What Cheered You Up Today? (1 Viewer)

The case was never made by the 'Yes' campaign, you can't just vote with your heart and ruin your country to spite another. There is nothing wrong with what there is now and we are better together...

GrauGeist said:

What the heck is the deal with that "No" vote, Hugh?

I thought that Scotland has been wanting to be an indepenant nation for centuries? I know that I have lost ancestors in various wars over the ages, like Gillies MacBean at Culloden, all in the hopes of independance.

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The Battle of Culloden was not about independence for Scotland but was a dynastic war between Scotish Catholic Tories and Protestant Whigs with an end aim to put a Catholic Stuart king back onto the joint English/Scottish Throne. There were more Scots fighting against the Tories than were fighting for them. The YES campaign tried a bit too much Hollywood History and basically the Scots didnt buy it, even in Independence strongholds only a very small majority voted for independence. Glasgow on a Friday after the pubs have shut being English (or in my case Anglo/Welsh) is a nerve wracking experience but even there the majority for YES was marginal.

In the end only 1.6 million out of a voting population of 4 million or so went for independence. The YES campaign tried to go for the heart, all skirling bagpipes, Tartan, evil English overlords, the Highland clearances, Culloden, Bannockburn, Wembley 1967 and so on and so on. It failed because the head knew that independence was a huge leap of faith that had a chance of going badly wrong and causing years of economic stagnation and dependence on a currency that Scotland would have no say over.

Scotland loses nothing but a flag but actually does rather well out of the Union, many of us in the rest of the Union are rather jealous of what they have and are very annoyed about what they will gain from the NO vote. Next time the referendum might work the other way the other 60 million in the Union might vote for Scotland to forced to be independent in fact at the moment I reckon it would go about 2/3rds YES. My local swimming pool and Library are on the verge of closing if they have to go so that even more of my tax £s can go North of the border then there is going to be a huge backlash against Scotland and against the politicians who panicked and promised so much to Scotland.

My take on the whole thing the majority of Scots had nothing to gain apart from a new flag and a Govt run by a bunch of old school nut job Trotskyites Marxists Leninist Union (the lets all go on strike variety not the lets all be friends variety) troublemakers who had changed their spots temporarily for political reasons but would never have been able to resist the urge to start meddling and turning Scotland into a good old fashioned Socialist Utopia.

Oh and Sean Connery who hasnt lived in Scotland for 60 years lives in a tropical tax haven and only visits Scotland occasionally to patronise the natives can go and shove it right up his £$$%^***

It's a warm and sunny day. It seems tha the Polish Golden Autumn got back.

a beautiful sunny day here today.

Westham 3 Liverpool 1

Was out Mountain Biking today with my mates and we sat on one mountain summit and watched the Battle of Britain flight go right overhead on its way to the Southport Airshow, 10 Merlins make such a sweet noise. Then we flew down a rocky scary track and climbed up to another summit and sat and watched as the Avro Vulcan on its way to Southport flew right over our heads low enough to count the rivets and smell the Kerosene.

Now in a canalside pub beer garden supping Prospect Silver Tally bitter and wrapping ourselves round Veggie Burgers and catching the last of the Sun.

Veggie burgers? Bleeeeeeeeeccccchhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We were that hungry we would have eaten road kill wrapped in a tramps sock and it was the only food left. Actually they were really nice hand made in proper fresh bread and dripping in good Lancashire Cheese.

fastmongrel said:

Was out Mountain Biking today with my mates and we sat on one mountain summit and watched the Battle of Britain flight go right overhead on its way to the Southport Airshow, 10 Merlins make such a sweet noise. Then we flew down a rocky scary track and climbed up to another summit and sat and watched as the Avro Vulcan on its way to Southport flew right over our heads low enough to count the rivets and smell the Kerosene.

Now in a canalside pub beer garden supping Prospect Silver Tally bitter and wrapping ourselves round Veggie Burgers and catching the last of the Sun.

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So close to a perfect day

Lancasters ... Merlins ... the Mighty Vulcan , fantastic...... but ****ing VEGGIE burgers !??!!
Good grief !!!

Eagles are 3-0!!! First time in 10 years!

The Steelers won! Woot!!!!

Njaco said:

Eagles are 3-0!!! First time in 10 years!

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We're not even a month into the schedule and you're exited that they've won three games?

Great book on Finnish Fighter colours arrived today, much better than I expected!

Picked up through a trade contact a cheap 2 year old Ford Focus STi with light bodywork damage. 2.0 litre 252hp 7 speed box and it weighs about as much as a roller skate.

Not much on next week so it will go in the bodyshop at work I will pay the bodyshop guys in beer and chocolate biscuits and I will search round for a nice set of aftermarket alloy wheels and sticky tyres which should make it go a bit faster, I reckon at least 71mph officer

Vroom vroom poop poop

I love where I work now. Last week Diamond Lil did several takeoffs and landings. She's a B-24. A couple of days ago I heard the roar of old engines in the sky above our hanger and saw my first Japanese Zero followed closely by.... a P-40. Then they landed and got a couple of phone shots as they taxied past. The next day saw three P-40s flying around and recognized two of them from old calendars I have. The flew in a three plane formation over our air field.

Yesterday I worked hard to empty the livingroom, remove the floor etc. Now sitting quiet in the garden with my ipad on my lap, while a nice guy is putting my new floor in. On saturday all will be normal again after a month or so.