to ask Scottish mnetters if they or anyone they know have bought any of the jubilee tat going about?

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any shop displays I've seen (yes you M&S) dont look like they are selling

personally I'd rather give my money away than but a union jack mug/various shite, but maybe thats just me

so is anyone up here buying into all the hype?

Also, Oldgrey, what has independence got to do with Royalty? We'd almost certainly still have the Royal Family even if we did become independent.

We've had a shared monarchy since 1603, when Elizabeth I was succeeded by her cousin, James VI of Scotland. Then we were two separate countries with a shared monarchy till the Union of Parliaments in 1707. Independence will put us back to the pre-1707 position of having separate Parliaments, but a shared monarchy. Except the two countries will probably treat them differently - a more "scandanavian" style approach to monarchy here. And they'll still come here for their hols, or to get married if they want to keep things low-key (Anne and Zara) because they like it here and we like having them.

Doesn't mean we have to buy Union flag crap tat from Tesco, though!!

No I have not bought any tat but of course I will be celebrating the Jubilee. HM is Queen of Scotland and William has became a member of the order of the thistle and Charles is also a Scottish Duke etc. etc.

The royal family are the royal family of Scotland as much as they are England, Canada, or any other country of the commonwealth.

People complaining about the Union flag being associated with the bigoted support of Glasgow Rangers can easily fly the Lion Rampant or better still reclaim the Union flag from the bigots as others have to from the BNP or EDL.

Sadly the one thing you can't change are the winging hard done by views of the scots happily living off the southerners taxes So proud of their scots heritage and anti english yet conveniently forget they are HIBERNIANS therefore Irish not Picts.

The irony is the royal family have shown more love for and participation in Scottish traditions than the average Scot ever does. When was the last time the complainers were at a highland games; wore their kilt hill walking; organised a ceilidh etc.

i thought the question was more about the shops, to be fair. it does seem a bit odd here that everywhere is decked out in red, white and blue, considering the independence debate at the mo.

Novack I have never done any of those things, it doesn't make me less of a Scot though. That's like saying you can't be English unless you have a complete mastery of Morris Dancing and Eton rules.

Every Socttish wedding I've been to hashad a ceilidh. Also the Royals have a lot more spare time to participate in these traditions as and when they fancy.

"So proud of their scots heritage and anti english"

that's a pretty pathetic analysis of this thread, though, isn't it? who's anti-english? i love english people, some of my very best friends are english. it doesn't make me less scottish.

I did but only because dd and ds were having jubilee parties at school and they wanted to look the part - a couple of small flags to wave, a t-shirt each and a hair clip for dd

Nope and wont be, its bad enough having to go to the schools jubilee picnic on tuesday, forecast is rain so we will all be crammed inside the very small school.
Sick kids had bunting up on ward 1 last week and if it had been the kid made type it would have been fine but it was generic crap which looked really rubbish

Novak what utter nonsense. And bigotted too.

I can't say that I have ever organised a morris dancing event or gone walking in the hills in me plus fours. Have you?

although actually novack your point about the lion rampant is an excellent one, and i think relates back to the OP. why are the shops not tailoring their jubilee products to ones that will sell here? i'd deffo buy lion rampant bunting.

Morris dancing is Cornish and many of them still see that part as a nation too.

I didn't say it made you less Scottish I made the point to show how much the royal family of scotland and the commonwealth particularly embrace scottish culture.

You are also forgetting that the HM's children were all educated in Scotland.

Who forgot? I think everyone knows they were educated in Scotland don't they?

Aitch - Lion rampant bunting

Charles famoulsy hated his time in Gordonstoun didn't he? Too outdoorsy for him.

It's the '4 day Jubilee weekend' that irritates me. Not here it isn't. We will be at school and work on Monday.

Nope I've not bought a thing, for either jubilee or Olympics, and I don't know anyone that has either. Infact all I've heard is people complaining that so many products have the union jack on them.

I've not out any jubilee tat but that's mainly because like most folk these days, cash is in too short supply to shell out on rubbish that gets in the way and then ends up in the bin.

I think most people in Scotland are getting the four day weekend, are they not?

Oh dear GOD! I really wish people would wind their neck in. Why has this turned into an anti-Scots rant because some of us aren't that fussed about the Jubilee? I bet there are plenty of people south of the border that aren't that bothered about it either. I don't mind the Royal Family per se,am a bit non plussed by them and am a bit meh about celebrating 60 years of some privileged woman on the throne.Find it a bit pointless actually.

Instead I shall play the Sex Pistols :o

our kids are off friday, monday and tuesday (scotland)

Novack, I go hillwalking quite a lot, we go on holiday up north for hillwalking holidays, my DS has a kilt that he wears, and we go to ceilidhs at least once a year.

Hth.

Good for you DailyFailSpy. Some questions are rhetorical :)

Novack that's only an element of Scottish culture and a pretty hackneyed one at that. And easy to embrace hillwalking 'culturally' when you own the bleddy hills, innit?

See, now I'm ranting and I love the Queen. But your point is facile.

I'm a female so therefore don't wear a kilt (although I do occasionally wear a kilted skirt).

However, my dh does wear his kilt to both formal and informal functions, has taken it to SA when we were representing Glasgow at a Junior Chamber African conference, we do organise Burns Suppers (both at home and more formally), our ds loves to "address the haggis" when we have it (which we do, regularly), we had a ceilidh at our wedding and went to a ball recently specifically because it was going to have a ceilidh (although in the event they only did one dance, a Gay Gordons ) and have organised ceilidhs at our local rugby club.

So my lack of interest in the Jubilee has nothing whatsoever to do with my lack of appreciation of Scottish traditions.