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ViperPict
8,424 posts
106 months
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HarryW
11,300 posts
138 months
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Blimey is this thread still going, good to see the only real contributor hasn't got bored though, well done. Perhaps we should get the mods to update the thread title to Viperpicts little Scotland, or The Last Next King of Scotland....
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glazbagun
4,153 posts
66 months
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thinfourth2 said: Totally disagree. Unless this turns into an alcohol tax which somehow supplants the... er... alcohol tax I believe it is at least an attempt to deal with a very real problem. At least it acknowledges that a proportion of us are complete wastes of space who'll drink anything to escape our lives. I mean really, who is 50pp unit going to hit who doesn't have a drink problem? If anything, this is a more conservative idea in that it will hit the "poor" hardest. If by poor you mean the homeless who desire sweet oblivion.
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glazbagun
4,153 posts
66 months
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ViperPict said: thinfourth2 said: ViperPict said: You STILL not actually gone yet?! No because unlike you I actually like Scotland You merely want independence to punish the evil tories unless you are actually just being a troll You don't believe that your fellow coutry men and women have the wherewithall to govern their own nation! You don't belong in our country. Begone traitor  And you're a fantasist of the kind that has alllowed Scotland to f  k itself over on many occasions. So shoot yourself for the sake of the nation.
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ViperPict
8,424 posts
106 months
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glazbagun said: ViperPict said: thinfourth2 said: ViperPict said: You STILL not actually gone yet?! No because unlike you I actually like Scotland You merely want independence to punish the evil tories unless you are actually just being a troll You don't believe that your fellow coutry men and women have the wherewithall to govern their own nation! You don't belong in our country. Begone traitor And you're a fantasist of the kind that has alllowed Scotland to f k itself over on many occasions. So shoot yourself for the sake of the nation. How has Scotland f ked itself over? The small minds see the opportunity we have as a risk. I genuinely worry for those like you who have no faith in the abilities of their fellow country men and women. Perhaps it's down to being told for generation upon generation that we can't survive on our own, that we don't have the skills or resources to do it - say things enough times and people eventually start to believe it.
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HarryW
11,300 posts
138 months
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Look up aggrandise(r), or if that doesn't fit, look up deluded/delusional.
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ViperPict
8,424 posts
106 months
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HarryW
11,300 posts
138 months
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ViperPict said: Look up au revoir... no need .... adieu
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ViperPict
8,424 posts
106 months
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HarryW said: ViperPict said: Look up au revoir... no need .... adieu Tha mo bhàta-foluaimein loma-làn easgannan
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eharding
6,395 posts
153 months
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ViperPict said: Bidh mi 'gad fhaicinn That's odd - Google Translate offers a spelling correction, and then tries to translate that as Polish. If Google doesn't take you seriously, why should anyone else?  Edited: Odd...you decided to delete that one? - did you misread the Bluffer's Guide to Gaelic, and it actually means "My nipples explode with delight", or something about your hovercraft?
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ViperPict
8,424 posts
106 months
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eharding said: ViperPict said: Bidh mi 'gad fhaicinn That's odd - Google Translate offers a spelling correction, and then tries to translate that as Polish. If Google doesn't take you seriously, why should anyone else? Edited: Odd...you decided to delete that one? - did you misread the Bluffer's Guide to Gaelic, and it actually means "My nipples explode with delight", or something about your hovercraft? The first one is my own attempt but my gaelic is not perfect (250 odd years of persecution of the language post-Culloden is my excuse). However, there is not really a 'correct' way to spell in gaelic as there are so many dialects. But I thought the second quote more appropriate for this time of evening and needed some help finding the word for 'hovercraft'! I had presumed that it might be 'hovercraft' but, no, there appears to be a gaelic word!
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eharding
6,395 posts
153 months
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ViperPict said: eharding said: ViperPict said: Bidh mi 'gad fhaicinn That's odd - Google Translate offers a spelling correction, and then tries to translate that as Polish. If Google doesn't take you seriously, why should anyone else? Edited: Odd...you decided to delete that one? - did you misread the Bluffer's Guide to Gaelic, and it actually means "My nipples explode with delight", or something about your hovercraft? The first one is my own attempt but my gaelic is not perfect (250 odd years of persecution of the language post-Culloden is my excuse). However, there is not really a 'correct' way to spell in gaelic as there are so many dialects. But I thought the second quote more appropriate for this time of evening and needed some help finding the word for 'hovercraft'! I had presumed that it might be 'hovercraft' but, no, there appears to be a gaelic word! There you go, you see. Let your language devolve into a thousand different incompatible dialects, and your sense of nationhood goes down the crapper. Which is why we're so keen on English orthography here on PH. Keeps the clans together, or at least keeps them communicating.
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thinfourth2
23,530 posts
73 months
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ViperPict said: How has Scotland f ked itself over? The small minds see the opportunity we have as a risk. I genuinely worry for those like you who have no faith in the abilities of their fellow country men and women. Perhaps it's down to being told for generation upon generation that we can't survive on our own, that we don't have the skills or resources to do it - say things enough times and people eventually start to believe it. Quite the opposite I have every single faith in those that work in Scotland to turn the country into a world beater due to our resources and skills. However I don't see on single politician in the whole of the UK and especially scotland that is capable of making the voter unfriendly choices to turn us into a world beater. And the anything but the tories tossers who dominate scotland ensure we have a future entirely of the scottish labour party. Show me a right wing, small government, pro business, non nanny state party in Scotland and i'll happily vote for independence. Until then you can shove it up your little blue painted bum
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TheHeretic
67,873 posts
124 months
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ViperPict said: The first one is my own attempt but my gaelic is not perfect (250 odd years of persecution of the language post-Culloden is my excuse). However, there is not really a 'correct' way to spell in gaelic as there are so many dialects.
But I thought the second quote more appropriate for this time of evening and needed some help finding the word for 'hovercraft'! I had presumed that it might be 'hovercraft' but, no, there appears to be a gaelic word! Those pesky English ridding yourself of a pointless language. 1.2 percent of the Scottish population speak Gaelic, apparently. It seems that persecution is still ongoing, despite road signs being in both, and you being ale to learn whatever language you want since the day you were born. Those pesky English and their useful language of internationalness.
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ViperPict
8,424 posts
106 months
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TheHeretic said: ViperPict said: The first one is my own attempt but my gaelic is not perfect (250 odd years of persecution of the language post-Culloden is my excuse). However, there is not really a 'correct' way to spell in gaelic as there are so many dialects.
But I thought the second quote more appropriate for this time of evening and needed some help finding the word for 'hovercraft'! I had presumed that it might be 'hovercraft' but, no, there appears to be a gaelic word! Those pesky English ridding yourself of a pointless language. 1.2 percent of the Scottish population speak Gaelic, apparently. It seems that persecution is still ongoing, despite road signs being in both, and you being ale to learn whatever language you want since the day you were born. Those pesky English and their useful language of internationalness. The 1.2% is sad reflection of the systematic persecution of the language that followed Culloden. But that % is starting to increase now with the deserved promotion of the language in schools etc.
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ViperPict
8,424 posts
106 months
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eharding said: ViperPict said: eharding said: ViperPict said: Bidh mi 'gad fhaicinn That's odd - Google Translate offers a spelling correction, and then tries to translate that as Polish. If Google doesn't take you seriously, why should anyone else? Edited: Odd...you decided to delete that one? - did you misread the Bluffer's Guide to Gaelic, and it actually means "My nipples explode with delight", or something about your hovercraft? The first one is my own attempt but my gaelic is not perfect (250 odd years of persecution of the language post-Culloden is my excuse). However, there is not really a 'correct' way to spell in gaelic as there are so many dialects. But I thought the second quote more appropriate for this time of evening and needed some help finding the word for 'hovercraft'! I had presumed that it might be 'hovercraft' but, no, there appears to be a gaelic word! There you go, you see. Let your language devolve into a thousand different incompatible dialects, and your sense of nationhood goes down the crapper. Which is why we're so keen on English orthography here on PH. Keeps the clans together, or at least keeps them communicating. Hmmmm. There were not 'a thousand different incompatible dialects'. And all could quite happily communicate with each other, from the dialect they spoke on the northern tip of Lewis to that in Aberdeenshire. You might be mistaking Scotland with western Africa there?
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TheHeretic
67,873 posts
124 months
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ViperPict said: The 1.2% is sad reflection of the systematic persecution of the language that followed Culloden. But that % is starting to increase now with the deserved promotion of the language in schools etc. Aww... Poor you. How that must have affected you back then... Oh wait, you weren't around back then.
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mcdjl
1,604 posts
64 months
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ViperPict said: Hmmmm. There were not 'a thousand different incompatible dialects'. And all could quite happily communicate with each other, from the dialect they spoke on the northern tip of Lewis to that in Aberdeenshire. You might be mistaking Scotland with western Africa there? How did you manage that, I've met Scots who can't communicate in English effectively 
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Caulkhead
4,938 posts
26 months
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ViperPict said: Caulkhead said: thinfourth2 said: ViperPict said: thinfourth2 said: ViperPict said: thinfourth2 said: ...which the Tory-led coalition are going to copy... Who ever said the Tories were a right wing, liberation bunch. They are labour lite ViperPict said: What's your point? My point is that the dominant force in scottish politics your so called Tartan tories are a bunch of over regulating nanny knows best bunch of s who should just f k off out of my life. What, you mean they are 'government'? Yes i mean the SNP are a bunch of nanny know best s Apparently this will make the cheapest bottle of scotch about £14. It's very nice of the SNP to agree to give so much of their revenue from alcohol sales to England to help fund the deficit. I envisage huge booze hypermarkets opening up in Berwick and regular booze cruises down the A1 for Scots desperate to pay their alcohol duty to England instead of the SNP. . . . .  Have you ever tasted whisky < £14/bottle? I'll stick to malts, thank-you very much. And decent (i.e., Scottish) gin.  I don't drink alcohol, not even buckie. . . . .
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TheHeretic
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