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] Date Posted: 13:11:49 11/12/04 Fri In reply to: Jim (Canada) 's message, "Yes to visit a foreign power and not a fellow Commonwealth country" on 18:07:49 11/11/04 Thu He shows very clearly where his loyalty lies. This is the kind of gesture that I would imagine would get him out of office, but the demographics of the once proud nation of which we are speaking have changed in a direction that no longer guarantees it. The right side is that of Crown, Country and Commonwealth, all of which he has let down in the most depressing way during his time in office. He is not even greatly loved in the U.S. by the Republican party, especially not the Vice President. They think that he is a creepy european-style-sociallist. He has no Honour, and neither do his government backbenchers who repeatedly vote against their own personal views in order to keep Labour in power. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: Owain (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 14:20:35 11/12/04 Fri Jim, Blair is Scottish? [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> Subject: Yes, he was born in Scotland | |
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Author: Jim (Canada) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 16:43:22 11/12/04 Fri [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> [> Subject: And he went to Fettes School In Edinburgh | |
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Author: Paddy (Scotland) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 20:32:05 11/12/04 Fri [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Fettes is generally not thought of as a "Scottish" school in Scotland nt | |
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Author: David Hicks [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 20:59:50 11/13/04 Sat [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: That's quite a strange way of looking at it... | |
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Author: Paddy (Scotland) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 00:51:54 11/14/04 Sun [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> Subject: When a Scotsman is not a Scots man | |
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Author: Trixta (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 14:58:50 11/14/04 Sun Strange as it may be, a lot of Scots, particularly those in Glasgow, view Edinburgh as more English than Scottish. Obviously Edinburgh is the capitol of Scotland, though this is more to do with it having a castle in modern terms. Glasgow is often referred to as the unofficial capitol of Scotland as it is Scots to its very core - not the tourist-friendly tartan n haggis type of Scottishness but the hard-drinking, chain-smoking, ship-building Scottishness that has more basis in reality and less in the warblings of Burns. That is not to say there aren't Scots in Edinburgh, or that it isn't Scottish - obviously it is - just that it is very anglicised. Thus you have the wonderful paradox whereby a Scottish-born, Scottish-educated man can still be viewed as an English (insert expletive of choice here). You think I'm joking, don't you. Okay, do your best at speaking in a Glasgow accent. Awful, probably, but at least you know what it is. Now try an Edinbugger accent. See? [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Dave (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 16:19:46 11/14/04 Sun "Strange as it may be, a lot of Scots, particularly those in Glasgow, view Edinburgh as more English than Scottish." "the hard-drinking, chain-smoking, ship-building Scottishness that has more basis in reality and less in the warblings of Burns." You seem to define degrees of Scottishness in terms of how working-class it is perceived. This is not a definition that I share, and is in fact one that I find offensive. "Okay, do your best at speaking in a Glasgow accent" Which part of Glasgow, Govan or Kelvinside? [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |