Tossing is the national sport of Scotland. Almost everyone is a tosser.
That is just an awesomely obscure piece of trivia. I may have to purloin it.
Temperature is measured by scientists in degrees Kelvin, named after the 1st Baron Kelvin, whose title honoured the river Kelvin which flowed past Glasgow University.
Haggis are not animals.
There are more mad people per square inch on Sauchiehall Street at any given time of day on a weekend than any other street in the world.
That’s ok, Scotland was, after all, colonised by the wankers to the south.
-In 1750, the literacy rate in Scotland was 75%, compared with only 53 percent in England.
-On July 23rd, 1696, the Scottish Parliament’s Committee on Foreign trade agreed to a proposal to found a Scottish colony in Panama, on the ishtmus of Darien. The venture was a spectacular failure, costing more than 2,000 lives and over 200,000 pounds. So many families and business concerns were tied up on the scheme that it broke the bank of Scotland, which suspended payments to it’s creditors in 1704, and lead to the collapse of the nation’s economy.
Little-known fact: The Entire British Empire was established and maintained by Scotsmen. (See Hong Kong/India/Africa/The British Army/HM Overseas Civil Service for details).
Buttercup fell off Kelvinbridge. And if it’s a big enough bridge to have a district named after it, you can bet she had a sore arse.
The ‘Scots’ were a rogue tribe from southern Ireland who invaded during the dark ages and took over while the previous inhabitants, the Picts, were busy.*
(*Grooving, in caves, with several species of small furry animal.)
‘Scots’ is claimed by some to be a language in its own right, distinct from Gaelic and Scottish English.
[quote=“tmwc”]The ‘Scots’ were a rogue tribe from southern Ireland who invaded during the dark ages and took over while the previous inhabitants, the Picts, were busy.*
(*Grooving, in caves, with several species of small furry animal.)[/quote]
Everyone knows that. The Picts were Irish too, no? Scots is a linguistic branch of the ‘shite-ic’ Indo-European group.
I hate that term, ‘The Dark Ages’. People use it to mean the bit of Euro-histry they don’t know much about. It’s when the foundations were laid for modern Europe’s social and cultural blossoming. We needed a thousand years to recover from ze fcking Romans. (not you, of course, tmwc)
Not in Scotland. They haven’t blossomed yet and they never had real Romans, unlike the sneaky Irish. They used to kidnap ours. How many people know that the Irish used to invade England regularly before it was even England? Not that Ireland was really Ireland then either.
Where was I? Oh yes. I thought it was called the dark ages because it’s not illuminated for historians by much in the way of historical records.
Funnily enough I read somewhere (Arthur C Clarke???) about Europe being plunged into ‘a thousand years of Christian barbarism’ after the Battle of Tours (732), the theory being that Islam was far more advanced and enlightened at that time. Much of Europe’s later ‘social and cultural blossoming’ is attributed to the influence of the Arab world in later centuries, and you can’t help wondering what the world would be like today if Europe hadn’t gone through all that crusading and burning people at the stake.
Am I off-topic? Sorry. The actor playing Star Trek’s “Scotty” adopted his hibernian persona because he thought that Scotland was the most likely source of top-class engineers.
What was the Antonine wall? The fort at Inchtuthill?
Tons of records, but they are in old English or Latin, so they are not read nowadays. Most records were accidentally destroyed in a fire in 1731. We have bits and pieces. King Lear?
The dying Roman empire legitimised Christianity which destroyed Europe for a millenium. 
I think we’re probly off topic. TomHill will internetly kick my arse.
No Buttercup and TMWC, you carry on. It’s about Scotland in some way.
Only Edgar Allen and Big Fluffy MAtthew need to be administered a paddling for A) Posting rubbish, and B) Insulting the Scots.
But it is a soft paddling.
Wales is not in Scotland.
Not real Romans, and not really in Scotland. They were border defenses, and anyway, the fort was probably only occupied for a few years. Nobody actually went to go and live in Scotland. Too bloody cold!
Edinburgh is at approximately the same latitude as Moscow, but is substantially warmer. Gulfstream, I guess.
78% of people who understand the question mix up Hibernia and Caledonia when asked the Roman names for British provinces.
last year the small skipper (a butterfly) successfully bred and overwintered in scotland for the first time. it is definitely getting warmer there!
butterfly-conservation.org/s … p?code=sms
Islay has 8 distilleries, the oldest of which is Bowmores (1779). Yum.
The Scots were the tallest race in Europe, according to the 1909 Census. But the carnage of WW1 changed that. By the 1930s, the average height of men in Scotland had been reduced by 9 inches.
The Scots lost the greatest number of soldiers per head of population in WW1
Despite being a minority in a dominantly Protestant country, Scotland’s Catholic Church has the greatest number of observed Saints days in the World.
Scotland was a completely separated land mass from England in the days of Pangaea. They collided millions of years ago, and stuck together ever since, but their geological composition is totally different.
I cheated: magicdragon.com/Wallace/littleSco.html
[quote=“tmwc”]The ‘Scots’ were a rogue tribe from southern Ireland who invaded during the dark ages and took over while the previous inhabitants, the Picts, were busy.*
(*Grooving, in caves, with several species of small furry animal.)[/quote]
And pipers played at the gates of dawn.
You were misinformed. It was the average length that got reduced by 9 inches. That’s why at today’s average of just 11 inches, in a relaxed state of course, Scottish men have such tiny willies.