Brilliant things about Scotland

[JennyPiccolo]

Just cos I love Scotland.

The banter
Irn bru
Men who look like they grew out of the ground
How everyone sees going out and having a good time as some kind of fundamental human right
Edinburgh fringe festival
The barrowlands ballroom
Whisky

duckdodgers, we grew up being dragged to Culzean and the Maidens EVERY weekend! That and ice skating in Irvine on a Sunday morning.

I've got Big Country blaring away on the ipod at the minute too lol

Oh and going to Murrayfield. We took the oldest two DDs last weeked for the Scotland/Ireland friendly and it's just brilliant We even managed to win for once

Just watched that Lift sketch. So, so true about the voice recognition.

Hee hawing laughing here.

Bibibelle - Stoneybridge! With it's stoney bridge! Can't believe I forgot about that.

Thanks scottishmummy, I've just cried laughing at that lift sketch. Am away to click on the rest of the links and laugh/greet.

Zukiecat - ongoing battler in this house to get English DC to pronounce Milngavie CORRECTLY.

Think this thread should go into Classics so that everytime I need a wee fix of Scotland, I can visit it.

Maggie Bell from Stone the Crows - the Voice of the Taggart theme.

I got Maggie Bell as an answer in a quiz not so long ago re Taggart, and have since wondered if she's still around. Keep meaning to google her.

Aw, stonehaven has had a couple of mentions! :) (my hometown)

my list -

beautiful scenery - mountains, beaches, lochs etc

uncrowded

air feels cleaner/fresher

nice free water from tap

the people/humour

the sayings 'fit like' etc

haggis

deep fried a'thing

butteries/rowies

some of the best produce - meat, fish, berries, veg

mealie jimmies (white pudding)

our govt

-free prescriptions, no uni fees, good schools

the history, castles

tartan, bagpipes etc

Most beautiful place in the world! Wouldn't be anywhere else :)

My best friend

(she's an Ayrshire lass)

The short summer nights - sunshine in the garden at 10pm.
Robert Burns songs.
Fish suppers.
Highland lochs and rivers.
The West Sands at St Andrews.
Iona.
Stirling castle.
Soft sweet water on tap.
The Northern Lights.
Ring of Brodgar in Orkney & Kilmartin Glen in Argyll - wonderful stone age sites - never crowded with tourists.
People singing in pubs/at parties.

Polis that tell you to 'take yoursel home and have a word with yoursel' instead of putting you in the pokey

Thanks witchofthenorth- you were absolutely right!

piffpaffpoff - don't forget it's got it's very own bus stop too, with a shelter

shortbread

Yvw lisianthus, going to put on their greatest hits album now just for nostalgias sake :o

Maggie Bell is indeed worth googling - there is some fab tracks on youtube. And yes she is still on the go.....
Has anyone said Annie Lennox yet?

Ricky Fulton at New Year?

'I'm in the mortuary. I must be deid'

sob I wanna come home now :( (though the hoose is going on the market in January and plan to be over the Border by then end of Spring :o)

Whiskey
Scottish trad music (big folkies here)
scenery
hardly any Tories (that count anyway)
sense of humour
sense of community
proper weather - they don't know what real rain and wind is down here
it's not flat
water hasn't been privitised
NHS and schooling are not due to be privitised
free higher education
haggis available all year round
no riots
no toffs running the parliament
etc etc

that you always meet someone scottish wherever you go
that upon meeting you another scot can get the followng info
1.where you went to school
2.where you grew up
3.who yer mammie/granny/sister...
in under a min.better than spooks at extracting sensitive info quickly

wow, this gets more rose-tinted by the minute..

"we lose in style and have a laugh about it!"
Several years ago when Scotland lost to England, we had a brick put through our window and had to call the police to our downstairs neighbour who was threatening to come up and sort out "youse fucking English cunts"

I remember random lines from Scottish sketch shows:

"Right, Stirlin' - oot the car."

"You sayin' John Wayne's an arsehole?"

"Coupla fannies!"

And remember Calum Gulheely or something from Absolutely? Loved him.

Wow demented IME they are just prats and don't deserve to call themselves scots!

My little village in the Highlands has a large population of English people, I've never seen anything aggressive here towards any of them and they're all just part of the community.
I do remember clearly though, a few years ago when we had a band at the Christmas party when many of them objected to them playing Flower of Scotland as a finale as it was anti English .
Yes, because playing the unofficial Scottish national anthem in a Scottish village is anti English.
Swings and roundabouts,