Thunder Bolt
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I had some of that when I lived in Yorkshire, so it isn't confined to nationality.
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Nicola Sturgeeon.
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I had some of that when I lived in Yorkshire, so it isn't confined to nationality.
GT49er
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I'm not talking about Yorkshire. Never lived there (hardly ever been there either). Just reporting facts about living in Scotland.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Your posts read, as though you have as big a chip on your shoulder as the Scots you have met. Personal abuse due to your place of birth is just as unpleasant no matter where you live in later life.
No he doesn't. He just appears to be someone reporting his experiences. As someone posted earlier, much of the English population has Scottish blood in its veins. Certainly in my part of the world 90% of us have. This makes it particularly sad that the old jocular anti-Englishness of centuries has turned into (in many cases) a bitter, hate-filled mindset in the last few decades.
GT49er
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That's just a polite way of summing it up, without becoming abusive {which I haven't, despite what your post implies}.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
That's just a polite way of summing it up, without becoming abusive {which I haven't, despite what your post implies}.
I fail to see where I said you were abusive? I was talking about receiving abuse from people whether they lived in Yorkshire or Scotland.
SeagullDubai
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You are correct regarding your remark about bail outs. Look at the Royal Bank of Scotland. Perhaps we can transfer that debt.
highflyer
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In my experience, having lived in many places, inside and outside the UK, how you are treated tends to reflect how you behave and how you interact with those around you.
Maybe Scotland (where i have spent a bit of time, but haven't lived for any length) is entirely different from the rest of the world and Scots are just randomly and systematically abusive to people from England.
Maybe.
But I doubt it.
(By the way, is it just me or has anyone else noticed that Nicola Sturgeon looks a little bit like one of the Krankies)
Maybe Scotland (where i have spent a bit of time, but haven't lived for any length) is entirely different from the rest of the world and Scots are just randomly and systematically abusive to people from England.
Maybe.
But I doubt it.
(By the way, is it just me or has anyone else noticed that Nicola Sturgeon looks a little bit like one of the Krankies)
mikeyjh
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Quite, it's not rocket science is it, and the usual suspects are proving the point.
I've spent a lot of time in both Edinburgh and Glasgow.....I'd say from personal experience the latter has a much higher (or just noisier perhaps) contingent of anti-English. It does feel like a socio-economic split at times, the working classes being more vehemently anti-English.
I'll be up there next week. I'll pop into a few boozers and ask [emoji106][emoji23]
el punal
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One of the best quotes about other countries' animosity towards England came from Jeff Probyn, England's rugby prop forward in the early 1990s. It was during a radio discussion about our chances in the Rugby World Cup of 2007 just before we played Australia that he came out with this gem :
"Everyone hates England. The Scots, the Welsh, the Irish, the French. They've all hated us since the Middle Ages."
The presenter replies "But Jeff, the Australians haven't been around since the Middle Ages."
Quick as a flash Jeff says "No, but if they had been they would hate us too!"
"Everyone hates England. The Scots, the Welsh, the Irish, the French. They've all hated us since the Middle Ages."
The presenter replies "But Jeff, the Australians haven't been around since the Middle Ages."
Quick as a flash Jeff says "No, but if they had been they would hate us too!"
AmexRuislip
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I'll be in Edinburgh in May for a break.
You'll have to let us know how the land lies
jakarta
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First went up there to work offshore for BP in 1991, no great animosity, a bit of banter here and there.
Finished my offshore career in 2012 working for Nexen Oil, abuse and animosity vs. the English was rife everywhere I went.
I certainly don't want to hear from people who have never left Brighton telling me about how the Scots are wonderful really - as far as I'm concerned they can take their 3rd world country and f*ck off.
Finished my offshore career in 2012 working for Nexen Oil, abuse and animosity vs. the English was rife everywhere I went.
I certainly don't want to hear from people who have never left Brighton telling me about how the Scots are wonderful really - as far as I'm concerned they can take their 3rd world country and f*ck off.
90% you sure. It's a tiny country with very few people. They must have been very busy since the wall fell!!
GT49er
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Doubt away as long as you like; although I'd call it denial.
Now - and be very clear about this - I do not say that all Scots are raging Anglophobes. But a fair few are, and your assertion that how they treat you depends on how you interact with them is rather naive. I'll give you an example of an overheard conversation. One Saturday afternoon, at a bus stop outside Woolworth's in a little Perthshire town - I was waiting for the wife and two respectable looking elderly ladies were standing at the bus stop.
"Bus is late again, then, hen?"
"Aye, 'tis. Ah blame they f.u.k.c.i.n' English".
I rest my case. The bus company at the time, incidentally, was the Scottish based firm Stagecoach...........
Gregory2Smith1
J'les aurai!
it's a shame the rivalry is only one way these days
winning at Hampden back in the 70's was very sweet
it wouldn't mean much these days
winning at Hampden back in the 70's was very sweet
it wouldn't mean much these days
I'll be in Edinburgh in May for a break.
You'll have to let us know how the land lies
I'll be there in May for some work stuff...........
GT49er
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Best not mention 'May' then!