Right then, now all this St George day nonsense is over let get back to business

[4GS]

You know you're a Scot when:

1)You can't stop yourself supporting any team that plays England in any sport

2)"Scattered showers with outbreaks of sunshine and a cold northerly wind" is good weather!

3)Haggis is a tasty national dish not a glorified sheep's stomach filled with random minced organs and oats

4)Sean Connery was the best James Bond

5)You casually tell foreign friends that if it wasn't for the Scots there would be no telly, penicillin, golf, fax machines, telephones, steam engine, insulin, radar, bicycles etc

6)You have an irrational need to eat anything fried with your supper from the chippy: haggis, pizza, white pudding, sausage, fish, chicken, mars bars etc...

7)You have an enormous feeling of dread whenever the Scotland national football team play a "diddy" team that we will lose.

8)You know that Scotland will never actually win the football World Cup, but keep partying anyway

9)People ask you if the Loch Ness Monster exists or haggis is an animal and you try to spread the myth further by stating it's true. Also You can keep a straight face when explaining about a haggis having its left legs shorter than its right and you can catch them by making them run the wrong way round a hill!

10)You take a perverse level of pride by the fact that Scotland has the highest number of alcohol and smoking related deaths in Europe. At least we know how to party, "Yer a lang time deed".

Any more?

[Richie1976]

11) You drop 5 pence and it hits you on the back of your head, before hitting the ground.

[poohshunny]

I'm a Scot living in England. When I visit my family in Scotland, tea from the chippy is a must. A fish supper, 2 pickled onions, loads of salt and vinegar, washed down with a glass bottle of irn bru ( the plastic 2 litre bottles don't taste the same!). I also buy 4 plain loaves for the freezer and take it out a few slices at a time to make it last. Tattie scones, slice, fruit pudding are also luxuries to me. You can take the girl out of Scotland, but you can't take Scotland out of the girl!

[4GS]

I'm the same poohshunny,
fortunately we live in Northampton and I can drive to Corby to stock up on the tattie scones, pan breed, fruit pudding etc

[poohshunny]

Hi Legend. Well I didn't know that! Just googled "Tenerife flag" in images. You learn something new every day as they say.