Hawick on one side, very complicated on the other. Always stopped at immigration, except in Wales where you just pay enough and they let you in.

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Originally posted by Phinehas:
Hawick on one side, very complicated on the other. Always stopped at immigration, except in Wales where you just pay enough and they let you in.

Actually you have to pay us to get out ! I'm not sure if that's better or worse !

Anyway - Are we all Scottish ? What a hideous thought, I'll be having nightmares for weeks.

Scotlands not a bad place, pretty good scenery but we have better in Wales, much nicer beaches and we can play rugby

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Scotlands not a bad place, pretty good scenery but we have better in Wales, much nicer beaches and we can play rugby

We can too, just not very well Still I reckon Hadden's lot are going to be far better on the pitch than the disaster that we had under that bl00dy aussie.

Well my mother was a McCutchan but I have an English name and Indian blood from two centuries of the British in India. Yes so definitely Scottish blood.

Oh do come on you Scottish lot. Absolutley no-one fell for the Rab C Nesbitt line in one of my posts.

Most disappointing.....unless......

"I'll tell ye this laddie, I'll tell ye this"

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Originally posted by khanie:
Oh do come on you Scottish lot. Absolutley no-one fell for the Rab C Nesbitt line in one of my posts.

Most disappointing.....unless......

"I'll tell ye this laddie, I'll tell ye this"

beet utt

..better scenery in wales...nicer beaches...come on...i'l give ya the rugby thing....but, come on.....seriously wales is a beautiful country, as are parts of england, but i really do urge anyone who hasnt extensively toured scotlands coastline and mountains to get off their arses and come see for themselves...last summer when we were camping around inverness, fort william, oban etc...we very rarel met any tourists from south of the border on our campsites..lots of germans, swiss, french, italians...even the dumbass americans seem to love the scottish experience, though they do insist on asking..are you scotch, a real scotch native...and things like that...scotch being a drink, scottish being the nationality.....i suggested one of em should visit glen coe then glen miller....but i think he had heard this one before.......

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Originally posted by mr-skyford:
..... the drive through glencoe most weekends is closest to driving heaven....

much prefer the A87 - Invergarry to Kyle of Lochalsh meself

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Originally posted by MattW:
I'm a softie southern Englishman I'm afraid. No motorways in my county. Oo-arrr!

Are you Cornish?

Afraid not Palmira, I'm from Norfolk, the flattest county in the UK with a rapidly eroding coastline! Good job I'm 20 miles away from the coast!

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Originally posted by MattW:

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Originally posted by Palmira:

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Originally posted by MattW:
I'm a softie southern Englishman I'm afraid. No motorways in my county. Oo-arrr!

Are you Cornish?

Afraid not Palmira, I'm from Norfolk, the flattest county in the UK with a rapidly eroding coastline! Good job I'm 20 miles away from the coast!

Not for long - look out the window the tides coming in!!!

how highs the water momma?...three feet high and risin...!!!

whilst up visiting the Culloden battle site, many visitors all voicing true scottish heritage, allegiance to the clans, etc.....during a brief quiet in the hubbub, the wife was heard to observe that she was more closely related to the Duke of Cumberland.......

bah,....she aint afeared of no men in skirts...at age 7, she was the scourge of Dundee!

i visited culloden several years back and it is one of the few places of historical import that genuinely affected me...like the american civil war, it was one of the few conflicts that could find neighbour agin neighbour, cousin agin cousin...standing on that sundrenched moor in august, you can imagine the carnage and feel the anguish....it really is worth a visit if you have an ounce of passion in your veins....or maybe i'm just an old romantic talkin a load of pish......

much play has been made about the British use of the bayonet...and the tactic of poking your stick into the side of the Highlander takin' a pop at your neighbour....which apparently confused the poor man...I have the view the debacle was more down to...the boggy ground to the right, forcing the Highland line to arrive a little less than together...and ....the serried ranks of muskets on the Highland right, behind the stone walls, that just let rip!

also, duke of cumberland was a damned fine soldier!

which same could not be levelled at the Bonny Prince?

the outcome.?

well....the British Army had the wisdom to incorporate the Highland regiments into their own army...what was left of them, anyways........

last we went..(one of several visits over the years)...we brought back a small rock from the moor...yeah, I know.......it was for my uncle, a true Cameron, who was old, frail, but with a fire in his eyes...for his garden in Inverness...rocks can kindle all sorts of memories..

anyways, I thought it was 'pesh?'

Is it not only pesh if you're from fife?

dunno,mate..I was born in Lewisham

It's ...pish if you're posh...and a sort of cross between pesh and push if you're from Lavy Heed country. Hope this clears matters up.

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It's ...pish if you're posh...and a sort of cross between pesh and push if you're from Lavy Heed country. Hope this clears matters up.

LOL I'd forgotten about that. "Haw lavvy heid, you're gettin' it"

Aye....and he dis'nae like it eethur

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Originally posted by Phinehas:
Hawick on one side, very complicated on the other. Always stopped at immigration, except in Wales where you just pay enough and they let you in.

I was born and lived in Hawick until I was 18!

..yup, one of the worst military decisions in our history..the scots had held there own in many famous battles, and even got as far as york many years before..yup, rampaging scots on your turf, and not a football in sight!! cumberland was a master soldier and tactician....his desire to have the battle on rough boggy terrain negated the famous highland charges..by the time the rebels reached the ranks of cumberlands men they had been decimated by musket fire and were bloody exhausted!!..oh it would have been so different if we had had a patton, or even a mel gibson in charge.....i beleive when the battle started and the wee eyties tactics proved so disastrous, he was heard turning to one of his generals and saying...mama mia, theez is aload of pish......

I was born in Middlesex, that bit of land north of the Thames and south of Heathrow, a county that technically don’t exist anymore.

I now live in East Sussex on the perhaps the most southeast part of England, just a few miles up the road from a notorious suicide spot

My Immediate family are from the Thames Valley & West Surrey. Not very glamorous, but it does mean I get the jokes in The Office & Ali G more than my yokel Sussex friends.

So definitely not Scottish then.

But I was told that my hair colour indicates a possible Celtic bloodline!

Relatives say I'm a right tight wad with the cash.

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Relatives say I'm a right tight wad with the cash.

You should be where I am today and tomorrow! Aberdeen - a city deserving of it's mean status!!

aberdonian drops a pound coin, bends down to pick it up and it hits him on the back of the head.....

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Originally posted by biggbn:
aberdonian drops a pound coin, bends down to pick it up and it hits him on the back of the head.....