I hate England

[Lazul]

Europe sucks. Come to America, where the streets burst with gold and the women are more attractive.

*reads it*
*freezes*
*laughes so hard his loungs starts to bleed*
*looks at it again*
*collapses*



... well anyway, boring article.

[lancelot]

This guy is a scot....

=automatic disqualification of his opinion.

What is more shocking is giving him the Times to air his 'views'



Only joking Scotland...we love you really....no, really...

[Reverend Joe]

What an odd man. He seems to have a lot of anger that he redirects through wit, which by the way is supposed to be funny. That's the purpose of wit.

I must admit, though- I do not, myself, have any love of England. It's okay, but I would rather be in Hibernia, my anscestral homeland, home of whiskey and unrepressed anger.

[Duke Malcolm]

Hmph... This guy seems a fool. Plenty of the English qualities he has outlined are also Scottish, British qualities. He seems to be much obsessed with England to write such an article and completely miss that Scotland is much the same, with similar humour, anger and such.
Anyhoo, I would rather be in my homeland, home of whisk(N.B. lack of letter "e")y, and the damned finest soldiers.

[Tribesman]

What is more shocking is giving him the Times to air his 'views'

Why ?
The Times nowadays is only the Sun with big words and no tits .

[Slyspy]

Whereas I, being English, have never met any angry and bitter Scots. Oh no, wait. I haven't met a male Scot who, deep down, isn't bitter and angry. Its part of their essential character. The female of the species seems better adjusted.

[GonZ]

What is more shocking is giving him the Times to air his 'views'

Why ?
The Times nowadays is only the Sun with big words and no tits .

The times seems to have at least one tit; answering to the name of AA Gill.

[Reverend Joe]

He's not a tit so much as naive. He has engaged the English in a battle of wit- and, obviously, this is a battle no man can win.

[GoreBag]

Hmph... This guy seems a fool. Plenty of the English qualities he has outlined are also Scottish, British qualities. He seems to be much obsessed with England to write such an article and completely miss that Scotland is much the same, with similar humour, anger and such.
Anyhoo, I would rather be in my homeland, home of whisk(N.B. lack of letter "e")y, and the damned finest soldiers.

That you would say something like this makes me laugh. It almost seems like English humour. And it doesn't matter whether or not "whiskey" takes an 'e'; it's a phonetic spelling.

The other day, my boss told me I wasn't cheerful enough, and that he'd received a few complaints/comments about it. The whole thing seemed to be part ridiculous and part hilarious. Anyway, later that day, an English who'd married a Scot comes into the store. We talk, I sell her some stuff, blah blah blah. Then she goes on and on about things Scottish, like everyone does, and announces that Scots are all dour people, and that she should know - she married one. It made my day.

Anyway, there's something fundamentally different about the Scottish dour demeanor and the English bully syndrome described in the 'article' (read: aimless rant).

I rather liked the piece, but it's in need of some direction.

[Axeknight]

If any of you had read AA Gill's TV Reviews or his restaurant reviews you'd know that this is his style, and it's really funny too.

At rich Chelsea, plumbers and kitchen-fitters look over the pitch at Liverpool fans and sing, “Sign on, sign on, with hope in your heart ’cos you’ll never work again.”

I support Liverpool myself, and that's bloody hilarious

[Duke Malcolm]

That you would say something like this makes me laugh. It almost seems like English humour. And it doesn't matter whether or not "whiskey" takes an 'e'; it's a phonetic spelling.

I was just making the point to the above post who highlighted its spelling with an "e".

The other day, my boss told me I wasn't cheerful enough, and that he'd received a few complaints/comments about it. The whole thing seemed to be part ridiculous and part hilarious. Anyway, later that day, an English who'd married a Scot comes into the store. We talk, I sell her some stuff, blah blah blah. Then she goes on and on about things Scottish, like everyone does, and announces that Scots are all dour people, and that she should know - she married one. It made my day.

Anyway, there's something fundamentally different about the Scottish dour demeanor and the English bully syndrome described in the 'article' (read: aimless rant).

I rather liked the piece, but it's in need of some direction.

Scots may be dour, but many still have that bully syndrome and be angry. A damn sight many of the people I know are angry much of the time, as well as dour. The jokes are generally the same, but that may be just because they migrated north of the border. We still have a similar sense of humour, but express it much more solemnly. Only the Young Scots (we have cards for discounts which can be used across Europe to prove we are Scots, it's fun) laugh out loud generally, I have rarely heard my father laugh, or my grandfather, or any teachers.

This person is the type who tries to find any vice the English have and mock them for it, even though many Scots have the same quality. The SNP objects to the House of Lords as a bastion of British dominance over Scotland. Why-- I do no know. The old Scottish Parliament was mostly Barons and Lords, and a good many lords are Scottish.

[Reverend Joe]

The SNP objects to the House of Lords as a bastion of British dominance over Scotland. Why-- I do no know. The old Scottish Parliament was mostly Barons and Lords, and a good many lords are Scottish.

It's because you're a bunch of dirty, no-good rotten Angles, still trying to conquer the rest of Roman Britain after all of these years.

(yes, I know Scotland was never Roman... it's a joke.)