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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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30th August 2011 #2
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Arthur !
Lend us some money !
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30th August 2011 #3
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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30th August 2011 #6
about time scotland gained on something, usualy are on the loosing end ,
maybe its the cost of our FREE Prescriptions
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30th August 2011 #8
Well I'm guessing you need free prescriptions (anti depressants) for when you watch Scottish football
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31st August 2011 #11
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 friendsLast edited by scott&ligaya; 31st August 2011 at 09:47. Reason: spelling
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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Warriors & worriers ...
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31st August 2011 #14
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
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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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31st August 2011 #16
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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31st August 2011 #17
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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31st August 2011 #18
dont forget the blue toon
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31st August 2011 #19
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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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 waterLast edited by scott&ligaya; 31st August 2011 at 17:39. Reason: spelling
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