Re: Racism
Isn't this all getting blown out of proportion? With our Scottish members getting all in a lather with a bee in their bonnet. Isn't it a long running rivalry between the English and the Scots.
Thirty odd years ago I remember having a drink in the local pub. And some Scots came in. It was a bit of a busy rowdy pub ..with loud jukeboxes and leather clad bikers. And the Scots been gregarious and friendly and well tanked up fit in very well.
I rather liked them, whilst admiring their capacity for siphoning alcohol in an uninterrupted steady stream whilst managing to talk at the same time .... until ... someone mentioned Queen Elizabeth the Second. No .. she's not our Queen and if she is she's Elizabeth the First not the Second , says the Scots rather belligerently. Insults got traded. And then the row began. About how the Scots weren't conquered and never would be.
When the first bar stool went flying (tis true, I kid you not) ... the fight was ordered outside. Motor bikes were shoved over, fists flew, a car windscreen was smashed.
I stayed inside sipping my pernod and black until someone said the police had been called then I left.