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    A deeply divided kingdom Scots get £1600 more from the state than the English

    The gulf in state spending between Scotland and England has hit a record £1,600 per head.


    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1WVKeloQD

    Another legacy of the Blair/Brown years propping up that sly grub Alex Salmond


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    Arthur !

    Lend us some money !


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    might have to move back to my homeland hehehehehehe
    Live your life for a reason and don't worry be happy

    if you don't know where you are going then any road will do!!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Dedworth View Post
    Government spending in Scotland averaged £10,212 per person last year – £1,624 per head more than in England.

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1WVKeloQD
    ... it'll be a FIRST! Traditionally, the Scots have been the poor, downtrodden relations within 's family.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Dedworth View Post
    that sly grub Alex Salmon(d)
    ... there's always been something a bit "fishy" about HIM!


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    about time scotland gained on something, usualy are on the loosing end ,

    maybe its the cost of our FREE Prescriptions


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    Quote Originally Posted by imagine View Post
    about time scotland gained on something, usualy are on the loosing end ,
    , Stewart!

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    maybe its the cost of our FREE Prescriptions
    Hmm ... you COULD well be right!


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    Well I'm guessing you need free prescriptions (anti depressants) for when you watch Scottish football


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    Quote Originally Posted by les_taxi View Post
    Well I'm guessing you need free prescriptions (anti depressants) for when you watch Scottish football
    no its for pain killers to treaat the cramp of the hand that grips tight hold of ma sporan

    and the headache tablets for real sore heads caused by listning to english gov bull


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    Quote Originally Posted by grahamw48 View Post
    Arthur !

    Lend us some money !
    Typical Jock, me ... kuripot!


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    oh dear Arthur and Imagine the English are getting jealous... they are just frustrated at not being Scottish ... see below


    Wha's Like Us?


    Damn Few And They're A' Died!

    The average Englishman in the home he calls 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 authorised 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 tae ask
    "Wha's like us? damm few an' there a' deed"

    it is all in jest forum friends
    Last edited by scott&ligaya; 31st August 2011 at 09:47. Reason: spelling
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    Warriors & worriers ...


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    Quote Originally Posted by scott&ligaya View Post
    oh dear Arthur and Imagine the English are getting jealous... they are just frustrated at not being Scottish ... see below


    Wha's Like Us?


    Damn Few And They're A' Died!

    The average Englishman in the home he calls 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 authorised 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 tae ask
    "Wha's like us? damm few an' there a' deed"

    it is all in jest forum friends
    What an excellent and informative post.

    Thankfully I at least have a Scottish name.


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    I have a large SCROLL version of this by our dining tabe in Palawan just to bring the English back in line when they get too arsey about us Scots i am sure if someone put their mind to it they could come up with some equally lauable group of English, Irish or Welsh... but we do seem to be an inventive bunch in Scotland.
    Live your life for a reason and don't worry be happy

    if you don't know where you are going then any road will do!!


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    I put it down to their desperation to make something of themselves so they can afford to escape.


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    just where would england be without the scots, maybe they would have been still in the dark ages,

    god bless scotland


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    you may well be right in part Graham... anything to escape the west coast rain, mist and midges and the north sea gales over Aberdeen
    Live your life for a reason and don't worry be happy

    if you don't know where you are going then any road will do!!


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    dont forget the blue toon


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    but I do miss Skye, Loch Lomond, Glencoe, The great glen, Loch Muick/Loch Nagar, Braemar, Cairngorm/Lairig Grhu and so many other great hillwalking/climbing areas I used to frequent when I were a lad
    Live your life for a reason and don't worry be happy

    if you don't know where you are going then any road will do!!


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    The Romans had a cost effective solution



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    Quote Originally Posted by Dedworth View Post
    The Romans had a cost effective solution

    thats because they couldnt conquer the scots warriors


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    hmmmmm now that reminds of an old joke.. A Welshman, Englishman and Scotsman are walking along a beach and kick over a bottle, A genie pops out and promises them one wish. The Welshman goes 1st and says he really misses the beautiful rolling hills of his home country and woooosh he is there instantly....

    The Englishman says .. do you think you could build an eight foot high six foot thick wall all the way round England to keep out the Scots and the Welsh?... of course says the Genie and it is done in seconds.

    the Scotsman says tell me more about this wall... it is 8ft high? yes says the genie .. and it is six foot thick? yes says the genie .. and nothing can get in? yes says the genie .. ok fill it with water
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