Best thing your country ever did.
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Scotland stood up to England and wasn't it's *****. Also haggis/kilts/several large medical advances.
Everything that people think is Scottish is actually stolen from China I think you'll find, sorry. Also Scotland is still our ***** cause they're still part of Britain.ARatherHandsomeGent said:
To be fair, what choice do they have? They can hardly take up pick-axes en mass and start hacking away at the ground around the border >.>Sharkie668 said:
Then I refer you sir, to the poem by Tom Anderson Cairns:Sharkie668 said:
The average Englishman in the home he call his castle slips into his national costume, a shabby raincoat, patented by Chemist Charles Macintosh from Glasgow, Scotland.
En-route to his office he strides along the English lane, surfaced by John Macadam of Ayr, Scotland.
He drives an English car fitted with tyres invented by John Boyd Dunlop, Veterinary Surgeon of Dreghorn, Scotland.
At the office he receives the mail bearing adhesive stamps invented by John Chalmers, Bookseller and Printer of Dundee, Scotland.
During the day he uses the telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh, Scotland. At home in the evening his daughter pedals her bicycle invented by Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Blacksmith of Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
He watches the news on television, an invention of John Logie Baird of Helensburgh, Scotland, and hears an item about the U.S. Navy founded by John Paul Jones of Kirkbean, Scotland.
Nowhere can an Englishman turn to escape the ingenuity of the Scots.
He has by now been reminded too much of Scotland and in desperation he picks up the Bible, only to find that the first man mentioned in the good book is a Scot, King James VI, who authorized its translation.
He could take to drink but the Scots make the best in the world.
He could take a rifle and end it all, but the breech-loading rifle was invented by Captain Patrick Ferguson of Pitfours, Scotland.
If he escaped death, he could find himself on an operating table injected with penicillin, discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming of Darvel, Scotland, and given chloroform, an anesthetic discovered by Sir James Young Simpson, Obstetrician and Gynecologist of Bathgate, Scotland.
Out of the anesthetic he would find no comfort in learning that he was as safe as the Bank of England founded by William Paterson of Dumfries, Scotland.
Perhaps his only remaining hope would be to get a transfusion of guid Scottish blood which would entitle him to ask:
"Wha's Like Us?"
En-route to his office he strides along the English lane, surfaced by John Macadam of Ayr, Scotland.
He drives an English car fitted with tyres invented by John Boyd Dunlop, Veterinary Surgeon of Dreghorn, Scotland.
At the office he receives the mail bearing adhesive stamps invented by John Chalmers, Bookseller and Printer of Dundee, Scotland.
During the day he uses the telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh, Scotland. At home in the evening his daughter pedals her bicycle invented by Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Blacksmith of Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
He watches the news on television, an invention of John Logie Baird of Helensburgh, Scotland, and hears an item about the U.S. Navy founded by John Paul Jones of Kirkbean, Scotland.
Nowhere can an Englishman turn to escape the ingenuity of the Scots.
He has by now been reminded too much of Scotland and in desperation he picks up the Bible, only to find that the first man mentioned in the good book is a Scot, King James VI, who authorized its translation.
He could take to drink but the Scots make the best in the world.
He could take a rifle and end it all, but the breech-loading rifle was invented by Captain Patrick Ferguson of Pitfours, Scotland.
If he escaped death, he could find himself on an operating table injected with penicillin, discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming of Darvel, Scotland, and given chloroform, an anesthetic discovered by Sir James Young Simpson, Obstetrician and Gynecologist of Bathgate, Scotland.
Out of the anesthetic he would find no comfort in learning that he was as safe as the Bank of England founded by William Paterson of Dumfries, Scotland.
Perhaps his only remaining hope would be to get a transfusion of guid Scottish blood which would entitle him to ask:
"Wha's Like Us?"
They could if they where real scots, they'd be powered by hate and porridge. Obviously they secretly wish to be part of our awesomenessthe_maestro_sartori said:
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AK-47. Hands down =)
Okay, maybe not the best thing, but still pretty high on the list I guess...
Okay, maybe not the best thing, but still pretty high on the list I guess...
Invented the television...wait, did you say best or worst? >>
If you are describing the Scots like that then you must secretly wish to be a part of our awesomeness! Who wouldn't want to be? lolThey could if they where real scots, they'd be powered by hate and porridge. Obviously they secretly wish to be part of our awesomeness
How about "everything"?
Seriously, I can't think of anything specific. I guess there was the whole World War stuff, getting involved straight of the mark and lending a hand. Then there's all those scientific and technological advances. Then there's that language which is the worlds second language and is just the best form of communication ever. I dunno, I can't really decide...
Seriously, I can't think of anything specific. I guess there was the whole World War stuff, getting involved straight of the mark and lending a hand. Then there's all those scientific and technological advances. Then there's that language which is the worlds second language and is just the best form of communication ever. I dunno, I can't really decide...
Well, they can. There's nothing stopping them from doing that, it just won't achieve anythingthe_maestro_sartori said: