Posted on 08/22/2011 11:50:05 AM PDT by the scotsman
The Clan Gunn :Aye, “The Hell’s Angels of the Highlands.”
Aut Pax Aut Bellum.
But from what I hear, it’s actually more dangerous to be in Belfast during a Rangers/Celtic match, than to be in Glasgow.
They did in the mid 90’s to early 00’s, but under the new owners, many people in Scotland would say that Celtic have re-pandered to their Irish roots (in a faux-Irish identity), and as such we have seen a resurgence of the faux-irish, pro-IRA drivel.
Under Fergus McCann, he tried to eliminate the pro-IRA songs and banners at matches, McCann was turned on at times and famously booed live on TV at a game at Celtic Park when he stated the IRA nonsense had no place at Celtic.
Celtic fans are adamant they have no sectarian problem, as they claim their IRA songs are ‘political’, an argument which almost everyone else sees as bunkum.
The holders went West to our benefit.
Those Irish? Don't make me laugh.
Not really.
Its been banned at Euro matches, and the Scottish league is ready to clamp down on it, so whilst you will still hear it, it has virtually disappeared.
The irony is that the sole offending remark refers to Fenians, and the song is talking about the actual Fenians, but over the years, too many Rangers fans used that term to refer to Catholics, so the original meaning was lost and thats why its offensive to many people.
You have to be pretty manly to eat Haggis!!
He wishes.
I was right when I spoke of the superior intelligence of the average Scots.
We wear kilts and sporrans.
Concepts such as advanced vocabulary are often challenging for the non-Scot, he said good-naturedly.
Groundskeeper Willie: It won’t last. Brothers and sisters are natural enemies. Like Englishmen and Scots! Or Welshmen and Scots! Or Japanese and Scots! Or Scots and other Scots! Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!
Principal Skinner: You Scots sure are a contentious people.
Groundskeeper Willie: You just made an enemy for life!
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How can they be polled and manly.
I'm Scots and a Texan (three generations of ancestors living there on March 2, 1836). Like my two brothers, I shave with a belt sander, lace up the barbed wire on my shoes, and report to the hospital each morning to have three quarts of testosterone drained.
Just a lame attempt at humor people. I really don't use barbed wire to lace my shoes. I use that in place of a zipper on my jeans.
Scots are born fightin’... not just the men either ...
If it helps, I understood it and thought it was funny.
www.ulsterancestry.com/ulster-scots.html
The above article does a great job explaining who the label “Scots-Irish” describes.
In summary: It is not the current Ulster Scotts or anything Celtic or Gaelic or even Orange. It is a name for the Scotts and some English who migrated to Northern Ireland and re-populated it after the Irish surrendered to the English ending the Nine Years War. They were primarily Presbyterians and many of them had previously resisted and fought the English. They were not Protestant Irishmen.
They left Northern Ireland for America whereupon they were labeled “Irish”. To clarify they added “Scots” to Irish and became “Scots-Irish”.
As an ancient uncle of mine said” “They may have hated the Irish but they hated the English even more.” They have the distinction of having fought the Irish (who wanted them off their land) and the English (who used them to subjugate the Northern Irish). I think they also fought the majority Scottish clans, since these were minorty clans, as well but my knowledge of Scots-Irish history is too shallow to trace that.
I imagined a deep Scottish accent when I read this post. I had just watched the interview of John Smeaton, one of the men who assisted the police officer during the Scottish terrorist attack.
“...because sheep can hear zippers.”
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