Posted on 03/08/2005 11:38:00 AM PST by SwinneySwitch
Scots are Brits, what they are not is English (or Welsh or Irish for that matter).
It's used to prevent getting to close-quarters combat... and it's very effective.
Cool. But you probably aren't getting either one of them on a commercial flight... ;-)
Isn't that what fosterd the introduction of the longbow in the middle ages?
"If it's not Scottish, it's CRAP!
Michael Palin. And I didn't have to look it up. :)"
"Not the archers. My scouts tell me their archers are miles away and no threat to us. Arrows cost money. Use up the Irish. Their dead cost nothing." ~ Longshanks in Braveheart
Maybe you did have to look it up... ;^)
Sorry, I guess I was just being facetious with respect to some personal experiences but you have eloquently stated what I often hear from some friends of Celtic descent.
That is until "I told you. It's MY island"......
Scots ping! sorry this took so long, I was in California getting to know mt girlfriend's family.
The best blood that Scotland had to offer is now living on in the descendants of those that populated the ridges and valleys of the Appalachians.
When they cleared out the Highland "troublemakers" they left only the knee-benders and @ss-kissers.
There was once a time when I dearly desired to visit Ulster, the highlands of Scotland and Wales just to see the lands of my roots.
Not now.
*My* roots grow up through centuries of wiry, wary, clannish hillbilly kin buried here, VA, WV and TN.
The glory of the "lands of my ancestors" exists only in ancient myths.
[and swords...oh, aye, I got me a mickle amount of swords and daggers, mind ye]....;)
I would so dearly love to hear you utter the "knee benders and @ss kissers" comment in a Glasgow pub
And other pointy things too, its been rumored...
Great fun would ensue no doubt. Unfortunantely, it has the sting of truth to it.
Only if watching someone being ripped apart with broken beer glasses is your idea of fun
Gee....I'm a 5' 3" 114 pound woman.
Do you think it would take a lot of "guts" for a barful of Scots men to kick my ass?
Would there be a lot of pride passed around when they were done?
Would the majority of them even be aware of the clan politics and double-dealings of 2 hundred years ago?
They've bowed to socialism, they've lost their independence [again], they've lost their guns and now they're about to lose their swords.
The fact that a mob of drunken men could easily beat me up has absolutely no bearing on how easily they've let the yoke of cultural slavery be slipped over their necks...again.
Maybe they'll re-outlaw the pipes and the plaids somehwere down the road. [nah...they've too much tourist appeal for that to happen]
In my state, they've been aggressively and relentlessly trying to take away the guns of the Scots/Irish/Welsh hillbillies for over 40 years but we've still got 'em.
We have no "sword laws" at all beyond generalized weaponry laws dictating that we not kill anybody with one.
Since this began with a "cyber p*ssing contest", I guess I should reciprocate by inviting you to make some inflammatory comment in any average hillbilly honky-tonk.
And just to fair, there are probably a lot of ballsy Scots left in Scotland.
Why they're doing nothing to put a stop to tyrannical acts against them is beyond me.
Personally, I want to know how the -Highland & Island- people feel about all this.
Touché.....;))
Better yet...why couldn't they just use a gun?
[how 'til beer is only served in non-lethal soft aluminum cans and paper cups?]
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