Scotland The Brave - Where's Your Saltire, Ed?

[DTCwordfan]

I am astonished that it takes a Sassenach to point out that you have not hoisted the Saltire in the top left AB corner.

Where are the ardent Scots on here, the likes of Anneasquith or Douglas, or even mazie, nungate, queenie, minty, slinky, slappy or Albs? They should be on here giving you a right ol' rough time.

Wee drams awae to yer all, north of the Wall.

[kylesmum]

No Anne. Just a vox pop from the people who attend the church and chat to me and say that they only go to the the Church for the Coffee Mornings and other social events.

I absolutely honour anyone who has a faith and follows it. This isn't about that...it's about lonely old people who dress up on a Sunday for their day out.They'd far rather someone took them down to Spoons for a fish and chops and a cuppa tea and maybe have a blether with people in the passing. Get involved in thats side...God doesn't make you smile, he doesn't bring back memories, he just makes ya miserable !!! Sorry to all the God fearing peeps x

[kylesmum]

*chips

[Mamyalynne]

I'll pray for your soul K.

[Mamyalynne]

Can I have vinegar on my chips?

[kylesmum]

Mamya...you're naughty ;)

Lo-salt?

[shoota]

There is one person on here who marked it.......

[Mamyalynne]

You're a stalwart Shoota - yes please K.

[kylesmum]

shoota i'll bite....who?

[shoota]

(Just currying favour with that bird.....wassername?)

[kylesmum]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....shoooooota. sorry !!!!!!

Legend in your own lifetime xxxxx

[shoota]

Lol ;-)

[anneasquith]

i thought ED may have commented on this quite popular thread. ?

[AB Editor]

As I say, every time this comes up, we usually go for Burns Night rather than St. Andrew's day.

[janbee]

I think only the Irish make a big thing of their Saint's Days. I'm a Scot and I don't think St Andy's Day has ever meant anything to me. Burns night though...ah well, that's a different matter!

[ummmm]

Paddy's day is big all over the world.

[Slapshot]

I wasa too busy getting drunk at a wedding to notice Sunday..... ;0)

Shame on your early comments Blackadder.... Burns is the greatest poet of them all.

Celebration of Burns is the important one, St Andrews Day never has been important and now since Kim Jock Eck tried to politicise it there is even less affection for it. Robert Burns' poetry grasped the soul of the Scot even now, nearly 300 years since he passed (I hate the word Rabbie).

What force or guile could not subdue,
Thro' many warlike ages,
Is wrought now by a coward few,
For hireling traitor's wages.
The English stell we could disdain,
Secure in valour's station;
But English gold has been our bane-
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!

O would, or I had seen the day
That Treason thus could sell us,
My auld grey head had lien in clay,
Wi' Bruce and loyal Wallace!
But pith and power, till my last hour,
I'll mak this declaration;
We're bought and sold for English gold-
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!

It's apparent now that these words apply today as much as they did in his time. The 25th of January should be celebrated not the 30th of November.

[Slapshot]

Just a comment from Ummmm's post, St Patricks Day is celebrated by the Irish and their decendants all over the globe but St Andrews Day is not celebrated similarly. Look around the world at the massive number of Burns Societies and see the true spread of the mans importance.

[janbee]

Well said slappy xx