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# with out wanting to sound like a troll
but you mention good people and scotland in the same sentance/
did any one ever teach you history ?
what have the scots ever done for us ?
(, Sun 15 Jan 2012, 16:58, archived)
# One of them invented the telly
'nuff said
(, Sun 15 Jan 2012, 17:10, archived)
# also tarmac
and the macintosh raincoat
and a steam engine that wasn't a useless piece of shit
and penicillin
and battery acid
and so on and so on
(, Sun 15 Jan 2012, 17:12, archived)
# and the concept of battering and frying confectionery
(, Sun 15 Jan 2012, 17:14, archived)
# and the concept of frying pizzas
although to be fair that was a turkish-run place, so maybe that was turkish-scottish
(, Sun 15 Jan 2012, 17:21, archived)
# either way, it's just wrong
(, Sun 15 Jan 2012, 17:27, archived)
# fried pizza is surprisingly lovely
although that juiciness loses its appeal at about the third bite when you realise you're basically eating fat suspended in fatty bread
(, Sun 15 Jan 2012, 17:30, archived)
# that's the point.
i don't eat fried food these days, so even the smell of a recently-used chip pan is enough to make me feel sick.
(, Sun 15 Jan 2012, 17:34, archived)
# i don't think i'll eat another fried pizza in my life, certainly
i only made it through part of a slice of that one
(, Sun 15 Jan 2012, 18:08, archived)
# Just sticking to literature, they gave us:
Sherlock Holmes, Treasure Island, Peter Pan, Trainspotting, The Thirty Nine Steps, The Wind in the Willows and Where Eagles Dare, for starters.
(, Sun 15 Jan 2012, 17:41, archived)
# ok so apart from
telly
raincoats
tarmac
fried pizza
and caramel waffer bisquits
and a steam engine that wasn't a useless piece of shit
and penicillin
and battery acid
i mean come what have the scots ever done for us?
(, Sun 15 Jan 2012, 18:03, archived)
# rab c nesbitt
(, Sun 15 Jan 2012, 18:07, archived)
# Ian MacNaughton,
director and producer of Monty Python's Flying Circus, was also Scottish
(, Sun 15 Jan 2012, 18:21, archived)
# Iain Banks
(, Sun 15 Jan 2012, 18:24, archived)
# Of course!
add The Wasp Factory or The Crow Road to that list.
(, Sun 15 Jan 2012, 18:26, archived)
# Agreed.
Banks is a genius.
(, Sun 15 Jan 2012, 19:56, archived)
# ok ok shut up and just tell me
apart from all the other stuff what have they ever done for us ?
(, Sun 15 Jan 2012, 21:07, archived)
# irn bru
and barr's soda cream, and haggis suppers and black pudding suppers and fish suppers and sausage suppers and heart attacks at 40
(, Sun 15 Jan 2012, 21:22, archived)