnic groups, the Picts and the Gaels mostly.

He is confusing the Scots with the Gaels who did come from Ireland through the isles.

Unlike batcher I did actually listen to Scottish history at school ( I actually doubt his authenticity if truth be told for the amount of times he comes out with such obvious bulltulip it is hard to believe he is real )

AFAIK the bit about the gaels, it was down to whoever we know as Arthur

After the battle of Badon, and is essence trying to emulate Vortigen and try to restore some semplance of the Romano British empire want to reassert the borders of Britannia back to where they were before Rome left Britain to stand alone


Some minor tribes in Ireland were in danger of being wiped out, so as part of his quest to tame the northern lands he offered them land in north west Scotland if they help him hold back the picts

Is that it ?

[mrdonuts]

for those that are gloating about this outcome, they should consider what labours "demographic changes" will bring about in England in 15 to twenty years time

[FatLazyContractor]

Good Morning Spongers

[minestrone]

double post

[minestrone]

Like the British the 'Scots' were a mix of the ethnic groups, the Picts and the Gaels mostly.

He is confusing the Scots with the Gaels who did come from Ireland through the isles.

Unlike batcher I did actually listen to Scottish history at school ( I actually doubt his authenticity if truth be told for the amount of times he comes out with such obvious bulltulip it is hard to believe he is real )

[NotAllThere]

...
DNA study shows Celts are not a unique genetic group - BBC News.

Here's the map from New Scientist.

[zemoxyl]

The Scots were a tribe from Ireland who moved over via the Western Isles.

That is absolute bulltulip.

But other than that I agree with the OP, it is excruciating to hear and read this verbal diarrhoea day after day. It is worse than the global warming crap and that was fookin' bad.

Bunch of soft minded gullible cretins who think screaming at anyone near validates their idiocy.

Scot, n.1 (and adj.) 1. Celtic Hist. A member of the Gaelic people inhabiting early medieval Ireland; spec. a member of the people of Dalriada who began settling in what is now the west of Scotland from about the 5th cent. a.d. (see Dalriadan n.).In quots. eOE1, OE2 with reference to the Gaelic inhabitants of Ireland; in texts of a composition date later than the 9th cent. usu. hist. in this sense. In quots. eOE2, OE1 with reference to the Gaelic inhabitants of north-west Britain; prob. already hist. in this sense by the first half of the 10th cent. (compare sense 2). Compare discussion in etymology. Cf. Irish Scot n.

From the Oxford English dictionary. QED.

[minestrone]

The Scots were a tribe from Ireland who moved over via the Western Isles.

That is absolute bulltulip.

But other than that I agree with the OP, it is excruciating to hear and read this verbal diarrhoea day after day. It is worse than the global warming crap and that was fookin' bad.

Bunch of soft minded gullible cretins who think screaming at anyone near validates their idiocy.

[FatLazyContractor]

The Scots were a tribe from Ireland who moved over via the Western Isles.

Ah, bloody Irish

HTH

[Batcher]

I dare someone to sing 'Baa Baa Black Sheep' to the face of Alex Salmond (whilst holding up a portrait of the 1st Duke Of Sutherland) when he arrives in the Smoke this May..

"The Sutherland Clearances
Many Highland farm families were forced from their homes by landlords. These removals
became known as the Highland Clearances.
The Duke of Sutherland owned vast areas of the Highlands. He was one of the richest men in the
world. To 'improve' his lands, he replaced farmers with sheep. The sheep wool was sold to make more money.
By 1820 he had almost 120,000 sheep!"

"In 23 July 2007, the Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond unveiled a 3-metre (10 ft) high bronze "Exiles"
statue in Helmsdale, Sutherland, which commemorates the people who were cleared from the area by landowners"

I'm having dinner with Alex tonight so I shall warn him of your dastardly plan.

The Duke of Sutherland's family put a statue of him up on the hill above Golspie but it regulary gets vandalised. The Highlanders have long memories.