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....How would the English feel about a Labour/SNP Coalition.?
originally posted by: 8675309jenny
originally posted by: alldaylong
originally posted by: 8675309jenny
originally posted by: DrunkYogi
a reply to: Soloprotocol
When you plan to run the country through Oil revenue then it is not bonus money, that's just absurd. Westminster doesn't need to run to the EU because the UK is still together. Split the UK up and you have completely different scenarios.
Perhaps someone should share with you that Scots are some of the most clever, resourceful people to walk the earth.
Do you enjoy using the items such as these: ??
Telephone: Alexander Graham Bell (without which the internet woulnd't exist)
Television:John Logie Baird(without which computers wouldn't exist)
Structural steel and the blast furnace: Multiple inventors (without which nearly ever facet of the modern would would not exist)
Steam engine: James Watt (without which the industrial revolution would've never occurred)
The BBC: John Reith (without which the UK politicians wouldn't have been able to scare Scots into voting NO)
And about oh, 500 other inventions that have completely reshaped the modern world ?
Blast furnaces have been around since ancient China
Henry Bessemer had more to do with the invention of modern steel than any Scot
Thomas Newcomen invented the steam engine, not James Watt.
Anything else you want to get wrong ?
Actually, I could ask the same of you. The steam engine as perfected and used widely in the industrial revolution was JAMES WATT's invention. He didn't invent the steam engine, just the one that changed the world....
Sorry I wasn't more OCD, but it's pretty clear I was referring to blast furnaces as they relate to modern low-carbon steel. Much of the same developments were happening in Germany on an almost identical timeline, but the technique was patented in Scotland and the FORTH RAIL BRIDGE is a nearly 150year old testament to Scottish innovation in steel technology!
Anything else I could help correct you on?
You are not wrong but unless you can round up 20 plus million other English voters to agree with you then I am going to have to keep supporting independence as the only realistic way to get reform.
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: alldaylong
Its rather pointless measuring our nations intellectual penis size against one another given the fact that both country's have had such an influence on each another. Lets just say the UK has produced some great minds. Please remember through its cold up here and we do like to wear our kilts without underwear, you have to factor that in to the equation. LoL
originally posted by: alldaylong
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: alldaylong
Its rather pointless measuring our nations intellectual penis size against one another given the fact that both country's have had such an influence on each another. Lets just say the UK has produced some great minds. Please remember through its cold up here and we do like to wear our kilts without underwear, you have to factor that in to the equation. LoL
Nice comment.
However Scots may not wear underwear when wearing their Kilts, but are they man enough to wear a English Morris Dancing outfit ?
IT'S enough to make the most patriotic Scot set fire to his kilt - it seems we are to blame for inflicting Morris dancing on the world. A team of university researchers have discovered that Scotland's King James IV was a big fan of the hankie-waving brigade. They claim he paid for lavish Morris displays at his palaces at Holyrood and Linlithgow and at Stirling Castle. The dance style, which involves leaping about, slapping bottoms, ringing bells and waving sticks, has been described as 'the quintessence of English traditional heritage'.
originally posted by: alldaylong
The father of The British Steel Industry was Sir Henry Bessemer, chiefly through his invention of The Bessemer Convertor. He's not Scottish by the way.
en.wikipedia.org...
The Industrial Centre for steel production during the Industrial Revolution was Sheffield. That's not located in Scotland by the way.
You do know that the Forth Bridge was designed by an Englishman ?
originally posted by: DrunkYogi
a reply to: Soloprotocol
LOL. Thank you for your kind words. I am finished with the thread in any case. I was interested to see what kind of reaction i would get and i certainly got plenty. It's has quite been entertaining on what was a slow boring day. Bye for now folk's and thanks for the laugh.
The most incorrect posts based on conspiracy's and uneducated guesses are the most starred?
originally posted by: ScepticScot
a reply to: Freeborn
Since no one agrees what the promised new powers actually are the odds of them being delivered are pretty slim.